Welcome to the meeting of the board of supervisors, Neighborhood Services and safety committee. My name is david campos and we are joined by norman yee and mar is in route. We would like to thank sfgtv for covering the meeting today. Do we have announcements . Please make sure that silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. We have been joined by the deputy City Attorney if you could call item one. Item one is a resolution urging for the creation of a comprehensive pie sickle Theft Prevention and recovery policy for the Transportation Agency to develop and quickly implement short and medium term strategies to greatly expand the bicycle parking in San Francisco and the standardized best practice and implement a voluntary bicycle Registration Program. This is an item that is introduced by supervisor mar which is a leader on issues around bicycle theft and the Theft Prevention and i know that he will be here shortly, and it has been cosponsored by supervisor breed and myself and my president chiu. Unless there say comment by supervisor mar, the thing to do. Here we are. Supervisor mar, has joined us. But i do want to say that i thought that the prior discussion that we had about this issue was a useful discussion we got a lot of information because there are a lot of bicycle thefts that are happening in San Francisco and the complications that come of recovering a bike once it has been stolen from you. And the different ways in which maybe the city can institute a system that allows for a quicker recovery. And with that, i will turn it over to the sponsor of this item and again, i want to thank supervisor mar, his officer for their leadership on this important issue. Supervisor mar . Thank you. And chair campos, i know that a number of us have been working with the Bicycle Coalition and the officers within the Police Department on this issue. But this hearing today is really to show how much further we have moved towards finalizing an approach that systematic in San Francisco that will help us to curve bicycle thefts. In San Francisco we are aggressively moving to increase the trips by bicycles quite a bit more than we are at this current moment. The goal, for our bicycle plan is to increase the mode share of bicycle trips, 20 percent of all trips by the year 2020, that is 20 percent by 2020. I think that this is an aggressive goal and this resolution will help us move it in that direction, much has been accomplished by the Bicycle Coalition and the police but a high hurtle for increasing buy rider ship is our ever present problem of bicycle thefts and we stated in the last hearing that over 4,000 bicycles which are worth 4. 5 Million Dollars were stolen in the city last year. That is over 4,000 bikes stolen last year to the amount of 4. 5 million or more. And that does not, even include stolen bike parts from derailers to other seats and wheels, for example, and so this is three times this bicycle theft problem is three times higher than the rate of smart phone thefts in the city and so it is a problem that might be some what invisible to the general public and if you ride a bike and you have had multiple bikes stolen likevy our my aid peter as well and it hits you right in the pocket book and right between the eyes as well. And it will play a big role not only for the thefts but the bike parking and the issue, and to those that have had the bikes stolen. And the resolution accomplishes three major goals, the first, is we call upon the mta to increase on street bike parking from 3,000 to a number that can satisfy the 75,000 trips that are made each day and it is great that we have patel from the mca today. And second the resolution establishes a voluntary bike Regulation Program to aid the police in returning recovered bikes. And utilizing funds that i and the colleagues have allocated in the budget. Third the San FranciscoPolice Department will be conducting out reach on bike theft to help them know how to protect themself from thefts and they have created great out reach materials and sf Safety Awareness for everyone and really tremendous resources that we have to really push up the amount of educational out reach that we need in our communities as well. And together, this resolution will help us to prevent bike thefts in our city, and in the event that it does occur, it will help san franciscans recover their property more i would like to thank them for their leadership and former, a really a great advocate for bikes in the city, mike caswel who has relocated to la and with the sf police and sfsafe as well. And i would like to thank london breed, and president david chiu and committee chair, david campos for their work as well. I would like to call up Deputy Police chief loftus and officer Matt Freedman who have helped individuals recover their bikes as well. Well, thank you very much for having me today. It is good to see everybody again. And i can talk to you about some of the things that we have been doing since the last time that we have met. If that is okay . One of the things to combat bike theft is we have started a twitter account. And it is at sfpd bike theft and in doing that, i wanted to try to harass the power of social media and gather the Bicycle Community together in one umbrella to try not only to get the message out about locking techniques and bike theft safety, but in general i saw this grow into something where people were actually tweeting me pictures of bike theft in progress. And of a number of Different Things that we could use in turn to put cases on people and it has been really a Community Effort under this tweeter feed and i am really proud of it and it has grown tremendously and we have compliments from other departments all over the world including the people asking why cant the Police Department be doing what we are doing here, it is something that everybody can be proud of. It is a Community Effort and in doing that, i decided with talking to our legal department, that in order to i guess provide accurate detailed information to the community about who is doing this is that i started to release the mug shots of known bike thieves and it has helped to identify the crimes in progress and again, swre been able to put cases on people where they are in the process of stealing a bike and identify the bike thieves much quicker and so the Investigative Team can take over and people have responded well to all of this and i am proud of the fact that we are doing something that i dont think that anywhere else in the country is doing this. So, the twitter feed, again has been a fantastic medium to might the bike theft and it has been successful and i can only see it growing in the future. We have done a lot of with the bike chop shops that have been springing up and the people report these to me on a daily basis and i will in turn take the pictures that i get of them and send them out to the 60 station and then the units will take care of the chop shops. And it has been a great medium and tool. Tweeter, the tweets from your office get retweeted by so many people, from the mug shots, or the photos to even just when a bike is recovered and i think that it is really, making it more proudly aware of all of the work that you have been doing and also, how innovative and enthusiastic that you are about this and it is important in the process to develop a system. There are a few things to tell you about. One is that we started the bike dating program. We dont talk about it too much for obvious reasons but i can tell you that it has been hugely successful and we have already managed to make several arrests, and return many, many stolen cell phones and some other merchandise that have come up from specifically our bike dating program. And it has been widely successful and i am hoping to continue that program down the road into every single district in the city which i foresee that happening after this resolution. I know that when you recover a bike and identify the owner after a period of time, that you even personally, kind of greet people and let them know that my aid peter waterborne whose bike you helped to recover it is a good, direct example that you have a human approach to the people to recover their property, too. And so officer. Thank you, i appreciate t and we have had actually and we have managed to go down to san jose, believe it or not and actually recover bicycles in san jose for citizens in San Francisco and so we will travel and i think that the citizens of the city really appreciate the kind of presence and response that we have given them. And i will say one other thing. This issue is not just i think, a police issue. It is a Community Issue and i think that it is a political issue as well. I have tried to reach out many times to the lanecollege president to try to talk to her about the flee market and about how the bikes are being sold there and these bikes, 95 percent of them are probably stolen. I think that a resolution from the board in stopping the sale of bikes at some of these other places where we know that stolen bikes are prevalent is something that maybe the board can get interested in doing. Even working with gregs list to post the serial number, if it does not match up, i know that something is wrong here and the ownness on the buyer to make the decision if they want to buy a stolen bike. And this is a political issue and a Community Issue and a policing issue and working together to solve this problem. Thank you, i wanted to ask chief loftus if he could come up and i wanted to say thank you so much to officer freedman and also you chief for making this an important issue for the command staff and the Police Department. The Police Department is dedicated to the program, i think that we have the right people in place and it is doing a great job for us and he is out and going full speed ahead and we feel very good about the program and the partnerships and not only between the Police Department and sfsafe but also, with the Bicycle Coalition and there, and this will really have a big win for everybody in the city. Thank you so much, deputy chief. I would like to introduce, right now, you know, morgan saint claire and you know that there is a new director of sf safe and mr. Brent swardlof and he would like him to come up and if you dont mind to say a few words. Good morning, supervisors, i spoke back in july, and so, my name is morgan saint claire and i have been at safe for two years and i have had my bike stolen myself and i am scared to buy another bike and i know that many others and i know that supervisor breed spoke about that last time. I have five meetings a week and i hear of the bikes being stolen from street, home and garage. I worked with the Park CommunityAdvisory Board, a group of volunteers who meet with the captain each and started talking about this a year ago and just to take whatever angle side, and the Police Station and program and repeat it in the park but now we realize that we need to do this on a city wide scale. And Safety Awareness for everyone and our mission is to engage, educate and empower the San Francisco residents and we work with the San Francisco department and we are located at the hall of justice and we are the ideal organization to launch the program. And the program will be in education and the Registration Program. And so we will contribute, the printed materials on how to lock the bicycles properly on the streets, in your garage and in your home. And we will hold the workshops in conjunction with the sfpd and the San Francisco police, or Bike Coalition, excuse me. And we will use social media just like officer Matt Freedman is doing and to educate and how to report a bike if it is stolen. And then the next step, of course is to register the bikes after we educate people and so the program will make it more likely that bikes will be returned to their owners, in the San Francisco area, and in the bay area. And it is already that the bikes have been returned already from san jose. And so, we want to give hope that people can get their bikes back, and there are so many in storage at the Police Department right now, with no way to return them. And we need evidence, to prove that that is your bike and that facility when you get, when the officers find bikes on the street so i am very excited this is a big passion of mine. And i am so excited to launch this program and i would like to introduce our new executive program, who will be leading the program brent churlof. Yes, i have so many aliases. More morgan has been there for two years and i have been there for two weeks and i am grateful for them, who have been strong allies in this, safe has had a relationship for 45 years for being a neutral resource to as morgan said to educate and to empower and to engage the communities and what is exciting about this program is that it really reduces the number of victims and the cost of the victimhood that cyclists should feel empowered that fewer than 20 percent of the bike thefts go reported and so having a trusted secure, data base in place with serial numbers, the people will be empowered that they are registered and if something happens they will get a warm, human response, often from the Police Department and so we are excited to work with you and thank you for your support and allocating resources to it. Welcome. Sure. As morgan mentioned, Safety Awareness for everyone is empowering people to not feel like victims but to know, to hope each other, and block by block, but also, on bike thefts to raise our awareness so that we feel more empowered and less victimized when our bikes are stolen but thank you so much. But as officer freedman also mentioned the issue beyond the Law Enforcement and so having the Community Based groups and i think that it is Law Enforcement but it is also community and sf safe really provides that and it is also a political issue that many of us have to address on a city wide level. But thank you. The next speaker is the other prong of this resolution and effort to systematically deal with the bike theft is the mta and we have niel from the sustain able Streets Department in the mta and thank you for your work over the years as well. Good morning, i am the project liaison with the leavable streets group. I want to thank all of you for your work to really combat bike theft. And we see the role in combating the bike theft in the bike park and just to throw in a few numbers and let you know about the progress, supervisor mar, you mentioned the 3,000 bike racks and this year we are on track to add implement more than 500 additional on sidewalks or on the street bicycle racks and next year, we will be implementing another 500 racks and so adding another 1,000 racks, this year or next year to the over all supply, which will help people find a place to park their bikes also we are hearing the completing of the bike report and this will be finished in september this month and this report is funded by the ta. We are doing a thorough analysis of the Bike Parking Solutions and for the longer term reasons, and so people dont need to park a bike for more than an hour or two if they are going to run an errand and they need somewhere that is safe and secure. We did a lot of research and talked to a lot of the cities that had developed bike system and a lot of people riding and one of the biggest things that we hear is about bike parking is that they wish that they would have spent more time and energy thinking about it and doing a analysis of their needs right now they have bikes all over the streets and so we are pleased to have taken the steps to provide a analysis of where we need the bike parking the elocker, and in the controlled lockers there are bicycle lockers currently but we are replacing them to increase the utility of them and currently someone can rent out a locker and have a key to it and have it for months at a time. But it does not offer any turnover and that person may not need them. We are replacing them with a pay per hour and just for a few cents an hour, can pay for a locker for a day or a few hours, and utilize it when we are done and another person can come in and park their bike there and how many elockers are there in the city. And it is a good question and i think that we have 50 and we are replacing a few dozen of them. It is not a huge number but we are chiping away at that area. Secondly, we are looking at residential long term bike parking and we hear a lot of stories and people are not able to bring their bike into the building and they dont have room or not able to bring up the stairs and dont have a garage and we ar