. >> 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

>> yes, chair borden. >> i want to say the difference is this. our service level, we have 50% return of ridership. that is a different trade-off than full-service 90%. when i talk about trade-offs, i don't mean we will or not bring lines back. there is no master plan to kill the lines. there never has been. that was never we have wanted to get rid of this line, that is not part of the equation. if we were a business we would scale service to the required der ship. we are a public service we could never do that. there is a reality throwing good money after bad. you can't deliver great service and restore lines. people are frustrated. we are aware of the fact as the city returns. the work force in san francisco doesn't has to go to the office. the people deciding to work in the office is the ease to take public transit to the destination. if they haven't taken it in a year and they are coming back and the connection works well for them they will want to come back. reignite the city and come back. if they come back and the line is there but the serv

>> yes, chair borden. >> i want to say the difference is this. our service level, we have 50% return of ridership. that is a different trade-off than full-service 90%. when i talk about trade-offs, i don't mean we will or not bring lines back. there is no master plan to kill the lines. there never has been. that was never we have wanted to get rid of this line, that is not part of the equation. if we were a business we would scale service to the required der ship. we are a public service we could never do that. there is a reality throwing good money after bad. you can't deliver great service and restore lines. people are frustrated. we are aware of the fact as the city returns. the work force in san francisco doesn't has to go to the office. the people deciding to work in the office is the ease to take public transit to the destination. if they haven't taken it in a year and they are coming back and the connection works well for them they will want to come back. reignite the city and come back. if they come back and the line is there but the serv

>> yes, chair borden. >> i want to say the difference is this. our service level, we have 50% return of ridership. that is a different trade-off than full-service 90%. when i talk about trade-offs, i don't mean we will or not bring lines back. there is no master plan to kill the lines. there never has been. that was never we have wanted to get rid of this line, that is not part of the equation. if we were a business we would scale service to the required der ship. we are a public service we could never do that. there is a reality throwing good money after bad. you can't deliver great service and restore lines. people are frustrated. we are aware of the fact as the city returns. the work force in san francisco doesn't has to go to the office. the people deciding to work in the office is the ease to take public transit to the destination. if they haven't taken it in a year and they are coming back and the connection works well for them they will want to come back. reignite the city and come back. if they come back and the line is there but the serv

director yekutiel. >> thank you very much, chair borden. there was one person that was not mention that got us to this point, that is herself. she's been an incredible champion and every time it's been brought up, director, eaken, you've always been so great in pushing this entire agency and body up. i want to commend you for doing so much work on this and helping guide us in it. i know my colleagues have worked on it but i especially noticed director eaken doing this work. i have a couple questions. i was going bring up the camera enforcement i think it's part of the strategy. i think it's got to be. i think about a tool that can get people to not drive dangerously knowing if they run a red light they'll get a ticket is a high value function so glad we're keeping it top of mind. i had one -- two small ideas okay and one kind of larger question. one idea is have we thought about -- i know we talked about the paint shop, have we talked about doing like a full we're eye make over version of our streets where we repaint all the road lines so t

chair borden. okay. colleagueses, any other supervisors or colleagues questions? thank you so much. i would like to make a motion that we file this hearing. >> clerk: through the chair, i believe we have to take public comment on this. >> chairman: i'm sorry. of course. thank you. yeah. let's go to public comment, madam clerk. >> clerk: all right. we're checking to see if we have callers in the queue. if you have not done so already, express star three to be entered into the queue. for those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. so we have twelve listeners and seven in the queue. michael, if you can unmute the first caller, please. >> caller: i can't believe this. this gross, gross, gross without barely any reference to seniors or people with disabilities, thank you, chair melgar for mentioning that, for bringing this to light. for bringing in notion of tributaries and all the people in those little dotted areas. i resent this notion that we're returning things to the hilly areas. balogne. and superviso

chair borden. okay. colleagueses, any other supervisors or colleagues questions? thank you so much. i would like to make a motion that we file this hearing. >> clerk: through the chair, i believe we have to take public comment on this. >> chairman: i'm sorry. of course. thank you. yeah. let's go to public comment, madam clerk. >> clerk: all right. we're checking to see if we have callers in the queue. if you have not done so already, express star three to be entered into the queue. for those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. so we have twelve listeners and seven in the queue. michael, if you can unmute the first caller, please. >> caller: i can't believe this. this gross, gross, gross without barely any reference to seniors or people with disabilities, thank you, chair melgar for mentioning that, for bringing this to light. for bringing in notion of tributaries and all the people in those little dotted areas. i resent this notion that we're returning things to the hilly areas. balogne. and superviso