Around this. Absolutely. The reason it feels straisk to write a letter and take a couple months to figure what the letter is but it is complicated and layered issue and think we want to make sure that if we are going take this step wlaurfb level it ends up being we want to address key issues with long term impacts and help us move forward. This letter approach is consistent withi actually read the minutes from the last meeting and we actually talked about these issues to try to get the tmc and other shuttle buses to see how they could be a part the vision zero solution. Absolutely. To the shuttle buses, the mta has held the first two meet jgz have a Quarterly Working Group of large vehicle operator jz not just tour buses it is commune shuttles and trucks and carriers and teamsters who meet quarterly to diss cus the isaoos. Identifying issues they are seeing but also talk about issues we are observing and looking for solutions. Collaborativei dont want to claim everything can be done clav clabatively, sometime said market pressure and others push gaens that but try to approach from a collaborative stance first and go from there. I see sonny from supervisor peskins office is here and would you like to make a comment . Hello. Thank you commissioner yee. So, i just want to give a little background to the genesis of where this item came from. We had been meeting with several schools in our district around issues that have been raised by parents and principles and the Central Office around over proliferation of Transportation Network companies the fact that they are really being used as commercial vehicle jz being used as tour industry vehicles to carry tourist around and there have been a lot of safety issues and concerns parent raised so we made a commitment to the parent we would work with the Transportation Authority and sfmta to see if there was a more direct approach and want to thank sfmta staff for the work they have done aroupd the video jz walk sf and around the educational y videosi feel the companies themselves should be in a appropriate professional world they would be here reporting themselves on what they are doing to insure our streets are safe and making sure their companies and employees are actually abiding by our vision zero goals. It is disturbing i think that we really havent seen any kind of reciprocal kind of interest on their part and beingoutside the great work john is doing on the working group. I read with great interest the state regulatory filing that sfmta put forward and i would love to know and think commissioner peskin would love to know what more can we do to try and regulate them locally out of safety concerns. Whether it is limiting their movement around school zones. Whether is limiting movement around other vuliable areas like senior sites. What can we doclearlyi was on my way over here crossing Market Street at 8th there was a tmc blocking the cross walk that had driben through the bike lane and i was there with lee hepner and we were like this is illegal you are breaking the law and the guy was like whatever. This is what the resident are seeing and would like to know what our agencieswhat type of stronger position we are going take and what we can do even if it is not necessarilyeven if they are not respaupding for it to be very public so our constituents know we are pushing back on this behavior. If there is a way to incorporate that in the letter we would like to see that. Thank you. Thank you. I think this is splended idea. I wonder in the next meeting if we can invite them to come and maybe just to show that they are interested in this issue and what they plan to do around this. I think it is great idea for them to be here. So, any other Public Comments on this issue . Come on up. Good afternoon again. [inaudible] San Francisco bike beeursical coalition. The rise of tmc mept the rise of complaints we hear on a daily basis from the members. You can bike on valencia and have to navigate against uber or lyft. We partnered with uber to show how uber shares the streets. We are proud of the videios and taking a opportunity we can to move the neeldal but need support the ledge slaiper. Education and enforcement cant be the only strategies rchlt we need better policy squz need state leader shmpt we urge the city and committee to inurtmc opraigdss make our streets safer for all user jz urge the state to take action. Thank you for your attention. Thank you. Good afternoon. Cathy deluca from walk San Francisco. I dont want to repeat what sonny and hulia said because they said it wonderfully bedanger the vehicles are posing to the pedestrians and bicyclist. The Vision Zero Coalition over and over again qu hear the different members talking what a impact this is having on seniors trying to cross the street. Folks with disabilities when these vehicles block the cross walks and you are in a wheelchair or walker you cant get off the ramp to cross the street so we need to make sure everyone can use our street safely so we also urge you to do everything you can to make sure the city has say over these vehicles. The letter going to the tncs large policy aside, we love to see the go fenceyjohn talked at the cal train station the passengers have to go chair y somewhere esto get picked up and love to see the same on high injury corridors rather than picking up and dropping auch at high injury corridors pick up and drop off around the block and can lead to less crashs. Ill stop it there mptd thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment closed. Thank you for your report and lets move on towhere are we now . Item number 7. Introduction of new items. Seeing none. We dont need Public Comments on this, right . Item 8, general Public Comment. Good afternoon. Andrew yip. [inaudible] have a vuchues for the [inaudible] origin of principle to achieve [inaudible] that will provide benefits [inaudible] compassion and vision and principles for [inaudible] justice of pathways of career. Loyalty and point of love and [inaudible] politics religion learning and pathways along holy studies student promote two true principles [inaudible] kindness, to maximize ones self nature for [inaudible] one is superior being able to control ones Human Emotions and desires [inaudible] proceed to make benefits of what the world thinks of one self and others with [inaudible] having a destiny on to realistic [inaudible] thank you. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none Public Comment is close said. Any other items . Item 9, adjournment. Okay. Meeting adjourned. [meeting adjourned] there is one problem, it seems like it is a excluded place. They have the Fire Department that will get possibly injured. I looked and said wow, there is no snow under them. Thanks. Is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comments under the general managers report. At this time members of the public may address the commission within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. With respect to items you have the opportunity to address the commission when the items is reached. I have 4 cards i will call them off. Jill, dee, sally and kelly. Come on up. Any order. Jill, dee, sally and kelly. Can you hear me . Yes. Thank you. Good morning commissioners. Good morning. The [inaudible] Areas Program will have us believe this plan you will address is all about saving endangered species. They made statements about 50 loss of bio diversity in the plant program, but i want to clarify something, enfact the plant itself required monitoring of only 8 species of plants. Zero or endangered, threes of locing concern which is lower than federally endangered. Three are California Native Plants Society to be listed rare, threatened or endangered in california but more common elsewhere. Two are on the California Native Plant Society level 4 which is plants with limited distribution. I like you to think the trade off and monitoring of 8 plants and worthy selling 18, 448 healthy trees mpt the other thing i like to speak to is the concept and that is the concept oft bio diversity. Saving bio diversity is the linchpin which tries to save bio diversity in the remiant areas but the response to come, the final eir doesnt define what bio diversity is nor the draft eir or Management Plan. By inserting the word native into the employed definition of bio diversity the meaning the term is high jacked. All trees and plants whether native or not native are part of our local bio diversity like people from everywhere are part of our sit as diversity. Adding the word native to bio diversity demonizing native species. The urban forest are part of the totality of variation in San Francisco and have been all most 150 years rchlt we believe all trees and plants whether native or not native are part thof local bio diversity and valued. We traced the definition in the sustainability plan which was fed into the sin ramp and eir and came from eo wilson they say but says biediversity is the totality of all variation in life forms of earth. We believe that native and non native coexist together like pieces of the jigsaw puzzle and part of what are now called by scientist novel forest eco systems and these eco sestm provide essential services for all plants and essential to our bio diversity. Thank you next speaker, please. Sfgov tv, video, no audio. Ime rrp here today speaking on behalf of families and rpd gandner grounds keepers regarding the elth issue associated with exposing to the cancer causing chemicals you introduced into San Francisco play areas. Im addressing the lack of posted chemical warnings add these sites. We experienced the tragedy of a oakland warehouse fire. What makes this pertinent and city officials have known qu down ployed the raisk for years. Former mayor brown as a city leader you assume sth people with this responsibility are doing their jobs. This commission along with the rpd nurt deuced to public parks thousands of tonls of chemical mixture who pfs count is found by the state of california as a prop 65 xhemical known to cause cancer. You continue to do this without posting warnings as to the it helths risks. This is sth same mixture we see in the video being treated by San Francisco children like it was sand as they walk bear foot in it, throw it in each others face and place it in their mouths. As they breathe in the harmful chemtuals under the gaze of their caretakers rchltd if your intention is replace the fields, years down the road this does not mitigate the ongoing chemical exposers imposed every day on the intsent users of the neelds. The National List of cancer victims associated with exposure to these chemicals continues to grow. I heard the commission and rpd justify the actions by bragging you increased field usage. Even if you take such a claim at face value, this means you also increased the amont of Exposure Time as to the toxic chemicals for thousands of lives. I once again ask for you to take as steward the obvious step and that is at the vaer least post prop sick 5 signs at every entrance at eerfb field that contains the chemicals so sth users less willing than your suvls to expose the children or grand children to these chemicals are given a reasonable chance to make a informal decision. Multiple federal ages have taken concern regarding the chemicals and use on the fields rchlt these incluseu scpa, national statute of health kines, Consumer ProductSafety Commission among many others. The state of california continues its own study which wont be concluded for years from now. Thisthank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My i ask you to speak into the m oorks c. My name is jill, im a parnt of two kids and who go to Outdoor Education schools and the glen park southern neighborhoods. This is one of them, this is pharyn my son and im here today to ask you to think strongly about the herbicides in the parks. I put my kids in outdoor schools because i believe in Outdoor Education and children having access to nature and i came across as soon as my sons School Started i came across posting signs they were spraying round up and garllen in the different areas where my kids are playing and i started a petition last year and got over 12,000 signatures and these kidsi was with them ipschool yesterday and all the kids were picking this sower grass, which he is eating now and they are picking it and putting it in mouths and making daisy chains and this something kids do naturally and i know it is policy tospray pesticides on these plants and i like to ask you guys to reconsider that and maybe think of coming up with a policy to prohibit the use oaf herbicides in the public parks because they should be for the public and enjoyment of families over everything else. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Hi, commissioners. Sally stephens and if you wonder why the [inaudible] program is so unpopular with people who live near the parks with natural areas in them i like to give two examplesism grainview park which is a hill top in the western part the city, surrounded by housesrec and park planted a ice plant which is the only thing that held the sand in place, nothing else worked. When the [inaudible] program took control of all of Grandview Park the first thing they did is [inaudible] sand started to drift to the backyards of peoples who properties abut the park. They had Property Damage in the backyards from the sand and the Neighborhood Association meeting and couple yearsa number of yoors ago, lisa wanes respaunss when they asked what can we do about the damage is there is no spaunlt to anything that happens outside the park. When fish and wild life tried to [inaudible] franciscan manzanita discovered in the doyle droiv redue they included land in glen canren. When the fennel version of habitative r was released included 3. 2 acres were added because [inaudible] asked they be added. The problem is sth added land is not rec and park, it was peoples backyards and the people whos yards they were were never asked if they wanted their property designated as critical habitat for the plant and stuck with the designation and it effect the property values. Fish and wild life says we wont bother them but the realty is they could. Never held meetings to determine which parks have natural areas, they just took control of 1 quarter thoch city parks and not been a good neighborhood to the people who live aroun the parks and will only get worse if they get the free rein the Management Plan gives them. At this pont is there is no accountability so encourage you to implement the alternative and protect the park neighbors. Thauj. Anyone else who would like to make general Public Comment as this time . Come on up. Tom borden, with sf Forest Alliance and just wanted to make you aware of one thing going on in rec and park and that is the department of environment, ipm rules are being violated. The natural Areas Program is spraying [inaudible] tear one herbicide to kill native plants and we have a video of it, i think you may have seen it. But, in june they sprayed like a huge amount in Glen Canyon Park below the miro loma trail and the sign said they were spraying poison oak but it was coyoteee brush and sticky monkey flower. I took pictures that show a halo of death around the park. In the mairpwork for the next ipm hearing for reduced riskpisticide it is reported there is a up tick in spraying and attributed to poison oak along the trail in glen canyon. Not only where they breaking the rules because the plants where not invasive and lied about it and reported as poison oak spraying so keep your eyes open for that. It is indicative of something we have seen over and over again and hope people will Pay Attention and get everyone to play by the rules. Thank you. Anyone else who would like to make general Public Comment. This is closed. We are on the consent calendar and i have one card for richard fong. Good morning. I wanted to make a few comments about the [inaudible] willie wong chinese playground. There was found there were infrastructure needs, one way valving on the sewer system because blocked up tennis courts. That will be a big cost addition. There is another point in the sewer methods, im not a plumber or engineering you have student have good terrain because the building across the way sometimes has had many pluming problems so im troy toog look carefully at that. There should be make the money go up a little bit. There is part about [inaudible] on the cost part. I may as well get to the other part. On the other has to do with bridging of communities. I tried to put on facebook and not too good at that. I couldnt get the comment on it. [inaudible] women who are going to be the aquilizers of [inaudible] through the chinatown area. These particular people rpd woman, terri and all the rotary club, those kind of people want to help out bridging the community. There were a lot of supporting people of this particular Rehabilitation Project but there wasnt much talk about funding our fund raising and that type of stuff. I want that to come back into focus. There will be a lot of other people using this same facilities. Children use it usually during the sum squr at other times they are not using it. The big point i want to bring has to do with lighting and the tennis court and the possibility of a tennis court. I looked at the plan and no