j. tumlin: aye. >> vice chair gee: aye. >> chair sesay: aye. >> secretary: the ayes have it. thank you. i will now proceed to call your next item, directors. >> chair sesay: thank you. >> secretary: directors, item 10 is approving an amendment to the employment agreement with nila gonzales for the position of interim executive director effective september 1, 2020. >> good morning, deborah miller. you have before you this morning a proposed amendment to nila gonzales's employment contract to reflect her appointment from chief of staff and board secretary to the position of interim executive director. it reflects a change in the description of her civil responsibilities as well as a change in her compensation. the form of agreement is in front of you, both her existing contract as well as the proposed amendment and includes all of the details, but as required by government code 54953c-3 i will note for the record that the proposed compensation this local agency executive would be revised to $124.88 per hour, which would translate to annual salary of $259,743 over the course of

j. tumlin: present. >> vice chair gee: present. >> chair sesay: present. >> secretary: directors, we have quorum. >> chair sesay and secretary, if i may just a point of clarification, this is a regular meeting, not a special meeting, just a point of clarification for the record. >> chair sesay: thank you, i appreciate that. >> secretary: thank you. directors, the next item, item 3, is communications. we'd like to provide further instructions for the public comment process. to provide public comment, callers should dial into the published number, 1-855-282-6330, and enter access code, 126 729 5295. then pound and pound again and listen to the meeting. as they wait for public comment to be announced, members of the public have up to three minutes to provide comments on each agenda item. i will announce when public comment is open on each item, or for the general public comment at which time callers should dial star 3 to raise their hand and be added to the queue. this call-in number and access code will also stream on the screen during the entire board meeting. when callers dial star 3, the

j. tumlin: hello, can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> j. tumlin: so as brit already said, a big part of our goal here was accommodating the phenomenal success that we had with the quick-build project of car-free market street back in january. the previous design had a 5-8 foot bikewayment a 5-foot bikeway accommodates bikes single file. eight feet accommodates side by side. the bike riding we saw back in january, before fell street, before the market improvements, that level of bike ridership we had back in january, less than half of that could be accommodated on the planned bike way from the previous project. we had a success problem. that the previous design could not accommodate. so one of the things we've learned in the last nine months, one is that when we build facilities that welcome all types of people on mobility devices, whether it's bikes, scooters, wheelchairs, skate boards, if we build facility that people feel safe, san franciscans use them in droves. particularly as we connect up the slow street network. the other thing we fou