>> hello. secretary silva, can you please call the roll? >> thank you. [roll call] madame chair, you have a quorum. >> go on to our next item. >> item number 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. we are in a virtual meeting. approval of minutes for the october 19 regular meeting. for members of the public, the phone number is

888-808-6929 and the access code is 9961164. >> are there any additions or corrections that you've noticed? seeing none, we'll open it up to public comment. moderator, are there callers on the line? operator: you have one question remaining. >> yes. please. >> caller: can you hear me now? >> we can. [laughter] >> caller: ok. the good news is i just got home. the bad news is i don't have access to the computer right this second. so, if i find anything on the minutes, i can communicate that to secretary silva and approve them with, you know, some limited discussion, if there is a typo, that would be much appreciated. keep up the good work. thanks. >> thank you. moderator, are there additional callers on the line? operator: you have zero questions remaining.

>> we'll close public comment. directors, the items before you. >> so moved. >> second. >> secretary silva, can you please call the roll? >> on the motion to approve the minutes -- [roll call] the minutes are approved. >> that brings us to our next item. secretary silva? >> item number 5, communications. >> yes. even though city hall is open, due to covid-19 health emergency, we are still meeting virtually with all members of staff and the public participating today by teleconference. and our public notice on this meeting on our web page we asked the public to participate remotely by writing to the board or writing and e-mail message.

we have received those commence and we appreciate them and thank you for honoring our request. for those who haven't written who would like to write or would like to write after this meeting, you can reach us at mtaboard@sfmta.com. while this technology allows us for holding the meetings, there are multiple platforms that we ire using. the difference between sfgovt and microsoft teams are not interequity connect sod there might be silences and gaps as staff is transitioning between technology and speakers. please know we're doing our best to keep these things coordinated so we can receive your input. if we lose the connection during the meeting we beal sure to pause and stop until that connection has been re-established. again, i want to thank everyone on our team who has been behind the scenes, all of these months making these meetings possible and know that many of us look forward to returning in person. but until that time, thank you for your continued work and service. secretary silva?

>> this meeting is being televised by sfgov-tv. please be aware that there is a time lag between the actual meeting and what members of the prubl seeing on sfgov tv. if you are watching and wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when items are called. the phone number is 888-808-6929 and access code is 9961164. to address the board, dial 1, and then 0. please make sure that you're in a quiet location, that no tvs, radios or computers streaming the meeting. this will reduce an echo so the board can hear you. you have two minutes to provide public comment and i will announce a 30-second warning when the time is up. item number 6, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> director yekutiel? >> thank you. a quick commendation. i just want to commend, i

guess, for doing what we could and working as hard as we could to make sure that outside lands had the service that it needed this weekend. i know that we, especially over the last few days, have been extra tasked. from the reports that i got from outside lands folks, the festival was able to divert a fair amount of buses and extra trains to make sure that people can get in and out and i just want to thank the agency for makinging that effort. because i know it helped a lot of folks and i just want the to thank them for that work. >> thank you, mr. yekutiel. i will echo that as having been in attendance on sunday and there were operators diverted to help ensure that the crowds and masses were able to get back to transit points around the city. directors, any other questions or comments to offer at this time? director eakin? >> directors, colleagues, i just wanted to let you all

know since our last meeting, i believe, director heminger attended the rapid cutting for the geary rapid promise, which is a wonderful celebration held in japan town peace plaza and a strong turnout from the community. just to say a few words about that. the staff highlighted that there's been a 20% time savings on the 38-r with just a quick [inaudible] aspect to the project alone. with the full evaluation coming, we could see even more impressive numbers from that. we also celebrated the pedestrian safety act of the project. and in particular highlighted a blind resident who is now, for the first time, since he moved to the area, able to cross geary street safely because of the pedestrian improvements that were made by this project. it was just a really meaningful example of a way in which this benefits people's lives ton ground. i want to thank liz

bryson and the whole entire team. they will deliver on time and on budget and for the mayor with her wonderful work as well. thank you, madame chair. >> thank you. any additional comments? seeing none, i will open it up to public comment. this is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on the items either just discussed, the geary works that was discussed by director eakins or the outside land transportation service. moderator? operator: you have one question remaining. >> please go ahead. >> caller: dave philpo again. i wanted to agree with the comment and thank ms. bryson for her continuing work on the geary project. thank you very much. >> thank you.

>> moderator, are there any additional callers on the line? operator: you have one question remaining. >> next speaker, please. >> caller: yes. hi. this is barry toronto. we talked about the outside lands transportation service. i want to let you know that you [inaudible] from serving that event. we had a wonderful e-mail blast sent by phil inkarenna. great job. excellent information. but it was false. because on sunday they took away our [inaudible]. they put buses there. we had no place to queue up during the event. they put buses there. and i think i got a double parking ticket and i was talking to a -- an inspector who was extremely rude to me. you don't want us serving

these event because i will talk about it later in public xhefnlt but i want to let you know regarding the outside lands, we -- people were being faced with pricing that was out of this world. and what did you do? you barred taxis from serving the event. you barred taxis. what happened? there should be a complete investigation as to why you removed our cab stand that made it easy for people to get cabs and not pay surge pricing. i want to let you know that this -- this -- this organization does not have the taxi industry's back like ronald lee and his statement at the trial against the credit union. he says we've never not had the [inaudible]. well, last weekend was an example of where they prevented taxis from serving the event. thank you very much. >> 30 seconds. >> thank you, mr. toronto.

moderator, are there additional callers on the line? operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> with that, we'll close public comment and moves on to our next item. >> item number 7, the director's report. >> mr. tumlin. >> thank you. so, we're going to start the director's report in a couple of special recognitions. also i want to elevate what chair borden and director yekutiel said about service this weekend. we had been concerned, given everything that was going on this weekend, and i just want to give a lot of praise, the planning and transit service team who are able to deliver an extraordinary amount to outside lands and the chase center to our parking control officers who kept the streets moving remarkably smoothly and also to the street team. i don't know how many of you were out there in your

neighborhoods, but halloween on our slow street was epic. i have been going to testify halloween in san francisco for the last 35 years and this is my favorite halloween ever. so, really, really proud of all of our teams for being a i believe to deliver a successful weekend. next up, i want to give another special recognition. in order to do that, i nao ed to invite in my special guest. hold on one moment. please come in. so, with us here, and if you guys -- this way, we can stand here. this right here. we have peter biyou, local president and roger marenko, roger dennis and one of our operators, sheldon seymour. so, we're giving an award of recognition to mr. seymour,

who operates a bus, and on the morning of september 7, i believe, around 11:00 in the morning? >> yes. >> so, our operator was driving the 31 balboa and noticed a little girl like 6 or 7 -- >> yeah. about 5, 6. >> 5 or 6 years old who was walking alone and his training taught him to be scanning the street and look out for things that might be an issue like a small child that might come into the street. so he spotted her and realized there was no adult anywhere around. so, he slowed down to check out what the situation was and realized that this might be an issue of concern. got ahead of her, pulled over and then you invited her on to the bus. >> yeah. i pumped the brakes and cut her off. going into traffic. and i cut her off and jumped in front of her and reached out my hand and she ran right into the my arms. i picked her up and took her to the bus.

>> exactly. so, on the bus, he called the transportation management center who then called the police department. the police department was already on the lookout for a child who was missing from one of the local schools. they came immediately and were able to reunite her with the school and her guardian and it is this sort of eyes on the street, just paying attention to what's going on with san francis cancel -- franciscans and those vulnerable people that we're very much in awe of mr. seymour's work and want to offer him this award. >> thank you. very much. appreciate it. [applause] >> roger seymour, you know, i could go out and do a long drawn-out speech as i usually do. but this time i'm just going to stick to the script here and i'm simply going to read

this because it is pretty much explains crystal clear how and what we think of you and your actions. so, it says "due to your fast thinking and your willingness to render assistance, you were able to save the life of a young child whose life was put in danger when she was separated from her caretakers. as a transit operator, you wear many different hats throughout day and on this particular day, you wore the hat of a guardian angel and proeke thing the life of a khailds. therefore, transport union local 258 hereby recognizes you for your heroic actions. congratulations, sheldon seymour." >> thank you very much. i appreciate that. that is touching. >> congratulations, sheldon. >> would you like to say anything to our board? or board members, do you have any questions for mr. seymour? >> no, just thank you, guys, for recognizing me. and i truly appreciate this. and i would keep it to my heart. i really appreciate these awards. >> thank you for your -- thank you for your swift, quick thinking and actionful

that is amazing that this child was able to be reunited with the school and her family and those people involved. so, i want to thank you. this sort of service, we're so lucky for. most people in san francisco, their only real interaction with the employees or with you all, our operators, so you really showed the heart and soul of our city that we have among our members. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you all for coming in. >> next up, tom mcguire would like to offer some special recognition to departing director sarah jones. tom? >> director. thank you. sarah jones, putting herself on camera for a moment. so, as many of you know, sarah joans leaving the sfmta after five-years to take a job as the assistant director of the marin county departments of community development. really exciting move for her. and i don't think -- i didn't want her to leave without

thanking her in front of this board because her work has been so instrumenttal in ways that you see and sometimes don't see. sarah joined me at sfmta in august of 2016 and before joining us, she has been a statewide leader in the fight to streamline california environmental quality act, to remove outdated concepts like traffic level of service and to elevate real meaningful transportation metrix like vehicles while traveling. and that's certainly made your [inaudible] a little more straight forward. certainly focused on that and our discussions with this board on the things that really matter. and we're grateful of that before she got here. but then she joined us in 2016, she championed all sorts of short and long-term planning efforts, many of which have been moving through the agendas over the years. development agreements. launching our new climate action plan, partnership with the department of environment. a new focus on community-based planning.

something that puts residents first in the planning process and continuing to make sure that people in our decision-making here is handled smoothly and professionally and in concert with her former employers at the planning department. i hope you'll thank me in wishing sarah well. thank you for your service at the sfmta over the last five years. >> thank you so much, sair rafm i'm particularly sad because i got to work with you at the planning department first where you were for 11 years and then came over and did a fantastic job and really helped to elevate things at the sfmta. a really important role because working with the planning department as well. so your big picture vision and guidance around the larger landscape of the city and planning direction and looking at how we can work with our transportation side to bring this together has

been comparative and the work that you've done will affect us for the next 50 years. i can't think enough for all your service. sad to see you leave the city family as they say but wish you well in your next endeavors and want to give you the opportunity to speak. >> thanks. should i go? thanks so much for the opportunity. so i -- you know, early in my time as an sfmta, a colleague from public works said to me, you know, sarah, when you finish a plan, you just need to put it on the shelf. no, that is not happening on my watch. and it really crystallized what i needed to do. but i do see how people feel that way because really too

often, planning is divorced from and really not informed by the realities implementation and that is really the great transformational gift that i feel like i've gotten on working in this role. it has made me a far better planner to work in an operational and implementation agency. it can be really abstract. bring up a lot of stuff that is really inconvenient and has to be about bringing in, you know, interests that go beyond transportation operations. but in the sfmta, we're able to do that from a place of recognizing how important it really is that solutions work on the ground and really how much it takes to do that, how much is involved in that. so i have to say with all respect to my colleagues in other departments, including my former colleagues at the planning department, i think

on the whole the best planing in san francisco is happening at the sfmta. what we're doing here, that's right, we're taking a rigorous approach to identifying problems of these unprecedented times. and getting creative and effective in finding ways to tackle them and that kind of spirit and approach that i plan to bring to marin county. don't tell them that, but that's what i'm going to do. you know, the agency director in marin, she's telling me about how much support there is for planning and for staff from the board of supervisors there. i have to say, unfortunately i don't feel that's the case with our elected officials here in san francisco. but it is the case with this board and that has been really important. i started looking for a job outside of san francisco because i didn't feel that

there was support to do what needs to happen here in san francisco. just in light of how difficult it is to take action at this time. and i didn't feel like city staff is always supported and empowered to carry out our responsibilities to the public in this city. we need to be stewards of our community, especially those who don't have the resources or the influence. and we need to actively manage [inaudible] that's happening and needs to be happening. i don't think i'm alone in feeling this way among city staff and i don't think i'm alone in feeling this way among all of you, either. so please keep doing what you do because you play such an important role in transcending the politics in favor of taking action that san francisco needs and deserves when it comes to transportation. so thank you, again, for everything and we'll be closely following all of this happening here from over the

bridge in marin. >> thank you. directors, i know this is a little border, but yekutiel? >> and i'm in an active construction zone and there is a bunch of background noise. i'll make my comments short. one of the great privileges of being on this board is meeting and getting to know the incredible staff, especially the senior staff. and sarah, i just want to say it has been a huge honor geting to know you. you're tenacious, you're brilliant. we've been lucky to have you and marin's gain is our loss. thank you for all of your contributions to us. and i wish you all the best. >> thank you. director hinze? >> i second those comments. one of the pleasures of being on the board is getting to know our staff.

i really appreciate sarah's constant professionalism. and various requests for things that can be very technical and also doing a very contentious project that's making it rel straonlts what's on the ground. and i particular appreciate your constant willingness to want to focus on the disability community and make sure we have inclusive projects and make sure that our efforts are really reflective of all communities and offer to people who need our services the most. so i really want to honor

your contributions and, like i said, marin -- or like he said, marin's gain is our loss and we wish you well. >> thank you. director heminger, dr. lai and dr. eakins. please go ahead. >> sarah, you know, your past work trying to make ceqa work better, is, as our former governor used to say, the lord's work. and talking marin county into building more housing is [inaudible], too. so i wish you well. and don't let him get you down. >> i've known you for a long time now. since 2008 or something when

we used to work at then mraiing department together and i would have to say that over all of these years that i observed you, you have consistently been in the same path as a manager, not just a great technical special itself. -- specialist. but you are really good at building change and we will need that of you up in marin because there is a huge part of the housing and transportational development that we need to see up there. so super excited for the region and for california that you are actually taking all of your amazing expertise and convincing our neighbors a little north of us to also do part of their share. so i'm actually personally very excited for you. i think you will do amazing things and amplify everything you've done here locally for reasons that, quite frankly, need expertise like yours.

good luck, farewell and i'll be seeing you again. >> and i'll finally pile on to say that your work, beyond the level of service is heroic and will continue to serve our community first, for decades and also wanted to note that the fairness and commitment to really listening to all stakeholders that's been in evidenced by your behavior and performance on both the highway and j.f.k. it's really deep listening to the community, listening to all different perspectives and working hard to find a path forward that honors and reflects all of that community and it is a real hallmark and testament to the value of the sfmta staff. thank you for your work and best of luck. >> thank you so much. this is all very meaningful. >> we've got everybody and

i'll let you continue. >> thank you, director. so on for more somber news. vision zero fatality reports, we had three fatalities in this reporting period. on october 20, we had a single vehicle rollover at jamestown near bilawal,. the accidents were in the vehicle. three occupants were in the vehicle and one was killed in the rollover. our rapid response results are still pending. on october 29, there was also a motorcyclist fatality at 16th and harassson after a collision with a modify at the intersection. details about the causality of that crash are still emerging and that will influence the rapped ri spokens. timely there was a motorist fatality on -- three on portland near the bridge. the rider fell and was sideswiped by another motorcycle rider.

details on this are also emerging and so is r.t. rapid response recommendation. another big topic that has been in the news lately that we've been preparing for for months is the implementation of the city's mandatory vaccination policy. on monday. as of yesterday, 95% of sfmta staff are fully vaccinated and 98% are either fully or partly vaccinated. unfortunately we still have, as of yesterday, 98 employees who are noncompliant and another 96 employees who are pursuing reasonable accommodation requests and so that means that we have a significant number of workforce that we're not able to show up for work. and just impacted critically our transit service and our parking control functions rather significantly.

we're trying to process the reasonable accommodation requests very quickly in collaboration with the city attorney's office. requestss that are denied, employees will have another chance to get themselves vaccinated and hopefully come back to our workforce. meanwhile, we have 110 transit operators who were not able to come to work yesterday. we had time to prepare for that and made some extra strategic services about what services to cut. we heard loudly and clearly from our winter service planning efforts that the -- the lower frequency lines that serve important destinations in the city, that we should not be cutting any lines and, instead, we chose to trim frequency on our highest frequency route. we cut high frequency fort runs of our longer runs, like

the 14 mission so we're still able to provide abundant service on the corridors but there was some additional crowding on the most crowded workings of the corridor this is morning and that will continue over the week. i'm really proud of the work that the transportation management centers and transit planners and inspectors and supervisors have done following the realtime data in order to move transit services around where they were most needed because, of course, monday was also the day that city employees started coming back to office work and many downtown employers were doing the same thing. in the meantime, we're offering a variety of new incentives to our transit operators to encourage more of them to take overtime and to work longer hours. in addition, we had about 38 control officers who were not able to come to work on

monday and we've been working through those issues. to focus on revenue. on the next topic is another award. this is for our cpnc decision for some new bus lifts that they managed the construction of at the railyard. this is the presidio bus lift promise and received a citywide collaborative partnering award. it was essentially the replacement of five existing bus lifts. the devices -- there you go -- that lift the bus up to allow our mechanicks to get in and underneath the bus. you can see here that the previous lifts were really tight and caused strain on our workers, made our maintenance work less efficient. the new modern bus lift in addition to not breaking down. . significantly improved

workforce ergonomics made our workers work more efficient and allowed us to deliver better maintenance for buses more quickly allowing more buses to be back in service more quickly. the project involves a lot of really creative, innovative engineering approaches. in order to be able to allow it to be complete on time and on budget without disrupting the existing maintenance operations at presidio yard. we're proud of the entire team for successfully delivering that promise on time and on budget and for the work. and my final topic is a little bit more updates on the taxing the value program. some of you had questions at our last board meeting. we'll be preparing a much larger, deep dive into the topic of taxing the medallion program and ensuring a strong and viable future for the regulated taxi industry in san francisco. in the meantime, i wanted to

give you some updates to clarify some issues that you may have heard. so, the last several board meetings, we heard from many taxi medallion holders during public comment and i want to make assurances that we're listening to them and to you as well. in october a jury found that the sfmta did not breach its lender agreements with the san francisco federal credit union. now that there is finally a verdict, we can refocus our undivided attention on supporting the purchase metal i don't know holders and drivers. this is something that we were not able to do while the litigation was under way. although the credit union has suggested medallion holders would have received money if the credit union prevailed at trial, this is simply not true. if the jury had awarded the credit union the bailout that the credit union was seeking, such a verdict would not have required the credit union to forgive any metal i don't know loan.

during settlement negotiations for the credit union, the sfmta put a generous offer on the table to provide loan relief to purchase medallion holders. tufrl credit union was not interested. the verdict should cause the credit union to reassess. sfmta remains commited to developing solutions to support purchase medallion holders in collaboration with the credit union. the market for purchase medallions is currently stuck because the sfmta cannot lower the $250,000 price without the credit union's consent. the sfmta has tried to discuss lowering the price with the credit union since 2017 and thus far the credit union has not been willing to work with the sfmta. so i want to personally take this opportunity to call on the leadership of the san francisco federal credit union to work with us on

positive solutions to support the taxi industry and personal -- and purchase medallion holders. and that is all i have today for my director's report. thank you. >> thank you. directors, are there questions? questions related to -- director hinze? >> my question is on the vaccinations. that is great news. considering where we were a month ago. it's great news that the number has come down so significantly. my question is, were those 90-plus people fully vaccinated, what's the process that they go through if they

do get vaccinatedable then how do we get them back on boarded and will there be hearings before they get terminated or what is -- what sort of process, someone could go a little more into detail on that. >> thank you for that question. this has been the topic of much discussion these last couple of weeks. so to make sure that i give you the most up-to-date answer, i'd like to have our chief people officer, kim ackerman, speak if she is available. >> hi, everyone. i appreciate that question. that is a great question. theres a due process that sfmta employees will receive once they're given their intent to release. so, depending on their m.o.u., there are several steps that we'll go through. one is our operators can go through interactive conference and a. that, go through a [inaudible] series and then procedures of step two based on request.

so we're working through those interactive conferences right now. the l.r. team which is local 200 and so depending on what union they're in, but we're making sure that everyone gets their due process. if at any point during that due process, an employee could get their vaccination, then we'll bring them back to work. that the point, everything is in abeyance and throw everything away and come back into the workplace. so that process was puting them in place and we're going through that with several [inaudible]. >> ok. great.

do personally vaccinated employees -- difference between fully vaccinated and partially vaccinated so the duties they can perform, or no? >> well, it's how they perform them, i guess. so, any employee that's partially vaccinated, means they have either one shot of pfizer or moderna, if they -- they can come back into the workplace but they do have to remain fully masked. if they are inside the workplace, then they would be able to work remotely for three days and then the second is that employees were asked to come into the workplace for two days a week. before those two days, they

would then, according to the city's vaccination policy, would have to take leave for those two days and continue to work remotely for three and then take leave for two until they become fully vaccinated. >> and my question is with the interactive processes, they are not working while they're -- this process, whatever, this process they're going through is under way. correct? >> that is correct. they are not working. that is correct. >> ok. that concludes my questions. thank you, sir. >> thank you. i think director heminger was second. >> thank you, madame chair. i have two questions. i think the first one is for our council and that is whether there is an appeal likely and credit union case and, if so, how much did that

elongate our path to try to get a final resolution on the matter. >> thank you, director heminger. and deputy city attorney. yes. the verdict in the credit union case -- there is no [inaudible] at one point in time, i believe it's 60 days and then the appeal normally would take at least a year to work its way through the process. >> thank you. and, jeff, i -- the second question is for you. and it is back to halloween. i wonder if you had any photographic evidence of your own costume on halloween. i understand it had a transportation theme. anything you can share with us today? >> it did, indeed. you can follow me on twitter to see my van ness busway halloween outfit.

>> what about for those of us who don't tweet? >> we can

>> is that offer back on the ?aibl you made a comment when you had a chance to reconsider. i'm wondering if we're having active negotiations with them and what m.t.a. is prepared to offer. >> so, the credit union chose not to accept our settlement offer so the case went to trial and perhaps you can speak to this more precisely? >> yeah. i just wanted to note that, you know, director tumlin if you want to add, but that any offer that we might put back out is probably not publicly available at this point. and director tumlin has a chance to restart the negotiations. >> that's ok.

we'll be starting from scratch as the case went all the way through trial to a jury. sdmrek -- correct? >> that is correct. thank you, chair. >> sure. sure. >> actually the first legislationive [inaudible] goes back to february. not january. sorry about that. >> thank you. >> director eakin? >> thank you. just one question. for director tumlin. thank you for the update on the operator shortage and how it is affecting our service. seem to have a recollection we have an operator graduation ceremony this week. is that a new class of operators graduating going to help with the reference at all? >> we are graduating a new class of operators and i will be there on friday. we're very excited about that and there may be some additional special guest

stars and we're expecting to be able to graduate another class about every six weeks so. so, yes. we will eventually recover from any loss of operators but sets us back months in terms of our recovery. and we want to, again, make sure that every single one of those operators has the opportunity to get vaccinated because that is the best way for all of us to protect ourselves, protect our families and protect the public and we will easily welcome those operators back if and when they choose to get themselves vaccinated and for those of them who have made this choice for personal reasons, we're also providing the usual wellness package at the time of separation to help them deal with that loss.

>> thank you, madame chair. >> thank you, director yekutiel. >> thank you very much, madame chair. two questions, director tumlin. i know that transit operators were some of the first folks to be eligible for vaccines and i'm wondering, you know a lot of people it has been over six months and if the agency or the city has a policy or will be running into the same problem with requiring people to get booster shots and not everyone getting theirs. >> so, kim ackerman can correct me if i'm wrong, but right now there is no policy. either at the sfmta or city around mandatory booster shots. our only requirement is people get their -- either single dose of j&j or the two-dose, you know, complement of moderna or pfizer. >> ok. and my second question, we may be covering this on the vision zero strategy update. but i'm wondering, i noticed two of the vehicles you mentioned in our vision zero

updates were motorcycles, if i'm not mistaken. do we have specific tools to address motorcycle deaths or is there best practices that we know from other places? >> so, the sfmta has historically done some successful motorcycle safety training courses out of the delaware reservoir. part of our work is about safety training. much of -- i mean, you will have noticed throughout the vision zero reports from the beginning of covid, we've had a huge uptick in single vehicle crash fatalities. and red lights running intersection, crashes and other crashes that are involved of motorist behavior. so, one of the things that -- frankly halloween weekend demonstrated, we need to get back to whatever the new normal is going to look like.

and start supporting the mental health of san franciscans. one way that people sometimes work out their frustrations or anger is, unfortunately, behind the wheel of a motorcycle. -- a motor vehicle. and so the solutions to that problem are complex and society-wide and it is one of the reasons why the mayor, i think, has been pushing so hard at bringing the workers back to work and putting ambassadors out on the streets which we made an announcement about today and hosting events like phoenix day and promoting stuff like, you know, neighborhood halloween festivals. we need to come back together as a city. >> and then just one specific one about the bridge that goes on 3rd street over to the bayview.

is that the bridge? >> that is the 3rd street bridge. there is a parallel bridge at illinois street one block to the east. >> ok. is it -- is it also covered with metallic gradings like the third street bridge is, do you know? >> i believe it is, yeah. >> just because i know it's no secret that i also ride basically a motorcycle and i know that on those gradings, specifically it's very easy to slip and fall and anytime i go over it, i'm worried within an inch of my death. so i know the team is looking into what potentially could be done. i'm personally familiar with how scary it is to use a ladder over those bridges. thanks. >> thank you. directors, i think we covered everybody. director lai, your hand is up. is that from earlier? you're showing frozen on my screen.

yes. ok. great. with that, i guess i'll open it up to public comment. it's time for members of the public to comment on the director's report and the corresponding comments by the board of directors. if you want to be in the queue, press 1, 0. operator: you have five questions remaining. >> first speaker, please. >> caller: can you hear me now? >> we can, mr. philpa. >> caller: great. and a 30-second warning would be excellent. so, three points here. sfgov tv had audio but not video for the first part of the meeting. that's been fixed. but really should be avoided in the future. they've had that problem several times recently. i don't believe it's their staff. i believe it's something with [inaudible]. but that should be resolved. in ub two, i whole heartedly agree with what sarah jones said and what was said about her. i thought she was sarah jones, but apparently today she was being frank and honest. we all have roles to play

here. staff operates, manage, plan and recommend. the public to comment. and the board to set policy and govern. staff need to be heard, need to be honest and open and supported in their work. otherwise, more responsive people like sarah will leaves and we'll all be worse for it. there is a lot to think about here. it's good for her, but a precautionary tale for all of us. and, third, on vaccination, i do not understand how an employee who is able to drive, maintain or do other work, lastly, is now unable to perform that work this week. i think there is enough alternate work or light-duty assignments that staff can perform. the public cost to impose discipline, separate and then recruit, hire and train a replacement seems incredibly high and avoidable and unwarranted, especially in this labor market. i really -- >> 30 seconds.

>> caller: thanks. i really think we should have come one a different strategy on the vaccine mandate. thank you for listening. >> thank you. moderator, next caller on the line, please. >> caller: you have six questions remaining. >> next speaker, please. >> caller: hi. this is jo. can you hear me? >> yes, i can. >> caller: hello? >> we can hear you. >> caller: i'm going to be brief. i support what director tumlin is doing with the vaccine mandate and i really appreciate the high quality of services. i do hope there is some flexibility for those that have exemptions and deep concerns about the vaccines. i personally got my booster and my vaccine. but, you know, this labor market is really hard. they have the service on the road for everyone. so if there are safe places for people to work while they

work through getting hopefully arriving at that decision to get the vaccine, that should be encouraged. but i appreciate what director tumlin's doing and i appreciate his support for priorities like integrated fare systems and make sure there's regional backstopping for revenue. you have a system down with muni and i hope you keep [inaudible] every single day. that is my comment. thank you for having me. >> thank you. moderator, next caller on the line. >> caller: you have seven questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: yes. good afternoon again. this is barry toronto. i want to be a little more blunt, but we cannot watch the meeting on the line. for some reason the second channel on sfgov tv is not functioning properly. i hope you can get this

corrected because some people are not knowing to just listen on the phone. but we should be able to watch the meeting as well. so, you are kind of violating open meeting laws by this spotty reception that we're getting through the network. regarding what director tumlin said about purchase medallions. the solutions should be worked with the taxi industry themselves and any moves that [inaudible] does, that should not harm the rest of the industry. remember, if your only incentive is to help purchase medallion holders then you are hurting the rest of the drivers who do not have access to purchase medallions, taxi cab and also those that do want to purchase a medallion, they will want to work the airport mainly and not work the city. right now there is a huge

need for taxi services in the city particularly during the time when surge pricing and the other services go into effect. and what you do previously by purchase medallions at the airport -- >> 30 seconds. >> caller: plus taxis is actually hurting the taxi industry and it is hurting the service in the city. and -- i'm sorry, but i think that i'm certain these moves are improving taxi service. so, your first priority is to make sure that people can get taxis, can get served equally as well in the city as at the airport. and right now not every purchase medallion is operating. >> thank you. your time is up. >> caller: thank you. >> thank you, mr. toronto. next eke spaoer, please. operator: you have six questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> caller: thank you.

i'll be brief for the record. good to be back with you. i'm going to talk about vaccinations and the success in this reportment it's relevant. vaccination is very, very important and the sky is not falling. yes, there are some who are separated, hopefully that i will get vaccinated and come back and there are some who may try to move ob and hopefully we can get some new people who want to build a career with san francisco and they're out there because there are a lot of people who want to work. and so let's open the door to bring in some people who want to work. i want the safest muni i can get. i've been vaccinated and not just because it's good for my, but it protects the people around me. so i want to have the confidence that i can have a sense of safety on muni and that is why vaccination is so

important. because vaccination includes me. and i don't want to be pushed to track. because if we don't have a safe muni, that puts me at risk and i'm upset. so i support the idea of expecting everybody to follow lawful orders which includes getting vaccinated. just like when a safety-sensitive employer such as a driver or airline pilot have to go in for a medical certification. so i ask that you stand strong in this because the way we get people back on muni, need to have a reasonable sense of safety. >> 30 seconds. >> caller: and in and out talking about vaccinations and masks but also about personal safety on the system and an environment that is free of discrimination. so, vaccines are equitable because anybody can get one.

i got a vaccine very easily and quickly. >> thank you. your time is up. >> thank you. next speaker, please. operator: you have five questions remaining. >> caller: can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> caller: hi. my name is michael. just a few things. one, thank you for doing this and listening to people complain to you. that said, i'm going to do a little complaining. my first is i just want to bring forth the question of why do we have free parking in san francisco?

we don't have free public transportation. so, i'm not sure why we have free parking. and the next thing is why do we have private vehicles on businesses at fillmore? that doesn't make sense at all. it's better for business if there is no cars outside of the businesses. and we can just have commercial vehicles during certain hours. the next thing is pricing. [please stand by] [please stand by]

>> i'm calling from district 5. just want to thank sarah jones

for all of her work. everything from the car free j.f.k. drive and the thoughtful and consistency she has brought and obviously how much she cares about her community. she will be missed and just wanted to bring her luck and good wishes in her next phase. >> next speaker? >> hi. my name is mary [indiscernible] and i'm a prop k medallion holder, and i think while it's great of you to want to help other medallion holders, don't do it at my expense or at other people's expense. you help one group of people

and you're [indiscernible] to the rest of the people. i'm with barry. how is it improving the rest of taxi service? i've been driving, and i tell people to put on their masks, and they do, but every once in a while, i'll look in the mirror, and they've lot that mask pulled down to talk. most people in san francisco are polite, and they don't do that, but the tourists do, and there's, right now, 58% of the americans are vaccinated, so this is not over yet. is there a mandate for taxi drivers to get vaccines? if you require a drug test

maybe you should require drivers to have vaccines, as well. >> thank you. next speaker, please? >> operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> so with that, we will close public comment on that item and move onto our next. >> clerk: directors, that places you on item 8, citizens advisory council report. no report is expected. item number 9, public comment. >> this is your opportunity to make public comment on things in the jurisdiction of the sfmta but not on today's calendar. if there is an item you want to speak to, please call in [indiscernible] as a corresponding item number, so that's the items 10, 11, 12, and 13, which is basically vision zero and a bunch of parking and traffic changes as well as our reliability and 2050 plan. so those items are coming up later in the agenda. if you want to talk about other

items, now is the time to call. moderator, are there callers on the line? >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> first speaker? >> thank you. alita dupree. pronouns are she and her. i'm going to take a different tact today as i talk about concerns about transportation. you know, one of the things i like about muni is i pay a defined amount, but no one talks about this thing called long hauling. long hauling is a practice where you get into a vehicle, you don't know how much you're going to pay, and instead of taking the shortest practical route, you are taken on a

circuitous route that often ends up costing much more. i want stability in my life, and there's often no recall for recall, or he said versus she said. i like to have a sense of definite things in my life when it comes to transportation. i'm concerned that such could happen to me because i'm a person who's gotten different definitions and i'm wearing a skirt. so at least it's not happened to me, the situation of having a muni pass me up, so i think in the sense of being definite

of what we pay, i hope [indiscernible] they don't care that i'm wearing a skirt. they don't care that my name is alita, and they don't care that i was born in new york city. i want a muni that will include everyone where we don't have to worry about paying more than we should. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have three questions remaining. >> this is herbert winer. my concern is 27 and geary street. that's a significant area. there's restaurants nearby, and

there's a post office, and when you propose discontinuing that express line, you are creating an inconvenience because it takes a longer time to wait for the 38 local. the express lines are very important. we get to our places of destination much faster. it will be much slower and more crowded because i think the people that could have been riding the express line would pile into the local line. so this was not well thought

out. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have three questions remaining. >> next speaker? >> yeah, this is barry toronto. three main topics i need to go over. first, the outside lanes music festival. there was a huge demand for taxi cabs, but you know, why should i serve an event where you take away our cab stands, where you -- where you prevent us from serving it and threatening us with giving us tickets for trying to serve the public, and the rudeness of the very dispatchers we call to get some help. all of them, 408, operator 408,

i won't give you the numbers of the other dispatchers, but they were rude and condescending and not very helpful. it's ridiculous. the next is about chase center. you also don't want us to work chase center. james lee, he is a fantastic, fantastic deputy director of parking enforcement. however, the people that work under him, the supervisors at these major events do not listen to him because they're allowing the solicitations to go on at the curb at chase center and they're allowing them to park where it clearly says passenger pick up and drop off as well as for -- there is

no enforcement of that. the ride home program is a fantastic program, however, they changed the way they do payment, and they gave them an e.t.c.-like card that's operated by the department of environment, but trans dev and the m.t.a. failed to notify the drivers, the people doing the service. so w.t.f.? why aren't you informing the drivers of the new changes to the program? >> clerk: thank you, your time is up. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have two questions remaining. >> next speaker. >> hi. mary mcguire. i want to say i agree with everything that barry said, so i'll let his comments work for

me. it's really important to get these young people using taxis, so please, we should try to work on that later. i want to address the memo regarding the resumption of the full time driving equipment. my sources, new york times, c.n.n., say covid is not over, and experts say we will be close to that until early spring, so it's really bad timing, bad policy, december 1. why are you forcing senior citizen drivers to return to work just as experts are predicting a surge over the holidays? so i wonder, has dr. grant colfax weighed in on this decision or does the taxi director, does she have a medical degree, or is she just

relying on what fox news says. so i think you should reevaluate it and push it a few months ahead and reevaluate it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hello? next speaker? >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, we can, mr. pillpel. >> thank you. so on item 9, i am concluding the comments that i made last week on the policy and governance meeting on winter 2022. i continue to believe there are some good ideas in the proposal

but there need to be some revisions prior to your hearing on december 7. we need a ramp at church and 14 street north of market at the outbound stop probably for at least the next two years and probably permanent, period. subway line needs management, longer lines in the subway coupling at the portals get the capacity. don't need to have three car trains on the n on the street, and we [indiscernible] in the future, and i can and intend to follow up with m.t.a. staff on any further questions that i have on the winter 2022 muni service proposal. thanks for listening. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have zero questions remaining.

>> so with that, we will close public comment and move onto our next item. >> clerk: directors, that places you on item 10, consent calendar. these matters listed hereunder constitute a consent cleaned, are considered to be routine by the san francisco m.t.a., and will be acted upon by kay single -- by a single vote. item 10.1, requesting the controller to allot funds and to draw warrants against such

funds available or will be available in payment of the following claims against the sfmta. item 10.2, approving the following parking and traffic modifications, the items as listed below. item 10.3, authorizing the director to execute modification number 3 to contract number 1309-r. item 10.4, approving modification number two [indiscernible] and to reduce the contract amount 30,289.84, for a modified contract amount of 1,484,202.36. item 10.5, adopting findings

under the state emergency services act a.b. 361 to allow remote meetings during the covid-19 emergency, continuing remote meetings for the next 30 days, and directing the board secretary to agendize a similar resolution at a board meeting within 30 days. that concludes the reading of the consent calendar. >> thank you. directors, do you have any comments? okay. this is the time for public

comment. >> alita dupree, and i want to talk about 10.5. i think the consent calendar is the appropriate place for it. i don't think the beginning of the meeting is the appropriate place to do it as we're doing it in the meeting. thank you for bringing this forward. i maintain to you, besides covid being real, these virtual meetings are a very inclusive way to do it.

as a person with disability connected to military service, and i just happen to be 600 miles away in the 702, and i do hope a day will come where i can be in person with you because i can't really ask staff questions in a virtual meeting, but i just try to keep building on this because this is real, and covid is real. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> next speaker. >> can you hear me now?

>> yes, we can, mr. pillpel. >> great. i, too, would prefer to see alita at some point in person at a future meeting. i was speaking on 10.3. can i make my comment on 10.3 really quickly right now? >> yes, please. >> so once again, i believe what's listed in enclosure 2, page 9, on the staff report, should have, as part of the budget and financial plan, should have a line item that specifically calls out the subject action. in this case, the 98,703. i understand it's part of a larger budget, but it's important for you and the public to see in context what

the specific action is and how it falls in the budget. so i'm going to continue to ask for that on construction contract awards and continued modifications like that, and i would hope that you would ask staff to adjust that particular page in the future to so reflect. that's my request. otherwise, no problem with the rest of the consent agenda. thanks. >> thank you. moderator, are there any additional callers on the line for our consent calendar? >> operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> so seeing them, we'll close that item, and directors, this matter is before you. i'm having a little bit of a cluster with mine -- director heminger, did you have anything you wanted to say? >> no, and look, i'm going support the items, but the question, when we return to live meetings is, i think, at

the top of my mind. city hall, i believe, is open this week for limited work by city employees, so do we have any intelligence from either the mayor's office or the board of supervisors when we can meet in person? >> clerk: directors, i have information on that. it is information that we would not be meeting any earlier than january 1 at city hall at this time. >> and is that direct information or just a stab in the dark? >> i believe that susan cleveland knowles, deputy city attorney, is with us at this point. >> yes.

director, that's a conversation between the mayor's office and the director of health, but i also think that there's some logistical issues that they're working out with city hall and the ability of people to gather in city hall if there was a popular item so they're continuing to work on that. >> thank you. >> thank you. do i have a motion? >> madam chair, i would move to vote on the consent calendar in total, please. >> second. >> could we have a roll call vote on that, please.

>> clerk: on the motion to approve the consent calendar -- [roll call] >> clerk: the consent calendar is approved. >> please call the next item. >> clerk: item 11, endorsing the city's 2021 vision zero action strategy, directing staff to move forward in four areas to advance vision zero that include, one, developing, approving, and implementing project proposals using the quick build toolkit for all remaining corridors on the city's high injury network by 2024, two, exhausting the quick build toolkit within existing approval authority and to consider recommending tow-away zones and/or establishing any

bike lanes as appropriate for expedited sfmta board approval. three, advancing speed limit reductions for sfmta board consideration and approval as authorized by california assembly bill 43, including direction to bring a future item to the sfmta board to approve the specific corridors for speed limit reductions by ordinance, as required by the legislation, and four, developing a comprehensive speed management plan to complement speed limit reductions with education campaigns and traffic calming, and directing sfmta to conduct outreach and community engagement to inform design options and recommendations for quick build projects, but to move forward with robust safety improvements expeditiously, including parking and travel lane removal where appropriate. >> thank you. i believe that we've got mr.

mcguire here to present the item. >> yes. yesterday, transportation secretary pete buttigieg announced that traffic accidents have spiked by 20% in the year 2020. adding to the context for what we're bringing here today, we have both been at the leading edge of cities in the country. we've also been humbled by the things that we've learned and how we've realized how hard it's going to be to reach that goal of zero fatalities. we've heard loud and clear that you want us to maximize all the existing authority that we have as a city agency, jointly as a

board to develop toolkits to develop and present to the board, and you'll hear about that today with the strategy, we can touch the entire high injury network, all of those corridors where high numbers of injuries and fatalities occur by 2024. you'll hear about how we intend to use the new authority that the state, the legislature gave us under a.b. 43, to, no pun intended, accelerate the line

effort. to be honest, i don't know that we are going to be reaching zero traffic deaths by 2024, especially in the midst of this pandemic and this nationwide explosion in traffic deaths, but we have to stay at the leading edge of cities, we have to learn from our own experiences, and we have learned a lot since 2014, and a lot of it has been humbling. i came to san francisco in 2014, thinking we would rebuild the high injury network with multimillion dollar concrete projects, and we'd be done by 2024. that didn't make sense for financial reasons, for scheduling reasons, but we pivoted. i thought we'd be hanging safety cameras on every one of our streets right now, but that hasn't politically worked out,

but we're rolling out a.b. 43, and our commitment to this is deep, it's personal. i'll tell you, i'll be damned if we don't use every authority you have as authority and we have as a board to reach this goal. every is committed as stakeholders and you are, as well. we are going to end traffic death in san francisco, and we hope that we'll do that as partners and using the strategy that we're presenting today. thank you. >> thank you, tom. let me just pull up my slide deck here. confirming you can see the slides? >> yes. >> yes? okay. thanks. okay. good afternoon. thank you, tom, for the introduction. my name is ryan wiese.

i'm an efficient program manager here at sfmta, and i'm going to share with you the update that we've made on the vision zero action strategy since we've left in july. so since presenting the strategy to the board in the summer, we've received a lot of feedback, and we're here today to share these changes in the feedback as well as a series of actions that would improve vision zero. first of all, get a quick recap of our process to date and where we are in the timeline. so we began updates to action strategy with extensive outreach this past spring, including surveys, muni presentations. we received letters from 40 organizations, including specific asks that we aim to use in the program development. we developed a draft action

strategy that we presented over the summer. we presented it to a number of groups, including the sfmta board and a number of focused groups. we're here to present the significant change that's have been made in response to feedback as well as to bring forward the actions to push forward vision zero, and as tom mentioned, the mayor's office will be presenting the action plan this fall. so next, i'll walk-through the specific feedback that we've made and the specific changes that we've made in response. so after presenting the strategies this summer, we heard back from a few key areas

including safe streets and feedback in management process. we really appreciate the board pushing us to put forward a bold plan and take into consideration these updates. we're committing to using the quick build toolkit on the remainder of the high injury network. this means we'll be doing about 20 projects a year for the next three years to complete the remaining 80 miles, and we'll need an additional $5 million a year to complete this process, but we plan to identify this in the upcoming c.i.t. process. so completing 20 projects a year, we're really scaling up

this commitment to complete significant improvements on our high injury network. we're including a commitment to build out the low stress active transportation network by 2024. this will include low car streets, car free streets, slow streets, and protected bike lane that works. the san francisco bicycle plan is still going to build out a specific plan in the next few years, but this conceptual network reflects the project that can be achieved by 2024 to reflect the progress to get to vision zero by 2024. we've put forward a proposal for an initial speed limit reductions under this new authority. a.b. 43 allows us to reduce speed limits in business [indiscernible] and then in 2024, we'll be able to reduce

speeds even further in corridors with the highest rate of crashes. we're working urgently to use this new authority and we'll be bringing the first set of reductions to the board next month for approval. we also know we want the speed management plans to be more than just about speed limit reductions, so we've gotten questions asking about feedback on what's going to be in the management plan. this is more than just speed limit signage, and also

focusing on traffic calming work, as well. we're working to work on the traffic calming process, and lastly, we've committed to outfitting with all of the traffic corridors with safety tools like day lighting, safe walking speeds, and we're looking to complete updating that a year ahead on schedule. we'll report on metrics for quick build, which we expect to be about 20 projects a year, and report on this annually. we'll also report on our safe

street trends and project reports annually. so moving ahead, there are several proposed m.t.a. board action plans to update vision zero. the best solution would direct staff to plan and implement project proposals using the quick build toolkit, improving recommending to the board protected bike lanes where appropriate it would also advance work on reducing speed limits, including direction to bring forward speed limit reductions for approval and to develop a comprehensive plan with these complementary tools

like traffic calming. we appreciate the board's leadership in advancing our commitment to vision zero, and our calls from the advocates to really push forward with an ambitious plan. the feedback that we received from you and the board has really made a difference in our strategy, and we look forward to implementing this plan to save lives, so with that, we're happy to take any questions. >> great. directors, do we have any questions? i think i'll lead off and just ask a little bit about the metrics here for how we are going to judge the success of the things that we do and measure the success on a high

injury corridor and how do we measure the iterative process on what we need to do to make changes there? >> sure. so we're actually in the process of updating our high injury network which is going to look at that question of the past: what are the impacts on the high injury corridors where we've made safety improvements? we expect the report to be released next year, and that'll show some of the changes other times with safety improvements. we're also going to report on -- we do about every six months, and we post-it and share it on our website, especially the quick build metric, which helps us gauge what is needed to complete the remaining 80 miles at 15%.

>> great. i'm going to move onto director hinzy. >> did you, chair, and do you want to take our comments now or do you want to wait until after public comment? >> no, i think the public can comment after our comments.

>> okay. i know that we had our last presentation, we had commander correa join us from the police department, as well, and i know that enforcement is a big part of the strategy, and i know there's a lot of alternatives

to community policing, and i think we've requested a follow up hearing on the police department's role in this and possible other enforcement strategies, so i wonder if you had thought on how to implement perhaps community alternatives to policing and as we move forward trying to collaborate and consent? >> sure. i'm not sure if commander correa is here, but if not, i can start and he can join all.

we have a strategy where we'll have our police officers out on a street that has been identified as speeding, and have signage out that speeding citations are happening, and that's something that we've been wanting to include in the strategy since it's proven in san francisco to be effective and also not result in any racial disparities that can be associated, especially with pretext or nonmoving violations, so we do have a strategy to conduct those hybrid traffic safety plans.

in the tenderloin, the bicycle coalition and the tenderloin task force have been doing some outreach and evaluation on what alternatives could look like in the tenderloin for enforcement, especially the no turn on red policy and some of the speed limit reductions, so we'd like to build on that work in the management plan and look like what some of those solutions would look like. >> right. and that 20 miles per hour speed reduction for evaluation should be coming out early next year, that is correct? >> yes. we're collecting the data now, and so we should have data early next year on the work in the tenderloin. >> great. and my next question sort of

delves into what director yekutiel was commenting on earlier, which is some of these crashes and events don't involve cars but other modes of transportations, such as motorcycles. director yekutiel touched on in his comments before the director's report about motor scooters and electric bikes, so i was wondering if your plan included alternate modes of transportation? >> yeah. so we've had a really significant increase in our motor fatalities. we're up to eight motorcycle

fatalities this year. our education outreach team does lead some motorcycle safety training work that's been funded by the office of public safety at the state level, and that's a -- that's a partnership between the police department and the m.t.a. to deliver the motorcycle safety training and we applied for a grant to be able to deliver that training again this year, so we see that education outreach especially important for the fatalities that are occurring on the streets for motorcyclists. >> perfect. thank you, chair. >> thank you. director heminger? >> thank you, madam chair. i wanted to pursue the line of questioning by director hinzy on the police department, and i've pursued this a number of

times. before that, i want to thank tom and his team for listening to the public, the stakeholders, and especially to us in making, i think, a fairly significant series of changes to the last version of this that we saw, and also just to acknowledge the people there that do this work because it's life or death in some cases, the kinds of things that we do or don't do, and that's just a heavy burden to carry around. i know these folks are in earnest, and they're doing this heavy work, and i just want to call that out. now back to the police. you mentioned monthly events that are sort of committed to in this plan, and what i'm wondering about, especially

given the testimony that we had from the department at our last hearing that they are pretty seriously understaffed in this area of their operation, you know, what would two times a month cost? what would weekly cost? would it make sense to be that frequent or not? i'm wondering if we could structure something in some way maybe in the budget process so if something is desirable in terms of that activity, that we could afford it, given where the p.d. is on their budget. as tom mentioned, 2024 is just around the corner, so it seems to me now is the time to pour it onto the extent we can, and so i would just request that we try to put something together

to revisit that in our upcoming budget work, that we can and should do more. thank you, madam chair. >> thank you. i think next up was director lai? are you having issues, director lai? we'll move onto director eaken. >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> always having internet issues. i'm going to turn myself off of camera. i might have missed this, but could you go over the timeline of a.b. 43 in terms of, like, what is happening between 2022

and 2024? why are we not able to speed up some of the speed limit reductions in 2023 instead? >> sure. and we're hoping to bring forward items relating to 43 in 2023, as well. we're pushing forward seven locations right now that are kind of high priority, and we've identified another 20 or so that are eligible that we need to just make sure meet all the criteria under the legislation to advance, so we'll be putting forward in early 2022 an additional set of

locations under the business activity district provision. the other way that we are able to make speed limit reductions through a.b. 43 is what we think of as our high injury network but what the state thinks of as high rate -- safety corridors, and the state needs to identify what that is in the manual, so we're looking to participate in that.

there's the on-line adjudication process that needs to be implemented in 2024 or sooner, and the state needs to adopt a definition of safety corridors, so that's why we're limited in the implementation of our speed corners until 2024. >> okay. great. thank you for that clarification. and then, i know in prior conversations, we have short staffing problems, but i'm

grateful to be building out all of the potential projects in the next three or four years, but i'm just wondering if these solve our capacity concerns? i know in other situations, we're still struggling with hiring, so i'm wondering how we're working on that for the purpose of vision zero? >> sure. i'll pass that to tom or jamie to answer. >> i'll start, and some of you -- i'll start, and then jamie can end this, as well. yes, director lai, thank you for acknowledging our shops who are doing so much to access traffic priority and maintain our safety devices and quick build are definitely stretched pretty thin. one positive thing that we did

in 2019 when we established the quick build program was to essentially hire a couple of crews whose job is almost specifically to do quick build projects, so we'll be taking advantage of those dedicated resources as we try to slam the quick build program. i think it's probably too soon to say whether shop capacity will truly be a constraint. the roll out strategy will truly be a rolling rollout, so when we figure out the intensity of paint, signage, and deliniators, we will let you know about that. we are definitely feeling the constraint, but we'll definitely let you know that about that capacity. jamie, did you want to add

anything? >> thank you, tom. jamie sparks, liveable streets director. the only thing i would add is the money is a critical condition, but working on the staffing is also. we are successful about identifying a dozen positios in our paint and sign shops, and making sure those positions are filled is the first key. a vacant position doesn't do any good, so limiting the vacancies is critical, and where needed, approving additional positions may be required. ryan alluded to a new high

injury network being identified next year, so the day after the department publishes the network, it's a process of identifying each and every street on that network and making sure we have the resources to finish by 2024. >> and if we have to something creative like calling on -- if we have to call on contractors -- i think we haven't done too much of that before, that's something we'll do. we did that to get speed constraints on the lower great highway earlier this year. >> that's great to hear. that was exactly my sentiments. we shouldn't let a bottle neck in our current hiring processes stop us, and knowing a tiny little bit about manufacturing

signs for projects, it's something that can be outsourced. i would say not just to, you know, private consultants, but perhaps there are other cities or city family departments that have similar capabilities that we could look into a work order for. director borden, are you unable to hear me? >> no, there was a point where you were really staticy. >> -- staticky. >> okay. i apologize. and my last note had to do about the comment about the national average going up. i did not see that report or that comment made by the secretary, and just wondering if there's been any additional

detail on causes or traffic or accident type. >> yes. this just came out this week, so i don't think any of us have dove too deep into it. we do know that, unfortunately, pedestrians, the growth in traffic deaths continues to disproportionately be among pedestrians, and that has not been a trend just this year, that's been a couple of years, as well. another trend that was pointed out in the secretary's statement is the usdot, u.s. department of transportation is pushing traffic safety agencies like ourselves to quickly approving counter measures, and if you look at the counter

measures, it's things like using bike lanes and using traffic safety measures and signage. so that's why we call it the national leader. >> okay. thank you. thank you, chair. >> thank you. director eaken? >> thank you, madam chair. so i just wanted to echo my colleague, director heminger and just thank you, director mcguire, director park, and the whole vision zero team. i have to say, upon reading these documents, it feels like you have listened to the public and the strong calls that you've heard again and again from the [indiscernible] authority, so thank you for that. also just wanted to appreciate the comments of director mcguire, that what we do here in san francisco matters well beyond the borders of our city,

and even our region. i believe we are one of the best positioned cities in the united states to actually reach this goal. we may be one of the first, we may be the first to reach this goal of any major city, and we may inspire other cities to want to reach this goal and help them reach this goal. in reading the documents, i am struck and i am energized by just how much we can do, more than 30 days ago, when a.b. 43 was signed. this is progress, and this is huge, and thank you to laura friedman for being the champion for this work. so two questions on that. one, is it a strategy to keep pushing for automated speed

enforcement until 2024? i didn't hear anything about that. >> that is definitely our strategy, and we'll be working with whoever is going to take up the mantle from secretary chu, absolutely. it'll be at the top of our agenda. >> okay. and given the new tool of a.b. 43, which is so exciting, and given the map which shows us the limits of that authority, and it's not necessarily everywhere that we would want to make those changes, is part of our strategy to continue to push and expand on the success that we've had with a.b. 43 to continue to make the improvements that we need to? [please stand by]

and i really appreciate all the thoughtful work you took to get there. and to be clear.

i want to invite to you please make sure we know if you do not feel you're set up for succession -- success with staff whatever it is i hope you would let us know we have the strategy but we're falling short in x area and really need your support to do so. >> when i reflect on the last seven years i think we've done a lot of pivoting and one area we have to pivot is when we start to bump up against the constraints of our on shops

whether it's hiring or finding less expensive or less labor intensive way to do things or whether it's using strategic use of contractors we'll make that seamless. i think the other is work talking about in terms of staff capacity we do continue with quick fills. we have high standards for ourselves and the board has high standards for us in terms of the level of degree of outreach we do with the public. the planners and engineers talk to us about the constraints you'll continue to hear about quick builds. i think there will be trade-offs and tough conversations with the public and we ask you to support us over the next couple years

too. >> of course. and then the last comment i want to make is just actually on something sara jones covered in the remarks about the support not always existing about the work she wants to do and given the 24-hour time line and feels like we need to set the goal of having done this many milestones by 2024 but set quarterly milestones to see if we're on track or coming up slower than we're hoping. to director borden's point i hope we're setting those metrics and can get regular updates to hit the ambitions and the right goals in terms of 2024 and again let us know if we're off track for a reason and if we can get back on track. thank you so much. >> thank you. director yekutiel. >> thank you very much, chair

borden. there was one person that was not mention that got us to this point, that is herself. she's been an incredible champion and every time it's been brought up, director, eaken, you've always been so great in pushing this entire agency and body up. i want to commend you for doing so much work on this and helping guide us in it. i know my colleagues have worked on it but i especially noticed director eaken doing this work. i have a couple questions. i was going bring up the camera enforcement i think it's part of the strategy. i think it's got to be. i think about a tool that can get people to not drive dangerously knowing if they run a red light they'll get a ticket is a high value function so glad we're keeping it top of mind.

i had one -- two small ideas okay and one kind of larger question. one idea is have we thought about -- i know we talked about the paint shop, have we talked about doing like a full we're eye make over version of our streets where we repaint all the road lines so they're clear, the dividing lines between lanes and park lines and the physical integrity of the paint on the street is pretty degraded and wonder if we know the effect of everything repaving so everything's brighter, clearer and more reflective. >> do you want to start to clarify the commitment to do the h.i.n. high visibility painting work is and i can answer the second part of the question. >> sure, so we are committing in

the strategy to updating work that includes the paint you're talking about with the daylighting work we're updating all of those to make sure they're freshly painted to get more visibility. we're updating all the crosswalks to make sure people have better visibility when they're walking. they're the two core paint projects we're implementing. >> and the basic state of repair. it applies to our traffic safety infrastructure as well and painting infrastructure. we do have preventive maintenance and have crews who focus exclusively on the work even while colleagues are doing they'll quick builds and bike

lanes and things like that but that's a resource trade-off too. we are -- we're trying to make sure the paint on the street and we'll continue to budget for repair and try to refresh what needs to be refreshed. i think the maybe the one caution area not that i don't love the makeover idea but i don't want to repaint anything that doesn't need to be repainted. >> totally. to connect with what director eaken was saying to do with more money the state of repair and there's clearly a vision zero advantage to having our street painting being clearly seen. as we go into that i feel like

it's a force multiplier if we're able to use our money to do both things. we don't want to waste a dollar where we don't have to but it would be good for the city and effort and back on motorcycles, director mention the safety course you have to go through motorcycle safety training to get a motorcycle license but that's at the beginning of your time as a motorcycle rider. i know this would probably require state law but i wonder if we spoke about the idea of a refresher course after a certain amount of time your license expires a certain amount of time and it's a dangerous way to get around the city and a wonder if we ever thought about that ond required a refresh -- or required a refresher after 10 years. >> is it a state law thing?

>> i feel like we're matching our own safety needs so if we're doing that, it doesn't seem out of the question to think about. i imagine a lot of motorcycle drivers won't like it but if it is a much more dangerous way to get around it might be a necessity. >> the training is that the motorcycle safety training we offer for free in partnership with the police department and sfmta is something we've offered in years past and applied for a grant to continue offering the program. i'm not familiar with current efforts to look at the state legislation you're talking about. >> i happen to guess no one on their volition would throw themselves into an extra safety training course. i imagine unless it would

required it would be hard to get people to do it. may not be a bad idea to see what that would look like and if david is willing to do work with us and david's not here well, whoever fills david's seat if they care about this issue is something to bring up. those are two ideas and i wanted to go to slide 11 if you don't mind from the presentation. this is my favorite slide. i love this slide and want to take a quick second and ask you two questions about it. it's no surprise to anyone that i'm a relatively new cyclist around the city. i've been experiencing it and learning about what it's like and i think it's a good thing because i do believe that we have to create manageable ways to get around san francisco without a car if we're going meet our climate goals and our

vision zero goals. and i'm excited about an aggressive two-year strategy to achieve a transportation network and san francisco can do it and should do it. i think the idea of combining a network of protected bike lanes and other ideas to get that is exactly what we need to do and i'm excited to be a part of its ideation and implementation. my question is i feel like there's people who are going to want to shift out of cars and people who have always been driving in cars their whole lives and the idea of changing is unfathomable and i believe we have to make it beautiful, activated, enough to get out of the people and use it. is part of this conceptual

network is there a budget in place for beautification, for promotion, for marketing for activation that would get people to utilize it? >> so there's not a specific strategy budget called out for that but do you want to talk about the bike plan and where it goes from here? >> yeah, i'll try to highlight three things quickly related to that point, director. first is i think i'm glad you're seeing this and excited to have it as well. it's something we've been working for decades and the way we've brought it to the public it's been piecemeal and i think it's the way to unlock the final pieces of the puzzle for how to create a network around san

francisco. and the second piece is on the beautification and one thing that's been successful and fun to watch is the way we've been able to partner with community organizations for halloween and community events and continue to build the partnerships it's going to be critical as we work towards this network. finally, we'll have a bike plan going forward in the next 18 months and we'll be doing city wide outreach to community groups around the city of san francisco and i think that's going to be a really critical way for us to reach a lot of the reluctant cyclists or call them potential cyclists out there so we'll have the city wide outreach going over the next 18 months and timely, related to the budget question it's part of

the upcoming budget cycle and we'll see what we can get but we'll put out what we think is necessary to achieve this goal. >> in my mind san francisco has the best coffee in the country and some of the best food and physical beauty and nature and the best music festivals and we should have the best way to get around the city without a motor vehicle as a part of civic pride and also safety and the last thing i'll say as i was walking down castro street or not sure but waiting in line for a concert and talked about the shared spaces and i thought i never could have imagined two years ago there'd be all this outdoor dining in san francisco. it's unfathomable all the

parking spaces turned into places to con gret -- congregate. we don't want another attorney general but i don't want us to need a tragedy to do something transformational to our city and looking forward to the next set of conversations. >> are there any callers on the line?

>> hi, there. good afternoon board members i'm a community organizer on staff at the coalition. on behalf of the organization i want to give our sincere thank you to the sfmta staff led by ryan reed who took our feedback and came back with a more aggressive vision zero coalition. we have three years left to change before 2024. we're excite about the goal of using the tool kit on the remaining 80 miles of high injury corridor throughout the city. we have seen improved streets across the city in record time. for example, the first quick build was on 7th street to connect soma to mission bay and

it was implemented within weeks. we know using the quick build tool kit will bring the change to make the streets safe and means high quality change as well. we also note it will take supervises stepping up to the challenge and bringing political support for the urgent change we need to prevent traffic fatality on the street. beyond quick build we acknowledge and appreciate the changes sfmta has made on the vision zero action strategy. we are excite about on the focus on speed management and now that governor newsom has signed bill 43 and seeing the investments and focus on intersections and respectfully ask you to support these changes. thank you for your time.

>> i want it take the opportunity to say thank you. first, thank you to the sfmta staff and board for engaging with san francisco and the vision zero coalition in the process of creating and committing to the action strategy to eliminate injuries and deaths from traffic violence. it's been an involved process of listening, drafting, iteraing and designing a plan, focussed and ambitious and achievable and measurable. it has the most safety solutions needed on the streets and pleased to see the creation of a

comprehensive plan because the number one determinate of whether a person lives or dies how fast a person is going and for the community members who shared stories how traffic crashes changed their lives. finally, i'm proud of the leadership work and look forward to continued partnership as the agency continued to make san francisco the national leader in safe streets. thank you so much. >> i like things getting done sooner than later. i can in the speak on the

technical matters of the streets but i have my experience in walking in san francisco and using those scooters and electric bikes. i have driven a car and ridden a bicycle in new york city and manhattan is much more dense than downtown san francisco and it's not easy and i was doing it in day of bike lanes. slowing the streets down is essential because the higher the difference you have between different vehicles and pedestrians greater the impact there's a conflict between the two. we're going to be worse off if you get hit by a car going 50 miles an hour than if a car's going 5 miles an hour. san francisco wasn't made for cars. neither was new york city. i ask for your bold leadership

in making these changes and don't get me wrong, i love cars i want to represent the tesla model f and test drive it and hope to get on the autobon but not in the city. i want to feel safe walking in any city and reduce the number of heavy vehicles on the street. at the same time we have to remember every vehicle should have its place. bicycles and scooters belong on the street and bicycle lane and not the sidewalk and pedestrians belong on the sidewalk and crosswalk. it's time to think forward. this shouldn't be about the automotive interests but the interests of the people. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> have you seven questions remaining.

>> next speaker. >> good afternoon, chair borden and commissioners. this is alice and i live in the south park area and have been following the vision zero action strategy over the years they have been evolving and i can't thank you, the board, the staff and the vision zero coalition advocates for the exceptional progress and work that the current proposed strategy represents. i think as commissioner eaken said they're highly focussed and i think that has come from years

of all of us working together and really honing the vision to find out what's possible. thank you for the work and please support this. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> have you five questions remaining. >> now, when you are implementing the plan you said there's going to be trade-offs. now, there's a dangerous word potentially because some will be traded off to the disadvantage and advantage of other people. this could be a win-win situation and when you talk about substituting alternate means of transportation at muni

it should be a good muni. and you have to plan for that. basically this planning for vision zero should not be done in isolation from other means of public transportation. now, one trade-off i propose is when have you all these bike lanes there should be prohibitions from riding on the sidewalk. that should be strictly enforced whether by the police department or department of parking and traffic. also, you should be consulting with the police department. they have a lot of valuable knowledge about this and know a lot about traffic. this should be done in coordination with the police department. to my knowledge this hasn't been done. the police are simply confronted with a fait due complete and one

i want to talk out with increased congression, have there been increased automobile accidents? these two factors, eliminaing driving lanes and concentrating to one lane in one street and you must plan for everybody not bicyclists. >> thank you. >> next speaker.

>> i live in western edition neighborhood of san francisco by almost square park. i want to thank the sfmta staff for listening to public on what needs to be in our vision zero strategy from walk s.f. and also i'm speaking as a walker and bicyclist in san francisco and i've been in san francisco for 33 years as a walker and bicyclist and have seen amazing improvements and can do more. the city's commitment to building that's really amazing. this is one of the fastest and my favorite cheapest and most effective ways to bring down crashes in the streets that need it most. thank you so much for your time, my safety and those i care about deeply. it depends on the solutions and the action strategy. thank you so much for your commitment to safe streets.

>> next speaker. >> i'm a physician and mother of two small children and i'm calling to urge you to endorse the vision zero action plan as presented i want to thank all who got it where it is and it's a bold plan and we need it badly. i've been taking care of patients with covid over 600 days. one thing that's made it easier is having closed lanes and bike lanes to get to and from work safely and my husband is also a physician and one thing that's made my job harder is continuing to continue to see people with brain injuries, hemorrhage,

life-altering injury are plaguing our traffic system even with covid and unfortunately the majority are elderly pedestrians and as the heartbreaking that we don't have a city where it's safe and i'm pleased to see the city wide transportation network for those who don't have access to a car. that needs to be more emphasis on making it safe to get around without a car. and advocates can connect the city and have benefits for pedestrian and driving safety. this is for our older citizens and younger people getting to and from school and please endorse the action plan. we've worked so hard to come through the covid pandemic and it's our chance to address the next epidemic of traffic

violence. please take it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, this is barry toronto. it's a great plan and glad they did work on this but the problem is you have to deal with the elephant in the room and that is the violators that are not cars as well and they put themselves in danger by not following the rules of the road especially in the tenderloin where the walk signals are just a suggestion and just walk in front of you while you have the light green and also the scooters. last week supervisor peskin brought up the issue why are you continuing to allow scooters to ride on the sidewalk?

an older women was hit by a scooter and badly injured and had to have a hip replacement. by you not taking more action on dealing one the other violators of the road, you are allowing this type of behavior to continue. make the scooter company more accountable by paying for these injuries because you don't really have insurance while riding these but the pedestrian is defenseless against a fast-moving zero and you have to address this envision zero as well. the thing is these things are great but i go to the tenderloin

far less because it takes two to three times to get longer in the tenderloin than the person who already left the original place where they want to be picked up to go somewhere. it's too long. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. good afternoon, chair and sfmta directors. my name is john alex lowell. first, i am a senior member of the san francisco bay area chapter of families for safe streets and i want to thank the sfmta staff for listening to the public on what needs to be in our vision zero action strategy.

there's a real positive commitment to safe to the draft we saw this summer to the great action strategy presented to you today. simply put, i ask you, the board, to endorse the vision zero action strategy and i'm a pragmatic pedestrian who survived a horrific collision 20 years ago and this impactful collision could have been prevented with caution and common sense deposited in the mind of the speeding driver and a 2001 equivalent of the action strategy. this collision impacted my life a disabling injury like brain damage. a speeding and red-light running minivan hit me in the crosswalk on mission street, a high injury network street in san francisco.

i'm especially pleased to see the city's commitment to moving fast to create a comprehensive speed management plan and bringing down speed immediately on commercial streets starting in january. thanks to assembly bill 43. my safety and those i care about deeply depend on the pragmatic solutions included in the vision zero action strategy. thank you for your commitment to safe streets in our city named after the compassionate to all st. francis. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> have you four questions remaining. >> hi, there. i live in knob hill. i'm calling to urge you to

approve the vision zero action strategy. i live on hull street and going to use it as an example of why we're not achieving the vision zero goal and a little background my partner and i have depended on muni since 2013 and we manage to be a household in spite of the design of our city streets. the corridor is still a dangerous experience especially for those of us on bike or foot. this is a corridor that's supposedly already been improved and serving the needs of people in cars first. the 19 is still struck in traffic and blockages and people are conflicted with people in cars. these are fixable problems. it's a terrible tragedy but a

person was ran over at hope and may last may and it was already made safer and yet advocates kept piloting it's still dangerous and now that that person has died they removed bumpers at the crosswalks. i hope we can now start making these type of changes before horrible crashes that take and change lives and these are the best planners and should be empowered to make the streets safe. i hope the updated vision zero strategy does just that. >> next speaker, please. >> i want to thank the team also walk s.f. nor leader shop getting communication

organizations an grassroots organizations to provide meaningful feedback. i just want to highlight a couple roads that aren't on the high injury network. we recently received painted bike lanes but still seeing cars parked in them and there is a key street because it's flat for folks going to school and getting services. also i want to bring up fulton not in the high injury network but won't see treatment for a couple years from ad43. it continues to be a harrowing experience from golden gate park and my colleague brought up hulk. it's a disgrace. i work downtown in the civic center area and sometimes go forth via the bicycles and i want to avoid it. i wouldn't have my friend on it. i wouldn't have my kids on it.

it's tragic. with that said i am hopeful and i thank everyone for their work. thank you. >> next speaker. >> the s.f. gov tv feed is still not working properly. i can't see the meeting live on their regular platform for a while. i was getting captions but not the right video then getting captions with a delayed video from earlier. now they set up some kind of redirect to youtube video that doesn't have captions. it's problematic and i think you should explore what the city

attorney and sf gov tv what constitute as a disruption of the proceeding the public can't watch in the way it's set up and if you need to recess meetings pursuant to ab361. on this particular item i oppose the proposed action. i think you can spend an unlimited amount on education, engineering and enforcement and won't stop someone from randomly stepping off the sidewalk and getting hit. reasonable measures made part of design guidelines in response to specific locations, sure. i'm with that. spending gobs of money on engineering and slowing everything down and blah, blah, blah, is never in my view going to eliminate deaths or injuries. i'm not with that. that takes away from the other things for transit and the other functions of the agency and i don't think it makes sense.

this is not a foreign country where people are nicer about things. people do whatever they can get way with and that includes poem and hurting people with vehicles and other things. that's why i oppose the blow opposed action. thanks. >> thank you. moderator, are there additional callers on the line? hello, speaker, it's kind of noisy in your background. >> give me one second. can you hear me better now. >> yes, we can. >> great. thanks. this is a lead organizer on safe streets advocate i want to echo a bunch of other statement have already been made thanking sfmta staff and specifically ryan and michael, jamie for their work and especially thanks walk s.f.

and specifically brian and jody for their tireless work in organizing everyone around these changes. i want to urge you to pass this new strategy. i think, as you all know, you can do drastically more to make our streets safer. we can and should and will achieve zero deaths if we do the necessary work that needs to be done. in addition to just being more bold, bolder than the strategy already is, we need to remember that actually practicing and implementing the changes is necessary to get there so just to provide one example where i worry we're seeing a quick build not implemented in a safer way is the south van ness project right now why -- which has been

updated but changed to the turn with just paint and it will be just adds dangerous for pedestrians and anyone who chooses to use a bike on the street. it's one example of parker and dave alexander provided other examples on polk where we need to implement safer streets especially when there are a few handful of opponents who oppose anything having to do with the restricting the freedom of anyone to drive their car and i urge you and staff and board and all leaders at sfmta to push for and implement the changes necessary and are proven to make streets safer even when one person opposes it because it's not quite right or maybe we should spend money a different way or maybe it's not going stop the random person from jumping off the sidewalk. don't listen to those people we

need to implement the necessary things. they work everywhere. please, staff, implement the changes and support and encourage staff to do the necessary work and implement the changes that need to be done rather than and thanks. have a great day. >> moderator, are there additional calls on the line? >> you have zero questions remaining. >> are there any other matters before the board? >> i wanted to join my colleagues in thanking our staff

and mr. mcgwire and director parks and the advocates for pushing staff. i think we have a bold proposal and that's a good first step to getting to zero. i would also say that a lot of the public call in today i think we all have a role to play whether it's advocating or engaging with staff and designing creatively around the street you live on, etcetera. whether it's helping maintain the community group. we have a lot of tools in our

toolbox and we all have a role to play in getting to zero if we want to by 2024 and a goal we all hold and advocate because we need the city to be one in which we can get around with any mode of transportation that works best for anyone in the city. with that colleagues, there is a resolution before us and would make a standing motion to approve that motion.

>> secretary silva, can you call the roll. >> on that motion vice chair eaken. >> aye. >> director heminger. >> aye. >> director hinze. >> aye. >> director lai. >> aye. >> director yekutiel >> aye. >> the motion passes. >> our next item. >> item 12 presentation and discussion regarding the transportation 2050 and the 2022 muni reliability and street safety improvement general obligation bond. >> we're not going to go through 50 full slides right? >> we're going at warp speed. good afternoon, chair borden and board members.

i'm acting chief financial officer. i'm going to give a quick presentation on our first funding measure from the 2022 muni reliability and street safety improvement bond. hopefully you can all see the presentation. >> we can. >> do you want to make clear to the board and public what i'm going to be presenting today is refresh. i'll be going quickly on information we already presented but i want to connect the dots. also feedback in the development of the bonds. just to update the board we have already done 55 different engagements and meetings on transportation 2050 and we have 15 upcoming schedule and reached out to over 100 different community and neighborhood groups. in january we interdufd

transportation 2050 and present the board and the bord workshop of the baseline of where we were both from an operating side capitol side and got feedback from you on the outreach to get a sense of prioritization from the public and we gave you the elements of that first with the community survey that was presented to the board and public on sfmta.com and we gave you a sense of the transportation in san francisco and we launched transportation 2050 which is what will it take to get the visionary transportation system we all want and we have the reliability

and safety improvement bond and i'm not going to cover transportation 2050 but it includes a series of planning and outreach measures the agency and city have taken on over a decade. what we did was bring this up if the public is interested go to sfmta.com and safe and convenient transit and this is data we've seen well over five years. quick and reliable service and reducing crowding in our muni service continues to be a high private for san francisans and these are what we printed and the public wants us to invest in the underlying system and state of repair of the system and

ensure that system is applicable to all san franciscans and not only physical accessibility but access to jobs, education and health care and. so again the conclusion from that data is that the people of san francisco really do want to focus first on making the transportation system work especially coming out of the pandemic and we'll see more and more riders and people out in our streets. our score is at a 3.7. state of good repair is 2.5 but 25% of our assets are beyond their useful life. highest areas are facility and transit stations. there's areas of red where we are the greatest concerns and

facilities and traffic infrastructure largely our parking garages and traffic signal infrastructure and other systems and largely non-revenue fleet and again we want to focus on the areas of the lowest scores you're starting on our stations. then we want to talk with the back log. beyond the condition for the things in the backlog and we see the areas of red also tend to be the areas where we have the largest backlog and traffic infrastructure and facilities nearly $900 million and it an investment in the reliability and i'll talk with the bond and front facing service and infrastructure. that was replacing and investing in large rail projects and in going forward. now what we're getting is time

to invest in the board and you'll see over time the backlog is steadily increasing our conditions are decreasing. this is important it's not only the component of raising the gold line to increase revenues and city agencies in san francisco transportation system but make strategic capital investments to reduce the cost of expenditure. so capital investment should over time help with reduced long-term expenditures. in all the work we had done prior this is all on sfmta.com we came forward with transportation 2050 taking the planning work and looking at the unconstrained needs and looking

at the capital program to get a sense of what it will take over the next 30 years and in the short term 10 years what it takes to get to the vision we want for our system. the programmatic areas are improving traffic and access and capital and operating and on the operating side, $921 million a year by year 2050. when we look strictly at the capital side of things that gap is $20.2 billion over the period and you'll see this is important the gap percentage went up so 57% gap to offend the critical capital infrastructure that we have within the agency.

you'll see even in the 10 year window that percentage is higher to a 59% funding gap in the things we need to invest over the next two years. and we look at the status to look to the voters to approve our next general obligation bond. the bond of 2014 transportation and road improvement general obligation bond have two key focuses including transit and safer streets and reliability improvements and really to get the red lanes and doing the project on a number of lines and creating that rapid network that we can discuss in the transit effectiveness project. we were just keeping into vision zero at the time so again key component was building out the

network and focussing on the big civil project we couldn't complete through quick build. a lesson learned was it was longer to get the big projects over the period of time and the agency's response was to get the safety up improvements out there quicker. and the project made managing the bond day it day and what projects we get funded and not funded really difficult for the agency so with each issuance we actually reduced the number of projects we were putting in the bond dollars on and we focussed more on projects ready for construction to speed up our ability to spend down the bond fund. current status of first issuance is 98% spent and we being you'd

the third issue last summer and just complete the issuance the fourth issance for one approved the project that was 56 projects. a lot of projects. um 31 are already. for use for the public another question we've gotten is mta you need to work on the project delivery and the prior bond program from 2014 force the agency to take a hard look at the legacy projects and how they developed and how we delivered them and the processes used and we've got through an internal process we've implemented sense 2015 and completed a full assessment across all delivery of the transit fleet,

technology, streets and major transit project. we established project management office to focus on improvement and consistent procedures across the organization and looking at saving the cost estimating through timing. we went through all of our delivery phases and we clearly knocked out the steps, road blocks and things that worked and didn't and who was responsible for each step consistent deliverables required for each stage of the project and focussed on cost, developing internal templates that required us to show what hard costs were not just construction estimates but the estimates part of that and also on soft and other costs we locked at prior contact completed projects and we laid out percentages and requirements

so project managers can easily get a sense of what the cost of delivery would be. we included other elements such as transit support and mitigation when working on commercial corridors and with businesses. we've seen success and we've seen the projects more on time and more on schedule more on budget. an example would be the project on 22 fillmore so we're looking forward to the second take and 2019 avenue another curb to curb project making significant improvements and the partnering with caltrans. 7th and 8th street and major

improvements along the corridor and investing in streets across san francisco on corridors focussing on signal improvements and gery street project. [please standbury weekend [please stand by] .

>> -- but also providing opportunities for greater reliability and expanding control to the service. we need greater control over our street controls, so the bond allows that and across the city [indiscernible] we do want to continue these improvements in major areas of the city. on street improvements, where we have various high injury networks or corridors with large construction, we want the ability to invest in those. street management and kind of the investments that you heard in the vision zero project, so what would we need to invest in that network? the recommendation is that the

funding of the bond be available. city and the m.t.a. did not pay for the debt financing for this bond. it is a city general obligation bond. it is part of the city's ten-year capital plan, so through capital planning and the board of supervisors and the mayor, our bond is happening two years early. we were going to wait ten, but instead, we're waiting eight. part of the capacity that was available in the city's general obligation bond program was used for that recovery bond, which is very important in kind

of spurring economic growth and really investing in capital projects that were [indiscernible] to san francisco. again, we are pursuing many different options? this was the first of many transportation initiatives by 2050, and this is the general obligation bond, but we continue to work on changes to the san francisco parking tax, aggressively pursuing federal and state grants and working on [indiscernible]. this is kind of where we are, transportation 2050 wise, so in june 2022, we'd like to advance this $400 million general obligation bond. at the same time, the municipal transportation agency is working on [indiscernible] tax.

we are working shortly after that 20 advance a transportation special tax that will be for operations and maintenance, so because we're advancing a general obligation bond now, we're focusing on capital, it does not mean that we are heavily funded on implementing an operating revenue source, so we are working on that right now, and there will be further information about that probably around a board workshop, if not a little bit after. as noted earlier, we are aggressively pursuing federal and state grants. hopefully, the infrastructure bill will be approved by the house of representatives and signed by president biden.

we are ready to implement a number of programs under that and are looking to start a number of programs on s.f. properties. so i went really fast. happy to take any questions. the next steps will be for the sfmta board to take final action and recommend that the board of supervisors move forward with the budget. >> thank you for that. very impressive just because of the number of slides. director hinze had a question, please. >> i did. very impressed with the proposal, and it was sound. i did notice that there was a -- i'm not going to -- there was a big difference in the

amount of money going in the -- i'll call it traffic -- in traffic safety category versus does the making muni work better, and both of these are, you know, equally important. we need to do that it all goes to where it needs to go and that the program is the best it can be. but given the topic of our last hearing, is there maybe -- are there maybe other funds that we can invest into the traffic safety category that we maybe can't for the facilities kind of -- make transit go kind of category that necessitated the

g.o. bonds and would it be hesitant in those kinds of facilities to repair muni categories? >> thank you very much for that question. that tees it up really well. so in many cases, city departments are highly reliant on the general funding to fund almost their entire capital program. the m.t.a. does not. the sfmta will consider a five-year c.i.p. where between 2.6 billion and 3 billion for the next five years, and one year of our funding is typically around the 300 to 400 million level. this is one of 60 sources, so any one of those g.o. bonds, we use strategically. so on the street side of things, for example, opposition d, which was the last initiative for transportation funding, 50% of that is going

to street safety. like, that was a priority then, and we really advanced that, and we were kind of in front on advancing the critical elements that went into that. examine through the state and federal governments, there will be other sources that we can tap into to fund projects of that type. the projects where we can't use our federal formula fund, there are no grants available from state or federal government. we are more likely to recommend have higher levels of general fund advancement because we have nobody else to ask for those projects. so there are many more opportunities for street related projects, and we'll be very aggressive in those areas and have been and have been very successful in the last year, but a lot of the things in the g.o. bond are the things where we have the hardest time looking to other sources.

>> all right. thank you. thank you, chair. >> thank you. director heminger? >> thank you. first of all, jonathan, the thing that surprised me was your timetable taking things to the voter because i thought we were hell bent for leather trying to get something next year for operations, and you're showing it in some future period, presumably, the presidential election, i guess, so does that reflect a change in thinking? when did that happen? >> so i would say it doesn't reflect a change in thinking. i would think that future means the next election. so i think the thinking is the focus for the june election will be capital, and the november 22 election makes more sense for an operating type ask or need? so future means, i think i said

it, next future elections. so the next san francisco citywide election would be a couple months after that in november. >> so that's just based on turnout, is that the idea? >> i think there are a number of elements, like you don't want to crowd the ballot with too much stuff, so that's one element. second is the general obligation bond doesn't reflect an increase in san francisco property taxes. it doesn't reflect an increase in sales taxes, so i think there's some logic in making that decision. and then, we kind of need some -- we were waiting on the federal relief, the m.t.a. board needs to adopt a budget so we understand what problem we're solving for, so i think those are all elements of the conversation that lead to this. >> what have you been forecasting to us, jonathan, i recall, is that we can sort of

limp into 2023 with the federal money, and then, we sort of fall off the cliff? >> yeah. we will come back with our essential budget. we're still working with the controller's office to determine that. use of it will buy us 18 months in addition to the federal relief that we received. the people did hear, we really advocated with m.t.c. and got a 29 million bump from what we expected, so that is good and will buy us more runway. the good news is the november initiative, once it passes, we need to raise money for one year, which essentially then makes it a november 2024 solution, a large part of our problem outside of the use of the m.t.a. reserve is that

target, so that's what we're working to try to resolve. >> okay. the second subject is really more a comment to the question, and what i've been hearing generally when i raise this subject is, you know, wait till after the pandemic, and i'm just wondering when that response is going to lose some of its appeal. the question is, for me, when i look at our backlog, a big chunk of that backlog are the parking facilities, and again, i still don't see why we're not trying to unload that backlog on somebody else and either sell them the land rights or sell the whole damn thing and try to deal with that backlog in a little bit more creative way than just trying to raise everybody's taxes all the time. so can we get some kind of

analysis of that? all we do is just keep showing the same number over and over again, and it would be good to come up with a couple of options for solutions? >> i think what we can do is we're planning an update to tag this month, if not next month. so part of that last slide about development opportunities on properties do include the parking garages and move in the direction that you just mentioned, so we can brief you and also do kind of a more overarching presentation to tag some of those people. >> okay. thank you. >> okay. any other questions from board members before we move onto the public? okay. seeing none, we'll move onto public comment. members of the public who wish to provide comments on item number 12, which is the discussion regarding our 2050 transportation plan and the general obligation bond.

moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> first speaker? >> hello, again, chair borden, sfmta directors and director tumlin. this is jodi davis, walk san francisco's executive director. as much as i want to keep today's meeting completely celebratory for the action strategy, i want to say now is the time to double down on public funding on safety improvements. this is why it's strange to see the bond lower than the 2040 safe streets, and today's presentation decreased the ask by over 40 million. there's an approximately $150 million gap between the identified funding and fully funding these improvements? so if the agency doesn't want to put forward a g.o. bond plan

that allocates a greater portion of the bond toward safety streets, we at walk s.f. are asking the sfmta to lay out a plan to fill the gap before the bond goes to the voters because we really need a clear path to funding safe streets. a plan without necessary funding is a plan asking for failure and severe dysfunction, so we're asking you to fund this and this is a way of eliminating our city's serious injuries and traffic fatalities. thank you. >> thank you. moderator, do we have any other callers on the line? >> operator: you have one question remaining. >> next question, please. >> this is barry toronto.

i want to say, without having the closed captions, it makes it very difficult to follow this meeting and the board of supervisors meeting. this general obligation bond, i'm definitely going to oppose it unless you include some relief especially for the medallion holders in this bond. i think if you include that, you might have a better chance of getting the empathy of those people who feel that this city turned its back on those people by not doing a better job of regulating the t.n.c.s when you had the opportunity back in 2011 or 2012 when the p.u.c. got hold of it, state p.u.c., so i'd appreciate you putting some debt relief as part of this pretty extravagant bond measure, which i think it's important to include more money for traffic calming and traffic calming devices. thank you very much. >> thank you.

moderator, are there additional callers on the line? >> operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> so with that, public comment is closed. i know that those of us in c.a.c. have already heard this item. are there any additional questions from board members? director heminger? >> yeah, i'm sorry, but i'm responding to testimony. jonathan, is there a way that we can be presented on this bond, and not just on the bond but on a series of other policy matters, but it seems to me, instead of a policy proposal, give us some options and let us see what those options do to each other, and walk s.f. was raising the question, gee, our allocations are too low. they need to be higher, and the meaning was it's going to raise

somebody else's. if you wrap it up and put it in a box with a bow, we don't see the options, and i think it would be helpful for us to see that before we sign on the dotted line. is that possible? >> i think during the vision zero presentation, and i think jodi's comments, we will definitely do what you said during the five-year c.i.p. process when the board looks at the entire thing. so what we will do when we lay it out to you, because the bond is one source. here are all the things that need to be designated, meaning, we don't have the power to shift the dollars around largely. here's the chunk of money that's available for board-related priorities. it's what we call discretionary meeting. you can put it on the street project or transit project. it's a limited dollar amount where we have that flexibility, but it exists -- >> well, it exists entirely

with the bond. short of operating expenditures, we can spend the bond on any kind of capital we want, right? >> yes, but there are other things we can do as we work with the sales tax authority and the t.a. i've asked them to come to present to you on the work that they're doing on this significant plan advisory committee. that's not done. we can certainly push for a greater sales tax for a project of this type. i think if the board directs jeff and i, we will draft a plan for greater sales tax for a project of this type. c.i.p. would also be another type where the board has complete discretion over how the board uses the dollars, so there are definite other sources, and i agree, like we

do full funding plans for major capital plans on the funding side, we should do something like that related to vision zero so the board with see -- can see the plans and options that we have with the funding issue. >> well, especially if the bond is the last option we have before 2024 that we can achieve the goal that we've set out for ourselves. >> it is, and where this gets difficult is this is planned to go to the city's capital planning committee a week from next week based on the schedule, and then, it goes to you for final adoption the day after. to get into the hopper, we have until february for final adoption to make the june ballot, and we have to go through board of supervisors and full board of supervisors, and with the thanksgiving to end of year holidays and committee dates, it really only gives us a little bit of flexibility in january to get this done. so this is a very tight

schedule. i'm not say we can't make adjustments. part of the reason of having this meeting with the board was for you to kind of hear it out, hear what you're hearing, and if you want to make adjustments between these line items, you certainly can. you are correct, director heminger, that that will reduce one thing to do another, but we wanted to give it to you prior to just seeking approval. >> well, let me just speak for myself. i don't like being stuck, so i do think it would be helpful even if you have to squeeze it into the type table for us to see a -- timetable for us to see a couple of options so that we're not regretting something next year that we've got a whole bunch of constituencies that feel that they aren't being considered and then, they don't campaign for the measures, so i hope we can make

some room for that in your timetable. >> we can look at the schedule to do that. >> thank you, madam chair. >> great. thank you. so with that, that concludes this item, and we can move onto our next item. >> clerk: directors, that places you on item number 13, discussion and vote pursuant to admin code 67.10-d as to whether to invoke the attorney-client privilege and conduct a closedsession conference with legal counsel. >> great. do we have a motion -- >> i make a motion. >> second. >> clerk: if i may, chair, we need to go to public comment. >> okay. do we have any members of the public that wish to make public comment? >> operator: you have zero questions remaining. >> seeing no public comment, we

will close public comment. can we please have a roll call vote? [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes. the board will now go into closed session. board members, if you could, please, click on the closed session meeting in brook. motion to disclose or not disclose what was discussed in closed session. >> i move. >> second. >> i have a motion and a second. please call the roll.

>> clerk: on the motion not to disclose -- [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes and concludes the business before you today. >> great. have a great evening and enjoy the fact that we have an evening.

>> president bernal: secretary morewitz please call the roll. [ roll call ] >> president bernal: i will yield to commissioner susan christian to read the ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement. >> commissioner christian: thank you. the san francisco health commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenote