>> director tumlin: we do. the biggest set of hiring now is transit operators because that is who we need in order to restore transit service. we are hiring effectively every single job category in the agency. we have 1000 vacancies. they are everywhere every single team is overworked. that has been part of our challenge figuring out what do we need to move forward that's most urgently. >> director hinze: not all operators but the bulk of them. we are getting some movement in other classifications in the agency? >> director tumlin: in the six weeks from march 1st to mid-april, we hired 69 transit operators and 94 other people. >> director hinze: thank you. i want to compliment everyone who represented the agency on a weekend at the career fair. i heard some folks that people really showed out for that. i want to tag on to my colleague's comments around j.f.k. and commend the staff for their technical work and really analyzing the streets and figuring out sort of the best path forward in terms of plan that we co

>> director tumlin: continue doing what you do. i'm grateful for how you're involved in your communities. continue listening to community members what are their concerns and what is making them hesitant to ride transit and what can we do in order to help bring people back to transit and promote transit. >> vice chair eaken: then finally, just taking a like at that taylor and turk intersection on google map, we noticed we put in the right turn or red treatment. that's part of tenderloin changes we immediate. there's a series of daylighting and changes that we've made. i'm curious, you said it's still under investigation. any time you have to share those reports with us, i would appreciate any reflections you have on if we only done this, if we had this. what we learn as much as we possibly learn from these, i feel our best practices are already in place. i wonder how you make sense of this tragedy. >> director tumlin: one of the frustrations with the vision zero report, we report to you immediately which is often in advance of the s

>> director tumlin: we do. the biggest set of hiring now is transit operators because that is who we need in order to restore transit service. we are hiring effectively every single job category in the agency. we have 1000 vacancies. they are everywhere every single team is overworked. that has been part of our challenge figuring out what do we need to move forward that's most urgently. >> director hinze: not all operators but the bulk of them. we are getting some movement in other classifications in the agency? >> director tumlin: in the six weeks from march 1st to mid-april, we hired 69 transit operators and 94 other people. >> director hinze: thank you. i want to compliment everyone who represented the agency on a weekend at the career fair. i heard some folks that people really showed out for that. i want to tag on to my colleague's comments around j.f.k. and commend the staff for their technical work and really analyzing the streets and figuring out sort of the best path forward in terms of plan that we co

tumlin. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> and that's it for this episode. for sfgov tv i'm chris manors. thanks for watching. shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the bu

tumlin. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> my pleasure.thanks for having me. >> and that's it for this episode. for sfgov tv i'm chris manors. thanks for adjourned. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop & dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 my name is jim woods i'm the founder of woods beer company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adams what makes us unique is that we're reintegrated brooeg the beer and serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the xurpz drinking alongside we're having a lot of ingredient that get there's a lot to do the district of retail shop having that really close connection with the consumer allows us to do exciting things we decided to come to treasure island because we saw it as an amazing opportunity can't be beat the views and real estate that great coun

director tumlin i'm a fan of yours. if you need -- you need to lead now. thank you for taking my call. [ indiscernible ] >> chair borden: we're on item number 9. please call back in 10 minutes. thank you. next speaker. >> caller: hello. i'm from the senior disability action. i like to talk about the mask mandate. we can go to google online and go to san francisco covid infection rate and look at the graph. our infection rate has start going up ever since the mayor had released whatever it is, the general mask mandate. it's been going up ever since. if you look at the graph, our infection rate in san francisco is at the same rate as mid-february. we are going backwards. it seems very strange not have a mask mandate at this time. it will make it even worse for us and continue on with this covid. i'm tired of it. let's do the right thing to the very end so we can get rid of it or at least it's not at a high rate. second thing about, yes, the j.f.k. drive is closed. it doesn't make any sense to allow paratransit on there but not paratransit taxi. it's not acce

tumlin. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> my pleasure.having me. >> and that's it for this episode. for sfgov tv i'm chris manors. thanks for watching. >> you are watching san francisco rising. a special guest today. >> i am chris and you are watching san francisco rising. focused on rebuilding and reimagining our city. our guest is the director of financial justice in the san francisco office of treasure to talk about how the city has taken a national lead in this effort and how the program is comlishing the goals. welcome to the show. >> thanks so much for having me. >> thank you for being here. can we start by talking about the financial justice project in a broad sense. when did the initiative start and what is the intent? >> sure. it launched in 2016. since then we take a hard look at fines, fees, tickets, financial penalties hitting people with low incomes and especially people of color really hard. it is our job to assess and reform these fines and fees. >> do you have any comments for people financially stressed? >> yes. the finan

without our partners from sfmta we are incredibly grateful to mta staff for their hard work and jeff tumlinwhere are you? just come on out and take a bow, please. [applause] jeff is our leader. he is a visionary in the pursuit of healthier, safer and more sustainable san francisco. and he's here every day too. i got a handful of difficult customers. anyway, jeff, thank you for leaning into this with your technical expertise, but most importantly, with your heart and empathy for making sure that this park is accessible and available for everyone. thank you, jeff, so much. i also, as carolyn mentioned, i really want to thank our rec and park team who shepherded this project over two years and served with impassionate debate on all sides and our director of public affairs who worked so hard on this whole project for two years and worked so hard on throwing a great party today, sarah madlin. [applause] but none of this happens without all of you, so we want to thank all of the volunteers who worked tirelessly to secure this space thank you, david miles, thank you, where are you? the hardest wor

director tumlin and his team tracking this more closely in conjunction with the small, medium and large operators across the area. >> thank you both. let's open this up to public comment. i do notes see anyone in the chambers. check for virtual comment. >> your two minutes begins now. >> thank you. a lot of good things here. i support 2147. i don't think jaywalking should be criminalized. there are more important things to do than stopping people from crossing the street. they are bigger things to worry. 942 i am in support. i am a disabled passenger. if we can use that money for reduced fare for longer periods of time it is better than returning to what happened before. i guess what that means. 2594 i am watching. it is important work. you can pay for it in person. i have a map in the state. i am not keen on payment plans. i have not found that to be away. that is a great problem. you are better off to help those in need. seamless transportation, yes, i want be fare integration. uniform system of payment for riding trains and buses. cheaper for me to use bart in san francisco than muni

i want to especially thank sfmta for their support of us as a community and jeff tumlin, joel greenberg who really guided us and supported us through this process as a community. i'd also like to thank the city, our team at the city who's on our board and guiding us so well and we truly appreciate all their support, their leadership, their guidance. i'd also like to thank the yerba buena community benefit district who's a key partner in this process. acknowledge cathy maupin and entire team that cleans and beautifies the neighborhood around us. last and certainly not least and the relationship we have and the convention and to recognize this really means a lot. so thank you. and more importantly, we're kind of excited. we want to get started. i think that's important to know. the goal for the project is we'll finalize planning this spring. we've got all the plans done. we've worked with an amazing architecture firm. we will bid and start construction this summer on the landscaping. the art process, we'll do a call for entries this summer and the art will be revealed in the january time

without our partners from sfmta we are incredibly grateful to mta staff for their hard work and jeff tumlintake a bow, please. [applause] jeff is our leader. he is a visionary in the pursuit of healthier, safer and more sustainable san francisco. and he's here every day too. i got a handful of difficult customers. anyway, jeff, thank you for leaning into this with your technical expertise, but most importantly, with your heart and empathy for making sure that this park is accessible and available for everyone. thank you, jeff, so much. i also, as carolyn mentioned, i really want to thank our rec and park team who shepherded this project over two years and served with impassionate debate on all sides and our director of public affairs who worked so hard on this whole project for two years and worked so hard on throwing a great party today, sarah madlin. [applause] but none of this happens without all of you, so we want to thank all of the volunteers who worked tirelessly to secure this space thank you, david miles, thank you, where are you? the hardest working man in skating. the church of e

director tumlin and his team tracking this more closely in conjunction with the small, medium and large operators across the area. >> thank you both. let's open this up to public comment. i do notes see anyone in the chambers. check for virtual comment. >> your two minutes begins now. >> thank you. a lot of good things here. i support 2147. i don't think jaywalking should be criminalized. there are more important things to do than stopping people from crossing the street. they are bigger things to worry. 942 i am in support. i am a disabled passenger. if we can use that money for reduced fare for longer periods of time it is better than returning to what happened before. i guess what that means. 2594 i am watching. it is important work. you can pay for it in person. i have a map in the state. i am not keen on payment plans. i have not found that to be away. that is a great problem. you are better off to help those in need. seamless transportation, yes, i want be fare integration. uniform system of payment for riding trains and buses. cheaper for me to use bart in san francisco than muni

tumlin. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> and that's it for this episode. for sfgov tv i'm chris manors. thanks for watching. >> good afternoon