>> i call to order the september 6 meeting of the sfmta board of director's and commission. >> good afternoon. this meeting is in hybrid format in person at city hall. broadcast live on sfgovtv and phone. we welcome the public's participation during public comment. tell be taken in person and remote by call in. for each item the board will take first from in person and then from call in remote low. number is 415-655-0001. access code: 2494 797 3495 ##. die star 3 to enter the speaker line. you will have 2 minutes unless

noted. speak clearly and in a quiet location and turn off computers around you. thank you for joining us. item 2 roll call. >> can you call the roll. >> mreshth heminger. >> present. >> director hinze. >> here. >> director yekutiel. >> present. >> eaken. >> present y. borden? >> present. and breshth cajina just joined us [inaudible]. [speak very fast] must appear on camera and to vote or speak. we are director's remote tell be taken by roll call. announcement of sound producing device. ringing and use of cell phones and electronic devices are prohibited. the chair may order removal from

the meeting room anyone responsible for ringing of a cell phone or electronic device. item 4, approval of minute for august second regular meeting. >> are there additions from the august second meeting. i don't think most of you were here. >> i will open up to public comment. member who is like to comment on the minutes of our meeting from august second, make additions now is the time. >> i don't see anyone approaching. is there anyone online withhold like to comment on minutes. >> i have one speaker in the queue. >> go ahead. speaker. speaker? >> you have been unmuted. >> can you hear me now. >> i apologize, i'm looking quickly on the minutes i don't

see anything that immediately come to minds if i see any spelling issues i will community to the board secretary. one second i believe this was this was the last meeting with director so it is appropriate show is indicated absent. i'm good. thank you very much. >> thank you. are there additional commenter on the line? >> this is patricia. i can't see the minutes. the minutes include anything from concerning yellow meters? on chest nut street? >> you mean your comments specifically? >> make sure. >> um -- there was a vote on it? >> no we did not make voteos that day on chest nut street.

>> thank you very much. >> are there other callers on the line? we will close public comment. is there a motion? >> move the minutes. >> second. >> on the motion to approve the minutes director cajina. >> aye >> heminger. >> aye. >> hinze. >> aye. >> yekutiel. >> aye. >> eaken. >> air. >> borden? >> aye. >> the minutes are approved. item 5 communications i have none. >> great. >> item 6 introduction of new or unfinished business by board member. >> if people were at the last meeting we talks about train control upgrade project and where we are going. one suggestion from director heminger who left the room is

create a committee to over seat project a 10 year billion dollar plus project to upgrade or train control system. i'm excited we will have a train control upgrade -- program subcommittee which director, you agreed to the chair? yes. >> wonderful. >> and so we will have director eastbounding own there and myself. the committee scone scope it review the purpose and objectives the scope, contracting approach, schedule, costs for the system. vendor contract and vehicle installation contracts. lessons learned from other mta delivery efforts and those will be used to guide best practices moving forward and have updates on key project mile stones and provide guidance on policy issues. this meeting will occur later in

month and more information available agendas, materials on our website. we look forward to engagement. part of the reason is because we have sometimes not been successful as we wanted on deliver competencemented to make sure that something of this importance that has technology that we implement a system not dated from the day it is opened that is something i'm excited b. are there other items of unfinished business by members? welcome back, everybody it has been lonely without all of you. great. we'll move on to the next itemful or are there members of public who would like to comment on the creation of our train control subcommittee now is the time. you may do so if you are live or do so online star 3 if you would like to speak.

>> i have no speakers in the queue. >> with that we will close comment and move to the next item >> item 7 the director's report. >> director tumlin. >> greetings and welcome back. as usual today's report starts with vision zero. you know every board meeting we talk about any fatalities that occurred in the previous 2 weeks. unfortunately while we are presenting that we often times don't have complete information about the incidents. so sometimes the police department is in the complete. police investigation may not have been completed. sometimes we are able to get a rapid response from the team but other times corrective actions take a couple of weeks in order to develop. our vision zero are oftentimes

frustrating we are not able to speak to solutions. in response to the proposed legislate by supervisor preston, we have been working with the san francisco police department and the department of public health. in order to resolve is this problem. one thing is to make sure that our reporting on all traffic fasaulities are transparents. available at the meetings but online in an organized way. we also want to present more substantive information about causality of the crashes as well as what we are learning as we apply solutions . what we are proposing is to work with the public health and police department to have a detailed sum row of every crash in san francisco within 2 weeks of that crash. we then instead of doing the verbal updates at every board

meeting what we would like to do is offer quarterly reports that provide a substantive look to the nature of the probable and the solutions. that would include reporting on when we are doing in collaboration with the police department in enforcement and other strategies in order to improve compliance around safety rules. we want to look equal low in the obstacled we are facing in terms of achieving our goals. legal at the state legal or staffing or funding. we want to talk to you about what is working and what is not working in efforts to solve the problem. and we want to providure with updates to the progress that we are making, tracking forward our various goals. so we will be piloting this effort starting the next board meeting. love feedback as we go along and

provide that to staff as can the public and safety add vo kaes organizations. for this meeting we'll have our usual vision update. we had 3 fatalities. on august 11th there was a motorist traveling on downhill on market street. made a left turn at danvers. the, way. and -- a motorist was driving straight through and had the right of way. left turning motorist stuck the motorcyclist and a fatality. we did go out and evaluate the situation. that intersection was upgraded with most of the latest tools. team is recommending upgrading the signal heads from 8 inches to 12 in order to improve visibility at that site. >> on the same day the fatality

a single northbound motorist in the under pass at almeny struck a pole that is still under investigation. and there was a pedestrian killed near mcallister on van ness. a southbound vehicle traveling on van ness on the green struck and killed a pedestrian acrossing van ness on the red. we looked at that intersection. it has been upgraded with the vision zero tools from the van ness bus way project. >> moving on. next topic is cent roll subway, we had several important and very positive mile stones. last week we took control of the 7 ral tunnels and track ways from the contractor. we now own and operate the subway the contractor is the guest.

they are continuing to. deal with minor item the at the stations. but now we are in full testing mode. we have been testing the training for the last year. but now is the time that we own the time and the station for us to test all of the other critical details necessary to run transit service. double checking the schedules. making sure that we have recovery plans in place in case there is a disruption. we are testing delays. running emergency response plans and training the teams. the inspectors and operators and station agents so that they are familiar with all of the detailed operations of the new subway. the construction team will continue doing their work. you know until they are done and

stations are ready. and even though there is a fair amount work to get done we remain confident we will open to the public this fall. i'm not giving a date. until we have greater certainty as we get through the testing. also relative to the subway this thursday secretary of transportation will be in town we go for a raid on the subway with the mayor and a small teach others. as you know, the federal government is the largest funder of the central subway. we want to dem state the federal agency got their money's worth. and we also have a lot of messages to at this time secretary and the speaker about urg ways in which we are effective using federal money. in order to increase reliability

of the service and equity for people san francisco. next up and if you could bring up the slides. one of my i'm most proud of at sfmta in light of the infrastructure catastrophes that peers faced the last year. we are investing in addressing our deferred maintenance. in a time of arc cow operating budget crisis. most agency would worsen the deliveried maintenance problems but instead we are not only advancing dealing with deferred maintenance but in an incrediblely cost effective manner. one of the things i have been prud to sponsor here is the quarterly fix it weeks. you know once a quarter we shut

down the subway at 9. . 30 p.m. and have a bus substitute. this expands the number of hours that our crews are able to deal with not only fixing problems in the subway but getting ahead of the problems before they occur. so -- a couple weeks ago we did a fix it week and completed over 60 projects in the subway had over 2200 staff hours of time in the subway involving almost all of our teams. all of our maintenance teams worked all night long every night for 10 days. and i love going down in the you believe wyatt 1 in the morning and seeing all the w they are doing but seeing the pride that our operation and maintenance

crews have in their work and their excitement in getting to collaborate with each other. and get ahead of problems. we completed an amount of work. we replaced the track switch machine. 6 and king crossover. we inspect the twin peeks tunnel. our maintenance crews were really proud that they had the time to clean up decades of debris at the muni metro at embarcadero with operator guess out where the trains turn around to the other end of the train inform this part of the subway that our passengers never see. and so it had not been properly cleaned. it was like not only it was great to see all the lighting replaced bright and a cleaning of the area, but it was great to see how proud our maintenance

crews were they were doing something that was going to benefit our operators. we were able to do work on the over head wire. the traction power feeder cable. and utility vol inspections. track replacement near the turn back and critical track switch maintenance and point repair at the most vulnerable part at the switch at church and debose. so -- again, it was a really successful event. we'll do a post project diagnose with the crews next week? early in the morning. iffure would like to join it is also one of my favorite things to do is have the maintenance folk together. excite body what they were able to achieve and plans for next quarter. jot next topic, we got more good nows on state and federal

funding and legislation. and we have a couple of photos. we are happy that we will be receiving 23 million dollars through the gentleman's rebuilding american infrastructure with sustainability and equity or raise initiative. 23 million we got for the howard street scape project is the second largest in california. and it speaks to the success of our howard street quick build effort. you know, we created protected bike ways and pedestrian safety and traffic enhancements on howard quick build style and adjust to get it right. adjustments allow you to learn from our success there. and we then translated the final quick build design in a per minute nan construction application and used the success the quick build to justify the level of the federal grant for street project. very proud of the team.

and grateful to the gentleman for recognizing how our quick build process maximizes benefit and minimizes cost. and the ira or inflation reduction act has conscience extending the federal excised tax credit for alternative fuels. extending other tax credit programs and setting arc side money we hope to benefit from. the next topic is good news. 2 weeks ago, mtc and the executive board started the clip are bay paddle. this is a pilot program allowing 50,000 college students across the bay area as well as the targeted people who are live nothing affordable how doing projects.

try out a clip are card that gives free access to all 27 transit operators in the area. we are eager to to see the data and san francisco pilot station is san francisco state university we have a long relationship with muni past pass program for all students. >> next is our customer information system update. as you know, we have been doing a lot of work with our real time information signage and our prediction system in order to deal william when we know to be pretty significant problems with existing prediction systems. we are making progress on that effort. the sister set of efforts upgrading the signs the real time information signs to a larger format and a format that works. after at&t shut off the 3g system. we have been prioritizing

neighborhoods identify in muni service equity strategy. we installed 354 new signs. half of the total. and in the meantime, we update graded additional 260 signs to provide real time information while we wait for supply chain issues to resolve with the new signs. and the couple of events i want to talk about. it is -- transit month. we have been partnering with san francisco transit riders. there will be an event tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. at city hall. before that the riders are hosting ride alongs on transit from most neighborhood in san francisco. i will meet at jane warner in the castro to ride the f to work. you are welcomed to join me and in addition on friday of next

week, there is an event where all of the region's or significant share of the general managers will ride buss and trains and ferries cull monating in beers at line pine in oak land at 5 p.m. you are all also welcome to join that. >> finally tell is also hispanic heritage among or office of racial equity groups will lead staff events our first latin x racial equity themed cable car. that is all i have. thank you. >> thank you. >> directors do we have comments or questions from the director's report? >> doctor heminger.

>> thank you. >> your mic is not on. >> without my colleague to the left i would have been speaking without a microphone. you have been missed. i wanted to talk to you about vision zero. this is one of discussions we had about it. and i certainly look forward to your finding of better format for reporting what we are doing but frankly, i think more important would be changing what we are doing. and it strikes me especially

after reading a store net chronicle i want to mention if you have not seen it, it strikes mow we are fighting this battle against excessive speed on streets with both hahns tied behind our back. jeff, i think you have educated us about the importance of having automated speed enforcement and how it worked where it has been tried. yet. we have not been able to convince the state legislator to authorize it. and even though our attempts have been valued they have not succeeded and until they succeed that tool may not exist for us. the other hand is traditional enforcement by the police department. that's the chronicle story by heather knight on august 6, and you don't have to read a lot past the head line. which is what are they doing? 45 san francisco traffic cops issue 10 citations combined a day. that's 10 a day.

of those 10, when we launch vision introverto the police department indicated they wanted focus on the 5 offenses they thought were the most serious to deal with according to this store net chronicle of the 10 citations only a third of them are upon even related to that top 5. so what we heard instead story -- as a bit of mitigating factor is that they don't have full staffing at the sfpd. we heard this for arc while and i don't doubt it is true. when you don't have full staffing or full funding you have to prioritize. and will it seems as if traffic safety is not getting the priority. and it seems as if, we are content to see 30 fatalities a year. because unless we change what we are doing we'll get what we have

been getting. and so -- jeff, i look back to you that in addition to changing how we report, we need to change when we do may be the first reports being be changing what we do. and i know you have a working relationship with your counterpart at the police department. and i know they have a lot of duties that are pressed upon them. but this upon one has to get more attention. and until we have a break through in sacramento, again, that is the second hand tied behind our back and we are out. id welcome comments you have i hope this will spark conversation and change. again, i can't vouch forkeracy

of the numbers until someone tells me otherwise looks like they did a careful job of analyzing the data we have. that data is just pitful in my opinion. thank you madam chair. >> thank you. >> so, i can't speak for the police department but i say now this we near a period of stabilization, we are all dealing with staffing crisis, we are strengthning partnership with the d. habitual health and the police department. and enforcement strategic is top on the list of items we like to come to you with. including inviting the sfpd traffic command staff it join us so we hear about the obstacles they are facing as well. we know that traffic safety is a

complex problem. we can't finger point to say they need to do it. we got to hold hands and do this ticket it is a share the responsibility. i hope we come become are the the first report and talk to you about both short term and long-term opportunity for dealing with the traffic safety that decent alone cannot solve. >> and jeff, i don't want to turn this in a debate but you know this board and this agency has been doing its per to slow traffic down. we cannot enforce the traffic laws. special until the agency that does give its priority, again, i don't know where we turn. we can do so many traffic calming treatments and do so many slow veets and the rest. at some point if we have people

break the law they need to cited for it. of so, i think we should take what will responsible we have again, base on the analysis in the chronicle it appears that we are not holding our own in terms of focus this issue. with our enforcement efforts those are dwindling. and we should not be surprised with the results we get when we are not putting the effort in. thank you, madam chair. >> thank you. why sounds like calendar a later time and fuller discussion and have counterparts join us. >> doctor hinze. thank you. i would like to piggyback and second all of [inaudible]. >> director's comments and support the partners and sfpd

and also our [inaudible] may be [inaudible] all -- enforcement related hearing with all parties calendared. hopefully -- by the at some point this fall. on the topic of vision zero, thinking about other reports to do i know that i will just do this briefly. is -- that the department of public health working on trying to gather updated data for a new [inaudible] network [inaudible] map and i know there has been

[inaudible] to push them to do that. [inaudible] one of the areas we [inaudible] come back to us. we have the department come to us for [inaudible]. i would also advocate. i support moving to a quarter low format of the reports. however, i would add roicate for [inaudible] may be just giving the public at our regular every 2 week meetings so we will locations of fatalities. when than i happen so we have more of initial in minds when -- and we can start to dissect them in our quarterlys but i look forward to talking to staff about that off line.

thank you. >> thank you. >> director eaken. thank you. director tumlin i wanted to observe through your update list that it feels like there is getting the house in order. that you have been able to get under way. you and staff long deferred focus. i remember having a conversation about when we will update the real time information and that was years from now, now we are getting there and revamping the vision zero updates in sponse to the feedback you got from the board. the fix is. cent roll subway report list is a theme here getting around to long standing challenges. kudos to you and staff for the hard and thoughtful work to reach all the mile stones and deliver this exciting update. and it is thrilling that secretary will be in town this

week. so, great work on all of that. and i want to second the request or third the request to bring the police department in for a conversation with this. board. we have raised that idea instead past. may be we can commit to having that happen this fall and don't want to put you on the spot. i would love to understand a bit reflection you raised on the preston legislation. if there is anything more to say on this in terms of how that is -- our reaction or what might -- take place as a result of that new initiative. >> i think what we laid out. is our response to the initiative. it is is also something we have been wanting to do for a time. staff has been frustrated bite format of vision zero reporting.

it does not allow you to speak to solutions. and our staff are or yentsed around solutions and results. so, comupon paining the transparency. we want to be up front about everything we than is available bottom fatalities and disclose that. we want to be sensitive to the victims and families of the victim hos are grieving and who may have different need in their grief around privacy versus a lot of public show of grief. we want to focus on the strategic aspects of solving the problem. we know what the problem is. what we mead is to figure out the mostly political and funding path to allow you to deliver the solutions we know exist.

per of that will mean potentially making asks of you to help push us across the finish line at the legislator. we than speed safety cameras cut fatalities in half. we than we know what we can do from design we have staffing and funding limitations on design and we have political obtackle this is board can be helpful to understand community concerns creating obstacles and help community to understand the costs of the status quo. >> thank you >> any other comments from directors?

director yekutiel. i have an idea. or a question. i saw in i was able to travel this sum and went to cities and saw who they did traffic calming i noticed what we don't have a lot of but telearc viv were bastion in every corn upper to correct pedestrians of cars approximate remind them they are entering a zone. the pedestrian struck on van ness perhaps a protection may have been helpful. have we tried concrete at the corners of the busier intersections. >> you mean ballards. >> what do you call them they are like pillars. >> ugly. >> yea.

there are different histories with those ballards. and many parts of the world like in london they are used to restrict pedestrian move am. and in order to prioritize cars rather than protect pedestrians. they're have been there to deal with a different motorist behavior that may be common in a europe an context of cars clipping corners and driving across the corner and parking on the corner. we have a different kinds of motorist behavior in the united states in san front now that requires a different design solution. there are in my past i have intalled thousands of them and there are many ways for using them effectively. i'm not certain that the telearc viv approach is the right investment with the problems we

face in san francisco. jot fourth and mission crash where the taxi within over the intersection and killed the tourists if there were ballard there is it would have stopped the taxi >> depending where the pedestrian was standing. that is also to put ballards at all of the downtown intersections will be millions of dollars. and i would argue not solving the primary problem. the reasons why we want to do a quarterly vision zero reporting, allows you to look at trendses rather than responding to individual tintss. >> helpful. where vision zero you want to look for the patterns for us the challenges are always how do we allocate limited staff time and funding to achieve the highest public good >> do we know the deaths of 22 what the trends are? >> we know there is vision zero

report that come out each year the 2022 report will not come out for a few months. we have the previous report on the vision zero page what is url. search for sfmta vision zero that page will come up with the reports. know fatalities and injuries this occurred and the efficacy of our solutions. >> thank you. >> thank you. no other comments from directors we will open up to public comment this is time for members who would like to comment on the director's report and comments med bite director in response. if you like to make a comment and have not done a card come to the front of the room. no one simple are there callers on the line withhold like to speak. >> we have 5 callers. first speakerch zo this is herbert winer.

my concerns along with commissioner heminger is since inception of vision zero have traffic patalityities decreased. i would like ton the extent of traffic approximate talityities before the intepgz of vision zero and during the operations. have fatalities decreased kig significantly? i keeping this in minds in line of the gospel 2024 had they want to reduce the fatalities to zero. these other questions i very much thank you. >> thank you. this is al am i live in soma.

i think one of the things that stood out to me was director tumlin's comment on he wanted to finds out what community obstacles there were to changes. as a member of the communities who our neighborhoods has been work to address this with the sfmta for 7 years now, that the problem is sfmta, we have streets here that are lit irrelevant too narrow to have 3 lanes of traffic. but they have it. you know than i near violation of city code. we had sfmta engineers out temperature is too much trouble to change it. we know they are safety violations. we have cars on the sidewalk. driving around corners regularly. ballards he talked about they would not just be helpful they would keep cars on the road the problem isset going

sfmta to act to follow its own regulations. director heminger commented about doing so much design police department needs to enforce traffic laws. police said the same about sfmta and dpt t. is illegal with the state under state law for car drivers to drive in bike lanes when cars are park in the bike lanes sfmta ordered dpt to not enforce that. that is on you as directors. that is not on sfpd there are changes you could make today to make progress toward vision zero. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon chair directors i'm senior policy manager for [inaudible]. calling on behalf coalition to

ends biassed stops in response to police enforce am in the department's language black and brown san francisco over represented in all interactions with sfpd. i caution that broad calls for enforcement and funding for a police department thap had the budget increased, unless we increase and censor by sfpd separate [inaudible] these calls for increasing enforcement have the consequences of contributing to on going increased harms to the black community and i that are documented and comboevenl vision wherevero is a worst while goal acknowledge that enforment is a problem. dwr thank you, next speaker, please. great. some comments on this item and it may lead over to general

public commentip wanted do it once exit will whistle my general public comment. i hope as part of the subway cloning that the passage way near the inbound debose junction was cloned i had to be evacuate friday a train several years ago when the pan graph broke with boinld and -- at the junction and we had to use that passageway that was very dark and dirt and he just unsafe and unclean. i hope that passage way from the inbound to out bound side at debose will be cleaned. in my opinion, mta is a big failing arrogant and unaccountable agency. i wrote some of that in an

airport against prospect l, i hope it is rejected by voters. acknowledge that director tumlin and team tried to put a good face on but reality is different internally and the public. it is difficult or impossible to reach staff. i tried reach sean kennedy for 2-1/2 months he promised to get back and does not. that is a problem i'm sure there are others that are difficult to reach. >> there are others that i have been able to reach. i'm not encouraged by what i see although front line and mt arc employees do a great job every day above them it seems that they fairly to beingic atmosphere is in the agency i hope this board is aware and doing what it can to fix temperature otherwise you are part of the problem as well. thanks for listening. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.

>> a.m. francisco decosta. first and foremost, all of y'all do a need's assess am why did it cost so much to build the upon central subway. 1.6 bichlgdz billion dollars. 20% over budget of the that is hayou should pay attention to. not reading the chronicle. ure can take that type of conversation somewhere else. you are charged to address quality of life issues. and muni is not doing a good

job. y'all know that with the monkeypox and [inaudible] subvariant being a sludge in san francisco. you have not said a word about us wearing a mask. getting thousands of people in harm's way. compromising quality of life issues. >> those are the issues you should address. not the chronicle which nobody reads. that conclude your remarks >> next speaker, please. >> i'm martin calling from

district 5. as you may know i'm a transit rider and bicyclist when i commute the slow streets. regarding vision zero, the board has a special opportunity to sounds like in october to codify the slow streets for people to give it a shift mode from from driving and other modes to cycling and walking. for me, these streets have created a life line during the pan dem and i can beyond. to get around and get home safely. when i choose to go on a bicycle. there will be pressure from different groups who want to seat sfmta fail. david loves to talk about killing prop well. don't listen to people who want to see the agency fail. listen to people who depends on spaces to get around. i hope you do the right thing

and preserve all the slow streets and making stronger with physical infrastructure. thank you. >> that was the last caller. >> watch that we'll close public comment and move to the next item. >> item 8. the status's advisory council report. today virtually. >> okay. are you there? yes. i think so. welcome. >> hello. i will try to be quick directors and welcome back from your august break. recess. the citizens council has 4 items to present to you. in our august meeting we heard from about the agency communities out reach efforts and about the bayshore boulevard quick blsd the first is out

reach about improving nononline feedback. temporary relocations of bus stops. better hiring support for the out reach department and also lobbying the d. human resources for more language certifications than the current 1 in cantonese and spanish. our next recommendation is a general support for bayshore and ask the agency go further to protect lives of people walking and biking. and the third recommendation from august is a statement in support of the slow streets that the board already approved. those are lake, shotwel, sanchez and i believe golden gate and page, which is in a different process than the slow streets. finally the last recommendation

is from the september meeting, we heard about the taxi fare increases our recommendation supports the increases and also requests that the agency implement an autofare indexing problem similar with the muni fares. and that concludes my report. >> thank you. >> directors do you want to comment on the report? director cajina. >> yes, in terms of our focus on hiring public out reach we approve in the the budget that ask. i wanted give of director tumlin an opportunity to peek on that.

>> unfortunately don't have data yet. and i don't see diana our director in the room. we can report back to you on progress. >> i'm here. >> she is her virtual >> i think i came on. i'm always there in person that's why you were looking for mow in the crowd. >> [laughter]. director, i can give you an update. it is good news i'm happy to report. >> that would be great. thank you. >> great. of the you know, thank jeff and the team for their support. left time i was there we spoke a bit about the shortage of staff that we have. we have a 32% vacancy rate now. within my division of which a permit is focusing out reach and engagement we focused on the positions and identiied the gaps that were discussed in the previous meeting i attended i spoke on behalf upon we are backing the positions now we are in the proisz of in the next 3 to 4 months we will have filled our gap. 3 to 6 months which is fairly quickly.

hr pushing for you to get this done. that will allow the support we had on projects we have not had the last year. we are also in the process of providing the additional support we foek spoke about the positions that we are moving on as a special time recruit am we do is the community liaison that we spoke about. there will be someone that is focussed on working with the hispanic communities and cantonese communities. this is the person who will represent our agency and focus on building those stronger relationships. if you recall, director cajina, you remember we had the community liaison program. it was the district liaison, at the time and the members of public spoke about how they would like it see that program come back this is a hybrid of that. the difference here is these people and the staff will be 100% focused and will not be tying down with project work.

they will have the time they need to focus working with the communities cross the city and then 2 full time translateors. able tom help with the translation needs we have in house. which a lot of times we need to out source at this time work is so much and help under the circumstances with in language meetings. people will come to meetings and be there common our agency and our backgrounds and be able to do our message in language our meetings in language. these are the additional staffing we talked about that i am now working on with my hr team on supplementing. we did commit to coming back as you recall, to provide an update on this at some point. perhaps may be in the near future, i can come become and give you a full update. things are progressing forward. i'm happy to say. as well as the request for you to work closely with the cbo's.

we are in the process of fine tuning the commitment we made with you back on making sure that is a required approach will not just in our public engagement requirements but consultants we work with. it will be documented we will have data to proviedz how we achieved that request. i can stop there. that's the summation where we are now. >> that was a great summary. thank you. i think it would be wonderful to get a deeper update on that. this is great work. i'm glad we are paving the way. >> thank you. >> all right. >> and not to forget the other thing the language assistance program and public participation program we did brief chair borden and will be extending it out to brief you. we will be prepared to update that on that as well.

we checked all the boxes on the last meeting i attended where we made those commitments. i will stop there. >> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> thank you. >> we'll move back to other questions about the citizen's advisory report? >> now open to public comment this . is time for members of public who would like to comment on the committee report. mr. chen gave the question nadirector cajina or the response, this is the time to speak if you would like to speak approach otherwise if you are on the line press star 3. >> we one speaker in the queue. >> yes. patricia from [inaudible]. the slow streets some accomplices they work, some they don't. i want to tell you the history of this lake street.

during the task force it was proved if you blocked off lake street and slowed down lake street the transportation would be most of the cars would go to lombard and lombard was over 100% at the time. we have 120,000 more cars coming through now after covid. and we have a problem coming up. i want you to be aware of certain places where you put slow streets. they may impact major corridors and we better look at this one. it was shot down at the meeting because of the report that was done at the citizen advisory committee meetings. they wanted to cut off lake street so no cars on it. one strong attorney, he is no longer arc live and i think that we better look at this a bit.

>> we are not when we go to full speed we will have a big problem on our hands and we will discuss this later. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i have no additional callers in the queue. >> close public comment and move to the next item >> thank you mr. chen, for your report >> on item 9. public comment. members of the public may address the board of directors on matters within the board's jurisdiction not on the calendar. i have one comment card for bobby dawkins. >> please come down to the podium and speak, mr. dawkins. if you are able. >> >> good evening. i'm bob dawkins i want to speak on the vet republican's administration hospital out there.

when the buses pull in they must be lunch break or whatever. they have a tendsance tow close the doors and we are trying to get out of the cold. i asked many drivers why. we have to have our lunch. and i asked many people why do they close the door we can't get on the number of reasons given. i like ton from the horses mouth why do they close the door and we are in the cold. why that in at least the veteran's hospital. it is not washington or mission something like that. we are out there old. i'm 89y will 90 in a week or 2, why do they close the door i got knocked down friday by the bus driver closing the door. why do they close the door to have lunch. if you are eating fine. ain't nobody take the bus. >> can you take care of that problem. why >> can you talk about. >> yes, we don't typically do

question and answers. at this because. but what i will say is we have someone. we will get out of public comment and have someone respond to explain the policy. >> can you hear me now. >> yes. >> i was saying that public comment is not a question and answer because the brown act requires. >> if not here. >> we will have take have explain. she is in charge of the transportation -- unit specifically in charge of the operators she can talk a little about what the rules are concerning when they have a break and -- >> what they doll their job. >> all i need to know i can't drive anymore. i need to know what to do. that's all. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner will talk with you and clarify that for us.

>> next speaker, please. >> okay. i'm suzanne i'm a 23 year resident of d 5 have been here a couple times before. i'm here to ask to you put the issue of poverty tows on the agenda as an item to be discussed. at your next meeting. we sent a letter to you which you may or may not have a chance to look at we missed the 5 p.m. dead lineom monday due to technical issues. you will have a chance to read it before the 20th. we surveys 80 individuals live nothing vehicles and found that 90% of them had been towed. most towed multiple times. 89% of them said it was either because of inability to pay

tickets or an in80 to renew registration because inability to paych also 82 are % account not get their possessions out of their vehicles. >> i one day when i did out reach saw an individual who came back where her vehicle was to finds it was towed. it was heart wrenching. to see inthon had lost pretty much everything she had in the world. i don't think we should make life much harder for an already vulnerable and fragile population. i realize this issue was complex and tell need some thoughtful planning come up with a reason

approach. but i think it should be an agenda item and all discuss the report that was promised to us by sfmta 15 months ago about who was getting towd and why. so00 eye really would urge you to not waste our tax dollars praying on the vulnerable. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. i have no more cards but i have 7 in the queue. we will head to online speakers. first caller? >> good afternoon directors wes low senior policy manager speaking on behalf of the end postcoalition representing 80 community based organizations. you heard from my colleague susan who has done tremendous out reach. sfmta implemented the recommendations to ease the harms of towing enforce am.

issue has never been address and has been 16 months since the board called on staff to say why it conducts the tows. our coalition sent the board a letter requesting you require staff to honor the commitment to report back and agendaize the issue for the sfmta board middle easting on september 20th. this report was expected to take 3 monthses we will should have had this last september t. is entirely reasonable for ending posttows to be cal defers this month for discussion and a vote. i add that this conversation takes on new importance the city is sued over tows exposing the city to liability in the process. and this case will be heard by the california court of appeal in the next few months. seeking a ruling san francisco posttows are unconstitutional. los angeles stopped their posttows after they were sue

anded sfmta should dot same. we provided detail in the letter i encourage every board member to read. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. that trishia boyd. i pressed story 3 and never called. i will make this short and brief. on all of the subjected that were talked about, there is an upon glifrn on what the previous speaker said. but i have e mails this board and never received a reply. and we are having a committee meeting on this at the mta and public safety and -- a couple of other weird issues. are going to be on our committee meeting on the 12th of august. 14th of august i'm trying to figure out a way of get nothing

touch. for one or bottle them to attends that is a low key meeting. i don't know what to do you call he is correct you try to call that office and you can't get anyone. and -- so -- i would like to you discuss this. and miss borden you know how to get a hold of me. if you don't you can get a hold through andy mullen of stephanie's office if you can't don't have my number. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. in is herbert winer. this month is the celebration of

transit month. and the best way i can think of celebrating transit month is restoring the free and 47 lines. these are vital lines to communities. and it is a disservice to not restore these lines. and public transportation has to be accessible to everyone. in all areas of the city. and -- to delete these lines that were previously important ones is a disservice to the san francisco. so, please, restore these lines and celebration of transit month. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hello.

i'm [inaudible]. center coalition on home willness and stop poverty tosis the board. hopefully you received 2e mails. one is regarding putting stop poverty toes on the agenda for september 20. and -- it is really important. as suzanne said it has been 15 months. since the board of directors heard compelling testimony. by people who experienced tow and rad vocates it was so compelling that -- the board asked the staff to come back with a report. regarding neighborhoods affected. racial and -- economic equity

issues. it has not happened yet. it should be on the agenda september 20th. les low who live in her vehicle and attended in person to this board meeting twice this summer. decided to survey neighbors in order to finds out how towing has been. and for when reasons they were towed and their success on getting back vehicles and belongings. i'm hoping that you take the time to really read what our letter that we knt sent with it in addition we sent copies of the surveys that individual people filled out. leslie -- and -- i'm sorry. time is up. thank you.

your time is up. for those who are calling about poverty tows we will have a hearing not the next meeting but we have one upcoming this fall. next speaker be please. >> again, francisco decosta. i work for the presidio the military. and -- we have to address the occurrence of the veterans. rather than kick the can down the street when your friends come to see you shortly. nancy pel lose and he buttugieg inform him that what is happening right there by the vet republican's administration hospital. he could build something that the veterans could sit down

without exposed to the fog and cold wind. that's the way to do it. at 1 time in san francisco, before we had the fancy board of directors and et cetera, veterans could ride for free all they do is show id. today, our veterans are begin mow respect. y'all do than we have a very high percentage of our veterans slipping on the streets of san francisco. after serving this nation. i was the plat liaison who serviced the united states army and presidio of sudden fran with distinction. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.

>> hi. i'm jake i'm a resident for the past 5 years. one hour ago a skate border was struck boy a vehicle at 18th and douglas in the castro if you want to learn more i tweeted the link to the citizen notification to the mta's twitter accounts. these events happen too often between 18th and market and 18th and castro. as a pedestrian and cyclist and driver, i often arc void getting hit. so consider adding pavement markers throughout the hill. we did have a bad death in delores park that was solved with these markers. please consider doing that to keep the castro safe, please. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello.

i'm sheba and a public policy manager of home rides and housing [inaudible] in san francisco. i'm calling as a member of the stop poverty coalition the e elimination of tows asciiing the quaff life for those who are experiencing poverty. will folks live nothing vehicles and shell and low income community. i urge sfmta board and staff end poverty tows and require sfmta staff to present a report on tows and create solutions that address the transit injustice. our residents transitional youth in their [inaudible] lived in vehicles for shelter struggled with where to get relief. upon they are experiencing poverty as they try to make a new life. those tows are not based on

economic equity they pray on those struggling and need to be addressed by staff and the board. make poverty tows an agenda item for september. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. you have been unmuted. is there someone there? i hear the like background i hear the person's line but i don't hear them. move to another line and see. >> get back to this line. all right. moderator, unmute, this is the last caller.

caller, you have been unmuted. does not appear they know they have been unmuted. we will close comment and move to consent. >> thank you. >> places you on item 10. your consent calendar. the items are considered to be routine and acted upon by a vote unless the board or public wishes to consider one separately. members of the public listening in and present if you wish to address on consent callers press star 3. to be added the queue for all speakers identify which item number you are speaking to which 10.1. the controltory a lot funds to such funds available in payment to the following claims against the sfmta.

a item b. 2259 files february second for 7, 500. 10.2. approving various routine park and traffic modifications and making environmental review findings. for items a through o in the agenda item 10.3. adopting a resolution making findings to allow for continued remote meetings and 10.4 authorizing the director to execute the next generation clipper system memorandum of understanding with metro transportation commission and bay area transit operators. including the allocation of operating and maintenance costs for the participating agency.

that concludes the consent >> are there members of the public like to speak to an item? i have one speaker in the queue. >> proceed. can you hear me now? >> david, i have comments today on enemy 10.4 the new clip are mou can i relate them to you now? >> >> so i appreciate the work to update the clip are mou i'm interested in the new cost allocation model which agencies negatively impacts whether fare setting would be changed and what can be done with physical cards that are blocked or have negative balance. some of us have them.

agencies have them they are piling up. we had not have to recycle those cards agencies should be able to restore them. somehow to a zero balance to deposit given the supply chain issues and production delays and what not, it is becoming difficult to produce these card and to the extent they exist if than i have a negative balance there should be a way to account and return them to the living world. i hope that mta sees revenues sooner and does not have higher costs to monitor here. i support more payment options including mobile we should not forget people with limited or no access to technology and improve integration with websites and mt assignage and i believe the director tumlin and other staff have been heavily involved here on managing clip exterior

negotiating the new mou i appreciate that and their work. thank you for lynching. >> thank you. >> no additional callers. >> great. >> with that. we will enter a motion >> motion to approve the item. >> second. >> can you call the roll >> on the motion to approve consent. director caginasm >> aye >> director heminger >> aye >> director hinze. >> aye. >> director yekutiel. >> aye >> director eaken. >> aye. >> chair borden. >> aye. >> thank you it is approved. >> regular calendar item 11 presentation and discussion regarding an office of racial equity and belonging update. >> how are you? >> hello chair borden, i'm fine. great to see you all.

great to see i i will give you a quarterly update on the racial equity plan. today's agenda i want to spend a time talking about our listening session follow up. from last year. we willace talk about the reasonable equity train and time talking about the equity data project a series of drafk assess ams of differents parts of the workforce and the board. and i will close out with announcements about our youth transportation board and the requests. first for lynching sez, report back work. this the listening sessions were about a year and change a year and quarter ago. from february to january or july

last year. and the workshops were about 20% of the w foirps the need's assessment on racial inequity and he staff report. needs and assets to respondent to rishl equity and built office of racial equity competence belonging we brought in translators in mandarin and spanish. and i think one in [inaudible] perform the most part i coordinated the sessions and got first hand engine. when you will see the bottom of the slide is that our action in the plan was to [inaudible] have report workshops with our executive team that examined the work place. racial inequiies and committing and documenting personalized racial action plans. [speak very fast]. this have been used about staff

feedback. i asked about challenges related rishl equity, staff report and inclusion the responses range in terms of challenges and solutions. and one update is that the committed to the team making personalized action plan and the team decided our management team would be participating. across every division in the only will directors commit to personal capacity voting or action work, so will the senior management teamless we are 75% through. and the workshop i have been doing is sharing with staff in the division shared about experiences or solutions. peers have a chance to reflect on rishl equity and talking about racism and trying to think

through what their commitments will be. this is meant to be individual level commitments to pair with organizational division and system efforts. >> you seat majority completed. we will have workshops with hr and combined group with the staff. government affairs and office of directors in the coming months we expect this every manager will have the plans documented and on file. the next is equity data project. there were actions of our racial plan call for on going data collection. monitoring and evaluation of racial data and gender data. we have a series of dash boards including the workforce demographic, mt aboard of directors, promotion and a transit operator dash board. that is one subset of the

workforce we don't have dash boards for the entire agency. so in general, and also the upcoming on the hiring pipeline from applicants gets placed the same data and pay. breaking down pay with similar grouped jobs and similar hour low ranges this is a shot of the workforce demographic dash burld all have acsxesz play around with the interactive features. today we will not demonstrate that but you will see also detailed on the next slide. over all sfmta is diverse we have a broad rep centtation of ethnic groups. [speaking fast] latin x is pairing with the labor market. the general grouping under representatived relative to population.

and we than american indian communities have lower number of people because of [inaudible] and we want to make sure we are doing out reach even though compared to the labor market we may not be under represented. and on the bottom right break down of gender and identity for the time we assess the last 5 fiscal years we collected data male and female. there have been changes. and of course current staff are not going back to make change fist they don't identify as male or female. like many transit agencies we're sxhael have have been about 75% male the last 5 years. on the left that shows priority areas for out reach. we need to i have racial equity framework. a lot is point to gaps. first the bottom transit operators are diverse across the

board. they are there ball of the sheer number. they are the biggest job grouping of 225 jobs in the workforce. we have a robust straj for operators. at the want to 1970s and 80s director positions. most are 1980 and 9170 the manage. positions. that is the only grouping we see [speaking very fast] the workforce is 14% white and 15% white the past 5 years leadership is 50% white. it dwindled to 46 but that has been the case for many years we have white leadership in the highest paid classifications. and important thing to note not all of the managers are 9170 or 80 groupings. many senior willful staffs that we can't capture different

divisions or teams use a classification differently. other big trends suspect in asian and practical islander. the most part, several of the of groupings have the highest numbers of staff and very little of others. some have decent number of white staff. we want to maintain a diverse workforce and understand the gaps. for example, we think about engineers, planning, maintenance there are opportunity to fill staffing needs and advancing critical racial equity needs for out reach and workforce and clear development as well. the next slide guess over the data you are most excited about for the sfmta board. this is limited in many ways you are very small body with 7 folks at one given time and it is appointed not the same control we chose who we hire. you see we had to because of the

numbers of staff we have groups of 10. each graph is not one board at a time the sequence which people were point in the. the history in 97 of the first mt aboard directors the demographic data we could collect on appointed by race at the top and gender at the bottom of you other last circle there there may be one split in 2 circles. we see that with the first 20 directors although small group for this number. directors the most common as far as demographic data and male, that changed with the most recent the last upon 11 appointees this . is updated with our recent director tina added to the list. there are 2 other dash boards not n here for times we have our

tractionit operator dash board and promotions dash board. they are available through our data system to staff. we are working on internal office of racial belonging internet page will be posted soon and make it available to all staff and workforce. this information will be on our public website you have access to this and make sure we keep ourselves accountable to goals with the racial equity work. >> movingly on to racial equity training. several iterations of training the biggest offering through our dignity community engagement training with a group called [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] and through that training won't spent time about 12 hours going through concepts, engagement, cultural competence and a lot of information in community engagement and

planning process. we are froud share 150mta staff attended. one board member for the first day and look forward to having more to increase the capacity of our workforce. joined by racial equity lead exerts transit departments across the west coast. we had folks from bart the vta. also washington state or wash dot a series of jurisdictions. it was a great opportunity to learn with our pierce as we worked to operationalize racial equity. that work is in clackeration and important top have group laurence space. work with training on how we apply what we learned action. an area the lessons learned apply in the the policy you will hear about in a meeting. for refresh they're is ment to sdief decisionmaking across the

agency. think about policy decisions and commute or city partners. when we prioritize in funding and spending that is important. [speaking very, very fast]. to leverage as you work to leverage racial equity as well. this is a snapshot of what we learned the concept in dignifying experiences. how we advance racial equity. and a part has to do with the last bullet point you will see enabling people to assert when they need for themselves and not project whatting we feel people need how we kershawate the policies and processes and create spaces for public participation. we will have a series of workshops i will be facilitating with staff and also bringing in the consultants for refresher training. talked to senior managers and

the team about key groups. we identified peer groups where we can apply this to standard practice. and also report out to other entities we worked with. and lasts board is recruiting the second cohorde you may not know a year and a half ago [inaudible] for executive sponsorship. prior to and now we have a team of [inaudible] coordinators from several divisions in finance and it now we will route it in the services and systems [inaudible] that is in an effort to make sure we increase access to information and access to decisionmaking. formalizing what they can be and [inaudible] youth development and professional and pipeline development. applications close next week and encourage to you share with friends, families and networks

to have a great cohort of directors that concludes my report i will take questions. thank you. why thank you. >> i have a question was for the directors you mention body your olds were there comments that you heard from the listening sessions. you talked to the agencies. what was the common themes you could address. >> thank you. a lot of great themes the most one most important to me was taking a human approach how we engage with staff. safety, or with processes. i think well is a feeling of being under valued. staff raised that if we humanize our approach with how manage. connects with staff and what happens when someone files a complaint or asks for leave or like you call 99 how are we handling staff is important. i think the second would be up

twop and 1. a distrust paired with a desire for follow ups. many feel we had conversations before, there has not been action. many feel the work is performtive or could be and there is compounded moral challenges and unmet needs. staff just reason why they have concerns with trust with management. and i think discipline and accountability was another big one. staff experienced discipline regularly and very, magnifyd and for several decisions whether disciplines happening ethically perception this management is not held account sdpablt does not get disciplined. [talking too fast]. it is interesting to dig down on

those. i will move to director hinze. >> all right. a couple of quick ones, one a follow up on [inaudible] the question about your listening sessions you did about a year ago? i'm curious given level turn over. if you have thoughts on how to keep the work and the listening sessions your action plan. and you know senior managers and management having them. but your thoughts on keeping the sort of work current and [inaudible] with our frontline staff. >> thank you for the question. it is is permit important the

first is phenotype final report. workshops and report back or different locations [speaking fast]final report. workshops and report back or different locations [speaking fast] we would have leadership say what they are working on. because it is a personal action and might speak to a core area they need to grow. we decided that would not be the best approach but can report out on completion and compliance and the number of people documenting action plans. and then as you see in the action plans we called out an annual need and we are a year the dast office collected a year ago and committing to actions now. some were able to do prelim iary action plans last year this is the first time processing everything and respond. another core need for the sustained assessment of racial

and equity network place a stream lined approach. some staff said this is the same issue from 10 yearing00. we want to be current as possible and can do more harm if we have not followed up with action. as we revamp the action complan revisit actions i will look at [inaudible] and more present to do every other year versus every other year for collecting new dastasm make sure it is stream lined. and the approach of me and managers i will hire soon. >> on the dash boards, i had the opportunity to when i met with you to take a quick look at a couple of them. they are comprehensive i wanted know if you had a time line for when those will be made public.

thank you. for the public website, revitalize the request. we are a bit rused in the team of 2 maintaining. i hope in the month i will be available. we have more of a bottle neck there is one person who updates that. i'm working with our communication's team to get that launched in the next month. should be upon soon the data is available the dash boards are done i'm working on update thanksgiving this is through fiscal 21. i want to have fiscal 22 available. within the machining give our take staffing and work load needs. >> and then left yee i know [inaudible] talked about the chance to follow up on the couple of the other budget

[inaudible]il be glad to. we have 4 managers for the 4 unit the the first has been confirmd and startingly in mid october. for the other 3 managers they should be done with interviews the second one last week and 2 more this month. we have staff in the units i have been working with hr to create a series of positions i have sick positions permanent posting very soon. and also because we are down from one ste and hire company exempt staff for a year to fill in the gaps the goal is the ends of this fiscal year to have 10

more hired and following year the remaining sick staff. >> thank you. director eaken. >> okay. thank you. thank you. [inaudible] great to see -- you mentioned this makes sense that the action plans are personal so men they are individually not present for sharing are you able to share the themes you see across the leadership individualized action plans that are in response to the feedback you received. we want a space for folks i wanted give guidance. there are 6 discipline and, counselability is a big one. hiring, promotion and pay and hiring by [inaudible] training

around hiring. assess ams pay equity. investment in supporting staff or transparent about promotional opportunitiful other once are racial equity training and talked about safety. that was a big one. i think between discipline, safety. hiring and communication similar to employee engage. . there are several subthemes. my manager as a different style. some said we i have million partnerships on the wall i don't have time to read temperature other a scylloed organize. there is a lot there that this board has heard and i tried to point directors and manages in division in the direction that got to the core. [talking fast]. that's easy, right or the workshops i raised we don't want a book club get a book and read it and don't do anything. make it a good book and have

strong actions about what they will do once they read it. that is the guidance i have been giving i want to be transform tifr and respond to people's pain. we are -- the highest level positions with autonomy and authority for the staff we direct. >> were you surprised by any of what you learned through the workshop sns did it valdadeidate your suspicions? were you surprised by anything? >> i would say00 so many spriesz the big surprise is i wonder how long you will last. i think while it is cynical the concern was this work is for burn out. are you here for transformtive justice reasons. supportive there is a lot of concerns around the sustainability of racial equity work and the value of operational practices. i was surprised.

i think the other the agency and just in the work that people do that theme is under valued went with the pride around people's work and the brill yens they bring every day that is something i try to [inaudible] raise as a precious jewel. and give back to staff they have careers and feel their gifts are appreciated. those 2. >> a little challenge yoochl thank you very much. >> director cajina. >> thank you for your work, josephine. i had a question about how [inaudible] groups are doing in the stats this have been shared in the past or i have seen. one of the [inaudible] alarm to me was latinas have the lowest index in the agency. and you know one of the challenges i heard often is that

it is heard to move up in the agency. and so00 eye wondered if you could speak to when we are doing to improve this and course correct that? >> absolutely. i would say a big part of this challenge speaking to latin extinguishing staff. [inaudible] people apply to jobs all the time. and there have been concerns latin extinguishing are not promoting or advancing the same rate. the promotion dash board was the most difficult upon part is define what are the promotions the part of -- i say the technical back grounds the fact we are under reports we will see that strict trickle in other place. and then a lot has to do what jobs people near and the jobs people apply to as well. i would say the big etch thirngs are lead by hr, workforce

develop and want transparent sharing of information when it come to promotion opportunity or hiring opportunities. i have heard staff not latin extinguishing staff but staff raise perceptions of biassed in hiring including in a way that disadvantaged people of color. [speaking fast] increased biassed training the project it is we are adding to the action plan will be with hreeo and we have a baseline fairness training that happens for the count competence a supplemental one on recognizing bias and how to intervocabulary for folks in the interview and folks who are panelists for interviews. there are several projects that are geared toward a broad range of communities. prioritized out reach.

community keksz will be a fair/conference we partner with divisions including hr and the goal have a job fair where we share information strengthning our branding with the communities. i know hr has a career's campaign will work on visibility and information sharing and training and capacity around hiring and compare with the prioritized events the last thing i'm working on a booklet of road maps. mapping out the different jobs and requirements and how people can navigate. that is a tool that will be sxrabl a prioritized with sdrkt the printed versions for the

[inaudible] communities. >> i read the testing process is difficult. as we look at this we should evaluate that piece of it. and see if there are barriers that could be stream lined. temperature seems in ways, since it is easier to hire outside. versus trying to get promoted within. if this is the case, i'm not saying it is. photocopy it is, trying to see how we troubleshoot that and how it can lead better to promote within. the other thing is that i commends the work staff is doing. i had an opportunity last month to meet with the group and this among i'm meeting with the latin x group encourage my fellow directors to dot same. it is wonderful to see how our staff, are rallying around promoting equity within and

addressing challenges and working across affinity groups. in the muni agenda talking how to cohost an event with the latin extinguishing community groups it is something this equity sesomething the staff takes seriously from within and, plowed this office exist and doing this work and bridging the occurrence staff are feeling and arc lining that with what the community is feeling. i want to ask you about out reach and wonder if that is something defined or coming together? it is all areas of operation. that applied to everything some is learning from what ask in

place through project and promise and opportunity for improve am. with racial equity policy first get policy with the man date. a lot has engage am stoornsdz noted and around demographic data collection and how we do impact assess ams. racial assessment developed as a supplemental and there will be different versions. i'm working with several divisions and directors diana who is our interim for communication our public participation plan and language access plan we have existing structures we want to implement. you all decisionmaking happen in spaces being informed in one on one or public meeting a vote is happening a pak meeting part of that developing tools for team dps a lot assessing the risks and benefit and opportunity and

how we leverage and celebrate culture. you imagine that will be multiyear before we have a detailed let of assess ams for every area of operations. i say my approach is engaging folks doing the work and people aroundful groups [inaudible] for anything we do with [inaudible]. the other thing i add is that a part of our action plan we have commitments to formalizing groups and having meetings with you all. jeff and i have been making progress. a lot is around trying to assess what does it mean to be formalized and what folksment policies and procedures.

including regular meetings there will be opportunity to show case that leadership now they were involved in like training and key stake holders for the racial equity policy. i look forward to collaboration and helping the groups grow in skill across our 6,000 person workforce. why great. i would wonder if there is i way to create more time lines around in work. right? so we are inform when we will see this implemented. and when the community can see it implemented. they are excited to see more di equity in the out reach strategies this would be huge for us. once we implement this. >> i'm happy to shirr and a lot

will come as we plan our phase 2 action plan we will have a formal process require community input and also give the opportunity to impact operations in a more sustained way. we will not wait not guilty safety plan we are starting now and apply that there. >> thank you, >> thank you. >> director. thank you for the update. 2 questions one about lbgt in the agency. i continue is not race or ethnicity. but upon wondering if we are surveying for lbgt identity and gender identity and if we have an understanding of the percentage of the workforce that identifies. >> thank you. so the gender identity are central to the work. one of the main not main but a core equity need similar to the

trends for accessible. as far as data collection that is protected. gender identity is not people can report how they report temperature currently people are when they are first hired. [inaudible] i believe was last year they offered like transidentity as a marker outside of male and female. many who are transimagine if i was male or female that is just -- available as far as the data collection source. i say we see it for new staff. somebody here for 20 years may not update personal records. sexual orientation is something we have not explored as much there have been conversations with board of supervisors expanding our approach. with lbgtq communities. balancing personal privacy was the need to do you know solid racial equity work our approach

is centering that work and out reach. partnership or assessing from equity lens ash counting for sexual orientation and a part of out reach work and planning and participation work >> thank you. >> the second is about how our dash boards might compare to sister agencies. both within the city and count and he other transit agencies. obviously, you know. there is a lot of data. do you have a high level understanding where we sitcom paired other agencies in the city and transit agencies? >> i can speak to the city. across the city we are more diverse. most departments are [inaudible] we have both of the groups we have a lot of black staff and latin and native american staff. gender less so. i will say nationally transit

agencies are more male that does not mean we don't diversify with women folks. a lot of great work with margo reid out of hr and [inaudible]. and diversifying pipelines is the work of the whole workforce development unit. as far as the city a meeting with the leaders many us are struggling. the data is not visible. there are different systems that don't talk to each other. we are lucky in being the second biggest department we have a large data to visual eye. when you have 10 people on the left you can't break down demographics because they are identifiable. for commissions that are 25 people typeset is harder. i say that across the city it ranges with actual dash boards. we will most [inaudible] dash boards not available yet. the big bment departments have more comparable data source. we are more diverse than most in

the city than most city departments >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> anymore questions from directors y. move to public comment this is your opportunity to comment on item 11. [inaudible] and the questions from directors. if you would like to speak i see no one in the room here. if you are online press star 3. >> we have 2 speakers in the queue. >> great yoochlt first caller. please. >> this is herbert. one thing i will like to suggest you want to have youth represents. with this program. what about seniors and the disabled? we are human beings, too. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. you have been unmuted.

they don't know they have been unmuted they are the last caller >> give them we have one more caller >> hello. >> speaker, proceed. >> can you hear me now. >> yes, we can. [inaudible]. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] one thing with [inaudible] many years about muni well is if they issue going

to over see the stuff am i remember one time the entire maintenance cleaning the bus by preliminary mull pull admissibles of one family. and i want to make sure that everybody has the right it apply for the job and get the job according to their qualifications versus you know whether they are somebody's cousin. that's my point to take a look at a form of oversight to see keep an eye on this. it was blatant for years. in muni. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you. [inaudible] members [inaudible] [inaudible]. hope you hear me okay.

this is an interesting presentation. i'm appreciative that in the racial definition you make provisions for 2 or more. that is inclusive. well is one thing that concerns me on the gender circle of that presentation you only used male and female i submit tou gender is in the just male and female. you seen mow in meetings you know me. and so i'm wondering why we have not expanded our gender definition to include various other nonbinary and prefer not to answer, et cetera. and the reason why this concerns me if we have a municipal that he recognizes male and family i'm concerned they will not [inaudible] outside of the definitions or people such as

myself may be denied service because we don't have the awareness about diversity of gender beyond male and female. i would hope that would be addressed because i'm a real person and don't want to be worried about being separated from the system because i don't fall in the gender definition. racial equity seimportant but not the only equity don't forget other equity net works. there is more to it. i ask you, remember people like myself who are different. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. that appear to be the last speaker. >> we will close comment. thank you, and thank you we appreciate the report. >> secretary silva item 12

>> item 12, approving the extension of the existing temporary high occupancy hov laneos state roadways on park presidio and lombard to create a pilot program set forth in the agenda under arc-j. amending transportation code division code and adding section premesis 03 designate laneos roadway and authorize the city traffic engineer subject to approval of the california department of transportation to change the number of occupants qualifying hov from 2 or more to 3 or more. based on engineering estimates of lane and highway capacity. to be affected on the board approval subject to the california department of transportation. >> thank you. >> y good afternoon. as most of you know i'm steve from transit planning i have here erin mc milan.

she moved from our communication's team. i'm here to talk to you first to give you an update on the high occupancy vehicle lanes on lombard and park presidio and extension of the current pilot program i will talk why that is necessary. so, you know as a reminder the hov pilot was and is part of our temporary emergency transit lavens program. existing authorization will expire in 120 days of the lifting of the emergency ord. the lanes are unique the first on urban street in the state of california. lombard and park presidio are state highways with traffic. highway 1 and 101. they are important transit corridors for municipal and he buses on lombard, namely golden

gate transit. we worked with cal-trans the owner of the right-of-way to develop hov as an automaticive to transit lanes. were briefly about that temp refer emergency transit lanes program the idea is make sure transit trips remain reliable and safe as noted over crowded. during covid especially for essential workers. and help prevent grid look as economy recovers ensure transit was a reliable aisle. since then, you approved making 6 of the said projects permanent as they were found for evidence to offer benefits beyond the pandemic. the hov lanes other 7th project asking for them to be removed from the tunnel program and made a pilot of their own to ensure the lanes don't have to be suddenly remove the and extend

the evidence of the project in partnership with cal trance. which approved title projects has merit going forward and in the a response po covid. we took the traffic lane closest to the curb. each have 3 lanes in each direction. converted to hov2. 2 or more occupants using a combination of stencils and signage. 2 general purpose traffic lanes remain in each direction and the hov lanes not in ascii full time much the time there are 3. hov lanes 5-8 p.m. arc lining with cal trance standard for renaling yol express lanes. it is important to stress there was no parking or loading

removes and access to aural spaces remained as before. the lanes are available for people turning right. people accessing of the curb side parking and loading and driveways and open not just to hov's but other vehicles that are allowed in lanes under the california vehicle code primarily including motorcycles and clean manager decals. why did i don't do this? ideally should be protect friday growth in traffic the traffic situation is unsettled and we looked numbers in poth corridors prior to this project and koundz that a third were already hov. those hov's carry half of traffic. we thought this was an efficient distribution of space. additional low, i will talk about this briefly, while we have not fully got our evidence effort under way we have initial

findings i'd like to share with you including up to a 10% reduction in transit travel time. you is see hov laneos lombard. came to you in april of last year. you see the street looks the same we will used signs and stencils to designate the outer lanes as hov. i will say h v there are other vehicles that may legal low use the adolescence right turning and vehicles accessing parking and load nothing driveways are a part of that. look at park presidio. this we implement in the april of this year. you note that was a full year after we came to you and about 6 months after we implementod lombard. reason it took time to negotiate

permit details with cal trans. i anticipate the questions we get is your we not further along and that was one factor. frankly the impelementation took long are than we thought this is a partnership with cal trans and productive. we worked b well but taken time to get to our mutual comfort. elf talk about evaluation for a mobile home that is key. i mentioned we are asking you today not to make this permanent but to take the dpifting pilot out of the tunnel program and stand alone pilot and extend thank you very much the reason is, primarily so we can conduct a comprehensive evaluation. we are look to do 2 years of data collection. on a quarterly basis 8 quarters. that is manage we worked out with cal trans a transit quick

built project would not have taken 2 years. again i want to emphasize this is unique. this project and a variety of ways. we have developed an evaluation frak work with fact ours. the evaluation framework for other tunnel projects some of you may have seen final report we issued up on our website. we did a survey prior to coming to you last april and you know heard from the community their key certains. that is within our evaluation frak work and cal trans has a focus on traffic. and so we will do an extensive set of data collection on traffic than we would for a transit lane project. part of the delay without getting to detail bureaucratic detail is getting the team on board to dot data collection. this will be a multimodal

evaluation that will look at traffic and transit. as well as, stress this, the total capacity of the street. 1 of our core goals is to think of the roadways and corridors not in terms of how many vehicles we move but how many people we move that total move am metric will be key. we are getting under way. you know we have in the done our first round of traffic did thea collection but have done initial analysis using our dash boards. as well as data collection by sfmta staff focuses on the vehicle in each lane. we already have interesting findings we can share. fall of last year over a month we looked at travel times on route 28 and 19th avenue operates here on lombard we bounds in the evening a 10% reduction in travel time its is promming that the most congested time. spring after we implementod park

precylinder row looked at route 28 travel times and northern a.m. and p.m. peek periods saw an 8% reduction in travel times without get nothing detail this is is wofrngy we have seen promising improve am in schedule reliability all of the muni forward project woos talk about travel time saving its is an understandability member number. the realityy reliability piece is equal low important. hov's, over all traffic increased 4% on park presiredo and 7 on lombard from prior to the project up to the observations, traffic in hov lanes down 20%. this is interesting. it is is at the same time we seen a 15% increase in the total number of hov avenue over all what this means is to put it in plain terms when we appear to

see is solo drivers moving out of the right hand lanes and municipal and he car pools are getting protection from growing traffic as the lanes were intended. i want to mention tell be an important part of our analysis. there was concern expressed increased in crashes on lombard. we looked at that and we found there was an increase it was 9 months prior to the implementation of our project around the start of 2021. during the covid pandemic. during the earlier peek days. that number has remained level since then. i want to talk about our out reach effort temperature has been extensive. you see a high level. reached out to the community prior. before that, we reached out

prior to this board for approval. we will continue to reach out throughout the pilot project if approval is granted. we used every means postcards and poster, e mails and briefings to neighborhood groups. lately using message signs to community to drivers. working with cal tranos that. we have received a few key themes turned up in feedback. one, support from more transit spaces like this. especially as a tool for combating climate change. we heard concerns about po serb impacts on congestion and diversion on streets which is something we'll look at closely in evaluations. there has been confusion about right turns allowed even though you see that on signs says the signs on every block. 2 per block but again this is something now in san francisco and new in california and so there is an adjustment period.

we heard concerns about the time of the hov lanes the times why are they on weekdays. your they not peek periods. and again that arc lines with the cal trans practice on the lanes. we heard concerns about safety and whether the hov lanes may result in impact on reckless driving that is something we will look at closely. part of the evaluation we will do we'll conduct another community survey at mid point of the evaluation period. if after we decide consider making them permanent we will conduct out reach and community out reach at that time. here is the legislation that we are asking you to approve today the pilot for roughly 3 year. run through june 30 of 2025. about 33-34 months this includes the 2 years of data collection i

described. we are getting under way with this in the third quarter of 2022 the first of the 8 quarters. this gives us extra time less than a year for analysis and if we should go forward in either or both, thaz are both possible out come. would allow time for project refinement. further negotiation with cal trans if we do any modifications to the lanes we know will be necessary and experience is this is a detailed process. there will be environmental review acquired. as well as a series of approvals not from this board but from cal trans district 4 and regional panels involving actors at the regional, state and federal level who is have oversight capacity over air quality projects, hov lanes and we will have to go for final approval

this is way of saying that 3 years may seem like a lot but tell fly past. you see what that looks like in terms of time lines. i do want to emphasize that -- even if today you grants approval for the pilot it does not mean there will not be change in configuration downed road we want to respond to changing ness and course correct. if we finds hov2 is in the an effective enough barrier that based on our analysis hov3 may be more effective, it is already in the legislation that we could do that the city traffic engineer could without approval from this panel we would need cal trans approval for that. that would be key discussion. something like changing the operating hours we might have to come back to you that is something this is going in to

the transportation code and factors a new section this legislation would credit in the code specific to hov lane this is is a new concept on city streets. that said, we hope we do a stead ed state evaluation both corridors at the same time to comappear. part of the reason we are late we did not want to look at one in advanced of other we want to look at both at the same time we will do traffic data collection in both and the same time each quarter thereafter. i will stop there that is plenty of information for now and i welcome all of your questions. >> directors are there questions. director eaken. >> thank you so much. chair borden. >> i have a couple of questions. may be i will start with the theme you raised arnold hov2 now

and possibly move to 3 in the future. i don't have the numbers at the top but 10% travel time savings seems low compared to impressive numbers on the rest of the network you referred to. may be was sean who presented them several meetings ago. i remember in the twenty's and 30's percent time savings. how do you make sense of those, is that because we see more cars in the lanes? the right turns? is it. the ain't to access driveway its is different than an hov lane how do you make sense of numbers and is that what you think going forward or there is more potential. >> i think i used a word i happened to use we find them promising. you know it is important to bear nienldz these are not transit

only lanes. somebody had work in muni planning my preference for transit only lane. we have enough busos lombard as well as when we get back up to full strength with the 28 running again you will see bus. you can make a case for transit only lane. these are state highways. they carry a lot of traffic. we settled on the idea of hov early on. . what -- there are a lot of other vehicle what is is an effective threshold or successful. 15 percent travel time of 20%? i am say that because we allow right turns on lombard where you have small blocks and cross streets and right turns, i know the reason you see less traffic in this right lane rate republican drivers known to stay

out of the right lane you may get stuck behind a right turner now there may be a benefit but you get right turns. and we have transit vehicles stopping in the lanes. they are not pulling out of traffic that is good for from our view. when you have arc lost vehicles in the upon lanes as you do during peek periods with golden gate transit they back up upon behind a bit. there are a lot of reasons i think 10% is a promising number. but i think the biggest thing out of everything is the changing traffic conscience this . is a reason the 2 years of data collection. none of us have an idea what traffic will electric like and we are trying to do this evaluation against the back drop of traffic conditions. that will be a challenge. we took a look at we have not done the traffic data collection

we have other sources to look at. at this time looks like traffic on lombard and park presidio is approaching precovid levels but total volume from preproject condition. those are upon reasons put that 10% number in that context. growing traffic, retire turns and other vehicles in a listen that would not be in transit only lane >> yea. just so we understand would a tax we one passenger qualify? or a lyft or uber. no under the state code, which is we had deferred to, they cannot. i think our preference would be to allow that but we have been asked to arc liable the legislation with the california vehicle code.

i sort of taken a couple trips up and down the corridor and curious to look for the signage and a sense whether it is something people can understand i found it subtle. and i got my question is do we have a sense of whether people understand. do they understands this is an hov lane based on the modest changes that you mentioned.

therer message signs southbound off the bay bridge and marine signs on 101. but again well is a learning curve. they are new. we anticipated it that there would be initial confusion. part of it is because these are not full time hov lanes. we can't have a solid white line. because hov lanes are not in affect 24/7. because people go in to them for other reasons. that reduced the visibility of it as well. >> okay. >> i appreciate the approach of partner with cal trans this is the of first one in the state on its theen is interesting and may be it is a moss. i don't know when we will learn i'm in support of extending the pilot for learning purposes to energy a couple of the public

comments to give air time. folks said they signed up to receive the notifications about the u.s and did not receive anything. the staff report says there were e mill this is went out making sure we follow up with the stake holders. >> yea. on top of that and folks raised pedestrian safety occurrence around fulton and accessing the rose garden in that area and making sure that you mention third degree that all the aspects. we took a look at that issue in response to that one message about northbound approaching fulton out of the park. where it it is kinds of an expressways through the pa, and tight curves. you saw speed nothing that right lane. we- a limited data set that is an under statement. we had a limited data set it did not occur until april.

there were a couple of crashes. we don't have contracts to put this in we need more analysis of the historic pattern. it is important that one of the crashes happened when the lanes were not in affect. there may be a perception the upon lanes are contributing to sfeeding but we are not had a chance to dig down on that. >> you will through the evaluation. >> safety will be a core part of this. it is with any project but given the u neefshg nature of the project. and the fact we are seeing lesing traffic in the right line. part whf we'll look at with the traffic data collection is change in speed. and we will likely see increased speed in hov that is great for transand i being be a challenge from a safety perspective. i think if you are talking about the modifications that we might make art of a permanent project. this was a quick build project we designated the hov lanes and have not done a lot of other

types of improve amos lombard we had done a project that included pedestrian safety improvements there may be things to look at based on that analysis. >> thank you. >> thank you. i would say that she is upset about the miss of the signs lombard is where it it is not a lot of signage it is better on park. it is in the clear. director heminger. thank you. may be to talk with personal testimony about the intersection at fulton and park presidio. when those car come around that turn are headed toward the straight shot, and if than i see anything but a red light they are putting the pedal to the metal. and when they make right turns than i don't look for

pedestrians at all. i do think while this project has things to recommend the fact we are trying to squish i state highway design in a city street is only because this is a state highway designated by law. but otherwise, it functions as a city street and people have expectations that it will function this way when they are walking or bike. i wanted to start my questions with this issue of hov2 and 3. because as i read the description offer legislation this board would have approval changing 2 to 3. i thought you said something different. i can let the city attorney's office clarify the legislation authorized the city engineer to make an hov3 designation with

the concurrence of cal tran this is is key. and if this board wanted to remove that you can amend the legislation. >> not to take fortunately the idea cal trans gets approval authority but we don't, they are not going to get yelled at we will. if this is not clear in before us i would suggest we consider an amendment if we change the occupancy requirement it should come back to this board for approval. madam city attorney can you clarify as written it requires that or not. >> certainly. the way the legislation is currently drafted it you would be delegating to the city traffic engineer with cal trans to change from 2 to 3.

for the pilot period only. correct. >> limp some of us may have different views but i would prefer that we have authorize authority over changing the requirement because that could result in a significant change in the operation of the lanes. >> sure. >> let's talk about that. you have data for preproject hov market share in the 2 corridors. >> yea yoochl what was it for the 2 corridors for hov2? >> i don't believe we distinguished with 2 and 3. in our initial data collection. we found the total number of 2 are greater to be 34% in both. we did preproject evaluation and an among or 2 of implementation

of both and found numbers close to 28 and 29% when we have seen in post project evaluation to date, we have seen increase in hov share to like 32 or 33%. >> it sounds like it is hovering around 30 for hov2. >> yes. >> you don't have a market share for hov3. why we will. that will be part of our evaluation going forward. we have done limited sample and it is i'm reluctant to get into it is a small sample size. all i will say the 3's in that sample is small. we want to do a more thorough evaluation of that it is a key point you raise. >> look. my own sense and the one on park presidio is not in operation >> it is since april. >> i'm by there a couple times and i did not notice anything

different. and my sense of it is, what we have been doing is resorting traffic. so we are resorting hov2's to the curb lane. and if we do hov3 tell in the being resorting. unless we change amounts of behavior we could cause significant congestion in the regular lanes >> it is a risk. if we did not have a fairly large number of hov3's. and it it is not just a robbery how you value that is a problem for the lane you see increasing i have lilgz rates. the lane break down over time. i will mention i don't think we are seeing a resorting we have seen increase in hov's. about 15%. why you are making the case want

to extend the pilot to have a sense of data and what is happening out there. >> correct. >> i think as you said we need to take the data you got so far with a significant degree of caution? >> fair. absolutely. >> last question. is bottom -- it is blanking my minds now. well, madam chair i will turn it become to you and think of it. >> director kena. >> yes, thank you. i had questions about -- traffic calming on side streets. and so -- as the directors before me mentioned i imagine that changing the sort of having measures -- increases like the speed through. on intersections so -- i imagine this may put a burden on the side streets of the corridors. i wonder like as you are in your

proposal and evaluating these in the pilot will you have interim measures for traffic calming on the side streets in and will those be part of your evaluation as you look at whether this is a successful pilot or not. >> the evaluation framework will look at 2 factors. one, look at diversion volume on streets before and after the project and tell look at safety. you know, again this is a quick build. director eaken was asking about pedestrian safety. it was light weight did not seek to do beyond outer lanes because it is a pilot if we want to make it permanent. i'm almost certain there would be modifications. i can't say without the benefit the data. you can imagine smchl if there were diversionary impact and was not enough that we wanted pull

become from the project we might look at other means reducing imfacts from the traffic diversions. we have not done anything to date. in that your. does not mean we can't dom it part of the permanent project. >> it 3 years we would evaluate it 3 years of potential impacts on side streets. >> we can course correct if the data pointses to a problem we hear from the community ordition makers about a problem, what you are not giving us is carte blanche to look nevering place. i mean the legislation system what it is. we can come become to you. there are things we can do to address the problems we hi lighted the section because we wanted to emphasize as staff we don't view it as static there is

concern from cal trans if this experiment is not working out what what will you do. we have to revisit what that problem is and the project and design elements are contributing to the problem. >> we have in speed hump and diverteros 14th and funston. the traffic diversion from park presidio has been a problem for years and don't expect there is transfer this project to significant low increase diversion relative to where it was in 2018 if it does, since we have done worryings the traffic calming team move to add additional devices in order to adjust the dials so the -- the speeding and the volume situation is addressed. absolutely. >> great. and my follow up question is are we working with business groups.

like i think the different commercial corridors that surround the areas. i know that -- they are quite vocal and the chief concerns about folks feeling like they are not heard. >> sure >> i will let erin speak to that, if this is okay >> hello directors. public information offer on communication's team. we have been reaching out to community based organizations and neighborhood and business groups. i'm excite body with this project is now it is implementd and people see the change and on the grounds. once we get to the mid sxoint have a big robust out reach portion we will have the community suri have we will like dig in to reaching out to them

and making sure voices and pregnancy are heard. that will be the real crux in the middle. i continuing is also important to reminds everyone that the whole purpose of the project is increase the number of people the corridors can move. of the project is about increasing person through put in the corridor. you know san francisco despite the current economic struggles is a growing city the streets are not getting wider. california interested in this experiments as a means to test tools state wide that allow us to use the state transportation net w to move more people to accommodatical cal's growth without demolish homes in low income community to widen highways. that's our goal that is good for business as well. >> i would encourage us to engage with folks early on in

the process. as the director said we will hear from them. tell be great to get ahead of that. >> thank you. director heminger do you remember the rest of your question. >> i do. >> it has to do with our friends at cal trans you have a permit that expires when? >> i believe june 30 of 2024. we approached them about amending that in advanced of this moting and of the response was get prove from your board and we can go back and do that. >> that was the second question you doernt have a commitment they will extend past the current j. we don't have a written commitment. no. >> vibe is they will come along? yes. i never have been asked about vibe in a meeting. i feel like i'm too old to understand what that means. >> we have executive level support. >> that's right.

>> yea d4 has been supportive. why and look i don't want to take too long with the last points it is important for those colleagues on the board who may noted being aware of this but well is a process under state law you dedesignate state highways. now, if we were to seek that for either lombard or park presidio or 19th avenue, you get control of the road as a local government but assume liable in responsibility for the road and for maintenance and so on. it is is a quid pro quo. i think given the role that those 3 roads play in the move am of traffic in san francisco. and the large extent to which than i are not multimodal. i think is a reason enough to

have a discussion about it at a policy level. i found that is something you can prepare in the future. i know your predecessor did research on the question. i have beenllow it on elcaminnow royal goes through dozens of cities. when vtaments an express bus lane they negotiate with 12 ecstasy. at least in our case one city and county. but i do think that this example even if your partnership is productive you have a state agency that will be how good your plan is. if they desired to. that one i put in our collective in box and hope someone takes it

out in the future. madam chair i like to propose an amendment that would prior the change frahov2 to 3 to be approved by this board. >> that would slow down the process as point of claire nifkz terms of when we need to take that action and alignment with the other actions? >> if you are requesting whether you can still approve this project today. you can. if you are asking delay moving hov2 to 3 i assume, yes, you need to have an additional hear nothing front of this board in order to. there is no way to approve the change today if we wanted to in so -- you can amend the

legislation to remove section 603 d, which is the part of the coat amendment that designate to the city traffic engine ear to move from hov2 to 3 based on engineering standards you can remove that delegation and approve the rest of the legislation today. that is an option you give to the city traffic engineer and not something happening. >> one note of caution system it is in the as simple as hov2 or 3. we have a system where restriction can change by time of day based on policy and set to the clock or something we can respond to in real time based on future system for doing so. something we had discussions

around. you know we could ends up with a hybrid system the restriction is calibrateed maximize the through put. or like what we have today they are technical options. bear that in minds in your thinking here. >> you would may be first what do you have a preference for how we handle that. more you like us to consider it further or that -- just that i consider a policy question whether or not we out to change the hov requirement. and not something we should designate or delegate to staff. we are trying stoat ump the policy is focusing on through put and there are ways to achieve that goal. including if the hov2 is not

working to mack myself person through put on the facility. it is an engineering decision to make that adjustment as we would adjust the signal timing. policy for signal time to mack myself the through put of cars maintaining pedestrian safety. we don't come to you for significant until timing approval. i argue it is similar with hov3 i accept this is new ground. new policy ground. we agree that we need to keep the board very closely informod this because it is complex and controversial. my hesitation on this topic is this if during the course of our pilotef period we get a surge in traffic. we want to make a quick adjustment to test hov3 it adds

3 months delay to go through the process of coming become for approval to get the calendar item prepared. that would be the reason why i would -- hesitate on this topic. it limits our agility. >> and madam chair, one more thought on the table. current statute requires cal trans approval, right? this is not quick. they don't act quickly on anything. we are getting indication we men able to change na. the point remains for me at least that this decision is important enough that i think we should make it. and especially given the fact this is a new frequent and new approach. and there is a potential may be a high potential for a significant catastrophe to occur out there when you go from hov2

has a lot of folks already car pooling. and you go from that to -- you know no longer your spouse. gotta be somebody else on top of it. >> director. are you arguing you think it should be hov3. >> no. why i'm not. i think that is a consideration a strategy we might want to consider but probably involve that trade off between a lane that looks full to people and a tlan looks empty when people see that empty lane they let you know they think you are wasting the space. even though you are doing what you are intending which is move 3 person car pool and buses through faster. >> for me, given i'm taking our

agency by our word had is a pilot. asking for time to get information. i think it is important we mack myself flexibility amongst tal afar to play it see what works and what does not. especially if they are watching and seeing what ask working and what is not. as long as what we vote on gives us the most flexibility to get as much information as we can safely from this, i of course that is hai'm interested in. that when you do come back you say you know, 3 does not work. 3 no one takes the lane it is empty. 2 -- it is packed all the time and not doing. i want to get information. i don't know how many opportunity we will have to do this. >> understood. director eaken? >> if you have a path forward go

ahead. >> director hinze, i'm sorry. i was going to suggest a lot of what has been said is [inaudible] i was going to say that type of proposal in the pilot and uncomfortable authorizing the full 3 year. concern in look around the project. i was going to suggest that staff come back to us at some point a year or year and a half or 2 years -- before you about to finish or when you have the preliminary sense of how things

are going. and an all encompassing way. including the hov2 versus 3 -- debate. that we are having. i'm torn. i -- you know as a board member i want approval. policy decisions and a policy call and i also see [inaudible] saying about giving staff flexibility to really give us the data without something back to us. mid pilot to just approve 2 verse you 3.

i think as we find hov2 versus 3 debate i think perhaps mid pilot check in and revision item would be useful for us. and that regard. i think that is -- the question is, is there enough support on the board for what people -- do we have not had a direct motion made yet and have not had public comment. i don't know if we want to people want to put out a thought and go to public comment and we in to had they think and take action. is it -- is there a general

thought about when direction people are interested in? the public can give feedback on -- not requiring them to come back to us. >> director heminger. respond to what i'm hearing is i'm hearing you say you like to make a decision to make that final decision whether 2 or 3 i see that decision coming at the phase we vote to make this permanent, whatever iteration will be after the pilot. that what we are doing mou is not choosing 2 or 3 we are expressing comfort with staff experimenting and learning through the pilot process. is in the an either/or today is

is a broader approach. i'm not sure that is the case the board -- the staff had to come to the board to get hov2 approved. and it seems to me upon given the fact this is unusual project and the fact that changing from hov2 could involve a significant amount public resistance and concern we would be in the place of being able to vote on hov3 like we voted on hov2. i see it as an opportunity for the public to give comment on that change. so -- good point. a matter of making the changes with that input. again. like we we saw from today's comments occurrence how folks engaged in the process. by i think as a matter of policy and setting a precedent we make

the changes at the board level we are cesting the stage up for the new terrain to be done in a way the board has more of a handle on. of >> i don't know i saw it when brought the first time we were asked to gift agency the ability to try out an heart attack ov lane on lombard and park presidio and a study. not all the various in's and outs. moving from 2 to 3 can be granular. that we should give staff flexibility to play without coming back for it. the idea of should we try this on a street is one thing. i worry it it is a slippery slope. i hear your point director heminger it is new and different and important but i don't know i want to give them i feel like it it is not 2 versus 3 is in the a giant change it would require another level of prove. >> i guess the thing i say is

i'm fine with having a discussion later about hov2 versus 3. i think it might be helpful to the involve staff to understand what data or information we would look for to determine why 2 versus 3. it is in the about a discussion but a sort of we tried 2 dp now 3 -- you know we think we will get this more time savings or whatever it is. or notice in the enforce am people are not adheres. people in 2 in the lane anyway. we need to figure out if we are going to do that what is it specific low we want to know to help us make that decision. that is the thing i say. open up to public comment. and have them weigh in. there is in the anyone in the room. cards for the item. i have 7 in the queue. >> great. open to public comment on line. first caller, please.

>> good afternoon will zack lip ton in support of the project. it shows promising improve am in transit, travel time and reliability. and should be continued. i add i think it would be a benefit to experiment with bolder design for pave am markings. it it is subtle in accomplices definitely. i'm also too old to talk about vibes i think it -- the discussion i'm hearing is tentative and this gets watered down when everyone is acting like this is such a novel conswhept anyone who driven in california used hov lanes since the 70s. on a day we are all melt negligent heat wave and climate change, how slowly we are going with this and the idea we will come back for approximate hov3 and dwo and another does not

feel like an emergency response to the climate emergency. the pace of this. i would ask that you go forward without the amendment and let staff experiment with 3 and 2 as conditioned in role time to give them that flexibility. it really does not seem there is so much effort here to tloi in 39 people who don't share city policies like transit first and the climate emergency to listen to people not sharing the goals. expressed about maximizing the through put of people. and i'm not sure what benefit well is in try to listen to these people when we sends out what goals we want to achieve. we should achieve these policy. >> thank you.

>> next speaker, please. this is zack policy direct from san francisco, happy transit among. and appreciate all of the thoughtful comments from the directors. i hope so to see you tomorrow riding municipal tow city hall. san francisco transit riders supports the extension of the almost bard hov pilot. and hopes the board will vote to extend it. as mentioned by staff. continue to support 10% travel time savings and protection of this in future traffic congestion. [inaudible] with cal trans important partner when it come to the future of our transit first system and creating a transit first region i'm appreciative of the comments from the directors. my 2 cents and recommends for

riders is that we do defer to staff when it come to making decisionos hov2 and 3. they are the closest to the stake holders and the community and that is important theme of making sure we have transit first cities that work and sponsive. thank you and happy transit month. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> [inaudible] i'm disturbed boy this meeting i can't stand temperature first i don't know one neighborhood association that was notified concerning this issue. i have been disturbed terrific low bite timing of this hearing. the day after a long weekend the last weekend families leave our neighborhood and some merchants do. before the big tourist season hits us and a lot of people

don't know about this buzz they were out of town. i hope to -- [inaudible] and come to our meeting on the 14th i will get the information to them. i will hand deliver it to the department. and -- i think that -- i would rather it be a year and a half extension with the very detailed study with people that are involved in the neighborhood. not people on mailing lists and e mail lists i have information for you you will not believe i will not say yes or no as far as 3 or 2. i rart 2.

number 3 is the nobody has --

>> this was implemented in september of 21 and april of 22. and the approval action in april of 21 contemplated data collection evaluation and reports to the community. the presentation that steve made refers to did the collection i know of no evidence data share public low. only the sum row information he gave but nothing on the website and i'm not aware there has been meeting or public presentation of any data. without this action this would expire 128 days after the covid emergency ends. well is in anticipated date for the ending of that emergency at

this time. so, i'm not aware there is everything motivating the action. ceqa information collection cannot be used for the bases of a continuing project. a 10% reduction on 10 minute segment saved one minute. >> is not a big savings to me. i'm unable to reach kennedy and staff. many people don't believe this mta suri haves matter. golden gate transit cut service there are no transit busos p presidio and few on lombard in the peek period i believe no action is needed continue the pilot and publish the data and consult with public before proceeding no need to act today. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> hello this is [inaudible] the district 3 calling as a roadwayer to sunrise support to extending the pilot. my experience is we need services moving better and times are consistents. i roadway golden gate transit and hov lanes make a huge difference this is the type of project we had be fast tracking and i'm glad cal tran system working with sfmta. i wish these were full timer transit something is better than nothing. something is easy to further speedup transit on lombard removing all left turns not just banning them certain timeless. all left turns are a danger fer people walking and allowing different time system confusing and hazzard as you to crosswalks. i mention that this part of lombard on the high injury

network. hov lanes don't make it worse the traffic safety on lombard needs to be addressed even outside the purview of this project. parallel park suggest causing delays. removing parking and loading zones and extending walks and including transit stops should be a part of all future plans. and in line with san francisco transit first pol. whether 2 or 3hov lanes are barely scratching the surfist i hope that you look at them. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> this is her bert meyer. my concern is traffic coniestion. it is fine to increase the travel time of muni on the corridors. i primarily use muni.

but also morphists have to be take into consideration which is the last priority of the board. if you want to, my fear is traffic back up. and going to impair the move am of vehicles and may be have you a concern about it, men you don't. you should. is this is a consideration that has to be begin to the project. don't run in it lickety split. have careful deliberation and input from the public. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hello i'm commenting not about this issue but your item 10.2 item o. which you republican through so quickly i nosbegin an

opportunity to comment. i'm david, president of microtraces legacy business in san francisco employ 80 people we are arc lined with [inaudible] 140 employees. and submitted petitions by 40 businesses wanting jennings street reopend and formed by 8 residentsmenting the street reopened the city is violating state law. approximate it keeps the street closed it must declare the street unnecessary and believe the street is necessary. millions of dollars and here sfmta ran it through with zero opportunity for comment at the board meeting.

i hope you reconsider your approval of 10.2 item o. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. good afternoon hope you had a nice summer. i want to point out a few things the hours 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. is ludacris you have the no left turn restriction on lombard from 7-10 and 3 to 7 p.m. once you allow the left turns you will allow that right lane to be available to deal with the congestion people making left turns, brachlt huge congestion and one lane can create problems.

the signs are hard to read you need a digital sign over before franklin and richardson say thering is a digital tien and has to be bigger they are high up. i suggest this you actually look at the hours of operation, considering the number of bus and transit this use today during the off peek hour. i appreciate your time and i think -- i was quickly is that the issue of suggest [inaudible]

to resign he can't get his staff to keep the [inaudible] for festivals available for taxis. it was a joke. and it will be the same thing. thank you for your time and have a good day. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello board of director it is i'm peter miller. wanted to comment and support of this project. and say they really have benefited from this as somebody riding the 28. i have been arc mazed by all the ridership on the 28 especially with the tourism coming back. it is grit to be able to provide a fast, reliable transportation experience to the tourists and fwrit to experience now that the 43 is back in the marina district. i think this this project should

give staff the authority to experiment with the hov3 listens they team necessary and that this lane should be the start offeen more lanes hopefully once construction wraps up on 19th avenue we will get lane there is this is another your that has congestion could benefit from that over all this project has been very successful in my experience. and more signs will be great. hopefully increase driver aware ness and making sure they are getting out of lanes when they are not supposed to be >> thank you j. next speaker, please. that is the last speaker. >> we will close public comment. this merit is buffers. board what would you like to do? director eaken?

i going to recommend, make the motion and we can react. why may i? >> [laughter]. >> well, i will move that we amend the item to require sfmta board approval for any change from hov2 occupancy. >> is there a second? i will second. >> all right. there has been a motion on the floor is there discussion or just call the vote. >> city attorney? >> yea. thank you or secretary did you want to -- there is technical amendments to the resolution and the ordinance we need to make to affect director heminger's motion. i have that the resolution should be amended amend the second clause to remove all of the language starting it's quote and authorize the city traffic engineer:. quote. leaving it further and the ordinance to delete, new

subsection 603d and reletter subsection e and amend to make the 2 corrections bite public commenter on correct the year in the first and the first resolve clause to identify a through i instead of a through j. i will vote no on the motion by design makes me vote no on to make your correct. i want to state i'm voting no but i think the technical changes should be made. if you want multifull motions the amendment only and the another amendment. [laughter]. if you want to vote on the spirit of the motion. director eaken? i guess the way i see it it is implicit in the action in the staff report we are approving up

to hov3. i'm comfortable with the approving the staff report as written as it is a pilot. and so to your point director -- folks read the staff report today is an opportunity for the public to comment on it is in their woo are delegating to the city traffic engineer the authority. that's true the issue is not t's up for decision today. there is a lot of staff w that would have to happen before the staff or we approve going from hov2 to 3. >> right. i do believe as director cajina said one thing when you in to the board it slows you down. it also focuses you and the public on a place at a date and time when they can come and belly 80 about temperature i would think there will be a bit

of bell aching if we get to the point of trying to change from 2 to 3. >> i mean. my thing is i said before i think we mead to be clear about what sort of metrics we want to make sure or things that staff the considerations staff have in recommending that change. ultimate low if we have as mump information we know today i don't know that like another hearing makes sense. if there will be new information that we want them to present or that they will have and come to this accomplice the pilot going on theyville more data. i want to make sure if we push it off. we are not basically -- doing it for no reason. information we have today is the same we will have. men you can explain the process by which which tell be ted up to consider hov3 under what

circumstances and information they do that 3 more months of pilot or what are the considerations? >> the core of the exercise is as jeff e louded to the person through put. piece of it. that is the primary goal of the project and so if we fundamially if we felt hov3 increase person through put some or all of the time. the same time the cautionary note that i struck earlier about -- impacts on congestion in the remaining lanes that could then sounds ironic could turn around and impact the operation of the hov listen we have to factor that in account. there would be a robust analysis. someone mentioned enforcement i think we want to collect more

around compliance and i don't want to just immediately focus enforcement. i think i lost my train of thought i within down a side path. equity that he will be a key piece. hov lane ticket is 491 dollars under california state lu. i think if we were going to create a wagz a brart number of users will be exposed a 491 dollar ticket we want to take that in consideration.

>> we have agreed with cal trance and share first quarter or the first quarter of data collection third quarter of 2022 data with them after we had a chance to collect and analyze it. beyond them we have not laid out a formal framework for review of this data. >> direct hinze did you have a comment? >> i did. could we [inaudible] staff that flexibility. to do 2 versus 3 for the 8 quarters mr. mullin was recommending and thinking about and then we schedule -- see if staff has a recommendation and

then if they want to consider going 2 to 3 then set a date on the calendar for a hearing. for certain for this time on that topic exexcusively related this topic in response to director heminger's occurrence i think is valid if we go 2 to 3, the public valid a chance to give comments about it with additional 8 quarters of did thea. that's just an idea. >> i wanted to reiterate had we heard the did thea we have so far is in the great.

not comprehensive if we are approving hov3 by this decision then we are doing it with little information. from the on set. for a pilot of 3 years. if there was this is a 3 year pilot we are approving. its 3 years although it seems tell go fast to the public and public perception i'm sure it feels like a lot of time. for disruption of business and different things that will come before us. upon i just i'm trying to put moiz in the approximate suspicion of the folk this is live in these neighborhoods and the folks that have been living there and folks that use the corridors to get to and from work. as staff mentioned there are equity issues to think about. so -- it is not a second time a light decision to go if 2 to 3.

we have to give that -- its process. and value the fact it is not a simple change to go from 2 to 3 >> can i test an assumption with staff. my assumption hov3 would not happen any time soon this it is something if you go to there would be analysis and the cal trans consultation. this might of the not ever happen in the pilot period if it did it would happen quite a bit down the road. >> i don't know time lines there would be a lot of work between here and there with the level effort of to staff and discussions with cal trans would not be a straightforward conversation.

o upon lombard since last october. 3 plus on the big stretch of the 80. 2 more years i feel like let's give you the 8 to try things out for the next 2 years i agree with director hinze i think you should come become for approval once you make a formal recommendation you and sill we did 3 plus for 4 mons it was a sdaft and proved that it it is not did not work. we will hear from the public no matter what when you provide us the proposal and vote as a board we say, from your recommendation should be with 2 or 3? this we you can play around and see if it works or doesn't.

>> understood. >> i think du have something. call the question. and vote. if we don't and the outcome is the outcome. voting on the amended motion that is more specific low dealing with what director heminger proposed but admit the one that changes the date. >> correct. call the question >> on the motion to amend director cajina >> aye >> director heminger >> aye. >> director hinze. >> no. >> director yekutiel. >> no. >> director eaken. >> no. >> chair borden. >> aye. >> [laughter] that a tie? [laughter]. that monies the motion does not

pass. >> all right. so -- that brings touts african-american ocean i don't know which is the amended motion with the new date. i suggested that i don't believe anybody made that motion. >> all right. want to check if somebody else wants to make another motion argue that to amend the original to have the correct date? i will move we pass the motion with the amended corrected date >> seconded. >> second. >> please call the roll. this is correct date and identifying the correct item and letters. director cajina >> no. >> director heminger. >> no. >> director hinze. >> aye. >> director yekutiel. >> aye. >> director eaken. >> aye >> chair borden. >> aye. >> thank you that motion is approved. passes. >> i want to be clear it is

possible that you guys will never do hov3 anyway it would not come back. right? >> this is possible and all i think we heard clear direction from the board. and i understand the need for deeper commune engagement and accountability at this body as well as the new thing as a policy matter and not just a technical matter. so i want to make a commitment to coming become to regular low to update you on the process and also to include nut coordination about staff decision to change the rules. regardless of haauthority you delegateed us. we understand that this it is going to require on going engage am from all of you. >> and we also if the pilot

study come to a clear conclusion the did thea pointing to all right this . is like it is working or not and need to make a decision we don't have to wait until the expiration to come back to you with recommendation for permanent. why that concludes this item we move to the next. >> don't think anybody expected that to be the long wong >> we are on item 13. we have a closed session. >> i mean our main agenda. >> item 13. approving the park and traffic modifications associated with the bat row sansome quick build ams a-v in the agenda.

>> mr. mc mc guire. >> good afternoon. my clothe gets the presentation booted up we are excited bring to you another quick build project this is one that has been long and coming. there is long a need for a safe protected boycott route in the district it has been a planning and puzzle puzzled us for i long time and excited victoria will walk you through the prove that will have brood support of i am going to -- give you an over view where we are with the 2022/23 build program. avenue quick build is under construction now between chavez

and third street. a project under construction this full the bat row san symptom is one. we have some exciting changes coming to like merced, bike way for part of the are route with the city board and skyline boulevard. and improve ams to bayshore an existing bike way not occupy standards improve protection and visibility of pedestrians and an effort with the district 2 supervisor's office to slow down the downhill traffic on franklin and in 2023 more coming to high injury corridors that are important link in multimodal net w we will talk more in the year ahead we don't have designs ready yet but as we promised to keep you aware of the faster pace you challenged us to work out in delivery of the quick build projects that is mro

vieding contrek who upon share the battery sansome project. i'm victoria chong. today i will share background about the product per your consideration the first set of protected bike way to the financial district and safety improvements to the area. to start off the project aims to improve a protect the northbound and southbound bike connection to and from the financial district. the general project corridors from battery and sansome to market to valleto streets. and there are project goals improving safety for all who travel on battery can sansome minimiing transit delay and

curb management. it is going to provide a connection to the sansome connection's project in 2019 or the blue section north of the orange section. that section there in blue was standard class 2 bike lanes with buffers. in addition to that the project is in spchlt the city's commitment to vision zero reduce traffic injuries as well as collisions and fatal is bat row had 62 injury sligzs factors red light violation and speeding so sansome there were there injury collisions. the top factor was due to drivers -- failing to will yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk. because the proposal is

including new protected bike wayos battery it requires sfmta board approval rather than a traditional public hearing press that other quick builds have done in the past. >> these are existing conscience photos and cross sections of bat row and sansome. first here on top is battery street. you are familiar a 1 way southbound street, 3 lanes that feeds to first street and feeds to the bay bridge a lot of folks used to connect to the east bay. golden gate and presidio run on battery in terms of battery is flatter compared to sansome. in terms of sansome a 2 way, one lane each direction also shared lane markings on the corridor between sutory washington streets and the evening peek hours there is a tow away lane

allows for 2 lane northbound. there is a restriction going in the southbound direction that only allows for transit bikes, taxis and commercial vehicles. sansome is one of the transit corridor in the financial district municipal and he golden gate and run there. through this process we have locked into a number of alternatives for battery and an so many street in total we looked 6 alternatives that lead to the recommendation that is brought to the board for consideration today. >> this is the general design of what the cross section will look like had is battery facing forward market. project elements include a northbound and associating protected bike way on the east side ruuntiling few are impacts to sansome. we worked toward tht preferred alternative due to fewer impacts

result in we were to sa one protected on sansome and one protected on battery. with that time design there would have been parking, transit and even emergency response impactless. in addition we are considering this we focus pedestrian daylighting and limit lines. upgrading crosswalks and looking at traffic signals to increase it is signal lens to large are sizes. includes a travel lane reduction from 3 to 2 and accommodating peek hour tow away narcotic to washington for 5 blocks of the corridor. there will be 3 travel lanes for folks to get on first and the bay bridge hopefully easing congestion and concerns.

in addition left turn restrakzs on broadway and cal colto reduce left turning vehicles and bikes and similar to sanning so many the batted real street section will include pedestrian safety improve ams like daylighting and contthenal crosswalks. we are focusing on bat row this will have fewer impacts to transexit with this 2 way bike way we can use it as an emergency response lane in the event this is there is an emergency and we vetd and approved that can our colleagues at the fire department at our usual task process. with this there are a number of parking and ledingly changes. most of the east side parking removed to accommodate the bike lane and have looked in adding loading zones passengers and commercial load to different sections of the corridor.

this is just an illustration of what bat row street will look like this is on bush and pine streets on the bottom left section of the red you will see the 2 way bake way. going toward market the left side of the street and in addition to that adding additional loading where transit golden gate is not in service. [speak fast] they run on bat row in the a.m. period and the a.m./p.m. tow away on the top right section there. other section is the sample illustration of bat row from pacific to broadway. similarly highlighting the 2 way protected bike lay. travel lane reduction and wish wash to broadway the 3 lane to 2 road diet. this section will not have the peek hour tow away lane. and adding additional commercial loading. and then on the most right section here is the left turn

restriction at bat row and broadway proposeed reduce conflicts with like and left turning vehicles. >> one sample of arc simulation is the project proposal battery and sacramento the right side the 2 way protected bike way for bikes and scooters. middle section the 2 lanes available all times and the left side is the parking lane the third lane when the peek hour in affect such as 7 to 9 and 3 to 7. [inaudible]. >> in terms of out reach we did door to door out reach in the sum and fall of 2021 to businesses fronting the project areas a survey and introductions to the projects for folks to get involved. we went for 2 rounds of in person suri haves to the out

reach to the commercial excuse meet mesh chants and follow thanksgiving the changes with covid and things we followed up with a mailer for the reiterate the project is happening. last year through early this year we meet with different organization and neighborhood groups to introduce the project and that lead to us having a virtual open house early in spring of this year as a story map from the [inaudible] platform and that had online survey virtual office and [inaudible] even visible for 2 week in spring of this year. follow thanksgiving we met with additional organizations and merchants um -- listed here. to do follow up out reach as well as met with folks at the gateway. to do a walking tour with the neighborhood association and

tenant's association. >> based on feedback we made adjustments to the high level concepts. this includes color curb and loading changes. of the 3 out of the 4 passenger loading zones on the east side we were able to maintain the loading zones. when golden gate is not in service we will be converting the zones to commercial loading so folks have another option for loading commercial needs. as well as adding general loading zones both commercial and passenger on cross streets there. >> in addition to that we will the original concepts in were shared at the spring of this year's open house we recommended also restricting the southbound of bat row and jack street. but after hearing folks were

interested in keeping we will maintain that left turn for access and circulation to the neighborhood. the original proposal includes peek hour tow away increase lanes 2 to 3 between bush to washington and that will help the congestion that will happen in the area. >> and in sum row and next steps the leaderships asking the board to consider today include approving changes to the bicycle network. the associated tow away no stopping turn restrictions and ping and loading the construction pending the sfmta consideration today would start as early as october of this year. and we amount that construction would happen for 4 to 5 week and with that i will leave if her for questions and thank the team members that works on this project and we are instrumental

in to this point today. >> thank you. directors, are there questions? >> director eaken. >> thank you. for all the work on this project and the very detailed explanation of the alternatives in the staff report you considered. a couple comments i did want to note the support all right from the downtown san francisco partnership and the comment came up in a number of commenters if we are interested in promoting financial recovery we have to focus on making easier to get downtown i notice that theme in the comments i reviewed. based on hai understand of the alternatives i understand yu landod this 2 way on the one street. i want to make sure since it is

a bit of often unusual treatment do everything we can to make that safe as possible and understand how and where they need to move. you talked about the left turn maintaining a left turn on to jack. from battery? can you walk us through how tell be safe and everyone will understand where the traffic is coming from. >> yes the left turn or southbound left turns at jackson and clay street we added signal hardware changes. folks going in a car down battery would make the left turn at the same time that would be separated from the bikes going through they have their own phase in the significant until with the pedestrians. they valid their phase and the vehicles have their own phase. >> and we can as we work toward work orders add pavement marking and signings as necessary.

>> okay. >> great. and could you reminds us this is bush to vallejo and market to vallejo, what northbound or southbound cyclist, what is the connectivity they experience at either end of the segment j. if you are coming from the embarcadero to market on bat row you go straight there is no need to turn from this stand point. if you go north toward have lay hoe you make a left on vallejo to get on sansome to head south. >> to plug in the map in your report existing treatment? >> exactly. those sections were install in the 2019 and those were traditional class 2 bike lanes. >> the sign im00 getting in the signage clear improving this segment and the end of the 2 way

protected lane and clear had they are meant to do to keel following. >> on the pavement there will be 2 ways straight or left to go on vallejo to get to sansome. we can look in different signage wheny work toward where to get folks to bike toward to head north >> happy to see more quick build projects >> yep. >> directors heminger. >> thank you. madam chair. i got 2 questions out of right field for you. the first one i have to conif he was i was not dill gent at director eaken and i did not read the staff report i locked at the slides and pretty pictures did you consider an alternative that would have turned bat row and sansome to a worn way cuplet where san

symptom one way northbound and bike lane on sansome and the other lane southbound on battery? >> just the bike lanes or vehicle. gi was thinking of the cars, too on sansome. make sansome a one way north. >> for the bike lanes we did look at one option where folks come southbound on battery and head northbound on sansome street and like i mentioned due to the general impacts that would impact parking it would be double the amount of parking need to being remove federal we were to consider that and transit i know that transit uses sansome the major corridors there are not many options to use. both municipal competence golden gate transit and presidio to go northbound and southbound.

>> the second quiet bike lane itself. which you characterize protected bite skin plastic things have you used the tloement treatment to howard and jfk before no cars protectless the bike lane with a low of parked car would this work on battery. >> i think there will be a trade off considered there. there is in the much roadway space and a lot of contrains. so. for instance i think as well as in addition there would be the emergency fire lane with clearance we would not be able to meet if we put parking there. they would likely be not enough space for clotheless in the fire department to approve. ja what is our experience with howard that is in the long ago

we did that one has it been working well? do you know the accident rate has been. >> yes it has been working well i don't have the crash rate it is design director tumlin got us 20 million dollars from the fed its is it is the design we settled on is the right answer. >> your concern about bat row is whether it fits not the idea you like the approach >> yes. we want to maintain as much park and loading on battery it is a narrow street have you to go to a single lane of traffic it is in the a step is right to do. >> way you designed it now you have 3 lanes for the cars when you need it in the peek and off peek you don't? right? okay. >> thank you.

good thinking. >> director hinze did you have a question? >> i did have a quick comment. one is that i'm appreciative of the project in the work staff did. and i uponed give kudos the staff [inaudible] numerous alternatives and you explained in your report. the one comment that i did want to give air time is worn one we received from the gateway tenant's association or building -- was they managed relocate a passengers loading zone the residence denials of the building had [inaudible] and staff had a good response to see what they had planned and when they have done in the pedestrian i wanted see you wanted to talk

a bit about that what plans are for restore and working with the gateway community in the private [inaudible] phase. >> sure. thank you. with the original concepts at may 22 open house, a lot of parkoth east side where the gateway was going to be removed and at the time our suggestion and recommendation to move it to washington and jackson streets so that they could do most of the loading they would like to do there based off the feedback they wanted to keep it in the general visibility of where the elevators and their lobby is so folks that are seniors and people with disabilities concerned with public safety and things like that have a clear view of what the vehicle will a ratify.

that is in the clear as if it were to be on washington or jackson streets. that's how we were able top maintain the passenger loading zone on battery instead of putting them to the side streets. in addition to this we will maintain the passenger loading zoneos washington so folks have an to load. there are folks need to cross the bike way and access the passenger loading zone. a 4 foot access aisle folks have an area to wear or load and unload vehicle before getting acrossing the bike way.

willed will anybody hol like to public comment on item 11 the quick bell bike way is the time to do so. in the room come up >> i have no cards but have five in the queue >>

>> i'm [inaudible] a business owner on about the row street. we have a hair salon we got hit hard by covid. not recovered this this parking situation will not helpous business. restaurantses get the parklet and things to enhance their business we got nothing. hair salons got hit hard i have handicap clients hos need to drive up and p they can't stand on bus. they would love the bike their bodies will not allow them to and i'm opposed to i'm for bicycles being safe but i feel like this needs to be rethought. it is going to hurt our building we are in the middle of jackson and pacific. there is never any open parking the parking is always very crowded and around 3:30 and 4

clock it is a highway going down to the bayy >> thank you. next speaker, please. hello. i'm diana taylor president of barber coast association. i'm commenting on item 3 the second phase. battery phase quick build we submitted a letter of support on this project. my comments august am this letter. background an active part merin the 2 related sfmta projects the first phase of the quick build project and embarcadero project. because of the early out reach and consideration by staff to our neighborhood, on the first

phase of the quick build project we were surprise that the initial plan did in the address the needs of the gateway area residence dens and businesses before publishing fine plans for dual bike lane on the east side of bat row with restricted vehicle access to the gateway. one of the most dense yours of the city with more than 2,000 apartments. we want to comment victoria and mike for working with the associations to modify their original plan. my colleagues alec, michelle and kevin will provide specifics on the modifications as well as survey results of affected residences we sept plan modification to include a

loadings zone additionaling loading zoneos washington and jackson and allowing left turns off bat row we are concerned about safety to residence den and bicyclists on passenger loading or vehicle turn listens we requested to included in the evaluation process. thank you. >> next speaker, please. skwoo good even i'm rachael a commune organizer for the san francisco bicycle coalition. the coalition supports the project. this project will create the first protected bike lane in d 3 and make safety improve am it is they are in the financial district and full of people walking, biking and driving we want to everyone thatting the team for meeting concerns and important stake hold and creating the strong designs. directors vote in favor of the

project so we can create a financial district for all those using it. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello this is park upper in district 3 someone who walks and bikes the places where i will not roadway my bike is downtown. because it would not because would not make sense for the trips but the infrastructure is in the safe for people on bikes this means they don't go to businesses if i need to bike itch can't be alone with the current continues. the densest neighborhoods should have good alternatives to driving. it does in the work for skyscraper served by cars approximate downtown is not back yet, there are already traffic jamless in the downtown grid we need people on transit, foot, bike and scooters you need space for people to take modes of

transportation the project is exciting the beginning of the over due downtown bike network. think it is odd it does not extend to where there are jobs or embarcadero to connect to other by ways. connected bike way is more useful twhoon that is in the connected if we want to be a modern city with i have bran downtown we have to work to make streets modern >> this project is a step in the right direction. police approve the build. thank you >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> david. on this item i knowledge the public should have been heard on this proposal at a friday morning traffic engineering hearing prior to the board. i don't like huhave the

merged-ings this is value from hearing from the public at the friday hearings it is less formal and staff can responded and tweak things benefit it gets to the board and if it is a quick build i don't continuing it is a delay to route it to the friday hearings prior to getting if to the mt aboard. that's a process item. i think that battery street on first street serves a key freeway collector street for the bay bridge and i80 and often backed up precovid and backs up [inaudible] and that's a thing. i think this is a bit of a confusing proposal. with the elements on battery and sansome and the turn restrictions and all of that to the extend it reduces capacity even on the one block of battery

between bush and pine. i'm opposed to the project as it is. and those are my thoughts. by the way i have nothing on item 47 i have thoughteds on the closed session be sure to take comment prior. thank you for listening. why will do. >> next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm jessica i worked on the embarcadero since 20 men. and i bike sansome northbound from market to embarcadero in the morning and market in the evening. i'm supportive of the project and grateful to have the part of my commute made safer. i'm in support and have concerns. lots of community bike to levi plaza. well is a bicycle shop this reliked there the treatments should extend all the way to

embarcadero not stop in valleto and nothing to address the pedestrian and bike safety issueos sansome. now it 2 northbound vehicle lane north of broadway one way, 2 lane and too much upon road spachls encourages speeding and many crosswalks with no stop sans. fail to yield and crosswalks that have stop signs and a problem around the plaza i'm disappointed see sansome did not have a lane removed. therapy is an improvement and appreciate the staff taking on this project and encourage the board to approve. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i'm david robertson i have been promoting this forever. can you hear me okay?

>> it's. we have needed a safe, path way. . soda -- them will give you was -- um so many members of dense neighborhoods. this will give us access to a waling of transportation choice. and more likely to leave car home or go without which will benefit sfmta they will not deal with the carers further on in their journey. i could not be more enthusiastic about the project allow so many more to get around efficiently, safely and sustainablely. i'm in full support of this and please approve this.

thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> madam chair and directors and staff alec barb a planning with the city for 30 scombroers speaking for the gateway tenant's association. diane an taylor has already provided comments working close low with the bcna. providing information on survey included in the august 29 letter that we sent to you provides more about our work and findings and occurrence. already has many bike lanes including the embarcadero. community [inaudible] mobility challenged residence denials. we wondered where bicycle demand exists [inaudible].

we understand if you deadgood they will criminal men they will. [inaudible] proposals to remove the [inaudible] and [inaudible] [condition understand collecting close to 600 signatures. w with staff they found solutions to our occurrence they proposed traffic significant untils to allow left turns at jackson and afullying passenger loading zone in front of 550 battery. felt it unnecessary to submit our petition. thefullying bicycle zone mid block [inaudible] bicyclists [inaudible] and pedestrians like now must help in the embarcadero. we don't want to be part of the

statistic in light of staff objections and excessed willingness to work with the xount we passport this project and appreciate the opportunity to work with staff. thank you, next speaker, please. >> hello. >> hello. >> hello. >> i'm michelle hennessy. thank victoria and staff for lynch to our concerns. today i'm representing the residents of 550 bat row part of the complex bell in the late 60s. [inaudible] the section of the city is dense. multiple types of housing. access at this time gateway garages turn left on bat row at jackson. the original design took away

the loading zone at plaza bat row and access to the garage. to determine the occurrence of the residence denials at 550 and the gateway complex the management conduct survey [inaudible] residents the followings other concerns and rolization the action needed to be taken before the quick build. 395 residents responded with half living at 550 bat row. 16% disability half [inaudible] bat row street. 11 used percent uses canes, walk and wheel chair [inaudible] 53% utilize [inaudible] in front of the 550 building. 70s % do this daily or weekly. 72% oppose the original bike

path as described on the april 22nd site. 15% supported the [inaudible] of the bike 2 third dids not support the original [inaudible] it is uncommon [inaudible] in the report we sent earlier. regard will, the bicyclist is not excuse me [inaudible] expressed concern busy speed of vehicles on battery street. driver and bicyclist behavior thbl >> thank you your time is up. thank you. >> next speaker, please. this is the last speaker. public comment is closed. love to motion to approve this item. >> second. >> call the roll >> direct cajina. >> aye >> heminger >> aye >> hinze. >> aye. >> director yekutiel >> aye >> director eaken.

>> aye >> chair borden. >> aye. >> item is approved yoochl next item >> 14, authorizing the director to execute the 7th amendment to contract number 2014 fret for tow and storage of abandoned and illegal parked vehicles to increase the contract 49 million dollars for an amount not to exceed 128.2 million dollars. why before i get in my presentation we have sfpd they would like to speak about the towing contract. since they got places to go. is it okay in yes, great. >> thank you. >> i work in special operations

part of sfmta with mow is eric of investigations. we are the 2 biggest groups within sfpd this use the towing service provided by sfmta. just quick highlight it is. and then we have numbers if there are questions about what we are tow and putting holdos. since 2004 we have been in the agreement supports sfpd needs including movement and storage of vehicles to crimes. we do traffic enforcement we tow a car if someone is unlicensed

driver and in the able to find parking or somebody would 've could not get the car. we enforce the transportation code includes drunk driving. stunt driving an issue. recovery of stolen vehicles. hazards, suspended license. collisions, expired registration and felony cases that don't fall in one bag. . in august of 22, we stored 825 vehicles at the impound lot, 52% of that storage space. stloe 25 vehicles held for investigative. purposes. what that means anything from the beginning of a crime where we process for fingerprints or dna all the way to we presented a case to the da's office and was going to court.

we can't release the vehicles the defense has an option to review and electric at them temperature is in the an easy when we hit this date we get rid of the vehicle we have to have anything we use as evidence opened for the defense to analyze and look at. sfpd and sfmta worked together. we get as much of our tows out as fast as possible. most of the funding is paid by towing and storage fees collected. just as i note my last number i report week low to the chief are window at the traffic company down the hall from my office we release the 45 vehicles in the last is august 8 and 12. they are trying to get vehicles out after tows. there are not the long hold and i can turn it over to commander ventureo if you have specifics. most of the big tow and holes are based on major criminal

events that dobb don't have easy time lines to hold. we appreciate sfmta's help. we moufred our traffic division to crime lab and the big things we are working through now is the things we did get an on site car area for csi to examine the cars we used to go to the toll hold area at the pier. one thing in order to get cars we add a tow to get that. by the state of the art equipment and the personnel takes less time for us than sending people down and coming back and then going down. so it hen a cooperative relationship and we would like to continue. eric if you have anything to add.

good evening am i'm the commander of the sfpd investigation's bureau i want to add that we have 325 vehicles which are hel for investigative purposes. those are being held including for court prosecute seedings and for any wide variety of crimes homicides, robbery and sex crimes. rapes, burglar, organized retail theft vehicles are involved. fell no e have aeding, dui, stunt drivering. recovery of stolen cars. hit and runs. collisions and shootings. weed tow a lot of cars for different reasons. upon the sky's the limit. and we are working close low with the sfmta to reduce and control the approximate number of cars we have in storage temperature is difficult with investigations and a lot of the crimes there is no statute

limitations, for support as well as critical necessity for prescription and investigations within sfpd they recommend this funding for the remaining term of the condition tract be approved. i'm open for questions. >> director. director mow to the numbers are we paying for tows that sfpd requires in was at this time case you used to pay and you in we do? i believe there is a lot of options. if it is a victim of vehicle a victim's vehicle we wave the fee sns commander? >> you imagine we are trying to save money we lose millions in the tow program already. if there are ways to save money we will be interesting. yea. first, like to do we pay for

them? director of ping for the sfmta the fees that we charge to the person who is towed pays for those fees. unless there are waivers which he was reference machine in a wagz the vehicle is stole sxen, i mean the fees from autoreturn were they charging for the tows y. we manage that, correct. why do we know how much it is costing us >> i don't know but can find out the end of presentation. >> hello again.

so this is a short presentation i am take you through the tow program as a reminder. i will speak a bit about waivers. and the impact to the program the pandemic head and talk about the contract. and when we are hear to do. so the towing program really is vital to the city in many ways maintains traffic reliability and traffic safety. removes vehicles from blocked driveway its is important to residence didn'ts optimizing parking available through parking regulations. removes vehicles involved in crimes, accidents and those that are abandoned. towing program includes 2 components the contract we will

talk about tonight. and there is also the sfmta side. which has costs which consist of staffing, pc o's and there go my words. folks who call in the tow and myself and david in operations. we have to pay for tow coverage between mid notice and 6 a.m. when pc o'sure not available and get assistance through the office of the emergency services and through sfpd and we pay for credit card nev.s when people pay with cards. it is cost recovery and off sets

tow and storage fees and off set with collection of towing and storage fees and lean sale process includes options. this shows you both sides of the program. contract costs a month low management fee. de feos for tow operators the lien sale process biweekly options and sfmta costs include staffing. credit card fees facility loses and coverage between midnight and sick a.m. this shows you a bit about what happened with the tow program and fee collection and tow volume in the last year of 2019

tow volume was at close to 45,000. and -- feeings collected were would have been collected was close to 32 million. why and fiscal 2020 the tow volume dropped about 22.7%. the fees dropped 18% and fitsical 2020 includes the last 3 months when the pandemic hit. boy the time we got to fiscal 21, volume dropped to 59% and feeing collected dropped 47%. looking pardon to the past fiscal year of 22 we did come up

but still 20% low in volume and 9 to 10% below the original fee aim collected. so spoke of waivers there are 5 major categories. there first on tow. anybody that gets -- 50 dollar reduction in the administrative de feo. if your vehicle stole sxen is towed you receive a full waiver. the investigation vehicles that were discussed by sfpd are granted a full waiver. we have low income.

it is is how far you questions of law fifor low income you pi100 and 15 days of storage waiver. which is good we require -- confirmation that you are in a low income category. gives time to get this prove if than i don't have it. and -- we have category which we separated out from low income i believe pretty early in the pandemic. and for the upon unhoused all fees are wave exclude have 30-days to dot vetting. why this slide shows how the different categories moved you

know from prepandemic it where we are now. of interest to you all would be the 2 red lines so the higher ups the darker red line shows that low income wifrs went if 1.4 million in fiscal 19 to 3.6 million in 22. unmouzed from 90,000 in 21 to 300,000 in 22. so -- you can see the node for the programs because that's the costs are going up. my final waiver slide shows tries to give you a visual of how the fee collection versus waivers goes. in terms of cost recovery.

so the green shows the ref now. the yellow shows what we would be how we would do if there were no waivers done. you see well is a surplus in 2019. look to 2022 you will see just a hint of yellow shows we would break even. the red shows the impact of the waivers. so -- you know when people say we lose money i would say that the waivers are supporting things this we node to support which does result in the deficit but to say we are losing money misrepresent its a bit. now we get to why we are here.

in 2016 the current agreement doing accident as autoreturn was granted it was guaranteed for 5 years plus the option to extend for know additional 5 year under the director of transportation's authority. funding was 64.5 million in february of 21 the third amendmented extended to match of 2026. funning request for the third amendment was for 2 years. and buzz we did not know when end was up in the depth of the pandemic. between shelter in place and covid there were significant can impacts to the sfmta budget and the decision was made to say, let's do it for 2 years. see where we are and come become

for the balance of the money. it is 7th amendment would fund the remaining term does include a few months of year 2. of because we did -- under given the is she dids in the look like the tows would recovery. part of that woeful brought back commute tow in october of 21. and the 7th amendment fund the remaining term and 49 million dollars is requested. under the recommendation i know there was a lot of question around whether we go out to bid. i will say is you go out to bid for 3 reasons not satisfied with

the vendor. think you can get the same services for less money or near the term the end term of your contract. the current agreement will lim contractor increases to a mixture of 3%. given the way the economy is going it is very doubtful we could go out to bid and get it cheaper. and still maintain service levels the second reason how is the contracker performing they are doing an excellent job. daily deposits are aulgsz on time. average customer wait time is 2 minutes and when you get there you want to be talk to member soon. requirement is seven and hitting an average of 2.

and their on time arrival for tows is averages about 93% which is 3% above the 90% >> reporter: and again if you are pc o or sfpd you need the trucks fast so you get back to other duties you have. that leaves the third reason to go out. which you are nearing then of the contract. general low i have been through about 3 contract changes, it takes about 2 years from when you sit down and say, what are we going to do with this contract to when you get it awarded. you have to write it. you have to develop the request for proposal. you have to release it. you get your bidders. go through your will evaluations. then you go through

negotiations. if there are any protests general low there are some. that can slow you down a couple of mons, too. a good place now with 3 years left to look at ways to improve e approximatelys we exit the pandemic hopefully. and -- then when become to you when we have a new written request for proposal. and you know get your feedback on that and release it. it is by march of 2026 we will have a new contract. that's all i have. do you have questions for me. >> anybody on the team >> director? thank you.

i've had an interest in this matter for 2 years. and i want to thank you loraine and ted and steven before xu now david -- and everyone diane, diana, i don't know how many have been answering questions about this program. thank you half the agency has been answering questions for mow about towing i appreciate it and want to say to my colleagues i feel we should i have to leave to handle something but i would here i would vote for it and vote to extend it. ip want to say -- that i hope this we can foinld a way to make it cost less for the average person in san francisco when they get their car towed. 600 is so much money and i know

i think if we are not the most expensive we are up there to get towed and it just hurts my heart. and after asking the questions i know the answer i know why it costs so much. there are good reasons. part is we are the most generous cities with having your car tow exclude you can't afford 600 dollars or unhouse said. and those are great things we have an expensive city to live and work in dp the costs are bake in the the tow. and so every reason makes sense. but it does not change the fact i have to believe that over the coming years we can finds a way to make it the burden less heavy for average person who parks in the wrong spot or does not realize there is a special event the next day and has to pay 600

bucks for their car. as we talk about tows i want to thank staff and the agency for piloting text before tow. 12,000 signed up. i have faith and hope more listen to this now. that's all rito say i want to sends grace to staff to allow me to dig in to the issue and express my frustration the cost for the average person in san francisco and want to let folks know i think we had approve and continue this. >> thank you. >> director can cajina. the public comments we received out lined a survey about 80

folks. one thing they saw in the survey it was just 80 people. indicated this 86% did in the recontroversial their vehicles and 82% were not able or did not recontroversial belongings. i wanted more clarity if there is anything that limits folk this is have a combafr -- sure. all you need to do if you are car towed outside of paying the fees is to have the co to the car. if you don't have the key to the car, then we are to verify

ownership. and --the 2 bigef challenges are generally if a person's registration expired then the dmv will block verification of registered ownership. i know of a couple of cases where we worked with the person you know we let thej them know this they node to take care of that with the dmv. if the vehicle was towed by police we are subject to their rowelless. i don't know of off the top of the head. i know that there is a line between what we can help with and when you know when we are to leave to pd. beyond that, we understand this people being parted from

belongings on top of everything is very stressful. we do try to help you know disregarding the, issues we help the person get their belongings back. and there have been times where you know we have given let people go in and get their belongings even if things are mushy. so, we try to do that. it is -- distressing to hear there are cases where this does in the happen. and all i can say is that -- you know we will check in with autoreturn they check in with us. they are good about it and we will keep an eye out and see if we can find out other reasons. but that's what i know now. sounds to me. that is something managed case

by case basis. i would definitely encourage us to explore a policy level decision it figure out how best to mitigate the impacts for folks unhoused. we will have a hearing on this later in the fall. this is in the the time to talk about this now but i appreciate your helping understanding this piece. it. >> sure. >> director hinze? >> i sigh her she is muted. i'm good. no questions. >> okay. >> great >> we'll move to public comment. if there are people who have cards and secretary silva will read them otherwise approach the

podium. >> no cards i have one in the queue >> perfect. proceed. >> good afternoon will mark here so speak on behalf of the executive order of local 685 in san francisco. teamster 665 pritted for 2 decades we citied a relationship weapon the company making sure that the workers there are getting when they need. we i have labor piece there the condition tracking and labor contracking renewed on the 3-4 year cycle. we are here to endorse and support the amendment presented today. bring stability to the work site will be a benefit to the

teamsters. we appreciate the consideration for the w force and the stability of that work site. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next next. >> i wanted net one thing looking at the presentation. it feels like if you look at the couple million dollars in waiver and divide by the 35,000 tows a year that amounts to over 100 dollars per tow that are going in waivers. and feels mriek a lot of this people are piing they park somewhere illegal is paying for investigations and stolen vehicles. where i don't know who should be piing but i feel someone p in the a driveway should not be tow exclude pay a fee for that tow. they should not be subsidizing the cost of storing other

people's stolen vehicles. i hope there is a way to distribute the costs more fair low >> next speaker, please. >> there are no more speakers. is there a motion >> i like to motion to approve this. >> second. >> secretary silva call the roll. >> motion to approve director cajina. >> aye >> heminger >> aye >> hinze. >> aye. >> direct yekutiel. >> aye >> director eaken >> aye. >> chair borden. >> aye. >> thank you. the item is approved. moves us on to the final item >> at this time before we go in closed session we need to take public comment and a vote. whether to invoke the attorney/client privilege with legal council.

why we'll open to public comment on going in closed session. >> i have one caller newscast queue. >> mr. pelpal. >> you rang. >> i mean hello. david pillpel on the closed session items this is near low 1.3 million dollars for 2, tormenty mta employees and arc pores to mow to be a former recreation and park's department employee who might have worked for mta. not sure. i have not looked at the court file it is i don't have access to the city attorney or dhr referenced matter. but these seem like they may be at least 2 employment relate exclude i don't know about the third i hope that the under lying employment issues nagave rise to the matters have been addressed. will be addressd and will not

recur. you know, i know that there are judgments and climbs i know we need to pay for things that go on, buff -- seems like employment related claims are something that can be minimized or arc voidd and that's a risk management issue and a management issue and hr issue. supervisor issue, it is a lot of things and i don't know the circumstances but i hope that you will talk about those in closed session and ensure that whatever happened does not occur and that this is a good work place for the people. the people who are served and live here and employed here, et cetera. those are my thoughts. thank you for listening and we'll have more fun in tw weeks. >> thank you. >> no additional speaks. >> close public comment a motion

to go in closed session. so moved >> seconded. >> call the roll >> on the motion to go in closed session. >> cajina. >> aye >> heminger >> aye >> hinze >> aye >> yekutiel. >> aye >> eaken. >> aye >> borden >> aye >> thank you the board will go in >> board of directors meeting is reconvening from closed session of secretary silva? all right. we are beginning again item 15. announce am of closed session the board met in closed session to discuss with the city attorney voted settle all cases item 16. motion to disclose or not to disclose the information discussed in closed session?

>> mruf not to disclose. >> seconded. >> on the motion to not disclose director cajina. >> aye >> director heminger. aye >> director hinze. >> aye >> direct eaken. >> aye. >> chair borden. >> aye. >> thank you the motion passes and concludes the business before you today. >> we are adjourned. >>

valencia has been a constantly evolving roadway. the first bike lanes were striped in 1999, and today is the major north and south bike route from the mission neighborhood extending from market to mission street. >> it is difficult to navigate lindsay on a daily basis, and more specifically, during the morning and evening commute hours. >> from 2012 to 2016, there were 260 collisions on valencia and 46 of those were between vehicles and bikes. the mayor shows great leadership and she knew of the long history of collisions and the real necessity for safety improvements on the streets, so she actually directed m.t.a. to put a pilot of protected bike lanes from market to 15th on valencia street within four months time. [♪♪♪] >> valencia is one of the most

used north south bike routes in san francisco. it has over 2100 cyclists on an average weekday. we promote bicycles for everyday transportation of the coalition. valencia is our mission -- fits our mission perfectly. our members fall 20 years ago to get the first bike lane stripes. whether you are going there for restaurants, nightlife, you know , people are commuting up and down every single day. >> i have been biking down the valencia street corridor for about a decade. during that time, i have seen the emergence of ridesharing companies. >> we have people on bikes, we have people on bike share, scooters, we have people delivering food and we have uber taking folks to concerts at night. one of the main goals of the project was to improve the overall safety of the corridor, will also looking for opportunities to upgrade the bikeway.

>> the most common collision that happens on valencia is actually due to double parking in the bike lane, specifically during, which is where a driver opens the door unexpectedly. >> we kept all the passengers -- the passenger levels out, which is the white crib that we see, we double the amount of commercial curbs that you see out here. >> most people aren't actually perking on valencia, they just need to get dropped off or pick something up. >> half of the commercial loading zones are actually after 6:00 p.m., so could be used for five-minute loading later into the evening to provide more opportunities or passenger and commercial loading. >> the five minute loading zone may help in this situation, but they are not along the corridor where we need them to be. >> one of the most unique aspects of the valencia pilot is on the block between 14th street. >> we worked with a pretty big mix of people on valencia. >> on this lot, there are a few

schools. all these different groups had concerns about the safety of students crossing the protected bikeway whether they are being dropped off or picked up in the morning or afternoon. to address those concerns, we installed concrete loading islands with railings -- railings that channel -- channeled a designated crossing plane. >> we had a lot of conversations around how do you load and unload kids in the mornings and the afternoons? >> i do like the visibility of some of the design, the safety aspects of the boarding pilot for the school. >> we have painted continental crosswalks, as well as a yield piece which indicates a cyclist to give the right-of-way so they can cross the roadway. this is probably one of the most unique features. >> during the planning phase, the m.t.a. came out with three alternatives for the long term project. one is parking protected, which

we see with the pilot, they also imagined a valencia street where we have two bike lanes next to one another against one side of the street. a two-way bikeway. the third option is a center running two-way bikeway, c. would have the two bike lanes running down the center with protection on either side. >> earlier, there weren't any enter lane designs in san francisco, but i think it will be a great opportunity for san francisco to take the lead on that do so the innovative and different, something that doesn't exist already. >> with all three concepts for valencia's long-term improvement , there's a number of trade-offs ranging from parking, or what needs to be done at the intersection for signal infrastructure. when he think about extending this pilot or this still -- this design, there's a lot of different design challenges, as well as challenges when it comes to doing outreach and making sure that you are reaching out to everyone in the community.

>> the pilot is great. it is a no-brainer. it is also a teaser for us. once a pilot ends, we have thrown back into the chaos of valencia street. >> what we're trying to do is incremental improvement along the corridor door. the pilot project is one of our first major improvements. we will do an initial valuation in the spring just to get a glimpse of what is happening out here on the roadway, and to make any adjustments to the pilot as needed. this fall, we will do a more robust evaluation. by spring of 2020, we will have recommendations about long-term improvements. >> i appreciate the pilot and how quickly it went in and was built, especially with the community workshops associated with it, i really appreciated that opportunity to give input. >> we want to see valencia become a really welcoming and comfortable neighborhood street for everyone, all ages and abilities. there's a lot of benefits to protected bike lanes on valencia , it is not just for cyclists. we will see way more people biking, more people walking, we are just going to create a

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active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee

of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community.

support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you. hi, sandy, how are you?

>> hi, fine, thank you. how are you? >> good. i want to ask you what inspired you to be a paramedic? >> that's a good question. you know, i wanted to go into med school and after i found out how much time it took and all of that, i decided that that was going to be a little too much schooling, but i still wanted to figure out a way that i could provide medical care and doing that as an emt as well as a paramedic was a way to do that. >> can you give me a break down of a typical day for you? >> i come to work and sit at my desk and then i respond to e-mails and try to figure out what are some of the issues we need to address. can we hire more people. what kinds of policies we want to try to create that will help us do our job as ems. >> what does it take to be a female paramedic? >> you know, it takes quite a bit of schooling, but also required somebody who's empathetic. it can be a very stressful job

and so we want people to be able to hand that on a day-to-day basis. >> so what's your greatest satisfaction in your job? >> trying to make sure that the work that we provide and the services that we provide to the community is the best that we can in ems so that when we go out to see you if you call us for an emergency, that we'll be able to treat you in the best way possible and that you get the care as quickly and as effectively as possible. >> why is it important for young girls, women of color to see women in these roles? >> i think it really is important for us to be able to get into these roles because we are effective, we are able to reach out to the community. we are able to do the job in a very effective manner and to be able to relate to the community and be able to do that is one of the best things that we can do. and people of color and as women of color, you know, we are in a great position to be

a principal analyst recently appointed as acting administrator responsible for developing all of the rates and charges for the water, power services we provide. >> the main things i work on are rates. it is really trying to figure out how much money we need to fund our operations and maintenance and thinking how to collect the money in a way that is fair to customers and sincentives for water conservation or installing stormwater management on their property.

>> i nominated erin for the many accomplishments she has provided especially for the financial sustain ability. the reality required a lot of work retooling policies, financial planning as well as many rating and charges. er ron served in the projects including update to water and sewer rates, update to 10 year financial plan as well as setting the budget for fiscal 2019 higher 2020. >> i am pleased with working here. i feel like we have tons of work to do. it is important work. it has a direct impact on people's lives. >> she has a unique ability to get to the root cause of the issue and help develop consensus around a solution. not only is it troubleshooting what the questions are, but also coming up with what are the

alternatives. >> i think a lot of the satisfaction from the job is looking back over the past few years and seeing cereal concrete change we have been -- real concrete change and that gives me pride. >> the team very much appreciates her hair color and the world of finance and accounting tends to foster conformity and boring guys like myself. i very much admire the fact that she walks her own walk and creates her own path, and i think we all can learn a little bit from her. >> i and a principal revenue and rates analyst in the financial plannininininininininininininine

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