Have fewer js you relieve pocket congestion. I think this is very exciting. Im encouraged do hear the supervisor from the district is open to it. Im glad you are planning it. I would urge you to go forward with it. I think this is something that is easy to test and could have a very very Significant Impact on the reliability of our service. Thank you. Okay. That closes item number 7. Would you please call item number 12 and be advised im going to take Public Comment out of order. Thank you. Execute contract modifications. Contract 201319 procurement of new light rail vehicles. Operator cap featuring engineering refinements that improve fleet performance to accelerate fleet replacement with no increase to the total cost and no increase in the term. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . Yes you have three speakers okay. Edward mason. Hold on. Would you please come forward and speak first please . Thank you. I will give you your option to speak now or wait until the staff presentation but i want to accommodate our friend who is needing to leave i appreciate that. We have a longattended item before this. Understood. Please. I want to address the seating on the. Whats your name . Robin crop. Is this echoing too much . We can hear you per electly i want to address the seating on the lrv training in the current breed of trains there are 20 transfer seats. And nine longitudinal ones for a twotoone ratio. Anyone who needs a transfer seat can generally get one including asking for one. However the plans for the next 50lrv cars are calling for four single transfer seats. And the rest being the sideways ones which is about 20 percent down to a 20 percent of the current transfer seat numbers than what we have currently. The plans for the next 101 is only for eight transfer seats which is going to be 40 percent of the car seats will be transfers. However, our riders are diverse. Some are ablebodied and some are not. So the ablebodied people can do anything. And those of us who are not cant. Im disabled. I cannot stand, i cannot sit sideways. I must have a forward seat. My concern is that these cars will fill up immediately and we wont be able to ride. Well be eliminated from being able to access any transfer seat and also well be injured on them, those of us with physical disabilities can be injured. Plus we are dealing with other languages. So we cant communicate with people in russian, et cetera. But, you know fragile seniors and other languages like its full of elderly chinese seniors we cant talk to each other. And if its going to be four transfer seats how do we know what our needs are for accessing . So without being able to have enough transfer seats we wont be able to ride so id like to ask for is that it . That is your time ill submit the rest in writing because i have suggestions. Thank you very much. I didnt get to them. Okay. If the other Public Commenters would like to speak now you are welcome to do so. If you would like to wait until after the presentation you can do so. Edward mason. Is cat carter hoo here . She left the only speaker is edward mason. Its 4 35 and director torres is uncharacteristically yankee. [laughter] cranky. Im kidding, im kidding. We have taken the last six months to get the lrv4 program back on track so to speak, and to make sure we are making steady progress to deliver the reliable trains that San Francisco deserves. It has not been an easy period. Weve had a lot of challenges. But im very optimistic that as we go into the new year that we are really going to see some significant improvements, and we are already seeing, i think some very promising results. So im here today to talk about some early steps to get the next phase of the lrv4 project going. These are long lead time items. The reason we are bringing them to you now is because without action now we will not be able to shave off time from the replacement, and we will end up having these vehicles well past 2026. Some of the recent progress we did and this is a photo. I did have the opportunity to address the entire factory along with vicechair borden and thank them for their hard work. It was exciting to hear from the engineer there which basically confirmed that San Francisco has the most complex vehicle on the team has designed between our hills and tight turns and weight restrictions, we really challenged them. And they were very excited about that. We still have two vehicles that are at siemenss. They are the First Vehicles we worked the hardest to break, and they are now getting all the upgrades they helped inform. We also have three vehicles that are and we have seven vehicles on hold because the wheels have flattened out. So part of this item is to move forward the investment in the track brakes. Our biggest breakdown issue over the last couple months has been the hydrollic power unit, which was causing the brakes to lock up. Im pleased to report we have addressed that issue. It was a fleet defect. It is covered under warranty. We needed to both replace a Circuit Board as well as do a software update. Weve addressed the problem on about 45 percent of the fleet. Weve done 29 vehicles. And im pleased to report we have no instances of this breakdown this was making up 40 to 45 percent of our breakdowns since we have on the upgraded vehicles. That being said, we are going to continue to find issues and to need to work through them. One emerging issue that we are tracking closely is some increased overhead wire wear. And we are seeing an area where it appears to be scraping. So because of the impact that it has on the Overall Health of our system, we are monitoring this very closely, and we are going to be equipping some key locations with cameras to try to understand what the challenges are there. We did for all practical purposes, meet our 90day goals. We are currently delivering on average about 40 vehicles a day with the goal of 48 by the end of january. We also are back on track to the trajectory to get us to 25,000 miles between breakdowns. For the first two weeks of november we are at about 9500, which is triple where we were this summer in terms of miles between breakdowns. So while i believe we still need several more months before we fully execute the contract, i am very positive on the trajectory that we are on. The item thats before you today is a contract modification the value of 9. 8 million. It is to address three types of changes. The first is to do some highpriority retrofits of the phase 1 expansion vehicles. The highest ticket item being the track brakes, putting additional track brakes on the front and back of the vehicle will prevent the vehicle the brakes from flattening when we have emergency brakes. And it will significantly improve the vehicle availability. This is also something that has very strong support from our operators and our union very much would like to see the additional track brakes installed. We have installed ten successfully. And we are seeing very promising results. The second item is to start the long lead time engineering items. We are making very significant changes to the seating design of the vehicles. And in order to keep to the expedited schedule, we really need that engineering to start. And then the third thing is that in order for siemens to increase production, they are creating a separate facility to build our car shells. And so giving them the resources now about 20 percent of the resources, 5 million on a overall cost of 25 million to Start Building those car shells is critical again to keep the expedited schedule. We will be bringing a seventh contract modification on the order of about 50 million for the final execution of the phase ii vehicles this spring but only after weve had another several months of continuous progress. Just to refresh you on the seating design, we have a lot of discussion about this last winter and spring. In general, we have very Strong Customer satisfaction on this vehicle. We did an intercept survey, and people who were satisfied or very satisfied outmatched people who were not satisfied 4 to 1. But we have heard several themes of concern. One is the height of the seats. The second is that the seats are slippery theres no butt indents. Afraid i didnt think i would ever say. Is that a professional transit term . [laughter] you learn something every day. The third is there were no forwardfacing seats that it was all bench seating. In order to accommodate the concerns as well as not have to completely reengineer the vehicle, we are recommending a compromise. So the first 50 seats would be a single row of forwardfacing on half the vehicle. The reason for that is that they are not a significantly difference in weight. So it does not require a complete redesign of the car shell. While those are being built, it will give time to design the second double row of transverse seats. If i can ask a question on those there seems to be a concave what do you call that thing . [laughter] he just wants you to say butt again. We are also recommending the lowering. Foiled by my nemesis to the european left. [laughter] we will be dropping three quarters of the seats, adding hand grabs of different lengths like theyve done at bart. We have several Community Requests for kind of a sky view of the seats. Before my silliness. Well ask sftv to return to the powerpoint. So for the single row seats we will on each vehicle have 12 forwardfacing seats six on each end of the car, four of them are on the front of the car and then two of them are behind the second door. We do we have also gotten advice from Community Members that they would like to see more blue seats reserved for people with disabilities. So we will be working with matt west and our Accessibility Department to help determine that. And then this next photo shows the double seats. So it does increase the number of seats. We will be also retrofitting the existing vehicles to the single seat configuration. Again, it is relatively big ticket item. And it will take vehicles out of service. But we heard a strong request to modify, not just the new seats that are coming, which is relatively Cost Effective but also to retrofit the existing. The project schedule is shown here. The schedule in the contract is fairly spread out based on the procurement of them. They were bought slowly because we did not have the funds to buy them faster. We have received per fission from the fta to retire some of these vehicles early. I think it is the best thing we can do in terms of the fleet performance. We are having tremendous challenges keeping these vehicles in a state of good repair in fact because they did not have a full midlife, which will be important to do with our new railcars and in part because of parts being obsolete and things like that. So the new proposal would have all the vehicles delivered by the end of 2025. And this chart shows it would also reduce the amount of time that we are maintaining two fleets. And in particular it would mean that we dont have to design the new train control system for the old trains which adds considerable amount of cost and complexity to that project. We do have some ongoing work. There is still a poll at the front door that does need to be redesigned. And weve gotten feedback that it makes it more challenging for people who are using wheelchairs to get on and off the vehicle. We are working with the operators who this is the first vehicle that they are using a camera monitor instead of mirrors. While weve made some enhancements we are looking at a new system that has a much larger monitor and working closely with operators on that feedback. The customer information, while it is better than anything weve ever had on our trains, we could could be sexier. So we are looking at some of our options to have enhanced customer information on our trains. And then as i said, looking at more blue seats. Who knew this would be the raciest item on our agenda . [laughter] i didnt try to get in on that one. Sheryl would have really had i should have known better. We have no higher priority than to continue all the good work that janet and her team are doing to improve the reliability and availability of these vehicles. And as i said weve made tremendous progress, and we are going to continue to make good progress. But overoar seeing the initial retrofit work and getting ready for the replacements are also important actions, which is why we are bringing you this item today. Wonderful. This is very exciting. Always welcome another chance to see another photo of director borden the most photographed sfmta board member. [laughter] this is really exciting. So before we have any comments or questions, mr. Mason, and well finish Public Comment. If there is anyone else who wanted to speak on this item, please follow mr. Mason. Yep, please after mr. Mason. Thank you. Edward mason. This is a billion dollar project over 30 years. And there should be a fiduciary responsibility in the procurement specification by having workshops to expand and clarify the requirement. Operator maintenance and enhancements after the fact reflect a lack of collaboration initially. And now its costing us additional money. The original cars were four people were square yard whereas now for three additional inches we are now putting six people per square meter. Now theres statements such as the passenger emergency stop, i dont know what reading the documentation but on the intercom i think we would want to put signage with instructions as there are on other vehicles, to say you are on car number xyz because if you are going to be in a train communicating with the operator you better know which car you are on. The seating section, everything we are going to lower the seat, right . We are going to put a bench seat in. Are we going to lower the bench seat because theres no electronic box there thats going to keep the higher seat. Less than half the fleet is going to have double transfer seats 101 of the 2019 seats. In the articulation section, passengers sit on the articulation ribs. So i assume thats not going to be a problem because we are not talking about that. But i have observed people sitting on there. Open space. Why do the procurement specification require space for bicycles . On there we could have seats and also i think that the folding seats bottom line is on the blue seats for the priority they should be closer to the doors. And that really needs to be a priority. Because you only have the priority seats at the front. And ive seen peoplepeople board the vehicle with extended wheelchairs with their feet out at an angle creating problems. Thank you. Do you want to speak . Its a long day and ill be brief. Please may i have your undivided attention . Thank you. One question i want to put forward are the contours of the seats going to change . Because they are extremely uncomfortable. And also if theres a sudden stop, you can really people can really be jerked forward. So i just want to make sure that those seats, which are extremely uncomfortable on the coach are changed. And frankly, the one i ride the more i ride the siemens, the more i miss the freighter. Any more questions . The one comment i have is thank you for everything that you did in response to all my comments. And i really appreciate it. Im looking forward to riding the newlyconfigured train and appreciate the responsiveness. One of the reasons to have single seating at least on one side is to have the ability to have three people stand across the train fuselage instead of two. Correct. In addition to the feedback on the seats which you have received and dealt with, thank you again, the inability for the person in the middle of those three people to hold onto something has been an expressed concern. In this redesign, is there some sort of idea of a overhead bar or pulldown system so the person in the middle of the three has something to hold onto . Yes okay. And this is like im leading the witness. Can you tell us what that is. Objection. [laughter] sorry. Its been so long that weve been working on this item that i momentarily forgot what we included. But we did include an arch. It will require, i think, some very at all people over 6 5 will have to duck, but it is a lower height than the signage on the vehicle. So there will be a place for folks to hold onto to better utilize that middle space. Excellent. Okay. Just wanted to make sure we were clear on the record that that change is coming too. So with that, i have no further comments. I just want to compliment you guys for accommodating so many different concerns. Because i know as a wheelchair user i want open space. And other people want more seating to accommodate their disability. And disability or no we all have such different needs and wants i think you have stuck a really responsible and appropriate balance with all the competing interests, keeping us on track for delivery of the vehicles and keeping it within a reasonable price tag. So thank you so much for your work. Im going to interpreter that in a motion of support. Yes. A second. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed . Thank you. Onto item 13. Appointing tumlin as the new director effective december 16 2019 and approving the execution of employment agreement including a term ending december 31, 2024 with an annual compensation of 324,000. Benefits equivalent to specified benefits to members of the executive management bargaining unit under the 2019 2022 memorandum of understanding between the sfmta and the Municipal Executive Association and a oneyear severance pay. Move to approve. Well hold on. [laughter] ive got legal requirements here. Oh, okay. So no more objections. [laughter] do we have Public Comment on this item . You have one this agenda item is to discuss and take possible action to approve a employment agreement. The employment agreement has been available for public inspection and is included in the board materials. The code requires the board to orally report a summary of the composition in the form of Fringe Benefits before taking final action. The board provides the following summary through me. The proposed agreement sets a salary of 324,383. Tumlin will receive Fringe Benefits equivalent to benefits to employees represented by the missal executive association as a memorandum of understanding between the sfmta the fullest of benefits is set forth. The key benefits include five days of paid management leave recognized legal holidays, vacations as specified in the code, 13 days of sickleave per year as provided in the charter management of flexible spending Health Account and for heather benefits 50,000 Life Insurance policy and reimbursement for memberships. Mr. Tumlin whom some call jeff will receive Retirement Benefits according to the applicable provisions of the San Francisco charter. Under the charter, mr. Tumlin is responsible for paying required contributions to the sf employees retirement system. Okay. Now that i have fulfilled my duties under the government code and made my friend roberta and susan happy, i would if i may like to turn it over to the person who so ably chaired our Search Committee and got us this wonderful candidate for some comments. Anybody second my motion . Well get there director eaken. Thank you so much. I want to say what a privilege and honor it has been to chair this committee. I want to thank chair heinicke in particular for trusting me. I have enjoyed getting to know the staff of the agency and hearing your concerns as well as hearing from stakeholders. And i will admit when we started this process in june of this year it seemed a daunting task. We heard from many this is the hardest job in the Transportation Industry. And we are very fortunate to hear from many stakeholders. We heard from over 750 individuals through this survey. We met with over 100 individuals. And i just wanted to take a moment to remind everybody of the themes we heard as a Search Committee again and again. People talked about wanting to have a leader who is decisive. Someone who is a team builder and excellent manager who will unite the divisions of the sfmta into one cohesive team. Someone will will stand up to political pressure and have staff to drive ambitious projects. Someone who will take equity and inclusion seriously and not put up with harassment in the workforce. Someone who embodies vision zero. If you read the fine print and see the contract runs through december 31, 2024 and that is our deadline for hitting vision zero. I think thats really fitting. And i hope we are up to the challenge. Finally, people want an excellent communicator to build coalitions with diverse stakeholders across the bay area. So i want to acknowledge there is no person we could have chosen that will make every single stakeholder happy. And ill just acknowledge that right now. But that said, i want to reassure you everyone listening, that the Search Committee engaged in extremely Extensive International search process and that we were delighted at the caliber and diversity of the candidates that we received who were interested in this position. And i want to reassure you the Search Committee is unified in the perspective that jeff tumlin is the candidate who most ably fits all the desired qualifications weve heard from everybody. So i wanted to share a very few some of the things ive heard from people who have worked with jeff in the past to help people get to know him. Weve heard that this is someone who ensures a diversity of perspectives are at the table and digs into ideas and finds outcomes that work for everyone. This is someone who is able to engage in a deep way with a variety of constituencies finding paths forward that work for all. Someone who is able to hold the line where necessary, absolutely open and inclusive and engaging people and seeking solutions. And finally someone who wants to stretch minds and imaginations challenging his colleagues to do great things. So im so excited for everyone involved and i can confidently say i recommend and i vote without reservation. I want to take a moment to do some thanks. I want to thank directors heminger and torres for your generous leadership on the committee. I think we got a stronger outcome because of your involvement and it was a pleasure to work with you. I want to thank secretary boomer for other support and partnership. She knows the agency inside and out like nobody else and her participation was invaluable. I want to recognize sheryl of alliance for taking my phone calls many nights a week at 9 00 whether or not her child was taking a bath at the time. And being a true partner overall stefani of hr and also susan for making sure we are aware of all the regulations and add here to the regulations in our committee dialogue. Obviously we have to thank chire heinicke, vicechair borden and the full board of it our expert guidance and advice. We got a stronger outcome because of your participation. I want to thank the interested candidates who were courageous and willing to lead this agency into the future and who contemplated major changes to your lives to possibly lead this agency. I think the day we spent interviewing candidates was a remarkably moving and inspiring day to hear so many different candidates potential visions and to be reassured theres so many people that want to have the agency achieve our goals. So i think we are about to make a decision that will strengthen the sfmta in many critical ways. I thank everybody who participated and took the time to submit your input. I think we are getting a strong outcome. Ill turn it back to you. Wonderful. I will take that as a second to arts motion to approve. Second is official. Very good. We did have one Public Commenter. Rowland. You stand in between director torres and his dinner. Im warning you. Im honestly surprised that theres not more advocates out here. Maybe its because its almost dinner time. I just wanted to say im in extremely strong support of this appointment. Im very excited. I see that mr. Tumlin is not here. Maybe hes at another meeting and not able to attend. I have been very impressed with the negative 56 through negative 48 to his appointment as director and i strongly urge an aye vote. Thank you to everyone in the Search Committee for coming up with this amazing appointment. When a lot of my friends in the advocacy meantime, when they heard the news, they were absolutely delighted and i think its a very good sign. Very good. Thank you once again. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, ill address the point, he was more than happy to be here. On my advice, i told him not to be here. We are considering his contract. He was all in and willing to be here if we thought it was appropriate today. So one final thank you before we vote, we are all excited about this as people know vicechair borden and i spent a few days with jeff making the announcements and it was all very positively received. Between the time when director riskin left and when jeff starts this agency was extremely ably managed by our friend to me maguire. Here here. Profess professional, was calm, selfless and always passionate about his people and his mission. So tom as i said to every group the other day to much applause and appreciation, thank you for everything you have done. [applause] and with that, we have a motion and a second on the floor to approve mr. Tumlins contract. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed . Good luck, jeff. Discussion as to whether invoke the attorneyclient privilege and conduct a closed session . Moved second. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Any motion to not disclose . Second hold on. You are back in open session. The board met in closed discussion, discussed the bay area litigation no action, it will be appropriate to disclose or not disclose the information. Motion to not disclose. Second. Aye. That concludes the business before you today. For joining us here today. We all know that our Public Transportation system in San Francisco is important to our present and it is definitely critical to the future of our city. As our city grows as our economy grows, as we build more housing, as more people work here we know that we cant continue to grow in those areas without thinking about improvements to our Public Transportation system. As someone who grew up in this city i relied on muni the 31, the 22 philmore the 44 you name it i was on those buses. The 19 i know the routes by heart. But the fact is, you know we need to do better. We need to make sure that people, especially people who rely on muni to get to work, school, doctors appointments, so many of our seniors who cant drive and need to pick up their medications and other things we need to make sure that our Public Transportation system is reliable for all of our communities, in all parts of San Francisco especially on those communities that have consistently been neglected. It means safer streets for pedestrians and bicyclists and all of its users. We know over the years the city is a lot more congested than it has ever been but we also know to make it a better city and to reach our climate goals, we have to leave it less congested. We have a lot of work to do and we are doing the work. In june we created a working group with city leaders and staff and Industry Leaders with the goal of making this better. I am looking forward to seeing the recommendations coming out. Over the past few years we have made some significant investments. We committed to doubling the pace of building more protected bike lanes. We established a Quick Build Program to increase the delivery of lowcost units. And we expanded our focus on traffic safety. Thankfully the voters gave us one more tool to improve streets with the passage of proposition v. This will allow us to invest 30 million in light rail vehicles anduses as well as Street Safety improvements. So the work continues and we will continue to do the work that we can to move these objectives forward as quickly as possible. These objectives are the responsibility of the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. The m. T. A. Managing our streets Public Transportation, other Mobility Options like bike shares and escooters, and a lot of Public Infrastructure projects, like the central subway and van nessessb. R. T. This is a system that looks at daytoday operations as well as looking at the future and how we make sure that the challenges that existed now dont continue to exist in the future. This requires a strong vision and strong leadership. So today im proud to announce that the s. F. Board will be recommending the s. F. M. T. A. Board will be recommending Jeffry Tumlin as the next director of s. F. M. T. A. This is jeffry. You can clap. [ laughter ]. Mayor breed jeff is an International Transportation expert who brings over 25 years of experience of improving transportation in cities. He was recently the interim director at the Oakland Department of transportation where he laid the foundation for the agencys future success with a lens on environmental benefits and equality. I believe jeffry will do the same at s. F. M. T. A. Throughout his career he has been known for bringing a visionary perspective on transportation in cities and helping to implement innovative ideas that are desperately needed. He will be joining the city as a longtime resident of noey valley and will be the first lgbtq director in s. F. s history. I look forward to working with jeffry to help us deliver a great Transportation System in San Francisco and i want to thank the board, including the president of the board who is here today, malcolm heinikie and Gweneth Borden thank you for your leadership and coordinating the interview process and everything that you did, to make sure that we found the best person possible to do the job to make our Public Transportation and infrastructure and all that we need to do to improve mobility in San Francisco in a safe efficient, and environmentally friendly way to choosing that person who could do just that. Ladies and gentlemen, Jeffry Tumlin. Good morning. My name is jeff tumlin and i have been in the Transportation Industry for a long time for 25 years advising cities and transit agencies how to clarify their values and then use transportation investments to make those values manifest. I like asking questions about what is most important, what does success look like and more importantly how would we measure whether we were actually successful or not. Thats where my Technical Work comes into play, trying to use tools to be able to measure social equity and environmental outcomes and to align our transportation spending in order to best achieve the public good. I ended up in this industry against my better judgment. I discovered very early in my career and sort of by accident that we in transport have a bigger impact on Public Health outcomes than the medical industry does. We have a bigger impact on Economic Development than Economic Development programs do. And more importantly, we are arguably the biggest driver of opportunity. We decide how many jobs people can get to in a reasonable commute time. We determine whether children can get safely to school, which impacts their academic performance. We are fundamental drivers of Economic Opportunity or destroyers of Economic Opportunity. We have resources. If we use those resources wisely we can correct the ways in which my industry has historically destroyed opportunity and wealth for people of color. Early in my industrys history, if you wanted to build a highway project you got extra points for removing light. Light of course being defined as africanamerican and latino ownership. The city and county of San Francisco did not escape that dark period in our industry and we have a key responsibility to correct for the past and to equalize opportunity for everyone. We can also do what some Mobility Tech Companies want us to do which is to provide more exquisite convenience for the privilege. Im committed to doing the former, and using transportation as a tool to make San Francisco achieve its potential. That includes addressing problems like the fact that 25 people have died in our streets this year and were on track to injure nearly 3,000. We lose in injuries and fatalities about 647 people in San Francisco. I want to change that. You can see from my social Media Presence that ive long been an outspoken proponent of changing core practices in my industry and using the power that we have in transportation to reduce Climate Change improve quality of life, foster Small Business success and advance equity. Ive reached the point in my clear career however, where its time to stop advising and start doing. Ive worked all over the world, and San Francisco remains the only city that i felt was my home. San francisco has assembled all of the pieces that we need in order to create dramatic and progressive change. Weve got a visionary m. T. A. Board that i cannot wait to work for. We have the most talented agency staff in the industry. We have a tenacious and harddriving mayor who i know will make a great partner. We also have a progressive board of supervisors ready to ask the tough questions. I am ready to serve all of them. I dont have a 30 or 100day plan. My first task is to listen carefully to staff. We do have the most incredible assembly of talent of any city in the country. I trust their professional expertise. It is my job first to listen and then secondly and more importantly to remove obstacles so that they can do their good and productive work. I do not know all of the answers yet. Its going to take me a while to learn from staff what the best answers are. I want to close by saying that we have talent resource ss and some clarity about what our resources are in San Francisco, but there remains a gap between San Franciscos potential and its current reality. I am deeply excited to do the hard work to close that gap. We have the tools and all of the resources that we need unlike really any city in the world. I cant wait to get started particularly with the help of all of you in this room the press. With that im happy to take questions. Malcolm, did you have words to say . Absolutely. I know i stand between you and the questions for our new director of transportation. I am the chair of the new m. T. A. Board. If i seem excited, its because i am. We are in the process of hiring a star for San Francisco. We are very excited here today. The first person i want to thank is is the mayor not just because of her commitment and support, but also i want to thank the mayor for not just her support and partnership in this but the fact that you challenged us you were the result of a challenge to get a bold leader to take this agency forward. Im grateful for that challenge. That challenge led us to an International Search. We searched far and wide. I want to thank the Search Committee for the wonderful job that was done to conduct a truly International Search that led us to someone in our backyard, a san franciscan to run our agency. What has struck us about jeff more than his expertise, dedication and his experience is his passion. You just heard it. He recognizes how transportation affects peoples lives, making it better when it goes well and worse when it doesnt. With that we are very excited. I wish jeff the absolute best. I know he wont need luck because hes a true professional and im excited to see him be a star and a partner. In my closing comments i would like to say this the last few months have been tumultuous at the agency but not as much as without a director. The acting director kept the ship steady, was professional, calm, and an absolute pleasure to work with. Thank you for your service. With that, i will turn the podium back to the super staff to answer our questions. Thank you for the questions. 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Shop dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local Services Within the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop dine in the 49 my name is jim woods im the founder of Woods Beer Company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adams what makes us unique is that were reintegrated brooeg the beer and serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the xurpz drinking alongside were having a lot of ingredient that get theres a lot to do the district of retail shop having that really close connection with the consumer allows us to do exciting things we decided to come to Treasure Island because we saw it as an amazing opportunity cant be beat the views and real estate that great county starting to develop on Treasure Island like minded Business Owners with last week products and want to get on the ground floor a nobrainer for us when you you, you buying local goods made locally our supporting Small Business those are not created an, an sprinkle scale with all the machines and one person procreating them people are making them by hand as a result more interesting and cant get that of minor or anywhere else and San Francisco a hot bed for local manufacturing in support that is what keeps your city vibrant well make a compelling place to live and visit i think that local business is the lifeblood of San Francisco and a vibrant community is our United States constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the United States which is incredibly important for many reasons. Its important for preliminary representation because if Political Representation because if we under count california we get less representatives in congress. Its important for San Francisco because if we dont have all of the people in our city if we dont have all of the folks in California California and San Francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. Its really important to the city of San Francisco that the federal government gets the count right so weve created count sf to motivate all sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census. For the immigrant community, a lot of people arent sure whether they should take part whether this is something for u. S. Citizens or whether its something for anybody whos in the youUnited States and it is something for everybody. Census counts the entire population. Weve given out 2 million to over 30 communitybased organizations to help people do the census in the communities where they live and work. Weve also partnered with the Public Libraries here in the city and also the Public Schools to make sure there are informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites as well and weve initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. Because of the language issues that many Chinese Community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. So its really important that communities like bayviewhunters point participate because in the past theyve been under counted so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it wasnt enough. Were going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the tenderloin. You know any one of our given blocks theres 35 different languages spoken so we are the original u. N. Of San Francisco. So its our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. You go online and do the census. Its available in 13 languages, and you dont need anything. Its based on household. You put in your address and answer nine simple questions. How many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. Your name your age, your race your gender. Everybody is 2,000 in funding for our child care, housing food stamps, and medical care. All of the residents in the city and county of San Francisco need to be counted in census 2020. If youre not counted then your community is underrepresented and will be underserved. Good morning. This is wednesday november 20, 2019 meeting of the budget finance committee. I am chair fewer. I would like to make a motion to excuse supervisor