thank you director heminger for your work trying to broker a compromise. this seems like the best possible option to get caltrain running now and into the future. i encourage you all to support this. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> good morning board members. as previous speakers have said, i would like to encourage you to vote for this which offers clean resolution which will be easier to pass and has fewer legal issues. thanks to director brinkman who spoke up at the previous meeting in favor of having the caltrain ballot measure and caltrain service riders and director heminger for the role bringing forward this compromise and to the entire committee for being willing to bring this back in a special meeting in order to be able to move forward if there is an agreement. i do hope that you vote for this so we continue to have caltrain service including the equity measure that the caltrain board also prepared hopefully to support that will be funded with this tax. >> next speaker please. >> good morning to board members and director tumlin. i'm bruce,

thank you director heminger for your work trying to broker a compromise. this seems like the best possible option to get caltrain running now and into the future. i encourage you all to support this. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> good morning board members. as previous speakers have said, i would like to encourage you to vote for this which offers clean resolution which will be easier to pass and has fewer legal issues. thanks to director brinkman who spoke up at the previous meeting in favor of having the caltrain ballot measure and caltrain service riders and director heminger for the role bringing forward this compromise and to the entire committee for being willing to bring this back in a special meeting in order to be able to move forward if there is an agreement. i do hope that you vote for this so we continue to have caltrain service including the equity measure that the caltrain board also prepared hopefully to support that will be funded with this tax. >> next speaker please. >> good morning to board members and director tumlin. i'm bruce,

thank you director heminger for your work trying to broker a compromise. this seems like the best possible option to get caltrain running now and into the future. i encourage you all to support this. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> good morning board members. as previous speakers have said, i would like to encourage you to vote for this which offers clean resolution which will be easier to pass and has fewer legal issues. thanks to director brinkman who spoke up at the previous meeting in favor of having the caltrain ballot measure and caltrain service riders and director heminger for the role bringing forward this compromise and to the entire committee for being willing to bring this back in a special meeting in order to be able to move forward if there is an agreement. i do hope that you vote for this so we continue to have caltrain service including the equity measure that the caltrain board also prepared hopefully to support that will be funded with this tax. >> next speaker please. >> good morning to board members and director tumlin. i'm bruce,

>> director heminger: yes, a comment, too. maybe i could start with the comment. i just want to compliment all of the mta staff folks on the line and all the way up to leadership that are working on this program. it may have come from nowhere, but it's gone somewhere in a hurry. and what i like about it is how untraditional it is. and i guess to some extent i want to dissent a little bit from the hand-wringing that i'm hearing in this meeting about outreach. because one of the things that a program like this can do is the program, the projects can be the outreach. [inaudible] -- you can pick up your sandbags and go home and try it somewhere else. i realize we can't go around town stealing the march on every community organization there is. but as we all know, it is so much easier to stop things in san francisco than to get them done. and i think you found a scale of project where we're going to do minimal damage if we try something out and it doesn't work. and we have been able in the alternative -- and that's what has proven to be the case -- we've been able to d

director heminger. >> director: thank you, madame chair.i echo your comments on the work being done. i'm becoming increasingly nervous how much work is being done by staff and not approved by the board. i wouldn't characterize what i'd say as a red flag but maybe yellow caution. when we first got into this emergency i think giving jeff a long leash and allowing staff to run made sense. the longer it's gone it seems our posture is going to be that we're going to be in lock down until we have a vaccine. that's many more months to come and i do think it seems to me we've sort of settled into a different routine now and that routine would allow for more of a regular order. by that i mean on policy documents they come to the board for approval and to the public for comment and criticism. the muni corps service plan i've only seen a meeting and don't feel comfortable with that. if you want a discussion about that, madame chair, it's obviously a fair broad comment i'm making and the one thing i don't want to do is do a 180 and pretend as if everyt