Today, july 9, 2019. Mr. Clerk, would you please, and i apologize for this call, item number 10, out of order, which sa district 3 item because i have to go to the groundbreaking for the new Affordable Housing project with the mayor, and i thought i would take that out of order, and then i will turn it over to supervisor mandelman. Chairman i apologize for not giving you that heads up. I think mr. White from the m. T. A. Is here. He is here, yes. And i dont know if you want ms. Meckle to say anything she is not here, but chairman you can do it. The proposal in front of you today is the result of several years of discussion about how to advance safety in the project area, so this is a proposed amendment to the district 3 Neighborhood Transportation Improvement Program planning project. This would add implementation to the scope of work. And so it would enable m. T. A. To explore improvements at a couple of locations specifically. Just give me one moment. It would allow for m. T. A. To explore locations on kearny at jackson and kearny at washington to explore whether it is feasible to be putting in some near term pedestrian scrambles, and assuming it is determined to be feasible, this project would implement those scarmbles. There are some associated traffic and parking changes that would go along with that, that would also be potentially put into place, removal of dual turn lanes. So basically this is an amendment to the original scope of work. It would add implementation. It would allow for the exploration of those treatments prior to implementation. It is the result of a lot of conversations, and were pleased to see this safety work advance. Chairman so am i, and so are my constituents. I have no questions, ive been briefed. Mr. White, is there anything you would like to add . If not, we are good, dustin. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And i guess we need a motion on the amendment of the scope of work made by commissioner mandelman, is seconded by commissioner yee. And we have a different house, so roll call, please. [roll call] we have first approval. Chairman item number 9, please. Update on the muni service sorry, update on the Muni Service Equity strategy. Chairman i would like to thank mr. Kennedy for his patience today and at our last meeting. With that, im going to turn the gavel over to vice chair mandelman. I will say for the record, we did receive one comment by email from a member of the public, aaron goodman, which has been forwarded to every member of the commission. Good morning, commissioners. Sean kennedy with the s. F. M. T. A. , and the m. T. A. Is starting our twoyear budget cycle discussion. And a big piece of that is the equity strategy. The equity strategy really helps identify and prioritize Service Improvements. And, as you know, the Service Section of our budget is really the biggest chunk of it. So i wanted to take this time, this opportunity, to brief you on the equity strategy, where we stand right now, and do a limit little look forward, as well as some changes to the 2025 Treasure Island line. There is a vision, obviously, for transit in this city, and it is moving forward at a relatively rapid pace. Earlier this body was talking about some Improvement Projects that are moving forward, like advanced b. R. T. And the central subway. But there are day to day services and adjustments that need to be made. Obviously we dont have as much resources as we need, and so we need to prioritize how we spend those resources. And we also, of course, look at high ridership lines and future growth areas, but the equity strategy has really been the major tool that weve been using to identify and prioritize resources. The equity strategy is s. F. M. T. A. Board adopted in 2014, and it is also in our Strategic Plan. It is a very unique program. It helps us and guides us through both lean times as well as good times from a budget perspective. And it is based on a neighborhood approach. We try to prioritize projects and improvements based on what neighborhoods see and what their needs are. We also, of course, use data to help inform those needs and then monitor and evaluate how our improvements are working. There are eight neighborhoods as part of the muni equity strategy, and these neighborhoods were selected through a twostep process. First all, we looked at census data, and were looking for geographic regions that really identify three major areas. One, residents with low income. Two, there is a high proportion of people of color. And, three, there was a low auto ownership. So really trying to identify areas that had that transitdependent population. With that data, we worked with a muni Equity Working Group that helped us kind of better define and identify those neighborhoods, and talked about how we would prioritize projects with Community Input to develop the future plan and planning process. And i do want to point out one thing, one neighborhood that is not on here that does need a lot of the same criteria that the others meet, and that is Treasure Island. That was left off because it has its own planning process. A lot of agencies are working on that process, including us with this equity land for them. Well talk more about that in a minute. But the principles that the equity strategy lays out, as i said, are communitybased with Community Feedback directly where our resources or having major input into where our resources will go. We work with service providers, on the Ground Service providers like soup kitchens and churches, and we work with riders, everyday riders, intermittent riders, residents, and our own operators that both live and work in these neighborhoods. And through that are able to identify both important but also issues that are important to them that we wouldnt be able to get just by looking at data. We can apply our various tools and toolkit items, to address these issues. That could range from more concentrated Service Management to service changes, like adding buses,moving where buses go, to actual Capital Projects that help reduce delay and muni performance. The guidelines are many. Those eight neighborhoods have a lot of service on paper going through them. And so, as you can see, the lines that are considered equity lines go throughout the city, touching basically all four corners of the city, are on a fairly robust list. I want to point out, before going into more specifics, aside from Service Planning and Service Capital changes, we have other programs that have an equity strategy principle behind it, our affordability programs, Lifeline Program, as well as free muni for youth and other programs. Not only do we have these programs, but we promote these programs. It is actually in our Strategic Plan to increase the number of people that are involved in these programs and that are signed up to get these programs. We try to point that out at every chance we get. Please steer your constituents that way if you come across anybody who doesnt know about that program. Wed be more than happy to provide more information on that. Back to the specific equity strategy proposals, here is a recent list of accomplishments. I want to point out a few for a flavor of what type of stuff comes out of the equity strategy. One example is the 9r, in the intermission neighborhoods, where were discussing how the 9r is over crowded. And several months ago we implemented 60foot buses on that line to reduce crowding. Another example is the 48. The 48 is a service that used to stop at west portal during the midday. It would go all the way to the beach during the peak periods. But during the midday, it stopped at west portal. We heard from our stakeholders they would really like to see that service go to the beach all day. There were places they were trying to access, schools, shopping opportunities, for the entire length of the day. So we implemented that ss thats jussjust an example of e use this for. That is something we never would have gotten by looking at data to begin with. The equity strategy and the relationships were forming with these neighborhoods really help identify we even miss from our own analysis tools. And, of course, there is work currently under way. I want to point out the 55r, as an example, the Western Addition residents have long noted that the 5r and the 5 have issues. And we are advancing ou advancir muni program. It will help alleviate some of the reliability issues that the entire line is seeing. I want to highlight that because our goal for the 25th is not in the western neighborhood, but it will directly affect the residents and the people who are riding the service in the Western Addition. I want to talk on the 25. I noted previously that the 25 is not an equity strategy neighborhood, however, it does have many of the qualities that make up an equity strategy neighborhood. So weve been working closely with the residents in that area to identify what they think some of their priorities are, and what the needs are in the near term. One of those needs was they continually brought up that they would like to see p. M. Service match a. M. Service. The a. M. Service was coming every 15 minutes to 20 minutes. And in the p. M. , we were at half hour headways. So in june, we implemented 20 minutes to better match the a. M. Service. One of the issues we also heard from Treasure Island residents was that, you know, gapping and ontime performance issues were a concern due to congestion both on the bridge and the city streets. When the 25 goes into the trans bay Transit Center, it will be using a second deck of the Transit Center, and it will not have to go on city streets anymore. We really think it will improve the ontime performance and the reliability of that line. Were going to continue to monitor it. And weve got some Service Improvements and frequency improvements coming up and teed up. And three years outward, were anticipating needing 60foot buses on this line, as well as additional changes to the headways theadways, to make improvements for that as well. And how do we know these equity performance changes are working . We monitor these all of the time. The three major metrics we look at are o. T. P. Gaps, which means how long has it been between when buses show up, and then crowdin crowding. At a high level, looking at all of the equity lines, you can see that the equity lines are performing better. That doesnt mean obviously individually there arent a lot of improvements that need to be made. For example, the 8 bay shore still has gaps, especially during the peak system. And those are the type of things that we are planning to address this next budget cycle and trying to find ways to improve that performance for the 8 bay shore, as well as other lines that have similar issues. So that was pretty much the equity strategy in a nutshell. I guess concluding by reinforcing that we, you know, obviously have more needs than we have resources to fill. The equity strategy is our primary way of working with neighborhoods to identify priorities and figure out where to put those dollars, for every dollar we get, where is the best place to put it. And talking to neighborhoods on how to figure that out. We are continuing to go to these neighborhoods. In the last round, the 2018 improvements that came out of the equity strategy, we talked to over 500 neighborhood groups. We met with we got feedback from over 65,000 people. And we plan to continue that effort. But were going to do it on an ongoing basis. So it is not going to be a onetime push where we go to a bunch of meetings and try to get data. Instead, were going to meetings when we dont even have anything on the agenda, when were not supposed to necessarily be presenting something. Were just going to listen and to find out what is going on with the community and how we can better serve the community and what some of the major needs and concerns are. With that, i would love to take any questions or answer any feedback. Chairman we have some commissioners ready to ask questions. Commissioner fewer. Thank you very much, mr. Chair. My question is whether or not i dont see anything around the equity measures around language access. Are the meetings that you are doing conducted in multiple languages . And, also, are we looking at who the drivers are on those lines, if there are large populations that are chinese speakers, for example, or spanish speakers, are we making sure that the drivers are actually bilingual . Yes, maam. Wonderful question. Everything is done in the three main languages. And depending where we are, for example, out of richmond, we may bring some russian ability to translate to russian. So we do try to tailer it to the specific location, if we know ta tagalog or russian is spoken. But we always have spanish and chinese translated, and also there at the meetings. So what about the drivers on these lines . Are you making an effort to put bilingual drivers on these lines . Sorry. I understand the question. It is part of equity. Sure. That is an interesting question. We have not tried to separate out the workforce that way. But thats an interesting point. I just didnt know. I think maybe this is just a suggestion that maybe one of the questions that you ask the community is would you do you find that there is a need for someone who speaks chinese, for example, in chinatown, as a bus driver . Thank you. Good feedback. Chairman commissioner wal ton. Ton. Thank you chair. I want to make sure i understand how to determine what is tangible from the presentation. If we look at page 101, and slide 9, im looking at the accomplishments. When you look at increase frequency, how has that been done . Im trying to understand it with regards to this slide. Sure. On third street itself, we have implemented there have been a number of rounds on trying to improve signal timing on third street. There are 68 Traffic Signals between fourth and king and the terminal on the line. We also changed traffic timing on the embarcadero into the portal to improve t line service there. On the embarcadero, were seeing about a twominute travel time savings. It was taking eight minutes, and now it is taking more like six minutes on the inbound side. On the outbound side, similar. On the rest of the line, were not seeing near those results. Because when we made the changes, we had to put in pedestrian signals have to go to three and a half feet versus four, so it kind of ate away at the transit. We have increased frequency on the t, went from eight to seven minutes. And put on two cars on the t, and safety has always been a concern. Were banning lefts, and adding new signage for banning lefts. So there is a number of, you know, smallerterm things. These equity strategy improvements are meant to be kind of in the near term, you know, as quickfixtyptype projects as possible. The slide says accomplishments, and i want to make sure im reading and understanding this correctly. If i look at page 102, slide 10, oceanview, engelside, and bay view, with regards to the 29 and the 44, and all it says is increased service, frequency all day. How . What am i getting from this slide . I know we need to increase frequency all day so that basically means adding buses to the line to improve service on the 29 and 44. You knew, right now i think, for instance, the 229 has 23 buses on it, and were talking about putting 25, 26 buses on it to reduce crowding and improve performance. That said and these questions are great. There is so much data to go over, i didnt want to get too deep into this. I would love to set up a time with you in your office to come in and brief you on not only and this goes to every member i would love to talk to all 11 of you if youre interested, and go over who we talked to in your district, and what were doing to address those issues. I can work with people to set up a meeting, and anybody else interested. I definitely appreciate that, and we will make sure we do that. You mentioned adding buses to the lines. Where are we on that addition of buses . So we operate on a twoyear budget cycle. And so within that twoyear budget cycle, weve got another year left on the existing one. And thats why were starting the process of thinking about our next twoyear budget cycle. We have to match operator availability with the number of vehicles to make sure we can add that service and actually have it be filled, or actually having somebody driving the bus, versus just having it in the schedule. Within the next six months, were planning to have this before the end of this budget cycle before the end of next july, adding those buses in. We should see new buses, additional buses, by when . Im hoping within february, but if not february, definitely by june. Thank you. And then are there do we have maps that detail increased service in the southeast sector of San Francisco . So specifically kansas state point shipyard. Yes, we do, and we can bring that to our meeting with you. And im looking at the equity lines, and i believe one of them is the 29. Can i see some disaggregate data that is telling me how service is performing particularly in the southeast sector . Yes, sir. Ill bring the data. And just as a sidebar, which is not necessarily specific to the presentation, but specific to equity, because i was looking at a flier that s. F. M. T. A. Sent out, 720,000 available through that process in the bay view, which we know wont Fund Infrastructure projects. But what i noticed was there was an exclusion of Public Housing sites in terms of being a place where they could go and vote, with the exception of the boys and girls club on tiska. So as we talk about equity, but were not providing options for people to vote in their communities, and the irony of that is the bus service is so bad in these areas, we expect them to be able to get to other places so they can vote, but theyre trapped and isolated. So i want to make sure we prioritize providing opportunities for them to be able to participate as we talk about equity because that piece is important. We need the voice of our Public Housing residents. You definitely admit in the presentation that these are areas where they heavily rely on bus service, but when they have to have bus service two, they have to have a voice to be able to talk about the needs in the community. The last thing, you mentioned during the budget cycle working to address improvements on the 8 bay shore. Is that the same timeline in terms of having more Rapid Service and additional buses that you just described . No, sir. So were starting the budget process. Right now it is going to take nine months or something to come up with our final operating budget for the next cycle. These ones the 29 and the 44 that are currently under way, those are in our existing budget. So i was saying the timeline for implementing those is the next year. But the 8 bay shore is just one example, but we have a bunch of other service that needs to go into the next round of the budget act. And that starts next july. And s. F. M. T. A. Hasnt been given any additional money during offcycle . No, sir, no that im aware of. Thank you. Chairman i appreciate this presentation, and the deep dive into the 25 as well, and Treasure Island. What would it take to have Treasure Island included as an equity strategy neighborhood . I realize it is unique in some ways, but it does feel like there are some tracking and processes and data that Treasure Island may be missing out on because it is not included . So i think that thats were basically treating it as an equity strategy neighborhood, as far as how were approaching the prioritization of the projects and where we can put our resources. I think it can be possible to add that to the equity strategy neighborhood list. Typically, you know, were doing the equity strategy neighborhoods are served by a number of lines, and really Treasure Island just has the one. And theyve got the larger city family looking at the entire planning process out there, and so thats why it was left off originally. I think thats something that we were good with adding to the overall project. Thank you. I appreciate that. I think it meets the requirements in terms of the demographics and the need. And then another thing on the 25 i really appreciate the increasing of the evening service. Has that started . When will that start . Yes. It had started in june, midjune. So its only been about a month. Okay. Great. In terms of really tracking to make sure that in the from what i understand, even when we have the brief time with the terminal, that there were still some challenges around delays and crowding and unpredictability, and that sort of thing. What sort of things are being done to address that or track that or really improve on that . And maybe a somewhat related thing, i do hear sometimes from Treasure Island folks that the g. P. S. Tracking thing will be off, and it will say when it is coming, and its not really coming. Yeah. And theyll end up being out there obviously if one doesnt come, that could mean an hour wait for folks. As far as the next bus, were we were leading Edge Technology when the next bus first went in, and unfortunately it has been quite a while since that went in. M. T. A. Is working on a new next bus, and hopefully with much better predictions and things like that. As far as the Trans Bay Center opening, youre right, it definitely still had problems when it opened. We think that was mostly due to that it takes a while for everybody to kind of gel. Were sharing a lot of space with other agencies on that second floor. We think we actually got a lot of the operational kinks worked out, making sure Everybody Knows what days were going to, and who gets priority, and those kind of operational improvements i think happened in that short timeframe. Once again, it is going to take a couple of weeks before everybody gets smooth again. At that point, then were planning to look at what does were anticipating a sizable jump in ontime performance. And im talking 5 to 10 improvement, which will be rather significant. If that doesnt happen, then well have to look at other ways to make improvements, and that might be transit priority on the Treasure Island itself. The bay bridge is a very difficult, obvious, issue, because we dont control that. We have to work with caltrans. And we have been in talks with them about preliminarily what can be done. Were hoping that there will be a marked improvement once the Transit Center opens back up. Thank you. I appreciate that. Right now there is no other option for people who dont have cars who are on Treasure Island. And were working towards some significant changes around transportation. And it relies on the people there having access to transportation that is affective and reliable, and they have faith that as it grows and changes and all of that, it is going to be there when they need it. Because, really, they dont have any other options. I hope we can keep an eye on the ontime performance and the frequency. Thank you. Chairman seeing no other colleagues with comments or questions. Thank you, mr. Kennedy. Are there members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Good afternoon commissioners. My name is mary claire, and im with the south Market Community action network. A huge component is affordability. In light of last weeks fare increase, im here to raise concerns of people who are negatively impacted by the yearly fare increases. They say they have done an analysis to see if the fare increases will unfairly impact parts of the population, and their findings have found it will not impact those of low income, but we have conducted our own tests, and our findings showed of 400 surveyed, 82 of participants expressed being negatively impacted by fare increases, and switching to alternative modes of transit over muni. So clearly there is a disconnect in how we are conducting our analysis. We have great free and slow income programs that cover 90,000 people out of the 725,000 people who are reliant on muni every day. But they only cover youth, seniors, people with disabilities, and those who live 200 below the federal poverty line. Weve done the calculations, and people who make minimum wage in this city, who are still struggling to get by, dont even fall 200 below the federal poverty line, which is probably why the Lifeline Program has the lowest number of enrollment. 3 for a cash fare is inequitable, and just before inflation is rising it doesnt mean peoples incomes are rising. We demand no more fare increases in s. F. M. T. A. s next budget cycle and future budget cycles. And we hope to work with the city to address this issue. Chairman thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item before i close Public Comment . Public comment is now closed. Mr. Chang . This is in response to the prior conversation about the Development Plans for Treasure Island. I wanted to clarify for the public that the planning worry doin program is r the affected new growths. But there are needs that precede all of the planned growth that were working together to meet. So there are existing crowding and other reliability issues that as commissioner haney mentioned we hear very frequently from the residents, and i wanted to distinguish that between the new work were doing for future growth. Chairman thank you. Mr. Clerk, can you please call item 11. Item 11, for the planned barrier 2015. This is an action item. Good afternoon, commissioners, in light of the time, im going to kind of zip through this and just bug me with questions. The other good news on this is that the may 21st Board Meeting here, michelle bellu has been working on issues, presented and update and basically gave an information item on the action. I want to remind people what planned bay area, or p. B. A. Is. The first is approval of goals for San Francisco that will guide our advocacy, and approval of the s. F. Project list. This requires a board action to go along with it. This slide here is an update, the schedule for horizon and plan bay area. That was a staffled future planning effort that let m. T. A. Explore some topics and issues without having to follow all of the rules and regulations. That work is wrapping up this fall. Thats what the black bar is on this screen. The end of horizon indicates the beginning of the planned bay area efforts. Unlike horizon, which as i said was staffdriven and had next to no actions on it or actions from our board or others, plan bay wilplannedbay will be very different. In the window where it says craft preferred scenario, so between when mid2020 and when they adopt the craft preferred scenario, you will see a lot of activity. And the adoption of the final scenario will be back with similar actions and information. This is a Sustainable Community in that graphic there. And it applies to the nine barrier region. It looks at transportation investment, jobs and housing allocations by jurisdiction. Theyre done every four years. The last update was adopted in 2017. As you saw on the last slide, the 2050 update will be adopted by mid2021. The c. T. P. S serve as a primary transportation input, and thats the San Francisco transportation plan, which was last adopted in 2015. And were in the process of updating that. So those countywide plans and other local plans, like communitybased plans, p. D. A. Investment, the bike plans, all of that flows into the planned bay area. What is planned bay area . When the document is done, this slide shows the three sort of highlevel elements that you get out of it. The first is a roadmap for a vision of how the bay area will grow. That includes primarily housing and job growth targets for each jurisdiction in the nine barrier region. It includes a transportation investment package. A list of projects and programs that is constrained by the amount of revenues the region is expected to receive during the first year of the plan, 202 1, and the last year, 2050. That is state and federal funding, that is assumed in there. Were talking really big numbers. Planned bay area 2040 had a 300 billion re revenue forecast. The first two items there but also how to advance goals, like equity, economic development, and resiliency. This is the first part of the action that is before you today, which is adoption of the goals, which are listed as attachment one in your packet. We built on the goals that we used for the last planned bay area. And we have the Regional Transit operators, m. T. C. And caltrans. You can roughly divide those goals into the three shown on the screen. In terms of funding, for example, we seek to include all of the San FranciscoParty Projects and programs that need to be in planned bay. It is kind of like your dance ticket. If youre not in or consistent with planned bay area, you cannot seek many regional funds or state and federal funding for most projects. We allocate for new revenues for transportation. Kind of following up on the prior disurks youll discus, youll see in our goals, we have a portion dedicated to equityrelated goals. So were looking in planned bay area to advance some of our San Francisco equity initiatives, both in s. F. , but also across the region. Two examples are we have been pushing last cycle and this cycle, transit affordability. I believe several operators are participating in that. And also pushing vision zero, trying to make it el availableligible, that can fund visioner zero projects. And lastly, leadership. We want to be able to help shape how our region deals with the future, what were going do look lib in thlikein the future. Two good examples are were trying to make sure all of the jurisdictions in the region take on their fair share of housing and jobs growth. And another area where were ground zero for a lot of the emerging technology ill call them improvements that are happening very quickly, we want to be able to share our experience and our knowledge about these to help shape how these technologies get incorporated into planned bay area. I think given the time, im just going to say one thing on this, but one example of how these goals translate into something tairchtangible that we get, there is project performance evaluation that happens. The bottom of this slide here, youll see we had four San Francisco projects that were among the to top perm performers in te region. Another good example is we had a focus on the transit investment last time. This because cal tran and muni and bart tried to deal with current growth, and we have a lot more growth in the pipeline. That led to things like m. T. A. Funding, and helping get planning on the second tube going and so forth. It makes important differences both at a longer term scale and a shorter term scale. So im moving on to the second part of our action about the financially constrained investment strategy. So we have to wait for a couple of things to happen before we can get there. The first is that m. T. C. Will come up with the regional forecast that i spoke to you about. I can say that it has changed over time. Like our transit fares and the prop k sales tax. So youll find when we get this huge revenue forecast, the vast majority of money is already dedicated to current parties, subject to local decisions, but there is a small wedge or piece of that is subject to m. T. C. Discretionary action. And that will be the focus of a lot of the actions we bring before our board. On the policy funds, ill say that sometimes you see policies that happen directly in planned bay area. Two key examples that will be of interest to this body are, the region will adopt a new list of Regional Transit expansion parties that ship get us in the cue for the federal funding. Gary b. R. T. Is on that list, and we want to make sure it stays there. We had a desire to link transportation and Housing Production to try to incentavise Housing Production. So unfortunately, m. T. C. Has made the process of developing the transportation investment strategy, that package of projects, really confusing to explain. Im going to try to keep it super high level for you. There are basically four blue bars on there. Think of those as four different processes. At the end of the day, San Francisco county and the other eight counties are going to be given a financial target and asked to schmid submit a complete list of projects. Right now m. T. C. Has four different processes. They had a public solicitation for projects that were transformative. And one of the key criteria was a billion dollars or more. So there is a list in your packet of what those transformative projects are there. There are regionally significant projects, which ill talk about in a second. And there is a need assessment. What is our funding gap. That process is led by m. T. C. And is under way, and lastly and important, the vast majority of projects in planned bay area for m. T. C. Guidelines are incorporated in the categories. Youre fa familiar with prop k and so forth. So very few projects actually need to be called out specifically. Among that those do are the subject of todays action item, which is for this purpose, m. T. C. Is looking for roadway and transit capacity increasing projects over 250 million. I want to emphasize this is gis just like going into a forest and looking at three trees. What is not in here, when youre looking at your list in the packet, which is attachment three behind the resolution, projects that are under way but expect to be completed by 2021 are not in here. So you wont see central subway. And then, importantly, new projects that we come up with, the next suite of the tube crossing, extensions to the west side, the east side, whether it is bus or rail, those are not in here if theyre only going to be in the project development phase, like preconstruction between now and the next update four years from now. So what you see in the list in attachment three are mostly things from the last cycle that arent yet done. Things like expanding m. T. A. Suite, west side bridges, and developmentrelated projects like the southeast waterfront improvements. I wont go over this here, but i think attachment four in your packet is something well come back to later with approval of the categories, just to see where most projects will be. Categories 13 and 14 are very important categories to allow for additional project development and planning for core capacity transit improvements, like the second bar tube. So what youll see coming in the fall, well bring you information on the state of good repair short shortfalls. Well get the revenue forecast from the m. T. C. , which will give the target for the San Francisco project list. Well see some project performance evaluation results from the 250 billion project. And somewhere between september and december, well come back to you with ou target an our target. And ill be happy to answer any questions. The other slides have additional information. Chairman i do not see any comments or questions from my colleagues. And so we will open this up for Public Comments. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. We have a approval resolution in front of us. Is there a motion to adopt that . Moved by walton. Is there a second . Seconded by mar. Please call the roll. Rol[roll call] we have first. Chairman thank you. Please call the next item. Item 12, award threeyear professional services contract, with an option to extend for two years. In a combined amount not to exceed 1 million for oncall Legal Counsel issues. Cynthia fong, deputy executive. This is a item i have before you. It had come to the board back in 2015. We had Legal Services back on june 6th,and we received six proposals. We interviewed three of the firms. Three firms are here before you today. We thought each firm had the skills necessary to help carry forth our plan for the transportation authority. They have a proven tract record with us, and were adding myers to the roster of legal attorneys. They demonstrate a strong approach management approach and qualifications. In addition, were really impressed with them. This item has gone before with an anonymous motion of support on june 26th. This contract will be funded over the next three years with state, federal, regional, and the local prop k funds. With that, im happy to open it up for questions. And i have representatives from all three legal firms here with me today. Chairman thank you, misfong. Ms. Fong. I do not see comments or questions. I think my colleagues are eager to get prepared for the afternoon meeting. So well open this for Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Can i have a motion to approve the award of these contracts . Moved by yee. Seconded by brown. And we can take that same house can we take that same housecall . Yes, we can. Great. Mr. Clerk, please call the next item . Item 13, introduction of new items. This is information item. Chairman commissioner mar. Thank you vice chair, vice cr mandelman. I would like to make a request that on july 23rd, the board receives an update from m. T. A. In the office of Workforce Development on the construction mitigation on the Business Impact fund, which is the 5 million that this board advocated to be set aside from the m. T. A. Allocation to support neighborhood businesses impacted by Major Construction projects. When i discussed this with director chang briefly, she had asked if we could have this update in september because the july 23rdt be a bit from my perspective, there is an urgency to have this update on july 23rd. Particularly with the Improvement Project moving to construction phase in july, and theyre without a construction mitigation plan in place. And in my conversations with m. T. A. Staff. They had indicated that they needed direction from the board on the Business Impact fund and allocation of it. I wanted to get an update and some clarification on where things are at in us being able to access those resources that were set aside. Chairman thank you, commissioner mar. Thumbs up from director chang. All right. Fantastic. Commission safai. I think we gave some very specific instructions last time. It was very much about looking at the receipts from previous years of businesses, what the current receipts were, and how that money could be utilized to help support these Small Businesses. And so, you know, this is a perfect extreme. I read in the paper the other day about the el taraval situation, and the construction happening there and a lot of businesses around there there was no notice given, or very little, two weeks, if that, and the impact is significant, and has the potential to the significant. In most cases the Small Businesses are lever raismleveragingtheir own homes. This is exactly why we set up this fund for van ness and any other part of the city. It should be incumbent upon the s. F. M. T. A. And the t. A. To coordinate when these types of projects are coming on line. There should be a plan put in place, and the businesses should be notified in advance that this fund exists. That is a very simple request. So it absolutely blew me away when i read it in the paper its not even my district, but i happen to be down there because i was picking up my son at camp, and to see this work would be happening without any notification to the businesses is not okay. I share in your frustration, supervisor mar ander and anywhere else in the city, but i agree we cant wait until september because this is happening now. Chairman director chang, do you want to speak . Sure. I would just say we certainly heard the boards direction last time. If you want to say a few words now before inviting them back at the july 23rd meeting. Thank you chair mandelman and commissioners. Yes, we got the direction last time, and we are certainly doing our best to work with o. E. W. D. , mostly because we wanted to make sure that the funds for those programs were working very closely and in conjunction with some of the services that o. E. W. D. Already had in place. So the hope was, i think, to augment the programs that they had they were we were already doing around places like central subway and other places. When i let the staff know that this body was thinking about making this request, they would hoping we could push back because we do want to put it in front of our board before we actually make any final direction. But if we just want to get an update, we can do that as well. Chairman so not going too far into this, as we are going to have a fuller presentation discussion on this on our next agenda, commissioner brown . Yes. I mean, this is the issue about pushing it back. And i do agree with commissioner mar and others, is that right now i hate ashbury. It is being torn up. Just this morning i got a message from the mer merchants that ashbury andiate and yates e being torn up. And this is their main season. Most of them make their money in august, and wait until after labor day. It has been very confusing as to what kind of mitigation. When we put forward this money, we were looking at giving them cash to help them with their rent or whatever, and could it be worked out as like square feet, how much youre paying for rent. Let us give you a few months when theyre tearing up your sidewalks and it is very difficult for people to shop at your store. I feel, and maybe im speaking as the only person, but i just felt it was to give the businesses directly cash. It wasnt to do the mitigation of oh, well do marketing and banners. I just dont think that is going to work here. So for me, asking for this in july is going to help me because i have to go out to that community and say, this is exactly what we can do. Ive heard there might be some loans, lowinterest loans, but in reality, does a business want to take out a loan and then filpile on their debt . So i think we have to really hear exactly how this money is going to be used and really understand, can we get a little more creative with it . And not just using the programs that are already at o. E. W. D. To help people go shop there. Because if people come and there is not parking or the sidewalks are being ripped up, theyre not going to go shopping. I dont care how much you advertise it. It is just going to be really tough. So i think really having some kind of an even if it is brief, what exactly they have planned to do and what they are doing. I would love to have that in july, also, so thank you. Chairman thank you, commissioner brown. Mr. Alman, you can probably sit down because were not going to be engaging with you in a dialogue right now. Commissioner walton . I wanted to emphasize the importance of the report at the next meeting, and also in line with supervisor brown and supervisor safai. We were very clear this is was more of a cashtype subsidy to help address loss of revenue that we could predict over a period of time. I was not envisioning it alone. When we had a conversation about these resources, i was really envisioning a process where we look at what businesses have typically made over a duration of time, and how much resources can we provide and come up with a strategy to make sure we do as best we can for as many businesses to benefit. And, hopefully, this body will work to find more resources because the mitigation impacts and the affects we need to do our Due Diligence to support our businesses during these times. In some cases, it could be up to a few years of businesses losing revenue. I hope that message is clear to all departments involved, that we are envisioning this, at least in my case, and i hear from some of my colleagues, actual tangible resources to address loss of revenue. Chairman ms. Fewer . I want to say i concur. I think we should have that update in july, and the sooner the better. I was here when we actually voted on that. So i just wanted to lend my support. Chairman thank you commissioner fewer