Transcripts For SFGTV MTA Board Of Directors 20240713

Ive not received a request from the member of the public to address you. Is mr. Kennedy coming back . Clerk yes. So Board Members, unless theres a question, ill entertain a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Okay. All those in favor . Opposed . Item 5, miss boomer. Clerk item 5, communications. Board members, any new or Unfinished Business . Clerk directors report. Director tumlin . How are you . Im still great, and im litt still loving about 80 of my job. 20 in three months. Good afternoon, directors. So last week, San Francisco was called to testify in congress at the house energy and commerce subcommittee. Theyre hosting a forum on Autonomous Vehicles and pending litigation. San francisco was called to testify, and i spoke covering a couple of critical topics related to the pending legislation, including asking that we put safety first, including having event data recorders board all Autonomous Vehicles that preserve data both before and after the crash and investment in a National Safety incident database that could hold that information and allow that information to be analyzed to inform future policy choices around au autonomous vehicle. Also, that the legislation not preempt state and federal governments from learning from our own experience, particularly here in San Francisco, which we believe has far more autonomous tevehicle testing on our streets than any other city. We want to make sure that california and San Francisco from the ability to regulate a. V. S based upon the latest safety regulation and not have to wait for congress to do so. We will continue to work with california for regulations around autonomous video and ride share. And enrique, why dont you cue that up. This is enrique from our communications team. There we go. So were making a variety of changing in order to the 23 in order to deal with construction thats happening at the southeast Treatment Plant that is being constructed on gerald street. Well be changing the schedules of the express buses that serve the richmond district. Were adding bigger buses to the 7 haight in order to accommodate growing ridership on that line. Were also making some significant improvements to the very early weekend service, particularly the k, j, and m lines so that well provide one seat rides via bus between when the owl Service Stops and the full Service Subway opens in the morning, adding a lot of convenience to our riders who travel early in the morning and on the weekends. See how much better that is . And its like you can play pacman on the way to work. They really seem to be flying down Market Street. Im glad you noticed that. You can get Additional Details by going to sfmta. Com servicechanges. We have another video for you, as well. Can we cue that video up, and this one really helps it needs sound. So one of our members of our Capital Projects and grant team worked with staff to create a tribute video featuring charlotte down and mary ellen present do we have sound . Were still working on the sound. The video is amazing in that it it features two San Francisco women who, in the 1860s, sued to the California Supreme Court to win the right for everyone to be able to access Public Transportation throughout california in the 1860s. And can we have we memorized the lyrics . We may need to do our own singalong. Maybe not. Well, we will be sure to oh, there we go. But on this day, charlotte bravely responded and said no. She says we had a right to ride and had no intention of leaving the car. Instead of seeing charlotte as a paying customer, the company forceably removed her and her fathher her and from the car. She and her father filed a lawsuit against the company. On october 8, 1865, a judge called the practice a relic of barbarism. Mary ellen pleasant attacked Racial Discrimination in San Francisco as she began a series of lawsuits seeking prohibition of black laws. In 1893, street car segregation was officially outlawed on street cars in california legislation. Thank you to our local San Francisco activists for pioneering Racial Equity in transportation. This information was delivered to you by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. The sfmta is recognizing black history in the bay. [ ] [applause] this was done all in house . This was done all in house, yes. I like the way you got yourself a credit there. Well done. So this video will also be featured at our black and African American working groups big event celebrating black History Month next tuesday, where mayor london breed will be coming along with the chief of staff. Were very proud to feature Charlotte Brown and mary ellen pleasant, who are two San Francisco heros. Also last week, we held our first conference call, kind of a work in progress, where we had updated the progress on the sfmta. We had some skype and email in advance, and its likely something we will continue doing in order to help us track the cultural change that were tracking at the agency. And then finally, i wanted to add that we are going to be upgrading the Church Street station outbound elevator starting the first week of march. The elevator will be closed in the outbound direction for about three months while the work is being done, so therell be inbound accessibility for Outbound Service to direct riders to the parallel lines. Itll make the elevators more reliable and also add a level of security. That is the end of my report. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comment on director tomlins report. Clerk no one has turned in a speaker card, and i dont see anyone making their way to the microphone. Okay. Public comment is closed. Directors, any comment or questions for director tomlin . Okay. Am i having some kind of cool post Holiday Weekend dream or is this going smoothly . Its a rich presentation. All right. Thank you, director tomlin. Clerk Citizens Advisory Council report. Is mr. Weaver here . He is. Mr. Weaver, welcome back. Thank you for your continued service. The floor is yours. Thank you. Im here to make a few observations on our february meeting. First thing i have to say is it was the most comprehensive and long lasting and difficult to listen through the whole thing, but amazing Financial Report from the agency. Its amazing what all the things that come into making Financial Decisions at a Public Agency like this. We also passed a motion on the Bayview Community Transportation Plan. Sfmtacac encourages the board to adopt the Public Transportation plan. What we liked about this plan most is the involvement of the community and the result, apparently, is something that makes everyone involved very pleased, so we like to see plans like that go on in the agency all the time. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. Any Public Comment on the citizens advisory report . No cards . Clerk no, mr. Chair. Okay. Directors, any questions for mr. Weaver . Wonderful. Thank you for giving us that feedback, and i hope youll talk to the folks that gave us that presentation, although i think they are, and i see them smiling, too. Okay. Onto item 9. Item 9, this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the sfmta board of directors on matters that are within the boards jurisdiction and are not on todays calendar. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. One of the concerns raised by s. F. Muni management in presentations that i have seen have been around the overall decrease in the level of the users of the system. One of the reasons is the system is simply not safe. My wife would rather use uber to get to work rather than risk her life getting on and off a station. For her, russian roulette is not something shed like to play. Many of you might remember a book that ralph nader wrote called unsafe at any speed, and because of that book, the u. S. Rewrote laws on transportation. After having had multiple and successful meetings with gordon mar, district 4 supervisor, jeffrey, having received advice from the Mayors Office directly on two separate occasions which are very supportive, and the number of speeches that i have made at the San Francisco chamber of commerce, i fully believe its time for your organization and this board to completely reactivate the muni forward proposal first suggested by your Wonderful Team in 2014. Therefore, i will conclude by asking for a Budget Allocation of between 100 million and 800 million for the creation of a 21 century, fully auto mated system in the outer sunset. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] im Harold Finley and have now completed the trifecta of traffic violence, driver violence. Driver hit me with his car when i was riding my bike. A driver has hit me with their car when i was on foot, and two months ago about, a driver got out of his car, ran the half a block, sucker punched me in the face from behind, knocked me to the sidewalk, blood everywhere. I got up and ran after him. He jumped in his car, squealed away. I hope the police can catch him, but in a sense, i dont blame him. He was behaving the way the streets are designed. Our streets tell drivers theyre more important than anybody. Our streets tell rightofway for everybody are just objectio directions not to be taken seriously. Our streets tell our drivers that if anybody gets in their way, questions them, its a level of insult, that whatever level of violence they choose to use, whatever tools they choose to use, if its their cars, their fists, whatever. I know you inherited from your predecessors, an antisocial and hostile environment, but you shouldnt be inheriting and furthering that. Youre better than that. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] good afternoon, directors. Can i have the overhead, please . Im making this comment on behalf of a friend who cant be here because people have jobs, and its 1 00 p. M. On tuesday. So in their words, sidewalks are roads for humans, for transportation and recreation, for the abled and disabled, for strollers and pedestrians. When this is not the case, parking control officers are tasked with delivering their sidewalks, defending sidewalks against Vehicle Owners who have left their car on a sidewalk. No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle on any portion of a sidewalk or with the body of the vehicle extending over any portion of a sidewalk. So my friend submitted this 311 report. You can see here after she was forced to walk around this car because this car was blocking the sidewalk. Yet the case was closed with tno citation because the officer figured out there was enough room for the pedestrians to pass is what the comments was. This is an aiming and baseless direction by the officer. We have a sidewalk parking epidemic in San Francisco, and its time to overhaul p. C. O. Training to combat it. Vision zero is failing and stuff like this makes our Parking Enforcement department c complicit in that failure. Thank you. Next speakers. [names read] if youre one of the speaker that she called, please make your way to the front so we can be more efficient about this. Welcome, the floor is yours. Thank you for your time. I arrive here today simply to ask that the board of the m. T. A. , which i believe you all comprise seriously consider ethical i know thats a difficult word in city politics, ethical considerations when it comes to cancelling the medallion loan program. I havent driven in a year. Im vaguely associated with the cab industry, but i read this article in yesterdays newspaper. I did talk to people down at the bank, id say six weeks ago, two months ago. I have talked with cab drivers constantly, and the cab industry is close to morabund in San Francisco. The cab industry is not a viable business proposition. Anybody who looks in and sees that so few medallions have been sold over x. Number of years realizes this. Its obvious, its prima facie. There is no doubt that the Medallion Program is totally and a relic. As far as compensation, i know theres different viewpoints on this. I dont expect you to be on my side or the drivers side. I think you work at the behest of the mayor, if im correct in this, and im sure the mayor doesnt want to put out any money from his exchecker, why should he . Theres no money in it for him, theres no votes into it for him. We have a woman mayor. Im sorry. I live in the east bay. Youre right. Thank you. Theres no reason why the mayor would want to do this. Your time is up. Thank you very much. Thank you. Please consider the ethical prospects to this. [names read] clerk those are the last three speakers who have turned in speaker cards under this topic. Welcome. Hello. Im mr. Abraham and a couple of years ago actually, sometime around now, there was a program called shoparound that i qualified for because it was free and i should say, and it was free. And it became unfree, and its costing something that i needed i still need to shop. I mean, thats less money to eat, and i already qualified for calfresh, etc. And i already have free muni. So my request is that you reconsider, but perhaps all seniors are not created equal. All disability are not created equal. Maybe you could link the fee for using the service to our free muni. Im asking that of you. All i know is that now i cant use the service that was once free, and it was our day out. It it was a Community Day out. We werent talking to each other on that on that little bus, but once i started telling the jokes and chatting with people, we called each other up, and we had kind of a Community Going there. And we go to the different we go to senior grace up at Grace Cathedral together, so it became something bigger and more, and more refreshing than just shopping. Please consider refunding the shoparound program so that we like me with qualify for it again. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] good afternoon, commissioners and staff. My name is bridget leblanc, and im just here to request i know that the chase center is a community partner, and that air from dogpatch to sunnyvale has been impacted by new business. But on game nights and special event nights, i know ive heard complaints. Im just requesting that we have more trains that go beyond chase center during the games. The concern seems to be that were getting people in and getting people out, and theres several other people that need to go to work. When i go to games, i have to walk ten or 12 blocks because the t never came. Ive before complaining about the service on the t for over seven years, so hopefully now that we have that new partner in place, maybe more people will listen. Thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [names read] hi. So director lee. Good afternoon, directors janice lee. Im here as an outer sunset resident. I have other things ill also speak of. As someone whos served on the transportation board, you dont often get positive things. I often take the 7. This is a real surprise. I work at the s. F. Bike coalition, but i love muni, and i have a pass for the bus. The 7 serves a lot of chinese senior who are going to 19 and irving. Going to articulated buses is huge. The other thing i really like, and i know sfmta, you get a lot of complaints, i thought the signage change to tell people things was great. I really like the symbols. Just very, very easily explained to people, whats happening, so i can tell you, february 22, youre going to be putting these articulated buses in. Any way, good work you all. I dont know who in your staff did that. Super excited to see the change, and thank you. All right. Well find out who made that change when they show up at the next b. A. R. T. Meeting to compliment you on something. Next speaker, please. [names read] hello, commissioners. I am a staff person for the youth commission. Im also the staff lead for the housing and land use committee, and im here to speak on behalf of our commissioners who cant be here because theyre at school. And i just want to reemphasize a point that we were talking about our last meeting to reconsider the fare increases on muni and just reconsidering the impacts that would have on lowincome communities as well as young people, we have the free muni program for all right now, and were also trying to help keep our lgbtq young people who are homeless and also struggling, if theres any way we can extent the program extend the program for k. U. S i know that dean preston is working on something in district 5, and i just wanted to make that comment. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. [nam [names read] clerk mr. Chair, just for the record, the fares will be an item discussed on your agenda, so thatll come later. Herbert wiener. I wish to protest the atrocious service at the airport as far as getting transportation. I showed up about a half hour before midnight from new york. No shutting service was available. I have to take a taxi. Of course, i was given the option of taking either uber or lyft, and i refuse to be driven by a potential axe murderer becau because there is no background check, very poor background check for uber and lyft drivers, so please, may i have your attention, please. Now, there should be service at all hours of the night for people arriving during the night. If you choose to take a taxi, thats your choice, but we should have accurate Shuttle Service. Now go and super shuttle do not operate from the airport american. Its american airporter and another Shuttle Service that i cant recall. But m. T. A. Owes it to the public that people get adequate transportation home. Ive waited as long as 2 30 in the morning for a Shuttle Service to pick me up. This is atrocious service. I believe you have the Regulatory Power to oversee these services, so please do so. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] clerk those are the last two people to turn in a speaker card. Ive been driving a taxi almost 22 years in San Francisco. In serving to the people of San Francisco, i was expecting that i have been rewarded i would be rewarded, but instead, ive been punish by the sfmta. Why my money and my service . I demand that my money should be refunded to me, and i will serve as im serving before, and i should not be being punished after serving the people of San Francisco for almost 29 years. And likely, there is the 700 families, we are still suffering, and sfmta, it is the most corrupt practice that they have. And they should go in some kind of investigation, and they should be held responsible for whoever helped rob the 250,000. Keep in mind, that the sfmta was under a 3 million deficit 3 million deficit from the taxi drivers money. We are not begging for something for free, we are just asking for our money back. And i hope you will consider that one. And all kinds of Different Services are there. There is no need to hold us as a hostage. Thank you very much. I hope you will keep it in consideration to refund the money back. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] hello. Thank you for your time, director. Ive been driving a taxi for 21 years in San Francisco, but in 2013, i bought a taxi medallion, using the money that my father left me as expense as a down payment. Now this is the most difficult time for taxi driver in San Francisco, and we want our money back. I want to give you my medallions back, and i want my money back. We have three childrens, and we are having a very hard time. And are you going to show some kindness to those elderly people who serviced San Francisco 20 years, 30 years, 40 years . Do something for us. We need help, and thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] okay. Please sir, go ahead. Matt sutter, youre up next. So its a miserable existence that you guys have, all because a few guys see you. Everybodys changing their lifestyle, basically. Im just im just in a deep hole. And look at every week, you guys get a fat check. So dont you realize how much we are suffering . We cannot basically even make our expenses . It has been almost, like, 2014 when you guys through us under the uber at the airport, our decline started. In six years, its just the bandaid on the bullet point [inaudible] you guys are virtually doing nothing. Every time i come, six months, we were at the meeting with the m. T. A. Director not the director, but mr. Tumlin. We pay money to the companies. If you bring that down, life can be a little better. You get your fat checks, and you dont realize what were doing. Youre going to wake up. There has to be a time. New york is basically changing the taxi system. Chicago has returned the money. But even you guys, there is no recommendation to return the money. This is enough i have to say. Thank you very much for listening. Hopefully, something happens, you listen to us. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. Were given promises by the sfmta that if the Medallion Service failed, it is a nolose situation. We will get our money back, we will be issued a medallion, and that is that. A medallion has not been sold for a number of years now. We keep coming to meetings over and over, and we get no results. Individual board of supervisors do come out, and theyre in favor of putting in a Buyback Program to next years budget. Im born and raised in San Francisco, as most of you guys are, and whats going on is just really a crime, what is being committed. This was not in our favor. This was to bail out San Francisco during the recession. And now, weve come to a point where 2. 5 years ago, we were promised we would get this going, and were still here. Every time we come to these meetings, were getting no progress, but every time i come here, i feel good about myself and what were doing. We all know whats going on here, and its failed. Its failed in other cities, and theyve done Buyback Programs. What about us . Most of these guys have families, put up their homes and committed to San Francisco, you know . We believed. Well, we dont believe anymore, and delays, delays, its just its really upsetting, you guys, whats going on, and we all know, too, in our hearts, its time, right . Its time to sit down and get this resolved. We need all of you on board. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [applause] [names read] hello, everybody. I am actually very happy because i see here mr. Heinicke and beautiful lady. If you see this deal, mr. Heinicke was here, and mr. Heinicke had an argument with the christian. You go look at the videos. Mr. Heinicke asked what is the program to go maam, this is in the record, and they say, okay, we pack up this medallion if anything, if anything go wrong, we buy them back. We purchase them back at same purchase price. This is what were asking for. You promised to us, and today, the deal happen, somebody sit there, each one of you guys was with this taxi deal, you know, the day this happened, you guys all say yes, yes, yes, yes. Now we need the same thing. Reverse the situation to buy them back. Each one time you guys say yes, yes, yes, yes. This is very simple. Were not asking too much, we are suffering. You know how many people die because of this, however people suffering . And all of us in here, just coming to you, where will we o go . Do we have someone else to ask . We cannot take it anymore. This is a careless situation. You workup to 16, 18 hours a day, and you go home. Please, let us provide for our family. Thank you very much, sir. Mr. Heinicke, i ask you, you promised us. Thank you. Thank you. [names read] my name is ali, and my medallion is 1225. I dont feel like im sitting in between these people around in the justice hall. I do feel like im sitting in my grave, that somebody throw me in the grave, and instead of listening to me, theyre not listening because theyre dumping the dirt on me. Im screaming, im yelling. Seems like nobody is listening to me. But believe, this is our issue, and this is your issue. Youre the power, and we want you to get us out positive way. Positive way, weve been serving the city for years and decades, and we dont deserve that left out. So city couldnt survive without the medallion, but were barely surviving to pay the banks. The companies, we dont have a job. How every month, we could give them 1250 . Too much money for us. I have five kids, and its really hard for us to survive. We keep begging and begging for you guys, and we want you to please help us house. Were suffering, were in jeopardy. If you dont help us, were going to be slowly individually dieing. And if you go see our houses, were mourning every day because we dont have fun, we dont have vacation, we dont have a day off. Were just around the clock illegally working 12, 14 hours seven days a week. Its not fair, so were tired, and were still looking at you guys to positively help us out and do something better. Clerk time. Im not even making as much money as the 7eleven guys are making. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] im a taxi driver for more than 20 years. Bought the medallion 250, and now, the medallion is like a simple paper, and im like a slave. I think a slave is much better because once he gave himself, its enough. At least he can sleep well. But for us, all the problems pipe up on us, and even today, i work only 85 the whole day. And how can i pay the bank and the rent and the rest of my life and groceries and everything. This is a wonderful country that we live. I thank god for america, that i came here, for 37 years ago, and i pray every day for america, how its a wonderful country. But this city, how in the world that you keep helping everybody that comes from everywhere . The poor people get help, and we are surviving to try and be like everybody else, and we work hard, and youre taking the money and kicking us, throwing us. Were older than you, really, and we think like you, too. But the thing is youve got to work for us now. Please understand us and do something for us. Let me tell you just one verse from the bible that touches everyone. Its proverbs, chapter 22 16. He who oppresses the poor to make more money for himself or more for the rich only covets the money. Thank you very much. God bless you. Please help us. Thank you. Next speaker. [names read] good afternoon. First, i want to second the fellow who came up here to show you the picture of the car blocking the sidewalk. That was terrible, and its only going to get worse. Make the connection between land use and transit cars. The new laws in San Francisco say you dont need to provide a garage, and we have garages being converted all over the city, so were going to have more than that. Your telephone operators should not have given his opinion about parking, saying this doesnt matter. I use a cane now, and being forced into the street is not very good. Second, i just want to comment on this. Weve been hearing about this taxi thing for years, but the thing is uber and lyft fancied the rest of the city. Its a big money making company well, they dont make any money, but somehow, theyre able to get their way. I want to end on a good note, all the bad stuff you have. Some weeks ago, i was riding the 5r that still doesnt end at the right point. Happy, happy. No, ill give you the happy part in a second. They had a big party at market and arguello, and they were able to circle around fulton street and get back on the right track. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [names read] good afternoon. Except jeffrey tumlin, you should be considered for the medallion sales. When we look at the period of last six years in taxi business, uberlyft drivers are looting our business. Mayor london breed has expressed her opinion. She favors uber and lyft. [inaudible] it is an extortion you still have the option to stop this option. Instead, you never accept your mistake. You threw us in this risk and disrupt or 700 families lives. When you lose everything, you fight. You cannot maneuver between corruption and absence of corruption. [inaudible] buy back medallions, give us money back. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] any other speakers on item 9, Public Comment on items not on the agenda. Okay. Seeing none, please call item 10. Clerk this is consent calendar. All matters are considered routine unless a member wishes to sever item and hear it separately. Mr. Chair, ive not received any request to sever the item. Is there any request to sever an item . Not that 10. 41 . Ok 10. 4 one . I will comment on the commissioners comment. I mean, thisll be going on for meetings to come, but to thank director brinkman for all of her service over the years. So with that, ill entertain a motion on the consent calendar. All right. All those in favor of item 10, please say aye. Opposed . Clerk mr. Chairman, moving onto item 11, adopting the Bayview Community based Transportation Plan. Thank you very much. Thank you. You get to listen to me while the project team comes up. Good afternoon, chair heinicke and directors. Im sarah jones, the planning director for the sfmta. Im so pleased to be introducing this item, adoption of the Bayview Community based Transportation Plan. So this plan is an effort that needed to happen. Systemic racism in how our city was built and operates resulted in affected services in San Francisco. We couldnt do this plan or this project the same way as our other work and still expect different results that the community is asking for. The starting point for the plan was that the problems and the Solutions Needed to be defined by experts, and by experts, i do not mean the planners and the engineers here, i mean, the people who live in the bayview, who are trying to get to where they need to go as single moms or as seniors or as young black men, what youll see in some cases, our experts are not even old enough to vote yet. But our role as the project team was to reflect what these experts said, and to find a path forward that we anticipate is going to make progress towards the outcomes that the community said they were hoping for. We cant fully change the effects of decades of decisions and actions just through this one plan, and the plan doesnt actually even get to everything that the community is asking for. But what it does do is set the agenda for the most important goals that we should be looking towards in all of our work in the bayview. Its a first step, and if you adopt this plan, what youll be doing is articulating the sfmtas commitment to engaging with the bayview in an ongoing way and working towards justice there. So im now going to turn the presentation over to christopher kid, and beverly smith. These two are the project managers at the sfmta, and im excited for the passion and skill that they have brought to this work. Good afternoon, chair heinicke, yes, sfmta board of directors and members of the public here today, and viewing online. My name is christopher kid, and im with the sfmta Bayview Community based Transportation Plan. Im here to share with you the past two years of work in the bayview and the results of our collaboration with residents, businesses, and Community Groups of the bayviewhunters point neighborhood. In todays agenda, wed first like to provide context what a communitybased Transportation Plan means, what shaped our approach in engaging the community, and finally, what projects and policies we are committed to delivering within this community. We come today to the board asking for formal adoption of the plan by the sfmta board of directors. I know this is not typical for plan documents, but adoption of the plan is an explicit requirement of our caltrans sustainable Planning Grant by funded our which funded our work in the bayview. First, id like to provide some context to the board and the public. What is a Community Based Transportation Plan and why we decided to start it in the bayview . A cbtp is an opportunity to really center the needs and the voices of the community, especially those whom have historically lacked a voice on the agency in past planning decisions, and this is one of the prime reasons we chose to do our work in the bayview. Cbtps do have a history in San Francisco, completing nine Community Transportation plans since 2007. And planning director sarah jones covered this briefly in her opening remarks, but i do want to expand on this. Why are we doing this work in the bayview . Historic work in the bayview have traditionally fallen on the shoulders of lowincome people in this community, and those are people who are most unable to bear the burden of transportation challenges. And the bayview, despite being underinvested has been overplaned, to the tune of over planned, to the tune of more than 20 transportation studies in the last few years. Many of these are geared towards future residents, which is absolutely necessary, given the volume of growth were going to be anticipating in the coming decade, but what we needed was a plan that was going to be able to serve the residents that live there today. Before we get into the presentation, we also wanted to recognize our broad interaction of caltrans and community partners. Special thanks goes to the office of former district 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen and supervisor shamann walton, who have been instrumental in our plan. With th thank you very much. Good afternoon. The project team initiated our planning process biy engaging n oneonone conversations with members in the community. We reached out to additional stakeholders who were recommended during our initial conversation. From highlighting the need to provide child care and food at events to being prepared to answer tough questions, insights shared by Community Leaders and others were critical to building the cbtp outreach process. We organized two internal workshops, including one with city agency peers. The result of this effort was a statement of intent or promise to the public. Our statement of intent centers four key themes. Accountability, trust and transparency, counting the publics voice, and external coordination across city agencies. The success of our plan is a direct reflection of the strength of our community partners. This process would not have been possible without their guidance, tenacity and leadership. We would like to thank our partners for committing to this journey with us. As partners, they were critical in organizing and leading outreach events, helping us ingaui engaging hardtoreach audiences and others. We were able to reach 4,000 residents. From the Grocery Stores to church, we sought to reach customers where they were. In addition to sfmta workshops cohosted with our community partners, we witness stand attended backpack give aways, service we attended backpack give aways, and service meetings. Through this partnership, our goal was to help the girls recognize themselves within the Transportation Industry as engineers and planners, and encourage them to influence our Transportation Industries in ways of color. Id like to also highlight that the girls were compensated for their time. Last spring, we hosted the girls at sfmta we they hosted the next where they hosted the next step video process. The next video was completely produced by girls at bayview youth program. To get back on, i get on the 8 and get picked up from there. My mom dropped me off, or i get on the 28. My name is ariel ward, and im a Transportation Planner and engineer at the sfmta. I think its unique being in San Francisco and kind of being in the hub of innovation culture . I like to say that im a mobility advocate . I want people regardless of your race or gender or income, regardless of anything, i think that people should have the tools that they need to get around . The one thing i see on transportation is somebody getting something stolen or theres a fight. Theres a lot of violence sometimes and a lot of crazy people. Its so important, and thats why im really committed to making sure that everyone can have equal access to a wide variety of transportation options. Its always important for you to have a voice and get involved in anything that affects them, and of course, transportation affects our youth and affects how they move around the city. My name is wally, and im a muni driver in San Francisco. I was born and raised in San Francisco. I grew up in hunters point, growing up as a kid, i rode the bus, you know, all the time, and i told myself, if i can ride t drive the buses in the city, in the community that i was raised in, thats okay. My concern is about safety for elders and teens. I think that is really interesting for us to be in transportation. Were thinking about more solutions. People have more ways to get around than ever. One thing about that is making sure that everyone has access. Standup, be heard. Standup, be heard. Sound off, be heard. Sound off, be heard. Sound off, be heard. Sound off, be heard. Thank you so much, ariel. Now wed like to discuss how we turn resident priorities and input into our proposed projects. So this next slide here shows the chart of the three phases of our Community Engagement from the summer of 2018 through the summer of 2019. Each successive phase was built off of the previous one to end up with projects that were identified, developed, and prioritized by the voice of the community. Theres not a single proposed project in our plan that did not come from resident input, and resident input alone was used to prioritize those projects in our fiveyear investment plan. I wanted to expand a little bit on the Equity Process in that development. Even when reaching 4,000 residence de residents in the bayview, there were 32,000 other residents that we arent reaching, and we need to meet their needs, especially those most vulnerable to transportation challenges. We started at the San Francisco transportation division, and we mapped that across the bayview to understand where residents vulnerable to transportation challenges are most concentrated. We also acknowledged a measurement of equity that hasnt been defined by the community themselves has very little worth, so we engaged with residents and Community Leaders asking us to recalibrate our equity index so it prioritized the community itself that faced the greatest transportation challenges. So now that weve covered the process to develop challenges, i wanted to speak a little bit about the participatory challenges. So participatory budget, also known as p. B. , is where residents identify funding, they present them to city staff, and they vote on which proposals get funded. This program is meant to improve transit and access to transit for lowincome communities. We partners with the m. T. C. Partnered with the m. T. C. On this pilot for a number of reasons. The funding from the Lifeline Program is much more flexible in its uses than other sources of funding that we have committed for this plan, and it also really demonstrated a responsiveness to the Community Focused on Transit Service and safety. We partnered with the organization be magic. The first step was assembling a 15person Steering Committee. This committee was fully empowered to create the rules for the p. B. Process and overseeing all staging, including the process of designing the ballots themselves. I also want to note that this Steering Committee was reimbursed for their time in this project, as their experience is just as valuable as our staff time. There were many popular ideas that came up in the community and really were not able to be a part of this process, either due to the constraints of the lifeline Transportation Program or the amount of funding that we had available for this process. But these Community Priorities are not being ignored. They directly formed our policy regulations, and theyve helped us moving forward. On the other hand, the inperson voting that we did through this process, which was more than twothirds of the total balance was extremely much more aligned to the community profile. So now, wed like to move onto kind of the heart of this plan, which is the proposed projects and policy recommendations. In total, we have 3. 63 million of funding committed for the implementation of the cbtp. Funding can generally be split into three pots. 600,000 for quickbuild projects, 770,000 for rpb projects, and finally, 250,000 for our fiveyear investment plans. We have two projects in the bayview, and theyre quick build projects. One is a vision zero project, ariel ward, here with me, is the project manager for these projects, and her engagement with the community over the coming year will help us to ensure that theres no blackout period between the adoption of this plan and the steering. For operating projects, funding for three additional Muni Transit Assistance Program staff, also known as mtap, received the most votes in the bayview. They will provide additional unarmed safety presence for riders. Of the 20 of the b. P. Pot for Capital Projects, a range of six projects were selected by members of the community. They primarily consistent of crosswalk safety improvements near transit stops as well as two new muni bus shelters. This slide here shows the full range of proposed projects that we had developed and identified through the Outreach Program in the bayview. This is the map and the list that we brought to the community this past summer to allow them to prioritize fully which projects then went into the fiveyear investment plan. In keeping with the priorities of the community, our proposed project list had a very strong emphasis on Pedestrian Safety and access, streetlighting to private personal safety, and new bus shelters and locations that sometimes have low frequently transit. After prioritization by the community this last year, this list was whittled down from 3. 86 million to 2. 47 million spread across 53 priority projects. This is the list that makes up the fiveyear investment plan, and it provides a road map for liveable streets to implement in the coming years. Now this slide, again, shows side by side the number of projects and associated costs for the 101 proposed projects, and the 53 projects going into the fiveyear investment plan. Across both the proposed and priority projects, you can see this was really validated by the prioritization of the community. Lastly, our presentation concerns a series of policy recommendations that we heard from residents throughout our two years of working in the bayview. While the bayview cbtp is limited by the funding that we have to work with, we still wanted to record the communitys voice and provide future direction by the sfmta. Specifically, we wanted to highlight the recommendations around Transit Service, especially on the t3rd and to serve some of the most isolated residents. We need to be more internal about how our agencys investments can strengthen communities, especially for those residents at risk of displacement. These policy recommendations are already being acted on regarding muni service. Our Transit Division is working on Muni Services that would provide a faster route between downtown and the bayview as well as Service Improvements on the 29 sunset to Better Connect youth in the bayview with many schools that the 29 Sunset Services further to the west. That concludes our presentation. We request adoption by the board helping us to meet our caltrans grant. We also want to acknowledge the sfmta staff that worked on this project. They all went above and beyond in their commitment to this community, and this project would not have been possible without their dedication and professionalism. Okay. Do we have any Public Comment on this item . Mr. Chair, one person has indicated that theyd like to address the board. All right. And that person is . Clerk janice lee. So before i talk about our support for the Bayview Community based Transportation Plan, i sure want to talk a little bit of work that the Bicycle Coalition does in the bake view. We also have a bicycle shop Maintenance Base in the bayview. Its next to the cal vary church at industrial and bayview. We get bike parts left at muni stations through sfmta operations, through other donations, and we use volunteer support every single wednesday to rehabilitate these bikes and give them back with the community. Weve worked with rafiki Community Wellness center where were going to be tabling other black History Month events. Weve worked with ymca, all different Community Groups there for many, many years, and our bike program has always been focused in the bayview. We know that people are there because were giving back bikes to the community, hundreds and hundreds of them every single year. So i think what we really learned with Western Addition and now with bayview that to be more deeply engaged in the community, the sfmta must make far more larger investments in the outreach. Ariel has already talked about having child care and food at these meetings and being able to provide stipends to these people. I think with Western Addition and with Bayview Community Transportation Plan, i do feel like biking was an afterthought, and i think that sfmta needs to do a lot more around capacity biking. Its not the top priority, and im not saying to override community, but to build that capacity so more people can be engaged around biking so we dont end up with gaps in the Bayview Community. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [names read] im a former commissioner for southeast communities facility, and i actually was chair in the facility. So i still participate, even though im no longer a commissioner. I attended a meeting last week, the executive summary, im sure you guys have already seen it, is something that i didnt think it was written very well. And so in saying all of that, it needed to be more sensitive. You guys will have that information. Read it. And i would also express my concerns to the committee and also to christopher, as well. Its important that the community that i was raised in and am still a huge part of, that these documents are well written because these documents are not only seen locally, but theyre seen regionally and nationally. I would ask that you review the executive summary that is a part of the Bayview Community based Transportation Plan. These documents were given to us last week at the meeting. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaking, please. [names read] any other speakers . Seeing none, howard will be the last speaker. When youre doing all this Pedestrian Safety stuff, which is absolutely great, be sure that you include bus priorities at all the intersections. Youre doing that on vanness, youre supposedly doing that on geary and many other places. It should start here at least have the capablity. Whenever i ride the t, it stops much too much, much too long, and its not good service. If you want to speed it up, the priorities will help a lot. Thank you very much. That concludes Public Comment on this item. Directors, any comments or questions for staff . Director eaken, please. Thank you so much for your presentation. It seems youre putting in a lot of model and progressive policies when it comes to this plan, so im just wondering if you could reflect a little more broadly about what you learned about project and Community Engagement that should influence the sfmtas work. Yeah. I think one of the things that we learned right from the start and right up front is its not enough for us to say that we want to come into a community and listen and that we want to hear what people have to say because its a community where there have been many plans, there have been many studies, many people who look like me that have said that things are different this time, so we need to demonstrate concretely what our commitment is to this community. We also need to come in and listen and understand what you were promised in the past. So us being able to do that really help people feel heard and recognized in the work that we were doing. Just to add on that, it definitely reinforced the need to plan with communities with care and intention, and i think for me personally, that meant taking a step back and being willing to do things that maybe weve never done. When rosalyn approached me about making a video, i had no idea how to do that, but i said sure, and i think that kind of openness can be applied to the engineering and planning that we do. Please. I want to thank you for the plan. I think this is a great effort. I want to ask jeff that, like, i know were going to start doing implicit bias training for staff. But i havent read the executive summary, but i am concerned about characterizations, and i think we need to look at how we come from our point of privilege and judge other people, so if we can make sure that for all future Community Plans and for all staff, that we go through this training because thatll help us check our privilege at the door when were writing things, and it will help us improve how people are treated. I have a couple of questions. Have we ever tried outreach with texting . If we could do something more simplistic with more test messaging, we might be able to reach more people. Yes. We have utilized the texting for various transit projects where people can provide feedback on specific projects or preferences. But we cant do it for this. No. And we dont have a particular policy around when we do it, i guess. Not on this project. Our Communication Team uses a whole variety of techniques. In the case of the bayview, it was showing up where people actually were and getting direct feedback in conversation and engagement. Yeah. I would just say if we could think about that, because people want to hear what i hear from the community is people want to hear about this, not when were not to do something, but have a way to provide feedback and engagement all along the way. The community has been disenfranchised and promised a lot of things over the years, and theres a real fear that things that are happening today are for people that have come to the community as opposed to people that have always been in the community. When i dont know how were doing on traini trains and for post game services, to ensure that we are getting people further out in the bayview, but i would definitely try to look at that. I think if we can look at how we improve service where people are getting on and getting off, improve those service areas, improve shuttles that dont go on the outer line maybe would be a way to do that. I did have a question. We were talking about a little that there was a bicycle shop there, and i know that the Scooter Companies have to do broad based implementation of scooters around the city. Did we find implementation of what people are doing in the bayview . Like, whos using it, and how its being used, and secondly, any outreach that theyre proactively doing . I love taking the electric assist bikes, and i think if many people knew about them and knew that they were for them would like them because you can get up and down hills just like you were walking. Its super simple. If you can provide any feedback on those, it would be great. You can some of the experience with the bike share roll out, station citing. Our work was in parallel to that work, so i cant speak to that directly, but we certainly heard lots from the community with regard to the bike roll out, especially with parking stations that may remove a parking space here or there, and thats what we tried to hear and reflected back to the community. And i do believe our micromobility or, like, scooterbike share team does get that data, i think monthly, particularly whos using it, the program for lowincome users. Just, like, anecdotal, the electric bikes were positively received, especially the dockless ones . And i think were working on some different projects this summer, and hopefully when some of that infrastructure comes into place, we are but were looking for the right community partners. People dont feel the bicycling infrastructure is benefiting the community, but we need to work with those partners so people feel those lanes are for them, and they know the pricing and how to access it because we are making people put scooters and accessing allaround the city, but we need to make sure that people who are meant to benefit it actually do. And director border, what were seeing in the mapping is widespread use throughout the city, including in the southeast, and we can provide you with more data about the distribution and probably cant really tell much about the demographics but certainly utilization and distribution. And im not sure if this is a problem, but i know the bike racks get shattered. Last week, both bus shelters across the street from my house were shattered. People want protection, but theyre not useful if theyre broken. Yeah. That is certainly a concern in the bayview, and homeless shelter and platform maintenance is a priority, as well. One thing that we are trying to be proactive about is each of the projects where we are recommending the citing of a new bus shelter is that it is paired, if necessary, with new streetlighting, and we are working with d. P. W. To fund that work as part of the shelter installation. Because one of the other concerns that we heard very frequently from residents in the bayview is that they need to be able to feel safe waiting for the bus. Its not enough to have a shelter, and sometimes a shelter can be a safety detriment if they dont feel the area is welllit enough for their safety and their use. I appreciate that. Thank you very much for that. In general, i think this is a great plan, and i think we need to do more of this kind of work. I think we need to built more on what weve done here as we make our future equity plans, that we constantly keep and engage the people and these young women who got involved in Transportation Planning, so we can figure out ways to get them in the summer youth job program. Commissioner . Thank you. O thank you for that presentation. One thing that jumped out at me. In particular, i love the one that says get cars off sidewalks without punishing residents. Thats something i think going back earlier to the parking ticket, i can see that. A parking ticket is expensive. If youre a family where youre just making it work for the month, that parking ticket could be the thing that destroys your budget for that month, and thats something that ive really tried to focus in on my time on the board is how do we able to focus on more people in this city getting around without a car. But you noted, was it 50 of the residents in the bayview drive to work . Skbr yes, thats correct. Which is really high, and you can understand because a lot of the jobs are not downtown anymore. Theyre scattered out so far. I want to commend you on this work. Youve hit all the right notes, and now its going to be our job in making sure that we support you in making the changes that weve seen. I really support this, and i look forward to setting the bar even higher than the Western Addition work that was done a few years ago in becoming a Community Engagement process. Thank you so much for the work. I really appreciate it, and i think its going to be fantastic Going Forward to be doing this for more communities. Thank you. Director rubke . Thank you so much for the excellent work on this, and i appreciate the communitys work on it. I know it was a joint effort. I know the repopresentation definitely or the report definitely focuses on the community. I just think the cleanliness and lighting is really important. I take the t not every day, but i take it, and i often see trash on the platforms, and im dialing that into 311. I know i heard from residents when julie and i were at the Community Meeting out there, we heard residents say that they had complainted about conditions at the bus stop, and it never got fixed year in and year out. I know that it concerns keeping tabs on our shelters, keeping them for clean and safe, but i hope we can do more things as far as letting the community make their voice heard. I hope that we can track that were being responsive to their comments. When they call in to improve a bus shelter or anything else like that, that that actually gets done so that they do take the bus, right . Yeah. As part of the data that we do utilize was the fixit team from the Mayors Office, the 311 reports, so we tried to implement their perspective in the work that we did. Very good. Any other directors comments or questions . Very good. This is an action item on this. Id appreciate a motion and a second. [inaudible] thank you. All those in favor, say aye. Opposed . Thank you. The motion passes. This is a great project. Next item. Clerk item 12, presentation and discussion regarding the fisk of year 2021 and 2022 operating budget including discussion on fare policy and pricing and possibility modifications to various fares. Good afternoon, directors. Well be focusing on fare action at the next Board Meeting on march 3. Well be coming back to talk about fees and fines, and then march 17, well be talking about how to get a more balanced budget. Today, these actually first two are really to help us get a handle on what resources we have for the expenditure side of the budget because we need to know how much money we have in order to know how much that we can spend. And so today, well be talking about a base proposal related to fares, which is based on policies the board has currently has in place, and well also be providing a few options that youve seen some of these before relating to both single fares and to lifeline passes that maybe things that you might want to consider. Were also open to any other feedback that you have, which we will then take into account and build into our planning for the resources from fares that well have for our budget. So first can we have the presentation, please . When we talk about fare policy, what are the goals of our fare policy that you, board, have set . Well, it starts out by saying to provide revenues needed to run the system because thats one basic purpose of our fares. But while were doing that, while were getting the resources that we need, were also mindful of promoting equity in our system, enhancing customer convenience, incentivizing prepayment, and incentivizing ridership. And as we think about that, things sometimes push in Different Directions with our goals, and sometimes we need your balance when things are pushing in Different Directions. How are we doing on these goals . Well, i want to mention that thanks to initiatives that youve supported in the past, were investing about 24 million a year in fare relief through our major programs, and that includes about 110,000 customers who are enrolled in free muni and 17,000 lifeline passes told per month. The lowincome single ride regional pilot is scheduled to begin in spring 2020. And even so, despite the significant investment, weve all heard that transit fares continue to be a major impact on our lowincome customers who may not be eligible for these programs or even while using these programs. In terms of maintaining revenues and incentivizing transit ridership, some venues like the chase Center Ticket to ride program and rapid investments, weve seen them generate revenues system wide. Ill talk a little bit more about that later, and perhaps at another session, as well. And finally, enhancing customer convenience and incentivizing prepayment. Well be talking about the fact that the use of Electronic Payments has grown substantially, which i think is both convenient for our customers and also helps with the speed of service for people boarding the bus. And so a new clipper 2. 0, which we hope to see the first features in late 2020 or early 2021 will provide even more convenience to customers who are able to access that product. But even so, we still definitely hear from customers about barriers to using clipper or other fare products, and we always want to look into ways to relieve those barriers. Now just as a reminder, why we need fares, we talked before about our operating budget about the budgets starting gap, and the additional proposals that weve had from the Muni Working Group. Weve working on other aspects on our budget to close this gap, but we were facing, as of budget workshop, about 1 100 million to close, 135 million in the first year, and 167 million in the second year. The automatic indexing plan was adopted by the board in 2009, and part of this was to have a regular way, a more predictable way and transparent way for having increases in fares, and the next slide will show how thats impacted our history. However, part of that policy is that the board looks at it, at least budget, so its at each budget, so this is not meant to be a mindless policy in determining whether the item is working for the agency. As we look at the next slide, this is some of the history here for reference, and particularly on the monthly passes, you can see the impact on when the Implementation Plan was adopted where prior to 2010, you would see that monthly passes might either not rise or go up by large amounts, 9 , 29 . Since that time, monthly passes have gone up at a very steady and small rate over time. On the individual fare, its necessarily more lumpy because we dont want to raise more less than a quarter. Back in the old days, a quarter was a larger percentage of the fare. Now its a smaller percentage, so you do see the effect of that. But it also does provide for a transparent way as to when to raise that fare by a quarter. So now in terms of the equity programs, this is just a reminder of our two major sets of equity programs, and one is the lifeline pass that was developed in 2005, for adults at or below 200 of the federal poverty limit. As i mentioned, theres about 18,000 average monthly pass stickers. And the estimated sort of revenue gone for this program is about 5 million. The larger investment is in the free muni side, which was implemented in 2015 and expanded in 2015, and that is for 100 of seniors below the bay area median income. About 63,000 use, 63,000 seniors, and 14,000 people with disabilities used this pass at least once in the last 12 months. And the investment here by the agency is about 19 million in revenues foregone. You can see its about 13 million seniors, and 3 million, people with disabilities. The next slide is a reference slide. Id love to have more data for you. Right now, this is the data that we can easily get. Its part of what were required to produce as part of our title vi analysis of the major monthly passes. You may want to refer back to this as we talk about the different impact proposals, so ill just leave this here now without necessarily drawing conclusions from it. The next slide shows our base case now as we get to what would fares look like when we get to the indexing policy. These are sort of the five major fare types. Theres quite a lot more in the attached more detailed document board item, but these account for about 76 of the revenue, and most of the impact of the indexing, and it totals about 14 million of additional revenue that we estimate in 2021, and about 15 million in fiscal year 22. That would be applied from the indexing. This is where you see the single ride cash fare, the single ride electronic fare, which you set a policy several years ago of 50 cents discount. You can see the passes rising, such as the cable car single ride rising in 2022 from its 8 to 9. Were going to talk about the single ride and a couple of options about the single ride fare. So for your option, heres a reference slide in terms of the current fare. We dont know whether theyre raising them at this time, but it does show the current fares at this time. It does show our 3 level, were highest among our peers with the exception of seattle, where its 3. 25 for a cash fare. So one question is what is your recommendation regarding the policy implementation on the cash fare to stay in effect or to suspend the policy . And the second question is for the electronic discount of the clipper and munimobile discount of 50 cents, and the reason for putting that discount still remain or whether theres an option to change that discount to reduce or eliminate that discount to make it the same as cash . And as a little more background to the second question, the discount has been very successful in moving the needle from cash to electronic fares. As you can see the first line there, 1617, that translates to clipper, which is the top line, and cash fares, which is the bottom line. So four out of five of our customers are using munimobile for their singleride fares. So what are the revenue impacts . This charts got a lot of numbers on it. Its actually got a lot fewer than previous versions. Tried to roll it up than what we thought. And of course, if there are other packages that youd like us to consider, were happy to go back and analyze other packages, but these are the ones that came to us as ones that you might want to consider. The first one, as you can see on here, the option one, is just applying the current indexing policies, which would result in the cash fare going up to 3. 25, and the electronic fares staying 50 cents below that. The second option would maintain the index for cash but move reduce the discount for clipper and munimobile down to just a quarter, so it would be 3, bringing it up to 3, which is estimated to have a revenue impact of 3 million per year. The next option would suspend if you did choose to suspend and keep it 3, the cash fare, but to makeup for approximately 1 million revenue loss to bring up the to reduce the discount on the electronic discount, so it would actually go up to 3 and match the cash fare, if that was done over two years, that would be a 1 million reduction in the first year and a 7 million increase in the second year. And as you can see, there are different options on the munimobile, either to suspend the cash fare or eliminate the discount. So i can either slow down at this point or talk about the other thing or options thats in front of us. Unless theres an objection from the board, i ask that you complete the presentation and well discuss it at one. Well, were going to talk a little bit about monthly passes. Again, the next slide is a reference that shows us, compared to our peers, where our full fare adult monthly passes at the 81 level. And then, when you get to the options that we want you to consider if we can move onto the next slide really, were not talking about in this suspending the indexing on the monthly pass, but what has come up is a question about the lifeline pass, and the lifeline pass does have a simple rule around it. Its just 50 of the adult pass, and ive heard some say they want to keep that simplicity. There was a question about whether the kind of indexing we do is unfair to people on more fixed incomes and if there is a different index, and we looked and we could offer you an index on the Social Security. If we were to choose that, it would mean we would still raise the lifeline pass, by only by 1, from 40 to 41 rather than 41 to 42. That would mean basically a new indexing policy where we break into two indexes, one based on our assist increases and the other based on our income labor and cost increases, so that is another option we wanted to hear feedback from you on. What is the cost of that . Its relatively modest if applied just to this, so its around its on the next slide, i believe. It shows the option two is if you were to suspend completely the lifeline pass, which is rising to 400,000 to 600,000 in the two years. And applying the alternate index would be more like a 200,000 impact. And employing the alternate index is something you could replicate year and year because its just a different indexing standard. Thats right. Director torres . [inaudible] you know, were going to be were planning, as i said later, to have our Division Come back and do a larger discussion. Were still completing our report. Theres a baseline fare recommendation that weve had, but theres been an increase since that base. We like to have a consistent number that we give, so we will be coming back, but it has been increasing, and it is in the millions, from fare evasion. Again, its hard to say exactly how much but i also wanted to ask, what if we dont vote for any indexing or any fare increases [inaudible] its about a 14 million increase in our budget gap because the budget numbers that we gave you which are already more than 100, assume the indexing in them to start with. [inaudible] thats right. Leo, please continue. So i just want to mention other things that dont have a Large Revenue impact. So in terms of supporting fare equity, we will be proposing a muni day pass at the fare box, which is currently only available on munimobile, but this would allow people to have the 5 daily pass on a cash basis. A free muni pass for people facing housing insecurity. This, we would expect to have this administered by the department of homelessness and supportive housing, but this would be for people who arent currently eligible for free muni. They arent youth or seniors, but they may be living in their vehicles or have other severe housing insecurity. This would allow for a free muni pass in those circumstances. And then finally, a cable car discount for seniors and people with disabilities on munimobile only effective in the second year of the budget to give it time to be implemented, and thats when the singleride cable car increases would be set to go into effect. And then, finally, some other recommendations that were doing that have a relationship to is extending bulk sales discounts to all products on munimobile and eliminating this is a minor item, eliminating the clipper differential for passports because that has a problem with our just in terms of administering the transaction at our kiosks. And then, we do have other initiatives to increase fare revenues that well be working on and well be reporting to you on their progress. We consider these good things to do regardless of what else is happening with fares. One is to build on our chase center model. We mentioned this, to engage with conventions, hotels, major employers, and special events to look for more opportunities for bulk sales and for bringing marketing our system. And as to director torres, in that area that he commented on, strategic fare evasion, reduction initiatives, we see that as definitely a very important area to keep our eye on the ball and focus on with nuance in terms of the customers. We want to come back to you with that in a later meeting, probably in april, but thats being worked on right now. Okay. Procedural point on how this works. This is an informational item. We wont be voting, but its informational sort of in name only. What mr. Leavenson and his staff are looking for is guidance as he and mr. Tumlin build out the budget. So before we go to that, miss boomer, do we have members of the public that wish to comment on this item . Clerk yes, we do. All right. How many cards do we have . Clerk i have eight people that have turned in speaker cards. Very good. When miss boomer calls your name, if you would come up to the podium. If not, lineup on the right side of the room so we can do this efficiently. Roberta, call the names. [names read] rowan, we literally called your name as you walked in the door, so skedaddle on up here. This is item 12, fares. Excuse me. I think she called my name right before i walked through the door, and i didnt hear it. Thank you for calling me first. Good afternoon, board of directors. You must heard some is options about fare policy. I would strongly urge you not to raise fares and to look for revenue in other places. In particular, i wanted to i think the next item on your agenda is curb management policy, and staffs going to make some recommendations to you about extending the hours in which parking meters operate. I would strongly urge you to raise fares on cars, not on transit. If sfmta needs more money, it should target those who can afford it more, those who park their cars on our streets, not those who frequent the bus. I would also ask that free muni for youth be made universal and available to all youth. Its very likely that the state of california is going to force you to do it. Theres a bill thats advancing through the house this january, ab 1350, that would reduce state funding for transit agencies for youth 14 and under. So get ahead of that, just make it free for youth. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [names read] hi. Im busine im isabel, and im a student. For my Public Comment today, i would like to discuss the lifeline pass program that is often referred to when discussing how sfmta is assisting lowincome riders. According to the website, in order to qualify for a lifeline pass, an individual must have an annual income of 24,980 or less, and subsequently, the department of housing and urban development of San Francisco has established very different standards for what qualifies for lowincome in this city. According to their website, lowincome is considered to be 82,200 or less for an individual and 117,000 or less for a family of four. The notion that a lifeline pass is available for your lowincome riders is false and illusory as many people do not qualify for the Lifeline Program. I urge you to suspend the indexing policy and stop the fare increase this budget cycle. This is an eventual first step in showing solidarity with working class residents. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [names read] good afternoon, board. Im here to oppose the fare increase and end the indexing policy. This indexing disproportionately hurts the lowincome residents of this city who are already struggling to life in the city and may not have the means to access other modes of transportation. In addition, we are in the midst of a climate crisis, and we cannot afford to further disincentivize transit ridership. As you may be aware, a 2018 report from the university of california found that every 10 increase in fares results in a 2 decrease in ridership. I have witnessed on numerous occasions in my own life conversations that may go, like, we have three or four people who need to go to a different location lets just take a lyft or uber, its going to be cheaper or the same price as taking muni, and easier. Please consider other options for raising revenue, such as the parking meters, which would suggested which were suggested early. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [names read] good afternoon, board. My name is alyssa, and i am with somcan. I personally ride the muni, specifically the lines of the 9, the 44, and the mtrain. As an individual who does not have access to a personal car, i rely on muni to bring me to place to places such as work, school, buying food or going to the doctors. I am here today to share my own experience and highlight other San Francisco Community Members stories who may resonate the same experiences and struggles of using Muni Services. I also want to express my sense on why muni should not increase the bus fares again. So for a city that is considered as one of the most expensive and economically prosperous in the united states, the fare increase is unacceptable and would negatively impact unrepresented communities, working class communities, including myself, my family, who also identify as lowincome. Right now, i do not qualify for a clipper® card because i either make too much to be eligible for lowincome programs offered, but at the same time, i earn too low of a wage as a student to allow for the transportation fee that i use every day. My story would probably resonate to other peoples stories because we dont really see a change in Muni Services in terms of quality because muni buses are always late, its packed, and most communities are still underserved in terms of equitable and safe buses. So with this, it is important that the sfmta prioritize the needs of the community first, so impolitely asking the board of directors to stop muni fare increase reliability safe transit and make it equitable for everyone. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [names read] hello. My name is lee ann, and i am a Community Engagement organizer at the south of market. Im here to strongly oppose the proposed increase in muni fares. Sfmta needs to do Community Engagement and check in with muni riders first and show accountability. Somcan, however, a nonprofit organization, has distributed 800 postcards and collected peoples opinion about the fare increase, and 82. 3 strongly oppose it. And actually, why dont we just open up the conversation to Community Members and have a Community Planning process in terms of thinking about where the budget would go or how it can figure out the budget for muni . Just five minutes ago, somebody told me why not increase the fare for the corporate shuttles . I also would like to remind the city and sfmta of the 1973 transit first policy, an s. F. Charter which governs sfmta and which states that transit systems should ensure the quality of life and Economic Health of San Francisco. It states that Public Transit by bicycle and foot must be an attractive alternate than travel by automobile. By increasing the price of muni, this does not look like Public Transit is being encouraged. Most people now adays ride lyft, uber, or use their cars which are not ecologically viable. This uses gas and pollutes our air with gas emissions. In the last few years, muni has doubled its price so it costs more. Thank you very much. We demand the city of s. F. To uphold your time is up. Thank you. [names read] herbert wiener. One thing we can be sure of is perpetual deficits, higher fares, and less ridership. Basically, what youre going to have, if you raise the fares, youre going to have less ridership, youre going to have more fare evasion. I consider it an insult. Muni service is terrible, and what you do to compound the fracture is charge more for a miserable service. This is really unfair. I dont think other cities have the less quality i fare other cities have greater quality of service, and they probably have less fares. But basically, what youre doing is youre throwing it on the backs of people who can less afford it. Your alternatives is to have Better Service. Youll have Better Service, youll have more ridership. This is a this is a terrible insult. Now, i also believe that fare increases are contingent on Better Service. I believe this is built into the basic voter initiatives. Proposition aa, youre supposed to have higher reliability of service and its supposed to be linked to Better Services. Right now, its really inequitable. This is part and parcel of muni land, where everyone lives happily ever after except the lowincome and disadvantaged groups. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [names read] hi. My name is cat carter. Several fare increases over the pass few years are hitting hardest those who are left able to afford it. Fares are in fact going up faster than inflation. We should not be increasing fares until weve fully explored fare systems programs. Id love to see more detailed reporting and transparency around who our programs are reaching and who theyre not, as people above 200 of the federal poverty limit are still lowincome. We are also arguably already in the death spiral that people fear when you raise fares, reduce service, and lose riders. Fares have been increasing over the recent years, yet were still down 50 million a year in annual fare revenue since 2015. I ask you to freeze fares now rather than burden riders who are not only doing the right thing by riding transit, but many riders dont have any other options. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] hi. My name is p. J. Im with somcan. We collected about 508 signatures on our petition, and i will read to you the petition, all right . To sfmta regarding stop muni fare increase. We, the undersigned, urge you to stop muni fare increase. The s. F. Municipal transportation agency, sfmta, once again, is discussing to increase the fare on transit riders in the 20202021 operating budget. In the sfmtas operating budget of 20192020, they have already increased the fare. 3. 80 cash fares. As the cost of living continues to go up in a city that is rich in resources, it is unacceptable that the working class adults, immigrants, and City College Students are being burdened by the fare hikes. The sfmta board of directors needs to create an equitable Transportation Plan that will not burden the riders any additional costs, provide Reliable Service and on time buses. No more fare increase and create an equitable budget that will put transit rider first, so please take this. We have about 508 of them. Very good. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [names read] good afternoon. My name is angelica with somcan, and we have here moehe ov have here over 800 postcards of people that are not in favor of the fare increase. Weve been collecting this since last year, and were here to drop it off to you just as we promised, the transit riders but who couldnt be here because it will really impact them. With the budget, were interested in looking at what is the overall budget of sfmta and what are the priorities that you are looking into . The needs to burden transit riders with this fare increase . There must be a way to find money that wont increase the fares to a lot of this riders. City department always finds it. Its really up to what is the priority of the city and the department to making this happen, so were really looking forward to not only having participating in your town hall in march, which we really feel should have been done in january, not in march. And then, in april, youre going to decide on your final budget. But it is what it is, and were looking forward to participating in that, but we also want to see the different projects that the department is prioritizing and finding ways to actually prioritize transit riders first. Lets make muni affordable for everyone so it will increase the ridership, it will stop people from hopping on buses because they cannot afford it, and really make the public like muni again because it is a very important Public Transportation for all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [names read] yes. Afterno afterno good afternoon. Clerk hold on just a moment, please. [names read] yes. Good afternoon, board of directors. My name is jean alejo, and i personally grew up in the city and have been taking the 14, 14r, and ive seen the changes of, like, making it seven days a week instead of just monday to saturday, but at the same time, i dont see any improvements with service. And with the fare increases that are being proposed on almost a yearly basis, its actually a burden to a lot of lowincome folks, including Community Members that Committee Members that just spoke on many peoples behalf. So with the fare increases, i dont see the logic of, like, improved service . And at the same time, if youre going to incentivize more riders to take muni, then dont simply increase the fares. And ive actually seen Better Service in other countries, like seoul, south korea. If youre going to not improve service, might as well not increase the fares. If you want more riders, dont increase the fares. Thats all. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] good afternoon, directors. I remember when i remember when i had a free clipper back when i was just a youth. I was able to ride the muni for free, but now im in city college, and they dont provide me with the free clipper, and i take the muni every day to go to work and school. I cant afford the muni now, so why increase it again . I may have a i may have a job, but i dont have enough to pay for muni because my money goes for books and other needs for school. My parents have two jobs and they cant even support us. Thats not even enough to support us. Me and my brothers me and my brothers because most of the money they earn goes towards the electric bill, rent, and other rent that they need to pay. So stop the muni increase. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] good afternoon. My names Christopher Peterson. Id like to second the comments of cat carter on behalf of the San Francisco transit riders of increasing fares, expanding the youth ability of lowincome households. As youre considering fare options, i think its important that you get more information than youve currently been provided. You have a lot of projections about financial effects, but i didnt see any financial effects on fares on riders. Before you make a decision, you need to see, is this pattern of fare increases, is that part of whats feeding into declining muni ridership . Of course you do need to find money someplace. I think where you should be focusing is other areas such as rerevivi reviving parking meters for evenings and sundays. I know that congestion charging could be looked at as expediting, expanding the parking taxes to spaces that are currently provided free of charge. So there are a variety of options in terms of where to find revenue, and i urge you to vigorously explore those other options. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] good afternoon, commissioners. Any name is raymond castillio, and im with somcan. I just wanted to put some voices on those postcards that were giving you today. Bear with me here. My name is max. He lives in San Francisco. He oppose muni fare increase because a good amount of my lowincome friends will be negatively affected by this. This one is from winnie. Its the d11 district. Working people cant afford to live here at is. This is outrageous. We should be helping people, not burdening them more. This one is from eric. It stops me from considering muni as a valuable transportation mode, so i drive to work every day, causing more traffic. This one is from mary beth, 94121. I ride muni around ten times a week in an attempt to do the right thing for the environment. Do the right thing for those who cant afford constant fare hikes. This one is from jean, San Francisco. I believe in Public Transportation. We want to encourage more folks to use it. It is a very clean form of transportation. It should be free. Please do not increase the fares, lower them. This one is from gloria, 94114. Its too expensive already. It costs me 12 every day to commute to work. 12 five days a week. Hire some fare police to lower the place, dont raise it. This is from j. R. , 94107. Its unjustifiable for low and miding income families. Rent is already expensive and the fare is another burden to us. Thank you very much. And there is more. Mr. Strassner. [names read] good afternoon, directors. This is howard strassner. Im sorry i have to disagree with so many nice people, but not putting this automatic fare increase is like deducting lowering the fare for many people that dont need it. You heard it some years ago where you have people of means that ride muni. I dont need a fare cut. My neighbors shouldnt get a fare cut. You need maybe an extension of your lifeline system where people send you a copy of their 1040s, put their clipper® card number on it, and you work out a little lower fare. And but the Real Advantage to that, all these people that come here will come to the hearings, say yes, we have to charge for parking in the evenings, we have to charge for parking on sundays, we have to have congestion fees, we need all that stuff. You need people to come out for that. What happens when you try and get money, these people dont come out, so you should commit to all the new funding that you get for parking fees, for congestion charges. You use half of that to reduce the fees for people that really need to get them reduced, and you need to find an easy way to do it. Muni i get worldclass service. Every two, three minutes, theres a metro that comes into the tunnel, and i just hop on. When i transfer to b. A. R. T. , they give me half price. You dont need to keep cutting the halfprice ticket. So work it out, and im happy to help. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Clerk the next speaker, alexander tergi. Good afternoon, directors. My name is alexander kergi. Im going to speak on behalf of youth who find it difficult to a, enroll in the free muni for youth, which allows them Free Transportation on muni, where its quite a complicated and often confusing process for them to enroll and also for the families who may not be able to afford the reduced fare on muni. Im advocating for a for hopefully a for hopefully not raising the fares and even on a hold on all fare increases Going Forward for the next couple years so that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency can work to try and provide a stream of funding and a Funding Source that does not specifically rely on increasing fares and increasing fares for on people who may not be able to pay those increased amount of money, but instead on working with other Community Organizations and other City Departments and other city agencies to try and find resources to allow them to get that money through either congestion pricing or rejigering the hours that parking meters operate and stuff like that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Anyone else on this item on Public Comment . Please come forward. Good afternoon, community. My name is regina yslas. I am a native san franciscan. I grew up riding this system, and i am 60 years old now. I would like to say i am going to make three points. Number one, it strikes me as a little cynical that we are here on a tuesday afternoon speaking about a matter that will affect 100 of the ridership. Im hoping that with the next meetings proposed on march 3, march 17, that we can have maybe a 6 00 p. M. Or a 7 00 p. M. Meeting so that we can actually hear from more of the ridership. The second thing i want to speak about is about safety and inconsistency in the current system. This is not a time to be putting forward a fare price increase, so straight no on that. I have read the working groups safety recommendations for 2020. There is a lot of work to be done, so i think there are a lot of things that need to be considered before a fare hike increase. The third thing im going to say, and its also been said earlier, is what are we doing about facebook, google, and other Companies Using our muni stops, degrading our roads, and increasing emissions. Its time that everybody who uses it pays their fair share. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else on Public Comment . Okay. Is there anyone other than this gentleman who d like to speak in Public Comment . Youre not raising your hand, are you, gerald . All right. Seeing none, hell be the final speaker. The floor is yours. Good afternoon. Roger marenko, local 268. I wasnt going to say anything, but hearing everybodys comments, i felt compelled to just come up here and state my feelings on this. Sound off, be heard. Sound off, be heard. Thats the message that we heard along with the song that we heard. If i would have known that these m. T. A. Board meetings were this fun, i would have brought my dancing shoes. At the time when the agency is supporting from a shortage of operators, missing runs, buses never showing up, this is one of the last things that the agency needs to be entertaining. Were trying to encourage ridership, not discourage. How do you encourage . Provide more service, hire more operators. How do you discourage . You increase the fares. Theres a very theres a huge different between the word compel and deter. Compel is to try to get somebody to do something. Deter is when you try and keep somebody from doing something. How do you compel ridership . Provide better buses, more buses, cleaner buses. How do you reduce the riders on muni . You decrease the buses, more dirty buses, fewer buses. Im just going to end on lyrics. Here it is. Reach for the stars. Transportation is for all. Reach for the stars. Transportation is for all. Okay. With that, Public Comment is closed. Directors, i suspect theres some questions and direction for mr. Leavenson. I have a couple of questions. All right. No one wants to raise fares, but we have 14 million that were talking about. We have the drivers here talking about 30 million, and the reason that weve actually been able to make progress on muni is we have been investing in the system, so even though its not great, its because we did not invest in the system for 20 years. We have this really interesting conundrum because how you pay for more things to make the system better because we are making progress without, like, not being able to accommodate the people that need it most, that is the fundamental question. The Trump Administration is not giving us federal dollars, and we have limited ways that we can generate funds. I think itll be interesting to generate a discussion with people like we did in the bayview, you know, raising neighborhood residential parking fees, this amount of money. You know, i think i think it would be nice if we do one of these meetings in the evening or a couple of meetings in the evening, and we give these people the same options like we do here, where people get to choose. So maybe we can make the residential parking permit, instead of 140something, we make it 200. But those people can afford it, and maybe that would be enough to offset having to do fare increases. Another thing, the meter review. I know we had a presentation on shuttle stops and Cost Recovery fee. Maybe we can look at that again. I think everybody having to submit a form of their income is really complicated. But i think if we can maybe increase the income level, capture level, and not increase that, that would go a long way of helping people because were talking about a 400,000 less income from that, and maybe 600,000 over two years, but not as significant as some of the things that weve talked about that. We don i was on the 30 bus the other day, and there are definitely a lot of people on that bus that can afford to pay. So i think thats what we need to balance. In terms of the youth program, how do families enroll . Cant we is there any way that we can, just, at the schools, have people in cars get them . What i see is most fare evaders tend to be youth, and so i dont know if they didnt already know how to get the pass, and therefore, thats why theyre doing it, but it would be helpful if we can get that out, fare evaders . Are they evading the fare because they cant afford it . I would bet a good percentage of people are. So if we can get fare cards in peoples hands, and i think we can work with the School District with that. Can we look at that i mean, maybe, leo, do you know how that Program Works . Diana, do you want to address that . Diana is our resident expert on the workings. Good afternoon. Diana hammonds, sfmta revenue manager. We are hearing a lot about access to the schools with the programs. We are in discussion with them about how we can improve it currently. Every new student receives an application for the free muni program along with a registration package. They are not required to provide income documentation. It is an honor system just for that reason. Under the 100 bay area median income, so many qualified, it did not make sense to do income certification. Were making progress and hope by the fall to have the free muni pass application combined with the free and reduced lunch application so folks dont have to fill out both. And so by theres a much higher rate of completion of those forms than there are our free muni program, so consolidating those two programs, we think will really move the needle on that participation. And miss hammonds, can you speak to the rule of changing the eligibility rules for the lifeline pass . Yes, absolutely. So in addition the Administration Costs are a big part of any of these programs, and when we implemented the Lifeline Program, it was a big part of the agency. 200 of poverty is where most of the programs that we administer are at. So folks walk in, you show your medicare card, you show your drivers license, and you get your eligibility automatically enrolled. Moving above 200 of federal poverty level, you create a system where everyone has to submit their income tax forms. That generally means people have to do that in person or we need to create a portal, and it significantly increases the eligibility for that program. We certainly can bring those numbers back, but it is a significant administrative difference. I know that weve looked at these numbers, our administrative costs for the Lifeline Program. It is pretty low. Seattle has a program that they administer, and their costs are between 3 million and 4 million a year to administer, so theres balances and tradeoffs. We dont want to spend such a High Percentage of the program on administrative costs so were trying to find that balance. Im glad that youre thinking about consolidating the application with the school lunch, which could be a solution. But do we really perceive that there are that many cheaters in the world that if we just got rid of those processes and made it easier for people to get them, that we would get rid of that burden and it would be an honor system . I feel like theres a very small population of people dont do the right thing. I think most people will do the right thing, and i just wonder if couldnt we save ourselves a lot of administrative headache by saying okay, if your income is this low, you can go online and buy this pass, and then just not worry about it. I mean, i feel like if we found out next year that all of a sudden our fares are upside down and maybe were all on the lifeline pass, then maybe we need to do it. But the benefit of being able to accommodate more people without the increased administrative cost is a better public good than coming up with a system that is complicated to capture just a few more people, and the same thing with this youth. If it were me, and i can do whatever i wanted, and i said kids, come to school, and the first day, everybody got their fast pass, and theyre distributed in the first period classroom or whatever, and you just do that, and then, some people would use them, and some people wouldnt use them, but it would be a great experiment to see what would happen. I think if you did that in your public schools, it would be easy. Obviously, in private schools, it would be a different problem. But can we look creatively at those types of things . I think we spend more on administrative concerns and costs trying to administer programs when i think the cheat factors really low, and i think thats the same thing with fare evasion. I think the most people who are fare evading. I do like where youre going with this, director borden, because i do agree that most people are good, and theyll go ahead and pay the fare. I saw in the paper that there is a proposal for free muni for people experiencing housing insecurity . How are we going to administer that because im wondering if thats co thats something thats coming to us from housing or a shelter . Yeah. We recently entered into an agreement with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. What really pushed this discussion about a year ago was parking fees and fines, but we are trying to have a single process for establishing eligibility. So the department of homelessness will actually do that case work, so we, in all of our materials, refer folks to our offices. They meet with the person thats seeking that eligibility, and then, they certify that, and they bring it back to our office. Because im wondering along the lines of your thinking if there is another way to open it up, and this is something that this board has been grappling with in the whole time that ive been on the board and doing budgets is how do we make sure that were providing the benefit to the people that need it the most . Because i agree with, i think it was howard, mr. Strassner who said, i know people who come to town, they dont need a discount. I dont need a discount. Any time we can take advantage of systems already in place to identify those most into need, we need to be willing to expand our world and take other peoples word for it that yes, they need that help. And im sorry, i totally cut into your comment. Okay. Did you want to say anything else . No. Okay. Director torres . [inaudible] 49,000 cheats for 5. 4 million, but they only got 2. 5 million on a program that cost 6 million to administer. I think its best to let the cheats go on. Number two, i support the mayors call recently for sunday and evening meter extensions and for congestion pricing, which i talked to the director earlier. But also, i think, i cannot vote for a fair increase or for indexing until i see some alternatives of where we can cut the budget elsewhere. And why i say that. 1978, proposition 13 passed. I was chair of the ways and means subcommittee, and guess what we had to do . We had to start cutting because there was no income coming from the property level that we had been receiving prior to proposition 13. And guess what . We did it. Cities and counties screamed, but we did it. Well have to cutback maybe a couple of more million from a budget so we dont raise fares on people that dont deserve a fare increase. And lastly, i believe we should have at least one hearing that we can hear from the public. I know those are very treacherous and longterm commitments for us, who do not receive a salary to serve on this board. I dont mind doing those evening hearings because they can be very instructive, and sometimes we get some good ideas from the public. I seem to remember the last budget cycle we went through, we did have a meeting in the atrium at one south vanness. We had a few committee meetings. Are we doing that this year, mr. Leavenson . Fantastic question, and let me talk about that. So im jonathan, and im a senior budget analyst for the agency. So were doing a full budget process. Were doing, as i stated were not supposed to call it a town hall an open house in the first week of march. Well be sure to get communications out there. In addition, in briefings with members of the board of supervisors, theyve asked that we be sure to set up one meeting in each district, plus where we can add onto existing meetings, Community Groups we went to the transit riders a couple of weeks ago. It was a short of version of what you saw on the 28. There is a massive list of groups that we are doing outreach to. All the neighborhood groups have meetings and even offer even if we sent the presentation and you didnt go to them, i think it would be helpful. I do think that because we are talking about maybe raising residential parking fees, meters, that we also put that in the presentation and get feedback from the community. Okay, we wont raise fares or we wont raise this group of fares, but then, we need to raise the money here. I think empowering the public to make that decision gets greater buy in on the final end. We cant just give everything for free, although everyone would love to. More great ideas. We are adding and we have created a budget website as part of sfmta. Com. I encourage people to go there. The same exercise will be made to members of the public, and all presentations to all groups will be on that website. If you could add these already, the ones that i discussed, and i also think the fare evasion issue, like, maybe we wanted more unarmed people on certain routes, and we dont want fare inspectors, we get rid of that just for the purpose of you know, were spending money that we dont need to spend to give riders free rides. I agree with director torres. One reason we need new revenue is were growing the expense, and some of thats a discretionary decision that we can make to do or not do, and i think it would be more valuable to have those two things intentioned and have some tradeoffs in packages so that were not just looking at one part of the revenue side of the picture. I think you point out in here, in fact, that fare revenue constitutes about 18 of total revenue for operations, so its actually a small fraction of the whole enchilada. Secondly, having said that, i think the indexing policy is a fundamentally sound strategy, and i my recall on the history of it is that for many years, b. A. R. T. Refused to raise fares and after about a decade of that, their system was showing it, and they had to raise fares by a substantial amount, and it drove a ton of riders away that it took them years to get back. I believe they promulgated an index policy that i think muni got from them, so i think having our two biggest systems on some kind of routine basis, making sure they keep up with cost of the system, is going to avoid ridership losses. Its not going to cause them because if you dont do it this year, you know that there will be people showing up next year, saying dont do it again because the burden of proof has been shifted. And then, i worry that were in that spiral. Thirdly, i had a couple of questions about clipper because thats obviously one of the options thats at stake here. One of them, leo, i think just for our informational purposes, could you disaggregate clipper and munimobile the next time you present this information so we know which one is doing which . Sure. Clipper is doing the large majority of it. Thats what i suspected. And then on the market share i know i raised this at the workshop, but im still not getting the figures through my skull. You have a report that says 80 of single ride fare revenue, right, so its a percentage of of ride fare revenue. M. T. C. Releases every month a report based on ridership, and that municipal for muni is only 42 . Now thats spread across the whole system, i presume, all boardings. Just as a reminder, b. A. R. T. Is pushing 90 . So im a little concerned that this number in your report, hey, weve reached the finish line. We can ease up on the discount. We dont need it anymore, when i believe theres a lot more work to be done at least on the basis of total boardings of passengers. I think theyre both legitimate ways to look at market share, so am i reciting that, diana, correctly . So whichever way we look at it ill just put the pitch in, and ill shut up. I think we have a continued use of discount for clipper. I think all the cities that you cited have one, except for washington. Maybe it can be a smaller discount, but we are still building that system. And in fact, m. T. C. Is building a new version of that system now that i think it will be all of our interests to drive more people to, and well be driving them to something that works better, i think, as well. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you very much. Director eaken . Thank you. Just to reflect some of what i heard, i clearly heard the defund the challenge. It seems there would be a good number of people for whom it would be burdensome and they do not qualify, so i think we need to change the lifeline aspect. I agree its quite difficult to have this conversation in isolation, and we looked a little bit at the numbers on january 28 in terms of congestion and pricing that the Mayors Office instructed. Within this sliver of the universe, i think i had several things that i wanted to raise for my potential Board Members for consideration. If we accept the premise that this raise in fares is overly burdensome for some transit riders, and we want to have our fare policy incentivize ridership and not disincentivize transit ridership, were not talking about that much money. The cash fare item, the cash item for the single ride is 1 million, the monthly pass is 4 million, the lifeline increase is . 4 million. To eliminate a discount, which was to drive people to use clipper, thats 7 million. That worked, and most people are using clipper now. That would generate 7 million, and that would allow us this year to pause the index of inflation on cash fares, on the monthly, and on the lifeline monthly, and it would more than compensate for that loss of revenue. In my view, that would be more in line with my goals to incentivize transit ridership and to balance the budget. So to give you some feedback, that would be my preference, to eliminate the increases on clipper. Mr. Chair, i guess im not seeing how we solved the deficit problem. The deficit problem is larger than any of those numbers. Right. Theres a much larger deficit number, but within the world of these transit fares, theres a proposed increase on the table of potential 7 million by eliminating the 50cent discount, and then, there are discounts potentially monthly. I think we can see a path through that works and [inaudible] one question that i wanted to ask myself and you reminded me about it, i understand theres a Lifeline Program that muni has had for sometime. Theres this new regional adult fare discount coming, and how much of that need will that satisfy . I dont know, but presumably, its directed at the same gap of people. This will try to get at folks who need to pay as you go more, who maybe dont ride muni at much that would justify a monthly pass, but we are hoping to address another group of our customers who arent able to pay that that full price. It really, for lowincome customers, that is the best the folks who are most in need need to be able to pay it in smaller increments, so we hope that that does make a difference. Can you share the increment in the discussion earlier between the gap and the bay area definitions. For the program, it is a regional program, and it is 200 of federal poverty, to be consistent with the programs and the eligibility for that is already in place for that. Being ookay. So thats not a gap that were not addressing, where i make too much to fall in the gap. Director rubke . I do have questions. So i have so i have one piece of direct feedback, and then, i have tons of question. So i so in general, i really have appreciated the fare indexing policy for transparency purposes and just for Financial Sustainability of our system, and at the same time, i obviously hear the concerns of the community and want to incentivize ridership, and i would be curious on that note to see if we have any data that reflects on when we provide free muni, do we see ridership grow . I know we do it on new years, but thats kind of an anomalous night, so i dont know how good that data would be. So that would be an interesting figure to see. Somebody one of the Public Commenters also commented on a study that was done, kind of correlating fare increases to rider decreases. Id be interested in data that discusses that. Obviously if we raise the fares according to our indexing policy, but at the same time, were getting to that same magic threshold where we start losing ridership in a significant way, the ridership would reflect that. Sorry and i missed my direct feedback, which is i like the idea of indexing the lifeline to the Social Security cola or the yeah, is that the number that you were referring to, kind of the alternative indexing for that . That, to me, addressing a small piece of one of the concerns were looking at, which is just that the cost of living is increasing in a different way than our indexing is reflecting for that particular product. So i have lots of other questions that i cant think of right now, but i think my director oh, yeah, one thing that director heinicke actually asked at the board workshop, which i think he asked whether deviating from our fare indexing policy would affect our financial readings with the credit agencies and our ability to borrow. So in answer to a couple of those questions, on the last one, i think the question was actually more about drawing down our fund balance is what i heard that would affect your financial rating. I think if we maintain our reserve policy and were not actually running a deficit in terms of ending the year unexpectedly below what we had budgeted for, but right now, the strength where the rating agencies have commented on our strength, its been on the actual reserve policy that we had, it hadnt been on the amount of cash or surplus that we had. However, if we were to change an indexing policy or to plan to be looking at it. A reminder that as were looking as we talked about at the board workshop, even our current level of service, its a strain to find the revenues that can match that, and at the same time, were looking to the muni group proposals, including our hiring, so any expenditure reductions to match a revenue reduction in addition, about 60 of our budget is labor. So the way we would solve is that we would have to slow down our hiring. It would be the most obvious place. One can also slow down capital programs. Thats another place where we have huge needs, but what often happens is if were going into a huge year that we can barely afford based on our services, we wont hold as a slow down in a situation where we absolutely have to balance, thats one of the first places that we would look, so that makes it very difficult to achieve. So thats the conundrum that we have. We will be talking more about the other Funding Sources at the next week, just didnt we love we sort of tried to do everything at the workshop when we had all day, and these tried to be supplementary. The other part which we will be bringing to you next time and we talked about at the workshop, it would be a 28 million gap if we were to fully implement it. So even that would be fully cover the needs that weve identified, which is why were looking at every potential revenue source. Director eaken. Thank you. Ill be quick. I do like to know that well have the Public Outreach and were going to have the public meetings. I think that public input is going to give us sort of a little more color and background in our discussions. I agree, we do need to see this with potential revenue options in front of us so we can kind of make our decisions based on that. Again, as i said at the workshop, revenue options over which we have control without needing state legislative relief or something else. I think its obvious we need to come up with another piece of clipper catnip because the discount on the fare was our previous clipper catnip, but it would be nice to have something else. I dont know if its in clipper 2. 0 to have the ability to award people a monthly pass when they spend a monthly pass on clipper. We all know having the funds at the first of the month to buy a monthly pass is out of reach of a lot of people. Ill ask diana to speak to that because shes been on the clipper task force. When weve looked at that, certainly people in the Lifeline Program can have special difficulty in reaching that monthly nut at the beginning. That would be something that we want to look to first. If we make it available to everyone, were doing more analysis, so we think that might be a substantial revenue reduction, actually, cost, where people would then just decide to do single fares who perhaps otherwise would have done given us our no, i do see that, so again, that brings us another problem to solve Going Forward, is how do we make that available to the people in need . In terms of that, i dont think thats available in the next round of clipper enhancement . [please stand by] were hearing those with the least means so while us favoring the i am dexing and future Board Members and for reasons that we go into greater detail about when we didnt have the policy i would favor switching to the ssi din exing. Its an appropriate index of circumstances and i think a lot of our lifeline customers are on fixed income or governmental aid so that makes a lot more sense to me the differential to revenue is relatively meaningless and i think what were hearing from our Community Members, is these fare increases will effect folks at the lower end the economic spectrum so lets do that to address that issue. On the discount for clipper card, im not there we should eliminate it yet. It provides an i am sen tiv inc. Part of the indexing policy is the promise of some certain see that you are fears will g faresn the measured manner and so how we compare to other metropolitan jurisdictions so i certainly god bless them and thank you for riding the system i just dont see any system to deviate especially when you consider exactly what you and director tom lynn just said. When we lose a piece of revenue it will effect service and some of the speakers here today said the best way to get people to ride is to provide good service and i agree with that. I dont just see this as a fare increase but a means to further service. So hopefully that direction is clear enough after this and ill take from your smile that due necessarily agree but you heard me and its good. Directors, anything else, we have two other agenda items. And diana excuse me. This boomer, please call item 13. Item 13 adopting the sfmta curb Management Strategy. Let me just pause and take a approval director. Would anyone like to take a brief break. We are going to take a fiveminute break. [laughter] please feel free to set up now and make sure your movie and your av works holistically in a thoughtful way. As mayor breed expressed in her letter of support the streets of San Francisco have changed over the past 10 years. Particularly the growing pressure on our citys curbs. In response to the need, the sfmta commission aid Curb Management Team two and a half years ago. This policy document, if adopted and hold today will provide the framework for staff to achieve not only better use of our precious and limited curb space but help the mta meet safety and equity goals. While it will require difficult and sensitive decisions, all recommendations will be abject to additional outreach and input from stakeholders and many would come back to approval. While this is taken two and a half years to develop this policy, we have proactively and successfully executed several curb management projects such as the dog patch Neighborhood Park and plan, the chase center park and plan and working at many more including the inner sunset plans. As we move forward we welcome your thoughts and want to understand your priorities as we probably these strategies out. With that said i would like to turn over the mic to my colleague. Before i do, id like to take a moment to thank them for their hard work ask diligence and acknowledge today is alexs last day here at the mta and want to wish him the best of luck as he begins law school after down time man off. You will be missed. Were going to tack team. Im alex and im a planner with the sustainable Streets Division parking and Curb Management Team. Im also in the parking and curb management street. Im curb access manager. Thank you. Do we get the slides up here. So, we always like to start 06 f talking about background. Were bringing you the curb Management Strategy now in 2020 but its really long overdue. Curb management has been an issue in San Francisco. Weve always been famous for double parking and we went back into the archives and found a picture of sutter street in the 1970s when we put citys first transitonly lane in place and of course we see cars double parking and its a similar site today. We even went farther back at director tom lynns suggestion and checked out the famous 1906 video going up Market Street before the earthquake. You can see even back then people were leaves their horse and carriages out there in the middle of the street so its something we never really dealt with. Curb management is really about balancing the needs of diffusers and making everybody has space they need and a lot of these modes that need space are important to our city. Trucks are incredibly important to bring deliveries to Small Businesses and keep our economy moving and paratransit has a particular need to access the curb to deliver people straight to the sidewalk safety and effectively and we never provided that safe in the city and taxis of course are an important transportation mode that we have taxi stands at certain destinations around our city but never had enough space to pull out of traffic. At the same time, this issue of course has come to the floor because of all the changes in our Transportation System and first and foremost is the emergency of Transportation Network Companies Like uber and lyft. Our colleagues at the san france county Transportation Authority have found that theyve contributed about 50 of the increase in congestion in the last several years and a lot of that is due to double parking and to these curb access issues. There are other modes as well like bike share that often needs Parking Spaces for their stations that you hear about often. Even on the bottomleft we spotted this mobile meditation station. There are a lot of diffusers that need access. We know what happens when we dont provide access to the curb. We get double parking and we get illegal loading that cause all these problems on our streets. On the left is a picture of valencia that will look familiar with truck double parked in the bike lane and bike veering into traffic. We found through an analysis of data that half of bikecar collisions on that street are related to double park organize loading. On the upper right, you will see corner store and residential areas of the city that doesnt have any yellow zone near it for loading. When the truck comes to deliver here to the stores and it ends up blocking the crosswalk making it impossible for anywhere with a wheelchair to get across the street and unsafe for anybody. On the bottom right, weve dedicated a lot of both financial and political resources so expanding network of transitonly lanes across the city and they get undermined and all this is its individual Little Things happening all over the city all the time that contributes together to a real problem and make it a lot harder for us to achieve our mode share goals and our larger city goals. So the way weve done things up until now is almost entirely reactivement we create a loading zone or shortterm parking zone or other regulations based on individual Property Owners or business ownerses requests and they have to pay a few and that means we have an imbalance of where different regulations are in place across the street and our doesnt reflect how people and our estimate based on looking at the numbers is around 90 of our curb space is dedicated to car parking with the remain 10 for everything else. If you took out the downtown core, it would be less. So we need this curb management strat good evening to really start rethinking how we allocate that space. So, given all of this, the curb management really is looking at the new approach for rethinking how we use the curb and how we better allocate the curb to reflect how people are getting around today and to better meet both our current and future transportation and delivery needs. Weve also designed the recommendations in the strategy to support our citys larger goals like vision zero, transit first, our Climate Action strategy, supporting equity and accessibility, supporting Small Businesses, and improving transparency with the public about how we make decisions in our projects. So the starting point for this strategy was to talk with staff both at our agency as well as our sister agencies whose work touches the curb to really better understand the challenges and needs they see and the gaps with our existing policies and processes. We also did extensive Data Collection to better understand how the physical design of our street scape and curbs effects behavior because weve seen the delivery truck parked next to an empty zone and wondered why its not using it. We shared these strategies in the data with our stakeholders to get feedback and based on what we heard we refined them further. We did extensive outreach, we met with both internal staff, other city staff, mer much apartment associations, disabilities and senior organizations, delivery and Transportation Companies and advocacy organizations. So, the curb Management Strategy is comprised of three elements. The first is the curb hierarchy which prioritizes curb functions across different parts of the city and also considers how we can improve the productivity of the club and provide access for people and goods. The second is a set of recommended strategies comprised of tools, policies, legislative changes and process improvements and lastly we have a set of Design Guidelines which are to provide guidance an the design and placement of loading zones and other color curbs to maximize their utility and reduce double parking. So the starting point for creating the curb hierarchy was to think about who uses the curb and what purpose does the curb serve. So you will see weve developed five key curb functions. The first function is access for people. This is our most active space thats really moving people to and from the curb. This includes money bus stops, taxi stands, bike share, paratransit and passenger loading. The second key curb function is access for goods. And this is face forward deliveries of different types and size the traditional deliveries weve seen as well as some of these new delivery models that have come on to the scene such as one hour on demand deliveries and currier network food services. We have public space and services and this is space thats designed for use by the public. So this could be Something Like a park let or the mobile Meditation Center that alex showed a photo of earlier. Then we have storage for vehicles. This is what is encompassing 90 of our curb at this time and its traditional metered and unmetered parking and designated parking for users such as city hall and lastly we have movement and this is when we use the curb lane for the through movement of either vehicles, through a peak tow away wayne or a bike line such that its not available for parking and loading by other users. So the next step in creating the hierarchy was to think about where we are in the city effect how people use the curb and who is trying to get to the curb. So we developed six land use types. Starting with the top left, we have low density residential and these are our Single Family neighborhoods like the outer sunset, Outer Richmond where theres little commercial activity. We have mid to high density and these are neighborhoods that have special building and more locally serving retails such as a dryclean error coffeer or co. You see a mix of Small Businesses and theyre for people in the city or people examining to the city. It could be a valencia, hayes, Something Like that. Then we have downtown which is our most active and dense part of the city. And then we have major attractors which are unique lapped uselanduses and seasonale serving unique user populations. And then lastly, we have industrial p. D. R. So taking how the curb is used and how that changes across the city, weve created our curb hierarchy prioritization. You will see across the different land use types were prioritizing movement and the idea is if we have an agency have made the decision to use the curb area for a transit lane or a bike lane its not available for parking and loading and wil well support tt by looking at the curb space in the surrounding area. Next we want to prioritize the functions that improve efficiency of the curb and can move the most people to and from the curb so you will see weve prioritized for access for people across all land use types other than industrial p. D. R. Where theres just less activity. Then we want to thank about what are the needs of our commercial areas and you will see a neighborhood commercial in downtown were now prioritizing access for goods over access for vehicles. Because we want to ensure that businesses can get the goods that they need. However, in residential areas, where theres not a lot of the idea here is this is a framework that is supplied to our projects and makes transparent to the public how were allocating curb space. It isnt that anyone is excluded but we need to think about those high priority needs first and work through this list as we allocate space along the curb and so really, how this will play out will look very different depending on where you are. For example, in the neighborhood commercial category, we did two projects. We did inner sunset and valencia and even though they fall in the same typology, how the curb is allocate soldier different because the needs of those areas are different. We did extensive Data Collection, we worked with merchants and resident groups and in valencia theres a lot of need for passenger loading. A lot of people need to get dropped off in a space space. In the inner sunset that wasnt a lot of passenger activity so we focus more on the needs of businesses through commercial loading and shortterm green parking zones. We found in inner sunset, the actual parking wep went down a percent because we werent effecting the majority of the spaces we were making changes in the core to serve those businesses. So under the strategy we have six objectives. I know its late so were going to run through the strategies quickly but were happy to take questions or speak more to very specific ones if you have an interest a lo at the end. The under pinning of the curb Management Strategy is thinking about the curb in a holistic way and moving away from this system we relied on. By more proactive lehamn aging the curb we can meet the needs of different groups and in reality, every project that we do is a curb management project and we need to think about how we use the curb to better support the success of our transit and bike and street scape projects. As we know, theres been increased demand on the curb for loading. We havent met both our existing loading needs as we can see from the amount of double parking out there as well as the growing loading needs that we see and this is really focuses on the strategies thafor example, bettr regulations to the loading needs that were seen temporarily and physically, for example, extending loading into the evenings where were seeing deliveries happening and maybe we need short term parking in the evening to serve restaurants who are getting people coming to pick up food deliveries which we werent seeing before. Theres an opportunity to improve the functionality of our yellow and grown zones. A couple things that were considering are looking at creating a parcel permit for companies doing parcel deliveries and moving exemption from vehicles to use yellow zones without paying the meter and for green zones, one thing that were looking at is reducing or it applies to those using the grown zones with disabled parking plaque addresst instead, looking at placing a onehour limit on those to ensure those zones are actually available for those people who. So the third strategy focuses on compliance. And we know enforcement alone is not enough to solve our problems and so the objective here is really to think about two sides. How can we use enforcement better to really address those infractions that effect safety and accessibility such as parking on the sidewalks or double parking . As well as compliance from the public. Im thinking about how we can make our signs and regulations easier to understand for the user so that they can comply with what is on the street. We see you take three minutes to read to understand what is going on. Trying to approach it from both sides instead of relying on enforcement which is not possible. We have our different data sources and an important recommendation here is to create that curb inventory that we can keep uptodate and we can improve our internal processes and also be able to communicate that out to the public in the form of things like geo fencing which is where we ask uber and lyft to only use our legal curb space. I just mentioned, they and other new users and to be able to ka dom them and put in these loading zones and things like that that means in terms of reducing our parking meter revenue and we want to make sure that these Different Services are paying their fair share. We dont know what it looks like yet and we love to be able toll automatically ping people everyday they pull over the curb but its not particula technicay feasibility and its other pricing methods and how it can be used is the primary idea here and also to look at how at state legislation to actually bring some Regulatory Authority over uber and lyft down to the local level, particularly in terms of their impacts on our streets. And equity and accessibility. The first recommendation here is to incorporate accessibility and curb management and thinking about white zones as an accessibility tool. In the past, weve mostly just used blue zones and said ok, well, we accommodated accessibility needs but those might be serving all one person one day and white zone is all the different paratransit users and taxi users and were also looking at trying to increase the use of paratransit only zones like in hospitals and things like that. And finally, the last recommendation here is concerning muni flag stops which is where the bus stops in the travel lane next to parked cars. We dont have any particular policies in place right now. Guiding when we use those so the bus can pull over and make sure that they can safely get to the curb and weve been working with our Transit Division and it will Carry Forward with them and it will be to create a policy for when we use these. The last part is the Design Guidelines. Weve been doing a Data Collection part of looking at how long the loading zones need to be and where should they be placed to make sure people are pulling to the curb and that we have enough space and a big part of that is Data Collection standards for every project moving forward to make sure that each project is serving the particular needs of its community and there is also major accessibility component in this of making sure that when we do, even through that requestbased process, get a request for a white zone or some other loading zone that when possible we make sure its accessibility in location with the curb ramp or clear sidewalk. So with that, we are happy to take questions. Thank you. Very good. Ms. Boomer, do we have Public Comment. How many cards . Throw cards. Michael and cat carter and last is kelly. Lets hear from our fellow citizens first. Thats me. Welcome. Thank you for sitting threw this. The floor is yours. Good morning, directors and bless you for your patients and perseverance. I am Michael Pappas and i come before you today to address recommendation and objective two of the curb Management Study that appears on page 38 of the report before you. The recommendation that proposes to extend parking meter hours into the evening and sunday to help reduce double parking and circling. Ive come neither to support nor to oppose the proposal. But rather to respectfully request a voice at the table as this measure is being deliberated and to offer the resources of our council which counts as its coi constituent te 800 religious communities of faith in our city. Many of whom would be potentially impacted by your final decisions. In contrast to the measure taken eight years ago, to initiate sunday metered parker which emerged as a budget line item without prior knowledge or input from our sector, were grateful to be engage in these conversation and their stages want to help to identify the relationship of those sanctuary that would be most impacted so their voices could be heard. But also to utilize our comprehensive data base to help collect information that will help you to make the informed decision and avail our vast Communications Network to assist in advancing clear messaging that would help mitigate disruption to the worship life of those particular communities of faith. Having deep rooted presence in our city, many for over a century, our churches, mosques, synagogues and temples seek to be Good Neighbors as you chart a course to address the challenge of congestion on our transit grid. We seek to collaborate in good faith to come to a resolution that will be beneficial to all san franciscans and those visiting our city. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Clerk cat carter, kelly and robert and herbert. Good afternoon, again. Cat carter with San Francisco transit riders. Were very excited that sfmta is adopting this curb strategy. I wish i had had it 10 years ago when i was managing a Small Business in town. Curbs are of course the interface between moving people and goods and access to homes and businesses. Car storage is the least efficient use of the space and it gets the most space. With curb management done right we hope to see a bunch of benefits for transit riders, reduced double parking will reduce meeting delays and make streets safer. Right pricing parking will provide more revenue rather than raising fares and continue circulation so people can access businesses. We also look forward very eagerly to transforming accessible flag stops where cars can park at bus stops. With these improvements they can be accessible and reliable and useful getting people where they need to go. We can increase ridership and save money that were currently looking to budget to combat congestion and delays by making it efficient. I do also think that programs like the mission he had red lanes were very contested because there wasnt a comprehensive curb Management Strategy in place to go along with that project at the time. Again, were excited to see this program and thank you all staff for your work. Very good, next speaker, please. Kelly, howard and then herbert. Good afternoon, my name is kelly and im a traps policy manager at the Bay Area Council. First today i just wanted to thank the sfmta staff to be their hard work and for the collaborative process in working together with the Bay Area Council. Were very appreciative of this because for many of our members having adequate curb space for their operations is an essential component of their business and additionally achieving primary Bay Area Council goal of reducing Traffic Congestion is inter dependent with adequate curb allocation in the city. We believe the curb Management Strategy presented today and outlined in the policy document before you is the first step in the right direction of updating our citys outdated curb allocations. As such, the Bay Area Council supports the boards adoption of this strategy and encourages sfmta to place a high priority and developing the proposal for implementation of these strategies and so that the needed changes outlined in todays presentation can be actualized. And three, request the Bay Area Council continue to be involved in the policy documents outlined stakeholder process for the proposals developed for implementation of these strategies. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Good afternoon. Just a few more points. One, to direct the board and the state is not a transitfirst agency so they limit the price you can charge for a annual priority. You cant charge anymore than costs. It would be nice if the state were more transit oriented. They forget to mention bus. Its a nice way to make it possible for the bus to stop in traffic and not be recommended y traffic. The other use for curbs is daylighting for Pedestrian Safety and nice lane and many corners is very useful. Otherwise its a great project and you have to really accommodate the order, the priorities of first accommodating trucks and its very important. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Mr. Winier. The problem i fee is that sfmta is expropriating Parking Spaces which is basically public property so you have a city agency expropriating Parking Spaces. And the park space is basically belong to the public. They should not belong to a Public Agency. Now, what is happening is there are less Parking Spaces in the city right now. I believe that this contributes to double parking. The less spaces there are available the more double parking you are going to have. The more circling around the block you are going to have looking for a parking space. And theres more congestion right now, i realize uber and lyft has contributed to this. I realize theres an increase volume of traffic coming in and out of the city. But at the same time, when you dont have the availability of Parking Spaces, you have more cars desperately looking for them. Now, in the history of this city, there is always been congested streets. Poll being streepolk street is f this. This existed half a century ago. I really believe that removing these Parking Spaces and the availability of the public is going to contribute to the problem which will continue to increase, continue to be addressed by this board which will continue to make the wrong decision which will make it a congested policy and a congested exist ant for motorists. Motorists are the step children of Public Transportation. You use them for parking fees and the rest of it you really dont like them. And you want to eliminate them in your deepest dreams. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on item 13 . All right. Seeing none, directors, any questions or comments . No . I just have one comment on the maps. I love the map that you did onel allocation of space across the city of the curb space. I would love to see that same map for allocation of street space across the city as we contemplate how to get to our 80 sustainable mode share goal 2030. And just to ask, do you feel that youve done everything through this strategy you can towards that goal of 80 sustainable mode share by 2030 . Yeah. I think thats been a key goal of this is to basically do everything that we can at the curbside to support all these wider city goals. So the idea behind this strategy is really not to be a stand alone document but to be applying those goals of 80 sustainable load share and prioritizing transit first to our curb space. When were able to implement all the recommendations of this strategy well be doing we can always do better. But doing everything we can to support that. Thank you, a comment and a question. The comment is to thank the mayor for the letter she sent to us today on this item. And as i read it, sort of volunteering for duty to lead us into the battle of congestion pricing. Jeff and i have talked about this subject for many years. Ill speak for my mind that that strategy is the most efficient way of allocating scarce roadway space. The key question is it in a equitable way of doing so and we need Political Leadership and i thank the mayor for providing it. Secondly, your hierarchy of 10 i was surprised that movement was at bottom. I sort of think were in the movement business. You had right above it storing cars. I dont know why you wouldnt flip those and have the storage be the last. So i think that in the first graphic its the one before that one. So this is really just the definition of the curb functions. I can see how it appears that thats a little priority i saw the word hierarchy. Yeah. Its what it means to me. So we can certainly address that. As you can see, we have put it first across all the different land use types. [please stand by] a wait fee for their vehicle and then they can use yellow zones for commercial loading, you know, with what are traditionally passenger vehicles. And then the other way of accommodating this is to use green zones a lot more, for shortterm parking. And to start thinking of those as more like another kind of loading zone rather than shortterm parking zone. Is what we envision it will be do something and i dont know im sure that its not inexpensive. And for all of the delivery expenses, the way they treat them, they wouldnt pay for a commercial place. You wonder how we are going to treat them . Green zones will be the primary tool to achieve that and, you know, a big part of that though is that recommendation that was mentioned to put a limit on parking for people with placards in those zones, to make sure they are actually available. But then extending them beyond the traditional metered hours which historically weve only had green zones, monday through saturday, which is not accommodating the needs of a lot of these businesses. So thats the primary way of addressing that. And i know that were looking at having maybe pickup zones for t. M. Z. S or taxis and will we see more of that in the next iteration of what this policy looks like . Definitely. I think thats when we get into the Design Guidelines that we mentioned that those will provide guidance to project managers to basically say, hey, heres the data i used to collect to figure out how much passenger loading space i need for this project and where the best locations are to put those passenger loading zones. Like francesca mentioned thats very different depending where you are in the city. And in somerset putting in a couple passenger loading zones for a couple of the demands and in hayes valley you might need a lot more space. But making sure that were rightsizing that with what is happening out there on the street, rather than just a particular business applies and pays for a zone. And i would add that while we dont have local control over requiring these companies to geofence, we have seen significant progress to geofence to these location whens we provide space for them. Have i read anything about reservations . I know that theres Companies Testing that. And restaurants have the same problem that we have with parking and Everyone Wants to use certain hours and obviously they take reservations and they cant all eat at that later. And sometimes theres incentive to provide to eat at different times. Ever thought about looking at Something Like that, particularly during the peak times, when we know that Everyone Wants access . I think that theres Something Interesting in looking at how you might do that. I know its not easy for a big truck with a lot of deliveries to it to get there at a certain time. But for some of these other personal deliveries or whatever, theres more flexibility . Yeah, i mean, we are concerned about the enforceability of any kind of reservation system, seeing what happened out there on our streets today. And we think i mean, it could be really hard to make sure whoever had that reservation from 6 00 to 6 15 is the only one using it during that time. But i think in terms of timing deliveries, its something that i think that weve heard interest from local emergency associations on and maybe especially in certain corridors, something that can work with those local merchants. But it can be hard to time these things perfectly and to keep it all enforceable. So our primary method of trying to address that is to right size the amount of space that were providing. I mean, obviously, the thing that you see are people are blocking and i look at Mission Street and theres only at some point theres only the transit, only lane and people are parking or doing other things that are at the curb that are stopping the entire bus during peak hours. And if you could somehow, you know, prevent that during the peak times when people are waiting for the bus for a long time to pass through, that might be interesting. We have explored offhours, peak deliveries, especially in the downtown area. And so i think that is something that we want to continue working with the private sector on. And it really depends on the type of delivery model. We know that large Companies Like walgreens and things can control their deliveries and such can work with their vendors to set the time at which they come. Whereas smaller businesses dont always have that oversight and when their deliveries will show up. What we find is that availabilitybased pricing is the most important tool that we have for making sure that not only can you find a parking space, but theres also space for deliveries. And then similarly, implementing this policy around rightsizing the amount of loading, you know, both white and green and yellow zones. That is what really helps then to take care of the double parking problem for delivery. Thank you. I just wanted to thank you both, and good luck in the future endeavors. And this impact this policy is going to have far more impact than i think that we even realize right now. Its really going to be the next step in moving it forward. And thank you in particular for 5. 3 which is going to develop procedures to determine if the driveway is abandoned, which is is going to be interesting. So i will move to approve and thank you again for the presentation. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, we have a second and i will give you two bits of feedback. Some directly on point, some sort of following up on the mayors direction. Number one, i had a similar reaction to heminger that movement is something that we could prioritize with the curb space. For example, during peak travel times, pine, bush, still, oak, and oak was converted pretty well, but think about still and oak. And they can slow down that major artery. And one wonders if especially during the peak times that eliminating all parking on those streets and having those really to be thoroughfares would be a good way to go. Yes, it increases movement, including for any transit vehicles on there, but even increasing private transit has a good effect because, a, those folks are moving faster. B, it may direct more traffic on to those streets and making streets around it safer and less congested. So i do think that is something that we really need to look at, particularly for peak time commuting. Whether it makes good sense to use curb space to have through put on our major arteries. On the topic of the mayors letter, its probably time to study congestion pricing. We are way past time to put in sunday and evening meters in Business Districts that want them. We are way past that. The reaction from the business community, the proposal of that we want this so that the traffic circulates and our customers can park, really makes the case pretty clearly. This is something that we should move on. Its been delayed for political reasons or ineshia o inertia orr you want to call it for far too long. This is something that we should do and do really soon. It wont solve our revenue problems and i look at this as a way to increase circulations and help our Small Businesses and encourage people or discourage people from storing their cars on our public streets. There will be a bit of a revenue effect too, but, please, i mean we now have the political cover, maybe we didnt in the previous administrations and lets use that and implement it. So with that we have a motion and a second on this. All in favor please say aye. All opposed . Okay, that passes. Congratulations. Where are you headed to law school . Dont actually know yet. But youre applying to law school. We will hear back. Not too late to change your mind. Dont listen to steve it is a wonderful profession. Okay, very good. Good luck, thank you both. Next item. Clerk authorizing the city traffic engineer to install tow zones and lengthen the bus zones on corridors and hotspot segments based on the determination of the public opinions. And this necessitates including but not eliminating the Traffic Congestion and public safety. Mr. Kennedy, as im sure that youre aware, you are item 14 at 10 minutes to 5 00. So i will take as long as i can for this item. Shawn kennedy, transit planning manager. And a sixmonth update, and, two, a muni quick build proposal they want to talk to you all about. So there are as you know a lot of factors that go into delivering quality Transit Service. And one of the most obvious is Traffic Congestion and this chart attempts to illustrate that. Theres really two a double hit with Traffic Congestion, right. So the idea rider has a longer trip which affects their future travel choices and then on the other side, on the supply side, we have to stick more resources into providing basically the same amount of service. The 10minute headway, as you see on the chart and as it gets longer and honger to make that trip, we have to put more buses and operators to give the same amount of service. So its really a double whammy and we cannot spend that money on new connections or more frequent service. So we think that weve found a solution working with this amazing board on the last five plus years in delivering munc mi project. And we have been doing transit only lanes and new buses and Rapid Network that has really become developed and is developing even more as we speak. Today then focusing on equity neighborhoods and communities of concern and areas that we need to provide even Better Service than we do today. And have historically. These numbers i know that all have seen these numbers or many of these numbers in this venue as well as in other locations. But i think that they are worth repeating. In a time when we have noticed sustainable trips are decreasing in the city, transitships are decreasing both in the city and the region and in the country in general, we have kind of found the formula no real surprise, but you put in investments you get increased ridership. So working with you all to get these improvements have been fantastic and we dont want to stop here. This is a map of the originally identified, t. E. P. System, a transit priority corridors. We have now through the good work of this of this body have legistated 68 miles of transit priority and safety improvements and built 44 of those miles and construction is happening every day, continuing every day, and those miles are continuing to go upward. And looking back in the last six to nine months it gives a good look at the type of muni 4 projects that are being done, from the inner sunset on the rail side, to the 27 bryant where it was basically came out of equity strategy exercise earlier, several years ago, to improve travel time to the tenderloin. To basically to completing the Rapid Network for the 9r with the recent completion of the San Bernardino project. And we do things to make improvements. The third street corridor where we had a transit lane with soma wasnt working where it was at and we moved it over a lane and still arent done. We have noticed over the last several months as we have continued to follow that project that theres improvements that we need or would like to make on townsend street to help to make that transition even smoother. So that will be coming before this board in the next month or so. And then the pilot is another example of a location where we did several majors through both paint and signage and have been studying the effects of that project the last several months and well be coming to this board in the next month or so with both a review of what kind of progress we made as well as recommendations for next steps. And construction underway theres some major corridors, obviously, that are currently in construction. One that isnt yet but i want to point out is 19th avenue, caltrans is going to be repaving the entire crosssection there, and the inn tire segmen the enth avenue. And theres additional ones when that program is it completed in the next several years and 40 pedestrian. And so really trying to increase and improve the pedestrian environment along that corridor. And looking ahead six months, we plan to be coming before you for a number of items. On the capital side, an important one is the completion of 5 fulton corridor. And right now between sixth and 25th is the segment that we have not done elements on yet. We plan to do that work within the next six months and also to help to improve Pedestrian Access to the park there. And on the service side, some really exciting things like the extending of the 30 stockton into the persidio which will offer more connections to parks around the city. Really exciting proposal. And then we within the next month well be back to talk as part of the billio budget proceo talk through Service Increases within the budget process and all of those are coming out of the equity strategy process. Two really important ones, a new connection from the bayview into downtown. As well as improvements on the 29, sunset, and well talk about where we develop those and where we go from there in the next several months. And taking a longer look over the next two years, we have a pretty ambitious portfolio. We are hoping to do muni for projects on the Mission Corridor in downtown and really as a way to help mitigate some of the construction issues that transit will be facing related over the Market Street. Anand then a little bit bigger vision, visioning aspect of working on improving the subway. So theres obviously many things that are going into improving the subway but we think that another way that we can help is by modifying how that Service Access to the subway and where and when lines enter the subway or do not enter the subway. So with that veiled or not veiled discussion, and as we move forward and we keep going on to the next thing, these projects are really going to become hopefully were kind of holistic as we look to the future. The previous muni forward program, the goal was to improve transit time by 10 to 15 on our major corridors. We did that and got amazing results. And now were kind of buoyed by that success and we want to push a little further. And we are now really trying to aim toward almost surface subway type improvements where both the bus and the service rail are only stopping to pick up and to let passengers off. And so, you know, within that theres a lot of tradeoffs and i dont mean to brush over that, but thats a goal that were going to be trying to push as we bring you these future projects coming up. Another thing that were looking at besides kind of that bigger holistic push is looking at the other side of the scale, which is small intersection level pinch point improvements that we can kind of make incision improvements to the system to improve certain lines. Related to that we did a quick study and looked at where were our 10 biggest pinch points in the system. This is looking from stop to stop, where is our slowest segments. And many of these segments were going three miles an hour, three and a half miles an hour. So real issues, real problems. And one of the cool things about this is when we did the crosswalk between these locations and the muni forward corridors theres really almost zero overlap. These are all kind of not as frequent lines. You know, lines that maybe could use some love and, unfortunately, because of how we resource things, well get love for quite a while. So we think that while pairing this with our muni forward corridors we have a holistic Reliability Program going. And in order to address these programs, we have been asked both the Muni Working Group made a recommendation and the mayor has asked separately that we develop a Quick Build Program for transit, a muni quick program. Modeled after the very impressive vision zero Quick Build Program. And so we are proposing as a way to address these top 10 locations a Quick Build Program that can really focus on getting improvements on the street right away. And improving some of these lines. As you know, of course, the benefits of quick build have already been proven time and again by vision build projects. And we would like to partake in some of those benefits as well. The elements that were proposing to use, these elements on the slide have basically already been approved by this body to use as part of a quickbuild program. I just wanted to make it aware that make you all aware that i was hoping to use this for muni projects as well. I just wanted to be upfront about that. But there are two things that specifically that were asking as part of as part of this presentation. One is that we or you designate the city traffic engineer to allow towaway zones. And the second is muni bus zones specifically. Right now flag stops are something that we can handle outside of this process, but a changing of the zone length or moving the zone from one side of the street to the other side of the street is not something that we can do without coming to this board for prior approval. So thats two actions that were asking this group to make. And, of course, as i said, modeled after the vision zero process so accountable and transparent. And, of course, there will be full outreach efforts around any of the improvements as well as a public hearing. And well be returning to the board on a yearly basis to both report what weve done and the results that were seeing as well as the layout of the next steps of where were looking to next. So speaking of where were looking you know, we are planning over the next six to nine months to really focus on the top 10 locations and kind of if those worked in first and over the next several years we noted that the major corridors that we would also potentially use quick build improvements on. Anything outside of these quarters well come back to you before we would do a quick build on that. But i would assume that would be as part of the yearly update that we talked about, where we might go next and where we might move to. You know, the shops definitely have a lot of work cut out for them right now. And so we think that focusing on the top 10 locations is kind of the right way to go in the nearterm and then we can roll it out to a larger audience as we move along. So next steps were asking for approval today for those two elements that i mentioned previously. And then your continued amazing support as we move forward on muni forward. Very good, thank you, shawn. Any Public Comment . Followed by cat carter and then the last speaker Christopher Peterson. Good afternoon, board of directors. I, obviously, came here to speak in support of you approving the program. Its a logical next step after the Street Safety quick program. And its good that the sfmta staff is doing this. And i would strongly urge youre dell grating authority and im urging staff and not the board at this point to look into using this program to establish new lanes. Its a thing that we need a lot of you and theres a lot of opportunities in streets that are just screaming for one. Fulton and lincoln are good examples of places where a bus lane is sorely needed and theres space for one. And Mission Street downtown, i saw it mentioned, where the bus lane is too narrow for the bus to fit in it. And yet we still have parking on the street for some reason. Those are things that you can fix with paint, so lets do it. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Cat corridor and Christopher Peterson and then herbert wanier. Good afternoon, again, cat carter with San Francisco transit riders. Shawn was too fast so i didnt get all of my comments prepared. But basically were in strong support of the quick build project and the whole program. We have seen the success of how its worked with pedestrian and Bicycle Safety projects to be able to roll things out a lot quicker and not leave riders behind waiting for years for outreach to happen for reasonable and improved treatments that we know that will work. Im very excited to work with the staff on identifying these hotspots on the muni forward projects that are still to come. We also know that as these are proven treatments that we know that work, and speeding up muni, it getting more reliable and faster and it can address the congestion issues. We are still spending money to catch up with congestion and these are proven treatments that can get muni out of congestion and get it working, thank you. Mr. Peterson. Thank you very much, Christopher Peterson. I strongly support this quick build proposal. Its been frustrating for years and years and years to see how many years and years and years to implement seemingly simple transit improvements. So i enthusiastically urge you to approve this proposal and i agree with the earlier comments about looking at ways to expand this to things such as red lanes and other kinds of transit improvements to quickly improve muni service. Thank you. Last speaker. Herbert wiener. I can certainly appreciate the rapid speech of shawn in light of the hour. I only wish that muni buses were as fast. Anyway, i question the proposals because i wonder what the effect is going to be on traffic. Will it result in more congestion . Will it result in more accessibility to parking . You really have to have public input. And when you do got the public input, please respect it, please act on it. There have been too many proposals by this agency. They go through the people getting input, you know, pretend to listen and then they do whatever they please. And this is going to have a negative blowback. This agency is eventually going to reap the seeds it sowed and it will be under attack. And dont be a bit surprised if the board at one point is going to be asked to resign immediately. You have to get public input. Not only mine, but that of the community, and really listen to it. So far this has not happened and thats why muni is in such bad shape right now. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any further Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment on this item is closed. Is there directors with any questions or comments for mr. Kennedy . Move to approve. Well done. Second. Can i ask just one question . You cant call him brilliant because three of those my wife would not agree with that. And the earlier comment about how we all wish that the t third would move faster through the intersections and be more competitive with other modes of transit. I see signal changes i think on your list yes. And quick build elements that i dont believe that i see the t third anywhere in this presentation so i just wonder is that something that youre contemplating . Its very much something that were contemplating. You know, i was trying to be as transparent as possible with that list of elements. We can make transit signal changes without that needing to be as part of the Quick Build Program specifically. So we are looking at having a larger project along the t third line that looks at potentially term restrictions and additional term restrictions and things like that. But that will be for a future project. Not necessarily a quick build project. Any further questions . Comments . We have a motion and a second. All those in favor please say aye. Any opposed . Okay. Thank you, shawn. And next item, were going to clear the room, correct . Clerk mr. Chair, at this point you are scheduled to go into closed sessiono its a discussion and vote to invoke the attorneyclient privilege and conduct a closed session. Any oppo mr. Chair, sfgtv is back with us. Item 16, announcement of closed session. The m. T. A. Board, directors met in closed session to discuss cases with the city attorney. The board of directors voted unanimously to settle the dwyer and mizito cases. Directors, it would be appropriate for a motion at this point to disclose or not disclose the information. So moved. Second. All right. There is a motion not to disclose. All in favor . Okay. We need to go back and call 18 and 19. [gavel] [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comment on items 18 or 19 . Mr. Chair, there is no Public Comment. Okay. Seeing no one coming forward, Public Comment is closed. I understand we have an amendment. Director hemminger . Thank you, mr. Chair. Id like to move that we amend the item by an estimated amount in our meeting on march 17, which happens to be st. Patricks day. Okay. I would proposed that be added as an amendment to item 19, i think would probably be the appropriate item. And as he stated is, is that fair enough to put that in our resolution . Okay. So do you have that, miss boomer . Yes. So it there would be, then, a vote on a motion to amend and that would be to receive a report on the estimated cost to complete the project by march 17. Motion to amend. Okay. Well, he did it, so thats a second. All those in favor, please say aye. Anyone opposed . Okay. Thank you, director hemminger. Now with the amend, ill entertain a motion on the two items. Motion to approve both. All those in favor on both, say aye. Opposed . With that, i believe we come to the end of our meeting. Yes, sir. Theres no further matters. Before we adjourn, i just want to say thank you for this once in a lifetime project. Since all of you had to suffer through todays meeting, well say thank you to you, as well. The new friday farmer his market is in the u. N. Plaza. It features the best of San Francisco. Grab fresh foods and veggies from the heart of the farmers market. Shop from marker local vendors. Engage in free diy craft sessions and grab lunch representing cuisine from around the world. [ ] we offer 60 varieties of organic fruit and 30 varieties of conventional. One of our best sellers so sellers is our manager in. It is super sweet. We sell 600 pounds a week. One of the things they like about the market as i get to see my regulars on a weekly basis. I get to meet their families and kids and it is really good to be here. San francisco won my heart. One of our vegetables that is very popular is kale. A lot of people go for dino kale our mission is to make sure we have access for everybody to get organic foods, no matter your financial status. We make greeting cards, invitations, enamel pins, and we do workshops. I am participating in this market because it is a great opportunity for local makers to sell to a really Diverse Community of people in San Francisco. They partnered with the market here and invited us to come out and reach out to the public. We are going to do a full event of workshops where you get to arrange your own bouquet. We will teach you all the tricks and techniques and you will be able to take home a bouquet of your own. You. [ ] we really are wanting to bring opportunities to the community to introduce these local makers to a larger audience. This is my own pakistani recipe. It goes with rice, chicken, lamb we have a very delicious drink. We have a lots of variety of foods. [ ] we do lots of different curries. We do three different types of wontons. Spring rolls, too. Thats right. It is really great they are bringing out local artists from around the city to participate and really help us making our business more successful. Cla so today, we have come together for a historic day. Today, we gather to honor 50 years of pride. Yes, 50 years. [applause] this anniversary was hard fought from the days of the Freedom Freedom parade to compton cafeteria riots, to all the work across this country that we continue to do for freedom. And if we look, our theme for this years pride is future of hope. And if we look to the next 50 years, we have a lot to be hopeful for. We look at our past and marriage equality, to the first day at city hall when the first couple was married. We recognize lesbian and lgbtq folks across the city. We remember the work that we have to do across the country as trans kids are being refused access to bathrooms in our schools. We remember the families that standup for them, and we remember the work that we still have to do because this generation is hopeful. This generation will continue to be hopeful, and theres so many reasons why we have this hope. Some of that comes from our elected officials, some of that comes from our own journeys, but we know we cannot do this work without the leadership in our city, and i am so proud to work for a leader in this amazing city whos not only spear headed the work of so many of us and supported so much of lgbt quality here in San Francisco but also is continuing that effort forward, our mayor, mayor london breed. [applause] the hon. London breed first of all, thank you, claire. Thank you to the freedom ban of frisk. Thank you to s. F. Pride and supervisor mandelman and so many elected leaders and Department Heads here in San Francisco to celebrate the beginning of pride in San Francisco, 50 years of what i think has been an amazing accomplishment, so thank you to the Board Members, to the president , caroline. Thank you to our new executive director. Like, so many great things are happening in this city and so many great things are happening with pride. And i know i get really excited, because even though its february and we are not expected to have a number of activities, especially the parade, until june, its going to be so exciting that we have to announce it now. We have to get everybody excited about whats to come because there is nothing that we do better than celebrate in San Francisco. We celebrate our history, we celebrate our diversity, we celebrate what makes San Francisco so unique. And we know that this in this city was the epic center of what has occurred that has led to so much to support our Lgbt Community, and im really proud to be in a position as mayor to help support and carry on some of the many policies that we know are necessary to continue to make sure that there is hope for future generations. In fact, trans home s. F. Has been an amazing accomplishment in this city, and thank you, tony newman, for our leadership. Weve got one of our first buildings, and theres lots more to come, along with Wraparound Services for our trans seniors. [applause] the hon. London breed and in San Francisco, we do celebrate a new record low of new h. I. V. Infections, less than 200 last year. Thank you, dr. Brent colfax, for your leadership in the department of health. We know we will continue to make those investments that well get to zero. We know that we did the count around homeless youth. About 50 of the youth that are homeless in this city identify as lgbt, and we want to make sure that we help the next generation of young people growing up in this community so that they have hope. So many great things but also so much more work to do. And i am really confident in the leadership of this city to really help us move forward on so many different levels. As we think about just the attacks that we have been under. I mean, we just had a visit from the other number 45 here this weekend, and i cant help but think about not only our city being under attack, but also our Lgbt Community, where we continue to fight for things that we shouldnt have to at this point. You know, when i think about just what were celebrating in the month of february, black History Month. Black history is American History. Were celebrating lunar new year. Chinese American History is American History. Lgbt history is American History. We are all a part of the fabric of what makes our city and our country so great. So we will not be silenced. We will continue to lift our voices and celebrate what makes us so great, what makes us so unique. And during the month of pride, we will just do it with that much more flair. So thank you all so much for being here. Heres to 50 more incredible years for future generations to come. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you, mayor breed. And one other note im just so proud of, thanks to the mayors leadership, weve invested over 1 million in the next year to seniors. So thank you to the department of aging and adult services, and thank you to all of those in our city who made sure that we were brought to this 50 years and continue to be brought to the right place. So now, a leader that we know will continue to bring us forward in the next 50 years, our new director of pride, fred lopez. [applause] hi. Good morning, everybody. How are you . Excited . S. F. Pride, sfpride50. Before anything else, i just want to convey our sincerest gratitude to the mayor, to supervisor mandelman and all these elected officials today for coming out today to start the celebration right. Every City Department that is present, we want to thank you for your unwavering support for San Franciscos most iconic went. It may cost millions of dollars to produce, but it wouldnt happen without the amazing work of our departments, employees, and volunteers. [applause] as claire said, the theme for San Francisco pride is a generation of hope, and it was originally suggested by pride member larry nelson. That spirit of hope will become visible at the beginning of june when the rainbow flags go up along Market Street, much of Market Street now newly car free. On saturday, june 37, civic center will once again become a site of celebration. All weekend, with crowds in the tens of thousands were expecting. Its going to be a big year, and were excited for it. Then, as clair has mentioned, for many of us, the center piece of pride, the parade, on june 28. 50,000 marchers are expected to be in the parade, all cheered on by more than 100,000 spectators its going to be quite a spectacle this year. [applause] if your organization or group is thinking about marching, we encourage you to register soon because we think the parade might run out of space earlier as it has in the years past, so thats great. For the past two years, our partners at cbs bay area have live streamed the parade so that people around the world can see it live. Wear something cute, and call your mom, because youre going to be on t. V. Thats exciting. Thank you to our friends at kpix. [applause] thats not the only new development for 2020. On april 17, an exhibition entitled labor of love, the birth of San Francisco pride, 19701980 opened at the gobt museum in San Francisco. Itll be up in the museum until january 2021. Further, starting may 7 in the city hall in the north light court, the Historical Society and San Francisco Arts Commission will mount a photography exhibition called 50 years of pride, so make sure to check out the amazing history that we can learn from. Our entire team at San Francisco pride is working hard to ensure that we are ready for this monumental event, and here are some ways in which our communities can help. Applications are now open for our volunteers who provide power during the event. I want to acknowledge that in this room, there are some former Community Grand marshals and honorees, like our board president , carolyn, was once an honoree, and others. If you want to raise your hands, folks who have been honored in the past. Thank you for all of your tireless work. That spirit of tireless volunteerism is at the core of San Francisco pride, and that commitment goes both ways. In 2019, we were pleased to go nate more than 203 donate more than 203,000 to ongoing bay area nonprofits, which adds to our total of more than 3 million since 1997. [applause] finally, 2020 may be the 50th anniversary of pride as a march and a celebration, but San Franciscos pride began way before 1970. The compton cafeteria riots took place in 1966. As we look forward to the next 50 years, lets always remember the valuient struggles of previous valiant struggles of previous generations, and as hectare remilk said, all give them hope. And here at pride, we always will. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you, fred. Were so excited, and we know that pride is in great hands. Thank you. So it is my honor to introduce our new pride chair, carolyn wisenger. Thank you, fred, thank you, mayor breed, thank you to my aunt who has threatened bodily harm if i dont mention them. As fred mentioned, the board is excited about completing our threeyear theme with this years generation of hope. While we are excited about the events leading up to the pride weekend, we are most excited about what that word hope represents. As a community, we are in challenging times, and being in pride, its so different. There is more required now that we are headed into 50. The organizational needs arent the same as they were in 1970, and either are the needs of the community that we represent. Theres more required in the way that we represent community, there is more required in the way that we support our community, and theres more required in the way that we are supported. Now the last leg to 50 is always the hardest leg. Some of you may have been married 50 years, and you know its hard getting to 50. It doesnt get easier as we march in these last months to 50. As someone who grew up in a church thats now 75 years old, i remember in 1995, and how hard that last road to 50 was. I remember the struggles, and i remember the squabbles, and i remember the day it seemed like it would all fall part. We are in a crunch time now, but we as a board continue to believe that it is important to have a celebration that is reflective of the community we serves, and important to be reflective of all of those voices, and to make all those voices be heard. I remember when Bishop Carlton pearson said we have to remind them of the hope, so thats what were going to do, and we ask you to join us for that. [applause] thank you. So 2020 is kind of an incredible year. Also, its not the 50th anniversary, and also, we need to get out there and vote. Every one of you matters, so lets get out there and do that. So now, its my honor to introduce our only out gay supervisor who has been doing some incredible work not only in his district but for the Lgbt Community at large and in San Francisco at large. Please welcome supervisor raphael mandelman. Supervisor mandelman good morning, everybody. It does you know, february does feel like a slightly odd time to be celebrating time, but i will say theres never a bad time for the Queer Community to take the mayors balcony, so we are happy to be here. And madam mayor, i think it is just worth noting the extraordinary collection of queer Department Heads you have, from clair farley at the o. T. I. , and grant colfax at the department of public health, and jeffrey tumlin, and sherreen mcspadden. You have a very queer administration, and we are quite appreciative of that. [applause] supervisor mandelman the trustees never get acknowledge them, so im going to acknowledge them now. We have our past president , Alex Randolph of the college board, and our current president , tom temprano of the college board, doing great and important work. You know, as i and then, i also do want to congratulate fred lopez. Thank you, fred, thank you, carolyn. Thank you to the whole board. Pride has never been easy, but it is important, so i this year is particularly important and seems to be particularly challenging, and i know you will get through it, and i am grateful for what you are doing to get us through what will be an amazing 50year celebration, so thank you. [applause] supervisor mandelman i was trying to think about that 1970 gayin, the people who participa participated in that. The next 50 years, what did they imagine it would be like . Did they imagine that in a few years, a gay man would get elected supervisor in San Francisco . And after that, rainbow wave after rainbow wave would come crashing down until the last election when we got a Record Number of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people elected, even in virginia. They would not have imagined the Extraordinary Community response that would come to it. Tom and i were just over at the airport where the quilt is getting brought from atlanta. It is finally coming home, and theres going to be a fantastic rollout of panels of the last ten years on april 3, 4, and 5, and everybody should come. But the resilience of the gay community, responding to that crisis and building an aids movement, they had no idea. And would they have imagined same sex marriage . No matter how you feel about pete buttigieg, would they have imagine that a gay man would be one of the leading candidates for president s this year . And gay c. E. O. S, and so much of what they imagined would have come to pass. I dont think they would have imagined that the mayor of San Francisco would have been an African American woman who grew up in the projects, and i do think they would be particularly amazed and delighted at that prospect, because harvey milk talked about the uses and those who had been left out of the power structure in the 70s, and those who had just begun to imagine that there might be a universe where they can take power. So its amazing with our Department Heads and our mayor i dont remember, San Francisco and our mayor, San Francisco is living up to the hope. I feel like i have generationally benefited so much. And in a lot of ways, the work is about building, acknowledging the institution like the lesbian gay freedom ban. That was a great moment for the city, but some of those other great moments, a second building, and now having purchased a third site and affirming lgbt senior housing. Thank you, mayor, for that. Theres just around the corner from that, the gay mens chorus. They are becoming the national lgbtq center for the arts, and we got some help for them into the budget last year. Again, thank you, madam mayor, and thank you to my colleagues on the board. We have inherited so much, and so i think Going Forward, obviously, the obligations to move forward on that, and to fulfill the unfulfilled promises. In 1970, we knew that people had been left behind, and in 2020, we know that people have been left behind. We need to eradicate the epidemic. We need to reach folks who have not been reached, and so the work of justice which they know we needed to do in 1970 and 80 and 90, and they know the work that we need to do. It was the work of 50 years, so it was exciting, and now, fred lopez is going to come back. [applause] thats a great way to sort of summarize all the Amazing Things that are happening in San Francisco. We are so incredibly fortunate to live in this amazing place and be supported by all of these amazing people and institutions that surround us. I do want to say quickly that i make sure i acknowledge the Board Members of San Francisco pride who are here. Give us a wave. [applause] and San Francisco pride wouldnt happen without a really talented teams of contractors or staff. If youre a contractor or staff, give us a wave. [applause] great work. Finally, as raphael said, it is a little know how hard you have worked to win a state championship. It is an absolutely incredible accomplishment. Dont correct my grammar because i went to galileo high school, and you went to lowell. You did it focused as a team, and it matters. You are going to look back on this time in your life, and you are going to think wow, this was the best time of my life. It may not seem that way right now, but a few years from now, youre going to look back, and youre going to really remember your teammates, youre going to remember the excitement when you played, and yes, the challenges, because we know it takes a lot of hard work, both physically and mentally to get to a place where you can win a state championship, and i wanted you all to know how proud we are in San Francisco that these incredible women that are sitting before me today achieved this incredible milestone. So i wanted to take the opportunity to honor you here at city hall because im really proud of each of you for what you were able to do. I want to ask your coach, coach sung, to come up, and say a few words. Is the coach here today . There you go. Come on up, coach. [applause] the hon. London breed wait a minute. You look like youre a student at Lowell High School. You know, not too long ago, i was at lincoln. The hon. London breed lincoln . Too nice. And not too long ago, you guys beat lincoln. Not when i was playing. Come on up, coach, and congratulations to everybody. [applause] good evening. My name is kelly sung, and i am the varsity coach at Lowell High School. First, id like to thank mayor london breed and her staff for inviting us here tonight. Its so amazing to be recognized for all our hard work. Growing up and attending lincoln high school, the aaa teams never made it far in the post season. In the beginning of this season, our goal was to win our section title and to get past the second round of norcal. We were able to accomplish that and so much more, but i will let marie go kind of speak to that. What i wanted to touch on is how proud i am of these girls. Before practice or tournaments, you could find them studying for their tests or getting ahead of homework. It is hard to balance academics and sports at such a prestigious school. Our team held the highest accumulative grade point average of any team at Lowell High School. Telling teams that they are your Favorite Team is sort of bad practice, but in my nine years of coaching, i have to admit this is one of my Favorite Teams to coach. Not only because of the success they had, but because of their love for volleyball and each other. I hope you all remember how much of an impact you have made on not only Lowell High School but in womens sports. You are the first team at lowell and the first team in aaa to win state titles. Continue to lastly, i want to thank the parents for your support this season. Having to leave work early or wake up at 5 00 a. M. For tournaments is not easy, but just know that we would not have accomplished this without your unwavering support, so thank you so much. And next, were going to have our team captain, mari mariko tanaka. Good evening, everyone. My name is mariko tanaka, and i am a senior at Lowell High School. This past Volleyball Season was one of the most amazing experiences ive ever had, and i am so thankful to be a part of this team and so proud to be able to accomplish something even beyond my imagination. At the beginning of this season, winning state was something i never thought my team would get an opportunity to achieve. Our main goal was to win aaa section championships and advance past the second round of c. I. A. Norcal playoffs. The team stayed focused on reaching this goal, and with the hard work came reward to go undefeated in league play and win our city championship. After this, keeping focus was extremely hard, but with the encouragement of our coaches, kelly and j. J. , we won the first and second and then third round against burlingame in an extremely close match, knocking off the number one seed on their home turf to win the championship is indescribable. We are under dogs again in the c. I. F. Playoffs, but we were able to bring back the first state championship in volleyball in San Francisco history. [applause] individually, everyone on this team is very different, but we managed to find a way to gel together in the most perfect way possible. On behalf of this team, i would like to thank mayor london breed for having us and would also like to thank all friends and family for all the support you showed for us this season. Thank you. [applause] the hon. London breed thank you. All right. Thank you. That was great. Whos the next speaker here . Oh, the principal, yes. And again, let me just say, i notice that theres some members of the press here. I hope you get the word out about the incredible students at our school that are achieving great things because we need to continue to shine a light on all the work that they do to accomplish such a great thing here in San Francisco. So with that, come on up. [applause] i would also like to thank london mayor breed mayor london breed. I know that she was a galileo lion, but now that she is the mayor of this great city, someday she has to be a mission bear or a washington great eagle, but today, i would like to have her as a lowell cardinal. [applause] this was an incredibly exciting season. Every week, we would advance a little bit. I would come back to the office, and they would say, they won again, they won again. And i was there at that burlingame game. That was a very exciting game. There were moments when the opposing team looked like they were set up to get some wonderful spike, and no, didnt happen. So what i could really see was our young women here had the most incredible focus, and they were looking at each other like this; you get it. And thats what won the Championship Team work. I couldnt be prouder of these young women who brought home a championship and on top of that maintained the highest g. P. A. , continued to do so well in their academics. We will say goodbye to the ones who graduate this here, but we have a great young team coming up, and i would love to come back here next year. Thank you so much for bringing lowell to city hall, and thank you to our mayor for having us. [applause] and now, i believe the mayor will give the certificates. The hon. London breed we have jennie lam, who is a teacher and an elected member of the school board. What she does, she makes sure, along with the school board, that you have the tools you need. So with that, ill turn it over to you. Thank you. First, were going to acknowledge our players and then the coaches. So first, id like to acknowledge kaly bucmongla, katey yee, heather wu, carly lu, kelsey mah, pearl vermilia, gabrie gabriela kwak, alexandra chow, eliana ellie brown, alina qi, aleti edmonds, mariko tanaka, kylonni wong, assistant coach joshua jong. Last, but not least, head coach kelly sung. Can we get a Group Picture with the mayor at the podium, and then last with players and coaches. [applause] the hon. London breed well, its that simple. That concludes our program, and again, i want to just thank all of you and congratulations to this incredible team. Thank you to the parents and the family members who are here today. We appreciate your support, and well, i would say continue to get good grades, but you guys go to lowell so i dont have to say that. Continue to just remember that you all as champions are leaders. People look up to you because of what youve been able to accomplish, and so continue to hold your heads up high, do all the great things that you are meant to do, and who knows what may end up happening in the future. You could end up mayor. So thanks for coming today, and congratulations. [applause] shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local Services Within our neighborhoods, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . My name is ray behr. I am the owner of chief plus. Its a destination Specialty Foods store, and its also a Corner Grocery store, as well. We call it cheese plus because theres a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. From fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. You can have a casual meeting if you want to. Its a Real Community gathering place. What makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, its a great pedestrian street. Theres people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. The businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned Small Businesses. It harkens back to supporting local. Polk street doesnt look like anywhere u. S. A. It has its own businesses and personality. We have Clothing Stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. Theres a music studio across the street. Its raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. I think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. Again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, its very important that you do so. Monday, february 10, 2020. 2 the meeting is being called to order at 5 30 p. M. We thank Media Services and sfgov tv, it can be watched live. Members of the public, please take this opportunity to silence your phones. 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