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it's the public comment and you'll be queued up. you'll be notified when it is your turn to speak. when your microphone has been unmuted and you hear the automated voice, give us your name and begin the comment session. i'll start your two minutes when you begin talking. i will give you a 30-second warning when have you 30 seconds remaining and when your time is up i'll say thank you, next caller please. at that point the nod rater will put the speaker back on mute. i'll make the announcement again. item 6, introduction of new or unfinish the business by board members. >> clerk: board members. >> madame chair, i've had one and i've been on a year and

don't have much air time to our response act to the park authority. responsibilities to the parking authority. that's a large inventory of assets that ought to be of interest to us for a couple rebounds, one on the financial side and revenue collection and on the other side the fact they're real estate assets and there are always other things you can do with arrest besides what you're -- with real estate besides what you're doing with it now and would like a top to bottom briefing on that area of our responsibilities in the next several months. >> thank you, directors. do we agree it sounds like a great idea? wonderful. one other item i understand there's a ballot measure that

deals with shared space and extending the time period. it deals with extending all the things currently existing for covid for a period of i think three years. i'd like to put a question to staff when they'd hear about that and the specific impact on our agency in terms of the work we need to do with the program and parking as well all those sort of things. second, i would love to in the future schedule the meeting with the small business commission. i think it's really important to work together on these issues and i think it'd be a great opportunity to to have a special joint hearing on all the issues and how we can generate revenue whether it's parking. the final item i'll ask a question maybe your director's report will let us know but it seems the mission bus line seems more crowded of late and don't know if we're seeing an uptick

in the numbers but i look forward to that in your director's report. with that i guess we're ready to move on to the next item unless directors have more fnew or unfinished business. >> it may seem like a small point but i think we can look at items big and small during these meetings. i was made aware of someone almost being hit at the traffic circle and it could have been serious. i'dlike to reflect on traffic circles and their purpose as

corridors. to me it distinctly feels like a pedestrian-safety trade-off to have an uncontrolled intersection. i walk around there and anecdotally see a lot of drivers confused and near misses. i'd like to hear staff's reflection on what you thought would be an improvement but there may be a trade-off and how we've been monitoring. i know one was yanked out because of community opposition but how that has been going in our view and whether we feel the trade-off is worthwhile. >> director: thank you, director eaken. if not we'll move on and we'll open it up to public comment in case they have comments on new and unfinished business items.

open the phone line for us. >> this is the public comment on items that were addressed by board members only. is there public comment on items raised under new and unfinished business by board members? if you can dial 1-0 now.

first caller please. >> caller: this is bob planthold. i'm not sure what was addressed. i just got back. i wanted to talk about the j church improvements. >> that was not addressed by a member of the board and that will come up under the director's report. >> caller: then put me back in the director's queue, please. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> caller: this is haden miller. regarding the traffic circle along mcallister i don't think they improve the muni service either because often times when they're running the busses on the r&r 5 line they'll -- r5

line they'll scrape the traffic circle or curb. the busses can't make that turn even at a slow speed and would be more effective to have a signalized intersection or go back to a four-way stop sign because it's not safe for pedestrians or the bicyclists and not improving the transit service so it's failing at its goals. i agree. i think it should be removed. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. this is only on topics addressed by new and unfinished business by board members. >> caller: thank you chair borden and my pronounce our, she and her. regarding the two items in hearing about traffic circles i'm not against traffic circles but i certainly think calming

measures need to be instituted around traffic circles and i've probably been through this one particular one mentioned but there's certainly very common traffic circles are all over new jersey and there's some in nevada as well. so i think a way to slow traffic down using established traffic calming measures is an order and probably a lot easier than trying to demolish and rebuild an intersection. and concerning parking, i think we do have to have conversations about parking because the street gate adds up hundreds and hundreds of acres. i think we should talk about that more. and see how we can monetize that

and use that as a congestion management tool. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: hi, this is derek toronto. i'm going address the shared spaces. we'll talk more about on items under the agenda. the shared spaces mean you're also going to be taking taxi vans. we still don't have a new taxi stand and i'm going to file a claim for damages for the fact that i've lost income as a result of taking away our cab stands in the castro. i know other businesses deserve to thrive but does that mean giving more ammunition to the credit union for the fact you're ruining the taxi business? so i want to say there's no place to park during the peak time hours now in the castro or

to stage and so the issue is does shared space mean ruining another business. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, mr. toronto. next speaker, please. >> caller: good afternoon, david bil bil bi bilpoy i want to address the traffic circle on mcallister. i didn't think it was a good idea to begin with and would be great idea to eliminate it and i look ward to the board -- look forward to the board considering na in the future. >> clerk: thank you. moderator are there additional callers? we'll close public comment.

madame chair moving it on the director's report. >> director tomlin. >> chair borden, members of the board. i'm jeff tomlin director of transportation. there's been a lot going on the last couple weeks. my director's report is rather long. we'll be covering budget, vision zero and the transit service changes maintained on saturday including some additional details we worked through. so let me share my screen. can you see my screen? >> director: yes. >> great. so last week we presented our budget to the of supervisors august 13 and received good

feedback from them. largely because of the ways in which we have used our values in order to deal with these catastrophic times. as you know because i've stated it repeatedly, our values are best found not in our policies but in our budget and back in december when i first arrived i worked to clarify the agency's values in order to deal with peak boom economy and figure out how best to improvement the reliability of the working group. we're in a different space now and values become even more important when you're having to make deep and painful cuts to your system. while covid hasn't changed our values it change the emphasis so the safe transportation system needs to protect the health of our workforce and passengers. in additional to supporting strong economy we become central

to part of an economic recovery for san francisco which can't happ happen without mobility. we need to put equity first particularly at a time when san francisco people have been impacted by health and economy. that means not only directing service hours and resources where they're needed most but make sure we treat each other well because in order to get through the next two years we have to do more with less. that requires tapping the intelligence, creativity, collaboration and lived experience of every single member of the sfmta team including those who have been made to feel diminished in the past. when the pandemic first hit back in march we knew we needed to cut costs in order to avoid

layoffs. we slashed external contracts, purchase orders and work orders and cut overtime significantly and all that together has saved us already about $20 million. we were also in the strange position of even back when i first arrived having hundreds of funded vacant positions. in many ways it has saved us here at the sfmta. we will hopefully not have to do layoffs in the next two years because we kind of already did them through not hiring and continue to do that shrinking everything we do through attrition. we're also fortunate we have an older workforce and many will retire as a matter of how things work over the next two years. these things will get us through but it also means we are going to have to effectively cut every

single thing we do or get more efficient. so we've been working at that. as you know, we had a huge loss in muni service hours back in april. we had lost 40% of our total muni service hours to be a 30% loss and all of our busses are cut in that capacity by two-thirds as a result of social distancing. meanwhile, travel patterns have changed dramatically. we have seen geography of essential workers with little transit demand to the financial district but so remarkably high levels of demand to essential institutions and neighborhood commercial districts. our riders are overwhelmingly people of color from low-income

households and people dealing with homelessness. we had to re-orient our service goals around the needs of our essential workers delivering every available service hour we can where it is needed the most and that is meant that we had to completely rebuild the entire muni system twice now, re-orienting service to the neighborhoods that need it the most and to the corridors that need it the most. we've also re-invented dozens of other programs and focussed a lot of our efforts on achieving our equity goals. as you know we worked with you and the board of supervisors to not have our standard fare increase which means we're making a lot less money off fares and that continues to hurt our bottom line. we launch the essential program and waived taxi fees and lowered

meter rates and launch the shared spaces program and revamped our tow policy and have completely invented entirely new approaches to cleaning our vehicles and facilities. we've also created entirely new equity branch with the department operation center focussing on equity analytics including a new tool using to evaluate service changes and investing in a new training workshop for our staff and management staff and people who work on the front line. we're changing our approach to fare enforcement and shifting more towards an ambassador model. despite the fact we're doing very little new hiring we're continuing to create an office of racial equity and inclusion and addressing a whole host of problems within our human resources approach to achieve better outcomes. all that said, we started the

budget at the peak of a boon economy with a structural deficit. that has now grown to $200 million. as you know our costs are driven overwhelmingly by labor and the labor costs rise with the cost of living because we are committed to providing our staff with a living wage. our revenues in the best of times however, at best rise with inflation and many of them like our parking revenues are in decline. this is why even back in january at the peak of a boon economy we had a substantial and growing structural deficit. so this year our deficit is now $200 million. we're going fill that with one-time funds including the federal cares funding shown in purple and shifting a variety from capital to operations shown

in orange. the orange bar there is structur structural deferred maintenance. we're take money from capital projects meant in order to get us out of the structural deferred maintenance problems we created for ourselves back in 2008 and we're creating new deferred maintenance problems for ourselves in order to avoid layoffs. as you know, the cares funding runs out this december after which point we start gutting our reserves to get us to fiscal year '22. we have no path, currently, in order to be able to make it into fiscal year 2023. so our budget numbers for the next two years effectively stay flat at $1.2 billion though our

expenses are rising and our savings are largely a result of contracting and staff largely through attrition. so we're not having a fixed hiring freeze because there are many mission-critical positions we cannot afford to lose and still be able to deliver service and there's also positions like car cleaners we have to expand in order to deal with the needs of covid. we also want to make sure you all are aware and are ready to invest with us over the next 18 months. that in order to get to 2023 we have to have new on going stable operating funds. happily this is a problem we've known about for a decade and the work in the transportation 2035 and 2045 project have laid out many of the options available to us. we need to get on to the june

2022 ballot with some or all of these and we'll need to work with all of you, the board of supervisors and the mayor in order to get there. we are also very carefully watching the november elections where there's the opportunity to shift the balance of power in the senate in which case there's the possibility of additional federal funding that could make a world of difference. there's also prop 15 the property tax measure. we still don't have the numbers of what exactly what that would mean to the sfmta but it would be a substantial increase in operating funds we would get from the general fund. so that was the summary of where we took our budget to the board of supervisors last week. we're continuing to make endless adjustments because the news keeps changing. so a lot of our work on the budget going forward the coming

two years will be a lot of scenario planning and paying careful attention to the course of the pandemic. a vaks changes a lot of things. -- a vaccine changes a lot of things. a prolonged lockdown will have a major impact on the san francisco economy and general fund revenue which is the single source of money we'd get. and other details like evolving public health guidelines and are we requiring six-feet of distance of social distance or a european standard of three feet and potentially bring in more fare revenue? so we're making adjustments and we're scaling down our revenue projections from transit fares and were able to scale up the amount we actually got from cares fund. we're scaling down general fund baseline because of the ongoing bad news year getting the

controller's office and looking at the burn rate from our fund balance and board reserves to be able to continue to deliver service. so one of the things we're working on right now to add to the covid data analytics dashboard available on our website and available to the public is expanding the amount of budget dashboards available so all and the public can track where we stand, where we stand compared to last year and our january budget and where we stand relative to our expectations currently. and showing that delta so you all can be confident that we are managing this budget and particularly our expenditures with very very sharp attention and care.

each of the line items and i'll continue to emphasize where we're getting the most is from salaries and benefits that's largely from slashing overtime where we've been successful and the next round of car cleaners should be helpful and attrition. those numbers in savings and salary benefits will continue to grow and that is a foundational key to avoiding layoffs. we already slashed contact and other services, materials and other investments in our budget. we're also looking carefully at transit fares as we develop a very compliant oriented rather than punishment oriented return to full compliance of fares on muni. this we'll be tracking carefully because it's a substantial

portion of our revenue and we are dependent upon those fares for being able to deliver service. we're also of course looking carefully at the parking side of our revenue. as you know it remains our policy to try to large the lowest price for parking that achieve availability in our districts and garages. we can't double parking and expect to bring in new revenue and we know we have a fundamental role to play in bringing back small business to life in san francisco. there's things we can do to better manage parking system while be friendly to small businesses and to institutions of faith. another area where we're going scenario planning is how rapidly can we move towards evening and enforcement of parking meters, where should we expand the paid parking areas into places where it's very difficult to find a parking space and other ways of better managing to meet both our

community as well as revenue goals on the parking side. so as a mentioned already, we have been remarkably successful in reducing overtime. in fact cutting it by about $1.2 million a week and we're still getting some ongoing savings as a result of attrition. so i expect we'll be giving you monthly updates. i'm giving this one now and will hand over the keys to our stalwart from budget to provide more ongoing detail how exactly we're controlling expenditures and overtime. what our progress is in getting new outside revenue sources and what our options are in order to close the big 2022-2023 gaps.

so that is a summary of our budget stuff. let me launch to budget zero which i expect to be a source of much public comment and then we can talk a little bit about the transit changes. we had three skate boder -- border and pedestrian fay tate wills and we had one in golden gate who fell over crossover and didn't contact a vehicle. this was a simple tragedy. we did a rapid response and

noted that 19th avenue was recently repaved. august 8 there was a pedestrian fatality involving a vehicle exiting san josé avenue. the pedestrian was crossing the highw highway off ramp and the investigation is still underway by california patrol and recently there was the pedestrian fatality at gairy and goff and there was a vehicle travelling and had been recording the reckless behavior for social media and entered the crosswalk on a red light and killed a pedestrian there. we are doing work in this area as part of the geary but transit

and we'll improve safety at this large intersection giving us limited options to control speed. i'll have more detail on that a little bit later. as you know, we also installed parking protected bike ways on fell street and barry street and the bridge during one week in july and have been make rather extraordinary progress on our program for the high-injury network over the last couple of months we have nearly completed the pedestrian safety project on california street and working on the mission street corridor in the excelsior and mission and in response to covid we've implement the entire slow streets program and will have news shortly about the rollout

of the improvements. that rollout is competing for staff time with the shared spaces program. and we will open bids for the sidewalk widening and pedestrian improvements and for a bid for the safer market street project and one other project. so far in 2020 we have done daylighting at 819 corners scattered throughout the high-injury network with an emphasis on district 4 where supervisor mar has been actively advoca advocating for intersection daylighting completing 60% of those prioritized in the sunset district. is this tripling of this rate.

in 2020 we installed 83 turn restrictions on the high-injury network and 55 no-left turns and nine no-turn on reds and 1 9 complete bans on no right turns and will be installing red light running cameras at key locations where we know there have been problems with red light running. we are also, as you know, working hard with legislative change to automated speed enforcement in california. it's the most effective way of create rapid and dramatic change in safety outcomes particularly in reducing pedestrian fatality. we were unsuccessful in the last legislative session but

something that has changed in this legislative session is that the previous major opponents to automated speed enforcement have been police unions and the california highway patrol given the fact automated speed enforcement can allow for enforcement in a neural way, there is no racial profiling. it just captured the license plate. we hope there's an opportunity to move forward in this legislative session to remove bias in enforcement. let me talk about the transit service.

this saturday we're making major changes to the rail system which are in turn allowing us to do another round of significant improvement to the bus system. so by re-introducing rail we're frequency -- freeing up busses to new parts of the city as well as increased frequency on key bore -- corridors because as chair borden has noted we're getting a significant increase on ridership on key corridor. note by all mission street -- notably all mission street is 70% of pre-covid levels and the corridors and 38-geary. you're all familiar with our

rail system in the before times. the muni metro market street tunnel was never or has not in a long time been the most reliable of service because we have five service lines that convene through two portals into one subway. we also have switch problems and a turn bucket not designed to handle someone lines convening there and needing to turn back and we have trains where we operate one. given the crowding on muni and the fact we're leaving behind hundreds of essential workers

because of crowding we can afford to operate one-car trains in the subway and given our concerns on social distancing and the concerns about having people stuck in muni vehicles while we deal with switch problems at the deboss switch we need to simply fight the subway and make it more reliable. service changes do several things. we're hoping it will significantly improve reliability with the m, t and n entered the subway and only one line entering the subway at the debose and west portal. more importantly, only the s shuttle will turn back at the embarcadero turnback. this is the most commonplaces it broke down and will deliver a significant improvement in the capacity of the subway by only

having two and later in november, three-car trains in the subway. no more one-car trains and by november we're hoping most the castro shuttle trains will run through cars to dramatically expand the capacity and performance of the system. we're expecting to get better frequency and reliability so when you need transfer, and there'll be a train there and it will have capacity. changing the system has changed really significant trade-offs. we are asking passengers on the j to transfer at church street station and we're investing in temporary plywood accessible platforms in order to make the transfer easier.

we need to do a little bit more track and other detailed work in order to extend the transfer to debose and make it a little bit better. we will be doing that work as quick as as we can and at west portal station they can transfer to the t, m or s trains to get downtown or continue to balboa park station to access bart. we're also busy re-inventing the bus system and want to reveal the new corps service plan starting august 22. this includes all the changes to the rail system, highlighting the new transfer locations and how the rail system works but also pointing out in the highlighted pink color our highest frequency corridors and

our best services. as i've mentioned, we've completely re-invented the bus system. we're delivering better frequency, reliability and better speed than i believe muni has ever done in its 110 year history on the geary corridor and entirety of mission street and on the san bernardino pore terro corridors where we need new hours to not leave essential workers behind. we're doing this because we awan donned schedules. -- abandoned schedule. early in the covid crisis we were not able to predict what operators would show up on a given day because we asked those with symptoms to please stay home. rather than asking them to adhere to a schedule we're asking operators to space

themselves evenly when the bus in front of them and behind them. this means sometimes the busses running every three minutes, sometimes every five minutes but from a passenger perspective you can see them coming. we eliminated bus bunching because of management and because of the reduced congestion that has arised from covid. you know we are working on expanding on transit only lanes so we're ready to maintain the travel-time savings and speed and reliability and capacity on transit as congestion comes back in the next phase of the eopening of the economy. -- re-opening of the economy and we're doing this by looking carefully at our data. i'd encourage to you look at the passenger bording data on our analytics site. it's what we're using every week in order to re-allocate service

hours where it's most needed given the rapid changes in travel demand patterns as the economy changes with congestion we are also using our equity analytics tools as we're making tough calls about what lines to bring back and what lines not to bring back that we're doing it with an eye to who needs that service the most making sure we're providing enough service within a reasonable walk distance of the people with the fewest mobility choices and least access to neighborhood services available in their neighborhoods. so -- sorry, this is a lot of material but we've been very busy. finally, i want to conclude with a couple updates on central subway.

we are miraculously still on track for completion of the construction work at the end of this calendar year and revenue service by the end of 2021. we're working on work at the china town station hopefully finalized this month. the other stations just doing their final finishing work and public art installation. we complete the golden site near 4th and king connecting the t-line track to the central track so it's theoretically possible to operate a train from this vale -- valley to the central subway and started the economic workforce development the money for district assistance to qualifying small businesses and made substantial progress this week on the settlement of changes and claims with the contractor. i also want to update you on a topic consuming a lot of my time

and is specifically a passion of mine which is the tenderloin. a week ago we implemented additional space on jones street to allow for walking with social distancing by taking away a lane and we'll have more interesting improvements and hoping final approval of a full shared space between hyde and larkin streets and a full street shared space on larkin street between eddie and o'farrell and i'm more excited that in partnership with the community-based organizations and in the tenderloin and livable city, we will also be implementing our first play street between turk and jones and levanworth

starting this saturday. i'll be out there to see how it goes. i'm excited we're finally making progress and for a city that has the greatest need and complexity and need for collaboration across many departments each of whom have significant needs of their own. finally tomorrow we'll be announcing with all the other transit agencies the release of our work called widen together. the transit plan which is a coordinated effort among all the general managers of the bay area transit agencies assuming or making sure we have consistent and high standards for protecting the health of our operators and the public wall transit. that was a lot of taller and i'm happy--material and i'm happy to turn it over for questions, thank you. >> >> thank you.

i want to say thank you to you and your team for all the work you're doing right now. this is an incredible report and appreciate the reports i know it takes a lot of effort. i wanted to say that before getting into director's comments. director heminger. >> director: thank you, madame chair. i echo your comments on the work being done. i'm becoming increasingly nervous how much work is being done by staff and not approved by the board. i wouldn't characterize what i'd say as a red flag but maybe yellow caution. when we first got into this emergency i think giving jeff a long leash and allowing staff to run made sense. the longer it's gone it seems

our posture is going to be that we're going to be in lock down until we have a vaccine. that's many more months to come and i do think it seems to me we've sort of settled into a different routine now and that routine would allow for more of a regular order. by that i mean on policy documents they come to the board for approval and to the public for comment and criticism. the muni corps service plan i've only seen a meeting and don't feel comfortable with that. if you want a discussion about that, madame chair, it's obviously a fair broad comment i'm making and the one thing i

don't want to do is do a 180 and pretend as if everything is normal and we can go back to normal business. but it seems to me we're in between those two places now. we're not in an emergency trying to chase our tail. i suggest we think about that. on the budget, i think the trouble with what i saw is that i just saw it and there's a lot of it. if that information is going to do ann good we have to see it before the meeting happens. i'm especially interested in gran you -- gran you --

granularity month by month. i know you've been back and forth about the six-foot distance. can you update us on the status of those conversations and maybe we'll get more leniency on that standard. >> we're tong do substantial research based on international best practice as well as a lot of interesting details we're getting in to including highly-specific air flow modelling for our vehicles. it's not just the specifications we have from our hvac and how often on average air flow turns over in the vehicle but the vortics where particulates from a sneeze, how do they travel and do they end up spirals.

we're getting into that level of work in helping to make a decision. dph is making decisions all over san francisco and treating us like they treat other critical constituents. one of the things we're pushing is that the treatment of social distancing rise and fall with the levels of reopening the economy which rises and falls with the amount of free-floating covid out in the community. basically taking the same risk management approach with transit

as with other businesses. >> director: i was encouraged about the report of riding healthy. it strikes me we have two challenges. one is to settle on an unusually agreeable standard for distance and i think frankly the second may be a bigger challenge than the first. the trouble according to the letter from walk s.f., we're on pace to do just as badly as we did last year. i don't know if it we were expecting to do better or worse but it struck me, if that's the

case, to do as badly as what was vividly a bad year. what i'm still searching for is the answer to this question, what will it take to get to zero in four years. what specific will it take or have we just put out a noble goal we'll throw as many strategies at at possible? the only thing we know with certainty is how not to get there which is to keep going what we're doing because what we're doing doesn't seem to be working. we need a change in sacramento but what if we don't get change from sacramento. are we basically saying our goal is contingent on their action? or is there a way to do it

without them? the cameras as an automated device are effective but a motorcycle cop can give people a ticket too. i would appreciate to get your sense of what it will take and as you know my background is in planning where you run a model and you test various strategies and you figure out what you need to get to your goal and that's how you proceed. do we lack that analytical framework with pedestrian fatalities? maybe we do. it seems to me we need some framework to tell us what you need to do to get to that target and that's getting closer and closer every day. >> there's a machine longer to the question -- much longer question but the projects completed have been very

successful in significantly reducing injuries and fatalities on that corridor. where we have worked, we have been effective. what's happening is the high-injury network is shifting around based on bad motorist behavior. the fatality on geary and goff was a great example. if the person was driving 65 miles-an-hour down geary, there's -- there are solution would physically prevent that from happening and we can go there. mr. any directorship i'm not afraid of making bold decisions but those bold decisions would require a massive mode shift away from driving cars as well

as physical changes to the streets that kept car traffic at or around the designed tolerance of the human body which is 13 miles an hour. we can eliminate traffic fatalities if we can bring speeds down. that is also grossly over simplifying a very complex planning issue that involves many factors and obviously we in san francisco are not going to that kind of an extreme some european cities have to get those tremendous results. we could simply adopt all of oslow's approaches to traffic management but that would

require more change than san franciscans are likely ready for. >> director: is that a polite way of saying it's not reachable? >> it reachable but it depends on the tools available to us. automated speed enforcement resulted in a 70% decrease in fatalities in washington, d.c., 70%. yes, it's completely achievable and achievable in ways that protect the personally identifiable data and it's equitable based on race and income. it depends on whether our legislators in sacramento are ready to prioritize safety over motorist convenience. >> director: madame chair, if you'll permit me one more

question, i promise. are you saying then we are dependent on sacramento and their action to meet this goal? >> if we found a couple billion dollars and redo the streets in the 1950s to re-prioritize streets and we know how to make them safer but it's a multi-billion dollar investment. for a zero dollar investment we can solve the problem that's a political problem not a financial problem. >> director: it seems we should have a deep dive on the solutions and how we think we'll get to the goal of zero fatalities in four years. i think it's a workshop topic we

should delve in to. and i have other directors who want to speak. i want you all to weigh in on what levels of decisions you feel we should be sure we want to discuss among the board that staff is making to talk a bit about that and then the other thing is for the financial ports specifically it would be great if staff could get that in advance of the board meeting so review them before and ask questions. >> we are committed to doing that. this is mid august. we don't even have one month's of data quite yet. not only do i want to make sure we're bringing those details in advance of the board but we are also presenting that to the public as well. we need to build trust to the public we're spending limited dollars wisely to win the ballot

in 2022. >> director: there's a balance in getting everything done and with that director eaken, you have a question or comment? >> director: thank you. you anticipated a suggestion so i'll endorse your recommendation to do a deep-dive workshop on vision zero. i heard you just say clearly that where we have implemented our improvement it's worked and we have 130 miles of the high-injury network and at the last vision zero plan i saw us i am -- i am -- improving. what are the scaleable solutions and i don't know what we can do with automated speed enforcement but it seems like a larger

conversation as well. other thing i wanted to offer is the budget presentation you gave is excellent and at the end you teed up like an a lot potential and pathways we can go down to will fix the structural deficit you teed up and is compelling and merits the pros and cons on equity and various funding pathways and would like to have that conversation eight future meeting. thank you. -- that conversation at a future meeting. thank you. >> director: thank you. i'm sure the public is thinking about these discussions thank you about the conversations of what's going on in the tenderloin. i know there'll be a state of changes made.

with the upkeep of the changes in the tenderloin that can attract more trash and garbage and i saw abandoned chairs. does the upkeep fall to us or department of public works for those new face -- spaces? public works. i was happy to see the sweeper but i was wondering if it gets the same level. >> in the tenderloin, most the projects done there are in collaboration with community-based organizations who are actually doing a lot of the work of keeping the tenderloin together in partnership with the department of public works and atrac.

>> director: thank you for that. the social distancing on busses the two times i've been on a muni bus since the public comment is closed started i feel quite safe but i felt everything was wearing masks which helps in the level of confidence. i think taiwan has a no-talking on public transit rule and i'm sure that's something you considered and thought about and thought that would help people feel safer because we've all seen the videos of when you're talking there's more spread of saliva and things. just something to consider. thank you for bringing up vision zero. i feel like we're moving the needle. i feel it's difficult but

putting it in terms of the dollar amount to spend from an engineering perspective versus automated speed enforcement is hard hitting and hopefully we'll start to get more traction on that. the last thing i want to weigh in on this the level of autonomy and i feel comfortable with it because i feel everything we've done fits with our policy. there's nothing outside the policies we agreed on but can't leave the public behind because we'll pay for it at the ballot box the next time there's a funding measure. there's a balance there and it's important the public know we are paying attention and know what's going on and we're weighing in

on what staff is doing. that's all. >> any additional comments from board members before we open it up to the public? >> to your invitation chair borden i'll weigh in on the staff acting expeditiously and bringing items to the board. i think i feel more grateful to staff for taking bold leadership and understand it's the role of the board to provide policy and because you were able to take a quick measure you were able to establish the program which has been successful. the work you're doing is excellent and wouldn't want because of the administrative

hurdles having to agendize items i wouldn't want to slow the progress. let's continue the conversation and take action required to meet this moment. thank you. >> with that we'll open it up to public comment. >> clerk: for members of the public who wish to address comments made under the director's report if you are listening by sfgov.tv please dial 1-888-808-6929. the access code is 9961164. then press 1-0 if you wish to be added to the queue. once the top -- phone line is open the speaker on deck will hear an automated voice telling them it's their turn to speak

and when you start speaking start with your name and we'll start your two-minute time. i'll give a 30 second time warning when there's 30 seconds remaining after which the chair will say thank you and the moderator will move to the next person. the moderator will let us know when the phone line is open. >> you have 15 questions remaining. >> caller: my name is steno. i live in san francisco in the western edition of district 5 and i don't want another family to go through what i've been through the pain and daily trauma. i'm a survivor of traffic and i was hit by a car who failed to

yield and i'm angry because you are well aware that sulton street and many other designs are oppressive street designs exclusively designed to be car centric and not people centric. this is unacceptable. we need to fix the streets so local folks can walk, run, skate, roll, i cannot breathe. a father of two was hit near goff. there's a lot of road rage in san francisco. many more people are driving over 60 miles an hour. last month same thing happened where another man was killed in an a well-known intersection awaiting safety fixes. sfmta must put solutions in place and put people's safety over motorists' convenience. an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure which is why i

demand sfmta fix the streets. we need desperate fixes with immediate daylighting and where the [bleep] has your board been the past 10 years. how can you ask what vision zero is about? it's a list of solutions. the bloodshed is on your hands. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> caller: my name is stephen bingham. can you hear me? >> clerk: we can. >> caller: i'm a member of families for safe streets and my daughter was killed over 10 years ago in cleveland, four

years after graduation and her death was caused as the death in 2013. i do want to echo what was said but i do want to recognize that change is happening. daylighting, no turn on red and so forth and slow street and a few more cameras. i want to emphasize it's happening too slowly. at one point the director said he's willing to take bold actions and i appreciate hearing what has been done but it seems

like it's tentative moving forward slowly and oakland who had 60 to 70 miles of slowed streets, we're still in the tenderloin and though there's progress it's very slow. there was speak about problems like no left turns and no turn on red, they don't cost much money. i think you can accelerate the speed with which it's happening. >> clerk: thank you, sir. your time is up.

>> caller: can you hear me? i'm gina leblanc and part of san francisco area for safe streets and deeply concerned about pedestrian safety. i'm speaking because i don't want any other mother to feel what i feel or lose what i lost and i was heading home from my nursing shift to have ape important discussion and he was high functioning and brilliant and adventurer and techie and a bowel -- ball of energy dreaming of work forg -- working for google and he wanted to go to watch the trains and he preferred walking and riding public transit and enjoyed being independent. he came home after the excursion but this was the last time he

came home. when he went to bed that night he called out good night mom at 30 in the morning i was startal startaled -- startled as the came to our home and we went to the hospital and he left to meet a girl and was hit by a truck while walking and the truck was going too fast and my life was shattered in an instant and my life was changed and there's been three excellents in the past five weeks. these people are not just data points they're lives are shattered. prioritize pedestrian safety and make changes to protect lives. put solutions in place so many more red light cameras and daylighting and no turn on red

and decreasing speeds to keep people safe while crossing the streets. >> caller: marta lindsey. thank you. i'm calling as a member of the pedestrian safety action committee. i'm also a director at walk s.f. i was in the inner sunset 13 years and dedicated to raising my children in the city and i walk where dublin o'connor was hit and killed one block from my apartment and in july a man was killed in a wheelchair and once

everything opens again i'll walk by the site and most live within a stone's throw of where someone was severely hit or killed in the traffic crash or know someone who was severely hit and killed. sfmta directors you have the power to change this. bring vision zero back to focus in san francisco. push for sfmta to show how and when they'll implement the proven tools and across the entire high-injury network. while we need to get a handle speed these will take years to become a reality and we don't have that kind of time. but vision zero front and center i believe we can show what's possible in san francisco. i have faith in our heart and values and we can save a lot of

lives. let's start adopting all the practices. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> caller: my name is hunter sanford. i'm a walk s.f. and bicycle coalition member and am part of the known high injury network in a district with the word bicycle safety outcomes in our city. i've been hit by cars twice in san francisco and calling because i'm concerned about the recent surge in pedestrian death coming at a time when our streets have lower than usual car traffic. year after year we see the same top three factors, failing to yield and failing to stop at a red signal and pedestrians. while there's efforts to lower speeds and installing speed coms razz -- cameras we know proven

ways to act to make them safer the addition of red light cameras and banning red turns on red and speed bumps. there's not not a sign where amali malulac was killed by a truck. that's absurd. expedite sluths to keep people -- solution to keep people safe through our high-injury network. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> caller: i'm julie nicholson and work in the debose triangle and i am too a member of families for safety. though fairly new i'm here because it's recent i learned first hand the trauma of traffic violence. on january 4 i was running in

the panhandle and i was running because i was secelebrating my husband's journey of chemo had ended and i had a feeling of joy and gratitude and i was hit by a driver going almost 30 miles an hour who ran a red light at oaks and messonic and they also hit another driver making an illegal red turn and barrelled over the curb and came into the panhandle and hit me and i was thrown 20 plus feet. my neck and back were broken and needless to say i provided opportunities for new and young doctors at s.f. general to practice their sur -- suturing. statistically i should not have survived. i feel fortunate and am grateful

and hasn't been that long since the day of my crash. it's very frightening to me when i hear every the man hit and killed and another high injury corridor and what happened on bayshore and geralds where the man was killed at a dangerous intersection. director tom lin, please direct your staff to recommit to vision zero. we need and i acknowledge the work that's been done but as we heard today we need to do a lot more. we need daylighting, no turn on red and many more red light cameras across the high-injury network. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please.

>> caller: i'm steve lee. can you hear me? >> clerk: we can. >> caller: i'm calling because death and injury keep mounting and constantly concerned about being hit by drivers and there's been three pedestrian fatalities in san francisco in the past five weeks. at this rate will surpass the 2019 pedestrian fatalities we spoke about in the meeting. lives are being cut short. i don't understand why you aren't doing more. the fact of the matter is we have the data and solutions to stop many if all the fatalities and injuries. please direct director tomlin to have the sfmta immediately put solutions in place to keep my family and all pedestrians safe. i don't understand why we can't simply and safely cross the street. there's solutions like daylighting, no turn on red and

many more red light cameras across the high-injury network. a walk didn't go by any day without me or my son or my wife seeing a close call. please, take action now. you need to save our lives and keep us safe. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, next speaker, please. >> caller: i'm amy benedicte and thank you for the work you've already done to make it safer for pedestrians in san francisco. as the former speakers have pointed out, there's more work to do. walking is my primary method of getting around the city more so as i'm trying to avoid public transit during the public comment is closed. i start from my home in mission bay. as a pedestrian, i'm cautiously

alert and frankly always afraid as i cross streets. [technical difficulties] i was told by traffic planners including members of your department that turning on

lights has been used. i would like the sfmta to move forward with the pedestrian safety improvements working towards vision zero especially to institute no turn on red across the high-injury network and throughout the city and replace cameras to record and find drivers who entered pedestrian crosswalks illegally. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> caller: between laguna and goff it's been in the past two years has been almost five collisions there and three fatalities. that's crazy. how is there nothing being done.

you keep talking about oh, it's going to be fixed in the geary project. how is that fixing anything? this is terrible. you guys need to step up and need speed enforcement but there's other actions we could be taking now. i know a lot of people have talked about this and i'm going to move on to transit service. i'm glad routes are being brought back and it's important to realize not all routes are being brought back and some will have to transfer to underground and there's bigger connectivity issues than having to walk from the metro downstairs. one gap with the elimination of

golden route 22 which provided service between geary and golden gate bridge hasn't been fare. the 28 is not running there. and get on golden gate transit and it's frustrating. i don't understand why we can't run transit and have sidewalks on the streets. that's all i have today. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: it's david billpowe. i agree with az to transparency -- as to transparency, start by posting

director tomlin's presentation under reference materials and that can be done today. there was a lot in it and the agency needs a plan to address the muni passenger behavioral issues. that was referenced briefly and there are many. too muni service changes -- as to muni service changes we shouldn't have to choose between service on key corridors and elsewhere in the city. there's enough vehicles to serve both, period. and the action will likely result of more ceqa appeals or options tying up more agency and planning department resources to contest. i hope there is another way to

address my underlying concerns in my opinion forcing transit riders to transfer unnecessarily from one vehicle to another and expose them to the possibility of contacting or transmitting the covid-19 virus in turn exposing the agency to further legal and financial risk. thank you. . [please stand by]

>> thank you. next speaker please. >> you have nine questions remaining. >> thank you this is gary toronto. i want to applauds directo applr his presentation. they are going to create more space for these pop up flea

markets going up on sixth street. the first thing they need to do is allow people to walk uunimpeded along sixth street. next vi to sa i have to say a gb was done on jones street. i don't know about turk street. it ought to be left alone unless you want to divert more cars. i'm try to go make the suggestion for slow streets. they used to be one way streets. revert back to one way streets for only one lane. that way you have more room.

i appreciate your time and one last thing, i'm a little surprised about the scooter having accidents. it's really dangerous. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> you have eight questions remaining. >> good afternoon commissioners. i'm the director at senior and disability action. i want to comment on the j

church transfer improvement project. before i start i wish to note that i e-mailed my complete comments on the subject to the clerk this morning. i hope you all have access to it. when i first reviewed it project my first thought was it appears that's they want to insert an obstacle course. place seniors and people with disables havdisabilities have nn exercising enough. it creates more barriers for us seniors with disabilities. it's already-[indiscernible]. why add more travel, wait time for people with mobility aid and issues. let's add in crossing unsafe

crossing on market and church street. especially when the weather is not always that great for us. i'm asking you commissioners, we need you to direct sfmta staff to address these additional barriers and do so before it's implemented. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have seven questions remaining. >> hi. i am snow kelly. i volunteer with the coalition on homelessness. i want to address the directors report on equity which he says must come first. ridership is overwhelmingly people of color, low income

people, and our homeless neighbors. there's a huge influence on whether people are homeless and allowed to remain in their homes. i'm talking about homes on wheels. it is-right now during covid there is no poverty toeing. tow. even after the city opens up. this is an equity issue. san francisco mta should not add to the number of unhoused folks. people's homes should not be towed even post covid.

thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have six questions remaining. >> hi my name is nancy. i'm calling because of the death trans. when crossing the street if the left looking right turners, the red light runners will. red light cameras would make a big difference and might even save my life and the lives of others. we need a plan. what is our plan to expend camera usage. it's long past time to keep

people safe in our city. i urge you to focus on decision zero and create a plan. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please sm. >> she and her. lots of important things. first of all concerning j church. this transfer has to be backed up with robust and proactive accessibility. the strive for 100% up time with an elevator that needs to be kept operating and needs to be kept clean.

having trouble getting seating on a train that's in a tunnel. if we can't ensure accessibility this plan is going to fail. we have to work on that. we have to be very proactive with maintenance on the sub way. if wwe have to be proactive and rebuild the switches and monitor them in realtime so we don't find ourselves behind the eight ball. we have to be more efficient in many ways. certainly the collection of fare. we probably save several million dollars by focusing our fare collection on a program that you all know about. i've been talking about it for self years. selling the scratch off tickets

is only going to cost us efficiency. we real ri have to work on providing clipper. it can be done and it's reasonable. we have to invest in the systems that allow us to be proactive sm. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> this is martin calling in from d5. looking at the way san francisco has reaked to the covid 19 crisis and only seventy people-seventy is too many people. only seventy has died from covid. san francisco is a city that listens to science and experts when we see a threat to public

safety. to see the sfmta board know it's people are are dying on our streets because we designed-this is something where we identified the corridors and know where the traffic collisions are happening. we have done very little to help save lives. traffic nightmares. thorough faithrurthorough farest

are killing people. not just collisions but also through air pollution. as abrant. >> next speaker, please. >> i walk, run, and bike all over the city. haven't died yet but almost many

times. you already know how to get rid of-[indiscernible]. you can make drastic changes tomorrow. what's stopping you is you can't get past the car users. the immense harm caused by the power structures of race, jeppedder and sexuality. the sfmta keeps creatin createis of violence. [indiscernible]. i can't even

believe-the violence is going to continue until the sfmta recognizes it's role. actively rejected driver privilege and works to tear down this power structure that's harming people. only then will our streets be safe for everyone. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have three questions remaining. >> hi. my name is jay bean. i'm on the pedestrian safety and advisory committee on behalf of my district one neighbors. i'd like to agree with director when he said we can eliminate traffic fatalities if we can

bring speeds down. unfortunately the data that we have on hand indicates we are not bringing speeds down at all. violation that's are directly related to vision zero fatalities and injuries. for example, february this year there were 470 citations issued.

>> thank you. next speaker please. >> move vision zero forward. i urge you to ask the clear

meaningful actions that are completed in three, six, and nine months that support pedestrian safety on a city wide scale. we can't let our city have an average of people killed each year. if that's what's happened over the last several weeks continues that's the reality we face or potentially worse. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have one question remaining. >> hi, can you hear me? >> yes. >> my name is jessica. i have a child in sfusd in kindergarten. i let a walk in school bus through the tender loin this

past year. in 1969 kids walked to school. that is now 13 percent. that's for kids who live within one mile of school. this is a huge public policy and safety failure. with this sfmta board member board and director that is protransit, biking, walking. it should be much harder to drive a vehicle in san francisco. when i lived in a neighborhood with.

>> that concludes public comment on the report. the next item is the report. >> congratulations to being elected to the new chair. >> i appreciate that. i'm-what a year to become chair. here we are. let's have a great one together. i'll give you a brief report

from our last meeting. we heard a presentation on the yard housing end-the reconfrig configuration project for the yard. we passed two motions for that project. the first one i'll read here. the sfmta urges parking for staff and residents at the yard. this should be a minimum of one bicycle parking space per bedroom. that motion was passed unanimously. our second motion was the sfmta supports the project and urges the maximum must be of affordable housing.

develop a detailed plan for the transportation plan for the worker needs of the facility. that motion was nearly unanimous. there was only one opposing vote for it which was my vote. the reason that i didn't support that otherwise worthy motion is just due to the ill defined definition of affordable for housing in san francisco. which was cosine of kind of a e stand for me to take. generally it's a good proposition. with that i think that's a good segue to just mention that hearing from the discussion that the director's report i'm

heartened to get this really focused to a good narrow discussion about vision zero generally, the efficacy of it and how to bring this all around. i'm looking forward to keeping apprised of what the board discusses. with that i'm conclude my report and thank you all so much. >> thank you. and with that we will open to public comment in case there are members of the public that wish to comment on the report. i don't know if board members had any questions for the motions that were passed. great. are there any public commenters? >> this is only public comment on matters on the c a c

recommendation regarding the modernization project. go ahead. >> hello. this is haden miller. i'm in favor of getting as much affordable housing as possible. that's one of the concerns that i think is important to be raised. i was in here about providing transportation options sm the san francisco airport-i would urge you to look into something similar. >> great. thank you very much for your comments. next speaker, please. >> you have one question remaining. >> this is bob a senior with a

disability. i was not included to the queue-this is a complaint about the j line. both content and process. the j line changes proposed and already in process would require seniors people with disabilities and especially anybody using a walker or crutches to walk uphill to get to the elevator. the statement that this is a benefit to seniors and disabled is wrong. there's no-the senior disability action-neither group supported it nor understood it. i want to talk content. we were not told who would make the decision or when. some of us participated in a

public comment in july. the construction started-nobody at mta is telling those who complain or commented, the process for decision making is hidden from the public. seniors and disabled have to do more to transfer from the current plan. the board needs to thoroughly look at or walk through sm i've i've lived in this area for a third of a century. it's the director of transportation. widespread, the public and you are being misled about who is going to benefit. this came about long before covid. this was proposed in november

before he even took office. this is going to be a construction boon doggle. good luck. >>. next speaker, please. >> you have zero que questions remaining. >> we'll close public comment and move onto the next item. >> this is public comment. this is the opportunity to comment on matters not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction. >> you have four questions remaining. >> first speaker, please. >> hello. i wanted to call today because

i'm concerned about another micro mobility. i hope that any new company allowed here goes through a rigorous safety. thank you. >>. next speake>> next speaker plea. i only have one item on this public comment. i note the recent passing of ken, a long time superintendent. i think there should be a

protocol to acknowledge significant passings and retirements. some of which should suggest naming opportunities and other ceremonies or recognitions sm thanks. >> thank you. nesm speakernext speaker, pleas. >> i wanted to talk about the rebel scooters i've seen popping up around san francisco. due to some safety is issues. i'm not sure if they are perp nent or not. they've been popping up around town. that's very concerning. the other thing i wanted to talk about is just mask enforcement. it's really crazy. you know, nobody is doing

anything. i know jeffrey talked about training. to han out hasks. the peoplhandout masks.people j. have you to get them off the bus. operators are getting unsulted g out there. we need a better solution than just giving people a mask and turning our heads away. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> you have questions remaining. >> she and her. it's important that we keep

clipper start in mind and turned on. i'm not finding anything about it on the front page of the website. it is in the fair schedule. but clipper start is an equity prodprpl. one way we can promote equity is to promote people who qualify on the basis of clipper start. it's a program-i see you're going to talk a little about scooters later. i think it's important to remember that scooters are an essential part of the mix. it helps people with disabilities. i'm a scooter user and someone

with a disability. it's essential to be proactive. and to ensure that we continue to look for our funding sm we must not raise fares, the next two years. promise has been made to the people of san francisco. we must keep it. people travel regionally on more than one system sm it's not yuft about san ran sis koa.

>> we need the information. that means your communication is ineffective, the public is not

being informed. that raised a question of do you really care to inform the public, are you involving the public or just throwing up a if afacade. you really aren't talking to us, sharing information with us, you're sharing it around us, without us. thank you. >> thank you. are there any additional speakers? >> you have one question remaining. >> next speaker, please. >> yes. this is gary. i would like to update what was reported. i'm the first one to say phillip crane is back. he is working very diligently to get a temporary cab stand and

proper signage. it's taking too long. not his doing but the other divisions under mta are not cooperating with him. it's been almost three weeks since we lost that cab stand. the credit union knows about it. i don't understand why you have to let one business operate while you have a major lawsuit against you and you're prepting upreventing us from doing business. phillip and peter wood, they are doing fantastic jobs. next issue is you know a lot of

people are complaining with vision zero. you need to do a resolution or meet with the police chief to get more cops out there during those times. you can have them direct their resources to doing a lot more on traffic conforcement on the streets. you know, i watch crazy at night, as a cab driver, i see-it's nuts. people running lights. i can't believe it. i'm sitting at the lights. they are going all the way in the crosswalk when they stop. it's crazy. there are a lot more delivery drivers trying to make money. what you need to do is provide more parking for them. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> you have zero questions remaining. >> next speaker? >> madam share, there's no

remaining speakers on the line. >> we will close public comment on item nine and move onto the next item. >> madam chair- >> if i may to respond to one of the issues on public comment. we are installing new taxi cab stands at the wall greens and that will happen this thursday. >> i don't know if the complications with the screen and sfgovtv. we can talk about that at another time. >> consider an item separately

although that is the norm under covid 19 i will read all items and madam chair, if you would open the floor just for public comment on any of the consent calendar items. establishing two red zones on bryant street. social distancing and safety project. i won't read those traffic modifications. item ten point three suspends the requirement in the code permit to be up to one year. authorizes the director to extend the current permits to six months to respond sto

changeing to thecovid 19 emerge. retain the director's authority amends the code to update some croscross-references to violatis to the program. s-extend the current per permity

six months. thank you for all of your work during this difficult time. we appreciate your continued

efforts-all of our employees in san francisco are w2 in house employees with living wages. we lived up to our promise by walk riding. before the shelter in place we held over one hundred educational events including bay view contributing free-in every event. how to properly park. we followed through on our permit terms successfully. users who were improperly parking. utilizing incoming complaints and photos at the end of their ride.

[indiscernible]. >> thirty seconds. >> the only scooter company to provide servities throughou sere entire covid 19 emergency. we partner with u c sf to help health care workers and staff to get back and forth to work providing over 16,000 rides nationwide. thank you for the opportunity to speak today. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have four questions remaining. >> chair board and members. she and her. i go on record before you in support of item ten point three. the power share scooter program.

conknewity icontinuity in this s absolutely senl. essential. i'm a user of these scooters as i said before. they are very helpful to me. i'm sure i'm not the only disabled veteran who uses scooters. all of the scooter companies have been responsive to my needs in my conversation. in this era of covid 1 covid 19o mobility is more urgent than ever in allowing access to the community and moving responsibly in the street and obeying all traffic laws. social distancing can be accomplished. yet i support scooter share and

common sense responsible regulation and continuity. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please.

>> good afternoon board. i'm a senior engineer with liveable streets. to address the question, we looked at four different alternatives. we determined that the one in place is the one we can deliver in the shortest amount of time in order to get the facility in place. we considered single separated design that would require modifying which could take six to twelve months depending on how complicated it is. we looked at the feasible design how to slow down that turn across a two-lane road way. also the single design played a role in the decision to not move forward with the design as different lanes of traffic see

different signal heads. the third design that we consider logos should go onto a path. there's a couple issues there. the grass and cost and time it would take to put in that measure. it generally does not support the loss of landscaping. we didn't ask about that particular measure because of the cost to put in. we have the crowding issues at the sonic. we thought the current design was the best bang for the buck in terms of quick turn around. we have seen some of the near misses that people talked about. we do plan to extend the advisabilitvisibility zone.

we did make improvements and are listening to the observations that we take. having said that, another consideration is just the nation you're of this temporary project. if we pursue a change that takes six to twelve month it implement. that's another consideration that we make these decisions. overall we feel there's an all ages and disables wrying. they can cross with light. >> great. i saw your question. directors, are there any other questions or concerns or a motion on the item? >> i'm happy to make a motion to approve. ivorieden that path, gosh, probably ten times already.

i feel like it's working really well so far. motion to approve. >> second. >> can you please call the roll. >> this is a motion it approve all the items. >> (roll call). >> the consent calendar items pass unanimously. directors please be advised that the board of supervisors was just approved by the board of supervisors-pending swearing in, we hope to see sharon i join you at your september first meeting.

with that that concludes the business before you today. thank you. the meeting is adjourned. >> thanks to everybody and staff to make it happen. bye.

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hi have a great time. the ladies and guys that come, it is for the community and we really make it fun. people think it is only for those that play basketball or swim. >> i have been coming to the pool for a long time now. it is nice, they are sweet. >> in the aquatics center, they are very committed to combining for people in san francisco. and also ensuring that they have public safety. >> there are a lot of different personalities that come through here and it makes it very exciting all the time. they, their family or teach their kids have a swim.

>> of the gem is fantastic, there is an incredible program going on there, both of my girls have learned to swim there. it is a fantastic place, check it out. it is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities. it is as good as anything you will find out why mca. parents come from all over. >> there are not too many pools that are still around, and this is one-stop shopping for kids. you can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. >> if you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout san francisco play

some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basketball. on saturdays, we have a senior lyons dance that has a great time getting exercise and a movement. we have all the music going, the generally have a good time. whether it is awkward camp or junior guard. >> from more information, visit

>> hello i'm san francisco mayor london breed i want to thank everyone in san francisco. thank you for your patience, for

your resilience and listening to our public health leaders. i know the last several months haven't been easy for anyone. they certainly haven't been easy for me. everyday i hear about the struggles people are going through from friends from family members and from the community. while san francisco has been a leader in the fight against this pandemic, everyday we suffer losses. people are losing their jobs, people are losing their grip on their mental health. worst of all, people are losing family members to this disease. even as we endure these losses, i'm hopeful for the future. these months of public health crises and social unrest has shown us that when we come together, we can have the hard conversations and make the tough choices to do what needs to be done. not just save lives but to address systemic racism head on

and change society as we know it. i know today is about our budget and our path forward. as we step into the future, one that i'm hopeful for, is important we take a moment to recognize where we've come from. at the beginning of this year, we were living in a different world. our unemployment rate was at a historic low. tourism was at all-time high. hotels were full, we had all plans to shape the future of this city we all love. i know i have plans to address homelessness and housing, to reimagine our mental health system, to improve transportation and make our streets safer and build a more equitable city. to lift up those who too often are left behind. like i said, we had lot of plans. what we didn't have plans for was the coronavirus.

it certainly had plans for us. here we are today in a very different san francisco with small businesses closing and schools struggling to bring kids back to the classrooms. with over 180 thousands san francisc100 -- 180,000 sanfrancr unemployment. we have seen san francisco come together in a way that makes me proud. proud to be mayor, yes, but also proud to be a san franciscan. we work together to make sure thousands of people had access to medical support, to testing, food and housing. we move forward emergency policies to protect tenant and businesses from eviction. give people emergency sick leave

and keep workers safe. we raised millions of dollars in donations through give to sf to support small businesses, workers and vulnerable residents. we think people organized to check on elderly neighbors and deliver groceries for those who can't leave the house. while nursing homes across the country have been devastated by this virus, we haven't had a single death among the over 700 residents at laguana hospital. we've seen community groups rise up to support our most vulnerable residents in the bayview and mission and other hard hit areas. we've seen the spirit of san francisco rise to meet this challenge to flatten the curve and then rise once again when the virus came back the second time. today, we are proposing a balanced budget that closes that

$1.5 billion deficit. while still meeting the needs of our city. through all of this, we continue to protect our public workforce. let be clear, when we talk about 180,000 san franciscans applying for unemployment, not one of those people is doing so because of city cut their job. not one. as our economy plummeted, we wanted our city workers to focus on their health and the health of their families and on serving our residents during this crises. not on whether or not they would have a paycheck. with the budget i'm proposing today, i i want to continue to prevent all layoffs. but to do that, we need our labor partners to work with us. we need them to agree to delay any planned wage increases for two years. so far, we are having good conversations with the firefighters and the police officers on delaying their

raises i'm hopeful other unions will agree to do the same. i don't think this is too much to ask. our entire city is suffering now. we all need to do our part to hair in that sacrifice. i want to be very clear, if the union don't agree to delay their raises, then we will be forced to lay people off. we will be forced to cut city services. we don't want to see those unemployment numbers go up because we are forced into layoffs. that's not what i want. it's not what anyone wants. i'm hopeful that our labor partners will step up and work with us in the coming weeks. because there is a lot we have to do with this budget. including continuing to fund our ongoing covid response. we all know we are living with covid for the next year. likely longer than that. san francisco has been a national leader in responding to this pandemic, thanks to our efforts to follow the data,

build a testing system from scratch, create a robust contact tracing team and provide food, support and shelter for our most vulnerable residents. we will keep doing everything we can to get this city through this pandemic. hopefully the federal government will continue to provide the necessary support. we know the federal government won't cover everything. that's why we are putting $93 million from our general fund towards supporting our continued covid response. this is a significant investment but honestly, it's not really a choice. without a strong and sustained covid response our students won't return to school, people won't go back to work and our economy won't recover. even as we continue to wrestle with covid, we can't lose sight of other key priorities. our homelessness crises didn't go with covid.

covid has made it even more challenging. i know people are frustrated with what they see on our streets. we have had to reduce capacity in our existing shelters by 70% leaving more people out on the streets. our outreach workers continue to do very difficult work all while practicing social distancing. we met this challenge by moving thousands of people into hotel rooms, trailers, safe sleeping site and new emergency shelters. this work took an amazing effort from city staff and nonprofit partners, work that normally take months and years in planning and implementation done in a matter of weeks. the tenderloin alone we moved over 500 people. we are expanding those efforts oeffort neighborhoods like selma

and the mission. while we are seeing some progress, frankly it's clearly not enough. we need more than short-term hotel rooms. we more than parking lots for safe sleeping sites. we need housing. lots of housing. that's why this budget funds 1500 new units supportive housing. which is part of our homeless recovery plan to move 4500 people from hotels, shelters and the streets into housing in the next two years. it will help us as a city meet the needs of the unsheltered and our residents who are frustrated by the conditions they see everyday in our neighborhoods. we also can't lose the progress we've made on improving our mental health system. including funding mental health sf. that means adding more mental health beds, expanding our

behavioral health access center so people can get immediate care when they need it and improving the system of care so that people struggling with mental illness and addiction. we're also creating a new crises response team so that when you call 911 or 311, because someone on the street is clearly having a mental breakdown, we can send a team which includes a paramedics, clinician and behavioral health peer. we need to shift the burden mental health response call away from the police it's not fair to ask our officers to do the work of mental health professionals. it's not effective for those in crises. this is a key piece of our police reform efforts. in addition to doing the work to call for service, i laid out three other major areas for police reform. addressing accountability and

bias, getting rid of military grade weapon and equipment and redirecting law enforcement funding towards the african-american community. while all are important, it's the last one i want to talk about today. as a black woman who grew up in poverty in this city, police brutality was all too common. it was something we expected and complaints were usually ignored. two months ago, the murder of george floyd shook this country to its core. in a way that i have never seen before. people responded like i have never seen before. seeing people not just african-americans, rise up against police brutality gave me hope that real change in this country is possible. but for those who support this movement, for those who truly

believe that black lives matter, it's important that we listen to black voices. it's important that we allow black people to lead this movement. i'm not just talking about me or any of our black elected leaders who have been fighting this fight for generations. i mean we have to listen to the people in the community. we have to listen to the people who have seen and lived the devastation resulting from decades of disinvestment. we have to listen to the people who don't come to city hall because they've known too many broken promises, made by those in this building who believe they know what is best for black people in this city. that's why the first thing supervisor shamann walton and i said, when we announced we wanted to reprioritize funding to support the black community, was that this had to be a

community-led process. earlier this week, the human rights commission released an initial report that highlighted what the community wants us to focus on. this report is the first step in guiding not just the investments we make with this budget but the change we need to make in the years to come. changing the inequities in our country won't happen overnight. we won't change the fact that african-americans have the lowest median household income in san francisco overnight. we won't change the fact that black people have the highest mortality rate for nine of the top ten causes of death in san francisco overnight. we won't change the fact that graduation rates for african-american students in our public school system is just 53%. we won't change that overnight.

we won't change the fact that nearly half of san francisco police department used to force cases involve black people overnight. we will change these facts with this budget. we are listening to the community and prioritizing investments in the african-american community around housing, mental health and wellness, workforce development, economic justice, education, advocacy and accountability. as a first step in this effort, we will redirect $120 million from law enforcement to support these priorities over the next two years. let me repeat that, this is $120 million. it's a first step. if we are going to make real change, we need to do the hard work. it's going to take all of us coming together, day after day, week after week, month after

month, year after year. i often talk about how i overcame poverty, despair and vince to become -- violence to become mayor. my goal with these investments and this change in how we prioritize the black community is simple. i want my story, my experience to be the norm and not the exception. i want black girls growing up today to rise not in spite of their upbringing here in the city but because of it. i want black boys growing up today to thrive because we chose how to change the city and how this country treats our young black men. not as a statistic or an tragedy but as an important part of our city's future. if we accomplished nothing more than that during my time as mayor, i will leave this office proud. i want to end by acknowledging

the leadership of a few of the people who are central to this budget process. first, i want to thank board president norman yee and budget chair supervisor sandy fewer to continuing to be strong and collaborative leaders. over the coming weeks, we will work with both of them and the board of supervisors to finalize this budget so that we can continue to deliver for the people of san francisco. i want to thank controller ben rosen field for the work he and his team has put in as well as all the city departments who worked to find ways for us to close this deficit. finally, i want to thank my budget team. led by ashley golfenburgering. san francisco is lucky to have these two strong smart women leading this challenging process. now at this time, i want to introduce ashley who's going to give us a short presentation on

our budget. >> good afternoon, thank you mayor breed. i'm the mayor's acting budget director. i like to thank the rest of the mayor's budget office team who worked so hard to put this budget together under mayor breed's leadership. today i'm happy to walk you through the details of the mayor's fiscal year 2021 and 2 21-22 budget. the total size of the proposed budget is $13.7 billion in fiscal year 2021 and $12.6 billion in fiscal year 2021-22. the fiscal year 2021 proposely budget represents a $1.4 billion increase over the fiscal year

1920 budget primarily driven by one expenditure related to the covid-19 pandemic which go away in the second year of the budget. the total proposed budget is made up of $7.5 billion or 54% nongeneral fund expenditures which include enterprise and self-supporting activities. 6.2% or 46% of general fund expenditures. it is important to note that self-supporting and enterprise funding are restricted and not eligible to be used to balance the city's general fund budget. these includes things like operations that are airport, the public utilities commission, port and the mta. it is also important to note that the $3.9 billion of the $6.2 billion in general fund expenditures are restricted by state and federal reimbursements and voter mandated services for children, transit and seniors.

the remaining $2.3 billion represents discretionary fund budget available to pay for the public services san franciscans rely on. the mayor's proposed budget achieved four key objectives. it balances the budget responsibly, avoiding layoffs for city employees and major service cuts, it makes progress on shared priorities of homelessness and behavioral health. it reinvest significant resources toward initiatives that support racial equity and identifying alternatives to policing and it maintains a robust importance to the covid-19 pandemic. the mayor's required by the charter to submit a balance two-year budget. the proposed budget utilizes variety of one time and ongoing revenue and expenditures solutions to balance this projected shortfall while also investing in shared priority

areas. the may 2020 joint report projected a $1.5 billion two-year general fund budget shortfall. driven by stark revenue losses resulting from the economic impact of the covid-19 emergency. in july, worsening economic conditions resulted in a further downgrade of revenue projections for the upcoming budget period. to overcome the shortfall, the mayor's proposed budget utilizes reserves, new revenue and other savings. the mayor's proposed budget utilizes $340 million from the city's main economic reserves during the budget period ensuring reserve balances remain in tact to hedge against future risk. the budget assumes ongoing excess reserve from the educational revenue augmentation fund or eraf to balance the shortfall. the proposed budget assumes

$300 million that will become available with the passage of business tax reform measure. in order to avoid layoffs and maintain critical city services, the mayor has asked the city's labor unions to defer scheduled wage increases over the period of the two-year budget. the savings associated with that are reflected this proposed budget. lastly, the mayor's proposed budget assumed many citywide and departmental saving. it includes underfunding the city's capital equipment and i.t. programs, only funding critical projects while deferring other new costs. this also includes savings offered by city departments that keep positions vacant and achieve other efficiencies all while avoiding layoffs and major service impacts. taken together, these solutions equal $1.9 billion over the two years. despite the economic challenges

we face, the mayor's propose the budget is able to make over $300 million in targeted investments in priority areas. the mayor's proposed budget invest general fund dollars in behavioral health and homelessness, maintaining the investments we've made in shelter, navigation centers and behavioral health beds while also feeding new general fund support such as the homeless rory plan and mental health sf which will be implemented through the passage of the november business tax measure. the proposed budget also reinvest $120 million in law enforcement funding over the next two years to support programs and services that benefit the african-american community and advance racial equity in our city. the proposed budget also seeks to prioritize youth investing $15 million in onetime support to the san francisco unified school district to provide needed financial relief and support for vulnerable students. lastly, the mayor's proposed

budget maintains robust response to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. allocated $100 million in new general fund support. the mayor's proposed budget is able to close the projected shortfall without layoffs and minimal service impacts. however, we are just beginning to see the effects of this recession and must remain vigilant of the risks that uncertainties that lie ahead. before the pandemic, san francisco had approximately $1 billion in reserves. the proposed budget will utilize about half of those reserves over the coming three years, leaving the remainder to hedge against significant risk that far exceed the remaining reserves. these risks include the failure of the november 2020 business tax reform measure, which should not prevail could create $300 million shortfall. the proposed budget assumes that the city continues to receive

fema reimbursements for eligible covid expenditures through the end of the fiscal year. should the federal government declare the emergency over, the city would face a significant financial burden to continue to respond to covid. a prolonged worsening of the pandemic would negatively impact the city's finances both in the form of ongoing expenditures not planned for in this budget and in worsening conditions that can further slow economic recovery. while we believe the assumptions around access eraf and other state revenues are sounds, there's risk that worsening conditions that the state level can result in further losses of state revenue. lastly, while this budget proposed ongoing solutions, the city still faces a structural deficit and must maintain

reserves. to conclude, while the proposed budget balanced it is balance end on a number of asunshines that could fail to materialize which under underscores the importance maintain reserves to guard against these future risks. thank you. >> thank you ashley. thank you again. nothing about this pandemic is easy. nothing is certain. i believe that the more transparent we are with the facts and the more honest we are with the challenges we face, the better off we will all be. i know we will get this budget passed. we will continue to keep people healthy and safe and we will get through this challenging time together........................

good afternoon. and welcome to the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, august 31st, 2020. i am the chair of the committee aaron peskin, joined by committee member supervisor dean preston and i think to be joined momentarily by vice chair supervisor ahsha safai. our clerk is miss erica major. ms. major, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. due to the covid-19 health emergency, and to protect board members and employees in the public. the committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. all local, state and federal orders, declarations and directives. committee members will a