we have director tumlin, who i think was in a role similar to mr. walker in advising transit agencies on how to map out their transit systems. why did we hire a consultant to put together and lead this process for redesign? why was this not just done in-house? >> supervisor, first, gerald walker is not leading the redesign process, by no means. staff are leading this process. we're entirely leading this process, we don't delegate decision making to outsiders. i would note that julie's transit planning team has a 50% vacancy rate, and we're facing an unprecedented change. we needed to bring a consultant in because we needed help for the project. we brought in gerald walker to do staff work so we can focus on policy making and decision making. we are desperate for some outside help to help us through this period of unprecedented change, not only dealing with covid but also dealing with the fact that travel patterns in san francisco have changed dramatically since the last time we did any service planning. simply putting the service back the way it was

and thank you on the wayfinding and for director tumlin as well. that has been really -- i have gotten a lot of feedback on that since joining this board for people who ride into the center. i look forward to doing even more work there. it is very important. thank you. >> thank you director shaw. we will plan a time, nila, to properly thank john before he leaves us. >> that's right. and hopefully we can be in person to do it. he's not leaving us yet. he'll be here for a bit. the great thing is, he and i have worked on what that person might look like. no way to replace him, but it will be great because we'll be able to -- take them under john's wing and a nice transition. >> right, thank you. director tumlin, thank you for your assist with the wayfinding. >> thank you john for your quick action and john i want to thank you as somebody who has to manage a good deal of publicly owned privately leased property, i know just how challenging it is to find tenants right now. you should be very proud of your work getting the spaces filled. so thank you, th

my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm proud to say that on this day, 148 years ago, andrew holiday tested what was then called holiday's falling. adapting obscure gold rush mining technology in order to try to make a form of transportation that can bring san franciscans up and down our crazy hills. no one thought it would work. and cable cars became one of the most popular forms of public transportation in the city and allow the city to develop beyond the tiny clusters of buildings. we're so pleased that not only did the symbol of san francisco's enginuity survived, but the symbol of our resilience has survived as well. we're many efforts to try to shut them down so i'm so happy to be bringing these services back and i have so many people i have to thank. i need to thank all of the cable car operates and administrators most of whom worked keeping the vaccination clinics running and doing a thousand other jobs as disaster service workers throughout the pandemic. and, they are here. we are so grateful to them. there are so many people who during the pandemic work to maintain our fleets and

director tumlin, you laid it out. as commissioners, we have to represent everybody's interest here in san francisco, and that absolutely has to be clear. you know, pedestrians, cars everybody, and we can't have people getting run over by bicycles or whatever on the embarcadero or coming out like commissioner barton said he did. so i'm good with that, but i do want to know, what are we voting on today? i don't know, dan, so you can make it crystal clear so i understand it, and what are you and everybody going to come back with on the next phase and then on the next phase? thank you. >> commissioner, i have to stress that this is phase 1-a. there will be a 1-a, there will be a 1-b, and phase two. phase 1-a is from folsom street to broadway, and a couple of blocks of that, from folsom to mission, is on a previous build. so it focuses largely on the area in front of the central embarcadero, in front of the ferry building and extending up to broadway street. and it's a 1-a, as it's done with very simple, quick, improvement

and fundamentally, and i think director tumlin understands this on some level. you can't cut the board of supervisors out. m.t.a. commissioners do not get their door knocked on or their e-mails blown up for restoration of the two or the 28 or the 31 or the 39. i mean, i can't leave my house when, you know, and walk five blocks without hearing about the 39, which ace teeny tiny feeder line, but every old person on the hill needs that to bring their groceries home. that's just how it is. so i think the urgency of this board -- i agree, we're not out of the pandemic, but we're getting there, and saying, hey, m.t.a., this is a shared priority. and m.t.a., you heard it this morning, we agree, 100% restoration. where it gets fuzzy, is what does 100% restoration mean? and clearly when they're sun shining that agency, they're learning more than we're hearing. that does not mean there is a nefarious thing going on. this is a quickly changing situation. you have schools to deal with, operator shortages, you've got people who don'twa want to come to work. we are coming out

director tumlin, you laid it out.mmissioners, we have to represent everybody's interest here in san francisco, and that absolutely has to be clear. you know, pedestrians, cars everybody, and we can't have people getting run over by bicycles or whatever on the embarcadero or coming out like commissioner barton said he did. so i'm good with that, but i do want to know, what are we voting on today? i don't know, dan, so you can make it crystal clear so i understand it, and what are you and everybody going to come back with on the next phase and then on the next phase? thank you. >> commissioner, i have to stress that this is phase 1-a. there will be a 1-a, there will be a 1-b, and phase two. phase 1-a is from folsom street to broadway, and a couple of blocks of that, from folsom to mission, is on a previous build. so it focuses largely on the area in front of the central embarcadero, in front of the ferry building and extending up to broadway street. and it's a 1-a, as it's done with very simple, quick, improvements as d

and fundamentally, and i think director tumlin understands this on some level. you can't cut the board of supervisors out. m.t.a. commissioners do not get their door knocked on or their e-mails blown up for restoration of the two or the 28 or the 31 or the 39. i mean, i can't leave my house when, you know, and walk five blocks without hearing about the 39, which ace teeny tiny feeder line, but every old person on the hill needs that to bring their groceries home. that's just how it is. so i think the urgency of this board -- i agree, we're not out of the pandemic, but we're getting there, and saying, hey, m.t.a., this is a shared priority. and m.t.a., you heard it this morning, we agree, 100% restoration. where it gets fuzzy, is what does 100% restoration mean? and clearly when they're sun shining that agency, they're learning more than we're hearing. that does not mean there is a nefarious thing going on. this is a quickly changing situation. you have schools to deal with, operator shortages, you've got people who don'twa want to come to work. we are coming out

and jeff tumlin, the head of that department. i want to thank the transportation authority for the resources provided for this project as well and i want to thank the office of economic workforce development for working with the community and working with the number of the businesses that are here. i want to thank this community especially, the businesses, that are in the in the place. it's a great place to visit. you can find anything you need here. if you want a sandwich, go to gus'. if you want a t-shirt, go at any of these stores, jewelry and anything and in fact on in this art space, valley stepped in and she made sure this work was done and she helped respond to this community and deal with the challenges and so again, we are so excited and grateful to be here today so as we reopen, make sure you visit these stores and support the community. this is a historic neighborhood in san francisco and we want to make sure that it is thriving and that it is clean, and it's safe and here for generations to come. thank you all so much

director tumlin? >> first, i'd like to turn it floor over to transit director julie kirchbaum, who will be offering some special recognition. >> clerk: and for those in the conference room that are streaming with us, you may need to dial star, 6 to unmute your mic. we do see you. and i believe that i can spotlight them so you can see them better. >> can you guys see us? >> clerk: yes, we can. thank you. >> okay. so we're not quite ready to be doing in-person meetings, but something as personal as a recognition, we wanted to attempt to have some of us in the same space, so i'm julie kirchbaum, the staff director, and i'm going to be honoring two people today. first is joseph kibble, and with me is [inaudible] and it's going to take both of us to do it justice. in service to the public, our operators have to wear dozens of hots, and there's no more heroic example of that than what happened on monday, june 14, on the 14 mission. joseph was driving his route, and an elderly passenger had what appeared to

my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm proud to say that on this day, 148 years ago, andrew holiday tested what was then called holiday's falling. adapting obscure gold rush mining technology in order to try to make a form of transportation that can bring san franciscans up and down our crazy hills. no one thought it would work. and cable cars became one of the most popular forms of public transportation in the city and allow the city to develop beyond the tiny clusters of buildings. we're so pleased that not only did the symbol of san francisco's enginuity survived, but the symbol of our resilience has survived as well. we're many efforts to try to shut them down so i'm so happy to be bringing these services back and i have so many people i have to thank. i need to thank all of the cable car operates and administrators most of whom worked keeping the vaccination clinics running and doing a thousand other jobs as disaster service workers throughout the pandemic. and, they are here. we are so grateful to them. there are so many people who during the pandemic work to maintain our fleets and

director tumlin?rst, i'd like to turn it floor over to transit director julie kirchbaum, who will be offering some special recognition. >> clerk: and for those in the conference room that are streaming with us, you may need to dial star, 6 to unmute your mic. we do see you. and i believe that i can spotlight them so you can see them better. >> can you guys see us? >> clerk: yes, we can. thank you. >> okay. so we're not quite ready to be doing in-person meetings, but something as personal as a recognition, we wanted to attempt to have some of us in the same space, so i'm julie kirchbaum, the staff director, and i'm going to be honoring two people today. first is joseph kibble, and with me is [inaudible] and it's going to take both of us to do it justice. in service to the public, our operators have to wear dozens of hots, and there's no more heroic example of that than what happened on monday, june 14, on the 14 mission. joseph was driving his route, and an elderly passenger had what appeared to be a h

. >> director tumlin: in addition to -- i don't want to cut you off. slow streets. my thoughts on slow streets is clear until now. sound like we had a lot of strong feelings on both sides. my question is how do we think we are going to address feeling of adversarialness on these streets. i've gone to the streets and i seen how they work. i do want to see -- since this is a project of our agency. i wonder if we have some kind of plan or idea of how to mend what seem to be some broken bond between neighbors. particularly on sanchez. that doesn't sit really well with me. may be it's not our responsibility. we're a small town kind of. we're a small city. how many times have i run into someone on the street that i seen around. i want to make sure that we're thinking about social cohesion on these streets as we move forward with this pilot. >> i think that is a common theme that i heard from lot of different slow streets. for people who are proponents for more free space and recreation and bicycling and walking, being really adversarial and negative to people who are driv

. >> i want to express our agency's appreciation oh collaboration with director tumlin and sfmta team. even though are strategies presented, you will all see directors as well as the public, there's a lot of cross-linkage between the two. i will note that we all understand the strategic importance for san francisco of developing the strategy ultimately bringing this forward in our advocacy to voters and to the public in general, especially in light of the tremendous potential funding opportunities that is discussed in san francisco and washington. >> hello directors. i'm the senior transportation planner at sfmta. we'll be discussing the streets and freeway strategy. the streets and freeways strategy started with an understanding of the challenges we have and identify how our streets and freeways to help support san francisco. we're seeing congestion return. we need to manage our streets so we can move more people and goods through the same space that we have today. we have freeways and major streets that divide our communities, contribute to poor air quality and create safety challen

. >> director tumlin: in addition to -- i don't want to cut you off. slow streets. my thoughts on slow streets is clear until now. sound like we had a lot of strong feelings on both sides. my question is how do we think we are going to address feeling of adversarialness on these streets. i've gone to the streets and i seen how they work. i do want to see -- since this is a project of our agency. i wonder if we have some kind of plan or idea of how to mend what seem to be some broken bond between neighbors. particularly on sanchez. that doesn't sit really well with me. may be it's not our responsibility. we're a small town kind of. we're a small city. how many times have i run into someone on the street that i seen around. i want to make sure that we're thinking about social cohesion on these streets as we move forward with this pilot. >> i think that is a common theme that i heard from lot of different slow streets. for people who are proponents for more free space and recreation and bicycling and walking, being really adversarial and negative to people who are driv

thank you, director tumlin. let's open it up for public comment. >> clerk: and again, members of the public, this is for item 9, the sfmta transit recovery plan update. and we'll move onto our first caller now. hello, caller, your one minute begins now. >> hi. my name is [inaudible] and i live in the excelsior. i [inaudible] that you keep saying that you're in a [inaudible] resolution that [inaudible] thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. hello, caller. your minute -- hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hi. this is patricia eric. i'm a member of senior and disability action. i want to speak about the slide that showed uber use cutting into your fares. as a senior and a disabled person, i would be afraid to ride the bus, and i didn't hear anything in your presentation about security. we all know that crime has gone through the roof. street assaults, particularly on the chinese population, petty thefts in particular. we want to make the wait areas on the street safe for vulnerable people who would ride the

my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm proud to say that on this day, 148 years ago, andrew holiday tested what was then called holiday's falling. adapting obscure gold rush mining technology in order to try to make a form of transportation that can bring san franciscans up and down our crazy hills. no one thought it would work. and cable cars became one of the most popular forms of public transportation in the city and allow the city to develop beyond the tiny clusters of buildings. we're so pleased that not only did the symbol of san francisco's enginuity survived, but the symbol of our resilience has survived as well. we're many efforts to try to shut them down so i'm so happy to be bringing these services back and i have so many people i have to thank. i need to thank all of the cable car operates and administrators most of whom worked keeping the vaccination clinics running and doing a thousand other jobs as disaster service workers throughout the pandemic. and, they are here. we are so grateful to them. there are so many people who during the pandemic work to maintain our fleets and

my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm proud to say that on this day, 148 years ago, andrew holiday testedthen called holiday's falling. adapting obscure gold rush mining technology in order to try to make a form of transportation that can bring san franciscans up and down our crazy hills. no one thought it would work. and cable cars became one of the most popular forms of public transportation in the city and allow the city to develop beyond the tiny clusters of buildings. we're so pleased that not only did the symbol of san francisco's enginuity survived, but the symbol of our resilience has survived as well. we're many efforts to try to shut them down so i'm so happy to be bringing these services back and i have so many people i have to thank. i need to thank all of the cable car operates and administrators most of whom worked keeping the vaccination clinics running and doing a thousand other jobs as disaster service workers throughout the pandemic. and, they are here. we are so grateful to them. there are so many people who during the pandemic work to maintain our fleets and rebuild hi

. >> director tumlin: in addition to -- i don't want to cut you off. slow streets. my thoughts on slow streets is clear until now. sound like we had a lot of strong feelings on both sides. my question is how do we think we are going to address feeling of adversarialness on these streets. i've gone to the streets and i seen how they work. i do want to see -- since this is a project of our agency. i wonder if we have some kind of plan or idea of how to mend what seem to be some broken bond between neighbors. particularly on sanchez. that doesn't sit really well with me. may be it's not our responsibility. we're a small town kind of. we're a small city. how many times have i run into someone on the street that i seen around. i want to make sure that we're thinking about social cohesion on these streets as we move forward with this pilot. >> i think that is a common theme that i heard from lot of different slow streets. for people who are proponents for more free space and recreation and bicycling and walking, being really adversarial and negative to people who are driv

need and also a lot of past hard that i'm working to try to mitigate in partnership with director tumlin and other leaders across the agency. so the last one, i'm waiting for these approvals and finalization of the assessment work before these go live, but there will be three manager positions and one supervisor positions, an equity workforce and workplace manager and an equity services manager and an equity sources supervisor. i won't go through the minimum qualifications. it is important to note that for our qualifications, you need to have a bachelors and you can substitute that with additional qualifying experience. you have to be working at a mass transit agency, and i want to include working at mass transportation departments, but working in transit is also a qualifying experience, and also with supervisory experience, or you can substitute one year of supervisory experience with that requirement. so really trying to make sure that we're being thoughtful with barriers to hiring and barriers to -- especially diverse workforce accessing our job opportunities, and one thing i'm very h

my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm proud to say that on this day, 148 years ago, andrew holiday tested what was then called holiday's falling. adapting obscure gold rush mining technology in order to try to make a form of transportation that can bring san franciscans up and down our crazy hills. no one thought it would work. and cable cars became one of the most popular forms of public transportation in the city and allow the city to develop beyond the tiny clusters of buildings. we're so pleased that not only did the symbol of san francisco's enginuity survived, but the symbol of our resilience has survived as well. we're many efforts to try to shut them down so i'm so happy to be bringing these services back and i have so many people i have to thank. i need to thank all of the cable car operates and administrators most of whom worked keeping the vaccination clinics running and doing a thousand other jobs as disaster service workers throughout the pandemic. and, they are here. we are so grateful to them. there are so many people who during the pandemic work to maintain our fleets and

my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm proud to say that on this day, 148 years ago, andrew holiday tested what was then called holiday's falling. adapting obscure gold rush mining technology in order to try to make a form of transportation that can bring san franciscans up and down our crazy hills. no one thought it would work. and cable cars became one of the most popular forms of public transportation in the city and allow the city to develop beyond the tiny clusters of buildings. we're so pleased that not only did the symbol of san francisco's enginuity survived, but the symbol of our resilience has survived as well. we're many efforts to try to shut them down so i'm so happy to be bringing these services back and i have so many people i have to thank. i need to thank all of the cable car operates and administrators most of whom worked keeping the vaccination clinics running and doing a thousand other jobs as disaster service workers throughout the pandemic. and, they are here. we are so grateful to them. there are so many people who during the pandemic work to maintain our fleets and

my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm proud to say that on this day, 148 years ago, andrew holiday tested what was then called holiday's falling. adapting obscure gold rush mining technology in order to try to make a form of transportation that can bring san franciscans up and down our crazy hills. no one thought it would work. and cable cars became one of the most popular forms of public transportation in the city and allow the city to develop beyond the tiny clusters of buildings. we're so pleased that not only did the symbol of san francisco's enginuity survived, but the symbol of our resilience has survived as well. we're many efforts to try to shut them down so i'm so happy to be bringing these services back and i have so many people i have to thank. i need to thank all of the cable car operates and administrators most of whom worked keeping the vaccination clinics running and doing a thousand other jobs as disaster service workers throughout the pandemic. and, they are here. we are so grateful to them. there are so many people who during the pandemic work to maintain our fleets and

my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm proud to say that on this day, 148 years ago, andrew holiday tested what was then called holiday's falling. adapting obscure gold rush mining technology in order to try to make a form of transportation that can bring san franciscans up and down our crazy hills. no one thought it would work. and cable cars became one of the most popular forms of public transportation in the city and allow the city to develop beyond the tiny clusters of buildings. we're so pleased that not only did the symbol of san francisco's enginuity survived, but the symbol of our resilience has survived as well. we're many efforts to try to shut them down so i'm so happy to be bringing these services back and i have so many people i have to thank. i need to thank all of the cable car operates and administrators most of whom worked keeping the vaccination clinics running and doing a thousand other jobs as disaster service workers throughout the pandemic. and, they are here. we are so grateful to them. there are so many people who during the pandemic work to maintain our fleets and

need and also a lot of past hard that i'm working to try to mitigate in partnership with director tumlin and other leaders across the agency. so the last one, i'm waiting for these approvals and finalization of the assessment work before these go live, but there will be three manager positions and one supervisor positions, an equity workforce and workplace manager and an equity services manager and an equity sources supervisor. i won't go through the minimum qualifications. it is important to note that for our qualifications, you need to have a bachelors and you can substitute that with additional qualifying experience. you have to be working at a mass transit agency, and i want to include working at mass transportation departments, but working in transit is also a qualifying experience, and also with supervisory experience, or you can substitute one year of supervisory experience with that requirement. so really trying to make sure that we're being thoughtful with barriers to hiring and barriers to -- especially diverse workforce accessing our job opportunities, and one thing i'm very h

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meeting, whether it's director of transportation tumlin or julie kirchbaum or supervisor preston, or all of us agree that we want 100% restoration of service, whatever that means, and there's some nuance there, and there's some issue, it's a question of priorities, remaining shelf life. so i would like to get some answers to those questions, and maybe we can do that a little bit offline. and this hearing only happened on friday. maybe we can do that on september 7 and do a little more due diligence around the contract and around the underlying policy trade-off over the next month. any way, that's food for thought for all of you to consider. i have not made a motion. >> president walton: so supervisor peskin, and i know you have not made a motion, but is your thought process we continue this to the 7th, and then, we'll have a more productive conversation with representatives from m.t.a. here at the meeting? >> supervisor peskin: yes, sir. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton. there is a reason why the g.a.o

meeting, whether it's director of transportation tumlin or julie kirchbaum or supervisor preston, or all of us agree that we want 100% restoration of service, whatever that means, and there's some nuance there, and there's some issue, it's a question of priorities, remaining shelf life. so i would like to get some answers to those questions, and maybe we can do that a little bit offline. and this hearing only happened on friday. maybe we can do that on september 7 and do a little more due diligence around the contract and around the underlying policy trade-off over the next month. any way, that's food for thought for all of you to consider. i have not made a motion. >> president walton: so supervisor peskin, and i know you have not made a motion, but is your thought process we continue this to the 7th, and then, we'll have a more productive conversation with representatives from m.t.a. here at the meeting? >> supervisor peskin: yes, sir. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton. there is a reason why the g.a.o