in this case the sfmta. and they're the ones who can follow up on the actual actions that need to be taken around making parking available or moving staging, if appropriate. that's the role that our office can play in that regard. >> can i ask one more question? >> of course. >> do you have anything in mind that will help encourage property owners to lower their represents, if their tends are -- rents, if their tenants are in a construction zone? >> that's a really interesting question. i think, you know, there's different measures that can be taken around education and reaching out to the property owners and setting real expectations. there are some cases where we've shared information with the property owner about going rents in the neighborhood. of course, we can't force them to bring the rents down. we can provide support, legal support with, you know, somebody who understands how to negotiate a lease, when an attorney understands how to look closely at a lease and provide some advice to the business own

i am the regulatory affairs manager for the sfmta. i'm here to talk to you about the paddle sticks program update. >> it's up on our screens. >> sorry? >> i was telling you it was up on our screens very clearly and you have it now. >> it's a federally funded public agency, title 6 is one of the many requirements we need to comply with. so this states nobody in the united states on the basis of race, color west coast or national origin should be denied the benefits of a federally funded program. we will be able to submit this program, with your approval, by the december 1, 2019, deadline. so there are general requirements as well as transit specific. i'll run through some of the highlights and my colleague is here to talk about the transit specific. so the first one is the title vi notice to the public. we have a requirement that the public knows that we do not discriminate and we need to provide them information on how they can file a complaint and where they can go if they need questions answered. title vi is posted throughout our sy

i support this pilot on page street and respectfully ask sfmta -- the sfmta board to approve it. and i also want to make an additional ask that sfmta staff develop a plan to take the next steps of studying 8th street and that this board issue a directive to staff to do so. thank you very much. and may i enter this letter into the record? >> thank you very much. >> all right. >> clerk: sarah warren lays, guy barry. first three speakers. >> hello. my name is sarah bucker. iive will at 153 page street just a couple doors from octavia boulevard. and every day i witness the chaos that is pedestrians, activists, cars and trucks trying to navigate an intersection that has become an unintended freeway on-ramp. as the mother of a high schooler and a middle schooler, who both ride their bikes through the neighborhood and the city i view the current situation as unsafe and untenable. the anger of motorists got so bad, a neighbor created april fool's signs, ta encourages drivers to take a breath and lay off the horn and they worked, for a little while. [laughter] for more lasting solution, t

we are really excited to get going on that with our partners at the sfmta. we look forward to bringing back some thoughts and we appreciate your guidance on how we might administer these funds right away. i want to begin also about a report back on our annual self-help counties conference. i just returned from san diego where we met with the other that have voted to task ourselves to fund transportation improvements. there have been 30 years now of promises made and promises kept. we have been celebrating that anniversary with them together because they were one of the inaugural counties in 1989 that has sent sales taxes for transportation. seeing our first dollar flow the following year, our agency was really set up in 1990. we will be salivating more and telling you more about the work we have been doing collectively next january. i look forward to sharing all of that good experience with the public and continuing to gather input on what it is folks want to see what we should be planning on through our collective long range planning program. and what funds

yesterday, someone from sfmta called me and told me that i had no color scheme. i was stunned. i said yellow cab, and they told me, i'm not affiliated with yellow cab. we paid color scheme. it includes insurance money. they're supposed to provide us insurance. if not, it's a violation. it's not my fault. sfmta said someone called them yesterday and said you are no longer affiliated with yellow cab and no one notified me from yellow cab notified me until friday. yesterday, someone gave me one day short notice to change color scheme. unbelievable. i did my paperwork yesterday at 3:00 p.m. and -- [inaudible] >> i am paying payments and for me to allow me to drive my own taxi cab. it cost me $1700 to change paint and color scheme to go to the other company to upgrade my taxi cab. i am trying to pay my medallion payments every month. [inaudible] >> sfmta had developed the conen us consensus with uber and lyft and never developed a consensus with us. we paid money for medallions. >> president yee: thank you. >> clerk: speaker's time is concluded. [inaudible] >> president yee: thank y

i'm sfmta's pedestrian program manager. i'm also the vision zero task force co-chair. i'm joined today by my colleagues from the police department. i'm going to spend a few moments giving context, before we answer the questions that commissioner haney has posed. we are always grateful for the opportunity to talk about traffic safety and what the city is doing to combat fatalities every day. so in 2014 it was this -- it was the board of supervisors who adopted vision zero. we were the second city in the nation to do so. it is our commitment to end traffic fatalities and to reduce severe injuries on our streets. at least 20 people are killed every year here in san francisco on our city streets. we know that there is a huge cost, not just in monetary value but also in emotional value. to everyone who deals with these fatalities, this line deals with what our emergency practitioners have to deal with, whether an e.m.t. at the scene, the police department responding to the call, or our trauma surgeons who see a person with a traffic fatality injury every 17 hours at s.f. ge

this week, but the sfmta is here if there are any questions. >> great. thank you, supervisor haney.hank you for the expedited process this morning. i don't see any comments or questions from my colleagues. okay. so we will open this up to public comment if there is any public comment on this item? seeing non, none, public comment is closed. >> there was a lot of public comment when they all came when we were going to hear it before. >> supervisor walton? >> thank you so much for bringing this resolution. i just wanted to go on record and state that we have seen an increase in car and traffic deaths in district 10 as well, and along with homicides we want to see -- we want to see an end to all of these avoidable deaths i would like to sign on as a cosponsor as -- of the resolution a everyone know we are currently working on neighborhood safety plans in district 10 and a pre neighborhood that includes strategies to avoid strap -- traffic deaths, along with our vision zero plan on homicides and violent crimes. thank you, again, supervisor haney for bringing this resolution forward. >>

sfmta currently has two sites right near the 15 street parcel, including the maintenance facility. both departments desire the exchange and entered into discussions in 2016. appraisals were obtained and the former director of property determined the fair market value was the same of each based on the appraisals. review appraisals were also performed. an m.o.v. was drafted and finalized and taken to the commission. a general plan referral was obtained. an exemption from environmental review was obtained for the acc project at bryant's site in 2016. we ask for your positive recommendation, and i have people from sfmta and acc here with me if you have any questions. >> so i've looked at the packet. colleagues, do you have any questions? >> not yet. >> so i've read the packet and i'm comfortable with this. this may be some questions. you just referenced the fact that the mta owns land near 1200-15th across the street and i believe directly across 15th as well. i was wondering if -- what the mta ooess plans are and whether there can be some consolidation there, whether you want to aband

i'm the one that called the meeting with sfmta in september. i was told that there would be a follow-up meeting to go over our suggestions that would be implemented in the proposal. that was not going to happen. i've been called a second meeting. i was told i was going to get ridership numbers after the second meeting. that never happened. so i am for the protection of bikers. i think everyone is here. we don't want to see another death. however i am also for the sustainability of san francisco's small business community. i would like to see the restrictions from three to six removed during this pilot program to give us time to see how we can work together but not just jump off the edge of the ship and say you know what, this is how it's going to be and then our businesses suffer in the meantime. so i'm just asking for compromise for the small business community and merchants of san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> adam, cat ben jason. >> doesn't have to come up in order. >> hi. i'm cat carter, san francisco transit r

so i think we are about to make a decision that will strengthen the sfmta in many critical ways. i thank everybody who participated and took the time to submit your input. i think we are getting a strong outcome. i'll turn it back to you. >> wonderful. i will take that as a second to art's motion to approve. >> second is official. >> very good. we did have one public commenter. >> rowland. >> you stand in between director torres and his dinner. i'm warning you. >> i'm honestly surprised that there's not more advocates out here. maybe it's because it's almost dinner time. i just wanted to say i'm in extremely strong support of this appointment. i'm very excited. i see that mr. tumlin is not here. maybe he's at another meeting and not able to attend. i have been very impressed with the negative 56 through negative 48 to his appointment as director and i strongly urge an aye vote. thank you to everyone in the search committee for coming up with this amazing appointment. when a lot of my friends in the advocacy meantime, when they heard the news, they were absolutely delighted and i

the motion is that the sfmta c.a.c. recommends that -- or to reduce bunching and gapping of transit vehicles, the c.a.c. recommends that active line management be enhanced for all lines with the following areas of emphasis. one, ensuring that buses and trains are deployed on schedule, at the start the line. two, turning around and redesignating vehicles when necessary. three, assigning dedicated line managers to rail and bus lines. and, four, increasing staff to make this happen. i also would like to say i appreciated director heminger, your bringing attention to safety, as the number one priority for the agency and, you know, orienting the discussion around that. again today at this really critical time to make much-needed improvements. two items that directors brought up, speed limits and the impact on t.n.c.s and their increased congestion in the city and what that could be doing to contribute to a lack of safety on our streets. those are both things that the c.a.c. has been very interested in and has discussioned be

someone who is a team builder and excellent manager who will unite the divisions of the sfmta into one cohesive team. someone will will stand up to political pressure and have staff to drive ambitious projects. someone who will take equity and inclusion seriously and not put up with harassment in the workforce. someone who embodies vision zero. if you read the fine print and see the contract runs through december 31, 2024 and that is our deadline for hitting vision zero. i think that's really fitting. and i hope we are up to the challenge. finally, people want an excellent communicator to build coalitions with diverse stakeholders across the bay area. so i want to acknowledge there is no person we could have chosen that will make every single stakeholder happy. and i'll just acknowledge that right now. but that said, i want to reassure you everyone listening, that the search committee engaged in extremely extensive international search process and that we were delighted at the caliber and diversity of the candidates that we received who were interested in this position. and i want to r

i am with sfmta office of innovation. i want to talk about some complementary actions that the mta board took recently earlier this month to amend division ii of the transportation code. the first thing that they did was to define shared mobility device service. that definition and part is mobility devices, device or ten or more people separately or together. the important component here is that we are looking at shared services not to regulate personally owned devices. this definition would incorporate the existing bike share and scooter share programs. the second major component was to establish concept authorizations so this is a way to prevent unregulated launches of services, create a clear path for companies that would like to test or deploying the city but on a limited basis. limited by the number of devices , the time that they are testing, or the geographic area that they would be operating. the most important parts of this is for us to collect information to understand if and how the city shall regulate a new mo

of the sfmta board of directors to order. secretary boomer, roll call, please. >> thank you, madam chair. director borden? >> here. >> borden present. director brinkman. >> present. >> director eaken? >> here. >> director heinicke is anticipate. >> director rubke? >> here. >> director torres? >> here. >> madam chair, directors, you have a core quorum. the ringing of a use of cell phones and sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any personal responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. devices set on vibrate do cause microphone interference. the board respectfully requests they be turned off. item number 4, approval of the minutes. >> do i have a motion from the board? >> yes. >> second. >> any public comment on our minutes from november 5th? >> no, madam chair, no one has turned in a speaker card. >> all of those in favor of our minutes? >> aye. >> all those oppose. >> clerk: item number 5, communications. >> are there any -- >> madam chair, i have none. >> okay, wonderful. >> item

so one thing that we are asking is in addition to this pilot proposal, that the sfmta do this longer term corridor study of haight, page, oak and fell and look to other places where they do sophisticated metering and traffic management. that's what they do in copenhagen, they manage the flow of the traffic without having to price it or what's happening now, which is doing nothing, has made this a catastrophe. i would like you to also think about equity. we in hayes valley have absorbed or are about to absorb 6,000 housing units. we are doing our part in this big multiple moving pieces of solving the regional housing crisis. but we are paying the crisis of unacceptable chronic congestion that goes late in the evening and happens on weekends. so think about all these people moving through here. thank you. >> thank you. brian, he is the last person to turn in a speaker card. if you have not turned in a speaker card, if you would please. >> thank you. good afternoon chair and board members. i am brian. i'm walk san francisco's outreach coordinator. i'm here to share our strong support fo

. >> my name is darten eto and i lead the innovation team at sfmta. so to complement the division one amendments that kate just mentioned, for your consideration today are changes to division two of the transportation code. the first is to define what we mean by the shared mobility device service. so these are not meant to -- that definition is not meant to cover personally owned devices or devices that are used by an individual. rather, they're shared and used in the public space, either stored or operated. our general definition is that it's a mobility device or group of devices that are capable of carrying ten or more people separately or together. we were looking at something that wasn't just the number of devices but potential impact it can have based on the size or the ability to carry people. the second part is the establishment of the proof of concept authorization. so while the division one changes would create the prohibition on operating without a permit or approval by the city, the proof of concept authorization would provide the clear pat

maintenance issues and moving forward with plans to waive findings signage in collaboration with atc and sfmta. as for the park, nice weather in september and october resulted in large grounds with exciting new events such as game meet-ups. these new events joined our regular complements joined by nearby families and seniors as well as fitness and wellness sponsored by fitness sf. as of november, we have adjusting programming for the fall and winter months adding a movie night. the park hours are now 8:00 p.m. for the fall and winter months. and on the retail front, i'm happy to report that we are bringing three additional leases for you today. we are finalizing a fourth lease under my approval authority. if all four leases are approved and executed, this will result in 75% of the transit center p being fully leased. this is an exciting time as we will see large numbers of the public visiting with the first of the tenants opening durings to thdoors tothe public. on-site dental is opening and fitness assess has started selling memberships on site and getting ready for the grand opening on decem