welcome to the sfmta budget online open house. know that this is very difficult time for all of us as the coronavirus situation unfolds. we're all thinking about how we keep ourselves and family safe, how we deal with our children at home and how to prepare for the financial consequences unfolding all around the world. i'm grateful that you joined us at this time. we understand the challenge of having budget conversation given everything else that is going on. yet, in order for government services to continue, government agencies need to have a budget. we're mandated by the san francisco charter to submit a budget to the mayor of san francisco and the board of supervisors by may 1st. a budget that is rooted in this agency's value. we understand that even if the mayor decides to use the emergency declaration to extend the deadline of our budget, we still need an adopted budget as a reference point for making the necessary service and financial cuts that will have to happen as the global financial disaster unfolds. we need a startin

welcome to the sfmta budget online open house. i know that this is very difficult time for all of us as the coronavirus situation unfolds. we're all thinking about how we keep ourselves and family safe, how we deal with our children at home and how to prepare for the financial consequences unfolding all around the world. i'm grateful that you joined us at this time. we understand the challenge of having budget conversation given everything else that is going on. yet, in order for government services to continue, government agencies need to have a budget. we're mandated by the san francisco charter to submit a budget to the mayor of san francisco and the board of supervisors by may 1st. a budget that is rooted in this agency's value. we understand that even if the mayor decides to use the emergency declaration to extend the deadline of our budget, we still need an adopted budget as a reference point for making the necessary service and financial cuts that will have to happen as the global financial disaster unfolds. we need a start

and my push back is well, what about the people that work for sfmta? how do we make sure they have a right of first refusal when it comes to the housing that's being built on the property that's owned by sfmta? how do we make those connections? [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i want you to know that this may sound good, but it is hard as hell. it is not easy when you are trying to fight to do the kinds of things that you know are going to make a difference. people want to make a difference in their neighborhoods, and what i say to people in those places especially with you know you have single-family homes. i say how many of you have been here 50, 60, 70 years? a bunch of hands go up? how many of you were born and raised here? a bunch of hands go up. how many of your kids live in san francisco? hardly any hands go up. just keep that in mind. san francisco has changed, and i don't want to look back ten years from now and wonder why didn't we do more to change? why didn't we do more to help support our workforce and provide opportunities for housing

welcome to the sfmta budget online open house. i know that this is very difficult time for all of us as the coronavirus situation unfolds. we're all thinking about how we keep ourselves and family safe, how we deal with our children at home and how to prepare for the financial consequences unfolding all around the world. i'm grateful that you joined us at this time. we understand the challenge of having budget conversation given everything else that is going on. yet, in order for government services to continue, government agencies need to have a budget. we're mandated by the san francisco charter to submit a budget to the mayor of san francisco and the board of supervisors by may 1st. a budget that is rooted in this agency's value. we understand that even if the mayor decides to use the emergency declaration to extend the deadline of our budget, we still need an adopted budget as a reference point for making the necessary service and financial cuts that will have to happen as the global financial disaster unfolds. we need a start

i would like to hear from the sfmta. is julie here?julie is here and she has a presentation of her own. do you want to come up? >> good morning. >> if you go through your presentation first, that's great. i can ask questions after. >> there is a wonderful synergy between the very first slide and the questions that you raised. i do want to, by way of of introduction, say how appreciative i was of the time everybody took, including both supervisor peskin and supervisor mandelman on this committee, as well as peg and her staff. when the idea was first floated, i was uncomfortable. it is not easy to be put under a microscope and to have the kind of internal challenges discussed in an external way. but i am incredibly great full because i think that the combination of san francisco policy-makers and experts combined with the external transit managers allowed us to tell an important story that needed to be told. and it really has given us our marching orders as we go into the two-year budget process that is under way. so you're going to see

welcome to the sfmta budget online open house.at this is very difficult time for all of us as the coronavirus situation unfolds. we're all thinking about how we keep ourselves and family safe, how we deal with our children at home and how to prepare for the financial consequences unfolding all around the world. i'm grateful that you joined us at this time. we understand the challenge of having budget conversation given everything else that is going on. yet, in order for government services to continue, government agencies need to have a budget. we're mandated by the san francisco charter to submit a budget to the mayor of san francisco and the board of supervisors by may 1st. a budget that is rooted in this agency's value. we understand that even if the mayor decides to use the emergency declaration to extend the deadline of our budget, we still need an adopted budget as a reference point for making the necessary service and financial cuts that will have to happen as the global financial disaster unfolds. we need a starting place

i'm jeff tomlin from the sfmta to provide some overview and just some updates about what's happening with the sfmta i know people had a number of questions around park parking around tickets around towing. around things related to muni and mister tomlin is here to provide you with an update. >>good evening. my name is jeffrey tumlin director of transportation for san francisco. as the mayor has already said this is an evolving situation for all of us and policies will continue to evolve along with advice from the mayor's office and the department of public health for the latest information you can always go to our website at s f mta dot com. as mare already said effective midnight tonight, we will no longer be enforcing the rules for street sweeping. but she also said it's important that our streets not be allowed to get filthy so if you can move your car for street sweeping please do so this will allow the street sweepers which are continuing to operate to be able to keep our streets clean. in addition citations that were issued today for street sweeping violations, those will be wa

welcome to the sfmta budget online open house.w that this is very difficult time for all of us as the coronavirus situation unfolds. we're all thinking about how we keep ourselves and family safe, how we deal with our children at home and how to prepare for the financial consequences unfolding all around the world. i'm grateful that you joined us at this time. we understand the challenge of having budget conversation given everything else that is going on. yet, in order for government services to continue, government agencies need to have a budget. we're mandated by the san francisco charter to submit a budget to the mayor of san francisco and the board of supervisors by may 1st. a budget that is rooted in this agency's value. we understand that even if the mayor decides to use the emergency declaration to extend the deadline of our budget, we still need an adopted budget as a reference point for making the necessary service and financial cuts that will have to happen as the global financial disaster unfolds. we need a starting pl

. >> i just want to point out that sfmta does not do moving violation enforcement. that's in partnership with sfpd, the san francisco police department. our parking control officers remain out there to help direct traffic. they can issue parking citations including for things lick blocking the box and san francisco police at the present time has issued moving violations but one of the things we observed with motorists unless there's a officer posted at every single corner all day that motorists will decide that they are above the law and make the turn. >> i want to add to that and make a request. it happened on thursday night. there was a car slowing down the traffic on market street. i want to point out that one of the things -- i was talking to the operator. there were a lot more bicyclists and making sure we talked to the operators that there's a lot more bicycles who may or may not be vigilant in going around the bus and so i know that she felt a little bit of pause just because they weren't expecting the increase in volume and i guess more of the free reign beh

. >> i just want to point out that sfmta does not do moving violation enforcement. that's in partnership with sfpd, the san francisco police department. our parking control officers remain out there to help direct traffic. they can issue parking citations including for things lick blocking the box and san francisco police at the present time has issued moving violations but one of the things we observed with motorists unless there's a officer posted at every single corner all day that motorists will decide that they are above the law and make the turn. >> i want to add to that and make a request. it happened on thursday night. there was a car slowing down the traffic on market street. i want to point out that one of the things -- i was talking to the operator. there were a lot more bicyclists and making sure we talked to the operators that there's a lot more bicycles who may or may not be vigilant in going around the bus and so i know that she felt a little bit of pause just because they weren't expecting the increase in volume and i guess more of the free reign beh

-sfmta. daily they protect the city while working with long hours. some of these officers, they struggle with housing and health care. despite this, the officers present today show passion and dedication to protecting the public. i urge you to approve a union company like a.u.s. so our members continue to have a voice at work and job protections with paid sick days, holidays, and a grievance procedure. can we count on your support to keep our responsible contractor like a.u.s. for our security officers? thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning. roger marenko. we are in support of more security, especially because these are all union jobs. however, in terms of what mr. mar stated, people coming into the facilities, urinating, defecating, etc., i'd like everyone to know that the most prominent property of the sfmta where this occurs at is the buses. so i'd like the members to think about not only extending this to the actual buildings but to the actual buses, to the trains, whether it's, you know, security g

. >> i just want to point out that sfmta does not do moving violation enforcement. that's in partnership with sfpd, the san francisco police department. our parking control officers remain out there to help direct traffic. they can issue parking citations including for things lick blocking the box and san francisco police at the present time has issued moving violations but one of the things we observed with motorists unless there's a officer posted at every single corner all day that motorists will decide that they are above the law and make the turn. >> i want to add to that and make a request. it happened on thursday night. there was a car slowing down the traffic on market street. i want to point out that one of the things -- i was talking to the operator. there were a lot more bicyclists and making sure we talked to the operators that there's a lot more bicycles who may or may not be vigilant in going around the bus and so i know that she felt a little bit of pause just because they weren't expecting the increase in volume and i guess more of the free reign beh

any job opportunities offered to recent college graduates at the sfmta. i'll pipe in and say that we of course have an internship program that is amazing at sfmta, truly a training-ground. many people who have gone through our internship program end up working at sfmta. and really people should be looking on our linkedin website and the city website. we post a diverse range of positions. it's important to retain and attract talent. >> if you google jobs with the sfmta, the jobs portal will come up. another position that just opened up just today is our transit ambassador program, which is a really fascinating job. it's for entry-level people, particularly san franciscans, who live in the southeastern neighborhoods to ride our school tripper services in order to help ensure that muni is civil. it's our alternative to having a police force ride muni. instead we train people in the community who understand the kids in their neighborhoods and can engage with riders in order to support civil behavior and that we all need to get to what we are getting to. >> th

. >>> meantime, the sfmta is now saying an employee who tested positive for the virus is a bus driver who worked out of the potrero division. to keep treasures maxeys, they said they are directing high risk or sick employees to stay home and make sure operators close the security barrier between them and riders. >>> starting monday, the sfmta will implement additional service changes during the shelter in place order. all muni metro and light rail routes will be replaced by buses. >>> a short time ago, bart's board of directors held a meeting to discuss the plunging ridership and revenue for the transit system. the number of passengers has dropped by almost 90%. bart officials say if the shelter in place orders continue through the fiscal year, the transit agency estimates financial losses of about $149. >>> this just in, more than two male passengers aboard the grand princess cruise ship then housed at travis air force base have died from complications from the creditors. when on march 21st, the other on march 23rd. both have been transferred to medical facilities in the area after d

at this point i will turn it over to my colleague from sfmta. >> good evening. i am director of transportation for san francisco. public transportation is anential government service. it is how nurses and firefighters get to work and how residents get their groceries and prescription drugs. so we will be working hard to ensure that public transit continues throughout this public health emergency to ensure that people can get to work and get the services and supplies they need. at muni we are working to rearrange services to decrease the amount of financial district express service to reallocate service to our neighborhood lines and lines that serve our health care facilities so our passengers can better maintain social distancing on the bus. for the health emergency we will also be eliminating service on the cable cars and f and e lines in order to protect the health of our operators. ensuring that on all the lines we are operating our operators have a partition between their cabin and the rest of the transit vehicle. as you all know, muni vehicles are thoroughl

-sfmta. daily they protect the city while working with long hours. some of these officers, they struggle with housing and health care. despite this, the officers present today show passion and dedication to protecting the public. i urge you to approve a union company like a.u.s. so our members continue to have a voice at work and job protections with paid sick days, holidays, and a grievance procedure. can we count on your support to keep our responsible contractor like a.u.s. for our security officers? thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning. roger marenko. we are in support of more security, especially because these are all union jobs. however, in terms of what mr. mar stated, people coming into the facilities, urinating, defecating, etc., i'd like everyone to know that the most prominent property of the sfmta where this occurs at is the buses. so i'd like the members to think about not only extending this to the actual buildings but to the actual buses, to the trains, whether it's, you know, security g

we worked in collaboration with the sfmta and many community groups to create the low income discounts for towing, booting, and payment plans. i really want to thank the m.t.a. staff who are always open to being in dialog with us at the financial justice project and also community groups. i want to speak in support of the reduced towing fee for people struggling with homelessness. i think this is an important step in the right direction and we support it. probably one of the most important starts of my job is listening to people in community groups and residents about how these various penalties are hitting them and i just would like to share some of what i've heard. going from $236 to $100, having 15 days to put that money together, that will make a difference for folks. they'll have a longer amount of time to come up with a smaller amount of money. and we hear that coming up with $100 might as well be like coming up with a million dollars. we have to realize that people don't have this money. they're going to be scraping it together probably from community groups, their support netwo

is happening with the sfmta. i know people had a number of questions around parking, tickets and showing and around things related to community. mr. tomlin is here to provide you with an up date. >> good evening . i'm director of transportation for san francisco. as the mayor has said this is an evolving situation for all of us. our policies will continue to evolve along with the advice from the mayor's office and the department of public health. you can always go to our website at sfmta.com as the mayor said effective midnight tonight we will no longer be enforcing the rules for street sweeping. she also said it is important our streets not be allowed to get filthy. if you can, move your car for street sweeping. this will allow the street sweepers which are continuing to operate to keep our streets clean. citations that were issued today for street sweeping violations, those will be waived. you will need to follow the waiver procedures on our website. we are waiving all late fees and late penalties and deadlines

you just heard from the director for sfmta about public transportation. bart is an essential service. and our workers, our front line employees, stand ready to provide reliable mobility and to provide essential service to workers who are our first responders who are providing health care services, who are providing social services, and for the folks who are working at grocery stores and institutions that need to be kept open in these trying times. so bart's ready to do that. we are providing regular service. once again, bart will be providing regular service with long enough trains that will allow for essential distancing. that's happening right now. we are disinfecting and doubling down on the cleaning to keep our riders and our front line employees safe. every night our cars are being cleaned. the trains are being wiped down. routinely we're getting comments through the twitter sphere about how well the stations are looking and what a nice job we're doing there. so bart police and employees who are essential to running service are going to continue to r

for our next -- for a second agency that we wanted to look at was sfmta. we asked sfmta to allow more funding to build an effective equitable and sustainable transportation program for s.f. youth and students and make sure that s.f. youth and students are making it to school on time and not having overcrowded buses skipping stops. we have seen an inaccessibility to signing up for the free muni for youth program and youth across the city aren't getting the benefit of free muni. and we wahave held a town hall and we talked to many students that ride the 29 bus, and there have been many issues with the bus skipping stops, the bus being crowded, and the bus being late at times. this has been an issue for many years, considering the bus falls within 15 schools, a mall, and we also have a college and the b.a.r.t. station, as well. and it also passes through many diverse neighborhoods with many people coming in and out of the neighborhood and going to different places. so we believe this is a bus that needs to be focused on so that the improvements will be there

claim tracking and negotiates related to schedule delays and differing conditions continue between sfmta who is the project lead and contracting authority and the contractor. final resolution of those claims will impact project budget and milestones and the cost variance is due to the anticipated contractor self-costs for at the resolving claims. similarly, market street improvements phase one is forecasting a schedule and cost variance. they're progressing toward the 99% milestone in a few months. the advertisement is still targeted for the summer of 2020, however, the full corridor has been deferred to pending design negotiations between public works and sfmta. public works is the lead for the project and they need to resolve cost-sharing with partner departments. the cost variance is due to cost sharing amounts for construction litigation, traffic control rerouting, bus stations, et cetera. -- bus substitutions, excuse me. and it was made to add a block in 5th street and 6th street and three-year construction duration. those are larger scope adjustments to the project. >> we just had

sfmta addressed some of the driver concerns by installing protective operator barriers on the entireleet of buses. >>> time is 6:17. and the sierra, health officials really worried people are violating the stay at home order. officials emphasized recreation and tourism are not essential functions. no matter how safe visitors say they'll be. county leaders say rental properties should only stay open for emergency housing for first responders or health workers or the homeless. the goal is to scourge people from driving up to the mountains even to their own vacation homes. >> they do have to stop somewhere along the way to use the bathroom, to get food, then those are additional exposures. >> and, health officials say if there is an outbreak in tahoe, it would overwhelm their small hospitals. >>> time is 6:18. while the immediate focus is on how fast the coronavirus is spreading right now, cal fire is concerned about how it could affect us during wild fire season. now, there hasn't been a whole lot of rain this year, so cal fire is preparing for another year of big fires and the big pri

our february meeting, we had a very informative transportation panel with sfmta's accessibility services. we also are in deep preparation and planning and discussion of our 2020 getting there together event. i don't know if all of you were there, but i'm sure most of you are aware that we held this last year with all of our organizations and city organizations, park and recreation. we all came together and we'll be doing that again on sunday, september 13th, celebrating adults with disability and those of us working in aging. we're right now finalizing the response or report from last year and the packet looking for sponsors for this year. i am stepping down as cochair in part of my semi retirement and dan gallagher of steppingstone is stepping up. so greg and dan will be cochairs of case and patty, the treasurer, christina irving, the secretary. this was the part where greg was going to loud me, but because he's not here, i get to loud him. so let me just say because it's a public forum, that greg moore is one of the finest advocates and person of service in san francisco working with a

. >> welcome to the sfmta online budget open house top to ask a question about the key transportation decisions to be made for fiscal years 2021, 2022.

on monday sfmta will shut down all muni metro and light rail service in response tote a loss ridership. >> allows them to take the custodians this in these stations to higher use facility. j, k, l, t, m, and m lines. >> route won't change. still be able to picked up on the surface where you are normally. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. announced ridership is down 92%. we waited to interview a rider and waited and waited. samantha stewart, only transportation to oakland. >> start closing at 9:00 but i work at whole foods, they've been gracious allow me to come in different times. >> reporter: empty platforms and trains have felt weird. >> first week was awesome, less people shoving you in the face. second week, a lot of troubled people. >> edero >> rorte mun rapidtes discontin. may open another route somewhere else. >> can send an operator on standby and add busses to any particular route any given time. allows us to adapt and adjust as ridership changes. >> due to 92% loss of ridership on b.a.r.t., estimating loss of nearly $18 million. and world famous cable cars are out of service since last w

. ♪ >> welcome to the sfmta online budget open house top to ask a question about the key transportationfor fiscal years 2021, 2022. call (415)646-2222 [speaking foreign language]

on monday sfmta will shut down all muni metro and light rail service in response to shelter in place mandate and loss in ridership. >> allows them to take the custodians this in these stations to higher use facility. j, k, l, t, m, and m lines. >> route won't change. still be able to picked up on the surface where you are normally. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. announced ridership is down 92%. we waited to interview a rider and waited and waited. samantha stewart, only transportation to oakland. >> start closing at 9:00 but i work at whole foods, they've been gracious allow me to come in different times. >> reporter: empty platforms and trains have felt weird. >> first week was awesome, less people shoving you in the face. second week, a lot of tro >>mbro statio also temporarily discontinued. may open another route somewhere else. >> can send an operator on standby and add busses to any particular route any given tim ridership changes. >> due to 92% loss of ridership on b.a.r.t., estimating loss of nearly $18 million. and world famous cable cars are out of service since last week, replaced b

as you all know this is a continually changing situation and we urge you to go to sfmta dot com for further updates, thank you. a and our next speaker is bob powers, general manager part. good afternoon has everybody doing this afternoon. so bob powers from the general manager with are just a couple of updates on so first. part is an essential service you just heard the director for s of mta about public transportation part is an essential service. and our workers our front-line employees stand ready to provide it a reliable mobility and to provide essential service to workers who are our first responders who are providing. health care services who are providing social and for the folks who are working grocery stores institutions that need to be kept open in these trying times so parts ready to do that we are providing regular service once again far will be providing regular service with long enough trains and that will allow for social distancing. that's happening right now. we are disinfecting and doubling down on the cleaning to keep our riders and our front-line employees safe. every ni

claim tracking and negotiates related to schedule delays and differing conditions continue between sfmta who is the project lead and contracting authority and the contractor. final resolution of those claims will impact project budget and milestones and the cost variance is due to the anticipated contractor self-costs for at the resolving claims. similarly, market street improvements phase one is forecasting a schedule and cost variance. they're progressing toward the 99% milestone in a few months. the advertisement is still targeted for the summer of 2020, however, the full corridor has been deferred to pending design negotiations between public works and sfmta. public works is the lead for the project and they need to resolve cost-sharing with partner departments. the cost variance is due to cost sharing amounts for construction litigation, traffic control rerouting, bus stations, et cetera. -- bus substitutions, excuse me. and it was made to add a block in 5th street and 6th street and three-year construction duration. those are larger scope adjustments to the project. >> we just had

sfmta is a fully corrupt and they're favoring gap companies and you name it.hey're being given incentives with so many different ways. not taking care of the medallion and the coronavirus virus started coming into the fact. we are desperately needing how are we going to pay to the bank. how are we going to pay these grab companies? do we have to go back to or native countries that we are born. we are american citizens so we have to go back to our native countries and bring the money and pay these cab companies to the bank. everybody up there taxicab have been healthy and chicago they have been helped and san diego they have been helped. why not in san francisco? san francisco used to be a role model. why not now when we are in need? remember, these are sitting today. these chairs are not going to remain under you forever. it was also a mayor of san francisco and it's time. one day it's going to pull on it. >> you have one question remaining. >> hello, this is thomas. i am a student of history and what's going on in the world today remines me of a book. it talk

months i get off of 5 sosa sa the fun part was t available for an interview but posted on thr website sfmtatrait. >>and other alternative bus operators willprovide service after 09:00pm for any stay late this union city bus driver had to say about e changes. >>we don't think that many people because everything' must we must close we don't see many people around. for weeks barr has been monioring the coronavirus outbreak d the fl of wrers numbers show ridership agency feeling the economic impact citing million reduction irevenue part is seeking emergency nds from all levels of government duri this crisis, bart says they will monitor ridership data each day to determine how long the service hours will remaiin effect reporting in union city gayle ong kron news. >>nba players have now been diagnosed with coronavirus which leaves many wondering how did they even get agnosed in the first place when testing optio arstill so scarce for most of the u s om 4 skate running takes a look. >>first it was jazz player, rudy go ba than his teammate donovan mitchell and since go bears diaosis. last wednesday

health care workers up and running as quickly as possible sfmta will stop issuing tickets related to street sweeping and will waive tickets that were given out today. we understand for people who are quarantine it may be impossible for them to move their cars. however for those of you who can move cars doing street cleaning we asked you do it helps us to continue to keep the streets clean. as much as we possibly can your full cooperation would be appreciated at this time, but we wanted to be clear that we won't be issuing tickets for st. cleaning. in terms of the cannabis dispensaries the department of public health today clarified that sense cannabis has medical uses dispensaries will be allowed to operate as essential businesses just as pharmacies are allowed to do. almost every bay area county today reported new confirmed cases of coronavirus santa clara county announced one new coronavirus related deaths. >>that total is now 5. we know he was a man in his 50's was hospitalized over the weekend and died today farther south monterey county confirmed its first 2 cases right now ther

. >> you've been listening to the director of the sfmta and talking about changes to muni and for example some lines will be canceled for now, the cable car and f line which is a train that rides along the embarcadero because there is no partition that separates drivers and passengers and they want to make sure drivers are safe and they will ease up on parking violations and things like that for now. we will keep an eye on the situation. bart is supposed to talk about some changes possibly to transit but right now, this shelter order in place does not affect public transit. they may make some changes but we will keep you posted. another nation in the nation that is so restricted after this order, the reason, california has 519 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, and the bay area health officials want to slow down the spread before it serves out of control. for example in washington state, nearly 800 cases and hospitals are growing overwhelmed and the hospital has the most deaths in the nation and new york, another hot spot with a thousand cases and the governor wants to relieve pressure o

>>muni was noticeably less crowded as well the sfmta doesn't have real time access to ridership numbersnfair tag data telling trending tale average weekday ridership was down 16% the first week of the month and dropped by 30% last week compared with typical totals in the month of march part is running on its regular schedule with longer trains to allow for recommended social-distancing muni metro rail is also running on its regular schedule reporting in san francisco, kate rooney kron 4 news. >>americans are getting an extra 3 months to pay any additional taxes that they may owe to the irs. >>taxpayers who owe money to the usually have to send it by april 15th right. but now individual taxpayers and small businesses they can defer payments of up to million for corporations that's up to 10 million. however you should still fall your taxes by april 15th. and they're requesting a 6 month extension is still an option for you. the new deadline applies only to federal taxes but some states including california they are setting their own new guidelines. well still morning news empty store shel

every source of revenue for the sfmta -- fares, parking, fees and fines, all of the contributions of the general fund including sales tax and hotel tax and a variety of other commercial taxes are all declining rapidly and for an unknown period of time. nonetheless, it is essential that we move forward as we consider the necessary changes we'll make to economic reality. of course we need to confront the economic reality to the agency but also the economic reality of san franciscans. as we stated repeatedly, the only statement of value for any city agency is its budget. with values as a starting place, it's easy for us to make adjustments as we go on because we stand in principle. one of the questions we will need to face is do we cut fares or do we cut service? that oversimplifies the challenge, and as the budget team will present this afternoon, we are doing a lot to try to improve efficiency in this, but we know we still have a gap. i'd like to also remind you that we are grateful for the public who has contributed hundreds of comments on-line. as we've tried to move our public proc

in terms of parking, the sfmta will stop issuing tickets related to street sweeping and will waive ticketsre given out today. however, for those of you who can move your cars during street cleaning, we ask that you do so. that since cannabis has medical use, dispensaries will be

i've also reached out to sfmta and am going to engage with their board about some of the questions around enforcement and fee enforcement locally. and we'll beutting something forward around that to make sure that during this time we're not putting excessive and unnecessary burdens on our residents because of either tickets or fees that can add up and create unnecessary burdens making it difficult for them to abide by the health measures as well. the rest i submit. >> clerk: supervisor ronen? mr. president. that concludes the introduction of new business. >> president yee: i see there is probably going to be public comment short, so i won't divide it up, because there are items we need to hear since it's about already past 3:00. i'll take public comment on -- general public comment. go ahead, sir. >> 36,000 people died last year of the flu. 50 have died of the chinese wuhan virus. why isn't somebody saying this? and fewer are believing the democrats, honestly. this is nothing more than a new russian collusion hoax by the democrats. that is exactly what it is. and nobody here is saying any