And the newness coming in. There are so good morning and welcome to the Transportation Authoritys meeting for today, election day, tuesday, november 5th, 2019. Our clerk is mr. Alberto kinta nix a. Role call. Pai role call . We have a quorum. Thank you, colleagues. I have a request from commissioner valley brown to be excused from todays meeting. Is there a motion to that effect made by commissioner stephanie and seconded by commissioner mandelman and we will take that without objection, even though it might upset council. With that, can we go to the Citizens Advisory Committee. Mr. Larsen, good morning. Turn your microphone on, john, and go ahead. Good morning. Im the care of the Citizens Advisory Committee and im here to report on the most recent meeting of the cac. Beginning with item 5, allocation and appropriations of prop k funds for 6. 5 million, cac members expressed concerns of tacs used the express lane by the doorpool and express lane project request. The main issue was t n cs adding to congestion in similar ways to add congestion on city streets. There was also keen interest in the equity study and how it would be structured and conducted. They were to free up regular lanes from slower moving heavy vehicles there and thereby speed up regular requests. The members were surprised even though the station predated the add, there was little to provide accessibility in the ensuing years. The longterm plan is to move the station with the tunnel realignment, that is so way off, staff were urged to think about technology and Infrastructure Solutions that could be deployed to make the 22nd street station accessible now and for the foreseeable future. Moving to item 6 on your agenda, the amended programme of projects for the 2020 art tip funds, they asked about the communicationcased Train Technology that would be the subject of the tip funds. The biggest concern was how to avoid the mun imeltdown in the metro. Sfta staff noted the new system will be side by side with the system in a series of phases and if there were to any problems, the new system could revert to the existing system to avoid delays and system break downs. The cac received an update on the geneva san jose study carried over from a previous meeting. It was encouraged to see that pedestrianfocused improvements were addressed at this complex intersection with a number of transit, traffic and transportation conflicts. Especially with regard to the mline midblock, dropoff and boarding areas that result in passengerring walking on san jose avenue in the middle of the street. The popup meetings during commute hours with met with favorable response as a way to obtain public input. During Public Comment, the cac was reminded the balboa park station is the se second largest transit hub in the city. We were encouraged to link better transit lines and take note of the comparative left of investment in this outer naked neighborhood in the city versus downtown. Lastly, there was an update on a regional measure and the faster freedom affordability speed transparenctransparency equity. The branding strategy might be met with public skepticism given the recent history of delays in big transportation projects and relatively small gains in transit speed people have experienced over time. The consensus is that any additional regional measure request should move transit forward in big ways. And that completes my report. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Larsen. Any questions for mr. Larsen . Seeing none, my members who would like to comment on the cac report . Seeing no members on this site, Public Comment is closed and thank you for that presentation and advice. Mr. Clerk, could you please read the Consent Agenda . Items 3 and 4 comprise of Consent Agenda, approved octobed considered for final approval. Staff is planning to present on this item but prepared to present if desired. Any items may be considered separately. So because this is a Consent Agenda, we only take Public Comment on the approval which is item number 3, but i have a request to speak on item number 4 from an individual who spoke on item number 4 when it was presented on the first reading. I will provide with your concurrence that individual the opportunity to speak to this at general Public Comment. Any Public Comment on item number 3, approval of the minutes of october 22nd . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion for the Consent Agenda . Moved by commissioner mandelman, seconded by commissioner yi and can we have a role call. role call . If we can start the role call over. Well truncate this vote because commission hainey did not vote and commission yi voted for commissioner hainey. Please start the role call. role call . We have final approval. Allocate 870,000 with conditions and athappropriate 5. 7 million. Miss laforte. Good morning. Good morning. If i could ask jen to come and help me with the technical aspects of bringing up my presentation but ill get started, if its ok with the board. Dont spill your coffee. Ok. So there are six requests in front of you today and ill just dive right in. The first is four allocation requests that relate to the downtown programme. The pennsylvania lineman is one of the key recommendations that came out of the rail alignment benefit study in 2018 and its known as the rab study and this alignment for pennsylvania avenue has been endorsed by this body and also by mayor breed. Thanks, jen. And so, this is the preferred route to go south from fourth and king via tunnel along pennsylvania and this allows the infrastructure to avoid at grade crossings at 16th street and a major eastwest corridor serving mission bay and Mission Bay Drive. The recommendation to advance the preenvironmental work is consistent wit the recommendations from the Peer Review Panel youve heard about recently and this project and funding request will be done within two years and this is for the scoping work that will eventually lead to project initiation document to establish a basis for project development. So the participation authority will lead this effort but we will do so in close coordination with our partners and with the related projects that are stemming from the recommendations of the Peer Review Panel. So this is a visual graphic of the alignment for the pennsylvania avenue alignment. It is shown in orange and you can also see in the lower part of the green where it touches the wrong, where the grade separations are. These are the two grade separations along the cal train corridor in San Francisco. The next request is for the 22nd street ada study. And this is a request from caltrain to explore the feasibility of potential improvements to the 22n 22nd street station which was constructed prior to the ada passage and this is really essentially going to assess what is possible, what are some improvements that could be made in light of in recognising there have been landscaping work done but also that theres a 22nd street station study, that the Planning Department is doing right now, but if the station should move or the location be impacted by the findings of that study, there was no plan for implementation of moving the station any time in the near future. So this is to assess what could be done in the near future to potentially improve the accessibility of the station. And at this is done at the request of commissioner walton and commissioner waltons office will definitely be involved in convening a Stakeholder Group to put key milestones in the study as far as input on the goals and conceptual designs and draft recommendations that are outcomes of it. These next two requests includes scopes of work that advance recommendations in the caltrain business plan. Cowaso one is adopting a longre service vision, like the number of trains and how often they run and that will be further defined over the next year and a half as this proposed study which is for stations and terminal planning is conducted. So consistent with a longrange service vision, this particular project will look at the longterm maintenance systemwide at both lines, north and south. Considering the existing sites, new sites, considering potential supplemental facilities. In particular, we know theres a lot going on or considered at fourth and king and what size footprint is needed and various objectives including the maximum potential at the site, so all things taken into consideration. And ultimately, caltrain will be working to produce a final report by december of 2021. There are 42 atgrade crossings along the caltrade alignment. The two in sanfrancisco, at 16th street and Mission Bay Drive will be addressed through the pennsylvania avenue alignment work that we will be conducting. But this effort is, you know, the work that well be doing will be done in parallel. It will this particular project will lead to development of a policy and it will help caltrain to establish goals and objectives and priorization criteria to manufacture the investments that caltrain will be making to potentially, you know, either enhance the existing facilities and what to do, where the trains and the cars have potential conflicts at grade. Next request is from sfmta for the hyde Street Safety project and this is a funding request to match a caltrain grant awarded to the mta to do planning and engagement on hyde street between grove and ofarrell. They have Different Community organizations to figure out some conceptionual designs and some recommended improvements to really enhance the street, enhancing Pedestrian Safety and also really just transforming the street into a complete street effort and so final report would be expected in about two years. And the last request is an appropriation request from the Transportation Authority for the carpool and express lane environmental phase one. And a bit of background on this request. In late 2018, the board approved the Corridor Study report and a prop k senator b one Partnership Fund exchange for this project. This Fund Exchange approved 6 million in sb1 Partnership Funds for street resurfacing exexchange for 4. 1k for the props. We didnt programme them because of the uncertainty of prop six which would have funded the fund program. Prop 6 was defeated and in now this project is ready to start the environmental phase and were seeking approval to advance the 4. 1 million in prop k in the street resurfacing category to allocate it in this current year. This work will include preliminary engineering and various different environmental and detai technical studies thal form a draft document. It will fund at the board request, a robust equity study informing project decisions and ultimately advance social justice is one of the goals. So that will be done as a part of the funding request and in your packet of materials for the Powerpoint Presentation and for folks watching at home. , there are additional slides after mitive slide thamythank you slis interested and in would ultimately be to create an express and or carpool lane from san matteo to fifth and king street to create a continuous facility. Im here to answer any questions as are various project managers. Colleagues, i know weve been individually briefed on this item and are there any questions from members . If not, there are members of the public who would like to testify on this item number 5 . Please come forward. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed and can we have a motion to move item number 5 made by commissioner walsowalton and seconded by commissioner ronan and on that item, i think we have the same house. Item is passed on the first read. Improve the 2020 Improvement Program and this is an action approvement program. Im joined by the San Francisco national agencies, dan howard who will give a longer presentation after my brief introduction. So we did last month we came to you regarding the 2020 Regional Transportation Program but as a reminder, this is a fiveyear Investment Plan for state transportation money and as the Congestion Management Agency for sanfrancisco, we recommend the projects. So last month, you approved a list of programming that is included on page 65 of your packet, as well as therevisions today. In the 2018, this body was 18 million for light rail lines ax el counters project. These are devices to identify the location of the trains within the munimetro subway. However that technology is outdated and mr. Howard will get a little bit more into that in a minute. Since the sfta is moving forward with a communicationsbased control approach. Since the new train control system, the a axel counters are folded into that and we are refunding that to the new train project. And i know chair peskin and chair mandelman have heard about this in detail from the performanceworking group. It has been fascinating. Youll hear more in a second. But the first two phases would be the phases that are covered or contributing the 2018 ourtip funds which covers the first two phases of the seven covering the entire metro subway and the t third down to 23rd street. The second part of the action is to revise the 2020 ourtip reports. Since you acted last month, we identified a discrepancy in the amount of funding available. So we have another 778,000 that we are recommending putting towards the new flyer overhaul phase three project and that will result in increasing the scope of work from 13 to 14 vehicles. The next steps, in november, well submit the request for the amendments to the metropolitan Transportation Commission and that will consider the item in december and forward it to the california Transportation Commission for approval in march. And with that, i will turn it over to dan howard. Mr. Howard. I gave a version of this presentation at the muniworking group last month. First couple of slides to give you a primer on what automatic train control is, its a Safety System that prevents traintotrain collisions and thats important to recognise as we consider upgrading the project, is that the primary mission is to prevent trains from colliding into each other and if that, its done an exceptional job. Currently, the train control system operating in the marketway subway between west portal stations. And that traincontrol system essentially brings the trains in automatic mode from the portugalportalon to the subway , there have been a number of issues with that system that have lead to subway delays that im sure many of you and the public has experienced. Currently the way the system operates, a train will ping the central Computer System and does a handshake at the portal which is essentially the train internally checking the ability to determine its position and also checking the Communication Systems on board the train. Once it does that, it then is able to proceed in automatic mode and handshake is source of many delays weve been able to experience and thats because some of the issues with the age of the system. The system, one it is able to communicate with the train, it then controls the use and activation throughout vehicles through the subway only. Operators open and close the doors but other movements are automated. On the surface, the system is very manual. Its first come, first serve when a train arrives at an intersection or junction, it basically requests a route through that system or through that junction immediately without consideration to which train gets priority or any other operational considerations. As a result, we see that trains on the surface tend to arrive at the subway bunched and that results in congestion subway arrive vanesse station and congestion inbound at the embarcadaro, as well as west portal. Those are caused by trains entering into a fashion and in an unplanned based on the service operations. As i mentioned, the three portals multiply that handshake multiple flies system failures. Each system provides an opportunity for the systems to not communicate. In other metro major systems, chicago, d. C. , atlanta, those handshakes at portals are typically performed once from when the train leaves the yard. When we do it in San Francisco, we perform that handshake every time a train goes into the sub subwasubway and back out. So were multiplying the amount of times for that delicate procedure to take place and that, in turn, multiplies the amount of failures. The system is 20 years old and probably closer to 30 by the time we replace it with the new system. Every morning or traincontrol operators load the system on a series of three floppy discs. In the age of the internet and usb sticks, we can understand how that might not be acceptable and there are more modern systems were able to present. The system is designed in a fairly rigid and unforgiving manner where all of the subway lines converge and so if theres a problem in the tunnel, that problem usually spreads out to the remainder of the system. The result, therefore, is congestion. This graft shows the capacity and congestion. Essentially, as i mentioned, you have six lines in the Market Street tunnel and you have the red line is what we have scheduled to operate in the tunnel. So at the peaks, were looking at 41 to 42 trains per hour. Then the orange line, at the bottom, its showing what were able to deliver through the Market Street tunnel at embarcadaro and thats closer to 30 and 35. The gap between the two lines basically indicates the congestion present in the system and thats experienced by riders everyday when theyre stopped in the tunnel between stations. Another issue we have is were slow to recover from failures. So as an example, once a train fails communication at the portal, its unable to recover communications, except for those six Access Points that you see along the graph there marked in the orange xs. The train has to travel in manual mode to one of those xs at half the speed of a regular of an automatic train and then it has to stop and then it has to reestablish communications through a procedure that both the train controller in federal control and train operator have to perform before the train can then recover automatic mode, proceed at its normal speed at be on its way. Thats just one failure, one communication failure of one train. We experience on average ten of those a day, due to the age of the system. And in some cases, in february, we experienced a complete failure of the central Computer System which required all of the trains, lost communication for all of the trains and that required that all 45 trains on the u. S. A. Ha subway had to go h this procedure one by one to recover service. As a result, we were unable to recover for two and a half hours following that initial failure. So im here to announce the train control project, upgrade project for which were requesting funds for the stipulate program. The plan is in phases, as you see before you. Phase one would be on the surface on embarcadaro and third street, for that corridor. The reason, thats a critical corridor for the operations at fourth and king, a major bottleneck and were looking at the ballpark, the chase center and tline as priorities for investment in train control. The other opportunity that we have for performing on the surface is were able to get it right on a green field, relatively green field investment and the reason why were able to do that is because theres no train control system operating on that segment. So were able to completely stand it up, test it without interfering without rail operations and without having to worry about cutting over the new system which would come in phase two. As i mentioned phase two in the subway is actually much more involved and requires decommissioning of the existing train control system and replacing it with the new one and thats something we want to undertake after weve proven the system in phase one. Following the two phases, that would cover a large majority of the benefit from this project and we would expand the train control system to the rest of the system, line by line, over the course of eight years. The advantages of the new traincontrol system ive hinted at through the disadvantages of the existing system, one of the main ones is we would get modern equipment, so a new system use wifi and cellar that the Current System doesnt use. We would be able to allow for a Better Software update. I mentioned how we load the software currently and this would allow us to predict faults, so we would be able to in a redundant system to determine a fault occurred, correct it and then repair it before that even affects surface. Another advantage is that it would send predictions and provide estimated arrival times to each of the Traffic Signals to prepare for the trains arrival and hopefully adjust the signal so that the train will arrive on a green light. The last item, which i mentioned in reference to bunching in gaps at the portals, it would allow train controllers in central to supervise the trains all over the system and that would cause them to bthem to take reaction y see bunches and gaps or issues on the surface to impact the subway, they can take smaller corrective actions that are less disruptive to the tools available to them and that will result in better service. This is the budget and funding plan for the first two phases of the project. These are the sources for phase one, which, again, is the embarcadaro and phase two, which is the subway replacement. We get funding from the repair and this is a major portion of phase one and were looking at funds from mtc and from prop b. And this is the total program cost for all seven phases. You can see it stretches from fiscal year 21 to fiscal year 28 for the last line. It was a total project budget of 300 million. And thats over ten years. And were looking at some other competitive grants, such as the trcp funds, some cag funds, as well as local geobonds and other revenue revenues to make e remainder funding for this project. With that, i finished with my presentation and happy to take questions. Questions for mr. Howard . Commissioner mandelman and i received the briefing and youre all, as well as the public to attend the munirelate working group. Ireliability group. Commissioner marr . Thank you for the presentation. I think this is a good investment if it could result in significant improvements in the reliability and the efficiency of the lightrail system. I just had a question about one of the slides on that chart showing the schedule versus the actual capacity and somebody that represents district 4, where folks really rely heavily on the end lines to get to and from work and downtown and, also, experience frustration on a daily basis with just the overcrowded lines, especially during commute hours. I just wanted to understand better what was the reason for the big gap between the scheduled lines and the actual and whether this new train control system is the main reason the inadequate train control system is the main reason or are there other factors causing that big gap . Through the chair, the congestion we experience in thee resulting congestion loss is not as a rut. Result. Other cities run tencar trains. And so, theyre able to space them out very far. I mean bart is the same way. When were running short, twocar trains we have to deliver the same number of people. So right now, were running about 42 were scheduling 42 trains an hour and thats a signal of muni to run as many trains to fit into the tunnel. What this graph is showing is that were falling short of that because the tunnel is not able to handle the volume of trains that were scheduling for it. And so we need to provide upgrades to the tunnel in order to increase the capacity of the tunnel. As a comparison, cities like boston are running 15 trains an hour through their most congested corridors and were running 32. So were about double some of the other larger cities with major metro systems. And the result of that is that we run fewer, longer trains, which is something that were looking into. And that is one prong of the strategy and the other prong is increasing the number of trains that we can run in the subway, so looking at this, trying to get that actual number up to the scheduled number and through investing in the train control system, we can run those trains closer together and eliminate the primary bottlenecks at embarcadaro and have vanesse te what were scheduling. So the traincontrolled system is not really the issue in us not meeting the number of scheduled trains and its more the physical issues with the tunnel and so, are there is there also a separate plan to address that. The solution to that will be capitol intensive and more tracks, more opportunities to turn back trains at embarcadaro, its the most effective way to achieve an increase in capacity. I would call that a modest increase in capacity. Were looking at, probably, 20 as opposed to a paradigm shift of changing capacity which would require a major capital expend tour oexpenditure and the train control is not to blame for the situation were in now but more the physical layout of the system, but what were limited in the options that we have with the capital that were able to expend at this time. Thank you. Thank you for that cojent answer. Any other questions from members of this body . Seeing none, any members of the public who would like to comment on this item number 6 . Mr. Patrick . Im with pac patrick and comy in sanfrancisco. Do we do a failure analysis of parts and therefore predict what the failure of those particular parts will be . Also, im curious if we do a simulation of what were talking about here. There are lots of programs that are available. I remember back in college, that was a long time ago, we did simulations of these systems. These are all discrete systems, predictable and they have vary variability but by tweaking it, you can prohibit where these problems will occur and if you do have a problem, you run a Simulation Program and boom it seems were learning this all by trial and error and not using our head. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Miss kirshbaum, if you would like to respond to the member of the public, you may do so but neednt do so but you are given this opportunity, if you would like. Insofar as youre not underring one bjumping up,is there a motim number 6 . Item is approved and next item . Item 7, authorized executive director to increase the amount of the professional Services Contract with civic Edge Consulting for media and Community Relation services for the connectaccess program. Mr. Young . Good morning. I have two parts to my presentation and the first is an action item requesting and increase the amount of a consultant contract to enable additional engagement for connect sf. The second part of my presentation is information vertebralal,giving an update on. Connect sf is the longrange planning process with the mta and sf planning to build an effective, equitable and susta Sustainable Program for San Franciscos future. For the contract amendment, last year on behalf of the team, the Transportation Authority awarded a 150,000 contract to civic Edge Consulting for assistance in Strategic Communications and outreach. We would like to increase this by 100,000 for further consultant support. Specifically the additional funding would be directed to various outreach between now and 2021. Those activities would include staffing for general Public Outreach events, staffing for focused workshops alled at youth and southeast neighborhoods of the city and an Online Survey popup engagements and the Transportation Authority cac and board previously approved the additional 100,000 in prop k funds as a part of the connect sf Corridor Study. The action before the board today would enable us to amend the consultant contract to add the prop k funds. And now for a quick update on connect sf outreach. These are the phases of connect sf, phase one, we have completed throughout outreach across the city establishing a vision for San Franciscos Transportation Future over the next 30 years. Phase two is where we are now. During this phase, we will work with the community to determine the project concepts and policies to move us closer to the vision. During phase two, well complete the statement of needs which details where we are in relation to achieving our Transportation Vision and we will also complete the transit Corridor Study and those two studies will outline project concepts to pursue us closer to the Transportation Vision. Phase three will take place in 2021 and this is our citywide long range investment and blueprint for sanfrancisco. Now to the current outreach for sf, we have multiple goals in in current round of outreach to engage the public in a discussion about what works well and what doesnt when it comes to local and citywide travel. We want to learn more about what it would b take to get more peoe into travel by more sustainable modes and ideas for Public Concepts and policies to reach the Transportation Vision. And the outreach will happen during workshops aimed at youth and southeast communities in november. In january, well have two public workshops and an online susurvey that will parallel much of the workshops and we will offer presentations to any neighborhood or Community Groups that request them and we continue to engage with our futures task force which is croiscomprised of over 100 peope representing different perspectives of San Francisco. And that is my presentation. Im happy to take questions. Before i call on commissioner furer and with no disrespect to you mr. Young or my staff, my concerns about sf and efficacy remain and i want to let you know on behalf of myself and commissioner tang, i will be voting no. Commissioner furer . Looking at this outreach and i am wondering when you said it will be in language, are we including russian . Yes. And when i say inlanguage, for workshops, language assistance, we will provide that. So meaning that it is going to in english and if they want to participate, they can have teainterpretation, is that corr. Interpretation, yes. I think this is so important for my neighborhood and this is why im pushing back. What i have learned very few russian speakers come out, but if you hold one in russian because i have so many russianspeaking folks in my nakedneighborhood that are 100 dependent and i feel their voices are not at the table. If youre doing it in language, then you should do it in language, meaning that it shoul everything should be in that language and if people want english interpretation but we know its 70 at best. I wanted to give a plug for not such a passive outreach but not if they just request it but actually working, you could work with my office about spots where they could actually you could actually hold a miniworkshop, even, that would be a russian language one or a chineselanguage one and you could get a robust participation, just fyi. They dont do webinars or all that stuff. Pui think that if we so in order for us to do it, weve had to do it just for russian speakers. If we want to be totally inclusive. Thanks. Thank you. Are there any other questions or comments from members . Seeing none, any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And mr. Kinania, could you please call the role . Could we get a motion . Good point. A motion to move item number 7 made by commissioner furer and a second . Seconded by commissioner mandelman and a role call. role call . Peskin no. We have nine ayes and one no and the item has first approval. Next item, please. Item 8, internal accounting report and dead exposure report for the threemonths ending september 30th, 2019. Miss fong. This is a quick update for the First Quarter of fiscal year 1920. As of september 30, 2019, total assets equal to 205 million, liability at 332 million and revenues at 37 million and exposures were 14 million for the First Quarter. Both revenues are on target and expenexpenditures are low. 50 are in the city treasury pool and in compliance with the california government code, as well as the tas fiscal policies. As a quick update of debt compliance, the second year of our 2017 sales tax revenue bond and we have spent approximately 74 of the proceeds at this point. We have one year remaining and i have no doubt that well be able to spend these funds. We have currently spent approximately 70 of the bond proceeds on the Radio Communications system and cad replacement and trolley and motorcoach procurements. With that, ill answer any questions you have. Now. Thank you, miss fong, for yet another clean bill of health. Any questions from members . Seeing none, any Public Comment . Seeing none, the Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion on item numben item and there are no motion required. Is there any introduction of new items . Commissioner safaye. I spoke with the chair, the ta the other day and i think we had this conversation a few months ago and it got lost in the overall conversations, but i think its time to reignite the conversation about the ta allocating money to Purchase School buses for the School District. Many children are spread all of San Francisco and its not i dont think its 100 fair to ask them to rely solely on mta. We see some buses, but i think theres an underfunding for those and i know that during the great recession, the sfusd had to make decisions to cut those buses. I know we have the ability to purchase or allocate or replace, so id ask through the chair, ta to investigate how we can use some of our ta money to work with the sfusd to bring school buses back to sanfrancisco. Im follow up with that and sorry, commissioner marr. Thank you, chair peskin. It actually. I did want to say te with your point and, in fact, i started working on a new School Transportation study with the ta, the mta, the School District, dcyf and others and i think expanding our school bus service, you know, is something that will be a key part of that and would look forward to working with you on that, as well. And then colleagues, today, im requesting a presentation and discussion at a future ta Board Meeting on the citys electric vehicle roadmap, which was released in june. To reach our goal our citys ambition goal of Greenhouse Gas emissions, we need an alloftheabove reproach and that means public transit, walking and biking. But it also means expanding the ev adoption and infrastructure so that what car traffic remains in the future is cleaner and greener. My district is among the most car dependent in the city and yet, we have only one publically accessible evcharging station, with a second now on the way. Evadoption rates are improving but slowly and we know we must do better and more to switch to more sustainable options to address our climate crisis. So my hope is that this public discussion and presentation will help to provide insight as policy makes as ta as an agency and the public. Thank you. Commissioner furer. I wanted to mention commissioner safyeys request for transportation of school buses, i would caution you that this is an area that we have no jurisdiction over. Only the school board has jurisdiction over. And net are redoing the Student Assignment process to give more preference and actually assigning students to their neighborhood or their attendance area schools. We should give that a chance first, and also, i think, the full choice, we also know that choice is not equitable and i think the school board has now realized that full choice is not equitable. If you have three children, going to three different schools and you dont drive, you have no choice to get them there. Parents choose to take their kids to schools outside of their district, they should be carpooling with other parents, but actually, theres very little effort to even form carpools at school sites or even in classrooms. I think theres other things we can do as the School District spends about 20 million on transportation. Thanks. I may just also, in a different venue, suggest a hearing at the joint city School District board of supervisors chaired by supervisor hainey may be in an appropriate form. I dont wante want to get stan y talking about something not on the agenda. I know commissioner safaye will say something. I wanted to say thank you to all of the other commissioners and i know we have a lot of members that served on the school board. Because weve reignited the joint committee, we could have a fuller conversation about this. There we go. Commissioner ronan. Yes, i just wanted to chime in. I have been communicating with a lot of my constituents who have a really hard time or the neighbors surrounding the schools dropping their children off. Its an unsafe situation. So that seems like an area where the ta could take a larger role. I know we had set aside a small amount of funding, but i think almost every school in my District Needs some help figuring out how to create a safe system for dropoff and pickup of kids and its long, long overdue. So im hoping, maybe theyre innerrelated discussions but im hoping to combine that and would love more discussion in that area. Thank you, commissioner furer. So me again. I wanted to commissioner ronan, that the program that commissioner yi implemented, and they are doing at our schools, its excellent it gets them in and out in a safe bay. Way. And theyre doing the dropoff with students that yeah, so it works well in my neighborhood. I have say that we have blocks of traffic for dropoff and now it the traffic moves quickly and smoothly and students arrive safetily and parents love it and the neighbors on the block love it. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment, general Public Comment, mr. Patrick . I was disappointed you didnt move item 4 to a vote, where i had a chance to at least make a statement before it was voted upon. I thought that was a bad policy. I would like to talk about item number 4. I know its a done deal now, but this is my observation of whats happened. Pout we formed this committee and well, first of all, i will call your attention to a calendar. This represents a year. You may have seen these hanging around. Guess what. Weve had a chance to form this committee and now weve wasted a year in getting the dtx built, constructed and going. Now what well be doing is were going to study this problem and create a body, somehow or another, to do this. This is next years calendar. Weve wasted another year. It will take us a year, then, to hire the people to implement the program. Guess what . Weve wasted another year. Three years, ira one year down e drain and two more going. This is dtx to the third and were not making this successful. So i think this board has not performed well in bringing the best Transportation Systems possible to the people of sanfrancisco and especially the 60 or 70,000 riders from caltrain. Im very disappointed and thank you. Thank you, any other members for general Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is close oh, come on up, maam and ill say, mr. Patrick, when you write a 6 billion check, well build it right now. Go ahead, maam. Good morning. My name is annie vung and im here with my classmateses from the school of pharmacy. Were here to draw your attention to a bill that would create Safe Injection Sites in sa