thank you. >> chair: director hinze. >> a quick follow-up to director yekutiel's line of questioning around the color curve and the currentsituation . i would wait for director mcguire. this may not be our agency that does this but are you aware of any kind of, you mentioned $300 fines, were you aware of any kind of relief for that financial assistance program for small businesses? >> director tom mcguire. tom may not be available. i director hinze and not available but we can talk to our partners at the mayor's office of economic and workforce development. >> they do a program i know they set aside $500,000 my understanding is but depending on some of the new things that have come out they meet need as much as $5 million so will go into that i do know that there is a response. >> are there any additional questions before i open it up to public comments ? seeing not, moderator or their colors on the line? an opportunity for anyone listening in the may like to comment on the directors report, item number seven . all the questions and comments we made, if you are on the line and would

yekutiel. >> i'll wait until dr. lai votes, if that's okay. >> we'll see if she can unmute. >> i vote aye. >> director yekutiel. >> aye. >> chair borden. >> aye. >> the item is approved. thank you. >> that puts us on item 11. 11. presentation and discussion of the regional fare coordination/integration study. >> the study was conducted by the operators and transportation commission to identify areas of the policies as a way to grow ridership and the study was with a team of staff and the majority of agencies with deliverables and a task force consisting of general managers and directors of bay area transit agencies and executive level leadership. i'd like to introduce mike eisman from bart and the co-managers to provide an update on the recommendations and the next steps. >> my name is bill with the staff of the metropolitan transportation commission and one of the project managers and i'm joined by my fellow project manager from bart mike eisman. i'll share the screen to share the slides for the presentation. and th

go ahead. >> commissioner yekutiel: thanks.hank you for the presentation and to all the members of the public that weighed in. we're asking for a lot and we do appreciate you providing comment. i have a couple of high-level clarifying questions and one specific. one is like what are we trying to accomplish here? because it does seem like filtering down to the public, there is a lot of different opinions on what we're trying to accomplish. i heard in the beginning of the presentation, you know, we're not saving a lot of money between these three plans. one increases service in certain places and decreases. so can you just briefly for those and me, what are we trying to accomplish here with these plans? >> it's a great question. i mean, what we're trying to accomplish is what do we do with a 10% service increase. roughly 10%. where does the public want to see that service go? you know, we've done six service changes or six increases in service since that day when we cut back to 17 lines. and with the last service increase as i po

yekutiel. >> i'll wait until dr. lai votes, if that's okay. >> we'll see if she can unmute. >> i vote aye. >> director yekutiel. >> aye. >> chair borden. >> aye. >> the item is approved. thank you. >> that puts us on item 11. 11. presentation and discussion of the regional fare coordination/integration study. >> the study was conducted by the operators and transportation commission to identify areas of the policies as a way to grow ridership and the study was with a team of staff and the majority of agencies with deliverables and a task force consisting of general managers and directors of bay area transit agencies and executive level leadership. i'd like to introduce mike eisman from bart and the co-managers to provide an update on the recommendations and the next steps. >> my name is bill with the staff of the metropolitan transportation commission and one of the project managers and i'm joined by my fellow project manager from bart mike eisman. i'll share the screen to share the slides for the presentation. and th