>> i call to order this april 19 regular meeting of the san francisco m.t.a. meeting of the board of directors. madam clerk? >> clerk: this meeting is being

broadcast on sfgovtv, and public comment may be taken by dialing 415-655-0001, and entering meeting i.d. 2491-993-9700, then press pound and pound again. we welcome the public's participation during public comment period. there will be an opportunity for general public comment on each item in the agenda, and each comment is limited to two minutes unless otherwise noted by the chair. for each item, the board will take public comment first by those attending the meeting in person and then by those attending the meeting remotely. the phone number again is

415-655-0001, access code 2491-993-9700, then press pound and pound again. when prompted, press star, three to enter the public speaker line. public comment is permitted only within the matters within the jurisdiction of this meeting body. places you on item 2, roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: madam chair, you have a quorum. please note that director hinze is attending this meeting

remotely as per the mayor's directive, and each item on this agenda will require a roll call vote because director hinze is attending remotely. placing you on item 4, approval of minutes of the april 5, 2022 regular meeting. >> before i open this up to public comment, are there any comments from the directors of the minutes? public comment is now open for meeting minutes. i don't see anyone rising to speak, so let's go to the on-line forum. >> clerk: anyone joining remotely can press star, three to end the queue. i have one caller. moderator, can you please open the phone lines?

>> first speaker on the line. >> hi, yes. my name is david [indiscernible] and also a san francisco resident, and we are based in san francisco. just calling in today to show our support for -- >> oh, i'm sorry, sir. are you calling in for a particular item on the agenda? >> yes. >> so the time for that is when the item is called on the agenda. so we're just commenting on the minutes of the april 5 meeting. >> okay. and then a question. are you guys streaming on-line? >> we should be. >> clerk: we are streaming on-line at sfgovtv.org/sfmta. >> okay.

i tried to log in, and i can't. i'll try again. >> it's also being streamed on t.v., on 78 or something like that, comcast, so if you have that. >> thanks. >> moderator, do we have any other callers on the line? >> clerk: it appears we do not have any other callers. >> okay. public comment is closed. motion to approve? >> motion. >> second. >> can we have a roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: the minutes are approved, 7-0. >> that brings us to our next item. >> clerk: item number 5, communications. >> are there any communications

to be shared by the sector board members? i see none. next item. >> clerk: item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. director lai? >> thank you, chair borden. i would like to request a follow up on basically curb comply and other related items. this was, i believe, from two hearings okay related to an r.b.p. request and probably the conversation related to meter management, as well. the request is that i would like to get an update from formally on this. i understand that staff's working on a policy update, 2.5 r.b.p. update. in particular, i think it would be important for us to work collaboratively with the planning department to better

understand and flash out the impacts of land use development in newer neighborhoods and what that means for lane management. >> thank you. director yekutiel? >> first, i want to say happy passover to those having passover. i'm meeting with the soma west c.b.a. today and the valley merchants this week. i'll be meeting early tomorrow morning with the folks who do all our signing and painting, and probably, god willing, going on a tour with them. this is something, as you all know, i've brought many times. i'm also going on a tour with

the clear channel people next week. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> director heminger? >> thank you, madam chair. i wanted to raise the issue of the mask mandate and the decision of the federal court if, jeff, you won't be covering it in your report. >> i'll be covering it in my report. >> okay. >> thank you. director [indiscernible]? >> i just wanted to make sure we come back on the staff report and tie up that loose end there. >> will do. >> great. >> so at this time, if members of the public would like to

comment on items that the directors just mentioned, please do so. if you're in the room, please approach the dais, otherwise, we'll take public comment on-line because i see no one rising here. >> clerk: there are no callers on the line. >> okay. we'll move onto the next item. >> clerk: this places you on item 7, director's report. >> good afternoon. it's been a busy week, so i've got a lot to cover. as you all heard last week with the shooting on the new york subway system, there was no specific threat to muni systems or other systems throughout the country, we did increase

security on the muni system, and this is a reminder to trust your instincts if things are not quite right. the next major update is on the mask mandate. yesterday, a federal judge in federal federal struck down the federal mandate on masks and mask management, and yesterday afternoon, the c.d.c. and transportation administration announced that the mask mandate was no longer in effect. however, the state of california and san francisco orders that require masks on transit do remain in effect, so at this time, masks do continue to be required on muni. we are collaborating with the state officials as well as the department of public health as

well as all of the other bay area public transit agencies about what the next steps will be. again, for the moment, masks are still required on muni, but things are changing quickly, so do check our on-lineand social media accounts. there should be changes later this afternoon. when we do make changes, you can be assured that riding muni is just as safe or safer than any indoor environment. the muni fleet, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems turn the

air overall the time. even when masks are no longer requires on muni, they will still be strongly recommended. i'm a daily muni rider. i will continue to wear my mask on muni just because it's a wise thing to do, so that is our current update, and we will be updating all the rest of you as conditions change later today. we're also embarking on, as you've heard a little bit in the past, on our gender equity initiative. this april, we'll be promoting racial and gender equity improvements to our social media program. we're currently doing in reach with our staff and will be

presenting with our governance and security committee. we look forward to sharing more intimate details. we now have some additional transit updates. while the rail system was shutdown for about a year with covid, we made a substantial upgrade due over decades. and then, gear up for our maintenance work, the maintenance window at the night time is very, very brief. so all this week and through this sunday, april 24, we've been doing what we hope will be a quarterly fix-it week that

shuts down the subway early, at 9:30 p.m., in order to get a lot of work done. so the crews have been hard at work all week. i'm going out around 10:00 or 11:00 tomorrow night to spec in on their work because they're so proud of what they're doing. the teams are doing switch mark improvements at the embarcadero station. the overheadline crews, as you see there, are out everywhere in the system, doing replacement on the outbound on the church and castro stations as well as a bunch of minor electrical safety improvements. the transaction power team is rerunning power cables and

removing old and redundant equipment that's still scattered throughout the system. the traction power team is testing all the batteries and charging system work including replacing of a whole variety of equipment. so this is all super nerdy details, but it's something that makes me excited, particularly given the amount of collaboration that's occurring between all of our crews, getting ahead of all the

items that we know will be coming and impacting subway reliability. yesterday, we joined president shamann walton and director sharon lai out in visitacion to launch the ax and bx express lines that run from visitacion valley straight to fisherman's wharf. this is a request that has been coming from community for a very long time. although we had dramatically improved frequency on the local line serving visitacion valley, including the 8 and the 9, the local lines took a long time to get from vis valley all the way to chinatown, so the staff and supervisor rode all the way from there to chinatown.

we were in chinatown in moments. it was fantastic, and the best part of the day was seeing the two ax buses that came before us completely packed with residents from vis valley heading into chinatown, so people had already figured out that the service was there, which is exactly why community had been prioritized it from the very beginning. i'd also like to point out that the first two express lines that we are operating are the 8 ax and bx from vis valley to chinatown as well as the 8 express from vis valley to chinatown. this is a major part of our equity work. we also implemented, over the weekend, a variety of other improvements to the 30 stockton, and we've also been able to increase the frequency on the 49 van ness. i hope all of you have been out

there on van ness, watching just actually how much better the service is now compared to how it was on our inauguration ride. i'm really proud of the a that all of our riders have -- way that all of our riders have gotten used to the signal progression and have been able to deliver really reliable and extraordinary service on van ness. director -- we will shortly have a series of public facing dashboards available on our website. that will be at

sfmta.com/railrecovery. i checked just moments ago, and they didn't seem to be up, but i expect the dashboards will be up later today. there, you will see a selection of performance indicators that can help us make sure that we are getting the most we possible can out of our critical subway infrastructure. next topic is vision zero. on april 1, we did have a fatality involving a vespa scooter rider. our crews went out and investigated the intersection and found everything to be operating according to standards, so there are no immediate rapid response recommendations, but as we get -- assuming we're able to get additional revenue in the form of the general obligation

bond, this item would be next on the upgrades. the next item updates. there are a number of punch list items that we are continuing to work on. one is an issue that we've all seen, those of you who have been down on the subway for tours, that there are water leaks in each of the stations. this is something that we face in both the part tunnel as well as the muni metro tunnel. we have been working on those water intrusion issues. we've solved those problems at

the union square station, we're working on the yerba buena station. we're also continuing to work on the overhead wire connection so that we can run t-trains directly into the subway. we expect to do what we expect our final shutdown of the t-third on april 22 and 23 and start running test trains directly from third street into the subway. the remaining punch list items are expected still to be completed in may. traction power substation at the moscone center, we expect to be completed in may. all of the parts and warrants are expected in june, and then, we start training operation and

automatic control system testing to be completes in july, with operator training in july and august. again, all of these items are subject to change. we have been evaluating the risk factors closely and will update you if the risk factors change or update over time. as all of you also know, on april 26, the board of supervisors and the sfcta will be conducting a join hearing on the future of jfk drive or the eastern part of jfk drive in golden gate park, including three miles of streets from the panhandle to ocean beach. there will also be presented at the same time as the sfmtas

findings. muni vehicles and the golden gate park shuttle will also be permitted to use streets on their respective assigned routes, and vehicles accessing the deyoung museum loading dock will be permitted to use the fifth avenue entrance and a brief portion of jfk. all of these items together, our analysis has shown, will improve equity, accessibility, and mobility in the park and allow the city to better achieve or vision zero and climate action goals. we're looking forward to a details presentation with the board of supervisors on the 26. next up is climate action. april is climate month, and

earth day is this friday. it's an opportunity for us to acknowledge that 47% of san francisco's greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation, and of that, about three-quarters is personal driving. transportation is also the only sector of the economy where san francisco is not being successful at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. at the end of 2021, the city did release a transportation climate action plan. the transportation strategy for san francisco starts with mode shift, emphasizing the most energy and space efficient forms of transportation, and specifically, walking, biking, and public transit. so the plan includes many initiatives in order to achieve those walking, biking, and transit goals, including making transit fast, frequent, and reliable, and making walking, biking, and using scooters and

wheelchairs something that people of all ages and abilities feel safe doing everywhere and in every neighborhood in san francisco. in addition to that, we also recognize that it's important to electrify everything else, and that starts with electrifying the muni system. while muni does have the greenest fleet of any transportation provider in north america, we are working on eliminating the last of carbon based fuels in our system and have been working on testing battery electric buses, which you can see out there in the field. right now, we're testing a whole variety of them to see how they work given the reality of san francisco streets, and we're also involved in a lot of other initiatives, including advocating for additional electric charging stations in our facilities and collaborating with other agencies in order to build greener infrastructure throughout the city. couple of final news updates.

in the last two weeks, we've had some very productive meetings with the deputy secretary of transportation, polly cottenberg. we met with u.s. senator alex padilla and thanked him for the additional $115 million that will be coming to sfmta that makes the budget that you will be hearing later in this agenda possible, and we had a great interview with kpix out on park presidio, where we have completed the installation of high occupancy vehicle lanes on park presidio, matching those that we have already installed on lombard street. we will be evaluating those as a means to improve transit

speed and reliability on the state and federal highways in san francisco as well as allow our state highways to move more people since california is growing in population and in jobs, and our state highways with no longer getting any wider.

>> great. director heminger? >> thank you, madam chair. jeff, just back on the mask mandate question, and maybe just a little bit more detail, if i could. so basically, it sounds like we've had overlapping requirements for mask wearing, and now that the federal leg of the stool is sort of knocked

out, we have a city requirement and a state of california requirement. >> that's correct. >> is that right? and as long as one of those survives, we have a mask mandate. >> that's right, and as always, we have been following the latest health and safety guidance from any of the applicable authorities and always following the most prudent guidance, so if the state or local governments maintain the mask mandates, we will also maintain the mask mandates, but if the health officials drop those requirements, we will also be dropping those requirements. >> so given that we've got two left, and i -- as i recall, the mayor acted before the state did on several pandemic related issues. i don't know if she was first on this one, too, but again,

the point is that if either one of them survives, the mandate survives, are either one of them, i guess i would call it term limited or sunseted or are they ordered until they're modified. >> i believe if there's still a health emergency, and i believe there's still a health emergency, notwithstanding the trump appointee florida attorney, we would still be able to declare an emergency. >> director tumlin is direct that, for the time being, the local health orders remain in effect, and until they are changed, officially amended, we will continue to follow the guidance set out in both the local and state health orders.

>> you know, one thing i want to single out for praise is the fact that, jeff, i think you've been a leader among the other transit operators in the bay area, of which there are many, in trying to have a coordinated response, which i think for the most part we've had. the city's going to continue to enforce a mandate under these orders, and are you going to attempt to encourage the other transit operators to do the same? >> so we're currently having a conversation with the s.f. department of health. if they're wishing to continue the mask mandate, we're urging them to collaborate with the other health officials in the

other eight counties because what we don't want to happen is for somebody to get on b.a.r.t. in alameda county and then be forced to put their masks on in san francisco county. there's been a very long string of e-mails from all the general managers today, making sure that we all stay coordinated because we understand the importance of staying coordinated, and as far as i know, all the bus and rail operators are maintaining their mask mandates. i believe that the ferries run by weta have removed their mask mandates. >> and that leads to my last point, which i think is more of a statement than a question, and that is, to the extent we can, to do better. i think getting a coordinated

message out is really important, and look, there are people out there who have been -- they think have been unjustly affected by this mandate, and i think they may be spoiling for fights. i don't make light of the fact that these may have real-world consequences, but this is sort of open for confusion given the way that the decision was made and the like, so i hope that we can do as well as we can with our own facilities, you know, one thought that i had, just watching my own bus pull away, it should say masks still required on the header because i think we need to get the message out to folks that we really haven't changed anything. it may change in the future,

but it hasn't changed yet. thank you, madam chair. >> thank you. director hinze? >> yeah, my question is sort of dovetailing off of director heminger's question, and it's not a question i don't think any of us wants to deal with, but it's one that i think it's important that we have something of a plan to deal with it. we know that the mask date is going to end, and there's already been some, i'll say conflict on transit -- some issues around folks continuing

to wear their mask and folks who may noting as welcoming to folks who continue to wear their masks. is there some sort of education that we can do to try to make the public aware of those incidents occurring and encouraging civility around people's personal choices of mask wearing? >> yeah, that's a good question. part of the work that we're doing is trying to get the expectations out.

>> -- can cut fatalities in half, so that is our primary response, beyond that, we're reliant upon our partners at the san francisco police department for their, you know, presence and visibility out there. they're really the only ones who can deal with what is a moving violation. as sfmta, we have no authority. >> supervisor safai: okay. two questions. is that the reason that that

buildout got killed? i mean, let's call it what it is. i want to know who's against people running red lights and killing innocent folks? >> to be really precise, the highway patrolman's association, the union that represents the highway patrol officers, historically opposes the bill. >> i don't know if it's appropriate, but i would love to hear from whoever runs this organization directly, what their reasoning is.

just because we're closing the subway at 9:30, you can still

take a bus on market street to make your connections. all the connections are there, and thanks to car-free market street, the buses run at nearly the same speed as they do on the subway. >> i understand that. i guess my -- it's really a question of folks getting out of work, how do we make it easy for folks to know so they can make their connections? >> we have signage in stations for a couple of weeks before closure so there's a lot of communication and outreach

going on. >> okay. just a couple more follow ups. when is the first week of these early closures going to start? isn't it soon? >> so we're in the middle of our first fix-it week. it will run through april 26. >> so the next one is going to be the next quarter? >> we don't currently -- i don't know if transit director julie kirchbaum is here, but we're aiming to do these once a quarter just because they're so incrementally cost effective for us. >> i hear it. i support it, and i think we should do it, just a little bit of reaching out to folks might be great. two things.

it seems like a leak should be considerable. do we know what are causing all these leaks in the system? >> yeah. we're doing high pressure grouting in to the cracks to seal them up, and we're also acknowledging that there will be leaks.

we're concerned with whether the leaking is causing actual damage or aesthetic problems in the subway system, but making sure that it's getting pumped out. >> my last thing is about the mask mandate. if you're looking for guidance, here's my guidance. we don't want to be the only place in san francisco to require a mask. if you need it just to get on the bus, my fear is folks who don't happen to have their mask, they would be hesitant to ride it.

>> we have always followed the guidance, particularly of the local san francisco department of public health, which has been far more aggressive in its stance in protecting the public from covid. >> thank you, director.

>> director eaken? >> thank you, madam chair. just have three items. one is i would like to support director yekutiel's inquiry around what are the obstacles sort of specifically standing in the way of speed safety cameras. that can be a discussion with possibly kate breen and the subset of the board. you've said over and over what a critical item this is. concerning the subway, thank you for the update. i love the idea that we're creating a brand-new training operator update. i know we mentioned this in the

past, but i would be strongly in favor of a very thorough postmortem once we are open and up so we can deeply reflect not just with ourselves but any other decision makers in the city with future massive multibillion dollar capital projects that we might choose or not choose to take on. i know my transit has changed through my deep engagement in this process. i just want to make sure that we're taking away everything we can through this process, which has been thoroughly challenging. >> thank you. we've been reflecting back out to the public, really, what we have learned in order to restore trust to the public i think is a very important action. >> great. third is on -- thanks for the reminder of the climate action plan and earth day, and just

what you've given us is such a significant portion of our city's plan falls within the climate action portfolio. i would love to do something within that. i'm sort of surprised that we've never had a presentation during my years on the board from d.o.e. >> i was meeting yesterday with acting director of the department of the environment tyrone jew, making sure that in his role he's not just being a caretaker but rapidly advancing the needs of the city in terms of clarification, so i think we would both enjoy coming and doing a presentation. >> thank you. >> director heminger, i also

have a note about vision zero equality, and there's a big issue with advocates on the other side. so you would want to hear from the aclu, as well? >> great. let's hear from all of them. it's on our hands, so i want to hear the pro, the for and against. >> director heminger? >> madam chair and colleagues, i do apologize for speaking twice, but i want to respond to my colleague, director yekutiel. i certainly agree with you that

we ought to be listening to what the medical profession has to say. their most recently advice was to extend the mandate until may, and they may at that point or may have, at that point, extended it further, what they're looking for is this brand-new variant that we have and how dangerous it might be to public health. look, i'm mindful of the fact that when you -- when you narrow down where the mandate for masks pertains, you run the risk of sorting running down the reputation of the folks who are subject to it, but i do think there are a sizeable number of people who are reassured by having the mandate, and i think those people you may lose, but i

think we have to acknowledge that's weighing something on a scale, but again, on the fund -- fundamental idea that we ought to let doctors decide the matters, amen. >> thank you. seeing no other comments from directors, i will now open this up for public comment. this is for anyone who would like to comment on the director director -- director's report or comments made here in the room. i do not see any people approaching the podium, so i'll go to the callers. >> clerk: hello, first caller? >> my name is richard rothman, and i live in the richmond

district. i'm confused. about a year ago, a pedestrian was hit and killed on 38 and geary, and m.t.a. has done nothing to slow the traffic down on geary, yet on the engineering for calendar on friday, they want to put two four-way stop signs on anza and 30, on 24 -- or anza and 26. i'm puzzled, and engineering doesn't answer e-mails, so i can't deal with them. and the other thing is mr. tumlin said about the golden gate park, i rode the shuttle, and i felt like a second-class citizen. i didn't feel i was part of the park. you know, you ride muni from one place to another, but

riding the shuttle just didn't give me confidence like i was being part of the park there, and i just felt like i was a second-class citizen. and also, director tumlin forgot to mention that supervisor chan has a chan, too. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is calvin, and i just want to thank everyone who made it possible to bring back the ax and bx line. everyone who takes those lines from visitacion valley all the way to chinatown to access cheaper groceries or go to work, so i just wanted to call in to express my gratitude and

thank everyone on behalf of the community. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. this is mark morton. can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> okay. great. i want to encourage muni to maintain the mask mandate regardless of what the feds or the state or the city does. despite all the excuses i'm hearing, this is really necessary to protect the health of the muni riders, many who have no choice but to ride muni. i've heard director tumlin and others say that they don't want the public to get the impression that muni is less safe than other environments, but the fact is that it is less safe despite what you're hearing. you get onto a muni bus, there is a probability that someone on that bus has covid in that

relatively small space, and infections occur. i'm hearing that the air turns over every minute, yet anyone who's been next to someone who maybe doesn't smell so well knows that the air doesn't turn over every minute. director tumlin says it's a wise thing to do to wear a mask on a bus, so if it's the wise thing to do, why shouldn't we be requiring people to keep them safe. i know that your agenda says members of the public are encouraged to participate remotely. i suppose that's because you think that an infected person might be present, and it's less safe, and you all appear to be wearing masks. please continue to keep all of us safe and continue the wearing of masks. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> this is herbert weiner, and i want to comment on the vision zero. now to access the 47 van ness line, excuse me, you have to cross this street to go -- to get to the bus stop. now in the process of crossing the street, you could potentially be run over by a vehicle, so this has concerns for vision zero, which i think is going to be in business for a very long time because you're going to see an increase in traffic fatalities because the street is between the passenger and the bus stop, so actually,

it has impacts for passenger safety. so vision zero is going to be in business for a very long time, and so will vision san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you. edward mason. regarding the climate program, there should be a call to action on a level of the victory gardens where everyone is essential in making the decision and your personal travel environment that you have an air impact on. and regarding the air circulation in vehicles, ac transit, as i recall, requires their windows to be closed when the air conditioning is on because having the windows open

with an air conditioning in a bus interferes with the efficient exchange of air in the passenger cabin, so i think that there needs to be some engineering analysis and evaluation does because the light rail vehicles are closed. there are no windows to open on light rail vehicles, so i think we need to have the engineering analysis with the air conditioning. [please stand by]

>> i can appreciate that members of the directors rather are political appointments. it's not important to make political statements and it's not inclusive when you're director of a public entity. i ask that cease in the future. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> caller: i'm calling because we have a big problem, me and my

neighbors. it's about the parking. we're paying lot of money for our rent especially for games, concerts. can you please help us and do something? thank you. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> caller: good afternoon. this about the mask mandate. i'm concerned because all of my family have various reasons to be particularly concerned about covid infections. i like to particularly underscore the comments made by

director heminger. when we go to a restaurant i have a choice of going to the restaurant and ordering takeout. we have not been to a restaurant. we do not have that choice with respect to public transit. i ask that mask mandate to be continued because of those individuals who have susceptibility. thank you. >> chair borden: next speaker. >> caller: hello. sfmta board members. i'm the student transfer. i'm here to urge you all to consider supporting the students with the transit pass.

every other higher education in san francisco has a pass. even institutions with the most marginalized populations has a pass. there are many other community colleges in the bay area that offer free transit pass. we are here also -- we wrote a letter to sfmta -- [ indiscernible ] we hope you can give a thorough consideration of our request to help students. >> chair borden: are there any more callers on the line?

>> clerk: i have one new speaker card. >> chair borden: why don't we take the speaker here first. >> caller: good afternoon. i'm a taxi i want to support the mask mandate on muni and san francisco taxi. i transferred a person who was covid positive. i heard overheard it. i grabbedded a second mask on the dashboard. that's what we're dealing with. i come home at night around 2:0. i get in bed next to a partner who's type 1 diabetic. it's a real issue.

i don't think it's something that should be treated lightly. the mask mandate has worked so far in san francisco. if you look at the numbers versus oklahoma and arizona, it's like two different countries. i think we keep going forward. it protects workers and the population. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker online? >> caller: hello. my name is heather brandt. i'm a student at city college of san francisco and mother of three and serving as associate student council president for ocean campus. i like you to consider funding or seeking funding to provide students with free transit passes to help meet this basic need. that approximately two thirds of our community is comprised of students over the age of 25.

and come from different backgrounds. serve students that are non-credit student who are impacted and unhoused. if you can consider free transit passes, we'll appreciate it. thank you. >> chair borden: as a reminder, to callers on the line, if you are calling on director's report, please only speak to items addressed by the director and members of this board. if you have a budget related comment to make, that's the budget later on the agenda. next caller. >> clerk: that does conclude the speakers. >> chair borden: we'll close public comment and move on. >> clerk: item 8, the citizens advisory council report. the c.a.c. did meet on

april 7th. they passed a recommendation. sfmta c.a.c. recommends that the agency promote its public facing dashboard communitying tip time and reliable data. this is information that should be presented as proactively as possible. that's it. >> chair borden: directors are there any question or comments? any public commenter have a comment on the resolution? >> clerk: i'm not seeing any callers in the queue. >> chair borden: next item. >> clerk: item 9 public comment. >> chair borden: a reminder, this is your time so speak on matters that are under the subject matter jurisdiction of the sfmta but not on today's calendar. if the item is on the calendar, the best time to address that

item is at the number. >> clerk: i will read couple of names off. you can start to make your way to the lectern and line up against the tv side of the room. >> good afternoon. 17-year taxi driver. i'm here to hold your feet to the fire for living wage for san francisco taxi workers. during the last meeting you voted thousand uber and lyft to work with taxis less than the meter rate. they can charge $30 leaving the giants game, customer goes to richmond pay the driver $15.

uber has shown they are not equitable partners. each and every one of you, when you are in your social circles and you hang out with your friends you say you support a living wage for san franciscans. especially for hard working san franciscans like myself. my industry is almost exclusively working class immigrant and people of color. the fact that you passed this unanimously last week, i feel compelled to say that i'm disappointed. it's my livelihood at stake. i'm busier than ever before. i'm getting every night, i'm getting passengers saying i'm sick of uber and lyft. i want a real taxi. we have almost $6-gallon gas. we can't be going lower on the meter. for me it's my livelihood. i felt like mr. yekutiel was

dismissive in his comments. director cajina brought up some reservations. you voted for it anyway. i'm going to keep coming to these meetings. i will keep reaching out to my thousands of followers on social media. let's hope we can fight for a living wage for san francisco taxi workers. all we're asking for the meter rate. thank you very much. >> my name is garrett. i'm currently a mission bay resident. my family and i we've been living in the mission bay neighborhood for seven or eight years now. we moved into the neighborhood before there were parking meters. this is exactly about that, about the parking meters. the big issue around that.

i had plenty of parking tickets and some them for expired meters. i understand within the last year the fare has increased from $7 an hour to up to $8 an hour. i am probably one of your guys local ups drivers. i been driving for them for five years. sometime i work 13 or 14 hours a day. last thing i like to do is to get home and have to wait outside for this parking meter to expire. what i've been doing in the meantime for my family and i, i've been parking in a nearby neighborhood and walking 15 to 20 minutes. my fiancee, on the other hand, she is eight weeks pregnant. it hasn't been very convenient for us to walk 15 to 20 minutes away, i'm hauling a wagon with

groceries. it's not convenient. i heard that sfmta providing the neighborhood with r.p.p. that will be because it would cause the garage vehicles to be parked outside. i can see how that's an issue. i also understand there isn't a permanent solution. i'm asking for you guys to take a look into that issue and looking into it for us low income residents. may be designing a program that's not exactly exempt but maybe at a discounted rate. thank you very much for listening. >> chair borden: i want to remind people we supposed to be wearing masks in the room. i know it's confusing because city hall does not have a mask mandate. but in meeting rooms we do. i wanted to let you know that. next speaker please.

>> hello. i live in mission bay 588 mission bay. i support his idea on the parking. it is unacceptable. i also used to park minutes away from home. it was okay but then in the area where i used to work, it has five hour time limits. it's a pain. part of the parking problem around our building is the final stop of the bus. which is third and mission bay up north. it's the final stop. it takes away lot of parking

spot. in addition to that, they make noise at night. it's just in the front of my win toe. -- window. in the beginning, they moved in, i was living there for maybe four years, it's a hard time for me. [ indiscernible ] the only progress i got is when i go to the office directly.

>> chair borden: thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi, i live in mission bay. i'm proud to say i'm in recovery. i was one of the lucky ones who got out of the drug culture of tenderloin. i was blessed enough to live in one of the many affordable housing here in mission bay. me and my partner, darrell, worked for skip charging scooters. when you guys denied skip for the second year it was a setback for us. we decided to go to delivery service. we were able to save money. i'm saying we, i should say my partner was able to save money for a car when covid hit. we were able to keep working and

our job became essential during covid. this started because we wanted to have a safe place to work hard that's affordable. to get a residential permit parking issued, we needed to start a petition. we did that, got 347 signatures, turned it in but was getting ignored and denied over and over again. i talked to my neighbor who are struggling to make ends meet. have to deal with the daily stress worrying about parking. i get text from people who told me how it's affecting their mental health. another one from someone who doesn't speak english, had to have her son text me to ask for help. she's a cleaning lady. stories should be enough for the board to consider issuing r.p.p. or some kind of relief that's equitable and affordable.

some of us pay more for parking tickets than the cost of our rent. we are here gathered to ask for change and we are committed to do everything we can to make it happen. thank you. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> clerk: i'll read off more names. >> hello, i need translator. i speak chinese. [speaking chinese]

>> she said she lives in mission bay. there are few parking spaces when she returns to work it's difficult to find parking. [speaking chinese] >> she has to find parking for a long time after coming home from work. all of the parking spaces were fees and require payment. it cost up to $8 an hour. parking for half a day cost over $100.

because their income is not high. they're a low income family. the parking cost is a huge burden for them. including housing costs and living expenses, the burden is the pressure is very high. they are hoping that we would help the mission bay residents. to resolve parking issues, thank you. >> chair borden: next speaker please.

>> hi. i'm also a resident of mission bay. been there since 2018. just got a car a year ago. discovered the extreme difficulties there are with the parking there for residents who rely on street parking. which happens to be mostly -- but not mostly, lot of them are low income buildings in the area. most of them are dedicated parking spaces. our building has 10% of the units have parking space. it's really -- lot more people in that in the building do have cars. there's very inadequate parking space for us to park at. during games it's impossible to find parking unless you walk 15

minutes. closest space that's free is 15 minutes away, walking distance. it's kind of difficult for people. most of the other buildings have enough spaces for all their residents. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i'm virginia. i live in the mission bay in an affordable housing building. i'm here because the meters in our area are very expensive. they can run up to $8 an hour

when there are events in chase center or in oracle park. meter hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. in other words, 11 hours a day. including sundays on event days. we don't get a break on a sunday to pay a meter. coming home 4:00 in the afternoon, i still have to pay six hours of meters which can be up to $48. only on a single day. i looked up oracle park schedule for the month of may, they have 14 events scheduled. chase center has 11 events for the month of may. if i am conservative in the day that i will be paying the meter

this month -- in the month of may during the event days, i'm looking at closest -- at least 10 days $480 a month. that's extra on my budget or family budget. $480 a month extra comes to about $6000 a year. that's a huge expense for ourselves. we live in affordable housing. it's no longer affordable with a parking that we have. that is if we don't get any tickets for expired meter. >> chair borden: your time is up. >> clerk: i'll read a few more

names. go ahead and line up on the tv side. anyone closest to the mic can start speaking. >> i have called sfmta parking enforcement. this is what they told me. the whole mission bay need to be tore down for illegal parking. they don't care about the mission bay area. our meters are so high, people can't afford to pay the rent. what can we do about this? parking enforcement wouldn't

come out to enforce it. i had -- [ indiscernible ] it's ridiculous. it does not do anything for us. they won't come out and enforce it. they won't help us. thank you. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i'm michelle hernandez. i lived at 626 mission bay for almost four years now. prior to moving into affordable housing, i was homeless, jumping from couch to couch and sleeping in my car at times. now i work as a receiving manager and have to work a second job doing amazon

deliveries using my car to make ends life. i have to base my life on the parking situation in my area. i cannot come home when there's a giants game, warrior game or concert. i sit in my car and have to wait until 10:00 p.m. until there's no charge for the meters. i'm constantly stressed and do not sleep well because i get home late and have to wake up early to go to work. it's traumatizing after being homeless to have a home and not be able to go there because the parking is too expensive. i've paid thousands of dollars in tickets and feeding the meters over these years and my rent is less sometimes than what i actually to pay the meter for that day. i can't spend my weekends at home and relax because the meters are too expensive and we have to fight for parking with

with the people trying to go to food trucks across from our house. thank you. please help. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker please. >> my name is sherry gaines. i am a resident of mission bay on third street. my biggest concern is having to drive around for 30 minutes to an hour to find parks on game days. i am sole driver for my household. i have small children. it becomes very stressful. if i do find a park, i have to get up every hour to make sure i'm feeding the meter. sometimes after 5:00 it's anywhere from $16 to $32 for

that night so i can finally go to sleep. i think the solution is for each resident or each community to have some type of parking permit, some type of assurement that we can park safely in front of our building where we live at. i been a resident there since the building was built. i'm hoping that you hear us today. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. >> i live at mission bay. we've been dealing with this problem off parking for a long time. i'm a student. i'm not currently working. sometimes i use a car with my roommate. we really having serious problem paying $8 an hour.

usually it's about events that we never go to. i really want to ask you for discount or something that make it like more affordable. thank you. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> good afternoon. [ indiscernible ] >> he lives in china basin. him and his family has moved

there and lived there for 10 months. he works at the airport and has to drive to and from work every day. also drive his vehicle to bring his kids to school. it's really inconvenient to live here. if he's not careful he'll be ticketed. he's already been ticketed three times. totaling $580.

there's often games. the parking fee becomes $8 when there's a game. he has to waste his time moving his vehicle further away. he has increased worries about car break-ins. he's hoping that the relevant city departments can help them resolve their concerns. thank you. >> chair borden: next speaker

please. >> interpreter: she's are a retired person and only has $800 monthly. she has to pay $8 an hour for parking. she can't afford it and she's hoping that we can resolve her parking needs. when there is a game sometimes she has to search for parking

for an hour or two and still can't find any available. she's hoping that the government can help her resolve her parking needs. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker please. we have no additional speakers in the room. we'll move to online. this is general public comment. comments on items matter of jurisdiction for the sfmta but not on today's calendar. are there callers on theline? >> clerk: we have four hands. >> caller: good afternoon. this is matthew sutter. i'm sure you all know who i am. i purchased a medallion that's worthless. i want to ask you when we're

going to have another meeting to resolve the crises that you guys have created? also i want to comment on this uber platform with fly wheel. fly wheel is created to give us -- help us to compete against uber. now you're allowing them to join. ultimately, probably uber end up purchasing fly wheel in the end and then we're going to be left high and dry and no way to make a living. i want to comment on public comment -- we want what's fair. if they just give us the meter rate, they can charge whatever they want. as long as we're getting a fair shake. i personally not support it as far as picking them up. i will not support something that's been trying to kill my

business. it's really a money grab on your part. you want more money after already getting $63 million in medallion sales. now you want to make a percentage off our rides. you're going to do it. you're going to fall through with it. we will not pick up the orders anymore. it's time for you guys to step up for the people and also support everybody in the mission bay. it breaks my heart you can't help citizens of san francisco. absolutely ridiculous. they should be exempt from those ball games. i'm just really pissed off the way you guys working this. >> clerk: next caller. >> caller: hello.

i'm speaking spanish. can somebody translate? [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: he is a resident of the mission bay area. he's looking for a parking solution. he requested more information around individual permit parking and understanding what if that's a solution for his issue. he utilizes his car more than anything to make a living. he uses it for work. he works outside of san francisco and to transport his children to school. he wants to understand if there's a way to subsidize to see if they have --

[ indiscernible ] parking tickets and such. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> caller: hello, i'm barbara jay thompson. thank you directors and thank you to secretary silva for alerting me about how to use this process via the phone. i've been a resident of san francisco since 1969. a situation has occurred that i feel absolutely address as a real need between coordination, between the san francisco police department and sfmta on stolen vehicles. i've attempted to address this

matter with the department through 311 process. no one has gotten back to me in 10 days, 311 has taken an additional complaint. i did receive a call after business hours last night from someone from parking enforcement. a supervisor because i called enforcement but i also contacted the office who forwarded my e-mail. i have the cell phones for mr. mcguire and mr. tumlin because they are published online through google. i feel as they aren't totally protected through the 311 process because they do not have the safe issues with the public. my son's car was stolen four times because the initial m.t.a.

p.c.o. did not have it towed and as a result, countless dollars and severe damage. it was only sfpd who recovered it. this should not be the use of police officers to track down stolen vehicles when m.t.a. officers are ticketing -- >> clerk: your time is up. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> caller: hello i'm christine eriksson. i'm one of the people that are affected by the parking situation. i'm fortunate enough to be one of the people that won the lottery in 2014. at that time, there was no meters. i wasn't told there was going to be meters. i didn't know anything about the

ball game. the meters were new. that's really -- it's unfortunate that we have this parking situation of $8 an hour including sundays. i need my car for -- i work in the behavior health services teaching people horticulture. i travel around san francisco going to the san francisco department of public health, maintaining their living wall and outside gardens while i teach people jobs to get jobs to do that. i need my car. when i work in the office, i pay for parking at a parking garage. that's kind of a lot of money. i am one of the people that you have asked to come in into affordable housing to become successful. it's hard to be successful when our parking is $8.

we do have -- i have a simple solution that we might look at. if our license plate matches to our neighborhood we can just pay the regular amount and not the $8. they have scanners on the parking meters of vehicles now. they will know that we live in that neighborhood. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. are there any additional callers on the line? >> clerk: there are no more callers. >> chair borden: we'll close public comment. this is not a question and answer session, maybe the director can talk about the process to apply for a residential parking permit program? >> director tumlin: it will be better for me to bring up streets director tom mcguire who has been working on this

topic for quite some time. >> good afternoon directors. the issue of residential permit parking in mission bay is tricky one because almost all the beyond street parking in mission parking is metered. there's very little off street parking built in the residential building. all that is per redevelopment plan. the city put together in 1998 and 2008. what we are designed to do is to protect existing residents from new outsider parking. r.p.p. will not increase the parking supply of the neighborhood.

i recalled two meetings ago we'll come back with comprehensive response with r.p.p. eligibility. it's best to talk about what the eligibility rules are with r.p.p. r.p.p. is a very blunt and specific tool that can accomplish one thing only, it's to prevent outsiders from parking on a residential block on the edge of downtown. we have tried to adapt it to unique landmarks in certain neighborhood. this is probably the most unique one we faced. >> chair borden: in the short-term, we're looking at it? >> we have to change the eligibility rules for r.p.p.

that's not something that i want to have staff do without some oversight and transparency. >> chair borden: you're taking a petition and will you at least meet with them? >> yes. i spoken to the director of ocii. my team has been meeting with residents. we'll continue to have those conversations. >> chair borden: thank you. i want to say, thank you all for coming out today. we're not equipped to have a robust discussion because it wasn't agendized on the calendar today. mr. mcguire will be following up to figure out next steps. this board will be looking at the overarching policy related to the r.p.p. thank you for your time an attention. we'll move on to the next item.

>> clerk: item 10. the consent calendar. these items will be acted upon by single vote unless member board or public wish to consider an item separately. members of the public if you wish to address a board press star 3. when speaking please identify which item number you're speaking to. item 10.1 to allot funds to get such funds available in payment filing claims against sfmta. 10.2, adopting muni service equity strategy report for fiscal year 2023 and 2024, identify challenges impacting neighborhoods and develop proposed strategies to address

identified major challenges. that concludes the consent calendar. >> chair borden: directors is there any motion to sever the item. seeing none, are there members of the public who like to address the consent calendar. >> clerk: we have no speaker cards. >> chair borden: i will entertain a motion from our directors. please call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion to approve the consent calendar. [roll call vote] thank you the consent calendar is approved. >> chair borden: that move on to our regular calendar. >> clerk: item 11. amending the transportation code to reduce the speed limit from 25 miles an hourly to 20 miles

per hour on the following 12 city street segment. third street between williams avenue, balboa street, castro street, market street, mission street, noriega street, stockton street and west portal avenue between 15th avenue and ulloa. >> good afternoon. i'm vision zero program manager. i'm joined by our education outreach. today we'll give update on our seed management work. as we know, speeding is the

leading cause of crashes in san francisco. even 5 miles per hour is a difference between someone survives a crash. we have range of tools to slow speeds including speed limit reduction, quick build lane reduction project, education and outreach. this presentation is going to focus specifically on reducing speed limits and education outreach strategies. we have new legislation that was signed into law earlier this year which allows us to set speeds differently. with a focus specifically on safety. under this new authority, beginning earlier this year, we've been able to reduce speed limbs from 25 to 20 miles per

hour if key criteria is met. at least 50% of the street is commercial or retail. beginning in 2024 we'll expand our speed limit reduction using state new authority to lower speed limits on safety corridors. >> good afternoon board. i'm vision zero education lead, sfmta. we're excited that beginning in january of this year, we started implementing new speed limbs 20 miles per hour in our business activity districts. we have completed seven so far. on the map it's indicated in red line. the blue lines we're proposing

35 additional allocations in phase two. first 12 would have been brought to you today for approval. on the map mostly in the northeast quadrant, we have another set of 50 or so locations in are eligible for speed limit reduction that's business districts. through all the locations shown here as well as our tenderloin 20 miles per hour work that's shown in the yellow on the map sfmta plans to implement 75 miles of lower speed limits. for implementation timeline, phase one was completed earlier this month. installation of phase two is planned for this summer and completed over 18 months. we plan to bring forward phase three locations later this year.

we'll be preparing this 20 miles per hour sign installation with education and outreach. it will look similar to these photos from the tenderloin 20 miles per hour work. it will include multi-lingual outreach to residents along the business activity districts. we'll be engaging local community groups to help get the word out. we're doing little catch up. you should see the transit shelter and banners installed in early may for phase one. phase one and phase two implementation will be covered in combination of local funds. however future phase will require additional funds which we included in the c.i.p. plus.

we're excited to share today as part of the 20 miles per hour work, we're proposing to expand our no turn on red pilot that we did in the tenderloin. results showed positive benefits for pedestrian safety especially for keeping the crosswalks clear. we're proposed to expand the pilot to our 20 miles per hour business activity district. knowing that the turn restrictions are effective in areas where we have high volumes of -- that's all we have. >> director lai: this is great. weapon can't more excited about roll out additional phases. i'm curious about the 50% of

retail frontage is considered. for example, i'm noticing that obviously like the diamond heights boulevard area which has like that shopping mall and also stone town, which has a ton of traffic around there. these were not included. can we not consider those areas of commercial? they are commercial centric right? >> i might see if our project engineer is available to answer questions. he is on the line as well. >> good afternoon directors. we do look at various commercial

corridors throughout the city and determine whether they meet the criteria under the 50% or not. right now we're focused on the corridor that's shown on the map. we can certainly look into other corridors as well in the future phase three of the project. >> director lai: i think in particular, the area around stones town is of concern because not only is it very car oriented that whole shopping area, it's essentially like a pretty dense confluence of uses. there's lot of students that walk across those scary streets. just really hoping that we can advance assessment of that area.

thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. director heminger. >> director heminger: thank you. three questions. the first, your second slide the one with the pie chart on what causes crashes, the other slice was about 50%. i'm just wondering, is there something hidden in there that is leading cause or they all like little slivers of cake? >> most of our crashes are severe and fatal are caused by focus on the five criteria. speeding, which is the primary one, running a signal, running a stop sign and unsafe turns. those make up the majority of crashes. the other 48% are like sort of smaller subsets. none of them make up the top five factors. >> director heminger: really?

usually there's a greater clustering i guess. the map on slide 7 was laying out i guess your strategy for rolling out this strategy around the city. one that i noticed was missing was the fulton and lincoln. i was surprised to see that because it's goldengate park. i will speak about fulton. people just drive that thing like a bat out of hell. do you have some plan to address that? are they coming in a separate phase? what can we expect for those two streets? >> i think i bring eddie back to speak to the analysis that's

being done. >> the current ab43 allows us to focus -- start with business and activity districts. fulton and lincoln, do not meet the criterias that's put forth to be defined as an activity district. we are able to look into it in 2024 if the definition of a safety corridor also encompasses what we define high energy corridors. >> director heminger: i believe we reduced the speed limit near that senior center on fulton. i think it was because it was that kind of use. we looked at both streets and scanned them what might count our what not. this is the best we can do under current law? >> that's correct. we recently decreased the speed limit from 35 to 30 about a year

to two years ago. that's for the entire corridor. we've also taken advantage of a law that allowed us to lower the speed limit further around senior centers. >> director heminger: whatever you can do on those two roads. big part of our agenda we spent lot time on the issue of j.f.k. is trying to make the park safe for pedestrians and anybody other than motorists. i think this has to be part of that response. finally i wanted to talk about enforcement. i recall it may have been you director eaken that we were talking about the bill that is now the law. there's some evidence that just putting the signs out reduces the speed, prevailing.

my observation of behavior is that you have to be caught by the cops once or twice before it really sinks in. the staff sent me some information about this over the last couple of years. enforcement by the sfpd of red light running has dropped like a rock. i wanted to be mindful that they got lot of priorities on their plate. this is only one of them. amount of time we're getting on this one is really low. have we reached out to them and talked about some kind of strategy where we get some dedicated enforcement of new area and give them the best chance not only proven their work but saving some lives? >> under ab43, once they are

implemented, there's a 30 day waiting period before citations can happen. we're in communication with the sfpd to let them know once the streets are implemented and provide talking points for them to share with their neighborhood districts through the monthly meets and residents. other enforcements is we're leading with design and engineering. we're using education and outreach to support compliance. working with the community and getting the word out. we're also seeking additional funding through c.i.p. plus. >> director heminger: i'm not sure i heard much of about the police department in that.

look, we need to worry about education and get the word out to people. ultimately, we need to enforce the law. like most things in life, this is probably one where you got 20% of the people committing 80% of the offenses. we got to find that 20 and we got to give them a lesson that this is not going to be fun if you keep breaking the law. i don't know, jeff -- >> director tumlin: we agree. chief scott agrees. main constraint now is for different set of reasons than sfmta and the san francisco police department is also facing a significant staffing challenge now. they are working on their own recovery just as we are working on our recovery and we continue to partner to the extent that we can. >> director heminger: i know you and i had some conversations about this. there's a model that exist where

we would pay for their enforcement. job one for them is to get staffed up so they can have somebody over there we can pay. i hope we can consider that. i know we got the budget coming up in a few minutes here. when we do have the budget, it's probably going to require some dedicated resource from us to them to get these new locations enforced and to get the ones that come after and after that enforced. i hope you'll take that under consideration. >> director tumlin: would argue, right now resources are not the constraint for hiring at sfpd. >> director heminger: what is? >> director tumlin: perhaps that's larger conversation for another agenda item. >> director heminger: okay, fair enough. i look forward to it. thank you. >> chair borden: i will move on to director hinze who is online.

>> director hinze: i have a question and i have comments. my question is this is all fantastic. we've been talking a lot about metrics and vision zero. i'm curious in looking at your evaluation approach for the program, if you have some metrics you're thinking about looking at. obviously we'll be looking at average speed. is there anything else you're going to be looking at in evaluation of results of ab43?

>> the primary data that reflect predata for the first seven corridors. if the next corridors are approved today, then we're move forward to collecting that data as well. we'll be doing an evaluation to understand how the speeds have changed overtime. one thing we think is really helpful is understanding the impacts on even shorter corridors. >> director hinze: then director lai and director heminger comments --

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i would support possible alternatives. i highly recommend anyone who's interested to look at those findings. i wanted to look at that work.

i have a motion to approve the item. >> i'll second. >> chair borden: we'll move on to director cajina. >> director cajina: thank you. i did have a question about how we're socializing this implementation with different folks and change those habits. i think director heminger made an excellent point about coordinating with the police. i wonder if there's an opportunity to coordinate with police to install speed radars

so that folks can automatically see that their speed is above that 20 miles an hour. it's not staff intensive, we need the equipment there. may be that's a solution to start siting the idea. my other question around the turn on red restriction. in ural assessment on how this was implemented in the tenderloin and the effects it had on how folks were reacting to this, i wonder how the business community responded to the turn on restrictions. >> i can share that one of the part for this no turn red pilot,

it came directly from the community. there was not a lot of support for or request for bringing this forward. in terms of bringing forward, there wasn't lot of support for. the evaluation was focused on behaviors at intersections. did vehicle comply with the turn restriction? did pedestrians have close calls? there wasn't any type of surveying to understand their perspective. my guess any i see no turn on

red restrictions. i would ask staff to be very cautious or work as much as they can with the business community there to understand what are some of the challenges can and -- it's a great tool we want to make sure we're doing this with community feedback. >> i want to add little bit to that. the point well taken. any time we make an intervention, we need to consider the impact it might have on operations including store local deliveries. in the case of turn on red restriction, we were not restricting the turn at any of the locations. you can still make a left turn

or right turn. you have to wait until a green light. we didn't expect -- preferring the ability to make the return and restricted when they are allowed to do it, it added safety but did not impact businesses. >> chair borden: director, tumlin you want to jump in? >> director tumlin: i want to give you a live -- ab23 passed out of the assembly privacy committee with 8 yes votes including two out of the three republicans. i think it demonstrates that

we're that, many teams were doing is making progress on this go around. >> chair borden: director eaken. >> vice chair eaken: thank you so much. just couple of comments the right turn on red, thank you for raising this. i had an incident at the corner of eddie with my family. eddie has a double right turn just north of. my daughter tried to cross. the car in the middle lane just went right through that pedestrian crosswalk. because it has a permission to cross. the sign said i was safe.

i was shocked by that. that current situation is a disaster. just how many times for people to signal we're on -- i wanted to echo and eligibility rules with -- police department is facing staffing shortages. i have the same line of thinking. i wanted to see part of director

yekutiel if we can have a dialogue with chief scott or an panel discussion around those known constraints and what we might do in this near term to address. thank you so much. >> chair borden: any other additional comments from directors before i open up to public comment? seeing none. for members of the public that are listening in or in the room, now is your time to comment on lowering of the speed limit on the corridors identified in the presentation. i don't see anyone in the room that is not staff or media. i will turn to the online queue. >> clerk: we have two callers. >> caller: good afternoon chair

borden. i walk san francisco strongly support these 20 miles per hour zone elements. we know that speed is not only number one reason that crashes happen, as folks noted in the presentation, it makes it so much more deadlier. this year walk s.f. conducted speed surveys on eight corridors. every single neighborhood, we noticed drivers driving at deadly speed. we know that speed limits is one part of the puzzle. we need speed zones rolled out as soon as possible. these results on the no turn on red are incredibly encouraging.

it's one of the top needs for vision zero in the letter signed from self-help to community living campaign and walk s.f. we're so glad to see sfmta following through and bringing this fast and solutions to more intersections. >> chair borden: next speaker please.

>> caller: hi, i'm resident of the haight. i want to say thank you for this work on the 20 miles per hour speed limit. very hopeful and excited that these will get approved as quickly as possible. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: we have no additional callers. >> chair borden: we'll close public comment. >> clerk: i think we have a motion and second. >> chair borden: now we can do roll call vote. >> clerk: on the motion to approve. [roll call vote]

the motion passes. 7-0. >> chair borden: next item called together. >> clerk: items 12a and b. approving the sfmta fiscal year 2023 to 2027 campaign improvement program and the amount of $2.6 billion including 157 proposed projects with 10 capital programs. including transit reliability, street safety, facilities, taxi, system safety and accessibility. item 12b, this will take a moment. bear with me. approving various actions related to the sfmta two-year fiscal year 2023 and 2024 budget including approving the sfmta's fiscal year 2023 and 2024 operating budget in the amounts of $1357.1 million the campaign budget in the amounts of

$424 million and $338 million. certifying the fiscal year '23 and '24 capital budgets are adequate and making substantial progress, established pursuant to s.f. charter section 88.103. authorizing changes to various fines, fees and charges for the fiscal year beginning july 1, 2022 and july 1, 2023. approving extension of the automatic indexing for all youths 19 and under. approving title 6 analysis on low income communities in san francisco.

intellectual property license fees and nonstandard vehicle permit fees, planning and development fees, development project review fees and fees various types of permits including special traffic, use of parking meters, residential area parking, contractor, van pool, bicycle share, program application, sfmta on street shared vehicle.

authorizing the director's implement short-term experimental fares to respond effectively to community request and public health and safety emergencies, concurring with the controller certification and parking citation and collection fees. facilities, security services, paratransit services, parking meter, collection and coin counting services, transit shelter and maintenance services and vehicle towing. authorizing the director on make necessary technical and clerical corrections to the approved fiscal year 2023 and '24 and

operating and campaign budget of the sfmta and allocate additional revenues and discretionary revenues in order to fund additional judgments to the operating and campaign budget. provided that the director of transportation return with instructions with aggregates. >> chair borden: i don't think that was long enough. [ laughter ] >> today with luck, you will adopt your two-year operating and capital budget and the 5-year campaign improvement program. today, as many at home may know the charter requires that the

m.t.a. board adopt a budget by may 1st. this is a meeting where we hope to do that. some things to cover and kind of talk about, this is like a movie with some journeys along the way. first, we did talk about revenues. we had a number of hearings about revenues. we start with the baseline at the board retreat. the revenues are optimistic. at this point it time, just like two years ago, we want to be optimistic about the recovery of the city but while they are optimistic, they are also realistic. we're pretty confident about the estimates. you'll recall that the original baseline was done after a review by the controllers office. we are the workshop, we did significant outreach and listening sessions with the community. we went to lowest listening sessions.

we have been responsive to what the public told us they are interested in making investments. at the last meeting you got your charter required recommendation and resolution from the citizens advisory council. as you recall, a year ago, last year, you approved our strategic plan. both the budget and the c.i.p. are reflective of that strategic plan. investing in equity again building trust with the community and the fact that there were no specific proposals. we sent out the baseline. we did lot of listening to the

public. we were directly responsive to the current concerns that they expressed to us. overall in the design of the budget specifically and over the next two fiscal years, our overall objective is to be resilient. be optimistic about the recovery of the city and our own revenues but also having plans in place that if that optimism wasn't realistic, we had ways to step back and put breaks on the program. that's managing to the pace of recovery. making sure that the agency is restored to full operation both internally and in the external service we provide to the public also considering what's known. we're in the middle of our negotiations of our labor contracts to some fent. we don't have a perfect vision about what the recovery of the city would look like. we are prepared no matter it scenario to continue to improve service and expand it to the

public over the next two years. we will start with the campaign improvement program. just one clerical error, when we were doing the recount of the project, i told you it was over 150 projects. it's actually 178. we rolled up a budget of phases. we triple checked the 178 projects. what i do want to tell the board and the public, this is the agency's highest investment many state of good repair in 10 years. what we've heard from the public through surveys and their experience of the system, they want us to fix it. one of the thing we talked about today with regard to working on the tunnel and reducing hours is part of that program to make sure as we reopen the system it is reliable for san franciscans.

here's the -- overall revenues. we tried to restore as much as street programming as we could. from the board workshop, we were able to increase programming-in dollars going to the street and traffic signals program by 29% at a $2.6 billion five-year c.i.p. that's actually little bit higher than the last one you adopted. per this board, we also have a strategy to be prepared for the additional dollars that are going to be out there due to the federal infrastructure bill. these are the policy priorities on the programs you want us to push and try to get dollars for.

here is the cash flows our various projects as we apply for grants this agency is prepared to invest in additional campaign improvement. you'll see the estimate there is $737 million. if we're fully successful with all of a our capital sources. the operating budget side, just some changes. there's a change on the slide. you'll fee the final budget at the bottom there between your last meeting and the one today. there's zero change in fiscal year '23. there's $7 million change in fiscal year '24. one we're expecting because diesel fuel is how extremely high in the state of california. than is the basis for state transit assistance. we think that will bump up to $7 million. at the same time, on the expenditure side and director heminger you know about this, we

have a commitment on interest payment related to caltrain. revenues are largely the same. the expectation, the resiliency is build in. there's is a -- the objective is to restore full agency operations. for the public to understand that, we take the period of the pandemic. the two years. the funding that we will have for the m.t.a. budget is exactly what it would have been had the pandemic never happened. we are doing that with one-time dollars from the federal government. you'll see the final here on this slide on both broken down by different chart of accounts. i think the most important thing to point out to the board

here,the appropriation you apprs little bit higher than operating budget. you'll see that line there transfer to capital. city generated funding sources, proposition b development impact fees, you have to appropriate to the operating budget because it has to go to the city appropriation process. all our other grants and federal and state funds, you have the individual authority to appropriate. we always put the chunk in the operating budget. that's what goes to the board of supervisors process. that is now been added. that's largely reflective of the proposition b street dollars that goes to streets program, development impact fees and the transportation sustainability fee that we anticipate getting in that period. one thing i should mention, while i tried my very best city work orders will be

$100 million. we kept it to the lowest amount we potentially could. we did a deep review of all of them. that's the expectation in the upcoming up. this is where the last meeting we got significant feedback from the board in two significant areas around communications and outreach and around transit, security and safety. those areas we did increase the amount of augmentation in both of those. first on communications and outreach, the final result will be increase of 11 f.t.e.s. that's over 40 people. that's bump up. people. i think based on the discussion at the last meeting, it is more cost effective for us to in-house lot of these services. it will reduce hopefully the reliance on consultants.

one position related to media relations, we have two. this is one additional person in that area. additional marketing and graphic design covered by the operating budget. i do want to stress this part of the customer experience program that wasn't in that specific augmentation under seven different positions. those will all be funded by the

operating budget and are not dependent on capital. that's really being responsive to the riders, service changes and other issues that occur throughout the day. on the transit safety and security side, on the left, this is something that i mentioned. i think director lai said jonathan, can you lift out the things that we're doing. over the past two years, the agency has made significant investments in the cleanliness and safety of the system. we are implementing these programs. we slowly been restoring service and hiring it staff. when you approved the security contract that was a significant increase investment in patrol for the upcoming central subway. we included 21mcap in the last budget. we'll have continued funding for

that. additional presence on vehicles provide customer service information. we talked about this at the last meeting the two f.t.e.s the original augmentation request. we're increasing staff at our security intelligence center. that's an additional four positions that we've added since the last meeting. that's related to video surveillance and follow-up. as there are incidents on vehicles and we need to be responsive, we have the ability to do that quickly. lastly, again as part of the customer experience program, you didn't see it when we talked about it in the last meeting, we're adding another '22 transit

ambassador. that's a significant bump up of the presence of m.t.a. staff on the vehicle day-to-day to support passengers and customers and be responsive if there are issues during the day and during service. i wanted to follow-up to close the loop. we did increase the augmentation in this area. the next question that came up at the last meeting was the pace of the expenditures and off ramps if revenues aren't realized. the augmentations were broken up by quarter. when positions were available to be hired. what i did here, i brogue it up by the various quarters. the july 2022 positions are all the transit car cleaners. those are temporary employees. we did it as a bump-up to be

responsive during the pandemic. again, good customer experience for a riders, we want to maintain that level of cleanliness. it's no longer because covid was here, it's because riders expect that level of quality on our vehicles. that's why you see those right up front at the fiscal year. we want to continue that program. you'll see second level of positions which is larger part of the augmentation. those months, usually august, september and october are best revenue month. there's lot of tourists in the city and good weather. we'll see month over month growth.

this is the layout. we'll provide updates to the board as we turn on these programs. part of that we're going to circle back with you on where these are. these are the expenditure controls that we have in place depending on how revenues materialize over the next two years. you will remember this chart. we have this a year ago. when we have the same process at this time where we got that next chunk of federal relief and we wanted to continue to restore service and restore other operations to the agency. not knowing that we can sustain them, we were using one-time federal funds. what we had done, we set a target for revenues and expenditures as to whether or not it was appropriate to continue to increase expenditures if we hit these marks. you'll see kind of a year ago what those marks were. use of one-time fund is an example. we were hoping 29.6. the target for the overall fiscal year '22, we'll lit just

below in. use of one-time funds we were hoping by fiscal year '23 that our revenues would have recovered. unfortunately we had the omicron variant and other things going on that disrupted our revenue recovery and pushed back quarter or two the reopening of the city. we still want to step it back. the current budget anticipates that about 16.6% of our budget will be one-time funds. if our other revenue sources do not grow, we have no way to continue those expenses. by fiscal year '24 it's 13%. this is why we send up with a $77 million deficit in fiscal year '25. there's going to be no more

federal level. -- relief. the state of good repair needs. you'll see that we were at 68.5% of our scheduled asset replacement costs. we think we got to about 85%. we're evaluating it for the 5-year c.i.p. the first run shows that it's likely we will cover all of our state of good repair needs for the first time in the next five-year campaign improvement program. which is pretty good and good use of that data. hopefully, that will increase our term score, which is actually steadily been going down. again, usually we get this state of good repair report in august. that's our goal we're setting for that year. you'll see we set goals for fare revenue recovery and parking

fine and fees recovery. a year ago, we were hoping to get to about 92% recovery. today we're about 86%. we're still at that ceiling. we're not getting past a certain level. fare revenue recovery, we hope to be at 54.9%. i think the board knows our ridership is at that level. our fare revenue is not. that's something we'll be working on over the next couple of months. i want to remind the public and the board, as an example, the use of san francisco -- the youth of san francisco are back in school. he now ride muni for free. there is going to be some deviation between ridership and fare revenue. it should grow exponentially as more riders come back and more likely the riders are the people who can pay the full fare. the budget sets the goal

hopefully we get to 56.8%. you'll see parking, we're hoping we get to 92.6. we're setting that again. based on the growth pattern and that's the objective that we have for next fiscal year. that's what we're trying to hit. those will be -- they are both expenditure controls and periods of time to review that. there are revenue targets. with that, the projections, just to remind the board, it does set us up for $76 million deficit in fiscal year '25. here are the probablies -- projections over the 5-year

forecast. here's the 30-year model. we're returning that 2009 expenditure chart. it dips little bit below and the growth is curve is little bit left. to kind of finalize it for you, the fiscal year 2022 budget was $1.29 billion. this proposed budget is growing at 4.7%. the following year it will grow at 3.8%. that's actually less than projected inflation. that shows there's high level of efficiency built in the budget. the reason that is, you're seeing all those programs, you're seeing all those augmentations. all of the division directors and the staff of the m.t.a. relooked at all their programs and how forget we can be in delivering the priorities of the community. lot of positions were things that were put on hold because we

could not afford them. that level of growth is pretty good. it shows that generally, we're holding the line on expenditures. which is why we're just getting back to that 2019 line that we thought the agency would always follow. we are investing in safety, reliability and service quality. the customer experience to get the riders back. hiring and training, we can get that workforce in place. equity and belonging personally and externally, service equity

expansion. on the capital side, you'll see the c.i.p. despite all the challenges and shifting capital resources to the operating budget. the c.i.p. is pretty stable. it's about 3% higher. on the the plus side, per your direction, we have c.i.p. plus. if we're successful, we'll add another 28% to our five-year campaign -- capital improvement program. we'll see where the general obligation bond goes in the next month and a half. the highest level of state of good repair investment, safety and reliability as the focus, facilities moving us toward the electrification, replacing our abled light rail vehicles and

getting a new train control system. overhauling the fleet, the first time we've done that there. that's the 5-year campaign 5-yel improvement program. we are recommending that you take an action to approve the 5-year capital improvement program. second motion in action on the consolidated budget. i need to thank all of these people on the public record who are vol in getting this budget done. without these people, these documents and this work would not have been done. thank you to all the staff who have been involved. you are now on video forever. everybody is going to know the credits of a movie that you made

this happen. hopefully, me and the rest of you will see this get adopted today. with that t that's the end of the movie. thank you very much. >> chair borden: in they weres of capital plan, have we taken into consideration inflation in terms the cost of things that we will be buying going up? right now we're in this high inflationary period and supply chain issues. i know we have three have we taken into consideration some inflation built into what we think things will cost? >> yes. when staff developed their c.i.p. program estimates, we have -- it's something out of all those audits and project delivery -- we have a standard template to develop cost estimates. there's a built-in inflation factor. we use both the city's version that the 10-year capital plan

uses, roughly 6% in year-over-year in increases. we built in contingencies in every phase. that's at the project level. the other thing, because we stretched the limit on some of the capital revenues and regional measure three is a good example of that, where designated projects stuck in the court. we made sure to set aside 2% contingency across the entire 5-year c.i.p. for unknowns, we tried not to have projects be disruptive. there's internal project contingency built in. there's a 2% contingency program wide for unknown cost increases. >> chair borden: director heminger. >> director heminger: jonathan, incidented to go back on the caltrain issue and to make sure i heard what you said.

my understand is that part of the agreement you're referencing is -- a different contribution. we agreed to split that can santa clara county. you got that budgeted in what year? >> fiscal year '24. >> director heminger: could you do it in '23? >> there are ways to move money between years. we looked at the schedule of the spended payment. might be right between the fiscal years. that's not impossible. >> i don't think it's a show stopper. colleagues i want to mention, consistent with concerns i've expressed on the budget. i'm still worried about the level of risk we are taking. especially with these

augmentations. especially as jonathan indicated, that we are relying so heavily on one-time funds and one-time funds will eventually go away. these federal funds are going away in show -- slow motion. at the same time, i believe budget adoption is one of those times where we need to circle the wagon and present a united front. despite my reservations i will vote for the budget. at the same time, i i think we ought to keep this budget on a very short leash. jonathan, i would hope we can get reports at least quarterly on where we are on revenues and expense. so we sort of don't -- at some point you drive by them all and there's no way to go but

forward. as long as that's agreerable to you. it >> we have three planned report backs that came up during the course of our discussions with you. one around august, i think you director heminger asked what is our potential for development. we are getting that you will also get the state of good reparroter at that time so see are we meeting to mace our sits ontime there are three different pieces of legislation going through the assembly flow. we'll come back, a conversation

about that. we'll do a first quarter review. that -- that's about quarter. at the end of the year we'll have a status report. >> director heminger: let me thank you and your staff for the -- thank you madam chair. >> chair borden: director lai? >> director lai: thank you. i will start with couple of clarification questions been on slide 25, i think you were referring second to third box it's fiscal year '23 and '24. >> correct.

>> director lai: the reference in the motion that talks about providing authorization to the director, jeff. for short-term experimental fares on parking rate. we're taking action to suspend indexing. what is this in reference to? >> that's something that you almost always approve in every budget resolution. it allows the staff to quickly implement that and circle back to the board. we used the six month authority. then we had to extend it beyond the six months and then we came to you for the authorization. there have been some instances over the past year around parking. we don't have the same policy around parking. we also want to give our streets division kind of the same flexibility on the parking policy side again, we will come back to the board after six

months kind of how it worked about >> director lai: thank you for that clarification. experimental fares is produce fares or increase fare. i trust director tumlin and director mcguire to come to the move. really happy to see that we built in some capacity to ourselves fully away from our le alliance on outsourcing our communication functions. would have like to see manager. this is a really -- really appreciate staff listening to the safety and security concerns and increasing that budget by about 30%. i do remain a little concerned

about the level of -- the description of sustaining, mcap staffing the feedback i heard from the community, that level is not quite efficient to cover the entire system. i did have a question about the two video surveillance staff. just wondering if that is truly enough. there's a lot of footage we're collecting. >> what i will say, if i guessed

right, tom, that's like 100% increase on the city staff that already provides that function. on of it, we had staff that supports this. we are increasing capacity in that area. you got to check it and get it to the police department so there can be follow-up. us increasing bandwidth in this area makes us a lot more responsive. >> director lai: i'm in support of that and recognizing that exact issue you're highlighting. which is from my own knowledge i guess. the video is only kept for 10 days. there is a lot of back-and-forth in coordination that is manual between our agency and other agencies.

in our evolution to improve our data collection and to understand our safety and security needs, i think this is really important. i appreciate that it's 100%. may be we should monitor whether or not that's truly efficient. thank you for the reminder that we have a accurate out. the note about the patrol staffers. is that m.t.a. patrol? i didn't quite understand that note? >> that was the increase in the last security contract where we increased the number of uniform patrol from the security contract on the muni metro. i think it used to be two to three, we bumped it up by six people in the last contract. that will be sustained over the next two years. >> director lai: these are third

party contractors? >> these are third party contractors. it's the same contractor that protects our facilities. we increased the both the hours as well as the number of people. rather than one person having to cover all of the stations we now have one person covering three stations. >> director lai: that's in addition, that we have a new station inside the chinatown central subway station? men that's the police station. >> chair borden: director yekutiel. [ please stand by ]

i think our usual operational how long it takes them to go until they get off the bus. so the experience. with a staff that's able to do their job well. if we don't do that, we're going to keep relyingen what i think are overly punitive parking fines and fees to make up the difference. $100 street cleaning bills and $700 or $800 towing costs that don't make us money so i'd like

to see the revenue we should be making money from. i'm glad that i don't have to fight from my good friend on my right. i'm glad we don't need to do it twice today and i'm glad if we fixed spending problem now is the right thing to do now although risky. it is proposing over 400 people and that's fine to see on a slide, but it's only going to work if we actually do it. so if there's anything this board can do to address the pace of hiring, please let us know because it won't help if it takes us three, four, five years to hire on board training

people, it won't be worth it. i hope we can change some strange to get these positions hired as quickly as possible. and the last thing i'll say and this is not necessarily directed to the budget but it's reflected in the budget is i don't want us to think of the open minded thinking that the pandemic required of us. in a period of crisis i think we are seeing the benefits of now and will continue to. just because the pandemic will end at some point doesn't mean we should go back to the same thinking we had before. as we think about tom and julie how you spend the money that's being allocated to parts of the agency to continue to be as bold and open minded and pushing the envelope as much as we've been able to do over the last few years.

>> thank you. director hensi. >> thank you, i wanted to start my comments by making staff you have a great supportive cast. i really appreciate the presentation. my one question is you mentioned your efforts in regards to public work orders. i've been curious as to what we use the city work orders for. what do we get for that money?

>> sure. so when we interact with general departments, perfectly legitemate. there's a charter requirement for audits and we pay for that. so that's an annual payment. we have network payments to the city department of technology. on the enforcement side, we make a payment to the san francisco police department every year for patrol and other services that we receive from the police department. we receive some services from public works with regard to our buildings and maintaining them. so as an example, we really did a deep dive at the city work orders to the greatest extent possible in light of everything going on in the city and the pandemic. the direction i took from this board was be as efficient as possible and negotiate with our city departments and the city family. we did reallocate funds as a priority of this board. of as an example, we reduced some work orders to increase

cleaning from the department of public works on our shelters. so one department lost, another one got more. one area where work orders did go up that we could not control is our energy and gas prices from the public utilities commission went way up. it's probably the biggest reason that we bumped up to almost exactly $100 million. that's just the nature of the market and energy costs right now that's priced into their financial and fee models and so we just have to accept their estimate. it is possible over the fiscal year we will use less and not as much, but they provide us estimates on how much they think we're going to be paying and that's all our facilities and all the power we've used and we've been working to fix the heating systems in all of our yards and a lot of those are natural gas supported systems so that's another area as we're fixing things, we are actually using a little bit more. so i think one of the biggest

examples is our work order related to power and gas costs from the p.u.c. >> all right. i appreciate that. it sounds like you really did what you could. finally, i'll say that while i support it, i also second the director's request to the board with enough time for us to get a kind of critical feedback for those decisions so that we so you have enough time. so i really would appreciate

that also two things i would say from a staffing perspective, vision zero is going to be a priority of the board going forward as we move closer and closer by the day to our deadline. i just want to say we're going beyond with the incentives and making sure that that is included in the next. with that, madam chair, that concludes my comments. >> chairman: thank you, director. >> okay. i have one comment and two questions. thank you for listening and being responsive to board feedback.

really had a lot of comments about making sure we have cultural outreach on staff. thank you for that. one kind of bigger picture question and one a little more granular. just knowing and reflecting on the experience in the last two years and how being able to be nimble with such a success factor and everything we did? so i just want to understand globally what flexibility do you feel you have particularly around the staffing positions particularly for this agency, whatever. we brainstormed today about the idea of enforcement. how can m.t.a. supplement enforcement. can you just help us understand what within the constraints. >> that's a great question and it's a tool we use two years ago and it's a tool we're using

today. as i said, the budget is designed for resiliency. we accept there's unknowns and we need to be able to quickly iterate and change depending on what the situation is. being optimistic in both revenues and expenditures gives us that flexibility meaning that our adopted appropriation authority is high and where that served us well i think we all recall a budget ago and fiscal year '22 assumed transit revenue would be at $188 million, it certainly is not. but having that appropriation authority there allowed us to accept the federal relief so we could continue to increase service and be iterative and creative. we put the maximum amount in focusing on operations, focusing on welcoming the rider back to the system, customer

service to get the riders back to restore our own revenues, but there's enough flexibility in that as things change, we might slow down other things, we might increase other things and iterate and expand. so we will have both the f.t.e., the number of approved positions to do that in addition to the spending authority to do that in this budget. >> okay. let's just say a year from now for whatever reason thingses look different and we don't need whatever we anticipated and maybe to sharon's point we need more ambassadors. do you have that f.t.e. and staffing flexibility or are we locked in for two years? >> we do. but a good example is what we're doing with the car cleaners. we didn't have 30f.t.e.s of car cleaners. we were going to manage through

transit c.e.o.s. so we had salary authority on one side for p.c.o.s, but we didn't have positions for transit required throughout the pandemic. that's an example where the p.c.o.s were put on budget holds. but we got these temporary car cleaners in place so that's an example of i think as we come back quarterly and the board is hearing from the public we will have the ability to make adjustments. >> great. just to tie us to the vision zero conversation earlier, if we have a conversation with the police department and we decide

some sort of m.t.a. supplement would be a solution, a pilot solution, we would have the flexibility even though that specific idea is not in this budget today we would be able to office enforcement. >> the answer is question, but it cannot be a trade off discussion if we have that. >> thank you. >> chairman: director cahina. >> thank you, chair.

it is a lot of work to put a document like this together. it is a lot of work to coordinate with community, to coordinate with the city and all these different stakeholder groups. i just want to echo my colleagues' appreciation and everyone who worked on this who gave public comment. it was a task to put this together and we had a lot of learnings we had to incorporate. so thank you so much for everyone's work on this. i'll say it again, it's a really exciting time for transit right now. it makes me excited to be part of the m.t.a. family and i know that, you know, as we're trying

to hire new staff, we're continuing to staff where a transit agency is taking to it. however, i did have a question. so on slide 19, i was looking at the different, i guess the exexpenditures we're going to have throughout the next couple of years we're hoping to spend at least 60% of those s.t.e. within the first two quarters essentially. and so as we're thinking of our offerance like if our revenues don't match expenditures, i

wonder if there's a right move. if there's a way to slow that down just a little bit to give us that flexibility to really pump those breaks if we need to. so that's the only direction i will give on that front. and it's not -- you know, it's not a line item change but when we start setting the budget. understanding we should be a little conservative upfront. especially the first report that we'll get is in august to understand that piece. so i just want to understand to make sure that's something that you understand. thanks for all your work, jonathan, thanks to the team, and thank you for listening, thanks so much. >> chairman: thank you. any other final comments from directors before i open it up to public comment? this is your time members of the public to comment on items

12a and b our capital improvement program and our budget for 2023-2024. i don't see anyone in the room that isn't staff or media. i'm going to move to our online commenters. moderatorses, are there callers on the line? >> we have nine in the queue. >> chairman: please go ahead, first speaker. >> caller: hi there. this is zack with san francisco train riders. i want to thank sfmta staff and the board for putting together this two-year budget. it really meets and lifts up valueses of san francisco transit riders and our members improving speed rail reliability, are equitable service delivery and outreach and decreasing our reliance on our revenue sources such as theirs. in particular, i want to call out commitment to taking that risk to encourage riders to

return to transit. and dealing with that risk knowing that transit is essential to our climate goals and equity goals and restoring the revenue sources that will help fund muni's future. i want to call out the loving support of all youth and the pilot pass on huni mobile as well as the funding for the rates equity and belonging programs, equity safety initiatives and commissioners. i do want to echo director lai's points we would like to see that funding increase and that city funding changed. we encourage it to be added in future cycles or if money allows, if the city's recovery

and those two programs are free huni for all adults earning 200% or less over the federal poverty line and increase the access and opportunity reducing our emissions. thank you, board and staff for this budget. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please.

>> caller: hello. over the years i have done extensive outreach particularly in the bayview where a majority of people who live in and petitions that were and that's certainly something in the proposed budget and something that's not in the budget is to raise the limit of free huni to adults above 200 and also the. the petition highlights the

removal the hours of parking, red curbs and meters on all of our public streets. something that the board of directors is asked to approve at most meetings. the results are devastating to people living in their vehicles and nowadays there are places. people experiencing homelessness will like to be here in person addressing you directly face to face, but being here for four or five hours to wait their turn to give two minutes of public comment, it's typically not feasible. i suggest that the board members embrace ways to make it more accessible. perhaps all public comment on all agenda items could at one specific time -- >> chairman: thank you. your time's up.

i'm sorry. next speaker, please. >> caller: can you hear me? >> chairman: yes, we can. >> caller: hello. i am a stunl counselor from the city college of san francisco. associate student council. i am urging you to add city college students into your budget for free rent transit passes. so it's coming in to myself to go to school. having a free transit pass and reduce emissions. city college serves students and from various backgrounds. commuting to sf to take courses should not be another concern for students. every other with the most marginalized population of advantage of a task.

there are many community colleges in the bay area that offer free passes. we also wrote a letter to the board, please read it carefully. transit pass will help students and transition to careers smoothly. thank you for keeping us updated on this. and sf. thank you for your time. and consideration. that concludes my public comment. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: good afternoon sfmta directors and director tumlin. first, i want to thank the sfmta staff and really recognizing that this is a mammoth task on everybody whether we walk, bike, or take

hewni, we all depend on safe streets to get around. so it does seem natural that rcip would meet the needs of the safe streets, but the one being presented is showing less than 10% of safe streets and traffic signals when we all know there is greater needs and lives at stake. the c.i.p. does a great job. particularly traffic signals in the tenderloin and the transportation plan. what's unfortunate is that these important safety projects have completion dates of 2025 and 2026 years after we're scheduled to reach vision zero. we'd like to ask if there's any way we can speed up this project. finding funding available that

prioritizes children and rethat needs to be a priority. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. and we now represent over 80 community based local organizations and we support for moouny what we see in the budget. we ask that you please. we understand that sfmta is balancing many competing needs

and you're tasked with making near impossible suggestions and that projected revenues are still not stable and predictable. people with the lowest incomes have the fewest transportation options should funds become available, expanding free muni will go such a long way. also, i want to send out a thank you on the renewed call for poverty today. this will undoubtedly contribute to more policy reforms and we encourage you to a recently submitted coalition on fines, fares, and fees. thank you so much. >> caller: hi. the c.i.p. reflects the need

for fast, and 17 million traffic signal improvements. these overdue investments are a step. a step towards paying down a debt owed to this community. we are finally making progress and this is the exact time to double down on vision zero. let's keep it up. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: hi there. i am both a co-chair of the san francisco transit riders and a student and i'm honored to be a trustee at ccsf. and i too am calling in to say thank you first of all for your amazing work in these difficult times. i want to congratulate director

cajina and i also want to say, i love the comments from board memberses. there is more money coming down the pike. you should support ab1919 for example, which is $600 million that organizations like transforming the san francisco transit riders are supporting that would go towards things like free muni for students and that would allow you to be able to add free muni for transit pass to your budget. so i really appreciate the idea of your understanding of how important it is to be nimble and flexible and open minded. as you know, city college has the most disadvantaged students in san francisco.

and there are many community colleges that have managed to do so from free to very low cost. we're really hoping that you can take a look at the letter that our student chancellor sent your way. it has a lot of data. there have been a lot of studies on the benefits to everybody. it's not just benefits to students and 16 to 90 years of age. it's benefits to everybody has we get access to better jobs and have better lives and i'll end with saying transit is a public good and should be available to anybody.

are there any additional callers? >> we do have a few additional callers. >> caller: hi there. i just wanted to thank you for all the amazing work you do this is actually my first meeting and seeing the amount of effort that goes into our public transportation is really satisfying for us. at community forward sf,we do service a lot of low income individuals and we just want to which would support sfmta commitments especially for people who get around on muni. thank you. >> chairman: next speaker,

please. >> good afternoon. i'm here to thank you for your leadership in prioritizing the tenderloin and p.i.c.. my first public comment as an organizer was about prioritizing specifically allocating funds to upgrade traffic signals and following through on quick build projects in the neighborhood. a lot has happened in the world and the tenderloin in two years and waiting until 2023 to upgrade. because the infrastructure is so old, they're not properly synced and it has been confusing for folks and we've

been relying a lot on safe passage for crossing assistants and education. they can't be at every intersection at all times every day and upgrading traffic signals was an ask when i started two years ago and stacy still an ask now by 2024. as the tenderloin continues to be ground zero, we ask that the tenderloin neighborhood continues to be a riert and that project happens in 2022 as promised. we look forward to working with you all and our partners at the tenderloin traffic safety task force. thank you so much for your time. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: yes. good afternoon. this is barry toronto. i meant to do public comment

earlier but i fell asleep because i had two morning airports that kept me out. but i wanted to point out today, i believe you have waived the fees for the taxi drivers for the next two years and if that's the case, i want to thank you for that. you're not going to do it by offering discounted uber fares plus you have to take the time to go and urinate in a cup for drug testing. so i do want to thank you for putting that in your budget approval today. but i want to let you know that i want a living wage and i'm not going to get it if you're going to shove down uber fares down my throughout that considering that today at the

hilton, these people couldn't find an uber for $55 and the meter showed $42 from the hilton to the airport. so i want to let you know that i want to thank you for wanting to reduce my wage and force me out of the industry. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: this is herbert weeuner. we need to have the full restoration of huni surfaces as quickly as possible and the budget has to reflect this. now one concern with many people in the community is the pandemic is being used as a smoke screen to reduce huni services. we need to have them restored as quickly as possible. i ride the bus packed to the gills. people are sitting next to each other which is in violation of the protocols that m.t.a.

itself has set out to protect the public. now, we need to have those services restored as quickly as possible and the budget has to reflect this. so we must make this a top priority to restore muni services. so this must be underlined in red, bold, i tal ic italic letters. >> caller: thank you. this is my first time attending and i will give my public comment now. my name is heather brant.

i'm also serving as the associated student council member. . i would like you all to consider funding or seeking funding to provide students with free transit passes while also bearing in mind that two thirds of our community college community is over the age of 25 and incredibly diverse. we help students that are noncredit foster youth system impacted, unhoused or student parents such as myself. so if you could please make this accessible, equitable and inclusive thank you so much for your time and considering applying funds towards this. . thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: hi. my name is margo reed and i'm the manager of the programs within work force development

that include the impact program under tim burrs. it also includes several of the apprentice ship programs under julie kerrshbaum. i want to thank you for your support and jonathan ruers for his incredible presentation and i'm very much looking forward to giving the reports through tim ackerman to you about what we're doing in work force development and our successeses. thank you so much. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: hello. can you hear me okay? >> chairman: yes, we can. >> hello, i am the chair in district seven appointee of the san francisco youth commission. i am on the public comment to

relay that yesterday at 6:00 p.m., the youth commission passed a resolution that i co-sponsored urging the sfmta urging all youth. and so as representatives of young people in the city, this resolution is a testament to what you want and need in our city. so thank you for considering free huni for all youth. i'm also a student at lowell high school and young people who ride huni almost daily. so despite living in district seven, free public transportation has allowed me to explore the city and participate in events beyond my neighborhood. as we recover from the pandemic, i'm sure you all know it's more important than ever to allow people to engage with their communities and so also transportation is just for me more than just traveling. it means economic freedom, community engagement, social

participation. and so i'd fully support the extension as free huni for all youth, however, i'd also urge sfmta board members that a long term system beyond this next year would truly help people. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. >> i'm calling to ask you to bring back the number ten huni bus. right now there's no transportation from you have not brought back the ten but and the community here would really appreciate being reconnected to the chinatown, downtown area.

thank you very much. >> hello, i'm a resident of the tenderloin and the senior manager for safe passage at the tlcbd and by share. i'm calling in support of the cip and the funding for the tenderloin both for the signal upgrades and for the quick builds and would like to ask that those efforts be made quicker if possible as far as we would do one over rose gold by 2024 so if we can make those changes sooner than later that would be great. thank you for your time. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please.

>> i believe that concludes all of the online callers. >> chairman: great. thank you for that. i do have a question about the free muni in the budget we are contemplating. i know sf state has a gator pass. can you talk a little bit about what we have and how we intersect with that? >> correct. so they're part of the class pass program and we have an m.l.u. that we've implement wednesday them. i want to guess off the top of my mind it's $35 per student essentially and we get part of their student pass transit throughout the year. it's almost like an employer base program which is a program we've always been interested in expanding. people pay for their transit upfront and they have access to the system throughout the year as they need it. we do not implement that program with city college, but any organization is free to come and talk to us about it.

we've done it with different organizations. we entered into a similar m.l.u. when we opened the new warriors center at the chase center. that's how it currently works. i think again on this topic and it's why we have the experimental affairs policy in there. we're going to see what happens with the state legislation and how that all works out with fair subsidy and how long free programs will exist. we're actively working on that. we're working with the region on that and i think we will have impact on what the region recommends. when we come back to you in october, post the state budget, we will have a detailed discussion about fair policy. we'll also talk about, we'll have the technology in place to start talking about implementing the 10-trip pass and the accumulator pass as new products we're offering the public. so we'll have that comprehensive discussion and city college can be apart of

that. >> chairman: great. i don't see. if we were to come up with a process like that, are it's not something we would need to be worried about? my question is it wouldn't be a huge budget hit if we had a deal with city college. >> so we got the letter and if we were to expand to that level on top of what we're doing for huni for all youth. if we were to do something around city college, it should be an agency related agreement. how do we verify they're a student. there was another request and this is part of the state legislation to adjust the age of free transit programs up to 25. we're also costing that. this is an example there's a lot of policy discussion at the state right now. there's some legislation about how school districts need to provide public transportation. sort of like our school

trippers going through the legislature right now. there's another one with the governor's proposal and there's a third one upping the age to 25. again, i think we have to see where the state comes. i'm pretty sure there's going to be money associate wednesday it and director tumlin can speak to this, but we want to give this board the maximum amount of flexibility with whatever comes out of san francisco to tune those programs with our values and strategic plan for our riders. i think we again need to see where the region is on this and then the state. i think it will all be resolved by october and we'll lay out some solutions for you. >> chairman: do you think we can accommodate that or only if there's new funding.

to provide out of the state programs to implement those. as one example, maybe the region decides to do free transit for all youth and all youth under 25 and that money can be used as a year, for example. or as many callers discuss expanding free transit to those beyond free muni to 150% or 200% of the federal poverty level. so it was timely that you asked for a review of our fair

policies and programs in their work. and through the policies, you will have the flexibility to make adjustments next year. >> that's quite all right. i and i just want to thank you all for the budget. the current program that's not in the budget but we would like to see funding is the expansion of free muni to all adults earning 200% or less of the federal poverty line. i know you all had looked at including this, but we're unable to do so because it

requires additional funding. the people they serve need to ride huni. they simply can't afford afford it. i'd like to call your attention to a letter you all received from organizations and sf transit riders asking for this reform while generating real cuts to our green house gas emissions. while the sfmta does not currently have the budget to enact this program, we ask you to consider prioritizing free huni for people in poverty. thanks so much.

>> thank you so now we will one i gust when we posted the agenda versus when we finished and balanced everything on friday, the numbers that secretary silva read into the records, the resolution is just a little off. so just note your resolution is correct when we read it into the record. so when you approved the resolution that's correct, one. and, second, i need to thank phil who was up late doing that in design on friday. so when i correct that slide and public that, we will also correct. so thank you, phil, for getting that done and that includes everybody and that's my

technical adjustments. >> chairman: thank you. >> i would love to motion to approve, but i did have one question if we can get a second, first. >> chairman: okay. >> chairman: did you have a question, director? did you want to second. >> i was going to second. >> chairman: great. we'll have her second. >> thank you. just to the last public commenter's comments. i believe by authorizing the d.o.t. with the ability to adjust fares that builds in our potential possibility to extend the fair program for folks. >> yes. under the policy, you will have the ability to do that. thank you. >> great, thank you. >> chairman: so we should have two different motions. we're going to vote on 12a first. second was for 12a, and we'll -- >> move it. >> chairman: and then we'll go ahead and take a role call

vote. >> a motion to prove item 12a, [roll call] thank you, the motion passes 7-0. motion to approve 12b. >> seconded. >> on the motion to approve 12b, [roll call] thank you. the motion passes 7-0. >> congratulations. >> chairman: thank you. >> yeah. >> chairman: thanks for all that hard work for you and your team, jonathan. i feel like we were the most prepared than we've ever been going into budget. so, with that, we'll move

onto our final item for agenda before closed session. >> clerk: item thir teen, authorizing the director to execute contract for a parking meter coin and parking data collection services with park engine california for an amount not to exceed fieft$.8 million and for a total term of ten years with an option to extend for up to five additional years. >> chairman: great. thank you. >> good afternoon, directors, and director tumlin and director mcgire. i'm a project manager with parking and curb management group. i'm here to seek your authorization with lost parking to perform parking meter coins parking data collection and services. this was a ten-year potential agreement with five extension years. with not to exceed a budget of $58.8 million. this is an increase, represents

an increase of about 9% to what the previous 10 year agreement of $46 million. and the in general terms, the 9.5% presents the need to get a new feed of collection vehicles. the current vehicle is about 10 years old and we're going to be adding some new data collection crews. we're going to be adding an analyst position and overall, we need to account for increase and labor rates for new teamsters agreement. this agreement is under the prevailing wage ordinance and the staff that performs the services are part of teamsters 665. contract services include coin collection and revenue reconciliation. also, staff delivers collected meter coin to sfmta counting facility. it includes data collection.

it includes meter condition, observation supporting and also meter maid software. in this slide, you can see a brief comparison between the previous agreement that's about to end this summer and the new agreement. you see that coin, the previous agreement included coin collection and counting. a few years ago, we were able to move counting of the coins to our huni facility at 1 south van ness. and this new agreement will include coin collection and delivery of coins to sfmta. the procurement of the parking services was part of the previous agreement as well as some of the meter application supports. the new agreement will include the data collection and as i mentioned increased labor costs because of the new two-year agreement. all right. there are crucial differences between the old agreement and

the new agreement when you look at the fixed cost versus the variable cost and the fixed cost for the infrastructure like an office, insurance, overhead, etc., and the variable cost, this is our labor cost and there's two types of labor agreements. noncba and then there's a union labor that performs coin and data collection service. with the new agreement, we have a lot of flexibility to adjustmentment variable part of the contract and you can see that in all old agreement, some was split in the middle and the new agreement it's about 16 to 35. we've done a lot of work to make it as flexible as possible and we will have an ability to

adjust and if there is no more coins, then, we'll make the decision what to do with the service. and also this graph represents to give you an idea of the future year's cost, you can see we definitely see the trajectory for the coin volume increase. i was presenting to you meter procurement contract a few months ago and we're going to be placing half of our meters to from single space. when you take the single space out, the number of coins in the space station will be less. so would you believe that the coin collection volume will go down in future years and so will be the coin collection cost as we presented on this slide. and then the last slide kind of gave you an idea of the request of proposal process. we ask you to for your

authorization in december, unfortunately, you know, only one proepdzal from the encumbent was submitted even though there were two prime proposers. at the end of the day, provided and submitted a proposal. and, you know, we've done the outreach before the r.f.b., we've reached out to the four potential contractors and only two showed up and only one submitted a bit. it's a very nearby business. not everyone knows how to do it and only few contractors know how to do it out there and in san francisco, it's a unique specific san francisco, and you have to know how to do business. these are the reasons we think there was only one proposal submitted. here to answer any questions.

>> chairman: so this has been in circa. circa was doing it before, right? >> yeah. circa was doing it before. and then circa sold their parking business. so the last parking acquired entire north american businesses. thank you for asking. circa was previously one of the huge presence in this market. not anymore. lost parking, the encumbent purchased the entire north american division. >> chairman: the other question i have, the biggest challenge is with the coins and the meters is that the meters never work, they're always jammed. so in this, do we have tighter language arranged maintenance and ensuring this doesn't happen? >> yeah. our meter shop. that's the meter maidens and meter shop, two years of the pandemic of you know all the

uncertainty around the pandemic, they actually went out and they addressed 99% of the coin blockage issues and i'm happy to report, it hasn't come back since and going out and fixing them, but i have to tell you this epidemic of the coin jams that we had before the pandemic was almost entirely addressed during the pandemic and it hasn't come back yet. but as part of this agreement, the data collection will be going out and collecting media condition report and as part of media condition report is it jammed? is it vandalized. and they're reporting that to the meter shaft using their app in the real time. so meter shaft was trying to address these issues as soon as possible. >> chairman: great. >> i've strongly expressed opinions on this matter. i'm going to express them again here. we should start to phase out what we're spending to collect

coins. i know there are equity issues with that and i'm glad this is a five year contract with a five-year option and if we need to cancel this at some point we can. i'm glad to know that you in this contract -- in this new contract, we've reduced our fixed cost and increased our variable fixed cost which is prudent ginn what we think might be something that's going to -- we're going to have a reduction over a volume of time. so thank you very much for that presentation and for i think the prudent negotiation of this contract, but i do think $5 million a year to collect coins is a lot of money to collect coins and it's good to know that on average it's been $6 million a year, but my expectation especially given what's happened over the last two years in the pandemic where a lot of people have moved to digital forms of payment that weren't previously using them that we're going to see fewer and fewer of this.

i don't know if i'm going to be on the board in five years. i hope there are going to be people sitting here remembering this moment. but i think we should make sure we certainly shouldn't spend more than we're bringing in but we're getting close to that. [please stand by]

>> that's our situation. in 2002 in the previous agreement, there was some competition at the time. >> director heminger: did you do an analysis to assure yourself that we're not getting gouged here because the market is not working? it's not fostering competition? >> great question. we did do that the analysis. you have to look at the contract structure. will have a labor portion. the labor portion is the same for everybody. this agreement is under

ordinance. they have a teamster. whoever comes in, only difference is the management portion. everyone has to pay the same it requires a new firm to hire every single employee in the previous agreement. we only looking at the management portion. when we look at the management portion, we're looking at the rent and all this cost. we do think we're getting a good deal. it's competitive. they have a very nice conveniently located office close to the meter shop and close to freeway. [ laughter ] >> director heminger: i apologize if our chair already asked this question, i may have missed it.

how many big players are there in this market in the united states? >> we think there are four players. >> director heminger: are we restricted by american requirements about getting bids from european or other vendors? >> no. not that i think of. >> director heminger: we're not putting federal money in the job and running afoul buy america. >> there are no restrictions as i'm aware of. >> director heminger: i know you're not happy with this result. if you assured yourself that we're getting a reasonable price, then i guess the best we can do this time around. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. director hinze? >> director hinze: thank you. i also echo director heminger.

i'm usually the one who's -- [ indiscernible ] you mentioned this was determined under proposition j. for those who are less familiar with the agreement, can you offer little more color as to what proposition j is? how this is more cost effective

way? you mentioned when we were meeting earlier last week that we -- [ indiscernible ] can you speak to that? >> proposition j is the process with the treasure and tax collection office where we evaluate what would it take to to do the services in-house versus outsourcing it. this particular contract was proposition j contract for more than a decade. it always come when we do the comparison t always comes up

cheaper, more economical to do the services to outsource versus in-house. however, we don't look at that blanket. part of the previous agreement included collection, coin collection and counting. towards end of the current agreement we've evaluated and create some efficiencies. we've moved the counting back to sfmta. now sfmta is the one that counts the muni coins. we've created that efficiency. we will always look at that. we will look at what will it make better investment and best expenditures for the city. >> director hinze: director yekutiel point, i think we have

a hope that our coin collection will move towards cell phone. for some of the people that i work with -- the digital divide is very much -- [ indiscernible ] we are still going to need the services for the foreseeable future.

i do think that the staff tried their best to negotiate a contract for the time perhaps average uses. we'll see how the contract is extended as we go forth. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. i would just say that not specific to this contract but generally, i think as we look -- we can do interviewing some of our potential contract partners. i feel like it's not just in this area. every area we seem to have a dearth of applicants. it does seem odd to me that more

often than not we're in a situation where we have very few options to no options. >> director tumlin: as a former contractor of city and county of san francisco, i agree with you we need to do a better job attracting more bidders. this is something i talked about with street director tom mcguire about our construction contracts also something i'm talking with our contracting team about at a larger scale. i think we've had a history of just assuming that because we're san francisco, people want to bid on our work. i don't know if that were true. but it is less true now. as we recover, that is one of our agency wide priorities, making sure that we are more welcoming of more bidders and we're welcoming of the best

bidders. >> chair borden: i guess related to that, it will be helpful to understand as we explore what the problem might be, how other departments like d.p.w. and p.u.c. do lot of contract bidding. how robust applicant pool they are receiving. if they are having the same problem, we might have a universal san francisco specific problem. if they're not, there might be something we can learn what they are doing. >> director tumlin: we are having regular meetings on this topic with airport port and p.u.c. and d.p.w. who have similar concerns. >> chair borden: with that, i will open it up to public comment. i don't see anyone in the room running to the front. we will move to online callers. if you are on the line and like to speak to item number 13, which is authorizing our parking

meter and coin collection contract. now is the time to speak. >> clerk: i have one caller in the queue. >> caller: hi directors. my name is john michael santos. i was like to object to that authorization until we figure out what's going on with our mission bay. we are going to be affected by that the most. meters are already up. no one has really worked with us with this issue. director of streets, tom mcguire saying that he spoke to the community. he never spoke with our

community. may be he spoke to the board of directors but not our community. i think it's something we should address. we all went out of our way to talk to you guys. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker please. we'll close public comment. this item is now before this board. is there a motion? >> motion to approve. >> second. >> chair borden: please call the roll. >> clerk: on motion to approve. [roll call vote]. the motion passes 6-0. >> chair borden: that bring us to now our item 14.

>> clerk: discussion and vote per student to mtv code section 67 to whether to invoke the attorney-client privilege to conduct closed session. >> chair borden: any member of the public like to comment on our action to move into closed session? >> clerk: i see no callers. >> chair borden: public comment is closed. directors do i have a motion to move into closed session? >> so moved. >> second. >> clerk: on motion to go into closed session. [roll call vote] the motion passes 6-0. [ indiscernible ] >> chair borden: now we're live. >> clerk: no actions were taken in closed session. item 16, motion to disclose or

not disclose the information discussed in closed session. >> motion not to disclose. >> clerk: on the motion not to disclose. [roll call vote]. motion passes 7-0. concludes the business before you today. >> chair borden: we are adjourned. next meeting is may 3rd. have a great rest of your day.

good morning everyone. i'm cheryl chambers, deputy of external affairs for caltrans and i'm here to welcome you to today's event. happy to be many my hometown and looking forward to our program. starting off today, i want to introduce our district director of caltrans bay area ms. deena

eltuansi. >> thank you. i'm caltrans bay area district director. and i can't tell you how thrilled i am to be here today. it's really a special day for us. before i start anything, i would like to congratulate the city of san francisco, sfmta yerba buena conservency for the south of market transit project. congratulations. governor gavin newsome's clean california initiative is part of the california comeback plan to remove litter and to engage communities in butte if i indication efforts through job creation and education. clean california is truly a statewide effort and one third of the funding that's coming to us is coming to cities,

counties, tribal authorities, and transit agencies to clean and provide beautification. san francisco is a beautiful city. often people will remark that homes in san francisco are built right next to each other. what people don't see from street view are the extensive backyards, gardens, and patios. as here, there are beautiful gardens and so much to enjoy beyond what you see from the streets. this project will serve to highlight and restore the yerba buena gardens and invite the public to all the site has to offer. the children's human, i see them coming out here parts of the celebration, thank you for being here and this playground and more. the bay hills are beautified

with plants and through an artist imagination to follow and to invite residents, visitors, and transit riders emerging from the new transit station into this space to enjoy the yerba buena gardens. we look forward to watching this project transform the site into a cleaner, more attractive and inviting place that we can all be very proud of. with that said, please help me welcome ms. carmen chiu our city administrator. [ applause ] >> first off, i want to thank the district director for being here. deena, it's an honor to have you here and welcome you to san francisco. we truly appreciate the partnership you are bringing to this project. and, of course, to all the

community members and our partners for helping to make the masconi center and this a wonderful place to be. when we think about a project like this, we know that the big things we try to accomplish are things we can accomplish together. i want to thank the city and county of san francisco for really coming together to recognize the importance of investing in a place like muskonee expanding the for the many conventions that will come to san francisco. for us, it's more than just a convention center. we know that the convention center is linked to economic growth and to our recovery in san francisco. during covid, we saw a pretty

unprecedented situation where restaurants closed down. many of our entertainment venues had to go dark and where conventions completely tops happening and the impact on that was devastating not just in san francisco but across the world. and as we come back now, we begin to really make sure that we make the investments for people to know that when they come to san francisco, when they come and visit our moscone center, it's not just the beautiful and wonderful staff at moscone center. it's not just the beautiful center they can be staying at, but when they step right outside into our gardens here, they see why we love san francisco so much. that we care about the outside, the spaces where people gather, where they recreate, where they spend time with their friends and their families, where they welcome guests from across the bay or around the world to enjoy the beautiful city we have here. and we know that when we make investments like this, it's not

just about the people who come to visit, but it's also about all the people who live around here. there have been communities, many residents, children, who live right around this neighborhood who deserve more than concrete. who deserve spaces to be and to breathe and to relax and be outside. so i, again, want to thank all of the community partners who have made this investment, this project possible. we look forward to coming back when the project is completely done to do a big ribbon cutting. and i know the mayor herself is very disappointed she couldn't be here today. i can't tell you how many times the mayor has talked to me about the moscone center and the importance of investing in it and the people in this area so i want to thank you and i look forward to our continued the partnership. and now i want to bring up something we're very close to in the city. scott is the executive director

of the yerba buena conservancy but also helps us when we were building this new convention center because he knew exactly what it meant to invest in facilities like this. so thank you, scott. and please, come on up. [ applause ] >> thank you, carmen. i'm the executive director for the yerba buena gardens. we're glad to be here with you all. i want you to imagine 30 years ago, lots of parking lots, s.r.o. hotels. the redevelopment agency in the city went through an amazing time and what happened was an unbelievable gardens that opened in 1993 with the convention center and the surrounding development. it was amazing, it was

beautiful. and it really has been such a symbol of hope and create 50 and renewal for this area. and the neighborhood built up around it since that time period. this grant that we're receiving today from clean california and the state is an unbelievable positive step in the next direction for this area and we're so proud of it on behalf of the city and the community and really it will revitalize us even further. as we steward public spaces, this is a remarkable public space, but it takes time and investment. this project's going to beautify the outside of our facilities and our gardens. it's going to enhance cleaning throughout the neighborhood on our key transit corners all the way from market street all the way to the highway on 3rd and 4th street and mission street and we're really excited about that. we're going to add new public art that will be over on facing the subway. a large mural on the expansive

wall that will be designed through the community process with the amazing artists and then murals guiding you into the public gardens and really welcoming you. i love the yellow brick road concept that was mentioned earlier. so all this will be really inspirational. the gardens will sore, the gardens will grow, and the community will bloom through this. as we've all talked about, this project really required an unbelievable community input and community process. i want to especially thank sfmta for their support of us as a community and jeff tumlin, joel greenberg who really guided us and supported us through this process as a community. i'd also like to thank the city, our team at the city who's on our board and guiding us so well and we truly appreciate all their support, their leadership, their guidance. i'd also like to thank the

yerba buena community benefit district who's a key partner in this process. acknowledge cathy maupin and entire team that cleans and beautifies the neighborhood around us. last and certainly not least and the relationship we have and the convention and to recognize this really means a lot. so thank you. and more importantly, we're kind of excited. we want to get started. i think that's important to know. the goal for the project is we'll finalize planning this spring. we've got all the plans done.

we've worked with an amazing architecture firm. we will bid and start construction this summer on the landscaping. the art process, we'll do a call for entries this summer and the art will be revealed in the january time period just in time for you to get off the subway and see this amazing art and this amazing site. couple other things. it's spring. i think we can all feel it. it's beautiful here. the gardens are blooming. there's flowers everywhere. i think we're really delighted because what we have happening in the gardens today sort of reflects this project and reflects what's going to happen. there's amazing lines outside our restaurants. there's free music and dance festival with the yerba buena festival that's happening. i saw an amazing group of kids going into the bowling alley today. they were so excited. we had the children's creativity museum here with a beautiful x.o.x.o. exhibit

about beauty and connection. the carousel right here. so amazing amenities plus our museum and the cultural centers. the gardens and this neighborhood are really spectacular. it is all renewal. it is a time for renewal and we're excited about that. downtown is blooming and please join us. i think that is all we want to say to you today on the high level. please enjoy the gardens. our goal is to finish these comments and if you would like to join us, we're going to walk down 3rd street. see the subway and where the art will be and envision the plantings. thank you, caltrans and everybody and the city and everybody involved. [ applause ]

>> chair mar: good morning. the meeting will come to order. this is the april 14 meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee meeting. joining me is supervisor stefani. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. the board