>> secretary silva, can you please call the roll? >> yes. [roll call] madame chair, you have a quorum. >> that brings us to our next item. >> item number 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices in the meeting. item number 4, approval of minutes for the october october 5 regular meeting. for members of the public,

the phone number is 888-808-6929, the access code is 9961164. to address the board, dial 1 and then 0. >> are there any additions that you're aware of? ok. moderator, are there any callers on the line for the public comment on item number 4, approval of the minutes from october 5 meeting? operator: you have one question remaining. >> welcome, our first caller. >> hello. and your first caller is -- >> i knew it was you. >> caller: yeah, well, that's ok. let's see. i only got through page 8, but i have some minor edits on the minutes. starting on page three, hard to manage different screens here, um, page three -- the

joe kinsler public comment, appreciated director tomlin effort? maybe that should be apostrophe s. and then page three later on in the minutes, stacey rendecker, i believe her first name is stacy. on page four, again, joe kinsler, thanks staff for their work. was excited to ride muni the following week. maybe that needs an "and" after excited. for their work and was excited. maybe after "work." there was something else here. i think on my comment there, public comment on the delay and commended on meeting materials being available at the 1 south van ness office. insert "the" before the

number 1. on page six, the staff member who presented on that item, keenway key, i believe his last name is spelled k-y-i. and then again on public comment, stacey randecker, a spelling issue and i didn't get a chance to read through page eight, if i have anything further on page eight i'll communicate that to secretary silva. but i would recommend those minor league edits to you. thank you very much. >> thank you. moderator, are there any additional callers on the line? operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> that will close public comment. do we have a motion to approve the minutes with the minor corrections? >> thanks to his edits, yes, i will move. >> second. >> i think i heard a second. yes. secretary, will you please call the roll?

>> on the motion to approve the minutes with the corrections. [roll call] the minutes are approved. >> please call the next item. >> item number 5. communications. >> those who attended the last meeting you might recall that we lost three members of our taxi driver community. joseph tracy, dave longier and john penman. mr. tracy received his taxi driving permit in 1975. he initially drove for luxor cab and later yellow taxi until 2020. mr. longier received his taxi driving permit in 2002. he initially drove for bay cab and yellow until 2021 and he drove taxis in toledo,

ohio. prior to driving a cab, he taught english to students in china. mr. penman received his taxi driving permit in the 2005. he worked for the national veterans taxi cabs until 2020 and formerly was a driver for supershuttle in south san francisco. we want to thank and acknowledge the service of these members of our taxi community and close and adjourn our meeting in their honor today. also, due to the covid-19 health emergency, this meeting is being held virtually with all members and staff participating via teleconference. and our published notes for this meeting and on our web page, we ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board and leaving a voice mail message. we get lots of e-mails and voice mails and i want to thank you all for your comments, particularly those received in advance of today's meeting. you are alwayses welcomed to continue to write us at mtaboard@sfmt.com or call 415-646-4470 where you may leave a message in advance of our meeting.

if you -- whether this is your first time or

>> i think i heard a second. yes. secretary, will you please call the roll? >> on the motion to approve the minutes with the corrections. [roll call] the minutes are approved. >> please call the next item. >> item number 5. communications. >> those who attended the last meeting you might recall that we lost three members of our taxi driver community. joseph tracy, dave longier and john penman. mr. tracy received his taxi driving permit in 1975. he initially drove for luxor cab and later yellow taxi until 2020. mr. longier received his taxi driving permit in 2002. he initially drove for bay cab and yellow until 2021 and he drove taxis in toledo, ohio. prior to driving a cab, he taught english to students in

china. mr. penman received his taxi driving permit in the 2005. he worked for the national veterans taxi cabs until 2020 and formerly was a driver for supershuttle in south san francisco. we want to thank and acknowledge the service of these members of our taxi community and close and adjourn our meeting in their honor today. also, due to the covid-19 health emergency, this meeting is being held virtually with all members and staff participating via teleconference. and our published notes for this meeting and on our web page, we ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board and leaving a voice mail message. we get lots of e-mails and voice mails and i want to thank you all for your comments, particularly those received in advance of today's meeting. you are alwayses welcomed to continue to write us at mtaboard@sfmt.com or call 415-646-4470 where you may leave a message in advance of our meeting. if you -- whether this is your first time or your millionth time participating, you may note the technology that allows us to hold these meetings, if not seamless and sometimes there are gaps and silence as staff is transitioning or between speakers or sometimes we even lose the phone lines. please know that we're doing our very best to make sure that things run smoothly and will not continue the meeting if we lose the phone connection and people are not able to give their input. secretary silva? >> this meeting is televised. for those of you watching the live stream, be aware that there is a time lag between the actual meeting and what members of the public are seeing on sfgov tv. if you are watching and wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is called. for members of the public who wish to make comment, the number is 888-808-6929. the access code is 9961164. please make sure you are in a quiet location, that you mute any tvs, radios or computers. directors, that places you on item number 6. introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> are there any items new or unfinished business? >> director hinze? >> the only thing is with the passage of ab-43, i was wondering if at a future meeting if staff would have

our report to the board on maybe their plans on ab-43 and implementation and maybe [inaudible] as part of our vision zero tool box. so that was the only piece of new business i had. >> thank you. >> any other items or unfinished business from board members? >> chair boarden? >> yes? >> i want to publicly welcome my niece leila into the world. she was born on saturday at 12:45 a.m. >> congratulations. >> thanks. >> any additional questions or comments among board members? seeing none, we will move to public comment. that is -- this is public comment on our new unfinished business by board members so the comments from director yuck teal or comments from director lindsay may be commend on at this time. moderator, are there any callers? operator: you have two questions remaining. >> first speaker? >> caller: yes. hello, my name is james reagan. i've driven a cab in san francisco for 44 years. and i got a [inaudible] in 2013. it was an easy loan from the san francisco credit union. and because the credit union had received assurance from the m.p.a. that they had -- that the [inaudible] would be good collateral. s so the taxi business has been decimated and there is no markets for medallions, my medallion has been foreclosured upon and, you know, the m.t.a. and the

city, they paid penance to city employees. they would never consider not making those pension payments. but the m.q.a. is [inaudible] is in a position where we, you know, we're losing everything. you know, it's just not fair and even the people at the m.p.a. know it whenever i'm around there. they seem very uncomfortable. and they know the situation. i've talked to a few of them. for some reason, there's not a political will to make the medallion hold their [inaudible].

and i think it is really unfair. you know, they're ruining lives. you know? and i think people at the m.t.a. know it and i wish they had the courage or whatever it takes to do something about it. so thank you. >> 30 seconds. ok. thank you. >> ok. i'm finished. thank you. >> this is just a reminder. this is for the -- this time is to comment on new and unfinished business by board members. so, items that are not on the agenda should be under public comment and if they're related to an agenda item, they should be made at the time of the kor responsibilitieding item that number is called. so, with that, we'll go to the next. >> caller: ok. thank you. >> yes, no problem. thank you. >> caller: all right. >> moderator, next caller, please. operator: you have three questions remaining. >> next speaker? >> caller: mazeltov to director yuketiel on his new

niece. it's nice to hear good news these days. >> thank you. next speaker. operator: you have two questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: thank you, chair borden. this is kids safe s.f. mazeltov to director hinze's request. i'd love to see the agency get aggressive with the use of ab-43 to [inaudible] on our streets. we know that speed limits have a direct correlation to the safety of the street. and while not as effective as physical infrastructure, they do make a meaningful impact and i applaud the agency as well as supervisor haney for their work in the tenderloin and applaud the agency and walk s.f. and their entire team for all of.

their advocacy and hard work on helping to push ab-43 through at the state level. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have one question remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: thank you. this is joe kinsler. i hoped that the board will add to new business a thank you to all the transit operators who have vaccinate and the director for the vaccine mandate. i cannot -- i cannot thank enough director tumlin for imposing the vaccine mandate. i just rode your beautiful muni streetcar buses and muni metro a lot last week and it was really nice knowing the high vaccination levels and commitment to quality and public safety. and i just think it's so wonderful to see director

tumlin stand underand defend vaccines. i have another meeting starting at 1:30 but i wanted to call and reach out and let him know that he has big fans here in washington state. thank you for all you're doing. you may mute me now. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> we'll close the item of new and unfinished business by board members and move on to item number 7. >> item number 7, the director's report. >> director tumlin. >> thank you. it has been a very busy two weeks so we have a lot of work to cover. i'll be covering our vaccination rate, transit service impacts, vision zero, a legislative update, a budget update and finally updates on a couple of key projects. so, let's start with vaccines. as the previous caller just stated, we're so grateful for the thousands of sfmta employees who have gotten themselves vaccinated and are

doing everything that they can to pay attention to the science, to protect themselves, to protect san franciscans and protect their colleagues and their families. yesterday was the last day for employees to get a johnson & johnson shot or their second dose of a pfizer or moderna shot in order to be fully vaccinated by the november 1 citywide mandated deadline. as of today, about 83% of the sfmta staff are fully vaccinated. about 275 employees are not in compliance with the city's vaccination policy. we're also currently processing just over 100 reasonable accommodation requests. we've denied so far 10 of those. unfortunately the largest job classifications impact reasonable doubt our most important positions for delivering service to the public and that includes transit operators and parking control officers. as of today, we have 70

reported transit operators are unvaccinated and 48 have not reported at all. that's out of over 1473 who were fully vaccinated. for parking control officers, we have 197 fully vaccinated. 14 partly vaccinated. eight reported as unvaccinated. and 24 nonreporting. so we're working hard to continue to bring those numbers down and the vaccinated numbers up because we do not want to lose a single employee and we know that the best way to protect the health and safety of our workforce is getting shots in every single arm. so in order to support higher vaccination rates, we're having our h.r. team and managers do one-on-one meetings with every single afmta employee who's either unvaccinated or underreported. we've done question and answer sessions from the departments of public health.

chair borden vid a video message for our staff and we've had a number of portal messages about the health science and about free vaccination events at our workplaces. so, we're continuing to work really hard on all of that because with a deadline that is rapidly approaching and on the transit side of the house, we're already missing the significant number of transit runs due to operator unavailability. so, that is already impacking our service. we're expectinging, if we're unsuccessful november 1, that there will be additional unexpected guests and service and lower than scheduled frequencies. as a result of this, we anticipate that next bus predictions will be unreliable as we work to cover open runs. we are taking a whole long list of steps in order to minimize any sort of disruptions.

this includes aggressive promoting overtime in all of our divisions. maximizing overtime for street supervisors and the transportation management center team so they can adjust in real time to spread out service, to respond to crowding or missed runs. we're using all available customers to let customers know about service impacts and working with the city on changes to improve our flexibility to cover open shifts. on the parking enforcement side, we're expecting to have to partially suspend abandoned vehicle enforcement, including commuter shuttle service enforcement as well as parking meter enforcement. in the worst case scenario, it may impact our ability to enforce placards and reduce our operational details at chase stadium and we've continuing to pursue additional overtime for

personnel so we can continue delivering the best service we possibly can while ensuring that we're fully compliant with the health mandate. i want to give a couple of updates on transit service. as i mentioned before, we're currently experiencing a high number of missed runs. especially on the weekend when we have been unable to find operators willing to work overtime to fill service gaps. we are, as you know, hiring and training aggressively and we will be graduating a new training program class on november 5. which would have otherwise helped to better restore service, but we're concerned that that new graduating class will be conflicting with the potential loss of operators who are refusing to comply with the vaccine mandate. we're continuing to try to push headway management in order to smooth out missed runs. but we are continuing to

struggle and we apologize to all of our passengers. who had to wait longer than expected for their bus. and i do also know that our teams have been working really, really hard to try to figure out how to allocate the new staff that we're continuing to hire and train and to allocate the new staff that we expect to have on board this winter. after speaking to all of you, the transportation authority board, our citizens advisory councils, we've met with over 30 stakeholder groups and have received over 5,000 survey responses in multiple languages. the customer feedback that we've received, our service strategy suggests that there are certainly some key lines and certainly segments of key lines that need to be restored in order to deal with urgent community needs. we're so grateful to all members of san francisco

communities who have responded so thoughtfully about exactly why and where they need certain transit lines in order to take care of their daily business and participate as full san front sister cans. we're also hearing a lot from people who are concerned about significant crowding on our busiest lines so we've also been sharpening our pencils about how to best allocate service in order to increase frequency and reliability where it is most needed. the team is finalizing a lot of staff work, incorporating all of that feedback. we're expecting to build a new policy to all of you on october 26 and the ticket to all of you as the full board on december 7. we're continuing to work with community and policymakers in order to develop an expansion of the rapid network and other frequency improvements to address crowding as the

system continues to recover, particularly after winter of 2022. on division zero, we had two new fatalities in the last reporting period. unfortunately on tuesday, october 5, a person operating an s.u.v., while under the influence, was traveling southbound on richardson and made an illegal left turn, fatally striking a motorcyclist traveling northbound. the driver has been arrested for vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence. they surveyed the site at night and found the pavement and markings in new condition with a new bulb that had just been constructed. it's set to be constructed to a walk speed of 3 miles per hour as part of a promise on lombard. the second southbound no left turn sign was discovered missing and is being reinstalled as part of the rapid response. and the second incident

occurred on thursday, october 14. there was a pedestrian fatality from a hit and run collision at mcallister and van ness. the rapid response recommendations are still pending. the state legislative session ended with the governor acting on a number of key bills, sponsored or supported by the sfmta. they are now on recess and will reconvene on january 3. we're prepare ago list of priorities going into the second year of the current session and plan to come back for approval of those priorities in the coming months. as you know, the governor did sign ab-43. this is related to speed limit settings and was authored by assembly transportation committee chair laura friedman. one of san francisco-and the sfmta's top legislative priorities and foundational element of our transportation policy agenda.

ab-43 provides citis with some more flexibility and speed limit settings adjacent to playgrounds, health care facilities and pursuant to the final amendments taken to advance the bill, provisions related to business activity would take place on january 1 while other provisions would be specific to specified actions to be taken to the state including the implementation of an online ability to pay program. the bill also includes other provisions related to speed limits that the citis can use in order to avoid unnecessary speed limits -- speed limit increases based upon the antiquateedd [inaudible]. while there is work to be done to allow safety to be the priority in speed limit setings, we really want to celebrate this win with the work that mayor breed and

other families for streets and the bike coalition and all the citizens that wrote in and tweeted their support. thank you all for this win. we want to go back for more, but this gives us good ground to work with. we're happy with the passage of ab-197. this allows all public transit operators in the state to use forward-facing cameras to enforce the parking violations in transit only lanes and expanding the authorization to include enforcement in transit stops anywhere. sfmta was an early leader in the use of transit-only camera enforcement and has the only permanent program currently in california authorized in 2015 and operating under pilot since 2007.

there is a new 2.2 billion federal competitive operating grant opportunity that was announced recently with the federal transit administration and will be managed in part through the transportation -- metropolitan transportation commission or m.t.c. this new grant has created urgency for m.t.c. to allocate all of the remaining rescue plan and a.r.p. covid relief fund. as you know, in the last rounds of a.r.p. fund distributions, the sfmta urged f.m.p. to allocate these funds. previous rounds of funding

distributions have focused on revenue losses, compensating public transit agencies for their empty seats. here at the sfmta, though, we have an interesting confluence of factors which include ongoing, major losses of our key sources of revenue that will be lasting us several more years. so while we continue to suffer from significant financial losses that are suffering from missed runs, lines that are not back in service and severe crowding on many of our lines. so we have urged m.p.c. to consider service restoration and the needs of passengers, not just the needs of empty seats. and seeking to fund

additional commute express runs to job centers that will continue to be lacking office workers for years to come. it is unfortunate to distribute this final round of a.r.p. funds meant that equity was not able to be used as a core consideration. we understand that equity analyticks are hard and that the data readily available in the national transit database

does not necessarily lend itself to thorough analytics and we want to make sure that the m.t.c. commission can continue to work hard, to consider equity in all of its funding distribution. we call on m.p.c. to put money where the writers are. we'll receive augmented funding that will be considered by m.p.c. with the overall funding distribution as soon as their next meeting on october 27. the amount of the augmentation is to be determined but could raise sfmt's portion of the funding by up to $30 million. so, stay tuned on that and thank you for your continued support in delivering more service to places where the riders need it the most. finally i wanted to give some key updates on a variety of projects where we're making rapid progress. first off is the geary rapid project. we're having a ribbon cutting ceremony tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. at the peace plaza to mark the completion of this critical project that is helping to revitalize one of san francisco's busiest corridor with reliable bus service, safer streets, upgraded facilities and new trees all of which was delivered on time and on budget.

you can register online. the ribbon cutting will take place in front of the pagoda at the peace plaza on geary between webster and laguna. this will be an outdoor event with limited seating and limited mobility. so, please come join us tomorrow if you are able to make it. next up is the van ness improvement project. a project that we have learned many lessons on and applied those lessons to our wildly successful projects like geary rapids. the van ness project is now approximately 88% complete with substantial completion expected at the end of this calendar yore and the start of bus rapid transit ?fs early next year. the red transit-only lanes are finished as well as the overheadlines and utility upgrades, work on the roadways, about 96% complete and sidewalk work about 91% complete. we're now finalizing the final elements like bus shelters, curbs, pedestrian

mold-outs and landscaping and we're really proud of our partnership with the office of economic and workforce development that distributed $185,000 in direct grants to 23 businesses impacted by our construction. you'll see on the agenda later for this meeting, item number 14, is request for contract modification that addresses some roadway work that has already been completed. we've also been busy in our partnership with the recreation and parks department on j.f.k. in the eastern part of golden gate park. we've had a survey for golden gate park available online and in paper in five different languages and so far over 5200 surveys have been completed, including more than 500 paper surveys collected at community events all over the city. there have been 20 outreach events completed since mid september. and we have an additional 15 scheduled outreach events through november that exists

on equity priority communities, the disability community and park adjacent neighbors. we're scheduled to appear at our youth transportation advisory board on november 1 and our citizens advisory council on november 4. we are hoping to take a proposal to this board in late december or january with a propose told go to the full board of supervisors targeted for late january or early february. and finally, we're very happy on the central subway project that we've been successfully running a single train in full automotion mode along the corridor. as we tested the new automatic train control system and have now started testing two-car trains. all of the station es ka lays

toer and elevators are fully functional. the ticket vending machines are being installed now and that should be complete by mid november. and we were very excited to take mayor london breed on a tour that included taking her on a train ride between union square, market street station and the china town gross beck stations just a few weeks ago and that is the end of my report. i'm happy to take any questions. >> great. board members. are think any questions for the director before opening it to public comment. director hinze? >> thank you for that report. my question is going back to the vaccinations updates. hypothetically, say we terminate someone affectsive november 1 and they get their vaccine the day after and two weeks later they're eligible -- they're vaccinated and they want to return. do you know -- can you shed any light on what the process would be for reinstatement of

said person? >> we are eager to bring back all of our employees and get themselves vaccinated. and so we're working right now in streamlining the rehiring process. so it would be a rehire and the folks that would lose their seniorities but they would be welcomed back quickly. >> ok. >> we need all the staff that we can get. >> ok. >> thank you, chair. >> thank you. any other directors before i move on to public comment? seeing none, so this is time for members of the public -- oh, director heminger. >> thank you. >> thank you, madame chair. i'll leave the vaccination question, i think, director hinze has covered it. on j.f.k., just to remind us of our role here, we're not a decision-maker. we're a remer. so, is what you're bringing

to us in a few months' time going to be a recommendation to the board of supervisors? >> that's right. the board of supervisors has the authority over streets in most san francisco parks, including in golden gate park. we do not have authority there. but we have been providing a strong advisory and support role to recreation parks department and all of the transportation-related accommodations and we are eager to hear the advice and recommendation of the sfmta board, particularly for transportation-related issues relative to j.f.k. but also potential actions on adjacent streets or other accommodations that may be part adjacent and under our jurisdiction. >> the other question i had, jeff, and i'm probably not

alone, i was somewhat confused in reading one of our summaries of the options that are under consideration. bringing the cars back, everyone gets that. but there seems to be two options. one of which i think has been put in play by the district one supervisor about some kind of limited access around 8th avenue. and i sounds just like a mess to me, especially from a safety perspective to introduce a bunch of auto traffic in the middle of what people are now used to as a bicycle and pedestrian facility. so can you try to clear up what that -- what the other option, others than current condition versus restoring auto traffic prepandemic, what are the other options? >> so, we have been struggling to accommodate some requests by the district one supervisor as well as

department institutions in order to provide closer in pickup and dropup as well as direct access to the loading dock. so there was an idea for managed access that we've been struggling to figure out how to design in a way that is safe and so the best configuration that we've been able to come up with that is -- that minimizes the operational complexity and safety concerns would be to allow access from 8th avenue on to j.f.k. with one way, one lane of traffic along j.f.k., along the north side of j.f.k. from 8th avenue to transverse. this would accommodate a small number of curbside pick up and drop-off and potentially 88 spaces. and it's one of the three

options that is being considered in the -- in the sort of primary survey work that we're doing. and tom mcguire, who's our streets director is also sfraibl you want more detail on this. >> couldn't the pickup and drop-off function be done underground in the garage? >> yeah. so, as i hope you all know by now, the 10th avenue entrance to the park lees straight into the garage and the garage is free for 15 minutes to use it for front door pickup and dropoff at both deyoung and academy. this is a little-known secret and there is a very limited signage at the parking garage entrance off of fulton. and so one of the easiest solutions for expanding front door access from both the north as well as the south is to take better advantage of

the enormous, mostly empty parking garage that is underneath the concourse. and there will be a lot of recommendations relative to the garage in the final report and hopefully that will go to the board of supervisors for legislative action. >> yeah. as i understand it, the garage has this very unusual governance structure. right? where, unlike a lot of other city garages, it's not managed by us. it's not managed by the museum either. is it the legacy of the folks that put the bond measure on the ballot sort of have seats on a board that determines pricing and so on? >> yes. i will not even -- although i studied the garage issue extensively, i will not pretend to understand all of its complexity. we will point out that it is a significantly underutilized resource. >> i want to point out that it was not agdized for

today's hearing. we don't want to go too far down the path talking about this topic. so, we'll be having a hearing on it, it sounds like. so we could discuss those issues then. thank you. >> thank you. >> i guess i'm done. [laughter] directors, are there any other additional questions or comments among you? seeing none -- sorry. yeah. >> thank you, chair. sorry. maybe you're not seeing the chat function today. so, just to backtrack a little bit, director tumlin. can you clarify for us, given the possibility of us facing it seems like by my count maybe a little over 100 operators. are we actually still on track to increase 10% service? >> so it's -- depending upon what the numbers end up being in november, it will potentially delay our 85% service until later in the

winter. what that delay will be will depend upon how many operators we, in fact, lose. and that how quickly we can accelerate hiring and training. >> ok. so, fine. i guess november 1 that we already know now that there are people who have not yet responded or obtained a vaccine. so, at a minimum, it sounds like we have 48 operators that have not responded so maybe they have gotten a vaccine on their own and just responded. but there's at least 707 that we're losing it sounds like? >> no. those folks can still, if they -- if they gets vaccinated at any time, we can bring them back. >> reinstate them. got it. ok. great. and then if you could just remind us, i believe at our last service increase hearing, staff had mentioned that the plan was to continue the process during this month as we finalize the service increase plan.

what are the remaining engagement opportunities for this month? there are a couple of virtual meetings that had been planed? >> there are several and if transit money manager sean kennedy is available he could respond directly to that. >> i'm going to take a stab because sean had a conflict for this meeting. we wrapped up the phase of the project where we were sharing three different approaches for the service as jeff indicated, we got a lot of really good feedback. we hosted a virtual workshop on saturday and we're hosting another one tomorrow. where we share what we heard in that survey and collect any other information. we're also -- we've also already had dozens of conversations with community groups and other stakeholders. that tends to be a very rich source of feedback because this is more dialogue and

we'll continue to do that. and we're working to bring some preliminary recommendations to the october policy advisory group meeting of this board along with responding to two board of supervisor hearings in november. so our goal is to have several policymaker dialogue about the recommendations before bringing it to you december 7. with the last workshop opportunity on wednesday and then continuing with ad hoc community discussions between now and december. >> and details for all of those events are available at sfmta.com/2022network. >> i also wants to share that the workshop tomorrow will be multilingual and we'll have

interpreters so we do encourage people to participate in the language they're most comfortable with. >> great. thank you. thank you, chair. >> director eaken? >> thank you, chair borden. just two quick comments. one is just a thank you, director tumlin, for all of the creativity and outreach that you are doing to staff. i know this is just one of the many challenges you never envisioned. [laughter] it has to be extremely challenging. and also just very supportive as director hinze said in anything we can do to make it as easy as possible for those who, sadly, may have to be terminated to rejoin the agency once they're fully vaccinated so thank you for the creative problem-solving work there to see any paperwork or red tape that can be cut to welcome people back. and the second is just to

join you in the celebration. i know the m.t.a. staff have worked so hard on ab-43 and that was touch and go at points. it wasn't a sure thing by any stretch. is and that is a huge victory and that was our number one legislative priority throughout this year and great tots see so many san francisco partners stepping up to push that in sacramento as well. and thanks to mayor breed. and i wanted to echo director hinze's request for just some more detailed briefing on how we're going to use the new hard-won authority under ab-43 to the maximum effect in san francisco. thank you, chair. >> thank you. and i'm looking at my thing. i don't see another hand raised. >> i have one. >> ok. >> thank you. i'll make it quick. i just want to say, i don't know, i'm feeling like we are in the valley and we're about

to start climbing that peak. i was walking down market street and i was seeing a lot of people walk down market street and my crystal ball is tilling me that the city is on the edge of glory and we're going to have -- we're on the ups and we're thinking a lot more people are coming back and taking our system. i'm just going to put that out there. let it be reflected in the record that i'm feeling like we're at the beginning of the good right now. so i just want to put that out there. that is not my question but just something that i feel like needs to be said. what is going on with market street? it has been almost a year since we voted on it and if i remember correctly there was something where we had to make some movement or elsewhere we lose federal funs and i want to make sure -- i know the team is obviously keeping that in mind. but can you give me a brief update on where that project is? >> so, deputy city attorney,

does this count as brief business or can we provide a brief summary? >> yeah. thank you. you can certainly give a brief response to the question. but if it's more detailed, i would suggest coming back at a later date or providing something in writing. >> yeah. i just want to remind the directors that this time is to ask questions about things on the actual director's report and not things that we wish were on the director's report. >> sorry about that. >> i heard you talk about van ness and then i heard central sub waist and i know there's a trifecta the here, but where's number three. >> ok. so, chair, just a very brief update? >> very brief. >> ok. so, yes. the third of our big three major capital projects. so, we're mindful of that deadline. we're on track to not lose that funding, however we're also working very closely with our partners at public works to make sure that if

we, you know, if and when we go forward with construction of some basic state of good repair work, which would be the best use of those funds, that we do it in a way that doesn't disrupt certainly the recovery and the return of business that we noted. so, we're working right now to -- with the public works department to a advertise a skinny version of the project and address some state of repair and knees. but hopefully doesn't disrupt transit service or circulation or anything like that. we won't be moving forward with construction unless we can be sure that whatever work is done is not disrupted to market street's recovery. >> ok. thank you. >> great. so now i'm going to -- unless there is another -- any other comments from directors? i am going to open up the public comment. this is a time for members of the public to make comments on anything covered on the

director's report, which includes what the director said directly and the questions and comments made by directors. if you'd like to speak to this item, press 1-0. moderator, are there callers on the line? operator: you have eight questions remaining. >> first speaker, please. we cannot hear you if you're speaking. perhaps -- operator: you have nine questions remaining. >> please go ahead. hello, are you speaking there? secretary silva, we're going to go to the third person but maybe check with at&t and see if there is anything wrong with the line. next speaker, please. operator: you have eight

questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: thank you. my pronounces are she and her. always good to be back with you. i'm going to speak mostly on the vaccination matter and i reiterate to you that that was a matter discussed in this report so i am in line here. please indulge me. i maintain the importance, once again, of vaccinations. and i ask that you not get cold feet in your enforcement of this lawful order.

requiringing vaccinations. i have been vaccinated myself and i wear masks often. including in compliance with the t.s.a. directive to wear masks on transportation. but even though i am substantially protected myself by being vaccinated, reiterate it is essential because of the threat of what is called breakthrough infection. so that is why i emphasize even more the importance of being vaccinated. the unemployment rate across the country is still pretty high. and they're going -- there are many people out there in the world who are looking for work. and sfmta offers good jobs. i ask that you be willing to open yourselves up to new people who are willing to do these jobs if there's some who wish to leave the sfmta and that iss a person's right. if they wish to leave employment. i have left employment myself from another jobs that i have in my career. except for enlisting in the military, people are free to leave.

so i ask that you stand strong for the good of the people because i want the safest muni that i can get. because even though i am vaccinated, i want everything -- >> 30 seconds. >> caller: the odds in my favor to protect me. i ask that you do your due diligence in enforcing this lawful order. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have nine questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: good afternoon, commissioners. my name is richard hoffmann and i wish the staff would put out a report about ab-43 on what steps need to be taken to get it implemented as soon as possible. and i think fulton street should be top priority because this should be part of j.f.k. car-free because cars are coming on to fulton

street, especially on sunday and fulton street is a very dangerous street. i think ab-43 could be the experiment for fulton street. and the other thing about j.f.k., nobody's really talking about the conservancy of flowers. the two plans they have now are completely inadequate. that argoello entrance. i don't know if you've seen i. but it is not acceptable. i don't know why they're advertising it. and i don't know why i have a proposal that you open up stanyon street to j.f.k. to conservancy west and have cars that have people who have mobility issues drive along the north side. they will put up lighted christmas trees. they always have a flower show there. so, you know, j.f.k. has to

be open to everybody. we need to be equal -- >> 30 seconds. >> and we need to learn to share roads. and that is what bothers me is that nobody wants to compromise. it's either all or nothing in this city. and when i say share roads, i feel like i'm the only person. thank you for letting me speak. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have eight questions remaining. >> next speaker? >> hello. my name is desmond, taxi driver with veterans cab. i just wanted to give two quick comment. one was about forward facing cameras on transit vehicles enforcing the red lane. taxi and muni-only lanes. why not open that up to the taxi drivers? we get stuck behind the uber drivers in those lanes all shift long and i think it would give some drivers a

sense of pleasure to give those tickets. so you know, it's just an idea. would probably create a lot of revenue. we all have cameras already mounted in our cabs and i know there is a lobbying campaign by uber and lyft to get access underway and, you know, almost 50% of the cars are uber and lyft. can you imagine how slow the buses will be runing if you put it in uber and lyft lanes? we need to keep it taxis and buses only. and my last comment about the garage pickups at deyoung, please keep curbsides access for taxis. if you are staged outside a museum or venue or something, people see the cab and they

will hop in. they don't see a cab, they'll get on the phones and walk down the garage, you never get those people. we need line of sight access to these venues. thank you. and you can cut my line off now. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have seven questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: thank you, chair borden and director tumlin for your report. regarding the golden gate park safety program, thank you to you and your team for your continued work on this project and associated survey. kid safe j.f.k. or the street park playground, incredibly popular with more than seven million visits since its creation. the space is safer than it ever was with zero injuries since its creation compared to preinjury high network status. in addition to creating a safe space for kids, people with all ages and disabilities could enable people to visit the sustainable modes of transportation like never before while allowing people who must use a car to visit the institutions and park more broadly. including through the garage that was alluded to.

with over 5,000 responses, kid safe j.f.k. known as the car-free route options preferred by more than70% of survey respondents. the public has may it overwhelmingly clear which option they support and demand that deyoung and [inaudible] go against the will of the people of san francisco while simultaneously trying to fool the found thinking that they're painted as the evil party. lobbying against the pears what [inaudible]. it's imperative they do more. >> 30 seconds. >> currently people under 18 years old total five. five responses or less than .10% while people 120924 years old total 145 responses or less than three total responses. given the benefit to kids

youth and young adults, these response rates are too low. we need to see more outreach to young adults regarding the golden gate park program. thanks again. and have a great rest of your day. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have five questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: hi. good afternoon. this is barry toronto. first, mazeltov to director yukitel on his niece. i want to get back to first mention a few things that tumlin discussed. first, as previous speaker said, we need to be able to

be staged and seen at the amenities in the park in order for people to take us. because not everybody has access to an ap or phone number to it -- to a cab company. if they do, they need to see us there in front. plus also if it's a ramp, 15 minutes is not enough time to wait for the customer and load them into the wheelchair to get out of the garage. so that is and absurd, absurd suggestion for taxis. and i have not been into the park since before the pandemic because there is no easy access there. so there is a call for service, i'm not going because i'm not taking an hour to get there and find that the person has already taken off. and also there is a stop sign at 8th and j.f.k. i heard that nobody stops at that stop sign.

no bicyclist stops at that stop sign. i want you to know what you are going to do to deal with that issue. >> 30 seconds. >> regarding the vaccinations, i'm wonering if there is some way that the taxi division can somehow issue some type of identification that says this driver is fully vaccinated. i know we're not employees of the m.t.a. but there must be some way so that we can encourage people to take taxis with a driver who's vaccinated. for safety and health purposes. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you mr. toronto. next speaker, please. operator: you have six questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: [background noise] [speaking foreign language] >> hello. you are on the line. >> caller: [inaudible]. operator: you have five questions remaining. >> thank you.

next speaker, please. >> caller: hello? hello? moderator, next speaker, please. operator: you have four questions remaining. >> hello? >> caller: hi. my name is stacey and i bike pretty much everywhere and my teens take muni. i'm calling in response to the comments on car-free j.f.k. i cannot believe that we're still discussing this and the entirety of golden gate park is not car free. there should be limited access to the parking garage and to the parking lots for sports fields. and that is it. the planet is burning. cars kill and we're supposed to be aiming for vision zero and we can't improve one iota

from 2014 when we were supposed -- when we set out that goal. how can we be so blind? get cars out and that includes taxis. nowhere, no cars. have them queue in the garage. think creatively about hand-outs inside the museum to incentivize them to take taxis or, heck, the bus. have a system. do something. but they shouldn't be on the concourse. they shouldn't be anywhere inside of our parks. i don't want to hear about bicyclists and stop signs. i don't want to hear about sharing the road. there is no sharing! because there's no quality. -- no equality. when a bicyclist can kill the driver of a car, then we can talk about it. but that is a physical impossibility and you all know it. you cannot share -- >> 30 seconds. >> caller: when there is that much of a difference between life and death.

if you care about the people in the city, if you care about saving this planet, you need to think of every way to limit the access for cars and increase the mandate for being a pedestrian-first ste. please, keep cars out of our parks. that. operator: you have three questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: thank you. thank you for having me. this is joe kinsler again. i was able to get out of my meeting and duck back into this one and thank director tumlin profusely for the vaccine mandate. muni was my taxi last week and i so appreciate the vaccine mandate and, again, all of those operators who have gotten vaccinated.

we have to consider being locked up in our homes, a. or, b, using ride sharing and taxis that have drivers that are vaccinated. it is so important to come one this interim pain of, you know, service disruptions to have transit operators and seniors and support staff like the wonderful status report of these meetings be vaccinated. vaccines matter. i just left a board of health meeting where we were discussing vaccine passports for restaurants because we wanted to stop the spread of this virus so we can get ridership back and maintain the strong equity policies that director tumlin is pushing. even seamless bay area is supportive of these policies.

i cannot thank director tumlin enough as well as bart director powers for these policies for a vaccine mandate and i know -- >> 30 seconds. >> caller: it will be a rough ride for a while. but please stand firm. again, thank you director tumlin and i hope that you please mention my comments so that the people who support these mandates are heard equally. thank you for your time. >> thank you. is there another caller on the line? moderator? operator: you have five questions remaining. >> caller: hi. this is sully, cab driver. i would like to let you guys know about the [inaudible] medallion. we've been waiting for a long time and we don't have any

solution or result for this medallion. we're asking for city of san francisco to buy back these medallions because this program is [inaudible] and we cannot stay longer to be continued this job for age, for sickness and other problems. and please i ask you again to purchase this medallion back or release ourselves as the [inaudible] federal union bank and we'll be able to continue normal life. i ask you again and again. please, we cannot take it anymore. we don't want to be [inaudible] business. please, help us to get free. this business for us is end. and no further questions. thank you.

>> ok. next speaker, please. operator: you have five questions remaining. >> caller: hello, my name is patrick and i'm just calling about car-free golden gate park. i've been a long-time supporter of deyoung academy. go there all the time. take my family there. guests are in from out of town, i go there. i know people who go there even more often than i do. i try to go a couple of times a month. and i support not having any cars in all of golden gate park. the deyoung academy has a garage underneath. it's real easy for me to take public transit with my family or friends to get to the park. it is an amazing experience. you hop on bart, connect on muni and you are there with a short walk.

so, we have that huge underused parking garage underneath the museum and drivers who choose to drive an automobile in a city can take a little tunnel off of fulton into the parking garage and park there. and i never needed to use a car in golden gate park and i don't even live near the park. like i said, i live in oakland and can take public transit there. so i'd really urge sfmta to do what new york city did years ago under the block deal, which is they made central park completely car-free and fast forward a few years later, that's been one of the best changes they made over the last few years is making their, you know, park car-free. i think golden gate park would be a much better place and safer place if we got rid of all the cars. >> 30 seconds. >> caller: including those cars as well. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have three

questions remaining. >> caller: this is herber winer. i wish to voice my concerns about community out reach. what m.d.a. has done is they framed the parameters of dialogue. in other words, [inaudible] instead of us presenting m.t.a. with choices. and this is especially relevant to the restoration of service post-pandemic. this is very important because you need to have a full restoration of service. it seems if you move forward in disguise, using the pandemic as a smoke screen. and what we need to do is to restore the transportation, which is so desperately needed. this proposal that is given

right now is taking services away from the neighborhoods which needs public transportation desperately. and if you really need more services on the more heavily used lines, simply add more buss to the heavily used lines and leave the neighborhoods alone. now with respect to vaccinations, i have been vaccinated, and ahope everyone concerned is vaccinated. but we need another vaccination. and that is against m.t.a.'s post pandemic planning. that truly is a social disease. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have three questions remaining. >> my name is mohammad. i'm a taxi driver in san francisco for the last 24 years and we have a promise from the board supervisor two

years ago to purchase medallion to stop payment or to help them with the loans. we got stuck with the [inaudible], i don't know what to do. we've been saying for the last 10 years and we have no income and one more thing, we waited 14 years on the waying list -- >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry, sir. this is for comments on the director's error. i don't believe taxis were covered on the director's report. susan, can you correct me if i'm wrong. we shouldn't be hearing comment not on the director's report. >> that's correct. this commenter can comment during general public comment, which is the next item. >> that is item 9, sir. >> caller: sorry. >> next speaker, please. operator: you have two questions remaining. >> yes, hello. i'm a taxi driver.

i'm talking because i see all the red line that you have for [inaudible] issued for taxis. and i don't know why uber and the rest of the people and tried to make it and cell phone and all the taxis and that way we can see the -- >> excuse me, sir. are you speaking about rapid transit or van ness? we spoke about geary rapid transit. otherwise, we'll ask you to speak under public comment. >> caller: let me finish. all the red zones, the new ones there only for passes. passes only. so it should be for taxis, too.

so as you can see, we are not many taxis. and there is plenty thousands of uber cars that make mistake and they have a lot of [inaudible] and everything. and the tv never say nothing about them. but something happened to the taxi -- for the taxis and [inaudible]. and that is something else. why don't sfmta send medallions to the uber drivers at $250,000 and we'll see how everything is. thank you. >> next speaker, please. operator: you have one question remaining. >> caller: hi. i would like to let you guys know the taxi business in san francisco is gone. please be -- >> sir, sorry. just for consistency, i'm going to need you to ask to

speak under general public comment as well because taxis were not addressed by the director's report. i said that to the other speakers a well. can you call back in under item 9. it's public comment, coming very soon. >> caller: i understand exactly. but, you know, the point is that you guys do have to know to be part of the city and correct this mistake from the m.t.a. the medallion -- >> ok. moderator, are you able to help with this? operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> thank you so much. secretary silva, can we move forward on the agenda? >> of course. places you on item number 8. citizens advisory council report. and i believe michael chan and chair of the c.a.c. is here. thank you. >> welcome. >> good afternoon, directors. i'll try to be very quick.

the c.a.c. met last week. we had -- with the resolutions to make sure that [inaudible] were able to go remote. we heard three items at the c.a.c. the first one was about para transit, the second one was about the general fund that will fund infrastructure and capital projects in june. and our third item was service plans for the next -- for the next update of service that was originally scheduled for february but as director tumlin mentioned, may be delayed pending staffing changes. we had no resolutions for the board of directors, but i do want to comment on the service plan. we've had a -- some discussion about the trade-offs between frequency and coverage and one of my comments is just that priorization requires people to feel [inaudible] on both sides and to ask the agency

to help explain the value of frequency better to the ridership. as well, i want to also mention that two of our members who are close to community organizations in china town and mission portala felt disappointed with the outreach in terms of paper survey. they received them on friday, october 1 and the survey deadline was on monday, october 4. and they felt that there was not enough -- there was not enough time for them to reach out to their community and get their responses in. the -- one other thing. so, that's the -- that was on the agenda can. we have surveyed our members. we had 15 seats and about 11 of them are filled. we had a list of priorities about what b.c. would like to hear during presentations of staff from the next few months and our top priorities are very similar probably to the board.

near term service planning, number one. number two, state of the repair. number three, budget priorities. and number four, vision hero and we're looking forward to working with the board to co-ordinate and make sure these presentations have an absolute impact. lastly, our representive and vice chair as prioritized talking about changes to jay church, which is for our meeting which is also in the service plan discussion. we had a presentation on j.f.k. drive as director tumlin mentioned in golden gate park and personally many of our budgets-minded council members also like to understand the near term funding plans for the agency and that is the end of my

report. >> ok. thank you so much. it is really valuable to have the citizens advisory committee report. are there any questions for him? director lai, please. >> yeah. what were the sentiments from the c.a.c. around reliability in the equation of considering new frequency? >> well, as you know with the board with members where we had a lot of members and probably 11 different opinions. the comments i heard, we had a few members who were, includinging myself to be frank, about to say frequency and reliability and crowding were a priority. we also had other members who valued having [inaudible] so it wasn't so much about -- it was less about how fast the bus came or how [inaudible] the ride was, but [inaudible] transfers so that was an imminent shown in the jay

church discussion and also some discussions about traveling between the richmond and fort mason, for example. >> ok. chair chan? >> thank you. >> great. any other director questions or comments? seeing none, let's open up the phone line for public comment on the citizens advisory council report. only. operator: you have two questions remaining. >> next speaker, plea. >> caller: can you hear me now? >> yes, we can. >> caller: great. david again. all i want to say about the c.a.c. right now is chair michael chen is doing a fine job and the vice chair did a fantastic job chairing the last meeting. on thursday. thank you to both of the them and to the other members currently serving. thanks. >> thanks for the feedback. next speaker, please.

operator: you have one question remaining. >> caller: good afternoon. this is edward mason. i would like to comment regarding the c.a.c. meeting. there was overwhelming support for not -- for -- against the forced transfer of the jay church at church and market. numerous examples were given of problems encountered with that and also an observation of safety, nighttime transfers and also one comment was made of an observation where a person with a walker inadvertently got their walker stuck in the track, making the crossing across church street. so we need to be very cautious on our proceedings

with the forced jay church transfer. thank you. >> thank you. are there any further speakers on the c.a.c. report? operator: you have one question remaining. >> go ahead. >> caller: this is a 30 years cab driver and i would like to leave you [inaudible]. you guys know how the medallion -- >> ok. once again, sir, i apologize. the taxi item was not on the c.a.c. report. this is the very next item. thank you very much. >> caller: i understand. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> ok. any final comments on c.a.c. report? operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> ok. great. we'll close public comments on c.a.c. report and note that chair borden is back and pass off to you for public comment. >> item number 9, public comment. >> are there members of the public who would like to

speak on items that are not on today's agenda? if we already discuss it or are about to discuss it, this is not the time. this is the time to address other issues that may be of concern that are within sfmta's jurisdiction. moderator, are there any callers on the line? operator: you have nine questions remaining. >> first speaker, please. >> caller: hello. i'm a taxi driver and medallion owner. i would like to know when [inaudible] is going to buy us out. $250,000, there is no money on the street and the reason we aren't making this [inaudible] is because we make no money. we don't say nothing and there is no business. all the business, they make [inaudible]. and they don't pay not even a penny for nothing.

so, the reason they're [inaudible] please, buy us out or make lyft or uber to buy us out. at the moment that you guys give me the money, i give you my medallion very happy and i want to say thank you very much for your terrible business. thank you. >> thank you. the next speaker, plea. operator: you have 10 questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: yes. hello. my name is matt sutter and i'm one of the purchasers, 771. we now know in the court case between the bank and the city that you have received $1.6 billion for pandemic relief. if the sfmta recommended the bank defer our loans for two years, and if you truly felt that way, then the board should approve some pandemic relief funds to the medallion purchasers and to keep us

from further foreclosers. the majority of the purchasers are in a state of panic and no longer can keep up with these payments. and due to covid, there are no conventions, nobody's going into the office, increasinging gas prices and wintertime is here. so, there will be no tourism. also, most of the k medallions are elderly and have underlying health conditions and should also be considered. it is evidence that the m.t.a. is never going to call this failed medallion sales program failed and we're also asking you to consider issuing a bond to bail us all out. repurchasing medallion -- these are the same loans that the banks gave the people who cannot afford them and it is time for action on your part before the pandemic, eight of the 11 board of supervisors

were in agreeance to start a buyback program. >> 30 seconds. >> on another note, why did the m.t.a. put a ka bash on the central dispatch platform format and why are you trying to stop us from going on market street. that is the only advantage to the cab drivers and citizens of san francisco. the bank will be calling in all of these loans if there is more foreclosures and we need a buyback program implemented right now. this is an unbelievable situation that you have put us in this position and we have no money to pay for our families. people put their homes on the line and it is time to do something. you guys have done nothing for us but try to hamper us. you make changes after the lawsuit was filed. and just flat-out, you know, malfeasance on your part. why are you guys trying to hamper us and put us in a state of poverty? we're the ones that put money into san francisco.

we have also asked [inaudible] to start an app and charge so we can start putting money back into san francisco instead of feeding the tech companies. there's no reason for you guys to the not have a little more, you know, ideas on bringing money into san francisco instead of take it out. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have nine questions remaining. >> hello. >> hello. >> caller: my name is benjamin. i'm a 17-year san francisco cab driver. i just wanted to give you a quick analogy. these medallions, they're kind of like liquor licenses and i imagine you bought your liquor license and had your cocktail bar up and running for $250,000 and somebody rents a store front next to you and start selling drinks. baoers and cocktails. but the customers order their cocktails through nap. -- through an app and you go to the liquor board and say

hey, i paid $250,000 for my liquor license. what's up with this guy next door selling drinks through an app. well, can't do anything about it. sorry! can't do anything about it. it's ridiculous. it's absolutely ridiculous. you know, and i mean, i'm of the opinion that those drivers that bought for $250,000, something needs to be done for them. maybe they don't have to be paid back entirely. maybe 50%. but something to ease their burden. it's ridiculous. also, you know, i work the city. i don't sit at the airport. and thety city is busy right now and it's going to slow down. we need more drivers working the city. we need more cab drivers. i'm 41 years old and i think i'm the youngest cab driver any passenger has ever gotten. so it's like how do we attract new blood to the industry? how do we get the next generation of cab drivers out there? and i think, at this point, anybody who's been driving a cabs for 10 years longer with a consecutive [inaudible]

card should be give and k-medallion. let the ps who spent all the money have the airport and that way you get somebody who's maybe an uber or lyft driver who has no future and will be replaced by a robots and you can say, dude, if you drive a cab, you will be able to own your own business in 10 years and maybe the robots are going to take over. but the robots right now can't drives through a puddle or drive in the rain and i hear they're pretty far off and we need more money in the taxis right now. i spent 17 years driving and this past saturday with the phish concert was one of my best 10 days ever and there's people begging for cabs at these events. you know what we need to do? every driver who's had an a-card for 10 years or longer, they get a k-medallion from the city and we get morse people out there working. thank you for your time. my name is benjamin. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have nine questions remaining. >> next speaker?

operator: hi. can you hear me? >> yes, we can. operator: my name is marcelo. i'm a career cab driver. a k-medallion holder. during the credit union trial, witnesses for this agency denied that the medallion sales program have failed. one of the witnesses even bragged about an opened up buyers pool. the truth is the last medallion sold was almost six years ago and for all medallions sold, 300 have been foreclosed on. you can't deny that the program has failed and you can't deny that its failure has become a drag on the entire taxi industry. the lawsuit with the credit union is over. but you're not off the hook. we are still faced with a lot of problems.

you have to take responsibility for this human tragedy. you really have to change your policies. driving ks and preks out of business, barring them from service in the airport, enforcing them to drive, to either drive until they drop dead or have their medallions revoked, won't solve deaths nor foreclosures that ps are faced with. your policies have failed. the medallion system is broken. and the taxi industry still cannot compete. you really need to completely -- you really need to completely revamp the system. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have nine questions remaining. >> next speaker. operator: hi. we're wading through the electronic promises and that is why you can't hear us right away.

we can't speak until we hear the end of the electronic prompt. i'm an immune-compromised 58-year-old man. i'ves been a career taxi driver in san francisco since 1994. i choose to be vaccinated. thank you for allowing me to speak today and welcome to the newborn baby. coming back to work last month as a medallion holder after 18 months, i am seeing more than double my daily operating expenses. this is due to a lack of drivers, complete lack of drivers, gas inflation and then the same old age-old competition and traffic obstructions from t.n.c.s and there's a waste of much time on inefficiently dispatched calls that end up as dead ends on my shift. during the last 18 months while the pandemic unemployment assistance was available, over 25% of those funds i received went directly to the san francisco federal credit union for my medallion that was completely unused during that time.

another 25% went to my medical premiums, which i need to keep going during a pandemic, of course. and anyone could see that. and i went into substantial debt in order to pay the rest of my bills and rent. of the these drivers that i had working with me in march of 2020, they all three quit in the first week. one has decided to retire, another has joined the u.s. postal service and committed to his family to give it a year and the third is now crossing -- a crossing guard in fairfax, making better money than he would driving a cab. what will you do with the 1.6 or $1.8 billion bailout for those at the m.t.a. duped into buying medallion with no backbone to protect us? where is the innovation in that? does anyone there care about those of us who filled the coffers of n.a. with over $75 million on the medallion sales program? please consider a bond to alleviate the failed paid medallion program.

the airport program that allows only paid medallions is only a nod to us. it's at the expense of our comrades, the guys we work side by side with every day and avoids any accountability to the m.t.a. at all. it just puts it on us and puts us in an awkward position with our fellow drivers that are ks and ts watching the ps go in and work the airports. it's not fair. it's not fair. i don't like working there unless they open it up to all drivers. the 8000 series worth of medallions that benefited the companies that you gave those medallions to, upwards of $250,000 a year. that is a low estimate. that is profit after factors in their insurance, their vehicle comps and the management for those cabs. they profited above all their expenses, at least a quarter of a million a year. on those medallions that were given to them while i was waiting on the list, mind you,s for my free medallion and once those 8000s and the s medallions were put out, then i was asked to pay for a medallion.

i would have gotten a free one had those two programs not been put into effect under my fee. so thanks for nothing. i expect nothing. but thank you for letting me speak today. you can cut me now. >> thank you. next speaker, moderator? operator: you have nine questions remaining. >> next speaker. operator: thank you. i'm going to talk about some different things because it's public comment and i can talk about what i want. i was in new york a month ago and i was in the port authority bus terminal. maybe some of you have seen it. i use it every day when i'm there. and there is a sign that said don't let hate rise. i ask this in our muni that we have a policy, don't let hate rise. and i use airports and every time i go to an airport, i

use public transportation. public transportation doesn't discriminate against me. now in new york, it's really easy. they have this transportation system. i use my phone to pay for it. it's called a subway. perhaps some of you have seen it. it's really easy. i get on. and the subway doesn't care if i'm wearing a skirt or if i'm wearing a raiders' t-shirt or that i'm a disabled veteran or that i'm jewish. i want this muni to be a system that will accept people like myself who [inaudible] established definition. so, the nice thing about those scooters they don't discriminate. i scan an app. a q.r. code that lets me ride. when i ride on the subway, your subway, it lets me ride because i scan a clipper card.

i ask of you, i know you probably don't talk or think about it, but i want you to remember that the community that uses muni is very diversed constituency. i wasn't born in san francisco. i was born in new york city. as was my sister, my parents and my grandparents. but i'm just as much a customer of muni. i ask that you build a muni where all can be welcomed and be safe. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have 10 questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: hi. it's stacey rangdecker again. i'm writing -- or i'm asking that every sfmta board meeting, that there would be a report on what sfmta has done to address the most pressing issues that it can in a climate emergency, vision zero, and transit

first. transportation is the number one contributor to greenhouse gases in the u.s. so, what did you do in the past weeks to reduce emissions? regarding vision zero, well there are 803 days until we're supposed to reach vision zero yet we're at the very same level as when this goal was established in 2014. we haven't moved the line one bit. so what have you done in the past two weeks to keep cyclists and pedestrians safe from drivers? and if we have lost anyone, if someone has been killed on our streets, what are we doing about it? i don't want to have to wait months. i want to know every two weeks what are we doing to keep people safe where we know that there are problems. and lastly, it's been 48 years and seven months since we declared ourselves a transit-first city yet i see transit taking a backseat to cars every damn day. why aren't we rolling out the red carpet all across the city?

why aren't we encouraging, if not requiring, our city workers and elected fishs to ride the muni and see what our transit is like. we need an sfmta that is going to [inaudible] the things that our city has put out as resolutions to really uphold them. they're the ones to do it. where are we on climate emergency, where are we on vision zero, where are we on transit first? every two weeks, we should be hearing about this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have 10 questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: hi. this is a 30 years cab driver. i would like to bring to your meeting, to let you guys know that medallion, they suffering for years and years and they are right now, most of them to the age where they

are exhausted with this business. they don't want to be part of this taxi business. the m.t.a. made the promise is that medallion b retire income for us. this is not just, you know, helping me out. the retirement income right now forced me to the grave. the medallion is not worth it. the medallion is not bringing any money. if they bring the money up the quarter or the half or the some completely to pay to the federal union bank. this is a complete as the business like the uber, lyft. they make lots, lots more than us and they take over the whole city. please, i ask you guys to bring the m.t..taxi and ask them what they want to do.

what is it the result? the only result i see for this purchase medallion, to buy them back because they disguise this medallion as their rerment. if you are not paid for that, what is the reason to suffer to pay to the federal union bank. >> 30 seconds. >> caller: they have not worked in 18 months. this is not right. this is america. please. i want to bring to your guys' attention. you have to help to the purchase medallion. this program felt and cannot continue with the $250,000 [inaudible] under this medallion. the only people suffering the purchase medallion month-to-month have to pay to the federal union bank. i would like to be retired. i'm 68 years old. i already pay my dues and i

cannot continue anymore to be part of the business. please, i ask you again. so many people that are sick, so many people that have a cancer and health problems, they cannot continue. please. if you get retired, you get your benefits and i want to get my benefit, too, and their retirement and this medallion people to buy the medallion for the retirement. we are right now retired but we cannot have any income. please. i ask you again and again, get serious and do something with this purchase medallion. thank you very much. and god bless you. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have 10 questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: this is herbert winer. some concerns i have is the

way the van ness project is being conducted. i get off venice avenues and i have to walk a block to the bus stop and the bus passes me by. and this isn't only on one occasion. why are you not having stops at transfer points. this is totally, you know, unrealistic. the second thing is the buses are so crowded, including the 1 california which is one of the most heavily used lines. people are sitting next to each other. and in light of this pandemic, this is very dangerous. i've been vaccinated but i really try to keep a distance from people. you are violating health standards and endangering the public and this is very unfair.

and i would like to see the medallions restored to the drivers unconventionally the way it was before m.t.a. started poking its nose into this project. the medallions rightfully belong to the taxi drivers and not m.t.a. and it's basically been a fiasco. please restore the way it was 20 years ago. i think the taxi drivers would appreciate it and i would, too. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, plea. operator: you have 11 questions remaining. >> nex speaker? >> caller: yes. hi. good afternoon, again, chair borden and fellow directors. i'm -- i want to let you know, we asked purchase medallion holders to call in

today, following the disappointment we had in the verdict. ronald lee, again, said the sfmta has never not had the taxi industry's back. to hear deputy city attorney say that and know that it's totally false. it's totally false. we're seeing transit lanes that say muni-only when we know full well that taxis are allowed in those transit lanes. where if you look at [inaudible], we cannot access that street anymore unless you go around about ways and i am not going to serve it if it's going to be too tough for me to get there. considering if you've seen the gas prices lately, have you seen them? i want to let you know that it's just eating into our income and, of course, we don't want the meter to go up. because we enjoy the business we enjoy is when the surge pricing goes into effect, the t.n.c.s and that is when our

business goes up. particularly at the airport and -- and after major events. so, it's -- thank god for that. but i want to let you know that you kind of owe the cab industry, and particularly the medallion holders, some relief and some help and not just keep saying you have our back when you don't have our back. when you want to kick us off of market street and when you want to keep us off of slow streets when we have business on slow streets. i want to let you know, take a look at 16th and chartwell and how are we supposed to get into that street without having to go around about way and a challenging way and cost us time and possibly not even get the fare. so i want to let you know that you have made it harder, not easier, for us to serve the public at this point. all on the dikts of vision

zero which is not really happening because enforcement is lax. so i would appreciate that you take another look at this and that you help out the purchase medallion hollers. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, plea. operator: you have 11 questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: hello. this is evelyn. i'm with the san francisco taxi workers alliance and i'm calling about the crisis of this medallion debt which you've been hearing about today. i hope you realize that for so many hundreds of medallion owners, the trial that ended represented the end of a long, dark tunnel for them. maybe they would haven't received any direct money, but had the credit union prevailed, the remaining loan balances would have been wiped out. and now that hope and that slight snuffed out. praoem in despair.

you know, maybe you believe your reform helped a little, but don't kid yourself. that's not what has been keeping medallion holders going. it was really hoped for some resolution to this crisis. they hope to not have to work 10 hours a day, six days a week. they want to have money for their family and their children. we taxi drivers don't feel like we're on the edge of guyer. glory. we're on the edge of despair and the drivers want out from under this de. some will walk away if they can. others are losing their homes and they can't walk away. their chained to this debt. it's like indentured servitude that you are keeping people paying and paying and paying in order for a little bit of money. so i hope you will realize that this could be your

legacy, that you are keeping these driver, mostly people of color ensnared in debt because you don't want to admit that years ago you made a fundamental mistake. i hope you will choose to help them and do something and it's your choice. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have 10 questions remaining. >> caller: yes. how are you doing? first of all, good afternoon. i'm a taxi driver for 20 years. m.t.a. sure took my money and take over the medallion loan. it makes me think about the ponzi scheme of sfmta. you people [inaudible], you people it's your fault. and it is a debt we cannot repay.

an industry that has [inaudible] san francisco. m.t.a. is full of corruption and [inaudible]. i work six to seven days a week and, 10 to 12 hours a day to make money so i can pay the loan. the loan that you guys gave to us. ok? [inaudible] and i developed back pain. ok? [inaudible] ok? i am going into surgery on october 28. what am i going to do? you guys, i hope you sleep well. and i want you to think about the taxi industry that you guys destroyed.

>> 30 seconds. >> caller: bye. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have nine questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: hey. this is austin peterson, 30-year cab driver, medallion holder. k-medallion. has anybody asked themselves why so many young people have chosen drug addiction and homelessness over cab driving and truck drivering and so many other jobs that have been cranked down to worthlessness? anything -- when i started cab driver there was the promise of a medallion if i worked at it for a long time. now young people come into the industry, they don't have that promise anymore. please fix that. make it so young people want to drive a cab or want to drive a truck. want to work for the city. that is it. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have eight questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: this is mark

bloomberg with san francisco taxi workers alliance. and i spoke on this issue at the previous meeting but i just want to back up the drivers who have called in and voiced, you know, what's happening to them, which is -- it's a disgraceful situation. it just should never have taken place. this whole program has been a disaster. it's unsustainable as you well know and the time is long overdue for this pernicious and life-destroying system to be fixed. many medallion holders were awaiting the outcome of the lawsuit. and just from what i hear, i

think there are going to be many more foreclosures that the point. now that the lawsuit is over, you have no more excuses. this is your program. you devise it, you owned it and you have to repair it. and i suggest two principles to guide you in doing that. first, medallion purchases must be rescued from this wreckage. second, this must not be done at the expense of other drivers and the industry as a whole. i want to call your attention to the fact that in new york, which is suffering from a similar crisis, medallion buyers are about to embark on a hunger strike. that is how desperate it's gotten there. you want that to happen here? do you think that it can't? with almost 300 victims of foreclosure and counting? i urge you to think twice. thank you.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have seven questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: hello? >> we can hear you. >> caller: hello. yes. my name is waziri. i am medallion holder and i'm driving in the city for 22 years and driving right now for six days, seven days a week. i have three kids and i am suffering honestly to make money for payments or mortgage and everything. i don't really know. the city promised us in the beginning different stuff right now. we have hard time to make money. we don't really know what we

should do. we are living in the united states of america. with freedom and free speech. but we don't see anything here. we need your help, please. whatever you guys can do, this is the best. thank you so much. bye. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have five questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: yes, hello. my name is roberto marquez and i'm calling -- i'm a medallion holler and taxi driver. and i'm working very hard. i invest up to 14 hours, 16 hours driving and when -- and when i end up, i make no money. if i'm working and making $16 an hour and [inaudible] i make overtime. oh, my goodness about $300 or $400.

over here, with the money -- this is something that you should laugh. and i have to be driving. i have to stay in debt because i'm working very hard to make the payments and everything. so what is happening is happening terrible. bad. i have a family of four and we hardly make anything. nothing. before the thing was that i wasn't a medallion lease. i wasn't a medallion list and they were giving these for free. later on they say oh, guys, you have to buy, to buy the medallion. if you want to see your future. that is going to be -- is going to be very nice. it's a good idea. but it took me two years to decide to buy the medallion.

>> 30 seconds. >> caller: because they [inaudible]. so i decided to buy it. i decided two years later or one year and a half, everything changed and uber and lyft took over and you know the rules of the taxi, all the rules that we have in the taxi, everything disappeared because they say now they -- you guys are going to [inaudible] with uber and lyft and we end up with nothing. my retirement became my nightmare. >> time is up. >> caller: it's terrible and very bad. i hope you guys -- >> thank you. next speaker. operator: you have six questions remaining. >> next speaker, please. >> caller: thank you. this is luke boarhammer. exactly five months ago, [inaudible] was killed and her partner danny was

critically injured while crossing pulse street at hayes due to a street design that allowed people to drive cars recklessly and dangerously. five months later t street is just as dangerous. plans were created for a protected bike lane. while it's much needed, albeit for only one block, the design is still lacking notably by, one, leaving

sections of the bike lane unprotected, allowing car and delivery t >> next speaker.

>> good afternoon. my name is phillip, several of the board members paying close attention to what is being said by the cab drivers. i've been a cab driver since 1980. i'm sure you're intently working on trying to solve the problems of the medallion program. i know you're obviously considering how to remedy the situation. i hope you consider making the cab industry in san francisco a public utility. if you're able to engineer this aspect, you would be able to lower the overhead for the cab companies via their insurance. there's probably other

advantages to it being a public utility an it will give you one more option to address the problem. also i would like to say that a taxi industry in this nation is one that is an indigenous industry. there's no city that is like another city. each city their cab industry is totally and separate and apart from any other industry. this is something that you should consider. san francisco has had a rich history with the cab drivers and also a lot of those loans were made -- they were liar loans. that was one of the major problems with the bank. now that you have the opportunity to satisfy the bank because they will appeal. you can address the problem of the medallion holder.

you will scrap the entire system and start all over again. i'm sure you will be able to do it in a very fair manner. thank you for your attention. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have five questions remaining. >> i spoke earlier regarding the medallion. i don't know if i'm going to die before i finish the statement soon, some drivers just paying this loan with the stress and things. we work more than 14 hours a day. we make less than $16 an hour. we get busier since uber and

lyft start doing shorter trips. they left a long time ago. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have four questions remaining. >> my name is francis co. i've spoken on this topic many times. i see that you are listening but i don't see any empathy. i'm used to know when the taxi drivers when independent. as soon as they joined the mta, you stole their money. you need to do a needs assessment on the suffering, the debt, closures of the taxi

drivers. if you don't do something shortly, shame on, y'all. >> does that conclude your roa remarks. next caller on the line please. >> you have three callers remaining. >> it's a little confusing with the technology and watching you guys on the screen. i'm a san francisco cab driver and team medallion holder. i waited on the medallion waiting list for 16 years. when i was approximately about number ten, 15 from the top of

the list, you ended the whole program and gave me the option to buy a medallion or go home. i bought my medallion for one year and uber came on and it was the worst economic thing that ever happened to me. i wasted years of my youth and earning capacity. it damaged my life to no end. i would really like -- morally speaking what and what i would like to be done. i'm coming from a position of humbleness. please find a solution to this injustice. it's completely not fair that a large organization such as yours should take our money and

basically run. i understand there may be forces out of your control but the government gets tons of federal matching funds, there has to be a way to help people like me who never made much money in my life. just to right this justice and get me out of this extreme economic hardship. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have two questions remaining. >> hello. i'm a medallion holder number 1284, your position as mta who make regulation who people from a to b is that right. if you do so, why the rules and regulations on taxi and not on other people?

when i buy the medallion i was hoping to have nice replacement for my kids and family if something happen to me. nothing like that is going on. i may not be working. we look for a solution. you're the only ones that can do it. in the courts between you guys and the bank. all you people can do something. we can please you to do so. we can urge you to do something because really the business goes down and down and nobody makes money. that's all. nobody. we pay bills and spend the rest of things for food and other. what we look for and we look for organizer business and do

something for the payment. and do something. this is all we're asking. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have one question remaining. >> thank you. i feel like i haven't talked to you since item eight. three topics on item nine. i hear a certain planning director is leaving. i thank that person very much who may well be listening and wish that person well in the future. i was surprised that was not announced in the director's report. following on a comment i think

was made earlier and comments i've made in the past. please make the e-mails that you receive public, we should find a way to do that or at a minimum a summary list which roberta used to do. by posting the e-mails orr a e-a redacted version of the e-mails that could simply be we received 51 e-mails extending the 21 sun set out to the fair lawns. sum summary so at a minimum we know what e-mails you're receiving. we should make those e-mails that are redacted public. you have access to those e-mails

and we do not. i think we should consider extending the 21hayes trolley coach into golden gate park. that would put some small trolley car in golden gate park. that would provide direct access. give the 21 an end point that it doesn't have right now. i don't know if it's the right answer but it's definitely worth studying. it's it relates to the jfk closures. >> thank you. next speaker please. with that we'll close public comment. to all the taxi drivers that called in.

we are listening and we heard you. the legal battle made it difficult to talk about those issues as well. we did hear you. can you move to the next item please. >> that places you on your consent calendar. these items will be voted on by a single vote unless a member of the board wishes to consider an item separately. if you wish to make public comment please call on the screen. approve parking modifications as listed in the agenda. the programming of state improvement funds for the train control upgrade program in fiscal year '25, '26.

item ten point three approving retroactively a six month promotional program for customers traveling to and from covid 19 vaccination appointments. approving the title six analysis on the fair change on low income and minority change. waiving section a of the sfmta board since public hearing is not less than five days from public notice. that concludes the consent calendar. >> great. directors, is there an item you would like to pull from the consent calendar. seeing none we'll move to public

comment. please press one-zero if you wish to make public comment. >> you have one question remaining. >> yes, please. >> i have comments on ten point two an ten point three. >> go ahead and do both. we'll give you two minutes for each item. >> item ten point two i'm repeating comments i made this morning at the sfcta board. i'm skeptical of the benefits on the surface portion of the new

metro system. i'm opposed to three car and trains on the surface west of church. i urge you to prohibit them either as a condition of approval of this local support resolution or in the future. period. two car trains are okay. three car trains will block intersections and i think are problematic on the west end of church. question what is the impact to passengers from construction of the communication based train control infrastructure on the street? will there be more bus substitution. i can't imagine that's going to be over a weekend. is that days, weeks, months, of bus substitution on the end. how would that work? i understand that mta staff is developing a written rail

service plan covering fleet, all of that service capacity, portals. i urge you to hear that in the future when it's available so we can have a fuller discussion of the system. onto point three i have no issue issuewith the resolution itself. the fourth whereas on march 16th 2021, i believe that should be 21306 -- i don't know why, you find these things. i recommend making that minor tweak to the resolution.

that's all on the consent calendar. thanks. >> moderator are there additional calls on the line on our consent calendar. >> you have one question remaining. >> next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm calling about ten point one. i just want to know why we are not rpping the entire city. it seems extremely inefficient to me to go neighborhood to neighborhood instead of saying hey san francisco if you want to park in the city, you're going to pay for it. you can pay at a mighter or have a residential parking permit. you cannot drive a car here. i think the taxi drivers would love that. if people had to leave their cars at home that don't actually

live here, they can take transit or take a taxi. that would leave more space for people to do things. that would have fewer cars because every parking space in this city is an engraved invitation to have a car and keep a car. please, we have a place for you. this is crazy. we're burning the planet, killing people with cars. we're a transit first city. why? please stop with the free street parking. rpp the entire city and let's move on. we can have more money for the muni we've had to cut back on. we can increase the rates to be more market rates instead of 41-cents a day now for an rpp

sticker. we can actually be a transit first city. stop with the piece meal. rpp the city. thank you. >> thank you. any other callers on the line. >> have you sear callers remaining. >> thank you public comment is closed. are the changes that the caller mentioned correct? we can make the motion with that correction and i'll double check after this. >> great. >> i'll move to approve the consent calendar with the caveat that if that correction needs to

be made, it be corrected. >> great. the question that he asked about buses being run on the segment while this work is going on, do we anticipate that happening. >> that would be a question my colleagues would be able to answer for communication case train control. >> just very briefly to address the question. >> hi, everyone. i think we're still working through the implementation strategy. we know that we have a significant subway renewal program some of which is going to require bus substitution and train control work in the coordinated within that. i don't have anything specific on train control at this time.

>> great. this is the consent calendar. we should be discussing it. i just tried to answer the public's question. we'll look for further future in depth conversation. i know it's just about allocating the funds. secretary, can you please call the roll. >> (roll call). the consent calendar is approved. >> that brings us to our regular calendar. can you please call on the next item. >> item number 11. the community based transportation plan. >> great.

we have adrian to present. >> good afternoon chair and members of the board. transportation planner for safety. in terms of introduction i'm the transportation planner and cptp. we're here to seek the board's feedback, answer questions, and seek approval. i will bring up the screen to begin the presentation.

project overview. pedestrian safety. ttp grant program and authorized by the san francisco board authority. adopt the grant before it expires at the end of the november 2021. the goals improve access and mobility for low income communities and conducting analysis and recommendations. beyond these goals the office requested that the lake merced

pedestrian safety represents a collaborative planning process with community groups an other stake holders that identify pedestrian challenges and solutions on drive. a collection of steering committee inputs and comments. beginning in 2020, the project began with past plans including pedestrian safety and access. transit stop.

from january to june 2021. during that time the group established the conditions. performed a needs assessment. pedestrian safety improvements in june 2021 community out reach was conducted in the form of a virtual open house an public survey. coordinating with other planning efforts. the safety process included coordinating nearby improvement efforts that are listed for you. the bike way feasibility study

which was requested by district seven office. we have the 2012 improvement project that was managed by rec and park. park assessment development initiated in 2015. we have the great highway pilot project. and management project. that's managed by rec and park. the ocean beach climate change adaptation project. existing conditions. the project area is located in the lake shore district. it includes skyline boulevard to john muir drive. a path surrounding the lake, the project area is served by the 57

park merced. low and high density housing institutions. lake merced boulevard is where 75% of injuries and fatalities occur or our city streets. it aim it increase access and mobility by communities and strives to make these streets safer. between 2015 and 2020 there have

been two pedestrian fatalities since 2017. safety issues. the project area is recently connected by many activities like walking and biking. obstacles such as vehicle speeds for the distance to be between forty one and forty five miles per hour. signage, lighting, sidewalks rk in the visual below you'll see unsafe pedestrian crossing there is a bike turn strip lane. the bottom right there's no crossings from sun set to middle field drive. community out reach and

engagement. input from the steering committee to ensure techniques resonate within the community of the project area we conducted. the open house that took place consisted of a project survey at the end. multi lingual surveys near the project area. we also have the multi lingual survey on line. we advertised it through posters along the project area. a total of 449 surveys were received. the survey were broken into three sections. the relationship to the project area including frequency and mode of travel to get around.

whether respondents felt the area was unsafe and tools presented to the steering committee. demographic profiles were the final two questions if they wanted to stay updated about the project that helped us inform us on future out reach efforts in that area. what we learned, steering committee learned that pedestrian and safety improvements are needed. 71 percent agree or strongly agree that improvement it's need to be made on streets where people walk. the top five safety improvements that resonate are upgraded

crosswalks. additional lighting pedestrian or street level is 48 percent. new and additional signals is 4. representations to corridor improvements. survey input are divided in two categories. medium low priority long term improvements. divided by priority level that are high and medium. improving transit that did occur in august with a route and new updated route signage which is necessary between traffic lanes, we would consult with the transit planning service group.

to ensure transit service is not impeded by what is proposed. subsequent projects and further community out reach by recommendations and details to guide further implementation on stacy and merced boulevard. priority level high, medium, and low. implementation. the sfmta works in coordination is the cbtb high priority

recommendations. the quick build project is currently in the planning phase with anticipated construction date of mid '22. quick build and the project managers and future coordinating projects to ensure that this cptp is upheld. to help us understand the performance of the proposed improvements. medium priority and low priority recommendation improvements will require additional planning, design funding beyond the quick build. this cbtp has recorded desired improvements so that funding sources can be identified in the

future. that concludes my presentation. additional information can be sought at sfmta.com. >> thank you for that presentation. i'm happy to see that something is happening to this very problematic area. board members are there any questions at this time before opening to public comment. seeing none, i'll open up to public comment. this is for item 11. if you'd like to make comments or have questions now is the time to press ten to put yourself in the line. >> you have three questions remaining. >> first speaker, please. >> i'm walk san francisco vision

zero organizer. i also was a member of the steering committee. i really wanted to thank the sfmta staff foreseeing this project through. as well as district seven supervisor's office. it's a well known danger. people use it by foot every single day. to get to the biggest green space. to get to elementary school or high school or for exercise as 26 year old was when he was killed in a crash. schools and park should be a

priority for the city. in many parts this is starting from zero from a safety perspective. we're glad the study identifies what can be done immediately and with investment to bring down unnecessary and tragic crashes. we need to see the streets redesigned to bring down speeds. we look forward to work with the sfmta. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have three questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> hi. this is stacy again. i'm glad that there's work being done or the the hope of work being done. i'm concerned of how many people

have been injured and died on this corridor without work being done. the lack of honesty is really disturbing. the whole idea of out reach and surveys while it seems inclusive is somewhat cruel. if you're anyone that is against bike lanes, sidewalks is basically saying that people's lives out side of a car don't matter. their need for speed and through put is more important. it is a really distorted way of doing business that we say oh, we have to ask people their opinions about how calm we should make an area. you should make it as calm until there are no more injuries or deaths. cars can travel too fast.

if you're not going to put the stuff in the car to slow them down, you have to make your roads safer. maybe go to sweden and ask them how they do it. they take it seriously. whenever there is an injury or death, they change the road immediately. we take years and have to have meetings and surveys while people are at risk and dying. what are we doing. please take vision zero seriously and get our streets safer. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have three questions remaining. >> i was not involved in this

study, i only reviewed the plan today but i'm quite impressed with it. i found the document clear, concise and useful. especially the visual examples. i thank the staff. great work. this is a good example of good product. good everything. i particularly appreciate the coordination with other planning efforts section starting on page ten of the plan. i think in a lot of ways this is a model of how a plan should read. it connects all the dots. i like it. in the future i would be careful to post notices on vehicles and shelters in the area. maybe i missed them.

good work and thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> you have two questions remaining. >> this is nick from the states. i'm a staff member there. it's part of my job to encourage our students to use good walking and biking to get to campus. it's really hard to do with the street the way they are right now. this has the potential to make a difference. we see close calls every week between the sf state students, the elementary school students and day care kids in the area. i'm really excited to see improvements there. i'm really proud of the staff.

they did a great job of getting folks together right in the middle of the pandemic an pretty good engagement online. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have two questions remaining. >> this is patrick. i lived in san francisco for 12 years. i'm calling about the lake merced project. i support making these safety improvements including adding bike lanes way too much car capacity in this part of the city. i want to reiterate how important it is to make these improvements faster. many people have been killed and injured in this area. we've had several high profile

deaths in the past two years. despite all that, those things happening we're seeing hardly any improvements in terms of making the streets safer more quickly. if you go out to these streets right now, they look dangerous. very little thought was put into them. other cities have implemented safety improvements within days r weeks. we're talking a timeframe of years still with this project. i encourage sfmta to act with the authority for the vision zero mandates. it's all there just do it faster. we don't need these slow tedious projects to change what's the status quo. what we need is rapid changes,

implement these things within a platter of days and conduct studies afterwards. we need to change the status quo and make changes after. it's go to go save a lot of lives. >> with that we will close public comment on this matter and this matter is before this board. directors are there any comments or questions or a motion. >> i'll move approval. >> i'll second. >> there are some requests for comment from directors in the chat. >> my chat is not showing anything in it today.

go ahead. >> i'll thank staff as well. it seems like we're getting a lot of support from the public on this item. it sounds like a really successful process. my question is on implementation to another scene that was raised. so many good ideas came through this process. how do we take them from plan to infrastructure on the ground. i was happy to see the quick build piece is forking to move forward. that's not the entirety of recommendations that those who participated were able to come to consensus upon. i wandered if you could speak more on how we're going to

implea. the other ideas in the plan. how can we make sure this actually gets on the ground? >> thanks for your question. as noted in the presentation, we have a quick build project that is in process right now. it's in design and planning and going to be starting out reach really soon. we'll have our first quick build

in and things like buffers that can really aid in pedestrian safety, bicycling safety and all the active transportation and transit in the neighborhood. for some of the future longer term capital improvements things like new crossing or winding sidewalks. we have some budget that will be allocated through future sfcta funding. we're also looking to park merced which is a development happening just south of sf state that is going to be upgrading four different signals op lake merced buffed for things that

came out of this plan. we have different mechanisms for the longer term capital recommendations and we'll be continuing to look at other funding opportunities for those recommendations. >> okay. great. i wanted to touch on speed limits. i thought i saw in the staff report that the speed limits were forty five. we've been experimenting in the tender loin. the very significant disirches differencein collision outcomes. reducing speed limits was part of the quick build. >> yes. the speed limit is thirty five.

>> we'll be talking more about this when we come back to you with an action plan. the quick build which is scheduled for spring '22 implementation lets us fight back against the high speeds. give us some flexibility hopefully we can take the speed limits down. we want to do the quick build to

reduce speeds and do a traffic survey to show we reduced speeds. it's a complex plan. >> so many students relying on transit crossing the street. it's imperative that we do everything we can to slow down and prevent the collisions. thank you so much. >> i will tag along with director who asked more of my technical questions. could you talk a little more, i know this is a living document, it's more of a plan than a

action document. could you talk a little more about the evaluation of this document and is there evaluation criteria build in. i know there was a tiny section on evaluation at the end of the plan. i know that it was a lot of community involvement that went into the creation of this plan and drafting of it. maybe some assurances as to how the community will stay engaged as we move forward to implementing the quick build and address some of the recommendations. >> in regards to the evaluation process mtcbtb program recommends we evaluate the

program to make sure any future efforts incorporate them in addition to doing out reach and engagement. we have a safe streets evaluation program where we review safety treatments that were incorp.ed to ensure that they are working effectively. did you want to add anything in addition to those two items. >> i'll mention that we -- the safety evaluation program conducts before and after evaluations. we take a look at the things the project is trying to achieve. less conflict. we do a number of counts and observations both before and after implementation to understand how it's performing and that helps us make iterative

changes and what further changes can happen. just give us an idea, a snap shot of how it's doing. in terms of the question about continuity of our community out reach, as i mentioned before our quick build is currently taking place in the design and planning phase, we'll be doing our out reach phase soon. we'll continue to stay in contact with our steering committee and use our contacts that we've made throughout this process and work with supervisor's office to the plan. >> thank you. perfect. >> great. director. >> thank you.

just a couple of comments. we've got a consensus based planning process. the trouble is that consensus is producing 20 to 30 fatalities per year. if we don't change the default, i fear that's what we're going to keep producing year after year. it seems to me we ought to have a good talk with ourselves about whether consensus in every case is really what we ought to be searching for. because i just think we need to push the envelope because we're not making progress with the consensus up to now. the other thing and i know tom you're going to come back to us with ab43.

that ought to belong some kind of speed enforcement change. that should be part of every quick build project we do. some procedure that says we're going to consider that as a default and we have to come up with a good reason not to do it. the quick build is quick because we're not doing some big capital project with c.e.q.a. and all the rest of it. speed limits are going to be controversial but fast. stirring up some ruckus and may

have some people that at the end of the process aren't all that happy with it. sometimes that's where you want to end up is getting a better result for traffic safety. thank you madam chair. >> is there a motion? >> we already have one. >> sorry. okay. great. secretary, can you please calling the roll. >> (roll call).

>> i'm actually taking off so i'm going to turn it over. >> thank you. can you call the next item please. >> 16th street improvement project to install traffic signals and replace the sewer on 16th street. in the amount of 16 million and for a term of 550 days and making environmental review findings. >> great. we have a presentation. go ahead. >> i am a project amonger with capital programs. before i start i want to make

sure that julie does not have any intro before i get started. >> my apologies. i just wanted board to know how pleased i am that we're bringing you this phase two implementation of the phase two 16th street project. it's the 22 fill more, the dog patch. this project supports important connections between mission bay, the mission and the castro. it protects bus travel times through a really congested corridor. the 20 fill more is one of our

fastest recovering routes. it very much needs this investment. i don't know if she will brag herself. i want to brag how pleased i am that phase one of this project came in on budget. it really only had a minor covid delay. it included pg and e and puc work. transit lanes that are soon to be red. pedestrian safety investments. i'm really appreciative of pran and other staff that are leading this work. i know as a board you guys are very focused on accountability and making sure we're learning in realtime on capital projects. i'm confident that we set ourselves up to be ontime with

this project. with that it's my pleasure to turn things back over. >> thank you so much. i appreciate that intro. your faith in us and our team. i will give the board members a brief background on the overall project with a focus on the second phase of the project. the overall 16th street improvement project because it it was a high injury corridor. the 22 fill more line was identified as one of our slower lines in the city. with this project the intent is to improve the reliability by 2r

all modes of transportation, walking, cycling, and using public transit. our puc partners are joining us to upgreat the water and sewer infrastructures and also to improve our zero emission transit service along 22 and fill more line. as julie mechanicsed the project julie mentioned the projectwas s terminating at mission bay loop. if you drive along 16th street in that direction you'll see all the new improvements that we

have made to the street. the second phase of the project that we're seek ago ward of the contract is west of p atraro to church street. we're planning on upgrading some of our infrastructure. adding some new infrastructures and in addition to what we're doing for mta we're also doing some landscaping including planting over one hundred trees and over 400 shrubs in landscaping along the corridor. we advertised the contract in late june, we received four viable bids.

technically we had five but the fifth bidder had major errors and retracted their bid. we decided that j and b construction bid in the amount of six point three million dollars was the lowest responsive bidders. we do through the bids in detail making sure they are accurate and all the details to make sure there are no major discrepancies or gaps in their bids. we evaluated all bids and decided that given that, you know, the three lowest bidders were within seven percent engineers estimate was a

responsible bidder in a addition to being the lowest bidder. we are -- i put together an overall phase two project estimate that shows how much the design cost us and how much is the construction and what is our portion. how much is going to cost to paint the transit only lanes red after the contract is over in contingency and overall. the sfmta portion of thf phase of the projectis 16 point threef which we have spent about

$39 million in phase one. i'm only talking about sfmta budget. puc has their own budget. we have $28 million remaining. i'm planning on keeping us within the rest of the estimated budget. where our overall funs come from. some of it comes from kevin grand. majority of it comes from the general obligation bonds. construction canned yule we advertised in june. we're seeking a wars today and

notice to proceed in november if we aren't scheduled in november we are expected to reach completion in february of 2023. >> thank you so much. before we go to public comment are there any questions for staff? >> did you want to go to public comment first or -- >> i think it's okay. go ahead. >> thank you for the presentation. i have a few questions. can you tell us about the ridership and where it goes and where it comes from. >> sure. julie do you want to take this question or do you want me to jump in.

>> because we're making such a substantial investment in this line. i wanted to ask a little about the 22. what do we know about the demographic of who rides it and the route itself. >> it's a really wonderful example of a muni route because it connects some of our wealthiest neighborhoods with some of our most important communities of concern. it does have a very diverse ridership and we'd be happy to follow-up with the statistics when i don't have -- >> i have them right here. >> which jeff will share.

this is also an important route for the equity strategy particularly for the role it serves in supporting the mission. and because only a portion of the route is wide enough for the dedicated transit lanes, it's really important to make this investment in this portion of the corridor because the investment we can make on fill more street itself, are somewhat limited. >> in terms of ridership, since we made the changes in terms of rerouteing it, reliability presents during covid. it's currently operating at 80% of procovid ridership.

it's one of our strongest performing lines in the entire system. that's partly due to the fact that we've been able to make such dramatic improvements in speed and reliability. >> amazing. thank you. i wanted to give you the opportunity to talk about the greenery. >> the city requires us to replace one for one for any tree that we remove. we have gone above and beyond and replacing a five to one ratio for any tree we remove. planting over 400 slushes.

400 shrubs.the over all aesthete street. we have done similar improvement. you can see a significant change in how the street looks. we've received many many compliments from the community and businesses after the construction has been completed.

>> the mission street red lanes have been vital for moving customers particularly on those routes. we have a very high percentage of people in low income households and people of color trying to access the neighborhood. we did a really interesting report that took an exhaustive look at red versus non red

painted traffic lanes. that gave us the authority to do the red lanes. we saw the ratio that the travel times dropped by thirty five to 40%. violations dropped 45%. they are self enforcing than when the lane was not red. we do think that red lanes are the single best tool we have for protecting pedestrian reliability. >> can you help me that they were only put down at striping and are now only painting them red. there's so many squares in front

of my screen, i don't know who to direct that question to at this point. >> i'll be happy to answer that question. if you have additional information feel free to jump in. we pave the street curb to curb. we wanted to right of way -- i think the east side already had a transit only lane being white stripes before we started the kriks. the construction. we wanted to make sure that compliance still exists before we -- because painting red not part of a construction contract. our paint truck comes in after the contractor finishes it. we still identify that the transit only line still is

there. that was the only reason we painted it write. to give time for our paint shop to come in and paint it red. >> the last piece is what are you worried about in terms of this project. in terms of potential delays. you're going through the sewer great versus you digging up the streets. i know it's a very different project. at the beginning end what are your fears, what are you worried about? what are you worried can go wrong? >> it's construction an many things can go wrong. my job is to predict as much as possible. one of the positive things in the second phase is there is no water work part of the project.

water department facilities were identified in good condition. there won't be any digging for water which is huge. the amount of excavation in the second phase is very minimal. we have maybe about three blocks of sewer excavation that we have. compared to phase one, phase two has very limited excavation which gives me plenty of confidence because that reduces the amount of unforseen problems during construction. i believe we have a great team on board. i have faith in the contractor that we're bringing on board.

we've been in close contact with the community and the businesses. i can't point out anything i'm worried about. i believe we can build the second phase as well as we did phase one and i'm sure everyone will be happy. >> love it. the last thing i'll say is exciting that the estimated budgets for this project is five to six million below what we have budgeted for it. i'm sure you can find a way to utilize that for all the other precious priorities we have. >> great. let's go to director hemminger please. >> i was surprised to see the

funding plan included 2 million bucks. most of it has been from capital two operating. why this particular instance is different since we need every dime we can spare for the operating budget. >> that was budgeted but that was what was budgeted before pandemic. as director mentioned with the savings that we have, we might have to give that $2 million back to operating budget. >> that would be okay with me. >> let me quickly add to that. it's a great question. it's something that the board will probably have to deal with in the next operating budget or cip. there are development impact seens on this budget.

-- >> thank you. >> okay. next question. >> my question is on the 22.

can we talk a little about if you've worked out the rerouteing for the 22 during construction just so that it's a key line that the areas were covered those. the project will still be covered in some way. >> we are not expecting any rerouteing of the 22 fill more during construction. we have a planned around having one transit lane open in each direction. it will continue to have its route. that is what we plan for and we're hoping to keep that and

continue 22 on its current route. >> it's another example of why i'm so grateful that the new trolley buses have delivered on their off wire capabilities. we will need to deenergize the corridor. being able to run the buses without customer impact is incredible and not something that we could have contemplated five years ago. >> perfect. thank you madam chair. >> thank you. i'd like to open up public comment on item 12. anyone on the phone line please press ten if you would like to comment on this item. >> you have three comments remaining. >> please go ahead. >> one question i had is will

there be congestion of automobiles as a result of this project. two, with the police department ever consulted about this project. three, i'm wondering maybe this money could have been spent on adding more buses to the 22 line. that would add reliability and speeds of service. those are my concerns. thank you. >> thank you, next, speaker, please. >> good afternoon directors. this project has been in the works for years an we're excited to see it moving forward. we support it and urge you to approve the contract.

it's time to give the riders a more efficient ride. attracts more riders and provides more people more access to businesses and communities along the route. we have one concern. the one lane where the buses share the single lane with cars. we can look at comprehensive management projects for restrictions or other traffic road tools. we have to work with sfmta to make it the best as possible. we do support the project. thank you. >> next speaker, please.

>> you have two questions remaining. >> okay. i have a number of comments and a few questions on this one. i would like to see the plans and specifications especially the sewer condition. how do i do that. the c.e.q.a. documents here are not accessible. i said before anything related to the tpe you can't get it. it's buried, it's not possible to access that. please send me the two notes filed in the staff report. in the future we need to fine a way to post those short documents as part of the calendar item.

is this a part of the sewer work in the 22. it's not clear to me. as i've asked in the past. i would like the one page budget at the end to include a line item for subject action so can you see where this particular action falls within the budget. my interest in the sewer element relates to sewer expassity to co reduce flooding which has been a concern for the city. is there new fiber optic cable. there's a number of city facilities absurd here. i'm sure we could get better telecom access with fiber optic on here. does director have a conflict of

interest on this agenda item. he has a business along the corridor. i don't know it's certainly -- i suggest we refer to them as lanes of color. >> great. next speaker, please. >> hi. i live in venturo. i'm happy to see improvements on this corridor. my kids go to the elementary

school. i'm excited to hear about the red lanes. it has to say red because green are for bikes. i am looking forward to this. i'm glad there's going to be some attention. in my primitive data gathering i've seen the vehicular assault, pedestrian struck by vehicle at 16th on october 25th. september 7th. 2020 pedestrian struck with vehicle. an more all along. including where you've made improvements on the east side. at 16th and canvass we've had

attempted vehicular assaults. it's just nuts. sixteenth street is not -- it definitely needs improvement along with a lot of other streets. the price tag and -- when i add up the amounts on this agenda i have a quarter of a billion dollars. a quarter of a billion dollars is being spent on our streets. i understand some of it is water and sewer. how much has been spent on pedestrians and making things safer throughout. everything is about cars. we need to keep our people safe. please. act more swiftly. get these safety measures in place a lot faster an speed transit so more people will take it and get out of their cars.

thank you. >> thank you. any other commenters on this item. >> you have zero questions remaining. >> okay. great with that we will close public comment. i see director ly has a comment. >> okay. first of all just really want to thank staff for being thorough in this report and very clear about the financial analysis that was done on the comparing and contrast, i thought that was very well done. i would love to just move this forward and i guess make a motion on it but just also want to maybe comment on some of the comments that i feel like this isn't just for the vehicles.

this is a huge part of this is to be able to increase our transit capacity which is why the red lane is so important. i want to make it clear to the public that this isn't to make a priority for vehicles. i would love to make a motion. >> second. >> if i may just quickly respond about the conflict of interest. i did consult with the city attorney in advance of this meeting and went through the rules and regs and i do not have a conflict of interest with this particular piece. i did consult and determined that i don't have a conflict of interest here. >> thank you for being thorough.

any other comments or questions from board members before we call a vote? i have just one final question. this is picking up on one themes we heard in the public comment. a compelling case for the red paint and how effective they are. we also aren't proposing, i want to make sure it's really clear. we're not proposing a transit lane. i believe it's the eastbound direction.

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to make a list of priorities that this was a priority by community and business stakeholders. we have the option to enhance and improve and at that time this was legislated, that was the recommendation on the best way to balance the trade-offs. so my starting point is u always what we want end to end transit

lanes and concerned with losing parking spaces and the only businesses ever and>> an i am not sure there is a lane to take. we had this debate with a sickle traveling lane and a parking lane westbound and two lanes of

travel to put that in and the other thing that came up in 2016 and is just as true now is it's not just drop off but pick up and loading and there are so many businesses that do depend on whether commercial loading or passenger loading being a vital part of the operation and even if you got rid of every parking meter, the curb needs to be accessible to vehicles and if not, it will be still full with vehicles violating that. and this is a little out of the parking but that thinking in 2016 is probably more the case now. an aif we find that some of the most hot spots where where we are not proposing a transit only

lane, we will be monitoring this with some ability to come back and revisit the transit hot spots. >> i think yes, yes. >> i think we had a motion and a second. secretary, call the roll please. [roll call] >> the motion passes. >> great. can you please call the next item. >> item 13, authorizing the director to execute contract number 2020-65-fta and 2020-68-fta for as-need transit corridor planning and engineering services with hntb corporation and nn engineering, respectively, each contract in

an amount not to exceed $3 million and for a three-year term with two optional one-year extensions. >> wonderful. we have liz here to present. please go ahead. >> good afternoon, vice chair eaken and directors. i am liz brieson, the staff and major planning core manager to award contracts to two different firms, hntb and nelson nybird for as-needed transit and engineering services. these contracts are envisioned a z a key way for us toed a vance the transit priorities that have been identified through the connect sf transit strategy and expanding rail system of the busiest destinations. these are long-term endeavors

with getting the project ready to enter environmental review. this contract followed a competitive procurement process and we released an rfp in march and had three firms respond by the deadline and m.t.a. and spark sfaf conducted interviews of all three firms in june. the contracts are offered to the two highest ranked and the contract for 20% goal for small business enterprises and both teams have identified a deep and firm commit tonight meet the goals. each contract nod to exceed $3 million with the option to extend to two one-year terms. i will lever it that and happy to leave any questions. >> are there questions from colleagues before we got to public comment?

>> this is the first consultings contract i am being asked to vote on. how do we determine when we use the internal planners getting money to out to hire external consultants? >> sure. once we have identified a need for work, we identify in house if possibility because it is always easier. they are envisioning a large role for our staff in developing projects like these, but specialized expertise areas we don't have and geotechnical skill sets and with the transit projects going on across the country because we don't do to follow a process through the

civil service commission to contracted out some of the work and say we can do this in house and that goes through the process to make sure we are not missing expertise that we would otherwise be able to bring to the contract internally. >> forgive me if this is in the staff report, i apologize. it was 151 pages long. i don't have it fully memorized. and $3 million to each of the consulting firms to review the feasibility after to handful of projects, are they, going to giver us a ro rt that you should or shouldn't do this? this is how much it will cost? what are the clear deliverables after the millions of dollars get spent? >> this is as-needed contract and when a specific project wants to tap into this project, there is a task order to lay out

what the deliverables are. this is not yet specified because the projects aren't totally scoped. in general at the stage of work we want to be in to finish these kind of projects would be having alternatives drawn up to a level of detail and enough of a planning process in a public outreach project and buy-in these are the right alternatives to go through this project. >> they contract the e.i.r. for us if needed. >> this is a presur cor to the e.i.r. >> an i know there is more board members who have more familiarity with that, but i appreciate that. thank you so much. >> great. any other questions before we go to public comment? seeing none, i would like to open up public comment on item 13 please. >> for those on the line, press

star 0 if you want like to comment. please go ahead. >> you can hear me now? >> i can. >> great. david pillpal. i did read through the 151 pages, but there you go. at least two former city employees are listed here. john haley is not one of them. again, on the question of conflict of direct, does director tumlin have an conflict of interest? this is the firm he used to work for and i don't know if he retains shares or ownership interest in the firm and i don't know how long he has to not be involved in contracting with the firm and if he does have connection, did he not not participate and does this need to get delegated to the director or the designee and also

wondering, where is hayden mill sner maybe he is back in school. anyway. those are my comments on item 13. >> i would wager mr. miller is riding transit around the bay area. that would be my guess. any other public comment on item 13? >> it is really just about the money and the folly of all this that we have a process that precedes to get ready for an e.i.r. and all i know is that it just sounds like a lot of oh my god, what are we doing here? on this agenda, there are very few items and a quarter billion dollars. how much has been spent on bike lanes?

i don't know. but it's not any sizable fraction of that and i think if we're trying to change how we move everything, everyone through the city, we really need to start looking at how we spend our money. and i don't think it's been spent on the things that are going to speed people through the city in vision zero and we need to think from a transit first aspect and stop with consulting everyone about is it okay if we take your parking spaces on 16th street? please, please, direct heminger, you said it. think radically. it is time to change how we do things. please, i'm begging you. thank you. awe thank you. next speaker please.

>> directors, is there a motion? >> move approval. >> great. we have a motion and a second. please call the roll. >> on that motion, vice chair eaken? >> aye. direct heminger. director lai? >> aye. [roll call vote. the motion passes. please call item 14. >> item 14 authorizing the director to execute modification number 14 to contract 1289 van ness corridor transit improvement project with walsh construction company to perform various roadway work in the amount of $717,877.56 and for a

total contract not to exceed $222,465,143 and to make environmental review findings. >> please go ahead and present. >> thank you. so i am sure we are all aware of how important the van ness project is and very close to completion and with the revenue service in spring of the coming near. this contract mod is cleaning up a number of items and work that has been added and completed in the project work that was deleted to speed up construction or because we realize we could save money but not doing it and it wasn't necessary and toe l

thats $717,000. the biggest piece of it is additional concrete paving and the next biggest additional piece is training, contractor personnel to do the job and to pay them to do the jobs of polling and there are a large number of other items and some sfpuc. >> thank you. given this is the last item, i would like to go to public comment and then director comment and question. on the line, press 1 and then 0 to comment on item 14. >> you have two questions remaining. >> david pillpal. two items.

page two of the staff report refers to a september public officials brief. i have never heard of that before. please send me a copy and as i mentioned and item 12, i would like the budget page to conclude a line item for the subject action and would be a lot easier on the construction award or modifications to see where the this goes. >> i am wondering if this is not a cost overrun. >> does that conclude your comment? >> yes. awe thank you. next speaker please.

>> hi. it's stacy randecker again just thinking about when this project will actually be be completed and where a woman was killed last week. and i don't know how we're going to slow cars around and that we spent that money and don't have any reduction on the deaths on the road waist. and what else are we going to do? how could we possibly stake a

stand? how can we say no? ask the staph to do better and why we don't have -- ask staff why we don't have more to show for it. what are we doing here as a city? if we want do it with all the smart people we have and the goodwill in a progressive city, how are they going to do in it another place. instead, we are kind of a joke. >> help us to help them be a better city.

>> i don't know who raised their hand first. what is the verdict? >> director heminger, sounds good. >> peter, if i get your math right, the $700,000 increase is a net increase and is offset by another couple hundred thousand of savings, right? the gross increase is and give us insight on how and why you came upon the off yets and when you came in with the cost increase and you came up with $300 grand in savings. why couldn't it be 600? >> the reason it couldn't be

more because in the end we have the final goals of the project to complete and we have to reach the performance requirements. >> so this is scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of offsets? >> i don't know if it was scraping the bottom of the barrel. i am not anticipating a lot more offsets and the m.t.a. gets a significant chunk of the savings with the cost sharing agreement to get in the 54-inch reinforced concrete sewer line, there were a lot of interferences and a lot

of utilities to relocate and work around. we decided with p.u.c. leadership that there were a number of years measured of life still in it measured in decades. the project team decided to eliminate the line without a loss of performance and the

24-inch water line and saw the level of effort to trench across market street there was issues with needing the special connectors to the u water line to the existing ones and the age of the lines. they made the determination that the line would last long enough in the condition for the infrastructure project at that location. >> let me interrupt you there if i could, peter, and i will conclude with a comment. earlier you mentioned learning lessons from this project and

where he or she is going to bust the budget, prort of the process of filling the whole ought to be, are there offsetting reductions in the scope of the project that we can pursue at the same time. and not everything is essential in a project at large to give the example of the ability with the project andic that is a lesson learned for me so that wouldn't be a bad discipline to have the directors handled. thank you, with one is

everything specific and the existing public awareness and with the first rains we get a lot of potholes and they started opening up on van ness avenue t decision was made between the agencies that rather than have a public works contractor that this work would be given to walsh and added up to $10 #

o,000 over the years rather than public works contractors come out and do it. >> i feel like i have to ask. do we know how many potholes $10 # o,000 worth of repairs gets you? it seems like a lot of money, though it has been a long project. so i could go back, but it's two miles of four lanes of traffic, four miles long over four years. that is very heavily traveled potholes measured in the dozens if not low 100s. >> i don't want to get into that with this. and we would haven't agreed to

the price after the first year and the second piece on the cctv poles and foundation. what is the cctv for? and are we on the hook for maintaining the cameras and the whole system as well? >> they are sfmta infrastructure and they will be the responsibility of the sfmta to maintain. the cctv will feedback a problem not put in areas susceptible to

potholes because we will have one hole big loop back. >> it is not the last contract modification we will be putting on. >> thanks. those are my questions. >> a director lay, please. to the first question that because we are taking over the d.p.w. to break the cost or cost share, right? >> on the additional road base.

>> great. so i totally concur with director heminger's comments on value engineering and the projects when we are outside original budget. i am very glad to see that we are finally, although this project within the latest budget for the project and within our contingencies. and if staff could confirm where we are with that remaining percentage, that would be great. >> and the project control and my understanding is that we are

down to 3.3 million in contingency and we have an understanding of the contract mods that were added or deleted over the course of the project. with what the costs are right now on the cost of everything throughout the hearing and the point how is it possible that potholes cost $100,000.

construction is super expensive but especially in this town. we want to pay everybody a fair living wage. there is a lot of state and local costs of construction and just as a remainder of the time that we are in overall in the construction agency and i am happy to make a motion if you are ready. >> we have a motion. is there a second? >> seconded. >> we have a motion and a second. i want to ask one question given we had a pedestrian fatality so recently, five days ago. i did want to pick up on that

problth and i understand from previous staff with the safety outcomes. >> an i would like to add to that not during work hours and my understanding is that didn't have anything to do with pedestrian visibility to improve

the visibility and engaging in the roadway narrowing to engage in that traffic safety. is there anything you wanted to add to that, director? >> please call the roll. [roll call on item 14]

thank you. that motion passes. >> okay. that concludes the business report of today. i wanted to adjourn today's meeting as chair borden mentioned in honor of three longtime san francisco taxi driver who is recently passed away. joseph tracy, dave longmere and john pinman. the next meetings are scheduled for november 2 and 16. and with that, we are adjourned. thank you, everyone, for your participation. have a great evening. >> thank you.

>> good morning. welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, monday october 25, 2021. i am the chair aaron peskin joined by supervisor mandelman and chan. >> to participate through video conference as if physically