I dont have to acknowledge him because he is not my boss anymore. [laughter] but i do want to give a special shoutout to tom nolan. Under his leadership of the board that we brought forward the central subway and brought forward this procurement and we would not be here but for not his leadership. Thank you for that. [applause] and so with all of the fire power that youve heard from represented here that put together the money, that put together the leadership, that authorized and approved all of this to happen, someone actually had to do the work. And that is where some might say the part really begins. Somebody had to execute on this promise that we made to our funders, to our policymakers, most importantly to our rider and to the public. The person who is at the tip of the spear for our agency, but even coordinating beyond our agency, with the fire department, police department, the Mayors Office on disabilities, the rest of the city family is our transit director whos made this project a passion of his for the last few years. And in terms of timing, as i mentioned in terms of being ahead of schedule, the process to get to where we are today typically would be on the order of four or five years. Because of john halles leadership. Were here closer to three years. Please join me in welcoming our director of transit, john halle. [applause] uh excuse me. Thank you, ed. Good morning, everyone. Let me start by making an official announcement. This is, in fact, the title to this car so the city of San Francisco now has an extra asset to add to its inventory. The good news is president breed, it has that new car smell. [laughter] so let me again thank everyone. But most importantly, as ed mentioned, this is a complex endeavor in a very complex system. I think we were able to assemble a group of people who where others may have found problems together with our partners from siemens and all the help from the transit team and people throughout the agency, this group really solved problems and that got us to where we are today in the time that we are. I do want to first make a special shoutout because this process was closely watched and monitored throughout the you may remember the first car arrived friday, january 13th. So in the last nine months, weve been closely monitored by the cpuc whos been our oversight agency, whos been available and taken rides with us, whos really helped to make a very cumbersome process easier understand and help us work through problems. Also want to note our own system safety folks. I can see them, who worked with us to get not only the documentation done, but to make sure that everything that you are going to see is the safest and most reliable car we can provide. Let me start, again, by saying when we started this process a few years back, it seems like we can break it into segments. It has been the three years has been on the one hand very fast moving and, on the other hand, recognizing the need to provide safer and more reliable transportation. Let me first acknowledge two people, trents wynne. [applause] who put who put together this complex anxietier, built the team and got us off to the right start. Mike ellis who cap add glorious mechanical career. Excuse me can. Here at the sfmta and is principally responsible for applying all the bad thing, all the Lessons Learned from the boeing cars to our new cars. And when the cars arrived, we needed an implementation team. [train noise] i wanted to acknowledge Janet Gallegos who got us home as the project manager. [applause] she worked tirely wes her team. Mike moda, who has been our chief engineer. [applause] and has worked with siemens to solve countless technical problems. It is not easy to design a complex vehicle and drop it in our system. But we were able to identify and address any concerns and issues. Doug lee, are you somewhere . And this was a group, and finally on the kind of fulltime dedicated team, i want to acknowledge manny enriques. [applause] manny is somewhere here. For the last nine mo fnzes he has been out overnight, virtually every night five, six, sometimes seven nights a week to help us hit this deadline. And hes probably inside because i realize at this point he is no longer used to sunlight. So [laughter] im sure he is glad that we will be getting these trains in service. But congratulations to all of them. And finally i do want to recognize some of the other people who contributed a lot of their time while they continued to do their daily responsibilities. Scott broder. I see lisa wallton from i. T. Whos worked with us in resolving system problems. Terry fahey with the track crew. Part of what was done was constant adjustment to fit a highly technical vehicle on to our system which has to accommodate b. C. C. S and brada cars. Not an easy test. Maintenance. Kept the system going while we drained a lot of key staff to work on the l. R. V. 4. So, it is for me an honest and straight forward sincere thank you. Job well done. One down and 267 to go. [applause] thank you, john. Again, a lot of folks to acknowledge. But our finance folks, our legal team, our procurement folks, our materials folks, other agencies, a lot of folks coming together to make Something Like this happen. We did go through a rigorous, competitive process to select the company that would build these cars and we were happy that what came out of that with siemens in part because of theyre based right here in california. Once we were through the competitive process, we really joined with them in partnership, worked as an Integrative Team to get these cars here. Were proud that theyre designed and built right here in california. And, you know, back to the schedule point, were at a state now where they want to continue to advance the schedule and essentially they are ready to send cars here as fast as we can take them and pay for them. So, that is a good challenge for us to have. And that is thanks to the leadership of the president of siemens, please join me in welcominging michael cajo. [applause] thank you, ed. Thank you, everybody, for helping us celebrate whats a great day. For puting this first car into a worldclass city and we hope it willable a worldclass car to go with it. We build light rail cars for cities across the nation but there is something very, very special putting a car in the city of San Francisco. Not only because it is such a great city, but also because we learn a lot in working with a team like john halles team, including all the people he mentioned, even though weve been doing this for 30 years we learned an awful lot about how to do things right. Were contributing to the supervisors sleeping time by making them quieter, which we hope will work and also the new car smell. The result of the car that you see here is the result of a lot of peoples work including the teams, and i have to give a shoutout to our team that the project team here and his staff that worked tirelessly on this. As john said, it wasnt just a it wasnt just a single day. It is a seven day a week effort. But what most impressed me about this project was working with the m. T. A. , with the sfmta. It truly is a partnership and thanks to the leadership of john halle and ed riskif and thank you to all the people who worked on this. We have 1200 people who contributed to building these cars in sacramento and it is really a great day for us. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, michael. I dont know if you iting ka it, but president breed said these trains are meant to last us into the next century. I think about 85 years of useful life out of these. The stakes are high here. So, unlike this procurement, this event is running a little behind schedule but we do want to ask your indulgence for one more minute and i want to ask the mayor and the daughter of larry martin, iris lopez, to come forward for a special commemoration that were doing in honor of larry martin. Iriss father, who was a great leader, Community Leader in the city. A great labor leader in the city. The mayor mentioned the importance of labor. They are the ones that do all the work. They are the ones who informed the design of this vehicle, who operate, maintain the existing vehicles, who provide all the background work in order to make muni run every day. Muni was very lucky to have larry martin join as an employee back in 1966. Rose quickly through the ranks of Union Leadership to become president of the local here and then International Vice president for the transport workers union, served in a number of capacity on different boards and commissions in the city and really play an outsized role in the leadership of the city. Always representing labor, always representing working people of the city and so it is with that in mind that we dedicate this first rail car, and this was the mayors idea, so i want to make sure he gets the credit for this, dedicate this first rail car to his memory so we want to ask the mayor and larrys daughter to unveil a replica of the plaque that will honor larry martin as we put this first new car into service. Ready . Ready. All right [applause] do you want to say anything . So, we have new rail cars new seats new diagnostic systems all right new smells but we not ever forget the people that run this whole system. And im honored to be with iris because her father was someone who i first worked for at my very first job. He was the president of the Human Rights Commission when i his first director. He then served over five mayors before he ultimately retired and i had the privilege of appointing him to his last commission so he could have fun. That was the recreation and Park Commission and you should have seen larry at those 49er games at candlestick, having great fun and bringing his family with him. I want to also say i honor the people who work the system every day. Because when i first met larry, i used to kind of complain as a new employee of the city. Why i was faced with so many people who had pretty sharp opinions and would sometimes curse sometimes threaten. Sometimes do all the things that sometimes the public in their most emotional states will do. And so he as the president of the transport worker union said, mr. Lee, let me tell you what my day was like. And we would talk about people who were spat on and cursed on and they were just trying to smile and get people to work and to school. So i had nothing to complain about after those sessions. We shared our stories about civic employees, about our standard of being the greatest and the best publicker is vans in the worst type of situations sometimes. That is my way of saying thank you to t. W. U. , the teamsters who work on the mechanics every day and repair all the labor unions but mostly to take this opportunity to thank iris and her family for supporting and giving us a great leader in larry martin. Iris . [applause] i just want to say thank you to everyone who was behind the dedication. My dad was a very strong force to be reckoned with, especially with his labor leadership and he loved the county and city of San Francisco and he would just be very proud to be here today and im so pleased and thrilled. Thank you, everyone. [applause] ok. He was here today in spirit and now well cut the ribbon and then, as leslie said, then were going to roll. Folks here can line up. Five, four, three, two, one [cheering] [applause] lets roll. Whew whew ok, lets get started. Welcome to our special, special, special budget and finance Committee Meeting for monday, december 11th, 2017. I am norman yee and i will chair this committee as soon as everyone is quiet. Thank you, very much. I am joined by supervisor jeff sheehy and ahsha safai. These are my Committee Members and today is ms. Linda the clerk is miss linda wong. The committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, jesse larson and i cannot read it. We record each of our meetings and make the transcripts Available Online madam clerk any announcements. Silence cellphones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk, thank you. Before we begin can we have a motion to excuse supervisor ma leah cohen and katie katy tang from this meeting. Motion passes. No object object. Madam clerk can you call item number one. Clerk declaring a homeless shelter emergency and authorize ing the direct offer public work to improve facilities and the director of the department of homelessness and support of housing to contract for Homeless Services and officer services to protect the health, safety and welfare of individuals effected by homelessness and all San Francisco citizens. We have jeff kazski department of homelessness and department of public works here to present. Good afternoon, supervisors, jeff, director of the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. I want to share some information with you regarding why we believe San Francisco is currently experiencing a shelter emergency and homelessness crisis. I dont think that we have to walk very far and look out doors to see living on our streets suffering and without access to basic hygiene needs and at this time, we saw that 7,499 people were experiencing homelessness on any given night and i think its also important to note in any given and theres 25,000 people unique individuals who experience homelessness in San Francisco and we have a very High Percentage of the Homeless Population in our city 58 that are unsheltered living on our streets and 4,000 people on any given night that are sleeping out of doors. Thirtytwo of that population is over the age of 51 and 40 having drug or addiction disorders. You will see that there has been where weve had some good successes overtime, weve seen an increase in the number of young people experiencing homelessness and relative to the Homeless Population and also an increase in the number of people who are over 61 years of age Senior Citizens who are experiencing homelessness and again, approximately 58 of un sheltered. Being unsheltered causes a whole variety of healthrelated issues some of which are very obvious not having a place to go to the bathroom to cook food, to take a shower and theyre recently in Southern California has been an outbreak of hepatitis a which has led to hospitalization and deaths many in the city of san diego and the problem has spread to santa cruz and los angeles and in San Francisco, we have been able to do a lot of vaccinations and take other measures to keep that outbreak from happening but none the less the acts of showers to shelter and housing is making us a risk for hepatitis a and other out breaks. We have seen and im sure this is again you all are familiar with this issue and receive many of the complaints that i do theres been an increase in the number of complaints related to unsheltered homelessness and you will see here just the very large increase in 311 calls related to this issue between 2015 and 2017 and you will also see where as we have invested a fair amount in our homelessness response system we have over 2,000 beds of temporary shelter available, mainly 1,389 shelter beds for adults and transition age youth. We still have a waiting list of over 1,000 people on any given night currently in need of shelter. As such, the mayor has announced his challenge to get a thousand additional people off the streets this winter that will require the expansion of our shelter system to meet the demands that currently exists helping cut the time it takes for us to bring shelters and other fail facilities online by four to six months and it will sunset in february february 15te looking at right now specifically this resolution to help move forward projects that are going to bring shelter and Navigation Centers quickly online and at this point well turn it over to edgar lopez that will talk to the specifics of the resolution. Good afternoon exercise, edgar lopez with public works as jeff mentioned the resolution before you would enable public works to implement fast deployment of shelters by allowing us to cut it takes to pre cure Construction Contracts for us to order trailers, tents, and bring in site utilities to bring in water and power and sewer and able to cut period time it takes by at least a third and i would be happy to answer specific questions that you may have. I see no questions and we have a b. L. A. Report. Good afternoon chair yee and analist office yes as we talk about on page four of our report , for the Emergency Declaration for 440 turning street the estimated cost of the is 7. 8 million in renovations and legislation calendered for wednesday december 13th budget and it would approve the funding for this project and there are more details presented to that committee and for the emergency shelters mr. Lopez i think comments on the two sights looked at right now that are one at fifth and bryant and one on 13th street that are under the jurisdiction of cal trans and our public works is working on the actual defining the project scope and that the department of homelessness will return in january to the board of january 2018 on the estimates for these projects and the code itself defines an emergency is a sudden unforeseeable and unexpected occurrence which isnt the case with these two Emergency Declarations however they have discretion under the administrative code to declare an emergency and i will want to say and i dont believe it was mentioned in the presentations, its a question has come up about the openendedness of the Emergency Declaration for homeless shelters and my understanding is that the department would what they did . Didnt catch that they did introduce a amendment to the legislation to sunset on february 15th. And we do consider it to be a policy matter for the board. Thank you for your report. So i dont see the amendments in here. Where are the amendments . Does anybody have a copy or is someone that the only thing being requested to be amended