. >> chair borden: and director eaken. you're on mute. >> vice-chair eaken: i can save my questions until after public comment. >> chair borden: okay. all right, then with that we will open this up to public comment. this is public comment on the sfmta's budget and fiscal status. item number 11 only. this is a discussion item so the board will not take any formal action but looking forward to people's comments and questions. any people on the line, moderator? >> you have seven questions remaining. >> chair borden: okay, our first speaker, please. >> caller: hello. my name is joel kamisher, a school crossing guard and a member of the sfciu 10 to 1 bargaining committee. we have been trying to talk about not outsourcing people to protect the city workers and i'm hearing that discussion about the flaggers and the pedestrian monitors. i wonder if we could use our own workforce, the parking control people and the crossing guards instead of having the contractors hire private people. i realize that the flaggers might have their ow

that's kind of the relationship or connection around the issue here. >> chair borden: great. and mr. mcguire did you have something to add to this or another item? >> just point of fact for the question about what the project was director borden. it's affordable housing project to replace the one story bail bonds building with 146 group housing units on the south side of bryant street directly across from the hall of justice. >> chair borden: okay. i think maybe in the future when we have a situation that is specific like that, if we can indicate that, it is confusing for the public. there's no mention of the housing project so it wouldn't be obvious that that's the association. directors, i see a number of you had questions on various items. director lai or eaken, both of you have questions. whoever wants to go first. >> vice chair eaken: just to comment on 10.2 in the context of the overall financial situation, our agency faces that we'll discuss later today, the 2.5 million number stood out to me for pedestrian monitoring activity. as a particularly high number. just thinki

>> chair borden: is there a >> commissioner heminger: second. >> chair borden: okay. great. the only question i have for staff is, if for some reason the amount was $20 over or $1,000 over, what amount overdose it have to come back to the board if that is not correct? is it any amount or at a certain amount? >> my understanding is if we go over amount not to exceed number we have to come back to the board. that's one of the reasons we put the contingency into the amount, so if we do end up using more money within the year or you fall behind schedule for a month, we don't have to come back for a $5,000 increase or $10,000 increase. that it -- we have authorization to spend up to that amount and this allowance item covers to that level. >> chair borden: is that the realistic number of where you thought or is there room, more money you feel you need or something. i want to make sure we took out the right amount. >> the number we have in there, the $1 million for the next 18 months is the number that city staff and contractor working together have determined is what we're likely

i know that kate will be happy to push that message up to sacramento. >> chair borden: great, director eaken, you have another? >> vice-chair eaken: the other is just what other local sources of revenue might we be able to consider. i think that you had a note at the end of your presentation about sunday parking metering. are there any other parking sources or scenarios that you have considered that are locally generated? >> that's a great question. so we looked at what the agency did -- and i think that the only one left on the board is director brinkman. what we did back in 2009 and 2010 when the agency faced proportionately almost an equally devastating period that was $128 million deficit, there were large fare increases that occurred in that period. there were surcharges put on to parking for periods of time. since then, you know, this board through its wisdom has managed our parking infrastructure and our resources, again, to create availability for san franciscans. but we have used a lot of the tools that we have had, and i like to say, you know, the pedal is to the floor on tha

. >> chair borden: and director eaken. you're on mute. >> vice-chair eaken: i can save my questions until after public comment. >> chair borden: okay. all right, then with that we will open this up to public comment. this is public comment on the sfmta's budget and fiscal status. item number 11 n

chair borden. >> aye. >> director brinkman. the item passes. >> i'd like to call item 11 and 12 together. >> item 11 adopting the sfmta action plan and item 12 adoption of a resolution declaring anti-black racism a human rights plan. >> i'm bad at names and i apologize in advance. >> i'd like to introduce this item since it's true to my heart before he speaks. we brought to you our draft racial equity action plan. i'm pleased to bring it forward today for adoption. i'm joined by a resolution on anti-black racism. we can go into detail on this but before they do i want to talk a moment personally for my expectations for equity work at the sfmta. first, i understand this work is ongoing. it has to involve each and every one of us in every movement every day and iterative in that we're not going to get it right the first time. we have to learn from our mistakes and seek continual improvement as we try to do the hard work. it requires us to reflect on our personal actions. we've got to be candid particularly for the way those in po

thank you, chair borden. >> hello. >> sorry. slightly just unprepared here. just pulling it up. so good afternoon, directors. hope you're all doing well on this rainy tuesday afternoon. earlier this month, the c.a.c. heard from the black and african american afinishity gr about hiring employees and disciplinary actions. we also received a presentation on the racial equity action plan, which is on today's agenda for your meeting today. so the c.a.c. passed the following motion as a result of our discussion. the sfmta c.a.c. encouraged the sfmta board to direct staff to resolve clear issues in hiring and inequity and discipline. [inaudible] the latinx afinity group, and it will require everyone to work together and support one another, and seeing this mutual support from the afinity groups banding together is really something that ought to be encouraged, and it's an encouraging trend. so on another subject, i look forward to engaging with the agency in the outreach and serving to historically underserved neighborhoods, including the neighborhood that i live in, the ingleside. it w

i own a physical space on the street which because of -- i don't want to take credit away from chair borden. >> chair ronen: thank you for the correction. >> so, there's a couple things. one, hiss tryingly there's been a lot of tension between the small business community and the sfmta and part of it is a lot of big projects at the sfmta ha undertaken to accomplish its goals and have in many ways felt left out of the deliberate process. i want small business brought in the middle, not after a project is vetted infernally. to understand how a particular project might impact the small businesses on the ground. for instance, i'm on the 16th street bus improvement project construction mitigation task force. it's a long name. as you i'm sure snow, chair ronen, sfmta is considering a lot of improvements to 16th street and it may involve a lot of construction and i wanted to get involved in that because i didn't want to have another long multi-year construction process that would potentially kill businesses on 16th street, many of whom are legacy businesses and they've been here for a while and ar

i own a physical space on the street which because of -- i don't want to take credit away from chair borden. >> chair ronen: thank you for the correction. >> so, there's a couple things. one, hiss tryingly there's been a lot of tension between the small business community and the sfmta and part of it is a lot of big projects at the sfmta ha undertaken to accomplish its goals and have in many ways felt left out of the deliberate process. i want small business brought in the middle, not after a project is vetted infernally. to understand how a particular project might impact the small businesses on the ground. for instance, i'm on the 16th street bus improvement project construction mitigation task force. it's a long name. as you i'm sure snow, chair ronen, sfmta is considering a lot of improvements to 16th street and it may involve a lot of construction and i wanted to get involved in that because i didn't want to have another long multi-year construction process that would potentially kill businesses on 16th street, many of whom are legacy businesses and they've been here for a while and ar

i own a physical space on the street which because of -- i don't want to take credit away from chair borden. >> chair ronen: thank you for the correction. >> so, there's a couple things. one, hiss tryingly there's been a lot of tension between the small business community and the sfmta and part of it is a lot of big projects at the sfmta ha undertaken to accomplish its goals and have in many ways felt left out of the deliberate process. i want small business brought in the middle, not after a project is vetted infernally. to understand how a particular project might impact the small businesses on the ground. for instance, i'm on the 16th street bus improvement project construction mitigation task force. it's a long name. as you i'm sure snow, chair ronen, sfmta is considering a lot of improvements to 16th street and it may involve a lot of construction and i wanted to get involved in that because i didn't want to have another long multi-year construction process that would potentially kill businesses on 16th street, many of whom are legacy businesses and they've been here for a while and ar

i own a physical space on the street which because of -- i don't want to take credit away from chair borden. >> chair ronen: thank you for the correction. >> so, there's a couple things. one, hiss tryingly there's been a lot of tension between the small business community and the sfmta and part of it is a lot of big projects at the sfmta ha undertaken to accomplish its goals and have in many ways felt left out of the deliberate process. i want small business brought in the middle, not after a project is vetted infernally. to understand how a particular project might impact the small businesses on the ground. for instance, i'm on the 16th street bus improvement project construction mitigation task force. it's a long name. as you i'm sure snow, chair ronen, sfmta is considering a lot of improvements to 16th street and it may involve a lot of construction and i wanted to get involved in that because i didn't want to have another long multi-year construction process that would potentially kill businesses on 16th street, many of whom are legacy businesses and they've been here for a while and ar