if the m.t.a. board wants to have further oversight during the project, you can set up an an ad hoc committee to get updates during the p.d.a. phase. i know this is a super complicated issue. i do want to thank very much the team. they are team of at least 15 city staff who have been working on this project for four years. to date, we have successfully completed our draft e.i.r. successful public outreach and with potrero hill and we successfully gone to market and gotten very interested development teams. with that, i tried to stretch it to 2:30 until carol long get here. thank you very much. >> chair borden: i know that the city attorney needs to speak at this time. >> thank you, i think this came up at the last hearing. i want to remind the board that we are in the middle of an active procurement on this project. there are some limitations on things that we can discuss during an active procurement. thank you for that. >> chair borden: thank you. director heminger? >> director heminger: thank you.

if the m.t.a. board wants to have further oversight during the project, you can set up an an ad hoc committee to get updates during the p.d.a. phase. i know this is a super complicated issue. i do want to thank very much the team. they are team of at least 15 city staff who have been working on this project for four years. to date, we have successfully completed our draft e.i.r. successful public outreach and with potrero hill and we successfully gone to market and gotten very interested development teams. with that, i tried to stretch it to 2:30 until carol long get here. thank you very much. >> chair borden: i know that the city attorney needs to speak at this time. >> thank you, i think this came up at the last hearing. i want to remind the board that we are in the middle of an active procurement on this project. there are some limitations on things that we can discuss during an active procurement. thank you for that. >> chair borden: thank you. director heminger? >> director heminger: thank you.

i'm senior revenue manager for the m.t.a. we highlighting few cost recovery fees which are usual the most interest to the public and to the board. for residential parking permit, contractor permits, those are really increased by the indexing plan and evaluating our labor costs and revenue. slight increase in those. the removal fee we taking a look at our deployment plan and actually we're able to achieve some saving based on the policy to try to reduce the number of vehicles that are towed and move towards booting. we're recommending a reduction in that fee, $55 for the next year. tow fee going up to maintain certain level of recovery that we have had in the past and maintaining our discounts for low income at $100. and our waiver for people experiencing homelessness. we wanted to go over little bit about what the discount programs look like in terms of how successful they've been. we've had low income fee for couple of years. you'll see in the chart on the right in terms of how many vehicles that are towed are actually obtain

the m.t.a. staff reported that they will identify a funding source for the remaining portion of this project in their upcoming revision to their capital plan, which will be final in may 2022. we recommend approval. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> chair haney: thank you. supervisor safai, i know you had something on this one. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. chair. i want to ask the sfmta a few questions. appreciate this program. i think it's good to rehab and reuse existing buses and other lines of transportation in the m.t.a. system. what i wanted to zero in on were the funding sources on page 30 of the b.l.a. report. there's two lines that i just want to speak a little further about. one, the developer fee that's being highlighted. it comes from four large developments. one is mission rock, which we just happened to be at today, potrero, power, and schlagloch. i want to understand further the justification for that, so -- that's the first question. the second question

so i'm not speaking to specific issues at the m.t.a. board, but that board really does set the tone for all of the agency and unless the m.t.a. works on building and rebuilding community trust, i think that any future revenue measure would likely fail which would be bad for all. i've suggested that reorganizing the m.t.a. with fewer director reports to director tumlin. overall, i think that m.t.a. should do fewer things and try to do them well, that agoes back to building and rebuilding community trust. that's a big and controversial agency. as we know trying to do many things all at the same time. it would be nice personally to feel more respected for my advocacy there over many years but results may vary and it's not just me. but i believe the public is listened to, but isn't necessarily heard and i know that not all public comment has the same value etc., but those people that do contribute in a move way should be recognized for that. things don't always have to go the way of public comment, understood, but it's important for the publ

the m.t.a. aff reported that they will identify a funding source for the remaining portion of this project in their upcoming revision to their capital plan, which will be final in may 2022. we recommend approval. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> chair haney: thank you. supervisor safai, i know you had something on this one. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. chair. i want to ask the sfmta a few questions. appreciate this program. i think it's good to rehab and reuse existing buses and other lines of transportation in the m.t.a. system. what i wanted to zero in on were the funding sources on page 30 of the b.l.a. report. there's two lines that i just want to speak a little further about. one, the developer fee that's being highlighted. it comes from four large developments. one is mission rock, which we just happened to be at today, potrero, power, and schlagloch. i want to understand further the justification for that, so -- that's the first question. the second question i

board or if it can be the m.t.a. director or simply the m.t.a. shall provide rather than charging the m.t.a. board with that responsibility. on page 7 line 4, i believe it should read be appointed by the chief information officer. i would add the word officer. other than those technical edits. i support the legislation it is straightforward and make sense given what's going on in the world and the city. >> chair peskin: thank you for those comments. are there any other members for public comment on this item 2. >> clerk: that completes our remote callers. there are no additional callers. >> chair peskin: public comment is closed. madam deputy city attorney pearson for the first in person publicly access i believe meeting. welcome. as to the caller's suggestions.most of them made g. that will be fixing on page 3, the 22 reference at line 20. do you agree? >> yes. change section 3 to section 2. >> chair peskin: then adding a space at line 22 between security and the word and. >> i agree. >> chair peskin: if we want to have a parallel construction b

board or if it can be the m.t.a. director or simply the m.t.a. shall provide rather than charging the m.t.a. board with that responsibility. on page 7 line 4, i believe it should read be appointed by the chief information officer. i would add the word officer. other than those technical edits. i support the legislation it is straightforward and make sense given what's going on in the world and the city. >> chair peskin: thank you for those comments. are there any other members for public comment on this item 2. >> clerk: that completes our remote callers. there are no additional callers. >> chair peskin: public comment is closed. madam deputy city attorney pearson for the first in person publicly access i believe meeting. welcome. as to the caller's suggestioningssuggestions.most of them made good sense. that will be fixing on page 3 the 22 reference at line 20. do you agree? >> yes. change section 3 to section 2. >> chair peskin: then adding a space at line 22 between security and the word and. >> i agree. >> chair peskin: if we want to have a p

cranna, you have three minutes. >> i'd just like to add the m.t.a. rd did continue plate temporary periods of disability, unfortunately, i did not attach it as an exhibit and it allows drivers to be relieved of the driving requirement temporarily for up to three calendar years. again, i just want to note this isn't about the driving requirement itself, it's about the lack of a driver permit and a-card. maybe another way to analogize it the case we heard earlier perhaps another example without an owner mitigation measure if you will. there are certain things that this permit, this license is you need to maintain and that the a-card in this case is one of those. thank you. >> secretary: thank you. we have a question from commissioner honda. >> commissioner: yes. mr. cranna, are you aware of his statement of referring to the disabled and senior drivers as low-hanging fruit? >> no. i was not present at the trial nor did i watch it. >> commissioner: okay. secondly, i believe i asked this question before. so the enforcement from m.t.a. comes after the litig

i would like to ask the m.t.a. to respond. >> thank you for the question. the muni modernization capacity study is exploring a lot of different options how to achieve capacity and reliability improvements in the you sway and surface rail system. it is an advantage us time abuse toincrease capacity. we will be looking at several different strategies to do this. several different components from a technical standpoint to see what might work. i think some of the things that mr. pill plow mentioned in his comments we could look at as well as other things. no decisions about what components would be included. that is the work ahead us. we do plan to convene a stakeholder working group to look at that more lowsly as we go through this -- more closely as we go through this temany cal work. >> thank you. as we study whether this way of doing things actually alleviates traffic inside the corridor. i want to make sure we study whether or not we lose ridership because people transfer. we can make informed decisions. i am confident you guys will look at everything. >>

. >> for the m.t.a. we like to see permanent funding for the free muni for all youth program to be expanded past the one-year mark we like to eliminate nominal fare for youth unto age 23. we like to see funding for full-time youth development mission and compensate youth serving on advisory bodes for the m.t.a. we like to see funding for the sunset improvement project. we like to see sfmta collaborate with the sfmta to establish a strategy to build an effective equitable and reliable transportation system for s.f. youth and students. we want to see the funding implemented to make public transportation more efficient throughout the bay area. we like the board of supervisors to look into the work that they are doing to ensure there's focus throughout the bay area and not just in san francisco. overall, that wraps up our particular recommendations on individual committees or departments. as for the board of supervisors, we hope to increase salaries for all youth commission staff over 100% to enable long-term

. >> for the m.t.a. we like to see permanent funding for the free muni for all youth program to be expanded past the one-year mark we like to eliminate nominal fare for youth unto age 23. we like to see funding for full-time youth development mission and compensate youth serving on advisory bodes for the m.t.a. we like to see funding for the sunset improvement project. we like to see sfmta collaborate with the sfmta to establish a strategy to build an effective equitable and reliable transportation system for s.f. youth and students. we want to see the funding implemented to make public transportation more efficient throughout the bay area. we like the board of supervisors to look into the work that they are doing to ensure there's focus throughout the bay area and not just in san francisco. overall, that wraps up our particular recommendations on individual committees or departments. as for the board of supervisors, we hope to increase salaries for all youth commission staff over 100% to enable long-term

i would like to ask the m.t.a. to respond. >> thank you for the question.ization capacity study is exploring a lot of different options how to achieve capacity and reliability improvements in the you sway and surface rail system. it is an advantage us time abuse toincrease capacity. we will be looking at several different strategies to do this. several different components from a technical standpoint to see what might work. i think some of the things that mr. pill plow mentioned in his comments we could look at as well as other things. no decisions about what components would be included. that is the work ahead us. we do plan to convene a stakeholder working group to look at that more lowsly as we go through this -- more closely as we go through this temany cal work. >> thank you. as we study whether this way of doing things actually alleviates traffic inside the corridor. i want to make sure we study whether or not we lose ridership because people transfer. we can make informed decisions. i am confident you guys will look at everything. >> thank you, commi

so i'm not speaking to specific issues at the m.t.a. board, but that board really does set the tone for all of the agency and unless the m.t.a. works on building and rebuilding community trust, i think that any future revenue measure would likely fail which would be bad for all. i've suggested that reorganizing the m.t.a. with fewer director reports to director tumlin. overall, i think that m.t.a. should do fewer things and try to do them well, that agoes back to building and rebuilding community trust. that's a big and controversial agency. as we know trying to do many things all at the same time. it would be nice personally to feel more respected for my advocacy there over many years but results may vary and it's not just me. but i believe the public is listened to, but isn't necessarily heard and i know that not all public comment has the same value etc., but those people that do contribute in a move way should be recognized for that. things don't always have to go the way of public comment, understood, but it's important for the publ

this is probably one of the most unique features. >> during the planning phase, the m.t.a. ut with three alternatives for the long term project. one is parking protected, which we see with the pilot, they also imagined a valencia street where we have two bike lanes next to one another against one side of the street. a two-way bikeway. the third option is a center running two-way bikeway, c. would have the two bike lanes running down the center with protection on either side. >> earlier, there weren't any enter lane designs in san francisco, but i think it will be a great opportunity for san francisco to take the lead on that do so the innovative and different, something that doesn't exist already. >> with all three concepts for valencia's long-term improvement , there's a number of trade-offs ranging from parking, or what needs to be done at the intersection for signal infrastructure. when he think about extending this pilot or this still -- this design, there's a lot of different design challenges, as well as challenges when it comes to doing outreach and making sure that y

at the time, when m.t.a. made the proposal, they were projecting that the project would be completed and launched by end of 2021. this didn't happen. they are currently projecting end of 2022 if there are no further delays. i have two questions and one request, what was the reason or reasons for this delay? the second question is has the m.t.a. board in monitoring this project all along. i looked at the agendas for board meetings since june 2020, i didn't see this listed as status update from m.t.a. may be there's been some monitoring behind the scenes. my request is i hope that the current information system, the one that is run by u.m.o., will remain in service with at least the current level of reliability and accuracy until the next gen customer information system is fully rolled out and tested. i would love to have some assurance of that from the board. thank you very much. that's it. >> chair borden: thank you. are there any other additional callers? >> caller: this is david pilpel. sorry, i joined late.

and i guess shifting more now to our purview at the m.t.a. when we're talking about the -- i guess, like, car language, i wanted to dig into that a little bit more and what that specifically meant. to chair borden's point, like, taxis, and what's the pathway to consider that again? we heard from a lot of subject matter experts who were saying that taxis were indeed an asset for folks with disabilities, and it was a way for folks to get around the city, so i do want to understand better, like, what do we have to do or what has to be done to better consider that? >> i can speak to that procedurally. it's relatively simple in that the recreation and parks department, through our commission, would authorize a permit to allow taxi stands to be implemented? in the music concourse our locations that we've identified as most viable? however, that approval would require environmental review. >> okay. and so i guess as we talk about -- so i guess, like, in our -- in our particular resolution, do we need to -- because my concern is that in our resolution

and the m.t.a.'s website soon. o i am going to ask staff to come up and give your presentation. >> our staff report discussed the environmental review to cover this action. and it was supporting documentation that is circulating. >> we are now on remote public comment. >> we will take public comment from all those joining us remotely. anyone who is in the remote line may dial star 3 to be added into the queue to speak. originally we were going to take the russian, spanish, and cantonese, we will take them at the same time as we have quite a queue already lined up. as we hear members of the public who may need translation, we will ask the translators chime in at that time. as a reminder, you will have one minute to provide your comment. you can time yourself, but if you do not, i will be telling you when your time is up and calling the next speaker. again, dial star 3 if you would like to comment on item 4. let's go to the first speaker. you will have one minute to speak. >> i couldn't agree more that we all want a b

we are willing to work with the m.t.a. to alleviate the concerns. want to say thank you to the board as well as the project team for your hard work on this. we appreciate you taking the time to support and listen our concerns. >> caller: there's some significant disappointment around the bike infrastructure. this design is not acceptable. i remember after quick-build -- some of which had protective intersections. just safer designs overall. those streets -- [ indiscernible ] beyond the intersection design, knowing that buffered and nonbuffered bike lanes keep people on bikes is a huge disappointment. it's sfmta's job is to approve each parking space is needed. i wanted to say it's heart breaking to hear the impact vehicle dwelling neighbors in evans. health and safety for all should be part of this plan. that's all. thank you. >> chair borden: are there additional callers on the line? there >> caller: hello, good afternoon again. i travel along evans a lot to serve people going to and from the evans post office and further east residents in the hunt

tumlin is still with us or if one of the other m.t.a. reps is available because i think this may be a broader question. is the issue around morale and job satisfaction, there is a 2018 employee survey which showed much higher satisfaction rates among management, among directors, and much lower among other staff at m.t.a. i had a couple of questions on that. one is whether that has been looked at specifically through the race demographic because there's an assumption that the leadership and management is whiter, and the rest of m.t.a. staff are more folks of color, that there could be a correlation, but i don't know if that's actually been looked at. so i guess maybe starting with you unless there are others at m.t.a. that want to comment on that. has that been looked at, the employee satisfaction and morale by different races within m.t.a.? >> sure, i'd be happy to answer that. i do have a staff call that i have to attend at noon, so this would be to be my last question, but i'm happy to answer any questions in writing. i would say primar

tumlin is still with us or if one of the other m.t.a. reps is available because i think this may be a broader question. is the issue around morale and job satisfaction, there is a 2018 employee survey which showed much higher satisfaction rates among management, among directors, and much lower among other staff at m.t.a. i had a couple of questions on that. one is whether that has been looked at specifically through the race demographic because there's an assumption that the leadership and management is whiter, and the rest of m.t.a. staff are more folks of color, that there could be a correlation, but i don't know if that's actually been looked at. so i guess maybe starting with you unless there are others at m.t.a. that want to comment on that. has that been looked at, the employee satisfaction and morale by different races within m.t.a.? >> sure, i'd be happy to answer that. i do have a staff call that i have to attend at noon, so this would be to be my last question, but i'm happy to answer any questions in writing. i would say primar

the work that the m.t.a. does, it touches so many san franciscans.nciscan, that comes from an immigrant family, that depends on transit to get by, it's an honor to be on this board on -- looking at all these different matters and see how to best serve our city. i want to thank you all for welcoming me. it's been an adventure to get here and catch up to and get up to speed. i want to extend gratitude to director tumlin and to all the different managers that have debriefed me on different issues. i'm just ready to get to work. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. directors are there any other items of newer or unfinished business by board members? seeing none, i will open up to public comment. this is a time when members of the public may comment on our new and unfinished business by board members. we will be welcoming our new director cajina. are there any questions on the line? first speaker please. >> caller: good afternoon directors and welcome director cajina. my name is kathy deluka, i currently work for community living campaign. i have had th

this is probably one of the most unique features. >> during the planning phase, the m.t.a. alternatives for the long term project. one is parking protected, which we see with the pilot, they also imagined a valencia street where we have two bike lanes next to one another against one side of the street. a two-way bikeway. the third option is a center running two-way bikeway, c. would have the two bike lanes running down the center with protection on either side. >> earlier, there weren't any enter lane designs in san francisco, but i think it will be a great opportunity for san francisco to take the lead on that do so the innovative and different, something that doesn't exist already. >> with all three concepts for valencia's long-term improvement , there's a number of trade-offs ranging from parking, or what needs to be done at the intersection for signal infrastructure. when he think about extending this pilot or this still -- this design, there's a lot of different design challenges, as well as challenges when it comes to doing outreach and making sure that you are reachin

this is probably one of the most unique features. >> during the planning phase, the m.t.a. es for the long term project. one is parking protected, which we see with the pilot, they also imagined a valencia street where we have two bike lanes next to one another against one side of the street. a two-way bikeway. the third option is a center running two-way bikeway, c. would have the two bike lanes running down the center with protection on either side. >> earlier, there weren't any enter lane designs in san francisco, but i think it will be a great opportunity for san francisco to take the lead on that do so the innovative and different, something that doesn't exist already. >> with all three concepts for valencia's long-term improvement , there's a number of trade-offs ranging from parking, or what needs to be done at the intersection for signal infrastructure. when he think about extending this pilot or this still -- this design, there's a lot of different design challenges, as well as challenges when it comes to doing outreach and making sure that you are reaching out to e

the initial numbers that we've gotten from m.t.a. look really encouraged in terms of what the first ever trial of free muni for multiple days looks like. we saw when you compare to the seven weeks before, basically from the beginning of the year, that the saturday travel increased by 10% on the free transit day and sunday increased by 7% in transit use. so this was not only a small thank you to muni riders and saving folks money, but also a bit of -- i might be overstating it to call it -- it wasn't a full pilot, but it was certainly an experiment and i appreciate the collaboration of everyone working together to make this happen. i continue to believe in the climate emergency we're in and especially with all the conditions that you all know of including the surging price of gas, that our carbon emissions footprint continues to increase as pre-pandemic traffic comes back. and if we want to curtail high-risk behaviors involving private driving, then we need to continue to find creative ways to incentivize people to use green options at

those were the areas that were targeted, and then, a copy of the m.t.a. street closure permit for valencia street. we did not receive any permission from mission station within the response window, so we assume they have no issues with the permit. here to speak to you is lauro gonzalez, organizer of the event, and the recommendation is standard policy and good neighborhood j.a.m. conditions. a copy of those conditions are also in google folder. so lauro, i'm going to bring you in right now. so lauro, if you can hear me, please unmute yourself right now. >> hello, everyone. my name is lauro gonzales, and i work with the valencia corridor merchant association managing the street closure and also developing an art program in order to activate the streets and bring [indiscernible] to the businesses during the closure. thank you. >> thank you. >> lauro, can you tell us a little bit more about some of the music you're going to have there, some of the musicians? i think we understand kind of the general idea of it, but i would like to just -- i think we'd all lik

the initial numbers that we've gotten from m.t.a. look really encouraged in terms of what the first ever trial of free muni for multiple days looks like. we saw when you compare to the seven weeks before, basically from the beginning of the year, that the saturday travel increased by 10% on the free transit day and sunday increased by 7% in transit use. so this was not only a small thank you to muni riders and saving folks money, but also a bit of -- i might be overstating it to call it -- it wasn't a full pilot, but it was certainly an experiment and i appreciate the collaboration of everyone working together to make this happen. i continue to believe in the climate emergency we're in and especially with all the conditions that you all know of including the surging price of gas, that our carbon emissions footprint continues to increase as pre-pandemic traffic comes back. and if we want to curtail high-risk behaviors involving private driving, then we need to continue to find creative ways to incentivize people to use green options at

to the new year parade and making sure that everyone can come and join us at the parade, so thanks to our partnership with m.t.aue, supervisor aaron peskin, and supervisor dean preston, who is a strong transit advocate that we get to announce free muni for saturday and sunday for this coming weekend so that everyone can ride muni for free to get to chinese new year parade. let's celebrate chinese new year, but most importantly, let's celebrate it new year. here is my honor to introduce my colleague, the only chinese american supervisor besides myself on the board, supervisor gordon mar. [applause] >> supervisor mar: happy year of the tiger, everyone. [speaking cantonese language] >> supervisor mar: i want to thank mayor breed and my community leaders for thanking you for your compassion and leadership during the pandemic and standing up against the surge of crime against chinese americans. we ought to be able to come together on this most cherished holidays for our families here at city hall, in chinatown, and in all our neighborhoods throughout the city. in fact, in my district, which is 50% asian american, we

due to some of these traffic changes that are coming, especially south of sloat, we do know that the m.t.a. is working on how does sloat look into the future. all this points to that the mother's building could become a key catalyst or partner in some of these elements of what we've been talking about today, both for engaging the zoo, the ocean and the neighborhood. so you know, this is a rendering of the new trail going -- multiuse trail that would go along the ocean. you get a sense that there will be a direct connection from the zoo and from sloat boulevard so that people can recreate, but also go there right after a program at the mother's building. i do want to note that supervisor melgar just sent a letter of support for the reuse and economic feasibility study of this project. jane? >> thank you. thanks so much. everybody mark your calendars, because in 2025, the mothers building turns 125 years old. to that end, we propose that the mothers building is renamed the mother earth building and hope you join us in that. as you can see, we have a lot of support. we have the ideas. we have

practice and the rule and not the exception and should not have just been required by sfmta as a condition of prior grant approvals but should be common practice at m.t.a. and throughout the city in terms of maintaining assets where there's a mid life overall where indicated. again, i support the resolution. thanks for listening. >> clerk: thank you much for your comments. mr. atkins, do we have anymore speakers? >> operator: mr. clerk, there are no further callers in the queue. >> clerk: thank you much. mr. chair? >> chair haney: public comment is now closed. i want to make a motion to move item 8 to the full board with a positive recommendation. can we have a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: yes. on that motion to recommend to the full board with a positive recommendation -- [roll call] >> clerk: we have three ayes. >> chair haney: thank you. before we go to the remaining items, i need to make a motion to excuse vice chair safai for the remainder of the meeting. >> clerk: on the motion to excuse vice chair safai for the remainder of the meeting -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have two ayes. >> chair haney: great. supervisor safai is excused for the res