everyone i now call the december 3rd, 2024 regular meeting of the municipal transportation agency board of directors and parking authority commission to order. secretary silva, please call the roll on the role. director chen. present. chen. present. director heminger here. heminger. present. director. henderson.

here. henderson. present. director. hynes. present. present. director. tarloff. here. present. vice chair. kikina. present. present. for the record, i note that director hynes is attending this meeting remotely. director hines 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 and 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 november 19th regular meeting. directors. are there any changes to the minute? no proposed changes. we'll now open public comment for item number four. and this is the approval of today's minutes or last meeting's minutes. i didn't

so we now just opened public comment for the approval of the minutes of our last meeting. minutes. no worries. no public comment. do we have any accommodation, secretary silva? no accommodations. perfect. we will now close public comment on item number four. colleagues, is there a motion a second to approve last month's minutes? move to approve. second. all right. secretary silva, please call the roll on the motion to approve the minutes. director chen. i chen, i director heminger heminger. i director henderson. i henderson. i director hindi, i hindi i director tarlov i carlo i vice chair. cajina i gina i thank you. the minutes are approved. places you on item five communications. i have none. all right. we'll now move to item number six, the director's report. item number six, the director's report. let's bring up streets. director victoria wise, who has a special

commendation. it's. good afternoon, vice chair kahina, members of the board. it's so good to be here today. i'm victoria wise, director of streets, and i am so, so pleased to recognize and thank the paint shop for their excellent and exceptional work and their dedication and commitment today. so their role, as you know, is absolutely instrumental in making san francisco streets much safer and more accessible to everyone. and just to share with you a little bit about the paint shop, they include 50 staff at the sfmta and they play a very, very key role in a lot of our project delivery. so we're talking about delivering the l taraval improvement project. so doing all of the striping work, including high visibility crosswalks and enhancements for pedestrians, they also worked feverishly around the clock to ensure on time completion of our red transit lanes on geary. that was

three and a half miles of painting hard, hard work. and as you all know, that significantly improved our muni reliability and prioritizes transit. so very critical project they do all of our quick builds in the city that is incredible. and just to share some of the highlights of the quick build in the recent times that they've completed, we're talking about the lake merced quick build. we're talking about the third street quick build, the 17th street, the frida kahlo, and of course the latest one right in front of city hall, in front of this building at carlton b goodlett place. so lots of quick build work that's critical to again, connecting san franciscans together and making it safe for everyone. on top of that, tons of implementation of pedestrian safety improvements like the one on lincoln way from arguello to all the way to the great highway and guerrero street from market to 20th, including doing things like daylighting, continental crosswalks, painted safety zones, heart and center lines on and on. so all of the things that we have in our toolbox. so

but on top of all the project delivery that i just mentioned, and i just took a small sliver of what they do, they maintain everything on the street. they maintain all of the paint that you see in our streets every single day. and so if you think about it, during the 2324 fiscal year, the team responded to 1338 311 requests alone to respond to constituents to repaint the crosswalks or whatever the situation is. and i just want to pause and say that number again, 1338 requests in that fiscal year. so that's a lot. but you know what? statistics aside, i want to talk to you a little bit about the culture of our paint shop and to the incredible leadership. thank you to the incredible leadership, really, of mike macario, of darryl robinson, of ted graf. the culture of that shop is a can do attitude. like that's how i

would describe them. they are incredible because whenever we ask them to do something, the answer is always yes. and if it's not yes, they think about it and they say, let me figure out how to do that. and so a yes, a can do attitude really packaged together with good customer service is what this group is about and is setting an example for the rest of the streets organization of where we're headed. you know, in totality of everything that's under my previous purview. so i'm very exceptionally grateful to the leadership of the folks i named for creating that kind of attitude, for having that kind of camaraderie that they do stuff together. and just to give you an example, and this is not uncommon, by the way, i will sometimes reach out or ted reach out on a tuesday afternoon just like today and say, hey, this is something that's going on amiss. this is something that we need to get done quickly because of a safety issue. and by the time i wake up the next morning and pick up my phone, usually around 730 or so, i have a picture of that thing being done already,

and that is not an isolated incident that happens a lot. and so that is a representation of the kind of team that these folks really are. and the fact that they do this really important work for the safety of our citizens is something to be absolutely, very, very proud of. it is really meaningful work. and so i'm very proud of it as well and very honored to recognize this team here today. so with that, i'd like to invite, well, first of all, let's give out some certificates. this is the fun part. so darrell, if you are yeah. if you can give me a hand and really share with you today we have the paint shop manager, mike macario here coming up, mike and the supervisors. so i'll name them each individually. so mike is here. all right. and then the next person is cecilia. cecilia come on up. cecilia peralta we just have him in line up. yes patrick o'gorman is next. come on up patrick reggie. come on up. all

right, brian mcbride, come on up. all right. and then we have charlie, roro and jermaine banks. thank you. all right. thank you everybody. really appreciate your work very very much. i also have a special comment i'd like to do for we have a couple of staff that have been with us for actually over three decades. darrell, if you could in the mic. thank you. i'd like to acknowledge the staff that we've had with us for over 30 years. and their soon to be retiring, but i want to acknowledge mike macario and give him a special sign. thank you. as well for you for the season. all right. thank you. wow. and the backbone for the paint shop has been cecilia. she's been with us for about a decade over a decade. but wanted

to share with you a sign for you as well cecilia. yay. thank you. oh my gosh. thank you. she is the best. well you got the right one as well. oh thank you thank you thank you so much for the work that you guys do. and thank you for the support we get from the management as well from victoria as well as ted and jeff. thank you so much. thank you. thank you everybody. thank you thank you. wow wow okay. i don't want to hurt all right. ready. great. thank you so much. awesome. thank you. sorry. ted or mike, do you guys want to say a few words? i'm going to concede my time to. to mike, please. mike. yeah, well, thank you all for this. this is really incredible. and it's going to be sad to go in a couple of months, but it's well deserved. but i couldn't do this without these individuals on a day to day basis out in the streets. it's difficult sometimes and they make it look easy. and i couldn't be more proud of this shop to be honest. it's a little

choked up, actually. so again, i'd like to just say thank you to them and thank you to all of us here. it's well deserved. thank you again. my special thanks as well to mike and darrell and really the whole team, the paint shop, are some of the most public facing of our sfmta's crew. so i run into them all the time when i'm out in the field checking out our projects or going about my business. and there's a couple of things that i love most about the paint shop. one is all of their projects they have to do together as a team, and so they always have this incredibly strong sense of teamwork. they're also incredibly efficient, like when i go out and chat with them, they're like, they have pride in their work and they want to like, say what they're doing. and then at a certain point, like about two minutes into the conversation, i just get a little edge out of the conversation because they want to actually get back to work and get stuff done. and i really, really appreciate that.

but one of the things that i particularly appreciate is they're constantly thinking about what they're doing, and they have a level of engagement with their engineers. you know, they're out there in the field all day, every day, seeing how everything works. sometimes they've got more pragmatic or smarter approach than some of our engineers do. and our best engineers always listen to their advice. it is the sort of collaborative, get it done spirit of our shops that i love so much about this agency. so thank, thank you all of you. all right, moving along to the director's report. it's a pretty short report. so let me go over them pretty quickly. quick update on the recreational vehicle legislation that you all passed a couple of months ago. as you probably know, there was an appeal to the board of supervisors to that legislation. the board of supervisors will hear that appeal on december 10th, and you'll recall this

legislation authorizes us to post towaway signs where the department of emergency management and hsh have determined that people are living in oversize vehicles and have refused office offers of shelter. we approved this legislation on october 1st. it will be heard and appeal on december 10th requires six votes of the board of supervisors for the appeal to be upheld, and in the meantime, the legislation is on hold. next up, an update for muni funding working group. we've had in the month of november, two very successful workshops on what happens if we don't develop a new revenue plan for the agency. what is at stake? the next topic, of course, is how do we actually solve this problem, which is going to require new revenue. we were originally planning on doing that work in december due to holiday scheduling. we're

moving that work until january, so the meetings on new revenue will be january 23rd and january 29th. these will be very important meetings and as usual, directors hinsey and hemminger will be representing the mta board and the documents will be posted on at the comptroller's office website. you can search for muni funding working group and you'll find all of that material. next up we are providing strong support to the leadership of the union square association to bring back winter walk to union square. so the blocks of stockton between o'farrell and post will be closed to car traffic from midnight on december ninth until midnight on december 24th. in order to create a winter wonderland in the street. so

there'll be turf and games and santa and lights and all kinds of great things. this has been one of the most successful street activation projects in the city, and has been successful for several years, and is part of the sfmta's work supporting downtown economic recovery and finally, and most importantly, i want to make sure that you all know that you are invited to chinatown rose park station on december 5th from 3 to 5 in the afternoon for sweater fest. so we will be celebrating community of muni and other transit agency enthusiasts. there will be muni merchandise available there, including the muni socks which i am wearing now, which i will not be showing you, but you've seen them before. there will also be

carolers. there will be san francisco themed comedy comedy by muni diaries, christy ono and all kinds of prizes and other things. so i hope that you will join us then. that is the end of my report. thank you, director tomlin. directors, are there any clarifying questions on the director's report? seeing none, i just want to, on behalf of the board, also give just my deep appreciation for the paint shop. i know they most of them left already, so. but we i've had the opportunity to interact with them in some different community projects in the excelsior, and it's just been so amazing to see how community oriented that team is, letting us also like, you know, pick up paint brushes and really, truly appreciate just how hard it is to do the work that they do and the type of precision that they have to have in doing the work. just even

creating the assets and creating all the different lettering. so it's such a it's such an important aspect of the work that we do. it keeps our streets safe, but it also just really fills a neighborhood with pride to see that their streets have been taken care of, that there are folks that are pouring, literally pouring into their streets. and so i just want to commend the folks that are doing that work for us every day and day in and day out. i also had the opportunity to listen to the muni funding working group meeting and i took my tips from director trolove here. just like listening to it, listening to it while i was doing other things. and it was so it was so informative. the last meeting where we were talking about different solutions and different considerations that we have to take into account when trying to balance things out. i did have a question, director tolman, about just the information that's out there from members of the public. there seems to be a lot of confusion right now about the different directions that we're going in, in terms of what we're

cutting, what we're not cutting. when are we cutting these services, things like that. right. and just want to offer you the opportunity and the space to be able to discuss a little bit more about the timeline of different decisions, especially around service cuts. since i've been seeing a lot of messages around that. yes. so one of the things that we've been trying to do is on every single slide in the beginning of every single presentation, offer a disclaimer. there are no current plans for major service cuts. what we are trying to lay out is what is at stake. if we do not solve the problem that we know is headed at us in calendar year 2026. so we've got enough time to solve the problem. but first, we need to understand the magnitude of the problem that we're trying to solve. and it's big. so the goal here is to come to consensus this winter on how to actually rebuild the financial base for the sfmta,

which has been unsustainable already for many years. as you many of you probably know, when i started in this job and the peak of a boom economy, the sfmta had a $50 million structural deficit. and that's for many reasons, right? the costs of running the agency rise with the cost of living, because the bulk of our expenses or expenses are paying paint shop workers and transit operators and the people of the agency. meanwhile, many of our revenue streams, particularly parking, has been in long term decline. uber and lyft are eating into our parking garage revenue, and waymo is now as well. that had long been a primary source of funding for muni, and that revenue needs to be replaced as we increasingly shift towards a rideshare autonomous vehicle oriented mobility system, along with transit and other modes. so

we knew this problem was coming and covid accelerated it. and now is the time that we need to rebuild the basic funding base of the agency. thank you. director tubman. if there are no more clarifying questions from my fellow directors, we'll now open up public comment on item six. members of the public, this is public comment on the director's report. seeing no public comment. do we have any accommodations? secretary? i do have one accommodation. speaker. you've been unmuted for item number six, the director's report. yes. this is herbert weiner. i think that one source of revenue might come from mta itself. i believe the salaries above $100,000 should be frozen. i think certain projects should

be placed on hold with the idea of giving public transportation priority. the bicyclist should pay for their licenses and also parking fees and also the idea of having walk san francisco transferred to the police department might be another way of saving funds. these are my suggestions. thank you. no other callers. thank you. thank you for your comment. we'll now close. public comment is there. oh there is. oh thank you. hi there. good afternoon marie raphael. i was going to speak on another item, but i will just jump in on this and comment that i think it's wonderful that we're talking about the budget. i think it's time to fully restructure the budget. sfmta has over 5900 employees, only

2500 of those are bus drivers. so i think we need to really rethink what is the job of sfmta and maybe focus more on increasing public safety on muni, in increasing fare enforcement, because if i recall correctly, if about 20% of fares aren't enforced, so that would be another $50 million. if i have my numbers, if i'm recalling my numbers correctly. so there's i think a lot we can do. that's not nibbling around the edges. i think sfmta for too long has been nibbling around the edges, and it is your fiduciary duty to get this budget in order. so please, let's take some big steps to actually improve for the future so that we're not facing hundreds of millions of dollars of deficit, because i think the public has shown recently that they're not interested in funding irresponsibility and mismanagement. thank you. thank you for your comment. we have no

other comments. i will now close public comment on item six. secretary silva, please call the next item places you on item number seven. the citizen's advisory council report. we have no report. okay, let's move on to the next item, please. places you on item number eight, new or unfinished business by board members. all right. i see folks lighting up right now. okay. director tarloff. thank you, madam chair. i just wanted to report to my fellow board members that i just. this morning attended the graduation ceremony for 25 brand new bus operators. and it was a real pleasure to see our work in this way and to see these 25 individuals embark on what promises to be a, a, a very rewarding career path. and i was

very impressed with the support that's provided and the support and training that's provided to our operators. and it was a real pleasure to be able to attend that ceremony. so that's it. thank you. director tarloff director henderson, thank you. i wanted to just say thank you again to the staff for preparing some remarks for me and then also participating in organizing a really thoughtful and great bay view shuttle launch. a couple of weeks ago, director tarloff joined me, and of course, director tomlin was there. and it was it was a great event, but i want to say it has been sort of even exceeded by the service of the actual shuttle. i've been taking it and have also seen a number of my neighbors and community members

who rely on the shuttle. they're taking advantage of the period right now that's free until the 11th. and i think that that was a really good way to roll out the shuttle. and so i wanted to just just say thank you to michael and javon and kate and all of the rest of the team that organized the event. also, thank you to everybody who is who who brought the shuttle to the neighborhood because it really is already in a couple of weeks making a huge impact. and so it's great. and then i did this weekend, get some questions about what sfmta's plans are on the ysleta creek bridge project. and so i was hoping that in the next, you know, not not urgent, but i was hoping to get an update and maybe even hear from dpw and the other partners sf, maybe small business, office of small business or whoever it is, because there are some questions that people are asking me and i

think that because the project looks and feels like an mta project, or that we're the lead, it might be appropriate just to convene the, you know, the different departments and community members to be able to have a conversation and update about the status, especially as we go through the good work of the muni funding working group and everything. so i was hoping to introduce that and have some update in the next few months. and that's it. thank you. thank you, director henderson. director tomlin, do you have anything to add about those latest creek bridge projects? yes. so the ysleta creek bridge project is a replacement of the third street bridge over lees creek. it has some pretty significant vulnerabilities because of the way the bridge is constructed. there's no way to do that replacement in phases. and so it will be very disruptive to the bayview. the project is being led by the department of public works. it's a couple of years off, but the

environmental work is being completed now. it will require a lot of work from us to find ways to make sure that people can still get in and out of the bayview by all modes of transportation. i think it would be wise to do a joint departmental update to this board, just so that everyone is up to speed, and that we are being well coordinated among departments. thank you, director tomlin. all right. any additional contributions from my fellow colleagues on unfinished business? okay. we'll now open public comment on item eight. and this is new and unfinished business. so it's a reflection on what was just covered by our directors a moment ago. all right. any accommodations? no accommodations. all right. we'll now close public comment on item eight. secretary silva, please call the next item. 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. linda schaefer, phaedra fisher, ted olson, mary horrible. any of those speakers can come up to the podium. so i'd like to address the i'd like to comment on the application from the city of san francisco, which is currently before the california coastal commission entitled great highway vehicle closure slope bike lanes. this project is dishonest and must be withdrawn. excuse me, is this i believe this is item 10.44. no, this is general. i'm talking right now about the california coastal commission application, which is currently in front, posted by the city of san francisco, mta. and it's in front of the california coastal commission. so the slope bike lanes project is also known as a slope boulevard quick build

project. it was passed by the sfmta board in july 2023, but not under the name of the project as a whole, but under the agenda approving various routine parking and traffic modifications. the components of the project were listed as 16 generic line items out of 56 total line items, not one of these line items mentioned. the removal of parking, the public comment part of the agenda included one caller, san francisco bike coalition, in favor of the proposal, and one caller requesting deferral of the vote. so did the public actually realize that parking was going to be removed? the coastal act of 1976 requires public access and public recreational access opportunities in the coastal zone to be protected and maximized. the staff report noted. while removal of 93 parking spaces naturally raises concern, the city proposes to restripe the parking lot located immediately at the southwest corner of sloat skyline boulevard. the city estimates about 100 free parking spaces

would be accommodated. that parking lot already exists. it is dishonest by the city to suggest that any new parking will offset this loss. the proposal in front of the c.c.c. must be withdrawn. the removal of parking along sloat has been falsely represented first to the people of san francisco and now to the california coastal commission. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. the comments. okay. yes. this is general public comment. hi, my name is mina yang. i have been a 40 year resident of san francisco, mostly in richmond district with the closing of the upper great highway. i think there's an alternative to allow more accessibility of the for the elderly and the disabled to be to enjoy the coastline by expanding the great highway

street next to the upper great highway. so they'll so they'll be accommodating both the cars and whatever other plans you have. one of the greatest places experiences with my elderly parents right now is taking them for a ride along the great highway, and now we don't have that option, and we wish to have that by having the expanded great highway street. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. good afternoon everyone. my name is linda schaefer and i am a san francisco resident. can you go a little bit closer to the mic? thank you. there it is. okay. i am a san francisco resident and i am here to make a point that

is related to the great highway issue, but with a specific focus on public transit. i try to be a good transit first citizen, but living in the outer, outer, outer outer richmond, that is sometimes a challenge. normally, if i want to go east, say to the civic center, that's easy. i have a choice among bus lines, but let's say i want to go south, say to sfo, not so easy. i have to take two busses just to get to the daly city bart station. from there, it's no problem at all. at age 83, i would like to bear witness that it is not fun changing busses with a bag and a small backpack, especially if it's raining. so i end up taking a cab, not public

transit. given the situation with the upper great highway, which goes north and south and the problem being that our public transit system, like most public transit systems, was designed to do a much better job of taking people going from east to west rather than north and south, because the design was to take people from where they live to where they work. i would like to suggest that this proposal i. should be postponed to close the upper great highway until the public transit system has had time to adjust and provide more alternatives for west side residents to go north and south. if there's anything that you folks can do to help us explain

this to other people and to cope, it would be much appreciated. thank you. and i apologize for my nervousness. that's okay. thank you so much for your comments. appreciate it. any additional comments? this is general public comment. hello. hello my name is pat huey. i've lived in san francisco since 1982. i live in the haight. my concern is with in addition to the sloat area, the slope problems, just the general issue of removing parking spaces throughout our city. this this. let's see, in addition to prop k, this, this will dump additional cars into the sunset, into the surrounding areas. and think of what it will be like once we start getting the high rises that will be built in in the haight in the sloat area. i mean, i'm sorry, in ocean beach so far i've read

of plans to remove parking from in addition to sloat ocean beach, the haight, the haight i live in the haight, irving street, and there are other areas, and we've been removing small, small parking lot. lots of parking throughout. this is a hardship for people who cannot afford cars, who who rely on their cars to get to their jobs. they can't afford to get ubers or other or private other or cabs. so i'm asking that you propose that you postpone any of these changes until you really think about what the neighbors want, the people who are against k, they're overwhelmingly in the western part of the city. the people who are for it are in the east part. they're not affected. so anyway, so please stop removing parking spaces. thank you very much. thank you so much for your comment. for any additional speakers, if you are speaking on items related to

10.4, which is the traffic modifications on lincoln way and sloat boulevard that will be heard later. so you'll get a chance to speak on it. and this is for general public comments for items that are not on today's agenda. thank you. speaker. my name is doctor ted olson. i'm a third generation san franciscan, also 83, and i'm here to propose perhaps a solution to that of the previous speakers with whom i agree. a i'm recommending a perimeter bus route, given our recent election and the majority eliminating great highway, i think we still need both four lanes of traffic with the median for bikes in both directions, plus the pedestrian path beside the street and an elevated ocean park above the beach. my suggested bus route in each direction would run on the great highway. of course, the

beginning ocean front promenade from noriega santiago needs to be extended, and i grew up there. when i could walk from sunset boulevard to the beach over sand dunes. the reason for encircling the four mile, seven sides of the city in two directions, with busses, with stops at all other muni stops, is to better appreciate the city, its history and natural advantages. if necessary, extend some lines to this perimeter terminal connection. if there are some areas that are sparsely connected to other spots, perhaps taxi drivers with medallions could be exclusively allowed. there. i believe that this route would be enhanced for both our citizens. as you've heard some of them, and visitors may substantially reduce the commute for some of the peripheral districts of our city who have to work on the other half of the city. it might also be handy for many who trek or

jog directly or diagonally across the city for recreation. i also believe that it would give all of us a better appreciation for the geological distinctions of our unique city, as well as for many vistas along the mountain top between us and san mateo. it would make everyone appreciate why our amazing bay was discovered by the spaniards overland. sorry, sir, your time is up. thank you so much for your comment. well, i would suggest that and let me just conclude i have served on two of the earliest cacs and as chairman, and i'd be happy to be called upon to serve in any way on this. thank you. next speaker, please. i think we could listen to him all day. what a nice voice you have again, maria raphael, i am the executive director of connected sf. i am taking time off work to be here today to speak with you, which a lot of our members and other members of the public

cannot do. i fully support the speaker two ahead of me that please stop getting rid of parking spaces. it's not helping, but i wanted to comment on a meeting i attended last night, which is sfmta proposing to make all parking residential parking in the union street chestnut street area. paid parking. now, sfmta has said that there's misinformation on that, but i think we should clarify what that is sfmta is proposing to take parking that would otherwise be two hour free parking and turn it into paid parking on residential streets. i attended a meeting last night, which was scheduled on a monday. you know, we have monday night football. it was the weekend. it was the monday after thanksgiving. i think the expectation that was very few people would come. there were over 300 people there and i

didn't hear a single person who favored this. and i asked several times, why are we even talking about this? well, we think it would be better for residents. well, the room was full of residents who were saying they don't want this. they're not interested in it. why are we even having this conversation? so i want to i would love for sfmta to clarify exactly what it's talking about doing, because what i heard last night was the same thing that was in thousands of emails that you received that said, we don't want paid parking on our residential streets. if i'm hosting a play date with my daughters, you know, ten years ago, maybe my daughter's friends and four moms are coming over. i don't want them to have to pay for parking. if we're meeting at the park, we don't want to have to pay for parking. please. this is not how people live in a city that is a community. thank you so much for your comment. thank

you. next speaker, please. i have another speaker card for molina. good afternoon, vice chair cajina. i'm the campaign associate at walk san francisco, and as of today, 22 pedestrians have lost their lives in traffic crashes. this is more than when the city adopted vision zero policy ten years ago. in 2014. this is not acceptable. the sfmta is one of the city's leading agencies working on street designs and policies to get to the goal of zero fatalities and serious injuries. i'm here today to ask when the next vision zero policy and action strategy will be brought forward. it's unfortunate that this has not happened in 2024. a leading city like san francisco should not be without a strong, safe streets initiative. there is no time for delay. san franciscans deserve a policy and an action strategy that one builds on the successes and learnings of the quick build program to continue redesigning

our streets for safety over speed two maxes out proven tools like daylighting that keep people safe in the crosswalk. three prioritizes adding maximum protection for the most vulnerable roadway users kids, seniors, and people with disabilities. because if we focus on the most vulnerable, we all benefit. and lastly, the people of san francisco deserve transparency. what the agency aims to achieve, how it will get there, and where it is every step of the way. like you, we dislike when people say that vision zero is a failure because it isn't. vision zero is the right goal and approach to end fatalities and injuries. in san francisco, other cities are proving it. we acknowledge and appreciate the work sfmta staff has been doing to change decades of street designs built for cars. we're asking you, sfmta directors, to be asking the question of when. when will this body see the next vision zero policy and action strategy? lives are on the line. there's no time to waste. thank you. thank you so much for your

comment. next speaker, please. griffin lee san francisco resident of six years here to back murray on her stance. last night's meeting was three, supposedly roughly 300 folks, residents in the marina area came to the meeting. i don't think it's worth spending a year long to analyze and research. and then potentially implement what you're proposing in the marina. if you're truly for the residents of san francisco, truly for the residents of the marina, and truly for supporting small businesses, i don't see the worthwhile to spend employee hours that we're we're paying them for to move forward with this project any further. lastly, feedback on those types of meetings. i would change the

format. it felt like a kindergarten back to school night type of presentation, and i didn't think it felt like many of your employees that represented you there yesterday. last night wanted to even be there. so i train them on fielding questions and actually showing up and listening to the residents versus just rolling eyes and saying, i don't know. thank you for your comment. next speaker please. speaker card for susan engardio. hi. i just wanted to speak up about this vision zero policy. san francisco has. i'm a resident, lifelong resident. i think. i mean, no one wants to see anyone killed by a vehicle. none of us zero. that's the zero, right? however, the reality is that in living in a city, the risks are

there. that's what we do when we live in a city. we take risks going out of our door every day. i'd like to speak on behalf of drivers who witness pedestrians not even paying attention. it's pretty rampant. they're looking at their phones, they've got coverings over their ears. they're not in their environment. they're not paying attention. they're not part of the dance. i like to call it the dance because that's what we're all doing out there. we're in movement and i think it's unrealistic to go for zero. i think if we enforce laws and did some education programs for all, including drivers, including pedestrians, including cyclists, every single ice dancer out there is part of it. and i've witnessed it. i even saw a waymo run a stop sign the other day. it's kind of wild, so i just want you to know not everybody agrees with the vision zero.

it's kind of oppressive. thanks. thank you for your comment. please. no disruptions or outbursts of any kind. thank you. thank you, secretary silva. next speaker, please. hi there. my name is susan long guardino. this is my son, eric. eric has been raised in san francisco. eric is disabled and we feel very strongly that we have been disenfranchized, especially by the sfmta. i am so sorry to say in that we live in the outer richmond. it is our only option is to take a car with eric's disabilities. i'm fortunately muni and getting up and down on the steps of the busses and he's not exactly a wheelchair, but he cannot be brought on the busses

and so forth. so we as drivers, i used to drive him through the park from stanyan all the way out to ocean beach and look at the windmills and the and the waterfalls and the buffalo and this and that, that has been closed to us now as the park has been closed, we're out on 45th avenue now. we're now his drive is to go along ocean beach and along the great highway. i also use that route to bring him to the pomeroy center that he goes to for services several times a week. one second baby. and as a result of that being closed, it again hampers us to going through stopping at every corner through the sunset. so it makes it quite impossible. and i just cannot make the sense of closing a four lane highway when there is so much land and real estate

in the middle section of it, as well as along both sides of it, to accommodate bicycles and strollers and walkers, and i feel that it would be so much more fair to everyone and not disenfranchize anyone to share the road as opposed to closing it permanently. my last point is that the parking situation in san francisco is that that is your time. okay, sorry, this is eric's comment. now the parking situation in san francisco. sorry, that is your time. and i'm being stretched by. city attorney. eric would like to say a few words. he can get an additional two minutes. eric. eric. lombardino. i'll be speaking for him. eric. come over. mommy's going to talk. sorry. let me get clearance from the city attorney just to make sure that's. that's possible. i'm the. he's disabled. this is an accommodation? yes. sorry. let me get clearance from the city attorney. so if you are so

inclined to make an accommodation in this instance, you've got the discretion to do so. okay. so we'll hear from from eric via his mom. thank you for the accommodation. i'd like to talk for eric. the parking situation in the city is also a service. i know you're predominantly focused on providing service for the majority of people that live in the city. however, you are disenfranchizing many, including eric and myself by taking away parking to pay for and accommodate other services. parking is a service in itself, and it is a much needed service. and to eliminate parking or make residential parking a situation where it has to be paid, he gets caregivers four and five times a week that would need to park in front of my house and to take

away parking from everywhere, which has been happening again all over the city is a complete disenfranchize of many people that you're not considering at this point. so i would ask that you would consider others and others opinions, especially those that have disabilities and restrictions in your decision making. thank you very much. i appreciate you, your service for your comments. folks, if we can minimize any disruptions, that would be much appreciated. any additional speakers? any accommodations? we do have one accommodation. speaker. you've been unmuted for item nine. general public comment. this is herbert weiner. now, i'm very upset about how this the mta discounts seniors and the disabled. so many decisions have

been made that have adverse impact on fingers and the disabled. and you are actually blind to it and sensitive to it. and don't see the damage that you are doing and your eyes were less than human and were discountable. but when you discount us in such a way, you will forget your own humanity. and frankly, i even wonder if you even qualify for the animal kingdom. animals have more compassion than this board does at times. i'm really upset over your decision, especially the deletion of the bus stop. bus runs long walking distances to the bus. it's really unconscionable. and this word and its management may very well pay for it in the future. thank you, thank you, thank you so much for your comments. any additional speakers? no

additional speakers. thank you. we will now close public comment on item nine. secretary silva, please call the next item directors that places you on item ten. your consent calendar. these items are considered to be routine and will be acted upon by a single vote. unless a member of the board or public wishes to consider an item separately for all speakers providing public comment, please identify which item number you are speaking to. i'd also like to announce at this time that item 10.4, the proposed bikeway and traffic modifications for lincoln way and sloat boulevard have been severed from the consent calendar and will be heard separately with its own public comment period. if you are here for that item, please wait to comment until we get to that point in the meeting. item 10.1 requesting the controller to a-lot funds and to draw warrants against such funds available or will be available in payment of the listed claim item a in the agenda against the sfmta's item 10.2 approving various routine parking and traffic modifications and making environmental review findings

for items 10.2 a through f in the agenda item 10.3 approving a roadway shared spaces street closure of elm street between van ness avenue and polk street. tuesday, december 3rd, 2024 through wednesday, december 3rd, 2020 5:08 a.m. to 4 p.m. monday through friday and making environmental review findings. item 10.4 approving protected bike i'm sorry, item 10.4 has been severed and will be heard separately. moving on to item 10.5 authorizing the director of transportation to execute the ninth amendment to sfmta contract number 201448 with texaco for towing and storage services for abandoned and illegally parked vehicles, increasing the contract amount by $17 million for a total amount not to exceed $138.4 million. to support spending for the balance of the contract term through march 2026, and recommending approval of this amendment by the board of supervisors pursuant to charter

section 9.118, item 10.6, authorizing the sfmta through its director of transportation, or designee to accept and expend up to $942,286 in fiscal years 2024 and 2025. transportation development act tda article three funds for the 13th street safety project as set forth in the tda article three project application form that is submitted to the metropolitan transportation commission. item 10.7 establishing the 2025 sfmta board of directors and parking authority commission meeting schedule and item 10.8 recommending to the board of supervisors for approval of the portal project implementation. memorandum of understanding between the transbay joint powers authority, the metropolitan transportation commission, the san francisco county transportation authority, the peninsula corridor joint powers board, the california high speed rail authority, and

the city and county of san francisco. collectively, the partners regarding phase two of the tjpa transbay program referred to as the portal project, the portal for a term in excess of ten years. that concludes your consent. calenda. thank you, secretary silva. that was a long list, colleagues, are there any clarifying questions on consent items? 10.1 through 10.8, -10.4. okay, we will now open public comment on item ten. the consent calendar. as a reminder, 10.4 has been severed and that will have its own public comment period. okay. not seeing any public comment, any accommodations. we do have an accommodation. speaker. you've been unmuted. this is for item ten. yeah, i waive comment. thank you, thank you. no other speakers. thank you. colleagues, do i have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar. move approval of the items minus

ten point for second. thank you. directors. secretary silva, please call the roll on the motion to approve the consent calendar with item 10.4 removed. director chen i. chen i director heminger heminger. i director henderson, a, henderson i director hines i director tarlov i tarlov. i'd vice chair karina i kahina i thank you. the consent calendar is approved. thank you. now we'll move to item 10.4. item 10.4 approving protected bikeway and traffic modifications on lincoln way and sloat boulevard. endorsing the closure of the upper great highway and adopting the closure and findings of proposition k. and that's it. i believe we do have staff here. yes. thank you.

okay. good afternoon, directors. it's nice to see you today. i'm cronenberg, i'm the senior planning manager and the sfmta lead for the great highway program. today i am presenting on the proposed sloat and lincoln quick build connections intersection that are proposed as a result of the passage of proposition k, the vehicular closure of great highway. mta has an obligation to ensure legible and safe intersections at either end of the upper great highway for when the road is fully closed to vehicular traffic. these intersection quick build proposals will ensure that the roadway is safe, legible, and efficient for vehicle traffic. routing around the closed roadway segment. the bikeways connect to the existing and future protected bikeway facilities to the north south, and east of both intersections,

and that we need to upgrade the existing pedestrian infrastructure for people walking. and none of this. we don't want this to be on long timelines or have high costs. these two intersection improvements are critical in the context of three other projects that have been approved and are moving to implementation. the first is at the south, the sfpuc ocean beach climate adaptation project. the mta board approved sloat quick bill protected bike facilities and the vehicular closure of great highway, approved by voters a month ago. only the intersection, minor traffic modification proposals are on the agenda for your consideration today. this shows the proposals for lincoln way at upper grade highway implementation will be phased, but the end condition will be two vehicle turn lanes in each direction. new protected bicycle

facilities on the north side of lincoln way and on great highway. a frequent complaint i've heard over the last four and a half years of various traffic configurations. at this intersection is the flashing red condition. when the roadway is closed, a permanent intersection condition allows mta to create a yellow red yellow green, giving cars a typical traffic condition and pedestrians and cyclists their own protected phase to cross to facilitate the second northbound turn lane from lincoln, we're going to move a muni flag stop from far side to near side. this shows the future condition for the western end of sloat boulevard. much of this proposal was designed for the ocean beach climate adaptation project, with the full time closure of the great highway extension, including a facilitated u-turn for vehicles accessing the zoo driveway on the south side of sloat. prior to 47th avenue. this proposal creates a direct bikeway connection between the upper

great highway and the approved protected lanes from 47th to skyline. the signal is going to function in a flashing red condition until we are able to replace it with a stop sign. upper great highway is under the purview of recreation and parks. the slide is for informational purposes. mta is going to support rec park with mode separation of the east and west side of this roadway segment. decommission the traffic signals, and upgrade the existing crosswalks at all. the trail entrances from lower great highway. as we make these permanent roadway changes, it's important for us to keep the public informed and ready to change their traffic. routing plans mta and rec park will make sure public information is provided through media, social media and our respective websites. we are developing the plan for on street signage to ensure that roadway users are not surprised when they get to the end of lincoln or sloat. and lastly, we work with digital map providers to ensure that these changes are reflected in the

directions they provide. so that concludes the brief presentation on on the two intersection proposals in front of you. and i'm happy to take any questions. thank you. colleagues, do we have any questions on this item. item 10.4 director heminger. thank you, madam chair. maybe just some preparatory questions. the first is, who owns the great highway? sure. recreation and parks. so why is this item before us today? we are making minor traffic modifications leading up to the eastern side. so all the modifications are still on mta roadway because there's a shared jurisdictional area. and then muni stops in general are under your purview. okay. are there any parking spaces affected by the item before us today? no, not today. and are there any that will follow from whatever action we

take today? yeah. so some of the media, i believe, reported on an action you took a year and a half ago with the slope quick build, which does have did have proposals for removing parking spaces. but then bringing some back through the northeast lot, which we all lovingly call the christmas tree lot at the corner of the zoo. and so some of those parking spaces will be restored, but i'm happy to go into that in more detail if there are questions, but that is not on this agenda today. and this item, some of the mail we've gotten on this points out that prop k has not been certified yet by the department of elections. wouldn't it be customary to wait until after that happens to take any actions that are consequent of it? yeah. so, you know, every election has transition plans. and my perspective is this is part of that transition planning. you know, we don't wait to give all the new mayor his information. there's a group of people

downstairs making sure we're transmitting the information. if the election is not certified. and these results are not considered final, we will not be implementing this project. this is a required approval. and i think also the coastal commission is you have not asked this question, but the coastal commission actually retains the right, the state coastal commission over decision making in this area. and they have requested that all approvals be taken before they take an action. so if we didn't move ahead with this action and they approved all the other work that is approved, we would actually have two intersections that don't have logical traffic routing and traffic plans and signage, because we don't have those approvals, while the other three projects that are all intersecting do run that one by me again. yeah, absolutely. so there's three projects that are intersecting at these two intersections. right. so we have both the slope quick build which

is approved. we have the sfpuc climate adaptation project which closes great highway extension, which is approved. and then lastly, the voters have approved the closure of great highway. and so these would be these these intersection changes that are under your purview do not have any approvals. and therefore, should the coastal commission act without these approvals, we would have to return to them subsequently to get those approvals. and so if we were to defer action on this item today, when would be the next time we could consider it? you could consider it. yes. i mean, i suppose in two weeks, december 17th. yeah. okay. that answers the question. thank you. director chen, thank you. chair. so i just want to make sure if the coastal the next coastal coastal commission hearing is

december 13th. that's correct. okay. and then our meeting is the 17th. yes. so if the directors do not take action today on these items, staff, as a matter, are still taking things that have been approved prior to the coastal commission. yes. so the difference would be whether or not the directors approve will approve and then and then staff will then also take the intersection changes. it's a question of whether these intersection changes will happen sooner or later. that's that's accurate. and you know, i you know, i'll remind all of us that on friday at noon, we do route traffic through these intersections. it's just undesirable. it's an undesirable condition. and that's where we get a lot of customer complaints and so this is an opportunity to change that. prior to a closure of the great highway. great. thank you. thank you. director chen. director hines. okay, so

my question is about i and you sort of touched on this in your presentation. how but when director when director tala and i talked with you yesterday, we kind of emphasized our desire to see some signage before, like your last chance to get to exit the area before getting on the gray highway. so we were. if you could speak to some of your signage plan, i think that would be good. yeah. thank you for the question. so currently there are signs both on fulton and on skyline that say that when it's flashing, great highway is closed. please use sunset. and then on great highway itself it

says the weekend plan, the weekend schedule and so we would replace those signs and perhaps add additional ones that just say great highway closed. and we haven't fully fleshed out the plan. so i'm i'm not you know, not 100% confident what exactly was going out there. but we are certainly have specific plans to update the signage and make sure that drivers who aren't using gps navigation or just unfamiliar, are going to have clear information to them during this transition time so they don't end up at the end of realizing, oh, this is not where i want to be, right? and then to follow up, i guess, to put a little bit of a finer point on director chen timeline question. so where were we not to take action on this today? and then you were going to take the rest of the proposal to the coastal commission without this, would you have to go before the

coastal commission again? do you think, or. yes. for at least some of it, if not all of it, we would need to return to the coastal commission because they retain original jurisdiction. so you're you're wanting to keep this as a package then. okay, i do it. all right. thank you, madam chair. and if i may, victoria is director of streets. i think it is important to keep it as a cap package so that the coastal commission has an understanding and a consideration of the totality of what's happening. and look at it together. and i think that's why it's critical. thank you. yeah. thank you, director hines. any additional questions, colleague? maybe one last question. the certification of the election, i think, is this week. today is today. it's today. so by the time it goes to the coastal commission that the elections, the results will be will be

certified. that's correct. yes. great. thank you. is there i guess my follow up question to that. is there any chance that this will not be certified or approved? i don't i don't i defer to an attorney or something. yeah. we're not aware of any reason why the election results wouldn't be certified. the likelihood of it being certified is super high, to the best of my knowledge. yes. okay. that helps. and i think that helps with some of the questions that we got in our emails about certification being an issue here. and thank you so much for bringing up the timeline. i'll now open this agenda item to public comment. i do have speaker cards eileen bogan, fada fisher, pat huey, zach lipton, josephine and kathleen g. any of those names? eileen bogan, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. speaking on my

own behalf, thank you to the board for severing this item from the consent calendar strongly urging the board to continue these items until after the mayor elect is sworn in. also, the election has not been certified by the board of supervisors until december 10th. the board of supervisors is the last step. although the outgoing mayor supported prop k, she was voted out by a wide margin. the mayor elect, however, opposed prop k. some will see prop k as the will of the voters. others see it as the will of the tech oligarchs and citizens united. the following are excerpts from my comments at the city's capital planning committee on december 2nd. does the west side see the city government as out of touch and prioritizing the fun factor in the western neighborhoods at the expense of public safety and economic vitality? is the city's government apparently prioritizing the fun factor on

the west side, leading to the development in jennifer gentrification pressures which would then turn ocean beach into miami beach, and also on the coastal commission. this is being fast tracked. they met on this last month. they're meeting again on this month, and there are questions on why this is moving forward. very quickly. thank you. thank you so much for your comment. next speaker, please. hello. regarding the reconfiguration of that intersection, the sfmta needs to remove this item from consideration for a vote today. there has not been a proper hearing for this item. today's agenda is theoretically for both the hearing and the board vote. we just saw a bunch of related materials, which was very interesting, but it was not made available to the public in advance. i've been checking your website and the agenda item states explicitly there is no impact to parking. while that

may be factually correct, it is absolutely misleading. the modifications of the intersection of sloat and gregg highway is the capstone project. as has been noted, that will link together three separate initiatives resulting in the removal of a total of 145 parking spaces. this is 90 parking spaces on sloat, 35 parking spaces in the north lot at ocean beach, and 20 spaces along the southbound great highway extension as a whole. these proposed changes will radically impact access to the zoo and the coastal area. the city introduces each component as a separate project, making it very difficult for residents of san francisco to understand the overall plan. the sfmta needs to be transparent to the residents and the taxpayers of the city. for your plans, withdraw this item from the agenda. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hi. good afternoon, directors. zach lipton. i'm a volunteer here with friends of great highway park. i think there's a lot of confusion about this item. the

project that's before the board here today is a really simple and narrow one involving just two intersections. it does three things. it will improve traffic flow for people driving by providing two turn lanes and a dedicated traffic signal phase for drivers making that turn improved safety by providing safe routes and separate times for pedestrians and cyclists and drivers. so everyone knows where they should be and when they should cross, and just gives people that certainty. and it prepares for the implementation of prop k by designing an entrance to the park that will provide barrier free access for emergency vehicles, and clearly designates where everyone is supposed to go. it will impact zero parking spaces and doesn't on its own, close the great highway to traffic. in short, these are routine improvements with benefits for both traffic flow and safety, and really no drawbacks that i can see. the current conditions, meanwhile, are not great. the flashing red is inefficient and unsafe, and it creates a lot of confusion about where drivers, pedestrians and bikes should be and when they should be crossing. this will fix that. people have

brought up a lot of other issues they've conflated with this one, but only these narrow intersection improvements are what's before the board here today, people have a chance to be heard on the entire package of changes that have been proposed over the past several years before the coastal commission next week, including prop k. if this is delayed, it would be really bad for people driving if the coastal commission approves part of the project and there's a delay on the intersection improvements that commission doesn't meet in january. so a delay here today would result in months of delay to the intersection changes. and that means more time with the blinking red lights and all the angst and safety concerns they bring. and as director chen noted, the department of elections says they expect to certify the results downstairs later today. accordingly, i ask you approve these narrow intersection improvements today without any further delay. thank you very much. thank you so much for your comment. next speaker, please. okay. i'm i'm here to express my resolute opposition to the approval of actually, i

didn't know that the 90 parking places along sloat boulevard near the zoo and the beach were approved to be removed in july of 2023, but that's news to me as of today. prior to this meeting. but i'm still opposed to it. i want to make mention of that. it's going to have a substantial impact on the mobility, access to the zoo and the beach due to the removing of parking and the expansion of the bike lanes along sloat was the skyline is out of proportion with the level of bicycle usage. in san francisco, it's about 5% of city residents that rely only on bicycles for mobility. so it's an egregious removal of parking to expand what's already an existing feature. and it does not represent the mobility of the vast numbers of both residents and visitors to san francisco who use their own cars to get to the zoo or the beach. so here's an anecdote. today i drove from 34th ave along lincoln to the great highway south on the great highway, and then left up on sloat, and i saw

not one cyclist, and i swear to god, not one cyclist using any of these roads until i got to skyline, where a pack of cyclists rode for pleasure. at 11:09 a.m. on a tuesday morning. but i did see and share the road with many other cars. delivery trucks, and two school busses. so duly note zero bicycles and my final comment is that in 2005, san francisco was invited to be a member of the c40 cities initiative, a non-democratic commitment made by then mayor brown to reengineer our city via an ideological narrative with zero consideration of the potential negative impact or consequences for everyday residents and visitors to san francisco. much, if not most, of sfmta's anti-car planning and rubber stamp approvals have a tap route to san francisco's membership as a c40 city, so the point i'm making we the people, never as a populace, voted to be

a c40 city. so it's inherently undemocratic and exclusive and i invite san francisco residents to explore the history of c40 cities to better understand the powerlessness and marginalization we're now experiencing as citizens who choose. thank you so much for your comment. sorry your time is up. thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is paul wormer. i will confess to being a fan of the great highway park or the ocean beach park. it has really transformed our lives, and i want to start by giving a shout out to the excellent muni operators who make it possible for us to get there very easily. we're in a very well. i live in a well-served transit area, but i at any rate, the big downside for me are the intersections they are confusing. the cars

don't necessarily know what they're doing. i walk a lot in the city. i will walk between 3 to 6 miles a day on a regular basis. the number of drivers i see who don't understand that pedestrians have the right to cross the street when the driver wants to make a right turn is astonishing. the number that do right turns without paying attention to the pedestrians or the left turns without paying attention to pedestrians in the crosswalk is dramatic, so clear signalization such as proposed for these intersections is essential. ditto. i really appreciate the location proposals for the bus stops. i absolutely encourage you to approve this if need be. if it makes things simpler, make it contingent upon the coastal commission approval. although i think that's not necessary because of the coastal commission doesn't approve it, it won't go through. thank you so much for your comment. next speaker, please. good afternoon,

directors. i was really pleased when i saw the plans for what uni wants to do, particularly at the corner of lincoln and the great highway, because i frequently rolled down through golden gate park and i get to that corner and i'm all ready to go. appreciate the ocean. except there's a moment of terror. am i going to get over there with these cars going through that corner, through that red light, without even stopping? two of them side by side, coming at me in what's supposed to be a crosswalk where i have the right of way. and this plan will fix that. do it. thank you so much for your comment. next speaker, please. good afternoon directors. my name is rachel

clyde. i'm the west side community organizer for the san francisco bicycle coalition here, representing thousands of our members in support of the lincoln and sloat connections project. we are so excited about the passage of prop k and the many possibilities that can come from this bold change. thank you to city staff at sfmta and rec and park for taking swift action to implement changes like this one, so that we can transition to a great highway, the great highway, to a permanent park space. as soon as possible. since the pandemic, when the temporary closures for the great highway began, the intersections at lincoln and sloat have been challenging and scary for people walking and biking. there's a feeling of being right on the edge of a safe space, but having to cross a treacherous crossing first before you can get to safety. we've started calling these yikes moments little parts of an otherwise pretty good route that feel dangerous and make active transportation options seem less accessible with an amazing car free route through the entire length of golden gate park and the soon to be implemented sloat boulevard

quick build and the already implemented lake merced boulevard quick build, the great highway is already sandwiched between amazing biking and rolling options, and we just need to fix these few yikes moments to make them better. the proposed changes will help create a seamless cross city connection for people taking active transportation, and will create a safety corridor for everyone on the west side of san francisco. this is exactly what we've been pushing for with the biking and rolling plan under our sf cycles campaign, a city wide interconnected network of car free and people prioritized streets, we're glad to see that the crossing at lincoln will be signalized and separate, separated from vehicular traffic. as this has created a lot of confusion, frustration, and unsafe interactions. and we're also grateful that the proposed bike lanes additions are a class four protected. again, the sf bicycle coalition asks you to approve the lincoln and sloat connections project today. and please don't delay. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please.

good afternoon, commissioners. hi. my name is tracy harding. i am a resident in the sunset area and a mother of kiddos. my entire family and i get around by walking, by bike, by transit and i really appreciate having come from a city that isn't as proactive. i've really appreciated this. groups, you know, willingness to think ahead and to get in front of some of these issues. so knowing that this particular item is kind of narrowly focused and will, you know, really improve some of those intersections that are super confusing today, wanted to come and speak in support of it and really appreciate sort of the efficient way that you all take up these things in proper sequence and without delay. so thank you so much. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hi. my name is kathleen

gee. i'm a lifelong resident of san francisco. i hope we don't have a fire drill again. this meeting, as we did last one, because that meeting left at 830, i think, and i stayed for all of it. i am speaking to ask you to please follow regulations and don't do this until it's certified. it probably will come, but why the rush? i have a feeling that vision zero. cars don't are also filled with people that they serve. i have an uncle who's 90. i have an aunt who's 100. i need to get them to their doctors. i need to get their caretakers to them. they need cars. they can't always do all they need to do within two hours. i'm lucky. i live in the richmond. so far i

don't have meters there, but i expect that it will go there soon. let's see what else was there as far as the two right lanes turning i guess on sloat? no, on lincoln and the great highway. i stop and i see a lot of most other people. all other people do. i don't always see bicyclists stop, though. i don't always see scooter stop. i almost got run over by a scooter today, and i almost got hit by a pedestrian because she was. and i was walking because she was on her phone. so could you guys please do some education for all people who walk, bike, cycle, drive in the city? it shouldn't be all on one class of people. thank you very much for all your hard work. thank you so much for your comment. next speaker, please. hi. i'm a lifelong

resident of san francisco, and i went to a debate about prop k, and there was never any mention of any additional parking being removed from access to the zoo there, and i feel like i think i represent a lot of people in san francisco, a lot of that were not well informed at all about prop k, and it's wave of implications and a lot of people feel like they're just being socially engineered in order to have zero emissions. and i know you guys are in charge of busses and all this, but you're also in charge of automobiles. yet your priority is to create zero emissions. so the system is inherently biased against cars.

i mean, that's what you have to make your decisions on. and so the private the driver that owns a private vehicle is at a disadvantage for all your goals. it feels like. so i just want to say that there is going to be a loss of we talk about congestion and that causing pedestrian accidents. and it seems there were 2500 cars per hour in a study in 2019, which is on your website of the on the great highway. so as we build back up from losing 60,000 people during the covid, the pandemic or whatever it was, i would say that we are going to be building up and there's going to be congestion, high congestion at these intersections, but it's already i feel like it's already a done deal. it's from 2023, but i wish that the average voter

could be better informed on these major impacts on san francisco. thank you so much for your comment. next speaker, please. yes. hello. been a long time resident of the avenues sunset parkside, and it just dawned on me this whole problem with the major intersections there. they've been there for quite a while, but they were a lot better years ago before the city stepped in and started putting up signs here and there. i've been driving a great highway since i was able to drive well, maybe even before i was able to drive, but that's not the issue here. it's a good idea to straighten those intersections out, especially the one on sloat where there's been construction there forever with the new pump. i don't understand what the new pump station there is for with the water levels rising, they put a

brand new pump station next to the sewer department. okay. but that's just my curiosity. the parking situation. if people are going to the beach and there's no more parking because you're not going to be able to park in the street unless you really drive in circles like cow hollow always has. parking out there is bad, so if you're going to give parking to where the christmas tree lot is, how are you going to haul your kids and everything to the beach? and then there's i heard at one point, parking for surfers at a certain area. but, you know, that's kind of like the bike coalition type thing. you've got these cliques and groups that fight more and somehow they seem to be more informed about what goes on living the neighborhood. i didn't hear about this meeting until this morning. i mean, how did you get here? what was going on? it's just crazy coming from the west side. since i've retired. i worked for the city for almost 30 years. coming downtown. man, it's been a long

time and it's a mess. it's really a mess. this city should take care of more than just this fight about a beach park. i love parks, i think there should be a park there, but the traffic is what we need and the information. we just don't get information out there. thank you. thank you so much for your comment. are there any additional speakers on item 10.4? do we have any accommodations? secretary silva we might have one on accommodation. speaker you've been unmuted. this is for item 10.4. speaker this you've been unmuted for item 10.4. yeah. this is herbert weiner. i really think that you have to take drivers and parking spaces into consideration. that is the mission of this board and you

really should do it. i support the other comments that are critical of this. you have to strike a balance between motorists and bicyclists and passengers and pedestrian. that is the mission of the board. you have an obligation to develop. thank you. no other callers. thank you for your comment. we'll now i'll close public comment on this item then. colleagues, is there a motion and a second to approve item 10.4. so moved. is there a second? second secretary silva, please call the roll on the one side before you do that. yeah, i'd like to propose a substitute motion. go ahead. colleagues, i

am troubled by the process. by which or the lack of process by which this item got to us. and i appreciate the fact that we've taken an item, this item, off the consent agenda. and i've heard testimony about it from some people more than more than once. but what we didn't do is provide notice of that ahead of time. and i think we're all familiar with what our consent calendar says. and i'll just read it. for the record, all matters listed here under constituted consent calendar are considered to be routine by the san francisco mta. this item is not routine. it may appear to b, but it's in the context of a broader debate that has been quite lively in the western part

of town. so i would be more comfortable if we gave folks that notice and continued this item to our next meeting. schedule a public hearing and have it, and then vote at that meeting if that's our predilection. so that's my substitute motion. thank you, director heminger. director. tomlin. so i respect the notion of process. but as one of the speakers did report, this really is a small unimpactful routine item that is in support of another city department that has a very tight schedule for making the coastal commission. so the urgency of this item is in support of the recreation and parks department, because there aren't other winter meetings of

the coastal commission. so while it is certainly well taken that the issue is a very large issue, these are minor intersection modifications that we have talked about at this board before, and it was something that we wanted to do long before prop k was even placed upon the ballot. as several speakers mentioned, the current connections between at lincoln and great highway, as well as at sloat and great highway. those connections work badly for motorists for pedestrians and for cyclists, and we have long wanted to fix them. so i apologize for having placed this on consent, because we did believe they were really minor modifications and the schedule urgency is really for the recreation and parks department. thank you, director tomlin. you know, reflecting on on this

item, it is a very narrow item on just two blocks essentially that meet the great highway. and you know, i've, i've liked i've walked i've driven in those two intersections. and it is quite complicated and it is quite complex to navigate. it's you know, i take to heart some of the public comment that we heard from folks saying it's a very undesirable situation right now. the way that that it's currently laid out and this particular project would help support some of the critical safety needs that that intersection needs. and so, you know, whether i understand that the context is much heavier than, than just those two intersections, but i do see a great value in creating safer conditions for pedestrians, motorists and cyclists in those two intersections. it's just about cleaning up some of those intersections that have needed

that for some time. so that's that's my perspective on it. but i can appreciate director hemminger how this this does seem. the timing of it all does seem a little wonky. we have an item that that, you know, a voters, you know, voted for a particular closure of the great highway. that vote has been certified getting certified today. we also have the coastal commission meeting on the 13th. and we also have another meeting on the 17th. so the i understand just the wonkiness of how the timeline is shaping up, but it does sound to me, though, that there are some critical safety needs that that intersection need. now. and i do wonder, you know, just the impact that delaying this would have. but maybe staff could could speak to that a little bit more. just understanding, you know what, you know what the timeline for implementation, if approved.

sure. so again some portions of these intersections are in the original jurisdiction of the state. and the coastal act. and it takes us a long time to get to a hearing at the coastal commission. and so, for instance, the slow quick build is actually part of the great highway project because it had actually taken a while to get itself into the queue. and then the state said, oh, okay, we'll hear this as one item. i mean, they have their own regulatory and bureaucratic processes, and so there is no certainty that we would that if we they move ahead with the remaining items at the december hearing that are all approved and all have moved ahead, that the items that are in front of you today would be heard in any timely way. they have a huge caseload and i can't speak on their behalf. and so the intent here is to get these intersections into the grand big project and to allow the coastal commission to hear them

singularly and make a decision as an approval board themselves, and allow us then to kind of set everything up for implementation in a in a smart and effective way that really serves the people of san francisco while still appreciating the vote that happened this november. now, if and i'm going to be joined by my colleague sarah madland, who can speak on behalf of rec and park. okay. thank you. hi, director. sarah. madeleine, i'm the director of policy and public affairs for the parks department. i just wanted to add to his explanation that we've worked with the coastal commission and understand that it is their preference to have all of the projects in one area come before them at one time, rather than the sort of feeling of piecemealing things. so they have specifically requested that we present this all as a package to them. and part of our time urgency is trying to honor that request from a state regulator. thank you so much. in terms of

implementation, what does implementation look like? sure. thank you so much for that question. so i'm also joined by my colleague casey. so if i get this wrong, you'll correct me. thank you. so we do understand you know, we don't want to just close the gates tomorrow on a friday afternoon and then never open them again on a monday. we want to be really thoughtful and intentional about how this project rolls out. and so that to the extent that there are concerns around traffic, that we're doing our best on day one. right. and so certain elements of these intersections would be in place the day of i think our certain goal would be to have the red, yellow, green in place, along with some paint upgrades, obviously, like u-turn only signs like our basic signage and striping in the ground on that day. we're also working hard to ensure that other pieces of the project, the much bigger program, are actually also in place. and so there's two signals that are currently in construction that we really are

working hard to ensure that they are activated on that same timeline, which is a caltrans signal at skyline great highway. and then our own traffic signal at skyline. and then there's a number of other sort of hotspot areas that we're currently looking at and seeing what we can do on, if not on day one, then certainly, you know, spring and so this approval allows us to make sure that we you know, we just saw the paint shop earlier today. you know, they are the hardest working people in town. and even they have a bandwidth. so this approval allows us to get into their queue so that we can prioritize their work and make sure that on day one, that these projects are indeed in place. so i hope that sort of answers your question. absolutely. thank you. director hemminger, i think you had something to add. well, look, there are a whole lot of people telling us, telling me that we need to go ahead now, but i again returned to the same concern that we are moving ahead

before certain required steps are taken and i understand that what i'm suggesting here is taking an extra step. and it would be one thing if we had this large reservoir of trust with the public that we could draw on, but we do not. and i think we've heard from a lot of testimony today that people may have some wrongheaded opinions. i don't know, you don't need to sell me on the project. the project seems perfectly reasonable to me. but when you skip a step, that's just one more chink in the wall. it seems to me. and we just should stop skipping steps so i. i've made my substitute motion. you can ask for a second, and you may be out of your misery. if you can't find one before we do that, director tarloff. thank you,

madam chair. director hemminger, i really appreciate the points you're taking. i think they're very, very well taken. i. i just want to say that i would feel uncomfortable not moving this item forward, given the conditions that are currently in effect at these two intersections. and the potential for, you know, an unfortunate thing. but i did hear in the public testimony a lot of concern about access for motorists to the zoo and to the beach. and, and i would appreciate if not now at a, at a future hearing, a, you know, a more since this is outside of the scope of what's before us today, a more a deeper dive into

what the plan is for that. because access for people who must use private vehicles to this incredible resource is, is very important and so that would be my request. thank you, madam chair and director tarloff. we would be happy to come and present the larger strategy that we are working on to improve traffic conditions on lincoln, sunset boulevard, sloat and skyline in order to make sure that north south traffic flow on the west side continues to work. this is work that we have been working out for a couple of years now because regardless, we knew regardless of prop k that increased sand closures on great highway put a burden of responsibility upon the sfmta to invest in making those traffic connections flow better. director hennessy yeah, just a

couple, a couple things. one, i agree with with director tarlov that not only is this, you know, in preparation for the implementation of prop k, which we think is going to go forward, and we have every reason to think that given. yeah, but it improves the current condition that we have out there now, even pre-implementation. so i would i would support this item for that reason. but to director hamburger's point. so harbor or miss madeline so you couldn't there's no guarantee that you could continue this. if we

continue this item, there's no guarantee that you could ask for a continuance from the coastal commission to like a date certain to, like, say, their first meeting in january to give us the opportunity to have this as a standalone item. public hearing in in two weeks. i mean, we kind of just did what we can. but still to director hellinger's concern which which i hear and understand sarah madeline from rec park can help answer that question just to make sure i understand the question. it's could we work with the coastal commission to push the item to their february meeting? they do not meet in january to their to their like to their next meeting in early 2025. there. so they do not meet in january. their next meeting is mid-february. we have not

asked them that question. this is the agenda for the upcoming meeting on the 12th is published that that said, i would imagine it's probably similar to your rules and the board rules that if there's a request for a continuance, they can either continue it to a date certain or to the call of the chair. if that's the desire of this body, that's something we would work with the coastal commission on. that's helpful. okay. thank you, director hennessy. any additional questions? i think we're good. okay, colleagues. so i have a motion that was made by director hemminger and we don't have a second for that motion. so i think right now, what is prudent is to ask if there's a second for that motion. and then vote on both. so is there a

second for director hemingers motion and secretary silva? if you can repeat the motion just so it's clear to folks, my understanding is that director hemminger is asking for a continuance to a future meeting. there's no second, there's no reason for that. correct? okay. so we don't have a second for that motion. and i will call the motion with the second for a vote. yeah. so we go back to the original motion and second, and that was to approve the item. correct. secretary silva, please call the roll on that motion to approve. director chen i chen, i director hemminger. no. hemminger. no. director henderson. i henderson i director haynes. i kenzie i director tarlov. i tarlov. i vice chair. cajina i cajina i thank you. that item is approved

5 to 1. thank you. is there to secretary silva? please call the next item. places you on item number 11. item number 11 approving the justification of the sole source and the award of contract number one three, two eight with unesco to mitigate the water intrusion in the chinatown rose park station for a contract amount not to exceed approximately $6.5 million for a term of 273 days to substantial completion. good afternoon, director. my name is albert ho. excuse me, i'm the project manager for the central subway program. today. i'm here requesting your approval to award a contract. 1328 china

chinatown station, rose park. water mitigation project for the award to unesco for amount of $6.48 million and contract duration of 273 days. so central subway and the chinatown rose park station came into revenue service in january of 2023. the station is located at the corner of stockton street and washington street. it has a unique feature. it has actually a plaza above the station, and this was basically as part of a work with the community wanting to have an area for people to meet and greet. so that was part of the station that was included subsequent to the station revenue service. we have seen an increase in the ridership from year to year throughout central subway, but more specifically at the chinatown station, we've seen a 60% increase in ridership

from september 2023 to september 2024. so i'm basically here to basically talk about the actual station itself and the water related issues with the station. so the station was designed in a very complex manner. it's a mine station. it was designed as in a way to minimize the community impacts to the community and also to the to the residents of chinatown station. so it was actually built underneath stockton street, 80ft below grade and under the water table. the station was designed to be watertight, with various different design features to ensure that if there's any kind of water issue in the future, we can we can address that. and let me just talk a little bit about the construction of the station.

actually hold on. so the station so i'm highlighting a couple of areas where we have some water intrusion into the station. and basically most of the water intrusion is coming in on the crown or the top of the arch of the, of the station itself. we do have some water coming on the side that are draining properly to the track drainage, but the water coming from the top of the crown is actually dripping onto the esthetic and the panels that are basically used for esthetic and also audio part of the station. and so basically part of the issue here is we need to go back and look at the water intrusion and also to remove some of these panels. so to ensure that the panels are working functionally. so just a little bit about the station itself, because of the complexity of the station and because the station is mine, in order for us to actually

construct the station, we had to actually come in from the headhouse, which currently right now is the station entrance. we dug down into the to from the headhouse and diagonally traverse cross, cut into underneath stockton street and where we mine the station, that's where you see the arch of the of the station itself. and part of the methodology was so that we needed to reinforce the, the earth that we moved by putting in a layer of reinforced shotcrete layer that will allow us to have an initial strength to hold the station while we build the remainder of the station, which is basically the concrete and the reinforcement. so in between the shotcrete liner, we have installed, what you see on your presentation, this yellow geo fabric waterproofing membrane, this waterproofing membrane was meant to basically address any potential future water issue that could come into the

station. this meant waterproof membrane is actually and both the platform cavern and also south of them at the crossover cavern. so it's at the both both end of the station. so subsequently, when we installed this waterproofing membrane, it's a unique membrane in the sense that it has these cavities with grout plugs and so these cavities are not inflated or with grout as much as when we need to do so, we will do so. but basically they are at the interface between the shotcrete liner and the permanent concrete structure that that goes in between. so there's like sort of like a little void in between the two of them. so once this has been installed, we then installed the concrete liner reinforcement, which is typical for the station to reinforce it. so you'll see that on the left side of your the presentation and these concrete liner was poured in 50 foot segments from south to north, moving, moving

up and in doing so they create these joints between these 50 foot segments. and we are anticipating that part of the water mitigation and the water intrusion at these joints that that that that was part of the concrete related work. so, so once we have this concrete installation put in place, when we went to construction or when we were in the middle of construction towards the end, we do. we did notice water intrusion into the crossover cavern. the southern cavern, and we actually engaged the contractor to repair the these water mitigation using some of the water proofing membrane. and so we were successful at mitigating those water mitigation. however, we believe that as part of the water mitigation, the water moved and

part of that water has migrated over to the platform cavern and also to our headhouse, which is the back of house area. so today i'm here to basically share with you how we plan to address those those water leakage issues, sort of going forward. so we basically have engaged the contract. the contract process started with us issuing a request for information to see what interested party they were in, trying to remediate the water intrusion. we have three interested parties coming into to show interest, but when we issued the request for qualification, two of those three parties dropped out. they either didn't have the qualification or didn't have the bonding capacity in order for them to do this work. so the remaining contractor, unesco, was they continue with their request for proposal portion of the work. and when we issue that

they came with a proposal, we negotiated that. and this is what is in front of you as part of the final contract package. one of the things that cisco offer that some of the other contractor could not offer is a different process or grouting process to address the specific grouting issue or specific leakage issue within the chinatown station. so cisco is basically going to be offering the ability for us to address the water mitigation at the crown, at the arch level by basically, again, as i mentioned, injecting a slurry or cementitious grout into these portholes and what that does is it will inflate the cavity of the water liner, the waterproofing membrane, and that interface and push against the existing shotcrete liner adjacent on the outside of that, the waterproofing membrane. and in doing so, what that will do

is it will push the water and seal the cracks that are exposed and where the water is coming from. that's one aspect. the second aspect is a chemical grouting with a hydrophilic grout. and what that grout does is it cannot work on large openings, but on smaller openings. where it will do is the chemical will be injected into these small openings. it will interface with the water. and upon interfacing with the water, it will expand, sealing the crack itself. so with these two hybrid options, we believe this gives us the best chance to mitigate and take care of any of the chinatown station water mitigation efforts that we need to sort of go forward. the third element that they bring in is we have actually a back of house water mitigation, that is water coming up from the invert of our slab, the bottom floor, and we'll be using a method called a stitch grouting that will actually inject grout into the floor, sort of like what stitch it will be, sort of like sewing

the crack together with with with grout. so these three technologies that unesco offers, we believe, gives us the best ability. and they've actually used these methodologies in other locations in what we describe as high water pressure tunnels, where there's a lot of water intrusion internationally and also in the east coast and tunnel projects. so that's part of the reason why we're very much interested in working with this contractor. beyond this work, we also have other works in the chinatown station that we have been engaging because we also have surface runoff water intrusion into the station. so what we've done is we've taken a smaller contracts to sort of mitigate that. one of the things that we've done is to complete a downspout. there was a disconnect on the downspout on an adjacent property next to the chinatown station. and so we reconnected that because we had water overflow that was intruding into our station, the

secondary entrance. we also have installed a roof gutter that will be channeling water from the plaza above the station, away from the secondary entrance into the gutter drain. and in doing so, we're basically making water intrusion into the station, either minimizing or removing altogether. it has been tested at last month, weather system, where we were able to actually see the effect of some of this work that we've been doing, in addition to that, we've also are in the process of bringing online some of the public art that that we have in place. so basically at chinatown station, we have plaza art installation that's ongoing, right now that should be finished before chinese new yea. in addition to that, we are basically have installed a display case that will display the various artifacts that we removed during the excavation of the chinatown station. you'll see the sewing machine that's highlighted on the presentation as one of the items that's

currently displayed inside the station itself. as far as the service plan. so the intention of this project is to basically have the tea line shut down for 17 days. during that shutdown, the tea line will operate its service as prior to the central subway from king street and will access downtown through the prior prior entry way into king street and to downtown from mission bay. we will also have shuttle services that will go from fourth and king all the way to chinatown. in case anybody wants to continue following the existing central subway alignment. as far as the outreach plan, we have currently been in engaged with the community, the stakeholder and also the elected official to advise them of the various different activities that we are doing, in addition to trying to coordinate with them on the shutdown duration and the

shutdown duration is fairly tight for us because of the various different events that are happening between february and march. so what's the construction plan? so i'm here in front of you today requesting your approval. once when we can get that approval, we would like to issue a notice to proceed and award the contract by the end of the month. and start work in january. we would need to do some pre work doing the non-revenue hours between 12:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. to remove those gfci panels that you saw prior. what that will do is it'll expose the concrete roof structure for the various different locations where we have water leakage. and so therefore we can then actually properly identify and have the plan to do the various different activities we want to do. in addition to that, we'll also be bringing in materials and equipment that, that we anticipate that the shutdown, as i said, 17 days will start from

february 26th to march 14th, and that's basically blocked out because we want to be very we work with the community. we want to be very sensitive that the chinese new year parade is actually february 15th. the nba all-star weekend is february 14th to the 16th, and then saint patrick's day parade is march 15th. so we are basically squeezing ourselves in between that slot in order for us to do this, do this, work, our anticipation is that we will be finished with the platform water mitigation work by the end of march, and then finish all the back of house work by the end of june. with that, i'm available for any questions you may have. thank you so much for your presentation, directors. are there any clarifying questions? director henderson, thank you. i have a question about the plan. if we had we had some rain recently that caused a lot of flooding throughout the really the entire city. it feels like.

and so if you are what's the back up plan? if we do have another atmospheric river type rain that might impact the construction timeline. so the good thing about the impacts of the water is because we're below an underground and already below the water table, we don't really see the large volume of inflow immediately. we actually see it once the water level rises. so a lot of the atmospheric river event that's happening, like last month or prior to that, we only see at the surface level. and that's part of the reason why, when i mentioned that the water intrusion coming into the surface level was helped by us doing these two smaller project, the real issue with the water mitigation is basically it's continuous because we're under the groundwater table. but the difference is doing the winter wet season, the water table is much higher. and there's a

greater pressure head. so there's a greater leakage. whereas during the summertime the water table is lower and so while we're both under the water table, the pressure head is not as great. right? so what it doesn't. my short answer is it doesn't really. the atmospheric river doesn't affect it. it's just throughout time that's really the impact. and what we're trying to do is to address it by basically going into the various different locations we've identified at least ten locations that we need to sort of address, and going in there and doing this pressure grouting work to basically, in essence, stop the hemorrhaging, stop the water inflow coming into the station, and to properly channel that water into the various different drainage systems that we've designed. so the station is actually designed not only to be tanked, but also with these waterproofing membranes. but also with drainage system, so that we can actually flow this water to the right drainage systems. we could flush out the system. thank you. and i have a

question a couple more questions. just about the way the system works. so you drain the water out of the tunnel and then are you able to use that water to power anything, or what do you put it. so the drainage, the water actually goes just into the puc storm drain. it gets pumped into the storm drain line. we don't use it for any purpose. not not for this water anyway. okay. and okay. and then for the is the reason. can you explain to me the reason why this contract has come to us? is it because it's a sole source and we asked i think we asked earlier this year for sole sources to come in front of the board. is that the reason or is it the amount or why is this presented today? i believe that i'm here for multiple reasons, actually. one is that it is a sole source contract. we didn't intend to be a sole source contract. we went through the

process but ended up being a sole source contract. another is the value itself and the unique nature of the of this job. again, this is sort of tied to the central subway, which is, you know, it's an ongoing project. my life for 20 years. so this has been something that's been been ongoing. so but yeah, it's not just one reason. it's multiple reasons. i'm here in front of you. thank you. and i think this might be my last question for the for the sole source. have you worked with this firm before or you know, i get that staff is confident that this one vendor will be able to provide the service that's needed. and i just am curious about our experience with them. and then also secondly, i guess is how is it that this technical work is just not desirable or how is it that we get to, you know, such a big job, but only one firm is actually willing to

bid on it? is it risky or like what is the sort of way we get there? and then also have we worked with the firm before? so we've now worked with the firm before, but we know the work product that they've done because we've actually checked reference to the various different projects. as i highlighted on the powerpoint, this is a type of specialty work that normally we don't engage many of the things we've done in central subway is. so basically you would need to be in a tunnel. you will need to be in a in a concrete lined encasement with a waterproofing system. so you get very narrow very quickly. you know, it's not something we typically do for many of the other muni projects. so there's not many companies or firms that does it. and most of the firms that will do it are usually european or international company and or in the east coast, where they have a lot more older tunnels and have more leakage issues. so again, we have been with we know we've known about this firm. we

have worked with this firm only in the technical sense because we consulted with them for some, some of the other types of water intrusion activity, but they have never done a construction project work for us. no, thank you. director hemminger. thank you madam chair. one question only. who's going to pay for this? so, the central subway. we are paying for this through our capital reserve budget. that we have set aside as part of the overall finishing contract for the central subway. we had reserved about $24.9 million to do various different elements of work. this is one of them. another is basically the installation of a powell street elevator. another is what i just mentioned, the art installation at chinatown station. so there's a couple elements of things, but it will be paid through the capital capital reserve and we're not submitting a claim against the contractor. i mean, isn't this a construction defect? so part of the issue is

that we had made a global settlement with the contractor as part of the global settlement that was part of the adjustments between the contractor and us to basically waive. yeah, i guess waive the general condition between the contractor and us. so we've accepted the work under the, the condition that we accept it as part of the global settlement and i believe the global settlement was it came to this board about a year and a half ago as part of the final settlement for us to close the tutor contract. there is no warranty on the work. there is warranty on work. so what we're looking is we're working with the city attorney to explore other venues or other avenues. we could potentially go after beyond the contract, beyond tutor. okay, well, madam chair, i'd like to do a substitute motion on that, but i think for now i will leave. well enough alone. thank you. you can sit

with it for a little bit, director hines. all right, director hemminger covered one of the two by two. the questioning. so i'll keep my short. so mine is about. and you. you answered this again when trying to coordinate and visited with you before the holiday. mine is about these panels. so when the panels you mentioned, are they so you mentioned they're esthetic and they have some audio dampening qualities. are they sound like are they essential? and for the ones that we did were damaged, are they usable. so are they beyond repair. so the gfc panel that we have we will not know until we remove it. we're removing 176 of these panels. we believe the majority of these

panels are actually we can reinstall. there may be a couple of panels that we will actually have to either retrofit or have to rework. we do have as part of the contract, 10% spares. so we do have spares that we can actually use as part of the replacement batch. but we plan to keep all the panels because, again, our maintenance division would want to make sure that we keep as much of the panel for future usage as possible. and then if we, you know, run out of spares and can't, can't use enough of them, would we have to buy new or just like, just leave it the way, the way it is with i believe there's a water damage being what it is? sorry, i believe there's a way for us to buy spare. unfortunately, the specific manufacturer is a european manufacturer, so we're currently trying to work out a way. but part of the reason why we put out a 10% spare was so just to address these, these concerns, as many of the

equipment in central subway is very unique, and we try to buy a spare through the contract as much as possible. yeah, let's hope we have enough. let's hope we have enough of them either usable or we have an upstairs. that's it for me, madam chair. thank you, director lindsay, director tarloff. thank you, madam chair. so just to follow up, follow on. director hemingers comments. there was a lot of thought put into, you know, avoiding this outcome. and if you could go back what what could we have done differently to avoid having to do this additional work? do you do you have any thought about that. choose a different contractor, really? i mean, i think that the

contract as it was built, it's a good construction project. there was a lot of issues with it. we try to work as best we can, but as you know, prior board member understood the job wasn't long and we've had a lot of change. order associated with with this contract. so there's a lot of history. i don't really want to get into the history of it, but i think there's certainly ways for us to avoid it. but as i presented before, there was a design element. we had anticipated the potential for water remediation. so we were one step ahead in trying to build these waterproofing membranes. but again, just because you build them, you still have to activate them. and part of the concern here is that when you have a revenue service onto the metro, it is very difficult for us to go back and reactivate again. there's a lot of esthetic to, to the station. the station is beautiful. it's

really well designed. but in order for us to get to the heart of what we need to get to, we have to remove a lot of these, these elements of work and that takes time and effort. i mean, 17 days is, you know, a lot of time, effort and interruption to the muni service. so i think at the end of the day, we believe that this is the best solution forward. and i think, you know, as an engineer working on this job for so long, i think that's the best way to go forward, i could there's other things i could do. sure. but that's, you know, past. so one of the things that we're trying to build into the culture of the sfmta is a practice of reviewing every project, and discovering what are the lessons learned. there are a lot of hard lessons learned in both the central subway project and the venice project, but we've been trying to be diligent in understanding what all those lessons are and applying those lessons to our future projects. so i think that

twin peaks tunnel and the taraval projects, and particularly train control are all examples of how we've learned from mistakes. i think the albert mentioned, you know, hiring a different contractor. well, the contractor was the contractor that responded to our procurement approach. so we've been busy rethinking our procurement approach in order to make sure that we can get best value from contractors. and so both, you know, taraval train control and potrero that you'll be hearing later have taken a very different procurement approach. and we think that will dramatically improve the results. we've also been working on changing the culture of project management to make sure that we're being clear about risk at every stage, and sharing risk evaluation with all of you. we there's no way that we could, you know, predict all of the

issues that would have arisen. and we want to make sure that great engineers like albert feel empowered to raise issues of concern early and get them responded to, rather than let them compound over time. and then finally, another key lesson is making sure that we build maintenance thinking into everything that we're doing. so making sure that the people who are responsible for maintaining the system are integrated into the design from the very beginning. a very hard lesson for this project, in particular in one of the reasons why we're having to spend what we're spending now. so i, you know, we'd be more than happy to talk more about how in each of our projects going forward, we've learned from the hard experiences of the past. thank you very much. and just kind of one final question. you may not

know the answer to this, but i'm just wondering, in projects of this scope and these conditions, how common to your understanding is it that you know that that agencies need to go back and do remedial remediation work like this is this so just talking to just the west coast, the family of seattle and la, it is i wouldn't say it's 100%, but it is somewhat common that they do have to go back and remediate some element of work. water intrusion. water is very tough to predict. it's hard. it's hard to know where they're going to go. we could design as best we can and we try to do that, but we also try to anticipate potential issues that could arise in the future and to try to see if we can sort of design our way out. i think part of the

complexity that director tallman was talking about is this project would stretch out so long and so many people sort of got their hands together. one of the things that i did with the fta, you know, a lesson learned that we held a two day seminar on was, you know, how can we improve the delivery method, one of which is to figure out a way to shorten it, because we lose so much transparency, people that they raise in early part of the project sort of get lost because of the movement. and this project has sort of fluctuated. so, so much in the 20 years that i've been here, you know, that there are certain things we could have done better and there are certain things it was just done the way it was done. and i could i could tell you that, you know, it's almost anticipated that you would have some kind of mediation. it's just a different degree of mediation, you know, remediation that you will need to do. so do we anticipate this? yes, because we put the liner in to this

degree. i couldn't tell you, you know, thank you. thank you. any additional questions? i did have a couple of questions. we talked about this being a sole source and one of the lessons learned from previous projects is trying to get the best value out of something. this is a pretty large price tag here that that we may approve today. so i just wanted to get more information about this particular vendor. this particular contractor. is it somebody that you know it is a sole source agreement or a procurement system. but i just want to understand better. do we how comfortable do we feel working with this particular vendor and do we think that we did get the best out of this process. so we have been working with this contractor for about a year because the procurement contract has again, as i initially said, we went out with the rfi just to see who the interested parties are and then

just going through the process. so we've been engaged with them and trying to understand between our designer and the contractor and the various different parties to see if we are doing the right methodology and do they understand the. because, again, every waterproofing system is different and unique to the actual station. even within our three stations, there's different types of waterproofing system. just because of the variations of the station ums is so deep. chinatown is, you know, 80ft. yerba buena moscone is a lot more shallower. so even within them there's different types of water mitigation, treatment. the reason why we're comfortable with unesco is because they are able to answer the technical questions and technical elements. they understand where the water is leaking to the best of the ability without us exposing it. they have basically given us a solution similar to the solution that our design consultant has given us. and just working between the design consultant and the contractor,

we feel that the mitigation proposal and the solution that we have are in the best way to sort of move forward and to solve the water mitigation issue inside chinatown station. thank you. and i appreciate so much what you mentioned about the timeline and just all the surrounding events that are happening in the city that are occurring around this timeline. 17 days seems like a lot, but it's not really a lot for a project just like this. so i do have questions around the outreach and engagement that's happening with the community. if we do have, you know, do we have a buffer built into those 17 days because it will go by really fast and is there what's the plan? i guess in terms of alternative transportation solutions for the community to get to chinatown, to get around the city, if we have to close service during those days. so i think that we did offer 17 days is built with buffers, knowing

that, you know, best case plan that the repair will be much shorter than that. 17 day. so that's the first aspect of things we did. it's a tight window. part of the reason why, you know, as i mentioned earlier, with all the various different events happening, part of the reason why we are doing some preplanning in advance so that we don't run up against that march 14th date, is to access the tunnel early during this night period shutdown. it will cost us more money. that's part of the reason why the cost is a little bit more than what we want, but we want to get in earlier doing the non-revenue time so that we don't have to shut down the subway. but we can get in and remove the panels and, and do the early prep work, bring the equipment in. and part of the biggest thing is actually do build some of these scaffolding. the height of the cavern is 56ft. so it's not normally reached by any scissor, forklift or anything. we would have to build an apparatus to get up into the, the area for them to go out to the various

different parts. so all that requires a certain amount of planning and we've been working with muni operations and muni maintenance to make sure we can get access into the station to do some of those work. so i think there has been a lot of pre coordinated effort. we have anticipated a certain amount of contingency. i can never working on this project. there's never enough reserve. so i cannot tell you 100% that we're confident but i do. i feel comfortable that the 17 days will address all the water mitigation that we've identified already in advance and who's managing the outreach and engagement with the community. is it us or is it banesco? we're we're doing the engagement for the outreach community. and my colleague lulu here is going to be we've already been engaging with the community already as we speak, and we've been informing all the various different parties involved, especially the stakeholder in the chinatown community, just to make sure that they understand that we're trying to minimize the impact to the community and to the ridership sort of going forward.

lulu, can you speak a little bit more about just a little bit more detail about what the stakeholder engagement is looking like and what that strategy is going to look like? of course, director lulu feliciano, outreach and engagement manager for sfmta so the minute albert approached me and said, we are going to do this work, i've been working with the community already. okay, so just rest assured the schedule was actually built around their needs and which is why we made sure we were ahead of our we're after all, the lunar new year events. of course, layered with that, all the chase events and all the concerts at the san francisco is a party town to chase center. so we had to work with all of that. but also i made sure i worked with the yerba buena communities, and we reached out to bayview hunters point also. so they know this is coming. the plan itself, the service plan pretty much is what albert defined, which was pre central

subway service plan. and we are also going to be working with the communities to ensure that they get the message out. we'll have ambassadors i'll admit it's a cost but for early hours like 5 a.m. it's hard to get volunteer staff to be out there at 5 a.m, admittedly, so we'll have to deploy some ambassadors at key locations. and of course, all the signage. currently, we have four ambassadors in chinatown rose park that helped the riders already, so i've already worked with that vendor to make sure that they know what their assignments are. the good thing about all of this is the plaza remains to be open, because that's like a living extended living room for the community. and so fortunately, we're able to keep it open. so all the weekend activities and leading up to lunar new year, lunar new year is really important. and so we're happy that we're able to do that for

them. they've been really helpful in planning all of this, so i can answer any questions you have. no. that's great. that's great. thank you so much lulu. directors i don't see any additional questions here. so i'm going to open this item up for public comments. if there are any folks that are here to give public comment on item 11, please come up. all right. seeing none, do we have any accommodations? no accommodations. all right. we will now close public comment on item 11. director heminger, do you have a substitute motion? no. okay. all right. colleagues, may i have a motion and a second to approve? item 11. i move the item chair. thank you. do i have a second? all right, secretary silva, please call the roll on the motion to approve director

chen i chen, i director heminger heminger. i director henderson a henderson. i director hines i director tarlov i tarlov i vice chair kahina i kahina i thank you. that item is approved. thank you. please call the next item. secretary silva places you on item 12. quite a long description. i will go through now authorizing the director of transportation to request from the board of supervisors conditional approval of an infrastructure facility. design, build, finance, operate, maintain agreement for the sfmta potrero yard modernization project, subject to final pricing. delegation of authority under charter section 9.1 18b for the board of directors to approve the final pricing within the following. not to exceed pricing limits one. an initial milestone payment of up to $75 million at financial close. two a relocation payment of up to $500,000 within 60 days of completing temporary relocation of potrero yard operations. three a milestone payment of

$200 million by no later than 2033, and four. an initial maximum annual availability payment of up to $42.2 million in fiscal year $2,030 over a maintenance term not to exceed 30 years after the scheduled substantial completion date anticipated in 2029, subject to interest rate and credit spread fluctuations between commercial, close and financial close, and annual cpi adjustments with a part of the payment covering capital costs increasing 1% per year and sculpted to align with sfmta's existing debt service obligations and authorization for the director of transportation to execute the form project agreement as modified with the final pricing, and to substantially include the terms of a draft small business enterprise disadvantaged business enterprise plan with potrero neighborhood collective or its affiliate. wow vice chair cajina board members jonathan ruiz, chief strategy officer and

i did want to make sure that i had the record for the longest calendar item in the history of the sfmta, so i think i'm still in the lead after 15 years. let me start off by saying the project team on this project is absolutely incredible and is another example of how we've integrated project delivery within the sfmta. so while we have an sfmta team who are largely here today, who have been working on this project for a number of years, this project also is a joint effort with the city planning department. the office of economic workforce development, the mayor's office of housing and community development, and the department of public works. so the team that delivers this project functions as a true city, integrated team work together, and i must thank the city attorney's office again. this is a massive agreement that we had. i like to call the supreme court of city attorney's on where we

get the best minds on this project. so this is an example of an approach we're taking where we have integrated city teams to develop major projects like this. and because of that team, we are at this milestone today. so i do want to absolutely recognize the team. it is about 30 staff across those various departments, including different consultants and specialty teams, and our plenary team, our developer team who are also on the project. so i did want to recognize them because this is a pretty big deal for them today to get here. so with that, i'm giving you an update on potrero. i'm just going to start us off so first, i often do have to remind anybody who hears about this project at any particular moment that this is a novel project. and what i mean by that is that we've used project delivery methods, agreements and legislation that have not been used on the delivery of capital projects of this type in the city and county of san francisc. so first, the process in and of itself is novel. second, the

infrastructure we are building has yet to be built on planet earth, so we have yet to have a industrial type bus yard facility designed and integrated with housing well over 450 units. don't quote me on the exact number because people love to get me on the exact number, but well over 450 units, all integrated into one site. so we have been able to do that. and it's exciting that san francisco gets to lead the way with this type of infrastructure in san francisco. today, we are bringing forward the next milestone in the process, which is the project agreement. this is the project agreement associated with the bus yard component. we call it the bike. the bus yard component of the project. there is a housing component of the project that will come to the mta board and the board of supervisors in about probably spring of 2025. so i want to be very clear. this component of the project is related to the bus yard. this

component that we have before you today. and this is the project agreement. so this officially moves us out of what the mta board has been familiar with in the past. the predevelopment agreement. we did extend that to the end of the fiscal year for some overlap in tasks, but this essentially sets the terms by which we will move forward with the next phase with which is the project agreement. so next milestone in this project and the project agreement today. overall, in this presentation the item is long. so we tried to keep the presentation very organized for you today. i'm just going to start off about how we got to this point in the project. i will follow up with the board's ask around project management oversight in the next phase of the project today, and look forward to feedback on the scope related to that. then i'm going to turn it over to our project director and our section director of development at the mta, chris lazzaro, to go through the remainder of the presentation on the scope of the

project, the project agreement itself, and the project financing today, the critical path, and then just circling back on what the recommendation is for you today. so first, again, i've talked about the integrated project team. this is the first time we've used the design, build, finance, operate and maintain model for project delivery. so as director tumlin noted, we have been looking at the way we deliver major projects here in the city and county of san francisco, and we've taken all the lessons learned from prior large projects. central subway being one of them, and we've tried to integrate all of our best practices here within the potrero project. so one of those elements was to use a p3 development model, where we've brought in the private sector to do a huge amount of the design and entitlement work for this project. one second, another method is we got all of our consultant work for technical work and contracts approved prior to starting the technical

work for the project, to reduce project delay, which means we had all the teams and available elements of the project prior to actually starting. very often, lesson learned is you want to do environmental review. when we get through the entire planning process to do environmental review, and then we go through the contracting process to get somebody to do the work, which in turn can cause you at least a 6 to 8 month delay. so we had all of those things in advance. so when we were ready to go, we just continue with the project and avoided delay. so the private development team and the p3 model, in my opinion, has worked quite well. and i'll go through why that has worked well for us to date. so just the design, build, finance, operate and maintain dbfm for short includes three different elements a design to build, construction contract which is where we are now. so we're currently out the plenary team, petro neighborhood partners is currently out to secure the design build contractor for the project. so that rfp went out

during the summer. the finance component. so they will privately finance the project up front, which moves our requirements for payments to the back end of the project. what that does and is very important is that provides what we call a risk transfer, which means as of now, our private sector partners are eating the bill for all of the work. so again, one, what that does is it incentivizes them to stay on schedule and second, also will incentivize them to provide us a very high quality product. and that gets to the operate and maintain component. they are responsible over the 30 year agreement for ensuring that the asset that the city gets is at the highest level of quality, and at the end of the 30 year period, they have to hand it back to the city at a very high level. so that means, as systems need to be replaced, hvac, roof replacement, any issue, maybe some of the issues you just heard around central subway, they are on the hook for that through the remainder of

the 30 year period. so again, the risk transfer on time, i.e. getting entitlements done, environmental design, getting the contractor, the cost is all on our private partner. and then after the city accepts the facility, the quality of that facility itself is also the responsibility of the private developer. so those are the risks that you've heard about on a lot of projects. time upfront to design and schedule adherence and then the back end, like what asset are we accepting? who's responsible. we've done that risk transfer through this project to our private partner. and so you'll see kind of the results from the schedule. so note we went out with an rfp to secure our development partner in 2021. in 36 months after that, we have completed the full ceqa process and completed an eir for this project. unheard of for a project of this scale in the city and county of san

francisco. we have completed all entitlements, including entitling the housing, and created a special use district on the site at potrero. we have completed outstanding outreach. you don't see an army of people here today who are against this project. we had very little testimony at the planning department, the board of supervisors and the mayor have continuously supported this project. so we've been able to complete that and we've gone out to get our contractor for the project in 36 months. so for a project of this scale, in my 15 years at the mta, it is rare that we've been able to do that. and i will also report that we have stayed generally within our estimated cost of the project of the capital infrastructure over that period, largely staying within inflation. so while we've worked with the community on the design elements of the project, the cost of the bus yard itself have generally have been within our estimates from the period that you approved the predevelopment agreement. and so

you'll see the various approvals along the way. so director tumlin noted transparency and process. so as part of our outreach, which will be discussed, we have a project working group full of community leaders and partners who continuously assist us in the design of the outreach, both in the mission and within the greater city, and provide us regular feedback on the delivery and process around this project. so again, in 2018, we secured all the technical resources we needed to do the project. so again, before we started, that was definitely a lesson learned for major projects. we've through this project, we've really taken seriously. the element of time equals cost. delay equals cost. so for this, this entire team, the focus has always been keeping the project on schedule because the escalation cost is what really hurts you on the back end. and the escalation cost also hurts you on the back end when you're

financing the project. so we had all of those technical resources by 2018. and then you'll see we went out with the joint development procurement in 2020. so that was the rfp. we developed special legislation for this process. so this contractual and agreement process did not exist in the administrative code novel process. we had special legislation passed through the board of supervisors enabled to go through this process. and you will see since november 2022 when we brought the project agreement before you, you can see the milestones that have been completed again, ceqa certification completed, you know, no protest around that excellent public process board of supervisors approval on the entitlements moving forward with the continuation payment so that was rewarding. good work. but again, a very small percentage of the actual total cost on this project. we did amend the pda a little again, for some of that overlapping period. and i'll tell you what that was for. that

was to allow us the time to federalize the project. and again, we decided to federalize this project in march of this year, and we would have completed the federal environmental nepa process for this project sometime in the next month. so again, getting federal environmental clearance in an under 12 month period is unheard of for a project of this scale, and we were able to accomplish that. so now we're at the project agreement. we're ready to move forward. so again, this team has been outstanding. and to date, this process has really served the city and the mta well. one of the follow ups from the meeting on the predevelopment agreement was a request from this board that we have project management oversight for the subsequent phase, which would be now as we won't complete the project agreement until this summer. however, i do want to make sure that we have the pmo in place at that point that we execute the final project agreement during the summer when we get to

financial close, and i want to make sure that the mta board and director tomlin and i have an independent report outside of the project team from the pmo, especially around the areas of risk. so director tomlin noted this, again, risk management has been a key component of this project. and there's still risks. i'm not going to deny that here. every project has risks. however, again we catalog and manage these risks day to day. and so through the pmo, i want to make sure that we have that we've already initiated the contract and we're ready to award it. but i wanted to make sure to get feedback from this board on the scope of the pmo. we will add it as a task and then they'll be tasked with some of the scope elements we have here today. so i'm not going to go through them in detail. again, a lot of them have to do with analyzing the final risks up to closing the project, getting to financial close in the summer. i will say this again, some of the novel elements is we do a project cost

estimate almost. i'd say probably every eight months. we do it independent of plenary to say, what are your costs? what are our costs? and we're constantly negotiating across costs. i think that's why we've been able to have cost controls on this project, because we do regular cost checks. we also regularly check the schedule. so we've had a master schedule on this project, a master scheduler, and we've been looking at how this project impacts other projects. we're delivering through the program. so with regard to the pmo, we do want to check on the schedule because we are working on getting the contractor in place. of course, we'll get a construction schedule from that contractor. and we do want to independently checked. we will do a subsequent independent cost estimate. so what you're approving today is what we believe are the not to exceeds meaning. everything we expect to get after this should be less than that. and so we do want to continue with strict cost controls and have those independently vetted and have independent both schedule and cost estimates completed in the

period. we do want to get a preliminary report in april, and i'm happy to bring that back to the mta board before any subsequent action by either you or the board of supervisors. and then, of course, we will include, as an attachment that final report when we do get to project close. so i wanted to make sure to include that and happy during this hearing to take any feedback on that. so unless there are any questions for me at this particular moment, i will turn it over to chris lazzaro. let's turn it over to chris slowly step back. it's okay. thank you. thank you, jonathan, for teeing that up. and i think an important place to continue with the presentation is to talk a little bit about the public engagement that has really shaped this project. when we talk about lessons learned from past work and ways that we want to improve, we want to really highlight that public engagement

and public input has really been integral to this project. at every excuse me, at every step of the way. and so you'll see here just some highlights of the work that has been done to date, ensuring that stakeholders in the community have the opportunity to have their voices heard and that their input is integrated into the design and the programing for potrero yard. so throughout this process, there has been a neighborhood working group that has met almost monthly over the past several years, and they continue to again shape and inform the project. more than 150 outreach activities, as well as surveys and other outreach at public events around the community, such as like the potrero hill r&b festival. that was a recent area where we had a table and lots of great engagement. there and as a result, you know, reach coming back to this board and to the board of supervisors, we did not have any opposition to the

entitlements or the environmental impact report. and so, as part of all of this effort, we have arrived at the project that we are now proceeding with, which is this four level bus maintenance, storage and training facility, which will cover a four acres of the 4.4 acre site and house our entire electric trolley bus fleet. it's about a 68% increase over the trolley busses that are on the site today, and will be housed over 100 staff and operators, though not all at one time, but many, many of our staff will certainly be able to call this home and appreciate the state of the art facility that will be able to provide. and what you'll see on the screen here are the two variants that were approved in the eir

earlier this year. so the project includes the 700,000 square foot transit facility as well as the ability to build approximately 465 housing units, including about 99 housing units along bryant street. on that remaining 0.4 acres. of the 4.4 acre site, as well as housing that would go on top of the podium. that includes both affordable and workforce housing. and then again, the 246 electric trolley busses as well as several of our non-revenue vehicles. in addition, we also included a paratransit variant. so in the event that after a specified time in the project agreement, if the financing for the housing on top of the podium is unsuccessful, the mta would then have the ability to pursue developing a paratransit facility on the roof of the bus yard, which would then house

about 160 of our paratransit vehicles, which are all currently at a leased facility in brisbane. today. we covered the schedule pretty well, but just to highlight a couple of things here. again, as we get this conditional approval on the project agreement, we would be bringing back the final pricing to this board in the spring. and from there, we hope to have petrol demobilized in the summer, with construction to begin immediately thereafter. and at that point begins the four year construction process. so we would expect to have potrero yard open and online by the by late 2029. and then, as jonathan also pointed out, the housing and commercial agreements would be a separate approval, which we would also be bringing in the spring as well. and then the housing that is along bryant street would be the first phase of housing, which

i'll go over in just a moment, followed by the podium housing, which would necessitate being started construction after substantial completion of the bus yard. so you can see here in the two diagrams, the project phasing. so bus facility is the first phase, which we're talking about now. again, that would be planned for construction to begin in mid 2025. and the timing of that agreement is now. and the housing and commercial components again would be brought back in the spring. and so the housing is again in two phases. the area that's highlighted in blue, which is the marked as number two, that is the bryant street housing and again that is planned for currently 99 units. and then there's three a which is listed as the affordable housing. and then the three w also in the green is the workforce housing which serves households earning

between 80 and 120% of the area median income. and we are continuing to explore a preference for sfmta employees who would income qualify to be able to have preference for those housing units? next, to talk about the project cost and the financing plan, we've alluded to this a little bit, but the estimated cost for design and construction of the bus yard and the common infrastructure that would then support the housing has remained pretty consistent over the life of the project and is currently now estimated at 560 million. in $2,024. and then when we account for the bus yard, the common infrastructure, as well as the long term finance costs and the long term maintenance costs, that will be performed by a potrero neighborhood collective, the total commitment over that time would be a little bit over

2 billion, but the action for this approval would set the terms within these not to exceed pricing limits that you see here. so the first milestone payment, which we would make at financial close in 2025, is the $75 million, which we have secured. and so that money is already available and set aside for this purpose. along with that is the 500,000, which would reimburse the developer team for costs associated with demobilizing potrero yard and relocating those operations to our various facilities throughout the city. and then the larger milestone payment would be listed here at 200 million. that is the not to exceed limit right now. and that payment would be made no later than 2033, which i'll talk about in a moment. and then there is an annual availability payment, which would be made on a

quarterly basis. the and the maximum annual cost for that at the start would be $42.2 million. and that first payment would be made after substantial completion of the bus yard. so that would be in 2030, and that $42 million is in $2,030. the funding plan assumes a mix of funding sources that includes state, local and regional funds, as well as we continue to pursue federal grant funding to support the project. and then we also assume a future general obligation bond to assist in making that second milestone payment. and by 2033. and so that general obligation bond program is part of the city's ten year capital plan. currentl, there are two scheduled geo bonds that are proposed that could accommodate this payment. so in the event that a 2026 bond

were unsuccessful, we would have another opportunity in 2032 for that same request and then something that's also important to note here is the $42.2 million availability payment assumes the later date. and so what that means is, if the 2026 bond is successful and we're able to make that payment in 2027, the annual available annual availability payment would actually come down substantially in the early years of our finance plan. and again, there are other things that we're continuing to pursue, such as fta grant funding, which would also, again, help us to bring the future costs of the project down. another important note here is related to the labor participation in the

program, as jonathan mentioned, we've made the decision to federalize the project, recognizing that federal funding is an important component of ensuring that we take every opportunity to bring the cost of the project down. and so as a result of that, we have a small business enterprise and disadvantaged business enterprise plan that was developed in coordination with our contract and compliance office co. so that draft sb dbi plan was issued early in november and we held public information meetings on november seventh and eighth and then had public comment available through november 12th. and so the final project agreement would include the final sb dbi plan. looking at the schedule related to this item, of course, we're here today and i'm excited to bring this to you. after this,

assuming we're able to gain your support, we will go to budget and finance committee of the board of supervisors tomorrow, followed by the full board of supervisors next tuesday. again, as jonathan has pointed out, it's been critical to move this project forward because as the scale of a project this size, we understand that time equals money. and so we want to ensure that we continue to keep this on the critical path, because over the course of this 34 year agreement, we want to ensure that we are bringing the cost down as much as possible. and so with that, our recommendation is for approval of this item authorizing the director of transportation to request from the board of supervisors conditional approval of the infrastructure facility and joint or the common

infrastructure dbfm agreement, subject to that final pricing that is still pending, and delegation of authority for the sfmta board of directors to approve that final pricing within the not to exceed limits that we went over. and then authorizing the director of transportation to execute the final form of the project agreement as modified with that final pricing that would include the dbi sb plan with potrero neighborhood collective, llc or its affiliate. and with that, that concludes our presentation, and we're happy to answer questions. thank you. directors, any clarifying questions? director hemminger. thank you, madam chair. jonathan, you're not off the hook. so i and the dangerous thing for you is i kept my notes from the last time. oh, look at that. fun. so we'll we'll see how you did compared to what you thought you

would do. the first figure i want to compare is the construction cost, which i believe two years ago was estimated at 440 million. and the current is 560. and i think you said it reflects basically inflation, but that sounds like a little bit more than inflatio. there's also the cost of the common infrastructure. so part of what we're doing in this project, it's part of the reason that we have the paratransit alternative. it's why we made that change is the cost now includes the full cost of all of the common infrastructure. so we were expecting a contribution and the team can correct me if i'm wrong, of somewhere between 60 to 100 million from the housing developer to pay for the cost of the common infrastructure at this point in time. clearly the housing team does not have their financing in place to do that. so what we did was we're fronting that, and the only way we could do that under

the charter was to have a transportation use for the roof, which is paratransit. so essentially, at some point in time when the housing project comes in and we get the hcc done, the housing component of the project, they essentially need to buy back that airspace and pay us back for those costs. so the difference between what we thought, which would just be our share of the common infrastructure, is now the complete cost of the common infrastructure, again adjusted with inflation. and when you say they, you mean the contractor, it's the housing developer. so there's an independent housing developer that will build the housing above plenary will facilitate that process. and that developer currently is meta. there will be a period of time that they will have to get their financing together to. it's almost like exercising an option. they have an option to buy and move forward and build the housing. okay. the other thing on capital cost is

contingency. have you reduced the contingency in the latest estimate of 560 or what. what's it holding at. so the overall and chris hagy can come up to help me. but the process assumes a fixed price. so we're in that fixed price process now there is contingency associated with staff costs. and there are allowances assumed in the project originally. and this is actually one of the changes to originally. this was meant to be both a trolley coach facility and an electric bus facility. so we weren't quite sure about the technology and needs. originally for the electrical component of that, because there isn't even a building code around that yet for battery electric busses. it is now full trolley coach like we've made that decision. so that was one of the allowances. so i think we have a better sense of scope. but chris can talk about contingency within the project budget. sure. chris

hagy with plenary and also the project manager for potrero neighborhood collective. so what we're entering into with the design, build, finance, operate, maintain agreement is fixed components for each of the design build component, the financing and the facilities maintenance. so on on design build, we would be entering into an agreement separately. the project agreement, the dbfm agreement governs all components of it plenary as the or rather potrero neighborhood collective would be the developer that carves out specific pieces to the design builder who would be entering into a fixed price, fixed schedule. the 560 number is the assumption there any cost overruns above, say, the 560, would be a risk borne by the design builder. similarly to for the facilities maintenance piec, any any cost overruns that are not included in as part of the facilities maintenance providers plan would be the risk of the

facilities maintenance provider. that's the risk transfer that jonathan was referring to. so these assumptions are assumptions made or derived from cost estimates that potrero neighborhood collective has come has derived also from sfmta, but ultimately it's the partner who's not currently at the table who would be taking that risk in a in a p3. it's really the private party that carries the contingency and the risk and not the public agency. correct. so the agreement would have various carve outs for some kind of relief events, but subject to and do we have access or does our staff have access to how much contingency that is or is that like one of your trade secrets or something? it's not a trade secret, but the 560 is still i want to clarify. it's an assumption that was derived between potrero neighborhood collective and sfmta's. we do not have a contractor on board. there is no construction going on until we're estimating may well, spring of next year. jonathan, if i could put this one in your inbox, just if you

could just detail out from what you know, in working with our master developer, what what kind of contingencies we have throughout the cost, the cost of the of the capital piece. well, so again, chris has kind of laid this out and tim knows more detail on that than i do. what we did around the springtime when we came up with the not to exceed. so again, the not to exceed should assume the worst probable cost. again, we're working to make sure that those numbers are below that. so with luck it would be less than 560 once we get final pricing from the contractor. plenary did an independent estimate. we did our own independent estimate. tim, come up and correct me if i'm wrong. there are allowances for costs. meaning, you know, we can't know until you get subtrades and really, you know, understand that part of those estimates come from their estimator. and our estimator, as chris is saying, we compared

those costs. so to me, it wasn't really contingency. it was allowances for unknowns based on market conditions. for certain costs. but again, with regard to construction contingency, it doesn't exist because it's a fixed price. so the contingency honestly is the 560 like i am hopeful that when we go through the process, it again will be less than that. but the 560 again was our estimate of the worst case cost. assuming risks and unknowns within those allowances, let's just move on, because i got a couple more questions. the second one has to do with what i thought i remembered you had told us was sort of an all in cost estimate of $1 billion, and that included financing and everything else you could think of. and i believe in your presentation today that's doubled. has it actually doubled or was the

billion just way wrong or what happened there? interest rates. so remember when we brought this project to you last time and the consideration around dbfm. remember we were at near 0 or 1% interest rates? i think the prime is still currently around five, so that interest rate increase has an impact on the long term cost of the financing. it is something, honestly, part of the reason that we split the agreement this way was to deal with that exact issue that we're trying to weight out rates coming down. so we want to get the terms of the agreement very similar to what we did with the predevelopment agreement in place. and fixed at this point in time, get the highest level pricing, which includes the risk and contingency you're talking about with the numbers we're giving you today, but hope that the fed continues to lower rates. so when we get to financial close again, it is lower than all the mta. well,

what if they don't? are you saying you can't deliver this project at these rates? that is going to be part of the risk analysis that we come back to you with this? i mean, my personal opinion is where we are today is high risk and so what we're doing, chris has mentioned some of them. we've already got a new financing option that can reduce the ap by about $2 million. we're trying to put as much capital as we can up front to reduce the long term cost of financing. so this again, what we're reflecting to you today is the worst case scenario with the nt. it is our objective to have a lower number to you. when we come back with the final project agreement with the risk analysis associated with it. yeah. well, you were asking for some feedback from us on the pmo, and this would certainly be a good thing for the pmo to focus on early on. absolutely. because we got to have a project to have a project, which is why we're

trying to get that to you by april. a couple months before the final project agreement, the last two questions on the availability payment, that one jumped up about 10 million as well. so now it's at 42. and so the muni budget shortfall just got 10 million bigger. is that another way of looking at it that that is in there. the financing is a little bit complicated. we put this in the calendar item. we designed to the greatest extent possible to wrap the existing debt of the mta. so what that means in simple terms is as we retire debt associated with our revenue bonds, the existing debt service payment, which essentially currently for the agency's, let's say, $25 million a year, it's 24.7, but let's say 25 million, as that gets retired, that same debt payment will then go and start paying the ap. so the availability payments were wrapped around that to reduce the operating budget impact. but

again, we got to drive that number down because yes, it is part of our deficit number. yeah i mean once we sign up to that number it goes to the top of our operating correct funding program. yep. and that's why bree gave you a range, right. and lastly, i just wanted to return to the subject. you've raised a couple times on housin, and maybe it's a question for you, but how do you feel about the feasibility of that right now? i mean, i know we split it up in the, in the with the possibility in mind that we wouldn't be able to deliver the housing as contemplated and we could just spin it off. how is it looking now for you to go with plan a versus having to resort to plan b? sure. well, i won't speak. on if sfmta's decides to make a paratransit decision i guess. speaking from potrero neighborhood collectives. thoughts on it? so we're made up of plenary, which

is an infrastructure developer and the workforce housing developer on the on the rendering there, there are four distinct buildings that are part of it. there's a bryan street component that goes up to 150ft, and then three distinct buildings. each of those buildings has a different owner attached to it. plenary would be one of them. our partners at meta and tabernacle are the are the other two on there from a feasibility standpoint? i mean it's no it's no different than other housing developers and their constraints, particularly around affordable housing and raising funding for that. our focus is continuing to be on the first phase, which is bryant street. and so working with our affordable housing partners, we've advanced our schematic designs. we've advanced our design to a schematic level, are in the process of trying to figure out when we can build that, whether it's concurrent with the build of the bryant of the bus yard facility or if it comes afterwards, is still something that we're looking at. but, you know, it's hard to it's hard to give a simple answer. there are still the same kind of restrictions and limitations on

housing that exist today. fortunately enough, i think the innovative way of delivering a bus facility that has a structural component that's able to withstand the various loads and massing of podium housing, allows for that flexibility. but today it's still there's still some challenges, particularly with podium housing. well, and i guess another risk to add to the pmo's workload is just what's going to happen in washington, which has been a vital source of housing funding, as well as the place where they set the rates. so thank you, madam chair. i'm sorry i went on so long, but i had to make sure my notes got some value. so no, i'll keep this for two more years from now. absolutely no. there are great questions. director tarlo. thank you, madam chair. so i just have some questions about how things will flow in the

various scenarios. having just visited the current training facility, i can attest that it is ready for an upgrade or the people who work there are, you know, working in in 1973 or something like that. and so if so, i'm very, very happy to just attest to that. but regarding the paratransit component, if it should come to pass that we are we do end up moving paratransit to the podium will that would that would mean we would not have to lease space, would would there be i mean, is it going to be like a swap between the two in that scenario? good question.

the need for a permanent and owned paratransit facility has been a long standing need of the sfmta, so in general, we really need to own our facilities and especially ones in which we have ongoing operations like paratransit, because what it does is when we come back for a new lease, we're essentially held hostage on whatever the price of that rent is. we're currently on a site in brisbane in which, you know, there are planned future developments, which means we could be off that site at any time. so we have been planning for a permanent paratransit facility for a long time. petros. within the timing of the end of the existing lease that we have in place, and yes, part of that lease payment would actually go towards the ap if we did that, because we currently have an annual payment for paratransit that would be applied to the ap if we, you know, moved forward with that option. in addition, the

deadheading costs, the operational costs from having to move the vehicles from brisbane into service are significant. so not only would we have the lease payments be reduced and applied to the ap over time, we would also reduce the cost of operating the service by having it more centralized within the city. so we could use that that site where the training facility currently is to house the paratransit. so, so the current training facility, if you mean the facility to have it presidi. that is so if we don't you know and again it is the full intention of the agency to advance housing on the site. so again it's a it's a variant. we're hoping we're not going to end up there. but the backup site is presidio, which is the next project in line because we know we need to have a paratransit facility. so paratransit is also planned for at presidio. if we do not move forward with it at potrero. okay. thank you, madam chair.

directors, any additional questions? all right. let's open this item up for public comment. questions? i good afternoon. directors. my name is rachel clyde. and on behalf of the san francisco bicycle coalition and thousands of our members, i'm here to express our strong support for the potrero yard modernization project. rebuilding potrero yard is a transformational project that not only modernizes a centuries old, century old backyard, but also provides critical, affordable housing, enhancing the bus yard with homes for low to moderate income housing, optimizes agency owned land and addresses the city's housing needs. this project will improve safety for bicyclists and pedestrians by enhancing the

city's existing existing 17th street bikeway along the project site, with proposed class four bike lanes from bryant street to hampshire street, including concrete barriers and wider lanes where possible, as well as upgrading sidewalks and crossings. these improvements are known to support bicyclists, pedestrians, and vehicular safety. in line with the city's vision zero efforts. it will also create safe, reliable, and improved muni services for routes that currently serve five of san francisco's nine muni service equity neighborhoods and a transit friendly city is a bicycle friendly city. i urge you to support the potrero yard modernization project with over 520,000 daily muni riders, the city needs a new bus yard to improve transit reliability. while also continuing to connect the 17th street corridor with all ages and all abilities. facilities. this project is twofold and serving san francisco's mobility needs, while also providing public benefits, including new housing on city owned land to address the city's dire need for affordable housing. thank you.

thank you so much. any additional folks on this item? any accommodations? secretary silva, we may have an accommodation. speaker, you've been unmuted. this is for item 12, potrero. yeah. this is herbert weiner. one question i have. will these new housing units have garages for employees to, you know, store their vehicles because otherwise employers may have to rely solely on muni or paratransit or taxis for transportation. so this is one of the questions i have. thank you. no other callers. thank you for your comments. with that, we'll close public comment on item 12. i do see a comment by director henderson. yes, jonathan, that was a question that i had that i

would appreciate a bit of a response to. and then also, i just thought it would be helpful if you would remind me about the calendar for or the timeline for the geo bonds that are planned for 26, like what is the schedule look like for that? let me work backwards. so the plan schedule for the general obligation bonds is. so there's already an adopted capital plan which has us on the schedule for november of 2026. so about believe it or not, this coming spring, the city will go through the process to update the ten year capital plan, which will result in legislation to the board of supervisors, likely in may of 2025. and that will lock it down like that, locks down the next election. and then the following year, we will go through the process of developing. some members of this board have been through this process as we develop a geo bond program to move forward to the

voters, the following may will be the authorizing legislation to put it on the ballot. usually we can't go later than june on that, you know, based on the ballot dates. and then it would be november 2026. the plan would be if that source were used for the purposes of the potrero yard, we would issue the bond almost immediately. one thing that is of value is you cannot name a project in a general obligation bond program unless it's ceqa cleared and unfortunately, this project was not ceqa cleared when we attempted to go on the ballot in june of 2022. so for the purposes of this board and for the public, had the bond passed in june of 2022, we would have the $200 million right now. that was always the plan. we just couldn't name pietro as the project at that time, but unfortunately we missed by 1.5%. and so again, risk management, we adjusted the program, generally kept the project on schedule. the question of employee parking is something we deal with at all of our

facilities across san francisco. i often have to remind people we are not only a transit agency, but we are the city's department of transportation, which means we also manage the city's tda ordinance and t tda policy and so we have worked with the employees on site. this will be our first closed facility. so there are spaces for non-revenue vehicles and how the facility itself is managed is up to the employees and management at that location, which as many of you who have been to our yards see how it works today. employees do park in and around the facility at potrero. we also we had a tdm. i'm sorry, i said tda, but i've got so many funding sources on my mind. tdm, transit, transportation, demand management. we have developed a transportation demand management plan for the site and for this project, which will also accommodate the employees on site with different alternatives. so we've attempted within what is reasonable to

have spaces available again for non-revenue vehicles. but those non-revenue vehicles are not always on the site. we have developed a tdm plan for the employees and that is pretty consistent with what we would do for any private business or any city project. thank you, director henderson. thank you jonathan. all right. colleagues, may i have a motion and a second. so move. second secretary silva, please call the roll on the motion to approve director chen i chen i director hemminger, i hemminger i director henderson a henderson i director hines i director tarlov i tarlov i vice chair cajina i cajina i thank you. that item is approved. please call the next item. secretary silva. next item places you on item number 13. presen presentation and discussion of the safety equity initiative. action plan. good

afternoon, madam chair and board members, kimberly burris, chief security officer at mta. i am joined by my colleague benjamin iberra, who is out of our office of racial equity and belonging and with our superstar project manager, mariana maguire. i'm here to talk to you about our safety equity initiative action plan, which is an informational item. while we pull that up, the safety equity initiative is a part of our muni safe works to make muni safer for riders, bystanders, and all of our staff. specifically, the initiative aims to prevent harassment and assault on muni and create a more secure environment for all muni riders, including our staff. because as we know, our staff also are our

riders to. the presentation. yes. okay. next slide. some of you may be aware, but for those who are not, we actually started our safety equity initiative. we launched in 2022, late summer of 2022. and today we're going to recap some of the information from the initiative. we'll talk about how to report harassment on muni and what happens when you actually make a report. we'll talk about what the initiative has done to this point, and then we'll go into our next steps as we talk about our action plan. and then we'll take any questions and feedback. safety is very important to mta and our customers, and harassment and assault are definitely unacceptable. that said, personal safety and public space is challenging. we must navigate between criminal

actions, non-criminal actions and perceptions of safety that are often driven by antisocial behaviors and uncomfortable interactions that leave riders feeling fearful. by and large, crime on muni is low, and we know that because we have the data to support it. and that said, crime is just one part of the story. we are fully aware that an incident being categorized as a crime or not being categorized as a crime, is not necessarily the only thing that makes people feel unsafe. there are those non-criminal actions and behaviors that also make people feel unsafe. and so we are continuously working to improve information about non-criminal incidents. and we are continuously working to improve our our responsiveness to it and prevention through muni safe, we continue to identify areas of vulnerability and implement policy and security solutions that address

the needs of our riders, our approach is to build awareness about harassment, encourage reporting to help us collect as much information as possible, and use that information to implement timely mitigation measures and long term prevention solutions. again, the safety, equity initiative was launched in august of 2022 and recognition that public transportation, public transportation is the second most common place where harassment occurs. the most common place is the public streets. this includes operator harassment and assaults, but by keeping muni safe and making muni safer from harassment, we are working to improve the experience for both riders and staff to include our operators. reporting why reporting is so important. while we cannot fix what we do not know, that's why

reporting is the cornerstone of the safety equity initiative. reporting increases the information and data we can use to direct resources like staffing or prioritize prioritized projects like lighting improvements. prior to launching the initiative, we had no way to capture specific reports of rider harassment. not surprisingly, our data set was almost nonexistent when we launched the initiative, we added a harassment category to the muni feedback form and worked with 311 to support this reporting. we focused external communications efforts on encouraging people to report incidents they see or experience. this. this, of course, is an evergreen message that we will continue to stress, as there are always new riders who will need this information at the same time, we do want to be clear that this is not an alternative to 911 for emergenc. emergency responses. always we

always encourage people to call 911 or ask someone to call for them. next slide. what happens when a report is made? when a report is submitted to mta either through 911? i'm sorry. either through our muni feedback form or 311. it goes directly to our muni customer service team. our muni customer service team receives all reports they track the data, they pull video of the incident from the many cameras on our vehicles. that may be available, and then they refer the incident to security and investigation. once security and investigation has the information, the team investigates the incident further and develops a mitigation or prevention response as appropriate. the team determines that the veracity of the complaint, the identify the circumstances of the incident and any contributing factors and trends. they then assess the response if the incident is criminal, mta

will work with sfpd. if the incident is actionable. security and investigation staff prepare a bulletin and share that information with our operators and all of our other frontline staff for situational awareness. these bulletins help our operators stay alert, ready to call for assistance and if an incident occurs. next slide. in addition to increasing reporting and ultimately prevent harassment or immunity, the goals of the safety equity initiative included expanding harassment data. we really needed to know more information, improving our understanding of personal safety issues on muni, enhancing our security policies, systems and staffing. and we wanted to develop cost effective solutions that help deter harassment on muni and work with

community community partners to respond to how harassment shows up for different communities. it's important we work closely with impacted and vulnerable communities to reflect their lived experiences and humanize the realities of harassment and ways that resonate and address the community needs. we've made a lot of strides since 2022. some highlights of what we've accomplished thus far. we've engaged. we engaged our staff early on in the initiative to get feedback and support for our efforts, and receive valuable input that helped shape our work. we actually developed a symbol and included on the info decals and all of our vehicles that allows us to communicate to a broad audience, regardless of language, and serves as a beacon for our customers. we've created new pathways for people to share information with us about what they experience, where and when,

so we can target our efforts and we've significantly, significantly increased our data on harassment, on muni. and to get information out about reporting harassment, we did a full court press of psa's and information campaigns to include our very first muni day, muni safe day out, which was exciting for staff that participated. excellent. now my colleague is going to walk us through our action plan development and just a note to members of the board, as well as public listening and watching, we have moved some slides around in a in a late edit to the deck, but we will have that posted publicly as soon as possible. hello everyone! my name is mayumi ybarra with our office of racial equity and belonging now, based on the findings and emerging trends from our surveys and harassment reports, we are

developing a safety equity action plan with next steps to address these findings and set goals for our success. the action plan has been greatly informed by our writer. survey results that come from our partnership with ucla. that happened in 2023. the survey gathered data on muni riders travel behavior, experiences with harassment, and perceptions of safety while riding on muni. our team shared the data and findings with our with our sfmta staff working on capital improvements, service changes, system staffing and public communications to identify opportunities to incorporate safety improvements in existing projects and programs. this data will help staff identify our priority neighborhoods, our routes and locations to prioritize safety improvements and shed light on the experiences of our most vulnerable customers. staff use this information to create our

implementation plans and evaluation metrics for this budget cycle, and for our next, which will describe later on in the presentation. and now going on. all right, talking a little bit about some of our demographics, some of the key demographic data from the ucla survey that has helped direct our efforts in the safety equity action plan. as you can see on our table, the table indicates that experiences of harassment by race, which include incidents that happen to the respondents or incidents that they witnessed, these experiences tend to be lower for people who identify as white than for people who do not. this is perhaps unsurprising, but confirming this data on our transit system is a critical step to developing appropriate responses. other communities that experience more harassment on muni include women, transgender and non-binary people, youth, people with

disabilities, and people who depend on muni for their transportation needs. based on these findings, we recognized that the need to expand the safety equity initiative we had started with a focus on gender based harassment. building on this, we broadened our focus to include all forms of harassment and expanded community engagement around harassment and safety. on muni, we are currently in the process of conducting an updated and more expansive survey to better understand safety and perceptions of safety across many communities. in the process, we are leveraging our existing relationships with cbos to connect more closely with impacted groups. now, this slide is not in your board packets, but talks a little bit about improving our reporting within our within our system based on the feedback about challenges with our harassment reporting

form, we've asked our digital communications team to help make improvements. they have partnered with berkeley innovation, a human centered design consultancy based out of uc berkeley, to make the user experience with the form better and remove barriers to reporting. the team interviewed riders and conducted user surveys, which we're incorporating into the data for the safety, equity initiative. they are currently working on new design ideas that will make the form more efficient, user friendly and easier to access and easier to complete. one idea that has been floated around is to include a unique qr code that is within all of our vehicles that can pre-populate information about the vehicle into the form. and this is the kind of information that is extremely helpful in our investigations. but that riders may not know how to find or where to find, especially in the

moment when something is uncomfortable, something is happening to them that that they're not sure to do. we are also incorporating the requirements of senate bill 434 into our safety, equity work. sb 434 is a new state law that went into effect. this year. the bill was partially inspired by the work of sfmta. having already done this through our safety equity initiative and sb 434 sets a new standard for ten of the largest transit operators in california to collect and publish and publish information about how people experience harassment on public transit, broadening our focus to cover harassment and discrimination across all forms of identity, including gender identity and expression. race, ability and age aligns us with the requirements of sb 434 and allows us to benchmark our progress not only against our own metrics, but soon with

consistent set of data from peer agencies across california, sb 434 allows also allows for state funding for surveys and focus groups to be gathered to gather additional quantitative and qualitative information. we will publish initial data findings from our sb 434 work by december 31st. meanwhile, multilingual surveys and focus groups will continue into the new year and we will update our data and findings. once completed, i will pass it back to kim. to walk you through some of our implementations from the work that we first did with ucla, we put things into three buckets. we put it into capital improvements, service changes, and staffing and on the capital improvement side, the safety equity initiative action plan prioritizes lighting improvement at muni stops, particularly in

service equity neighborhoods where there's a higher percentage of muni dependent and vulnerable populations. many of the same populations that face higher rates of harassment on muni. improving lighting is one of the findings of the ucla survey to help increase safety for customers waiting at the muni stops at night this allows them to see their surroundings better and to be seen, which can also help reduce pass ups. visibility may deter a would be harasser or may allow customers to see suspicious activity and take action before an incident occurs. to that end, the muni stop lighting program is currently conducting a proof of concept demonstration of a solar light to see if we would be if it would be a viable option to deploy in additional service, equity and safety equity priority locations and eventually serve citywide. the safety equity action plan also integrates the data we gathered

into our service planning. our service planning team has committed to including this information to make help service to help make service decisions, improvements may include cost neutral service changes to address crowding on lines with higher reported harassment, and cost neutral changes to the our network to improve conditions for customers waiting and transferring, for example, improving timed out transfers would help reduce wait time at stops. reports and survey data show. harassment occurs more at muni stops than on muni vehicles, especially at night, so reducing wait time could help reduce customers vulnerability. staffing is also another crucial component of the safety equity initiative action plan. we would love to be able to hire additional staff, but in lieu of this, the information we've collected so far allows us to make deeply valuable improvements to where we prioritize our staff presence

and activity. this means we can be more effective with our existing staff until a time comes where we can increase staffing. we plan to increase uniform presence at priority muni lines and locations where harassment reports and the ucla survey findings show higher rates of harassment will also use additional data from additional surveys to make these decisions. as well. for example, we will focus more staff presence on school tripper routes because we know youth experience higher rates of harassment. and we also have the top ten routes identified for additional patrols. our staffing plan includes working with community members to improve how our staff interact with the community. staff presence, whether in our ambassador, orange vest and hoodies or in official uniform can be a strong deterrent to harassment, but they can also be an intimidating

presence for some people. we aim to help. we need to show up in ways that best support the communities we serve. our front line staff are an invaluable resource to communicate with riders and share information as they do currently. they receive safety and de-escalation training regularly and can help defuze situations and encourage reporting. we also have the opportunity to engage these staff to work with community members to share their skills for example, an idea that has been raised among our team is to work with our frontline staff and community based organizations to host muni safety clinics, where staff actually train the public and safety responses. finally, the action plan includes extensive and ongoing public communications campaigns and community collaborations to create more community centered psa campaigns and safety

materials in addition, we will be developing new public service announcement campaigns, including reporting and anti-harassment campaigns geared toward specific vulnerable communities in partnership with community based organizations. we will we will create what to report. this is a important way to demystify the notion that harassment is only obvious, overt acts, and that small incidents don't matter. so we want the public to better understand what to report and how to contact support services for people who are unhoused or experiencing mental health issues, which is an area that we've we've also you know, been made aware of. that happens a lot within within our system, doubling down on community engagement will be moving forward with more focus on heavily working with community members to co-create messages and resources that help them feel safe, and designing targeted campaigns that encourage specific communities to report harassment. and this

increase in education. about safety, resources and tips like how to best alert operators when you need help and how to understand what operators do. even if you can't see it. we are often asked about how riders can get help from operators and we've asked our operators what kind of information helps them the most. now we need to connect the dots. we also hear often about how something happened on a vehicle, but the operator didn't respond. we know that there's a lot of operators, a lot that operators do, that customers can't see. so we need to help the community members better understand that as well. we also know that culturally appropriate messages and messaging that reflect the lives and lived experiences of our community help improve communication in a major way because they're meaningful to the communities that we serve and stick with people better when it's directed to them specifically, for example, messages in english don't always

carry the same impact when translated a person with a stroller or a wheelchair may not be able to get away from an uncomfortable situation. so we need messaging that speaks specifically to someone like that. moving forward, we plan to work with these communities, including women, transgender and non-binary people, people of color, youth, seniors and people with disabilities or additional mobility needs. because it's what we need to do and we're really excited to co-create safety messages with these communities in mind. now to close out today's presentation, i'll go over the next steps for the action plan. they include vetting this plan internally and externally, as we're doing today, sharing our plan widely with the public and working with our partner cbos and multilingual media. we'll be launching a new round of surveying and as well as launching focus groups and partnerships with vulnerable

communities in getting the message out, we'll also be coordinating internally across divisions to incorporate our safety findings into our projects, our staffing and policies. and finally, we are committed to reporting on our outcomes quarterly to both staff and to the public. thank you for your time and consideration. we'd love any feedback or questions you may have. thank you so much for your presentation. i see some folks in the queue, so i'm going to go with director henderson first. thank you chair, and thank you for your presentation. i just wanted to channel director soul for a minute because i know when she was here for the time that for the, you know, the past year, she really was focused on the outreach process to monolingual or non non-english speaking communities. and i

think that that was both in writing but also audio. so i'm curious about the multilingual, what did you call it? multilingual media. is that going to be like announcements played on the bus, or is that print or how how does that outreach look? thank you. i am really, really strict about what announcements we play on the busses because we really need to prioritize core content, like stop announcements for people with vision impairments. so they do do some announcements, but they're judicious, which is why we rely more on the print campaigns. okay. and so i think then my question is just around accessibility of that messaging and trying to be creative to make sure that people who are

representing different demographics and communities have different ways to access the information, particularly how to report the harassment, because i think that that's really what's helping guide and direct the work that you're doing to say we'll focus on this line or, you know, do some more work on this line and sometimes the print messages don't reach people or they're, they're, you know, maybe people can't read or, you know, whatever it may be. so i wonder if there's a way that we can i don't know how many people tune in to this meeting, but, you know, i wonder if there's a way that we can use some non print methods to reach those communities, because i think that that was part of what director soule was really trying to emphasize is that that especially for monolingual, non-english speaking community members, they may be just they

may need a different approach. and so i understand the sort of strict way that we operate the busses and i get that that is, you know, especially important for operations and safety. and i think that it would just be interesting to try some other, you know, maybe, i don't know, the radio or whatever, but just try some other ways to make sure that the outreach is reaching the audience that it's intended for. and i can elaborate a little bit on that. yeah. thank you. and then also, what i wanted, just make sure that i bring up is, is that we have, i think, an opportunity to well, that this presents an opportunity for us to engage with a community and make sure that, you know, they may if the if the number is easy to remember to call and report, then you know, they only may need to see it once or hear it

once. and so maybe there's also like a, you know, like a hashtag or whatever, like just some way beyond the reporting form that seems like you know, you click a link or click a qr code, but maybe somebody's not using the phone or the, the computer. so anyway, thank you. those are those are all fantastic points. that's exactly what we are looking to do. and what's going to be very valuable about our partnerships with cbos and getting out into the community. and co-creating messages with community members and with through our partnerships with community based organizations, because we really want to understand what helps them and what resonates for them. and like you said, for populations that might not have a high level of literacy, what would work? likewise for customers for whom it's easier to hear something or easier to see something or just different, different ideas for what types of messages would be useful. this is where we're very

excited to get into our next phase of this initiative, working more deeply with community members. in fact, our most recent campaign to promote reporting, the tagline, the slogan came from a meeting that we had with community members in the tenderloin, and they suggested we say reporting is as easy as 311. and so that's a great tagline. so why not use it? those are exactly the kinds of things that we want from our community collaboration. and we don't want to make assumptions as to what that looks like. we really want to work with them and co-create what we've done so far has been just really kind of brass tacks, focused on driving people to 311, driving people to the muni feedback form, but also recognizing that 311 is the easiest. it's easy to remember, and we've been doing it for a couple of years, and we see that it still takes a long time to build that broad community awareness. so we continue to

work on that, but we're going to expand the ways we do it with this collaborative approach. thank you. one question i have also maybe kimberly, this might be for you. the what is the partnership with sfpd? look like? like does that where does does the mta operation stop. and sfpd come in. so we first we don't replace sfpd at all. so if it rises to the level of the crime, we are encouraging people to report it to, to sfpd, but also reported through the muni feedback form so that we're aware, because we do need that data to make meaningful changes. what we do on the mta side is when we go through an incident, we review it. if it's if it's actually a crime, we do work directly with our security. we have a, a pd liaison on the security team who works directly with pd on the investigative

part of it, trying to identify the possible person involved. once that identification is made, we create a bulletin of that person and we put that information out to all of our frontline staff so that they are aware that this person has been involved in this particular situation. and pd may need more additional information on this person. thank you. and do do sfpd patrols the actual busses and trains or that's the security team. so we use non-law enforcement staff on our vehicles. we use our mtac staff, which is our ambassadorship, as well as our fare inspectors. they are a part of that frontline staff that get the bulletins and have the information. and so in their briefings, they are aware of things that have occurred on the vehicles and information that they need to assist, funneling

that information back and forth through security and pd. okay. thank you. and lastly, how do is the can i access the reporting form. like just how do i access it. it's just online. or are there paper versions of it that you all accept or how does that work? oh yes, you can access the form in two ways. you can report in two ways. you can report directly through through 311. and right now for language access, 311 would be the best place. but then you can also go on to our website and find our muni feedback form, and then report directly through the website for the feedback form. and i can make sure that you have the, the, the url is sfmta.com backslash muni feedback. okay. and there is a qr code on the different sort of materials as well. and that

takes you directly to that website. we're working on that. okay. not yet, but soon. it just did right now. so okay okay. thank you. director tarlov. thank you, madam chair. thank you so much for your work on this. i, i do feel that reducing barriers to reporting incidents is very, very important. and i find in other contexts it is a real challenge to, to get people to report incidents. specifically, i'm referring to shoplifting incidents in businesses. so that's that's my background. and there's a widespread general feeling that it's not worth reporting incidents because nothing is going to come of it. and i guess

that's the heart of my feedback, because understandably, i think people draw a very short line between what happened to them and the and the consequence to the person that, you know, that did them wrong, whether it's a crime or just, you know, making them feel uncomfortable and so i guess that's the heart of my question kind of following along with what director henderson was talking about with pd. what what happens? i mean, will the person who reports then be required to show up at court if there is, you know, something that the district attorney you know, chooses to take as an action to

charge someone, you know, i think members of the public are justifiably concerned about you know, about those kinds of things. and so i, i guess i just really want to highlight that aspect of, of as a, as a barrier to reporting. and then i have another question which is, you know, harassment towards operators is, is sometimes, you know, unfortunately, something that happens, i think it it happens pretty frequently. and are they reporting through this system or a different system, these kinds of incidents toward them. so i'll answer the latter question first. so the actual form is was exists for both our

operators and our customers. so operators can use the feedback form in 311 to report an incident. and you can also report an incident and not be the subject of the harassment. you can report it if you're only a witness and you may or may remain completely anonymous. if you choose to, but the operators also have other paths through their management to report incidents. but it's not either or you. it's an. and you can do both ways. right? so yes, our our staff operators and all the other staff that work on our system, we work with staff early on to get their involvement and input in the project. so they were fully involved in kind of helping us shape it with their voice in mind. and so the form was was made for both staff and customers. the first question

about the criminal path, i just want to make a distinction between what we're asking our customers and staff to do on the security side versus the criminal side. we're using the data that we collect to improve our responsiveness in terms of mitigation strategies and prevention on the transportation side, the criminal path is something totally different. criminal path may require for a victim or a subject of harassment to fully go down the criminal justice pathway. we would not have any involvement in that. but other than being a supportive a support for our customers and our staff, we want to make sure that we collect enough data to make meaningful change on our transportation system so that our customers and

staff do not have to continue to be a subject of the behavior, as opposed to what happens on the criminal path. now, we do work with law enforcement to ensure that, one, we share any evidence that we have, that we get the information out to our staff and to the public. one thing that i think we should we are working on and have to figure out a better way of communicating is what happens and what the progress looks like from the efforts that we've done. because we've we have made progress. we have identified subjects on the system, and we have actually had at least one subject prohibited from the system based on the behavior. so we're working best to figure out best ways how to share that information through the police department. because that's more on the criminal side, and we allow them to lead on the criminal side. thank you.

director tala. yeah. thank you, madam chair. my questions also were follow on, sort of the reporting aspect of this. you know, i didn't know when somebody experiences an incident like this kind of the last thing i would think they would want to do would be reported twice. twice. and it's, you know, like, if i want mta to know, i got to fill out this form. but then i also, if i want to pursue, as you were saying, versus a criminal path, i have to notify the pd and it's just a lot to have to do and to have to go through kind of from a paperwork

standpoint and sometimes maybe reliving the incident makes it to some extent. so is there any way and i know you've made the distinction a couple of times here about distinct pathways, but is there any way you think to kind of streamline this reporting if somebody wants to just report the incident once, let's say so. one of the things that we do do, if there is a criminal act that occurs on our transportation system, we track those police case numbers and our police liaison works with the investigative units to track that. so even if an incident occurs and reaches to a criminal criminality, we would have that information already already reported in our system. and so we track it that way. the we are really concerned about smaller

incidents that don't take the law enforcement path, because those are the incidents that often get underreported. and those are the incidents that truly make our system feel unsafe, not simply just because they don't reach the level of criminality. and so there, although there's two different paths there is a way to cross-reference the information. okay, that's good. and then my other question is about, you know, underreporting. now that we have this system, this is great, but do we have any estimate of the underreporting of these as you just referred to the smaller incidents? that occur on the system? well, we've made great strides because we looked at the reporting before,

and over a five year period, we only had about six incidents that were reported. and so we saw when we did our campaign around reporting, we saw a jump, an increase in reporting. but we are almost positive that there is still a level of underreporting, because there are several reasons why people don't report incidents. one, like you alluded to, director, is that people feel like nothing is going to happen if they report it. the other one is that people often don't want to go through the reporting process. and then the another one is people don't know how to report. and so we kind of work through all of that. and we continue to get that information out to the public. so one, they know that they're reporting is important. and what happens when they report and making sure they know how to report. and so we are doing another survey under sb

four 3434. so i'm sure under that survey we will get additional information on what underreporting looks like. okay. and just to director tarlow's point about what happens when folks report and drawing kind of that line to for what happens to them. the customer service team, once they receive one of those forms, they do follow up with the person directly and is there like an outcome provided if, if, say that incident doesn't go with pd, does someone community given an eventual like outcome to the person that filed the report? yes. so as soon as we get the report from our customer service, our police liaison who also investigates all of our

smaller incidents, actually reaches out to the complainant or person who made the report. they gather additional information and so they work together as a team to figure out the veracity of the incident and follow up on the incident. and then that information is shared back. if there is any information to share back. okay. great. thank you, madam chair. thank you, director tarloff. if i if i may add one additional bit of context to that last point, as kim's been mentioning, we really want to hear about all incidents. but some incidents like uncomfortable staring, rude language slurs. these are the kinds of things that happen more often and people brush off. and these are the kinds of things we want to hear more about. an

emergency incident will automatically trigger a number of different things, but there have been plenty of situations where i'm sure all of us at some time have have experienced something that you would just walk away from and just think, well, that was uncomfortable. typically, there is no path to say someone was staring at me very awkwardly or someone brushed my arm very uncomfortably. we have now made it possible to let us know so that when we see trends of these instances reported on particular routes or in particular areas, or at stops, we can direct more resources there. so it's not necessarily addressing or resolving a specific incident every single time. it's addressing systemic issues. and when we talk about a culture of safety, that's what we're trying to get at. more. thank you. director tarloff. thank you,

madam chair. just a follow on question regarding the investigation of the veracity of the report. do our cameras capture both audio and visual information related to rude language or verbal verbal harassment? it depends on where where the incident occurs on our vehicles. it does capture both. okay. thank you. director chen. thank you. chair, i want to quickly echo. i think what director henderson said about just making sure we reach people in the language and the media that they consume, at least for chinese language. there's the tv, there's a radio, there's a newspaper, there's. and then not only that, right. but then

there's also probably a lot of communities, right. these private chats. right. so in the chinese i hear in chinese it's like wechat. i know, like whatsapp sms, right. i don't know how well it's in with with the technology group. right. especially for the feedback forum. but like especially for increasing the lowering the barrier for reporting. also to see to see i as an idea. right. being able to use like some sort of like chatbot or some sort of interface that would make it super that, that would, that would let, that would let the agency collect structured data while also letting, while also letting customers. right. kind of like go in in a, in a format that they use. and this is not i've not seen this in san francisco, but i've seen other companies for example. right. say, oh, you can reach us customer service at whatsapp. so i don't. so maybe not not a short term thing, but like, you know, something longer term i think that would be great. i agree with director tarlov. i think about trying to close the loop. it's like i do hear we do

want aggregate statistics, but i also want customers to be like your data, your reporting, the time that you spent sending that is valuable to us. so i don't know. but however we can do that, that's great. this was very timely because i had a friend who was on the five fulton a couple of nights ago, and he was spat on while on the bus. and, and it sort of was like, okay, well, this is not really something that you really file a police report about. and then i said, oh, you should report it. but he was like, okay, what, what, what's what's it going to do? and trying to make sure that that, that we how do i make sure. and actually hearing that oh, it's not it's not not we're talking about. yes we're talking about assaults and we're talking about pretty serious crimes, but we're also talking about things that make that that make people feel uncomfortable. right. that things that, that would make you think again about taking transit. i would hope that that also goes into the messaging. i know that our our social media team is doing a great job. i'm seeing the stuff that i see a

lot, watch a lot of instagram. so i've been seeing a lot of stuff that they're doing on instagram. so making sure that that that messaging goes out. i, i think, i think what you're doing is great and here's just, here's some things here. here are some other things that that sound sound good. let's see. so this is a random question. but you know, is there we do have staff right. we have the fare inspectors. and we also have the transit ambassadors. do we also is there any space for volunteers or community members or or so for an example, during the pandemic peak, right there was a chinatown safety patrol. and so these were volunteers who wore safety vests, who walked around chinatown to try to, to help people feel safer. and also provide escorts. is that is that some is that something if in scope or totally out of scope, it's not something that has come up specifically, but we're open

to all suggestions and ideas. one of the things that we do look at is, is using our ambassadors in different ways. and so maybe if we kind of like funnel that out, we there would be more of an opportunity because it takes some training. and i want to make sure that we put them with staff that could, could really make sure that it was rolled out the right way. yeah. that's right. we want to make sure that anybody we work with that's not well, including sfmta's staff, you know, first and foremost, their personal safety is very important. so we want to make sure that that any, any step like that would be, you know well well resourced from a training standpoint there. we have worked with cbo partners to augment our ambassadors. for example, i think i think we have

some folks from cdc still helping out customers at chinatown, rose park station. so partnerships like that are certainly possible. as with all things, we also need to make sure that we can compensate them for their time. so there's a resource implication there, but we are absolutely open to those kinds of partnerships. great. thank you. thank you, director chen. i'll try to keep my comments brief, but as you're going through the presentation, i had a whole litany of questions. and then benjamin, with your piece of the presentation, you answered each one of them. so i was like, oh, okay. so i think one of the main things that i'm noticing from this is, or one of the concerns and the guidance that i'd give folks, is really prioritizing language access as it pertains to these particular resources. i think the data that you've collected and the partnerships that you've had so far with different, you know, academic institutions understanding, you know, what are those communities

that we need to if you know, resources are scarce, like how do we narrowly focus on those different communities and really understanding that, you know, folks with, you know, the most vulnerable folks are the ones that do have the language barriers and the folks that will likely underreport are folks with language barriers and so i do really encourage the team to think outside the box in terms of partnerships that could support, you know, really engaging those community members, whether it's working with sister agencies like oca to talk to them about what are some of the things that they're doing, how can we get our resources in the hands of folks who are already going through processes with the city and engaging folks that way so they know how to report right? i think one of the things that it's, you know, there's so many different i want to say, like environmental but really like political layers that come in with reporting. right? there's the national politics and

international politics. right. like how can immigrant communities feel comfortable navigating reporting systems, especially when they are one of the i. i'm assuming that the stats will show that they're probably one of the highest percentages of folks that feel that vulnerability when they're taking transit. and so i really do hope that the team has a specific strategy to really target immigrant community members, because that is something that i'm uniquely interested in, ensuring that they feel safe because oftentimes they are transit dependent and there isn't any other way for folks to get around. so we need to make sure that those that are transit dependent are the safest, right. and so i, you know, there's i do have, you know, the muni funding working group like recommendations in my head. every time i see items and safety is such a such an important component to the work

and the services that we deliver. and looking at the timeline that you have here, there's almost a, you know, i have this ask of like, can we accelerate some of these processes, can we go a little faster with this? because i, i see such a huge need for our student population, our immigrant community to get these resources in hand as soon as possible. and seeing these prominently displayed in, you know, transit shelters and our busses, you know, these are things that we need to make sure are accessible. now and to make sure that they're user friendly as well. and i so agree. i appreciate that folks are taking, you know, that that emphasis of like, let's figure out how to make this user friendly just following the qr code, just going on the website myself, i was like, i can see how there's barriers there for monolingual community members to fill this out. i probably as an english language speaker, wouldn't feel comfortable or

wouldn't. i don't know if i'd take the time to fill this out. right. so how do we make this more user friendly to the folks that will actually need this the most, and that we want to hear from the most? right. so i guess my main feedback for the team is, is there a way to go faster to do this sooner? i just some of the things that i'm just concerned about is any sort of funding implications that might come in the future. and having, you know, this work not not fully funding this important work because we're we're going to get to a moment where we're going to have trade offs. and i would so and i want to make sure that this team is positioned to really take on, you know, big chunks of the work ahead of time before we get to the point where we have to make those tough choices. so just something to sit with, something to consider. but i do feel a sense of urgency to get this work up and running. and anything that i can do to help to, you know, connect

about, you know, spanish media sources, anything like that. i'm more than happy to do. but i, i think about the climate that we're going into with this new administration, national administration, and the different implications that this this has for the immigrant community. and i do have a lot of fears about how they'll navigate our streets and our systems with this new president that we're going to have. mariana is our communications expert as well as the i'm sorry, i should have introduced myself. mariana mcguire, communications lead for the safety, equity initiative. yes, we as a team completely agree with you. and we're very cognizant that particularly, you know, immigrant communities are typically ones that may not feel as comfortable coming forward and reporting. with that in mind, one of the things that

we've tried to really emphasize and continue to emphasize is that you can do this anonymously, and you can do this as a witness. and we're really encouraging the concept of being a good witness to, even if it doesn't happen to you, you might see it happen to someone else. this may take a little bit of the edge off of the idea of reporting, but we understand that that's that's just one small measure. what we're again, very excited to do in 2025 is work with work really deeply with community based organizations. and we have great relationships with many so far. so we will lean on them to help us really identify what works best. again, we don't want to make assumptions. there are some things that we know through our relationships, but we don't want to just make assumptions. we really want to work with them and work specifically with these communities. and already this

year, with the capacity, with the staff capacity that we have, we've started to have some roundtable meetings where we just really start off a conversation by by asking folks what makes them feel safe, what makes them feel unsafe, and just starting a conversation and allowing them some space to open up and see what comes organically from that, and then continue that conversation. and it's been so far, it's been well received with the groups we've met with that you know, they felt that they could open up about things and share things and ask us questions and establish this relationship. and from there we intend to build more programs like potentially muni safety clinics or other ideas that the community members have themselves that we can't necessarily think of, but that will come from them. likewise with language, we are translating and putting everything into multiple languages and working with multiple multilingual media, and then with the reporting form.

you're absolutely right. that is such a critical piece. and it's i don't think anyone on our team loves how it's formatted right now, but it's been such a great it's been such an area of focus for us to make sure that we can make it more user friendly, and that the form itself is not an abuse, having to fill it out. so that's that's really critical work that our that our ux partners are helping us with. they did a lot of interviewing too, and a lot of talking to different communities and monolingual communities as well to understand what would make it easier. so we are trying to learn to the point about speeding up. we absolutely want to move much quicker. some hindrances have been just personnel changes that that have caused, some transitions that we've had to adapt and adjust t. we the safety equity initiative is not a program that is funded by itself. we borrow staff and

we borrow funding from other programs that we're very grateful or supportive, and we're doing a lot with a little, obviously, you know, with more resources and staffing. we could do more. but we are in a tight climate. so our staff, one of the great benefits that we have, and something that will help us speed up, is our staff is incredibly committed to this work. everyone on the team finds this to be one of the best projects that we're working on because it's so meaningful, it's so rewarding, and it's so important. so yes, we are absolutely raring to go. and within the first six months of 2015, we intend to have some strong partnerships in place and have new campaigns ready going back to 2015. so 2025, i'm sorr, i apologize 2025. the great thing is all of what you want us to speed up on is already underway. so we're going. we're getting there. we're getting there. no. and i appreciate it.

and just a suggestion for the back end as you get this data. i think it's so great that you all are considering how does this actually how do we use this data to inform our strategies for capital projects that come down the pike? right. one of the most beautiful examples that i've seen recently is what's happening with the m line. and the improvements that are happening there. right. and so , i hope that, you know, as you're gathering data, there are ways that not this is just not user friendly to the folks that are filling out the information. but on the back end that you are the way you collect data and the way that you're aggregating data helps inform the different project managers that we have in the team that are holding, that are shaping what our capital investments look like. so it can inform them. we do need some more lighting there. oh, we actually need a, you know, a decked out station here. we need

something a little bit or we, you know, we can pair this down over here. it's not really that big of a priority here, but maybe a few blocks down it's a it's a bigger priority. right. so i, i hope that and i see you nodding jonathan i do hope that, you know, as we're considering capital projects that this information becomes a layer of how we design future projects. but thank you so much to each and every one of you for all the critical work that you're doing around this. it's so important to make sure that our riders feel safe, that folks you know, feel not just comfortable taking muni because we are a transit first city, but also because it's a real option for folks, not just their last resort, but a preferred resort. right? so i just appreciate all the work and the thought partnership that you're doing with your colleagues and other folks throughout the city on this topic. thank you. thank you. public comment. all right. so we will now open this item to

public comment. if there are any members of the public here ready to provide comment on this item, please step forward. okay. do we have any accommodations? secretary, i do have an accommodation request. speaker. you've been unmuted for item 13. presidents herbert weiner i really have commendations for this project. i think it's extremely important. and for instance, it's not only verbal insults and threats, but it's also criminal activity. take part. i didn't pick pocketed twice on muni, and it's really very discouraging to ride as a result. now, this is some years ago. i'm sure things may have improved, but i'm certainly for

this project and also, i think it's important that people riding muni when they see something going on, they should report it to the ambassador so that they could do something. i think it's a cooperative to keep everyone safe, and the very well be a model for other settings like work sites and schools. so again, i commend the project. thank you. no other callers. thank you. and let's call the next item. secretary silva. oh sorry. let me close public comment first and then let's close it. and then let's call the next item. thank you. places you on item 14 discussion and vote pursuant to admin code section 67.10, b and d as to whether to invoke attorney client privilege and conduct a closed session conference with legal counsel. all right. we will now open a public comment

for item 14. anybody in the room ready to comment on item 14? seeing none. do we have any accommodations? no accommodations. all right. we will now close public comment on item 14. may i have a motion to second to go into closed sessio. so moved second. call the roll. secretary silva, please call the roll on the motion to go into closed session. director chen i, chen i director heminger heminger. i director henderson i henderson i director hinsey i. i vice chair kahina i kahina i thank you. the board will on the webex.

there we go. there we go. thank you. okay. 735. okay. director. item 14, 15 and 15. okay. item number 15. the board met in closed session and voted to approve item three. b took no action on three a and item four places you on item number 16. motion to disclose or not disclosed information discussed in closed session. colleagues, may i have a motion and a second? motion not to disclose. can i have a second? second. secretary silva, please call the roll on the motion to not disclose director chen. i. chen. i. director heminger. heminger i. director. henderson. henderson. i. director. haynes. i. i. director. tarlov. i. tarlov. i. vice chair. kahina. i kahina. i. thank you. the motion passes and concludes the business before you today. thank you. colleagues, staff and members of the public. we are

now adjourned. our last meeting of the year will be on december 17th. thank you.

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