moving on to introduce the event cohost and san francisco's official family. welcome our friends city administrator carmen chu. >> thank you, claudine to al anthe mayor, thank you for making adepon event like this possible in city hall temperature is a beautiful site to see people on the second floor and the first floor all joining in to celebrate. i don't think i seen a house this packed in awhile for our lunar new year celebration. category you and thank you for makeing upon eventté possible. i know work guess into this.

this it is a wonderful time ofy parents wereim granto the united states. our favorite tradition system this period it is a time when my family gets together, celebrate, jokes, good times, laugh. reminisce on the year and look forward to the iary ahead and how wonderful to celebrate this celebration and this tradition with our large are city family here the community members here. all of the people who are here in public service and our elected family that is here. i welcome you to city hall and yourministrator.ere and serve [applause] with that i would like to invite my cohost to say a few words i invite our city

attorney david chu. sheriff miomoto. supervisor connie chan, supervisor cheyenne chen and mahmood come up and share a few words, yes, rounds of applause. >> good evening, san francisco and welcome to the asian american capital of the us here! we are home to the oldest china town in the united states. one of 3 japan towns. little saigon. our asian americans we built the railroad and wine country. created fortune cookies and technologies and established farm worker rights and the constitutional right to birth right citizenship. we have dhn despite chinese

eccollusion, japanese intern am. quake, fire, covid and antiasian hate we are arab ran america and the diverse communities that represent san francisco and i want to say to our vietnamese community, to our korean community -- and our [inaudible] community and our mandarin community. and with that i'm going to introduce our sheriff miomoto who will say welcome in every other dialect! >> thank you. city attorney. i don't know how i always have to follow him when we have these celebrations i will try. let me try indonesian. and this is for my wife.

i am honored be here representing our community not just representing our diverse a ap i community but also san francisco. and this opportunity to celebrate together and as carmen mentioned there are so many here it is wonderful to feel all of us together. sharing with each other and in celebration. i get to celebrate new year's twice. japanese tradition the beginning of the calendar year and an among later with my chinese family lunar new year and i'm fortunate to have that in my family and fortunate to share everything with the city family as we move forward with this celebration. thank you. let me introduce now i made it easy i our public defender.

>> thank you. sheriff. happy lunar new year to everyone. i'm proud to be the son of indian immigrants and the only south asian elected public defender in the country and proud and always a joy to see the diversity of our city community and asian community. i want to acknowledge this is black history month and the coalition tw asian communities have been important. in the development and growth of our city. as the public defender, we are committed to protecting rights in the courtroom and creating opportunities. opportunities for all the class we represent and their families that is something that bring mes moonhonor to do this for sab fran. claudine i appreciate you and the talking about importance of trans formation and renewal. as your public defender we are

committed to transforming and look forward to working with the new mayor and the board of supervisors to bring about more transformation and renewal and community safety for all of us, thank you. >> i'm here to introduce supervisor connie chan. [applause] >> thank you. and first i want to thank you know mayor lurie for being our leading host of the event and thank you city administrator carmen chu for being a gracious mc and host and claudine and al, al is somewhere in the crowd. want to thank both of you for all your effort for putting this together. while we are so diverse, we identify ourselves in different cultures and language we celebrate in unity. that is what is happening today. to see everyone here we celebrate in unity.

sending a message that san francisco is here and san francisco is celebrating. we are a sanctuary and will have a bright and greater future to come. for all of you to be here and part of this i'm grateful and i can be part of this community and this village celebrating together it is amazing for first generation immigrant growing up in china town. i'm also really grateful that now not just me as the only chinese-american member on the board of supervisors the last couple years we now have an addition to the board of supervisors and i'm so grateful to introduce her supervisor chen. [applause] good evening, everyone. thank you again, thank you for being here and celebrating us

and san francisco tonight. i would like to go again with the mayors. this will is a year with hope and the year of transformation. this is i year of transformation that brings hope in the building that expands to san francisco. and i have my daughter and she is here. hi. she is very proud that this is the year of the snake. she is snake moves fast but get things done. i'm hoping and hopeful this is the year of snake that we celebrate pleasurement and celebrating a safer san francisco, a vibrant san francisco and welcome all people from across the state or the nation and internationally to come back to san francisco and celebrate with us next year, lunar new year in here in san francisco. thank you and i want to say a few word in chinese. i grew up in china i would like

it say in in mandarin. now i'm going to introduce my colleague supervisor mahmood. >> i'm mahmood supervisor d5. i'm proud to be the first south asian elected of the board to add balance with the public defender. i'm proud for this to be my first lunar new year celebration it means so much to my family. my parents were immigrants to over 40 years ago. my partner's family as well from china over 40 years ago.

they came here classic immigrant story. started a restaurant. ran it for 30 years and they still have in the retiredeen though they should. but this year will be the first year despite having been in the china town community they will be in the lunar new year parade. i'm glad to be able to give them that opportunity for the first time and that's what the city represents a beacon forim grants and a boekon for small business and beacon of hope we'll ensure as san francisco city hall that continues to be so. thank you feb. for being here and enjoy the rest of the celebration. [applause] >> my fellow cohost. don't think you get off the stage you gotta stay that is part of the job. i would like to invite our board of supervisors to come up and i know we are joined by supervisor fielder, supervisor melgar, supervisor sauter. supervisor walton and engardio

and i believe president of the board of supervisor, supervisor mandelman. i like to ask supervisor mandelman to say a few wordos behalf of the board of supervisors. [applause]. carmen chu! best city administrator in the world. she is so good! and david chu, we are so grateful for the work that you are doing to the right citizenship and stick up for san francisco values. i'm rafael mandelman the d8 supervisor and president of the board of supervisors and i'm happy for cone chan she does not have to be the ap i caucus alone as she did for two years. thank you supervisor chen and we have more than a majority of the board here. i on behalf of the board want to wish everyone a happy year of the snake. i want to thank claudine and al

for doing this every year. year after year. mr. mayor, this is i think the biggest celebration we had in many years and that is -- amazing congratulations. >> happy year of the snake, everybody. that's about as much as i got! [applause] nice job, supervisor. my honor to invite our other elected officials the seszor torres. cisneros. members of the unified school board. please, come on up. now i what you know are thinking are we saying everyone will have a turn at speaking, no. i want to say thank you to our

officials for joining us and perhaps i can ask the mayor to come up there is a photo opportunity awaiting us here. and may be i can ask all of my elected family to join in our lunar new year greeting follow after me. trust what i ask you to say. right? ready. upon happy new year, everybody!

is this working? thank you city officials. next we have our great performance for all of you. from the korean community. warmly welcome kim the teacher for many years in korean

traditional dance and with the percussion instrument. please, welcome our korean performer. [♪music♪] [applause] ♪♪ ♪♪

>> next the next is really san francisco tradition. in the united states the lunar new year was launch in the noot first ever stamp honoring the culture of chinese-american in the united states. with the year of the rooster and the historic of that stamp in our city in san francisco. and every year since then san francisco hosted the national first day of ceremony or like

today the ceremony unveiling of the new year stamp. the stamp is a unique instrument of communication archifies a part of our culture. and in the case of the lunar now year stamp, the lunar new year series the stamp tells the story of the chinese zoed iac about how during the lunar cycle each year represented by a different animal. today to conduct the stamp ceremony. welcome san francisco post master.

thank you. claudine. good evening. my honor to be here from the united states postal service as we celebrate the year of the snake with the new stamp. i want to thank you our community and leaders for the support. as a post master of san francisco i'm proud to recognize this beautiful and meaningful stamp and valued by the community in san francisco and employees to who celebrate lunar new year. design with families and community together as you have done today. to celebrate the unveiling of this stamp. the postal service is proud to celebrate the nation's history and heritage through our stamp's program. the lunar new year collection and the most successful stamps live in the history of the

postal service. no surprise considering 1.5 billion people around the world mark the events. for more than 3 decades the postal service proudly issued stamp celebrate the lunar now year the tradition, now moving toward the heritage starting in san francisco. with the 1993 unveil nothing 2020 the pestal service introduced the third lunar new year series a 6 stamp in the will city of 12 stamps will continue through 2031. with the stamps of the year ram, monkey, dog and bull. the year of the snake stamp features 3 dimensional snake created by an artist with art director and antonio [inaudible].

the beautiful in lunar new year [inaudible] that series of what is a take on the long tradition of paper art crafted created the year of the [inaudible]. out of hand printed paper, cut, scored and foeldzed into shape. embellished with paint and other paper elements. and then for the layer of papier-mache. the mark was photographed on a white background. those born in year of the snake wise and deep thinking. making them proefficient philosophers, writers and teachers, that's you. like the snake, we have adopted improved efficiency and embraced innovation to service to our customers.

we can share the snake many qualities to have in our communication, wisdom in judgment and [inaudible]. the stamp is available now at any post office including the china town station. you can order them at the convenience of your home at usps.com. as you add the stamp to your collection or use it to mail lieuar new year, our hope that year of the snake stamps live peace, joy and comfort, to and you your family. thank you again for it is an honor to celebrate a meaningful stamp for the community of san francisco. now i like to ask mayor lure tow come and [inaudible] the snake stamp forever.

[applause] the cohost to come up, please.

>> thank you very much i hope everybody bias a stamp. send a letter to the person that you have been wanting to. you know this love letter you were supposed to send last year all of those cards go get your stamps. i'd like to introduce two pillars of our community individuals who have been integral in representing our community. people helping to organize our lunar new year parade and the festivities this be happening across the city. upon donald lu heading the chinese chamber of commerce.

welcome. i'm going speak in chinese.

happy new year.

mayor lurie, member of the board of supervisor. elected officials. acting council and council general and all member of the council for the dignitary. welcome to the start of the year of the snake. the [inaudible] in china town was a success. thouz afternooneds of logos coming together to celebrate the traditions. the events sought largest turn out since the panning demmic making a significant revival for china town. the communities resilience in preserving culture and traditions embracing the vibrancy of lunar new year. the momentum for this year

celebration begin with mayor lurie celebration in china town, which set the tone for an exciting start. to the festivities the mayor recognition of china town's cultural and economic significance energizes the community. and carry in the lunar now year celebration. looking ahead, china town is preparing for the record bricking crowd. the chinese lunar new year street fair and parade. one of this year's most significant event for local merchances more than just a celebration. this event serve a vital economic driver. with accidents 30% of the sale during the month festivities. exciting with renewal sense of community spirit, the year of

the snake is off to a great start bringing practice perity. culture and celebration back in the heart of china town. as we embrailles the wisdom and transformation the year of the snake represent may it bring you health, mos prosperity and success the year happy with peace, happiness and the opportunity. >> the chinese chamber of commerce. thank you aside prosecute parade i know the you have for us. i think we need a rounds of applause to the china sooun tune usa contestants standing here and -- to be at this event. >> i forgot to recognize all the local beautiful contestants mrs.

china town usa and thank you to the assistant of jude and he alex fong our board member. thank you for your participation this year pageant. thank you the chinese chamber show up at the parade on the 15th. when you came in the rotunda to city hall you realize saw the two pandas the two beautiful colorful pandas on each side of the entrance. for this we have to thank the chinese historical society for delivering them. the pandas were 8 in china town in different places on this and bring fortune and luck to the community. thank you. moving forward. before we introduce the next performance i like to give thanks to the experiencing the lion dance year after year.

thank you. and the volunteers. we can't deal without the lion dance. and then all the volunteers that make this event possible. the volunteers that helping with asian american ap i heritage celebration. thomas lee. . grace, of course our one and only al perez entertainment commissioner to produce the show this evening and many other volunteers we have, thank you so much for helping out and supporting. let's thank our volunteers. please! >> and now i like to invite our indonesian performer to join us. this is going to be a treat. this is one of indonesian most

famous mask dance. [♪music♪] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪

>> hello we are not done yet. because we have prepared forut grand final performance for the evening. i want to reminds everybody that on your way out now new year celebration without the fortune cookie. on your way out please, pick up your own box of fortune! now the grand final, welcome our filipino performers to perform the -- [inaudible] dance company.

thank you. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [applause] [♪music♪]

[applause] [♪music♪] [♪music♪]

there can to the cultural performers i hope you had good fun are you having a good time! thank you for being here. thank you to all the volunteers, sponsors and heritage foundation. chinese chamber of commerce and everyone. we hope to see you here next year and remember to pick up on your way out have a good evening. thank you.

>> san francisco has always been very diverse, very progressive and not only open in other ways but music as well. musicians always want to try to find something new to play and if they are thinking about playing something new or

different. i'm the product of the san francisco schools. i started when i was 10. i joined the band and that was the most interesting instrument to play. and you have to be able to put yourselves in different situations. that's what made me better. if you do with two or three ingredients, that makes it pretty boring. most people know me for playing with carlos santana, touring the

world all over the place. phenomenal place with music and also being around him you have a lot of fun and learning a lot about music and things beyond music too. this place is history, i have been here many many times like any 70s and seen some really incredible groups and that is being here a number of times is kind of a full circle moment. it's really something that we cherish when we play is getting the energy back and forth with the audience and kind of a symbiotic thing. playing for the home crowd and your family is really a meaningful thing to be and just a fun place to be in. a lot of

great memories seeing so many groups here over the >> at the height of addiction i was a mess. i decided to enter recovery to make sure that my son had a good life and had a chance. recovery for me means a second chance and for me methadone helped me get that second chance. my advice for anybody that would want to stop using opioids is you can do it. there are many organizations willing to help in this with us, i'm

living proo >> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career.

i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos

and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪♪♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to.

it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪♪♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys.

>> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it?

>> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card.

i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future.

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting this morning at 10:00 am.,

tuesday, january 28, 2025. >> i'm chair mandelman i serve as chair you are vice chair is vice chair melgar thin jamie lee from sfgovtv as well as our clerk amy saeyang and with that, madam clerk, call the roll. >> >> commissioner chan, present. >> >> commissioner chen, present. >> >> commissioner dorsey, present. >> >> commissioner engardio, present. >> >> commissioner fielder presenter. >> commissioner mahmood, present. >> >> chair mandelman, present. >> >> vice chair melgar, present. >> >> commissioner sauter, present. >> >> commissioner sherrill, present. >> >> commissioner walton. >> chair we have quorum. >> thank you, madam clerk >> will you please call oh, actually no seems ivy believe

you is public comment. >> >> we welcome >> location: legislative chamber, room 250, city hall watch sf cable channel 26 or 99 (depending on your provider) watch www.sfgovtv.org remotely the the best way the best way the best way the best way item, when the item is called, dial '*3' to be added to the queue to speak. do not press *3 again or you will be removed from the queue. allowed 2 minutes to speak. when your 2 minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. bernie madoff's to speak slowly and turn down volumes for items

taken first for members of the public in attendance in the chamber and afterwards on the telephone line. thank you. >> thank you. >> and before calling the next item as chair, i time to invoke the rule from the rulers of the order for three minutes to give each person - calling for public comment next item, please. >> 2. chair's report — information. >> all right. well colleagues this is a new year and certainly gotten off with a bank i hope you had a welcome break and welcome 5 new members for the tavrd commissioner sherrill and

commissioner sauter and commissioner mahmood and commissioner fielder welcome to the job and also wanted to send our wishes to the partnership for the infrastructure climate and mobility alicia john and as she is prepared to start her post next week and an accomplished former city employee been for a number of years we're excited to see what she will do in her new positions will be a lot of challenges in the coming year and continue to have - we're to continue important conversations at tavrd including the effort for the shortfalls at muni bart and preying forward for the economic recovery and take this

opportunity to express our collective sympathy support for everyone in los angeles and in this effort we seek the funding for the priorities throughout the state and the topic of infrastructure funding congratulate several agencies gotten the $25,000 grant for the training control and upgrades for the programs and they received a $10 million grant for the city site planning thanks to the former secretary as and you are delegation for the investments and hoping she grants the ss environment will be for $15 million for the administration and another for $2 million from the joint of

emergency and transportation on january 20th and president trump released that to seeks dlurment for charging and waiting for the direction from the partners with the executive order and congratulate bart and the colleagues and pleased to join sfmta and the community leader for the 2r5ir8 project this month and the tavrd contributed one half million dollar to the project will will improve travel safety for the community and high traffic accident areas and more than 1,000 community tenderloin members for the design is features widening the

sidewalks and upgrading loading zones and with commissioner mahmood we'd be track those projects in district 5 and citywide and lastly in a few moments i'll give up this it seat to one of you and want to um, thank colleagues on prior boards for the opportunity to be transportation authority for the last years and especially thank commissioner chan and our team for all the work you do and all you've be able to do together and we've done a lot of work in the last 4 years we're all amazing and great to get to know

to work closely. thanks. >> um, also want to shout out and thank you to calvin in the my office benefit it together and so with that, we should take public comment. please come forward if you have a comment. >> (unintelligible). >> because good morning. this is today i'll tell you something on the first, because ourtion is not there because intention beyond the restrictions nothing

it buried. do you understand that is the i'm going too launch officially this after that, the labor issue. is going to be as soon as possible and remember the labor is peaceful the revolution is not. it will be coming. >> anyone else in the chamber like to address on this item, i don't see anyone and no remote public comment on item two. >> good morning, chair it is public comment on this item. >> great. let's hear it. >> caller you're two minutes begins anyhow now. >> i'd like to address the

sfmta because muni is struggling there is a lot of funds expended on unnecessary and unwanted streetscape project like on kirkland those are friends into muni we need the sfmta to focus on our body oversees the capital spending you really need too enforce on the sfmta they should be focusing their funding on muni we have no higher priority. and i know that vision zero will be addressed later but i think thoirdz of a million dollars was a notable change in the number of streets and everything we need to know about the investments in this program.

>> thank you caller. >> there is no additional comment on this item. >> all right. public comment is closed. next item, please the. >> 3. executive director's report — information >> tilly chang will give her report but in light of the manual report item 6 commissioner chan as offered to forego the report for now and though it is on the website and commissioner chan is here to answer any questions. i don't see so public comment anyone want to talk about item 3. >> looks like no one in the chamber. anyone response time

want to talk about item 3? >> remotely? >> do we have any remote? >> i'm. >> i'm going to it sorry. >> the government it is your enemy this is why i'm launching this addition. >> if you want to survive that what is coming on my side, (unintelligible). >> do we have our remote public comment. >> there is no remote public comment for item number 3. >> all right. public comment is closed.

next item, please. >> 4. approve the minutes of the december 17, 2024, meeting—- action* >> all right. i don't see comments over and over questions from colleagues. open to public comment none in the chamber oh, i do see i do see - >> so nobody has anything to say? >> on the 17 it was the last day of the 17 on the 17 like to - 17 is here your last day was the 17 day of december of january. >> we're in january; right?

>> i guess. >> let's see if we have any remote public comment on item 4? >> chair no remote public comment for this item. >> all right. public comment is closed. and is dr. motion to approve the december 17, 2024, minutes miscellaneous by commissioner chan and madam clerk all the really. >> commissioner chan, aye. >> commissioner chen, aye. >> commissioner dorsey, aye. >> commissioner engardio, aye. >> commissioner fielder, aye. >> commissioner mahmood, aye.

>> chair mandelman, aye. >> vice chair melgar, aye. >> commissioner sauter, aye. >> commissioner sherrill, aye. >> commissioner walton. >> there are 11 eyes the motion is approved. >> all right. thank you madam clerk. please call our next item. >> 5. election of chair and vice chair for 2025 — action. >> all right. is i indicated earlier i'm not doing this job any more and though grateful to have the opportunity to do that i'll not be in the meantime, myself but like to offer this to nominates of chair and like to nominate our current vice chair melgar into the role of chair and fantastic partner. and over those last years. um, on and

working on transportation issues and in those next couple of years will be pretty critical. year i guess this is an annual party over the next year need to do important work and the impacts of changes to the national legislation and all sort of things. i am as i said in the meantime, commissioner dorsey is there a second? >> seconded by commissioner sherrill and vice chair melgar. >> i'm sorry are we doing both at the same time? >> (laughter) great. >> let's on this to vote to or this nomination for public

comment. >> good for who will be elected it will be tough. >> do you understand what is going on here? >> you are under attack you. so if you want to survive i'll say again stand by my side if you want to be alive in 6 months. >> um, any remote public comment on the nomination of vice chair melgar as chair. >> yes. this is remote public comment and going to the first caller.

>> hello caller you're two minutes begins now. >> thank you i would like to oppose vice chair melgar as the chair of this board because anyone who thinks spending one hundred 240udz on a study facing to spend one hundred dollars to go if laguna honda to the (rustling of papers.) station shouldn't be in charge of a budget that will require the kind of work this it fiscal will cause we need to pause any spending that is non-muni related direct to muni. and vice chair melgar that is not a skill she positioned i ask we not consider vice chair melgar of this board. >> going on to the second

caller. >> caller you're two minutes begins now. >> good morning . i'm also calling to oppose the nomination of commissioner melgar as the head of this body i echo the prior k34r789sd this transportation is facing a mask cliff you need someone has background and experience and that is not vice chair melgar. 19 if there is one person that has demonstrated their lack of regard for the community i'm say this situation we're face to face total lack of regarded for the community and really needs to - is vice chair melgar so

absolutely exactly not qualify to be site plan as the head of this board and 2025 from the fantastic new mayor, we should be putting people in positions who have the actual qualifications required for this position. and with the interest of more trading this person we're putting them in this position because i like them and vice chair melgar is a lovely person but not quality her i do think we (bell ringing) all need to set back and start to to see the actual qualifications for the job you're filling insider horse trading is a disservice if you look at the city today. thank

you. >> there is no additional comment. >> all right. >> public comment is closed on the nomination for chair are closed. madam clerk, call the roll on the nomination vice chair melgar. >> commissioner chan, aye. >> and a commissioner chen, aye. >> commissioner dorsey, aye. >> commissioner engardio, aye. >> commissioner fielder, aye. >> commissioner mahmood, aye. >> chair mandelman, aye. >> commissioner dorsey, aye. >> commissioner sauter, aye. >> commissioner sherrill, aye. >> commissioner walton. >> there are 11 ayes the motion to vice chair melgar is

approved. >> congratulations vice chair melgar. >> we're going to do some technical switching around.

>> you let me know, which. >> okay. thank you colleagues

very exciting. um, nominations are now in order for the office of vice chair. >> and i will take a moment to thank you for giving me the opportunity to do this and to nominate someone has expressed lots of interest in transportation and understand how crucial access to accessible and affordable transportation is to the climate to the equity our

colleague commissioner fielder today i have a second? >> chair mandelman as segmented for commissioner sauter and i accept the nomination. >> okay. we now have to take public comment on that nomination. >> you have beautiful and now wasn't (unintelligible) recently honestly (unintelligible). >> you said she wants she - and now responsible for the transportation. seriously. okay. no way i'm going too sign off.

>> what in which. >> a mayor your ancestors (unintelligible). >> automatic. okay. looks like advertise it and go to remote public comment. >> chair checking for remote public comment on this item. is no public comment. >> okay. with that, public comment is closed. (gavel) >> let's take a vote on the motion in favor of electing commissioner sauter for vice chair. >> apologizes for that commissioner chan, aye. >> commissioner chen, aye. >> commissioner dorsey, aye. >> commissioner engardio, aye.

>> commissioner fielder, aye. >> commissioner preston, aye. >> chair mandelman, aye. >> commissioner richards, aye. >> commissioner sauter, aye. >> commissioner sherrill, aye. >> commissioner walton. >> there are 11 i's the motion to elect commissioner sauter at vice chair is approved. >> congratulations. >> okay. madam clerk on to item 6 please. >> 5. election of chair and vice chair for 2025 — action. >> welcome executive director. >> thank you for leading the transportation authority commissioner dorsey and commissioner sauter it is lovely to and excited to work with you and the staff and special welcome and heart felt thank you

to chair mandelman and others before him for the last four years we're privileged to have that during the time coming out of pandemic and our prop l authorization. thank you very much. and look forward to presenting the 2024 credit and thanks to our deputy the communications director. for the newer members of the board i want to have statutory rules in the presentation of a policy startup we are your staff and in the capacity we work as a management team doing policies and regional transportation from a funding startup those are board approved measures. and as a lead as we have the projects

primarily yerba buena island and with the management agency is in world a separate entity but the same governing body this is two plans to fund and deliver and repeat with transparent and accountability but the planning activity are some of the highlights of last year with the regional level with planned bay area and a bag coming together with the regional plan with the transforming and stabilizing transit and goes to the voters we demonstrate this in the community with more collaboration the shortfall particularly was a focus on the

community and talking about that throughout the year and legislation was a good year lawyer and came to the governor's desk one passed and one did not wand was vetoed and in district one and district 11 the range shuttle launch we were pleased to join that and with the transportation authority and going forward will conduct effort on some of the ongoing plans and study. and eco friendly study for downtown and other travel studies for transportation partners and transit we're seeing particularly downtown but on the west side planning citywide with this coming looking at the

system regional travel into the northern part and our countywide plan 2050 plus this is our sales tax you're seeing the planning study with the capital study and projects rather that are underway with funding we provided in each district in the supervisor and our capacity as commissioners those are projects completed last year and others about to join and working with you all to oversee this project and have perhaps new initiative and thank you for the opportunity to funding this is a picture of last 15 years of sales tax revenues that generate one hundred and $8 million for one hundred and 15 and

definitely took too dip you're seeing the recovery of our revenues. we managed this and studied that carefully to make sure leverage and other money and the following volunteered approval expenditure plan. here's a picture of the remote for november of 2022 a strong citywide endorsement for the continuous of half percent sales tax that is precisely passed by 71.9 percent and as you can see it funded projects large and small throughout the city and again, we're proud this past year and we're able to complete the dozens of two dozens 5-year plan in every category that is capital and you'll see streets and roads and transit and vehicles and the like but also 10 percent of the funding goes

to paratransit service you'll see what we leveraged as chair the former chair mentioned quite a few grant we received last year and very exciting $304 billion commitment to the portola that is downtown rail extension for cal train and rally know that vice chair melgar is tracking this and understand this is a regional investment and that's it but we've been supporting for many, many years but regional project that references the transit center itself and electrified caltrans and speaking of that broke ground you're seeing a whole set of projects large and small across the city that

received grants and proud to help to secure from the largest to the smaller ones in visitacion valley and in the southeast so we see large project muni and vehicle and programs seawall and have low projects here and continuing, of course, of large project yerba buena island and chair of the he organization led the event and breaking and ribbon cutting we're keeping that work for more benefits to the region. >> here's the policy decisions we had the transportation authority last year and next generation bay area study with

the m t c regional study on managing lands and pricing and a v a hearing last november we updated the public has happening on the ground with the state and federal level and sfmta did several hearings on vision zero. here's happy pictures of so many celebrations and couldn't put them all on the same pam but the electrification was an achievement and seeing rider excitement and response on those quieter and farther and cleaner trains on yerba buena island and happy to break ground and the taraval migrations to commissioner engardio and you're

seeing a whole number of projects that will be funded through the construction and oversight on and by that i pane we funded other agencies butted and keeping our eye on that partnering with them to help keep them moving forward on the reporting to the public on their progress and projects we believe we contracted for are shown and that is primarily on yerba buena island and supporting 8 thousand units of housing 27 percent are affordable and all those right hand is yerba buena island and with the retrofitting project one hundred and $030 million under construction ass radio at

top of yerba buena island heading down to electrically and we're so excited it is in the running for a very hard to pete for for state grants and then the housing endorsement of the grants. this slide talks about thriving to marry they get the fund they need and through mtc and other replacement vehicles light rail and buses and 2023 electrified buses and then, of course, funding facilities for all of those including the poters yard replacement yard and housing projects in presidio and

thank you for the opportunity to the street side vision zero means much need focus on the high injury network he seeing prop l and advantec consulting engineers tax that are our proposition d and later on talking about the a many of those focused on the pedestrian improvement and traumatizing and quick build i'll not go over all of them you'll see them over and over but a major policy a couple years ago that is finally starting to initiate this year and on the streets reconstruction i hope you're seeing the benefits in our district and citywide, of course, with the taraval the repaving and the richmond and you'll see in here they really are sprinklers throughout the city and the setback that is

happening as we speak this coming year an 19 after a state project on caltrain and programs important and very popular improvement we see in those citywide. assessable access to the curve and signals very exciting to see more of those rolling out dedicated prop l signals just not enough money, however, we're pleased to support that important teresa with the long term advocacy for that and an event there as well by traffic calming and schools engineering and in particular it is important and popular with the public. moving to the prop a vehicle registration a $10 per

vehicle per year that is collecting $5 million not a large pot but goes to pedestrian safety and repaving and so you're seeing stuff of our the paving part in 2024 japantown and along eight and clay and loeven worth and some mentioned we provided for the other projects there. moving to proposition d a 3.25 fee on retail trips in san francisco. we administer about funding $8 million for street safety projects and we receive the other half hour for the muni service and this past year we allotted $7.7 million to quick build projects on the high injury network and traufrp projects that sfmta administers

citywide. and then the transportation fund this is our $4 per vehicle registration fee comes to us on the office of air district for projects that help with emissions reduction and you'll see the focus on bicycle parking and transit electrification of shuttles and finally, on transparency and accountability we continue to make sure we are doing torrance includes clean audits as well as compliance audits for the west side bridges and other fund we administer to her team our deputy for financing the administration and everyone that helps to make sure we have excellence in reporting and proud of this of the work we receive for that year after year and triple a bond rating we

maintain the highest possible for the government sales tax revenue bond like ours and appreciate the boards support for procuring the funds last year and finally, in the you get in that a photo at the southeast facility this a wonderful place for the off site we talk about working together as a team as well as with our partners about how to particularly make sure we're making the ta workplace excellent and this is working on the excellence workplace initiative though make sure a great environment for the staff and make sure we hosted some events but certainly d b partnering with the women and

transportation and girls summit and finally, our 80 anniversary in the election of 2024 and created did transportation authority in 1989 and happy to lgbtq with everyone that special milling and, of course, we extend our staff an amazing community representing each one of your districts that gives us feedback for everything that comes to you and our chair will report out each month on they're meeting. >> thank you again, we appreciate you and the boards working with each of you appreciate it thank you. . thank you very much. director. >> excellent report any questions or committees

colleagues? >> okay. >> with that, let's go to public comment on this item please madam clerk. >> so you will if you're tired. you just put our is soul in the don't understand whether you say your salary if you don't rectify what you're doing you'll ugly and about kill people and therefore your soul. there is no zero vision zero zero didn't exist just a point. so the

stupid the level of stupidest is extreme with this is about nature on the water do you understand? >> not electricity. >> on water. the first presentation will be free. >> people don't want to be trapped in the city either. (clearing throat). >> looks like advertise it for the public comment let's go to public comment madam clerk. >> going to the caller. hi caller you're two minutes begins now. >> hi, good morning everyone this is calling. i wanted to um,

start by saying that, you know, the general public comment didn't understand the difference within sfmta and the sf today. so, you know, i just think that in caution i want to share my views that may enexemption all the work but more difficult for san francisco whether it is by mta or sfmta some relationship there. i say the best things in support of economic recovery i know was mentioned in former chair mandelman opening comments is to stop making it difficult for people to live and shop here and congestion pricing is a great way too kill retail and there was some great staff that

sounds like this staff is doing some great work on funds projects. but this year is a sort of a big might we are facing a massive cliff a lot of work needs to be done i've not heard and single person in this board meeting talk about (bell ringing) cutting costs that is what everyone on the board should be focused on when everyone on the staff should be focused on how we cut costs sounds like you're trying to kill the golden goes and yet we $5 million is raised an cars and if you want to end car use you'll end that revenue stream (bell ringing) >> thank you for your comments. >> there is no additional

public comment. okay. public comment is closed. (gavel) >> let's take action on this item. >> an action item yes. i have a motion from chair mandelman do i have a second? commissioner walton seconds. thank you. >> yeah. >> on the motion to approve item 6 commissioner chan, aye. >> commissioner chen, aye. >> commissioner dorsey, aye. >> commissioner engardio, aye. >> commissioner fielder, aye. >> commissioner mahmood, aye. >> chair mandelman, aye. >> vice chair melgar, aye. >> commissioner sauter, aye. >> commissioner sherrill, aye.

>> and commissioner walton, aye. >> there are 11 ayes we have final approval. >> you thank you so much and thank you to the staff for this really well prepared report and on to item 6 please. >> 7. other items: introduction of new items - information. >> it looks like no new items introduced by my colleagues. let's take public comment on this item. >> oh, we don't need to take public comment these items are introduced; right? >> i don't care what you say. >> we don't take public comment no items introduced okay. thank you. >> public comment is closed. appropriate madam clerk on to item 8.

>> 8. public comment. >> yes. 8 so you'll be fine. that's - >> i know i will because i know i see you, you are - the 5 new commissioners don't worry about everything will be fine. >> and the revolution. talk about money it is about amendments. as of this afternoon. and i know what i'm talking about. you are seeing no revolution so this is you have no government the government

wants to get rid of you. i think we are - i think i see you this in the afternoon. >> it is what it is for public comment. >>. okay. chair going to the first commenter. >> hello you have two minutes to speak now. >> thank you very much. i would like to comment there was some wonderful stuff in the presentation that was just made but a few things that stand out one that mentioned earlier throwing one hundred thousand dollars for a study for laguna honda for a full station is a ridiculous request. as is continually trying to reduce cars when well over half of the city relies on them and 5 hundred thousand car

registrations actually means way more people using that and right many are not just driving by themselves they have are a family and can't get it through public transportation or bike. so the continued effort to erode our funding taking out meters or suggesting or trying to reduce car use but focusing on all forms of transportation around in the city without damaging economic recovery. is just questionable and luckily this gathering someone that probably you shourntd be looking at it and bond issues to come before the voters (bell ringing) and the recommendations of muni

working group will further exacerbate the conditions causing our economic recovery to stall. stop doing things that make it harder for people to get in and around and park in san francisco. it is pretty simple. thank you. >> moving to the next speaker. >> hello caller you're two minutes begins now. >> thank you hi, everyone it is may calling on i - want to clear up this thing i have the privilege of serving as the executive director of connected sf an organization in san francisco brings together neighborhood groups. we have an active membership of over 20 thousand people. we can reach around one hundred thousand people if we need to. i have

never been contacted by any city agencies or outreach of any kind i think we have probably the headquarters quickest alternate to reach identified coalition but really trying to do real outreach meaningful outreach i appreciate someone on the staff will pay mow or reject me and we can go through there or anyone on the body can connect us. the other comment i would like to make as part of the public comment and facing a fiscal cliff knock it off with the other garbage it is time to cut funding and cutting cost frankly vision zero is a (bell ringing) complete disaster been no

improved trendline since that was implemented in 2014 and we're showing about the same number up and down a little bit but more 2022 particularly bad year and (clearing throat) the reason is sdgsz is not working not on safety but it would have gone down the highway (bell ringing) >> thank you for your comments there is no additional public comment for this item. >> okay. public comment is closed. (gavel) madam clerk let's go on to the next item, please. >> 9. adjournment. >> we're adjourned

(gavel) [meeting adjourned] [music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department? >> yep. it was super cool! i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. tomato.

you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now! wow! whoa. watch out, man. what is that for? >> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine

and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine. >> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot.

>> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music] >> mr. will. mr. will. will! >> oh. daydreaming. thanks, everybody for watching! bye!

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