tumlin. ms. chang. >> thanks so much, chair peskin and director tumlin. i want to associate myself with all of your comments and thank you for your leadership. director tumlin testified before congress on a panel specifically on this topic of autonomous vehicle policy earlier this year. i just wanted to mention that if you don't mind advancing the first slide, the areas that jeff mentioned, as far as the emerging mobility guiding principles, and again these are echoed in commissioner yee's emerging mobility task force, as well as the office that has been set up for this emerging technology area. these are all shared values that our agencies have both adopted for two years now. and, in fact, we are applying these principles to our own work on treasure island, where we will be piloting autonomous, driverless vehicles, as far as shuttle operations on the island. that is one sort of promising area i believe that can certainly reflect all of these values and principles and then improve mobility and access for everyone. so we're excited to do that over the comi

director tumlin? >> greetings. so at our last board of directors meeting, one of the things that we talked about was how eagerly we were awaiting the results of the november election. some of the results were excited, but arguably, the results for the future of the sfmta remains in the balance, which is the balance of the senate. all of that is contingent in the senate race in georgia, which is whether we'll have to be able to -- we'll be able to maintain our services or whether we'll have to cutback significantly. one of the things that we've learned this week is that the news continues to worsen for the san francisco general fund. most of the city's sources of revenue are tracking at or below the worse case scenario projections, so we were told we need to accommodate another $34 million in reductions in the sfmta budget. the voters successfully passed the measure rr, the caltrain one cent sales tax in all three counties. that will start to bring in new revenue to caltrain, to the tune of about $100 million per ye

tumlin. ms. chang. >> thanks so much, chair peskin and director tumlin. i want to associate myself with all of your comments and thank you for your leadership. director tumlin testified before congress on a panel specifically on this topic of autonomous vehicle policy earlier this year. i just wanted to mention that if you don't mind advancing the first slide, the areas that jeff mentioned, as far as the emerging mobility guiding principles, and again these are echoed in commissioner yee's emerging mobility task force, as well as the office that has been set up for this emerging technology area. these are all shared values that our agencies have both adopted for two years now. and, in fact, we are applying these principles to our own work on treasure island, where we will be piloting autonomous, driverless vehicles, as far as shuttle operations on the island. that is one sort of promising area i believe that can certainly reflect all of these values and principles and then improve mobility and access for everyone. so we're excited to do that over the comi

officer but directly to director tumlin. current reporting structure puts the ombudsman in difficult position. this is very concerning and should be corrected. we request quarterly. dates to the various infinite ity groups within the m.t.a. with regards to the deloris blanding. we would not only appreciate to being kept up odate, we appreciate the opportunity to share feedback and thoughts to help address challenges and communicate progress to our colleagues. this is a concern raised at our latinx meeting yesterday. it will be great to need to have someone to speak to and more comfortable expressing. that will be great for employees to speak other languages as well. thank you for taking the time to listen to us today. latinx infinity group hopes to continue open dialogue with senior management and board. we hop you take the opportunity to engage with us and all of the infinity groups within the agency. i want to say, i really appreciate the board members that have met with the respective infinity group. >> we appreciate much

director tumlin? >> greetings. our last board of directors meeting, one of the things that we talked about was how eagerly we were awaiting the results of the november election. some of the results were excited, but arguably, the results for the future of the sfmta remains in the balance, which is the balance of the senate. all of that is contingent in the senate race in georgia, which is whether we'll have to be able to -- we'll be able to maintain our services or whether we'll have to cutback significantly. one of the things that we've learned this week is that the news continues to worsen for the san francisco general fund. most of the city's sources of revenue are tracking at or below the worse case scenario projections, so we were told we need to accommodate another $34 million in reductions in the sfmta budget. the voters successfully passed the measure rr, the caltrain one cent sales tax in all three counties. that will start to bring in new revenue to caltrain, to the tune of about $100 million per year sta

tumlin: hello, can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> j. tumlin: so as brit already said, a big part of our goal here was accommodating the phenomenal success that we had with the quick-build project of car-free market street back in january. the previous design had a 5-8 foot bikewayment a 5-foot bikeway accommodates bikes single file. eight feet accommodates side by side. the bike riding we saw back in january, before fell street, before the market improvements, that level of bike ridership we had back in january, less than half of that could be accommodated on the planned bike way from the previous project. we had a success problem. that the previous design could not accommodate. so one of the things we've learned in the last nine months, one is that when we build facilities that welcome all types of people on mobility devices, whether it's bikes, scooters, wheelchairs, skate boards, if we build facility that people feel safe, san franciscans use them in droves. particularly as we connect up the slow street network. the other thing we fo

tumlin: i do. yeah, let me dive in. so thank you, adrian and daniel for the presentation. this is a topic near and dear to my heart. in my global practice i use the transbay transit center as the best example in the world of failed interagency coordination and deeply anti-customer wayfinding. we do not have a wayfinding system at the transit centre, we have a facility inventory of agency terms. if i'm a customer and i know that i need to get to alameda or sunol, there is nothing there to help me find my destination. so i have a couple of questions. i'll go through all of them because they're related. one question is, can we please eliminate or at least diminish the use of agency logos as our primary wayfinding structure? i love the walter lan dow worm, but nobody knows what that means. and instead of having there be a worm and a little green circle with fog in the middle of it, can the sign simply say buses to san francisco and buses to north bay? secondly, the k1 panels are really useless. and yet they're very expensive investment and seem to offer a lot of flexibility. i

tumlin: aye. >> vice chair gee: aye. >> chair sesay: aye. >> secretary: the ayes have it. thank you. i will now proceed to call your next item, directors. >> chair sesay: thank you. >> secretary: directors, item 10 is approving an amendment to the employment agreement with nila gonzales for the position of interim executive director effective september 1, 2020. >> good morning, deborah miller. you have before you this morning a proposed amendment to nila gonzales's employment contract to reflect her appointment from chief of staff and board secretary to the position of interim executive director. it reflects a change in the description of her civil responsibilities as well as a change in her compensation. the form of agreement is in front of you, both her existing contract as well as the proposed amendment and includes all of the details, but as required by government code 54953c-3 i will note for the record that the proposed compensation this local agency executive would be revised to $124.88 per hour, which would translate to annual salary of $259,743 over the course of

tumlin: aye. >> vice chair gee: aye. >> chair sesay: aye. the item is approved. item 9, directors, item 9 is authorizing the interim executive director to execute a professional services agreement with sage method inc. for program management information system for a four year term with an option to extend the term for two additional three-year periods and amount not to exceed $556,200. we have the project director to present the item. stephen, you're muted. still seem to be muted. looks like there might be a bit of technical difficulty. we'll give stephen just a minute. >> directors, can you hear me now? >> yes. >> i am sorry about that. lost my connection just as we started. -- thank you. so this first item as read by ms. miller is to provide program management information system in a collaborative file sharing application dedicated for the things to happen with improvements. the scope of this includes software licensing, implementation, training, customization and maintenance, support and eventual closeout. the tjpa issued a request for a proposal back on july

we'll see what my colleagues have to say, but look, i've had personal conversations with jeff tumlin as it relates to -- and by the way, there are many more of these in district 3 than district 2, but you're right. the northern part of the city has the vast majority of shared spaces, which is a god send, and while it does have its complications, it's something we want more of, until the rainy season. this is something it seems we have enough information to act on, but with that, let me turn to my colleagues. commissioner walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, chair walton. first, i want to thank c.t.a. for getting ready for this study on visitacion valley and portola when it comes to caltrain and growth opportunities in the area, so i want to thank them for stepping forward with that. my first question is, has this camera plan been vetted by the office of emerging technologies? >> i can answer that. no, we have not brought anything, you know, to coit or any of the steps of the technology ordinance. >> supervisor walton: because it's really important to vet the placement of

we had jeff tumlin present to us, but this body didn't tackle that, like, the downtown can't recover and our city as a whole can't recover unless people feel safe using transit. so i just wanted to give something on youth and families and the community hubs that you've probably read about. like, there's a whole -- we've heard and read about that information, but there is a whole effort there on homelessness and essential government function. like, there's a lot of groups. i love the report, too, but i think it's a piece of the pie, and i think it's really important that our city stakeholders, you know, pay attention in the months ahead and look to see how the mayor and our board weave together those various facets of recovery planning, of which this is one component. there are so many, and to see how -- to look that balls like that don't get dropped. i wouldn't expect that they would. that's one piece of it to see on which exactly pieces get picked up as priority from that leadership perspective. and then, you know, i think it happens often in government and augments things -- and th

we'll see what my colleagues have to say, but look, i've had personal conversations with jeff tumlin as it relates to -- and by the way, there are many more of these in district 3 than district 2, but you're right. the northern part of the city has the vast majority of shared spaces, which is a god send, and while it does have its complications, it's something we want more of, until the rainy season. this is something it seems we have enough information to act on, but with that, let me turn to my colleagues. commissioner walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, chair walton. first, i want to thank c.t.a. for getting ready for this study on visitacion valley and portola when it comes to caltrain and growth opportunities in the area, so i want to thank them for stepping forward with that. my first question is, has this camera plan been vetted by the office of emerging technologies? >> i can answer that. no, we have not brought anything, you know, to coit or any of the steps of the technology ordinance. >> supervisor walton: because it's really important to vet the placement of

first, director tumlin discussed the status of some projects but not the el paravery well -- paravel project and could we hear about that next time. and there was talk of capacity and unknowns and known but did not mention cable cars curse cursely -- curiously not operating them or busses but standing around ing direction and support and could be in many cases driving busses and providing needed capacity to meet demand. an if there's no bailout how long can we keep going on the transit side and if we don't know that now, can we please include that information after the meetings that were referenced from december to february. that'd be great. next, given the uncertainties does it still make sense to pursue the potrero yard project. and can you talk about the better market street public outreach next week and next? >> are there additional callers on the line? next speaker, please. >> caller: it's impossible to keep a three-foot distance in some cases so sacrifices will have to be made on some projects and should be put on hold. this is a transit city and desperately the policy has to b

we'll see what my colleagues have to say, but look, i've had personal conversations with jeff tumlin as it relates to -- and by the way, there are many more of these in district 3 than district 2, but you're right. the northern part of the city has the vast majority of shared spaces, which is a god send, and while it does have its complications, it's something we want more of, until the rainy season. this is something it seems we have enough information to act on, but with that, let me turn to my colleagues. commissioner walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, chair walton. first, i want to thank c.t.a. for getting ready for this study on visitacion valley and portola when it comes to caltrain and growth opportunities in the area, so i want to thank them for stepping forward with that. my first question is, has this camera plan been vetted by the office of emerging technologies? >> i can answer that. no, we have not brought anything, you know, to coit or any of the steps of the technology ordinance. >> supervisor walton: because it's really important to vet the placement of

we'll see what my colleagues have to say, but look, i've had personal conversations with jeff tumlin as it relates to -- and by the way, there are many more of these in district 3 than district 2, but you're right. the northern part of the city has the vast majority of shared spaces, which is a god send, and while it does have its complications, it's something we want more of, until the rainy season. this is something it seems we have enough information to act on, but with that, let me turn to my colleagues. commissioner walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, chair walton. first, i want to thank c.t.a. for getting ready for this study on visitacion valley and portola when it comes to caltrain and growth opportunities in the area, so i want to thank them for stepping forward with that. my first question is, has this camera plan been vetted by the office of emerging technologies? >> i can answer that. no, we have not brought anything, you know, to coit or any of the steps of the technology ordinance. >> supervisor walton: because it's really important to vet the placement of

it was in 2019 that then private citizen jeff tumlin proposed the change.y said nothing and did nothing, but i told them this is out of bounds, out of sync. it doesn't make sense for what was being proposed, so m.t.a. has been unresponsive to this. i also want to say that the planning that went into this showed safeway was not considered. there was initially a plan to extend a low boarding platform south on church street to construct a high boarding platform. that would have blocked the entrance at reservoir way. only when i talked to the director of transit planning personally, in the presence of other seniors, did he say oh, and they started to realize they didn't need to do that. i'm a private citizen, i'm making comments and suggestions that, frankly, rebut their planning and improve the process. similarly, the stopping of the j-church at church and market after it went to bus only service was nonsensical. they could run it up one more block and allow people getting on the bus at church and 14. the planning that's gone into this is unprofessional, ineff

calling to alert you of the related action by the sfmta board -- not the board, excuse me, but jeff tumlinand his righthand woman kate torren that i sometimes call the donald trump of the taxi industry. i'm sorry to put it that way, but the thing is this she announced yesterday through an email that they want to restrict access to airport pick-ups to purchased medallion holders. they had threatened to do this previously, but why now? the medallions that are required after 1978 and before 2010, are only one out of every six to nine cabs that leave the airport with a fare. and so because there were 49 foreclosures in the last three months, the credit union foreclosed on 49 medallions. and the question is whether restricting access to the airport to purchased medallions is the solution? it is not. it's the fact that business has slowed down at the airport and the number of vehicles that are returning from short fares that get fundable access, you know, has almost doubled since the beginning of the pandemic due to the fact that the nearby hotels don't run their shuttles very often, especially

tumlin: here. >> vice chair gee: here. >> chair sesay: present. >> we have quorum. the next item is item 3, communications. we'd like to provide further instructions for the public comment process. to provide public comment, callers should dial into the number, 1-855-282-6330, and enter access code 126 698 0794. then pound and pound again. and then listen to the meeting as they wait for public comment to be announced. members of the public have up to three minutes to provide comment on each agenda item. i will announce when public comment is open on each item or the general public comment at which time callers should dial star 3 to raise their hands and be added to the queue. this call number and access number will stream on the screen during the entire meeting. they will be added to the queue to speak in the order they entered. all callers will remain on mute until their lines are open. an automated voice will let the callers know when it's their turn to speak. everyone must account for the time delay between live coverage and streaming. speak clearly and slowly an