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 reporting in accountability is important. it is meant to very much be living documents and there will be changes by the time we next meet. there may be another new emerging mobility service operating in san francisco. other changes could happen at the state or federal level.

natural disasters. so we'll continue to assess and adjust as necessary and we will now on each two year budget cycle and normally it will be ahead of the budget cycle, bring you any proposed changes to the plan every two years. so that's the strategic plan that the document that you all have that is up on our website last week. it's i think fairly clear and concise and it row reflects a lot of the great input we got from you and many members of the public and many staff members. i want to acknowledge travis fox and his team that performance unit within the finance technology division who have done a great job working across the agency to get us to this point. >> thank you, very much.

now you've piqued my curiosity. >> electric strollers. >> you heard it here. [laughter] >> i think what i'd like to do before i open it up to directors for questions and comments is go ahead and take public comment and i think given the scope of this, let's go three minutes on this item. >> madam chair, we have no one who has indicated an interest. no one has turned in a speaker card. >> here comes -- >> you talk about parking and congestion and yet parking spaces have bee have been remov. doesn't this contribute towards congestion. also the accessibility and it's

public policy that people are expected are able to report. ploy eye moral. i'm not inter internal affairs but i know bully and harassment is private and public concern in respect to employment. people are at the worksite to the point of depression even suicide. what plans are in place to protect employees of m.t. auction against bullying and fourthly, what about bicycle acts or bicycle strike people on the sidewalk and in the intersection. what measures are being taken to protect these individuals. you've done effect to protect bicyclist against traffic, injuries and everything but somehow you leave out the pedestrians and people walking

on the sidewalk. how are you going to address people biking on the sidewalk, illegally which gowns on day-to-day to the indifference of this board. >> do i have anymore public comments? no? seeing none public comment is closed. directors, do we have any questions or comments? i know that this strategic plan is something we live with every project we work on. we're all quite familiar with it and i'm pleased with the updates. it really is helping to refine this plan and make it more pertinent to the work we're doing now. i'm really pleased to see that and mr. fox thank you and your team for the work on this and thank you for contributing the financial sustainability piece that's going to be a good thing going forward to take note of that. directors, do i have any questions or comments? >> i will just say that this is

great. we have to look at this and a few months ago and give a lot of input into it. this reflects the robust discussion we had at that meeting and we're excited about meeting the metrics set for the next plan. >> i misspoke before. after we were at the board retreat we did have a good in-depth conversation with the policy and governance committee and we got great feedback that helped get us to a good final product so thank you for that. >> yes. >> progress the agency in achieving goals and makes for a much more structured and effective policy and governance committee that's for sure, the way these things are laid out. it's a huge amount of work that

we're taking on regularly and to have the metrics in place and have the great kind of monitoring of the progress i think is super helpful in growth us to where we all want to be so, to see this refined plan and to see all the comments that we had made to your staff earlier, all reflected in this it gives me great confidence. >> thank you. dr. ramos, i don't think your microphone was on. were people able to hear in the audience? >> i talk loud on purpose. >> not loud. audible. [laughter] >> all right. any other? it always seems sometimes that the board, the biggest things that we work on have had so much input before they come to this approval process that sometimes it may see like there's not a lot of comment right here at the end and not a lot of input but that means that we've done a great job covering it before it gets here to the approval point. do i have a motion to approve?

>> and a second. >> all in favor aye. >> aye. >> any opposed. no. hearing none. strategic plan is approved. thank you. moving on to item 12 on your budget certify the fiscal year 2019 and 2020 capital budgets are adequate to make substantial progress meeting the goals and approving the capital budget for 2019 in the amount of 514 million for fiscal year 2020 in the amount of $631 million funding various projects. >> madam chair, members of the board. i'm happy to bring for your consideration a proposed capital budget for the next two years as part of our five-year capital improvement program. if we can go to the presentation. not a lot different than what you've seen on the capital budget side. it's a little more simple and straight forward than the operating budget though

obviously very significant and representing a lot of investment that we have the potential to make here to make our streets safer and make transit work better. it is the first to the budget that is before you as the first two years of the five-year capital improvement program which is governed or informed by many of these various plans and goals and policies and strategies, including our strategic plan that to boil down the $2.8 billion five-year c.i.p. is really in a nutshell advancing vision zero, advancing transit first and continue to go get our assets to a state of good repair. this is in effect what the investments that we're making are targeted towards and we're i think, we're rather fortunate

that we have a fairly robust suite of revenues we have to make these investments to make our streets safer and muni reliable and also to take our infrastructure, some of which is 100-years-old and make sure it will serve us for another 100 years. so the five-year capital improvement program is just shy of $2.8 billion. it's about $1.1 billion in the first two years and you can see we have these 10 or so catagories that represent our capital program. you can see how the funds are allocated across those catagories and across the five years and this is based on the best information we have in terms of the revenues. as i mentioned before, some revenues are less flexible than others. some are only able to use in certain of these lines others we

have some discretion. a lot of that inflexability drives. just to walk through those numbers, you have the whole capital budget book, which gives you the detail. for you and for the members of the public, for your benefit, the key transit are the central subway, as we said earlier, on track to be completed by the end of next year making good progress now having just passed that important milestone of completing ex ta indication so we're zeal this next year the surface and union's center and south of the market and taking to look underground between now and end of 2019. the transit fix guide way program, fixed guide way is

anything that runs on rails or overhead wires. it's our trolley network and our rail networks. a lot of different state of good repair projects, many of them small. one very large one being the rail replacement project in twin peaks that will start and end this coming summer that's not replacing only the rails but a lot of the infrastructure within the tunnel to bring it all to a state of good repair and to improve the seismic strengthening of the tunnel. just one other thing we don't talk a lot about. i just wanted to kind of acknowledge that the rail system and the trolley system run on electric power that comes from hetch hetchy but gets distributed through the city through the overhead lines and the subway stations that power the electrical system.

we also have in this capital urge bet upgrades to some of the sub stations that transmit the water, some of which are very old, getting past the end of their useful life. as we put more rail cars and trolleys into service we'll see increased demands. so getting those systems up and in good shape and upgraded is important so no one sees them and no one hears about them and they're an important part about what makes the system run. under a transit optimization and expansion, these where the muni forward program resides. a number of projects you have approved recently, including one we talked about today, the he 1h street improvements for the 22 fill more, 19th avenue improvements which are going out to bid very goon. the platform construction project you approved last month

starting the first phase of the geary b.r.t., we hope to have clear not in the next month or so. a lot of big projects. many of which you have come through for your approval and now we're moving into construction. and then perhaps the most exciting parts and we heard a little bit about it today during the special recognition are the fleet improvements. bit end of 2019, we will have 68 new rail cars in service and replaced the entire bus fleet, bus and trolley fleet, which is pretty amazing thinking about where we were five years ago. we also have in the capital program, vehicle overhauls. manufacturers of transit vehicles recommend a significant overhaul around the middle of the life of the vehicle. it's something in the past we hadn't done, which is why some

of the old vehicles that are out there today are really kind of limping along and are not reliable. believe it or not, our first of the new vehicles, which first started coming in in 2012 are already start to go come to their mid life so we're planning to do the proper mid life overhaul recommended by the manufacturers so they can have a good second half of their life unlike their predecessors. we'll renovate cable cars and historic street cars. we currently have a contract for 16 of those and we may expand that contract and then add in a second contract. we'll be soliciting soon for some of the older historic street cars. and then importantly, we'll continue on fleet replacement of what we call the non revenue fleets. so these are not the vehicles that the public rides but these are all the vehicles that we use

to support muni service, to support the street operations, to support our revenue, to support the back up house functions of the agency. and then we are developing a more robust facilities program than we've had in the past. i'll speak to the sum in the operating budget but we have major projects such as the beginning of planning for reconstruction of one of our more than 100-year-old facilities expansion of muni metro east, which is our rail yards. a lot of generalized facility work as well as some elevator and escalator improvements and i provided a slide at back of the presentation of the detail that was requested and we can discuss that more if you like but we're making good progress on elevators and escalators through this past and this d.i.p.

so onto the streets where we're focus on vision zero. a lot of these items are programatic items and we spoke with stakeholders and members of the supervisors to refine projects lists. a lot of bike improvements that some of which you will see next month on bike to workday, lots of pet improvements that you will see later this week as part of walk to workday. last year we did more than 700 projects covering more than 77 miles of streets in san francisco in terms of pet improvements so both the bike and pet i am projects are large projects such as the big ones that come through and you legislate and also many of the small ones that come through as parking and traffic change for some don't require that so

everything from full big projects like ma sonic and second street happening to many smaller things as well as programatic things such as supporting the bike share program. and the same on the pedestrian side. week seeking to expand the application based traffic calming program it's a very popular traffic calming in this city. we always have more demand for traffic calming than we have funds to support it but we're look to go do what we can to support that and have particularly focus on areas where we do have vulnerable populations as we discussed earlier with children, seniors, people with disabilities and continuing to do other things with regard to traffic calming such as play streets. and signals, which is a big part

oof all the street improvements but will warrant its own category. the golf corridor, when the infrastructure work was done a couple years ago we put the underground work in place, the conduit so we can come back and upgrade the traffic signals including pedestrian count down signals. without a lot of tearing up the streets, we'll be able to upgrade the goff corridor as an example of good planning. a number of other signals around the city will be coming in our next big signal contract as well as in specific areas such as coming out of the western edition community based transportation plan. some other areas that the implementation of our new parking and revenue control system in our garages is moving along very well so we will continue to fund that to get all the rest of the garages

complete. we do have some items in taxi realm and one that we added in based on public comment we got at previous meetings was funds to support taxi stand expansion, i think there was a question that came before the board about the fees for taxi stands and wanting to make sure that they didn't become a barrier to the implementation of taxi stands. so this item reflects our commitment to make sure that the fee burden on doesn't stand in the way of expanding taxi stands. and then there are other programs that are not infrastructure programs but they support or lead to capital projects so we put them in the capital budget and these are some of our long-term planning projects and our transportation demand management some of the work that you saw referenced in goal three of this strategic plan as well as our safety programs and other pilots.

so, just a tease there are and you can see in the budget book that the complete list. so on the revenue side, i think i had shown you this slide before, the story being a number of years ago the relative sizes of the pies were quite different when the federal and state were much bigger in funding transportation in the state and country and now san franciscoans are stepping up with the sales tax through local development fees and of course through the general obligation bond that we're paying nearly a dollar for every dollar we get elsewhere. i don'i do want to note, that sf that money we're assuming from elsewhere and locally is based on revenue measures that will require voter approval and has

not been approved bies by the v. rm3 has $140 million that are specifically an ex pendture plan and called out from muni as well as other catagories that we can compete for. so we're projecting $190 million from r.m.3. as well as $171 million in new revenue from san francisco, a local measure that was recommended by the mayor and the board of supervisor transportation task force. we took these numbers based on the expenditure programs that were recommended. those numbers could change and of course if those measures don't pass we won't have those revenues and we'll have to revice our plan but i wanted to point out the plan assumes these revenues. so from here and this will be the same story on the operating side, with your certification

today, we will in turn submit this to city hall by may first, as the charter requires, and then we will come back to you in july with the full five-year capital improvement plan for your consideration. and that concludes my report and i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, very much. i'd like to go to public comment first before i hear from my hello commissioners. let's go ahead and have three minutes. >> madam chai chair, the only pn is kathy di luca. >> good afternoon, chair, director riskin. i'm happy to see you all. my name is kathy di luca and i'm the policy and program director for walk san francisco. thank you director riskin for mentioning walk to workday. i couldn't not say that. we're really excited about it.

so board members, today you are here being asked to certify the budget meets the agency's goals. and as you know one goal is vision zero. the goal to end all severe and fatal traffic crashes by 2024. i'm here today to ask you if your comfortable enough in these numbers to certify that they will get us as far as we need to get to reach vision zero. we have six years left. this is a two-year budget so it really matters. and unlike vision zero, unlike a lot of the city's policies is time bound. so something where we have a limited amount of time to get there we need a strategic plan, analysis, we need to know the numbers will get us there. so i would ask you today do you have the information that you need to be confident this budget and the draft five year c.i.p. which is coming soon, will get us to vision zero. do you know how or if staff crafted the budget with the achievement of vision zero in mind? do you know what analysis and

tools were used to make sure the budget gets us to zero? do you know what percentage of the budget is going towards vision zero work? these are a lot of questions i'm asking. i don't have the answers but i think they're really important. i know the five-year c.i.p. isn't coming to you until the summer. but that five-year c.i.p. is so important that the horizon for that is 2023. 2024 is our vision zero horizon so we need to know if that plan has the projects and the funding to get us there. if it us didn't, we can do something about it and we need that information so i've asked you a lot of questions and i don't have the answers, i hope that you do and other folks do. because this is really important to all of us. thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm on time. >> mark gruber. >> thank you. mark gruber. san francisco taxi work alliance

and i haven't seen the numbers by i want to thank you for in concluding funding for taxi stands. in the capitol budget, this is going to be of great help to taxi drivers, to taxi passengers and to the city and also just in anticipation of thank you for reducing the initial fee, the application fee for taxi stands in the operating budget. i really think that those should be waved entirely but take what you get, thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker. >> that's the last person who turned in a speak are card on public comment. seeing none. public comment is closed. directors, i'd like to hear your questions or comments on the

capital plan? >> i guess maybe, great job as we've spent a lot of times talking about this budget. maybe you can talk about what you are doing with the fees we've decided on for taxis, the changes we're putting fourth just for the purpose of the general public and also the crossing guard issue which i know came up at the last hearing on this topic and also the examiner. >> it would be more appropriate to address those under item 13. the taxi issue crossed what we're proposing here is just funding in the capital budget for the establishment of taxi zones. there is in the operating budget also a fee reduction related to taxi zones so that's where they link and i would be happy to address the other taxi items and crossing guards and that. >> we can wait to operate on that one. can we go ahead and talk just a moment about vision zero. i'm always very hesitant to as a

definitive that something will get us somewhere and we guarantee that we'll make that number. when it's vision zero i find it charging to talk about because we firmly believe in vision zero and we firmly believe in street safety but we don't know what our streets will look like in five years and i've always had the idea that as we work towards vision zero and we work on the high injuries corridor network, of course that high injury corridor network is going to change each year as streets are made safer and other streets that have injuries that hopefully are not rising to the level of fatalities pop up. do you want to talk a little bit just about how we see that going forward and our confidence that we are allocating, not just a line item for pedestrians safety because i don't think it is just that. i feel like vision zero pedestrian safety, bicycle safety, car driver safety, it

permeates every project that we dough and it permeates every decision that we make. it becomes harder to hall out a budget line item when it's something that we think about every single time we make a decision. >> yeah, i think that's a great way to phrase it. first of all, those are all fair and good questions we heard from public comment. we have done -- tried to do an estimate of the percentage or the number of dollars but as you say, it's not sure if that's the most meaningful data point that we're talking about. and i do want to remind that vision zero is more than just capital improvements it's behavior change, education, the enforcement to change behaviors. with that said capital improvements are a big part of making the streets safer. as we were approaching this five-year c.i.p. and a six-year window to achieve a goal of

vision zero, our goal was to get most of the way there in the five year c.i.p. and that's what you will see reflected in the five year c.i.p. of this first two year budget is the first part. and while the high injury network may move a little bit and it certainly should, we also expect and have seen so far that the incidents at serious and fatal collisions will decline. one of the ways we're looking at that is looking at the high injury network, how much of the network will we cover we have been yet addressed in the next five years and then the subset of that would be in the first two years and that was the approach that we used in the budget. i think given the resource that's we have that we are doing what we can in a strategic way as possible to get ourselves there but maybe i'll ask our sustainable streets director perhaps with his interim acting

sustainable streets director assistant if needed to shed a little bit more light on the thinking and the substance of what is in the capito capital b. >> excellent. >> thank you, tom mcgwire. so i think ed covered most of the key points. again, really important to emphasize that we take a systems approach to vision zero which means it's not just engineering so only the things that fall within engineering will fall within the capital budget. i also want to look back on 2017, which was the year which we were able to transform over 30 miles of streets that were on the high injury network, which is significantly higher than that 18-mile stretch goal we set for ourselves when we committed to your action strategy. there's a history here of being able to use the funds that this board and voters and others have given to us to spend that money effectively. the last perhaps piece of the

puzzle, after the funding and the capital programming, is making sure that we are doing our jobs as your staff to constantly bring you data-driven truly effective recommendations to transform the streets in the high injury network, not water down projects or projects that don't get us to, as ms. di luca said goals, zero in 2014. we'll certainly continue too make that as the m.t.s. staff. look to make sure that the engineering piece of vision zero is fully fund and properly planned to make the decisions we need to get those projects implemented in time to get to zero in 2024. >> thank you, very much. it reminds me and thank you for pointing out the fact that it's not just capital money that gets us there but it's education and it's enforcement and it's just changing the mind set of how people get around the city and that vision zero is not just about pedestrians, it's not just

about bikes, it's every single street user. this board has shown a good, strong dedication towards expecting projects to and to us that take all of those things into consideration and supporting those projects when they get here. thank you very much for that information. i appreciate it. directors, questions, comments? >> well, so there was a reference to a new program for seniors and people with disabilities under one of the slides. i was wondering if you can give more details on that? >> maybe i can ask our sustainable streets director to come back and speak to that. this is a traffic-calming focus on vulnerable populations. >> excellent. >> it's a tied end to this discussion earlier. >> so historically, as director riskin mentioned, we've had a

traffic-calming flam is request driven and wildly popular and we cannot build as many speed humps as the residents of san francisco would like us to. we recognize that the speed hump is an appropriate tool as speed control. you've heard me say many times before that it's the number one thing to get towards vision zero. we think it's important we do traffic calming, not just in reaction to resident requests but proactively as well and specifically where we have vulnerable communities and we'll see pedestrians who are at risk. the idea behind that program is to make sure we've got the funds in place to proactively cam those streets. >> i look forward to hearing more about that, i guess. >> thank you. >> we like to call them with director torres is prompting our chronic logically gifted. [laughter]

director ramos. >> i do want, if we could talk about the elevator plan going forward because i think that's super exciting and the public would be interested, i'm interested and i'm bias. but i love to hear a little bit more about the details as far as what is included in the two-year plan and moving forward with over all. >> right, so if we can go back to the slides. we did anticipate this question. put a couple in here. so we are working our way through retro fitting all the original elevators and the system. church street station is the next one to be completed. i don't have the full schedule of those but we can certainly get those. and then the other aspect of the program is redundancy and that's

adding second elevators into stations that only have one. the castro station project is one that i think you are familiar with. it's projected to be completed in 2021. that was the one where we did delay the project during the harvey milton plus a redesign but they're back at work to finalize that. i think i gave you an update of that at the last meeting and my directors' report. we are advancing discussions on a second elevator for vanness station. we have a few different options given that three of the four corners have buildings that will be redeveloped and we the city own. building at that corner so we are exploring what the best opportunities there are going to be and also looking towards a 2021 completion and then the central subway, as part of its program, as required to put a

new elevator into the bart station and that will be done next year. so, that is kind of the picture on elevators. in terms of the timing of the individual station elevator enhancements, i don't have those with me but we can get those to you. on the escalator side, as you know, we have a project to essentially go through all the escalators in the system and you've seen them under way and opening each year so here is some of the current ones. there are a couple that are outside of it. the embarkadaro and west portal but they will come after in the cycle as we can develop the funding for those this is just

the transit. we have also had some elevator improvements, i forgot to mention in our parking garages as well and and the joint use of facilities being com complimenty their ca canopy which enhance te reliability and up time of the escalators. that's a nutshell of an update. so i would say it's fairly well funded at the moment. the redundancy is the hardest part, getting the existing once rehand. we're in decent shape. it's been very challenging to get contractors for this work. we have a lot of areas of our capital programs, not just at this agency in the city where resources are scarce because of all the construction that's

happening in this city. it's most acutely felt with elevators and so most of our elevator bids, if we get bids, are significantly over what we expect to have to pay which means we sometimes are doing less work than we would hope and that may be why the embarkadero and the new escalators have been really good and getting the renovated elevators and service have been significant as well. >> i appreciate the update. >> and directors riskin, when we're asking new elevators, are they similar to what i've seen in some of the bart stations where they're glass-sided that feel open and have more visual impact. >> it will be different at every location. i mentioned the last meeting, we were soliciting feedback on the castro he will straight o eleva.

the ones, for example, at van ness will be incorporated into a building. either our building or the adjacent quarters. they won't be free standing on the sidewalk like the art elevators, the one in powell station is in the station. it really is very site-specific in terms of what they will look like and how they feel but we're mindful of the look and feel of some of the existing ones and taking those lessons to inform future elevator development. >> excellent. thank you. director ramos. >> yes, thank you. this is a lot of work and i've got a bunch of comments. given that it's a beautiful day out there i won't keep us there all day. burke some of the more immediate things that come to mind that i want to make sure we address. i want to thank mr. grew better and the taxi folks for

advocating for the cab stands. it's important and it will be a good strategy to help the industry out. i want to thank ms. di luca for coming in and expressing her concern about vision zero, making sure that we are keeping up-to-date with the goals. she needs a little bit more conversation and understanding of the approach that we're taking. i would like to hope that she is at the forefront of our strategies and should be on board with us in every capacity so i'll look forward to talk to her more and how we get them fully on board and have them supporting this work as it moves forward. with respect to the presentation and some of the specifics, i deeply appreciate us thinking about the mid life overhaul. i think that's going to be

really important to avoiding a lot of problems in the future sooner and having them be less impactful when things start to break down. i would love to hear more although i'm confident you folks have taken it into consideration but, to talk about the steps and the things that we have in place to get the parts that we know that we'll need and then begins we know we'll need and the tiresser antires that will comd we're well into the lifespan of some of the new vehicles so i would be curious why they didn't do it with some of the previous vehicles that so funding of course. >> this is were the passage of the local measure is important. the local measure is providing funding for things we have not had funding for such as mid life

overhauls of vehicles. we've been very lucky through the local sales tax and the federal funds for purchase of replacement of the vehicles but that mid life overhaul funding has been harder to come by and that was something that came out during the transportation passports process and it's something that we really need additional local funding if we're able to do it systematically, which we really should be doing. >> thank you for that. i want to make sure we can win all these measures when they come before us. to that t.s.x., i would love tod on that. when you go, i would love for us to think about what it would take to get more suppose tort for these programs and cooperation from the office of economic development to pay for things that we can't necessarily pay for and to

anticipate them. supervisor peskin was responding to merchants having problems in the past with some of the construction. i know that some of the impacts that our transit only lanes are having could be mitigate with better economic programs and it comes up over and over again. i know we can't address this here. this would be the place that we would. so as you take it to the supervisors, i'm hoping that we are talking with them and working with them to anticipate the needs that we know will come up when we start to implement these the way they have come up with some of the projects we've already submitted. >> that's a great point. i can address that to some extent. i don't know that we've really shared it much with you and maybe it's something that we can do either policy and governance or here. there's a couple of things we're doing to enhance the way we deliver capital projects. one of them by increasing the amount of outreach and education

that we do and when they moved into construction. we changed the amount we're budgeting in all these capital programs that make up this plan. we've also, for particularly the larger projects established in another line item for construction mitigation, and that is to do exactly what your speaking to director ramos, creating a program to deal with kind of ancillary impacts of things and there are some things we can fund and some things we can't but this is something that we developed and response to some of the concerns that we've heard from merchants and residents as we go into do major construction and it's something we had. although we haven't formalized we had it put in place for the van ness project and there's a lot of the ways we're delivering the projects are informed by the folks there and what we're doing in terms of enhanced marketing

and support are driven a lot by the businesses there so we've now formalized that into a program that we've done that with the other city agencies and this is under mayor lee's direction and made this city wide so now it will be standard on all of our large projects. just last week, our public outreach and engagement manager and i went and met with group of merchants from across the city and addition to those from west portal and castro and we were with the office of economic and workforce development to talk about how this concept will apply for the twin peaks project, which will be the first one probably since we really formalized this in terms of put particular into place and letting them drive the shape of it as it money for marketing, is it money for outreach. they get to somewhat drive that decision. this capital budget now incorporates a line item to address that as well as enhanced line item for outreach and

engagement. >> perfect, thank you, very much. i appreciate the robust answer. i wasn't expecting that. >> i think that i'll leave that there for now. i'm supportive of the plan. it looks great. i appreciate all the hard work that went into it again. the stuff isn't easy. it takes chours hours an hours i deeply appreciate it. if we had more time i would love to talk all day about the 19th avenue b.r.t. which, as someone who went to san francisco state and lived along that corridor, i can't wait to get moving on that project. thank you all very much for all the support. >> thank you, director ramos. >> they covered a question i had. >> excellent. thank you. >> anyone else? do i have anymore questions or comments. do i have a motion to approve? >> you motion to approve. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed? hearing none.

approved. thank you. thank you again all for the work on this. we'll move on. >> moving on to item 13 approved fiscal year 2019 and 2020 operating budget certify that both budgets are adequate to make a substantial progress towards meeting various sfmta goals, authorizing changes to fears, fees, fines, rates and changes and amending the transportation code to reflect those changes. i'm not going to get into the specifics on that, however, moving on, approving the sfmta's title 6 fair he can whitney equg free muni on new year's eve for the next two years. concurring with approving the title six analysis of the impact of the proposed fare changes on low inand and minority communities. concurring with the controllers'

determination with regard to contracting out certain services and authorizing the director of transportation to make necessary technical and clerical corrections to the budget. >> are you tired of talking yet? >> i'm not probably as tired as you are of hearing it from me. [laughter] >> so here we are. this is your first opportunity to consider s approving the next two year operating budget for the agency. i want to acknowledge our soon-to-be out going chief financial officer, ms. boze and her team as well as the many other across the agency. people in all the divisions work together on this, particularly our communications staff supporting and making these presentations but the fiscal staff, a lot of folks do a lot of work on this so i want to acknowledge the city attorney's office and our general council and in particular john kennedy on her staff. you can thank the one-page long

title of the agenda item among other things it's a labor of lor or something for him every two years. so a lot of work to get us to this point. your feedback all along the way has been very helpful. so if we can go to the slides, we'll try not to repeat too much of what you've heard multiple times already. sfgovtv can move us to the slides, please. maybe even they're tired of hearing me talk. so our budget priorities have remained the same and it's carrying forward some things that we've been doing, such as our affordability programs. excitingly putting new rail cars into service, opening central subway and it's changing our fare structure based on some of the good feedback we've gotten from you. and continuing to do what we can to support the taxi industry and

we will speak to that specifically. so here is where we ended up. you recall we started out with a little bit of a shortfall, after getting revised revenue assumptions and taking some belt tightening out of our budget, we ended up with a little bit of a surplus but we had a lot of things we were still trying to accommodate but to what we ended up is 1.21 billion proposed budget for fiscal 19 and 1.27 proposed budget for fiscal '20. so, here are the main expenditure assumptions. these are the things that we worked hard to try to do in this budget. obviously again, but worth repeating because it's a unique thing still in this country, the extent to which we provide free and discounted travel to folks on our transit system.

we were able to accommodate these important needs that we have for the transit system, which are the new light rail vehicles on the capital side is where we pay for them and the operating side we put them into service and operate them so that the new service plan that goes into effect in june will have an additional 22 cars in the schedule and as the next two fiscal years progress, we'll put more and more of those cars into the schedule to the extent we have the operating resources to support them and this budget provides those resources. it does anticipate and plan for the opening of central subway part way through the second fiscal year as i mentioned we've expended the bus fleet by the end of next year by 80 buses, including going to longer buses. thankfully we'll now have a new facility from which to operate

that expanded fleet we're bursting at the seams at all of our existing facilities so this is an important outlet for those and it will be a new operating division from muni so we'll have full management structure of muni operating division. as i mentioned before, because of the dynamic nature, not just of our streets but of our equipment training for safety and maintain ability and improving the skills of our workforce is something we wanted to make modest investment in. something i don't think i mentioned very much before, but something that i've been talking a lot with bart, as well as others within the city such as the department of homelessness and supportive housing and public works, is some enhancements for our muni stations. we start aid pilot of having a homeless outreach team jointly funded by bart and muni to cover the powell and civic center stations and is seems, i won't

say we've turned them around but we think we're making some progress with that so this budget would continue that funding as well as expand it to cover 16th and 24th street. which not the underground are very much about bart and at the surface they're about muni. so taking the success we've had there and extending it down along mission street is proposed here as well as another thing we'll pilot with bart, which is elevator attendance. as we've heard from public comment and others sometimes our elevators are used for things other than vertical transportation. so we will be partnering with bart to pilot on having a community-based organization that provides staffing for the elevators at the two stations, civic center and powell. the same organization that is providing the service of the pit stops that are around the city, if you are familiar with that it's a local san francisco

organization. it's something that both our operations and bart operations' folks think will help a lot in terms of the maintainability of those elevators but more important for the experience of the folks who are using them for a legitimate purposes. in order to a. >> camille: coaccommodate thoses weren't enough to do that. so 16 or $17 million of cuts from the exiting budget from divisions across the agency, and i mentioned this before, some of it is budgets for professional services contracts, some case it could be some funded but vacant positions, other equipment or material savings but we did ask our division directours to look within and see where we can

squeeze out some efficiencies so i appreciate the work that they did do. >> toni-marie: do thado that.ino things and things we need to do such as addressed increase pension and heath carr costs. these are increases over the baseline and these are figures that are costs that we don't really control, we just get these numbers from the controllers office and the health services and the system so we need to budget for those and we do, there are contracts that we executed in the last year. we'll have increased costs so we need to fund those like our pair transit broker contracts is one of those. and we got somewhat late request for an increase in our share of san francisco share for caltrans budget. both budgets are split, or there's a contribution made by

each country. we had a equipment in our baseline of what our contributions would be for the operating budget, which we provide cal train came and asked us for more and given the importance and the amount to which we rely on to get people to and from san francisco without needing needing a car,e thought it was worthy of supporting. just to remind you, sometimes the numbers can be a little bit dry. ] pleas[ please stand by for c]

. >> when mayor lee first put out his budget instructions, while technically not followed by this agency, we try to follow the spirit of, there was a call totion as to not increase fae count of the overall city budget. that was done over a concern of rising employee costs, particularly pension and health care costs, and projected general fund shortfalls in the outyears. so i'll share that we have heard some concern from the mayor's budget office, considering we have a sizeable increase in positions. we've provided an explanation of why these are necessary, and they really reflect in my mind really almost a decade now of planning and investment that we have been making with the city, with the mayor's office, with the board of supervisors, in order to provide a transit service that we need for an

existing city and a growing city. so we have obligations under development agreements, we have obligations under development plans. we have with the full support of the city, developed a new subway, built a new bus yard. now it's time to resource the operation of all those things, so i think those were the right decisions over the last ten years to make those investments, and it's the right decision now to fund their operation, and that's what this budget reflects. so on the revenue side, there has been a lot of good news since we started the budget process. of course we have the state sb-1 revenue, $27 million in each of the fiscal years, which support -- which is really what's helping to support that expanded operations. you know, that there's potential for a re