At this time, as i mentioned, were sad to have the director not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your insights. Thank you so much for your eight years of service and encourage you again to please, please touch and share your vital thoughts with this board. Thank you. Thank you. Are there other directors who would like to speak . I dont see any on the chat. Ill open it up. Madam chair, can i say awe few words . Absolutely you can. Thank you. Christina, i, like our chairperson, deeply regret the circumstances that are causing your departure. Truth be told, i would regret any circumstances that led to your departure because youve been an excellent colleagues and to me for a short time and my colleagues for a long time. I encourage you and i dont think i need to remain engage in our City Government despite its ups and downs. I think you have a lot of valuable Service Still to give and i look forward, personally, to running into you in Golden Gate Park very often in deed. So thanks again, christina, for all youve done for our board and our city. Thank you. I cant find the chat to say a few words. Its ok. You absolutely k its your last meeting. I was hoping it was not going to be christinas last meeting. And i so enjoyed working with you, christina, especially on our trip to new york to look at the transit system. You just amaze me at how you get around all over any city, much better than i could at times. I just believe that you have brought such an interesting perspective and a needed perspective and i hope that the mayor seeks to appoint someone with your back ground, someone with your commitment to the disability and coming off this board board tomorrow there was a tremendous amount of knowledge around the dais and people who are committed to transportation issues to transit issues and your commitment to a community. You had both of those so i just want to wish you all the best and great sailing ahead for you. Thank you, director torres. With that, director rubke, are you able to say a few words now . Hi, i dont know if you guys can hear me. Im not for speeches but it was a privilege and honour to serve alongside of you and it was an amazing experience to meet the impressive and talented staff of the sfmta and i feel confident the sag i agency is in great has with your leadership and the skills and dedication of the staff. Thank you so much for the kind words. I will leave you to your meeting and good luck. Best to you. We hope to see you again soon. With that, well have to move on to our agenda to the approval of the minutes from the april 21st, regular meeting. Do i have a motion. So moved. Seconded. Before that, item 3 announcement of prohibition of soundproducing devices at the meeting. There will be no such announcement. Great, thank you. [laughter] madam chair, you have a motion and a second. It would be appropriate to see, open the phone line for Public Comment. Yes. Are there people who would like to comment on our the further communication. For members of the public watching this meeting by sfgtv who wish to address the board with respect to the Meeting Minutes, call 8888086929 and then press 9961164 and finally 10. The moderator will let us know if anyone is on the phone call who wishes to address you under to summon each question press one and zero. This is just about the minutes of the april 1st meeting its not a time to comment on other matters. Looks like we have a questioner. You have one question remaining. Ok. All right. So, please give us your name and your two minutes and well start when you start talking, this is about the Meeting Minutes. Hi, my name is zack is this about the comments that were just mentioned about the departure of the director is that separate from the Meeting Minutes . Its separate. We will open up from general Public Comments after this. Great, bye. You have zero questions remaining. With that, is there a motion to approve the minutes of the april 21st meeting. You have a motion and a second on the floor. Im sorry, im sorry. Calling the question. All right. Director borden aye. Brinkman. Aye. Eakin. Aye. Ham. Torres. Aye. Madam chair, thats unanimous. Item 5, communications. Madam chair would you like to go to Public Comment . Yes, well do Public Comment and then i will actually maybe i should do this Communications First because its kind of in the relationship to. Due to covid19 issues by the San Francisco bother of health and they have lifted restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held for all members of staff and Via Teleconference. Well ensure the safety of the. On the web page, we ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board or leaving a voice mail message. For all comments received in advance of the meeting, we have appreciated those comments. Thank you for honouring our request. Going forward, we urge to reach out to the board at sfmta. Com or to contact us at 415 6464470 in advance of the meeting. While this Technology Allows you to hold meeting Via Teleconference it may not work seamlessly as we would like it to be. There may be gaps, some dead air and some staff transitioning between technology and speakers. Please know were doing our best we can and ask for your understanding and patients as were still learning this new technology in our way of working together. If you havent done so already, mute your line to minimize the background noise. Board members and presenters unmute to comment and there is staff in the background and so we can switch from any slide presentation to whoever is speaking at the point and lastly. I want to thank the people who have been working long hours to make this meeting possible starting with our board secretary and including warren lamb, sean cunningham, art wong, jack chen, and tom of sfgovtv. Caroline, and everybody else who put together all of the hard work to make the meeting happen so we knows are not unusual times so we appreciate that and at this point i will open up to accommodate Public Comment at this moment and in response to an accommodation request from the public. All right s if the informed rater could please open the phone line right now, this is an opportunity for members with disabilities to address general matters not on todays agenda. Anyone else who wishes to address the board under general Public Comment that topic will come up will come up later in the meeting. This is for a computation and request. Mr. Moderator, let us know when someone is on the line. Bless one then zero. Please started with your name. Madam chair, we will ask the commenter to give their name and their two minutes will start when the person starts talking. Your time starts when start talking. My name is zachary. Im really concerned at this last meeting it was supposed to take place on may 5th and it was canceled. There was just a cancellation put up on the website. I requested an explanation from roberta boomer and the covid19 makes it only urgent action items necessary for publichealth should take place and during a live meeting and sending an email. I think its very that disabled people have been treated very poorly by sfmta for a number of years. There are hundreds and hundreds of ada disability complaints filed with sfmta every year and i published them on my website and documenting the mistreatment of disabled and videos if you searched or if you search on issues and this is a longstanding problem and we are treated absolutely horribly by the ada grievance procedures that are in place as well. I brought these issues to the attention of the sfmta executive board on october first, 2019 in great detail and so far nothing has been done to remedy that. Additionally, im concerned about the fare hikes and the attacks on the muni union and trying to say that muni union jobs will be removed if fears are nofaresare not increased ans ridiculous. There are people on staff with a sixfigure salary and have a nice Office Building that could be relocated. Doesnt need a multimillion dollar building and spending millions of dollars on new Construction Projects and buses left accessible to disabled people. Your time is up. Thank you for your time. Thank you, very much. Your complaint has been registered. You have one question remaining. Hi if you could give us your name and your two minutes will start when you start talking. This period is only as an accommodation for people with disabilities with regard to general Public Comment that item will be called a bit later in the agenda. Hi, this is michelle. What is your name, maam . Im michelle. Thank you. Go ahead. Your time is running, maam. Please address the board. Who is this . This is the mta board of directors. Oh, ok. Do you wish to address the board of directors . Anyway. Yeah. All right. Please credit, your time is on. Start speaking. What . If you would like to address the board, go ahead. Oh huh would you please identify yourself. Are you making a comment or do you want to call in later for the general Public Comments. Yes. Great. Its time to let her go. There are zero questions remaining. Thank you. So, this meeting is being televised by sfgtv. For those of you watching the livestream, please be aware theres a time lag between the actual meeting and what the members of the public are seeing if you are watching and you wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line. When the item is called. That will ensure you are in line when the chair calls for general Public Comment. For members of the public, please the phone number to use is 8888086929. The access code is 9961164. Make sure you are in a quiet location and if you are a livestreaming the meeting via sfgtv, please mute your sound. This will reduce any reverberations so the board can hear you. Again, at the appropriate time, the chair will ask the phone lines be open if you wish to comment on an item, you will be prompted to press 10. Then you will be added to the speaker line and there will be an auto prompt that the callers will hear that says question and answer time but this is your Public Comment time. You will be cued up in the order you press 10. This is an automated voice to tell you when its your turn to speak and your microphone is unutted you will state your name and to make your comment. I will start your two minutes when you begin talking. I will let you know when 30 seconds are remaining and your time suppose, well say thank you, next caller, please. At that point the moderator will put the speaker back on mute so i will repeat these instructions. Madam chair, for how to make Public Comment again as i am aware some of the members of the public may have joined the meeting after we made this announcement. Great. Thank you, and well move on to item 6, which is the introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members and i will just briefly start by noting that today is director t torres last meeting. He was em pointed by the mayor ed lee in 2017. Director torres has had many titles in his lifetime. Im sure his favourite has been director of the sfmta board. [laughter] i just want to thank you for your service and your time. Its been so much fun having your breadth of knowledge and expertise of politics and State Government and you know, longer term perspective on things and its just been incredible and its been fun sitting next to you and trying to mind your interesting comments. You will be missed but not gone. Are there other districtors who would like to make comments . Director brinkman. Thank you so much. Senator, were going to miss you so much on the board. As our chair has noted, you are on to bigger and better things. All the best to you and we will miss your perspective and we will miss your sense of humour and its been lovely to spend time with you and get to know you so all the best to you. Director heminger. Its almost unfair we have to say t bye to two colleagues on e same day. You will be missed. Your sense of humour and i think your sense of reasonableness in occasion whats ouoccasions wheo the flights of fancy. For what its worth, going on to your new role at the university of california, ill just be the first person to lobby you for a cal stanford Football Game in the next season. [laughter] ok. Director eaken. Just worried what side of that game you would be on . [laughter] i just want the game. Its all you want. I know where i would be. Well, i cant believe i join director heminger and i cant believe were saying goodbye to so many colleagues in the last couple weeks, its been a privilege serving with you and ive also enjoyed your stories and your sense of humour and one my favourite things is your seekelly Endless Network of contacts. It seems like every time we brought up a memorial or a plaque you said i knew that person, i go back and back with those people. Its remarkable. Your experience and the perspective you brought to this board so we will miss you and dont be a stranger, please stay in touch. You get to close it out, i guess. It has been a pleasure to work with you and get all of your perspectives on transportation issues but the city and county of San Francisco. I know i leave at a time at a crucial time during this crisis and the challenge thats will face you are almost insurmountable but i cant think of a better team to do that for the future and county of San Francisco who i love very much. My hometown is los angeles as many of you know but since 1996, ive been a resident and taxpayer of San Francisco. And im in love with this city and always have been. Thank you again for the honour of serving with you and i will troy to work on those tickets, steve, but you have to report them as a gift. [laughter] with that we thank you. One final note, a special thank you to roberta boomer. I cant think of anyone who shows more patients ove patiencr years of service and its been an honour to work with you. Thank you. And you as well. Madam chair, next scheduled on your agenda is. I wish to nominate gwen to serve as chair of our board. Shes served with distinction and i cant think of more meaningful and wonderful notion as my last act to nominate her to be the chair. Are there any other nominations . All right. Hearing none, well close nominations. Its appropriate at this point to ask that the phone lines be open for Public Comment on the election of chair. To summon each question press 1 and then 0. If members of the public wish to make comment on the nomination of director borden to serve as chair of the mta board, please press 10 and mr. Moderator, please, let us know if there are any on the line. I need a second. No, nominations, director torres do not require a second. Oh, ok. You lucked out. [laughter] is there a commenter . There is. Ok. There are no callers on the line. There is one caller now. Just a moment. Theres one caller. All right. You have one question remaining. All right, so caller, this is an opportunity to address the board on the nomination of director borden to serve as chair and not on any other business. We will start the timer when you give us your name and start to speak. Please do so now. Hi, my name is zack. I just want to say director borden, i really hope that you can review the concerns of disabled people if you are going to be chair that you can take our concerns into consideration and lead in a better way than those who that have proceeded you. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else on the phone line . You have zero questions remaining. If you could please end Public Comment for this item. All right. So, on the motion to elect gwenth borden as chair. Director borden. Aye. Brinkman. Aye. Eaken. Aye. Heminger. Aye. Torres. Aye. Madam chair, its unanimous, congratulations. Thank you and now we open up nominations for vicechair. Yes, this is Cheryl Brinkman i would like to nominate director eaken. I think she will do a fantastic job. She showed our talent and commitment to the board not only in her past actions but handling the Search Committee and broad us and would like to nominate director eaken as vicechair. Any other nominations at this time. Seeing none, we open to Public Comment to see if theres any Public Commenters. Your conference is question and a mode. Press 1 and then 0. This is an opportunity to serve as vicechair. Are there any callers on the line . There are no callers on the line. If you would like to close Public Comment and we will do the roll call for the votes. On the motion to elect amanda eaken as vicechair. Borden. Aye. Brinkman. Aye. Eaken. Aye. Heminger. Aye. Torres. Aye. Madam chair, directors, its a unanimous vote. Congratulations. I look forward to working with you worklesley. I dont know if you want to make comments before we do additional directors remarks. Did you want to make any comments first . Im stumbled to assume this role anhumbled and i think thisi look forward to work with chair borden and the staff to navigate our way through these times. Great and i similarly want to thank everyone for their vote of confidence and look forward to working closely to make sure our Transit Agency stays on track during those critical times and we restore faith in Public Transit in the way we need to because we know many people count on our system to work well and effectively and we also need our streets to be with open space finding opportunities for people to get around so we look forward to working very hard in the next forever but for sure in the next year to make sure that we become the Transit Agency that people need for the times that were in. With that, im going to move on to other board comments or questions. And director brinkman, i think as some. Yes, thank you chair borden. I recently was sent the lasco, the local Agency FormationCommission Report that was the findings of a survey from on demand ride hail and delivery workers in San Francisco. And i had a chance to read the survey results issued regarding on demand ride hail and delivery workers and i look forward to centimetre mfta working and supporting lasco to accept and implement the recommendations of the report in particular those pertaining to health and safety of the workers and the public. We have a lot of opportunities to make sure that these services, which the public has shown that they value a lot, can be delivered in a way which is not harmful to the workers or the city. I think that helping move delivery workers to more sustainable modes, such as electric assisted bicycles from cars, fits with so many of our city goals and making sure the workers are being treated fairly is just basic human rights. I look forward to staff being able to work with lasco on that. Great, thank you. Any other additional directors comments or questions at this time . Secretary, do i need to open that up . You should. Ok. If members of the public would like to comment on anything the directors have said. To summon each question, press one and then zero. So this is for members of the public. This would be for only comment on director brinkmans comment as Public Comment on the motion to elect the chair and the vicechair was previously opened and taken. Moderator, please let us know if theres anyone on the phone lines. You have one question remaining. All right. So caller, this is Public Comment for items expressed during the directors new and old business only. Not on items that are within the jurisdiction, not previously discussed nor on items that are on the agenda. So, please state your name and your two minutes will begin when you start talking. I believe i may have called an incredit time. I was hoping to talk about management. I apologize. Thank you. Item 7, directors report. If the moderator could please close the phone line. Item 7, directors report. Good afternoon Board Members, i am jeff, the director of transportation and we have been very busy since we last talked. So let me go through a whole bunch of items that we should update you on. First is were expecting, some time this afternoon, supervisor peskin will introduce a Charter Amendment at the board of supervisors, a ballot measure to be placed on the November Ballot that would limit the sfmta board sole board to establish fares. Last we heard, there were still details to be resolved with that amendment and so well provide you with a detailed memo on the topic after it has been filed presumably today and we are able to review the final copy. We have also ive been spending a lot of time on the budget. As you know, the current publichealth crisis has turned into a dramatic and deep fiscal crisis. Weve been able to track revenues to the agency on most of our own sources of revenue are down between 75 to 100 and were now starting to get more detailed information about the state of the general fund and getting on going updates about how much our general Fund Contribution to the agency will be cut as a result of losses to the federal fund, which is dependent, as you know, on sources of revenue like hotel tax which is down dramatically. Were expecting to be submitting an interim budget along with other city departments to the board of supervisors on june 1st. Final budget will be submitted to the board of supervisors on august 1st and in order to get to august 1st, well be coming back to all of you on the sfmta board on june 16th with proposed revisions that reflect what are the latest estimates from the Controllers Office on the impacts to the general fund. Well also be able to update our own protections before shelter in place continues to be extended and that continues to have a deep negative impact on our parking fees, our transit fare and other sources of revenue. In the meantime, weve continued to make deep and painful cuts at the agency in order to save money. We have basically eliminated all non essential unscheduled overtime. Weve put a hold on all non essential hiring. We would want to continue like the back First Programme for our bus operators. But canceling these at this time, is going to be essential and through this crisis without much more painful cuts including to our workforce. Were putting a hold on all discretionary travel and non Mission Critical training and everything that we can cut that doesnt get in the way of us being able to directly deliver essential services to the public. On the goodnews side, we are positioning ourselves to receive money from the federal stimulus and in order to allow that to happen, the metropolitan commission is establishing a Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task force so look at ways of distributing the second amount of federal funding in ways that are most equitable across the 26 different transit agencies and also, to tro try to take some leadership on making the 26 transit agencies in the bay area more seamless from a user perspective. This is quite different than the approach and Assembly Member in the seamless transit bill but its been set aside by the state legislature in order to allow tem to focus on covid19. Were trying to lean on this at an agency level including and work at in order to figure out how can we take a more customer Oriented Approach and Work Together without being forced to do so by the State Government. One of the efforts is this blue ribbon Recovery Task force. Our first meeting will be on may 29th. I will sit on that task force along with the general managers and the larger transit operators and mtc commissioners and stakeholders throughout the region. Were expecting the sfmta to receive 197 million. This is hugely helpful and allows us to close out this fiscal year without layoffs, which we are deeply indebted to House Speaker nancy pelosi for her strong leadership in making that happen along with advocates from all over the country who helped push that funding all the way to final approval in congress. In addition to the cares act, as you probably know, the house is currently debating the second potential traunch of federal funding called the heroes act and the current measure includes another over 15 billion of funding for transit relief. Theres an increasing recognition the success of Public Transit is essential for the over all economic recovery of all of our metropolitan regions. If essential workers cant get to work, the recovery cant happen and if essential workers are all expected to get in their cars and drive to work, the Transportation System simply cant handle that and were already seeing this problem in parts of east asia and well talk a little bit about more later in this presentation about our efforts to get ahead of the problem. We did have one fatality in april. It was a singlevehicle crash, vehicle ran off the road on april 21st on the hill and that crash is still under investigation by sfpd and we have implemented some temporary barricades and other Quick Response efforts to make sure that never happens again. A key thing we want to update you on is the slow streets work that sfmta has been working on since the middle of last month. Im sure all of you know by now, in response to the shutting down of three quarters of muni transit lines, the sfmta stepped forward to try to identify corridors that would allow more san franciscans to feel safe walking and we start offtherecord with a modest effort focused on neighbourhoods that have lost the most transit service, specifically the our initial efforts around our push to move things forward and our lack of communication they are complaints why cant we have this in my neighbourhood and why cant you move more quickly as of may 8th, we had 15 miles of slow streets and we expect in our phase 2 planning is complete, it will have an additional 35 miles. Were soliciting input for phase 3 and hoping to have slow streets scattered throughout the city. I should remind all of you that slow streets are very much a temporary experimental Pilot Programme using very quickly installed easily removable we are changing things around in real time as we learn Additional Information and all of our work is being coordinated through the cities emerge see Operation Centre including collaboration with police and fire who have helped us make a lot of changes we have updates on micro mobility . Lime has been acquired by jump, which is a product of uber and lime stopped operating scooters in march due to the covid19 crisis but theyre how as of yesterday, starting to bring back a limited amount of scooter service. Meanwhile, spin, which had been our only operator for quite some time, s to join and expanding its fleet and expanding its geo cover nearly the entire city. We continue to be in litigation with lifts which operates bay wheels which is wanting to establish a monopoly for bike Share Service in San Francisco and meanwhile, they are working on rapidly expanding the availability of electric assist bikes shared electric assist bikes throughout San Francisco. Bay while and lime will be offering increased, micro Mobility Services and that will work well with our gradual expansion of the slow streets programme. I should also note that we are looking at some potential were looking at some additional quick build bike lane improvements including new bike way between baker in order to off load some of the pressure from the panhandle bike way. The panhandle path is experiencing a higher level of utilization that we have every seen since weve been collecting data. As more and more people are using our slow streets and taking advantage of walking, biking, skate boarding and scooterring in order to state during the covid19 crisis. A couple of other updates, the most recent or the health drick tivdirective earlier this monthn authorized new construction to get moving again and so we have been taking advantage of that to take care of some deferred maintenance in the muni metro subway ask takingan