the trains will enter. and runs 1.7 mile and a station at yerba buena mosconi. a station at union square. directly adjacent to the garage and under and a station in china town the rose station. the china town station is 10 floors below grade. union square is 5 floors below grade. and the moscoi yerba buena is 2 below grade. in terms of how challenging that subway is i will use that terminology with your report. had you say china town what did you say 5 floors down? >> 10 stories below grade.

that mean that exit subway at china town had takes a stair case or escalator. >> escalator goes down and they have emergency evacuation stairwells that come out and go to the street. trap doors in the street emergency hatches from the inside you can open and up get out. there are elevators. there is in the a lot of combustible materialless in the stations. and the trains are not combustible. but as you remember in the 70s there was the transbay tube fire and an oakland worker was killed there is potential for a terrorist event in the under ground things that happened in japan. with the gas release. so there -- very little -- there

is in the a lot of potential for a fire to occur. unless there is debris on the tracks that could cause a problem. i derailment or accident that could cause a fire n. station there are several mezzanine levels large electric ral rooms and yerba buena station thereof a fire in the electrical walls. this was under construction. and the electrical vault at union square station miss in at 11,000 or 12,000 volts and then a giant room stepped down to 480 or 220 or the 600 volts dc where it is converted. there is a large electrical hazzard they have protection systems and a gas type system.

eliminates the oxygen to choke the fire out there it is potential there. and the challenge for us you can't pull a hose line and go down 10 floors have you to take equipment and go down we are used to pumping up not down. when you pump down you have head pressure that will give you more pressure at the outlet. its different than anything else we deal with. >> okay. >> i appreciate that. a bit more detail. it has been awhile and i'm trying to eventualize 14 floor in china town if i take that subway i want to know where i land in china town. is it more specific. where is that access. >> where is that exit. >> stockton and washington. and in terms of union square

right up at union square? at geary and stockton. >> okay. i appreciate it, chief. and are we operational can i take a ride >> not in service yet i think they are try to start weekend service in the next few weeks, they are still testing. our team has been, i was down there with the chief at the time and 2 days ago and it literally i walk on the site and he knows the private contractorsness everyone by name they spent time knowing what is going of done a phenomenonal job. >> okay. >> i appreciate tiwill pay attention to that. when you gave your description about the level i'm used to going this way. when you start doing this, i think, okay. and now as you described 14 floors below. getting a visual, chief.

>> train come in from fourth and brannon. but has to dip down and go under powell street municipal and he bart and come back up. so -- it dips and rises and come in china town you go up the hill in china town you get the below grade t. is impressive project. >> okay. >> is there -- some i'm going to ask straight up. are there opportunity the commissioners could take a tour with the department to see what this thing looks like? yea. absolutely. i think once we get the soft opening and they get most of the construction stuff now it is a hard hat only area. but once they get the soft opening we can get you down and show you what we are up against. >> and primarily it is in terms of consideration of our members. i know and this is information as well to the commissioners,

commissioner collins. the department has drills with bart drills. i know this. it is when the drills occur it is 3 and 4 a.m. i'm talking to myself am i going to go down there. >> no, you don't. >> i and not after all the years i know that if wore at the 1906 earthquake or commemoration show up at 4:30 or 5. bart thing i passed. i will pay attention and appreciate that. i will continue i will also ask the fire marshall and chief to respond to questions but i wanted let you know this this page 4 suppression specific october 22 report, is much appreciated. because it answers all of the

questions you give in detail and your verbals on the greater alarms and third and the difference with working fire and alarm is really clear. by the address. i wanted tell you how much i appreciate that and informative it is. at this point could i ask the fire marshall throughout chief a question, please? i'm looking at page 9. and i held become on this question for a long time it is like do you want to ask this question. and it gets to a point i will want information. on the administrative clearing at the b. page 9. and i saw 70 days. 42 days.

next page. 10ful 56 days. had are you talking about a continuance of a violation to a decision. >> we say continuance our hearing process allows up to 30 days for somebody to come up with an action plan. once they have one we go up to sick months to have it completed before do official action order to abate, vacate or recision. . instead of having the person keep coming in we tell them. they tell us we get this done in 45 or 50 days inform 70 days documentation it has been corrected we'll continue but without you coming in. if you failed to complete what was asked of them and ordto, bait will issue issued it is i lien on the property. >> compliance by the property

owner? >> yes or busy. >> basically what have in the framework and reach a that is successful. >> aiming for compliance. that is 70 days the reason it is odd because our hearings are every 2 weeks and if you dot math 14 when they have a hearing it come down to. >> if they don't complete it at the hearing we will issue an order to abate. >> okay. thank you very much i appreciate it. chief ficould ask questions.

>> good morning president feinstein and commissioners. chief of department command staff [inaudible] director of training. referring to page 26, which is recruit training but i'm going to ask questions that surround that. recruit training. i know that the top of the meeting we talked about graduation next friday. and i believe we are talking about 44 out of 51. and what i wanted start asking about is that there has been a tremendous amount of movement this year 2022, i'm not going to see president a tremendous amount of boom the last 2 years. curious how many members well,il take it back. how many memberos probation and how long does this last. what i'm looking for probation of one class to 2 class or does

that teeter top off each other. one class graduated they are offered. >> and i want to hear had that number looks like. and off the top of your head. how many graduates f have we had and this may not be your part of it the other part i think it is i try to balance the community with members that retire. it does not have to be today can come up can you help me with that? >> yes. i will address your question regarding the probation in the field we have 150 probationaries in the field that will be reduced. we have 128 finishing up their 1 year. 129th is move nothing their sick month and 130 in the field on november 18th. >> okay. you got a number this terms how

much graduated and just past 2022. >> 2022 we had 2 classes. we are close to 100. >> okay does that run through 21 as well? >> yes. >> run 2 classes per year. the last 2 years graduated 200 member sns >> okay. >> in terms of probation this year? yes. >> one year >> and if there is discrepancies whatever it is, what happens to the member during probation if there is i violation or some no abilities to perform duties >> probation is a year. they move sick monthses on an engine and on a truck. they are assigned an officer that mentors them and coaches and trains them for the 6 months and do month low reports on the probationaries. we review month low reports for

discrepancies or issues with the probation easier and we perform sick mont testing and one year testing. during that 6 month or one year test figure we see deficiencies during probation. we will notify the officer and the chief special assistant chief on evolutions they need to improve of probation come back and retest and if during that retest there is still deficiencies we issue a notice to improve. and again communitying what the officer and chief on the things that need to be worked on and provide other resource more time at the tower detailing down to staff to assist with training and operating training on days off. >> okay. thank you for that. i appreciate that information and the protocol. just one more question.

at the graduations and the pictures there is always a really good idea in pictures photography in terms of the members. the students. recrews. looking for the right word what is the right word when you are in the department is it cadet not recruit. >> right >> recruit or probationary firefighter. >> okay. >> my curiosity for confirmation through graduation is there is a large training staff, i want to hear what the number of the training staff is and the assumption they are minimum lieutenant and captains? is there something you can share? we have 12 training lieutenants and first. on graduation is beyond our suppression staff am you are

seeing ems staff and in service staff. >> okay. there is a difference, obviously by rank lieutenants and captains. >> yes. one captain, that is the head of the academy has lieutenants and firefighters that work for him. >> the last question, i want to be able to get feedback with all of the graduations within the last 2 years i know that we take provide in our standards. and i wanted you to comment on that in terms of. it is a lot of pressure and work. not only on the firefighters but staff. i wanted to hear comments in terms of that as a chief in training. >> yea. we have a standard. our staff is here for success and that's what we do.

we are here to coach and train and look for vehicle. not everyone is successful. it is unfortunate but we have a standard to uphold. over 1 million in the city every week under our protection. and we take it seriously. >> okay. >> i appreciate that. thank you very much, chief postel and nicholson. thank you. i'm concluded. >> thank you. >> vice president nakajo. report from ems and upon community paramedicine. sandra tom. report on parmedicine division. good morning. vice president nakajo and commissioners morning an, fraser and commissioner collins.

welcome. i will get you that glossary about 10 pages long of the the acronyms as soon as possible. i'm deputy chief of ems. this is my report for october. >> you like to go to the over head? highlights we started our 2 knew rc's promoted to section chief one ems prescriptions and administration. we are looking forward to and have been looking forward to the 2 positions that are able to divide the work that the chief was gg doing as section chief of operations. they are get being their legs. figuring out all tell is they

will be responsible for and at it time they have a full work load. the khoa call volume in october we had 350 responses we went through to date. per day. which was 7% increase from a year ago. . we see you know either stabilization and increases in callville um and that benefited by the people that we have hired the 60 additional. you in we have 260fte's dedicated to ambulance. result of the increases we are able to add 4 additional shifts per day. made a difference in the number of medic culls we had had. so this 70% reduction made a big difference per ambulance shift. crews are getting relevel. we like them to have more but at

this time it is a welcomed changech and improvement. we also are had interviewed for our next academy for next year level 1 and 2. ambulance and paramedics. giving recommendations to the chiefs in the next few days. >> on october 11th chief nicholson, myself and section chiefs participated in a town hall at station 49. it was virtual allowing us to get 120 of our members to participate in this conversation. and it was an opportunity for the chiefs to discuss the visions and things that are going on the next year or so. and also an opportunity for all our members to ask scombes inquire about what our plans and thoughts are about next

academies. career development, wellness, schedules the things that are on their mind. a good opportunity to have that conversation and i think we really realize third degree is something we want to do regular low. one thing that the chief wants to bring to the ems is research. and we are starting to work on research projects highlight the one we implement third degree month the mind, rhythm study. a head band device placed on parents we expect are having a stroke. this is a trial or study that leaning the researchers and the developer to get fd approval for this. this will be identify a large vesz will stroke and when a patient is experiencing large vessel stroke we take them to

the appropriate stroke facility. and that way they get the surgery they need to address that clot. our members got train in the this photo you will see our retired paramedic working with doctor smith a researcher and clinician with ucsf to teach members how to place the device. how to ewe likewise the device and make sure they enter all the information they need to do the study. >> sdpimented notable event in october actually a day i was on vacation. october 14th we had a call from alameda county through our local emsa asking for you us to send the 2 multi[inaudible] we have in the department. and we were able to help with a

fire evacuate members elder low seniors from the senior facility to get them out of the fire building and moved on to another facility. >> utilizing our 2 multi[inaudible] buss and in the bottom you see this is a donated muni bus. we have 2. these were 1998 bus. they are 24 years old. they were getting ready to get them demoed. sends them to demolition and they do this when they are 12 years old. they donated the buss to us. this is quite a number of years ago we had chief meyers here. and they retrofitted those to put you litters in them. seats for patient its sit in. utilize these to be able to put all of these elderly seniors and

put them on the buss and take them. this is know important asset for the san francisco city. and for us as a department because this does allow us to responds to assist other jurisdictions in our own city to be able to move a number of people parents to different move to another facility and hospitals. come in handy as you say and manage this we want to be able to continue. however, the buses are sold we have been told this is not something they are going to support in terms of maintenance because many of the parts needed to keep the bus are no longer available. we are on the search for fundses to be ail to try to replace the bus. we than in that disaster the bus will be critical. but than i cost a lot of money. it is something we'll try to look for funding for.

not only it is asset for the firefighter but for san francisco and the region i'm not aware of other buses that are available in the bay area. commune paramedicine we visiting the division chief meetings to discuss the work of community paramedicine and ems to discuss the new and the new teams and help them be able to better understand huwe work. because of the 3 team usa crisis, wellness and over dose. sometimes can be confusing and we are trying to provide them with more information so they help their courthouse understands better when are to special call the units.

those have been going well. 4 more there are sick. we have 4 more to do and i think they have been well received. >> section chiefs mason bay are the community paramedicine operations section chiefs. have been doing inspect person refresher trainings for community paramedics to give them the updates and different things we want to do in data gathering and making sure the data fields are completed. they have been working with their community paramedics. and regarding our 5150's replaced by the captains. and both of those all of them that get all of the pon'50s placed are reviewed by the medical sdeshth as well as the behavioral health services providers. they were deemed appropriate.

>> [inaudible] they also are doing research stsd. chief pang to speak to them if you need. we have been approached by professors from san jose state to help them do research around the programs. one suspect to help understand better how our interventions might improve a client's long-term health out come. and the second one is to better help us understand the moral hazards or injury that might occur when we experience as health care providers working with parents in the challenging environments. and sometimes the trauma that can be experienced as a result of not being able to serve the clients we need to in the way we feel we need. they electric at that as limp

and then we tlouch our lieutenant. data analyst. we has a degree at berkeley in public administration. heave able to recruit under graduates from uc beshg low to help with did thea analysis. looking at out come of our community paramedicine programs. and that is my report. >> thank you very much, chief. any public comment. nobody on the public comment line. >> all right. and none in the odd yenls. public comment will be closed. >> we will turn it over to our commissioner. vice president nakajo. thank you.

i wanted make a comment in terms of your position. and that we have been begin report separate from suppression report operation. of again, for this commissioner and our clothes, and health [inaudible] in terms of all of the work that you are doing within that department. the section. it is interesting in your report how everything i wanted ask. through yourself and chief -- hit upon. and so there is not much for me to say beyond that in terms of this part but i wanted to comment that the report on the virtual and i wanted hear this town hall meeting was like 120 members.

the clarification it was virtual helps me those numbers are impressive and thank you for having that meeting. again i know that the ema and paramedic's communes is big component to our departmentful i think that is irrelevant a good participation and starting point. 120 member system a good number. i also appreciate you touching on the bumps. the bus. because when i was observing at this time on the fire in oak land, i pay attention. they were seniors that was part of what i did for years. then the picture of our bus. this is oak land now. i'm sitting looking at this and i have to help my wife and say, that's our bus. for me it is like, wow, you

know, the bus this we created this we utilized through the parades [inaudible]. that bus has come in unanimous i appreciate that our bus was at oak land and the oak land seniors and whoever needd that had acstoesz that. i appreciate that. also i circle [inaudible] chief in research. and helps me clarify when that was as well. and before i get the chief pang, and this is a question in terms of chief pang but i will ask to yourself and you ask the chief respond it a couple of questions of on the b. page 7 the moral

hazards. that you brought up. i finds that interesting and sensitive in terms of the needs of our members. we were i worry a bit about our members. chief, can you join us, please? out there servicing the city. not only in suppression but in terms of how much the chief we have grown to community paramedics. that is how much we are doing things now. i wanted you to comment if you will or at your call. to that moral hazzard comment and i have 2 more things i wanted to ask you. >> good morning president feinstein. vice president nakajo and commissioners morgan, fraser,

collins. welcome. of chief, command staff. the idea of a moral injury was now to me. i never heard this term before the professors from san jose state brought it up temperature makes sense and we all feel it firefighters paramedics and emt's. it happens when because of even a system failure or a phi failure in policy. wee cannot help someone the way we want to. somebody experiencing homelessness and sitting in a pile of trash but does not meet the criteria and say we don't want anything. and go away. we have to leave. that's not easy. creates burn out in all of us and anxiety and frustration.

other examples are -- there have been change in our sf police department's policy and use of force. and they have a new disengage am policy. if somebody is in a residents they say, they will kill themselves. in this manner. but they close the door. the police will not engage. we are forced ask, what do we do? do we do something more than the police would do? do we force entry? do we leave? and it is always a case by case basis we consult our medical director. our medical director from the hospital. but sometimes we leave and that does not feel good to leave member this may kill themselves. what if we do enter and they

kill themselves. now how does this make us feel. these are moral injury this is occur. i never knew term existed but rings true. because it makes sense as well. by the examples of when we hear and when policies have changed the police department policy has changed to where they don't responded and some definition of homeless when we call before they don't responded as much. a different alternative. and i know this our members are out there this community paramedics and all members out there in the public. and we also.ed to discretion the chief get updates to acting

captain in terms of paramedic reports and per of the reports are more detailed i like the format when it was a large format with operation there was lets of category at you have here challenges and successes. but what come cross the phone is our members were abused overwhat do you do if someone who needs help. they did in the go to the transport. approximate but there is more to it than that i am thinking that our members perform need. there is a crossing line somewhere between forcing entry and you talk about suicide or death but to me the making it forced entry or the judgment of stay or walk away.

that is challenging to say least. i appreciate that and i am -- encourage that you are looking at that. i can see that being important to every member within the department of the so i will move of i'm looking at a page 8 of your report. chief. >> i got 2 more for you >> nice try. >> page 8. i'm at can example to which page hr code. you see it, chief? guess on and describes hr code for the public when the police unit asked an ambulance. did thea shows when the responds located transports to er

decrease. i circled that. furthermore, more of these result in a patient decline is that ambulance transport? to me this is significant. truly significant in terms of huwe started with [inaudible] and where you are now. in the report i remember the chief saying there is research in terms of how we produce our service. chief postel talked about our department. but i think we have a lot to share. because the city deals with the issues the front liners are the department. so du want to respond to that chief? it sounds like a reenforce am we have been looking to what affect do we have and now have a time period of 3 years. chief? >> i'm grateful for the opportunity to have these under graduate data science students

be with us. it is because of the connection of lieutenant oxford a masters in public policy from u c beshg low. when we have an analysis done i always feel anxious. so far i have never been disappointmented community pair medicine is a benefit to the people we help on the street. and our data supports that. but i think it is always a brewing question within the fire department itself. are we doing when we said we will do and able to help our members? and one way, yes, now we have a mechanisma members who are so frustrated with 911 users or people who have social needs but don't want help and can't help them boy taking them to an americans room that is not when they need. now they have a mechanism and

someone they can call. what are we doing to demonstrate is helping us? this it was very pleasantly rewarding to hear. this is significant difference. and locked at all the different call types the community paramedics go on. i selected this one because it is easy to explain. xr when the police call for assistance. and usually an ambulance and fire engine respond. and you know the police are not medical providers. often it is a low bar. to call for help. we get there and a normal paramedic has one option. take them to an americans room. our community paramedic has other options.

when so and when we found out is utl unable to locate. most of these calls well -- we always locate them there is a police officer there. i know freshman my time on an ambulance and engine. a utl is upon often a good outcome for me. means i'm done. right? my work is over on this call. for the public it is a fail. someone calls for help and we can't lect that person. a dramatic decrease in utl when community paramedic assets g. code to transpers to the hospital decrease. ambulances are not taking people to the er for unnecessary reasons. this puts ambulance back in

service. decreases over crowding and found that -- the disposition of patient declines ambulance transport increases the person writing that documentation is the community paramedic. we can put that ambulance back to service quicker. for those dispositions of the patient declining ambulance transport. what occurred? we can nut person in our van and take them to a none emergency resource or that person can remain in the community. the data science students have to look more close low for us in that aspect. i'm eatingtory final the results >> i appreciate that as well. i have one other question in terms of this information my commentom this is i will hold on

this comment. my last question on page 10, chief. that's the challenge. before i get to this question. my reference in terms of the eml texts we get are from acting captain her write ups are excellent. commissioner collins, there is so much acronyms. street over dose response team. stwr street team. ems6 healthy street operation. tenderloin and joint field operation. there is so much. and stow upon automobile time i ask for the difference but when i get the report freshman the acting captain see starts with the definition wa it means and

what she comments on applies to it. my comment in terms what members go through and what we can offer. might have last question to you thank you for your time. chief, department members. second paragraph, you see in month of october, increases for calls for service with people confirmed over doses in a number of people that received and i don't know how to say that word. i don't know what it means. [inaudible]. what is this. >> it is an opioid substitute medication assisted treatment. there are 2 common treatments for opioid use. methadone and this. methadone has been around for

decades. it is very restrictive have you to go in a methadone clinic daily and he drink it in front of the staff member. soviet union you are hand cuffed. if you find if the individual reaches a place of stability, may be they are back in the workforce and living their life than i go in every day. how do you take a vacation when you go in every day and take methadone. this is something you get from a pharmacy. so, that is when we are trying to do at street over dose. trying to for those willing and a nar can reversal we are offering this to them. at the moment we have to take them to a provider, get them a loading doze and prescription and then take them to a pharmacy. what we are trying to do, it is

just out of our grasp is give it to them ourselves. and when we get poison control to trin our pharmacists we will be there. >> okay. i appreciate that. you took us all the way through my questions. the question up to members carry that to you actually take this cline to the pharmacist where the prescription to get the product. i'm looking at is time when i read how much that ambulance or whatever, this is a time. i appreciate that thank you for this clirity. thank you everybody for the time. i'm done. >> thank you. >> mr. vice president. before you sit down i'm going to exercise my little prerogative here as chair and ask you a few more questions that follow up on upon vice president nakajo's

question. what is community paramedicine rep with the public guardian's office? >> we work with not the public guardian but the office of conservator. they are joined at the hip. but we public guardian typically is my understanding. ws with people that may have more organic dementia or disabilities and an hour may be a ward of the state. we usually work with people that fall under lps5150. we work with them a lot. >> let me ask you this question,

live nothing san francisco, being on the streets of san francisco, what do you see as the reason this we had two 5150's when i go down the street and can spot 10, 5150's. i think any reasonable person would agree with me. >> and i know the criteria under lps and how that is to be applied. why do we have two pon 50s in a month. >> that's a good question. those resulted from our first responders calling us to evaluate someone. the individuals on the street this may be fit the criteria.

so often do not. it is very frustrating. i know you know the criteria and others the criteria is someone is a danger to themselves or others. someone could be delusional and still not fit the ccriteria. still able to provide food or clothing or shell and have i plan for what you will do for the day. we can't put them on hold. we have been thirzed to put people on a hold since mid-july. >> roll out slow. we put 5 people on hold since then. there is the best path. if our members not an aggressively put people on hold that we thought would clear

[inaudible] street problems and then took them to the local hospitals i think we would be criticized heavy low that would be a change from what other providers are doing. i think the fact we are doing this slowly, [inaudible] have been credible. and well written. not all of them have been upheld at the hospitals. but 3 have. and extend today 5250. it is something we have to grow into. and the police themselves they sometimes call us. een though they can do it themselves. now we than when machine is hold tell be a transport that is the most humane thing to do. and it is taking languager by calling us. sometimes the police officer does not want to create

additional stigma or escalate that individual. may be it is better if our members do temperature we are trying to feel our way. recognize we can put people on hold that number will go up. >> a couple more questions hing in there with me. how many 5150 beds did we have? i than langley porter closed. i am confused by that is going on at pes. i read different things. city wide how many beds if you know? don't mean it put out spot. how many 5150 beds are there. and where are they? they are on the 7th. every hospital upon with the

exception of chinese and v. a. can take people on psychiatric holds. the general it is 7th floor they have 2 wards there. 7a and c. i don't know the bed count. and chief tong reminded me that the street crisis response team they have we have a behavioral haeblth clinician on that team. we defer to that individual. and additional probably in the report 30 to 40 holds policed every month boy our street response teams they are written by the behavioral health clinician. the 2 that we are pointing out today written boy our fire department members. gi understand that. one last comment. this has eat ebb at me for years. literally. and dates become to my time on

the bench when i ended up with one of the cases and a contested 5150. at this time the recommendation from i thought it was the public guardian may be the office of conserve torship. conclusion was roached that the person could provide food, clothing and shelter for themselves so therefore did in the meet the criteria to be held. they considered being able to provide food if for this was i woman. for herself it was the satisfied she was eating out of garbage cans. she was deemed able to provide clothing for herself she was cutting up black garbage bag and taping them to her body.

and was deemed to provide housing for herself she was covering herself with half of a large moving box at night. and that was one of my biggest hear are horror as a person in san francisco we consider this any show of humanity. and you know perhaps what you are seeing is different now? i don't know? >> your example rings true. these are situations that occurs still. and i just don't that'sir can't comment. i don't know enough i cannot speak to the psychiatrists and their process. yes, i believe that people are being released back to the community that most lay people think is wrong.

>> this layperson does. so. i thank you and thank you for your time. yes. commissioner fraser. >> thank you. thank you for your report. this part television makes me want to cry nurse in me and i feel i go my heart goes to the part you spoke of moral hazzard and injury. which electronics back to previously we called post traumatic injury and stress. i think moral injury and moral hazzard is an accurate way to describe the situation. of members and care givers. the 350 calls a day, because we are talking about this i will say, wow. i don't know what else to say. i think i'm happy thap the availability of the drug is

better temperature is in the an emergency drug it is a drug for treatment longer term. you don't slap it had o and come in a patch and other form its is a wonderful tool that the paramedic teams have. what you say confirm what is a lot know and feel. and what you are dealing with. i have the sense of so many of the teams being in the middle on my ride alongside. there is no place to take people. i was impressed with how well the people that i rhode with knew the patients on the streets they were caring for or their families or where to finds them. it was incredible amount of dedication that is exhibited despite the challenges they face that are presented to them boy our system which is you know has

hole in it. i think this is at some point deserves more discussion for educational purposes. experience purposes and your opportunity to talk even more about what you are talking b. but i also. to say that i'm happy 98 bus made it become to san francisco. it got all the way to oakland expect did job and got back and aware of the challenges of 5150 it soupds like a great thing but it is hard. hard to make it stick and find a place to -- an emergency room is terrible for someone who is on a 5150. nothing heeling about it. anyway. i'm grateful, thank you for the report and interested and again the staff does amadzing things

out there for all of san francisco. as do you. thank you. >> yes. commissioner morgan. thank you to chief for your great reports. and will i myself i enjoyed the bus store and he glad it was a great success and glad we are able to help out oakland i had a great grand mother that lived in a senior house on san pablo. i thought about her. that could have been here. she is passed but liveed 99 and tough. yea. >> but so i guess there are 2 bus, right?

that makes sense for a mass disaster. i'm a fan of the response teams looks like you are adding more teams which takes a lot of stress off our emergency resources like you were elaborating on. and pig back on that. i think that is a great situation. and keep up the great work. thank you. >> thank you. questions? no. chief pang. no questions. but i can't tell you i was already pret happy to be asked to serve on this commission. now i feel doubly honored to be a part of the work of this

group. the level of expertise, the history and what is clear today the humanity of all of you. in this room. really shines through. thank you for letting me join you. >> we are delighted have you. thank you. thanks to everybody for all their hard work purke a very big rock uphill or more than one big rock uphill. it is appreciated more than you know, i think. >> okay. item 6 adjournment. is there a motion? like to make a motion to adjourn >> commissioner morgan. you will second it. moved and seconded. president feinstein?

>> adjourn. >> commissioner fraser? >> adjourn. commissioner collins. >> adjourn. >> this meeting is adjourned at 10:55

>> there is a lot of unique characteristics about visitation valley. it is a unique part of the city. >> we are off in a corner of the city against the san francisco county line 101 on one side. vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in san francisco. a lot of working class families out here. it is unusual. not a lot of apartment buildings. a lot of single family homes. >> great business corridor. so much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up food before going home. >> a lot of customers are from the neighborhood. they are painters or mechanics. they are like blue color workers, a lot of them.

>> the community is lovely. multi-racial and hopefully we can look out for each other. >> there is a variety of businesses on the block. you think of buffalo kitchen, chinese food, pork buns, sandwich. library, bank of america with a parking lot. the market where you can grab anything. amazing food choices, nail salons. basically everything you need is here. >> a lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. people running them are family. when you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. lisa and her daughter in the dog parlor and pam. it is very cool. >> is small businesses make the neighborhood unique. >> new businesses coming.

in mission blue, gourmet chocolate manufacturing. the corridor has changed and is continuing to change. we hope to see more businesses coming in the near future. >> this is what is needed. first, stay home. unless it is absoluteliness scary. social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. cancel all nonessential gather everythings. >> when the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors. a few nail salons couldn't operate. they shut down. restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model.

they haven't totally brought back indoor seating. >> it is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed down and shut because of the pandemic. >> when the pandemic first hit it got really slow. we had to change our hours. we never had to close, which is a blessing. thank god. we stayed open the whole time. >> we were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. >> during covid we would go outside and look on both sides of the street. it looked like old western town. nobody on the street. no cars. >> it was a hard eight or nine months. when they opened up half the people couldn't afford a haircut. >> during that time we kept saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. people would come to make sure they were okay.

>> we checked on each other and patronized each other. i would get a cup of coffee, shirt, they would get a haircut. >> this is a generous and kind community. people would be like i am getting the toffee for the guy behind me and some days it went on and on. it was amazing to watch. we saw a perfect picture of community. we are all in this together. >> since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. we will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> when we opened up august 1st. i will not say it was all good. we are still struggling due to covid. it affected a lot of people. >> we are still in the pandemic

right now. things are opening up a little bit. it is great to have space to come together. i did a three painting series of visitation valley and the businesses on leland. it felt good to drop off the paintings and hung them. >> my business is picking up. the city is opening up. we have mask requirements. i check temperatures. i ask for vaccination card and/or recent test. the older folks they want to feel safe here. >> i feel like there is a sense of unity happening. >> what got us through the pandemic was our customers. their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they don't over grow. >> this is only going to push us forward. i sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. >> we are trying to see if we can help all small businesses

around here. there is a cannabis club lounge next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. my business is not going to work if the business across the street is not getting help. >> in hit us hard. i see a bright future to get the storefronts full. >> once people come here i think they really like it. >> if you are from san francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the same but different.

>> alright. good morning everyone. we are in person. >> good morning. >> i'm calling the tjpa board of directors regular meeting of november 10, 2022 to order. i'm rafael mandelman the vice chair and chairing today in the place of jeff gee. this board meeting is held in person at san francisco city hall. members may attend the meeting in person, watch on channel 78, 28 or 99 depending on your provider or visit the sfgovtv website. very exciting. to stream the live meeting. madam secretary, will you please call the roll? >> thank you. thank you vice chair mandelman. prior to calling role i'll note chair gee is absent due to scheduling conflict and thank you for presiding over the

meeting. also director el-tawansy is absent. [roll call] >> directors, you have a quorum. call your item? >> go ahead. >> director item 3 is communication. we like to note the process to make public comment. may comment on the meeting during (inaudible) in person or remotely. in person public comment will be taken first. remote public comment taken after. the public comment call in line is printed on the agenda and dialing instructions will be scrolling at the bottom of the screen on sfgovtv. any other communications from board members? seeing none, i'll call your next item. item 4

directors is board of directors new business. not aware any. seeing none, call the next item. directorite item is executive director report. >> good morning directors. very nice to see you in person for the first time since the pandemic in city hall. welcome back. lovely to be here. we have our october meeting was canceled so been two months since or september meeting so a few things to bring you up to date on. i want to start by congratulate our vice chair on his reelection campaign and eare main optimistic on proposition l which leads. (inaudible) so monitoring that . i believe elections will give us a update later this afternoon but it is currently holding at 68.8 percent so we

need 2/3. there is still a little bit to follow there. of course for proposition l means has significant impacts to the downtown extension rail project. slated $300 million on approval. since the september meeting, we continued to see increased ridership and park utilization. we have about 20 active program events per week and you will hear about that in the facility report. we got a number of activities forthcoming. december 9 we will do our holiday lighting so all are invited to join for that at roof top park with activities, drinks, dancing, music et cetera and the following week on the 15, 16 is our winter fest so you will hear more about that in the

facility report. we have a number of tenants spaces that are continuing to progress towards opening. you'll hear about those in very soon, but the (inaudible) has a couple restaurants opening and there are more underway. one of the ones that was i found particularly exciting was the (inaudible) containers into the park for the future beer garden that would be in the main plaza. those are now in location, the pavers are completed and you'll see images when that is scheduled to open in about a month time. we have had a number of tours at the center. mayor london breed and california infrastructure advisor were in our train box and touring the center last month as the state looks towards its important infrastructure projects and leveraging federal dollars through bipartisan law. we

hosted carrie thomas director of preparedness grant division for fema as part of the transit security grant program and had a chance to show him around both security operations and facility itself. the green building council had their annual conference at musconey and had a number attended eoos take a tour of the building and see some of the green elements of the building as we just put our lead gold certified stickers in the grand hall. we also have public tours on a regular basis through sf city guides which continue to offer tours of the history architecture and details of the center itself. we are working with the federal transtd administration on the capital improvement grant application and in october we met with newly assigned project management consultant. this is significant

milestone as this is outside consultant to continue to look into scope schedule and budget of the application and shows great confidence from fta we are continuing to meet milestones and move forward. the board of supervisors approved first reading tours day community (inaudible) $44 million will be directed to the town down rail extension. we are anticipating close to $43 million in bond proceeds available to the project and these funds will help advance engineering work and meet fta funding requirement to request entry into engineering phase of capital investment grants new start program. at the regional level we with metropolitan (inaudible) and inner city rail. cap and trade program. the region endorsements and secured their full commission approval for $560 million for

the project over the life of the program, which is inclusive of some near term funding in amount of $60 million and future base year funding totaling $560 million. the commission will reconvene in the wenter likely january and february to rebalance the endorsement list-we are a awaiting a number of exciting opportunities. we have a active application to mega and waiting the notice of funding opportunity for the federal state partnership for inner-city rail both due in the next month and we'll submit a application for rail and infrastructure application-sometimes the acronyms get intense and first week

of december. funding picture should come into focus as we seek to meet our february and august matching requirements under the fta/cit program next year. at the board's september meeting, we did discuss rebranding the downtown rail extension. we have been making progress and we'll get back to you with refined tag line at the next meeting in december. our goal there is to have a new descriptor for that project in the first quarter next year as we seek to replace our existing website and look forward to some of those funding award opportunities. lastly, i want to congratulate our executive steering committee chair michelle (inaudible) caltrain executive director. long time coming and look forward to our continued partnership with caltrain as we work together to deliver dtx. in your packet you find a

couple of deiltas the project labor agreement quarterly reports summarizing the notes from our joint administrative committee meetings, and then i look forward to turning it to our facility and security director and to our cic chair for their updates but this concludes my executive director report and happy to take questions or comments before we turn it over to rodney on security update. >> directors, any comments or questions? ypt i want to thank the executive director for all your work and help on sales tax renewal. with that madam secretary, we should probably open up the item for public comment. >> i will wait to the end of the ed report? >> we would like to do that. >> we'll have rodney harris chief security

officerprint present the security operation update. >> my name is rodney harris chief security officer. i will provide the contract security quarterly report. on june 10, 2021, this body authorized the interim executive director to execute a professional service agreement with allied universal for 3 year term for amount not to exceed 15 million, 452 thousand dollars. additionally, it was requested of staff to trackimaterix based on universal performance, which i will cover in the following slides. contract security key performance indicators. personnel turnover, post staffing and post site-must place and retain personnel who

deliver constant high quality service. post staffing or critical post in which i identified at the transit center that absolutely has to be covered 24/7. by trained staff and license personnel. post site competency testing are testing that is administered monthly to 8 random posts. talk about personnel turnover. (inaudible) replace the previous manager who left for a position in texas. the team has been working diligently to high personnel who embodied professionalism customer service and as a result the staffing is training upward. positive turnover occurred during the reporting period, which is good. we had individuals born here locally in san francisco and through just a housing crisis and things of

that nature have relocated out to the east bay. these people aspire to get back into the eco system in san francisco so there were several law enforcement agencies that hired several individuals from this account. other security officers left to start entry levels like in the trucking industry. the vacated positions were filled all in timely manner. post staffing, staffing is critical to insure overall safety and secure environment in support of visitors, bus operations and tenants. as a result, critical post have been staffed accordingly. with increased visitors to the transit center, contract security has provided excellent customer service from wayfinding to customer relations and what we mean by customer relations is we do get a lot of tourist that come to the transit center looking for pier 39 and the ferry

building so our contract security staff has done a good job to redirect those individuals to other parts of the city. customer service is part of our site specific training and ongoing. post site competency testing. before being hired, every security officer is given a tour of the facility and provided a overview of the post including the post orders and valor incident management system. valor is our incident management system primarily used for security operation center. however, the security officer utilize the app version to create log entries every hour on the hour including incident reporting. it gives visibility real time what is going on and how in the transit center from the security operation center so we have real time information as things are transpiring. site

specific training we do in-house, includes customer service, professionalism, hand held radio etiquette, lost and found protocol as we have visitors that lose or lost or mislaid property and we want a good chain of custody to turn the property back over to the rightful owner. microsoft teams out thin field as well for security operation center out to the transit center so it gives us the ability to view things in real time using the mobile app and camera. emergency response evacuation-this plaining is tailored to our environment and operations and presented by my managers with my support. this concludes my presentation and i'm happy to answer any questions.

>> directors? >> thank you. thanks so much for the presentation. i appreciate it. and sharing the metric. it occurs to me these are very focused on the quality of service which i think is great and appropriate but can you speak to how you are evaluating the safety of the transit center overall? how this translates into how safe the transitsenter is? >> good question. in the industry we use part 1, part 2 drimes crimes and that is how we gauge the overall safety of the security and so those part 1, part 2 crimes are gathered by sfpg rks d on monthly basis. we looks at those and the trends there and make adjustments with contract security as well as sfpd. i think our numbers are down and overall we have safe secure environment, but it is always ongoing looking at those numbers and looking what issues we

are having at different parts of the transit center and redeploying assets to mitigate the risk. >> you feel confident the way the relationship is structured you can redirect where you see the need? >> absolutely. >> thank you. >> anyone else? alright. >> thank you. >> next up we have robert (inaudible) our facility director to present the facility operation update. >> good morn directors and vice chair mandelman, pleasure to be here. ari walsh facility director at the sale force transit center to provide you with a facility operation update. highlighting our most popular programs, we have lunch box music

yoga toddler tuesday and thursday i should point out, with regular attendance of at least 60 people going up to 80 plus. in addition to the type of events we hold, i think it is pretty interesting to take a look at other things in metrics like weather, time of day and day of the week, which really shows how well the park is doing. for park attendance you can see we are continuing to trend upwards. i believe there was over 300 visitors to the park on october 27 alone which is great. i do want to note that as winter is here, but as weather gets a little worse more cold and rainy we do expect to see fewer people in the park. for our

holiday festivities i'm very excited for this. you should save it date for december 9 at which point we'll have a park lighting event. we really added to our park lights and are proud to show what we have come up with. the week after that we have winter fest 2022 where you have some live performances and really fun activities like face painting and things like that. again, please mark your calendars. we may have some special guests attending. as for improvements around the transit center, we recently took advantage of down time on the bus deck when we were performing regular maintenance to the bus ramp and as you can see from this picture, we did a deep cleaning and just really took the tyke time to make sure everything is in tip top shape. these

images here reflect the new tvm or clipper card machines installed yesterday. it may sound like a small thing but i'm very very excited about this. they are being put online this morning as we speak and will be tested later this afternoon for everybody including myself and others to conveniently use. this is very much needed because if you are anything like me you may forget to put your fare on your clipper card as you try to hop on that bus, so nice level of convenience being added. additionally, as director van dewater mentioned we received our lead goal certification and placed dekales throughout the sales force transit center. also, for update on way finding, as you can see from this image here, we were actually able to demo

prototype app and recently also hit the 50 percent of the way milestone and will be beginning our act development in the next couple weeks as we wrap up our final round of feedback and discussions. and the delivery date on that is expected q2 of 2023, so lot of exciting things happening. moving on to transit ridership, the chart you are seeing here is actually city wide for sfmta, and you want to call attention to the middle purple line which is 2022, right below that in green you'll see 2021 so you can see we are doing much better. actually 191 percent better, which is fantastic. however, we are still a way off, about 42 percent down from

pre-pandemic levels back in 2019 and 2018. specifically for the sales force transit center and i should take a moment to give a shout out to the mta data team because they put together some really lovely charts for me and very much appreciative of it. the different layers you can see, the different lines that run through the transit center and similar to the last chart you can see bit of waterfall on the left ck that is indicating the pandemic and then a nice steady rise to where we are now on the far right. again, we are not where we want to be or could be but we are trending in the right direction. for other operators of the transit center, we got ac transit and this chart here highlights the number of riders per day since february of this

year. you can see here that the trend is going up as people continue to return to work. below that we got a highlight for west cat who was hovering right around 12.500 riders for the last several months, but in october saw a 40 percent increase in ridership up to 17 thousand plus. we believe that was mostly related to their free ride promotion they were putting on, but it is still a good indicator to show capacity of the system and interested people. moving to the next highlight, which involves ridership as well as real estate. jll positive reported since labor day we have seen increase of 30 percent plus across major city centers like san francisco, boston, chicago, washington dc, things like that. what i'm

particularly interested in is this demand for transit accessible offices which is remaining strong relative to other sectors. and for our retail leasing updates, i wanted to make sure i make a note of all the folks who are currently open here on the left, and we got a batch of restaurants opening very soon, and i will knock on wood for that, and as well as some projections for restaurants that will be opening next year. so, the first restaurant and establishment i want to call attention to is bear bottle and as director van dewater mentioned we hoisted these containers to the park in late october. picture on the left. hopefully you did not see that in person because it happened at 3 a.m. but it was a photo opand we are happy to have no issues bringing

those to the park. we expect them to be open within the next month or so right in time for the park lighting event so very excited. next we have (inaudible) they are pretty much done, they just need to turn one more screen on it looks like and finish ventilation work. on the similar note we have charley's philly steaks opening in the next month or so as well and they are also just finetuning last minute things and getting their ventilation squared away. per diem also opening in the next month or so installing the (inaudible) on the left they have a beautiful booth just installed last week and their bar is

undergoing the final touches to pretty it up. i wish i got a better picture of it, but they have a very very cool beer tap which was hand made using a old antique water heater which is very cool. encourage everyone to stop by, have a beverage and check out their beautiful space. last but not least, we got via vibe by aqua lina expecting to open q1, 2023 and the picture shows a beautiful vendering what they expect the space to look like and below you see the beginning work we expect to ramp up very soon. on a side note, i will say it is very interesting concept. they are doing effusion mexican food and italian food which i never had but makes so much sense when i think about it so look forward seeing everybody there and enjoying their

excellent cuisine. that concludes my presentation. happy to answer questions you play may have. >> thank you for the report. it was very good. in terms of the park and all the activations, what is the diversity equity inclusion program that we have to bring in communities of color either through communications or partnerships. i want to make sure with all the offerings everybody is hearing about it. >> great question. that is always work in progress. we always want to improve diversity equity inclusion and we recently finished up request for proposals and trying to bring as many vendors and performers as we can into the fold. we recently have gotten great vendors that we didn't have before and very excited to get them on-board and

spreading the i call it work, but spreading all the slots throughout the day to not only our most popular programs, but also our new and upcoming programs, especially those that are from san francisco and from the bay area. >> thank you. one other question regarding ridership. i may have missed it but how is ridership relative to 2019? >> we are about 58 percent of where-speaking fairly generally throughout the city, we are about 58 percent of what we were in 2019, so down 42 percent. >> for ac transit? >> for ac transit, i think it is-i don't know specifically to be very honest with you, but i believe it is very similar in the same trend. >> okay. >> i will-i am a bit of optimist but they were about 1500 riders just as early as january february and pushing more then 2500

riders per day these days. positive trend. >> we are still down quite a bit. we are still like at the 38 percent for transbay. >> 38? >> yeah. >> but it is trending up a little bit. >> i will say i think we are seeing a trend of regional resistance coming back into san francisco based on habits and preferences developed over covid, but the city is really trying to incent and bring people back into the city to enjoy what an urban environment has to offer and the region can provide. but there is stickyness in that return. >> absolutely. that's why we push our events and like you mentioned the diversity equity inclusion and getting as many people down to the transit center as we can regardless of where they are from. >> can i make a comment? and also wanted to mention from a ac transit point of view, because the

diversity equity we also focus more on local service so that is-i think the ridership would go up if we bring more transbay lines back because we have several we haven't brought back but because of the issue what we are need locally we are focused locally and reliability along with the issue with staffing and bus drivers and as we are all facing the issue not having enough drivers to bring back more service is making a difference as well. >> thank you. such helpful context. >> alright. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> that it? executive director. >> i will add a little bit of detail which it depends on the provider and the day of the week, so in the sales force transit center area tuesday wednesday thursday are the work week. you get hybrid and activation in the

park. monday is probably the quietest day fallowed by friday but i did want to encourage anybody listening it is a beautiful environment and a well programmed and safe and vibrant place to be, so i personally enjoy coming there and in between meetings going to lunch you will see live music, see the toddler tuesday, you see comedy shows, you will see silent discos and operas and bird walks and all sorts of things depending oen the day of the week and it is a exciting contrast of downtown nature and community all in one location. >> alright. thank you. >> thank you. >> now we are ready for public comment on the executive director's report and if there is public comment in the room please stand up and line up and looks like we don't have- >> none in the room. moderator, can you confirm we have oo member of the public online that would like to speak to you. can you let the caller

through? >> caller, please state your name. you have 2 minutes for your comments. >> good morning, i like to (inaudible) first thing i want to bring to your attention is that the callers on the phone didn't have any (inaudible) [difficulty hearing speaker] sound is breaking up. don't know what is causing this. the thing i want to touch on is very encouraging (inaudible) from mr. (inaudible) the audio isn't working. specifically i want to attract your attention to the (inaudible) commission meeting on october 26 agenda item

13a, which page 9 which shows a $6.5 billion cost for the dtx with a $4.2 billion funding gap. there has been a lot of discussion (inaudible) i'm still having problems with the audio here. the problem is-the solution on page 41 of the report (inaudible) thank you.

>> thank you. little technical difficulties. but for the most part that worked out okay. that completes members that wanted to speak to the item. next item? >> yep. >> the next item on your calendar is item 6-i guess i should turn my mic on. next item on your calendar-that concludes members of the public that wanted to comment under ed report. the next item is 6, the cac update and we have the cac chair ryan larken who will address you on this item. >> good morning directors, i'm brian larken chairman of the cac in the flesh and today reporting on the cac meeting of last tuesday the eight of november. including a staff report the meeting minutes of (inaudible) facility

operation update and downtown extension work plan schedule update. adam van de water-i have trouble with dutch names historically. he provided the staff report on the activities since the september meeting. most of what he said was to be covered in more detail later in the agenda so the committee members, the cac members held off with their questions and further discussion until those points in the meeting. our own andrew robinson presented for east cut community benefit district on neighborhood development. the cac members-i should go back. andrew robinson is a member of the cac just to clarify. other members asked about the number of units below market rate housing. the schedule for delivery and whether there was local resistance of the permitting new housing in the area.

other members spoke positively of the addition of more open space for recreation and subsidize food market. rodney harris provided update on security and division of responsibility among contract security force, sfpd and first responders. there was a question about the level of security coverage during different times of operation of the center, but we couldn't get that information because it might fall into the wrong hands and we are of course support his concern about that. gave facility update and asked about the two new clipper card vending machines which you know and the lead certification process of certificate. (inaudible) gave the dtx work plan schedule

update. subsequent discussion with mtc rating of the project the bart to downtown san jose extension and status of commitment of matching funds required to participate in the fta accelerated work plan. that covers our agenda. if there are any questions, i'm here to answer them, other would look forward reporting next month. >> thank you chair larken. do we have comments or questions from directors? seeing none, we should take public comment. >> we will try and see if there are members of the public in the room. or online. if does not appear there are members of the public online that wish to comment. moderator can you confirm? >> (inaudible) >> was that a conformation? thank you very much.

alright. move into your next item. thank you chair larken. >> thank you. >> alright. item 7 is public comment for members of the public to address the authority on matters not on today's calendar. directors, i'm not aware of anyone that wishes to do so. we had a opportunity to do so now if in the room. we do have a member of the public online that would like to comment. moderator if you can let the caller through and please do not mute webex. please state your name, your 2 minutes begins now. >> thanks again commissioners (inaudible) i'm trying to figure out what is the correct item to bring this up [difficulty hearing speaker] i continue to have audio issues. not discussed under the

cac and (inaudible) there is no presentation. the thing i want to bring to your attention, if you look at the work plan, there are serious ceqa and nepa issues, specifically the project has changed since the (inaudible) there are two issues. initially we were supposed to be mining on the howard. 12 years ago that isn't going to work (inaudible) no longer mining on the howard. we are going to be (inaudible) on second street and howard. the second issue is that the third track was removed. that third track is what made the 7th street alignment not viable. the third track is gone. the second street alignment needs

to be revisited because this is the only alignment that makes it possible to (inaudible) that completes my remarks. thank you. >> thank you. that does conclude members of the public that wanted to address under that item. move into your next item. directors, your next item is consent calendar. all matters listed are considered routine and acted upon by single vote. there is no separate discussion of the items unless a member of the board or public request in which events the matter would be removed and considered separately. directors, shall i go ahead and call your items? alright. i have not received indication a member of the public wants to comment on the item.

8.1 approve the minutes of september 8, 2022. 8.2 (8.2) approving the continued use of teleconferencing technologies for covid-related health reasons for meetings of the legislative bodies of the tjpa pursuant to the provisions of assembly bill (ab) 361 and electing not to rely on teleconferencing provisions under ab 2449. (8.3) approving updated versions of the following financial policies: board policy no. 014, capitalization policy and board policy no. 017, debt management policy and annual review of board policy no. 009, investment policy. >> thank you. is there a second ? >> second. >> with first and second- [roll call] consent calendar is approved. shall i call your next item? alright. item 9 is approving the

recommended applicant to serve as member of the tjpa citizen advisory committee to fill the district 6 seat. >> good morning directors. nice to see you all in person. lily (inaudible) communication and legislative affairs director. as noted in your packet, we have three citizen advisory committee seats open due to recent resignations for the following seats. member with expertise in real estate development, real estate finance, daily ac transit rider into san francisco and resident seat of district 6. since the first 2 seats are up for full term recruitment january 2023 we are only recommending filling the district 6 feet. reviewing the applications received from the rent 2022 efforts we found 3

applicants who checked the local residents from d6 seat. after reviewing those applications staff is recommending the board of directors appoint natasha patterson as a new member to fill the local resident from district 6 seat. natasha joined us this morning she is here if you have questions or like to hear her speak and also happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you. are there any questions for mrs. patterson? director shaw. >> i don't have questions but i want to comment that i think this would be a great addition to the team and look forward to all your contributions. >> i'm always excited to see (inaudible) doing well. alright. is there a motion to approve this item? >> we'll see if there is public comment before that. anyone in the room wishing to provide public comment on the item? seeing none, anyone online looking to comment on

item 9? seeing none. >> is there a motion to approve? >> make a motion to approve. >> moved by forbes-you already seconded. second. please call the roll. >> first and second- [roll call] item 9 is approved. next item. >> thank you. >> directors, welcome natasha. directors, item 10 is authorizing the executive director to transfer $9.5 million from program reserve to replenish the construction contingency to allow for continued close-out efforts under the construction manager/general contractor contract with webcor/obayashi, with no change to the

phase 1 construction estimate-at-completion, which would remain $2.159 billion. senior construction manager will present. >> good morning directors. first time to say that in person quite a long time. i do not have a presentation. it has stated this is just an administrative program reserve transfer from one bucket to the other, so we can continue our efforts for the phase 1 closeout. if any questions, i can more happy to address them or we'll have more later in the closed session. >> questions? comments? >> nope. >> open up to public comment. >> looking for public comment on item 10. seeing none in the room, checking online. giving them a moment in case they wish to raise their hand. there is no public comment on item 10. >> great. public comment on item 10 is

closed. is there a motion to approve? >> move item. >> moved by lipkin. seconded by tumlin. [laughter] please call the roll. >> alright. first and second. [roll call] item 10 is approved. shall i call the next item? >> please do. >> item 11 is adopting board policy 21 capital imuvprovement plan policy. >> welcome. >> good morning directors, it is nice to be here in person to see you all. the item before you today this morning adopts new board policy and amendment to the existing reserve policy. the goal of the capital improvement plan policy is guide staff

to insure a tjpa assets maintained in a state of good repair, enhance near term and long-term financial planning and identify projects that enhance tjpa assets. the policy provides a framework for developing updating the cap including goals and evaluation criteria to prioritize projects. will include a list of fiscally constrained project to inform the annual budget as unconstrained projects such as (inaudible) to bart muni and inner-city bus facility. under the policy, the cap will have a 20 year planning horizon to insure staff and the board are aware of and can plan for potentially very large capital replacement needs. our plan is to present a draft cap to the board in april or may next year, accordinated with annual budget and bring proposed cap and capital budget for adoption in june. in

2020 this bord established a capital replacement reserve to pay for necessary periodic major maintenance and life cycle expenditures. the amendment to the policy establish a goal of funding this reserve at a level that covers 7 years of major capital repair and maintenance and clarifies that use of the reserve will be authorized by the board through the annual budget process. in your packet you'll find the clean red line version of the amendment to the reserve policy as well as the proposed cap policy. this concludes my remarks and happy to answer questions. >> thank you for your report. are there any comments or questions from directors? director john batiste. >> not so much a question as a comment. i appreciate you putting this tonight. together. i think it is wise to do this and looking forward to plan itself. i do want to reiterate my concern that we have not updated the operating and maintenance reserve policy, which i just started to think about

again because we are talking about the reserve policy, and at some point it is concerning we remain out of compliance with the policy and i would just interested in understanding how we either plan to reach compliance or consider changing the policy because at some point it is just becomes a little meaningless. that is a little transgentle, it was just on my mind as we talk about reserves. >> if i are may respond through the chair, we are in the middle of closing out fiscal year 22 and will bring a update in january but at this point we are confident we can fully fund the reserve so bring that update to you after we look at our actual expenditures and revenues for the year. there is still some concerns on what happens with arm 3, but we feel confident we can fully fund the reserve, still have some way to plan for that uncertainty of (inaudible)

>> great news. thank you. >> thank you. see if we have public comment. >> alright. do we have members of the public in the room that would like to provide public comment? seeing none, looks like we have a member on the line that would like to provide public comment. please let the caller in. caller, please state your name. your two minutes begins now. >> the board of transbay joint powers authority-i'm interested in first it has been mentioned by the person who is standing on the podium he has to update certain information. you board members should be aware that very few people are

participating in the deliberations. i used to and i stopped because i don't see full transparency and accountability. this project has stalled. has not delivered what the constituents of san francisco want. the reason i'm-i watch the program so don't call in. the reason i'm calling in is that if you do not provide the community with the right type of information the empirical data we are not going to call in and get rubber stamp.

(inaudible) the bottom line is this, a lot of taxpayers money has gone into this project. i hope you will tap into the infrastructure bill. >> 10 seconds. >> i hope if the republicans come in they don't hinder anything. we had a good run, but having a good run, we haven't delivered. you haven't delivered to the constituents and we do want accountability and transparency. you all can make some efforts by having this on your website. i have qualified experience in vertical construction. i ran the presidio and i (inaudible) i know some of you all very

well. thank you very much. >> alright. that does conclude members of the public that wanted to comment on that item. >> public comment on item 11 is closed. is there a motion to approve? >> motion to approve. >> moved by forbes. is there is a second? >> second by tumlin. second by tumlin, jumping in there. please call the roll madam secretary. >> yes, sir. [roll call] >> item 11 is approved. shall i call the next item? alright. item 12. approving an update to board policy no. 013, authorities relating to administration of real property, authorizing the executive director to exercise certain authorities relating to the administration