why the thinking. >> chair borden: director eaken? >> vice chair eaken: do we have an opportunity to get into what director lai was requesting, do we need to move forward something today? >> the statutory deadline to respond to grand jury reports are laid out in the penal code. we cannot ask for a continuance or any shifting. i would definitely recommend that the board agree on a response before the deadline, which i believe is august 29th or 30th. there are couple of -- if there's a majority of the board that does not agree with the responses, i'm not sure if that is the case. if that is the case, there are two options. one is to keep the responses as is and to do some kind of cover letter that could come from chair borden or chair borden or vice chair eaken or whoever the board delegates to have a cover letter. or you can schedule a short additional special meeting later this month to consider revised responses. >> chair borden: thank you for that. i personally prefer a cover letter approach. it does sound like the report is asking f

. >> thank you chair borden. today is the actual day i'm looking forward to walking along our streets with my family and i encourage everyone else to take advantage as well. we have lovely weather right now and i want to thank the agency for their presence at the chinatown autumn festival this past week. it's really important for us as an agency to be going into the neighborhood and participating and using those opportunities for local community opportunities to be doing outreach andmaking connections with our members on , so thank you and i wanted to thankstaff for doing that . >> chair: directors, any other remarks or unfinished business items? seeing none, we will move on to our next item, the directors report. >> as usual we start with a visionzero update . we've seen an uptick ... >> chair: sorry, i want to make sure directorssilver has called the item in . >> clerk: actually i wanted to see if we could take public comment on that last item. >> chair: my mistake, story about that. moderator, or their colors

. >> we like >> chair borden: please call the roll. >> clerk: on the roll call. you have a quorum. >> chair borden: next item. >> clerk: item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. we have no announcements. item 4,

>> thank you, chair borden. great, action-packed report, director tumlin. i'll probably go backwards in this case. just carrying on the conversation about the rail time savings. i notice in at least one of the slides where you reflected peak a.m. time, i think for the anjoud but are the overall time savings for averaged over the day or is it focused on peaks? >> so, we have both datasets and i'm not sure who, from our data team is on the call that could answer that detail question. we had a whole team of people working over the weekend. >> that's ok. i'll maybe refine that. so what i'm most interested in is actually do we foresee similar time savings during peak pers as we go back to prepandemic travel behavior, hopefully at some point, meaning do we expect that these savings will continue in the long run. i agree with you. i'm still riding rail. but quite frankly, mostly off peak these days. >> our ridership is remarkably flat these days approaching prepandemic levels but our peak ridership matching the midday ridership because of the absence of people tra

and started and stopped again a joint commission hearing with that mta board that gwyneth and i, chair borden and i had talked about doing. your comments make me realize i should look back with her and maybe we can finally get that off the table because i think there's a lot ofstuff around reopening, around getting streets clean that people want to visit . i think it might be appropriate to check back in with the da on public safety issues. i don't know if you guys saw the flower shop that was burne . it was in the newsthis morning . it's been there for 100 years and completely burned. director dickinson, do you remember thename of that shop ? >> hanks floral shop. >> president: so we have our work cut out for us. with that being said i have nothing else to say and go ahead. >> i've got one more item. i want to give a shout out and what a great job to the cbd, the new downtown cbd financial district . there might be anybody down there, the streets are the cleanest. our power washing them. every time i see them i thank them for getting in, the commercial alley is clean. that downtown cbd is th

and started and stopped again a joint commission hearing with that mta board that gwyneth and i, chair borden had talked about doing. your comments make me realize i should look back with her and maybe we can finally get that off the table because i think there's a lot ofstuff around reopening, around getting streets clean that people want to visit . i think it might be appropriate to check back in with the da on public safety issues. i don't know if you guys saw the flower shop that was burne . it was in the newsthis morning . it's been there for 100 years and completely burned. director dickinson, do you remember thename of that shop ? >> hanks floral shop. >> president: so we have our work cut out for us. with that being said i have nothing else to say and go ahead. >> i've got one more item. i want to give a shout out and what a great job to the cbd, the new downtown cbd financial district . there might be anybody down there, the streets are the cleanest. our power washing them. every time i see them i thank them for getting in, the commercial alley is clean. that downtown cbd is the new