. >> could you please call the roll. [ roll call. ] >> madam claire, director heinicke will not be with you today. you do have a quorum. i will read the prediction of sound producing devices during the meeting. this is really loud. please be advised that cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference, so the

board respectfully requests they be turned off. item 4, comments on the regular public meeting. >> item five, kplungss, madam chair, i have none positive you today. item six, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> board members, anything, anything? seeing nothing, thank you. >> item seven, director's report. >> mr. brinkman. >> members of the staff and public, at least those who are not at the jients game, or watching it, i'd like to first direct our director of transportation to come forward to recognize a few of his outstanding employees. >> good afternoon, board

member members, lyon. it is my pleasure to recognize ryan price who i will point out, this is our first -- more progress on succession planning. ryan, i would point out is the youngest station agent. sometimes instincts kick in, but on the night of march 23rd at church street station, we had a fire on the platform. any time you have fire around electricity or certainly trains, it's a very dangerous situation. not potentially dangerous, dangerous. ryan, being both young, alert, and i would say fleet footed immediately secured the booth and went down to the platform with the fire extinguisher and put the fire out, which is very significant because you'd say wow, how big a fire was it?

we had to make a snap second decision to send the fire department into the stations, and fire around electricity, i don't need to draw a picture. so any quick action not only avoided any potential injury, it kept our passengers -- good customer service to our passengers and really represents what everything that we would hope to have a muni staff person do in that, so it's my honor to introduce you to ryan. he has been an agent for three years, and it gets to move around the system because the other side of being youth is the lower on the seniority, but he's done a great job whenever he is. wes valeris is the station

agent, but i wanted to introduce and recognize ryan price. >> thank you. mr. price? >> i just want to say thank you for having me here, wes, and mr. haley. this is a very big deal for me. i've never even been in this building. first time is a very good reason to be here. i mean, what i can say about the incident is, i mean, we get trained well for incidents like that, but in the heat of the moment, you just want to make sure you don't forget your keys, you know, you don't forget your keys, you don't forget the fire extinguisher, you don't run over somebody trying to get to the fire. i'm just glad everything went right and no one was hurt. >> thank you so much mr. price, on behalf of this board, on behalf of the agency and the city and behalf of all the commuters who were on the system this day who did not have their workdays disrupted, at the for your quick actions, we appreciate it, and we look

forward to having you here again, something hopefully less dramatic, but i'm sure we'll have you here in the coming years. thank you. >> thank you. [applause]. >> so quick, i had to chase him for his certificate. he also -- by the way, his motion deni modesty prevents him from saying this. he was a basketball champion. he won a three on three championship at the oakland coliseum, and his prize was he got to go on the big court. despite my enthusiasm in trying to train him, he refuses to root for the celtics. he is a warriors fan.

the next honoree is somebody who has been among the busiest in the agency than anything since january 13th, 2017. manny enriquez has been leading of effort of several people. many of those have been selected and trained and developed by manny, but he is now the person responsible in this agency for having now seven new lrv-4's into service. we put four into service in the month of march. we will put four into service in the month of april and expect to go forward on that pace. this is -- i could say this is all a result of his technical skills as a mechanic. i could also say it's a result of his work ethic, his ability

to not only work with staff and the agency, but the vendor could also say it's a result of his energy, his initiative, his tirelessness. but i think the key thing that stands out about manny is his leadership. and at some point when you're introducing new vehicles into our system, we -- about a month ago, we got the dreaded message that we've -- don't ever want to hear, which is lrv-4 had a 718, which is our code for a collision with an automobile. and i happened to be in the shop at the time and watched the reaction of many of the lrv-4 team. it was oh, my god, how are we going to tell manny? it wasn't, was anybody hurt, how much damage. how are we going to tell manny,

because if anyone is most associated to getting us to where we are now with the trains, it's manny. and i've also say i've asked him to limit his speech to under ten minutes. right now i think he is chomping at the bit to go back. right now all seven trains are out this afternoon, so he wants to go back, but it's my honor to introduce emanuel enriquez, who's been leading the effort to get the lrv's into service. [applause]. >> thank you for this recognition, but it's not me that deserves the recognition, it's our team. first of all, i'd like to thank mr. haley in his support and his guidance to getting us where we are right now. the timeline was very short, and without mr. haley's support, we would not have been able to do it.

the whole lrv-4 effort is a whole effort from transit, not only from lrv-4 personnel, but from all the other departments. it seems like when we ran somewhere, we broke something in the system. so we've fixed all that stuff now, and the cars are runtinin good, but it's the people that i work with that deserve the actual recognition. the lrv-4 mechanics, the lrv-4 operators, the lrv-4 engineers. then, we have the people from mow, the overheadlines people, the people from the track department and people from mode of power and operation. so the lrv-4 project was not just the lrv-4 folks, but it's basically transit in general. and without any of them, we wouldn't have been able to do what we would have been able to do in this amount of time, and

hopefully, we'll get you as many of the lrv-4's as we good. our goal as mr. haley guides us is one a week, so we'll get you one a week. thank you. >> thank you, mr. enriquez. thank you for your generosity and acknowledging the entire team behind you, so thank you very much for all of your hard work. [applause]. >> so continuing on, i want to take the opportunity of this report to make a formal disclosure of a proposed amendment to a labor agreement, and this is an agreement between the sf mta and the transportation workers union local 200, service critical classifications within that unit. the local 200 is the labor organization that represents transit supervisors, so a lot of the folks that you see out on the streets with the blue uniforms and the folks who are

in our control centers, these are the folks who are represented by local 200. we entered into negotiations with local 200 and between sept 2017 and february of this year to amend our current mou regarding the definition of work and shifted assignment seniority for the 9153 transportation controller classification, which is a relatively new classification that we've created for the opening of our new transportation management center. it's particularly for those who are in the 9153 classification who transferred from classifications in position 9150, train controller, to be based on the start work date of the 9153 train controller position. in other words, making sure the folks who are transitioning from being 9150, the old classification to a 9153, to retain their seniority that

they had when they started from a 9150. that's what that was meant to say. after several meetings between our transit, our human resources, and executive board of local 200, we came to agreement on this tentative agreement that's been signed by both parties. there's not an impact -- fiscal impact to the operating budget, and we are required by the charter section 8(a).104 to publicly disclose in advance, at least 15 days in advance of this board considering whether to approve the amendment, so that's what we're doing today. the amendment is available at the--we have copies of it here today, and it's also on-line at ser sfmta.com. and now a couple of activities

now that it's springtime in san francisco. first, this thursday, april 5th is the sixth annual walk to workday, which is sponsored by walk san francisco. there will be 11 stations throughout the city for beverages, awards, and competitions, just as longest walking to work site, and best shoe bling. the hashtag for people is walk2work, with a "2" in the middle. we celebrate that san francisco is one of the most walkable cities, but encouraging people to walk for short times that they may otherwise make and other modes, we're -- as you know and as you'll see, particularly in item 12 today,

we're making significant investments in making our streets safer, so walk to workday is also a good opportunity for us to see some of those improvements and celebrate them. we'll be turning on a new signal in the south of market on thursday as part of the walk to workday activities, so hope to see you all there. shortly therefore is annual bike and roll to school week. the week of aprilth is bike 6 and roll to school week. if any of you are around schools for morning drop off and afternoon pick up, you can see why this is so important and how beneficial it would be to -- for school communities, the kids who go to the schools, parents of the folks who go to the schools, and the neighborhoods who go to the school. bike and roll to school week is really about trying to again,

get kids and their families acclimated to different ways to get to school that are more healthy, more fun, more sustainable. sfmta is a sponsor of different ways to get to school. we started that here, the city started that here in 2009, and this was an important part of our safe routes to school efforts, as well as the collaboration with the unified school district. and finally, bike to workday is a month out, and that's on may 10th, also a thursday. it's sponsored by the san francisco bicycle coalition. i'll give you an update on that as it gets closer, so lots of opportunities in the next month or so to celebrate ways to get around on your foot or on a bike. and then finally, madam chair, you want to speak to this, but today, chair brinkman and i had

the opportunity to go down into the chinatown station of central subway with mayor farrell and abililbert ho. chinatown station was the last to complete excavation. it's now complete. that puts one of the highest risk construction activities behind us, and the concretes trucks were already there, lined up on washington street, getting the concrete down into the station so we can start building it from the bottom up. we remain on a course to have revenue source open in december 2019, and it was just a great opportunity to be down there and see the progress firsthand. because i see the photos every week, and they just don't -- can't capture the magnitude of the space down there that before long will be a beautiful new muni subway station. so that concludes my report.

i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, director reiskin. i'll just second, that station, now you get a sense of what it's going to look like. the people coming down through that station and i am going to be so happy when the nakeds e neighborhoods are relieved of that construction, and the community gets to go down there and see what's down there. i know people will be amazed at how much is down there and how big the station is, and how big the tunnels are. so i'm so glad -- thank you for including me. i'm glad i had a chance to go down and see it. directors, any questions on the director's report? >> i'm just it's just a change for seniority, there's no financial implications of that change? >> there's no fiscal impact.

>> thank you for clarifying that. all right. do i have any public comment on the director's report? >> madam director, there's no speaker cards, and no one is coming forward. >> all right. we'll move on. >> item seven, i don't see mr. weaver here, so i'll skip the report. item 8, public comment. this is the opportunity for public to address the board on matters not on the agenda in the board's jurisdiction. would you like to set a limit? >> three minutes. >> all right. mahmood? >> on thursday, at the san francisco airport, gtu airport ground transportation, san

francisco police, they raided the taxis. the ones that were entering, they blocked them into one lot and not let anybody get in. they were holding 10, 15 taxis at a time and not letting them go anywhere, investigate their tires, their air, their -- smallest thing, where's your badge, where's your registration? no car can be there without registration and insurance. where's your this? where's your that. it scared the heck out of the public. they stayed there for six hours. and then, the only thing that was said, we're not working anymore, one company taxi. this is what your sfmta's sleeping, and when i talk to the airport, they say mta authorized us. you're unhappy, talk to mta. this is what we are going through. instead of --

[ inaudible ] >> and what is it -- you got a credit union case already against you. some other things are coming. what are you doing to save the taxis? are you going to sit down with us and work out or no? i don't understand that why you are lingering on this whole situation. [ inaudible ] >> -- and every time a report come back, mta tell them no, change this, change that. i say give me a copy of this. no, we're not disclosing. thank you. >> thank you, mr. mahmood. next speaker, please. >> carl, and then brian. >> hello, chairman brinkman and members of the board of directors and director reiskin. my name is brian no, and i

handle communications for spin, founded and based right here in san francisco. you may have seen or heard about spin's pamphlets around town, so i wanted to tell you what we're up to and address any questions that you might have. i had actually hoped to bring in one of the scooters that i had with me, but the security people kindly informed me that scooters are not allowed in the building. in less than a year since our very first city, which was seattle, we're now proud to be operating our dockless bike share system in over 50 markets here in the united states. none of this would have been possible had it not been working collaboratively with local governments and other stakeholders, and it's why our entire public policy team has government experience at all levels, including myself. and as we've grown, we've

learned that different modes suit different folks, which is why we've really worked hard to bring scooters as spin's next iteration of personal mobility. our responsibilities have been remaining transparent to the mta and other organizations. as our team finalized plans to pilot our scooters in the soma area, we reached out and met with the sustainable streets division about two months ago and shared our entire plans. we sought injections from them, and we made sure we addressed any concerns they had with their plans. we provided briefings to supervisor kim ease office to make sure they had no objections whatsoever. since we've been deployed small batches of our scooters two weeks, we've been providing regular updates, including our usage, trends and data. >> thank you very much. >> we look forward to working

collaboratively with you in the future. [ inaudible ] >> thank you. last week, the credit union lender for the medallion sales program filed a lawsuit against mta for five causes of action: breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of duty mandated by the code, negligent misrepresentation, and then, they asked for relief. they want $28 million plus. they wi they want you to buy back all the medallions. one of the things that the credit union says is that they go back to november of 2016, when you were supposed to put transportation code amendments before this board, it would

revitalize that program and include getting rid of the medallion program for corporate holders, but the corporations could buy up to 50 medallions each. they're close to 2,000. there might be ten corporations out there like google and ford and gm who would gladly pay $12.5 million who would have 50 san francisco medallions as an investment. i think that would be a way you can get off the hook against the claims you have right now. [ inaudible ] >> i think also there are other stakeholder groups who have been disadvantaged, including the disabled community, but the other 600 people who bought medallions, the individual driver's, they're all going to

have some kind of claim, they're going to have a claim against the credit union if the judge agrees, so i think it's time to put the amendments on the agenda please and do it. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> tom, and herbert, who's the last person to turn in a speaker card. >> opening day baseball search, entertainment. entertainment. so after the game, why do we pack them so tightly into the cars going downtown that if you're one or two stations over between embarcadero and the ballpark, you cannot board the train? so it's entertainment, and then, we stuff them so other people at other stops can't board them. happens every year. maybe it'll trickle down from

here, okay? my issue with more cars, more light rail, is to get more light rail, and then, i kind of have an idea that is a little funnel problem at west portal, maybe the embarcadero and the turnaround. what i understand from other driver's is there's a problem in the tunnel. when a train breaks down, we can't -- it delays everything, backs everything up. we're building new -- we're into new tunnels, so why not put a third or side track somewhere down there, and somewhere maybe at west portal so we can get more cars out. there's a dilemma. i understand we're in the hotel business or we're soon to be. i hope we do better there than

he with did with the taxi debacle. you all want to do something, but you don't do nothing -- or you do nothing. maybe that was a threat from the administration from above. i consider what happened at 19th avenue, you guys losing your way, and i'm hoping that there's more supervisor influence in this commission soon. thank you. >> thank you mr. gilberti. next speaker, please. >> herbert weiner. >> herbert weiner. i just noticed that a bus was removed off of gary. this is the 38 gary, and i felt outraged. i don't usually use that stop myself, but very infrequently, but i think of the cruelty that's being inflicted to the

seniors and the disabled in deference to the members of this board. it has been brought to your deaf ears several times, and you have nothing nothing to address this. it is war against the seniors and disabled who have less status than the bicyclists. if you were to remove a bike lane, there would probably be a riot in these chambers, but when you do it to the seniors and disabled, it's bullying, and you thrive on it. >> next speaker, please. >> madam chair, that's the last person. >> i see somebody coming up. one more. >> okay. >> i think board needs to have a reality check. we are like the jilted bride of the mta, the taxi division. you hate us. you don't spend any money.

you tell people that you're going to put some legislation in, but you don't. so i'm telling you, we are at the end of the road. i think mr. morrow did indicate the size of your financial liability, and that is another 600 medallions that you sold and were bought in good faith adding a few million dollars, at $250,000 a time. then, of course, you have the taxi companies that are going bankrupt, and then, you have a promise to including people like me that yes, you were going to be in business, and it was okay not to sell me

medallime -- my medallion because you were going to continue to support the taxi industry, but you have not. well, we have arrived at the end of the line, and you have two choices: do nothing, which is what you do, or come and talk to us and come up with a plan, any plan, that you will still have a taxi industry, because in a year's time, i don't think you are going to if you keep ongoing like this. i will leave a card here that possibly a member of the board or a p.a. or an assistant will talk to under the circumstans.s >> thank you. thank you. sorry, your time is up, sir. [ gavel ]. >> do i have anymore public speakers? no.

seeing none, public comment is clos closed. we'll move on. >> clerk: madam chair, this is the agenda calendar where everything is requested with one vote, but there is one to be severed. >> i will go ahead and ask for a motion to approve consend calendar with the exception of items 10-j and k. do i have a motion? >> second? >> let's call roll. all in favor? all opposed? let's go ahead and take item 10-j and k. >> they do have to do with establishing general parking limits on taraval at various locations. kristina, sam, and grace.

>> thank you. two minutes, please, miss boomer. >> good afternoon. my name is kristina mcgee, and i'm a resident on the south side of taraval between 43rd and 44th avenues. concerning this proposal, i would again like to voice my opposition. while the planning group asserts that these blocks are business oriented, that's not the case. my block has one business on either side -- [ inaudible ] >> i have some pictures, but this one business has its sales in the off hours. >> your pictures are up if you'd like to rotate them? >> oh, all right. >> there you go. >> this is one side, and the business in question ease 's o

left. there's the other block, with no businesses. >> okay. >> overall, this proposal would increase the ratio of parking spaces to businesses on parking lot like shore avenue. i would like to offer the following suggestions to augment parking. one, bifurcate parking on taraval by having transit downtown and a local bus. two enact residential parking on effective blocks. three, create diagonal parking on the portions of side streets where businesses that front both taraval and the side streets are, such as businesses on the corner of taraval and 44th. while i will not very discouraged if this measure passes, the sfmta should

perform analysis to determine the efficacy of this change. i hope it will take into account any data that the community provides. transit is important -- >> thank you. thank you. [ inaudible ] >> just as a clarifying question, which block are you referring to? it's tear val it's ta it's tear a -- taraval between -- >> 43 and 44th. >> i'm going to go fast because your time is valuable. in total, you have 36 residential buildings, eight stand-alone businesses, five businesses that are split with a business on the bottom, residential on top, and you have one residential building, a synagogue. the language they use in this proposal are these spaces have very little turn over. that's because it's a neighborhood.

it's not a business park, okay? you're not giving us residential permits as you do other places. why, i have no idea. you seem to prioritize the merchants over the residents which out weigh them on a massive ratio. between 46th and 47th, there's a lot of new businesses. they have chosen to do business in an area where there's all day parking. that's the location they've chose. you're telling me i have to walk farther to my house now? why can't customers walk further? the most laughable part of this is your solution. you talk about a proposal for angles parking on ulloa and santiago. it was rejected by a majority of 81% of residents. that's because residents don't like you messing with their parking. i can't see the future, but a

measure that was denied by 81% of respondents i don't think is going to do well. i've been politically active for most of my life. never felt my voice has been heard partly because it's all about the money. frankly, i think you get to make your voices heard. you get to do it under the guys of protecting local businesses, when in reality you're hurting everyone who lives there. if you can prove me wrong, i hope you do, but if you don't, not surprised, nothing more to say. >> ray scarza followed by herbert weiner. >> grace garza. i'm here to represent my hair salon. we always had ample parking, but due to all the growth in the -- in the area, which i am excited about some of the things that are going on.

it's pretty cool, but we have a lot of parking that's taken up by commuters all day long. i do understand that people have to move their cars also due to street cleaning, but it's making our clients and our elderly clients, it's harder for them to access us. they're doing the best they can, so i will hope that you can take into consideration approving it. in the spirit of cooperation, i was thinking that maybe 43rd and 44th doesn't have to have that. i don't think they have any businesses there, so i mean, i think it would be a blow to them. it would be really, healy hard fore them. so that's all i wanted to say. i hope you take it into consideration. our business has been down. i've lost clients, good clients, because they just can't deal. they have a hard time walking, and i understand that, too, because i have physical issues also, but that's all i want to say. thanks for listening. >> thank you, miss garza.

next speaker, please. >> herbert weiner is the last person to turn into a speaker card on this matter. >> herbert weiner. this is my own individual viewpoint. basically this is a fallout from twisted planning, from an ugly plan, and you've pitted residents and businesses against each other. and it places me on the horn for the dilemma. you know, i certainly -- i wasn't for this plan for the taraval street at all. i thought it was ill thought out, and i think it's done great harm. maybe what can be done, and i don't know how this is going to fly. maybe parking can be halftime limit and unlimited parking, so maybe both residents and businesses can get the benefit of both. it's not a great solution, but you have created this problem, and it was really an ugly, twisted plan that never should

have happened. >> do i have anymore public comments? >> no, madam chair. >> no? seeing none, public comment is closed. and do hawe have a staff membe that could -- mr. rhodes, thank you. >> mr. rhode 1ed, i do know this is an attempt to make sure parking is available. could you speak briefly to exempting a couple of blocks within that stretch? i'm trying to think if there's anywhere in the city where there's parking in the city where there's suddenyly a coupe of blocks that don't have parking. >> this is all part of trying to ensure that merchants are still able to provide parking for their customers as part of the broader taraval corridor project, but there are kind of gaps. i think in this particular location, the request that came

up during the discussion was that 43rd to 44th could possiblily be exempted. and in this case, it kind of makes sense because i believe east of 43rd may also be a stretch that is more residential, and you know doesn't have time limits, so instead of starting at 43rd, you start at 44th, go west of there. it wouldn't be, you know, it wouldn't create kind of a strange gap, i don't think, in this particular case. >> and it wouldn't -- it's not going to change the enforcement, it's not going to -- if you can answer that question, it won't add anything to the cost of enforcement in the stretch, it won't make it confusing for the parking control officers? >> i think since again, there's already a stretch east of there that doesn't have it, it should be fine. >> okay. perfect. thank you very much. fellow directors, what's your sense on this? i'd like to hear if everybody else -- we're talking about exempting the block between

43rd and 44th, correct? >> that's correct. >> anybody else have any thoughts on that? >> i would say for the merchants on the block, it makes sense. the lack of funding meters is it makes sure the traffic doesn't turnover on sundays. it's true that businesses down in our neighborhood commercial corridors, and some of it has to do with accessibility. this is important, and i think reserving it for the residential portion does make sense, and then adding it to the blocks where you do have the commercial activity, i think it's a great compromise and example of how we're trying to balance everyone's needs in the city, considering that most of the neighborhood does have unlimited parking. >> 10.1, any -- yes, director hsu? >> i do feel some concerns to residents who find it hard to park in the area. this is an area where we could

explore that thethe -- in the future. >> it's a little harder to enforce, but it is something that is -- it is being kind of bandied and about and discussed a little bit, so yes, that's on the radar. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. anyone else? yes? >> so how many potential residential parking spaces will be is beingrsacrificed? >> it's something like 16. >> so three blocks from 33rd to 36th or 50 -- >> including, in total, including both of those segments, so it would be -- it's about 15 in each of those. >> do you have an alternative.

>> well, just as an example, if you stand at the corner of 44th and taraval, within a quarter mile, there are roughly about 1,000 parking spaces, and about 60 would have a time limit. >> did you provide outreach to the disableds and seniors as a result of having to walk this quarter mile? >> i think one of the things we're making sure is the blue zone accessible options are really well served in this particular stretch of taraval. >> not all seniors are disabled or lack accessibility. some of us are getting older, and i just want to make sure that people don't lose customers. at the same time, living in a residential area is challenging in this 1250e, and finding parking paces available for people is very challenging. also if you live as i do, near a hospital, it's very challenging, and you can never

find parking on my street because the hospital staff takes most of it. >> there has been considerable outreach for this project years now, and over this proposal, this -- as you may recall, this first came through at some point last year. there's been an outreach throughout and since, and i believe that some of the feedback to this proposal that we've gotten beyond the one comment here was that -- demonstrating a lot of support for the proposal. >> also, businesses. i don't think people necessarily identified who they were, but there was probably two dozen folks who -- [ inaudible ] >> -- door to door, it's not always easy for seniors to even get to the door, much less to get from a car if they have one or if they can still drive. a lot of times, you don't always reach everybody you need to reach to determine just what kind of impact this policy may

make on people who are shut ins or people who don't an ability to be available. >> i will just -- mr. rhodes, this is kind of the cleanup of the el taraval project. this is the project that we've been working away at over the last year, year, year and a half? the outreach has been going on longer than that on el taraval. when we approve this, and it sounds like we want to go ahead and approve this time limited parking without the block on 43rd and 44th, leaving that unrestricted, is this going to be the last parking modification that comes to us or we have more coming as the concrete boarding islands that are built. >> so the one that will be returning will be to discuss i think director reiskin has spoken to this before, but there's a proposal to retain the 17th avenue inbound stop and upgrade that -- we've built

a key stop and a full boarding island, so that is the one remaining proposal that we'll need to bring back to the board. >> all right. good. thank you. directors, what's your pleasure? do i have have agreement that we will approve this, but we will exempt the block between 434 43rd and 44th? >> so moved. >> okay. that's a motion and a second? >> second. >> okay. all in favor -- sorry? >> so where's the sentiment on that? >> we'll heard that. >> we're just exempting the 43rd to 44. so that's exempting it. we won't change the time limits on it. it will stay the way that it is now. all right. so i've had a motion. i've had a second. all in favor? any opposed. no, hearing none, all right. we have removed the block from 43rd to 44th from imposing the time limits. all right. now, a motion to approve j and k. >> as amended.

>> as amended. >> so moved. >> and a second. >> second. >> thank you. all in favor, aye. all opposed? thank you, mr. rhodes for being here to answer the questions. >> thank you. well done. >> all right. madam chair, you are onto your regular agenda. [ agenda item read ] >> all right. and mr. reiskin, i think you have new gadgets. >> we'll see if this works. we'll go a little slower. but i am very happy to be here to present for your consideration the -- our new strategic plan. i think the last time we really talked to you in agenda was back in january or february when we had an off-site and

kind of caught you up to where we were and got a lot of great feedback from the board, all of which we have since incorporated and now have this plan that is before you for your consideration. so if we can go to the slides, and now, if we can go to the old fashioned way and have someone come up and move the...turn it on. just the demands that you're all making of me. so the old turn it on plan seems to have worked. so the -- as you know all, but just for the benefit of the public, the strategic plan is what guides the department. every projector decision or report that we bring you, is relating to this strategic plan, and we always identify for you what parts of the plans it's advancing.

the current plan was developed in 2011 and 2012 and approved by this board to go into effect fiscal year 2017 and 2018. as we were going to the end of fiscal 2018, a couple of years ago we started thinking about the successor to the current strategic plan. these are the steps that we took you through or we've been going through for the last couple years to get to where you're proposing today. to kind of summarize the changes that are in this new proposed plan from what we've been working on for the last five years or so is a refindment of the vision or mission statement, retaining the core structure of the plan, which is the four goals, but redefining and moving some objectives around to kind of have a better fit and have a more logical organization. we have updated our values

along with the planning statements, which you will see, and significantly established a two year implementation cycle that will be aligned with the budget process. having the six-year plan that was somewhat set in stone back in 2012 had its advantages of continuity, but obviously, a lot of things have changed in the intervening time, and i'll speak to some of those. so we thought given the dynamic in which we're operating seems to be a -- much more dynamic, we thought it might make sense to do this -- refresh on a two-year cycle. so this shows some of the things that either we are putting more emphasis on, reemphasizing or things that were not very prominent in the previous plan, such as emerging mobilities and technologies, as they weren't as prevalent back when we established the last plan as they are today.

but there are many other things -- i think climate adaptation is much more on folks' minds today than it was -- we're very much, particularly of what's been happening in this city, focusing on equity and affordability in a more expressive way, and also maintaining our focus on transit first and vision zero, and even vision zero first having been adopted. so of course we have safety as the number one goal, but now have vision zero more ex-mistily as pa explicitly as the mission and the statement, the goal's plan. here is the statement and the mission. it's a little bit more crisp and focused, so the vision being excellent transportation choices for san francisco, and the mission being that we

connect san francisco to a safe, equitiable and sustainable transportation system. we spent a lot more time this time around on the agency values than we had in the last -- there were values -- there were actually i think two sets of values in the current plan, but they weren't as robustly developed as part of the process to develop the last plan, including with public outreach and inreach as we did this time, so it's something we fo focused a lot. we wanted to boyle it down to the things that we were projecting, both internally to our own staff and externally to the people of san francisco that we serve, and these three, we thought encapsulated the best part of what we thought everything we should do. so in terms of the four goals, the goal structure remaining

essentially the same. so goal one is our safety goal, and we do have, you'll see on the upper left of the slides there, kind of shorthand for the full goal name. that goal one is to create a safer transportation experience for everyone, with objectives focusing on vision zero, on transit safety, and on security. so a pretty straightforward, clear, and explicitly, number one, being the goal for safety. second goal is that with the shorthand of travel choice is to make transit and other sustainable modes of transportation the most attractive and preferred means of travel, and that really focuses on transit service, which really is the work horse of the sustainable transportation in san francisco, but then, all the other sustainable modes. it's walking, biking, taxis, car sharing. and then, also an explicit focus on congestion and

parking, given the importance they are to people who live and work and visit the city and the impact of those on the sustainable modes of transportation. the third goal shorthand is liveability. our liveability is to improve the quality of life and environment in san francisco and the region. you may recall when we discussed this last time, that bringing a regional focus, has become, i think increasingly important for us as we are very much part of a region. we are not an island, although sometimes we like to act that way. so a number of different objectives under this goal, which is a broader goal. equitiy is one. equity has always been something that we've done, but we're raising it to the level of an explicit directive in the strategic plan. today in san francisco, i think it's more important that we do

so. recognizing our role and the length in between land use and transportation. there's a lot of land use decisions that get made, and they have different levels of transportation input, but they all have transportation impacts, so we want to kind of model some of the best practices that we've had in terms of engaging in the land use decision making in the city so that it's sustainable from a transportation standpoint. obviously dealing with emerging mobility services. just walking on the way here, i heard of yet another one that might be coming to us soon. i won't tell you what that was, in case it was a joke, but i don't think it wasn't. we need to have focus on these. people are going to continue to have ideas of getting around san francisco different than they are today, and we need to be prepared for that. accessibility always a key objective of ours, and want to

make that explicit in this plan. environmental stewardship is obviously an important part of why we exist, and as much we do directly and indirect to impact that. finally, this is our outgoing gift to our chief financial officer, insistshe insisted th have financial responsibility for us. it's great that you're going to do it, but if you can't afford it, you're not going to be able to do it, so financial stability is important. and then, finally, a good workplace. it's important, and we're here to serve the people of san francisco. we have focus here ex-politily on community outreach and engagement, something that you've been seeing as a theme

the last couple of years, focusing on our employees in terms of morale and wellness, making sure that both the workplace and those that we engage outside the workplace are diverse and represent the people that we serve are inclusive so that people feel welcome. [please stand by for captioner switch]

>> we're not just giving you a number but here is where we are now and here is where we want to get to. so, from the plant, which has the four goals and 16 objectives, we will have developed the performance metrics and targets. the real meat of making this a live document and the idea of our strategic plan is that it's really a live document that really impacts the work that we do. it's not something nice and

shiny that sits on a shelf. the real meat of that is the development of the strategic actions and those are the specific actions that we're going to take under each of the objectives in order to help us achieve the objectives, which in turn will help us achieve the goals. so the real work, we had a pre kickoff of it yesterday. this is of course all subject to your approval to start the process of developing out those actions and then we meet on a regular basis internally and report out to you now quarter leon our progress with those actions towards meeting the objectives. i should also note, the other bullet there is that another way of making it real is not just having these actions but having this whole process incorporated into employee performance evaluations. so for example, all of the

deputy directors of the agency that report to me, within their own performance plans, list all the actions that their divisions are responsible for and that we flow throughout the agency so this real clear expectation and accountability for the implementation of the plan. so, we're reporting and it's important. we want to be held accountable. in order to do so we need to be transparent. we will continue as we have been to put the actual metrics numbers up on our website each month, provide more in-depth reports for you at policy and governance every quarter and through other means such as controllers, analysis and the annual report and a bigger picture reporting out. the data that does help tell us whether we're on track or not so that we're