>> chair borden: no, item 9. general public comment about items that are not on today's agenda. >> caller: all right. i'll continue to wait. thanks. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: hello. i'm bernard. i wish to note that the transportation element is part of the state's mandated code. you cannot have transportation separated from -- [ indiscernible ] [dog barking] >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> caller: this is david pilpel. i believe you referenced the item 13 closed session that's been pulled and that comment on that is appropriate now, is that correct? >> chair borden: correct. >> caller: i'm not familiar about the two cases that were referenced in item 13. one of them seems to include the unfortunate loss to the community of gus's community market, gus was a friend of the family and a friend to many in san francisco. his loss is still felt. i have no idea what m.t.a.'s role was and why m.t.a. will be compensating his family. if that's appropriate, so be it. i hope there wi

. >> thank you chair borden. today i have a whole lot of brief updates and will include an update on the office of equity and inclusion. i'll start with good news. we are grateful that yesterday president biden signed the infrastructure investment and jobs act. we are grateful to secretary buttigeig and speaker pelosi for making this happen and for the president's effort in getting it approved and signed. it will result in a significant increase in transportation related capital funds over the next five years. we expect about $4.5 billion are guaranteed to the bay area through the regular highway and transit formula funds. i do want to emphasize that the funding can only be spent on capital projects and not on operations. while the funds are really good for us and we have set ourselves up strategically to receive them, these funds do not follow our long-term operating budget process. we have been involved in helping to craft the details of the bill. it increases capital investment grants that are well aligned wit

>> chair borden: please call the roll. [ roll call ] you have a quorum. >> chair borden: next item. >> clerk: announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. we have no announcements. item 4, approval of minutes forever the december 7, regular meeting. >> chair borden: is there any additions at this time? seeing none, we'll open up public comment. are there any callers on the line? hello mr. pilpel? >> caller: hello. how did you guess? [ laughter ] >> chair borden: you're our best proofreader. >> caller: i apologize i have not gone through everything. i do see couple of things on the minutes on page 2 on my public comment. i would never said motion. i hate that word. i believe it should say recording as well as recording who made and seconded either items or motion. that's page 2. page 3, eric rozzel. page 5 and perhaps elsewhere bob finebaum, fourth commenter. those are the things immediately jumped out at me. >> chair borden: thank you. are there any other callers on the line? next speaker. >> caller: hey. it is spelled corrected,rozel. >> chair borden: ar

. >> chair borden: please call the roll. [ roll call ] you have a quorum. >> chair borden: next item. >> clerk: announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. we have no announcements. item 4, approval of minutes forever the december 7, regular meeting. >> chair borden: is there any additions at this time? seeing none, we'll open up public comment. are there any callers on the line? hello mr. pilpel? >> caller: hello. how did you guess? [ laughter ] >> chair borden: you're our best proofreader. >> caller: i apologize i have not gone through everything. i do see couple of things on the minutes on page 2 on my public comment. i would never said motion. i hate that word. i believe it should say recording as well as recording who made and seconded either items or motion. that's page 2. page 3, eric rozzel. page 5 and perhaps elsewhere bob finebaum, fourth commenter. those are the things immediately jumped out at me. >> chair borden: thank you. are there any other callers on the line? next speaker. >> caller: hey. it is spelled corrected,rozel. >> chair borden:

>> thank you, chair borden. how many on street or off street parking spaces are being removed through the closure? >> streets director tom mcguire, do you have those numbers at your fingertips? >> there are over 100 parking spaces that are impacted kbauz of the closure. there are -- and furthermore, there are spaces that are not necessarily being blocked off but are extremely hard to reach because of where the closure will be located. >> got it. and then, are loading trucks able to use the drauj parking -- the garage parking because i think the entry is really low. >> they're not able to use it. >> okay. i really appreciate chair borden's comments. i, too, feel similarly, and i'd like to highlight the fact that a lot of our small businesses, like chinatown, have experienced a lot of smash and grabs. this is a very unique situation where the city is choosing to close the streets. it's not happening in all neighborhoods. i'm going to invite director tumlin to remind us again what the [indiscernible] are around the

. >> chair borden: director eaken? >> vice chair eaken: i agree with director heminger about the options. i was delighted and surprised to see that even though we're not selecting frequent alternative, we're able to make some frequency improvements including the 38r which was something like amazing, 33% capacity increase based only the frequency increase. i was happy to see those. be happy to get into where those other trade-offs came so we can understand those tradeoffs. because we heard so much already from the public about the j, earlier in the meeting, i want to get into couple of question about that. just at a basic level, could you just clearly as possible, i feel the public deserves to have this very clear explanation, could you just once again explain why we believe there are too many trains in the system and why the need is to eliminate some of the trains in the system for overall system efficiency so that understand the problem we're trying to solve here? >> what we were seeing in the subway is similar to what

it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i where i used to be and where i >> chair borden a quorum. >> chair borden: next item. >> clerk: announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. we have no announcements. item 4, approval of minutes forever the december 7, regular meeting. >> chair borden: is there any additions at this time? seeing none, we'll open up

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think if you continue to thecall of the chair given this is the last meeting that's probably the right action . >> i want to call on to planning ms. elizabeth borden. i blew do believe there is some kind of difference if i'm not mistaken with this that there is a statutory deadline with this contract. >> yes, thank you supervisor. the contract to get all the signatures needed, that needs to be done by the end ofthis year . otherwise the contract will roll over so it wouldn't be able to be accessed. it would actually go until next november. >> my apologies, i do not have theknowledge of that .>> it's too late to get it on the lien this year. it's too late for it to go to the tax collector has to know in a certain time period for it to affect property taxes for the next property tax cycle. >> got it, which is like may 2022 supervisor ronen . >> i want to give supervisor peskin the opportunity to meet with the property owner. supervisor peskin is our resident expert on supervisors so i very much respect his opinion onthese issues . i'm wondering if in order to you know, make sure we make this cycle, we could ask the president to transfer this item to