director eaken? >> vice-chair eaken: i'm happy to follow director lai if you want to go ahead. >> chair borden: director lai. >> director lai: thank you, chair borden. okay, so i actually confer with a lot of the sentiments that chair borden had already shared i do have some questions. i guess that one of my top line questions is do we have the ability to distinguish between a truly abandoned vehicle or someone who is able to pay their tickets but don't, versus the population that truly are impoverished and cannot pay and cannot move their vehicles and cannot leave their vehicles because it's their home? do we have the ability to distinguish between those two sides? >> shawn, i'll defer to you on that one. >> we don't actually have the ability to determine what, you know, what their financial situation is when we're out there either issuing citations or preparing to tow a vehicle. we have no way of knowing that. >> director lai: okay. >> could you say more about the techniques that you use to differe

director eaken? >> vice-chair eaken: i'm happy to follow director lai if you want to go ahead. >> chair borden: director lai. >> director lai: thank you, chair borden. okay, so i actually confer with a lot of the sentiments that chair borden had already shared i do have some questions. i guess that one of my top line questions is do we have the ability to distinguish between a truly abandoned vehicle or someone who is able to pay their tickets but don't, versus the population that truly are impoverished and cannot pay and cannot move their vehicles and cannot leave their vehicles because it's their home? do we have the ability to distinguish between those two sides? >> shawn, i'll defer to you on that one. >> we don't actually have the ability to determine what, you know, what their financial situation is when we're out there either issuing citations or preparing to tow a vehicle. we have no way of knowing that. >> director lai: okay. >> could you say more about the techniques that you use to differe

director eaken, back to you. >> vice-chair eaken: thank you. and just a very quick comment in light of the late hour. i just wanted to note that in director ruer's presentation that we saw that driving is almost back to pre-pandemic levels with most schools closed and many, many people, our director among them, still working from home. so we can expect more congestion coming and your ability to make sure that we can deliver that fast, regardless of that congestion, is in my mind is what a transit first city looks like. so i hope that you're feeling really good about these performance numbers. i can sense you're feeling pretty happy and proud about them, and i wanted to just acknowledge you who designed these improvements and laid out these improvements on the ground. the operators driving the vehicles and delivering these impprovements, this is what a city with trans the first looks like. and i wanted to conclude to get to items 13 and 14. so, thank you very much. >> chair borden: thank you. director heminger. >> director heminger: well, after

director eaken? >> vice chair eaken: thank you so much. i want to raise one issue picking up on a thing that director heminger raised around safety. i guess the real question that i have, have we explored as an m.t.a., thinking about our vision zero goals and thinking how much vision zero is fee management. have we explored the map of the shared spaces? there's a great interactive online. if we look at that map and consider the idea of fee management at a broader level across the city in terms of where these neighborhood commercial corridors are. it straights me looking at that map, there's some amount of overlap of the shared spaces map and high injury network map. there's maybe an opportunity. it was you chair borden, you referenced a piece of legislation around the idea. you were disappointed that someone chosen to opposed idea of lowering speed in commercial corridor. we don't want cars speeding through the corresponds do. i wonder if that's something we as m.t.a. to be considering. to director heminger's point, you are now entering a

director eaken? >> vice chair eaken: thank you so much. i want to raise one issue picking up on a thing that director heminger raised around safety. i guess the real question that i have, have we explored as an m.t.a., thinking about our vision zero goals and thinking how much vision zero is fee management. have we explored the map of the shared spaces? there's a great interactive online. if we look at that map and consider the idea of fee management at a broader level across the city in terms of where these neighborhood commercial corridors are. it straights me looking at that map, there's some amount of overlap of the shared spaces map and high injury network map. there's maybe an opportunity. it was you chair borden, you referenced a piece of legislation around the idea. you were disappointed that someone chosen to opposed idea of lowering speed in commercial corridor. we don't want cars speeding through the corresponds do. i wonder if that's something we as m.t.a. to be considering. to director heminger's point, you are now entering a

director eaken. >> vice chair eaken: thank you. sorry. so i just wanted to let my colleagues know that director brinkman and i last weekend joined a number of community advocates in district 10 and joined by supervisor walton to explore a north south connected protected bike route through district 10 and i forwarded along all the materials to director mcguire and the staff, but i wanted to flag a particular request coming from the community for a focus on several streets. improvements to form really nice north south route and there's been amazing improvements made along cargo way that i encourage you to check out. there's good progress towards that route but really key gaps. i wanted to flag that for the team. supervisor walton has flagged that district 10 lacks some of the infrastructure that other parts of the city enjoy. i had time exploring that in partnership with some of the community advocates and wanted to raise that up for the staff and the board. >> chair borden: thank you. director heminger. >> commissioner heminger: thank you

director eaken. >> vice chair eaken: thank you for that update. director tumlin it's great to see these numbers trending in a good direction on all revenue sources. my question is also about the fare free muni. if you could just spell out what is exactly the legislation that the board of supervisors is considering? would that to approve the funding to back fill fares over the summer and then how would that interact with the item that you said you would bring to us if they do pass that legislation to consider the matter. how would that interact what the board of supervisors may have approved? >> director tumlin: the board of supervisors is offering -- right now it's 12 point something million. the numbers was eviesed based on ridership estimates. that money is effectively the estimated fare revenue that we would get in the three summer months starting in july. it does not include other costs associated with, for example, marketing or doing data evaluation on the fare free muni program. nor would it include the lost fare revenue in the months follow

director eaken. >> vice chair eaken: thank you for that update.tor tumlin it's great to see these numbers trending in a good direction on all revenue sources. my question is also about the fare free muni. if you could just spell out what is exactly the legislation that the board of supervisors is considering? would that to approve the funding to back fill fares over the summer and then how would that interact with the item that you said you would bring to us if they do pass that legislation to consider the matter. how would that interact what the board of supervisors may have approved? >> director tumlin: the board of supervisors is offering -- right now it's 12 point something million. the numbers was eviesed based on ridership estimates. that money is effectively the estimated fare revenue that we would get in the three summer months starting in july. it does not include other costs associated with, for example, marketing or doing data evaluation on the fare free muni program. nor would it include the lost fare revenue in the months following se

next is director eaken. >> vice chair eaken: i don't think i saw this, could all speak about the barriers to reopening the l&m light rail lines and what sort of timing you're seeing around those. i don't think i saw that in the staff report. >> thank you for that question. we have some uncertainty as it relates to the m line. as i said, we finished all the supervisor interviews. we have about 30 rail operators who will be moving from rail to promotive opportunity. we also are expecting high retirements at the end of the fiscal year. i am hopeful that we'll be able to restart the m line or restart a portion of the m line in advance of sf state. we also currently have bus service for the neighborhood. if we don't have available operators, we will supplement with additional bus service. right now people are accessing the campus through connections from the ballpark, to the m line and 29 sunset and from daly city on the 28 line. those routes 28 and 29 are running frequently and restarted in anticipation of school needs. we also meet -- met with the university to get a better sense of when stu

>> vice-chair eaken: yes. >> chair borden: any additional questions or does someone want to make a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> i'll second. >> chair borden: great. secretary silva, please call the roll. >> clerk: yes. on that motion [roll call vote] thank you, that motion passes 6-0. that concludes the business before you. >> before we leave, just real quick, a quick happy birthday to the chair of the sfmta board. [laughter]. >> chair borden: goodbye, everybody. >> are you going to sing? (♪♪♪) >> this is the regular meeting of the small business commission held on april 26, 2021. the meeting is being called to order at 44 7:00 p.m. the small business commission thanks media services and sfgovtv for tele vicing the meeting, which can be viewed live or live streamed at sfgovtv.org. for the viewing public, we did have a glitch. there is a new call in line or new pass code. members who call in the phone number is the same. 415-655-0001. the new access code is (187)093-4330. you can press pound and then pound again to be added to the line. when connected you will hear the meeting discus