>> chair borden: yes. item 13 is approving modification number 135 to contract number 13000 third street light rail program phase two, central subway stations, surface, track and systems with tutor perini, to resolve the claims from subcontractor hayward baker/bencor for costs of additional work for the slurry wall construction at the yerba buena moscone for $989,721,753.32 and making environmental review findings. item 14 approving the modification number 136 to contract number 1300, third street light rail program phase two -- central subway stations, surface and track and systems to have costs of additional work, and from the design changes to the fire alarm and deluge systems at all three underground stations in the amount of $6,976,834, for a modified contract amount of $996,698,587.32 and making environmental review findings. >> chair borden: thank you. i know that was a mouthful. >> chair borden: yes, indeed. >> chair borden: we will go to mr. maguire who will kick off the presentation. >> okay, goo

over to you, chair borden. >> thanks. with that we will move to the official roll call so that we are on the record, all seven of us. >> director borden. >> here. >> brinkman. >> present. >> eaken. >> here. >> director heminger. >> here. >> direct -- director hinze. >> present. >> director yekutiel. >> brent. >> you have a quorum. next item announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. there will be no announcement made. approval of minutes of the january 5, 2021 regular meeting. are there any additions? we will open for public comment. this is the time for members of the public to comment on minutes from january 5, meeting. remind people how they may call in. >> if you would like to comment on the minutes, please (888)808-6929. make sure you are in a quiet location and turnoff the tv or radio and mute the sound. any callers? >> you have three questions remaining. >> first caller on the minutes of the january 5th regular meeting. >> hello. >> david pill plow. welcome new board members both who

chair borden. >> aye. >> borden, aye. director brinkman. >> aye. >> brink man, aye. >> a vice chair eaken. >> no. >> eaken, nay. director heminger? >> aye. >> director hinsey? >> aye. >> director lai? >> aye. >> and director euctyl? >> no. >> that is -- 5 ayes and two nays. >> all right. it is about 7:00 and we have all been sitting here for six hours. let's take a five-minute break. i apologize to callers waiting on the line but most of have us haven't had a chance to go to the bathroom. and a five-minute break and it is 6:57 and see you back at 7:02. five-minute break for everybody. >> we will move on to the next item. 12, presentation and discussion regarding the transportation authority's downtown congestion pricing study. >> i will turn it over to jeff for staff to present the item. >> given the lateness and we are in no danger of implementing con great depression pricing any time soon. can this keep for another meeting? >> i mean -- here is what i will say from a procedural matter, the way m.t.a. and most city board

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

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

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

>> thank you, chair borden, and members of the board. i've got a ton of things.g, of course, with mission zero, in the last time period since our previous report, we've had four fatalities, including two solo fatalities. one, a motorist at 16 and potrero. the rapid response team looked at it and has no engineering recommendations. it's a result of the unique nature of that crash. also, on december 13, a solo scooter rider died in a crash on the embarcadero. also no rapid response recommendations, but we had two fatalities on december 1. one, a pedestrian at geary and 38 avenue who was struck and killed while in the crosswalk. the rapid response team took a very close look at that situation and has recommended some additional daylighting as well as refreshing the existing daylighting at that intersection. and then, there was also a power scooter rider who collided with a motorist at the intersection of 16 and bryant on december 1. the rapid response team is looking to add a leading pedestrian interval for that signal and retiming the signal for a slightly slower w