Transcripts For SFGTV SFMTA Board Of Directors 20240712

Is there any Public Comment on the Meeting Minutes . This moderator can open the phone line. Are there abe any modifications . Moderators do we have Public Commenters . Hot for a moment, please. Hold for a moment, please. No problem. If members of the public wish to address the board on the comment on the minutes, if you could please dial 18888086929 the access code is 9961164 and then dial 10. Moderator, are we opening the phone line again for Public Comment on the minutes . With that well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion for the minutes . So moved. All in favor . Madame chair with the understanding this is on all minutes. [roll call]. The minutes of all three meetings are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. To ensure the safety of the board of directors, sfmta and members of the public on the web page we ask the public to participate remotely by wright writing to the board or leaving the comment. We appreciate the comments. Thank you for honoring our request. We continue to urge the public to write the board at sfmta board at sfgov. Tv in advance of the day of the meeting. While the Technology Allows us to have the meetings it may not be as seamless as wed like it to be. There may be gaps, strange noises and know were doing our best we can and ask for your patience and understanding. If we lose a phone connection well pause until the connection has been reestablished. I want to thank the village of those involved in making these meetings possible and with that ill turn it over to our board secretary. Thank you, madame chair. For members of the public the meeting is being televised by sfgov. Tv. For those watching be aware theres a time lag between the actual meeting and what members of the public are seeing. Too if youre watching via sfgov. Tv and wish to comment on an item, call the phone line when the item is called. The phone line and access code is on our printed agenda. If you do wish to make Public Comment on an item the number is 18888086929 the access code is 9961164. Please make sure youre in a quiet location and turn off tvs or radio and if youre live streaming, mute the sound. This will reduce reverberation so the board can hear you. At the appropriate time theyll open the phone line and youll be prompted to press 10 to add to the speaker line. The autoprompt will say its question and answer time but its the Public Comment and youll be queued up. Youll be notified when it is your turn to speak. When your microphone has been unmuted and you hear the automated voice, give us your name and begin the comment session. Ill start your two minutes when you begin talking. I will give you a 30second warning when have you 30 seconds remaining and when your time is up ill say thank you, next caller please. At that point the nod rater will put the speaker back on mute. Ill make the announcement again. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinish the business by Board Members. Clerk Board Members. Madame chair, ive had one and ive been on a year and dont have much air time to our response act to the park authority. Responsibilities to the parking authority. Thats a large inventory of assets that ought to be of interest to us for a couple rebounds, one on the financial side and revenue collection and on the other side the fact theyre real estate assets and there are always other things you can do with arrest besides what youre with real estate besides what youre doing with it now and would like a top to bottom briefing on that area of our responsibilities in the next several months. Thank you, directors. Do we agree it sounds like a great idea . Wonderful. One other item i understand theres a ballot measure that deals with shared space and extending the time period. It deals with extending all the things currently existing for covid for a period of i think three years. Id like to put a question to staff when theyd hear about that and the specific impact on our agency in terms of the work we need to do with the program and parking as well all those sort of things. Second, i would love to in the future schedule the meeting with the Small Business commission. I think its really important to Work Together on these issues and i think itd be a great opportunity to to have a special joint hearing on all the issues and how we can generate revenue whether its parking. The final item ill ask a question maybe your directors report will let us know but it seems the mission bus line seems more crowded of late and dont know if were seeing an uptick in the numbers but i look forward to that in your directors report. With that i guess were ready to move on to the next item unless directors have more fnew or Unfinished Business. It may seem like a small point but i think we can look at items big and small during these meetings. I was made aware of someone almost being hit at the Traffic Circle and it could have been serious. Idlike to reflect on Traffic Circles and their purpose as corridors. To me it distinctly feels like a pedestriansafety tradeoff to have an uncontrolled intersection. I walk around there and anecdotally see a lot of drivers confused and near misses. Id like to hear staffs reflection on what you thought would be an improvement but there may be a tradeoff and how weve been monitoring. I know one was yanked out because of Community Opposition but how that has been going in our view and whether we feel the tradeoff is worthwhile. Director thank you, director eaken. If not well move on and well open it up to Public Comment in case they have comments on new and Unfinished Business items. Open the phone line for us. This is the Public Comment on items that were addressed by Board Members only. Is there Public Comment on items raised under new and Unfinished Business by Board Members . If you can dial 10 now. First caller please. Caller this is bob planthold. Im not sure what was addressed. I just got back. I wanted to talk about the j church improvements. That was not addressed by a member of the board and that will come up under the directors report. Caller then put me back in the directors queue, please. Clerk next speaker, please. Caller this is haden miller. Regarding the Traffic Circle along mcallister i dont think they improve the muni service either because often times when theyre running the busses on the r r 5 line theyll r5 line theyll scrape the Traffic Circle or curb. The busses cant make that turn even at a slow speed and would be more effective to have a signalized intersection or go back to a fourway stop sign because its not safe for pedestrians or the bicyclists and not improving the Transit Service so its failing at its goals. I agree. I think it should be removed. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. This is only on topics addressed by new and Unfinished Business by Board Members. Caller thank you chair borden and my pronounce our, she and her. Regarding the two items in hearing about Traffic Circles im not against Traffic Circles but i certainly think calming measures need to be instituted around Traffic Circles and ive probably been through this one particular one mentioned but theres certainly very common Traffic Circles are all over new jersey and theres some in nevada as well. So i think a way to slow traffic down using established traffic calming measures is an order and probably a lot easier than trying to demolish and rebuild an intersection. And concerning parking, i think we do have to have conversations about parking because the street gate adds up hundreds and hundreds of acres. I think we should talk about that more. And see how we can monetize that and use that as a congestion management tool. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, this is derek toronto. Im going address the shared spaces. Well talk more about on items under the agenda. The shared spaces mean youre also going to be taking taxi vans. We still dont have a new taxi stand and im going to file a claim for damages for the fact that ive lost income as a result of taking away our cab stands in the castro. I know other businesses deserve to thrive but does that mean giving more ammunition to the credit union for the fact youre ruining the taxi business . So i want to say theres no place to park during the peak time hours now in the castro or to stage and so the issue is does shared space mean ruining another business. Thank you. Clerk thank you, mr. Toronto. Next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon, david bil bil bi bilpoy i want to address the Traffic Circle on mcallister. I didnt think it was a good idea to begin with and would be great idea to eliminate it and i look ward to the board look forward to the board considering na in the future. Clerk thank you. Moderator are there additional callers . Well close Public Comment. Madame chair moving it on the directors report. Director tomlin. Chair borden, members of the board. Im jeff tomlin director of transportation. Theres been a lot going on the last couple weeks. My directors report is rather long. Well be covering budget, vision zero and the Transit Service changes maintained on saturday including some Additional Details we worked through. So let me share my screen. Can you see my screen . Director yes. Great. So last week we presented our budget to the of supervisors august 13 and received good feedback from them. Largely because of the ways in which we have used our values in order to deal with these catastrophic times. As you know because ive stated it repeatedly, our values are best found not in our policies but in our budget and back in december when i first arrived i worked to clarify the agencys values in order to deal with peak boom economy and figure out how best to improvement the reliability of the working group. Were in a different space now and values become even more important when youre having to make deep and painful cuts to your system. While covid hasnt changed our values it change the emphasis so the safe Transportation System needs to protect the health of our workforce and passengers. In additional to supporting Strong Economy we become central to part of an economic recovery for San Francisco which cant happ happen without mobility. We need to put equity first particularly at a time when San Francisco people have been impacted by health and economy. That means not only directing Service Hours and resources where theyre needed most but make sure we treat each other well because in order to get through the next two years we have to do more with less. That requires tapping the intelligence, creativity, collaboration and lived experience of every Single Member of the sfmta Team Including those who have been made to feel diminished in the past. When the pandemic first hit back in march we knew we needed to cut costs in order to avoid layoffs. We slashed external contracts, purchase orders and work orders and cut overtime significantly and all that together has saved us already about 20 million. We were also in the strange position of even back when i first arrived having hundreds of funded vacant positions. In many ways it has saved us here at the sfmta. We will hopefully not have to do layoffs in the next two years because we kind of already did them through not hiring and continue to do that shrinking everything we do through attrition. Were also fortunate we have an older workforce and many will retire as a matter of how things work over the next two years. These things will get us through but it also means we are going to have to effectively cut every single thing we do or get more efficient. So weve been working at that. As you know, we had a huge loss in muni Service Hours back in april. We had lost 40 of our total muni Service Hours to be a 30 loss and all of our busses are cut in that capacity by twothirds as a result of social distancing. Meanwhile, travel patterns have changed dramatically. We have seen geography of essential workers with little transit demand to the financial district but so remarkably high levels of demand to essential institutions and neighborhood commercial districts. Our riders are overwhelmingly people of color from lowincome households and people dealing with homelessness. We had to reorient our Service Goals around the needs of our essential workers delivering every Available Service hour we can where it is needed the most and that is meant that we had to completely rebuild the entire muni system twice now, reorienting service to the neighborhoods that need it the most and to the corridors that need it the most. Weve also reinvented dozens of other programs and focussed a lot of our efforts on achieving our equity goals. As you know we worked with you and the board of supervisors to not have our standard fare increase which means were making a lot less money off fares and that continues to hurt our bottom line. We launch the essential program and waived taxi fees and lowered meter rates and launch the shared Spaces Program and revamped our tow policy and have completely invented entirely new approaches to cleaning our vehicles and facilities. Weve also created entirely new Equity Branch with the Department Operation center focussing on Equity Analytics including a new tool using to evaluate Service Changes and investing in a new Training Workshop for our staff and management staff and people who work on the front line. Were changing our approach to Fare Enforcement and shifting more towards an ambassador model. Despite the fact were doing very little new hiring were continuing to create an office of Racial Equity and inclusion and addressing a whole host of problems within our Human Resources approach to achieve better outcomes. All that said, we started the budget at the peak of a boon economy with a structural deficit. That has now grown to 200 million. As you know our costs are driven overwhelmingly by labor and the labor costs rise with the cost of living because we are committed to providing our staff with a living wage. Our revenues in the best of times however, at best rise with inflation and many of them like our parking revenues are in decline. This is why even back in january at the peak of a boon economy we had a substantial and growing structural deficit. So this year our deficit is now 200 million. Were going fill that with onetime funds including the federal cares funding shown in purple and shifting a variety from capital to operations shown in orange. The orange bar there is structur structural deferred maintenance. Were take money from Capital Projects meant in order to get us out of the structural deferred maintenance problems we created for ourselves back in 2008 and were creating new deferred maintenance problems for ourselves in order to avoid layoffs. As you know, the cares funding runs out this december after which point we start gutting our reserves to get us to fiscal year 22. We have no path, currently, in order to be able to make it into fiscal year 2023. So our budget numbers for the next two years effectively stay flat at 1. 2 billion though our expenses are rising and our savings are largely a result of contracting and staff largely through attrition. So were not having a fixed hiring freeze because there are many missioncritical positions we cannot afford to lose and still be able to deliver service and theres also positions like car cleaners we have to expand in order to deal with the needs of covid. We also want to make sure you all are aware and are ready to invest with us over the next 18 months. That in order to get to 2023 we have to have new on going stable operating funds. Happily this is a problem weve known about for a decade and the work in the transportation 2035 and 2045 project have laid out many of the options available to us. We need to get on to the june 2022 ballot with some or all of these and well need to work with all of you, the board of supervisors and the mayor in order to get there. We are also very carefully watching the november elections where theres the opportunity to shift the balance of power in the senate in which case theres the possibility of additional federal funding that could make a world of difference. Theres also prop 15 the property tax measure. We still dont have the numbers of what exactly what that would mean to the sfmta but it would be a substantial increase in operating funds we would get from the general fund. So that was the summary of where we took our budget to the board of supervisors last week. Were continuing to make endless adjustments because the news keeps changing. So a lot of our work on the budget Going Forward the coming two years will be a lot of scenario planning and paying careful attention to the course of the pandemic. A vaks changes a lot of things. A vaccine changes a lot of things. A prolonged lockdown will have a major impact on the San Francisco economy and general fund revenue which is the Single Source of money wed get. And other details like evolving Public Health guidelines and are we requiring sixfeet of distance of social distance or a european standard of three feet and potentially bring in more fare revenue . So were making adjustments and were scaling down our revenue projections from transit fares and were able to scale up the amount we actually got from cares fund. Were scaling down general fund baseline because of the ongoing bad news year getting the Controllers Office and looking at the burn rate from our fund balance and board reserves to be able to continue to deliver service. So one of the things were working on right now to add to the covid Data Analytics dashboard available on our website and available to the public is expanding the amount of budget dashboards available so all and the public can track where we stand, where we stand compared to last year and our january budget and where we stand relative to our expectations currently. And showing that delta so you all can be confident that we are managing this budget and particularly our expenditures with very very sharp attention and care. Each of the line items and ill continue to emphasize where were getting the most is from salaries and benefits thats largely from slashing overtime where weve been successful and the next round of car cleaners should be helpful and attrition. Those numbers in savings and Salary Benefits will continue to grow and that is a foundational key to avoiding layoffs. We already slashed contact and other services, materials and other investments in our budget. Were also looking carefully at transit fares as we develop a very compliant oriented rather than punishment oriented return to full compliance of fares on muni. This well be tracking carefully because its a substantial portion of our revenue and we are dependent upon those fares for being able to deliver service. Were also of course looking carefully at the parking side of our revenue. As you know it remains our policy to try to large the lowest price for parking that achieve availability in our districts and garages. We cant double parking and expect to bring in new revenue and we know we have a fundamental role to play in bringing back Small Business to life in San Francisco. Theres things we can do to better manage parking system while be friendly to Small Businesses and to institutions of faith. Another area where were going scenario planning is how rapidly can we move towards evening and enforcement of parking meters, where should we expand the paid parking areas into places where its very difficult to find a parking space and other ways of better managing to meet both our community as well as revenue goals on the parking side. So as a mentioned already, we have been remarkably successful in reducing overtime. In fact cutting it by about 1. 2 million a week and were still getting some ongoing savings as a result of attrition. So i expect well be giving you monthly updates. Im giving this one now and will hand over the keys to our stalwart from budget to provide more ongoing detail how exactly were controlling expenditures and overtime. What our progress is in getting new outside Revenue Sources and what our options are in order to close the big 20222023 gaps. So that is a summary of our budget stuff. Let me launch to budget zero which i expect to be a source of much Public Comment and then we can talk a little bit about the transit changes. We had three skate boder border and pedestrian fay tate wills and we had one in golden gate who fell over crossover and didnt contact a vehicle. This was a simple tragedy. We did a Rapid Response and noted that 19th avenue was recently repaved. August 8 there was a Pedestrian Fatality involving a vehicle exiting san jose avenue. The pedestrian was crossing the highw highway off ramp and the investigation is still underway by california patrol and recently there was the Pedestrian Fatality at gairy and goff and there was a vehicle travelling and had been recording the reckless behavior for social media and entered the crosswalk on a red light and killed a pedestrian there. We are doing work in this area as part of the geary but transit and well improve safety at this large intersection giving us limited options to control speed. Ill have more detail on that a little bit later. As you know, we also installed parking protected bike ways on fell street and barry street and the bridge during one week in july and have been make rather extraordinary progress on our program for the highinjury network over the last couple of months we have nearly completed the Pedestrian Safety project on california street and working on the Mission Street corridor in the excelsior and mission and in response to covid weve implement the entire slow Streets Program and will have news shortly about the rollout of the improvements. That rollout is competing for staff time with the shared Spaces Program. And we will open bids for the sidewalk widening and pedestrian improvements and for a bid for the safer Market Street project and one other project. So far in 2020 we have done daylighting at 819 corners scattered throughout the highinjury network with an emphasis on district 4 where supervisor mar has been actively advoca advocating for intersection daylighting completing 60 of those prioritized in the sunset district. Is this tripling of this rate. In 2020 we installed 83 turn restrictions on the highinjury network and 55 noleft turns and nine noturn on reds and 1 9 complete bans on no right turns and will be installing red light running cameras at key locations where we know there have been problems with red light running. We are also, as you know, working hard with legislative change to automated Speed Enforcement in california. Its the most effective way of create rapid and dramatic change in safety outcomes particularly in reducing Pedestrian Fatality. We were unsuccessful in the last legislative session but something that has changed in this legislative session is that the previous major opponents to automated Speed Enforcement have been Police Unions and the california Highway Patrol given the fact automated Speed Enforcement can allow for enforcement in a neural way, there is no racial profiling. It just captured the license plate. We hope theres an opportunity to move forward in this legislative session to remove bias in enforcement. Let me talk about the Transit Service. This saturday were making major changes to the rail system which are in turn allowing us to do another round of significant improvement to the bus system. So by reintroducing rail were frequency freeing up busses to new parts of the city as well as increased frequency on key bore corridors because as chair borden has noted were getting a significant increase on ridership on key corridor. Note by all Mission Street notably all Mission Street is 70 of precovid levels and the corridors and 38geary. Youre all familiar with our rail system in the before times. The muni metro Market Street tunnel was never or has not in a long time been the most reliable of service because we have five Service Lines that convene through two portals into one subway. We also have switch problems and a turn bucket not designed to handle someone lines convening there and needing to turn back and we have trains where we operate one. Given the crowding on muni and the fact were leaving behind hundreds of essential workers because of crowding we can afford to operate onecar trains in the subway and given our concerns on social distancing and the concerns about having people stuck in muni vehicles while we deal with switch problems at the deboss switch we need to simply fight the subway and make it more reliable. Service changes do several things. Were hoping it will significantly improve reliability with the m, t and n entered the subway and only one line entering the subway at the debose and west portal. More importantly, only the s shuttle will turn back at the embarcadero turnback. This is the most commonplaces it broke down and will deliver a significant improvement in the capacity of the subway by only having two and later in november, threecar trains in the subway. No more onecar trains and by november were hoping most the castro shuttle trains will run through cars to dramatically expand the capacity and performance of the system. Were expecting to get better frequency and reliability so when you need transfer, and therell be a train there and it will have capacity. Changing the system has changed really significant tradeoffs. We are asking passengers on the j to transfer at Church Street station and were investing in temporary plywood accessible platforms in order to make the transfer easier. We need to do a little bit more track and other detailed work in order to extend the transfer to debose and make it a little bit better. We will be doing that work as quick as as we can and at west portal station they can transfer to the t, m or s trains to get downtown or continue to balboa park station to access bart. Were also busy reinventing the bus system and want to reveal the new Corps Service plan starting august 22. This includes all the changes to the rail system, highlighting the new transfer locations and how the rail system works but also pointing out in the highlighted pink color our highest frequency corridors and our best services. As ive mentioned, weve completely reinvented the bus system. Were delivering better frequency, reliability and better speed than i believe muni has ever done in its 110 year history on the geary corridor and entirety of Mission Street and on the San Bernardino pore terro corridors where we need new hours to not leave essential workers behind. Were doing this because we awan donned schedules. Abandoned schedule. Early in the covid crisis we were not able to predict what operators would show up on a given day because we asked those with symptoms to please stay home. Rather than asking them to adhere to a schedule were asking operators to space themselves evenly when the bus in front of them and behind them. This means sometimes the busses running every three minutes, sometimes every five minutes but from a passenger perspective you can see them coming. We eliminated bus bunching because of management and because of the reduced congestion that has arised from covid. You know we are working on expanding on transit only lanes so were ready to maintain the traveltime savings and speed and reliability and capacity on transit as congestion comes back in the next phase of the eopening of the economy. Reopening of the economy and were doing this by looking carefully at our data. Id encourage to you look at the passenger bording data on our analytics site. Its what were using every week in order to reallocate Service Hours where its most needed given the rapid changes in travel demand patterns as the economy changes with congestion we are also using our Equity Analytics tools as were making tough calls about what lines to bring back and what lines not to bring back that were doing it with an eye to who needs that service the most making sure were providing enough Service Within a reasonable walk distance of the people with the fewest mobility choices and least access to Neighborhood Services available in their neighborhoods. So sorry, this is a lot of material but weve been very busy. Finally, i want to conclude with a couple updates on central subway. We are miraculously still on track for completion of the construction work at the end of this calendar year and Revenue Service by the end of 2021. Were working on work at the china town station hopefully finalized this month. The other stations just doing their final finishing work and public art installation. We complete the golden site near 4th and king connecting the tline track to the central track so its theoretically possible to operate a train from this vale valley to the central subway and started the Economic Workforce Development the money for district assistance to qualifying Small Businesses and made substantial progress this week on the settlement of changes and claims with the contractor. I also want to update you on a topic consuming a lot of my time and is specifically a passion of mine which is the tenderloin. A week ago we implemented Additional Space on jones street to allow for walking with social distancing by taking away a lane and well have more interesting improvements and hoping final approval of a full shared space between hyde and larkin streets and a full street shared space on larkin street between eddie and ofarrell and im more excited that in partnership with the communitybased organizations and in the tenderloin and livable city, we will also be implementing our first play street between turk and jones and levanworth starting this saturday. Ill be out there to see how it goes. Im excited were finally making progress and for a city that has the greatest need and complexity and need for collaboration across many departments each of whom have significant needs of their own. Finally tomorrow well be announcing with all the other transit agencies the release of our work called widen together. The transit plan which is a coordinated effort among all the general managers of the bay area transit agencies assuming or making sure we have consistent and high standards for protecting the health of our operators and the public wall transit. That was a lot of taller and im happymaterial and im happy to turn it over for questions, thank you. Thank you. I want to say thank you to you and your team for all the work youre doing right now. This is an incredible report and appreciate the reports i know it takes a lot of effort. I wanted to say that before getting into directors comments. Director heminger. Director thank you, madame chair. I echo your comments on the work being done. Im becoming increasingly nervous how much work is being done by staff and not approved by the board. I wouldnt characterize what id say as a red flag but maybe yellow caution. When we first got into this emergency i think giving jeff a long leash and allowing staff to run made sense. The longer its gone it seems our posture is going to be that were going to be in lock down until we have a vaccine. Thats many more months to come and i do think it seems to me weve sort of settled into a different routine now and that routine would allow for more of a regular order. By that i mean on policy documents they come to the board for approval and to the public for comment and criticism. The muni Corps Service plan ive only seen a meeting and dont feel comfortable with that. If you want a discussion about that, madame chair, its obviously a fair broad comment im making and the one thing i dont want to do is do a 180 and pretend as if everything is normal and we can go back to normal business. But it seems to me were in between those two places now. Were not in an emergency trying to chase our tail. I suggest we think about that. On the budget, i think the trouble with what i saw is that i just saw it and theres a lot of it. If that information is going to do ann good we have to see it before the meeting happens. Im especially interested in gran you gran you granularity month by month. I know youve been back and forth about the sixfoot distance. Can you update us on the status of those conversations and maybe well get more leniency on that standard. Were tong do substantial Research Based on International Best practice as well as a lot of interesting details were getting in to including highlyspecific air flow modelling for our vehicles. Its not just the specifications we have from our hvac and how often on average air flow turns over in the vehicle but the vortics where particulates from a sneeze, how do they travel and do they end up spirals. Were getting into that level of work in helping to make a decision. Dph is making decisions all over San Francisco and treating us like they treat other critical constituents. One of the things were pushing is that the treatment of social distancing rise and fall with the levels of reopening the economy which rises and falls with the amount of freefloating covid out in the community. Basically taking the same Risk Management approach with transit as with other businesses. Director i was encouraged about the report of riding healthy. It strikes me we have two challenges. One is to settle on an unusually agreeable standard for distance and i think frankly the second may be a bigger challenge than the first. The trouble according to the letter from walk s. F. , were on pace to do just as badly as we did last year. I dont know if it we were expecting to do better or worse but it struck me, if thats the case, to do as badly as what was vividly a bad year. What im still searching for is the answer to this question, what will it take to get to zero in four years. What specific will it take or have we just put out a noble goal well throw as many strategies at at possible . The only thing we know with certainty is how not to get there which is to keep going what were doing because what were doing doesnt seem to be working. We need a change in sacramento but what if we dont get change from sacramento. Are we basically saying our goal is contingent on their action . Or is there a way to do it without them . The cameras as an automated device are effective but a motorcycle cop can give people a ticket too. I would appreciate to get your sense of what it will take and as you know my background is in planning where you run a model and you test various strategies and you figure out what you need to get to your goal and thats how you proceed. Do we lack that Analytical Framework with pedestrian fatalities . Maybe we do. It seems to me we need some framework to tell us what you need to do to get to that target and thats getting closer and closer every day. Theres a machine longer to the question much longer question but the projects completed have been very successful in significantly reducing injuries and fatalities on that corridor. Where we have worked, we have been effective. Whats happening is the highinjury network is shifting around based on bad motorist behavior. The fatality on geary and goff was a great example. If the person was driving 65 milesanhour down geary, theres there are solution would physically prevent that from happening and we can go there. Mr. Any directorship im not afraid of making bold decisions but those bold decisions would require a massive mode shift away from driving cars as well as physical changes to the streets that kept car traffic at or around the designed tolerance of the human body which is 13 miles an hour. We can eliminate traffic fatalities if we can bring speeds down. That is also grossly over simplifying a very complex planning issue that involves many factors and obviously we in San Francisco are not going to that kind of an extreme some european cities have to get those tremendous results. We could simply adopt all of oslows approaches to Traffic Management but that would require more change than san franciscans are likely ready for. Director is that a polite way of saying its not reachable . It reachable but it depends on the tools available to us. Automated Speed Enforcement resulted in a 70 decrease in fatalities in washington, d. C. , 70 . Yes, its completely achievable and achievable in ways that protect the personally identifiable data and its equitable based on race and income. It depends on whether our legislators in sacramento are ready to prioritize safety over motorist convenience. Director madame chair, if youll permit me one more question, i promise. Are you saying then we are dependent on sacramento and their action to meet this goal . If we found a couple billion dollars and redo the streets in the 1950s to reprioritize streets and we know how to make them safer but its a multibillion dollar investment. For a zero dollar investment we can solve the problem thats a political problem not a financial problem. Director it seems we should have a deep dive on the solutions and how we think well get to the goal of zero fatalities in four years. I think its a workshop topic we should delve in to. And i have other directors who want to speak. I want you all to weigh in on what levels of decisions you feel we should be sure we want to discuss among the board that staff is making to talk a bit about that and then the other thing is for the financial ports specifically it would be great if staff could get that in advance of the Board Meeting so review them before and ask questions. We are committed to doing that. This is mid august. We dont even have one months of data quite yet. Not only do i want to make sure were bringing those details in advance of the board but we are also presenting that to the public as well. We need to build trust to the public were spending limited dollars wisely to win the ballot in 2022. Director theres a balance in getting everything done and with that director eaken, you have a question or comment . Director thank you. You anticipated a suggestion so ill endorse your recommendation to do a deepdive workshop on vision zero. I heard you just say clearly that where we have implemented our improvement its worked and we have 130 miles of the highinjury network and at the last vision zero plan i saw us i am i am improving. What are the Scaleable Solutions and i dont know what we can do with automated Speed Enforcement but it seems like a larger conversation as well. Other thing i wanted to offer is the budget presentation you gave is excellent and at the end you teed up like an a lot potential and pathways we can go down to will fix the structural deficit you teed up and is compelling and merits the pros and cons on equity and various funding pathways and would like to have that conversation eight future meeting. Thank you. That conversation at a future meeting. Thank you. Director thank you. Im sure the public is thinking about these discussions thank you about the conversations of whats going on in the tenderloin. I know therell be a state of changes made. With the upkeep of the changes in the tenderloin that can attract more trash and garbage and i saw abandoned chairs. Does the upkeep fall to us or department of public works for those new face spaces . Public works. I was happy to see the sweeper but i was wondering if it gets the same level. In the tenderloin, most the projects done there are in collaboration with communitybased organizations who are actually doing a lot of the work of keeping the tenderloin together in partnership with the department of public works and atrac. Director thank you for that. The social distancing on busses the two times ive been on a muni bus since the Public Comment is closed started i feel quite safe but i felt everything was Wearing Masks which helps in the level of confidence. I think taiwan has a notalking on Public Transit rule and im sure thats something you considered and thought about and thought that would help people feel safer because weve all seen the videos of when youre talking theres more spread of saliva and things. Just something to consider. Thank you for bringing up vision zero. I feel like were moving the needle. I feel its difficult but putting it in terms of the dollar amount to spend from an engineering perspective versus automated Speed Enforcement is hard hitting and hopefully well start to get more traction on that. The last thing i want to weigh in on this the level of autonomy and i feel comfortable with it because i feel everything weve done fits with our policy. Theres nothing outside the policies we agreed on but cant leave the public behind because well pay for it at the ballot box the next time theres a funding measure. Theres a balance there and its important the public know we are paying attention and know whats going on and were weighing in on what staff is doing. Thats all. Any additional comments from Board Members before we open it up to the public . To your invitation chair borden ill weigh in on the staff acting expeditiously and bringing items to the board. I think i feel more grateful to staff for taking bold leadership and understand its the role of the board to provide policy and because you were able to take a quick measure you were able to establish the program which has been successful. The work youre doing is excellent and wouldnt want because of the administrative hurdles having to agendize items i wouldnt want to slow the progress. Lets continue the conversation and take action required to meet this moment. Thank you. With that well open it up to Public Comment. Clerk for members of the public who wish to address comments made under the directors report if you are listening by sfgov. Tv please dial 18888086929. The access code is 9961164. Then press 10 if you wish to be added to the queue. Once the top phone line is open the speaker on deck will hear an automated voice telling them its their turn to speak and when you start speaking start with your name and well start your twominute time. Ill give a 30 second time warning when theres 30 seconds remaining after which the chair will say thank you and the moderator will move to the next person. The moderator will let us know when the phone line is open. You have 15 questions remaining. Caller my name is steno. I live in San Francisco in the western edition of district 5 and i dont want another family to go through what ive been through the pain and daily trauma. Im a survivor of traffic and i was hit by a car who failed to yield and im angry because you are well aware that sulton street and many other designs are oppressive street designs exclusively designed to be car centric and not people centric. This is unacceptable. We need to fix the streets so local folks can walk, run, skate, roll, i cannot breathe. A father of two was hit near goff. Theres a lot of road rage in San Francisco. Many more people are driving over 60 miles an hour. Last month same thing happened where another man was killed in an a wellknown intersection awaiting safety fixes. Sfmta must put solutions in place and put peoples safety over motorists convenience. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure which is why i demand sfmta fix the streets. We need desperate fixes with immediate daylighting and where the [bleep] has your board been the past 10 years. How can you ask what vision zero is about . Its a list of solutions. The bloodshed is on your hands. Thank you. Clerk next speaker, please. Caller my name is stephen bingham. Can you hear me . Clerk we can. Caller im a member of families for safe streets and my daughter was killed over 10 years ago in cleveland, four years after graduation and her death was caused as the death in 2013. I do want to echo what was said but i do want to recognize that change is happening. Daylighting, no turn on red and so forth and slow street and a few more cameras. I want to emphasize its happening too slowly. At one point the director said hes willing to take bold actions and i appreciate hearing what has been done but it seems like its tentative moving forward slowly and oakland who had 60 to 70 miles of slowed streets, were still in the tenderloin and though theres progress its very slow. There was speak about problems like no left turns and no turn on red, they dont cost much money. I think you can accelerate the speed with which its happening. Clerk thank you, sir. Your time is up. Caller can you hear me . Im gina leblanc and part of San Francisco area for safe streets and deeply concerned about Pedestrian Safety. Im speaking because i dont want any other mother to feel what i feel or lose what i lost and i was heading home from my nursing shift to have ape important discussion and he was high functioning and brilliant and adventurer and techie and a bowel ball of energy dreaming of work forg working for google and he wanted to go to watch the trains and he preferred walking and riding Public Transit and enjoyed being independent. He came home after the excursion but this was the last time he came home. When he went to bed that night he called out good night mom at 30 in the morning i was startal startaled startled as the came to our home and we went to the hospital and he left to meet a girl and was hit by a truck while walking and the truck was going too fast and my life was shattered in an instant and my life was changed and theres been three excellents in the past five weeks. These people are not just data points theyre lives are shattered. Prioritize Pedestrian Safety and make changes to protect lives. Put solutions in place so many more red light cameras and daylighting and no turn on red and decreasing speeds to keep people safe while crossing the streets. Caller marta lindsey. Thank you. Im calling as a member of the Pedestrian Safety action committee. Im also a director at walk s. F. I was in the inner sunset 13 years and dedicated to raising my children in the city and i walk where dublin oconnor was hit and killed one block from my apartment and in july a man was killed in a wheelchair and once everything opens again ill walk by the site and most live within a stones throw of where someone was severely hit or killed in the traffic crash or know someone who was severely hit and killed. Sfmta directors you have the power to change this. Bring vision zero back to focus in San Francisco. Push for sfmta to show how and when theyll implement the proven tools and across the entire highinjury network. While we need to get a handle speed these will take years to become a reality and we dont have that kind of time. But vision zero front and center i believe we can show whats possible in San Francisco. I have faith in our heart and values and we can save a lot of lives. Lets start adopting all the practices. Thank you. Clerk next speaker, please. Caller my name is hunter sanford. Im a walk s. F. And Bicycle Coalition member and am part of the known High Injury Network in a district with the word Bicycle Safety outcomes in our city. Ive been hit by cars twice in San Francisco and calling because im concerned about the recent surge in pedestrian death coming at a time when our streets have lower than usual car traffic. Year after year we see the same top three factors, failing to yield and failing to stop at a red signal and pedestrians. While theres efforts to lower speeds and installing speed coms razz cameras we know proven ways to act to make them safer the addition of red light cameras and banning red turns on red and speed bumps. Theres not not a sign where amali malulac was killed by a truck. Thats absurd. Expedite sluths to keep people solution to keep people safe through our highinjury network. Thank you. Clerk next speaker, please. Caller im Julie Nicholson and work in the debose triangle and i am too a member of families for safety. Though fairly new im here because its recent i learned first hand the trauma of traffic violence. On january 4 i was running in the panhandle and i was running because i was secelebrating my husbands journey of chemo had ended and i had a feeling of joy and gratitude and i was hit by a driver going almost 30 miles an hour who ran a red light at oaks and messonic and they also hit another driver making an illegal red turn and barrelled over the curb and came into the panhandle and hit me and i was thrown 20 plus feet. My neck and back were broken and needless to say i provided opportunities for new and young doctors at s. F. General to practice their sur suturing. Statistically i should not have survived. I feel fortunate and am grateful and hasnt been that long since the day of my crash. Its very frightening to me when i hear every the man hit and killed and another high injury corridor and what happened on bayshore and geralds where the man was killed at a dangerous intersection. Director tom lin, please direct your staff to recommit to vision zero. We need and i acknowledge the work thats been done but as we heard today we need to do a lot more. We need daylighting, no turn on red and many more red light cameras across the highinjury network. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller im steve lee. Can you hear me . Clerk we can. Caller im calling because death and injury keep mounting and constantly concerned about being hit by drivers and theres been three pedestrian fatalities in San Francisco in the past five weeks. At this rate will surpass the 2019 pedestrian fatalities we spoke about in the meeting. Lives are being cut short. I dont understand why you arent doing more. The fact of the matter is we have the data and solutions to stop many if all the fatalities and injuries. Please direct director tomlin to have the sfmta immediately put solutions in place to keep my family and all pedestrians safe. I dont understand why we cant simply and safely cross the street. Theres Solutions Like daylighting, no turn on red and many more red light cameras across the highinjury network. A walk didnt go by any day without me or my son or my wife seeing a close call. Please, take action now. You need to save our lives and keep us safe. Thank you. Clerk thank you, next speaker, please. Caller im amy benedicte and thank you for the work youve already done to make it safer for pedestrians in San Francisco. As the former speakers have pointed out, theres more work to do. Walking is my primary method of getting around the city more so as im trying to avoid Public Transit during the Public Comment is closed. I start from my home in mission bay. As a pedestrian, im cautiously alert and frankly always afraid as i cross streets. [technical difficulties] i was told by traffic planners including members of your department that turning on lights has been used. I would like the sfmta to move forward with the Pedestrian Safety improvements working towards vision zero especially to institute no turn on red across the highinjury network and throughout the city and replace cameras to record and find drivers who entered pedestrian crosswalks illegally. Thank you. Clerk next speaker, please. Caller between laguna and goff its been in the past two years has been almost five collisions there and three fatalities. Thats crazy. How is there nothing being done. You keep talking about oh, its going to be fixed in the geary project. How is that fixing anything . This is terrible. You guys need to step up and need Speed Enforcement but theres other actions we could be taking now. I know a lot of people have talked about this and im going to move on to Transit Service. Im glad routes are being brought back and its important to realize not all routes are being brought back and some will have to transfer to underground and theres bigger connectivity issues than having to walk from the metro downstairs. One gap with the elimination of golden route 22 which provided service between geary and Golden Gate Bridge hasnt been fare. The 28 is not running there. And get on golden gate transit and its frustrating. I dont understand why we cant run transit and have sidewalks on the streets. Thats all i have today. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller its david billpowe. I agree with az to transparency as to transparency, start by posting director tomlins presentation under reference materials and that can be done today. There was a lot in it and the agency needs a plan to address the muni passenger behavioral issues. That was referenced briefly and there are many. Too muni Service Changes as to muni Service Changes we shouldnt have to choose between service on key corridors and elsewhere in the city. Theres enough vehicles to serve both, period. And the action will likely result of more ceqa appeals or options tying up more agency and Planning Department resources to contest. I hope there is another way to address my underlying concerns in my opinion forcing transit riders to transfer unnecessarily from one vehicle to another and expose them to the possibility of contacting or transmitting the covid19 virus in turn exposing the agency to further legal and financial risk. Thank you. [please stand by] thank you. Next speaker please. You have nine questions remaining. Thank you this is gary toronto. I want to applauds directo applr his presentation. They are going to create more space for these pop up flea markets going up on sixth street. The first thing they need to do is allow people to walk uunimpeded along sixth street. Next vi to sa i have to say a gb was done on jones street. I dont know about turk street. It ought to be left alone unless you want to divert more cars. Im try to go make the suggestion for slow streets. They used to be one way streets. Revert back to one way streets for only one lane. That way you have more room. I appreciate your time and one last thing, im a little surprised about the scooter having accidents. Its really dangerous. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. You have eight questions remaining. Good afternoon commissioners. Im the director at senior and disability action. I want to comment on the j church transfer improvement project. Before i start i wish to note that i emailed my complete comments on the subject to the clerk this morning. I hope you all have access to it. When i first reviewed it project my first thought was it appears thats they want to insert an obstacle course. Place seniors and people with disables havdisabilities have nn exercising enough. It creates more barriers for us seniors with disabilities. Its already[indiscernible]. Why add more travel, wait time for people with mobility aid and issues. Lets add in crossing unsafe crossing on market and Church Street. Especially when the weather is not always that great for us. Im asking you commissioners, we need you to direct sfmta staff to address these additional barriers and do so before its implemented. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have seven questions remaining. Hi. I am snow kelly. I volunteer with the coalition on homelessness. I want to address the directors report on equity which he says must come first. Ridership is overwhelmingly people of color, low income people, and our homeless neighbors. Theres a huge influence on whether people are homeless and allowed to remain in their homes. Im talking about homes on wheels. It isright now during covid there is no poverty toeing. Tow. Even after the city opens up. This is an equity issue. San francisco mta should not add to the number of unhoused folks. Peoples homes should not be towed even post covid. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have six questions remaining. Hi my name is nancy. Im calling because of the death trans. When crossing the street if the left looking right turners, the red light runners will. Red light cameras would make a big difference and might even save my life and the lives of others. We need a plan. What is our plan to expend camera usage. Its long past time to keep people safe in our city. I urge you to focus on decision zero and create a plan. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please sm. She and her. Lots of important things. First of all concerning j church. This transfer has to be backed up with robust and proactive accessibility. The strive for 100 up time with an elevator that needs to be kept operating and needs to be kept clean. Having trouble getting seating on a train thats in a tunnel. If we cant ensure accessibility this plan is going to fail. We have to work on that. We have to be very proactive with maintenance on the sub way. If wwe have to be proactive and rebuild the switches and monitor them in realtime so we dont find ourselves behind the eight ball. We have to be more efficient in many ways. Certainly the collection of fare. We probably save several Million Dollars by focusing our fare collection on a program that you all know about. Ive been talking about it for self years. Selling the scratch off tickets is only going to cost us efficiency. We real ri have to work on providing clipper. It can be done and its reasonable. We have to invest in the systems that allow us to be proactive sm. Thank you. Next speaker please. This is martin calling in from d5. Looking at the way San Francisco has reaked to the covid 19 crisis and only seventy peopleseventy is too many people. Only seventy has died from covid. San francisco is a city that listens to science and experts when we see a threat to public safety. To see the sfmta board know its people are are dying on our streets because we designedthis is something where we identified the corridors and know where the traffic collisions are happening. We have done very little to help save lives. Traffic nightmares. Thorough faithrurthorough farest are killing people. Not just collisions but also through air pollution. As abrant. Next speaker, please. I walk, run, and bike all over the city. Havent died yet but almost many times. You already know how to get rid of[indiscernible]. You can make drastic changes tomorrow. Whats stopping you is you cant get past the car users. The immense harm caused by the power structures of race, jeppedder and sexuality. The sfmta keeps creatin createis of violence. [indiscernible]. I cant even believethe violence is going to continue until the sfmta recognizes its role. Actively rejected driver privilege and works to tear down this power structure thats harming people. Only then will our streets be safe for everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have three questions remaining. Hi. My name is jay bean. Im on the Pedestrian Safety and Advisory Committee on behalf of my district one neighbors. Id like to agree with director when he said we can eliminate traffic fatalities if we can bring speeds down. Unfortunately the data that we have on hand indicates we are not bringing speeds down at all. Violation thats are directly related to vision zero fatalities and injuries. For example, february this year there were 470 citations issued. Thank you. Next speaker please. Move vision zero forward. I urge you to ask the clear meaningful actions that are completed in three, six, and nine months that support Pedestrian Safety on a city wide scale. We cant let our city have an average of People Killed each year. If thats whats happened over the last several weeks continues thats the reality we face or potentially worse. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have one question remaining. Hi, can you hear me . Yes. My name is jessica. I have a child in sfusd in kindergarten. I let a walk in school bus through the tender loin this past year. In 1969 kids walked to school. That is now 13 percent. Thats for kids who live within one mile of school. This is a huge Public Policy and safety failure. With this sfmta board member board and director that is protransit, biking, walking. It should be much harder to drive a vehicle in San Francisco. When i lived in a neighborhood with. That concludes Public Comment on the report. The next item is the report. Congratulations to being elected to the new chair. I appreciate that. Imwhat a year to become chair. Here we are. Lets have a great one together. Ill give you a brief report from our last meeting. We heard a presentation on the yard housing endthe reconfrig configuration project for the yard. We passed two motions for that project. The first one ill read here. The sfmta urges parking for staff and residents at the yard. This should be a minimum of one bicycle parking space per bedroom. That motion was passed unanimously. Our second motion was the sfmta supports the project and urges the maximum must be of Affordable Housing. Develop a detailed plan for the Transportation Plan for the worker needs of the facility. That motion was nearly unanimous. There was only one opposing vote for it which was my vote. The reason that i didnt support that otherwise worthy motion is just due to the ill defined definition of affordable for housing in San Francisco. Which was cosine of kind of a e stand for me to take. Generally its a good proposition. With that i think thats a good segue to just mention that hearing from the discussion that the directors report im heartened to get this really focused to a good narrow discussion about vision zero generally, the efficacy of it and how to bring this all around. Im looking forward to keeping apprised of what the board discusses. With that im conclude my report and thank you all so much. Thank you. And with that we will open to Public Comment in case there are members of the public that wish to comment on the report. I dont know if Board Members had any questions for the motions that were passed. Great. Are there any Public Commenters . This is only Public Comment on matters on the c a c recommendation regarding the modernization project. Go ahead. Hello. This is haden miller. Im in favor of getting as much Affordable Housing as possible. Thats one of the concerns that i think is important to be raised. I was in here about providing Transportation Options sm the San Francisco airporti would urge you to look into something similar. Great. Thank you very much for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have one question remaining. This is bob a senior with a disability. I was not included to the queuethis is a complaint about the j line. Both content and process. The j line changes proposed and already in process would require seniors people with disabilities and especially anybody using a walker or crutches to walk uphill to get to the elevator. The statement that this is a benefit to seniors and disabled is wrong. Theres nothe senior disability actionneither group supported it nor understood it. I want to talk content. We were not told who would make the decision or when. Some of us participated in a Public Comment in july. The construction startednobody at mta is telling those who complain or commented, the process for Decision Making is hidden from the public. Seniors and disabled have to do more to transfer from the current plan. The board needs to thoroughly look at or walk through sm ive ive lived in this area for a third of a century. Its the director of transportation. Widespread, the public and you are being misled about who is going to benefit. This came about long before covid. This was proposed in november before he even took office. This is going to be a construction boon doggle. Good luck. Next speaker, please. You have zero que questions remaining. Well close Public Comment and move onto the next item. This is Public Comment. This is the opportunity to comment on matters not on todays agenda but within the jurisdiction. You have four questions remaining. First speaker, please. Hello. I wanted to call today because im concerned about another micro mobility. I hope that any new company allowed here goes through a rigorous safety. Thank you. Next speake next speaker plea. I only have one item on this Public Comment. I note the recent passing of ken, a long time superintendent. I think there should be a protocol to acknowledge significant passings and retirements. Some of which should suggest naming opportunities and other ceremonies or recognitions sm thanks. Thank you. Nesm speakernext speaker, pleas. I wanted to talk about the rebel scooters ive seen popping up around San Francisco. Due to some safety is issues. Im not sure if they are perp nent or not. Theyve been popping up around town. Thats very concerning. The other thing i wanted to talk about is just mask enforcement. Its really crazy. You know, nobody is doing anything. I know jeffrey talked about training. To han out hasks. The peoplhandout masks. People j. Have you to get them off the bus. Operators are getting unsulted g out there. We need a better solution than just giving people a mask and turning our heads away. Thank you. Next speaker please. You have questions remaining. She and her. Its important that we keep clipper start in mind and turned on. Im not finding anything about it on the front page of the website. It is in the fair schedule. But clipper start is an equity prodprpl. One way we can promote equity is to promote people who qualify on the basis of clipper start. Its a programi see youre going to talk a little about scooters later. I think its important to remember that scooters are an essential part of the mix. It helps people with disabilities. Im a scooter user and someone with a disability. Its essential to be proactive. And to ensure that we continue to look for our funding sm we must not raise fares, the next two years. Promise has been made to the people of San Francisco. We must keep it. People travel regionally on more than one system sm its not yuft about san ran sis koa. We need the information. That means your communication is ineffective, the public is not being informed. That raised a question of do you really care to inform the public, are you involving the public or just throwing up a if afacade. You really arent talking to us, sharing information with us, youre sharing it around us, without us. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any additional speakers . You have one question remaining. Next speaker, please. Yes. This is gary. I would like to update what was reported. Im the first one to say phillip crane is back. He is working very diligently to get a temporary cab stand and proper signage. Its taking too long. Not his doing but the other divisions under mta are not cooperating with him. Its been almost three weeks since we lost that cab stand. The credit union knows about it. I dont understand why you have to let one business operate while you have a major lawsuit against you and youre prepting upreventing us from doing business. Phillip and peter wood, they are doing fantastic jobs. Next issue is you know a lot of people are complaining with vision zero. You need to do a resolution or meet with the police chief to get more cops out there during those times. You can have them direct their resources to doing a lot more on traffic conforcement on the streets. You know, i watch crazy at night, as a cab driver, i seeits nuts. People running lights. I cant believe it. Im sitting at the lights. They are going all the way in the crosswalk when they stop. Its crazy. There are a lot more delivery drivers trying to make money. What you need to do is provide more parking for them. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. You have zero questions remaining. Next speaker . Madam share, theres no remaining speakers on the line. We will close Public Comment on item nine and move onto the next item. Madam chair if i may to respond to one of the issues on Public Comment. We are installing new taxi cab stands at the wall greens and that will happen this thursday. I dont know if the complications with the screen and sfgovtv. We can talk about that at another time. Consider an item separately although that is the norm under covid 19 i will read all items and madam chair, if you would open the floor just for Public Comment on any of the consent calendar items. Establishing two red zones on bryant street. Social distancing and safety project. I wont read those traffic modifications. Item ten point three suspends the requirement in the code permit to be up to one year. Authorizes the director to extend the current permits to six months to respond sto changeing to thecovid 19 emerge. Retain the Directors Authority amends the code to update some croscrossreferences to violatis to the program. Sextend the current per permity six months. Thank you for all of your work during this difficult time. We appreciate your continued effortsall of our employees in San Francisco are w2 in house employees with living wages. We lived up to our promise by walk riding. Before the shelter in place we held over one hundred educational events including bay view contributing freein every event. How to properly park. We followed through on our permit terms successfully. Users who were improperly parking. Utilizing incoming complaints and photos at the end of their ride. [indiscernible]. Thirty seconds. The only Scooter Company to provide servities throughou sere entire covid 19 emergency. We partner with u c sf to help Health Care Workers and staff to get back and forth to work providing over 16,000 rides nationwide. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have four questions remaining. Chair board and members. She and her. I go on record before you in support of item ten point three. The power share scooter program. Conknewity icontinuity in this s absolutely senl. Essential. Im a user of these scooters as i said before. They are very helpful to me. Im sure im not the only disabled veteran who uses scooters. All of the Scooter Companies have been responsive to my needs in my conversation. In this era of covid 1 covid 19o mobility is more urgent than ever in allowing access to the community and moving responsibly in the street and obeying all traffic laws. Social distancing can be accomplished. Yet i support scooter share and common sense responsible regulation and continuity. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon board. Im a Senior Engineer with liveable streets. To address the question, we looked at four different alternatives. We determined that the one in place is the one we can deliver in the shortest amount of time in order to get the facility in place. We considered single separated design that would require modifying which could take six to twelve months depending on how complicated it is. We looked at the feasible design how to slow down that turn across a twolane road way. Also the Single Design played a role in the decision to not move forward with the design as different lanes of traffic see different signal heads. The third design that we consider logos should go onto a path. Theres a couple issues there. The grass and cost and time it would take to put in that measure. It generally does not support the loss of landscaping. We didnt ask about that particular measure because of the cost to put in. We have the crowding issues at the sonic. We thought the current design was the best bang for the buck in terms of quick turn around. We have seen some of the near misses that people talked about. We do plan to extend the advisabilitvisibility zone. We did make improvements and are listening to the observations that we take. Having said that, another consideration is just the nation youre of this temporary project. If we pursue a change that takes six to twelve month it implement. Thats another consideration that we make these decisions. Overall we feel theres an all ages and disables wrying. They can cross with light. Great. I saw your question. Directors, are there any other questions or concerns or a motion on the item . Im happy to make a motion to approve. Ivorieden that path, gosh, probably ten times already. I feel like its working really well so far. Motion to approve. Second. Can you please call the roll. This is a motion it approve all the items. roll call . The consent calendar items pass unanimously. Directors please be advised that the board of supervisors was just approved by the board of supervisorspending swearing in, we hope to see sharon i join you at your september first meeting. With that that concludes the business before you today. Thank you. The meeting is adjourned. Thanks to everybody and staff to make it happen. Bye. Welcome to hamilton recreation and aquatics center. It is the only facility that has an integrated Swimming Pool and Recreation Center combined. We have to pools, the citys water slide, for little kids and those of you that are more daring and want to try the rockslide, we have a drop slide. Exercises for everybody. Hi have a great time. The ladies and guys that come, it is for the community and we really make it fun. People think it is only for those that play basketball or swim. I have been coming to the pool for a long time now. It is nice, they are sweet. In the aquatics center, they are very committed to combining for people in San Francisco. And also ensuring that they have public safety. There are a lot of different personalities that come through here and it makes it very exciting all the time. They, their family or teach their kids have a swim. Of the gem is fantastic, there is an Incredible Program going on there, both of my girls have learned to swim there. It is a fantastic place, check it out. It is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities. It is as good as anything you will find out why mca. Parents come from all over. There are not too many pools that are still around, and this is onestop shopping for kids. You can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. If you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout San Francisco play some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basketball. On saturdays, we have a senior lyons dance that has a great time getting exercise and a movement. We have all the music going, the generally have a good time. Whether it is awkward camp or junior guard. From more information, visit hello im San Francisco mayor london breed i want to thank everyone in San Francisco. Thank you for your patience, for your resilience and listening to our Public Health leaders. I know the last several months havent been easy for anyone. They certainly havent been easy for me. Everyday i hear about the struggles people are going through from friends from family members and from the community. While San Francisco has been a leader in the fight against this pandemic, everyday we suffer losses. People are losing their jobs, people are losing their grip on their Mental Health. Worst of all, people are losing family members to this disease. Even as we endure these losses, im hopeful for the future. These months of Public Health crises and social unrest has shown us that when we come together, we can have the hard conversations and make the tough choices to do what needs to be done. Not just save lives but to address systemic racism head on and change society as we know it. I know today is about our budget and our path forward. As we step into the future, one that im hopeful for, is important we take a moment to recognize where weve come from. At the beginning of this year, we were living in a different world. Our Unemployment Rate was at a historic low. Tourism was at alltime high. Hotels were full, we had all plans to shape the future of this city we all love. I know i have plans to address homelessness and housing, to reimagine our Mental Health system, to improve transportation and make our streets safer and build a more equitable city. To lift up those who too often are left behind. Like i said, we had lot of plans. What we didnt have plans for was the coronavirus. It certainly had plans for us. Here we are today in a very different San Francisco with Small Businesses closing and schools struggling to bring kids back to the classrooms. With over 180 thousands san francisc100 180,000 sanfrancr unemployment. We have seen San Francisco come together in a way that makes me proud. Proud to be mayor, yes, but also proud to be a san franciscan. We Work Together to make sure thousands of people had access to medical support, to testing, food and housing. We move forward emergency policies to protect tenant and businesses from eviction. Give people emergency sick leave and keep workers safe. We raised millions of dollars in donations through give to sf to support Small Businesses, workers and vulnerable residents. We think people organized to check on elderly neighbors and deliver groceries for those who cant leave the house. While Nursing Homes across the country have been devastated by this virus, we havent had a single death among the over 700 residents at laguana hospital. Weve seen Community Groups rise up to support our most vulnerable residents in the bayview and mission and other hard hit areas. Weve seen the spirit of San Francisco rise to meet this challenge to flatten the curve and then rise once again when the virus came back the second time. Today, we are proposing a balanced budget that closes that 1. 5 billion deficit. While still meeting the needs of our city. Through all of this, we continue to protect our public workforce. Let be clear, when we talk about 180,000 san franciscans applying for unemployment, not one of those people is doing so because of city cut their job. Not one. As our economy plummeted, we wanted our city workers to focus on their health and the health of their families and on serving our residents during this crises. Not on whether or not they would have a paycheck. With the budget im proposing today, i i want to continue to prevent all layoffs. But to do that, we need our labor partners to work with us. We need them to agree to delay any planned wage increases for two years. So far, we are having good conversations with the firefighters and the Police Officers on delaying their raises im hopeful other unions will agree to do the same. I dont think this is too much to ask. Our entire city is suffering now. We all need to do our part to hair in that sacrifice. I want to be very clear, if the union dont agree to delay their raises, then we will be forced to lay people off. We will be forced to cut city services. We dont want to see those unemployment numbers go up because we are forced into layoffs. Thats not what i want. Its not what anyone wants. Im hopeful that our labor partners will step up and work with us in the coming weeks. Because there is a lot we have to do with this budget. Including continuing to fund our ongoing Covid Response. We all know we are living with covid for the next year. Likely longer than that. San francisco has been a National Leader in responding to this pandemic, thanks to our efforts to follow the data, build a testing system from scratch, create a robust Contact Tracing team and provide food, support and shelter for our most vulnerable residents. We will keep doing everything we can to get this city through this pandemic. Hopefully the federal government will continue to provide the necessary support. We know the federal government wont cover everything. Thats why we are putting 93 million from our general fund towards supporting our continued Covid Response. This is a significant investment but honestly, its not really a choice. Without a strong and sustained Covid Response our students wont return to school, people wont go back to work and our economy wont recover. Even as we continue to wrestle with covid, we cant lose sight of other key priorities. Our homelessness crises didnt go with covid. Covid has made it even more challenging. I know people are frustrated with what they see on our streets. We have had to reduce capacity in our existing shelters by 70 leaving more people out on the streets. Our outreach workers continue to do very difficult work all while practicing social distancing. We met this challenge by moving thousands of people into hotel rooms, trailers, safe sleeping site and new emergency shelters. This work took an amazing effort from city staff and nonprofit partners, work that normally take months and years in planning and implementation done in a matter of weeks. The tenderloin alone we moved over 500 people. We are expanding those efforts oeffort neighborhoods like selma and the mission. While we are seeing some progress, frankly its clearly not enough. We need more than shortterm hotel rooms. We more than parking lots for safe sleeping sites. We need housing. Lots of housing. Thats why this budget funds 1500 new units supportive housing. Which is part of our homeless Recovery Plan to move 4500 people from hotels, shelters and the streets into housing in the next two years. It will help us as a city meet the needs of the unsheltered and our residents who are frustrated by the conditions they see everyday in our neighborhoods. We also cant lose the progress weve made on improving our Mental Health system. Including funding Mental Health sf. That means adding more Mental Health beds, expanding our Behavioral Health Access Center so people can get Immediate Care when they need it and improving the system of care so that people struggling with Mental Illness and addiction. Were also creating a new Crises Response Team so that when you call 911 or 311, because someone on the street is clearly having a mental breakdown, we can send a team which includes a paramedics, clinician and Behavioral Health peer. We need to shift the burden Mental Health response call away from the police its not fair to ask our officers to do the work of Mental Health professionals. Its not effective for those in crises. This is a key piece of our Police Reform efforts. In addition to doing the work to call for service, i laid out three other major areas for Police Reform. Addressing accountability and bias, getting rid of military grade weapon and equipment and redirecting Law Enforcement funding towards the Africanamerican Community. While all are important, its the last one i want to talk about today. As a black woman who grew up in poverty in this city, Police Brutality was all too common. It was something we expected and complaints were usually ignored. Two months ago, the murder of george floyd shook this country to its core. In a way that i have never seen before. People responded like i have never seen before. Seeing people not just africanamericans, rise up against Police Brutality gave me hope that real change in this country is possible. But for those who support this movement, for those who truly believe that black lives matter, its important that we listen to black voices. Its important that we allow black people to lead this movement. Im not just talking about me or any of our black elected leaders who have been fighting this fight for generations. I mean we have to listen to the people in the community. We have to listen to the people who have seen and lived the devastation resulting from decades of disinvestment. We have to listen to the people who dont come to city hall because theyve known too many broken promises, made by those in this building who believe they know what is best for black people in this city. Thats why the first thing supervisor Shamann Walton and i said, when we announced we wanted to reprioritize funding to support the black community, was that this had to be a communityled process. Earlier this week, the Human Rights Commission released an initial report that highlighted what the Community Wants us to focus on. This report is the first step in guiding not just the investments we make with this budget but the change we need to make in the years to come. Changing the inequities in our country wont happen overnight. We wont change the fact that africanamericans have the lowest Median Household Income in San Francisco overnight. We wont change the fact that black people have the highest mortality rate for nine of the top ten causes of death in San Francisco overnight. We wont change the fact that Graduation Rates for africanamerican students in our Public School system is just 53 . We wont change that overnight. We wont change the fact that nearly half of San Francisco Police Department used to force cases involve black people overnight. We will change these facts with this budget. We are listening to the community and prioritizing investments in the Africanamerican Community around housing, Mental Health and wellness, workforce development, economic justice, education, advocacy and accountability. As a first step in this effort, we will redirect 120 million from Law Enforcement to support these priorities over the next two years. Let me repeat that, this is 120 million. Its a first step. If we are going to make real change, we need to do the hard work. Its going to take all of us coming together, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. I often talk about how i overcame poverty, despair and vince to become violence to become mayor. My goal with these investments and this change in how we prioritize the black community is simple. I want my story, my experience to be the norm and not the exception. I want black girls growing up today to rise not in spite of their upbringing here in the city but because of it. I want black boys growing up today to thrive because we chose how to change the city and how this country treats our young black men. Not as a statistic or an tragedy but as an important part of our citys future. If we accomplished nothing more than that during my time as mayor, i will leave this office proud. I want to end by acknowledging the leadership of a few of the people who are central to this budget process. First, i want to thank board president norman yee and budget chair supervisor sandy fewer to continuing to be strong and collaborative leaders. Over the coming weeks, we will work with both of them and the board of supervisors to finalize this budget so that we can continue to deliver for the people of San Francisco. I want to thank controller ben rosen field for the work he and his team has put in as well as all the city departments who worked to find ways for us to close this deficit. Finally, i want to thank my budget team. Led by ashley golfenburgering. San francisco is lucky to have these two strong smart women leading this challenging process. Now at this time, i want to introduce ashley whos going to give us a short presentation on our budget. Good afternoon, thank you mayor breed. Im the mayors acting budget director. I like to thank the rest of the mayors Budget Office team who worked so hard to put this budget together under mayor breeds leadership. Today im happy to walk you through the details of the mayors fiscal year 2021 and 2 2122 budget. The total size of the proposed budget is 13. 7 billion in fiscal year 2021 and 12. 6 billion in fiscal year 202122. The fiscal year 2021 proposely budget represents a 1. 4 billion increase over the fiscal year 1920 budget primarily driven by one expenditure related to the covid19 pandemic which go away in the second year of the budget. The total proposed budget is made up of 7. 5 billion or 54 Nongeneral Fund expenditures which include enterprise and selfsupporting activities. 6. 2 or 46 of general Fund Expenditures. It is important to note that selfsupporting and Enterprise Funding are restricted and not eligible to be used to balance the citys General Fund Budget. These includes things like operations that are airport, the Public Utilities commission, port and the mta. It is also important to note that the 3. 9 billion of the 6. 2 billion in general Fund Expenditures are restricted by state and federal reimbursements and voter mandated services for children, transit and seniors. The remaining 2. 3 billion represents Discretionary Fund budget available to pay for the Public Services san franciscans rely on. The mayors proposed budget achieved four key objectives. It balances the budget responsibly, avoiding layoffs for City Employees and Major Service cuts, it makes progress on shared priorities of homelessness and Behavioral Health. It reinvest significant resources toward initiatives that support Racial Equity and identifying alternatives to policing and it maintains a robust importance to the covid19 pandemic. The mayors required by the charter to submit a balance twoyear budget. The proposed budget utilizes variety of one time and ongoing revenue and expenditures solutions to balance this projected shortfall while also investing in shared priority areas. The may 2020 joint report projected a 1. 5 billion twoyear General Fund Budget shortfall. Driven by stark revenue losses resulting from the Economic Impact of the covid19 emergency. In july, worsening Economic Conditions resulted in a further downgrade of revenue projections for the upcoming budget period. To overcome the shortfall, the mayors proposed budget utilizes reserves, new revenue and other savings. The mayors proposed budget utilizes 340 million from the citys main economic reserves during the budget period ensuring reserve balances remain in tact to hedge against future risk. The budget assumes ongoing excess reserve from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund or eraf to balance the shortfall. The proposed budget assumes 300 million that will become available with the passage of Business Tax Reform measure. In order to avoid layoffs and maintain critical city services, the mayor has asked the citys labor unions to defer scheduled wage increases over the period of the twoyear budget. The savings associated with that are reflected this proposed budget. Lastly, the mayors proposed budget assumed many citywide and departmental saving. It includes underfunding the citys Capital Equipment and i. T. Programs, only funding critical projects while deferring other new costs. This also includes savings offered by city departments that keep positions vacant and achieve other efficiencies all while avoiding layoffs and Major Service impacts. Taken together, these solutions equal 1. 9 billion over the two years. Despite the economic challenges we face, the mayors propose the budget is able to make over 300 million in targeted investments in priority areas. The mayors proposed budget invest general fund dollars in Behavioral Health and homelessness, maintaining the investments weve made in shelter, Navigation Centers and Behavioral Health beds while also feeding new general fund support such as the homeless rory plan and Mental Health sf which will be implemented through the passage of the november business tax measure. The proposed budget also reinvest 120 million in Law Enforcement funding over the next two years to support programs and services that benefit the Africanamerican Community and advance Racial Equity in our city. The proposed budget also seeks to prioritize youth investing 15 million in onetime support to the San Francisco Unified School District to provide needed Financial Relief and support for vulnerable students. Lastly, the mayors proposed budget maintains robust response to the ongoing covid19 pandemic. Allocated 100 million in new general fund support. The mayors proposed budget is able to close the projected shortfall without layoffs and Minimal Service impacts. However, we are just beginning to see the effects of this recession and must remain vigilant of the risks that uncertainties that lie ahead. Before the pandemic, San Francisco had approximately 1 billion in reserves. The proposed budget will utilize about half of those reserves over the coming three years, leaving the remainder to hedge against significant risk that far exceed the remaining reserves. These risks include the failure of the november 2020 Business Tax Reform measure, which should not prevail could create 300 million shortfall. The proposed budget assumes that the city continues to receive fema reimbursements for eligible covid expenditures through the end of the fiscal year. Should the federal government declare the emergency over, the city would face a significant financial burden to continue to respond to covid. A prolonged worsening of the pandemic would negatively impact the citys finances both in the form of ongoing expenditures not planned for in this budget and in worsening conditions that can further slow economic recovery. While we believe the assumptions around access eraf and other state revenues are sounds, theres risk that worsening conditions that the state level can result in further losses of state revenue. Lastly, while this budget proposed ongoing solutions, the city still faces a structural deficit and must maintain reserves. To conclude, while the proposed budget balanced it is balance end on a number of asunshines that could fail to materialize which under underscores the importance maintain reserves to guard against these future risks. Thank you. Thank you ashley. Thank you again. Nothing about this pandemic is easy. Nothing is certain. I believe that the more transparent we are with the facts and the more honest we are with the challenges we face, the better off we will all be. I know we will get this budget passed. We will continue to keep people healthy and safe and we will get through this challenging time together. Main menu press star 3 to raise your hand. To access the help menu. Clerk [roll call] good morning, ladies and gentlemen, this is the recreation and Park Commission meeting what is today august 20, 2020. Just a few notes, note that due to the coronavirus excuse me due to covid19, the Health Emergency and to protect the Board Members and the City Employees, city hall is closed. However, this meeting is remotely at the same extent as if physically present. We ask listeners to turn down your televisions or computers while listening to the phone call. We ask for your patience and as we may experience some issues, we are working on a new phonein platform right now. 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Written comments may also be sent via u. S. Postal service to the San Francisco recreation and Park Commission at 501stanger street, San Francisco, 94177. And the meeting is recorded and it will be available to you later on sfgovtv. Org. Were now on the president s report. President buell thank you very much, a couple of pieces of communication that id like to pass on as compliments to the staff. First to read, i was leading a small group on a hike through Golden Gate Park today and my staff member sat on a Yellow Jacket nest and several campers were stung. This stuff happens and everyone was fine in the long run. The nest was likely new since we pass through this area often. Im not writing to complain in any way. What i wanted to reach out is about the response that i got from one of the park groundkeepers and gardeners. I flagged him down to explain what happened and i had no clue what to do to get them back. Without hesitation, the rec and park employee agreed to help and went and retrieved the backpack and some other items even though he appeared to get stung as well. He told me his name was m. Preston and i wanted to make sure for the fact that he went above and beyond and was acknowledged with his supervisor and boss so im advising his boss right now. To thank him on behalf of the commission. Secondly, and heres a second one, i must say that it has exceeded expectations. They have followed all of the Safety Standards and i trust my children with them during this time. The camp is organized, checkin and pickup are safe and seamless. I have never seen a staff member without a mask. The pods stay separated throughout the entire time. Cynthia is heavily involved with the success of the camp. I work out at qusar so i see her taking notes for each pod and checking in and ensuring that everything is organized and safe. What i am most thankful for is cynthias ability to lead by example and to connect with my nephew whose had recently come into a new environment. He comes from a traumatic background which causes him to have a lot of different challenges. Cynthia has taken the time to connect with him and guide him in a positive way. He looks forward to going to the camp every day. Lastly, the staff has done an amazing job really showing their care for the kids. Coach layman goes above and beyond and demonstrates his genuine love for my young nephew. Coach kevin has also worked really hard to create an environment where my nephew can succeed while learning the basics of his favorite sport. A huge shoutout to the entire qusar summer camp staff. I appreciate them immensely. Keep up the great work. So thank you again for for the staff that goes beyond the call of duty. With that that concludes my president ial report. Clerk now Public Comment. If theres anyone on the line and you would like to comment excuse me on the president s report, dial star, and then 3, to be added to the queue. All right, seeing no hands up we will close Public Comment. Were now on item 3, the general managers report. Thank you, stacy, and thank you, mr. President. I will pass on the remarks from your report. From my report, i wanted to start this morning on an update on dodolores park. And d dolores park is as busy as ever. And in the interest of Public Health and keeping our park open, our staff in partnership with the San Francisco Police Department, and the sheriffs department, and the public command center, and the joint Information Center and many other City Partners and community partners, theyve been out in the park for the past several weekends for outreach and educational reasons to maintain people to have proper social distancing and to wear masks. This past weekend our park rangers and other agencies reminded more than 10,000 people to wear masks and handed out nearly 4,000 masks. Our outreach efforts include social distancing circles, increased mask signage outside of all restrooms and bulletin boards. And park staff are monitoring the restrooms to ensure that the masks are worn. And Hand Sanitizer and mask stations and messaging on the lawns to wear a mask. And a big social media campaign. I want to thank the rangers who have really just done a remarkable job and our Public Affairs and outreach for all of the work theyre doing in this busy, crazy park to help to keep people safe. And i now weve all seen the countless viral videos of incidents happening across the nation that shows politically divisive rants during what is a very highly charged time in our history. Unfortunately, and i think that as commissioners most of you know, a similar incident happened at dolores park involving one of our employees. For background, they work on our highly successful Love Dolores Campaign that offers education and outreach within the park to inspire healthy and considerate park behavior. Precovid, their efforts had helped to reduce the litter in the park by nearly 73 since 2015. Since covid, andres led the efforts to encourage mask wearing and social distancing. And they were the subject of a womans rant against masks, signage and playground closures that in turn turned very personal against andres. A video of this interaction is shocking. The parks have to be sacred space where is were all equal and equally welcome. This is where we are safe to work, to rest or play. And places where we can invest in our own physical health and mental wellbeing, and places where we respect our neighbors fundamental instinct to do the same. As Public Servants weve all had our share o challenging interactions with the public from time to time, but no one has to endure the indignities that was faced the other day. Without question, andres has the full unwavering support of this department and we stand in solidarity against bigotry and hatred. We are also in contact with the Police Department and the City Attorneys Office on this matter. Im so sorry that this happened to andres doing a job that i know that they care about in a park that i know that they love. Im proud they didnt run from hate, but instead confronted it like they confront everything that comes their way in crazy dolores park, with grace. Moving on, as if a pandemic and a racist rant werent enough, i want to provide an update on the fires around the bay area and the impact on air quality in San Francisco and our parks. In conjunction with the current east wave and the fires in and surrounding the bay area, the air quality in San Francisco has declined to levels that are unhealthy. Hopefully this will pass in just a day or two. In the meantime, we are reminding staff of the requirements that our outdoor environment and safe practice, as they pertain to the heat and the smoke. And we have included those steps needed to continue to comply with covid19 requirements to ensure that our staff are safe. More updates to come if this air quality issue continues. And i want to provide an update on emergency child and youth care in the Community Learning hub, Something Else that has gotten a lot of attention of late. In late july, mayor breed announced that rec and park, in partnership with the communitybased agencies and other city departments, will implement the Community Learning hubs. A citywide neighborhood bay strategy to support the children, youth and families during this time. The hubs will provide support for students in grades k6, who are utilizing the sfpd Distance Learning curriculum. And not just prioritize, but its designed for children and youth with the highest need in our city. The registration kicks off on monday, august 24th on the dcyf website. They are working with Human Services agency, school principals, to identify our highest need students based on several criteria. And the program will begin september 14th. It is by invitation. Eight of our own sites are designated as Community Learning hubs. And it will provide approximately 300 slots for highneed students. Those sites are the rec center and the Eureka Health center and joe lee rec center, and minni lovely ward, and the tenderloin. In addition, your department will be continuing to provide emergency child and youth care for families of Health Care Workers and activated Disaster Service workers at five additional sites, beginning august 31st. There are approximately 200 Slots Available in this program. And our staff is actively working with this program, and most of all ready for the fall. We went back to the families that were participating in this program in the spring and are still eligible for it. And those sites are the glen park Recreation Center, the hamilton Recreation Center and the patrero Recreation Center and the sunset Recreation Center. This will be the vast majority of the programming that we will be providing in the fall. I cannot emphasize enough just how proud you should be of the recreation and Park Department staff during this response. From our recreation staff to our custodial workers to our structural manslaughter staff md to our Park Maintenance staff, you know, every single Frontline Worker in our department has had a hand in the citys response to covid. And it is worth noting that our recreation staff now going on six months has come to work, has showed up every single day to care for our citys children. They have been selfless and they have been completely mission aligned. They have been caring and compassionate. President buell as you alluded to about the summer camp, they have been absolutely wonderful. I want to provide an update on exciting developments at indian basin. The india basin project team and this is also a partially a Covid Response strategy, is working to have a semioutdoor tech hub to provide highspeed connectivity and the access to devices as needed, user support and technology training. The tech hub will be set up in the parking lot at indian basin shoreline park. And Public Health protocols are put in place and improved as part of the hubs permit to operate. The plan is to have Internet Access starting in late august or early september, to prepare for the resumption of schools and to grow the program over time. The current plan is to operate wifi and to offer loaner devices at t