thank you. >> chair borden, you're on mute, i think. >> chair borden: thank you, mr. toronto. next speaker, please. >> you have zero questions remaining. >> chair borden: with that we will close the public comment. jeff, do you want to say a quick comment to wrap up the day in terms of next steps and what the public can expect for their participation and staff who is also called in and what the steps are for us and our process. >> thank you for your very hard work and not just the sessions here in the last few days but for the homework that you have done with playing with our spreadsheet tool. i'm not surprised that it made some of you very uncomfortable making these hard tradeoff decisions is very uncomfortable for staff who have to make the decisions. and i hope that you have found some ways of using the sample tool that we gave you to frame your future decision-making. i think that we are very happy as staff to take your feedback and to have simple crude spreadsheet tools to understand for many of the fundamental questions that we'll face as an agency on a scale of 1-10 or

director borden?air borden: here. >> director brinkman: here. >> vice chair eaken: here. >> director heminger: here. >> director hinze: present. >> director lai: present. >> commissioner yekutiel: here. >> secretary: you have a quorum. item 3 is the announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting and there will be no announcement made. item 4 is the approval of the january 19, 2021 regular meeting minutes. and the february 2 and 3rd, 2021 special workshop meeting minutes. >> great. directors, any additions or changes? seeing none, i will open up for public comment. commenters who are on the line, madame secretary, why don't you remind them of the phone number and for commenters, press 1, 0, if you'd like to speak. >> secretary: the phone number to speak is to address the board on the minutes of the last three meetings, is 1-888-808-6929. the access code is 9961164. we ask that you please be in a quiet location and turn off tvs or radios. if you're live streaming, please mute

thank you. >> chair borden, you're on mute, i think. >> chair borden: thank you, mr. toronto. next speaker, please. >> you have zero questions remaining. >> chair borden: with that we will close the public comment. jeff, do you want to say a quick comment to wrap up the day in terms of next steps and what the public can expect for their participation and staff who is also called in and what the steps are for us and our process. >> thank you for your very hard work and not just the sessions here in the last few days but for the homework that you have done with playing with our spreadsheet tool. i'm not surprised that it made some of you very uncomfortable making these hard tradeoff decisions is very uncomfortable for staff who have to make the decisions. and i hope that you have found some ways of using the sample tool that we gave you to frame your future decision-making. i think that we are very happy as staff to take your feedback and to have simple crude spreadsheet tools to understand for many of the fundamental questions that we'll face as an agency on a scale of 1-10 or

thank you so much, chair borden. >> chair borden: i think what we should do, and staff, i am imagining that you're planning to look at this process as we go through it to make sure that when that committee is convened that our priorities are at the table. i remember last time, it was the first time that bart was included and everybody was kind of at the table and making sure they got their piece of the pie. so i think that if one of our to-dos in the next segment is thinking about these things and thinking how to carve things out from that potential sales tax and looking at whatever the projections are in the future. i guess that the decision, tilley, is it a decision -- when is this decision about whether or not we'll have basically two at the same time or when are we making that decision? >> yes. i think that we would need to make that decision by the end of the year, really, on a practical basis, in order to ensure that we have certainty about our direction by winter. and then we would, you know, basically go back out to the voters and educate folks and get final input. the measure

thank you very much. >> chair borden: thank you. reminder to anyone on the call, if you're not speaking, please yourself on mute. i see people are not on mute. your background sounds can be quite loud. next speaker please. >> you have zero questions remaining. >> chair borden: with that, this item is back before directors. are there any final comments before we move on to our next item? >> director lai: i want to make sure i understood the comments, i heard staff presenting that we have not had community spread within the agency but also heard one of our parking control officers calling in, stating that there is an increase in covid cases. in >> in the cases of sfmta our staff are tracking lower than the local average. with one exception as well as central subway project, we have not been able to establish any workplace transmission based upon our extentive contact tracing. the cases have been random and attributable to community spread. that said, covid is terrifying to our front line personnel. we take it very seriously and we con

>> secretary: yes, director borden? >> chair borden: here. >> director brinkman: present. >> vice chair eaken: here. >> director heminger: here. >> director hinze: present. >> director lai: present. >> commissioner yekutiel: present. >> secretary: and you do have a quorum. item 3 is the announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting which we will not have because we're not in room 400. item 4, communications. >> chair borden: this is a side point. i saw that m.t.c. has a cool video that has all the information and i don't know how high tech or the lack there of we are, they have that scroll at their meetings. i will read this. this is disclosure. due to the covid-19 health emergency this meeting is held virtually and members of the staff and the public are participating via teleconference. this will answer sure the safety of the public, the s.f. board of directors, sfmta staff. in the notice for the meeting, we ask the public to participate remotely. if your comments are received in advance of

just a thought. >> chair borden: thank you, director hinze. i think that both you and director lai have expressed what is challenging is that as humans we're all kind of hypocrites, when it comes down to it. we have values that are one way and we behave in another way. and i think sometimes you would make a choice between the different projects and your values might be one thing but the way that you rank the project would be another way. i have had this conversation with you, director tumlin. i'm not sure that our value ranking really tells you what our values are. i think that the choices we make ultimately with the money and the projects will say what our values are. i think that sometimes it's want an either/or and it's an and/but and that's the challenge, right. we want good public engagement and presentation and people to feel included in the process and not feel to be included, but we want to also move faster. so sometimes those are at conflict. and we need the public's permission to keep moving fast. and it's a cycle. but if you could g

thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have two questions remaining. >> thank you, chair. my pronouns are she and her. it's good to be here. good presentation. certainly equity and finance are very, very important. equity i reiterate to you must not cling to the things of the past. but a low everybody to participate in whatever improvements the future has to hold. so forward not backward. and equity should not be rooted in definition because when you compartmentalize it into definitions and have people like myself who do not fit definitions, we're excluded by default. as far as finance, i read that seattle has a transit tax of 1.4%. i'm not sure what ours is. i think it's 1%. i would support a higher transit sales tax, but will the population support it? and how can you make use of the new dollars, hopefully, without being tax and spend. it should be tax and invest to build new infrastructure, especially with an eye towards completing and continuing ada work. disabled folks like myself, who wan

>> secretary: yes, director borden? >> chair borden: here. >> director brinkman: present. >> vice chair eaken: here. >> director heminger: here. >> director hinze: present. >> director lai: present. >> commissioner yekutiel: present. >> secretary: and you do have a quorum. item 3 is the announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting which we will not have because we're not in room 400. item 4, communications. >> chair borden: this is a side point. i saw that m.t.c. has a cool video that has all the information and i don't know how high tech or the lack there of we are, they have that scroll at their meetings. i will read this. this is disclosure. due to the covid-19 health emergency this meeting is held virtually and members of the staff and the public are participating via teleconference. this will answer sure the safety of the public, the s.f. board of directors, sfmta staff. in the notice for the meeting, we ask the public to participate remotely. if your comments are received in advance of

>> secretary: yes, director borden? >> chair borden: here. >> director brinkman: present. >> vice chair eaken: here. >> director heminger: here. >> director hinze: present. >> director lai: present. >> commissioner yekutiel: present. >> secretary: and you do have a quorum. item 3 is the announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting which we will not have because we're not in room 400. item 4, communications. >> chair borden: this is a side point. i saw that m.t.c. has a cool video that has all the information and i don't know how high tech or the lack there of we are, they have that scroll at their meetings. i will read this. this is disclosure. due to the covid-19 health emergency this meeting is held virtually and members of the staff and the public are participating via teleconference. this will answer sure the safety of the public, the s.f. board of directors, sfmta staff. in the notice for the meeting, we ask the public to participate remotely. if your comments are received in advance of

thank you, chair borden and directors. i'm here with michelle, our lead staffer on the re-authorization. she i believe will present the slides and i'll speak to each. and i appreciate this time on your program and thank you for having me and your leadership and your thoughtful deliberations today and always, particularly at this extremely challenging time. i'll note that the work that you all do and dr. tumlin and the whole staff is really nationally recognized as excellent. and with the t.a. i've been proud to support the sfmta transportation recovery efforts in many ways -- both locally and regionally and now nationally. we look forward to continuing this partnership with the hopeful developments now in washington, d.c. but as hopeful as we are about that, and we are, we do need to continue to focus on the transit funding crisis here at home and position ourselves for those new opportunities so that means looking at self-help. i do appreciate, therefore, the opportunity to present on our sales tax program and the re-auth

thank you, chair borden and directors. i'm here with michelle, our lead staffer on the re-authorization. she i believe will present the slides and i'll speak to each. and i appreciate this time on your program and thank you for having me and your leadership and your thoughtful deliberations today and always, particularly at this extremely challenging time. i'll note that the work that you all do and dr. tumlin and the whole staff is really nationally recognized as excellent. and with the t.a. i've been proud to support the sfmta transportation recovery efforts in many ways -- both locally and regionally and now nationally. we look forward to continuing this partnership with the hopeful developments now in washington, d.c. but as hopeful as we are about that, and we are, we do need to continue to focus on the transit funding crisis here at home and position ourselves for those new opportunities so that means in

[laughter] >> director yekutiel: thank you so much, chair borden. director jones, good to see you again. i want to follow in the footsteps of director heminger and answer either or questions. i would suggest looking at which transit only lanes you'd rather invest in and ensure are successful as possible. part of the thing to ask director jones about planning is understanding as business does come back, which transit only lanes has highest value on speeds with the least amount of impact potentially on the ability of small businesses to operate on these corridors. on some of them, they've been put in on streets that don't have a lot of commercial activity. some of them there's more. we don't know what the future is going to hold. my sense on answerings that question is to get the ones that have been implemented kind of studied and work as best as they can. if that is a tradeoff that needs to be made. >> director yekutiel, i look forward to continued exploration of this issue. i think street with great transit can be a really great catalyst for small b

. >> chair borden: thank you. thank you so much for being here and i think that this gives us a lot of food for thought and i thought that specifically your point about some other counties have more than one sales tax measure going at the same time. so with that i'm going to open up to our board of directors and direct hinze you have the first question or comment. >> director hinze: right. i have two questions. one of them is actually building on chair borden's comments where the counties that have multiple sales tax, i would say that each half-cent typically, like, allocated for certain types of projects or they just just one -- creating essentially one big sales tax? >> great question. i would say that for most part -- and there are about 25 sales tax counties, counties that decided to tax themselves in this way throughout the state of california. most of them are a broad program of projects as i have described that we have. a few named projects and then many categories of investments, whether it's transit and b

from the borden -- i guess the milk company folks. and their theory was that i would make rockefeller a better banker, and i'm not quite sure what they felt he would make me better at. but maybe i would understand whites more or the system more or whatever. but they were really the good people in this journey. >> i was wondering if harvard as an institution wanted you to succeed as you got out in 1963? did they try to get jobs for the 18 and get you in good spots to continue the success -- >> if you go to harvard, you don't need any help. just saying. >> just saying, it does give you an edge up. when i went in to advertising -- even now, if you look at some of the people on tv, news, a lot are from ivy league schools. >> did you find that they had had a nice start in a career? >> yeah, oh, yeah. they all had nice starts. one went to law school. some were pretty successful on wall street. one gave up wall street and became an anglican priest. >> more than half of them continued to, in some vein, work for civil rights. most were very su

from the borden. i guess it's milk company folks and they their theory was that i would make rockefeller a better banker and i'm not quite sure what they felt he would make me better at but but you know, maybe i would understand why it's more or the system or whatever, but but they were really the good people in this in this journey. i was wondering if harvard is tuition was wanted you to succeed as you got out in 1963. did they try to get jobs for the 18 and get you in good spots to continue this success. if you go to harvard, you don't need any help. saying no. that's the thing. i mean it does give you an edge up. i mean what happened is like when i went into to advertising, i mean most of the and even even now if you look at some of the people in tv, i mean news, they're all from a lot of from ivy's ivy league schools, and it does give you a leg up even if it's sort of subconscious sometime, but you know if you like the 18 or did you find it they all had a nice start in a career? uh, yeah. oh, yeah

[laughter] >> director yekutiel: thank you so much, chair borden. director jones, good to see you again. i want to follow in the footsteps of director heminger and answer either or questions. i would suggest looking at which transit only lanes you'd rather invest in and ensure are successful as possible. part of the thing to ask director jones about planning is understanding as business does come back, which transit only lanes has highest value on speeds with the least amount of impact potentially on the ability of small businesses to operate on these corridors. on some of them, they've been put in on streets that don't have a lot of commercial activity. some of them there's more. we don't know what the future is going to hold. my sense on answerings that question is to get the ones that have been implemented kind of studied and work as best as they can. if that is a tradeoff that needs to be made. >> director yekutiel, i look forward to continued exploration of this issue. i think street with great transit can be a really great catalyst for small b

more than 300 were taken from their borden school -- they're boarding school.g is set to be 100 strong and they struck in the middle of the nht. they came in a motorized convoy and were heavily armed. security forces are searching for the captives, thought to have been forced to walk through the bush. here is a local commissioner of police explaining the situation. >> that is where they find us, and the fringes of the forest here. as part of our location efforts and cordoning efforts. to trace the kidnappers and retrieve the students. anchor: so far, little information has been made available to the relatives. many gather near the school on friday. some of the girls students avoided being taken and relatives were keen to be reunited wh them. no group has admitted responsibility. it is not clear if the abduction was carried out by a militant group or bandits hoping for a ransom to be paid. ase mentioned, this abduction is just the most recent in a string of similar incidents. at least 42 people, including 20 seven students who were kidnapped last week in the cen

but during the last 10 years that revolutionary dream dissipated after a crackdown on dissent laura borden manley reports. that. it's peaceful it's peaceful chanted these protesters the behinds capital 10 years ago the. what followed however was anything but. the government launched a security crackdown that led to mass arrests claims of torture and several killings . the shia demonstrators were demanding political and constitutional reform. authorities were accused of silencing them in the name of law and order. of business sic terry divide between a disenfranchise shia majority and a ruling sunni family has mocked behind for decades nearly 40 people died during the 2 months of protests including 5 police officers the 2 sides traded player. the king orders an independent commission of inquiry the report published 9 months later said the government used unnecessary excessive force and other forms of physical and psychological abuse including the demolition of property to punish protests as it stressed the need for the authorities to adopt such reforms it also concluded the opposition shoul

publication that basically told you how to observe the dietary laws and what you could eat you could have bordens, you know this or you could have hershey's chocolate certain things that were kosher. and in the back of that there was a listing of places to stay and that we decided was probably the guide. before the the guide that you and i were talking about that came out in the late 50s or early 60s. another question from the audience. yeah right here we can get a mic to believe. i bought a modern copy of the green book thinking that we could travel south and maybe learn something more and but the modern one the reprint is only of what this states. have now and not really where you could go and learn something. more of what the state's laws are in terms of racial equality. rather than what it was in the past. i was looking more of something from the past you can actually buy reprints of the original green books, but they're also on the new york public library website. if you just type in new york public library green book, they'll all pop up. we have the yeah, i had heard that the holiday inns s

lizzie borden alleges the governor kissed her on the lips following a one-on-one meeting in his officey suggested they play strip poker. four staffers who were on that flight dispute borlen's story. her stories are simply false. borlen is running for ambassador president. she first accused the president on twitter back in december. >>> the manhattan's district attorney office says it now has former president trump's tax returns and related tax records. they got those records just hours after president trump denied the last-ditch effort to keep those records private. >>> south dakota's governor says attorney general ravnsborg should resign. >> that's why i think the attorney general should resign. >> ravnsborg is accused of hitting and killing a man. he said he thought he hit a deer but found the victim's body after returning to the scene of the collision the next morning. >>> coming up for us, some state legislators making bills harder, trying to cut out absentee vo voting, mail-in voting and other restrictions. or it isn't. for those who never settle, it's either mercedes-benz certifi

director borden. >> here. >> brinkman. >> present. >> eaken. >> here. >> heminger. >> here. >> hinze. >> present. >> lai. >> present. >> yekutiel. >> here. >> you have a quorum. the next item is communications. >> we are on sfgovtv. >> we will be on at 2:00. an online video is available at sfgovtv/watch. i will give my covid-19 announcement. due to covid-19 health emergency this meeting is held virtually. everyone is participating remotely. in our notice for the meeting and on the web page we ask you to leave a voicemail message. all comments received prior to today we have received them and appreciate those comments. thank you for honoring our request. we continue to urge the public to write the board at any time. m.t.a. board add s.f.m.t.a. com. if you have attended the meetings you know the technology is not seamless. we have challenges. you may get cut off, phone line might go dead, audio problem. be patient and bear with us. when somebody happens in public comment is cut off we will restart public comment and allow people to call in. thank you for your patience and understanding.

>> secretary: yes, director borden? >> chair borden: here. >> director brinkman: present.

>> secretary: yes, director borden? >> chair borden: here. >> director brinkman: present. >> vice chair eaken: here. >> director heminger: here. >> director hinze: present. >> director lai: present.

this is tom borden. i've been coming to the park since it was owned by esprit, and i've lived in this neighborhood since 94. i've seen a lot of changes. it used to be a park for people, but in the last few years, it's been overcome by dogs and people walking them. we need space for people who aren't -- who use the park who are getting pushed out by all the dogs, so i support the split park with a separate dog area. the astroturf, i don't like it, but the park has poor drain age, and in -- drainage, and in the winter, if that dog park is closed, you know where they're going to go. >> clerk: thank you, your time is up. >> okay. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker. >> good morning. my name is stephanie wise man. i'm a transgender female, and my preferred pronouns are she and her. i'm a part of keep the park dark. we just want to ensure there's no additional security lighting included in this project. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker? >> good morning, commissioners. i'm patrick hochtel, a 35-year resident of