director yekutiel? >> director yekutiel: thank you. my brain hurts. i'm going to acknowledge that for everyone. my questions are about california one. you mentioned that reach to the small business community in chinatown. can you tell me more about what that looks like? did you go in the shops? was in language. tell me what that outreach to the small business community in chinatown was for this particular tetl? >> amy fowler will give a quick overview about that. >> this is amy fowler public relations officer. at the very beginning of the project before we brought the initial proposal to the board, the temporary proposal that you voted on last april, we met with chinatown trip and merchant groups. we had a community meeting on both sides of the corridor. with did make some changes based on the feedback that we received. we did three roundeds of multi-language mailers. i reached about 24,000 addresses. it's four rounds of posters in english and chinese. we have had several meetings with stakeholder organizations including the chinatown emergency united

i see that director yekutiel has his hand up. >> director yekutiel: i wanted to say how glad i am to 7 on that the board under your leadership. it's been an honor. it's been mentioned. we served in this capacity in a time of extreme crises. that is where true leadership is shown. i want to commend fiver other colleagues here in particular, chair borden. your steadfast, calm, leadership under these very high pressure times dealing with the once a century agency. i will take any other public of commission in san francisco for team sfmta. we've consistently shown professionalism, hard working, contributions. i'm very proud. may be who aren't as proud, i am particularly proud to serve on under your leadership. thank you for continuing to want to serve. >> chair borden: thank you. director eaken? >> vice chair eaken: i want to elevate one principle which is the idea of continuous improvement i'm very excited to. we have tried to make some tweaks in terms of how we do business. hopefully make things flow smoothly this year. i want to really welcome additional thoughts, creative input just

. >> chair borden: director yekutiel. >> director yekutiel: i hate to be the one to ask this question, are you starting to come up with omicron contingency plans for the fleet? >> we have taken a number of precautions on our vehicle. they have very good air circulation. we do have the protective barrier for our operators and all of our operators are vaccinated. we will continue to have the masking requirement in place. we will look to the department of public health as in the toe on omicron. if they see for us to any additional modifications. i do also think that it is an indication that continues to be evolving pandemic. >> director yekutiel: i guess i ask question bit more perspective from small business oner. you have lot of restaurants and bars shutting down because folks contracting the virus. i'm just wondering where we worried that might happen within the operator team? >> i think it's something that we have to be prepared for. >> director tumlin: we are more prepared for omicron than any transit agency. 100% of our workforce is vaccinated. we have a strong department operation

we just admitted director yekutiel. he's present.