director, tarloff and director. so on a tour of the tunnel around embarcadero station last tuesday night, which went quite late, getting a sense of all of the work that our crews are doing during fixit week to help the system run smoothly and deliver numbers like the 89% reduction in short delays that we were so happy to see. and i found that. so education cool and so inspiring to see the crews so hard at work, making sure that we can deliver the high quality service you spoke about. so i want to thank you, recognize you, director, tarloff and director. so for taking the time out and taking your naps before the 11 p.m. start of that tour and thank the team and charles drain, in particular, for putting that together, and on that topic, i would like to, through christine, invite you all to the post-fix at week get together that all the maintenance crews do at a much more reasonable hour of the morning. this is one of my favorite things to do throughout the agency. all of the crews who are involved in fix it week, ever

director tarloff, are you? i was just saying if anybody okay, i didn't i didn't see your name showing. okay, if there's no comment, i will ask for a motion on both 15 a and 15 b. the operating and capital budgets. is there motion and a second. i'll move it. thank you. is there a second? okay. please call the roll on the motion to approve items 15 a and 15 b. director heminger heminger i, director henderson henderson. i director hinsey i. i director. so i so i director tarloff i tarlov i director kehena i kehena i can i can i thank you those items are approved. thank you thank you everyone. thank you so much. please go ahead and call the next item. next item. item 16. approve class four protected bikeway a class four protected bikeway on howard street between the embarcadero and fourth street and approving various traffic and parking modifications between the embarcadero and fourth street to improve bike and pedestrian safety. as part of the trans bay howard streetscape improvement project. okay staff is probabl

i'm the vice president of the glen park merchants association and i am here in support of janet tarloff. and i've worked with her for many years, probably about six years with her and the merchants association. and definitely she is a hard working, determined, dedicated, resilient human being and, looking back, during the pandemic, i really have to say she was pretty amazing, getting and keeping her business open and providing essential goods to . the neighborhood and just to see her manage and direct her employees and the customers was pretty an amazing feat, and if there wasn't any employees, janet was boots on the ground, on the floor, stalking, trying to find orders for eggs. she was at the front door. she was a cashier. so definitely she was hard working and very conscious. of the neighborhood and the needs of the neighborhood, and regarding merchants, just a quick, little, not little story, but, we have a merchant, in glen park that was assaulted by a shoplifter and fortunately, the shoplifter was apprehended, the shop owner wasn't badly hurt, but janet took the time out to visit

director heminger a heminger i director hinsey i kinsey i director so i so i director tarloff i tarloff director kikina i kikina i chair i can i can i thank you that motion passes bringing you back to item 11. a seafoam water i think we have we have some additional analysis to share the, i do have it on the. there we go. okay. so in a world where we apply indexing only, but we exclude the cash fare so that there is no impact to cash fares, the clipper discount would remain $0.50. the multiplier would remain 32, we would continue to do the rpm cost neutral ppe, which has been in the same and all the options and we and exclude fees for taxi drivers. we could then bring parking fines down by 9, 9% instead of ten, and we would have $100,000 deficit. so we're almost there, but not quite. i'm sorry. oh that's actually a there we go. okay. thanks. what's the increment? every percent of parking fines equals how much dollars. oh, you know. having a real moment with the networking. about 2 million bucks. and. yeah, about 2 million bucks. chair, man. yeah please. go ahead, go ahead. i'm just looki

tarloff. here to present. chair eken. here. eken. present. director is not expected today. for the record, i note that director hinsey is attending this meeting remotely. director hinsey is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting. and in order to speak or vote on any items, places you on item number three. the ringing and use of cell phones and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. the chair may order the removal from the meeting room. any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing producing electronic device