Making thatll making that all happen. He took time off work, i took time off work and we had people willing to work with us to make it happen. Not everyone has that. There are some families that can even make trips because they dont have support. When we talk about experiential field trips, and making them available. We need to make them equitable. I would love to work with the district on writing some verbiage into that. The c. A. C. Would. Thank you. Thank you. Im going to excuse our incredible allstars. They get to go home early and we have to stay. Thank you for your service. Have a good evening. May i hear a motion and second on the School Board Policies . So moved. I am referring the board policies to the rules committee. There is one more item to deal with, and that is number five, and support of achievement and success of all latinx students at sfusd. This item was duly moved and seconded on september 24, 2019. I am referring this to the budget and curriculum committees. Section l, proposals for immediate action and suspension of rules. Can i have a motion and a secons of Public Comment and Public Comment to the following . Second. So move. Resolution 19101581 and support a proposition e on the november 2019 ballot. Introduced by commissioners. Two collins and myself. May hear a motion . Nevermind. Im just reading the script. Lets see. [roll call] may i hear a motion in the second for the formal introduction of the resolution . So moved. Second. Thank you. Whereas district students in the community at large and we see critical benefits and Classroom Teachers on para educators of the district. Live in the community in which they practice their profession which promotes stability, Community Involvement and stronger ties between educators, students and families i whereas sfusd educators suffer acutely from the cities severe Affordable Housing shortage with 64 of sfusd teachers spending more than 30 of their income towards rent. An additional 14. 7 of teachers in sfusd are spinning more than 50 for the income towards rent. According to the federal guidelines four out of five teachers are burdened with housing costs. Whereas sfusd requires 3600 teachers annually, but is challenged by Teacher Education rate for proximally 10 annually. 30 of sfusd teachers leaving the district within the first five years of teaching. Often because of high housing costs, escalating cost of living. Whereas the city has fallen short of its needs for very low to moderate Income Housing having only produce 31 of affordable units needed to meet its share of the Regional Housing needs of january 15, 2015 to june, 2022 for this critically important housing source. Whereas in may have 2017 the board of education approved a resolution supporting a Pilot Program to develop affordable rental housing for sfusd educators where the price will be affordable for our where paraprofessionals, teachers leading to the project currently underway. Whereas proposition e will amend Affordable Housing and educator housing programs to expedite the development and construction of 100 affordable and educator housing in San Francisco for a wide range of sfusd educators. Building on the success of San Francisco model by rezoning sfusd sites to allow 100 educator housing as a principally permitted use. Cutting times for projects and construction. According to the office of the comptroller, proposition e will result in a minimal reduction in government cost on to the extent this legislation shortens this process the citys Affordable Housing projects cost due to shortage development and construction timelines. Lower inflation on market costs. Therefore be it resolved that the San Francisco board of education urges voters to vote yes on proposition e in the november 19 ballot. Thank you. We do have a few speakers sign up for this item. Susan solomon. Megan. [ name indescernible ] and annabelle. Good evening. I am a behavior analyst with the School District. I want to tell you about some and work with. A licensed vocational nurse who barely makes it more than somebody working at starbucks. He just had a baby last year, he commutes an hour every day to get to work. He is licensed to do procedures that i with a masters degree cannot do. He takes care of medically practical and fragile students we dont happen to these kids when a nurse cannot take care of them at school . They say home. They miss school. I know this nurse deserves reasonable pay and the ability to live in the city in which he works. It is more than that. The students deserve stable access to schools, and all students deserve stable schools. What happens when this nurse tires of commuting for pennies . He will find work closer to ho home. Spend more time with his family, as any of us would. What will that mean for the children he works with . Our educators deserve stable, Affordable Housing. Our students deserve stable schools. Please vote tonight to endorse prop e on bring us closer to the schools. Thank you. Good evening. I am the political director. Im here to urge you to support prop e. We all know it is not a secret that the affordability crisis it is not just impacting our families, but its also impacting many of our teachers and para educators are losing their homes to eviction, and rent increases. We need to do much more to ensure that housing stability for our teachers, Early Childhood educators and paraprofessionals stay here in San Francisco so they can continue providing quality education for our students and continue providing and making sure our schools are stable. When prop e passes it will help keep our educators in the city where they work and will stabilize our communities. We need prop need to make sure their healthy needs are being met. Prop e not only as going to support our currents, it will also help our future educators. Thank you. Hello again, commissioners, superintendent matthews, susan solomon. I will echo with the previous speaker said. Thank you to the commissioners who wrote this resolution. I appreciate it. In might of the very serious and sobering conversation that you all just had around supporting students. This is all pieces of the puzz puzzle. As people get priced out of San Francisco educators and families, it is disruptive to public education. If we can help bring stability and lower costs to housing so that the current statistic that the medium rent for a onebedroom apartment is 3,700. This is not sustainable. Thank you for presenting this resolution. I look forward to your vote. Thank you. Thank you. Any comments from the board of supervisors . I want to thank commissioner moliga for bringing this forward and letting me add my name to it. He did all the hard work. I am excited to vote on this and get the word out to the public. Thank you. [roll call] [applause] section m. Board members reports. Lets see we will start with the rules committee. Thank you. Rules met last week. We had two other items that were action items, Sexual Health and hivaids, prevention and instruction which we forwarded to the full board with a positive recommendation. Likewise for board policy High School Graduation requirements. We didnt talk about it at the last meeting. It has come up a number of tim times. Sb328 which was actually signed into law by Governor Newsom this week. It will mandate the districts to do a couple of things. Middle schools will not be able to start before 8 00 a. M. High schools cannot start prior to 8 30 a. M. The School Districts must adopt a law before july, or sooner, if they have collected bargaining and allow negotiation before the deadline. We are going to have to have some kind of analysis of this for our district soon. Ab1505 was also signed into law. That is arounds charter petitions and rules. Essentially we had hoped that it would remain if our board denied a charter petition or renewal petition, if we denied it would not have to go back to the state board. For our district, since we are a city in the county. It will have to go to the state board. Although the state board is changing its membership and its proclivity to rubberstamp charter schools. We are hoping that will be in our favor. And that we have some information about around split rule, which is essentially being kicked around for decades to try to undo a lot of the harm that prop 13 has done in terms of revenue coming into the School Districts. Corporate property would be taxed at a slightly higher rate. Homeowner and Small Business would not be adjusted upwards. The analysis of it right now is that it is not doing very well in polling. The governor is not committed to it and their other parties that have been given the cold shoulder. We are not at a point where it is necessarily going to pass. It is essential that we do find increased Revenue Sources for districts. That concludes the report from the rules committee. Thank you Vice President sanchez. Do you have a report from personnel . I do. My first report. I do quickly remember what we talked about. Two agenda items presentation around certified hiring reports. They are highlights from there, we started the school year off with a feeling 99 of our classroom vacancies were filled. That is really great progress there. Some of the comments around understanding of those breakdowns, particularly in professional education classrooms. I know that has been a concern that has been raised. As a gap from overall we are hearing from families out in the field. That is one take away of getting in more detail data there. Another area of opportunity is the approach around early hiring. When we do earlier hiring you have a more diverse pool so that is a practice that the team is going to be continuing for this upcoming recruitment season. And then knowing how important that is getting more teachers of color into our focal students particularly. Another area that is a challenge around our language pathways. We havent been able to address the longterm sustainability of finding our own language immersion vacancies. There is definitely an opportunity around how we are recruiting and partnering up. That aspect of the work for the certified hiring, and the other presentation, we are embarking on a huge Human Capital budget Management Systems change. Tonight the board approved that infrastructure investment. We are moving from a very paper oriented, to again something that is more modern, integrated, technology integrated, makes me happy um around understanding that we are embarking on a process um but also the Team Presented the seriousness around um the onboarding and the training aspect. That is going to be a major shift this is an two organizational change management. Looking at implementation of january 2021. The detailed timeline was presented. But i also stressed during that meeting was the importance around that feedback loop. I think we have talked about that, right . If we are going to embark on a major infrastructure transition we need to be able to quickly get that loop of where the caps are. I am excited about that management happening. Number two, report from board delegates to membership organizations. Any report . Number three, any other reports by Board Members . Okay. I wanted to give a few shout outs are quick. I just came back from a conference in san diego, the California Association of educators. I was joined by the alley team. We had parents from the aipac. It was very aspiring. I think we have a great group of advocates and team members and working with them. [reading names] thank you all for coming down to san diego. I look forward to working collaboratively to help move our district forward. I also wanted to shout out the hr team for the educators of color reception. [ name indescernible ] she did a great job. I had a good time. I think superintendent ford won the handshake contest. She is used to winning. So, thank you all that came out for the event and all of the organizers for the district that help put it on. Im up to calendar of committee meetings. Budget and Business Services will be wednesday november 6, 2019 at 6 00 p. M. Rules policy legislation will be monday, november 4 at 5 00 p. M. Curriculum and program will be wednesday, october 23 at 6 00 p. M. Building grounds and services will be monday, october 28 at 6 00 p. M. The Ad Hoc Committee on personal matters and relations will be thursday, november 14, at 6 00 p. M. The Ad Hoc Committee on Student Assignment will be monday, october 21 at 6 00 p. M. The joint School Districts and city College Committee will be friday, november 8 at 10 00 a. M. That meeting will be held at city hall at the legislative chambers. Section n. Other information items. We have one item. Kalw programming requested by a member of the public. You have two minutes to address the board. Hello. I am kevin robinson. A parent in the School District in a guest teacher for the district. I want to thank the board for putting this item on the agenda on such short notice. The Standard School broadcast which began in 1928, is the oldest Educational Radio Program was on the united states. It airs thursday at 10 00 a. M. And ran for 47 years. Ending in 1975. Picking up numerous accolades and awards along the way. By the way, this Radio Program was broadcast from San Francisco. As you are aware, the board of education meetings are aired on kalw 91. 7 as part of a Service Provided by the San Francisco unified School District. Besides these meetings, kalw broadcasts the School District lunch menu, an occasional education story. Currently there is no program on the station solely dedicated to all things education related. Whether they be district, regional, statewide, or nationwide. There should be. At least one hour per week could be used for such purpose. Education, in this country, is at a tipping point. The district holds a license, the power, tooth hip things in the right direction. To tip things in the right direction. Parents wanted, Teachers Want to, wanted and we all need it. Im prepared to work with the board, kalw, the superintendent, as a director of communications to make this a reality. Lets make it happen. Lets put on a show. Thank you. Thank you. Section oh. Memorial adjournment. Rio during this meeting and the member memory of the superintendent of july 1985 through july 1986. He received his credentials from the San Francisco state university. He was hired by the district in 1956 and retired in june of 1994. He was Vice President at Roosevelt Middle School and mission high school, principal at everett and Benjamin Frank the middle. Most apparently, he headed the implementation of the Consent Decree for the School District. He passed away on september 23, 2019. A life remembrance will be held on sunday, november 3, 2019 from 11 30 a. M. Until 2 30 p. M. At the san mateo senior center. 2645 alameda. [inaudible] san mateo, california. The board of education on the superintendent of schools express sincere condolences to the family. At this time, we will take Public Comment for those who want to comment during closed session. Seeing none. Section p close session. The board will now go into closed session and then were back in closed session. Im going to readout from the session on october 15, 2019. The board by a vote of five ayes, two absent, approved the contract of one director. The board by a vote of five ayes, two absent, approved the contract of administrator. The borard, by a vote of five ayes, two absent, voted to release an employee in the matter of a termination the board, by a vote of four ayes, one nay, two absent, approved the intention of litigation. In the matter of w. C. Versus sfusd, the board by a vote of five ayes, two absent, gives the district the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. In the matter of b. H. Versus sfusd, the board, by a vote of five ayes, two absent, gives the district the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. That concludes this tonights meeting. This meeting is adjourned. [gavel] three, two, one. [applause. ] congratulations everybody. Thank you. So the project was driven by the need to improve conditions for people biking and walking from beach street to mcallister. Between 2010 and 2015, there were 290 traffic crashes including two deaths, 110 bike collisions and 78te 78 pedestrin collisions. The construction was a little over two years. It including pedestrian crossing, better bike facilities, new street trees, we repaved the entire corridor. Fern alley has decorative street plants and new palm streets. Cbd helped maintain the alleys and they are planning farmers markets and pop ups and bands. The goal was to build on the economic vibra vibrancy of polkt and to provide a safe street for good afternoon, everybody. If i can call this meeting of the sfmta would you please call the roll. [roll call] assuming i didnt miss anybody, you have a quorum. Items prohibition of soundproducing devices. The ringing of a user cell phone or pagers are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. And cell phone vibrate causing micro phone interference so the board requests they be turned off. Item for approval of the minutes of the october 1 regular meeting and no one has turned in a speaker card regarding the minutes. Thank you, directors, do you have copies of the two sets of minutes, if there are no comments, ill entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Second. All in favour please say aye. Aye. My opposed. Ok. Item 5. All right. Mr. Chair, i have no communications at the moment. New or unpublishe unfinished bu. Board members, if theres something you would like to address now, please do so. I had some leaders in chinatown bring up the issue around i know that there was concerns generally about the delay and the subway and concerns about things we can do to mitigate and one of the proposals theyre pushing forward was for lesser parking latenight in the garage at a flat rate. I know that is something the department has been considering but i was asked by steven lee on the Entertainment Commission to bring that forward before the board. Interpret are they were looking for something and talking about after 6 00 p. M. Between that and 2 00 a. M. Or later because a lot of people who come into chinatown come from outside of the city. Without objection, can you can coordinate on that with the Entertainment Commission. Im not sure its a board item yet but see if its something you want to address at the staff level. That would be wonderful and report back about your progress. Thank you, directour mcgwire. Any further new or Unfinished Business . Bless you, my fellow directors. On to item 7. Thank you, directors report. Good afternoon. I will troy to make this quick as the chair said we have a long meeting today. Theres quite a few things i want to update you on. Last week we experienced several Serious Service disruptions on muni. Monday morning. A circuit break err on the in bound side of the subway. It lasted for 40 minutes. Our mobile units had to tow the car out of service and we since had to replace the defective battery in that car. A drain that has had a history of problems had a malfunction blocking out that service and we had a 25minute delay and we had to deploy bus anxiousels to and from church street. We have taken that vehicle out of service for a thorough diagnosis so it wont cause that problem again and two experienced a loss of power and they were damaged overhead context and you will see the overhead wires at church and 16th which is a significant delay on the j ex we had to run bus shuttles for four hours. We tried to emphasize the communication to passengers and these are pretty tricky delays as they occurred in the high ridership well learn about keeping those off the rails during rush hour if possible. Another street fatality occurred since our last meeting. This one occurred on october 6tn evans. A southbound driver was speeding across the centre line at Hunters Point and struck a northbound vehicle head on and the driver in the new york te team has been out there and well refresh and make the centre striping dieter to alert and and that stretch of road. The next day there was a single driver and the third avenue and that crash the driver who appears to have had a non traffic related medical condition struck a parked car. And died. Finally, there was a serious injury crash on october 13th, sunday evening. A driver was fleeing a hitandrun collision and struck several vehicles along the corridor. The last crash involved the driver crossing over the opposite direction of traffic and hit another driver head on. It was not a fatality but a serious injury. Yesterday at 3 30 p. M. , there was an injury collision involving a cable car. A Truck Driving near the corner of washington, on washington street between jones and tailor collided with a cable car. None of the injuries were serious but five people went to the hospital and we have an Investigation Underway with that incident. And two weeks ago, we experienced a tragic death of a taxi driver. Two of his passengers visiting can fran from chicago were killed in a headon collision on highway 101. The driver of the other vehicle is also killed. San Francisco Department of publichealth has been on site at sfo to provide assistance to other drivers who may be struggling with this loss. He was a taxi driver for quite a while and we extend our sympathy to those involved and are affected by this loss. Moving onto the chase centre. For a month of chase centre, weve been really pleasantly surprised with the level of ridership on muni to and from the events. The rail ridership has been averaging 3500 patrons a game and has gotten as high as 5700 during a couple of the preseason basketball events. The basketball games are getting more transit ridership than the concerts. Bus ridership has ranged between 200 and 1100 per day. The highest ridership on that was the elton john concert. We have had no issues with customers being getting fair tickets or anything for the proof of payment. Your muni ticket and your warriors ticket seems to work smoothly. Its too early to speak about the revenue impact of this will be but, were seeing on average over 30 of the patrons going to the arena riding on muni. That points to the success of the ticket bundling initiative. For one year beginning on october 21st, our partners at the San Francisco department of public works will be constructing phase 2 of the street scape Improvement Project on jefferson street and that is going to impact muni service in fisherman warf and theyre going to loop back at pier 39 for the duration. Construction and the shuttle bus will serve the missed steps further on in fishermans warf. It will have wider sidewalks and bike parking, landscaping, public seating and i improvementsens hanceing the transit experience when its done. And recently weve received several requests to improve curb space. The area founded by division, an area mixed destinations and its a unique part of the city. Were going to apply the holistic approaching Parking Management and curb management weve applied in other parts of the city and relaunching an effort that we had underway a few years ago called the northeast mission curb management project. The goal is to come up with a plan that addresses the parking and curb management needs of all stakeholders with reasonable regulation zoos on Street Parking is available to meet the commercial demands and yet the streets are safe for all users. Well be having an open house coming on october 21st at 8 00 a. M. At the atlas cafe at 3049 mission and staff will hold office hours and have lots of creative dropin events to this unique p. D. R. Area and that concludes my report. Thank you, very much, directour mcgwire. Is there Public Comment on his report . No, mr. Chairman. No one is turned in a speaker card regarding this. I will advise the audience theres an overflow room and its the north side court so people cannot be standing in the room because of the fire codes. Seeing no Public Comment and no one coming forward on the report well close Public Comment. Any comments or questions for directour mcgwire. Thank you. Pardon me. I wasnt sure if you had Public Comment. Do you want to speak mr. Director mcgwires report . Sure. On the report . No, thats what i was asking you. If its on this report, no. Im waiting for Public Comment other than his report. I will make sure you know when we have Public Comment on items not on the agenda, mr. Brian. Thank you, sir. I didnt note it on my card. Please get a speaker card. Shes going to count it against your time, james. You better sit down. [laughter] thank you. Thank you mr. Mcgwire. I just want to add to the chase Centre Discussion to remind everybody the other board that i sit on cal train runs a Great Service to the new chase centre and one of my fellow Board Members on the other board recommended to steph curry who was late for something when he tried to drive he should just hop on cal train and get there on time. Also, more for the publics benefit. I know we talked about this before but its been a few years. When we have a collision between one of our revenue volkswagen like a cable car or a bus and a private automobile, we do go after that driver and that drivers Insurance Company for money to pay for the repairs for the vehicles correct . Yeah. I think it really depends on the situation and thats why i said that we have an investigation open right now. We do whats called a sixhour investigation when theres a crash involving a rail vehicle. It does involve our partners at cpuc so we need to figure out where the culpability is and just what happened. Because i dont have those facts im not sharing that now but when we do, well pursue revenue. Anyone else. If i may, thank you for the transparency on the muni delays or the metro delays that we had and my understanding was the communication protocol was followed relatively well or as well as can be under the circumstances. Thank you foray attention to that. My question is this, were all the of the vehicles involved breta vehicles . I do not know the answer. The problematic volkswagen is an old car. Yes. So when mrs. Kirsh baumgartner gives us the report. Terry fayhe can hold on. If you can speak into the microphone. Im Deputy Director of maintenance standing in for julie. The answer is yes, one of the First Vehicles that entered the crossing of 16th was a lrv4. The reason i ask is just this, these things are going to happen. I know you guys are monitoring and reporting and we appreciate this but its important for the public to understand that in those three instances, these were caused by aging vehicles and were on that we have new volkswagen in place. Thervehicles in place. I want today clarify these were the older vehicles involved, particularly when the vehicle was the cause of the problem. Right. The incident was 16th and church. Very good. It was not related to the vehicle. Thank you. The next thing is this, id like to adjourn todays meeting in memory of mr. Ahmed and ask that our directour of Taxi Services send our condolences along to his friends and family and his colleagues in the taxi business. I was very upset to learn that news when i woke up that morning, not just that two visitors to our city died, which is terrible enough, but someone who dedicated his life to moving our visitors perished at no fault of his own trying to get visitors downtown during the evening hours. Im very saddened by that. I ask that you extend my personal condolences to his friend and id ask without objection Board Members that we adjourn in his memory today. Seeing no objection, well do that. Mrs. Boomer, next item, please. Advisory Council Report mr. Chair theres no report today so you are moving on to item 9, Public Comment. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters that are within the jurisdiction of the mta board of directors you but is not on todays agenda. How many cards including mr. Brians do we have . I dont have one for mr. Bryant. I have one speaker card. Who is that . John par. Mr. Par, you have two minutes then mr. Bryant you have two minutes. Good afternoon board of directors my name is john par. I affectionally live in an area which i call jurassic park. You folks watch tv. One of my favourite shows on netflix is called stranger things. It divides humanity into two worlds. The normal right side up world and the other side of the world which is called the upside down world. Nothing is normal in the world called the upside down world. Mind you stop at 31st and judah is part of the upside down world for over 100 years. This is my 12th visit to discuss this matter. On 31st and judah commuters can meet their doom by simply leaving or entering a light rail vehicle into an open street. This is complete insanity. Other cities do not consider this normal. Its upside down behaviour. I ask the work order approved by sf muni and sean kennedys team that this work be executed immediately and without any further or needles delay. Its minimum work. Second, at some point in the near future, a Capital Budget allocation of 12 million be made to the Street Corner of 31st and judah so that finally in my lifetime and in San Franciscos lifetime, the outer sunset experiences the delight of an elevated light rail transit stop. And return us to the right side up world. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Mr. Bryant. We didnt make you wait that long. Thank you, sir. Today i want to have a discussion about other matters but today i want to discuss the issue of the placement of lyft bicycle facilities that youve placed down in the communities. Well, you know, i understand that you probably have some financial agreement with lite but i want to make this clear to you when folks like the people who are on evans and the 1300 block of evans go to park in the morning, and there are absolutely no parks available, that is a problem. Theres a problem because when we have not been notified by mta or lyft or whoever pro voids that services, it seems to be a position of disrespect. Ive noticed in my community where i live which is bay view Hunters Point community, there are several these facilities that have been placed in our community and if you just give me a moment to let me know who is your communicate or or distribution of information, i would be really happy to have a conversation because they have not met their needs of meeting the community. I think that if you are going to place bicycles in a community that is strained in receiving services from the Transit System itself, i think that you should come out and you should come directly to the works that live there work there and pay taxes there. Thank you, very much. Anyone else on Public Comment items not on the agenda. Mr. Winier it wouldnt be an item 9 without you. Please, step forward. And a few blocks up the hill from where i live, and congestion pricing is one way to and now that plan b has been vetoed by the governor i encourage you to go back to plan a and make another car free space on this very special and allow everybody else to walk in the main start of the street instead of a little seven foot wide staircase. Lets have that space be for people not cars. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Any further comment on item 9. Seeing none well close that item. I will confirm with our directour, it is illegal to ride a scooter on the sidewalk, is it not . Yes, it is. If you see someone riding a scooter illegal leon the sidewalk you are free, if you wish to take a picture of that and report it to the Scooter Company all of which have pledged to help us enforce that rule. Is that also true . Thats true. Very good. Thank you. Ok, next item, please. Clerk directors, you are at your consent calender these items are considered to be routine unless a member of the bother, a minimum of the public wishes to severe an item and consider it separately. Mr. Chair, i have not received an indication a member of the public wishes to have an item severed. I have received a request from staff to officer under 10. 2 number d and i through m. Sever for discussion or sever for removal . Remove it from the agenda . Ok. Does anyone have any objection to remove those items from the agenda . Seeing none. Is there any Public Comment on the consent calender . No, no one has given a speaker card. This is wonderful meeting so far. Approve remaining consent. All in favour of the consent with the items and theyre described removed and anyone opposed. Moving on to your regular agenda. Item 11 approving the better market and adopting findings and a proving parking and traffic modifications associated with the project. Ok. Im not sure theres many people here from this and area. Ive awaited eight years and i might as well wait another hour. The appropriate miss wise and. Thank you, chairman, members of the board. Victoria acting director of sustain act streets. Were here today to share a proposal for really once in a generation transformation of Market Street. This is our busy street when it comes to transit. When it comes to biking, when it comes to people walking. Its also a vital corridor with countless businesses, Historic Buildings everywhere and frankly evolving land uses and not to mention that this street is home to so many of our civic events. Commissioned in the mid 1800s and designed by Market Street has always been a key transit corridor including horsedrawn street cars and cable cars and electric cars and today hybrid diesel buses all kinds of transit. And so, what we want to make sure today is that the street continues its Important Role in the city and that it better serves our existing and future users. So, to that end, teams from multiple city departments, in extensive consultation with stakeholders, Community Members and different experts developed a design that carefully balanced all the modes. It also creates infrastructure, absolutely critical, it brings a unified look and feel to the street and perhaps frankly most importantly, it will bring safety improvements to the street. Half of the citys top 10 intersections for injury collisions are in Market Street. Half, so, today the team will share with you the full concept for the 2. 2mile project. What we will also share with you is our plans for the build we plan to implement as soon as january 2020. It makes Market Street car free. It will improve muni service and enhance safety immediately. To lead the presentation id like to introduce christina, the project manager for better Market Street the former m. T. A. Employee she works for public works who is our partner in our project and she will tag team this presentation with mta Senior Engineer, brit tanner. Good afternoon chair Board Members. Im the project manager for better Market Street and i am joined today by brit tanner from the sfmta. As you know, Market Street is a citys busiest pedestrian bicycle and transit corridor. Its the pro mere cultural civic and commercial boulevard. It is also the backbone to our muni system. And yet we have safety challenges for all modes. Theres no dedicated bicycle facility east of eighth street. Our infrastructure is aging and reaching the end of its useful life. Our transit stops, curb ramps and sidewalks do not meet current ada standards and we need to improve transit reliability and travel times. Market street is on the citys high injury network. Each year there are an average 100 injury collisions that happened between stewart and octavia and the top five highest injury intersections in the city are on Market Street. We know that 75 of injury collisions involve people walking or biking. On the state of our infrastructure, most of the infrastructure needs to be repaired or replaced. Including all of the traffic signals, the track, the overhead system and the traction power that feeds it. As you can see in this photo, the asphalt pavement is worn and needs to be replaced. The sidewalks are hard to travel along. The curb ramps don meet our standards and street lights are sewer and our water lines and communication lines all need to be replaced. To address all of these issues, better Market Street is a full reconstruction of market from building phase to building phase. Between stewart and octavia. It will be implemented in phases. Phase 1a Market Street between fifth and eighth. And the f loop. This is a diagram of the proposed project. Starting at the building phase where were providing five feet of front age zone for tables and chairs. At least 10 feet for the pedestrian walkway, a furnishing zone which will contain all of the street lights, trees and Street Furniture which ranges between six to 10 feet. A separation between the furnishing zone and the sidewalk level bike way of two feet providing a detectable separation. And also some buffer space. The bike way, which is at sidewalk level, and made of asphalt, is typically eight feet wide. And there are four feet for the buffer between the bike way and the roadway. Scooters and skate boards will be allowed to use the sidewalk level bike way. I would now like to introduce brit tanner from the sfmta to present the transportation and transit improvements for the project. Good afternoon. Im brit tanner a Senior Engineer with sfmta and the lead for this project. Ive been working on this for eight years also so im excited to bring think to you. Were showing you a Cross Section of what Market Street looks like with better Market Street. Were still keeping four lanes of traffic, two lanes in each direction and as we mentioned already, market would be car free east of 12 streets. What this means is that well be able to make the centre lane muni only. Meaning there would not be a bus and taxi lane like it is today. Taxis would be sharing the curb lane with local buses, commercial vehicles and paratransit. We have a bike lane, continuous from octavia to the ferry plaza. Typically as christina described its eight feet wide but weve had to make design modifications. So what this graph is showing, on the left side, where we have a curbside transit stop, we have narrowed the bike way to about six feet wide to fit in that curbside transit stop. With the bicycle way going behind it. On the right side, where we have a centre boarding island, we have maintained the sidewalk level bike lane at about eight feet but that buffer space is eliminated. However, throughout the whole corridor, were still maintaining that street life zone which is a buffer between the bicycle space and pedestrian free zone. Ill go through the other transit stuff. That was the fastest this project has moved. [laughter] were done. All right. So, weve spent a lot of time and part of that eight years has been trying to workout all the design