november 17th, 2024 regular meeting of the municipal transportation agency, board of directors and parking authority commission to order. secretary silva, would you please call the roll on the role director heminger here. heminger present. director. henderson. henderson. present. director hynes. present. kinzie. present. director tarlov. here. tarlov. present. chair. ekin. here eken. present. we are expecting director cajina shortly. for the record, i note that director hynes is attending this meeting remotely. director hynes is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting, and in order to speak or vote on any items, places you on item number three. the ringing end use of cell phones and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. the chair may order the removal from the meeting room, any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing device places you on item number four. approval of minutes for the september 3rd meeting. thank you. directors, are there any changes to the meeting minutes for september third? seeing

none, i'll open it to public comment on the meeting minutes. any comments in the room or remote? none. we will close public comment. may i please have a motion and a second on the minutes? chair, you can if. sorry to interrupt. i did have one change that i caught for item number 15 on page eight. it should state for the motion to disclose or not disclose the closed session. it should state on the motion to not disclose. currently it says on the motion to approve, which was an error. thank you very much for correcting that. secretary silv. so with that correction moved as amended. thank you. is there a second? second. please call the roll on the motion to approve with the amendment. director heminger heminger i director henderson. henderson. i director hines. i hinesie i tarlov. tarlov. i chair ikan. ikan i thank you. the minutes are approved. places you on item number five communications i have none. moving on. places you on item number six, the

director's report. shamann. greetings unfortunately, julie kirschbaum, director of transit, is out sick today. will she be presenting the special recognition remotely? she's here? yeah. okay, great. then let me turn it over to her. which 1 a.m. i doing first? she just asked which one she's doing first. in my notes, i have miss denise green, hello, everyone. i apologize a that transit is featured so heavily in the meeting today. so you will be hearing from me a number of times. i'm julie kirschbaum, the transit director, and, i'm trying to keep everybody else healthy because i'm recovering from a bad cold, it is my honor today to do two board recognitions. the first is for denise green, we're honored to

highlight and acknowledge inspector denise green and her outstanding work at the agency, denise hails from a lineage of, muni icons. her grandfather, curtis e green, was a trailblazer at muni and served as the first african-american general manager to oversee a large transportation system in the united states. and in fact, our green light rail division is named in his honor, denise, shared with us that she really cherishes her close relationship with him, and growing up often visited him at his offices, which were at our current presidio division, denise followed in her grandfather's footsteps and joined muni in 1992. so in addition to celebrating a specific incident, we're also celebrating 32 years of service at sfmta. she started

as a woods operator, where she was honored as operator of the month, in march of 1996. she later became a rail operator and again was operator of the month in 2006. in 2013, she was promoted to be a transit supervisor, where she received many written commendations, including our inspector of the quarter, which is a new program we started, a couple of years ago to recognize excellence among our inspectors, our trainers and our controllers. denise has two sons and four grandchildren, with another on the way at the end of the year. she's passionate about traveling. and, along with her work, she was instrumental in our starting of the central subway. her current post is at

the chinatown rose park station. and that's what i want to talk to you about today, it the story that i'm about to share happened on february 19th, where denise was instrumental in connecting a special needs teen who had been missing, back with her family, it was, she was at the station around 9 a.m, she encountered a female passenger who was asking for directions to try to get to the to the bayview, her suspicions were raised when she realized that the girl she was talking to matched the description of a missing, at risk youth who had been gone for over four days. our inspectors and our operators get these safety notices from our security

team. and sometimes from pd, and i'm always impressed at how, thoughtfully they absorb the information as she realized that this was likely the girl that they had been looking for, she notified the tmc, who then went on to, to notify the operator who was driving the train. but she also swung into action and reached out to the inspector. that was at fourth and king. so that they also understood, what she thought was going on. and one of the kind of key instructions that she shared with me when she was telling me about this event is just making sure that they didn't open the doors before pd had an opportunity to intercept the train, they did. so, at third and warrior way, and due to her vigilance and action, this youth

was found safely and the family was reunited with their child, it just it i'm. i'm honored to recognize denise, who always displays diligence and professionalism and a commitment to the agency, but really went above and beyond on this day to help coordinate this rescue, and i'm also honored to have in addition to the board recognition, to ask, acting lieutenant antonio flores, from the sfpd special victims unit, to come up as well. and, present denise, with an acknowledgment. of you can clap. you can clap. all right. good afternoon. i'm

tony flores. i'm the acting lieutenant with the special victims unit. i oversee several disciplines, as we call them. human trafficking, elder abuse, financial crimes, stalking, human trafficking, and missing persons. so it's a lot on the plate at this at risk youth. obviously, you can folks that have family members that you know, this time was crucial to the family. and it really meant every day we're meeting with the family, every day we're scratching our heads. where where is this person? we believe that they were on public transportation, at least going back and forth on that day, on that specific day when you were able to locate her. we had just assembled a whole team rescue team to literally start from the location where we believe she first went missing and probably had the room of over 50 people inside this room before i was sitting with the father. we're going over some videos at that moment so he can confirm that that was her. as soon as he

confirmed it was her. that is when i got the notification tha, hey, she's been located and the joy and tears from his face were instrumental. they were just so powerful. so bringing the reuniting him and his wife and her sister together, then later on, we were able to again. but because of that, i want to tell you personally, thank you so much. it is a team effort as we know, this was a new thing that we had never heard about that literally that this this program was working on the tea line. and then actually it all kind of worked. so now we have an extra tool where we're actually looking for at risk juveniles or anybody at that moment. again, denise, thank you so much. and on behalf of the family, they they truly, truly thank you. and with that, denise green, transit supervisor of san francisco municipal transit agency, i want to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to

the transit supervisor, denise green, for her outstanding public service to the city and county of san francisco. thank you for your unwarranted commitment to making san francisco a safer city, and for your tireless efforts to the service, serve the drivers and the riders. your dedication is inspiring. the san francisco police department and deserves this. the highest recognition awarded today on the 17th 2024. chief william scott. thank you so much. for that they want to know picture. denise, would you like to share any words with the board? thank you. thank you so much. thank you. congratulations denise. go uyghur. i don't think we got to do this. we want to.

the picture. thank you for just a little bit. good afternoon everyone. the only thing i want to say about that day was when the young lady approached me. she had a hoodie on and a mask. how i realized it was her. to this day, i don't know. and it's so emotional. and i think i had. my motherly instincts kicked in and i was the. it was something about her eyes. and i went back on my phone to look to see what she had on last, and it said it was a black hoodie. so i looked on the train, black hoodie, checked burgundy pants, so i had to get up and walk and look, and i said, wait a minute, you know. so when i sat back down, the

train took off. so i looked at her and she looked at me at the same time, and i said, that's her. that's her. so when i called tmc, it was like, are you sure? i said, 99% sure. i'm positive. so i had to come on, that's her. that's her. but i think she's not going to get off until further in the bayview. so they called me maybe about 20 minutes later and said, you were on point. that was her. and i started crying because i have four granddaughters and i would want someone to do that for me. for us. you know. so i was very happy about that. and thank you for this award. that's it.

that's great. so this is. our, second recognition is for. can you all hear me? yes. yes. our second recognition is for the transit safety implementation team. i'm giving this recognition on behalf of myself and melvin henry, who is our agency's chief safety officer, i'm thrilled to honor the entire team. oliver guida, caitlin carmody, doris king, hannah o'neil, and jack tran, the transit safety implementation team partners with our agency safety division to ensure that we meet all of our regulatory requirements, implementing standard operating

procedures, responding to collisions and other incidents, and continuously looking for ways to promote safety throughout the agency. this team was our go to during covid implementing procedures where we had none and building buy in across the agency. they also improved our response time and tracking of inspection follow ups from our regulators. the california pacific utility commission, and they were instrumental in preparing us for the triennial audit. this helps build trust and grace with our regulators, which is incredibly important, they also recently worked with our operations team to establish an internal recommendations committee to advance our commitment to providing safe service through our examination of significant incidents, identifying, contributing causes and creating preventative measures has been instrumental to promoting safety within transit. they make sure

that we don't just go on to the next crisis by making sure that we are learning from incidents and implementing changes. they have also streamlined our transit administration around safety notices, including how we communicate rule changes throughout the agency. jeff and the executive team are working to promote a culture at the agency of collaboration and continuous learning and improvement, and this team completely embodies those goals, they are considered a core support group to each of my direct reports. and this recognition today is really on behalf of my leadership team, who unanimously recommended them for this recognition. looking ahead, this team is going to be overhauling our bus and or rail rule book, and undertaking to improve, our operating

expectations and really make sure that we have rules that make sense, and we have a training program that reinforces them so that we're setting up our staff for success. so i really, really appreciate this group for everything that they take on. they never say no. they always say yes, they identify, solutions where sometimes, the solution isn't, is not quick to come, and i'm really grateful for all of their work. so i want to thank them, and ask oliver if he wants to come up and make any remarks on behalf of the team. hello, oliver gajda, and thank you, julie. thank you, directors. and, it feels really

good to be part of a team that that, with people that want to solve puzzles and, and i feel like that's kind of what we, we do. some of it sounds really dry. the legislative stuff and the, the some of the, the regulations. but there's a lot that comes up that we have to figure out how does it how how does that fit within our culture? how does that fit within, you know, our our everyday, everyday procedures and sometimes things fall outside the box. so oftentimes we have to think outside the bo. and how do we make this, you know, how do we get something that could be you know, it could be perceived as as pretty dry or pretty, but it has so much impact on everything that we're that we do in our agency. so it really is a team effort. and it's really good to be at this part of the agenda and coming to the board. my previous career. i'd be later in the agenda, so

it's good to be this part of the agenda, but it really is a team effort. i'm really fortunate to have the team that i have. i'm really fortunate to have the leadership that that that we have, that has the confidence in, in, in, in the team and the people that, that, that really carry the weight and really try to find solutions sometimes where it doesn't seem where there is, there isn't a solution. so thank you very much. thank you for the appreciation. and sean oliver, can you have the team come up so sean can hand them the certificates, thank you all for your time and for helping me to navigate a pretty hands on process remotely, that's the end of the recognitions. okay, before you resume your comments, director tumlin, i just wanted to. i just wanted to continue to say thank you to you and director kirschbaum for giving

us the board and the public these opportunities to get to know the staff, get to understand how deeply and personally connected some of the staff are to the mission of this agency, how some of the staff go way above and beyond their job descriptions in service of the city, and in service of achieving our goals as a city, and how to the most recent recognition, the phrase sort of solving problems and finding solutions when it doesn't seem like there are any solutions resonates very, very deeply and want to thank you all for your creativity and your commitment and your ingenuity and your innovation in finding the path forward when it sometimes doesn't seem like there is any path. so thank you again for making these moments. i really, really appreciate them. thank you for acknowledging that a big part of why i do this job is for the staff. the most extraordinary team i've ever worked with, so let's get back to the director's report, some of the key themes that we have talked about here at this body

for the last four and a half years have been key themes of addressing deferred maintenance, getting better performance out of our existing systems, and advancing safety for everyone. and i am delighted to announce that a project that exemplifies each of these goals are l taraval improvement project will be concluding and will be resuming l taraval train service from embarcadero all the way out to the zoo starting on september 28th. this has been a huge effort for some of our projects. we collaborate with. the public utilities commission and the department of public works to upgrade not just the transit infrastructure, but all of the infrastructure in the street. the sunset district had been neglected for decades by really all city agencies, and so there was a huge amount of upgrading that was necessary. the underground sewer and water

infrastructure was as old as a hundred years old, laid out when that neighborhood was sand dunes. the train itself, the train tracks and the train infrastructure. much of it was about 50 years old, some of it even older. and we had to remove the original wooden sleepers that were holding, you know, were laid in the sand dunes to hold up the train, and so in addition to replacing all of this infrastructure that was way past the end of its useful life, we upgraded everything to modern standards. we replaced the overhead wire, the, the all of the lighting. we upgraded accessibility at every intersection and very importantly, we upgraded every single boarding islands so that passengers no longer need to step off the train into traffic, which they had been doing before. we started this project. that resulted in about five significant pedestrian severe injuries every single year. because we were asking people to

board trains in a traffic lane and get off the train in a traffic lane. so we're very pleased that the project is done. it also includes a whole set of other improvements for the neighborhood, including 175 new trees, new new landscaping, new community art, and a lot of other improvements. so in addition to writing our trains, on september 28th, i'd also like to invite all of you to join us at a ribbon cutting event with the mayor and other officials at 11 a.m. on thursday, september 26th, in mccoppin square. that's thursday, september 26th, in mccoppin square at 11 a.m. another key project that we have also made important strides on is our accessibility needs assessment survey. so the accessible services team has recently cataloged our present successes and challenges in the

accessibility accessibility strategy needs assessment that is published on our website. we are now going to be surveying seniors and people with disabilities in order to determine what their priorities are in terms of how we should invest our limited resources in advancing the needs of people with disabilities and seniors. about a quarter of san francisco's population is comprised of seniors or people living with disabilities, and about two thirds of the people with disabilities in san francisco are people of color. so the survey just went live this month and will run for three months in a variety of languages. please do go to our accessible services website on the sfmta web page. in order to get more information and to fill out the survey, next up, i just want to do a brief update on valencia. we have been busy

meeting with all of the local merchants in the corridor. we've had detailed interactions with over 100 merchants and a long list of community stakeholders. we're now ready to present our draft new side running protected bikeway conceptual design. we're going to be presenting those at, two community open houses, one on monday, september 23rd, from 4 to 6 p.m. at valencia gardens at 390 valencia street and another on wednesday, september 25th from 4 to 6 p.m. at the city college mission center, room 109. that's at 1125 valencia street and we're also doing ongoing outreach in the corridor, trying to make sure that we optimize every single square inch of the roadway in order to accommodate merchant needs, advance safety, make it easy to construct and maintain,

optimize for overall business development in san francisco, and make it work for every single mode of transportation. and finally, i want to update you on a lot of special events that are coming up in the next week. it's september in san francisco, and although it's a little colder than it should be, it's still a great month to enjoy san francisco, particularly if you are a transportation nerd. and this is really the nerdiest of all of our annual events is muni heritage weekend, which is this coming weekend, september 21st and 22nd. we will be bringing out all of our historic fleet and people from all over the world will be bringing their historic vehicles and their knowledge to san francisco. we will, of course, have boat, tram out in addition to all of our historic rail vehicles, our historic and vintage busses dating back to the 1930s. this is a really an amazing event to

learn about san francisco's rich transit history and explore the city on a variety of interesting, historic vehicles. it it really it it really is the nerdiest of our annual events. i love it so much. in addition to that, if you are a less nerdy, you may want to enjoy oktoberfest, which will be held on front street this friday, september 20th. front street is one of the blocks that not only is the sfmta helping to close off to car traffic, but is the city's first entertainment zone where you'll be able to not only partake in oktoberfest but partake in oktoberfest fully in the street, which we are excited about. additional street events include terrible beach party, which will be at lower grade highway and taraval on saturday, september 21st after 3 p.m. great event. opportunity to watch the sunset, get some local

food and some community art, also this sunday is sunday street's western edition on golden gate between laguna and webster and the next week. speaking of taraval is the beginning of the resumed movies in mccoppin. this is in mccoppin square on taraval street at 23rd that will be running every friday in october. featuring wonka turning red, little mermaid and barbie, and a great excuse to take the l taraval train out to 23rd and taraval, see a movie, and then enjoy some dumplings or hot pot, or do a pub crawl along some of san francisco's most fantastic pubs, which can be found on taraval street. that is all i have for you. thank you. okay, in addition to getting the update

on transportation, people can now plan their social calendars after the sfmta's meetings. colleagues, do you have any questions for director tumlin on the director's report? none. just if there are none just yet, i'll open it to public comment while you consider if you have questions, any public comments on the director's report? go ahead. hi. because nobody else is going to speak. are you ready? oh, we're ready. go ahea. so it's party time basically. you think? no, no, it's not party time. sorry, i'm against the i don't know what you call this. the guy who is always bringing something terrible. you know, it's the opposite, in fact. okay at all last week at the board of supervisors. that's because it's now the fact you are all under arrest. so yes.

everybody basically is under arrest for having violated the eternal rules of existence for too long. remember, in life, there is one thing that matters. first of all, it's intentions. and you know perfectly well that's the whole general agenda globalist. i think we should call a cat. a cat has no good intention for anybody, including for you. you see, now the skies put you under arrest and because it comes from the skies, you have absolutely nowhere to hide. they know what you think, what you do and will follow what you do until the end of your life. if you don't change course fast enough. now i'm not sorry. it's just obey the rules are received from the skies myself. i'm under arrest as well. you understand?

thank you. are there any other speakers wishing to speak under general public or under the public comment for the director's report? okay. seeing none, is there any remote accommodation? okay. we'll close public comment. colleagues, i'm not seeing any requests to speak on the director's report so we can move on to the next item. thank you. director. is that places you on item number seven. the citizens advisory council report. there is no report. moving on to item number eight, new or unfinished business by board members. great director hines, i wonder if we could come to you for an update on the muni funding. working group. to start off, sure, i can do it. and then i'll have my colleague, director hemminger, chime in, we did have our first meeting of the. the muni funding working group. yesterday. for those who don't know, this is a group, convened

and co-chaired by the comptroller's office and the director of transportation. director heminger and i sit on it and, representing you all the board of directors, there are several community groups, merchant groups, etc. that come. so we're trying to really have this be kind of a big ten table. and our goal is to really co to a consensus around potential solutions for muni looming budget deficit. as we all know, so we had our first meeting yesterday, in which chief horta gave a presentation that was very similar to the presentation that we, as a board, got in, the last time we had the budget

update, so that would be a very similar presentation, going forward, we'll structure our meetings such that we, discuss some possibilities, under for kind of funding, buckets of potential, if you will. and we'll have two meetings on each of these. issue areas, so to speak, and funding options at the end of all this, the comptroller's office will come out with a report with some recommendations, which you will then, as policy makers. and the community will then consider, and i think that's all i had. director heminger, there's anything you wanted to add. do you want to add anything? i'll just, add a couple words, first of all, as might be expected,

this this process has the whiff of rounding up the usual suspects, and i remarked at the meeting that i have been on quite a few muni funding taskforces of one kind or another, and i think the message there, as i indicated at the meeting, is that when you have a structural problem and you don't solve it, it's going to keep coming back at you. it's not going to go away, and if anything, it's going to get worse the longer you take, so my hope is that this group will, go deep and really try to take a huge bite out of the problem and not punt the ball again. thank you. director heminger. director tumlin. is there anything you'd like to fill in from the muni funding working group, yes. first of all, i'd like to just offer my appreciation to the

comptroller's office, who are formally leading the process and also hosting the website and doing the facilitation. one of the things that they're doing as part of that website is organizing all of our past work around similar efforts to try to solve this problem, all audits that have ever been conducted with the agency, all of our budget details, and, those can all be found by searching for muni funding, working group. it will bring up the comptroller's office website. and you can look at the resource library that can be found there. we'll also be providing, a explainers about every possible source of new revenue. and advantages and disadvantages for each one, additional opportunities for making our services and our agency more efficient, and advantages and disadvantages of those options. and then working

towards coming together on consensus for a package of efficiency and funding measures that allow us to not only avoid drastic service cuts, but ideally continue to make the service better and better. okay. thank you. and for those of us waiting with bated breath, when can we expect that comptroller's report with the recommendations, so the work began yesterday. we are hoping to have recommendations by the end of january, they'll be meeting roughly twice a month through january. and, you know, we if consensus takes longer than that, then it takes longer than that. but we are eager to solve this problem as quickly as possible, not only to deal with the over $200 million budget gap that we have in 2026, but a this year budget gap that we have to close in calendar year 25. thank you. are there any other items

of new or unfinished business from colleagues or any questions on the muni funding working group? report out okay. if not, i'll open it to public. comment on the new and unfinished business by board members. item eight only what was just discussed by the board members and the director. i like what you said. the fact that steve. sorry, the fact that yes, indeed, no problem is solved by putting it under the rug. it's the opposite. it goes exponentially difficult to solve it applies to everything in life. it's the way it works. it's the rules of existence. basic i.e. the miseducation received by most people is amazing. thank you. are there any other speakers and new on unfinished business by board members? not in the room. secretary silva no remote requests for this one. okay, we can close this item and move on.

director, is that places you on item number nine. general public comment. members of the public may address the board of directors on matters that are within the board's jurisdiction and are not on today's calendar. i do have speaker cards, and so i'll read off the first set. any member of the public wants your name is called. please queue up on the tv side of the room. you can speak in any order, not necessarily the order i read you in kristen evans. sasha perrigo theory, eliana binder, sheba, bandirma, alejandro rubio. sorry for me. it's better for you to for everybody. it's better when i'm first or last. because on the edit public comment for everybody to see on sfgovtv am i clear it's by design. i do that. it's more important because people have to know. so i said last week at the

board of supervisors, and i just did to you at the director's report that everybody is under arrest. indeed, it's not a joke. i'm not joking. i'm not here to count the flies. it's serious. so you better pay attention and do do make sure of what you are doing now, because it's going to get worse. and you know what? here we are on 2024. it's not good. not good. especially with these elections coming. it's not good worldwide, but san francisco. i care about san francisco. that's it on you two. first off, so one of the reasons you have to apply what i've been telling you to apply, i gave a list to the board of supervisors. you know, before the recess. it's precise. it's a list of things to start doing. you have the competence to apply them. i don't, i just have the ideas. okay. that's it. i'm an artist, not a technician. as you normally. so you apply this easy. it includes sfmta's.

obviously, transportation is so important in life. everybody knows it. that's why i'm here, right? okay. so you do what? everything you have a problem with understanding the scale of what i'm talking about in terms of evolution. it's not we are not talking about the last 5000, 150 years, even. we are talking thousands of years of miseducation by a group of morons that we call today, the usual suspects who have been pushing usury, the banking system, the whole thing is wrong. we have to focus on beauty. that's the only way we can be happy. that's it. okay. next speaker, please. hello, sfmta board. my name is kristen evans. i'm a small business owner in the haight-ashbury. i am here also wearing my hat today as a commissioner of the homeless oversight commission,

speaking for myself, just to clarify, so i've spoken directly with chair eken and i know board member tarlov. we've worked together for many years with the cdma, i was really disappointed with what happened in august regarding the rvs at zoo road. you know, these are folks that were pushed from lake merced and winston to zoo road. and they had been coming to our commission asking for a safe parking site for more than a year. and, that morning when sfpd and tow truck showed up, they actually arrived before the department of hsh and the offers of housing and assistance and support. we actually had some people leave the area. i'm told that we're not connected to services because of that departmental failing, of not

having cross collaboration. so my ask to you is that we work together. sfmta board and the homeless oversight commission, to ensure that we are approaching the challenges of people living in their vehicles with a trauma based approach from a point of caring, so that we are not upsetting children and who are seeing their vehicles forced to be moved with officers that are standing there with weapons. we really need to be working together to establish places where people can go, and a citywide ban will just create like chaos. and we really need to think and pause and think how we're going to approach addressing the over 1400 people that are living in their vehicles in san francisco tonight. thank you. thank you for being here, commissioner evans. and we have been privileged to have members of hsus join us at previous

meetings, and we have sought and we have followed their advice. so thank you very much for being here and for your service. thank you. next speaker, please. hi. sfmta board. my name is sasha perrigo. i've been a proud san francisco resident for the last seven years now, and for most of that time, i've worked as an affordable housing advocate. i'm also here today because i'm concerned about the proposed citywide ban on overnight oversize vehicle parking, which may or may not come to your board in the next few weeks. to put that fancy name in layman's terms for people in the room who may not be here for this item, this is a proposal that would enable the city to tow rvs for parking overnight on any city street. in exchange, the city says that they will offer the 1400 families living in rvs a spot in a homeless shelter, i think it's plain to see for a lot of us that it is preferable

to live in an rv with all of your stuff and your family, then living in a congregate shelter, which could be pretty terrifying if you're a child. in our school systems. but honestly, if you're anyone even worse, this is a false promise. we know that, like there's already a 500 person waiting list for family shelter in san francisco and a 12 day waiting list for individual adult shelter that does not always usually does not translate into actual housing. at the end of this, people are just sent back to the streets after they're out of the shelter, someone at our rally said this. very well. today i got an rv so i wouldn't be homeless, sorry. this proposal would literally make people homeless. and. well, so many of us in this room and so many of you on this board are working hard to fund more affordable housing in our city. we need to have creative solutions for people who do not have homes.

and i think that a safe parking, increasing safe parking sites would be strongly preferable to this proposal. thank you. next speaker, please. hello, directors. my name is shiba. i'm a policy associate at glide in our center for social justice and a member of the end poverty coalition. i'm here in solidarity with our most vulnerable community members currently living in rvs for shelter. i strongly oppose the proposed overnight parking ban for rvs, which aims to move our city towards a regressive approach over the last couple of years, our coalition has met with you all, with city officials and this department to move away from punitive responses that further destabilize vulnerable communities experiencing poverty. it is difficult to understand that in one of the richest cities in the world, we are always targeting people and communities with the most financial vulnerabilities. towing a person's car. towing a

person's rv is toying with their home. sfmta's own data collection has shown that targeting communities with limited financial resources often leaves the city to pay contractors for the debt imposed on those who do not have the means to pay. towing rvs makes the lives of people who are already in the margins of our society extremely susceptible to even more difficult experiences of homelessness. this summer, sfmta's budget staff met with you all to discuss this department's very large financial deficit. this proposal would waste already limited resources for sfmta at a time when it's trying to avoid cuts to services, improve services for the most marginalized community members. we all know that san francisco lacks enough shelter beds and supportive housing units to meet the demand for families, for seniors, for people with disabilities who are either facing street homelessness or vehicular homelessness. we urge you to stand with our community and to vote against this ban the ban to

overnight parking of people's rvs, their homes. if and when it comes before you. our communities have offered a feasible alternative to vehicle homelessness and it is time to fulfill that promise by opening a safe parking site. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hello, directors. my name is alejandra and i am an artist and community member from d9. i am here to ask you to oppose the proposed citywide ban on overnights overnight. oversize vehicle parking. this will harm people across the city, but especially those who live in rvs, leading to an increase in homelessness. there is not enough deeply affordable housing to begin with, which is why many individuals and families end up living in rvs by banning overnight oversize vehicle parking. it will lead to the displacement and the sheltering of a group of people who are currently sheltered. toes and citations will make it extremely

difficult and expensive for the rv community to maintain their homes. there are currently not enough shelter beds and housing resources, and i ask you to consider the implications of this when 14 when 1400 people are living in their vehicles, please vote against this. if it passes you against this proposal. if it comes to the board instead of pushing for and instead i ask you that you push for safe parking sites to support those living in rvs. thank you for your time. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hello, directors. my name is eliana binder. i'm the policy manager for glide and a member of the end poverty coalition, we were deeply disturbed by the reports of a proposal to ban overnight oversize vehicle parking across the city, which we know would target rvs. this proposal would waste sfmta resources by sending spending funds on towing

vehicles, rather than protecting all the vital services that are currently under threat. in this budget. climate as deeply affordable housing remains out of reach in san francisco, many households are turning to rvs as a form of shelter and housing. we must address this growing community, including tailoring approaches for a diverse population ranging from families to seniors. the 2024 point in time count found that 90% of families experiencing unsheltered homelessness live in their vehicles. family homelessness has been increasing, and there are over 500 families on the family shelter waitlist. displacing and sweeping these households does not get them closer to housing. towing rvs only pushes people deeper into precarity and crisi, often leading to literal street homelessness. with shelters at capacity and with waiting lists, we should do everything we can to stabilize those living in vehicles, including with safe parking sites. the sfmta should partner with hsh and other city

departments on constructive strategies, rather than doubling down on harmful, wasteful approaches. thank you to the directors who have met with our coalition about this issue. we look forward to engaging with you further. let's work together on a productive, effective solution that benefits people living in rvs housed sf residents and the sfmta. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker please. our read more speaker cards as well. alicia virginia taylor, candy smallwood, melody. okay greetings, directors. my name is gulab musa and i'm the community engagement manager with episcopal community services. i am deeply concerned about the proposed ban on all overnight rv parking in san francisco. this ban is not a solution. it's a step backward, towing and impounding rvs will force people who are already struggling into even worse conditions, pushing

them into street homelessness, rvs and vehicular homes are a low cost form of housing that provides stability for many san franciscans. these are just not vehicles. they are people's homes. we're talking about vulnerable residents, families, hard working men and women, and students who rely on their rvs as the only affordable housing option in a city that has failed to follow through on its promises. these are people trying to survive in an expensive city that has yet to provide them with a safe park, a parking space for their vehicles instead of offering solutions. this ban will only add to their hardship, forcing them into a cycle of instability and homelessness. what's even more disappointing is that the city has not delivered on their promise for safe parking sites. instead of criminalizing poverty, we should start investing in solutions that protect these hardworking individuals and families. safe parking sites would give vehicular housed individuals a place to live without the constant fear of towing or

ticketing. i urge that you stop this ban and work on real, compassionate solutions, forcing people from their rvs onto the streets will only deepen the crisis. we need action, not punishment. thank you. thank you for sharing your perspectives. next speaker, please. hi directors. my name is hans wenger. i'm a d7 resident and i'm a muni rider. i'm here today to urge you not to pass the proposed citywide ban on overnight oversize vehicle parking. if and when it comes before you. i hope nobody here today would disagree that sfmta and the work it does every day is important to the future of this city, and there are a lot of other ways i'd like to see all of you and the sfmta staff spend their limited resources and time, especially as we continue to face a rash of traffic deaths and continued uncertainty at the fiscal future of our transportation system. the reality is this our neighbors who live in rvs and cars aren't going to disappear

because of this policy. the only thing this proposal is going to do is increase street homelessness and punish some of our most vulnerable residents and neighbors for being poor. we need you, the sfmta board, to push for safe parking sites, and as a city, we need to push for safe, deeply affordable and accessible housing for all. so i'm imploring you to keep the agency's focus where it should be on ensuring that the bus lines and muni lines we all ride every day keep operating after july 2025. sfmta has better things to do than join in with our city's failed attempt to criminalize homelessness. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. i have a question. are we supposed to wait to hear our names before we talk? you can go ahead and speak. okay. well, my name is yolanda, and i've been two meetings. i am a volunteer with the coalition and homeless, and i've been to meetings with arby's on winston drive. and i

know for the last 2 or 3 years, there's been, i mean, one of the supervisors said she wanted a bike lane because she has a bike and she drives. she rides a bike to work. so she displays a lot of rb folks on winston drive who were trying to get housing. i was at the meetings when the city center and city services, there was also the case of not enough parking. so yeah, let's have instead of the vehicles being parked parallel, let's have them parked diagonally. so that and so a lot of other folks were displaced people in arby's because they needed a parking lot. how about them? i've spoken with those people. some of them have children. some of them, they relied on the neighborhood. they relied on each other to protect each other, to be there for sugar, a spoon or whatever, you know. so how about those people? and now a lot. i heard also that some of the fountain housing for some of the people i

think was on winston drive with children, how about those without children, couples, you know, couples or individuals, these people, they work. most of them are workers because they they've been able to buy an rv. and what are they going to do? they're going to lose their rv. that's not right. that's their property that they purchased. that's their labor. it's their home. what's going to happen to that? and then to have them, be go where homeless. i've been in the shelter. there's stabbings. there's robbing people who yell, they get thrown out in the middle of the night when it's raining. i mean, i've witnessed to that shelters are not the answer. you've got to provide housing. you've got to provide safe parking spaces. i'm sure the people in san francisco were willing to pay a tax and something to provide housing for these people. help them. don't be their enemies. have them look up to the city. have them respect the city, not have hostility. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please.

hi everyone. my name is karina gryska, i'm a citizen who lives in district three. thank you, like many people today, i came to the meeting in support of my neighbors who live in rvs, but i wasn't originally going to speak. i was here to listen and observe and. i don't like this kind of attention, but there was something that happened on the way to the meeting that made me want to stand up, i live in nob hill, and, sometimes i take the cable car. it's the easiest way for me to get up and down the hill. and, there was another person i was talking to at the stop. and he was a really nice guy. and he had dirty clothes. and when we went to both board the people on the cable car, looked at him and they said, you

can't ride. and then he said, i'm with her. and i said, yes, he's with me. and, they said, fine, you can ride this time. and then at the next stop, the, the staff almost encouraged everyone to get off and go on the other side of the cable car every single person left and went on the other side. and when we got off at the bottom of the hill, one of the workers said to me, he said, it's time to get out of here and take your boyfriend with you. i wanted to tell this story because you, as board members, are leaders in this community, and you set an example for how citizens and people who don't have currently homes are citizens of this city. you set an example on how these people should be treated. okay, now i don't have dirty clothes, but so i pass. but i am homeless. i'm in transitional housing right now, but i am long

term homeless and i'm doing well. and the reason for that is because i was allowed to live in my car and be saved from the indignities and the struggles of street homelessness, and that's how i was able to get into recovery. thank you for your comment. i just i have to give everyone the same amount of time. i understand your time. thank you for listening. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. i am jennifer friedenbach. i'm director of the coalition on homelessness. i'm actually going to do something a little different. i'm going to speak as a d9 resident, because i'm going to say some stuff i can't really say in that role. i just want to point out that we have someone running for president right now that is scapegoating immigrants. and i want to ask you all, how different is that from this situation? so in scapegoating immigrants, they had to have first step is to demonize the population. right? so eating

dogs or whatever eating pets was the was the way. so here what we're seeing and we've we've been through this before. i've been through this before. i've been in a lot of mayoral elections. so it's very clear what's happening here. it's also scapegoating immigrants, although they're calling them rv dwellers. and they're also demonizing them. you know, maybe there's a story someone dumped some sewage and there's a complaint about that. and then that turns into this whole overblown thing that probably never even happened because there's no proof of it. right same thing with this whole eating pets thing. that's step one. and then there's this move to just shun and banish an entire class of people. and we're also demonizing them by saying that they're refusing services. that's been said publicly. many times by public officials. when we've been there all along with these families. and we know that half of the families that were displaced did not qualify for housing, did not

qualify. okay. so they're stuck out there because of high rents. we've got school starting. and i just want to point out because there's so many families in rvs at this point, the most important thing for homeless children is stability. stability. there are solutions. they affect kids permanently when they're homeless for more than nine months. the impacts are permanent. thank you, thank you. next speaker, please. hi, i'm ocean blue coast with senior and disability action senior and disability action organizes and educates over 1000 seniors and people with disabilities around transit, housing and other important issues. the 2024 point in time count respondents self-reported that 42% of the

8300 plus people experiencing homelessness have a disability, 15% identified as 55 or older. a third of the people who are unhoused in san francisco live in vehicular homes. the plan to tow family homes will most impact the over 400 unhoused families in san francisco, 90% who live in their vehicles. i am someone who experienced homelessness, living in an unsafe, homophobic shelters until i was able to access a friend's car to live in while i waited for an sro room, the car provided me safety, privacy, and a community of other people living in cars that looked out for each other to keep us safe. we only had to move the cars once a week for street cleaning. some housed neighbors looked out for us and told us that we helped to keep the neighborhood clean, safe, and deter, break ins. right now, the city has over 700 available housing units sitting empty. yet there is no plan to fill these units. and when we build affordable housing, it's built for people with middle or high incomes.

that housing sits vacant because no one who needs affordable housing can pay the high rents, even in so-called affordable housing. and yet, the city is okay with letting developers out of affordable housing requirements so that profit pencils out. meanwhile, the city is on the hook to build over 40,000 units of affordable housing and has no plan. so a solution for those in most need is an rv or a vehicle. what solutions are offered to families, seniors and people with disabilities is inadequate. a shelter is not housing a tiny, cramped sro room like i currently currently live in is not dignified. long term affordable housing solutions. towing a vehicle does not increase the number of permanent housing units. temporary shelter beds or long term parking spots in san francisco. it's just a mean spirited policy meant to demonize people with permanent homes. that's your time. thank you so much. next speaker, please. good afternoon. my name is alicia, and i'm the policy and organizing manager at

compass family services. i strongly urge this board to please not pass the proposed citywide ban on overnight oversize vehicle parking. this will harm people across the city, especially those living in rvs and increased street homelessness. at compass, we continue to see firsthand that the family system is overwhelmed and oversaturated, in which there are 530 families on the shelter waitlist as of this week. if the ban is passed, the families living in rvs will have nowhere to go and will have no choice but to join the shelter waitlist. this displacement will be especially traumatic for children, with the sfusd school year having just started. these children are at risk of being unable to stay in the same school or maintain consistent attendance due to being displaced and homeless. this instability means that the children will fall behind in their education and will ultimately lead to a cycle of homelessness. we are urging you to vote against this proposal if

it comes to this board, and to instead push for safe parking sites to support people who are living in rvs. the city does not have enough shelter beds to offer the over 1400 people living in their vehicles in san francisco, and enacting a citywide ban would only push them into tents and deeper instability. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hello, directors. my name is candy smallwood. i grew up in public housing in the bayview and now i live in the western addition. and i just want you to take a moment to think about, do you know what it's like to lose all your belongings multiple times, like everything you own? do you know what it's like to go to work or go to school, or try to get food and to find out that every single thing you own is gone and you have to start over

again and again and again, because that's what's going to happen to at least 1400 people who are living in rvs. if this ban is passed, because most people who get their who get their rvs towed do not get their rvs back, most people who get their rvs towed do not get their belongings back. and i don't even want to imagine what that's like. i've never had to experience this, but this is the idea that we're pass. we're trying to pass policies that cause people to lose every single thing they have their birth certificates, their id cards, their clothing. i have a jacket that i love. it would suck if i lost it. do you have belongings that you would hate to lose? i urge you to not pass this policy because we don't need more policies that punish people simply because they cannot afford to live in this

city, because that's what we're doing. this city is expensive. i grew up here. i'm surprised i can i'm still here. my siblings have been pushed out and all we're going, all we're doing is we're just going to constantly try to pass these policies that do nothing but cause harm. and if you guys pass this just remember that all the when you pass this, all these people are going to lose everything they've owned. again and again and again. so i urge you to just think about that and not pass this policy. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please read more speaker cards. jose lucas molin, armando martinez. good hello, my name is melody. i've been living in an rv in the bayview since the year 2000. since the two of

excuse me, 2008, i've been seeking services to the city and county of san francisco since the year 2000. and i'm just basically a human ping pong ball between all these agencies. oh, we don't do that. they do that or we don't do that. they do that or we don't do that, but go here, go there, go there, i was swept last week and i've been hysterical and crying ever since. there's nowhere to go. we have nowhere to go. and when the police and the homeless outreach team come, i've been swept so many times. i've just been become a rubber ball bounced against these agencies and just. it's just been a revolving door. i have a traumatic brain injury

from when i was age two, there's no help because there's no paper trail leading from the time that the brain injury happened. i want to let everybody know that 58% of the homeless population sustained a head injury prior to becoming homeless. i have been in the system since the year 2000. there is no services at all for traumatic brain injury and memory problems. please, please don't pass this. thank you. thank you so much for listening. thank you for being here and for sharing your experience with us. next speaker, please. hello, i'm

virginia taylor, i'm a former housing lawyer and the current policy advisor at safe and sound. safe and sound is the lead agency at the san francisco family support alliance, a network of 40 family support agencies, including 26 organizations funded by the department of early childhood family resource center initiative, do not pass the proposed citywide ban on overnight oversize vehicle parking when it comes to your desk, this will harm the high number of families and children across the city who live in rvs and force those children to sleep on the street. the impact of homelessness and unstable housing on children is devastating. safe and sound, which merged with the center for youth wellness, knows that homelessness and early childhood is an adverse childhood experience. aces caused toxic stress that disrupts brain development and leads to long term health and educational problems. kids who are homeless as adults and kids who are homeless when they're adults have worse health outcomes, and

that means they die earlier. in addition, the latinx families who live in these rvs are at risk of getting reported to cps for maltreatment neglect. in 2020, two, latinx children comprised of the highest population of total referrals to cps in san francisco. however we know that these referrals for maltreatment are typically not sustainable and are due to the whole family's poverty and need not intentional withholding of basic needs. this is discriminatory. disproportionate reaction is not something latinx families should have to deal with. all children deserve safe housing with their families. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hello i'm flo kelly and i volunteer with the coalition on homelessness, and i really appreciate that the wide majority of people who are

looking at me in front of me, you're actually looking at me and i appreciate that very much. so on march 3rd, 2020, just before shelter in place, director jeffrey tomlin and the board of directors heard public comment by attorneys, advocates and people who live in their vehicles, all of them speaking about the need to park, knowing that their homes, which are their vehicles, should not be towed at that moment in time. director tomlin said, and i quote word for word, when i first moved to san francisco a very long time ago, i lived in my car, and living in my car meant that i had a place to keep my stuff dry and a place to sleep safely, and by washing up in the gas station, i could make myself presentable, such that it was possible for me to connive a landlord into renting to me a studio apartment, even though i

was unemployed. that then in turn allowed me to find temp work, and if my car had been towed during those weeks of living in my car, i probably wouldn't be here today. so, director tomlin, i appreciate your honesty and heartfelt empathy that you expressed in 2020, and i hope that you carry that empathy with you today. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hi. my name is armando bravo martinez. armando bravo, martinez. and i urge you to not pass this resolution or whatever it's called, because it just does not make any sense for a city that is known for its compassion. it's known for its outreach to people who need

help, who offer a lending hand. this is no way to lend a helping hand. and i think we all know that, just recently on september 7th, my little. emotional support animal, audrey was hit and was hit. was a victim of hit and run. and on folsom street. and it's because she was running after a friend and, well, i just can't help but think that if we had a more dignified place to park our place to park our streets to park our home, rather than in the middle of the stree, this wouldn't have happened. it could have been a child. it couldn't have been an older person. so i urge you to think about those things when you vote. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hi. hi. my name is josi.

i'm here because i came with my friend, to speak in the this microphone. the things that is happening in san francisco is that they increase the rent every year. the rent must not be increased. at least they can do it better every 50, 50 years. at least $100 every 50 years, or every 25 years. they must not do that, because that's the reason why we got too many homeless in the in the city, in nobody try to help them. they look the homeless once they say they're going to make food for the homeless, they prepare exactly. just the food for some people that is a homeless, the homeless, it has the right to eat like everybody else, eat in a restaurant. and that's the problem that we have in san francisco. the homeless need

help. the police come and tow the trucks. they tow and tow away the motorhomes. they had to leave on the sidewalk because they took everything that they have. and the problem? why they they cannot help the homeless, they just try to give the homeless a hard time everywhere. the city does what it does. just trying to destroy life because they. i have a lot of homeless friends and they need to do something first thing the city need to do is to write to every homeless, a brand new motorhome, because i see that those that are living in the motorhome, those who are, are being are not good. they need something to have a place to cook a place to take a good shower. and while the city get a house for everyone, this is like emergenc.

they need to. every homeless need to have a brand new motorhome in the city so they they can they can live different life while the city get their own house somewhere there in california. concludes your time. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker please. i'll read more cards. merida velasquez, silverio perez, walter mejia, selena smith, gabriel mullin. hi directors. my name is lucas isla. i'm a human rights organizer at the coalition on homelessness. but i speak to you even though in a sweatshirt representing that as a district nine resident, i want to speak to a couple of things. one of which is why we don't have safe parking sites right now, why we only have one that is at one fifth capacity, and that is it's not sfmta board's fault in part i would say, but it is because of the capitulating to a certain demographic of citizens in this

city who don't want safe parkin. and it's the citizens who are best known as those with homes and those with homes and of certain class identities. their concerns are always brought forth. they're always they jump the line. you can even see it in public records requests through the communication channels of sfmta curb management, as well as other departments within sfmta, where you have supervisor legislative aides bringing forth concerns from citizens who see abject poverty, who see the visualization of poverty in tents, in rvs. and they bring forward they bring their concerns to their their district supervisors, legislative aides. you know, these emails come from the mayor's office herself. and immediately the response is sfmta directs an officer out there to make sure that the 72 hour rule is being enforced, that there's any possibility

that we can tow that vehicle, their registrations out to date. then that vehicle is getting towed. now, all the folks that come here to speak before you, and they wouldn't have that opportunity if this proposal would go through where the director of transportation would have single handed authority to classify these certain city streets, they wouldn't have that opportunity, and that would choke the only available means they have, because they don't have money and they don't have a valuable vote that's worth listening to. so i really want to be sure that whose voices are being prioritized. thanks. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hello. good afternoon, chair ekin. director tumlin and board members. my name is melina machi cabada and i'm a campaign associate at walk san francisco. i'm here today representing more than 30 community based organizations, nonprofits, and civic groups that are part of the vision zero coalition. these group these groups represent the diversity

of our city groups like chinatown community development center, lighthouse for the blind, coleman advocates, and united players. we believe in vision zero as an approach and as a goal. at its core, vision zero is a commitment to do everything possible to prevent suffering, trauma and tragedy on our streets. you have received a copy of the vision zero safe streets and strong neighborhoods recommendations. our recommendations are the result of months of discussions and research around one big question what is needed for san francisco to accelerate progress on vision zero? the packet you got includes seven recommendations from the vision zero coalition we believe are crucial as san francisco enters its second day, second decade of vision zero. we are looking to you to do everything in your power to enact the recommendations. changes are needed on how projects are prioritized, planned, managed, funded and delivered. the number of people who continue to be hurt and killed in traffic crashes, particularly those outside of a vehicle, shows what the city has

done so far is not yet sufficient for the size and depth of the problem. traffic violence threatens not only our lives, but our quality of life. safe streets are what strong neighborhoods and a thriving, equitable, climate friendly city are built on. thank you for your leadership and commitment to vision zero. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. my name is celine smith. i was born at the presidio. both sides of my family came to san francisco on the same wagon train in 1850. second wagon train after the donner party. my great grandfather was the first highway commissioner. he was a democrat in the true sense of the word. he ended child labor and he doubled the minimum wage from $1 to $2 a day. san

francisco is a democrat city. you folks are acting like republicans, even putting this on the ballot. and i'm appalled. since when is san francisco elitist? since when is san francisco just made up of $300,000 a year plus earners? do you not have enough money from the property tax on every building here in the city to run things properly? and why cannot a few people myself included, live in an rv if we so choose? it's a choice. it's a choice. i don't want to pay rent. i can't afford rent. have any of you taken uber or lyft lately? i'm a lyft driver. i get paid 4 or $5 a fare and i have to pay for my

car, my insurance, my registration, my gas, my car maintenance. how are you affording to live here? when we can barely afford it? and how can you put us under your heel when we're just trying to help you get along to by saving you money on the things that you use every day? so i'm a true san franciscan, and i ask you to act like democrats and not dinos. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. good afternoon. my name is marissa villagomez. i'm a case manager, family advocate at la raza community resource center at la raza crc. we provide social services and immigration support to primarily monolingual spanish speakers. i'm here to voice my concern over the proposed citywide ban on rv parking, and the adverse impact it would have on families

already facing extreme hardship. the family shelter system is not an option, with over 500 families on the waitlist, it is imperative that safe parking sites are prioritized and that a moratorium on parking citations and towing is passed immediately. while we work together to find a humane and just solution. convening meetings with impacted families to hear their stories, along with trusted service providers, the faith based community, and other key players would go a long way to establish dialog and trust. cultural and language competency is critical to help minimize miscommunication with vulnerable communities experiencing multiple barriers, including language, immigration status, public charge concerns, economic instability and trauma. in august, we provided on site outreach and assessment to the families on zoo road. although the families received housing subsidy and the process was

expedited, other families who also lived on winston drive, as well as numerous families scattered throughout the city, remain unhoused and with no safe parking sites, continue to be vulnerable and hard to reach by service providers. families don't choose to live in an rv. it is their best option. at this time. i urge you all to veto the ban. thank you, thank you, thank you for your comment for the next two. oh, thank you for translating. okay buenas tardes, senora torres. my name is walter vicente mejia. antes yo vivo en un rv yo estaba en wisdom. luego de ahi los tuvieron al lado de zoologico y luego dijeron no podia estar no podriamos estacionar ahi lo van a levantar

en la droga. entonces mi miedo fue mover mi de ahi y hoy vivo ahi en la merced a store barquero. good afternoon directors. my name is walter vicente mejia. i was living in an rv on winston road and we were evicted from that site. we were initially moved to zoo road but we were informed that we were going to be towed. so i left and now i'm living in lake merced. but. but in the rv stil. quisiera a ustedes a los estoy esperando me dijeron lo van a dar un lugar seguro de para vivir y no me han contestado por eso vengo a decirle a ustedes a decirle necesitamos lo estamos ahi o yo llevo tres anos en mi rb y necesito un lugar seguro y so i come to you asking that,

that i need a safe space. i've been in the rv for three years, and i was told that i was going to be able to get secured housing and although a lot of my, the rv families, we are a community, they received housing. i didn't because i left there because i was fearful. so i'm coming here to ask you that we need help. yeah esto lo ultimo espero a ustedes qué me responden por mi petisyon para los estamos ahi. estamos conscientes q no es un lugar apropiado si. pero no tenemos para pagar la renta three mil dolares. no tengo yo trabajo si. pero no tengo no me alcanza para pagar un apartamento. i'm conscious that this is not the right place to be staying at. but i can't afford the rent in the city. i work, but we can't afford it. so i'm pleading with

you to help us. a esto lo ultimo y pasa muy buenas tardes. that's my final thought. and have a great afternoon. thank you, thank you. next speaker, please. hola. buenas tardes. mi nombre es silverio zepeda. yo, vivo en una urbe. este pues no creo q todas las personas. somos ahi. somos malas personas. yo conozco a todos mis vecinos trabajamos somos gentes q trabajamos ahi practicamente le paso casi todos trabajando y todos mis vecinos. somos iguales tratamos de basura de q este este limpio y entre todos nos ayudamos y solamente. good afternoon. my name is alvaro cepeda. i live in an rv

and not everybody who's living in an rv. doesn't take care of their area. i know all my neighbors and we all help each other. we're all working people. i work pretty much the whole da, and we're not all doing bad things. pues, si yo no quisiera pedirle ayuda, pero no, no ningun problema solo nos dejaron vivir en nuestras ayerbe seria. bueno qanon hubieran porque pues es una experiencia bonita a estar ahi porque a veces no bueno. en mi caso. no tengo para pagar no alcanza para para una renta porque a veces trabajo a veces no. pero si quisiera fueran conscientes dejaron vivir ahi. i don't necessarily am asking for assistance. what i'm asking for is that you allow us to stay and let us live where we're at with the rvs. again, you know, i'm a working person,

the families are working people, and we ask that or i ask that you give us the a safe location to continue parking there. e por qué no seria algo no es bonito. no, no seria algo agradable q uno llegue y el rv ya no esté y se vayan todas las cosas q. uno ha logrado poco a poco porque pues lo poquito q. uno va haciendo pues esta guardado ahi en la ropa cosas personales y cuando llega q. ya no estén. it would be good to see that you come home and your rv is gone. it's gone with not only the rv but all your critical documents, your clothes, everything else, all your belongings. it wouldn't be nice to come home to, to see that. it was quisiera q q pues no ha acabo eso porque pues no

tenemos otro lugar y estaria pues nos dejaron mi ver ahi no creo q no estamos a nadie en cada quien busca su parco como sea como puede sin. si nosotros el trafico i urge you not to pass the ban. we because i can't really afford anywhere else. and again, we just want a safe spac. bueno, gracias. y espero q pues lo acabo eso. thank you. and i hope that you don't pass the ban. thank you. thank you for sharing your views. next speaker, please. hi, there. excuse me. my name is evie. i first i want to say thank you for my bus drivers. thank you to the bus drivers. and thank you to my taxi drivers especially, and i also want to thank you in

advance for not passing this draconian ban on, oversize vehicles, providing shelter, and while they're parked on the streets, these are not oversize vehicles. these are undersized homes, i'm part of, an interfaith group of folks. nueva esperanza accompaniment teams. and, right now i'm in a i am accompanying a family of five, a mother to a teenagers and an infant who has severe disabilities. they are about to exit their shelter, the mother is a victim of domestic violence

who fled from guyana, who fled from a situation. you just simply don't even want to imagine or know about in any wa, and the infant, she carried over severely disabled. if she came. okay. half year old, the teenagers, though, in reading and preparing their lives, the children who have witnessed domestic violence are part of a vast, very distressed and disturbed population. they are about to exit shelter and as i'm listening to all this, i think of the kids. those kids who would then be in a trailer and witnessing stuff like the police coming and watching their home towed away. so i'm asking you, please, let's find us. we can do that. so thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hello. my name is lucas

chamberlain. i'm here standing for you to ask. please not pass this cruel. inhumane law or whatever it is this agenda made by gavin newsom and london bree. they don't know what people are going through in lake merced. my friend lost his dog, my neighbor lost his dog. and then four days later, lost his van. 76 years old. and he's a citizen. he is a veteran and could you imagine what this guy is going through? could you imagine what families are going through there at lake merced? i know there's people there that do horrible things, but not everyone. not everyone

there is doing this and that. you know, i make sure that the air is clean and my neighbors as well. but there are rotten apples out there, and i think the city should go after them. it's just not fair for people that are working hard and trying to make a living. and what what this mayor and the governor is doing, they are ruining people's lives and stress and it's ruining with their health. and it's just not right. i worked really hard. i got assaulted by uber passenger. i almost got into accidents. i couldn't afford to live in a home. i lived with 5 to 8 people in a two bedroom. i tried really hard to survive in san francisco, and i love san francisco. i don't know where else to go. i have a surgery coming up next week and

i'm scrambling and running around trying to find a place, and it's not possible. we need housing. we need a place to live and be happy and work hard and enjoy life. not run around like rats looking for this and that. comment i need to thank you so much for everything, and please look into your souls and think about what you're doing. thank you. do we have additional speakers in the room today under general public comment? good afternoon commissioners. my name is gabriel medina, like many in this room, we're very moved by lucas's testimony. i really want to thank the rv residents who have to risk losing their rvs just by being here. think about that. this is their home. as another speaker said, losing

everything they own. these are their 400 families experiencing homelessness in san francisco. 90% of them are in cars in san francisco. at lloyd austin community resource center, our mission is to serve as a bridge between san francisco, our sanctuary city, and spanish speaking immigrant families with immigration, legal services, social services, basic needs. we saw the stories the video of zoo road, 100% latino families, most of them immigrant, vulnerable to deportation because they were going to be towed. and on the street. this is unforgivable. the city has first tried policing the homeless and having them cleared. then they've tried dpw. now they're asking for parking control officers to do the criminalization and put these folks in poverty. they just want a home. if you want clear streets, if you want to

invest in your transit without spending 250,000 a year for this parking ban without spending millions of dollars to build it, safe parking. this has worked. we had it in my neighborhood at balboa bart station out there. we had it. it worked. every neighborhood needs to share in this, since covid, there's been a 55% increase in latino homelessness, we see it. some of our programs are 80% homeless. this has become a huge problem. so please, you know, don't don't put folks on the street and have sfmta's do our transit that it does. well, we appreciate you. thank you. thank you for your comment. any other speakers in the room today under general public comment? hola. buenas tardes. mi nombre es eliseo. yo tengo un ano y medio viviendo un urb. good afternoon. my name is

elisa. i've been living in an rv for a year and a half. nada es un como bueno. es donde estoy yo o perdon. el cuidar el espacio bueno si es cuidamos el espacio y también mantenemos limpio el area donde estamos nosotros para tratar es el vecino. bueno la persona ratito es parte de mi calle y tratamos de mantener limpio y pues igual moderna las personas no son adecuadas porque hay llegan personas no, pero we try to keep the area clean and remove people that are not taking care of the area because, you know, as neighbors, we want to take care of our, our area. e basicamente pues al pedimos no toman accion quieren hacer de movernos porque tratamos de

quedarnos entre los estamos en nuestra calle ser, pues ayudanos entre nosotros mismos, porque no queremos llegar también de la casa y en este o algo asi. pero siempre tienen tenemos qué movernos como lo de la barredora y eso nos vemos como a veces nos cambiamos de lugar porque ele basicamente le la calle donde estamos pues hemos tenido problemas. gracias a dios y pues le digo eso nos tratamos de quedarnos entre nosotros para qué no. we ask that you do not pass the ban, we you know, we take care of our area, when it's time to do the sweep cleaning, we move, you know, we move and we might just shift around. but, you know, we do take care of our area. basicamente es eso no apoyan porque es igual yo vengo de trabajo también no soy una persona de mal soy una persona.

pues basicamente el el estar viviendo con otras personas con otras personas. no muchas veces con cuerda uno con las personas y basicamente, pues me gusta estar alejado de personas no son como de bueno de buen ver. oh no, no, no te apoyan y we urge you again not to vote for the ban. and we i'm a working person. i just came from work and sometimes living with other people is not a good fit. so i'm a loner, but again, urge you not to vote for the ban. per se. eso es maquina todo por no no lo hacemos al menos yo. no nadie no lo hacemos dano a nadie a tratamos de cuidar el espacio tratamos de q. pues no, no haya malos incidentes para para todos para todos. porque estamos comunidad again urge you, to, you know, help us. and we're

here not to hurt anyone, but to leave and live peacefully. gracias por por esto. tenemos venir somos parte de nosotros. mas quiero pues yo dar mi punto de vista porque si nos. nos cuesta y pues igual todos trabajamos todos tenemos. qué movernos tenemos buscar un estabilidad. mas bien tranquila donde no tenga tengamos paz y paz con uno mismo. i'm part of the community and i'm here to again, you know, we're working people and we want to live in peace. that's probably the about eight seconds left. that's probably not as much time as we have. okay, solo. gracias. y pues, no nos. okay. thank you. and please support us. thank you. thank you for your comment.

there are no further speakers in the room. are there anyone remote? we do have one remote. okay speaker, you've been unmuted. you have two minutes. this is herbert weiner. i definitely think there should be a ban on towing because you're creating a whole population and it's it can be prevented. proposal should be towed away. don't tow away innocent people. now secondly, my concern is about we need more public transportation. you know, in the last ten years, the reliability of public transportation has progressively diminished. compare the bus line today to the bus lines. and ten years ag,

you know, there's a significant difference with the public spaces and the rest of it. now, of course, mta can give all sorts of explanations for it, but explanation simply won't do. we need more public servants. and, you know, this should be a top priority. and mta owes it to the public. you work for us, not you. don't work for you. thank you. thank you. no additional callers. thank you, secretary silva. so with that, we'll biden administration capitol riot biden administration. biden administration. council members for their contribution to doordash or more importantly, the hamilton county development.

i didn't really quite understand your question, but perhaps streets director victoria wise can help direct you to the right person. thank you, director tomlin. okay with that? we're close. public comment, on general public comment item nine. and move on to the next item, please. director, is that places you on item ten, the consent calendar. these items are considered to be routine and will be acted upon by a single vote. unless a member of the board of public wishes to consider an item separately. for all speakers providing public comment, please identify which item number you are speaking to. item 10.1 approving various routine parking and traffic modifications, and making environmental review findings for those items listed as 10.1 a through h in the agenda item. 10.2 approving contract number sfmta 202452 lock with claremont behavioral services to provide the employee assistance program, peer assistance program, critical incidents program as

needed. substance abuse professional services as needed. conflict resolution training and related professional services. collectively, employee assistance services for a base term of five years with a not to exceed amount of approximately $1.9 million, and two options to extend the term by two two year periods for approximately $793,000 and $817,000, respectively, for a total amount not to exceed over nine years, and approximately $3.5 million. item 10.3 authorizing the director of transportation to execute contract modification number one to contract number 1296r. muni metro system automatic train control system. subway wiring replacement. van ness with phoenix electric company to extend the contract term. adjust the quantity in the schedule of bid prices to reflect the actual quantity of work performed, and to close out the contract. this modification decreases the contract amount by approximately $59,000, for a total contract amount of

approximately $1.8 million, and increases the overall contract time to two. substantial completion by 372 days, for a total contract time of 647 days to substantial completion. item 10.4 authorizing the director of transportation to execute modification number five to contract number 130 for muni metro system. king substation upgrade with dmc builders to adjust the quantity to reflect the actual quantity performed and compensate the contractor for extended overhead and additional costs due to differing site conditions, substation improvements and resilience upgrades and design errors and omissions in the amount of approximately $1.1 million, increasing the total contract amount to approximately $16.5 million, and to extend the contract term by 135 days to a total of approximately 1800 days to substantial completion. to close out the contract and make making environmental review findings. item 10.5 amending the

transportation code division two, section 702 to reduce the speed limit on safety corridors from 35mph to 30mph on four street segments, alemany boulevard between junipero serra boulevard and mission street overpass. bayshore boulevard between hester avenue north intersection and the county line geneva avenue between moscow street and the county line. and sloat boulevard between 39th avenue and great highway, reduce the speed limit from 30mph to 25mph on two street segments. fulton street between arguello boulevard and great highway, and san jose avenue between randall and guerrero streets, and reduce the speed limit from 25mph to 20mph on mission street between third street and 12th street. that concludes your consent calendar. thank you, secretary silva, colleagues, are there any comments or questions on the consent calendar? seeing none, i'll open it to public comment on the consent calendar today. any commenters? none in the room. any remote. okay. we'll

close public comment. may i have a motion and a second on the consent calendar? motion to approve. second. thank you. please call the roll on the motion to approve the consent calendar. director heminger. director heminger. hi. director. henderson. henderson. i director hines. i nci. director tarlov i tarlov i director. kahina i kahina i chair egan i again i thank you. the consent calendar is approved. thank you. please call the next item. places you on item number 11. presentation and discussion regarding a muni performance update. okay. are we going to have director kirschbaum remotely again for this one? okay yes. can you see and hear me, yes, we can now. great. and i think i'm going to get some help with the slides, seth, are you able to pull up the first slide? yes, i'm opening it now, no. let me know

when you're ready. where is tha? okay excellent. thank you, julie kirschbaum, the transit director, thank you for your continued patience as i present remotely. if you have any difficulty hearing me, please interrupt, i'm going to give a portion of this presentation, and then i'm going to turn it over to our maintenance team, to share kind of a deep dive on how we're looking at bus metrics. next slide. director kirshbaum. so, yes, we just had a slide up that said that it was the new

flier hybrid bus procurement. that's that's what you're speaking to for item 11, the muni performance update. there should be three presentations. there this is the one on performance. you want to do the item 11 first. yes. it would have been smart if we'd numbered them. i do not think we did. so that's i don't see it at all. on here. so i delivered earlier, but that was not one. we can try that one if that's okay. this one. is that one? okay. there you go. that looks perfect, we'll be lucky if that's our only hiccup. thank you, i, i

know that there's a strong appetite on the board for a, a consistent either monthly or quarterly performance report, director heminger brought that up. most recently, when discussing what he receives from the caltrain board, we are working, towards that, towards something that captures all of the different metrics we're tracking as an agency, but in a sort of a half step to that, as part of my quarterly transit update, i am going to focus on some of our key metrics. the most important of which is ridership, as this slide shows, we delivered 13 million passenger trips this july. and

kind of astoundingly, that was 1 million more than last year, this strong year over year growth is really exceeding my expectations. and i think really points to our staff's continuous commitment to improve the customer experience and focus on muni that is fast, frequent, reliable, clean and safe. that continues to really be our north star. next slide. when we look at the daily ridership muni riders took on average, 459,000 trips per day in july, this number is a little bit, shy of our total ridership because we don't have automatic passenger counters yet on our cable car, and we just put them on our historic vehicles. so our monthly data does not capture

our historic modes. but again, year over year, 33,000 more daily riders this july than we had last july and july. ridership tends to be a little bit lower than the spring or the fall. school's out. a lot of people are out on on holidays. we also, you know, while fewer people are riding on the weekends, it still continues to be a real bright spot in terms of our overall percent recovery, which i think is shown on the next slide, so as as i was alluding to our weekend recovery is 89%. our strongest day is sunday with 91% recovery, our weekday recovery is 71%, and

that's really in spite of, our downtown recovery, which has been as a city, one of the slowest recoveries coming out of covid. we're seeing the downtown rail stations at only about 36% weekday recovery. and that is tracking with our current low office occupancy due to the shift to remote work and all of the related changes that that has had for our downtown area, we are still committed, to really be, a strong supporter of downtown recovery. so we continue to provide, the service that downtown needs, and are tracking ridership and working very closely with downtown stakeholders as they see changing trends. next slide, and

although the downtown, ridership is low, we are still seeing great year over year growth even on, our rail system and i think the in particular, the chinatown rose park station saw a 50% increase in faregate exits year over year. this is incredible and shows how people are really beginning to learn, the new system, we're also seeing a lot of high ridership attributed to some of the night markets and other community events in chinatown. the chinatown stakeholders are telling us that the station itself is becoming a really important community landmark. you know, people will say, let's meet up at the chinatown rose park station or, hey, that event is happening near the station, which is

really exciting. we want to be deeply built, integrated into the fabric of the communities that we work in, we're on a similar level. we're working with some of the stakeholders in castro station to really see, as they celebrate some of the really important, legacies, that harvey milk has, for, gay rights and civil rights. how the station can be part of that storytelling and placemaking, so really excited to see the rail growth, even as our overall rail system continues to struggle, next slide, the chinatown station is not the only place that we are seeing growth on the t line, when we look at the k

and the t line together, compared to pre-covid, where we ran an inner lined k and t, we're seeing a 96%, pre-covid service levels. that means 32,000 daily riders on the k and the t in july, which is almost equal to the 33,000 we saw on the ktx in july of 2019, next slide. all of these ridership trends are a direct result of our, staff's focus on the customer experience and on service reliability. so in addition to the ridership slides, i want to walk you through some of the slides that are tracking that overall investment, this is a slide that we've been looking at since the end of the pandemic. it shows

how things like our new metro fleet fix it leaks and all of our staff's excellent focus on preventative maintenance has really driven down subway delays. we've cut moderate delays, to just a quarter of what we were seeing in 2019. and longer delays are down over 65%. so we did a lot of campaigning of the subway during covid while it was closed. but we've been able to sustain, that really low level of delay for almost three years now, which is incredible, especially given how antiquated so much of the infrastructure is in the subway. next slide, this slide shows our ten most recovered routes when you compare them to 2019. although, for many of these routes

pre-covid is looking backwards and it's really an opportunity to look forward. we have eight routes that have more riders than we had before the pandemic. this is led by the 49 van ness, we are also exceeding pre-covid ridership. even when we add in the 47 route, which had some overlap with the 49, we also have been looking it's not shown here at some of our lower recovery routes, they tend to be our very low ridership routes, but routes that were connecting into either metro or bart. so routes like the 35 or the 36, the 25 treasure island, plus two of our rail lines, the m and the j, next slide, are in addition

to our more reliable infrastructure and equipment, we're also seeing, really good service reliability, in terms of headway, adherence, we shifted to managing our frequent routes. based on how often they were supposed to come and during covid, because that's essentially how the customers experience the service. we have very few frequent routes where a customer is out there expecting the 813, trip. what they're expecting is if the route comes every ten minutes, that they're not waiting more than ten minutes, we measure headway by what is the frequency of the route. so is it every eight minutes? every ten minutes or every 12 minutes? plus about 5%. so if you're expecting a bus to

come every ten minutes and it's not there for 15 minutes, that really starts to be a problem, i'm thrilled to report that, you know, system wide, we are seeing 88%, headway adherence and our metro and rapid routes are as high as 89%. headway adherence. the really top performers are, routes where we've made investments in transit priority, the 14 rapid and the 38 rapid. as well as the 55 dogpatch, which runs on 16th street, and the 45 and the nine rapid. next slide, across the transit division, customer experience is our north star, and so we've really shaped our, our data

program to help us better reflect the customer experience in our metrics, one example is how we use crowding data, before the pandemic, we measured crowding in in two hour windows of time. and we were mostly looking at averages. since covid, we've actually been looking at 15 minute trends. so that if we have a spike in crowding, for example, everybody's trying to get to school. we see that now in our data, and we can make very precise service changes that address it. next slide, as i said, we've also switched to headway management again because of how the customers experience, our service. we've given operators information about how close they're getting to the vehicle in front of them so they can make some self adjustments. and then we're also supporting that service in our control

center and with our supervisors on the ground, next slide, i, i think i've covered this as well. this is, i think just us showing off that, you know what? we're what you're seeing at the stop is also how we are thinking about the route. how often is it coming? what are our wait times? next slide, i think the another kind of example of how we are looking at data is with service delivery, prior to covid, as you know, we had a very rich level of service on paper. but then every day we were letting our customers down because we were missing hundreds and hundreds of trips, since the pandemic, we've really rebuilt how we plan and schedule service, so that it

doesn't just look good on paper, but that customers experience good service every day. we aim to get 100% of planned service out on our streets and our tracks, and we don't schedule more than we can consistently deliver. next, next slide, what i want to talk about next is, is an example of how every quarter we are getting better at using data to inform decision making. and one of the, improvements that we're going to be rolling out this month has to do with our, bus maintenance and how we track vehicle breakdowns, i'm really excited to have, our chief mechanical officer, mike henry here, mike has been acting in the role for about six months. he was the deputy chief maintenance officer prior to

that, to. but he's been acting in the role since louis guzzo's retirement, and i'm thrilled as of friday, mike has accepted the permanent position, mike has been a critical component of my leadership team, really building on what brant and charles and others are trying to do to help. really listen, and uplift staff voices. and provide opportunities for new ideas to come to the table. mike has done a lot to empower his superintendents and his senior staff to have hard conversations. and, that approach has led to really having, i think, a hard conversation about how we approach our bus data, and to recommend some changes that we

believe is going to lead to a better alignment of our bus data with our customer experience, so with that, i'm going to turn it over to mike and to his senior maintenance controller, seth doran. mike, are you there? yes, i'm here. thank you. one of the things that i noticed once i took the role of acting chief mechanical officer was we had an opportunity to enhance our customer experience as a san francisco native and rider of muni, i understood the importance of having reliable, safe, and on time service. and so what i wanted to do in this

role is ensure that my team was using the most accurate data to steer our performance programs, our preventative maintenance programs, to really enhance even further our customer satisfaction. so what we're going to be doing, moving forward is we're shifting our reporting data from mean distance between failure, which you see on the screen, which reported the failures of vehicles that broke down and were had to be taken back to the shop. and now what we're doing is we're documenting and reporting, mean distance between service interruptions, because those are the things that our customers see. they don't see necessarily all of our numbers that we put out, but they see when that vehicle doesn't show up on time when they're trying to get somewhere. so a part of this presentation today is going to be seth talking about how this new reporting matrix will help us increase our vehicle reliability, decrease some of

our service delays while providing that better service that we all think the public need. so with without further ado, i'll turn it over to seth durand, who is my senior maintenance controller and really supports removing retracted getting all of the data gathered up for me. he's the guy that's in charge of pulling these reports, sharing them with my team so we can effectively impact our performance and our preventative maintenance programs. seth. all right. good afternoon. board members and director tomlin. we'll jump right into it. i'm going to go into a little bit of a deeper dive into the change between mdf and msi. so when reporting using the mdf method, our priority was keeping vehicles in service versus sending them back to the shop. however, what we're learning is that repairs on the road aren't always the most efficient way of repairing a vehicle, the mdf method focused on reporting only the mechanical defects that

ended a vehicle service by sending it back to the division, versus ones that caused trips within the scheduled service to be missed or delayed. and that resulted in an average mechanical road call delay of about an hour, with some delays extending as much as four hours. so this is a comparison of the two methods of reporting under the mdf method. failures were only reported if we were unable to restore service, which means that the vehicle was sent into the division for repair versus being repaired on the road. vehicles. the vehicle delay time was not considered. vehicles waiting for a mechanic to repair them, they sorry vehicles waited on the road for waiting for a mechanic to repair the failure, which resulted in extended service delays. and there was also a reporting exemption if a failure occurred within the last 30 minutes of the revenue service. that's what we were

calling a pull in trip. and that was making it non-reportable and certain failures were excluded from some of our reports such as failures in tires, because those were contracted services under the msi reporting method, failures are reported if the vehicle doesn't complete its current scheduled revenue trip, or it doesn't start its next scheduled trip on time, any service delay makes the call reportable. there's no incentive for us to wait for mechanics if we know that we're not going to be able to repair that vehicle and put it back in service, we can just get it back to the shop, there's also no exemption for the near end of service calls. the only exemption is for the, for a failure that we're able to repair at the terminal during the operator's layover, which generally is about 10 to 15 minutes. and in the new reporting method, all mechanical failures are reported. nothing's excluded, even contracted services. the new reporting

method, we believe, is going to increase our reliability, because when all defects matter, all defects are going to be addressed. our past practice caused us to focus our efforts on reducing the chargeable defects that caused a vehicle to be sent into the division. the. our maintenance staff is always is always looking for ways to improve and better data reporting is going to help them respond more efficiently. with a renewed focus on all failures, we're going to incentivize more thorough inspections, along with double checks for overlooked items such as open panels and doors within the vehicle. prior to this new methodology, we were averaging up to 21 panels per month left open as a result of our new approach to data management. the count in august of these open panel issues was the lowest it's been in the past three years. here's a here's a

visual of what the new format looks like. and we understand that the change in reporting numbers will look large initially. when you look at it dropping from 10,000 miles in between failures to just under four. but in the end, this new method of tracking our data is going to make us more efficient and give us better maintenance practices. if we look at this snapshot of previous years data formatted using the new msi methodology, you can see that not only have we been improving in maintenance, but our percentage of increase in reliability was actually understated. using the mdf method. this increase is due to the combination of the replacement of our aging equipment and our commitment to improving our maintenance practices, which is highlighted by our ability to maintain these years of road called data within our asset management systems. so we're confident that this new method methodology is going to

allow us to perform at an even higher level moving forward. and with that, i'll turn it back over to julie. i thank you so much, seth and mike, next slide, so as i said previously, this change in measurement is just one part of our overall shift to make our data collection more customer centric, at the end of the day, the experience of our customers is the most important metric. and we believe that shifting to dsi better reflects how customers actually experience our service, i'm beyond grateful that we're able to back cast, so that we really can confirm that the amazing progress that i've been bragging about still stands. we are seeing more than a double in vehicle reliability based on both metrics, but the new metric

we believe will lead to better outcomes. and, ultimately better, fewer breakdowns, next steps, because we are going from about 10,000 miles between breakdowns to something more like 3 to 4000 based on this new metric. we do think it is a good opportunity to take a step back and really try to understand what are some of the best practices coming out of our peer agencies, we are also, as i said, as we said back, casting this data so that we not only have that information for the sample years that seth showed, but for the entire spectrum of, since we received the new fleet, we will be sharing that data on

the sfmta. com slash muni dash data site where we keep all of our data. we really believe that data transparency is important, and we want the public to be able to follow along in our success, but also see, when we're having challenges, and i'm just really grateful to mike for empowering his maintenance team to raise these tough problems. and i am excited to have the team continue to collaborate on solutions, with that, we're available to answer any questions that you have. next slide. and thank you. thank you so much. thank you all. congratulations. and thank you, director kirshbaum, for your remote presentation. colleagues, do you have any questions right now for the presenters on item 11? okay. seeing none, we'll go to public comment for the

moment. any public comment here or remote? secretary silva, i have one remote. go ahead. speaker, you've been unmuted. this is herbert weiner. now i can see where muni ridership has increased, but why aren't there more vehicles in the fleet to match the needs? the best of my knowledge, the size of the fleet has not increased in 50 years. and this is a growing population with growing need as julie kirschbaum has accurately reported. so, i really feel that you have to increase the size of the fleet. it's the elephant in the room and the increased demand as presented. really

justifies, you know, matching, matching this demand. so we really need more busses. we really need more, metro vehicle. and that increases the speed of transportation. so this is my these are my comments on the report. thank you. thank you. no other callers. okay. we'll close public comment. director henderson, please. thank you. chair. sorry, i have a quick question for you, julie. and, maybe a comment. i'm thinking about the ridership recovery slide. i think we were, talking about it. and i think it's like maybe eight, 7 or 8, and i'm just curious. i, about the ridership, about the lines that have the low ridership, for the

so if we're looking at what has happened or occurred for those that have had this, you know, sort of super impressive recovery, i'm curious about if there's something that new that you did for those lines post-covid that might be worth exploring for some of the lower ridership lines that have not quite recovered. like, is there something special that you did to get the 22 to be off the charts, and could that be applied to some of the lower, the lower lines, the lower ridership lines, i will say that the routes that are having the strongest recovery are the routes where we have invested in transit priority, in frequency and in understanding changing travel patterns. the 22, for example, had all three, we, we changed the end of the route to

serve the heart of mission bay campus. we implemented a transit priority project. and as the demand grew, we also increased the frequency, on the routes that we are seeing, slower recovery, they tend to be very infrequent, every 20 minutes or every 30 minutes, and it is difficult to implement the same level of transit priority treatments. but we do have a spot delay program. so, you know, even on infrequent routes where we're seeing a pinch point or a bottleneck, we're able to make investments. i think a good example of that is a project that you all approved last fall on, on hyde street, where we

implemented a three block transit lane where we were having a ton of delays. none of the routes that travel on, on, on, hyde street are very frequent. but when you overlay all of the routes together, there was a lot of service going through a very difficult bottleneck, so i think in that sense, we can learn, we are als, as you know, investing in transit, priority improvements throughout the surface rail system. which we think is helping to drive ridership growth despite the downtown recovery. so, there are a lot of tools in our toolkit that we think we can use, with some of these lower performers. and just to add that all of this data and much more is available to the public at sfmta.com/muni data.

so you can look up individual lines months, you can look up crowding, ridership, recovery, delay and other detail. thank you for the questions. no that's it. thank you. that was a great question, director kahikina, please. this is more just a comment, just welcome, mike, to the team, also, seth, both for your presentation. i think this presentation in particular, it's, you know, director tomlin was talking about nerding out this month, but this is one of those moments where we're nerding out on some data and just how shifting how we track, our data and how we respond to it and how we are informed by it can make some real material changes. so i just want to congratulate you both for innovating on how we are practices to understand how we can perform better and do better for the customer. so i just really appreciate this approach. i just want to uplift the work that that you're both are doing. and julie, for your leadership

and supporting your team that way. thank you. any other questions from board members? okay, just seeing none. i had a 1 or 2 questions on this and somewhat related to director henderson's comment, and this ties back to, i believe, the conversation we had at the last board meeting, which was about the muni funding working group scope and how you're going to be looking at not just difficult choices around revenue, but also bold policy options that will help the agency meet our goals. and i just wonder, what else, what else do you want to raise director kirshbaum in the context of this conversation about policy choices or other non-revenue solutions that would allow you to continue to deliver strong service? what what ideas have come to you from the operators, from your team that we haven't thought about yet, well, i do want to take a moment

to appreciate the muni funding working group. i think without, without the ability to consider bold new, revenue. and efficiency solutions that the kind of do nothing scenario is service cuts and we, you know, have very good data, we're if we have to you know, we're going to make adjustments in a way that reflects all of our kind of collective priorities around equity and economic recovery, but you know, my goal is to not have to do that, so some of the things that my team will be presenting to the muni working group are, more, muni forward

type treatments, like what we did with the title program during covid, so that we can squeeze out more service. the benefit of investing in things that save transit, travel time is it affects our financial ledger in two ways. one is it allows us to provide more service without adding additional resources, and it tends to grow ridership, which also adds revenue, but the travel time savings, it the efficiencies only represent a very small increment. so i think that there's a lot of value there. again, because of the win win nature of travel changes. but i'm also really appreciative to what my other colleagues are

going to be presenting in terms of, short and longer term revenue strategies, we will also be talking, with the with the committee about potential approaches. if we had to do service reductions, things like looking at routes that have parallel options or, strong alternative choices, looking at our span of service, as well as looking at frequencies, but the working group itself is not going to dive into the specifics, we have the muni equity working group, which has been meeting bi monthly to really understand our data and understand our service and their feedback, along with other stakeholder feedback and input from this board, would really drive any, service changes if we

do end up needing to make them. okay. thank you, director heminger. thank you, madam chai. and i think julie is given a lot of the answer i would have given to your question about what kind of bold ideas could we pursue? i do think it's about speed, and on the road system with cars, we want speeds to slow down, but with muni, we need speeds to speed up, and in my opinion, a bus should not be waiting on the street ever. it should be going through a preempted signal. it should be hovering at a bus stop for as little time as possible. it should not be going to too many bus stops, and, you know, that's a perennial that will get plenty of criticism from the pro and the con side, but if we want to squeeze anything out of this

efficiency category in the work we're doing, we've got to deal with some sacred cows, and that's maybe the most sacred cow in san francisco, oddly enough, i think what we've done with the rapid service, which allows the regular sort of slow boat to continue, and you've got rapid to back it up and to go faster, i don't know financially how much more of that we could do, though, the thing about the bus stops is it's not all that expensive to take them out, it just, you know, you risk your life by bringing up the subject, but one thing i hope, jeff, that we'll be able to do, i haven't seen an analysis about this in a long time, is if we just had service that met our standard on bus stop spacing, how much time would we save and how much more

service could we provide, that used to be an eye popping number. i have a feeling that the rapid program has sort of claimed a lot of those victories. but it'd be good to know. thank you. madam chair. thank you, director. any other comments or questions from board members on this item? okay seeing none, we'll go ahead and close item 11 and please call the next item. secretary silva places you on item number 12. presentation and discussion regarding the battery electric bus pilot program evaluation report. the good news? i'm back. marley miller, one of our vehicle engineers, is going to be doing the heavy lifting for this presentation and also, helping with slides, but i did want to, put the program in, in, in context, as you know, several

years ago, we purchased electric vehicles from four major manufacturers, and we're excited today to be presenting the results of that pilot, which was a critical step in our road towards zero emissions as an agency, we play a critical role in the city's climate action plan, which is why we're always talking about environmental stewardship as one of our agency's core values. the overarching goal is laid out in chapter nine of the city's environmental code, which says, we want to have a net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, and net zero is defined as 90% below 1990 levels. next slide. transportation is a critical piece of that, and as

it is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in san francisco, next slide, but as we've talked about quite a bit, the vast majority of that, comes from cars and trucks. public transit is just a small slice of the transportation emissions, and we expect that slice to get a lot smaller, our regional partner, caltrain, had a major milestone, this month as they introduced, electric vehicles on their entire fleet. so we expect the transport sector data to reflect that in years to come. muni is currently just 2% of the transit emissions, which means that we are 0.0001% of the city. greenhouse gas emissions. we have made a tremendous amount of progress, and we are committed

to striving until our fleet electrification program comes in at zero. next slide. in 2017, the city reached an important milestone with mode share of 50% of trips made by transit, walking and bicycling, but then the pandemic happened and we saw a pretty significant change in behavior, from 2019 to 2021, the driving mode share went up from 31% to 36%, and transit mode share was really at a, probably an all time low, going from 22% to an 11%. although overall trip rates stayed the same. we're making huge strides in bringing muni back from where we were in 2021. thanks to the commitment

and creativity of our incredible staff and our dedicated customers. but the current landscape has most trips being driven by gas powered vehicles with only 1 or 2 vehicle people. next slide, so as excited as i am to be presenting the battery electric bus pilot, i do want to continue to emphasize that our most cost effective way to reduce emissions is to make muni more reliable, to increase transit ridership and reduce trips made with single occupancy vehicles, the sfmta already operates the greenest fleet of any north american city, and we are committed to continue to be even greener. next slide. this pilot report, i think is an important program and one that i'm excited to share, but it is part of the overall fleet management transformation that

we've been talking about today and over the last decade. we remain committed to keep our vehicle ages pretty consistent. so that we never have everything get old or have everything new at the same time. we are not telling manufacturers this is the bus we want to buy. please put the screw here. we are saying we need the bus to perform to this expectation. you are the experts. please help us deliver on that, our maintenance team is committed to using data and to fix things before they break. and to continue to test, take risks and to continuously learn, we learned a lot with this pilot, and i think with that, i'm going to turn it over to marley to share the results. thanks, julie, and thank you to

the board and to our esteemed director for having me today. my name is marley miller. i'm a member of the zero emission and onboard technology group, who was responsible for the delivery and acquisition of these pilot busses. so, before i jump into how these busses did, i'm just going to take a quick second to talk about the agency's recent history on reducing emissions because, like julie said, we run one of the greenest fleets of any major city in north america, back in 2007, we were an early adopter of the hybrid electric or diesel hybrid electric bus, which is kind of a transitional technology between a straight diesel bus and a pure battery electric vehicle because it has elements of both. it really is a hybrid, and it allows us to do interesting things, not just to reduce emissions, but like in 2017, we used hybrid technology to implement the green zone project, which is where we are able to turn off our bus engines and operate strictly on battery electric power throughout certain historically impacted communities, which allows us to

reduce the tailpipe emissions to zero, which is a great thing, in 2018, a number of things happened. not only did we adopt our first zero emission vehicle policy earlier in the year, but then at the end of the year, carb adopted the innovative clean transit regulation, or icct, which, as i think you kno, calls for the full electrification of our fleets by 2040. so in response to that, in 2019, we kicked off our battery electric bus pilot program. and in 2022, the first of those busses entered revenue service. and they are still operating today. lastly, i just want to touch on we updated our zero emission vehicle policy in 2023. really we were just trying to align it with carb's ict regulation, but we also wanted to give ourselves the opportunity to take a look at other procurement or the procurement of other zero emission technologies, not just battery electric bus, but also fuel cell and expanding trolley. okay, there we go. so again, we launched our pilot program in

2019. that's when we purchased our vehicles. we bought 12 busses, three from each of our manufacturing partners, new flier byd proterra and nova bus. so the goal of this pilot program was really to evaluate the bus building ability of these companies. we wanted to make sure that they could produce a safe, reliable and high performance bus. that would be something that our ridership would expect, we are also hoping that by getting these bus manufacturers more familiar with how we do business, they would be more likely to bid on our future procurements because they would already understand how we operate. so to compare these vehicles, we took sort of a holistic approach. we didn't want to just focus on one area of the bus performance. we put these busses into real revenue service carrying passengers, and tried to get them out into our streets as much as we possibly could. we took a look at a number of key areas of performance, including the procurement and customer experience, which was everything from contracting to post

delivery, support and keeping in touch with the program managers. we looked at acceptance, which is how they complied to our quality standards and what kind of quality of bus they were able to deliver. we looked at all aspects of performance, so not just range and great ability and vehicle efficiency, but how many passengers they can carry and so on. we also looked at operability. so from a maintenance or sorry, an operations perspective, how easy was it to use the driver interface and maneuver these busses through our streets? next we took a look at maintainability and reliability. so how easy it was to diagnose, maintain and keep these vehicles running and lastly, we also did take just a financial view of these busses just to compare their acquisition costs and their total costs to operate. so we ran these busses for two years or more than two years because they're still operating. and we collected data on every facet of their performance the entire time. so how did they do? well, here's a summary of the

key findings of the report. and the most important thing that i want to start with, and i want to stress, is that all the busses that we tested, met or exceeded our technical requirements and specifications. so what that means is that when the busses were running and that's a point i will get back to, they were more than capable of traveling 160 miles a day or more on a charge, giving us an entire day of revenue service. they could carry our passengers up any of the grades that any of our 40 foot hybrid busses can do. so for. from a performance perspective, they are an equivalent to our 40 foot hybrid busses, which is which is really encouraging, we also found that as a general trend, large us bus manufacturers did tend to perform better. this would be like nova and new flier. we found that they just had a better combination of manufacturing experience and expertise, but they also focused more on customer experience, which led to them scoring higher, smaller manufacturers like byd and proterra or manufacturers that have less experience with the north

american market, really need more time to refine how they do business before we will feel comfortable purchasing from them. and lastly, the reliability. so as i alluded to, the reliability of these busses did not perform up to our expectations. this is primarily due to the fact that these are largely first generation technology bugs that that these vehicles are suffering from, battery electric bus propulsion. while it's not a novel idea, it is relatively new in north america. on busses. so we just think that these vehicles need more time to be refined, and we need to see more adoption and adoption of the vehicles. and we need to see more investment in the technology by the manufacturers. but we have every reason to believe that they will get up to the point where we need them to be for service. okay, here we have the numerical evaluation of the results. this is lifted directly from our report, which is again available online. i don't want to focus too much on any of the particular numbers except for the bottom, where we can see the

overall score. by the way, oem means original equipment manufacturer. i'm going to use that interchangeably. it just means bus manufacturer. so you can see looking in there that new flier performed the best out of the four with a score of about 77%. nova bus was a second place and then byd and proterra a close third and fourth. okay, so a little bit about why they scored the way they did. so new flier didn't have any significant standout areas relative to the rest of the busses. they all had reliability problems, but new flier performed overall the best in most categories. and we really feel as an agency that large us manufacturers like new flier and probably gillig, who were also interested in evaluating, they seem best poised to meet our procurement needs in the future. they seem to be able to offer the best combination of vehicle quality, but also customer experience and post-delivery support, which for a large agency like ours, with 850 plus

busses running around, is really important, now novabus novabus might have been one of those other large us manufacturers. sorry, but unfortunately during the pilot program they announced their plans to exit the us market and in fact, by the end of this year, they will have exited and ceased operations in their new york plant. so going forward, they're no longer going to be able to provide busses that are buy america compliant and therefore we can't really consider them for future procurements, byd byd had a bus that performed well, but unfortunately they suffered from some significant bus quality issues. we actually had busses that needed to go back to the manufacturing site to be reworked before they could be put back into service, and also aside from that, they're having some issues with federal funding eligibility. you can't actually purchase a byd bus with a federally funded procurement contract, right now, so they need to get that resolved before we can have any chance of discussion with them for future

procurements. and lastly, proterra proterra cannot be recommended at this time. so during the pilot program, very famously, proterra went out of business and they were broken up into three different companies. and yeah, apparently their transit group is still being operated under a different name. phoenix motorcars. but really, the future of proterra busses in the transit market is really uncertain to us. and even aside from that, even when they were operating, they had poor customer support, the entirety of the process and their poor parts availability meant that we have actually had a bus sitting out of service for 14 months, waiting for a replacement part that we can only get from proterra. so it's issues like that that make it impossible for us to recommend proterra in any future procurements. okay, so now that was a little bit about the specifics of each bus oem. i do want to talk a little bit about some of the general lessons learned that we

encountered during this pilot program. and the first is that we had a lot of problems with new technologies. so battery electric bus technology is rapidly evolving. it's getting better all the time. but it is a new technology for many transit agencies, ourselves included. even though we operate vehicles like trolleys and hybrids that are somewhat similar in some ways to battery electric busses, there are some specific quirks and problems that these vehicles are going to need to have resolved before they're reliable enough for us to use for our greater fleet, like we said, they, when they work, they navigate our hills. they do everything that we need them to without problems. but for perspective, a new flier, battery electric bus, recently is performing about a third to a quarter of the reliability of an equivalent hybrid bus, really? there isn't any good reason why that should be the case, and i'm going to get into that. but these vehicles need more time to be refined and to see greater adoption before we think that

they're going to they're going to do and perform how we need them to. okay, next, i wanted to talk a little bit about the battery capacity. we get a lot of questions about the batteries on these busses, like how what the capacity is and what the range is, and the truth is that during the pilot program, we found that our battery busses had significantly greater battery capacities or slightly greater battery capacities, depending on the model, than we needed for procurement. so daily revenue service, our busses typically see about 100 to 150 miles of range in a day, and our busses are well more than capable of meeting and exceeding that range requirement. so what that means is that in future procurements, we should be able to intelligently scale down the battery size, both to cut weight and also to cut cost and make the busses a little bit more palatable to purchase. i also wanted to mention about to dig into the reliability question, a

little bit more. these busses were not just pilot vehicles for the propulsion system. we did have a lot of first generation propulsion technology bugs, but we also had first generation bugs with the doors and our cad avio, our electronic on board electronic system, and our radios, because we were testing new systems, a number of new systems on these vehicles. and what this means is that when any of these systems went out of order, it took the entire bus out of service. so a lot of the bad reliability that we saw with these busses was not necessarily only the propulsion system. it might have been the other experimental systems dragging it down. so what that means is that in the future, for larger battery bus procurements, we should expect that the reliability of these on board systems will be ironed out and will be equivalent to what we are buying today, next, a note on how our staff reacted to these busses. we were fortunate in that a lot of our staff already has experience working with, diesel, electric, hybrid

and trolley vehicles and the practices for operating and maintaining these or the philosophies for approaching them are largely similar. so we really found that there was only a minimal need for training to familiarize people with the vehicles. so what that means is that in the future, it should be relatively simple to buy larger orders of these. and get people up to speed on them. we also found that our maintenance of way or mode group is particularly well positioned to handle the increased, maintenance needs that the charging side of things is going to pose because there's going to be high voltage infrastructure and charging hardware at each facility where these busses are deployed. next, i just wanted to mention how this battery electric bus pilot really put a magnifying lens on how challenging the industry is right now, as some of you may know, we've had a number of bus manufacturers go out of business in the last couple of years. we've had a number of them leave the us market, and even the ones

who escaped unscathed, like new flier, they're having financial difficulties as well in some cases. so the lack of really large scale viable bus manufacturers is a particular concern to the industry, but also to the sfmta, because we're looking for partners like that for our procurements. so in order to deal with this, we have a couple of things that we want to try. the first is that we're working with apta and their bus manufacturing task force, and we're going to be trying to implement some recommendations that they have made to reduce the complexity of some of our technical specifications and the way we do procurements. and the idea is we want to help make it easier for people to bid on our procurements. we want to increase competition, and we want to stabilize the bus prices because they are skyrocketing. they've gone up like 30% in like a few years or something. it's tremendous. next we are going to continue to pursue working with multiple large scale manufacturers. we don't ever want to be in a situation where we only have one company that we

can deal with, and nobody else wants to bid on us. next, i wanted to talk a little bit about the facility side of things. so battery electric bus procurement is relatively straightforward. it's we buy a battery bus just like we buy a hybrid bus or a diesel bus, but it's the facilities that's going to be really hard. they are significantly more complex than vehicle procurements. they're more costly. and as our zero emission bus rollout plan makes pretty clear, we have anticipated that there could be regulatory complexity issues with coordinating with our utilities and finding funding that could delay any of these facilities projects. and when you delay a facility project, it has a cascading effect on the bus procurement and the subsequent facilities projects. so we just recently updated our facilities framework report, and it does make very clear that it's important to keep our building progress and our fleet plan aligned and in lockstep so that our busses and our facilities are available and

present at the same time. lastly, it does bear repeating that the largest risk to all of our electrification efforts really is the large costs associated with this endeavor. both the incremental cost of the vehicles, which is high, but also the large costs of the facilities. and the last point i wanted to bring up babies and their role in resiliency. so we didn't get a lot of opportunity during this pilot program to look at how we will operate these busses in natural disaster, where we lose power, but we know that it's an important consideration and we're going to have to in future large scale procurements. and when we start looking at converting facilities, we're going to have to look at how we answer this question. we do think hybrid busses for the foreseeable future will play an important role, because they will be able to operate in a natural disaster just fine, but we're also going to have to look at things like microgrids. so on site energy storage or solar

power, we're going to have to look at dual feed power. so redundant sources of power so that if one is lost, we have another. and we're also going to have to look at backup generators so that we can produce our own power on site if we need to power these vehicles. okay. so that was a lot. i'm going to pass this back over to julie. i appreciate you giving me the time to go over this with you. and julie is going to talk with you about the next steps for our procurements. thank you, as you know, part of why we did this pilot when we did is because we wanted it to inform the replacement of our first 112 new fliers, which it is hard to believe, but they are coming to the end of their useful life in 2025. so our plan is to continue to invest in battery electric busses, along with trolley

vehicles and hybrid vehicles on the electric side, i am thrilled that we were able to receive a federal grant that is going to allow us to do facility upgrades for 18 more battery electric vehicles, we will be buying 12, 40 foot vehicles. and our first six 60 foot vehicles, the vehicles that we're going to purchase are going to be a mix of large manufacturers, we will continue to buy seven vehicles from new flier for 40 foot vehicles and three 60 foot vehicles, i'm also really excited to report that for the first time in over three decades, gillig bus, which is a large manufacturer that makes busses in livermore but has not wanted to sell busses to san

francisco, is going to enter the san francisco market. so we will be bringing you a procurement of five 40 foot gillig vehicles in early 2025, and then we are also going to be purchasing six vehicles from the largest european manufacturer of hybrid electric vehicles, which is solaris. they are going to be setting up shop in the us in the coming years, because they are seeing the need and the market opportunity for more competition, they also build an incredible vehicle and we're very excited to be using some of our local money to get at the front of the line in terms of experiencing the solaris equipment, any additional battery electric bus expansion will be driven by our ability to

fund and deliver future facility upgrades. next slide, as you know from our updated electrification policy that we are also committed to continue the agency's strong investment in trolley vehicles, the battery, the zero emissions program is agnostic about the type of methodology, we are excited to see the trolley vehicles of today become more flexible, as we prepare for the trolley vehicles of tomorrow. we are currently testing, two 40 foot and two 60 foot trolleys that have been upgraded with better batteries, that allow for in-motion charging. what that means is the vehicle can go off wire, we're finding about 4 to 6

miles. we had hoped for up to ten miles, and then when they go back on wire, they recharge, this allows us to consider potentially expanding the number of trolley routes we have without the expensive investment in overhead, but the pilot is helping us to understand this technology and to also understand the drain that it might have, on our substations, which provide all of our power. we are a continuing also, and i'm really, appreciative of marley and bob and katri, who have been pulling together all of the north american bus manufacturer, trolley agencies to continue to meet, and understand trolley. trolley

equipment and to really signal to manufacturers that we want to continue to invest in purchase trolley vehicles. one of the exciting things about solaris potentially entering the us market is the fact that they not only make a battery bus, but they also make, a trolley. busses in europe. next slide and finally, in our next item, we will also be bringing you a recommendation to procure 94, hybrid vehicles, as part of the 112 vehicle replacement, and we will be continuing to bring you a mixture of low and zero emissions busses through 2031, as our facility program continues to transition towards

electrification. next slide, this is just our kind of best graphical attempt to show the relationship between our facility program, and our vehicle program. we want to make sure that we're never purchasing vehicles that are sitting in the lot because they don't have power. and we are working closely on the timing and the planning for our facility program to make sure that as best as possible, it matches our vehicle needs. continuing to invest in new vehicles, is critical to maintaining the success we've seen with our current fleet replacement, and i'm excited, that we will continue to invest in battery

electric busses, trolleys and hybrids, making always the best decision based on the technology and the resources available to us, with that, marley and i are available to answer any questions that you have. thank you. director kirshbaum, director hines, would you like to start the questions? it's more of a comment slash, future agenda item request. i think that perhaps next time we have our, building progress report update, we build in progress program update. we should have focus on this and really dive into the facility side of it, because while this is exciting, we need the facilities to do it. and so just a few items to flag for the building progress team. thank you. director hines.

director tarloff, thank you bot, thank you both for, for the presentation and one of the things that i learned at the apta conference that i was able to go to in san jose was, about the volatility in the on the manufacturing side, the number of, companies that we could buy busses from, you know, not that many years ago was much, much greater than than we have today. and i and i feel like we saw that just in the, in the presentation, the what happened to some of these companies during this relatively brief pilot, and i wonder if you could talk a little bit about that and our plans around, i mean, the

message that i took away from the conference was that it is that, the transit agencies have a role to play in, in helping to make sure that there is a robust, manufacturing, you know, selection, and i feel like i heard that in the presentation. when director kirshbaum talked about, having, just the performance based, criteria for selection of the busses that, that, you know, we don't, you know, get go down in the weeds in terms of, you know, we want, we want this and we want the tinted windows and, you know, like things that don't really matter. we, we, we need to focus on performance. but i wonder if there's more about that, that,

that could be, you know, more information about that or thoughts about that, the importance of that. thank you. yeah i'm happy to cover a couple of points. so even prior to the apta task force, i think sfmta, was already anticipating the need to really support the bus manufacturing industry. so we have been using, as you said, performance based specifications, for a long time, and we have been trying to use, for example, this pilot to really bring more, manufacturers. you know, into our industry. we've also been supporting, for example, gillig for many years and really bringing them to san francisco

so that they could see really the strong commitment from our maintenance team to keep our busses in a really good state of good repair, because they tend to shy away from large cities. because the busses are driven harder, there's more pressure on the warranties, things, things like that, but since the apta recommendations came out, we have also made some additional changes. for example, the bus, procurements did not used to have milestone payments, so we used to expect the bus manufacturers to put up all the money up front. and then, you know, we paid them when we were completely satisfied with the end product. that was relatively easy for the bus manufacturers

when the cost of borrowing money was lower, and when the supply chain was not so long, but especially with battery electric busses, there's a very long supply chain, incidentally, milestone payments are something that we're very comfortable with on the rail side, our rail vehicles, we have always made milestone payments at kind of key points along the build process. so for the, the 94, hybrids that gary is going to be presenting next, we've structured the contract to include milestone payments and some other feedback that was built into the task force. so, standardization, letting the manufacturers be the expert, not

requiring your exact shade of white or your exact, you know, window or door is a big part of it. but then we've also made changes based on manufacturing feedback on how we, pay for equipment. okay. if there are no further questions from board members, i'm going to open it to public comment on this item. i don't think we have any commenters in the room just checking. okay, anyone remote, okay. there's nothing further from the board. thank you for the presentation. this is very helpful. i remember approving this battery electric bus pilot several years ago and waiting waiting to see how it went. so this is very, very interesting. thank you, i'm going to call for just a brief recess of the board for about ten minutes, and then we'll come to item 13. very good. thank you everybody.

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this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this th knew to keep the fleet in a state of good repair, the reliability improvements that we've seen on the vehicle side are really thanks to our transformative fleet management program, and i'm thrilled to be at a point where we are continuing that progress through a second generation of vehicle procurement, with that, i'm going to hand it over to gary to talk you through very briefly the details of the hybrid procurement and then ask you at the end to take an action today on this important item. thank you. julie, hi. directors. gary chang with transit. so back in

2013, we purchased at 112 hybrid vehicles, and now they have reached the end of their useful life. and actually, they've been, with with us as a workhorse. and thanks to our senior controller, they ran some data on the average mileage for these batch of hybrids. it's 365,000 miles. indeed. actually, there's one particular coach has banged it. 416,000 fta allows transit agencies to procure vehicles using pre-negotiated cooperative agreements by state governments and san francisco administrative code section 21.16 permits the sfmta to make purchases under the terms established by another agency's competitive procurement process. so using the state of washington cooperative purchasing agreement, sfmta is planning to purchase 94 hybrid vehicles and the advantage of using the cooperative purchasing agreement

is it cuts down on the procurement time cycle and then also the administrative cost. if we would have issued our own rfp, the revised zero emission vehicle policy allows for continued to purchase hybrid and trolley vehicles as part of the zero emission rollout. the original intention is to replace these hybrids with a zero emission vehicles, but however, due to the project complexities, funding challenges, pg and e coordinations, we have a delay progress on the facility upgrades for the electrification process. as a result, sfmta needs to purchase hybrid vehicles in order to keep the fleet in an overall state of good repair. during the transition to 100% zero emission fleet. we are anticipating to continue to procure a combinations of low and zero emission vehicles through 2031.

so this item is to procure 94 hybrid vehicles from new flier. and it includes auto spare parts, tools, manual trainings, telematic licenses, and for contract not to exceed $117.8 million and a contract term not to exceed five years. on this table, it gives a further breakdown. details of the project cost, including for the contract and then also other associated soft cost. there are three major funding categories for this project. one is the federal grant. another is the rm three, which is the regional measure three. and then also some other local funding sources, such as general fund, operating fund, prop l transportation, sustainability fee. so today, what we have in front of the board is to seek

for approval to, to authorize our director of transportation to enter into a contract with new flier for $117.8 million to procure 94 hybrid vehicles and for the contract term not to exceed five years, this is a slide that you have seen in the previous presentations. and basically it kind of gives gives the breakdown of our strategic procurement for the next few, next near future. and we will continue to purchase a combination of the low and zero emission vehicles through 2031. and on this slide, it gives a compositions of our fleet inventory. and with the diagram showing there, we will be completely phasing out the hybrid vehicles in 2042. and thank you. that concluded the presentations. thank you very

much. be happy to answer any questions for julie or me. thank you. thank you for the presentation. i'll just go ahead and get my request for public comment out of the way. no public commenters in the room. okay. closing public comment. any remote? we do have one remote speaker. you've been unmuted. oh it looks like. oh. i think he hung up on accident. we can see if he rejoins, if you want to give him a moment or if you want to go into discussion, then we can come back to it. yeah, let's go to board member conversation and we can come back to public comment. okay. heminger just a question about the air resources board. this procurement is hybrids, right? that's correct. so they're not they're not completely zero emission. so how how much how many more times can we keep

buying things that aren't zero emission, this will be the last time we can buy them without filing an exemption from carb, but we have been keeping carb completely up to date with our facility program. the legislation does anticipate that due to facility and technology constraints, agencies will need to ask for exemptions. and we will be doing so. as we head towards the end of this decade. so has any agency gone through the exemption process, or do we know how that might go and how much of a crapshoot it might be, we anticipate that we will be the first. we have been doing, i think, more proactive and long range communication with carb. most agencies are focused on the kind of early procurements, which are definitely the low

hanging fruit, so as far as i'm aware, there has not been an exemption filed yet, but we are working both at the state level and with the regional partners so that we're all learning from each other. okay. well, i guess we'll have to be nice to them for a while. so thank you very much. thank you. director heminger. any other board members wishing to speak on this topic? no okay, i want to go back to the public commenter. they have not called back. okay great, is there a motion to approve and a second. thank you. is there a second? thank you. please call the roll on the motion to approve director heminger heminger ie. director henderson i henderson i director hines. i see her i there we go.

i director tarlov. tarlov. i director kahina i kahina i chair egan, i egan i thank you. that item is approved. thank you so much. please go ahead and call the next item. places you on item number 14. discussion and vote pursuant to admin code section 67.10, b and d as to whether to invoke the attorney client privilege and conduct a closed session conference with legal counsel. thank you. is there any public comment on item 14? seeing none. any remote? no. remote. may i please have a motion and a second to go into closed session? so moved. second. thank you. please call the roll on the motion to go into closed session. director heminger heminger i, director henderson, a henderson i director haynes. i a director tarlov. tarlov i director kahina. hi. kahina pfizer. eagan. you can i thank you. the board will now go into closed session. i'll just take a couple of

time. is 649. just give me one second. oh, i should open it. oh let's see. yeah seven, seven and 16 minutes. oh i don't know what the cut off time is. for this. chairman's ready. send

the bus. i mean, six minutes. that's pretty perfect. well, if these knuckleheads will get the tv turned off. stop. all right, jerry finn, we are ready when you are. great. yes. places you want. yes. item number 15. the board met in closed session and voted to approve item three. they took no action on item number four. places you on item number 16. motion to disclose or not disclose information discussed in closed session. i have a motion and a second, please. motion not to disclose. second. thank you. please call the roll on. the motion to not disclose. director heminger heminger ii. director henderson a henderson i, director henry i. henry i, director. tarlov. tarlov i director. kahina i kahina i can, i, can i thank you? the motion passes and concludes the business before you today. thank you. we are adjourned.

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year-round indefinitely we think that the arts is an incredible way of experiencing history and really helps people think of themselves as history persons and especially for the house play really a part of the - and think that is generates for the - we are aware the art is important for people and important for the community mba and can be a really assessable and engaging way to see history well. >> those are the ways as the art and history you're not going to see emotionally in the city.

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francisco live with chris manner. >> today's s f f is - >> hi, i'm chris you're watching or imagining the city we have ivar satero director of sfo welcome to the show. >> go to the with you. >> thank you nice to see let's talk about how the airport as and the number of depreciations you're serving. >> yeah. it is really exciting we consult strong out the crisis and full swings with in carriers and poetry's and great dedications have a lot more to the mix and we have others we

had talked about wonderful depreciations and people are loving that we're at with an hundred and 10 percent the precovid international position without the full recovery so we'll anticipating china but the recovery is excited to see how busy the temperance are those days. >> had renovation or expansion plans are currently underway? >> great. a lot of exciting programs we suspected some that have the work because of crescent trail he now we're back in full spring or swing and finished the harvey milk terminal one and talk about setting a standard in passengers traveling and it exceeded any exceptions to finishing harvey milk terminal one and now knowledge on another terminal that's one of the last terminals

to receive the 70 patch focuses on the passengers expense and west torrential has will kicked off and now taking the next four and a half years to 34re89 34re9 and have a lot of the investment structure and part of on $11 billion investment over the 5 years to seven years and $8 billion and $3 billion in the extra and excite to implement a new wastewater treatment plants and we'll be able to reuse the water at ivar satero director of sfo and next the question is san francisco san francisco international airport is well common for the opportunity. >> could you debilitate on those a little bit. >> we set aggregate goals we set the zero goal this is the zero net energy greenhouse gas emissions and zero water and we

have had that as one of the permit values for over a decade and exciting to see our entering use is down by 4, 3, 2 , 1 percent if 2012 our water use is detain 20 percent and is greenhouse gas emissions is down thirty percent and that is about the investment we made and the quality of facilities we build and reduces the entering consumption and heating and cooling those things when we make those investments what is that commissioner vietor that benefits the environment when we design and plan the buildings is really exciting and wonderful to see little success we're having. >> i think about the future and skuntd fuel and we building that since 2018 to show the leadership in the advancement of constitutional aviation and 70 will be the airport for the fuel

of any airport in the world this year and next year and so that's a huge workforce at 70 but undoubtedly has an impact over the regional xhivengz and just facts as you, you know, we are the latter jock center in san mateo county we have 40 thousand people at 70 and we contribute about 40 board of appeals to the regional economy about one hundred and fifty thousand job is rely on the successful operations of our airport it is really a tremendous interest rate to our economy and about the operations and construction programs and you'll talk about the investment we've been investing in the facilities for so many years i've been here 3 decades and under construction that whole time almost and the job addition for the contradiction program is

meaningful for well paying trades work and intifrmz has on a priority and this year with our interns yesterday over one hundred interims supporting the team we're a perspective of the support we get the the labor that is available to 70. >> that's great. >> so finally what advancements will be for the passenger experience and operations, you, know, many people for those of you who don't know the history of this is a long alter 70 and in father 1959 we had jets and the disruption that has happened are particularly with uber and lyft wiper the first airport to permit their precautions $50 billion and with the taernlz with the technologies like

automatic. >> what an experienced for people going to the check lines and our dependant cure system the bag system the lath technology and the first in the u.s. so have an independent carrier system and 0 now you hinge with the notification it is really tremendous particle as we develop a new facility but, you know, for us too about our operation and unfor the future there is exciting new development happening we have recently implemented a ground based agree mansion system that is technology improves the arrive rate of airport and allows for which the development of arrivals that benefit community by higher elevations and offsetting over the water we invested in that that noise and quality of life but also, you know, for the delays details

delays are a community by the people when cooler weather and traffic comes in after midnight we're investing in our familiarity and investing in the operations we have our airport integrated operation system underway with technologies to give us much better especially realtime awareness and auto operations and embarcadero to adjust our operations to address congestion, you know, roadside congestion and checkpoint congestions gives us much better awareness and other things we can talk about that are existing wall but taxis an noopgs 234506gs we or working with the industry on this that might look in the 70 and preparing for the future of air taxis and one of our big initiative to engage the

broader region in the developments we have to have policies that address the air taxis innovation we are conducting with berkley transportation center and engaging the industry and engaging decision makers and the region in helping to develop policies will give us a framework for addressing the air taxis that's a step for the next several years. thank you. ivar satero director of sfo for sharing the information for san francisco international airport we appreciate the time you've given us and thank you. >> we'll be back with another one i'm chris thank you for com.

patty zarb present. vice chair zarb is present with three members present. we do have quorum for the public works commission meeting. public comment is taken for all informational and action items on today's agenda and to comment in person, please line up against the wall closest or i guess closest to these two screens. the audience is right.