i think again, we have a fully funded mta, we have a good mta. thank you. thank you for your comment. any other speakers in the room for the director's report? okay. seeing none, please go to remote at this time. we'll move to remote public comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue each speaker will have two minutes. moderator first speaker, i. hi, this is stacy randecker and in response to what director hemminger noted , i think that it shows that we should have a bay bridge, bus, rapid transit and a bay bridge bike lane put on the bay bridge, not hanging off the edge of it, not some enormous capital expenditure, but we should have those things coming into our city instead of all the cars on the our streets cannot handle its geometry. we cannot handle all the cars coming into our city. the other thing is actually the previous there was a vision zero subcommittee meeting that was open to the public, which i'm so glad it was , but it wasn't noticed at all. i i am on t

i think again, we have a fully funded mta, we have a good mta. thank you. thank you for your comment. any other speakers in the room for the director's report? okay. seeing none, please go to remote at this time. we'll move to remote public comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue each speaker will have two minutes. moderator first speaker, i. hi, this is stacy randecker and in response to what director hemminger noted , i think that it shows that we should have a bay bridge, bus, rapid transit and a bay bridge bike lane put on the bay bridge, not hanging off the edge of it, not some enormous capital expenditure, but we should have those things coming into our city instead of all the cars on the our streets cannot handle its geometry. we cannot handle all the cars coming into our city. the other thing is actually the previous there was a vision zero subcommittee meeting that was open to the public, which i'm so glad it was , but it wasn't noticed at all. i i am on t

moved to the upcoming mta and puc contracts. this was done in in order to avoid paving these locations twice and minimize disruption to the area, neighborhood. so to recap, uh, we're here today to request approval for the contract modification to increase the contract duration, contingency by 40 days and decrease the contract costs by. $655,549.49 for the fulton street and grove street pavement renovation, sewer replacement contract. so this concludes my presentation. i'm open to any questions that you may have. and thank you for listening to my presentation. thank you, mr. kong. it's nice to see you again. and as far as i know, this is the first time we've ever had a to approve a reduction in a contract amount. and we've approved a lot of contracts. i hope it won't be the last. so you're you're wishing us a very nice holiday. i can tell with this good news. um, so thank you again. i have no questions or comments. commissioner turner, i did want to echo, um, it is nice not only to have a savings, but also i wanted to point out t

i gave you multiple examples, we were talking about on the phone that the mta. one of the things that the mta has said in the past, at least to me, i don't know if they said that to my colleague was that they were intended to have a point person, maybe they would overlap with multiple districts but at least there would be some to handle those problem and be as an interface. that will has never been realized. so i think that's an important thing to carry. i think you said to me, that would be one of your top priority would be engaging and improving out reach. >> yes, and i appreciate what you're saying about the direct link because, because the as resident and as a business owner, that's my point of contact. so if there is strong communication with the supervisors offices, there is a link. the supervisors know who the loudest voices are and what the points are. they also know the people who are quietly working in the background. and are doing good work but maybe not as vocal about it. hearing that as our experience as supervisor, i think that's an area to pay str

mta held a open house on december 5 at city college and the team is reviewing public feedback. folks can learn more at wwwsfmta.com[indiscernible] regarding the lincoln way at kezar rolling out the [indiscernible] 6 intersections improvements with flashing beacons, traffic pedestrian and bike safety improvements and traffic management improvements as well. earlier the fall mta activated the first new signal at lincoln and kezar on high injury network and improvements accessible and signals and median upgrade. turning to sales tax revenue updates we collected in the first quarter of the fiscal year, $27.3 million. this is slightly lower then the first quarter of 2023 about 4 percent lower and 3 percent below our annual budgeted revenues, however we are seeing hopefully pick up in shopping and downtown activities through the holiday jz hope that bears out over the coming rest thof fiscal year. finally, before we end the year i want to add to chair appreciation and are thank you to you all and your staff for the time you provide our team throughout the year. we appreciate your gui

moved to the upcoming mta and puc contracts. this was done in in order to avoid paving these locations twice and minimize disruption to the area, neighborhood. so to recap, uh, we're here today to request approval for the contract modification to increase the contract duration, contingency by 40 days and decrease the contract costs by. $655,549.49 for the fulton street and grove street pavement renovation, sewer replacement contract. so this concludes my presentation. i'm open to any questions that you may have. and thank you for listening to my presentation. thank you, mr. kong. it's nice to see you again. and as far as i know, this is the first time we've ever had a to approve a reduction in a contract amount. and we've approved a lot of contracts. i hope it won't be the last. so you're you're wishing us a very nice holiday. i can tell with this good news. um, so thank you again. i have no questions or comments. commissioner turner, i did want to echo, um, it is nice not only to have a savings, but also i wanted to point out t

i gave you multiple examples, we were talking about on the phone that the mta. one of the things that the mta has said in the past, at least to me, i don't know if they said that to my colleague was that they were intended to have a point person, maybe they would overlap with multiple districts but at least there would be some to handle those problem and be as an interface. that will has never been realized. so i think that's an important thing to carry. i think you said to me, that would be one of your top priority would be engaging and improving out reach. >> yes, and i appreciate what you're saying about the direct link because, because the as resident and as a business owner, that's my point of contact. so if there is strong communication with the supervisors offices, there is a link. the supervisors know who the loudest voices are and what the points are. and are doing good work but maybe not as vocal about it. hearing that as our experience as supervisor, i think that's an area to pay strong attention to. and you're right, that that is what i'm passionate

i gave you multiple examples, we were talking about on the phone that the mta.e of the things that the mta has said in the past, at least to me, i don't know if they said that to my colleague was that they were intended to have a point person, maybe they would overlap with multiple districts but at least there would be some to handle those problem and be as an interface. that will has never been realized. so i think that's an important thing to carry. i think you said to me, that would be one of your top priority would be engaging and improving out reach. >> yes, and i appreciate what you're saying about the direct link because, because the as resident and as a business owner, that's my point of contact. so if there is strong communication with the supervisors offices, there is a link. the supervisors know who the loudest voices are and what the points are. they also know the people who are quietly working in the background. and are doing good work but maybe not as vocal about it. hearing that as our experience as supervisor, i think that's an area to pay strong

the bill is sponsored by the mta which will consider approving a structure for this authorizing language for senator wiener's consideration. thank you to all our staff for working with transit operators and cat cat and business and labor groups to provide input to m this. c and senator wiener's office on this bill. assemblymember ting introduced a spot bill as cited addressing autonomous vehicles. his bill intends to enforce the compliance with the state traffic code enabling operators to be cited and fined for moving investigations. this bill also signals the strengthening requirements by california regulators from. the hearing we held last fall this is needed legislation to address regulatory and data gaps in the sector. we want to thank both leaders for their efforts and look forward to staff presenting this and other legislative priorities to the board next month. thank you. and with that i conclude my remarks. any questions or comments from colleagues? okay. so let's take public comment on this madam clerk. >> there's no public comment in the chambers. is there any public comment re

. >> reporter: but the sf mta says average daily bike volume is estimated to be 3% higher. now the agency acknowledged they're listening to these concerns, reminding everyone this pilot program could be adjusted. in a statement sf mta says in part there's no easy decision when it comes to valencia street, so we need to come together and be open minded to discuss what's best for the economic vitality of the neighborhood. >> what would have been ideal is a lot of european cities they have the bike lanes in between the parking and the sidewalk. which is what they had before. i don't know, it's hard to say. >> reporter: and that's what they tell me all they can do is stay united, trying to find answers to all this confusion. >> this one is just to unite all of us to say this is a really bad idea. we really need to do something about it. and not say oh, it's experimental situation and promising us dates and lying to us and never coming straight. they keep saying next month, next month. but i think this will stay for years. >> reporter: and ultimately they all agree on one thing.

mta and puc contracts.n in order to avoid paving these locations twice and minimize disruption to the area neighborhood. so to recap, uh, we're here today to request approval for the contract modification to increase the contract duration, contingency by 40 days and the contract costs by. $655,549.49 for the fulton street and contract. so this concludes my presentation. i'm open to any questions that you may have. and thank you for listening to my presentation. thank you, mr. kong. it's nice to see you again. and as far as i know this is the first time we've ever had a[d to ap amount. and we've approved a lot of contracts. i hope it won't be the last. so you're you're wishing us a very nice holiday. i thank you again. i have no questions or comments. commissioner turner, i did want to echo, um, it is to have a savings, but also i wanted to point out the coordination that happened with mta to find a solution and to keep us moving. and of that is really reflective of the expertise of the staff but also the di

i said this before and say it again, i urge our mayor has appointed the power over every member of mta commission to nominate people in the critical time the future of the public trams demonstrates a commitment to public transportation and our city transit first zero and as small business owner i appreciate the value of having a small business advocate on the mta board, however, no mention in the charter three this any seat of mfa board be designated for a small business owner person what is said the four boards must be rider and that they must accept knowledge or professional xrerng in one or more of finance and labor relations and two of the director wheeler must have knowledge or experience in the public of the public transportation it is my finding from our conversations and through her comments to the rules committee she didn't have the expertise. so our transit agency is at a uniquely challenging moment we need mta board of with a vision of experience and demonstrated commitment to a robust public transportation system and equity and to our most marginalized community i don't que

i said this before and say it again, i urge our mayor has appointed the power over every member of mta commission to nominate people in the critical time the future of the public trams demonstrates a commitment to public transportation and our city transit first zero and as small business owner i appreciate the value of having a small business advocate on the mta board, however, no mention in the charter three this or any seat of mfa board be designated for a small business owner person what is said the four boards must be rider and that they must accept knowledge or professional xrerng in one or more of finance and labor relations and two of the director wheeler must have knowledge or experience in the public of the public transportation it is my finding from our conversations and through her comments to the rules committee she didn't have the expertise. so our transit agency is at a uniquely challenging moment we need mta board of with a vision of experience and demonstrated commitment to a robust public transportation system and equity and to our most marginalized community i don't

we're waiting for the mta to submit their application for funding and i'm in conversation with director tumlin for that. the cost of library was 47 million dollars. according to then library cfo heather greene. identified at 25.5 million dollars gap for the ocean view library. there was and 35 million dollars there in the library fund and we went to work. colleagues as you may recall, we all worked tirelessly past review of the renovation, in april 18, 2022 a letter to the library commission he identified that the budgeeter for the new library branch would be funded by the renewal of the library preservation fund. that's why i was the lead sponsor at the renew of the supervisors. so the 47 million dollars price tag in 2020, has undoubtedly gone up a bit. but we have the money a year ago to start the library, it was fully funlded according to estimate that's were provided and as every one knows including colleagues here and others, we never start projects in the city. and and we never wait to start projects in the city until we have full funding. if we have 75 more funding we begin the w

did pwe reach out to mta to check that out because you said montgomery and california? >> do not think the cable car tracks were effected, but certainly we would reach out-we reach out to all the city agencies when something like this happens and mta also supported with traffic control, so they were certainly aware of it, but i can look for assist from our communication director, rachel gordon who was also getting calls about this over the weekend. >> commissioners, rachel gordon, director of communications. the tracks for the cable car were not impacted by this but the cable car was temporary shut down. mta brought inspectors to look and the cable car service resumed. >> thank you. >> any further questions or comments on this item? open the director's report to public comment. [public comment] we do not have any in person callers on this item. and we do not have any callers wishing to make comment on this either, so that concludes public comment. >> thank you. no further questions for the director, secretary fuller, please call the next item on the agenda. >> item 3 is

the bill is sponsored by the mta which will consider approving a structure for this authorizing language for senator wiener's consideration. thank you to all our staff for working with transit operators and cat cat and business and labor groups to provide input to m this. c and senator wiener's office on this bill. assemblymember ting introduced a spot bill as cited addressing autonomous vehicles. his bill intends to enforce the compliance with the state traffic code enabling operators to be cited and fined for moving investigations. this bill also signals the strengthening requirements by california regulators from. the hearing we held last fall this is needed legislation to address regulatory and data gaps in the sector. we want to thank both leaders for their efforts and look forward to staff presenting this and other legislative priorities to the board next month. thank you. and with that i conclude my remarks. any questions or comments from colleagues? okay. so let's take public comment on this madam clerk. >> there's no public comment in the chambers. is there any public comment re

i gave you multiple examples, we were talking about on the phone that the mta.things that the mta has said in the past, at least to me, i don't know if they said that to my colleague was that they were intended to have a point person, maybe they would overlap with multiple districts but at least there would be some to handle those problem and be as an interface. that will has never been realized. so i think that's an important thing to carry. i think you said to me, that would be one of your top priority would be engaging and improving out reach. >> yes, and i appreciate what you're saying about the direct link because, because the as resident and as a business owner, that's my point of contact. so if there is strong communication with the supervisors offices, there is a link. the supervisors know who the loudest voices are and what the points are. they also know the people who are quietly working in the background. and are doing good work but maybe not as vocal about it. hearing that as our experience as supervisor, i think that's an area to pay strong attentio

save muni urges mta to postpone approval of this project to provide enough time for city college. surrounding neighborhoods, and mta to work together to modify this plan so it meets the needs of the communities that it's meant to serve. there's no need to rush ahead with this project unless and until there is adequate collaboration. so far, mta has not presented any information that justifies this project, nor has it been enough time for city college and the surrounding communities to provide input. this is not a high injury zone. the plan doesn't include increased transit. many cyclists that travel to city college don't do it by bicycle, and there is a pressing need for parking at city college due to the development on the upper and lower reservoirs, this project should not be approved until city college and the surrounding neighborhoods are satisfied. it will improve transportation and safety, which it has not yet done. save muni has heard from many city college students, employees and community members who are concerned about this plan. we urge you to postpone this project unti

save muni urges mta to postpone approval of this project to provide enough time for city college.the surrounding neighborhoods, and mta to work together to modify this plan so it meets the needs of the communities that it's meant to serve. there's no need to rush ahead with this project unless and until there is adequate collaboration. so far, mta has not presented any information that justifies this project, nor has it been enough time for city college and the surrounding communities to provide input. this is not a high injury zone. the plan doesn't include increased transit. many cyclists that travel to city college don't do it by bicycle, and there is a pressing need for parking at city college due to the development on the upper and lower reservoirs, this project should not be approved until city college and the surrounding neighborhoods are satisfied. it will improve transportation and safety, which it has not yet done. save muni has heard from many city college students employees and community members who are concerned about this plan. we urge you to postpone this project un

save muni urges mta to postpone approval of this project to provide enough time for city college.the surrounding neighborhoods, and mta to work together to modify this plan so it meets the needs of the communities that it's meant to serve. there's no need to rush ahead with this project unless and until there is adequate collaboration. so far, mta has not presented any information that justifies this project, nor has it been enough time for city college and the surrounding communities to provide input. this is not a high injury zone. the plan doesn't include increased transit. many cyclists that travel to city college don't do it by bicycle, and there is a pressing need for parking at city college due to the development on the upper and lower reservoirs, this project should not be approved until city college and the surrounding neighborhoods are satisfied. it will improve transportation and safety, which it has not yet done. save muni has heard from many city college students, employees and community members who are concerned about this plan. we urge you to postpone this project u

a few other rirmentdz about the budget process this year in our non-fund balance the bullets the mta and airport and the resolution we introduced has 6, two year budget on may 1st and on may 1st additional time to review all the department budget. the departments are holdings budget transparency meetings and budget meetings and start talking about they're budget proposal a final note a reminder on those and that's the calendar i mentioned times 6 month support is important to understand how we're doing with the revenue projections and as you can see deliverable led up to the budget hearing committee and with that, i'll take your questions. >> thank you i agree with you there is we have heard it before the mayors proposed in the way of balancing the budget and really proposing the budget both revenue and spending. um, how is that been meaning now we saw, you know, partly used - i want to do an evaluation of the mayors strategies to tackle particularly in terms of public service making sure they're funded as well as revenue generating revenue and tax revenue for both impacting not just

mta is catching up. that double standard or whatever you want to call it is-we had a pedestrian fatality in port land so you see red zones. when you are small business you advocate against that and do not eliminate a single parking spot, so i come with the vision zero issue with a lot of baggage and misgiveings on it. that said, one of the answer to your question is experts need to know better. in these matters when public works and the city family is attracting and drawing greater and greater pedestrian activ to this intersection, the city knows better. the experts know better. it won't be up to the public to answer why we didn't want to mess with something that is green and beautiful and sequestering carbon. public works knows better. the first question is can we move them back, what can we do here and mr. jensen said, then we are dealing with issues of path of travel with pedestrians. those are feedback points i have. it is-i personally believe outside of my job that what's happening is people speedin

to, let's say probably a lot of mta, but there are lots of impacts. again also i mentioned pandemic earlier, right? and a lot of people still have not been recovered fully from that. we hear across the board in average of sales being down 30. right depending on where you're at. so um, although again, i recognize how significant it was for the businesses that could not stay open during apec. there are so many needs out there for. so we're constantly thinking about how is it that we support all the businesses throughout the city and we just don't have enough money to go around for everyone? and i just mentioned the budget cuts that are coming, right? so um, all that to say that, you know, all the money that was set aside by the city and that was privately raised by donors was mostly to meet the requirements from the white house and the state department around all of our obligations as a city to host apec. so security for the venues that had to hold all these meetings and events, but really mostly security. um, the fencing, you know, all those things tha

to, let's say probably a lot of mta, but there are lots of impacts.in also i mentioned pandemic earlier, right? and a lot of people still have not been recovered fully from that. we hear across the board in average of sales being down 30. right depending on where you're at. so um, although again, i recognize how significant it was for the businesses that could not stay open during apec. there are so many needs out there for. so we're constantly thinking about how is it that we support all the businesses throughout the city and we just don't have enough money to go around for everyone? and i just mentioned the budget cuts that are coming, right? so um, all that to say that, you know, all the money that was set aside by the city and that was privately raised by donors was mostly to meet the requirements from the white house and the state department around all of our obligations as a city to host apec. so security for the venues that had to hold all these meetings and events, but really mostly security. um, the fencing, you know, all those things that re

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because i know mta regulates the color of the, um, of the curb. um, but does dpw, i guess i want to understand, like when in my world i do a lot of deliveries with, with the dolly. right. and for workers, i just want to understand, is there planned buffers for them in loading areas? because like the curb where the sidewalk is, like almost in every space corner has a divot, you know, it's like it's an area that kind of seems overlooked. and it's where a lot of people load fragile things. i myself almost ate it like twice last week doing deliveries. um so i guess my question is like, where does dpw jurisdiction end and where does your start and when? where do you communicate on upgrades? yeah so roughly speaking, sfmta manages everything that moves and we manage the striping of the street. the color of the curb, traffic lights and the overhead wires for muni, dpw manages hard stuff. so the sidewalk, the asphalt, um, the landscape typically and then the public utilities commission manages us for the most part, the street lights and the electrical inf

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. >> el departamento de educacion y la mta recibieron el caso a la policia de nueva york, que envio este> la policia toma muy en serio las denuncias de agresion y especialmente contra los jovenes. >> la unidad de detectives de cuartel 106 esta investigando activamente este incidente. >> yo soy yolanda vazquez, telemundo. >> y nos quedamos en nueva york, autoridades se identificaron al apunalado de este jueves en un albergue para migrantes, randall island, como un joven venezolano de 24 anos, quien se recupera en un hospital de una herida en el que se ha detuvo a 18 personas tras el incidente, pero solo se han presentado cargos contra seis por posesion de un arma y agresion. >> el incidente se produjo en el mismo refugio en donde hace poco mas de una semana otro inmigrante murio tras ser apunalado. >> hay conmocion en el condado de union en nueva jersey por un caso de homicidio-suicidio en una familia hispana, segun la fiscalia, una madre mato a tiros a su esposo y a sus dos hijas antes de quitarse la vida. >> medios locales indicaron que la familia atravesaba dificultades economicas. >>

>> we will be working closely with mta. >> great. i love to stay informed if there are updates from that meeting and so on. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you so much. just i had wanted to reiterated, appreciate in the last month presentation we had the information about the denial service data at the shelters and would love to have that detailed about the site level or provider level exits. >> see if we can add that to the report. we are still looking at that, but yes. >> there might be shelters more successful of avoiding denial service and some that struggle with that so help ful to understand if there is is variability across the shelter system because obviously the evictions and denial service are people exitingic bato the street. >> i think it gives the opportunity to look what people needs are so i think some of the shelters are saying they see higher level of aqueuety so may be specific shelters and need to figure what the right program is. >> exactly. talking to a care coordinator she said we need a place for somebody in crisi

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but mta, in its annual report to congress, says that the irs numbers don't count. calls for help to the agency. when you do that, only 35% of calls were answered. meanwhile, as the irs put more resources to calls on processed, amended returns stacked up, some 1.9 million returns await resolution compared to 500,000 at the end of 2019. mta air and collins says this the irs cannot easily shuffle employees back and forth between answering phones, and processing corresponds, since going forward, the irs needs to find a way to move employees between those two functions more nimbly. the watchdog also finding extraordinary delays in helping identity theft victims, taking an unconscionable 19 months to resolve self reported cases. all this despite the agency receiving tens of billions in taxpayer dollars through the inflation reduction act and hiring thousands of workers since 2022. in new york, gerri willis, fox business as the federal reserve, said to begin a two day policy meeting tomorrow, investors are leaning toward the central bank, hinting at keeping rates steady i

its goal of answering 85% of calls it received on toll free lines during the tax filing season, but mta in its annual report to congress, says that the irs numbers don't count. all calls for help to the agency. when you do that, only 35% of calls were answered. meanwhile, as the irs put more resources to calls unprocessed and amended returns stacked up, some 1.9 million returns await resolutions compared to 500,000 at the end of 2019. mta erin collins says this the irs cannot easily shuffle employees back and forth between answering phones and processing correspondence. going forward, the irs needs to find a way to move employees between those two functions more nimbly. the watchdog also finding extraordinary delays in helping identity theft victims, taking an unconscionable 99 months to resolve self-reported cases. all this despite the agency receiving tens of billions in taxpayer dollars through the inflation reduction act and hiring thousands of workers since 2022. in new york, gerri willis, fox business. >> the santa clara county board of supervisors has signed off on a plan to expa

i think mta is disrespectful to the disability community. maybe you can have your staff figure out and have somebody come here and have a comprehensive plan about blue zones and not taking them away without having a replacement at the same meeting. i just think this is very disrespectful and i think this council needs to be more aggressive. it is just being harder to be senior and disability and dealing with the city government and it should be your job to help make it easier for us to deal with city government. thank you very much for listening to me. >> thank you for your comments. is there anyone else on webex? >> yes. hello. >> yes. >> this is william railing, speaking for accessible san francisco, which is a unincorporated non profet association and i have observed-there is a constant process of planning for future meetings and so i just thought i'd put in a word in favor of one of the items that is often considered, and that is the city's accessible business entrance program. i don't think there has been a recent update on that and it

chief coughlin are working with the mayor office and mta to develop a guidelines so there won't be the need for as many meetings or objections moving forward because we set on design criteria that keeps in alignment. that is a good thing to see in the report. another item of note that is hidden inside the approval of permits was an event two month period at 988 market street which is approval of permit frz the first conversion of commercial to residential space. the fire marshal office turned it around very quickly. [indiscernible] and city government overall. a great model moving forward and like to commend the oferts assistant fire marshal herald and [indiscernible] because of the speed with which they turned this project around. chief coughlin continues towork with the board of supervisors of lithium ion battery code that will hope fully limit the number of fires that we see. it was a kind of fortisitous unfortuitous week to introduce the legislation. we had 4 structure fires tributed to lithium battery fires in that week alone. [indiscernible] a lot of work obviously associated wit

i said this before and say it again, i urge our mayor has appointed the power over every member of mtaommission to nominate people in the critical time the future of the public trams demonstrates a commitment to public transportation and our city transit first zero and as small business owner i appreciate the value of having a small business advocate on the mta board, however no mention in the charter three this or any seat of mfa board be designated for a small business owner person what is said the four boards must be rider and that they must accept knowledge or professional xrerng in one or more of finance and labor relations and two of the director wheeler must have knowledge or experience in the public of the public transportation it is my finding from our conversations and through her comments to the rules committee she didn't have the expertise. so our transit agency is at a uniquely challenging moment we need mta board of with a vision of experience and demonstrated commitment to a robust public transportation system and equity and to our most marginalized community i don't que