there is still a weird echo. good morning welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority board i'm rafael mandelman i am chair. vice chair is melgar. i want to thank mendoza from sfgovtv and also thank our clerk elijia saunders. >> american chan. why present. why commissioner dorsey. >> present. >> american engardio. >> present. >> commissioner mandelman. >> present. why commissioner melgar.

>> absent. commissioner peskin. why present. >> commissioner preston. why present. why commissioner ronen. >> accents. >> commissioner safai. >> [echo]. commissioner stefani. >> commissioner walton. >> present y. we have quorum. >> [echo] are we good? commissioner safai is here. >> thank you, you must mute yourself when you are not on something weird is happening with audio. >> all right. thank you i think you have public comment announcement. >> i dom for members interested in participating in the board meeting we welcome atenants in person. >> [echo] or may watch channel

26 or 99 or stroll it live on sfgovtv for those wish to make remote comment dial 415-655-0001 and then access code: 2486 525 3998 ##. you will upon listen in role time. when public comment is called for the item, press star 3 to be added to speak. don't press it again or you will be removed from the queue. when the system says your line is un muted you will be allowed 2 minutes then we will move on to the next caller. calls taken in the order received. best practices to speak slowly, clearly and turn down televisions or radios. public comment will 10 first from pep in attendance and then the queue on the phone line. thank you. >> thank you. as chair i will invoke rule 3.26

to limit total comment to 30 minutes for today's is my intention it give 2 minutes a person unless i indicate and with that mr. clerk call the next item. >> 2, chair's appointment an informational item. >> colleagues i'm pleased to share we are 2 piece of good nows on regional transportation funding caltrain received tloi 67 million dollars guarantee from the state inner city rail capitol program with 43 million dollars in federal grants from december completes the electrification project funding plan. and that's welcome news. and bart -- and other bay area agencies received grants for high prior projects. with bart getting 250 million dollars for core capacity.

we want to thank very much secretary and california state transportation agency for their support. we have the happy news the california supreme court upheld measure 3 the 2018 voter approved bridge tell that funds 4.5 billion dollars in improvements including the downtown rape extension now called the portal. muni fleet expansion. bart core expansion cars. ferry enhancement and other infrastructure projects. allow us to leverage prospect l sales tax funds to deliver major transit projects to the public supporting economic recovery while addressing climate. the welcome vice chair melgar. the rowelling came in time to

confirm 325 million dollars in rm3 funds for the portal in the tjpw election to enter the federal transit administration capitol investment program. thank you to tjpa and partners the ta staff on the mile stone. we know it takes a lot of hard work to appropriate the project and 3 billion dollars in federal funding this year. and the the tjpa earlier this mont we will see the partnership continue through the new start submittal august and beyond and commissioner ronen joined united states. we have issues on the operating side for local and transit systems and i want to thank our sfmta direct if mtc, bart and caltrain for being here for our transit hearing later this morning. i anticipate a robust discussion

and how we can collaborate and state to stabilize and strengthen transit for the long run, with that i conclude my remarks. and mr. clerk we should open up for public comment. if there is anyone had would like to speak on item 2 come forward if not do we have remote comment? do we have remote public comment. phone operator you may be muted. oh , dear we are alone in the

world. phone operator. are you with us? 3 minute recess. >> we'll tick a 4 m we are reco. i believe we were taking public comment on the chair's report and we were going to see if we had remote comment. remote public comment on item 2. >> looks like we have one

caller. for item 2. you have 2 minutes for public comment. >> you can unraise my hand. no more ment for item 2. >> public comment is closed. mr. clerk, could you call item 3. >> item 3 executive director's report an informational item. why director chan y. good morning. >> building on good news chair mentioned about our federal fwrnt and state grants on the transit side i'm pleased to also report us dot announced several 2 for san francisco safe street and roads for all program this is a street safety federal

program by the infrastructure law. the first of 2 award the the sfmta received 15 million dollars for the western edition community transportation plan funded through prop k neighborhood transportation program president metro transportation commission's grant program community based transportation plan. this is nice to see significant implementation funds going toward the plans for this neighborhood. the second award was 2 the [inaudible] transportation authority for vision zero freeway ramp intersection study phase 3 this continues our work at the base of grants for the freeway on the local street network it isune challenging to pedestrians and bicyclists. that will use 360 thousand dollars of federal funding for a set of r.s throughout the city. we participate coming become for

local match from prospect l in the next now month and will keep you posted on the projects. >> at the state level, our sales in the sfmta weighing in on the issue of autonomy and vehicle regulation at the california puc as well as the department of motor vehicles. last mont we filed comment letters to the cpu c protesting permit requests by the 2 cutche its offer autonomous passenger services throughout san francisco 24/7 with unlimited fleet size restrictions. we do and have supported deployment for both company and believe this will be a broad based and grow within san francisco and throughout the state. however currently we knowledge that this is a large step and we

have been advocating for incremental approach where expansion of permitted activities tracks with on street conscienceo we see this is rolled out safely and reliableable. at the california upon department of motor vehicles we participated in a workshop regarding the updating of state revving ligz for heff and light duty autonomous vehicles the first hearing the dmv held had they first testing and deployment in california. we appreciated the 8 to participate and called for more data. >> so we will keep you posted

those topics throughout the year. local issues -- last night i joined supervisor melgar and also our director of >> latoya: jeff tumlin who arrived here this morning as we participated not guilty district upon 7 town hall. this was the inner sunset i met with a room full of community members and had feedback and input on several issues ranging from pedestrian safety. transit, parking and enforcement and school transportation access. we will continue to work with this community and supervisor, of course to respond to that feedback we heard. in addition the ocean afternoon action plan held the fifth meeting. this is the working -- task force has been meeting that is convocabularied by district 7 and 11 offices. this was a meeting to try to

wrap up the top recommendations e merging from the effort. and the group decided to recommend prioritizing bike activity at east/west bike connection on balboa park and university and other improvements you will see this in the next few months as we prepare 5 projects of small to medium to larger sideses and prepare for completion of the plan in the spring of 2023. now i would like to update on project delivery mile stones. we want to congratulate the picylinder i don't trust funded by transportation for clean wear, air district funds the pricylinder i don't trust unveiled the first battery bus offering roadways theory fro to and from their site in the

presidio from downtown, southern hills route around the park. the bus will go in operation i believe right away in late february. we provided 250 thounz from our air district funds and we were pleased to join the trust folks there as they promote clean transportation throughout the park and city. look forward to that fleet. >> next, we have franklin street. i then and there is importance to commissioner stefani. a quick build this is now open for use. over on franklin between patrol bard and broadway. thank you to sfmta for constructing this quickly. and this was begun less then and there a year ago. we of course saw the tragic fatality by sherman elementary they are aimed reducing vehicle

speeds and the number of conflicts between motorists and pedestrians. the painted safety zones 3 surgeon, day light and right attorney on red restrictions. we will pleaseed provide prop k prop d funds toward this project. turning to one more on better market street. construction on the project that is focused between fifth and eighth. istry. >> detowers will start during construction thundershowers ensure safety all road users. the construction team installed signage to guide cyclists and

other users about this project. and now turning to the management and admin side, we were pleased to join a trbab forum and committee. we have several conferences and focused discussions including tomorrow. we are helping to host a conference here at the marriott. so there is activity and grit to see conference coming become to san francisco. look forward to hosting the self help counties coalition on future conference as well in october. and will keep you posted those as we go. foiblely, we want to mention the procurement series out reach events we have been holding with focus on small businesses thank you to liand he singsia fong our finance department had hosted february 7 and 16th from small business out reach events with the out reach committee a

regional multiagency consortium of 26 bay area agencies to assist small firms doing business with bay area transportation agencies. approximately 80 people attended the february 7 professional services event and 40 folks attended the february scenth construction sxevent topics rink friday insurance and bonding requirements. and to how to do bid ask cost estimation and other tips. so we look forward to more partnerships and good out come in that regard as a result of the events. >> last but not least like to congratulate the new executive director of the metro transportation commission. andre appointed this week by the mtc next executive director. the position covers a range of activities within mtc ranging

from the tell authority and infrastructure finance agency. we have all worked for years special really look forward to continuing the collaboration under his leadership with the agencies and offer him hardy congratulations and best wishes with that i'm happy to take questions. >> thank you director chang. commissioner preston. >> thank you for the report. and all the work i just wanted to briefly comment on the funds received you gave the report on for the western edition over 17 million dollars and recognize the work that went inspect to securing that and think that director tumlin and the mta the

or gins of that work that -- is going to fund was a process that -- was complete in the 2017. a community lead process with deep engageiment in western edition resulting the western edition community based transportation plan and my understanding from my meetings with director tumlin is this funding from the federal government will now enable us to complete all of the recommendations of that plan. i wanted to name folks involved and who worked with us in september when we did the letter

of support from our office with community leaders. the community organizations are the new community leadership and nclf and crawford wanting to recognize his leadership the boys and girls club of san francisco. san francisco how longs development. momagic. collective impact. san francisco rebels and the village project who are extremely active in the fall and sharing the support for the funds. this is going to result in the long over due improvements traffic signal upgrades. quick build projects. speed reduction program with our expanded power now from the statement to reduce speed in high injury corridors in the western edition. thanks to the mta and thanks to

all the community groups who pushed hard and also lastly to pret 1 kill gore my aid who heads the transportation work and was very much a part of pushing this forward and i should close with thanks to the folks that sent us the money. the department of transportation. appreciated the funsd. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner preston and with that we should open this up to public meant. if there are members of the public in the chamber. public comment is closed. call item for you >> approve the minutes of february 14, 23 meet thanksgiving is an action item. >> i don't see comments or questions from colleagues.

open the minutes to public comments again if there is anyone here come forward and if not, let's see if we have remote comment on the minutes. no public comment on item 4. >> all right. public ment on item for you is closed is there a motion to approve the minutes. >> moved by preston seconded by walton. mr. clerk? >> on the motion to approve minutes commissioner chan. >> aye >> commissioner dorsey. >> aye. why commissioner engardio. >> aye >> commissioner mandelman. why aye. why commissioner melgar. >> aye. >> commissioner peskin. >> aye >> commissioner preston. >> aye. >> commissioner ronen. >> aye. commissioner safai. aye. why commissioner steph no. >> aye >> commissioner walton.

>> aye >> the minutes are approved. >> call items 5-9 the consent. >> 5-9 are the consent staff is not going to present but visible for questions. we received public comments on item 6 which are posted to the website. >> thank you. is there a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> moved by melgar and seconded by peskin. call the roll. >> to approve consent commissioner chan. >> aye. >> commissioner dorsey. >> aye. >> commissioner engardio. >> aye. >> commissioner mandelman. >> aye. >> commissioner melgar. >> aye. >> commissioner peskin. >> aye >> commissioner preston. >> aye. >> commissioner ronen. >> aye. >> commissioner safai. >> aye. >> commissioner stefani. >> aye. >> commissioner walton. >> aye. >> lawyer 11 aye's it is approved. >> thank you. could you call item 10. why item 10 metro transportation

commission's transit network management update this . is information item. >> okay. thank you. i want to give credit this item and the next are anticipateed be opportunities for us to have longer conversations about important transportation issues. facing san francisco. we are likely to do more of these and i believe it was vice chair pes pel suggested it might be good to create space in this body for deep dives into transportation big transportation issues that we will deal with for awhile >> with that, on item 10 the metro transportation commission transit network management update. i see we have director chang and i believe jeff tumlin >> thank you, chair.

quick before we hand it off to speakers we appreciate their joining us. i wanted to rescue noise this is a big topic of very significant upon cant importance to san francisco. the work began on transit sort of policy and funding and sustain believability sponsored by nonprofit groups as well as our state assembly members chu and others since. leading the mtc take thanksgiving up in collaboration with operators throughout the region to the action plan. and again san francisco cares about this. we account for 2 thirds of transit transcripts mouveny alone carries over half the low income riders. this work does lift up the policy at the regional level at a critical time of many

operators facing the fiscal cliff. we will hear today and the need to rethink the structure of transit funding, way from disappears other source. keep want to echo the chair approximate thank staff. mtc, sfmta and muni and i will hand it over to liz from sfmta and at the next item i believe director tumlin will give opening remarks in a related topic. thank you. i'm sfmta long range corridor planning manager in transit division the reason for the update on roej until network management last week at the mtc commission an approval action to approve the new network management framework refers to charging how the bay area transit agencies coordinate on

issues. i will set sudden fran specific context and transit operator context and hundred it it my colleague from the mtc to go through recommendations. first the or gin of this work. many of you are familiar with the mtc's blue ribbon task force during the early days of the pandemic. near term focus on how to deal with reality his of covid and distributing the federal relief funsdz. task force shifted focus to be on recovery and the idea of transfurthermoration and needed to reinvision how transit w in light of everything that change said. this task force with the bay area transformation action plan that contains 27 actions to reshape the transit system to more connected and user focused

network. thank you. and so -- within those 27 near term actions was a specific focus on advance whatting is a renaling until management study. that would come up with a set of recommendations for how the bay area's agencies could be governored as a unified net w to unlook benefits for the riders and region. 5 main out come envisioned through the plan that ranged from providing simple more consistent fares and payment. way finding manage as a unified system. improving accessibility of the system and using resource efficiently the value proposition was would be harder to make progress on these out

come. upon one other point of context is that the network management recommendations that moved forward formalize a level of collaboration hawill began as an out burst the pandemic. you may or may not know the general managers of the large transit operators as well as representatives from the small operators meet every week to share best practice and coordinate relief and other items during the important and challenging time and through that, we made exciting progress on the out come special visions in the action plan. and one thing this we honed through this work this relevant to the approach moving forward is that we now partner with mtc in a different way when we do transit initiatives take a staff american from the mtc and paired with the transit operators that

serve as a liaison of all and together they colead the effort. that allows for the best of both someone who can bring the vision and machine who has been in the trenches and understands the context what operators go through [inaudible]. >> i department to touch on some of the transit coordination wins. i mentioned the weekly yes or no manager's meeting an example of when we have been able to do through those meetings now focused on funding advocacy irrelevant vent to the next item an example is we are focused on advocating for more operating dollars from the state. >> twrop fare intinauguration. you may be familiar with clip are day pass pilot and prosecute

voids transit passes to people from select institutions. and that will allow the region to study the impacts and all system transit pass with potential to do manage in the future. there is also the municipal and he route 122 pilot allowing the mounty pass to be accepted on part of route 122 in san francisco. we made big headways that like to service reciprocity. in that we eliminated restrictions on local routes. now someone had wants to travel within san francisco on a golden gate or san france bus is able tochlt network ledgeability. we worked with golden gate transit to renumber their root 30 to be route 130 so not duplicated with muni stockton

and station way finding at several of the muni metro stations castro, church and powell. it is the more difficult ones, we made efforts to better coordinate schedule changes across the transit operators. pivoting off of a big schedule change such as bart and the other operators lineup the sign ups to match that so we make it as seamless as public for upon transit riders using more than one system. >> the last bit before i understand that over is that mtc had a hard job in doing this work. when the stake holder groups first convened there were different visions how network management should work. and so compromises had to be made to roach consensus the sfmta staff are supportive of had is moving forward.

i will hundred it over to [inaudible]. thank you. good morning chair mandelman and board members i'm from mtc. thank you for the opportunity to walk throughout network management framework with you today. liz provided the essential condition text and background leading up to this. and it was in may of 21 when the mtc commission authorized the network management will evaluation. now the purpose of this effort, was to identify a feasible fundable framework to cord nit transit in the area and the goal was to achoef a more integrated and customer centric transit system for bay area that would boost ridership but curb growth of miles traveled. and begin this transit is linked

to air quality, equity interplay with transportation and lands use this work is foundational to achieving the sustainability goals. now to support effort and ensure that key stake holders were involved mtc convenes a network management group to guide this process. and the group included 7 transit agency general manager and 7 stake holder representatives upon the slide today. this group was constructed help provide a range of [inaudible] from the stake holder [inaudible]. >> the group met 8 times from january through december 22 and high leetly involved in this effort. they expressed strong support for the final recommendations coming out of this workil walk through with you all today. i would like to thank the group members for significant

contributions throughout this process. >> obviously a lot of work went in the analysis but focusing the key elements of building blocks of the network management framework the next few slides. the mission and vision. initial focus areas of r and m the near term frip work elements. rowel and committee composition and the performance and long-term evolution of the [inaudible]. starting with the mission and vision statement, he's provide an ancientor for the framework and other guiding principles to keep in minds. mission and focus is to drive [inaudible] improve ams in the customer experience for the bay area regional transit. the vision or why we are exists to advance regional goals and equity, climate and resiliencey through a unified transportation system that serves the bay area

population. >> the r & m focus is centered on delivering operational changes that will directly benefit present and future customers an initial set of focus areas have identified as fare integration. mapping and way finding, accessibility, bus transit prior priority, rail network and connected network planning. it does not a coincidence the management framework was addressing the same customer action plan initiative that is shown because the blue ribbon task consensus the highest priors for current ride and attracting additional riders. there are aspects that are best managed at the renaling mallevel and others that will be local low managed. this slide provides a high level view of the regional roast

areas. some key teams here across the function areas around the entity setting the vision that policies making select funding [inaudible] creating implementation plan and may be implementing the programs as needed with the help of coordinating stake holders. >> this is moving in the near term element this is make up the network management framework the recommendation would mote 3 key elements to be successful. one the visioning element. steering element as well as administrative or operational leadership. the regional vision element set a strategic vision for regional transit ensure customer out come and accountable for policy and priorityings. this would be comprised of the r & m and the customer add sunrise row committee which would be a

group of stake holders. and we can go in that more in the next slide. but continuing here the roej until vision element determines when needs to be done the steering element would determine how tell be done. and based on the vision set by the vision element the steering committee reach consensus on policy recommendations as well as guide the administrative element on execution. this would be complied of r, and m count initial manager [inaudible]. the administrative or operational element will provide a dedicated staff and tools to enable execution and help support the daily operations. a note here that most of these are to a degree shared roles and responsibilities. for example, policy might be set while a vision at the highest level butt other 2 areas will

provide feedback and clarity through execution. on the next slide, i have a visual presentation of the rowel and committees that make up the verse leaderships of the r & m and this is when institutes the near teerm network framework. visioning element, that we discussed previously will be comprised of mtcr & m committee and the customer advisory mittee. customer advisory committee the group who represents the customer and help inform decision making with the customer in minds. in the middle is the [inaudible] council playing the role of the steering commito and this will likely be a combination of [inaudible] mostly general manager who understandses and provide input on regional

policies. the administrative or operational element is made up of the dedicates support staff on the right and the task force and subcommittees. and this is provides dedicated staff it enable execution and support the daily prescriptions of the rxm. at the core the structure achieves the 3 check marks on the right these guide they kept in minds as we designed the framework this is around the r & m frak work being customer focused, structures and balancing transformation. >> and the next slide is the final slide on the network management framework. shifting focus to the performance and long-term evolution aspect of the framework this , is know

important element of the framework it is essential it understand how well the framework is functioning and whether it is achieving the out come we set out. and also ensure the framework is immrufing and meeting the needs and demands of regional transit. as we considered the framework short term we keep it in long-term in focus and something e involves over time in response to under ground targeted feedback this establishes performance monitoring and review to driveway this improve am and evolution. as you see, the stair slide shown here this it is illustrative at this point. we plan to use key performance indicators for ride and customers employs well as the structures performance. itself in terms of operation and efficiency. the r & m needs to demonstrate

benefits and be effective and efficient. in sum row the framework will help us make improvements where needed stake the long-term organization and accountability. i will close with the time line and the r & america recommendations presented to the mtc in january. in february for action. and on february 22 a week ago the mtc approved policy support for the r & m framework recommendations. and implementation plan to guide activities to know stands of the near term r & m will be deadlocked for commission consideration and approval. the timing may shift a bit. just given tell be subjective the involvement of the new executive director. but know this staff will engage with transit agency board and provide information about the

implementation plan going forward. and finally i like to close with just mentioning a couple highlights of the framework. highlights it provides this framework a dedicated staff and forum to address transit where there was none before and empower the decisionmaking structure that leverage of the existing authorities of the mtc commission and the individual transit agencies to implement needed customer improvements quickly. it harasses expertise and formalizes coordination of the general manager and elevates the voice of the customer and importance throughout the framework and as you saw, near if he were structure allows to e involve allowing the commission to understand when works well and what changes may be needed as we navigate the years ahead. with that help to answer questions.

>> thank you. i want to i see commissioner megovern in the queue. i want to thank mtc commissioner ronen for her work on the mtc. thank you. and thank you commissioner ronen. because you have done heff lifting the last few weeks. i had a question. thank you so much for the thoroughness of both. in the charter you had about the prescriptionalizing of the r & m the last step was to strengthen governmental authorities to implement the changes i wander this that means. >> sure. would you like us to bring up this slide. >> if you need to.

i don't. this is essential low so. ure know this framework establishes performance monitoring and reviews for driver evolution. the out set we will have 2 buckets of [inaudible]. one to one set [inaudible] is figuring out whether we are achieving the benefits for riders we set out to achieve. number 2, around upon whether this structure itself is operationally efficient and effective cost efficient. this is really important. and then as we measure the k pi's we get a sense from once we implement it how the framework is performing and where the gaps are in trying to achieve the out xhg come around fare policy and mapping and accessibility,

transit priority... if wear chief the out come we are doing great. if in the there are gaps that will come quickly pattern, i hope example those gaps could be in a bunch of yours one could be may be leadership there is more leadership needed. may be we need to scale up roles now the r & m has for you key people one is director and 4 key staff. may be we need to staff up. that would be one area. other areas, men we need better roej until tools for the consistency of framework. the other area refine process and may be enhance incentives to get behind this. and if weir irrelevantizing the things are not working may be we need more authority. which will need to be they could be a bunch of ways we could

improve. you know as we learn from doing on the grounds we would need to understand where the gentlemans are and understand what would help us in closing up the gaps. >> thank you. commissioner melgar. i guess the question i have -- you know certainly thank you for the work and clearly there a need for great opportunity for more collaboration. the concern i have heard and that i'm curious about the unintended consequence ands we get it conversations about fares. there are different policies and investment level in public transit cross local jurisdictions. and i think that you know i help to ensure that the work proceed in a way this causes in hrm to operators and invest in transit

capitol infrastructure and operations. and as an example. if the region pursued a fro transit for youth programful new ref nows would be needed passport that program. and the concern is how would that funding get allocated. the distribution of the funding should in the go to support free use transit the funding woad not want it just going not jurisdictions this have not invest in the that. and so figure out huto accounts for investments the jurisdictions are already making. either you know -- through their general funds or otherwise. how are you all thinking about addressing the difference across the region where the different agencies are funded different low. think about fare structures

different low and set them differently. and they condition to have different priorities around that. >> yea. >> absolutelies. thank you for this question. note here one thing i want to note the out set is this is about regional transit management and local services will remain fully managed by community served boy local agencies. one example of the regional coordination elements we are trying to achieve is the fare integration block. take the climb are [inaudible] riders going to each agency to sign upon and eli didn't believe for discounts. that is an example of initiatives operators come together for the good of the customer. we are trying to do more. more one stop opportunity for riders to get benefits. the goal here i would like to say is it is to enhance the

transit experience in the hrm temperature we don't want to enhance connectivity and customer experience to result in a sort of service card this roadwayers depends on. it is focuses filling gaps in regional transit not impacting local services. and to your other question about the funding, chair, we are the way we are knowledging about this it is that establishing the framework would coordinate the customer elements or operations of the transit agency while allowing them to maintain the individual models and autonomy and by coordinating the customer elements, schedules not [inaudible]. customer information; we hope this makes traveling easier and convenients for all ride exerts if that happens if transit is more vent to a broad behaves

customers ride areship will increase leading to more money for operations this could transact additional funding. if we show improvements for taxpayers or a path to get there. could be more strategic around funding through an r & m. why if i could add. one is had one of the levels of the framework the one the steering element the rep centsation from the general manager this is is important one where the sort of agency specific context about like an example fare policies you provided and what we found when we had the meetings sometimes and ending the difference that is in the also the case and the other levels and the framework and the second thing i note is any fare policy.

decision is also a decision about an agency. the agencies operating budget the agency i think >> and really now funding source that is where it is a hot topic. and a lot perspectives those are. 2 different check points to prevents us from going in the wrong direction or left in for san francisco. >> the fare integration is a classic example. look at the business case the regional prop to transfers meches sense. where regional entity dictating the fares does in the make as much sense the analysis that go in as well. >> thank you. >> all right. let's open this to public comment. there are anyone in the public

in the chamber had like to speak on item 10 come forward. see if there are remote public comment on item 10. >> checking for public ment on item 10. there are 2 callers. >> great. >> caller number one your 2 minutes begins now. >> okay this is a very complicated subject. and -- in order to address it you cannot give public comment in minutes. i will make it simple >> need's assessment on bart. bart is suffering today. ridership. in san francisco we have the earlier like the jackson 3 muni

bus. that is not running. impacting the [inaudible]. and the same time, we have the director of the san francisco county transportation authority talk being about an electric bus at the presidio. when we could have used the time bus here in san francisco. we cannot be talking about a regional network management if we don't have the ability to do a sound need's assessment. that has been pointed out we have very, very poor leadership. we have tumlin here who used to work in al meadasm another person here who used to work in san francisco. and alameda -- [inaudible].

our leadership is very poor. we have one more caller. thank you. caller 2 minutes begins now. >> a lita du prix, she and her. this is important and i have been going to a number of these meetings. i believe there is a premise for network management being able to have consistency. consistency cross the board. had i use trends in the bay area it is regional and i'm

interested in way finding. having consistency signage. if you go to new york city, roadway on the subway, may be some of you got to see. and -- it is consistent and preserving the historical markers. because it is a system this has a lot of tradition and history and art work in it. but -- there are different ways to get around the bay your that have disproportionate fare structures. and i think this the playing field has to be leveled. especially in bringing the most vulnerable and at risk people back on the system. people in equity prior communities should not ogniez about over paying for service. so passes and a accumulaors

especially for people with disabilities. people with low vision and hearing need to be accommodated here. i ask you remember the regional perspective of this. in denver it is easy. fight rescue sniez the third graders if monroe elementary. than i want to stand up and be

recognized. >> stands up! [applause] they have an amazing teacher that teaches them about local politics and government and write wonderful letter and teaches them wonderful thing about civic engagement. i want to rescue noise mr. rosenburg as well. [applause]. thank you. thank you mr. rosenburg and monroe visitors now item 11. >> item 11 transit fiscal cliff update. this is an informational item. and -- director tumlin. wvenlg good morning monroe elementary and members of the commission. thank you for inviting us to speak about the reality we are face with our fiscal situation.

as you know, when we developed our budget we anyhow we were in a time of financial uncertainty. we planned for many scenario as we were developing our budget. and unfortunately each of our key source of ref now is tracking along the worse case. our new chief official officer will run through a brief presentification we want plenty of time for questions. i am think burglar the issues and planning for mounty for the future. i'm always trying to keep riders at the center of plans. pen % of muni roadway riders are people of color and make less than 50 thousand dollars a year. the ridership is below

prepandemic levels. [audio interference] upon hundreds of thousands rely on muni. [audio interference] invested on speed and frequency improvements they are experiencing ridership at or above precovid levels. san francisco needs mount tow get to the store and grocery store and senior center and other things. mounty remains a life line for san franciscans we have to keep it financially stable. safe of economic refer and the cities a whole. allow mow to introduce our cfo. [inaudible].

okay. excuse me. chair and commissioners. i'm michelle the transportation authority and we have a few slides to set the stage for san francisco transit before we introduce all of our bests from bart, mount and he cal trin on this important topic. so -- you remember before the pandemic trin and stations were over crowded during commute peek hours. and san (is 11% of the population 67% of the weak day trips connected to san francisco. that is 8 of the 27 operators that provide service here including sick of the 7 largest the [inaudible]. the trips are taken as noted by director tumlin and people

working in san francisco as well as the folks working living here. and they supported the city as economic powerhouse. next slide. and as noted in addition to that transit is critical for low income residents likely. holdup. there is a weird thing going on in the audio. >> is there a way to turn off the shuffling noises. there is a dial in caller who needs to mute. >> thank you. >> thank you, director. can someone mute? we are not doing. is this better? i think so. give it a try. >> please, continue. had covid tit uses dropped and we remember near low everything shut down.

people were discourage friday taking transexit people still med to take it for jobs. you see on the right many folk hos had an option to driveway or take other transit did. and because of this early in the pandemic, the people who were taking transit were low income folks. and we see this trend. traffic on roads and bridges returned. and electronic thanksgiving on covid tracker which you see showing vehicle miles travels on major roads. and transit ridership has in the returned. we are seeing only 55% of transit ridership compared to prepandemic levels fr. mtc there are a lot of people taking transexit know this they are essential wars and likely to be lower inin and people of color. transit staff will talk about

demographics. [speaking fast] it various across the operators this data is out dated but trendses are persisting. agencies that served commute trips like bart and caltrain are seeing lower rates of people returning to transits with the new work from home upon trendses. those work from home trendses are apparent when we look at before and after photos of the downtown. and while downtown cross north america hit san francisco hit hard. where the bottom line on the graph even 3 years after the stay at home orders were issues downtown levels are about 31% of prepandemic levels. looking forward it does not so many like work from home trendses will reverse the new norm is less time spends in offices. >> slow downtown recovery the

slow return to transit contributing to the significant and financial stress from each agents. we started to see the doomsday head lines and if not for the federal relief funds we would have seen them earlier in the pandemic time line. >> the federal release funds are running out for major operators serving san francisco and bart, mount and he caltrain operating deficits the total is over 2 billion dollars deficit in the next 5 years. [speak fast] that will require multifaceted and multiref now source and multiyear solutions gifrn the scale you see boo fiscal 2026 it is 600 million dollars aier to help us understand the scale for reference you know the bridge

toll is 60 million dollars a year. and so you know this is irrelevant a significant can financial challenge. this will require multiple pieces to solve but there is more to temperature we need tong about what post pandemic services electric like with the new and evolving patterns. why is this important? without transit we kent achieve our transportation climate economic vitality goals. for example be you see transportation is the learningest producer of grown house gases major by private cars and trucks. transit is critical to meet the local goals but for the renaling yvonne. you if you can't get san francisco transit become on track there is in way the region will mead their goals. mount competence bart serve 2 thirds of the transit. >> and so with that, thank you for your time i will hand it over to transit operator staff.

each of whom has had board workshops on the topic already or have them schedules the metro transportation commission discussing the fitsical cliff the bay area caucus a special joint committee meeting yesterday on this topic. and senator wiener is chairing a meeting on this topic. the facts facing the agency and beginning a conversation about hamiss next. we do anticipate coming become to you all for more discussion about next steps for the region and here in san francisco after today's designation. we have pam assist an general manager for performance and budget at bart. we have brae as you other from sfmta and casey the chief communication officer with caltrain and i will start off by off to pam from bart. followed by the sfmta and

caltrain. >> good morning chair and commissioners. >> as michelle said the pedestrian years a time of extraordinary change for transit, you see that in professional 2020 roadwayership on bart determines to 6% of prepandemic levels. we have seen ridership recovery as shown in the orange line but ridership stalled at 40% of prepandemic levels. despite our forecast accounting for a level of remote work, it is clear the bay area is higher than the nation. as you are, wear, i know the bay area lags return to office and tlanzit agencies that previously served downtown, commute markets suffering the most. we are resunrising our outlook

as shown in darker blue down again. more lower than previous projections will you will see later, that has a negative impact on financial outlook. low bart ridership affects other operators. in the region 90% of all transfers between agencies involves a leg on bart and one out of every 5 bart rider connectses to another transit operator. >> in looking at the graph here you see that the 2 bridges that serve san francisco are become to normal. on the bottom end of the scale is bart ridership tracking closely with san francisco office occupancy. bart's refer is slower than other transit operator in the your and the in addition with possible low the exception of caltrain. this is in the surprising, 60% of all bart trips today begin or end at one of the 4 downtown san francisco stations.

prepandemic, that meant 250,000 people a day touched those stations. before the pandemic, 400,000 plus daily riders traveled to million mys on bart a year that is 25% of all passengers mileos public transit through the the state and 50% of all mileos transit in the bay area. obviously with car traffic nearing normal our goal is to get them out of car and back on bart 100% green house gas free electric powered trains. in looking at the bottom lines on this table, it is/khrer that the success of bart is close low linked to the success of dun town san francisco. we have seen consistent ridership trendses throughout the pandemic. stations serving low income

recovered more strongly as the percentage of prepandemic levels than prior commute stations. the first year of the pandemic the strongest markets were from coliseum or fruitville station to powell or civic center station. data showed us the riders that stuck with us throughout the pandemic were transit department and essential workers. now in year 3, we are seeing a recovery of commute trips but at a lower level. near low a third are low income. 2 thishds [inaudible] 44% don't own a vehicle and for san francisco respondedants to the survey 82% say they don't own a vehicle. riders depends on transit. >> sales apply is the largest source of operating funds. it is projected over 300 million dollars in this fitsical year.

before the pandemic the largest source was passenger fare ref now. valued at 500 million dollars per year. however with ridership at 40%, that is near low 300 million dollars less in fare ref now. sales tax hen i bright spot after i broef diplomat addition of stimulus funds through condition super spending and increased sales tax ref nows we expect sales tax to [inaudible]. next slide. >> the chart on this slide illustrated huoperating expense projections changed solid orange is spending through fiscal 22. the dashed orange line represents the concern projections the gray line is our forecast, from 2019, our last

indepth projection before the pandemic. because of the pandemic ruse the expense in the first your the primary driver was reduced service levels we closed at 9 p.m. and ran 30 monday headways and moved employees to the capitol freshman program this kept people emplay exclude accelerated reinvestment work during the low rider help in fiscal 22 we control nonlabor costs and we experienced continued hiring challenges which also reduced labor costs. our actions kept expense down, they credited other challenges including hiring enough front line staff to run the current schedule. looking ahead, most of the space with orange and gray come from hiring assumptioning and scaling back plans to increase kwurt off peek service.

on this slide i will focus detail of the budget this shows prosecute operating dollars are spent to highway light where bart does and does not have flex at in using spending. allocation in grill. [reading fast] do 2 things leverage federal funding for the bart system to the project and 2, directly fund commitments we made to our capitol reinvestment work including the prosecute cure am of new rail vehicles and core capacity program. men cases reducing or eliminating jeopardize key programs the bottom shows fixed cost in bluchl 25% of the budget expenses must be paid rart little whether we run service to support 130 miles of track and 50 stations the green and red show labor and nonlabor costs most low driven by service and the more service we rain the

more costs we experience, electric and power and materials and supplies and labor and frontline staffing vary with service levels not all staffing makes the costs semi variable. the significant portion of expenses fixed or fair low fix exclude like most rail operators service reductions will not lead to cost savings. this shows the 5 year outlook with the top half showing operating sources, the middle expense and the bottom net results. figures in red are anual operating deficits. the forecast assumes modest growth in rider help and sales tax, smaller ref now sources and small increase negligence labor and operating expense. the profit is not assume service increases. in fiscal 28 core xaps ricars

and new train control system will allows to run longer trin and mid way through fiscal 25 less than 2 years from now. after we are looking at staggering deficits and excess of 300 million a year to put this in context the gap in fiscal 26 is a third or projected budget. >> on the next slide, this shows you had you just saw. express in the the form of fiscal run way. the diagnot line is the projected expenditure of federal funds. we expect to spends all boy january of 25 and this is when we call our fiscal cliff had we go below zero. the lack of continued ridership is when is driving this fiscal cliff. 2 more slides. we -- we are doing everything we can to grow ridership and

stabilize ref nows bart like all operators in the bay area, is key to a thriving equal, healthy bay area. and i need to be clear, there are very drastic actions listed on this slide. we don't want to do inform we want to dot opposite of what is listed here. we want to improve evening and weekend head way and improve stations decrease congestion, [fast] and want to ensure across the bay area all rider vs access to clean, save and reliable public transportation. however, the po serb consequence not funding public transit are very significant. as you see from the list the impacts would be very [inaudible].

the tran formation action plan mentioned before we have several wins under way. we have deployed the placing bureau which parris nonsworn crisis specialists with sworn police officers. and this past summer with all roej nal operators launched the clipper day pass pilot providing 50,000 residents with free access to bus, riand ferry services in the 9 county region. users using the bay pass

increased their usage by 40% above the control group of nonbay paddle holders the 25 budget focus on service and efforts to bring become riders have investment in save, clone and reliable service and new deployment for police. put more officeros trains and stations. and with our recent dial in the efforts on hiring, we can deploy fully staffed cloning crews with car clone and dope clean teams in stations which include the downtown san francisco station. we are fine tuning prop to strategic homeless action lan. elrirt attendance by the sfmta and [inaudible] additional support from the city for staff. and we are providing funding for restroom atendsants. our roadwayers care about these

so this is where we focus efforts. given our deficit and the uncertainty of future funding we will have to make trade offs to balance our budget. that completes my presentation i thank you for your time. to move quick low we can say this had the stay at home orders happened people stayed home then you don't need to ride transit or park that had an impact on ref nows. it is also important it net we made a lot of policy choices to

acknowledge this economic challenges this came with the pandemic and made policy choices to not increase fares. we did not increase fares the general fer exterior prosecute voided more discounts for our roadway hearse needed them to acknowledge what an important irrelevant transit paid in supporting essential workers. there is something unique about mta in the present with other agencies and this is that we have an additional revenue source of p parking. we had 2 strategies the first of those was to change our service planning so our service planning was structured around passengers riding. given the challenges of keeping staff and labor up to the levels than i needed provide service.

we used more park ref nows than we had to support transit rightership. the 2 choices allowed us to stretch our pandemic funding to upon spupts through this time where ridership is low. similar to bart we expect federal fund to run out and we face grim deficits. broad park fees and fines and yes or no ref nows recovered to clez to prepandemic levels. 80% but that 20% is significant. and we are seeing that in then out. we have to consider that we may be at a place of a new normal regarding ref now and need to mroornd this the amount of parking ref now available.

also, significantly because general fund account for 38% of the budget in this year the general fund transfers are down is significant and similar to other agencies, when our federal relief guess, way this will be a lots of a financial support. when you pair the decreasing or in the revenues with expend tours that are increasing because of the cost of living, which requires us to increase our labor costs and as well as innerflation increases nonlabor costs. again, you are creating a deficit where expenditures go up. creating a larger gap between the amount of machiney we have going in and the machiney we need to spends. this is in terms of the

ridership trend we increased over time. since we reopened in april of 2020. we are seeing patterns change. weekendses ouzed be below now seeing that it is gone up in the weekendses relative to prepandemic ridership. in terms of transit ref now we are recovering. this fiscalier we flattened out. we are looking at a place where we are 43% of transit revenue collect third degreeier versus the last full prepandemic year. and you see that the transit ref

now is slower than ridership recovery i pos is, lot of the choices we made around supporting people, our cents roll riders boy not increasing fares and discounts. this shoes how critical federal support is the current yers of the budget you see that the orange portion of the bar chart shoes relief that is had keeps our ref nows matched to expend tower had it runs out in 25 we drop down to 1.3 million dollars in ref now. and you see that ref nows remain flat for period of time projection. the general fund park and transit ref nows these assume some refer. which minot materialize.

the flat revenues represent some risk. we more i place we don't know where theed pandemic is going. our 5 year forecast in the first 2 years of the budget are with years we are currently in revenues matched to expenditure it is pandemic relief. once the ref now runs out in fiscal 24-25, expenditure drops below and moves away from the revenue line creating larger defyits over time until we reach 235 million dollars deficit in fiscal year 28. i think it is important to think about the impacts of what this means to our riders. 130 million dollars deficit is for 24-25 this means rolling back 20 [inaudible]. and i -- want to refer you back to the statistic how many riders

in a demographic where they don't have another choice other than transit. and for equity competence also for the economic recovery of the city; those riders need to have service visible to them. i think something this is also significant is that as pam mentioned, the fixed cost of transit are high and they don't vary with the ridership that is riding. if we want to provide service to the people who need it buzz they have no other option, had we look at a higher per head per ride cost this leads to a structure unbalance over time that -- is difficult to modify with only our own actions. also, i think i want to highlight the tie between muni and the over all economic recovery of san francisco. as the city's chief economist

mentioned last week there is no downtown refer without muni. we can't get people to work downtown if we don't have a transit system. it is critical to think about will microimpacts on the individuals who need to get to work by riding and the macro impacts of what a functioning and crist cral a service is for downtown recovery. i think it is important to remember the actions that we chos to make today in terms of maintenance and maintaining a state of good repair, have a long-term financial impact. when we don't maintain muni as a rate that provides reliability, there are 2 dangerous trends this is can happen. the first is when director tumlin often refers to the death spill roll. if we are not maintaining vehicles. not providing reliable service this come the time you expect it with a reasonable headway;

people make other choices. i think some of the data that bart showed driving and transit demonstrates. had you lose riders from transit you lose revenuerousing ain't to invest in the system. we want to stay away from that. and then another negative consequence we don't invest today in maintaining good reparity on going operating costs increase over time. making the de degs sieve from expenditure exceeds revenue. to put a finer point on muni demographics over 75% of riders make less then and there 100 upon thousand dollars and 50% less than 50 thousand dollars this drives home the point of muni being critical to being an equitable stele approximate getting workers where hi need to

go. we have multiprejudiced effort to close this funding gapful some of the items which are in our control and some of which we need the support of the learning are community. we are like all agencies sharpning pencil and looking at the expenditure and making sure the ones we make are on reliability, security and clean lieness to bring riders back. we implemented the budget off ramps. approximate suspicions added the budget in anticipation of revenues recovering. we will not hire those. we will of course, be continuing to hoir and hire aggressively to replace the approximate suspicions that were lost during the pandemic. but you know throughout the city and the local and national economy, hiring beyond the natural rate is difficult. and heeven we have the pedal to the metal hiring fast, it is

challenge to hire beyond the people when are separating naturally for the reasons people leave jobs. we have also planning pausing our plans to add back muni service and that is just to acknowledge the reality this we want the service we provide we want it to be reliable. and when we are facing future challenges around ref now and current challenges around staffing we want to provide the service we provide regular low and reliablely. look to the future, we will look for ways to increase parking revenues. in the coming budget cycle, for us because of the 2 year budget begin in 24-25 we will look to increase muni fairs to keep pace with inflation inform currently year we are looking at fair enforce am and advocating the regional level with per ins for

both operational on going operational support and support for our cap tol program. i will be happy to answer questions. commissioner preston. thank you and -- i have so many questions i will not approximate it is 20 to 12 we had think about whether we had have further presentations in the future on this. and we do have caltrain. >> yes. >> i want clarity when i see the slide implement budget off ramp. can you just clarify the what we are implementing right now? as context the limiting factor on ramping up service has been our hiring of operators and retention and the number of

folks we bring on versus attrition and folks we lose. right? and while there have been projections of fiscal deficit inniers to coming it has not been the dollars that have been slowing or stopping us from hiring folks. when i hear about implementing budget off r. and slowing hiring, if you could provide claireivity whether this is a potential for future years or you are saying you are limiting the hiring now. >> to clarify the current budget included positions department on recovery, ref now recovering. for example, in my division there are if you get a parking ticket approximate this ticket neds to be a joud indicated you could have this reviewed bier staff. if you disagree with this you can protest and have a hear with a hearing officer.

the current budget included addition of 2 new hearing receives to ped that process. those are new positions intended enhandles the service we are providing to the community. because the ref mulls to support the positions did in the appear, we will not hire the new positions. i want to contrast that with transit where we are hiring pedal to the metal as fast as we can to fill the operator positions. our director of human resources provide data hashowed we hired more people on average in the last 2 quarters than any of the previous 6 quarters. so i think there is -- a nuance between filling the existing budgeted positions to provide the concern level of service versus hiring in new positions to enhance the service we are

providing. >> does this apply for hoiring and training operators are we doing anything this slows that. >> hiring as fast as we can. thank you. i may have another i will wit. >> thank you. mr. preston now go to caltrain. why i will be very brief it is noise see you this morning. casey chief communication officer for caltrain. i will highway light something that hopefully everyone realizes like bart we are department on fares. so our ridership help it dropped you see down to 2% at the start of the opinion dem tick had a significant can financial impact on caltrain hathat looks like is the budget used to be made above seventy-four % from fares now 25% this is the biggest driver for caltrain where financial challenges are.

we. did receive federal funds got us to this point and luck competence thank you for mentioning, we received state fupdz thanksgiving will help with electrification and we are able it use some to help on the operating side the numbers you see here i'm theme say that first one will disapore and we will have a workshop this month a board will dig in the details of our budget out look to see how far we can stretch that in the future but we like other service have an operating deficit we need to figure out how to solve through different ways. just cut to the chase had this means is without additional funding we have to make a difficult decision on workforce, service, capitol project and state of good repair. this it is in the like my colleagues said where we want to go. the people that work at the agency but we need to make sure

we are financially solvent and need to make the difficult decisions but hoping through strategies and support we can move forward and have i better path forward. >> so we ask to highlight the things that we are doing at the agency now to highlight ridership and how we are trying to diversify. caltrain in the past commute focused. we are looking at making sure we have an equitable ridership. you seat communities we serve. equity communities up and down the 77 mys in 20 ton keep introduced a program we are proud about the passes that are employers were not using they donated to communities serving organizations able to roach out in the community and individuals at no personal cost had acsets. we got great feedback from the

program and great statistics. out of the people that are using the program. 50% make let's then and there 50 thousand dollars a year and 50% new caltrain riders creative using the resources we have to make sure we build a system that will work for sxefrn starting it as soon as the pandemic hit with a 94 policy and different programs like this that is making sure that we will be a viable system for everyone. >> highlighting a video of those action growth plans we very well vised schedule. it standard. everyone knows how to required temperature go and read a simple schedule. deem coordination a good transfer. san francisco we are excited work with san francisco and partners 40% of the caltrain ridership touches the fourth and kin station we ned to do everything to have a great connection therure know you in that the 7 roll subway is organism. make that seamless getting people to where they need to

know go the go pass. [fast] the customer experience dive in that so when somebody wakes up in the morning they think, hey. can i get on caltrain i can get on another service and don't want to get in their car and so had are we doing to been the people and what decisions are making every day and making that seam exactlies smooth a press they can. or big thing caltrain will be a new system in less then and there tw yers. our electrification press at this board just a few weeks ago mou is on track to be in service in 2024 we'll retire our old 30 year old deesal trains. we will have a wonderful experience. plugs, wifi. new seats and a baby changing table in the bathroom we have a bright future and this is something that we believe the

region needs for all the reasons you heard from my partners. for climate change, jobs, requireders. our quality of life we need to keep the system in place and cal trains will change the system.