when we first brought our proposal to the mta board in january of 2020, the blue column reflects just the base, automatic indexing policy that the mta has, which would index the cash fare to $3.25. and all other fares are based on certain levels of the cash fare and the monthly pass, generally. so that would be original proposals. after feedback that we received, both through the board workshop that we held in january, through a public open hearing that we had, rather than throwing something out, the mta board held a hearing in february on fare policy exclusively. we received a lot of feedback that the public felt that especially in this environment, raising the cash fare didn't make a lot of sense and that we needed to take a more sharper look at how we were proposing to update our overall fare policy. with that, in march, we came back with two different alternatives. the equity monthly alternative and the equity clipper alternative. and i'll run through the difference between both of those. so in the equity monthly, so you'll see across all the alternatives, let me be clear, on both

when we first brought our proposal to the mta board in january of 2020, the blue column reflects just the base, automatic indexing policy that the mta has, which would index the cash fare to $3.25. and all other fares are based on certain levels of the cash fare and the monthly pass, generally. so that would be original proposals. after feedback that we received, both through the board workshop that we held in january, through a public open hearing that we had, rather than throwing something out, the mta board held a hearing in february on fare policy exclusively. we received a lot of feedback that the public felt that especially in this environment, raising the cash fare didn't make a lot of sense and that we needed to take a more sharper look at how we were proposing to update our overall fare policy. with that, in march, we came back with two different alternatives. the equity monthly alternative and the equity clipper alternative. and i'll run through the difference between both of those. so in the equity monthly, so you'll see across all the alternatives, let me be clear, on both

when we first brought our proposal to the mta board in january of 2020, the blue column reflects just the base, automatic indexing policy that the mta has, which would index the cash fare to $3.25. and all other fares are based on certain levels of the cash fare and the monthly pass, generally. so that would be original proposals. after feedback that we received, both through the board workshop that we held in january, through a public open hearing that we had, rather than throwing something out, the mta board held a hearing in february on fare policy exclusively. we received a lot of feedback that the public felt that especially in this environment, raising the cash fare didn't make a lot of sense and that we needed to take a more sharper look at how we were proposing to update our overall fare policy. with that, in march, we came back with two different alternatives. the equity monthly alternative and the equity clipper alternative. and i'll run through the difference between both of those. so in the equity monthly, so you'll see across all the alternatives, let me be clear, on both

to her left, robert mojica who wears a second hat today because he's also a member of the mta board.doesn't really wear a second hat. that was metaphorical. what day is today? when i was at the department of housing and urban development, i would sometimes say, what is the date? i worked with a great fellow, who was a catholic priest, father joe hakela. he would say, today is another day to do better, with this warm smile. he passed away, father hakela. i have his picture in my room, and i was thinking about him last night. today is another day to do better. it's another day to improve, it's another day to be better, to make life better, to be better at helping people. today is another day, another opportunity god gave us. hospitalizations are down. good news. a net change in total hospitalizations down. good news. a net change in intubations down. good news. new covid cases, slightly down. 933 but still unacceptable. but down from where it was. number of lives lost, still terrible. 306. an optimist would say the numbers are on the decline. a realist would say that's a tremendous amo

. >> the mta board of directors met in closed session on april 7 to discuss anticipated litigation. the board of directors took no action. mr. chair, it would be appropriate for either a motion to disclose or not disclose the information discussed. >> ok, and do we need public comment on such item? >> yes. so let's see if there's public comment on the announcement of our april 7th, 2 2020 closed session. >> operator: to summon each question, press 1 and 0. >> for members who are watching and wish to address the board on the announcement, please dial 1-0 and moderator, please let us know if there are any callers on the line. >> moderator confirms there are no callers on the line. >> ok, with that, we will close public comment. >> i move to disclose. >> i'm sorry, actually, someone -- this is the moderator and someone joined and dropped off. never mind. >> thank you. >> so that will close public comment and i heard a motion from director borden and is there a second not to disclose. miss boomer, please call the role. (role call) didn' and this is oe motion not to disclose the session.

these are figures that we provided at our budget workshop with our own board, the mta board, in february. we've been working on these numbers since then. and we are going to be actually required to close that budget gap on march 17. we are going to our board with a balanced budget proposal, not only to see how we deal with that gap but also the demands for improved service that we've been given. director mentioned the revenues. this is a quick snapshot that the top line here, we are very fortunate as a transit agency, transportation agency, that we are both, we have combined running a transit system and the parking system for san francisco. we were formed by the merger of the department of parking and traffic and the old muni. and we have a tremendous public support in san francisco that provides us with a portion of the general fund in order to make a really high-quality transportation system work. and the general fund has been our savior during these past years of the boom while our other revenues have been flat or declining. that's the main story of this particular slide is the top re

. >> the mta board of directors met in closed session on april 7 to discuss anticipated litigation. the board of directors took no action. mr. chair, it would be appropriate for either a motion to disclose or not disclose the information discussed. >> ok, and do we need public comment on such item? >> yes. so let's see if there's public comment on the announcement of our april 7th, 2 2020 closed session. >> operator: to summon each question, press 1 and 0. >> for members who are watching and wish to address the board on the announcement, please dial 1-0 and moderator, please let us know if there are any callers on the line. >> moderator confirms there are no callers on the line. >> ok, with that, we will close public comment. >> i move to disclose. >> i'm sorry, actually, someone -- this is the moderator and someone joined and dropped off. never mind. >> thank you. >> so that will close public comment and i heard a motion from director borden and is there a second not to disclose. miss boomer, please call the role. (role call) didn' and this is oe motion not to disclose the session.

this was reviewed by the mta board last fall, so it's really meant to identify the total needs for the system and what we are trying to achieve. at the end of the presentation i will show you we sort of grade ourselves on how well we do in each five-year cip cycle. we also do it to give a sense to both the public and the funding partner what is the transportation system in san francisco needs so this document also feeds into plan bay area within the region, twn mayor's transportation task force, and within many other planning documents for our federal partners. just to remind you, the capital plan and the current one is from 2017 and in september the m.t.a. board approved an update in 2019 that wasn't a complete redo, meaning we didn't add a lot of new projects or a lot of new program proposals, but we updated the costs and the needs, and we restated some things based on updates that we had within the agency. and moving on to slide five, the 2017 capital plan had a total need of $21.9 billion identified in the 2019 capital plan, we had a total need of $30.7 billion, and that was an $8.

this was reviewed by the mta board last fall, so it's really meant to identify the total needs for the system and what we are trying to achieve. at the end of the presentation i will show you we sort of grade ourselves on how well we do in each five-year cip cycle. we also do it to give a sense to both the public and the funding partner what is the transportation system in san francisco needs so this document also feeds into plan bay area within the region, twn mayor's transportation task force, and within many other planning documents for our federal partners. just to remind you, the capital plan and the current one is from 2017 and in september the m.t.a. board approved an update in 2019 that wasn't a complete redo, meaning we didn't add a lot of new projects or a lot of new program proposals, but we updated the costs and the needs, and we restated some things based on updates that we had within the agency. and moving on to slide five, the 2017 capital plan had a total need of $21.9 billion identified in the 2019 capital plan, we had a total need of $30.7 billion, and that was an $8.

if members of the public who wish to address the board on matters within the jurisdiction of the mta but that are not on today's calendar, please call (888)808-6929 and the code is 996-1614. and then finally dial 1-0. so that's the opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters in the jurisdiction and not on today's agenda. >> operator: so summon each question, press 1-0. >> when it is the public's turn to speak, the system will prompt you and if you give us your name, we will start your two minutes when you start talking. >> operator: you have three questions remaining. >> first speaker, please. >> question: hello, this is hayden miller again. i just wanted to comment on something director tumlin just said about keeping the subway closed. i definitely support that and i think with the messaging to the customers, but back before with the t-central subway when it was first built, you would get a monthly or even like a weekly video about what work was being done. i think that's very important for us to see as customers, you know, what work is happening and how is

mta put up. twitter feed. --had an algorithm "essential worker, get on board. non-essential workers, why are you even reading this sign? go home." host: let's go to robin next from north carolina. good evening. caller: hi, -- hi. my question is about the vaccine. when should they should start planning how they distribute the vaccine once it is available? we are so far behind the curve on the virus, and you know, the protection and stay-at-home. i just want to make sure they plan enough ahead that when it is available, i mean for instance, i am 70, but i am in perfect health. has been a65 -- my 65, but he has a lot of health issues. i think should get it before me. but i should get it before someone 35 in good health. how will they plan for the vaccine. host: thank you, robin? -- thank you, robin. guest: what a great question. there could be two years or more before we have a vaccine. it is important to be transparent about this issue. in all likelihood, the vaccine when it starts coming, it won't be enough for everyone, but it will be a question of who goes fir

fee and fine revenue that used to go into the general fund was diverted to the mta and most recently what the entire board of supervisors put on the ballot and passed proposition d, the tnc tax that is a new source of revenue. and i look at those things, and i realize that fair box recovery is important. and i agree that people who are more affluent should pay for it, and we all know that, and just your slide 7 showed that in almost all of those categories, people of color and low-income individuals were very large proportions of the folks that used muni on a daily basis, some 700, that percentage of 700,000 plus riders. and i note that we are down to 100,000 a day. but we will be back. so i hear what supervisor preston is saying, which is that there are other sources of revenues, prop b, that then supervisor wiener did that added money based on population was important. and i think we've always been, if you will, kind of proud of the fact that fare box recovery has been a percentage of what's made muni go as compared to other transit properties like bart, which is crazy expensive and some of us are chagr