some agreed lifting the restrictions until the conference. participating today via tele conference. this will ensure the safety of the board an staff and the public.

it may not be as seamless as we would like it to be. a reminder to the board members and staff to mute themselves. we are not providing comment to minimize background noise. >> : thank you very much. at this time, could you please take roll call. >> : (roll call). >> : thank you. >> : thank you. we have a quorum. >> : at this time are there any communications. >> : item number two, communications. due to the covid 19 health

emergency and to protect members, the retirement system is closed. other members participating in the meeting remotely this is taken in precaution to the state order and directives. members participating via video conference as if they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. you will be given two items to speak. when connected you will hear the meeting discussions but be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes

up press star three. best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your tv or radio. >> : thank you very much. is there any public comment? >> : moderator, do we have any callers on the line. >> : madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> : thank you. hearing no calls, public comment is now closed. >> : call the next item, please. >> : action item. review an approval for a recommendation to establish an ad hoc committee and committee assignments. >> : thank you very much. at this time, i'll entertain a

motion and any discussion if desired. >> : commissioner, i move to approve the appointments as presented a and b of the formation of your ad hoc search committee. >> : mr. president, i second. can madam secretary read the committee assignments. i think they are are slig slighy different than the packet. >> : we cannot hear you. >> : sorry about that. the deferred compensation committee.

governance committee. investment committee. members committee as a whole. staff legal liaison. operations oversight committee. staff legal liaison. personnel committee.

the committee of the ad hoc director's search committee. >> : commissioner, i have a question. everything looks well but the personnel committee meeting assignment shows as amended just now, the the consultant was said to be -- if we're going to do the director's search committee

as a committee as a whole then basically gary is not necessary to be on the consultant as the personnel committee. >> : that's correct. that's an error there. thank you. >> : okay. so i will second -- i will rescind my motion previous and replace it with a motion to approve as adjusted and amended. >> : i second the amended motion. >> : okay. thank you very much. is there any discussion on this? >> : i have some thoughts on the committee assignments. >> : go ahead. >> : i think the spirit of the retirement board has always been trying to have a balance between elected and appointed members. we see that around rules of

reference as related to the president. always trying to have an elected member. when i look at the committee assignments what i see for operations oversight is stacked with committee members. i think we should make some changes to those two committees so there at least one member from each group on each of those committees. >> : thank you. anybody else have any thoughts?

>> : i didn't offer to say anything but the observation that the labor management balance that we tried to maintain, will not be in effect the way these committees are appointed. if that's what people are trying to achieve, you've done it with these appointments. unlike, for example, the presentation several weeks ago, many of the pension plans in canada, that was a subject that came up recently. they have unit rule on many fltf the subject plans in canada.

we don't have a unit rule but we have balance here for two of the most important ones. >> : anybody else? >> : president, i understand the spirit of it. given where we are right now and the search for an executive director as well as cio, i just think that we have to pivot a little bit because we're looking at something that's a little different this time. i'm okay with the assignments this time based on what we're working with.

>> : actually, never mind. we can adjust this shortly but we have to get through what we're working on right now and get that behind us. i would not be adverse to making a swap from one governance between operations and doing a swap there. i have one in mind. we have to get through the issues we have right now. anybody wish to chime in on that? >> : i think what we're trying to get through right now, i think lacks a little bit of balance. especially the way you have these set up. i don't think it's an effective use of the board on this

committee. if the balance has always historically been important. which i know it always has to you, you talk about it a lot. it just doesn't seem right. i think we should have balance on all committees. >> : balance is important to p me. me.i thought i could do that. we have a situation we're trying to work on immediately. given where we are and what we're working on. i agree with president, we can always pivot and change back unless we achieve the goals we're working on in the eg and cio. >> : is that the only goals. ceo and cio issue. >> : i guess i feel like people are talking cryptically here.

as it stands,ly not be supporting this. i know labor is not a fan of how this is set up either. >> : okay. let's call for the vote then and see where we're at. >> : we need public comment, first. >> : if you have not already done so, please press star three to be added to the queue. >> : there are no callers on the line. >> : thank you. hearing no callers public comment is now closed. >> : (roll call) we have two

noes and three ayes. >> : motion passes. >> : thank you very much. we've already called for public comment. item number four. >> : item number four closed session.

>> : okay. public comment before going into closed session. >> : if you have not already done so please press star three >> move to not disclose. >> we need roll call first. [roll call]

>> clerk: we do have a quorum.

>> okay. thank you very much. also, do you -- we've got everybody? >> commissioner safai is not in attendance. >> okay. he was complaining that he was in the other session. >> clerk: no, he's not. he's not here. >> okay. okay. thank you. at this time, i'll entertain a motion to not disclose. >> so moved. >> so moved by commissioner heldfond. >> second. >> seconded by commissioner [inaudible] okay. any discussion? all those -- or take a roll call, please. >> public comment?

members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001, access code 146-416-2189, then pound, and pound again. moderator, do we have any callers on the line? >> operator: madam clerk, there are no callers. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no calls, public comment is now closed. president casciato? >> clerk: okay. roll call vote, please. [roll call]

>> clerk: thank you. we have six ayes. motion passes. president casciato. >> can you call the next item? >> clerk: item number 5, general public comment. >> commissioners, i've received one e-mail public comment that was asked to be read into the minutes of the meeting, and so it is from mr. john stinson, and i will read it. at the june 4 board meeting, the city attorney gave you a presentation about your fiduciary responsibilities. investing in [inaudible] when you can get better returns by just making a passive investment in stocks, bonds, and real estate. ask your chief investment if he got 6% growth returns on your

hedge funds investments? what would your net return be after payment and fees? respectfully, john stinson, a 46-year member. that was the only public comment that we received. >> clerk: callers, if you have not already done so, press star, three to be added to the queue. moderators, do we have any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, we do not have any callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you very much. public comment is now closed. >> thank you very much. call the next item, please. >> minutes of the june 9, 2021 retirement board meeting and

minutes of the june 30, 2021 special retirement board meeting. >> is there any comment on the minutes? public comment, please, on the minutes. >> clerk: callers, if you have not already done so, press star, three to be added to the queue. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. moderator, do we have any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, we have no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no calls, public comment is closed. president casciato? >> roll call vote, please. >> clerk: did we have a vote? i didn't hear it. >> mr. president, i move that we adopt the minutes from last month's retirement board

meeting as well as the special board meeting. >> okay. thank you. motion made, commissioner bridges. is there a second? >> second. >> okay. commissioner heldfond, second. okay. any discussion, commissioners? okay. roll call vote, please. [roll call] >> clerk: thank you. commissioner safai is present. we have six ayes. >> okay. next item.

i'll entertain a motion to adopt the consent calendar at this time. >> so moved. >> i second, mr. president. >> moved and seconded. is there any discussion? is there any public comment? >> clerk: a reminder to callers, if they have not already done so, to press star, three to enter the queue. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. public comment is now closed. president casciato? >> roll call vote? [roll call]

>> clerk: we have six ayes. motion passes. president casciato? >> okay, next item, investment calendar. >> clerk: item 8, discussion item, chief investment officer report. >> good afternoon, everyone. i hope that everyone is well. i'm going to invite anna lange to provide an update on the status of our investments and our investment facilities. anna, are you on the line? >> yes.

i'll see if i can share the c.i.o. report. one minute. can you see the report? >> yes. >> excellent. so good afternoon, commissioners, and everybody who is on the call. it's a pleasure to see and hear you? i would like to walk you through the details of a few liquidity management tools. first, we use futures contracts to gain exposures to this year's treasury market in a cash efficient way. if you see on page 7 of the c.i.o. report, if you look at the capital preservation under treasury, you will see that we have both physical and synthetic exposures to u.s. treasury bonds. the physical exposure relates

to holding bonds that are [inaudible] this account is fully funded, which means that we sent $1.1 billion to black rock, and they bought $1.1 billion of u.s. treasury bonds, replicating the treasury benchmark that we set. the synthetic exposure refers to holding of market treasury futures. to match [inaudible] and requires about 10% of the actual exposure in cash. that is $40 million in cash funding to gain 400 million of economic exposure to the one to

ten viewer treasury mix. the remaining 160 million cash is available to be drawn should we have a large capital call. however, if you see on the six calls that we did not use this 160 million cash. that means that we have sufficient cash, and that means we do not have fund level leverage. if you see, all the exposures

add up -- [please stand by]. >> the annual cost [inaudible] was 63 basis points, which included 30 basis points of administrative fees and 33 points back to our lending cash collateral account. in total, as you see on this table, we did $11,864 with the

access to an additional $50 million at the time when the cash position was the tightest. so this liquidity management tool, we use this to gain economic exposure to treasury indexes and the credit facilities are critical for the flexible and additional cash management of the fund. we will provide a comprehensive overview and update of first liquidity management update next wednesday, july 21, at the investment committee meeting. on that day, we will update the board on projected cash flows for all private investments, projected cash payments, and liquidity cash payments under various stress scenarios.

now i'd like to turn it back to bill. >> thank you all, board members. i'm thrilled to report that for the fiscal end of june, is that we returned about 33.8%. the report, the numbers that we had at the publication date, the c.i.o. report was 33.99. right now, it's at 33.76. i wouldn't expect it to move very much from there, but it is by far a historic -- a record setting year for sfers. our previous high was just under 24%, which we had done twice. i think this was the third year where we had returned 20% or more, and we have fund data on annualized returns going back to 1985-86. this is just projection, but i

believe that our returns this year were an all-time high, and that is because back prior to 1985, sfers was more of a fixed-income centric portfolio than it was right now, going into our returns a little bit is that in public equity, it was a sweep across the board, and we performed in the 30s to near 50. in private equity, we returned a stunning 66% for the year. our venture capital book alone returned 87%. the -- compare our returns of 33.76. today, calpers announced their returns, which is 21.3.

the median pension plan was probably about 26 or 27% for the fiscal year. if 27 was correct, that means we outperformed by about $1.8 billion this year? and in returns of gains, we returned approximately close to $9 billion for the year. going a little bit further into private equity, you can see on page 2, technology is beginning to sweep across a wide array of industries. i gave an example of large i.p.o.s in the last 1.5 years just so you can see how large these are for digital payments. travel, social media and dating, infrastructure and

crypto currency, platform prescription drug, and more, and fee platform for construction. these are very widely disbursed different types of businesses that technology is beginning to impact. digging a little bit further into our book beyond public and private equity, you'll recall that in our real assets portfolio really took it on the chin in -- particularly in 1-q, 2-q, and 3-q 2019, where it staged a strong come back. our natural resources book for the year finished up 21%.

another area that got -- took it on the chin in march 2020 was our absolute return portfolio. that's also staged a very, very strong come back, including the returns for june, when the book returned about 30 basis points is we finished up 14.1% for the year. credit, this is where there's an adjustment downward, our private [inaudible] that's a very impressive return for a credit year. our fixed income book is the one part of our portfolio where it didn't do much, about 3% for the year, but our treasury book

was in the red. however, if we step back and take a look at just the last 3.5 years, the fiscal year 21 is our public equity, our private equity, and our credit books all posted sterling returns. just previous to that, it was our equity book that had a stellar return prior to covid and then, we were bailed out because of our treasury portfolio. if we go back to 2018, when almost every public plan lost money for the year, we edged out a positive return. i think we were the top

performer or the second best performing public equity plan in the country in 2018. that is because our natural resources book returned 20% that year. so my point is that every portfolio in just the past 3.5 years has had times where it's contributed significantly to our excess reports. so we've had this rotation -- returns, so we've had this rotation of excess returns in the last 3.5 year period. so because of that, our projected status is 12.9%. you see on page 4 that our trust assets are also now at an all-time high, $34.5 billion.

we were under 25 billion just 15 months ago, 16 months ago. and our plan has grown more than 3x, 11 billion, from 2009, so just in 11 years. i do want to comment on inflation. the most recent numbersfrom the c.a.o. report is about 5.8%. the core inflation, so stripping away food and energy, that's 12.5%. that's actually near a 40-year high. there are two schools of thought regarding what the future for inflation might be. one school of thought is that

this is a -- the uptick in inflation is caused by an uptick in economic growth post covid. the u.s. had inflation in world war ii, but the c.p.i. was up in 1946, but it quickly returned to its very low trend of inflation. the reason why this might not be the case where we wouldn't have a return to very low inflation is we're really putting an extraordinary and unprecedented amount of money -- we're really printing an extraordinary and unprecedented amount of money. when you have more money that is chasing too few goods,

that's when you have inflation. so the volume of money is out pacing the volume of produced goods. i do want to move onto a date board of approved investments -- >> i'm going to wait a second. i'm going to lose electrical power in just a few minutes. darlene? >> yes. >> can you switch me to the cell phone? >> sure. you're not in as an attendee, no.

>> can you see me as a participant? >> you're as a participant, not as an attendee. >> okay. can you move me on that one? >> al, we do not see you coming in on your cell phone. >> okay. i called the number for public comment. >> clerk: 415-655-0001. >> that's exactly what i used.

>> clerk: yes, and the event number -- >> yes, and the double pound. >> are you hearing the meeting on your phone? >> no, i cannot hear the meeting on my phone. >> you should probably hang up and try dialing in, because you're not showing up as an attendee. we can only see you on your computer with the participants. you want to verify -- >> clerk: the event number? >> 146-416-2189. >> okay. just go ahead, and if you lose

me, it's because of a power surge. >> thank you, president casciato. board members, regarding items previously approved by the board in closed session that have now closed, alteris, the board approved this, pelion, we received an allocation of 25 million and 24.75 million respectively. moving onto -- we have what

staff thinks of is one of the most important meetings of the year with the board, and that is our asset class updates, and this month's i.c. meeting, which is next wednesday, july 21, 1:00 to 4:00, it is a really robust meeting. we have five agenda items, assets for public equity, updates in provide credit as well as updates on private schedules, and alan has his updates for when we have the delegation of authority. staff spends several months providing these materials, and you'll see that there's going to be a really rich and robust amount of data. it includes more detailed, more

granular updates. it includes planned actions completed, planned actions going forward, and it includes a more comprehensive market update for all three asset classes. regarding our liquidity position, it's much better than it was a year ago, and i think it's structurally improved because of our credit facility as well as more active engagement across asset classes and careful management across the portfolio. so i think our liquidity is in very, very good position going forward. the the -- and staff is enthusiastic and excited about presenting these materials to you. we are going to need to start pretty close to right on time at 1:00, and we're going to go right up until 4:00, but you'll

see there's a lot of material and a lot of good material, as well. with that, president casciato, i can turn it back over for any questions or comments. >> okay. any questions or comments from anybody for the c.i.o.? >> commissioner casciato, i just want to remind mr. coaker is that a question that will come up next week is a question of immunizing the portfolio. >> okay. thank you. okay. any others? i want to thank you, thank you for all the good work. appreciate you. thank you very much. >> it is, president casciato. staff works very hard. they're very thoughtful and comprehensive about what they do. >> thank you. all right. next item, please.

>> we need to take public comment on the c.i.o. report. >> clerk: callers, if you have not already done so, please press star, three to enter the queue. moderator, do we have any public callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, we do not have any public callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. public comment is now closed. item 9, sfdcp committee report. >> the report was filed. it's very exciting, the work that's being done at the deferred comp committee, and it's all there before you in the packet.

do we have any public comment on the deferred comp report? >> clerk: callers, if you have not already done so, press star, three to enter the queue. moderator, are there any callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no public callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. public comment is closed. next item. item 10, sfdcp manager report. >> thank you very much. good afternoon, commissioners. can you hear me okay? >> clerk: yes. >> thank you, miss secretary. so commissioners, today will be a brief report as it is our monthly report. next month will be our full quarterly report in addition to our semiannual investment performance update. so before you, i've included the stable value crediting rate for your reference, by is 1 -- which is 1.7 for the third quarter.

as a reminder, this is a rate for the quarter and is a dip of .7. yields were in line with last quarter. i'm also happy to report some early results from our targeted mail campaign that dropped in june. more details will be provided next month in the full report, but e-mail results this month are very prompting. as of yesterday, the restart your savings e-mail garnered a 47% open rate with a nearly 7% conversion rate. the conversion rate is when the receiver actually clicks through the e-mail to learn more. the save more e-mail received a 53% open rate and a 67% click rate. for comparison, an all-industry average open rate is around 18% and a click to rate of 2% to

3%. so we seem to be benefiting from a very participating bait or a very interested base. i will be providing updated to the board once we received 30-day, 60-day, and 90-day post drop. i will say we've received the feedback of our most recent news letter and it's one of our best click-through rates of almost 50%. we hope to capitalize on this momentum. and lastly, attached is the monthly activity report for may. you may recall i walked the board through the design of this last month. on page 6, we're -- we've added the c.a.r.e.s. act section, and

two members have paid their covid distribution. while the number you see is not a huge number to the $39 million take-in, it is certainly a step in the right direction. with that, i am happy to answer any questions you may have regarding this month's report. >> if there is no questions, thank you very much, and public comment on that. >> clerk: thank you. moderator, do we have any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no calls, public comment is closed. next item, number 11, action

item. declaration of vacant see on retirement board occurring february 20, 2022. >> commissioners, as you're aware, we have elected members who are elected to five-year terms on a staggered basis, and we are asking the board to declare a vacancy that would occur on february 20, 2022, next year, for the term of office that is currently being occupied by president casciato. you'll see by the timeline and the documents that we bring this to you today so we can partner with the department of elections starting in august so that we can come to a decision on the timeline and the schedule of election that we

would bring back to the full board [inaudible] on this item, however, we do request a motion to approve [inaudible]. >> okay. at this time, i'll entertain a motion. >> i'd like to make a motion, president casciato. >> go ahead.

[inaudible]. >> as commissioner [inaudible] pointed out, it is nothing personal. it is procedure and routine, and we just need a declaration. >> i second. >> okay. thank you very much. is there any comment? if there isn't, call for public comment and then roll call following. >> clerk: thank you. a reminder to callers to press star, three to be added to the queue. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no callers, public comment is now closed. roll call vote. [roll call]

>> clerk: that's six ayes. motion passes. >> okay. thank you very much. next item, please. >> clerk: next item, item 12, action item. approve recommendation to retain nossaman, l.l.p., as retirement board fiduciary

governance consultant. >> [inaudible] this is an engagement that has, over the past five years, been fulfilled by nossaman, l.l.p., a law firm of the main person that was assigned to this -- that is assigned to this contract is ashley denning, and so we submitted the -- or we actually issued the r.f.p. in march, and we received responses from three firms in april, by the april 5 deadline. we had an evaluation team composed of myself and [inaudible] who is the deputy executive director. we reviewed the three proposals and determined that all three

president firms -- [inaudible] basically saw that, as you're aware, we have basically spanning and organizing and conducting off-site board retreat back in 2017 focused on governance and improving governance, so the majority of the experience that they've showed in their r.f.p. response was very similar, very

project-based, audit based, shorter term engagement with plans for the -- and nossaman has applied also, and in their response, showed similar, and because they are a law firm, most of the plans experienced with public plans was in the fiduciary counsel area rather than in the governance plans consulting air, and the same was true with the third proposer [inaudible] who provides legal counsel to an impressive list of public pension plans, but again doesn't have any experience with what we would ask them to

do under the r.f.p. so long story short, it might be too late for that. we had evaluated the three proposals. we are recommending that the board retain nossaman for another five-year term for this agreement, and just as a reminder, this statement of services is not to provide legal or fiduciary counsel to the board but to do more of the mechanics related to governance, helping the committee and the board conduct reviews of governance policies and procedures, conducting and helping the personnel committee conduct performance reviews for the executive director and the actual service coordinator and being generally a consultant and a resource for the governance committee as they work through priorities that they may have. so with that, i'd be happy to

answer any questions that you, the board members have, but with that, we'd request that you approve the recommendation that we retain our agreement with nossaman for an additional five years. and i've put in the write-up that this is rather unusual because under the city charter, we cannot engage a law firm directly, meaning the department cannot engage a law firm directly, so for the past five years, we have been negotiating directly with the city attorney's office, and i think robert would agree, it's been operating very smoothly, making sure that the procedures

have been progressing nicely, and with that, i'll answer any questions. . >> if there are no questions, i'll entertain a motion to adopt staff recommendations. >> so moved. >> i second. >> okay. it's moved by commissioner heldfond, seconded by commissioner bridges. any discussion? public comment, please. >> clerk: thank you. a reminder to any callers, if you have not already done so, press star, three to be entered into the queue. moderator, do we have any callers in the queue?

>> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no callers, public comment is closed. roll call vote. [roll call] >> clerk: we have six ayes. motion passes. next item, number 13, discussion item, operations oversight committee report of may 27, 2021.

>> yes. thank you, madam secretary. the operations oversight committee report has been submitted, and as stated here, our meeting was held on may 27, but we did have approved amendments to the operations oversight committee terms of reference that are being forwarded to the governor's committee, so you'd like to know what's being forwarded, i can do that now, and from there, it'll be submitted to the full board with approval. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you, chair bridges. the amendments that we had provided to the committee and that were approved included oversight of the department strategic plan, oversight of

the new divisions in operations management, oversight in data security, oversight -- customer service and member education services, and lastly, an oversight for the tracking for staff response to member inquiries. i'm happy to take any questions. jay, did i catch them all? >> i believe you did, yes. >> i'm happy to answer any questions. >> yes, that was all of them. >> and again, these have been forwarded to the governor's committee for review and approval and then to the full board? >> that's correct. >> okay. thank you. public comment, please.

>> clerk: thank you. callers, if you have not already done so, press star, three to enter the queue. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. public comment is closed. next item, item 14. discussion item, personnel committee reports of june 2, 2021 and june 7, 2021. >> commissioner stansbury, go ahead. >> nothing to report. >> so we can take -- this committee report is submitted. >> please. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. can you call for public

comment, please? >> clerk: yes. callers, press star, three to be added to the queue. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: moderator, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no callers, public comment is now closed. item 15, discussion item, executive director's report. >> the major thing that i had to report was that the department budget had made its way through the mayor's budget office and also the budget and appropriations committee, and it had remained significantly intact, and we have been able to procure all the new positions that we'd requested, including the investment division positions as well as funding for the other priorities that the retirement board had supported in the budget that we presented.

so i believe the timeline is there are two readings before the mayor's budget before the board of supervisors this month, with the second reading to be july 27, and the mayor is expected to sign the final budget by august 1. the department of human resources and the payroll will have loaded all of the new positions and the budget for all the new positions hopefully soon thereafter, in august, and that we will be able to start filling these positions within the next four to six weeks, and with that, i'll be happy to take any questions. >> are there any questions? any public comment? >> clerk: callers, please press star, three to be added to the queue. moderator, are there any callers on the line?

>> operator: madam secretary, there's one caller on the line. >> clerk: thank you. caller, please state your name. your two minutes begins when you speak. >> my name is [inaudible] and i am calling for the retired employees in the city and county. i understand that the budget is being heard finally on july 27. my question more is with regard to our funding. it did not indicate whether [inaudible] 100% market funding and their discussion about supplemental cola, and i would like some clarifications on that because i believe that [inaudible] i would like clarification also on the good returns. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your

call. moderator, are there any other callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no more callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no callers, public comment is now closed. >> okay. thank you very much. >> clerk: item number 16, discussion item, retirement board member good of the order. >> does any member have anything for the good of the order? the only item i have is that we're starting to think about in-person meetings and what the protocols will be for those, so we'll be discussing those among -- jay will be discussing that with the health department and etc. okay. thank you very much. any public comment on that? >> i have one other item to add to good of the order. i had to wait until the

blackout period was over. one item that is not listed, and that's correct, it would not be listed under educational items that nossaman sent to us, but one of the other companies, mr. rick nelson has also been doing educational, one of the -- [inaudible] sister fund, calpers. i did not bring the link to us, but the upcoming series had to do with performance and risk management, which is really good educational stuff, and if you're interested, i'll provide the information to all of the trustees at the same time without discussion purposes so i'm not violating the [inaudible] rule, but that's what it relates to. >> yeah. thank you very much. if you could just submit that

to darlene, and she'll make sure it gets out. >> all right. thank you. >> okay. >> clerk: public comment? >> yes, go ahead. >> clerk: callers, a reminder to press star, three to be added to the queue. moderator, are there any callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no calls, public comment is closed. item number 17, adjournment. >> okay. at this time, unless -- unless anybody has a comment from the commission, i will adjourn the meeting. okay. thank you very much. we are adjourned. >> thank you.

>> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. when i meet with seniors in the community, they're thinking about the future. some want to down size or move to a new neighborhood that's closer to family, but they also worry that making such a change will increase their property taxes. that's why i want to share with you a property tax saving program called proposition 60. so how does this work? prop 60 was passed in 1986 to allow seniors who are 55 years and older to keep their prop 13 value, even when they move into

a new home. under prop 13 law, property growth is limited to 2% growth a year. but when ownership changes the law requires that we reassess the value to new market value. compared to your existing home, which was benefited from the -- which has benefited from the prop 13 growth limit on taxable value, the new limit on the replacement home would likely be higher. that's where prop 60 comes in. prop 60 recognizes that seniors on fixed income may not be able to afford higher taxes so it allows them to carryover their existing prop 13 value to their new home which means seniors can continue to pay their prop 13 tax values as if they had never moved. remember, the prop 60 is a one time tax benefit, and the property value must be equal to

or below around your replacement home. if you plan to purchase your new home before selling your existing home, please make sure that your new home is at the same price or cheaper than your existing home. this means that if your existing home is worth $1 million in market value, your new home must be $1 million or below. if you're looking to purchase and sell within a year, were you nur home must not be at a value that is worth more than 105% of your exist egging home. which means if you sell your old home for $1 million, and you buy a home within one year, your new home should not be worth more than $1.15 million. if you sell your existing home at $1 million and buy a

replacement between year one and two, it should be no more than $1.1 million. know that your ability to participate in this program expires after two years. you will not be able to receive prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. so benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. for more, visit our website, sfassessor.org, >> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will

be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich history. [♪♪♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members,

so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the

first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar,

and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915.

>> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones,

lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit? retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to

retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something you're then yourself. follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way.

>> and parking authority commission to order. secretary silva, can you please call the roll. >> clerk: yes, thank you. [roll call] . >> clerk: chair, you have a quorum.

places you on item number 3, announcement of prohibition of souns producing devices during the meeting. we have no announcements since we are in a virtual meeting, and places you on item 4, approval of minutes for the july 20, 2021 regular meeting. for members of the public who wish to provide public comment, dial 888-808-6929, meeting i.d. 9961164. to raise your hand, press one, then zero. >> thank you. before i open it up to public comment, i'll open it up to commissioners for any comments. for members of the public, if you would like to make public comment, now is your opportunity. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: you have three callers on the line.

>> okay. if you are calling on the meeting minutes of july 20, please go ahead and speak. hello? hello? did someone press one, zero to be in the queue? perhaps, moderator, you can move to a different line and come back to that one. >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> go ahead, speaker. >> hello. i pressed for slow streets, but i guess that's coming up later. >> okay. that's 11, several items down later. we're on item 4, so it'll probably be at least 20 to 30 minutes before we get to that. >> okay. sorry about that. moderator, are there any additional callers on the line? >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> next speaker.

>> can you hear me now? >> yes, we can. >> david pillpel. it looks like on sfgovtv channel 2, it looks like we're getting the tail end of the health meeting two weeks ago, so i don't see where the m.t.a. board -- i guess i'll jog around and see if it's covered in some other way or maybe they can attend to that. hopefully someone there is listening. i had two items on the minutes. i read the proposed changes in a phone message to miss silva a few minutes back on page 16. my two public comments, just some minor changes. so it would be david pel

pill -- pillpel identified a number of issues in the staff report, comments on slide presentation, and opined, o-p-i-n-e-d, and then, on the next page [inaudible] insert recently and will follow up regarding insert the transit investment strategy. so those are my requested corrections, and i read those into a phone message for miss silva, so if you could make those changes. otherwise, i thought those were comprehensive for your longest

meeting so far this year, 8.5 hours, but they were great. thank you so much. >> thank you, mr. pillpel. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have one question remaining. next caller. hello, are you on the line for the approval of the july 20, 2021 minutes? perhaps, moderator, we can see if there's anyone else on the line? >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> okay. press one, zero if you'd like to comment on the minutes from the july 20 minutes? >> hi. >> clerk: are you calling on the minutes? >> yeah. like the previous caller, i can't access the meeting on-line, so, but yeah.

>> secretary silva, are we visible on sfgovtv? >> clerk: i checked the website, and we are not currently streaming live, but if you go to our webpage, there's a tweet on the page, and there is a comment link there. i will let the public know when we are streaming live on channel 78. >> oh, hi, can you still hear me? >> yeah, we can hear you. >> yeah, so i just saw the tweet, and i just clicked on it. it took me to another page, and it took me to agenda. it doesn't take you directly to the meeting, and i'm having trouble that -- like, i just want to make sure that everyone can see the slides that pop up

when people are talking, but yeah, i tried the twitter link, but yeah. >> we are live on channel 78. are we live? >> are we live? okay. great. and we are on-line, as well.

>> yeah, i'm on channel 78. it doesn't seem to be at the meeting right now, yeah. >> okay. we will look into this. thank you so much for alerting us to this. let me just -- for city attorney, do we need to pause if it's not visible to the public, that they can see us? can they hear us, i guess, if they can't hear us? >> thank you, chair borden. deputy city attorney susan knowles. on-line is probably sufficient if you want to do so.

>> okay. i know we're channel 78 and streaming, as well. >> yeah, i know we're not on channel 78, but the slides, hopefully, it'll be on then. >> and actually, all of the slides that are given in our meeting are on the agenda, so you can follow along. >> and also, it would be so helpful if, like, people could comment on that before, but i don't want to hold you up, so thank you. >> thank you. >> chair borden, i logged onto sfgov channel 72, and i think

you were live streaming now. i logged in, and i can see it on my second computer. >> okay. thank you so much. moderator, are there any public callers on the line for item number 4? >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> next speaker, please. >> uh, yeah, and i'm watching sfgovtv 2 right now, and it's the transbay joint powers authority, and on sfgovtv channel 1, you're not on. can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you. the website i have, what i have

is san francisco.granicus.com/media player. i wish i could show it to you, but if you go to sfgovtv.org/liveevents, you can see it there. >> sfgtv. >> dot-org. >> okay. i'm there, but it's starting with a list of events. it's got health commission, school board talk, town haul commission. i'm not seeing m.t.a. on here

at all. >> okay. if you go to the sfgovtv, m.t.a. 2 -- yeah, it shows something different. yeah, i can't explain it. i'm so sorry. it's a separate group that's handling. i don't know what to tell you. what i can tell you is you can hear all the presentations if you go to -- >> yeah, i have all the slide presentations and everything on the -- you know, on extra tabs, but naturally, you're going to have viewers who are not as savvy as this, so i would call sfgtv again and tell them to redouble their efforts. >> yes, absolutely. we are on that, and we will do it, and i will inform members

of the public that we are a completely different agency and we don't control what happens over there. but i know we are typically on that channel, so i don't know what's happening. but thank you for alerting us. we appreciate the diligent work of members of the public for looking out for us, everybody, so thank you. >> clerk: chair borden, just an update, we started calling sfgovtv to get us on our normal channel and get a link, and we will let you know when we get that link. >> okay. great. we are still on item 4, approval of july 20, 2021 regular meeting. are there any comments or questions from the public? moderator, any additional callers? >> operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> so we'll close public comment, is there a motion,

board? >> i will move the minutes with the changes that public commenter pillpel noted in his statement and sent a record to secretary silva. >> second. >> great. secretary silva, can you please call the roll? [roll call] >> clerk: chair, the minutes are approved. places you on item number 5, communications. >> again, i do apologize to members of the public. we are working on getting on-line. the next several items don't have anything that's formally being presented that you don't need to necessarily see, but i just wanted to apologize and

say that we are working on it to get us live. couple items under communications. please note, item 10.3 on our consent calendar is being continued, so it's not going to be heard today, it's not going to be considered or voted on today. if you would like to comment on the item, the time to do so would be under general public comment. i also would ask that we adjourn our meeting in honor of peter wu. peter wu was a transportation engineer with over 50 years of dedication to the sfmta in san francisco. he helped support the entire reconstruction of the embarcadero and king streets, the destruction of the embarcadero freeway, and the construction of the rail line.

although he officially retired in 2003, he remained active with this office until his last day. he continued to minimize the safety and circulation of construction impact activities on our street and was the consummate public servant. so with that, we will adjourn our meeting in his memory. also, i have to do my perfunktory covid-19 comments. as you know, we are all meeting virtually and participating via teleconference. we apologize if you are not able to see this meeting at this time, but we thank you for tuning in. our published notice on this meeting and we ask the public to participate in advance by writing us or leaving us a

voice mail comment. if you did before this meeting, we received your comments and are happy to answer them. as you know, we are having today a technical difficulty with not be on s -- with not being on sfgovtv. sometimes we lose the phone line, and we have to rebridge it. please know if that happens, we will stop the meeting and not reconvene until happens. there are a lot of moving pieces involved in this process to hold the meeting remotely. i know it's been over a year, but technology is technology,

so thank you to everyone for your patience and behind the scenes to make this happen. do we have any comments on this item? >> clerk: yes. so this meeting is being televised by sfgovtv channel 2. however, members of the public can go to sfgtv.org -- [inaudible] selection watch in the top left corner, and then, you can see us listed as a meeting in progress that you can watch. for members of the public who wish to make comment on items on the agenda is 888-808-6929. the meeting i.d. is 996-1164.

and press star, one to raise your hand. places you on item number 6, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> first, i'd like to take the time to say that this is the last board meeting for cheryl brinkman. i she was always so gracious and so masterful in chairing the meeting and has forged relationships all across the agency and has brought

visibility to the people outside of 1 south van ness to the board does, so just a background of director brinkman. she was appointed to the board in 2010 by then mayor gavin newsom, and she was nominated by the liveable city, where she then served as chair. she was elected as chair in 2012 and again in 2017. vision zero has been one of her top priorities and has been very optimistic, as you were talking about earlier, but she was always positive and not afraid to back down and take a stand counter to what seemed to be the most popular thing, and she always did it with poise and grace. cheryl, i feel so honored to have had the opportunity to serve with you.

i'm so sad to see you go, and i'm so happy for you for your next journey in life, and i look forward to seeing you in person sometime soon to we can present formally a presentation to you of an official plaque and street sign called brinkman way, so i look forward to being able to present that to you as the group, and i'm going to turn it over to vice chair eaken next. >> thank you so much, madam chair. i would like to pile on in recognizing director brinkman's 11 years of service on the board and her outstanding contributions. as you all know, she's been a fierce and vocal advocate for safe streets and walking and biking in san franciscos, and -- san francisco, and that

we need to design our streets for all ages and abilities. she had some cute acronyms for how she ended up in this landscape that i don't remember, but i'm sure she'll remember us later. she is what it means to be a really engaged board member. she put a high premium in understanding our system, talking to the operators, understanding their concerns, and really bringing those concerns back into the board discussions and the system. director brinkman, i hope you count, i firmly count among your achievements on the board [inaudible] free muni for youth, which i'm so happy that has occurred while you're still on the board, and of course, the very popular slow streets program, which i see as an

outgrowth of your passions. you really live your vision of what you want your city of san francisco to be, and clearly, you love our city, and all i can see is we will be -- we will be consoled that you're going to be traveling the world looking for best practices and solutions through your blog, so we -- we could give you a hug, i hope you feel very proud of your contributions, and we're just so sad that you're leaving. pass it back to you, chair borden. >> clerk: chair borden, you are

muted. >> at this point, i'd like to open it up for other directors under unfinished business or comments to director brinkman. director yekutiel? >> i'll make it quick. 11 years is such a long time to serve on such an esteemed

board. i hope we'll get to do something in the person in the future, and i just want to say 11 years of service is an amazing, amazing contribution to all of us at the agency, so thank you for that service. the only new and unfinished business i would add is as many of you may seen, we rode the cable car yesterday. the cable cars are operating, and it was awesome to ride the service along with director lai and director tumlin and the mayor. i want to say it was a lot of work to get it going, and they are bringing much needed dollars to our small businesses and commercial corridors who are trying to hire back their employees and bring the city back to life, so i'm really

glad the cable cars are back. we met a young boy, nathan. it was his ninth birthday, and he was squealing with delight. it's a good reminder that what we do brings joy to a lot of people in the city, and i don't want us to forget that. thanks. >> thank you. director heminger? >> thank you, madam chair. remembering back, i think i met cheryl, the first time i met cheryl, she was on a bike, and that told me all i needed to know. you've really been, i think, the epitome of a public servant, and i just admire your

ability to keep your cool and give all sides accountability. i served with cheryl on the caltrain board, and you can bet they wish they had you back. one last request, when you get to paris, i hope you'll let us know so we can have a special meeting and present you with all of your [inaudible]. >> thank you. director hinze? >> cheryl, the diplomacy and guidance that you have added to this board has been eye opening, and on the issues, i remember the point of view you bring to this work. it's a model for, i think,

future board members and definitely for me, and also having gone through the process of appointment, i think surviving what three mayors and the board of supervisors is also an accomplishment that needs to be spoken for, and so that's a major accomplishment and goals. also, a highlight for me was touring the castro street subway station, and part of that was because i got to meet you in person. so i'm so glad we got to do that, especially upon learning the sad news of your early departure, we can all be consoled that you are enjoying a very well deserved

retirement. thank you, chair. >> thank you, director hinze. anybody else? are we good? well, with that -- director lai. sorry. >> thank you. just want to agree with all of my colleagues. thank you for your 11 years of service. i cannot fathom staying on this board that long, and you are one of the most sincere people i've met in public service, and i appreciate your ability to remain even keeled throughout the years, and even on the

p.a.g. thank you for your years, and enjoy your traveling. we're all jealous. >> okay. we've had everyone speak now. i don't know, director brinkman, if you'd like to say any comments, and thank you so much. >> thank you, chair borden. it's been an honor, a pleasure, and it's always changing, so you'll never get bored with your time on the sfmta board service. i just want to reiterate that we all succeed together. i'll just say everything that's happened over 11 years, it's

from all of the hard work from everyone. thank you so all of the advocates who have been such strong voices for the kind of city that they want to see. keep voting for the people that you want to see create the city that you want, and keep supporting the board and the staff of the m.t.a. who we want to bring you a service that you want. we have to thank family members and friends for sharing their board members, so thank you. thank you for giving me the space, the time, and the support to be the best board member i can be, and thank you all again. i'll miss you so much, and i will certainly be out there on

social media, and our travel blog will be, get this, less car, more life. we'll see you out there, and thank you all so much. >> thank you, director brinkman. so sad to see you go. directors, are there any other items under new unfinished business by board members? seeing none, moderator, we're going to open the line for item number six, that is introduction of new or unfinished business by board members, mostly recognizing director brinkman. operations, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: you have three callers on the line.

>> hello? hello? is there anyone who would like to speak? >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> next speaker, please. hello? hello? is there someone there? hello? moderator, can you see if there's anyone else on the line? >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> next speaker, please. >> hi. good afternoon, chair borden, sfmta directors, and director tumlin. my name is jodi madeira, and i'm the director of walk san francisco. and i'm also calling in to pile on the praise of director brinkman and her 11 years of service on this board. director brinkman, you sat on

this board as the city adopted vision zero and some of the great legislation along the way. from myself and all of the staff and members of walk san francisco, thank you so much for your years of service, and you will be missed. thank you so much. >> thank you. moderator, are there any other callers on the line? >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> next speaker, please. hello? >> hello. >> yes, you might want to mute your background -- >> mute what? i don't know how to do this. >> okay. >> it's very confusing. the stuff on the screen is not the same as what i'm hearing.

any way, i'm calling on [inaudible]. i think it should be put back into full service. all you have to do is put back that full service of the line. either the 5 fulton or across the panhandle to haight street. it's just hopeless, and it's not true that they have access from their homes to anything within three blocks. the line goes along some very important [inaudible] valley, and i can't think of the others right now, but at masonic, there is a home for the aged,

and it will take you all the way downtown. that business in hayes valley needs that transportation because going either north or south from there, there's no way to get there. it's a little island, so i hope that 21 hayes will be reestablished. thank you for your attention. >> thank you for your time. thank you. moderator, are there additional callers on the line? >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> just a reminder, this is for new and unfinished business. i took that call because that person was having some technical difficulties, and it was easier to have them comment there, so this is for new and

unfinished business, so caller, please go ahead. >> thank you. hayden miller. just want to follow the comments on director brinkman. as somebody who's been following the board for 1.5 years, just the work that she's been doing over that time, as a young person, growing up here, just seeing how our city has transformed and she's been pushing for that, it's been great to see her in our government. so the rest of you board members are great, to, but yeah, special shoutout to director brinkman, and i'll miss you all on your travel,

and we'll miss you on the board. >> thank you. moderator, do we have any callers on the line? >> operator: you have zero callers remaining. >> thank you, and we'll move onto the next item. >> clerk: director, that's item 7, director's report. >> great. and we have a presentation, and so that'll be something different. and i understand we're back on sfgovtv, so welcome to everyone who didn't see us before. director tumlin? >> first, i'd like to turn it floor over to transit director julie kirchbaum, who will be offering some special recognition. >> clerk: and for those in the conference room that are streaming with us, you may need to dial star, 6 to unmute your mic. we do see you. and i believe that i can

spotlight them so you can see them better. >> can you guys see us? >> clerk: yes, we can. thank you. >> okay. so we're not quite ready to be doing in-person meetings, but something as personal as a recognition, we wanted to attempt to have some of us in the same space, so i'm julie kirchbaum, the staff director, and i'm going to be honoring two people today. first is joseph kibble, and with me is [inaudible] and it's going to take both of us to do it justice. in service to the public, our

operators have to wear dozens of hots, and there's no more heroic example of that than what happened on monday, june 14, on the 14 mission. joseph was driving his route, and an elderly passenger had what appeared to be a heart attack. and after securing emergency support with the fire department en route, although he didn't have to and was under no obligation to, joseph began immediately giving this passenger life saving c.p.r., and the fire department acknowledged that these actions saved this person's life, which

is so self-less and beautiful and something that we wanted to honor today. the image that i have after our conversation is joseph gratefully handed things over to the fire department, he then sat and prayed with the man's son for his healthy recovery, so i would -- we're so honored to have you as an example of our dedicated operators that make such a difference in people's lives, so i want to give you this certificate of appreciation on behalf of the m.t.a. board, and i also want roger to have an opportunity to [inaudible].

>> thank you. my name is roger marico, president of the transport workers union local 258. first and foremost, i want to say, cheryl brinkman, congratulations. make sure you upload as many pictures of transit related issues, cool stuff, fun stuff aboard, and bon voyage, and on your work of all those transit related issues, thank you for that. when we heard board member manny talking about bringing more life to the city of san francisco, i also say that transit workers are the lifeline of san francisco because they provide the most important item to the city of san francisco: transportation.

we are the givers, the lifeline of blood that gives line to the city, and i consider that to be the bloodline of the city and county of san francisco. today, we're honoring joseph kibbles because not only is he a part of that, but his actions on this day helped save an elderly person's life, and we acknowledge and here by also award joseph kibbles for his heroic and fast thinking acts that day, and i would just simply like to read the certificate here. transport workers local 258 present this certificate to joseph kibbles. due to your fast thinking, you

were able to save the life of a person on your bus. transport workers local 258 acknowledges your efforts as a transit hero. congratulations. [applause] >> thank you. i guess it's my turn. honestly, it was just something that i think i would hope everybody else would do, given the consideration. i don't consider myself a hero that day. the fire department were the true heroes. i just helped them along. it was a very emotional day, and i just hope that other operators, if we can get a

volunteer situation 'cause we're out there on the frontlines, and you want some help for people that you care about. that's all i have to say. it was a rough day, but it was worth it at the end. >> thank you. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you. on behalf of the board, thank you very much. [applause] >> [inaudible]. >> our second recognition goes to david stanbury who recently retired and [inaudible] i think

a person can come. david officially began working for muni when he was a high school intern over four decades ago, and that's only because i'm math counting the countless times that the old school operators would actually let david, young david, drive their cars back in the day. david has worked in so many areas of transit, including the control center, the cable car division, and ended his career as a division manager, really supporting all of our operators and making sure they had the resources that they needed to be successful. david leaves a really strong impression. in fact, after he left central,

they continued to call [inaudible] basically until the present day, and anybody who ever had any question about muni history or kind of the rich transit environment that we operate in, you were always the first call and will continue to be. so he is taking a lifetime of knowledge with him that i know that you will continue to advocate it and be active and be a resource to all of our systems, so we're so grateful. in noncovid times, you would probably be the centerpiece of

a 200-person nonretirement banquet, but we're sharing it today as part of this board recognition because we're in such unusual times. the cable car shop prepared an award that they have for you, and also, they said to practice. and we're also, on behalf of the board, for all of your years of service, i want you to accept this certification of appreciation and tell you what an honor it is for us to work together. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> we'll miss having you. >> first, i want to congratulate miss brinkman.

we met before. it's going to be a major loss, but as you're going to travel, i'll probably try and travel, too, and post pictures, but i wish you all the best, and i thank you for your years of service. i don't have too much to say other than it's been a journey. it's been a lot of ups and downs, working in several departments, several different areas. as miss kirchbaum said, maintenance was a lot of my time. cable cars, presidio, kirkland, yslais creek. i've seen a lot of things come and go. main thing for me, as has been said, is to give the operators

the tools they need. i always consider myself to be, you know, a fair person but trying to support the operators, the good, the bad, and everything they do, they need support. if it's peer assistance, i'll refer them. if it's something where they need medical attention, whatever they need, i try and make sure that they get. it's very important, not only the operators, but the first line. i said, you know the custodians, you know the engineers, you know the mechanics, you know everybody involved in the operation is important, so just giving them that tool to succeed, that's very important. i'm humbled by this, because i'm just another employee. i'm a dinosaur. i've been here so long, but i'm just another one of the employees. there's so many employees.

i've met a lot of people over my time, and i just briefly can say, you know, it starts with curtis green, who i -- he always gave me the encouragement. as i called the history of the muni from can beach to people that i've worked with. mary allen davis, miss kirchbaum, i have paul oh, who took my place at kirkland. you know, i -- the employees that i worked with, operators are very important, mechanics are very important, and the cable car shop, i just commend them for this because this is very unexpected, and this is a great treasure, so thank you, all, and, you know, once again, i'm very appreciative of this. [applause]

>> and on behalf of the board, thank you so much for your service and thank you for all you've done for us. >> you're welcome. you're welcome. >> thank you, director kirchbaum, along with mr. kibble and mr. stanbury. we now return to our regularly scheduled director's report, where we've got a lot to update you all on. first of all, our full vision zero report. on july 29, we did have a hit and run fatality involved a motorist and pedestrian on treasure island, on treasure island and mckella roads. we have been conducting six motorcycle practical skills training courses in june and july in partnership with the san francisco police department. just a reminder that motorcycle riders accounted for about 20% of our road fatalities in 2020.

we've also been making incredibly rapid progress on quick build improvements on vision zero. most recently, we completed construction on two transit boarding islands on seventh and bryant and seventh and brannan, which should be finished by the end of the month, and we continue working on every street in the tenderloin, which you know is not only the highest concentration of injury crashes in san francisco but also has the city's highest concentration of children, seniors, disabled adults, and with mental health concerns. so in the last couple weeks, we've been involved been covid, including to help step it up on the jones street physical distancing lane, making some expansions there, looking to

close to traffic the 100 block of golden gate avenue, and one block of turk street with over a dozen community based organizations in the tenderloin. if you have not seen our recent work in the tenderloin, we would highly encourage you to join our streets team for a tour, particularly on the weekends when the kids are out enjoying our work, particularly in the summer with the safe streets program that we've done in pardon nership with liveable city. we've also been making progress with work on great highway and jfk droif -- drive in golden gate park and rec and parks department, and we're going to be working throughout the

summer along with the sfctas work on the district 4 mobility study. staff has been developing a narrative presentation that will help gather feedback scope and feedback from stakeholders. the youth commission back on july 27 got a bunch of comments and are eager to move forward. we also had our consultants and peers present some of their final deliverables for the west side traffic study. they presented those just about a week ago, and they contained very specific near, mid, and long-term network improvements that can address some of the traffic related concerns we've heard, both from the richmond and sunset districts, and we will be incorporating those technical findings into our outreach. we've also of course been working throughout the month with the recreation and parks department on golden gate park.

we will be working with recreation and parks department in public outreach later this month and running through october and will be coordinating with the mayor's office of disability and others. the sfcta has selected a consultant to do the equity analysis for j.f.k. it allows the equity analysis to happen in perfect alignment with our analysis. we still expect to be developing alternatives to be vetted during the public outreach process and then present those alternatives with recommendations to the board of supervisors by the end of the calendar year. next topic is, last week, we had a hearing with the board of supervisors on transit service.

as you'll recall, the board of supervisors adopted a nonbinding resolution urging the sfmta to restore 1 on 0 is -- 100% of muni service by december 2021 and present a plan on how we could do this to all of you. as you know, muni service restoration is dependent on our hiring and funding. we have spent just over half of the over $1 billion that we're receiving from the federal government, and we're expecting to spend 300 million in the remaining this year, and we need to spread out the

remaining $200 million for the next four years until we receive money to sustain us, and we still have not receive any commitment from the federal, state, or local funding to be able to restore or sustain the services that we had in 2019 without drastic service cuts. we are very eager to restore service, and we are making progress on the service restoration, including restoring the cable car service yesterday, which will be operating in training mode for the month of august, and therefore will be free to riders. we're expecting to be at our regular service starting around labor day weekend, at which point in time we will need to start charging fares again. on august 14, just a reminder, we will be doing a major expansion of our regular muni

services, restoring or expanding over a dozen lines, and extending service to midnight on all of our core routes. we'll also be restoring the m ocean view as trains and design a way in order to restore a portion of the 31 balboa line, again, on august 14. we'll also be operating school trippers to ensure that students can reach school when it resumes later this month, and of course, we'll be starting up our muni for all program on august 14, as well. in the meantime, we've begun work on the next round of service expansion that is expected to happen in early interof 2022. -- early winter of 2022. so we plan to do a lot of outreach on that service plan starting next month and into the fall. we'll be developing a variety of areas in order to figure out

how to allocate whatever resources we have available. we'll be bringing recommendations on those alternatives to this board for approval in november, with the next round of service restoration being planned in early 2022. and in the meantime, we're required to hire across all of our service areas, most especially in our maintenance division. meanwhile, also in preparation for the muni service restart and the start of school, we have been busy partnering with the san francisco unified school district with all the ways that allow kids to get to school, including changing signs in about 150 loading

zones that completely change start and stop times. our transit ambassadors have been around since 1996 and are important for maintaining a sense of civility on all our muni lines, but particularly the lines that serve our schools. our crossing guard program is restarting with 180 crossing guards covering 106 schools, and we're also returning to in-person safe routes to schools. we're returning to in-person safe routes to schools programming, serving 75 schools with programming like park and walk events in order to reduce lights on congestion in the front of schools as well as other programs to help parents and kids get to school safely. and of course, we're in a major partnership with the san

francisco unified school district and city college in order to inform parents, schools, and staff about our free muni for all program in order -- outreach in order to get the word out about free muni to all. we will be fully rebuilding the intersection of south van ness, mission, and otis. we're so grateful by doing the closure for an extended period over a long weekend, that we'll be able to finish all of the work within five days, rather than having it done piece meal, which would result in traffic delays for a couple of months.

i want to end with a statement for director brinkman. director brinkman, you exemplify how to hold staff and officials accountability while respecting and hearing all sides. thank you, and good luck in your travels. that's all. >> thank you. directors, any questions? i see director lai. >> thank you, director tumlin. that was a lot of good updates. i just want to make sure i understand the upcoming calendar for when we're going to be considering service again. so i think i heard from you -- obviously, the board made a resolution, and i believe it

requires the m.t.a. to provide some sort of a solid plan by the end of september, and i believe i heard you say we had our restoration service in august and then, the next restoration won't be until 2022. would you just remind me and the board and the public on when would be our plan to restore service levels? >> so we'll be coming back to the board with updates on our planning process throughout the next six months, with the expectation that, in the fall, we will ask for an action from the m.t.a. board on what our service restoration will be on our service expansion. we will come back to you in 2022 if additional resources are available, what's your next round of service -- what's our

next round of service expansion? >> okay. and are we planning on meeting the board's resolution request to provide an actual plan for service recovery by the end of september? >> so we will be responding to the board's request. there will obviously not be time to do a detailed service plan, something that typically takes a public agency like ours about two years to complete. >> okay. thank you, and hopefully, we will have an opportunity to weigh-in before that happens, but i'm not clear on all the time. i hope to work with staff in the future. >> thank you. director yekutiel? >> hi, director tumlin. someone on mission told me there was someone on a scooter

that was hit and killed in the last four or five days. is that true or did that not happen? >> i would defer to streets director tom mcguire for that information. typically, it takes a few days for us to get details. tom is here. >> good afternoon, directors. tom mcguire. yes, tom is right. we bring you information that we've gotten and confirmed with the san francisco police department. i'm not aware of the crash that you're talking about, but we will follow up with the police department and bring everything we know to our next meeting. >> thank you. this came directly from the small business owner itself. he saw the person die, and it was very traumatizing. the scooters don't come with helmets. i have to tell you, i took one recently, and i tried to go up

the castro hill, and let me tell you, it doesn't go uphills, and it felt very scary. and i just want to say if folks are dying in increased numbers, i want us to think about these forms of transportation as long as folks are using them for transportation. >> definitely take that to heart, and i think that's one of the reasons why we're often coming to you, asking for ways to protect pedestrians and scooters and traffic in all different kinds of ways, and perhaps, we can connect privately to get the business owner's name. happy to get that information. >> we go through their permit requirements, and i wonder if we should require them to

provide helmets for people if we're going to allow them to take to the streets. i have another question, but it's about delta, and mask mandates and all that and potential cascading effects that you might perceive from that on our system. we're hearing and seeing from the small business community a pretty fast slow down in activity. folks are more nervous to go out to bars and restaurants. they're nervous to go to bars and events and theaters, and how do you think that will affect our agency and our plans for recovery? >> that's a very good question. so first of all, we have maintained a mask mandate and our cleaning regiment on muni. so far, muni remains extremely safe and not a likely source of transmitting covid, including

the delta variant. but in terms of our overall service recovery, we have also been tracking the data from the area council and the controller's office and the likely pace of return to work. and the latest information that we received this work from the area council suggests a 40% long-term drop in the number of people commuting to offices in downtown san francisco. all the more reason for us to be taking the very measured and precise approach that we have been doing in order to make sure that our one-time federal money can last while san francisco and its travel market recovers slowly. we are continuing to expect a long-term slow down in our muni fare revenue and our parking revenue, which means we must continue to be cautious with our expenditures until we identify new sources of funding. >> got it.

i would just put two things on your mind. one is we read in the news recently that large employers in our downtown core which were scheduled to reopen for their employees this month are now pushing it either farther back, and i imagine that would have an impact for a rush back in the fall of folks going back downtown, so perhaps we should be pushing additional projections, how long it would take to bring people back. and the venues have been hit hardest in many ways by this pandemic. they were the first ones to close, if i remember, because they rely on large volumes of people coming in and out frequently, and they were just starting to plan gigs, and now, you know, i don't know about you, but most folks that i know do not want to go to a concert with a mask on? and also, as a large kind of concert space, it may require them to close or delay their

opening even longer. i know that folks are thinking about this internally, what we can do to provide relief to venues to help them not close permanently and survive. i brought this up before, and i know you and i have discussed this before, chair borden, but i want to bring up venues again. thank you. >> another reason why it's important to restore service to midnight on all of our main lines. >> are there any additional questions by board members? if not, we'll open it up to the public. moderator -- i'm sorry. director heminger? i'm sorry. >> yeah, it's actually fine, madam chair. director yekutiel beat me to the punch on masks, so i have no further questions. >> okay. thank you. so with that, we'll open it up for public comment. there is for anyone who would

like to comment on item number 7, the director's report. this spans everything from special recognition to the updation on vision zero -- update on vision zero to on going activities. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: you have six questions remaining. >> thank you. first caller, please. hello? hello? moderator, perhaps you can open up another line first. >> operator: you have five questions remaining. >> next speaker. hello? someone on the line?

if you are a speaker who wishes to speak to us, please put your television or computer on mute so you can speak to us clearly. moderator, are there any other callers on the line? >> operator: you have five callers on the line. >> next speaker. >> hello, directors. my name is richard rothman, and i want to talk about transportation issues. i'm a san francisco native, and i've been following transportation issues all of my life. deaths on vision zero are not going to lower until we change our stance on stop signs.

at almost every engineering twice a month, they're adding stop signs, so they give mixed messages. and in the engineering, the engineer rider report, if he says no, why can't there be a hearing on the -- on the appeal so we can talk to the engineer? the one on 38 and geary, i tried e-mailing him. doesn't answer his e-mail, doesn't -- can't leave him voice messages because his line is message -- you know, there needs to be some kind of dialogue and communications and, you know, we need to work together, just not saying no, and coming up with solutions. if they don't want to put stop signs, maybe putting those articulating stop signs. and last, asking where we're

going to find $5 million. just look at the organization chart and see where you can find the money. thank you very much. >> next caller. just as a reminder, this is on the director's report. general public comment is item 9, so if you're not calling on those items, general public comment is item 9. next speaker? >> herbert winer, retired worker of the city of san francisco. many people like myself consider muni a part of daily living. not replacing the lines by the end of the year would cause a hardship on all of our members. since 2008, there has been a diminishing of service lines

and bus stops, forcing a hardship on disabled, seniors, and the population as a whole. the project known as muni forward, the quality of transportation has worsened, due to the stripping of lines and bus stops. the buses don't run any faster, and there's a potential of missing buses. at the least, muni should be restored to full service by the end of the year, which is the position of the retired workers of the city and county of san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have five questions remaining. >> next speaker? >> hi, there. director yekutiel mentioned a fatality on 18 and valencia where someone was riding an e-scooter and then talking

about helmets. whatever happened on the bike lane, citizens were told that the physically protected bike lane along valencia would be installed as soon as possible. this was three years ago. please update us on the status of the valencia protected bike lane. secondly, i would kindly challenge director yekutiel to read helmet use around the world. when a driver crashes the body of a person who is riding a bike or a scooter, a helmet will not save their life. however, physically protected bike lanes, such as on valencia, will prevent that

driver from impacting that person's body and will protect riders. thanks for listening and please update us on the status of the valencia protected bike lane. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have four questions remaining. >> next speaker? >> can you hear me now? >> yes, we can, mr. pillpel. >> david pillpel again. so i wish that when you make a special presentation like earlier, that you might have two opportunities for public comment specifically on the special presentation with the recipients still present, and then a second opportunity later on all other items. i have nothing on the later items, but i did have some comments on the special presentation, and i wish the recipients were still there to hear me at this time. i do not know the 14 mission

operator, but i thank him very much for what he did, and i certainly hope that others would do the same under the circumstances, an exemplary operator. i do know david banbury, and i'm glad there was a presentation for another david. he preceded me as someone interested in muni as a young person. he actually made it a paid career, as opposed to me and made it many years in many capacities, and i spoke to that. i have plenty of stories that i could share, but i don't have the time, and many of them may not be appropriate for public consumption. nod to referencing -- in addition to referencing weldon

friend and curtis green, with so many others retired, he is one of the few going back to frank bauer and curtis ballice and is one of the old timers of muni, and i thank him very much for his service, and i'll leave it at that on item 7. thanks very much. >> thank you, mr. pillpel. moderator, are there any additional callers on the line? >> operator: you have four callers remaining. >> next speaker, please. >> hi. this is hamilton carter, and i'm on the border of district 10 and 11 in the excelsior. if you would, please bring back the entirety of line 43. there's a school out there that kids need to get to.

please bring back the 28-r. the 28 as usual is packed, but the 28, the 29, the 44, they're always packed. please bring back the 28 so that people can move around safely with more trips, and likewise, please bring back the 57 for the same reason, for sfsu and getting our students out there safely and quickly. you do have the funding to bring back the west lines now. i was delighted to hear that the city, the supervisors, nine of them urged you to bring back all of the lines now. i'm disappointed that you don't think you can have a plan ready for that any time soon. the plan to take away the lines seemed to take well under two years. b.a.r.t. has brought everything back. delta hit, and lo and behold,

all the lines are back, and they now have more trains to spread the riders in. so have faith in the funding, please, and please bring our lines back that we trusted you with over the pandemic. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have three questions remaining. >> next speaker? >> hi. my name is hennie. i live in the excelsior district, and -- can you please bring the 43 back because i have classes, cause i have classes there -- can you please bring the 43 back because i have classes there, and yeah, because i just -- yeah, and can

you please bring back the 28-r and [inaudible] thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> next speaker? >> hi. hi, board members. my name is martin munoz, and i'm a tenant living in district 5. i'm calling just to speak about, you know, the tragedy that happened on valencia. respectfully, director yekutiel, i know you're well meaning in your comments, but you really should consider how, you know, this essentially victim blames, when the reality is that the board and m.t.a. has not moved quickly enough on protected bike lanes on valencia, which have been needed for many, many years.

the truth is this city would have many more bikers if it were safer to bike. as a transit rider, as a pedestrian, i don't feel safe biking in many areas of the city. [inaudible] was redone filmsy barriers, and i'm looking out my windows, and i'm seeing more cars than during the pandemic. i think that has to do with the fact that these posts are much harder to see for drivers who may be confused with the concept of slow streets. we are moving way too slow and there's too many people dying. i saw the images of the person dying on valencia on twitter, and the fact that he's dead is even more tragic. we need you to act now so we can have a greener city with more transportation options. thank you. >> clerk: 30 seconds.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> next speaker? >> clearly, you would know that masks are not enforced. i have called many times of masks not being worn. i am sick and tired of reporting this and having anything done about it. i have been told to put my mask higher up on my nose, and yes when it's other people, nothing is done about it. what are you going to do about this? >> does that conclude your

comments? >> yes. >> okay. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> good afternoon, board members. can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> perfect. okay. thanks. hi. good afternoon again, board members. hayden miller. just wants to -- just wanted to echo some of the board members about vision zero and how long it's taken to get protected bike lanes on valencia street, and then, we blame the users of bicycles, scooters, etc., for not wearing helmets. muni's lack of enforcement of covid-19 procedures, as the previous caller spoke to, such as social distancing, mask

wearing, the lack of hand sanitizer and masks not being available on vehicles is going to slow down return for people who just don't feel comfortable with the delta variant, so you guys need to do more to enforce the covid precautions, and that's what i've been saying this entire time. it's also frustrating that some of sfmta's own contracted officers are not wearing masks or are wearing masks improperly at the ops stations and with contractors. if you can't enforce it with your own employees, how can you enforce it with riders? so you need to take more action on that and vision zero. thank you. >> okay. thank you. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: you have two

callers. >> next caller. >> my name is david alexander, and i'm a parent out in district 1. just calling to comment on the local 7 and fire workers for their final appeal. i urge you to sit down with the union because you can come up with the best design ever for vision zero, but it can be vetoed with one phone call. it's your job as city leaders to make this work because there's been a lot of near misses on which streets -- this is mission and lake, and then, last week, in the outer sunset, last week, there was a near miss. we can better design slow streets across the board, but we can't push our local engineers to create these

designs if they're going to get vetoed. thanks. >> thank you. moderator, are there any additional callers on the line under the director's report, item number 7. >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, directors. my name is [inaudible], and i actually stumbled on the collision on valencia and witnessed the collision, and it was traumatic [inaudible] while biking on that street. a helmet would not have done any good [inaudible] under the car, so it is incredibly disappointing to see how many times advocates have called for a protected bike lane on valencia, and it was march 2020 where a pedestrian was killed in this intersection. sfmta was back [inaudible] for the crossing obviously not

nearly enough here. it's frustrating to hear that director tumlin and staff not aware of the collision. [inaudible] it's very disappointing that it's delaying vision zero. thank you. >> thank you. moderator, are there any additional callers on the line? >> operator: you have one question remaining. [please stand by]

many programs and projects that they want to delay. they actually, as many of you might now, do not have a veto power. that committee is advisory and i think we need to start empowering sfmta staff to make the best design that protect people and make our city more livable rather than deferring to the fire department. so i encourage all of you to empower those people, empower staff to start making the decisions, the necessary decisions to protect people on our street and push back on fire when she say the response times are hurt, when data shows that

response times are some of the best in the area. far better than national standards. and for example on slow streets, faster on slow streets. injury on slow streets are down 80%. these programs work, street design changes work and we need to start pushing back on fire when they demand or intimidate staff into watering down designs that endanger people's lives. thank you so much and thank you, all, for your work. >> thank you. moderator, are there additional callers on the line? >> you have zero questions remaining. >> we'll close public comment. director hinze, i saw you -- did you still want to ask your question?

>> director hinze: sorry, i was having trouble with buttons. my question is we're waiting to questioning about the delta variant. as we know the city implemented mandatory vaccinations for our employees, so i was just wondering where we were -- if you knew where we were on vaccination and what sort of outreach we were doing to those people who may not have gotten vaccinated as of yet? >> yes, we're keeping track of detailed data on vaccination rates within the agency by division. and we're doing work to ensure our employees get vaccinated. last week, we held a town hall and invited not only dr. bennett of the department of public health, but also mayor london

breed came to explain to people just how important it was to get vaccinated and why the vaccinations are safe. similarly, we've been accommodated pop-up clinics out in ourdy advices. one of the -- divisions. one of the challenges we have is that most of our employees are out in the field and not necessarily using a computer term not every day or even coming to roll call. so it's important for us to reach out to people where they are in order to get their questions asked, specifically for those who are hesitant to get the vaccine, but also to make sure it is easy for folks to do so. we're committed to making sure that all of our employees get access to this life-saving vaccination. that not only helps to protect our employees, but in many ways more importantly prevents community spread to more vulnerable populations. >> thanks, chair.

>> with that, we'll close this item and move on to the next. >> item number 8, citizens advisory committee. no report is expected. item 9, public comment. >> great. so this is the time for members of the public who would like this speak on an item that is not on the agenda. the only excepting is item 10.3, which is the sfmta response of the grand jury report regarding the van ness corridor. that project is listed under consent calendar, that item is continued to a future time, so if you would like this comment on that item, you can do so right now. otherwise, public comment is open to any topic not on the agenda but under the jurisdiction of the sfmta. are there any callers? >> you have four questions

remaining. >> first speaker, please. >> hi. can i talk about the slow streets quickly? >> we actually have slow streets on the agenda for item number 11. >> i'll wait. >> thank you, perfect. next speaker, please. >> you have three questions remaining. >> next speaker. good afternoon. >> go ahead. we can hear you. hello? let's go to another line and come back to this one. >> hi there i'm calling to ask about -- can you hear me? >> yes, we can.

>> okay. sorry about that. i'm calling to ask about what has happened with the rapid response team program? so far there has been mentioned a few vision zero fatalities and we know there was a hit-and-run a couple of weeks ago and an 88-year-old woman was hit. we don't know -- she was injured, but i don't know any follow-up on that. we're curious in the 72-rapid response teams are still in action. that was when m.t.a. would come out to a crash and see what was going on to implement safety measures, unfortunately, too late, but at least in the after math. and despite all of these recent vision zero incidents, i haven't seen any news or information about the rapid response team actions. so, if you all could address that in some random item or give

the public some information as that program status, we would be very grateful for that. thank you. >> next speaker. >> you have three questions remaining. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, i can, mr. pilpel. >> great, david pilpel on item 9, public comment. i've had some good conversations with various staff over the last couple of weeks on several topics, some of which have been at the board or may be at the board in the future. i wanted to ask if there is an update on the 2022 network outreach plans. there is a little information on the sfmta 2022 network website, but it's still sketchy about outreach in july and august and september.

so, if there are plans on that, if you can provide an update today and at future meetings, the more you can publicize that outreach the better. i have not been able to reach caroline slyia, very sad for both of us. hopefully, we can connect by phone later today. on item 10.3, the civil grand jury report response i understand that will be continued to a future meeting. i went back and refreshed myself on portions of the report, which did ask for a response both from m.t.a. as an agency and separately from the m.t.a. board, so i encourage you to look carefully at the proposed findings and responses and note very clearly that the m.t.a. board response may differ from the staff response. staff -- 30 seconds -- >> thanks.

staff may disagree in whole or part with the recommendations, but the board may have different views. and as an oversight body, you may find and recommend and reply differently and direct the staff to do things differently than what they were planning to do. i would encourage you to take your independence seriously, in all cases, but in particular on the civil grand jury report in the future. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have three questions remaining. >> yes, hi. can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> mine is simple. i'm just here to support the slow streets. slow street has been something that has been very beneficial it neighbors and to anyone that lives on those streets and in the vicinity.

it's assisted in terms of less stuff on individuals -- [indiscernible] -- dealing with cars. and i'm sure -- position here and there. and also with commuting. this is the type of idea and creations that i wish you'd had going forward. so i think i want to put out my support for slow streets. i want to say thank you for all the effort and thank all those individuals who spoke before me for the neighborhood and for better street and design. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have three questions remaining. >> saltations, all. i'd like to thank sf gov forgetting this broadcast to

everyone. thank you to all the members here who are paying attention to what the public has to say. thank you for your time obviously. beyond thanking all of you, i would like to thank the muni operators. in my experience, they've held buses to enforce mask mandate. they've verbally asked or requested for folks to wear masks. and i've felt very good riding muni in regards to my public health. but what i'm asking from any and all of you all is to -- mm maybe get a hold of your counterparts at caltrain. whenever there is a san francisco giants baseball game, the folks from down the peninsula definitely don't wear their masks and they're coming up to san francisco to folks who are just trying to get to wherever they're going down in the is south bay to home. and unfortunately they may be

bringing the delta variant or other covid cases along with them. again, this problem only happens during san francisco giant baseball games, otherwise caltrain is able to enforce the mandate. when there are games, there are too many people unmasked and the train cars are very packed. caltrain seems to think the problem is with the riders, as opposed to their job which is forcing the mandate. if someone could remind caltrain it's their job to enforce mask mandate, not for the public to comply, even though the public should comply. i hope you all stay safe and well. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is reed.

i live on 5th right near lake and i'm calling to support the slow streets and the lake street slow street. it's amazing, there are so many kids riding around. my kids used to commute to school. i really hope you keep it in place. i don't want to take too much of your time, but i really support slow streets. it's been transformative for this neighborhood. >> next speaker, please. >> hello there. my name is alex i'm a longtime resident of district 2 and i personally would like lake street to remain slow. and ever since basically we selected slow streets, i can say it has proven to be a major success. personally i like being able to walk in the middle of the streets. an families, including young kids are able to walk, run and bike on the street.

i'm asking the board, you guys, to make lake street slow permanent. thank you very much. >> thank you. just -- thank you. are there other callers on the line? >> you have one question remaining. >> i just want to remind people if you're about slow streets, lake, shotwell, that's item number 11. we're on item number 9 which is general public comment. so that's about items not on today's agenda unless you're calling about 10.3 which has been removed. with that, i'll take the next speaker. >> hi, i'm calling about slow streets. i'll call back in later. >> thank you so much. are there additional callers on the line? >> you have zero questions remaining. >> with that, we'll close public comment and move on to our next

item. >> directors, that places owen the consent calendar. these items are routine and will be voted on by a single vote unless a member of the board or public wishes to consider an item separately. members of the public, if you wish to address the board, press 1 and 0 and add yourself to the queue. 10.2, authorizing the director to execute agreement. to accept a gift of pro bono services to support the sfmta's ports precipitation in proceedings held i by the california public utilities commission. and administration of the statewide transportation network company, t.n.c., access for all programs. the cost of the services is estimated at $99,840.

that concludes the consent calendar. >> chair borden: great. i'm going to -- >> oh. >> item 10.3 to a future date. >> you can go ahead and make a motion and -- feel free to make a motion. >> move to consent calendar. >> second. >> i'm going to open up public comment. if you would like to speak on items 10.1, 10.2, those two items, this is the time to speak. you can go ahead and announce which item you want to speak to when you're making your comments. are there any callers on the line? >> you have one question remaining. >> can you hear me now?

>> yes, we can, mr. pilpel. >> great. i have comments on both items 10.1 and 10.2. shall i wait and then you'll pull them and i'll have two minutes on each? >> no, during covid we haven't been doing it that way. we've been taking it as one item and one caller comment. we haven't been pulling the items. i think we talked about this before. so go ahead and give your comments on both at this time. >> okay. i might need more than two minutes, but i probably won't. so on item 10.1, traffic modifications on the calendar item and the resolution -- let me pull that up here. so the discussion on page 3 under environmental review references the determination that the items are categorically

exempt and has the case number for items a and b, but doesn't have the approval date, which i believe was -- one moment -- may 21st, 2021. and then for items c through e, it references the transit effectiveness project, feir and dates and planning resolutions, but does not include the case number, which i believe is 2011.0058e. so, and references and august when the department determination that the approval items here within the scope of the feir. so on the resolution, on page 1, the third whereas, i would include the amends to include

the approval date of may 21, 2021. in that third whereas paragraph in the fifth i would include the case number. and then i think the rest is good and i'm making a request now for a copy of the august 6, 2019 planning department determination. i looked everywhere and i mean everywhere for that and i believe that document is not -- repeat not -- posted and available to the public on the planning department website under exemptions, under t.e.p., under eirs, anywhere. i could not find that document and if it holds you up from approving that portion, you may want to check with the city attorney, then so be it. but that document was not available, is not available. i can't find it and i'm

requesting a copy and in the future i ask that things like that be included in the packet to this board. that's on 10.1. on 10.2 brieflily, i don't have any particular issue with -- >> 30 seconds. >> thanks with the civic bridge program or the proposed contractor, but i don't know the proposed contractor. i don't believe you should be approving things like this retroactively, apparently the work has been going on since april and i question whether there is an ethics commission filing needed because i have no idea who this contractor is and what other interest they may have with the city and whether providing these pro bono services gets them in the door for other possible work in the city. those are my comments on the consent calendar. >> thank you, mr. pilpel. moderator, are there any other callers on the line? >> you have zero questions remaining. >> so we'll close public

comment. to the items that mr. pilpel referenced being excluded from the motion and the -- i'm not sure about the -- the gentleman was on line about the posting of the environmental do you mean. but if the environmental document wasn't posted, is that a problem for us moving forward today? >> so, i'll speak first and then let ms. jones go ahead, deputy city attorney. as we discussed at our last meeting, we are not required to include the case numbers or the dates of the environmental review in resolutions, although it's customary. so you can add those or not as you wish. in terms of the posting of the -- that is required by the planning department. if ms. joan is not aware whether that is, in fact, posted, i

recommend that you move forward today and if we need to come back with that one document, we can do so in the future. the planning department routinely posts all the categorical exemptions and statutory exemptions on their website. it would be unusual for it not to be posted. >> yes, sara jones planning director, sfmta. agree with ms. knowles that the planning department does have their system set up to post everything. i believe mr. pilpel is referring to something that was tied back to an environmental impact report which back on the sag of the postings, they do end up in a different place.

just as a service to the public. even though the system as it exists is compliant with chapter 31 of the administrative code. we will follow up and look into finding that document and making sure it's posted on the planning department site. and i guess i would say follow the queue of ms. cleveland knowles around if you're able to go forward and then if there is a need to come back and take further action, do so at a future meeting. >> great. >> thank you. so with that, the matter is now before us. board members, we have a motion and a second. any comment? seeing none, secretary, can you call the role? >> on the motion to approve the consent calendar? >> chair borden: >> aarti:.

>> vice chair eaken: aye. >> director brinkman: aye. >> director heminger: aye. >> director hinze: aye. >> director lai: aye. >> commissioner yekutiel: aye. the consent calendar is approved. >> chair borden: that moves us to the next item. 11. >> designating four corridors as slow streets to extend beyond the covid-19 emergency. golden gate avenue. lake street from 28 to 2nd. sanchez street and shortwell street. -- shotwell street. >> great. mr. maguire is going to be taking us through, so i look forward to the presentation. >> good afternoon. i'm going to introduce shannon who is going to tell us -- walk

us through the details of what is proposed today. thinks the next step in the slow streets process. as you know slow streets were originally implemented as part of the covid-19 emergency response with the specific purpose of permitting socially distanced neighborhoods. they proved to be extremely -- and extend certain slow streets past the pandemic, specifically the four that are on agenda today. these four are chosen because they have strong support among neighbors in their -- in the particular neighborhoods they exist. geographically diverse set of corridors and they've not had a negative impact on adjacent streets as far as safety spillover traffic or any operating issues for our city partners or muni. as we progress into the future of slow streets, we're going to continue to evaluate streets and have that dialogue with communities about what -- which

of the slow streets are important to retain and continue to bring those decisions to you over the next two months. i'm excite thad shannon is going to be talking to us about these slow streets today. with that, shannon, outstanding slow streets program manager. >> thank you so much, tom. good afternoon, my name is shannon. i'm excited to be here today to present the initial batch of slow streets to continue beyond the pandemic. today i'll be presenting three major updates and requesting board action in taking the first step toward the post pandemic slow streets. the action we're requesting today is the reauthorization of four slow streets to extend beyond the pandemic. as you know, the slow streets program is an emergency response to the public health crisis that resulted in a shelter in place

order last march. narrow sidewalks outside of central businesses made social distancing difficult for cyclists and pedestrians. we went through a period of rapid expansion and added another batch of new slow streets this spring. now we're coming back to the board to discuss what could happen to these streets after the pandemic. over the past year and a half we've been really hard at work. we've built out the network of approved slow streets. we've collected data on all of our slow streets during the pandemic and this data has been instrumental in determining how slow streets are working and how we can make them work better. we're speaking with san franciscans to understand how slow streets are working for them. we sent out surveys living within a quarter mile of the slow streets. we sent out over 100,000 post cards to residents and we

received over 15,000 responses, giving us even better data about how slow streets are working. now we're advancing our materials. the original barricades we used last year are maintained. so we're now installing materials that are more durable than the barricades deployed last year. new materials including posts in the roadways and road closed are rolling out on slow streets. i want to address these new materials are not perfect. over the weekend we learned that newly installed delineators were cut down with a power saw in the middle of the night. we're currently investigating ways to harden the materials as we continue to try out the materials. we're continuing to build the plane as we fly it. the biggest thing we've been working on in the past few

months is figuring out to do with the network of slow streets created. we've developed an approach to determine if a covid era slow street could become a lasting part of the neighborhood's infrastructure. we developed criteria to evaluate how our temporary slow streets helped us meet city-wide goals. we wanted to make sure that slow streets is a low volume residential street. slow street treatment works because these are low-volume streets that have limited through-traffic in the first place. we want to make sure the community around the slow street wants it to remain. we heard from san franciscans about the slow streets and we're using these results to make them work better. the third criteria, we found that slow streets work best when there is a community partner on the ground really advocating for the slow street and making sure

it's successful. fourth, it's critical that the implementation of a post pandemic slow street is consistent with what else has been planned for that street. whether it's identified in the bicycle plan, the green connections network, the neighbor way program. we want to make sure that the implementation of the slow street is consistent. finally, we collected transportation data for all of our slow streets over the past several months. we want to make sure that the slow street is not causing external impacts to the overall transportation network. this is a somewhat complicated graphic, but it shows the process for having a temporary slow street become a post pandemic slow street. and we built up this process to determine really how we would be selecting streets to advance. today we'll be talking about four slow streets that are recommended to advance in this process and ask for board action

to authorize this specific change. and that's for lake street and golden gate avenue and for sanchez street and shotwell street. these four corridors were selected because they are among the best utilized and well loved slow streets into the city. each of these streets has not only met but exceeded our criteria. they're strongly supported by the people living on the street and others in the neighborhood. there is a neighborhood group on the ground that supports and programs the slow street. and there are minimal impacts on the transportation network due to the presence of the slow street. these four slow streets have grown into examples of low-stress roadways that can be used by people of all age and acts and we want to lay the ground work now to keep them around even after the state of emergency is lifted. so, one thing we can do as we

look toward post pandemic slow streets is improve the tools we're using. our original temporary slow streets use one tool. this tool as type 3 barricade with signs affixed to it. we installed these materials because we had them on hand and we thought they'd work for the two to three weeks for the shelter-in-place order. however, they're still on the streets and they require a lot of maintenance to stay in good shape. they don't provide clear instructions and don't work on many of our narrow streets in san francisco. our sign shop has done an amazing job putting these materials together, replacing them and maintaining them throughout the pandemic. that said, one of the things we're most excited about is expanding the slow street tool kit for corridors that we're recommending to extend beyond the pandemic. we can use a lot more targeted tools to address issues occurring on different slow

streets. if there are too many through vehicles we can install turn restrictions or operational changes to reduce the number of through-vehicles on a corridor. if there is poor visibility for people in the roadway, we can install pavement markings or crosswalks. we have a variety of tools we can deploy to fine-tune the conditions on these streets. one of the ways i describe it is like we're evolving from having a single pool, a sledge hammer to a whole toolbox of treatments to address specific issues. and today's action is not the final say in what is happening on these slow streets. as one thing we didn't really have when we began the slow streets program was time. in state of emergency we were approving and installing on a limited time frame. now that we're looking at post pandemic changes, changes that will last, we're spending time

doing on-the-ground community planning to center neighborhood needs in the design of the slow street. this means that slow streets corridors that right now might look the same, because they all have those types of barricades, may look very different in the future. we anticipate this would be about a four-month process for each corridor. and we actually have some examples in how this process plays out in two slow streets that are now in the design phase. so, my team led simultaneous community outreach processes on two corridors. the same staff, the same time. the same tool kit. sanchez and shotwell. as you can see, these two designs are very, very different. even though they're using the same tool kit. sanchez slow street is well utilized, it's often filled with people walking and biking in the roadway, especially on weekends. however, we heard loud and clear

from the sanchez community, there were major impacts due to the increased use of the slow streets. there were quality of life impacts related to noise and trash on the street. and we made sure that the design for sanchez didn't change traffic operations. we wanted to make sure that the design included crosswalks and signs to reinforce the street appropriate for vehicles, but do not recommend changes to make it nor difficult for people driving on the street. however, shotwell slow street is very different corridor from a narrow slow street. and we heard that it doesn't feel safe to people walking in the roadway. i think part of that is because it's such a narrow slow street. when a vehicle comes through on this very, very narrow slow street, it's disruptive to the activity happening in the street. particularly, if it involves children riding bikes or people

walking. so we heard there that the key issue was too much vehicle traffic which led to poor use of the roadway. so thinks just an example to say that future slow streets could look very different from one another depending on what we hear in the outreach process. so, today we're requesting an extended authorization for these four corridors, these four slow streets to allow the slow street to remain in place beyond the 120 days post state of emergency that they are already authorized for. with completed community outreach processes for two of these slow streets and we are ticking off outreach on lake street and golden gate avenue next month. -- kicking off.

this is half the process for approving what a post pandemic slow street would look like. in addition, we're working with communities to fine-tune a design using the expanded tool kit. and that culminates in a public hearing to finalize the design. we anticipate that the public hearing for sanchez street and shotwell street could occur later this month. and pending these approvals, we'll be able to implement these slow streets by the end of this year and return to the board with an evaluation of how these streets are working in 18 months. >> directors, any -- director lai. >> director lai: thank you, chair borden. thank you, staff, for the very

thoughtful presentation and details on how each slow street differs, certainly by neighborhood. there are contextual considerations. i wanted to focus on the data analysis that staff has gone into to help us understand potential disruptions around nearby networks. i think i heard you mention that primarily our metric is measuring whether or not there has been disruption on transit. could you talk a little bit about whether we have considered other types of disruptions, potentially, you know, in some of the public comments that we received, there are concerns voiced around potentially increasing the opportunities for injuries in other parallel or alternative streets? could staff talk about that, please?

>> absolutely. so, some of the data that we've collected on slow streets, on all of our slow streets up to this point, is not only how many people were using them before the slow street was implemented, to after, and that's people walking in the roadway, walking on the sidewalks, biking in the roadway and through-vehicles on the roadway, we've been collecting that data for the adjacent corridors. so one corridor in each direction. one of the the things we've been making sure is that there aren't significant disruptions to the adjacent streets: in almost of -- all of the cases there is not significant disruption. and that's while there is about a 50% reduction of through traffic on the slow street, these are low volume residential streets to begin with, so refrikting them to -- restricting them to local traffic only doesn't have impact

on adjacent streets. we have also, as you mentioned, we're looking at transit impacts, but we're also looking at vehicle delays and how the other streets in the network are functioning. >> great. thank you for that. could you talk about the cumulative evaluation of the eventual networking of the slow streets? i would say i am certainly in support of moving forward as many slow streets as possible as quickly as possible, however, i do want to -- for us as a board to continue to think about the networking of these slow streets that i know other directors have mentioned before as well. so, primarily could you talk about, you know, what this sort of phased approach may or may not do on the networking of slow streets and also on the understanding of the cumulative

impacts that the phased approach may have? >> absolutely. so one of the reasons that we're excited to move forward with the phased approach is because we're still trying to figure out what the end of this pandemic looks like. we're still trying to figure out when the end is actually going to come. and what the transportation network looks like at that point. so what we're going to continue to do is monitor how our slow streets are working and the good news is that all of our treatments, even the ones we're talking about in the post pandemic tool kit are adjustable. we're able to go out and make changes depending on what we're seeing with the data that we're collecting throughout the process. so, we will be evaluating them. not only individually, but within the context of how all slow streets at once are working and we're also now looking at what to do with streets that aren't working. and potentially removing some of the slow streets that are

underperforming or aren't serving their neighborhoods well, to make sure we're freeing up as much space in the transportation network as we can. >> director lai: my last question is i know members of the community that wrote in with concerns, voiced concerns around, you know, whether or not we have a full appreciation or understanding about the traffic patterns, especially after school begins. could you talk a little bit about staff's perspective on that and the timing that you had chosen on the authorization extension, please? >> so we think slow streets work well with schools. local pickup and drop-off is authorized use on the slow streets. we found that many schools have been able to take advantage of their slow streets to encourage students, faculty and staff to walk and bike to the school site. we've been working closely with our team on making sure that the

slow streets are working well for their communities. but we will be evaluating that and look forward to working with partners at sfusd to make sure slow streets are working appropriately with them and we can adjust as needed. >> director lai: thank you. >> chair borden: other directors with questions at this time? seeing none, we'll move to public comment. director >> chair borden: no? >> commissioner yekutiel: that was an errant button press. >> chair borden: if you would like to speak, press 1-0 and you'll have two minutes to speak and you'll be given notice when you have 30 seconds left. first caller, please. >> you have 26 questions remaining.

>> first speaker. >> yes, first i want to say thanks for holding this hearing. my name is joshua. i live in district 2 and i urge you to vote yes to extend lake street as a slow street. i've lived on lake almost 10 years. i do drive a car and i have suffered no inconvenience. i use california street or geary boulevard instead of lake street. i feel that the people who are opposing keeping lake as a slow street are really just -- i don't feel their concerns are all that valid. they seem to be around parking or misstating that the street is permanently closed, when the only change is it's not considered a thoroughfare. crossing lake street, i've

almost been hit several times by speeding drivers prior to it being a slow street. looking out my window, i see kids playing in the street. i see people walking their dogs. i see lots of people getting their exercise in. i feel that a lot of people really do support lake street being a slow street and really enjoy it. you know, people on my block get deliveries all the time. there is no problem with the deliver vehicles accessing buildings. it seems to me that arguments against it are not really strong. >> 30 seconds. >> one thing i hear is that streets are designed before cars, but san francisco is an old city and was built while few cars were in use. i would like to urge you to keep

lake street as a slow street. >> you have 32 questions remaining. >> hi. my name is tony. i've lived in san francisco for 13 years and in the mission on 20th near shotwell. i primarily walk and bike to get around the city, but occasionally drive. slow streets have been wonderful for my community and for connecting my neighbors with one another. i hear a lot of conversation about how traffic could be disrupted. i just want to remind the members of the board here of the lives that are destroyed by collisions with pedestrians and cyclists. i want to express my strong support for making slow streets on shotwell permanent with robust infrastructure. and i'm urging for the expansion of the program, especially 20th street. please keep our neighborhood streets safe, enjoyable, local

and slow. thank you. >> you have 33 questions remaining. >> good afternoon. in full support of moving forward with these slow streets. first i want to add my appreciation to director brinkman for her dedicated service. less car, more life would make a great motto for the slow street program. i had an opportunity to volunteer. just being out on the street for the afternoon was blown away to meet neighbors and see the amazing space created. i saw middle schoolers riding bikes home from school. sleepovers together, retirees out for an evening stroll. had so many wonderful conversations about what slow street has meant to people and saw firsthand. we need to keep that. however, i am concerned that the original point of the slow street program that is stopping

through-vehicle traffic so everyone feels safe being in the street risks getting watered down. the small local traffic only signs don't work as we've seen on page street. every driver thinks they're local traffic. that needs to happen everywhere, the diverters. the reason why community members have taken it upon themselves to put their own barriers in the street is because the agency has spent the last year failing to keep us safe on the slow streets. i support the slow streets and ask the board to approve them, but ask the board to ensure that the site doesn't lose goal that families need to be comfortable and safe. when that's not happening, there needs to be immediate effort to keep them safe, not wait 18 months to evaluate them. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have 33 questions remaining.

>> good afternoon. my name is janice lee. i'm here speaking on behalf of the bicycle coalition. from day one, we've been supportive of the slow streets program. i'm very lucky to live near two slow streets. there are street hockey tournaments and on sundays, i see all the families walking, biking, to head up to the farmers market. i know the impact personally of slow streets. i'm super excited you're moving forward today. this is an easy decision for you to vote yes. i hope from here, you will approve more corridors and push for more robust design so we can build a network of slower streets and less traffic that people across san francisco can enjoy. as someone who sits on the transit board, i empathize with

you all. it feels like things move like molasses. it feels like a four-year term isn't long enough to make change because everything takes so darn long. so even though it's called slow streets, this program gives us hope about what it could be like to move fast, to make change fast. to believe that change doesn't have to wait and that change can iterate. take it from -- who served on this board so many years, 11 years. thank you for your service and how you moved the m.t.a. and the huge amount of change on the streets thanks to your leadership. and think about the projects that you approved years ago that still have yet to come to fruition. let's move faster and i hope the board takes this opportunity to make the streets better and safe and more welcoming to be. >> thank you.

>> you have 33 questions remaining. >> hi there. i'm on the board of the north of pan handle. i'm speaking on behalf of the association and in support of golden gate street. we spoke in support of the street and we wanted to you to be aware of our strong support. it is a safer route for bicycling. it's where local families began a tradition to meet on the street. it's where neighbors bring greenery to the public realm. it's a place for kids to stretch out and play. and it's a safer route to many neighborhood schools. the golden gate avenue slow street is an asset to the open neighborhood and all these new

things it has brought are positive and should continue as we climb out of the pandemic. golden gate already pre-covid had many traffic calming features. based on the survey results shared in today's meeting, it is clear that a super majority of san franciscans and neighbors agree the slow streets should continue. the pan handle association is passionate about vision zero and minimizing injuries and death due to traffic collisions. slow streets are safe streets. we implore you to vote in extending the golden gate slow street. we will be your community stewards to maintain it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. you have 34 questions remaining. >> hi. thank you so much, everybody. i'm so excited to be here. the news about the slow streets.

[indiscernible] -- of school student and live near golden gate street. we have loved it and attended to it and been putting on greenery to make it more safe for other families in the neighborhood. i'm really pleased with our ability to just go out, walk a dog, meet up with friends. we also are supporting the local pollinator community as the bees, butterflies and birds, which is really nice. we even had birds come down into the barricade that we've been slowly and organically building with our local residents. so we do consider ourselves custodians of the land in homage to the native population who used to live there. we also have been passionate about making sure that our streets are free of murder, assault and threats. so as a mom with a young child,

they have a lot more energy than we do and they need opportunity to get out and get energized, shake off the shakies and feel safe and free. this has been like, you know, more life, less cars. we really are discouraged about the signage itself and that's why we put out barricades. it's abysmally bad as far as physiologically serving as a barrier. so, you know, it looked like something that my son would make with cardboard boxes. we need you to actually get some engineering around using iconography so it's clear these are kids street. you know, drivers no matter what language they speak, they can know this isn't for them. i could go on. i'm sad to hear there is another murder on our streets. it's unforgiveable.

you need to fix our streets. that's on you. >> thank you. next next >> you have 36 questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> hi. my name is courtney weaver. i'm a native san franciscan, i've lived here off of lake street now for 16 years. lake street has been before the pandemic, before slow streets, was a huge thoroughfare, especially in mornings and afternoons which was dangerous. i have school aged children. they've been nearly hit numerous times. i've made numerous calls to our local police station for help and it's only been during the pandemic, during slow streets that it's actually been just wonderful to walk on lake street now. i really want to push for the continuation of slow streets and

to add for more clearer signage. especially for drivers who are now driving around the barriers and getting right up next to kids on bikes. in the bike lane or in the street riding, or walking or running, and the drivers have no education about what to do apart from just going around them. and that i feel like is a disaster waiting to happen. so, i do want to push for the continuation of the lake street slow streets and it's been wonderful. it's been a silver lining of the pandemic to see people, interact with neighbors and have people of all ages out there and access to fresh air and being with one another, walking, biking. people with disabilities. and i want to thank you for your service and for considering this to be a more permanent state for lake street.

thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have 36 questions remaining. >> i have some concerns about slow streets. there is enormous congestion on california street. and as a result, we have to take side streets like complement street and -- clement street and lake street. my concern is, have all residents of the city been sampled? especially drivers. and right now there are bike lanes on lake street which supposedly protect bikers. if you really want to protect people, institute more speed bumps. and we should definitely wait until the end of the pandemic. because if you make this permanent and the pandemic lifts

and you're going to have a lot of congestion. someone is going to have a black eye. also with respect to walking on slow street, intersections are for walking. not slow streets. you cannot convert streets into playgrounds. they are meant for driving. and, unfortunately, drivers have no influence in this dialogue because most of them are working. therefore, you get a biased sample of sentiment as to what slow streets should be. i do believe in safety on streets, but i'm definitely don't believe in adding congestion by implementing slow streets. it's only meant for a selfish few. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have 36 questions remaining.

>> next speaker. >> i'm a father of one and speaking on behalf of kids safe s.f. as one of its leaders. i along with kids safe urge to you approve the four streets. thanks to shannon and her team for their work and leadership and support of an innovative program that is effectively making our streets safer. on slow streets we've analyzed there are 80% less injuries compared to before these were slow streets. while this shouldn't be the top priority, because you're 18 times more likely to die from traffic violence than a fire. the fire department response times have improved on slow streets, including page street, where they had sfmta remove installations from the streets. please ens