Transcripts For SFGTV SFMTA Board Of Directors 20240712

Phone lines to be open to see if there is a Public Comment . Chair borden yep and is there you have chair borden how many . You have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion . Secretary boomer, please call roll . Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Madame chair, the minutes are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. Chair borden as many of you have learned, our heart was broken this weekend with the untimely passing of one of our own. Antonio, a muni operator with the Transportation Agency for 19 years, was known for being deeply committed to his job and well known by the people on his buses and in many communities. He was born and raised in the Richmond District and leaves behind wife jennifer, three children and grandchildren. Well have this meeting adjourned in his memory, but im devastated. I want to thank his family to loaning him to us. He did die in service. If we could just take a moment of silence. [moment of silence observed] chair borden thank you. With that, i just, again, well i adjourn the meeting in his memory. I want to thank the Transit Workers Union who was with the family on saturday when this happened. It was wonderful he was able to be with them directly. And thank the mayor who also reached out directly to the family. Its important we support our operators and their families in these times. I just really wanted to note that, because i think its important that we are a family at sfmta and were part of a larger city family. I that i people have i think that people have to remember that. Our people are working hard during this pandemic to be there for all san franciscans and lets treat each other with kindness being the family we are. With that, ill read my fun covid19 messages i have to read. Due to the covid19 health emergency, this meeting is being held virtually with all members and staff participating via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the board of directors, staff and members of the public. In our published notice for the meeting and on the web page, we ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board or leaving a voice mail message. Thank you for honoring our request. I will remind the public, if you send the comments on the day of the board meetings, its less likely weve seen them. We continue to urge the public to write the board or call us at 415 6464470 in advance. Later, youll get a number for calling in now. It may not be as seamless as we would like it to be. There may be gaps and silence. Please know were doing our very best and ask for your patience and understanding. If we lose the phone connection during the meeting, we will pause the meeting until the connection has been reestablished. I want to thank everyone making this happen. There is a lot of people behind the scenes. If you could see, there are 20 people involved in making these meetings happen. Secretary boomer . Thank you, madame chair. Members of the public, this meeting is televised by sf tv. For those of you watching the live stream, there may be a time lag between the actual meeting and what members of the public are seeing on gov sfgovtv. If youre watching sfgovtv and you wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is being called. For members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on items on the agenda, the phone number to use is 18888086929. The access code is 9961164. Please make sure that you are in a quiet location, that you turn off t. V. , radio, or if youre live streaming, that you mute the sound. This will reduce reverberation to the board so the board can hear you. When youre on the phone line, at the appropriate time, the chair will ask for the phone lines to be opened. If you wish to comment on a particular item, you will be prompted to press 10. This will add you to the speaker line. The prompt will say that callers are he wanting the question and entering the question and answer time, but this is the Public Comment period. Youll be queued up in the order you pressed 10. There will be an automated voice that will tell you when its your turn to speak. When your microphone has been unmuted, youll hear us to ask you to state your name and make your comments. Ill start your two minutes when you begin talking. Ill say 30 seconds when you have 30 seconds remaining. When the time is up, well thank you and ask for the next caller. At that point, the moderators will put the speaker back on mute. Ill repeat the instructions how to make Public Comment again, as im aware some may join the meeting late and have not heard the information. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Madame chair and director chair borden sorry. Director eaken, i know you had a comment. Ill entertain everybody else after. Vice chair eaken thank you, chair borden. I just wanted to join chair borden in welcoming director lai to the sfmta board. Were thrilled to have you here. I just wanted to come back to a scene that i heard a voice pretty strongly by the public during the last meeting which was around vision zero and the need for a workshop to examine how were going to get on track to the date weve committed to. So the staff is working toward that. Just wanted to resurface that conversation because there were so many heartbreaking stories shared last meeting. Make sure were moving to address the call we heard from the public. Thank you. Other directors, any other items of new or Unfinished Business . Wonderful, director lai, not to put you on the spot. Did you want to say anything . Its your first meeting. Director lai thank you, chair borden. Ill keep this really short. Thank you for the warm welcome. I look forward to tackling the tough challenges we have ahead. And really looking forward to working with the board as well as the community. Thanks. Chair borden with that, secretary, we can move on. Item 7, directors report. Good afternoon. Director eaken, as you requested, our staff is preparing a deep dive into vision zero. So im not covering that in this report as were preparing for an additional report. Im also not going to be covering the rail system restart because that is item 12 on your agenda, and transit director will be providing a deep dive on that topic in this meeting. Let me bring up my screen. Instead, we can talk a little bit about updates to slow streets and to shared spaces as well as our efforts on bus system expansion. Can you all see my screen now . Yes, we can. Great. So as you know, we brought this map forward to you at our last meeting. Our paint and sign traps have been very busy over the last six months and are gearing up for implementation of the next round of slow streets implementation. Well be working on clay and pacific in Pacific Heights creating a strong east west corridor in the northern parts of the city. Bernal heights and starting to piece together a network. More importantly, were also understanding that the interim materials weve put in place on the existing slow Street Network are very interim. Weve been grateful to residents in several of our slowstreet corridors who are working hard to keep our signs upright, to keep the sandbags filled with sand, to address the levels of vandalism were seeing on our products out there. But in the meantime, were working towards using slightly more permanent materials, specifically, epoxy posts. These will still be very temporary, but a little harder to move or damage. And, therefore, we hope more resilient. And hopefully reduce the amount of time were spending keeping signs in place so we can, instead, expand the slow Street Network. Were also working on better signage to help slow streets residents recognize that you are welcome to drive on this block in order to get to a destination on the block or to get to a business on the block. Some of the signage has been a little unclear weve heard. The other big news, with the reopening of many news businesses starting yesterday, weve gotten a huge increase in request for shared spaces. Staff are working very hard, both at the mta as well as d. P. W. And the Planning Department, the Mayors Office of economic workforce and development, and of course, the Fire Department, in order to process fees requests for curbside within 72 hours and mostly within two weeks for more substantial requests. We have approved over a thousand to date. And will likely double that number in the coming weeks as more businesses reopen. And were getting all kind of creativity out there on the streets, including requests for entire lane closures like this in north beach, to entire street corridors like weve seen on grant in chinatown. Or along 18th street in the castro. And were expecting to get more full block street closures in the coming weeks. Weve approved 14 of them. And some of those have been postponed as a result of the air quality, but were expecting several to be re opening in the coming months. The other thing, of course, that we did a week ago is made, not just changes to the rail system, which julie will be talking about later in this presentation, but substantial improvements to the bus system. Thanks in part to more stable availability of operators, but also very much thanks to the hiring that we have done for car cleaners. The fact that weve been able to expand car cleaning and the efficiency of the cleaning has significantly increased the availability of buses which enabled us to put more operators to work, which enabled us to expand services to critical corridors throughout San Francisco. Some of the most notable new lines weve been able to put back in place is the 67 bernal, serving not only the heights, but lowincome housing projects on the south slope of bernal. Very important place to serve. About half of the 37 lines serving the fairly high density apartments east of twin peaks. We were able to fully complete the full route of the seven along haight street. We extended the 44. We were able to restore half of the 48 between west portal to dog patch. And we were able to solve multiple problems in chinatown but reestablishing the 45 to serve union street that helped solve the congestion along stockton street, but extension of the 30 stockton bus to the presidio allowed us to run buses through client serving chinatown. The presidio solved multiple problems for us. It allows for better capacity in chinatown. It allows us to provide a proper terminus to buses while reducing negative impacts on the district. And very importantly, it allows residents in two of the densest parts of San Francisco, chinatown and south of market, also neighborhoods that have the least access to public open space, to have direct access to a national park. So were very pleased with that extension and very happy to have done that in partnership with the presidio trust. And then finally, we made another dozen improvements on a variety of lines that were experiencing crowding in order to allow us to reduce the number of essential workers that are left behind at the curb every day as a result of social distancing. And that is the end of my report. Chair borden wonderful. Directors, any question for director tumlin . Start preparing the moderator to open the line for Public Comment. Direct director . Director heminger yes, madame chair. Why dont we take the Public Comment. Im sorry about that, director. Go made. Ahead. Can you hear me now . Yes, we can. So i had comments on the minutes and i called in quickly and announced myself and was not called on. I dont believe that there is no crawl on the screen with the phone number to call and that was not announced prior to taking action on the minutes. So can we go back to the minutes, rescind the vote and take my Public Comment on the minutes before we get to the directors report . Let me have the attorney clarify. We did ask for Public Comment. I dont know if and we opened the line. It said there were no callers. So im uncertain with you the meeting but the meeting had not broadcast on sfgovtv and there is still no crawl on the screen with the information and number. Do you know at which point, the meeting, that you started to see the meeting visible . It was about its usually about 40, 45 seconds after the live phone voice audio. Chair borden all right. We actually im sorry, directors. City attorney, susan cleveland. Its up to, the meeting is under way, but if you would like to take the Public Comment on the minutes and revote on the minutes, you could do that. Its not legally required. I would suggest there is a delay in moving forward, that you allow a couple of seconds before you move on to the next item. Im not sure if were still experiencing that delay. Perhaps the secretary could speak to that. Chair borden secretary boomer, do you know if were experiencing a delay so we could pause a little more . Im not aware. I know members of the public may experience a delay under communications and that has to do with their personal band width capacity. There was a significant well, significant there was a certain period of time between the time you called the meeting to order following the roll call before we got to the approval of the minutes, so i couldnt speak to what happened here. Chair borden okay. Go ahead and make your comments on the minutes. Okay. In the meantime, there is now a crawl across the screen with the phone number and the access information. So thats helpful. So on the minutes from august 18, under item 7, directors report, there are two paragraphs about director tumlin making presentation and chair borden asking staff about vision zero. There is no captioning of director hemingers comments about having more openness and posting information in advance. I spoke to that in my Public Comment on page 4, so i would suggest and encourage you to add a line about director heminger asked information be provided in advance of the meeting. Im not going to get into the specific edits about how things are written here, but i would say on page 6, under Public Comment, i noted that 30 seconds the agency should have a protocol to recognize passings. Thats a plural and not a possessive. So the apostrophe should be removed there, otherwise, i think im okay with the draft minutes. Do you want to take that and then how do you want to handle my separate comment on the directors report today . Chair borden well take that actually, why dont we go ahead and take that under consideration and then maybe we can go back to revisiting the minutes to make those edits and then i dont know if director heminger has anything to add specifically to what has not been represented. Thank you for your comment. I think let me make sure no additional Public Commenters on the directors report, since thats initially what we were discussing. Thats fine. Ill hold my comments on todays directors report. Chair borden okay. So then all right. So any other Public Commenters on the directors report, well go back to the minutes momentarily, but this is specifically a time for people to comment on what director tumlin just specifically talked about, which was related to slow streets primarily. Moderator, are there any callers on the line . You have four questions remaining. Chair borden okay. Go ahead. Hi. Im actually calling in about the extension of 30 express. If you could give us your name, that would be great. Great. My name is joe ferraro, 25 year resident of the marina district, a frequent rider of the 30 and 30 express. I had some strong concerns about the 30 stockton extension. Summarized as its unsafe. Its unnecessary. And i think its bad government. And let me explain those in a little more detail. I know i only have a couple of minutes here. In terms of unsafe, the street is very narrow, so putting buses on a street where there are is retirees and young kids doesnt make sense. The route has multiturns where theyre not necessary and thats going to lead to delays in traffic, additional policing and potential problems. There is a threeton restriction for commercial vehicles on the boulevard. I know that doesnt apply to muni vehicles, but that threeton weight limit is there for a reason. Weve been told its anecdotal. I dont have evidence of this, but weve been told that the water barrier between the marina and the land is unsafe and has not been reinforced. And consequently running highweight vehicles around the boulevard is going to lead to problems with the sea wall there. Thats what i mean by unsafe. Unnecessary, i would say again, as im a frequent rider of the 30, it intersects with multiple lines that currently access the presidio. It might have been delayed during covid, but the intersection with 28 and the 43 at multiple locations. And what i encourage you to do is rethink why you want to connect the 32 to the presidio rather than just using the 28 and the 43 that are already connecting in there, and use that. And lastly, in terms of good government, i shouldnt say bad government, i hope were all trying to do the same thing [bell ringing] get the most out of our government. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have three questions remaining. Yes, hi. This is toronto. The delay on the watching on screen, the line across the Public Comment dialin was not on there until halfway through the directors report, so there is a problem there. I want to say about the director report regarding slow streets. It would be great if there is somehow there was Public Notice given to the email list so people could know that theyre going to be think being these slow streets, rather than finding out just through the directors report, so there is ability to do more Public Comment. There is a problem with a lot of the slow streets. You dont find out until youve already turned into it and found out its a slow street. There is bad signage going on. To say that lake and page street seem to work well, but some of the other eastwest streets are a problem. Such as the numbered streets. Because there is no rhyme or reason to them. And i think the ones hes considering for pacific or clay, clay is a very valuable street for cab drivers to get across town in some places due to its oneway aspect. So im concerned there has to be better Public Notice about these streets. Also the board of supervisors today is having hearing on the lack of Environmental Review on the impact and you better listen to the Fire Department when it says it has problems to access. Because you hold up on emergency and you got problems. And some of the streets barely, a vehicle can get through with the signs and the blockage of the street. I dont know how a fire truck can get through. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have four questions remaining. Hi, this is stephen miller. I wanted to call in today, well, for several things. First in terms of the 30 extension, im in support of it. I dont see how it would create more emissions because its an electric bus and 60foot buses are already ran through that section when the 30 express was running and the commuters dont have any problem with that, all the people who live in the marina going to their tech jobs downtown. They only want to complain when other people who might be visitors want to come into the presidio. They want to make a lot of problems. In terms of the 67, i think im glad to see it back, but it was locked two out of the days so far in the seven days that its been back, by dumpsters and parked cars . Why is that . It was blocked all day. The cars should have been towed. I live in the richmond, so im definitely in support of the cabrillo slow street. My name is margaret. And i live in the marina, frequent rider of 30. I want to call in with my opposition to the 30 extension. As i participated in neighborhood letter that we submitted yesterday to sfmta, my request is that you respond to the areas that we outlined. Our concerns largely around the counterproductiveness of this given the citys stayathome orders, the grossly insufficient evidence of weve seen indication that anyone needs or has wanted this extension and access. We request that you address that. There is an insufficient facility to assess the impact on street congestion. We believe this is an infeasible route given the narrowness of broderick street. It would be impossible for buses to pass let alone parking and normal congestion. We request that you reinstate previous routes that provide access to the presidio. As the previous caller noted, there are Weight Restrictions for safety reasons on the boulevard that give us great concern and this has not been addressed. 30 seconds. Lastly, we request that we have greater visibility and involvement in decisions that directly impact this neighborhood. It has been entirely insufficient the lack of communication this neighborhood has received. We request that during this meeting you address all of these concerns and until youre able to do so, this extension be put on hold. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have three questions remaining. Hello. My name is john graul. I live at the corner of broderick and jefferson and i, too, oppose the 30 extension. I have watched this bus for years and there are rarely, rarely passengers that get off at the corner precovid. Since covid, there are almost lit lit literally none. I have watched five, six buses with zero people. You can walk one block to the water and one block to chrissy field. I think its irresponsible to have these buses go both directions on broderick. Please reconsider this and, again, i would like to have it put on a definite hold as well. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have two questions remaining. Can you hear me now . Yes, we can. Okay, so this is david again, this is on todays directors report. So my only comment here i appreciate the prior callers, that is very good feedback. Is to again request that the director tumlin presentation be posted under referenced materials on the website after this meeting and in the future that it be posted before hand so that the public can see the maps and the presentation and whatever director tumlin shares with us. I think its helpful to have it before hand and its unhelpful to have it not available. So please post that after the meeting and in the future before hand. Thats all on this item. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. You have one question remaining. Thank you, chair borden and members. My pronouns are she and her. Concerning this report, while im not particularly familiar with this bus route, in hearing about threeton Weight Restrictions, i think an explanation is deserved and expected as to why some vehicles that weigh more than three tons cannot traverse that section and other vehicles that weigh more than three tons can. Again, not having seen the area, its anecdotal, but i grew up when you saw a bridge with a 10ton weight restriction, it didnt matter what size or type of vehicle it was. If you were over 10 tons, you were not legal and it was compromising the integrity of the bridge. If you ever drive a vehicle onto the truck scale such as a cat scale, regardless of size of the vehicle, the scale is going to register the weight, both in the aggregate and by axles. So i think that has to be explained. As far as the slow streets, i mean, im looking forward to new ideas. And as far as 60foot buses go, i like big buses, but if theyre too big to navigate the neighborhood, then we should use smaller ones. Thank you. Chair borden thank you. Moderator, any additional public callers, Public Commenters on our directors report . You have one question remaining. Chair borden next speaker, please. Hi, this is speaking to followup comment. I referenced im sorry, if you already spoke, youre not allowed to speak twice. I thought somebody said they came back. My mistake. Chair borden equal time for all speakers. We had an issue previously with a person not being able to comment on the minutes, which was another item on the agenda because of delay perhaps with sfgovtv, so we allowed the person to comment on that item and separately on this item, but that was an unusual circumstance that does not usually persist. Okay, thank you. Chair borden moderator, any additional callers on the directors report specifically . You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden with that, well close Public Comment. Director heminger had lifted his hand first. Director heminger thank you, madame chair. Yeah, i had two questions for our director. The first one i noticed in the paper that senator wiener has passed his bill fasttracking transit and i think some bicycle and other kinds of projects. So it would be helpful to see a briefing on that at some point in the future about how we intend to take advantage of that authority. And since hes our senator, show him some early results of his new law. J. Tumlin absolutely. That provision takes effect on january 1st of 2021. And provided a statutory exemption for basically transit, bike and pedestrian projects in the existing public rightofway in urban places. So it should help us significantly remove an obstacle for all of the Rapid Response work that were striving to do to deal with the effect of covid. We are very grateful for the senators work. It should make our work a lot more efficient and allow us to deliver better environmental outcomes in San Francisco. Director heminger thank you. The second one is related to that subject. And also related to the i think we all got a copy of a letter related to some ceqa dispute. And the letter, i believe it was from mr. Pill pell, alleged that in addition to slow streets and shared spaces and the transitonly lanes that weve advanced in this era of covid, there is some Fourth Program im not sure i remember its name or whether it has a name that was the subject of this letter or dispute. And im looking at the face of our director, who should never play poker chair borden [laughter]. Director heminger but he has a quizzical look on his face, i would be happy to have you look up in correspondence and tell me what is going on. But it referenced a Fourth Program that i wasnt even aware of. J. Tumlin im not sure what that program would be, but perhaps the City Attorney might be able to address that question. Secretary boomer might know. She has the correspondence. I dont know. [laughter]. Hi, director, deputy City Attorney. Director heminger, im not aware of the correspondence youre talking about right now, but ill look for it and see if i can get back to you on that. Director heminger thank you. Chair borden secretary boomer, any recollection by chance, because i know you do look and respond . No, not at the moment. I would have to look it up, but we will look it up and will get back to the board. Director heminger actually, i believe it is fell street. There is a ceqa appeal on south street as well, the bike lane that you approved at the last meeting. Chair borden okay. Is that what is referenced in this larger letter of other items . Are we think that is separate . Director heminger my memory as im proving is hazy on this, but i remember seeing the fell street letter, too, so i think this is in addition to that. Sorry im not more helpful, but i wanted to discover if we had secret programs, if i could be let in on the secret. Chair borden well take a look at that letter and get back to you. That brings up a question that maybe the City Attorney can answer, isnt there a around ceqa . Chair borden, and directors, deputy City Attorneys. I want to make sure we dont get into a discussion on this item today because its not on the agenda. But sfmta is defending the use of the statutory exemption along with the Planning Department at the board of supervisors, the first appeal is today. Chair borden no, not on just that item, temporary versus permanent changes in ceqa. Yes, there is also an exemption for a Pilot Program and then there is the statutory exemption for emergency projects. Chair borden great. Thank you for clarifying that. Directors, are there other questions for the directors report, or comments . Great. With that, we can move on to the next item. I can say im personally excited about the extension of the 30 bus line. Madame chair, there was a request by a member of the public for the board to rescind the minutes based on the comments made and reapprove it and i would assume that i dont know if you want to consider that. Chair borden yes. Lets reconsider the minutes. Madame chair, you would have to ask for a motion to rescind the vote on the minutes and then to reapprove. Chair borden great. Wonderful. So that means just fort publics knowledge, were going back to item number 2, potentially. Is there a motion among the board to rescind the approval of the minutes . Motion to rescind. Chair borden a second . Director heminger second. Chair borden great. Roll call of the vote, please, secretary boomer. Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. The motion to rescind the minutes is has been approved. Madame chair . Chair borden with that, i guess we need a motion to amend the minutes to reflect additional context to director hemingers comments and i dont know if you have a recollection of those comments and want to add any sort of color or meat to that . Director heminger madame chair, i really dont feel compelled to alter the minutes on my account. And i thought the purpose of rescinding and reapproving the minutes was because there was a comment pending that we werent aware of when we approved them the first time. So i would move that we approve the minutes again now that the comment has been received. Chair borden okay. Is there a second to keep the minutes as they were originally written . Yes, second the motion to keep the minutes. Chair borden okay, secretary boomer, should we take Public Comment on this item . Madame chair, you have taken Public Comment on the minutes, so you do not need to retake Public Comment on the minutes. Chair borden wonderful. So with that, with a motion and second, please call the roll. Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Madame chair, the minutes are reapproved and just for the record, the materials as requested by director heminger were posted on the meeting page right after the meeting. And so so the suggestion was heard and acted upon. Chair borden great. Next item. Item 8, this is Citizens Advisory Council report. There is no report today. Item 9, Public Comment. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board op matters within the jurisdiction of the sfmta board of directors that are not on todays agenda. We would ask members of the public that wish to address the board on matters within the jurisdiction not on the agenda, to please dial 1 now if youre on the phone line already. If youre not on the phone line already, please dial 888 8086929. The access code is 9961164. Please be advised this information about how to make Public Comment is featured on our web page and also on our agenda, so it is readily accessible and available to the public who want to know how to contact the board. Chair borden great. Can you confirm that sfgovtv is showing the crawl of the number . Is there any way you can make sure that is happening . Madame chair, i cannot at this time at this time i dont have access to that sfgovtv. I can follow up with them and relay the concerns expressed after this meeting. They are also on the line and listening to us as we speak. I can confirm its there. I just checked earlier. Chair borden wonderful. With that, well open up Public Comment. Moderator, please open the line. You have four questions remaining. Chair borden i hear a speaker on the line. Please start. Its again. First, i wanted to encourage you guys to look into opening kirkland and the divisions which have been closed on the weekend for a while now. Especially with all the buses going into the yards between each shift on the weekends when theyre closed. It leads to lower headways from late pullouts, especially on the seven line. And the n bus is not able to run the 60foot buses on the weekend because there is not enough buses because the creek is closed. On the topic of the 30 line, it doesnt pose a problem, because a 60foot bus is just as wide as a 40foot bus. In terms of demand, the presidio actually imnat actually eliminated the chrissy field route which was along the corridor. So it is appropriate. Because theyre not running that segment of the route and even when they do, they do not run a Comparable Service to the one provided by the 30 extension. Chair borden thank you. Next speaker, please. You have five questions remaining. Chair borden and members, mr. Dupri for the record. On general matters, i did read about a Scooter Company called revel that is now operating in San Francisco. This is going to help lots of people. So i am appreciative of this agency in approving the appropriate permit so we can add more vehicles for this most important service. Twowheeled vehicles are very helpful in promoting the distancing between riders. These are street vehicles so theyll be ridden in the street in the direction of traffic in accordance with appropriate vehicle and travel loss. Helmets are provided just as with the scoots. Helmets are essential in the riding of these vehicles. We want to keep people safe. And so thank you for helping to advance that conversation. I think its very important we continue to preserve some kind of access for people with disabilities to be able to get reduced fare clipper cards. I have not kept up with that closely because mine is still good for a few more years. Just because we close facilities doesnt mean we should curtail service. And i have to research this more closely, but i say to you that reduced fare must never mean reduced service. Besides, we want to get more people on clipper anyway and move away from selling scratchoff tickets. 30 seconds. Scratchoff tickets, thats the lotterys business. Thats a whole different animal there. So lets have a safe muni. Im looking forward to talking about the restart. And i do see the Public Comment crawl. It was not on at the beginning, but i got it off the agenda, so i have a couple of different ways. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have four questions remaining. Hi there. I also wanted to call in about the Company Named revel could you give us your name . What is your name . Ive been reading in the s. F. Examiner article, there are safety protocols, but they dont alleviate the concern there is irresponsible operator. The company has a history of accidents and death and the m. T. A. Needs to do a better job of looking at this [inaudible]. Thank you, next speaker, please. You have three questions remaining. Yes, hi, this is barry toronto again. First want to welcome the new director, sharon lai. I want to let you know that i work with the taxi drivers, im an activist taxi driver and i hope you will download the flywell app and also learn more about the programs that the m. T. A. Has helped to keep the taxi industry alive, barely on life support at least. Also would like to give a shoutout to phillip crana. Done yeomans work. I hope you will familiarize with them. He deserves an award from the board for all the yeomans work hes doing even though he became a far. Its not an even though, its in addition to the fact hes become a new father. I want to thank jeffrey tumlin. A lot of people are using them and ive taken them a couple of rides a weekend when i work. But, the thing is, it would be great to make sure this is extended for a while because its helped a lot of people that need to get around, especially later on at night. I do want to say there is a problem with 30 seconds. Im having a problem keeping the captains clear. Ive taken a number of passengers from the castro stand particularly by walgreens and they put up a sign saying its a cab stand. In the ground. I appreciate that. If you look into enforcement, particularly during peak time hours. Its very difficult to keep it clear. By the time a p. C. O. Shows up, theyve already gone and ive already left. So i want to let you know. Time. [bell ringing]. Thank you, mr. Toronto. Next speaker, please. You have two questions remaining. Next speaker, please. Can you hear me now . Yes. David again. Yes, i think we agree that the crawl across the screen is happening and thanks to sfgovtv for all of their work. Regarding director hemingers inquiry. The ceqa appeal today at the board of supervisors is about slow streets phase one and it is not my appeal. I was not aware of an appeal regarding fell street, but that is also not my appeal. I have two ceqa appeals, one about emergency transit lanes filed july 30, 2020 and one related to an emergency temporary street changes program filed august 20, 2020. The second one may be the secret program that director heminger referenced. And i may be filing additional appeals as well, so stay tuned. Thanks. Chair borden thank you. You have one question remaining. Good afternoon, board of directors. My name is ron ca tow. I wanted to say about the online consultation for the valencia street fulsome street sorry im not awake today the fulsome street bike lane that had an open house over the past couple of weeks. I wanted to compliment the staff that worked on it. I am a professional developer myself and i was really impressed with the presentation and the materials on the website. It was a super modern website and honestly, not something that i expected from any level of government in 2020, but it was super modern, super aggressive and whoever made that deserves several awards and pay raise. Chair borden [laughter] thank you for that feedback. Next speaker, please. You have zero questions maining. Chair borden that closes Public Comment and well move on to the next item. Thank you, madame chair. The next item is the consent calendar. All matters are considered to be routine by the board and will be acted upon by a single vote unless there is a member of the public or a member of the board who wishes to discuss an item separately. Ill read those items and then, madame chair, its the practice of the board to then open for Public Comment any and all of those items. So item 10. 1, approves various traffic modifications along fulton street. 10. 2, approvingle amendment number 3 to sfmta rail Vehicle Projects with raul v. Bravo associates to extend the term of the agreement for six months to march 5, 2021 with no increase to the amount of the contract. Madame chair, that concludes your consent calendar. Chair borden with that, well open for Public Comment or any item on the consent calendar. Moderator . You have one question remaining. Chair borden speaker . Hello . Hi, its stephen miller. I wanted to call in support of the traffic modifications. I believe thats 10. 1. Just for the fulton Street Safety project. Fulton is a very dangerous corridor as you all know. Im looking forward to seeing those implemented and hopefully it can speed up the 5 and the 5r as well. Chair borden wonderful. Any other additional Public Commenters on the line . You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden with that, Public Comment is closed. Directors, this matter is before you. Motion to approve. Second. Chair borden director excuse me, secretary boomer, can you please call the roll. Yes. Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. 50, the consent calendar stands approved. Moving on to the regular calendar, madame chair, directors, presentation discussion regarding the fiscal year 2019 state of good repair report and update on capital revenue projections and associated impacts due to covid19 Public Health emergency. Chair borden wonderful, i understand that there will be a presentation. Welcome. Good afternoon, chair borden and directors. Im jared winer, the manager of the s. F. Management unit. And today im going to give the first of series of fiscal and management updates. A couple of board meetings back it was requested that the finance division give updates on the fiscal picture. And outlook fort agencies. This is the first of those updates. So today were going to be talking about the f. Q. State of good f. Y. State of good repair and well be talking about the covid impact to revenue. The 2019 state of good repair report which is available on sfmta. Com is an annual report that the unit puts together. What it does, it tells the state and the condition of the agencys infrastructure. It also talks about our trends as far as state of good repair, investments. And it also projects out future infrastructure needs for the agency. So sfmta is responsible for nearly 15 billion worth of physical assets. And so we use asset replacement value as way to understand the magnitude and scale of the stuff that were responsible for. As you can see here, we break down the assets into different categories based on function. And this gives us a sense of where our physical assets are. One thing to point out, this is a snapshot, a point in time. Its all our assets as of f. Y. 19. We do update this every year. And so this doesnt include things like central subway which will significantly increase this total amount. It doesnt include new red lanes going in or fleet expansion. So one way that we kind of are able to look across the entire portfolio of assets, we use an agebased score. Just like us, assets age and they have a expected life. We use a 15 scale developed bit federal Transit Administration. 5 being brand new asset. 1 being one that is at the end of its useful life. 2. 5 and higher is considered in state of good repair. As you can see, overall, the agencys assets have slowly gotten older and based on their age have declined. You can see in certain asset classes, or infrastructure classes, the store going up. The score going up. Thats due to either fleet rehabilitation or replacement, or significant system upgrades. So in areas where we want to focus, we can raise the score. Again, this is agebased, so it doesnt take into account the actual, like, operating environment. For us, its a good way to look at the entire agencys portfolio of assets and find out where we need to focus our attention, maybe get more information, maybe rightsize it with condition assessments or field assessments, things like that. But its a good way to find out where our priorities lie. So just kind of understanding our approach overall. The Asset Management unit maintains our Capital Asset registry. This is a database of almost 5,000 records. Everything from fleet facilities to streets, parking. All those assets. So that database, we update every year. And we have some really basic information about our assets. We know inservice date. We have an estimated useful life. And we have a replacement value. With that basic information, were able to project out and see upcoming needs when things will have to be replaced or rehabbed based on the assets themselves. So, it kind of helps us make decisions as an agency, whether we decide to maintain our regular replacement cycles. Whether we defer them or make them sooner. Since we have a general idea of when the things need to be replaced, we can look at future needs and cash flows. Again, it also highlights areas where we need more information or need to conduct additional condition assessments to rightsize what we know of our infrastructure. So the Asset Management unit, we do an assessment and we project out 20 years worth of need. In this graph here, you can see 20 years in the future. Its broken up into two different categories. We have Transit Service critical. T. S. C. So Transit Service critical are things like our fleet, rail, overhead lines, other s. T. R. Are facilities, parking and traffic. Still important assets, but we basically created these two categories because we understand that the need outpaces what we have as far as resources, so this is one way to prioritize. I guess the other thing is that you can see based on the graph, there is areas where the need is much higher. Because we have this basic information about the assets, none of these things should come as a surprise. Areas where its striking, it could be due to if we procure an entire fleet in one or two years and they have a 12year useful life, we know that spike will show up 12 years before we can procure it. Facilities that have a long useful life, its easy to lose track of these things, but this projection helps us kind of look on the horizon for any red flags or things we need to start planning or preparing for. The agency has a 3. 2 billion asset replacement backlog. What that means, that means that is the total value of assets beyond their useful life. So, for example, like your car. If you have to replace the tires every six years and the tires are 400 and that sixyear mark happens and you decide to go seven or eight years, in the seven and eight years, you have a 400 backlog. Thats what the 3. 2 represents. For the entire 20 years, to eliminate the backlog and meet all of our Capital Asset replacement cycles, were looking at something of 632 million a year just to meet that state of good repair need. And so this is the different investment level. So if we had all the resources in the world, 632, wed eliminate the backlog, wed meet all of the scheduled asset replacements. At the bare minimum, 304 million annually for 20 years, we would address the needs of the Transit Service critical infrastructure. We wouldnt address the backlog. And then we would have all those nonTransit Service critical assets continuing to age and going into our backlog. The 250 million number here, this was our annual state of good repair commitment to the federal Transit Administration as part of our full Funding Agreement for the central subway. So how have we done . So this graph basically shows our investment trend. The green line is a running average of our state of good repair investment. The blue line is based on analysis of the different Capital Programs or Capital Improvement programs that weve adopted and actually spent. So like the Capital Program contains expansion projects. It includes renewal projects. So we look at each project and figure out how much of that project is going to and date of repair. Fiscal year 2015 2016 to 19, that real big jump in state of good repair investment is in replacing the feet. That help fleet. That helped our average a lot. As we know, the c. I. P. Is less than previous years as far as capital spending. Youll hear in joels presentation that due to covid, that total available resources is further at risk, which means it will be just harder for us to continue to make those investments and state of good repair because the total amount of resources is lower. So overall conclusions from the report. Basically, we know that the current level of investment is insufficient to meet even our minimum replacement needs. As joel is going to point out, future capital revenue is at risk, which makes it even harder and a challenge. So as much as we can in the decisions we make, we need to focus on making a higher proportion of our capital allocations really address projects that maintain state of good repair. Another thing, too, as were planning for a capital expansion, really understanding that as we expand the system and add new stuff to our streets, add new stuff to the Transit System, that all comes with an additional future cost. So really understanding the impact of that is important to our decisionmaking. And also as projects come up, asking the state of good repair questions. How does this project address an existing need . How does it improve infrastructure conditions . How does it improve the performance of infrastructure . How does the designer or the choices were making as far as scope reduce operating costs . And then also just how does the project help progress the agency toward our strategic goal of providing Transportation Services to the public . So, with that, ill open it up to any questions. Chair borden thank you. Directors, do you have any questions before we move on to the next presentation . Seeing none, well have the second presentation. Director brinkman sort of a comment or a concern. I know that im sorry, can you hear me . Chair borden i can hear you. Director brinkman okay, good. More of a concern. I know that these numbers are such a moving target these days. And i think the presentation is great capturing it at this moment. Im just always so nervous and concerned when i see any budget numbers when i see any budget numbers im sorry, i think my connection is having a problem. Im concerned when i have budget numbers about how much theyre going to continue to change. Okay, good, i keep getting a message on my screen maybe its not me, maybe its the presenter. Just concerned that the budget numbers are changing so quickly. I know weve talked about this before in terms of our operating budget and Capital Budget and state of good repair. And how often do we expect to be updated on these budgets . I think that director heminger requested we receive the operating budget update was it monthly or quarterly that director heminger asked . And it seems since were at september 1st, should we beee seeing the july be seeing the july budget actual report as well . Hi, good afternoon, director brinkman. To just answer some of your questions very quickly. The information that jared just shared with you on our Asset Management and state of good repair, that is longitudinal data. So those numbers are very stable and year after year we produce this report, the data only gets better and more stable for us to do those Predictive Analytics that jared just discussed. Specifically on the operating budget, you are correct, we just finalized our july financials are complete. We have a good sense. The last thing we it need to do is allocate cost to projects. Which is something we do we just went through our yearend close fort prior fiscal year. So the Accounting Group has been trying to close fiscal year 1 and close up and clean up all the books for fiscal year 20. I think at the last meeting director tumlin presented our baseline on how we want to present that data to the board as part of his directors report and next month we can give you a good sense of where we stand. But the numbers that jared just provided are stable and sound and what we use to do a lot of our Capital Planning and reflect the infrastructure needs of the system. Which he just showed you is well over 600 million a year to keep our Current System as it is in a state of good repair. Joel will follow shortly after the presentation with where we are with the capital revenues specifically. Weve been so focused on operating budget, were just starting to get a sense of where we are with the Capital Budget sources that fund our projects. Those are fluctuating wildly. And joel will cover that. And you are correct with that. Thank you. Is that have you had all your questions answered, director brinkman . Director brinkman yes, that was fine, thank you. Chair borden thank you, direct director lai. Director lai apologies to anyone who already knows the answers to these questions. Can staff share the method in which you come up with this amount of, irguess, the i guess, the total of repairs costs over the 20year horizon and how potential future technology is factored into the replacement costs or the decisionmaking between repair, replacing existing systems, versus investing in a new system that may have other efficiencies . Yeah, so right. We use our Capital Assets inventory as kind of our basis. And so every year we look at new assets that are going into the system, but we also kind of reevaluate some of our assumptions around useful life. We do this by talking to the different Capital Programs. We talk to their engineers. And adjust useful life, adjust replacement values, based on the current procurements or what theyre actually seeing as far as performance in the field. So thats how were constantly kind of revising our model to run this analysis. But i do think, yeah, changes in technology, changes in even the service that the m. T. A. Provides will influence things like such as the backlog. You look at some of the items in the backlog. You have things like parking garages. So as we decide how we want to move forward with parking garages, that could change. And, yeah, it all all of this feeds into the model and hopefully helps us make the decisions of whether we do maintain replacement cycles or perhaps we only we program in maybe one or two replacement cycles with the knowledge that a specific asset will be replaced by something completely different in the future. Director lai so to director brinkmans good point about how this is an evaluation in a current place in time, it sounds like there is a process where staff continually evaluates the decision between replacing versus investing in new. Which sounds great. Then maybe just some clarifications. I believe all the values were seeing now are in present value. Can you talk about whether or not the costs that youre reflecting is estimated all in costs, including financing costs, or is it just in the cost of procuring . It is in it is in dollars and it is just it is just the replacement cost. It doesnt include soft costs or planning or design costs. Director lai great. I think obviously, 632 million a year for 20 years is a huge sum of money and the fact that were already 3. 2 billion behind is also something we need to keep in mind. And you may be covering this in the revenue side of the presentation, but there is this, i think, interest in exploring or at least for myself, how we can more efficiently structure adjusting paying for these repairs, necessary repairs. Whether there is soft from staff or at a concept level, the decision between paying more of a lump sum up front versus spreading out carrying the repair costs over the 20year horizon, because obviously, you know, paying for things now will be cheaper in economic theory than paying it in the future. Also factoring in anticipated inflation rates increase. So maybe staff can just address that at a concept level what that may mean for us in terms of comparing paying outofpocket more versus less. Sure. Director lai, just to address that question. The m. T. A. Regularly does financing and we have an i dont go revenue bond program. As an example, our first revenue bond in 2012 and 2013 was for our parking enterprise. Where we took a revenue bond against our parking revenues to reinvest in our garages and reinvest in the parking infrastructure. So we are constantly evaluating the cost benefits of various investments. In fact, now were reviewing the Interest Rates and what were paying on our current financing and bond program. So we look at state of good repairs need. Looking at the reduced costs of maintenance and operations, that struck by investing in the stru didnt buy a complete replica of the car, we looked at new technologies and more efficient ways to deliver that same vehicle in service. And those enhancements were integrated into the vehicle. Because if we dont have 200 components in a door, it reduces the amount of maintenance. If we have a more reliable vehicle, that means were not paying as much in overtime, revenue hours, so we always look to enhance the infrastructure. And sometimes, to your point, that little bit of enhancement on top of that base infrastructure, has a lot of operating and maintenance savings with it. So we definitely do take a look at that. Part of todays presentation was to sort of lay down the foundation that 600 Million Dollars is a lot of money to keep our Current System in a state of good repair. Were lucky in any fiscal year to set aside 200 to 270 million a year. So the asset conditions are continuing to decline. Our backlogs are continuing to increase. This is why we have the general Obligation Bond program through the city, why we do our revenue bond program, why we need the proposition k sales taxes. This system needs investment and we constantly have to advocate for that and this data is an important part of us doing that. Chair borden thank you. Director, have you had your questions answered . Director lai yes, thank you. Chair borden other additional questions before we move on to mr. Goldbergs presentation . Great, with that, mr. Goldberg, please. Just to the public, well take comment at the end of the presentation. Thank you, chair. Good afternoon. Im the manager of programming and grants in the budget Financial Planning and analysis. Budget process keenly aware of covid impacts. Today we represent the other side of the fiscal coin, analysis engaging impact to date on the capital revenue. I want to acknowledge and thank the programming and grants team whose work is the basis for much of this presentation. As youre aware, covid19 has created unprecedented impact on funding for the sfmtas twoyear Capital Project and fiveyear improvement program. Projects across the breadth of the Agency Business lines are likely to be impacted. The scale of the impact depends on the depth and length of the covid impact to the economy as a whole. Six months into the pandemic, determining the risk factor is still more of an art than a science. One early but clear conclusion, all anticipated revenues are in decline, except for federal funds which we anticipate to be flat. More on this in a moment. For the twoyear Capital Budget, 1. 1 billion, were anticipating revenue losses because thinks the peak of the pandemic, or the trough of the pandemic, of up to 295 million. For the remaining three years of the Capital Improvement program, we will we could experience between 418 additional revenue losses of another 260 million. Looking across our fiveyear Capital Improvement program as the board saw back in april, we could have potential revenue losses mounting up to 55 million. 555 million. The impact of covid19 on capital revenue is not as immediate as it is with operating funds. Last spring when parking collections were suspended, the impact was immediate. Capital funds, funds created before covid, are considered safe even if they have yet to hit our books as awarded grants. Future funds are much more volatile. Each with their own down turns and rebounds. For the federal funds we pegged them at fiscal year 2020 levels, though they could change based on election. After election, congress will take on the renewal of the current fiveyear transportation bill which is set to expire at the end of the month. And while there may be a post election stimulus bill, regardless of who wins or loses, our forecastses are not relying on one. Ill take you on a brief tour of the capital revenues as they decline and then recover. For all the funds shown, along with april 2020 board reviewed baseline which is the current column, our forecast include pessimistic, medium and optimistic snares scenarios. While we could issue revenue bonds, were only looking at general Obligation Bonds at this point. We dont really consider much in the way of pessimistic or optimistic, just perhaps the decline of up to 4 . And that is based on the citys strong credit worthiness. The next funds are california cap and trade funds. Theyre generated by the sale of pollution credits. The sale of credits was off 96 from the sale just before it, at 25 million. However, august sales of capandtrade funds came in at 774 million which is considerably higher, still below normal, but the fact there is 474 million could be indicator there is return to economic normalcy. For the sfmta, these funds are associated with transportation investments linked to affordable housing, transit expansion and fair subsidies. Moving on to developer fees. These are likely to be lower, both because the National Economy and the downturn and the softening Real Estate Market in the city. Were actually more conservative with developer fees in years three to five of the c. I. P. Which will be on the next slide because of the turnaround were anticipating from other Revenue Sources. Fema and federal Highway Administration are small players in our overall funding programs. The fema grants are used to pay for increased Police Presence on transit and emergency training. We dont understand f. H. W. A. As a granter, because their funds come through other programs. The federal Transit Administration is a major player for us and most of the funds received are state of good repair funds that are programmed by the metropolitan transportation commission. Notably, most of these repair funds go to fleet and guyedways, but guideways, but not necessarily facilities and other state of good repair investments. For those, we have to turn to the operating fund and general fund, which are funds that could be used for transit, operating purposes and some are set aside for capital purposes as well. The other category is competitive grants and unique sources, which is oneoffs or the active Transportation Program or other funds that are just a little bit harder to categorize, but in general, pretty volatile as well. One source that deserves a little more explanation is the Sales Tax Program. For us, thats the transportation sales tax managed by our partners at the San Francisco Transportation Authority. The t. A. S we call them. Theyve released projections of 93 million for f. Y. 21. That 93 million is only a little bit below what the Sales Tax Program generated in fiscal year, 15, 16, 17, and 18. F. Y. 20 revenues took a big hit because of the pandemic and are a far cry away from achieving the 160 million that came to us or came to the city in fiscal year 19. Anecdotally, were starting to com pile evidence of sales tax generation across the state. Another agency im familiar with in the Central Valley is seeing sales tax receipts not taking a deep dive, which is a bit of a surprise to everybody. The s. B. 1 funds are mostly for state of good repair. As jonathan mentioned, state Funding Sources are erratic and all over the map at this time. Hopefully, well get better information over the next few months for these and almost all of the other Funding Sources. The t. And c fees are fees collected on uber and lyft. These struggle with services across San Francisco early in the pandemic. We were 94 below revenue. But those funds are expected to rebound a little bit for the rest of the calendar year. The last Funding Source is the vehicle registration fees. Those are probably the most stable Funding Source we have that were identifying, because unless vehicle ownership applies, registration fees are going to be flat. Im not going to dive into all the Revenue Sources here, but i did want to point out in our fiveyear look ahead, across the Capital Improvement program, except for developer fees and operating funds, we really starting to get a rebound. The middle of road scenarios for reviefd Funding Sources, developer fees are likely to stay well, but sales tax proceeds will improve. Where were showing 90 decline and perhaps it might be higher at 11 , but at this point, its hard to determine. In short, all of our Funding Sources except for developer fees and operating funds are going to start to rebound. The model work weve created would allow us to determine how deep the declines will be for each Revenue Source individually and when theyll start to pivot out pivot up from bottom. This one is a little complicated. Let me walk you through a bottom line. Were look at three different scenarios on this slide. This is how the revenue declines are hitting every single major Capital Program within our c. I. P. The bar chart that id like you to take a look at is for each of the six charts which includes pest mistick, medium and optimistic scenarios, the black bar to the right of each shows our percentage decline in capital revenues. For the twoyear Capital Budget, our large decline on the pessimistic scenario is 26 . But if you shift to the right, its 22 . There is a lot of moving parts in this, but were just starting to assign to each of our Capital Programs and that leads me to what will our next steps be . We will refine revenue assumptions as the data becomes available and every six months for budgeting purposes throughout the recovery. Well be assessing the ability of our small capital reserves to offset capital revenue losses across the board. And then well also be assessing with the Budget Office and Capital Program manager, the liquidity of funding commitments to project. In other words, if a project is under way or under contract or even about to be bid out, its much harder to disentangle the Capital Funds from those projects and may not make business sense, however, projects that havent begun may need to be reprioritized if some of these scenarios play out the way were anticipating. Between now and november well be updating our Capital Improvement program with these adjusted programs. Within each Capital Program well be reprioritizing projects for any remaining funds. We may be forced to defer projects from 90 funding isnt available for any particular phase. If thats the case, then those partially funded phases would have to drop out of the c. I. P. For now. With that, im happy to answer questions. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Directors . Are there any questions for mr. Goldberg before we open it up to the public . Thank you so much for all the detail. Curious, stepping back a minute, why you chose to agendize this item now . And i dont see in the next steps here necessarily, sort of larger conversation about how to backfill some of the gaps, especially that ongoing state of good repair 600 million figure that i think now is in all of our minds. I was wondering if that is part of the conversation you wanted to spark today looking at potential Revenue Sources, or if simply the next steps here around sort of refining assumptions and not starting projects unless significant amount of revenue is secured, what was staffs hope in this discussion . Thank you for the question, director eaken. Roberta is going to hurt me if i dont introduce myself. Senior budget manager. So you actually read between the lines perfectly. So, one, in our discussions about revenues for the agency, we need to talk about the existing state of good repair and infrastructure and assets we own. And so that is an annual price tag. If we want to keep the system in state of good repair at 600 million per year. The second item with regard to revenues on Capital Projects, the board had gone through a significant amount of work to balance the operating budget. As you know, we brought back a revised budget on june 30 where you approved the but did reduce revenues and made adjustments to expenditures and programs within the agency for the next two years. We have not done so on the capital side. So the Capital Budget you approved on april 21 is still the same one. The five year cip is still the same. The reason for that, the impact to capital revenues often lag what we know about the operating resources for 68 months. Were still waiting to see what the federal government might do. But we do have to consider the agencys commitment to some of these large projects and programs. So we did want to give you headsup we do anticipate in the falling, once we get a sense of where the sales tax is going, which again is lag, were getting sense from the Transportation Authority where its going, what commitments we can follow through on. I will say that the agency has an extremely high level of projects right now in construction. So we have the l. R. V. 4 procurement. Thats a billion dollar project were committed through projects. Were paying for that. We have the taraval project. Were in active construction. 16th street, 22 fillmore, muni project, were heading toward the financial commitment. We need to follow through on those contracts and those commitments. And when we start seeing cash flow decline, were going to have to make choices. Well be transparent with the board about that, but we wanted to give you headsup, that the work you did on the operating budget from april to june, youre going to go through a similar exercise on the capital side in the september, october and november period. So we want to be transparent with the public about what the cost of state of good repair is. Keep the system as it is, nothing new, just as it is today, where we are with the enhancements and the expansion to the system as reflected in the Capital Program. And what we can and cannot afford. And i think weve made clear through the process what the operating structural deficit of the agency is. So what were trying to do and thank you to the board for asking the important questions you did but we need to clearly inform the public on what it costs to run the Transportation System both in operating the services that we have, in delivering a state of good repair and functional system for the public and fort additional things that people want. You know, those projects they want. The enhancements they want. The new subway tunnels they want. We need to be clear on what the needs are so we can start having a fulsome conversation about how to pay for them. I dont know go ahead. If i may as well. So the other thing that were going to be talking about regularly over the next 22 months, in terms of next steps, is how to fill these holes. Obviously, there is a relationship between the Capital Budget and the operating budget. And there is also the need for Strategic Thinking about how do we go to find new Revenue Sources both in the capital and the operating side knowing that our first chance to do that is 22 months from now in november in june of 2022 . So we need to make sure that our strategic approach for solving the capital problem relates strongly to the solving of the operation budget problem. This is a theme youll be hearing about probably every meeting for the next 22 months. I have a question. I didnt realize how significant we rely on developer fees. I know a few years back we had a fee deferral program. Has that been exhausted . Yeah, so part of the as you recall, we did have a certainly amount of development impact, a little more than were comfortable with, so the operating budget and the operating costs. There were two factors at hand. One it was there was a period of time during the last recession where there was a fee referral where people deferral where they paid the fee at occupancy, not at coming in for a permit. We had years building up that we committed to Capital Projects. The number that Joel Goldberg showed you, 100 million of that is for park mirr said. That was a large project and financial commitment to infrastructure. Thats a good 40 of the total. The rest is reflected in the sustainability fee. We get 1020 million in any fiscal year. That means that they must move forward for us to realize the fees . Which makes development, when you tie the need for infrastructure or even enhancement strictly on the development, and that development doesnt come to be, you know, we have consider, do you just move forward with the state of good repair or do you wait . This city has made choices about waiting in the past, hoping that some other source or development would help pay for it. Thank you for the clarification. Very important to realize. Directors, any other questions before i open it up to the public for Public Comment. Well open up to Public Comment now. Moderator, can you open the lines. You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden always interesting. The substantive stuff, nobody calls in about. [laughter] this is the most important thing about us delivering service and we dont have any callers . Moderator . You have one question remaining. Chair borden at least one person cares. Speaker . Youre on the line. Speaker on the line. Can you hear me now . Should have known that you would at least care. Well, im juggling a bunch of things, but in response to your concern that no one cares, i wanted to assure you i care and im paying attention to a lot of things, including state of good repair. I apologize ive not had a chance to review the report or presentation, but i shall. And i appreciate that staff is concerned about state of good repair and assessing the Capital Assets and the replacement life and determining how much we should invest and hopefully were developing projects and investing so were not deteriorating our asset value over time at the same time as were enhancing and expanding the system. So i very much support state of good repair and want to assure you of that, despite all the other things going on in the world. Thank you to staff. There you go. Somebody cares. Youre welcome. Chair borden thank you. Any additional callers . You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden i didnt mean to indicate there was any specific persons responsibility for caring about the issues, but these issues determine how were able to deliver service. If we dont have a state of good repair, then we have issues and break douns in our system which well be talking about in the next item. But for the public, i think, if you really want muni to be successful and operate this level of service that you want with the efficacy that you want, we really have to have a strong Funding Source so that we dont have a 3. 2 billion backlog with a 600 million need per year that we cannot fund, that we only do a third of. Anyway, thats what i will say on that item. Vice chair eaken i think director heminger was ahead of me. Director heminger well, you seem to be, madame chair, issuing a cry for help, so i felt obligated [laughter] to comment, at least a little bit. And i think you put your finger on an important truth. Were talking today about the thing that no one wants to talk about. And it seems to me in our profession we put all of our creative thinking into building the new stuff, right . We just built a shiny new Transit Center and we did so in part with hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of developer fee income. What if that money had been invested in state of good repair instead of being used to build that system and then build the shiny new train that will eventually some day come there . We all try to be grown up, have our cake and eat it, too, and we got to be able to do both of these tasks. But there is no question, when push comes to shove. Who gets shoved. So i think we need to devote a lot more attention to this subject, especially to the question i mean these guys have an Asset Management program to beat the band, so weve ghot down to the last decimal point, but i dont think weve got any strategy at all about how to start biting this off and narrowing it down. So i look forward to that conversation and i hope we ill devote we will devote as much as our brain power to taking care of what weve already built as we do to building the next shiny new object. Chair borden thank you for that, director heminger. Vice chair eaken thank you. This builds off of comments from director brinkman and lai prior. It may be an impossible question, but i have to raise it, which is sort of like, it feels even the last six months weve gone through some very fundamental changes to our system. Director tumlin has said repeatedly, we redesigned the entire Transit System overnight to focus on where the greatest need is. Im feeling the absence of certain lines. In my life, its impacting me directly. But im understanding why certain decisions were made. Some people leaving cities. There are all kinds of wildly complex implications of the current covid crisis. What i wonder as we have the state of good repair conversations, does any of that larger context feed into our estimation of what the state of good repair numbers look like . Is it five years, and we forecast that the next five years . Or might the rate at what were using certain vehicles increase or decrease depending on the whole redesign of the Transit System . And the disinclination from the staff presentation of certain people to ride transit in the future and shift to other modes . What do all of those things have to say about the these numbers . And the most recent presentation about the different scenarios, the revenues, different assumptions, im wondering if we could look as different cost scenarios with different assumptions to make sure were getting it right and were just processing this information. Chair borden i dont know if staff wants to comment. It sounds what shes asking, with some of redesigns and some of the lines going away, would that change the way we project these numbers . So i can take a stab that the and then staff can look at the details. Ive been trying to Pay Attention to the way the world is changing in terms of everything that were doing in our medium and Long Range Planning and how were spending our money. One of the things i realized is that to director hemingers comments about big shiny new objects. Some of the big Capital Projects were still finishing up. Decisions were made about those projects two decades ago. Whether its the subway or van ness, those decisions were made a long time ago. The projects were working on now are really all about using our capital money in order to save on the operating side. So, taraval, judith street, all of the muniforward projects are about getting the physical infrastructure in a state of good repair and then setting us up to manage that infrastructure in order to minimize delay to muni which then maximizes the efficiency and utilization of our operating budget. So i went and looked at our capital plan to say, all right, where is the fat in this capital plan that we can cut out . Where are the shiny objects that are pretty, but not terribly functional . I realized that my immediate predecessors, who were very conservative and outcomefocused and had put forward projects that were all about leveraging our generally better available Capital Resources in order to save on the generally more constrained operating budget, these are Good Investments that make us more efficient. I was hoping for fat and waste that we could cut out. But its not there. When we have to go slash our Capital Budget, were going to be slashing projects that benefit essential workers the most, that benefit transit riders the most and our most vulnerable populations and make our services more efficient. Its going to be grim cutting this Capital Budget when its time to do so. And that said, i think, you know, what youve been presented here today is basically, its a limited number of scenarios. At the same time, we know that everything that were going to be doing for the next three years is going to be all about Scenario Development and continual adjustment. Just as we are having to make month by month adjustments to the operating budget looking at our actual revenues and expenditures, were going to need to do the same thing on the capital side. I think the staff has done great job putting together some reasonable scenarios. Who knows what is coming next . Its one of the reasons im glad youre insisting upon monthly updates to where we stand with our finances, because were going to need all of you to help us make some very painful decisions in the coming 22 months about how to get through this period, both on the capital and operating side. Chair borden thank you. Director lai yes, thank you. I think just a followup request for future presentations as we go into the revenueside of the conversation and look at real cuts. And i think that the public understands this. The deferring maintenance or not, 630 million repair cost, is basically potentially exacerbating certain repairs until the future and potentially growing that amount. And, again, this is like a continuum of 20 years. This is not just a onetime fix, right . So i think for me and probably for the public in the future when we have to make those tough decisions around which projects to really address right now versus ones were deferring, it would be helpful to get a Financial Sense of, you know, which projects would actually grow the debt in the future, to defer that maintenance. Im probably not phrasing it very clearly, but i think what i want to know is what is the opportunity cost in deferring certain types of projects over others . Thank you. And that is included in the capital plan. As you all know, the federal stimulus money, the cares act fund runs out in december. Starting in january, were going to be partly paying our rent from our savings account as we start burning our reserves. On the capital side, the situation is even worse. Deferring maintenance in the presence significantly adds costs in the future with compounded interest. So deferring maintenance is like paying your rent on your credit cards. And were going to have to do both in order to get through the next two years without layoffs. And its my commitment to all of you to do a full accounting of that. So that we know exactly how much the bill is going to be coming due with interest once were actually able to adequately fund capital maintenance again. Okay. Any additional comments from directors . With that, i think well close this item. Thank you so much. We look forward to seeing a deeper dive on the issues and getting further projections as we have more clarity around the numbers. I think our next item will help us think a bit about how we want to spend our money. So with that, ill close the item. Youre muted, secretary boomer. Im not sure why. I can see that your microphone is muted. Not sure why. Still not unmuted. I can see that it is muted for some reason. Am i able to unmute her . I dont know. Who has control over this meeting that can unmute her . You do [laughter]. I know there is a delay. I know when you click something, it takes a minute. Youre still not audible. The City Attorney, are we able to am i able to call in the item, or does it have to be called in by the secretary . Yes. You can certainly call the next item and well look to get secretary boomer back up soon. In the meantime, because it is a microsoft product, im quitting and relaunching the application sometimes works. Wonderful. So, secretary boomer, one more time see if you can speak before i call the item in. So she cant. All right. Item number 12, presentation and discussion regarding the Transit Service and rail system repair. There are no explanatory documents, but well have ms. Kirchbaum. Good afternoon. Thank you for having us and taking time on this important topic. Chair borden do you have a presentation . We do. I just shared my screen. Can you confirm that you can see it . Chair borden i can see it. Great. Excellent. Although we only operated for three days, we did learn a tremendous amount from the rail startup. That the biggest change that we were introducing to the system were transfer points at west portal and at church station. And while i was generally happy with how the transfers turned out, we will be making modifications, including trying to enhance the signage, particularly at decision points where someone has to decide, do i go to the lboarding area or the kboarding area. Having cantonese speaking ambassador was critical and something we addressed immediately within the first early a. M. Two hours of opening. As well as looking for opportunities to enhance the operation. The work we had done to prepare for the rail opening really paid off. The station sparkled and i was so honored to see hundreds of staff from across the agency, many of whom have been working exclusively from home, come out and work with our customers and help make the transition smoother. That being said, on monday night, we had to make the difficult but i strongly feel necessary decision to shift back to buses. Every time we make a decision of this scale, were considering the risk management. And in this case, both the known facts as well as some of the unknowns led to this change. For example, we didnt immediately know how many people we were going to have to quarantine at the Transportation Management center. We didnt know if fear would keep other staff at home in the subsequent days. Making the decision in advance when we still had those uncertainties, even as late as monday evening, allowed us to deliver Effective Service the next day. And while we had some small hiccups like the customer information, we were able to get people to their destinations throughout last week. And im incredibly grateful to the operation, the maintenance and the communications staff, all of whom really changed on a dime in order to make last week work for customers making essential connections. The issue happened because on the same day we experienced two interrelated problems. We experienced the second splice failure in two days in a threeday period and we had a staff member contract covid19 in our Transportation Management center that did subsequently require us to quarantine a high number of additional staff. Im going to cover a little bit about what we what we experienced at the Transportation Management center and the next steps were taking to fortify our work. And then im going to turn it over to the Deputy Director of maintenance who will take you through the overhead line issues. The Transportation Management center operates 24 hours day, 7 days a week. And they have continued to operate without interruption 247 since the beginning of the covid19 pandemic. And last week was no exception. The managing buses and rail require highly Skilled Staff and the t. M. C. , as you know, is the nerve center of our system. And among many complex functions, their highest and most important function is to ensure the safe implementation of our service. Within the t. M. C. , the rail controller position is the most specialized. And it is the most vulnerable to small changes in staffing levels. In part because we barely have enough staff on a daytoday basis to deliver the service that we need to. And although we have new staff that are queued up and ready to help support, their onthejob training hasnt been possible while the rail system is closed. Additionally, rail controllers do have a high washout rate. It is very antiquated and hard to use 1980 software. So in addition to all of the complexities of managing trains safely, you also need to be able to memorize and input hundreds of dosbased codes and sequences. So its just one more example of why this old train control system is making our service vulnerable. We are taking immediate steps to shore up the Transportation Management center. We are looking for opportunities to widen our spacing, even further and perhaps even looking into some of our control center work out of the old location. We made a very conscious decision not to dismantle the old control center so that we had this level of emergency redundancy. It doesnt have all the bells and whistles. It doesnt have the same amenities and technology that we have in the current location, but it is a viable second location. Were also really forcing ourselves to do more computerbased work, to communicate via messaging and from our consoles rather than getting up and checking in with people, which is the nature of how our Transportation Center has traditionally operated. [please stand by] we had the first of two incidents on friday near the castro station and then we had. Based on the brake pattern, it appears to be the same issue that we had initially in april of 2019. I know were all going to be splice experts at the end of this and i appreciate the board taking the time to really understand these issues and im going to hand it over to charles drane, our deputy of maintenance, the key details. Thank you, julie and good afternoon, board of directors. Just to start with the basics, what is a slice . A slice is how we connect two pieces of overhead wire together. The splices are customized to our specification and require a highly specialized manufacturing. There are not a lot of companies in the business of making this type of product. If you look at the slide and the picture, you see three bronze casts splicing, splicers that we use in the overhead and these are capable for use with lightrail, trolley bus and streetcar. These are phoenix mining splices. These are new splices that you see, but these are the slices that have been fracturing and breaking on us. I would like t walk through the timeline of the slices were aware of. April of 2019 was the first thank you. Were seeing a word document were not supposed to be seen. Effectively, the first known slice that we are aware of was in april of 2019 and the photo there shows the broken slice from that event and that was what remained in the overhead. The other half of this slice became entangled into a twocar and that train continued for another thousand feet into the civic center station in the outbreak direction. This resulted in a pretty catastrophic outage of service, takings 13 hours to recover and very difficult before referring the wire, replacing the splice. May 15th of this year was the second known slice to break in our subway. The last two in the subway, going back a week, nine days ago, 72 hours apart from the slice breaking in august o 21 ad 23, putting us in a situation where we closed our subway. We have other ones, two other slices breaks that were from the surface and wanted to share what we know about the broken slices. So just to be open about and trying to understand how this can occur. Next slide, please. What weve done, from the initial splicing failure in april, our team formed an overhead working group and we gathered individuals from engining, a real maintenance team, our overheadlines team and this group worked to go through specifications, to reach out to manufacturers, those who we havent used, those were currently using to try to determine what they understood, what we can do about the situation and the splice pieces that we recovered were sent into a metalurgy lab tor testing an d analysis and results have come back and the casting did not meet specifications. The splice is supposed to be stronger than the wire. When it experiences tension, it gives away to tension, not the splice. It did not meet specification and we sent two failed splices with the same results. We also had additional splicing, brand new that were sent a series of seven different splices. These were tested, unused, right out of the box from a variety of inventories and in our shop and they met with mixed results. Some failed our specification and some met them. So we have a lot of uncertainty around the quality of the splices that we are receiving from phoenix mining at this point. And we continue to work with phoenix mining. Weve also engaged arthur flurry, which is another manufacturer of overhead hardware which we use and we have worked with others. At this point, as we work through times, looking at, you know, resign specs, new options for splicing, we basically have arthur flurry and phoenix emerging as something we can work with. Last friday, we put in an emergency purchase order to buy 200 splices, which will be delivered on october 20th. And so, about eight weeks from receiving these parts. And next slide, please. Again, our metals lab has determined two initial splices submitted had failed due to low quality, low sil silicon levelsd seven random new splices by the same manufacturer came back with a vert of results, some good and some bad. And this did not fail due to a state of good repair and this is a bronze casting and these fractures and results from our metals lab, these are things, these fisseurs, cracks are not detectable from the outside. Were not quite certain how many splices have this quality. When we went them to the metal metalury lab, were getting mixed results and we dont know exactly when the first batch came to us. Next slide. And we have already mapped all of the locations of splices in our subway and we have 154 splices, the phoenix mining splices in the subway right now and as ive said, weve ordered last friday, the new splices from arthur flurry at a cost of 30,000. By the end of the year, we expect that we will have the opportunity once received to replace all of the splices. Were going to do a couple of things. Well replace splices directly, but we are also using our splice map and well be looking at the high concentration of splices and well be able to run longer lengths of wire and hopefully eliminating longer amounts as we go through. Just one thing to note, in the photo below is the new arthur flurry splice. We worked with him for six months to really have our engineers review this. The photo there is a tension test. We submitted samples of our own contact wire we use in a subway and they did several different tests. One of the potential tests actually pulled the wire apart while the splice remained intact. And that is a very different splice than we showed you on the earlier slide. One thing that needs to be known is that this slice is useful for panographs. We can only use it where were not running trolley Coach Service but Streetcar Service on the surface. So again, well have to go back and do work and research. Were working with arthur flurry on a prototype to come up with a narrower body splice that will also be workable and useable with trolley coach and streetcar use. We expect that prototype to be available for review and inspection and metal testing by the end of september. And construction support and some of the other work that red arlines teams will have to do will have to be reduced. We will have to maximize our time in the tunnel to replace the 154 splices. Again, these numbers would have been so much bigger and i really thank the board in this case, because we were given an opportunity in september of 2019 and again in february of 2020 with the, basically, the early maintenance shutdown. We were able to pull over five thousand feet of wire, remove 45 splices that were previously in our tunnel and so that was a part of getting extended hours of maintenance shutdown. That was approved by the board and thank you for that one. Again, we have a lot of work to do and we estimate, again, two to three hours and were working with our crews, you know, have been following all of the restrictions. Weve been through this learning to do this over the four and a half months. And again line work requires close proximity in confined space and we have to minimize our time. The line crews have been already working with our doc, with our department of Public Health, following osha guidelines on additional ppe that we will wear and then being cognizant of the time they spend less than six feet of distance from each other. But weve estimated two to three hours to splice and it will take us a bit of time to get through in. Next slide, please. Next steps for the team, and so, again, weve talked about replacing splices. When we touch the wire, you know, with each of these splices and in some cases, we will find concentration and pull longer extensions beyond the concentrations of splices and help or sales with wire and in other cases, it would be a direct replacement to the new precured splice and we will be inspecting the viewing, adjusting, renewing, if needed, all of the different hardware and alignment issues that are occurring on the feeder sections and the behavior hea the overhef wire and we have a couple of different areas to address we currently have first ghostlow zone related to overhead wire in our subway and well be focused specifically on those areas, to kind of take time and readdress the wiring and the hardware, renew components, if needed. The photo is actually showing one of our slow zones which were using and this is a section break between two feeder sections of overhead wires and this is an arthur flurry component and it works really well. But its had challenges with adjustment and its hard to see from the photo, but as we approach the station, we have a really, really fine adjustments that need to be made and the proximity to the ceiling tunnel makes that challenging. Were receiving insulated hardware, small turn buckles for microadjustments and really have some ability to make that just smooth and perfect for p ar panographs and well be addressing that well during this period of maintenance. I guess another piece to share is that we are concerned with phoenix mining or any part that would fracture on us and that our operating procedures, that our Maintenance Plans are not catching Something Like this. And we have been discussing and will be working through a plan to develop Quality Assurance plans and we have already been employing cameras that weve placed in specific areas. We do some testing. We do judgment adjustments and o recording and it gives us a birds cr eyeview. We have so much advantage when were on the surface, when we can kind of watch and see how things are performing and reacting to some of our changes, whether it be a new part or an adjustment of an existing part and so these cameras and taking this method is really helping us see whats going on in realtime or at least delayed version of realtime because we cant be in the tunnel when the trains are rippinrunning at design speed. Next slide, please. So what charles has said, that we intend to use this time much more ambitiously than just replacing splices. The overhead work will be approached from the angle of how do we address the underlying issues that produce the need to replace wire in the first place and well also be doing as much additional work as we can on the rail system. We immediately assembled a task force of staff from multiple disciplines to try to queue up as much work as we can, whether that be on our train signals, on our track, in addition to the overhead work, which will make our system more reliable for customers when we do return to rail. Were also working on what i hope is a fun project and that will be more customer facing, which is to try to put wifi in as much of our tunnel as possible. Were doing it with inhouse expertise. We did not have a big project queued up to do this work, but theyve been looking at it and like with so many other things, when we look for opportunities to be nimble and creative, we think we may have an opportunity with wifi to do something similar. And so, you will be seeing an additional focus on state of good repair investments. It builds on what weve been doing all summer and so, as charles indicated, a lot of the maintenance does require close contact and we did need to wait until this summer to start the work. This spring, based on the Public Health guidance that we had, most of our work was focused on caretaking of the system, one or two what we had typically done in much larger groups and doing no closecontact work. And starting this summer, we were able to kick into high gear and get a tremendous amount of work done in the subway. There was a crossover, which was a tremendous undertaking to get activated and we also replaced key sections of track that had deteriorated and needed to be replaced. In the middle top photo, you can see staff working on the m line at eucalyptus and in the top right corner, theyre working on one of our most critical locations which is the debos export balancedebosse portal re. It all needed to be brought back up to operating conditions and this required trimming trees, replacing prone switches an replacing broken switches because we did not have close contact and so i think the message that we want to deliver to this board and to our customers is that while we realize its tremendously inconvenient to not have the trains operating right now, we are using this tremendous opportunity to fortify the system and to get as much work done as possible. And so, in terms of next steps, that is what will guide us, solving the immediate overheadlines problem with the defective part, as well as getting as much other work done as possible. We will also, through our departments operation center, be shoring ourselves up and looking for areas where we have vulnerabilities and other small teams and we will be continuing to study the data and the Customer Feedback on our bus system to make sure that we are responding to change in customer trends, minimizing crowding, adding connectivity when we can. And with that, both charles and i are available for any questions that you have. Thank you for that presentation. Directors, do you have any questions . Director hemming er, you have a question or comment for staff . Yes, i have quite a few. So i do kno dont know if you o proceed with Public Comment. The reason i like our questions before Public Comment, sometimes we ask questions that the public might want to comment on and we can get clarifying thoughts and they have the best ability to comment on the overall thinking. So go ahead. Well, ill proceed, then. And let me start by saying, i do commiserate. I had problem with bolts on a bridge and i feel your pain. Let me start with the question of Quality Control and Quality Assurance. The slide you showed indicated that were going to put in place a Quality Assurance effort. Does that mean we dont do Quality Assurance when we receive these splices . We depend on our manufacturers to deliver, you know, as specified. And so, at our shop level, at a maintenance level, were not doing any additional sophisticated testing, like sending things out to a lab. Right. Well, look, i think youre probably acknowledging that that is a mistake and i would certainly concur. And its often the cheap part that kills you. This part is not all that expensive, but it basically brought all of our plans to not. Now what about the suppliers Quality Control . There was something missed there, as well. So do you have have you conducted any kind of investigation of what went wrong there . We do have an ongoing investigation. We are in communication with phoenix mining. One of the reasons we went and pursued others is because they werent responsive when we approached them in april of last year. And weve kept dialogue and we want to understand, were still trying to understand this problem ourselves and work with them. But arthur flurry has come back and has provided lots of engineering support, agreeing to take a lot of our equipment and do tests for us and they sent representatives out here and they use a completely different process and we feel very, very comfortable. Their warranty theyre offering is a fiveyear option versus the one year that we had from phoenix mining, which, really, this is not an expensive part or not about the warranty but the impact to the service and the catastrophe failure of the part really caused huge costs to the agency. We still feel comfortable with them. Again, well have to keep working with the phoenix mining. We have their splices in our system and using them over ten years. And some of their splices most of the splices are misunderstandinfunctioning propd to know whats happened with the quality of the castings. And so, we have to keep digging into this and we dont have answers. And so the metalurgical resulted you depicted, are those from the failure in 2019 or from the failures that just happened . So we do not have results from the failures that just happened. We are awaiting on results from the failures that did just happen and those are older failures we have results from. But the brake pattern matched almost exactly. Its right at that second bolt where were seeing what, again, should be the strongest piece of infrastructure break in half. Right, the crosssectional area where that bolt penetrates the splice, its the least amount of crosssectional area. All six of the splicing failures that we have recovered, they have all man teste manifested ie way. Yeah, but doesnt it puzzle you that how many of these splices do we have in the subway system . Right now weve counted them and there are 154. Wow and does it surprise you that i mean, yothat you had a catastc failure on a couple and not more . This is why were trying to understand exactly where we receive this batch of parts, fit is one batch, if it was a different foundry, because its a different source of metal. Were tracking maintenance records now to understand when we did the wire pools. And we believe most of the wire pooling we did in the subway, you know, we pooled over a mile of wire, 5500 feet or so. And that some of the splices used there are some of the splices in the most recent batch and this is what were trying to confirm because we would like to be able to go back during the maintenance records and really understand why these splices are and get rid of them. One of the things were doing, we reach out to a consultant to see if its possible to use some ultrasonic testing thats portable. Something like overhead components, its not so common. And we also have right now a gap where we dont have support for splicing on systems for trolley coach and streetcar. We have a gap in panograph systems for eight weeks. So were taking a small batch of the new mining and have them do nondestructive testing. Youve got 150 in the system and youve ordered two new one his. Yes. Is your plan to replace every one of them . Yes, so through a variety, weve mapped our subway and we know where we have concentrations of splices and we will try to if we have wire to go around eight, ten splices, well do that and in some cases, it may not be as easy to complete. We will replace the splices one for one. If we have 154 splices, perhaps we can replace 70, 80, 90 in whole and installing a mile, mile and a half of wire in doing so. Our wire is the fewer splices that we have because splices are put in when we have to fix small problems in the overhead wire, over a shorter period of time. And that is something that ultimately we would like to get to a program where we only have a splice in place for a short period of time. Lets say its three weeks, four weeks, six weeks and that were committed to using extended maintenance windows to run wire from feeder point to feeder point. Right now, were using the bandaid as the permanent fix and we started reversing that with the extended maintenance windows, pulling out already 45 splices to date and we will approach this same work, this work with that same lense. How can we eliminate rather than replace splices in many locations . Yeah, julie. You sort of answered my next question. That were sort of it sounds like were oversplicing and as you called it, thats the bandaid and not the solution. I cant speak to whether or not were oversplicing. I think thats one of the reasons on my last slide and i didnt emphasize it, that we are going to be reaching out both nationally and internationally, to make sure that charles has a peer that he can call up in leone or seattle and all over the world. The same is true with our track and signal system. We have a tremendous talent pool at this agency, but we are often relying on knowledge handed down from generation to generation of maintenance staff and we want to try to learn as much as we can from other systems so that we can answer just the same question you just posed. Is 154 splices a lot for is it eight miles of subway . Between ten and 11, yes. Thats an open question we need to determine. So the 200 we ordered, which did we order them from . Arthur flurry. So youre shifting suppliers . Yes, we are. And then what about the warranty question . I think you indicated the warranty we had from phoenix was much shorter. So are all of the breakages out of warranty . Yes, they are. Can i ask one question quickly related to splices . Sure. Have we isolated whether or not theres any commonality where the splices broke, like an angle which it turned, a speed . Because it also says to me that potentially, the reason were splicing certain areas could be other conditions, right . And so, not that the splicing isnt the problem, but my point is, there might be a larger problem about something environmental at those places that caused the original break and that lead to a splice which then also broke. Are we able to kind of look at that . Right. So we shared earlier the six known splicing failures and theyre not in the same location. We have some that on the surface, theyre trolley coaches, two of them. And were not seeing i mean, you know no angel angles or speeds. In the tunnel, its as high as we get. On the surface, were operating slower. And again, theres a panograph in some cases and in some cases, a trolley bus thats a trolley shoe and kind of wraps around. So its even contacting differently and traveling at a different speed and they are breaking, as julie mentioned earlier, at the same point we have minimal amount of Cross Section and thats right warrant thwherethe bulk in the middle oe splice, they all fracture at the same point. And if you remember, you know, when you splice the contact wire into the slice, thats a cast device. Its not forged. And so, it has to cool after seeing the alloys and mix. If its done improperly or the content is wrong, theres impurities inside or fisseurs, it may not be detectable on the outside. But, again, looking at the hardware. The square bolts, we also tighten them down and they actually put basically, theyre damaging the contact wire and the new splice is two halves. Its a clamp with equal pressure if you look julie, do you have a picture . Yes. And it puts equal pressure across the groove. It doesnt crush or pinch and it doesnt and its made of a forged material. So does that mean we maybe didnt get the right splice for our need . Not that necessarily the splice is faulty. Well, weve been using that splice successfully. That splice is in our system and it works fine. If we go back two years ago, we never had a problem like this and we had been using the splice for a long time for all of our needs and we simply looking at the metals report, basically, its sending a signal that the quality of the material that we have now is sub standard. Standard. Once you gets the splices, who installs them . We expect it will be the overheadlines employees. So our own folks . Our own folks, yes, sir. Have they been installing them up to now. They have been. And is there any indication that there might have been an improper installation, tighten the bolts too much . God knows what. That is something that weve gone over and its part of our research and with receiving the new arthur flurry splice, one of the things that helps us feel about the report. I showed a section break and i sent a team out to work with us on how to reset this section break on the different tools that theyre specialized for doing so and we have some of the tools and weve now acquired additional tools. So the training guidelines, the actual handson expertise and then we have asked for training and installing the new splice and all of the digit need diffes for putting this in. Well be addressing this training with the new splice. So in changin changing suppl, youre changin changing trainer. But steve, i do want to clarify that we always want to make sure that were providing as much training and oversight of our staff as possible, but the issue here is documented weakness and the metal content of the splice. Well, but, it seems to me that the evidence you have is that that may have occurred but that doesnt necessarily rule out other contributing factors. I mean, when something fails, theres more than one cause. And i think we want to be as exhaustive as we can to rule out any contributing causes. And the third area of my questions have to do with i guess ill call this service testing. Its the issue that we hadnt run service for several months and were getting ready to run new service and i know we had been doing testing and i believe this is just from press reports that im picking this up. But we didnt do what i would call a fully loaded test of running all of the system and i believe the reason we didnt do that is we had the buses still out there and the train cant be where the buses are. If ive got that wrong, let me pause on that. Is that the reason that we didnt do, like, a fully loaded fullon test of the system before we turned it back on . No. We did do some testing, but i think we should have done more, including what youre describing. And i think that if messaged properly, the public would understand that theyre seeing trains out there and cant get on them yet because were making sure when they do need to get on, they work the way that they should. And so i dont think that running bus service would preclude us from more robustly testing rail service. The feeder is essentially at point at which power comes from the substation to a particular part of the overhead wire. As charles said, weve already done about ten of the subway, charles . Yes. During the last two extended maintenance windows and we want to do more between now and the end of the year. And because transit ridership is so low in the evening, because even the stuff thats open isnt open much passed 8 00 or 9 00 p. M. , really use that to treat the next six plus months, 12 months as an extended subway maintenance window. But what i really appreciate about charles and his team is that theyre being thoughtful to make sure that were fixing underlying problems first. And so it would be easy for him to just run wire from one stretch to the other and in some cases, we have wire up thats been up since 2008 and we havent had to touch it at all. There are other sections were doing repairs every six months and so we want to study and understand the engineering around that and it seems to be in particular where we have very limited height in the subway, like what we showed you at have vanesse, and make sure we get the design right before we make that big investment of wire. We do think its time to do a reset. Last question may be difficult to answer because based upon your answers up to now, there are some things youre thinking about in terms of what strategy you want to pursue. But do you have any ballpark for us when we might see trains again . Our ballpark right now is the end of the year, but we do have to work through a lot of open questions between now and then, including whether or not there are some areas to consider surface trains, even while the work in the subway commences. Well, look, obviously, this is a significant failure and weve got some amends to make and i think with a lot the stakeholders. Weve heard from some of them. And i know youre going to apply yourselves diligently to the issues that we have in front of us and i appreciate the candor of your answers today and the fact you said i dont know a few times, which is always a good answer to hear about Something Like this. Thank you for responding to the questions. Thank you, madam chair. Director brinkman. Thank you for the presentation and i agree with director hemminger that youre doing a good job managing going forward, admitting what you know and dont know and working to address all of these issues. I do support holding off on restarting rail until the end of the year, if it takes it, so we can fix the splice issues. And just two questions, really. The bus bridges or the bus replacements that were running right now, are we running the l and k bus or is the bus replacement mimmicking what the l will look like running into the k . Thank you for that question. We started out in the kind of initial days of last week fully replicating the bus system, but what we realized was that we had a lot heavier demand on the tline than the mline and needed to be able to run more frequency and that having that really long bus route, especially going on surface market street, it was a bit bit unwieldy. Its going into downtown right now and the n is also going from ocean beach to caltrain through downtown and the m line is reverting back to the Community Shuttle that was operating going from balboa park to west portal and the j line is also it is nearing what it was doing from rail, going from balboa mark to church and market. Its a bit of a combination, based on ridership patterns. Also designed to minimize the amount of total buses. Right now, we have enough operators to run our system. Fact, we have enougin fact, we h operators to grill our system, but we are light on buses, in part, because were pulling everything in and out of our bus yards so that operators are always going out with a clean bus and thats something that has been really important for covid safety, both actual safety, as well as our operators perception and managing some of the fear associated with operatorring and service right now. So we are essentially cleaning our buses completely every eight or nine hours, which is a higher standard than what most systems are doing, but part of why we have so successfully managed the virus. Thank you. Director brinkman, any additional questions . Thank you, and that did answer my second question about operator availability because you mentioned in the presentation that you had to hold off on rail training since there was no rail to train on. So thank you, that answers my questions. Dr. Eakin. Thank you. And julie, charles, appreciate you taking us on this learning journey with you through these detailed aspects of how the system works. I think the presentation is very clear the way that youre troubleshooting and problem solving. It all seems exactly right. I feel like were following you every step of the way is appreciate the way youve laid this out and feel fortunate to have you on the job. And i did want to reinforce something i heard, which just during this period of the shutdown, this bizarre period of use of the rail system, please just get everything we possibly need to get done, done, strongly thumbs up on that. We did so much promotion arrived the opening and we were so excited about coming back and that leads me to believe that we had no idea, obviously, that this was going to happen. Otherwise, why would we have made such a big deal out of august 22nd and this exciting move for the system. My question there is how can we get ahead of these things in the future . You know, it just feels were in this learnaswego mode and troubleshooting as we go. But it feels with the Institutional Knowledge you were speaking of, julie, and that peerto peer network im conflicting because i think youre doing an excellent job troubleshooting. I hope we dont continue to find ourselves in this sort of learn and go is trouble shoot as we go mode when the impact of that approach seems to be really disruptive for the public. So i wonder as you reflect on your all doing your best, trying to handle what is kind of thrown at you, is there anything that youve been able to reflect that could allow us to get ahead, thinking that, yo you know, we d this challenge in april of 2019. Should that have been a warning sign . Should we check all splices and theres not just one . I would love continuous reflections on how to get ahead of this in the future. I think charles touched on it a little bit and i think technology here can really offer a tremendous opportunity. On our track system, within the last five years, weve started doing whats called ultrasonic testing, which allows us to find microcracks in the track and then wait thosthen rate those cn severity. One is something to be replaced immediately and six is something that can wait much longer. Charles, did i flip that, one is the worst and six is the best . One is the worst. And so, i think that kind of opportunity is less common, but could exist for overheadlines. Our buses called new flyer connect and allows us to see maintenance trends and patterns we couldnt have seen before. I dont mean to imply that technology is the only thing to save us here. We also need to react differently to warning signs and not wait until problems escalate. But i do think that investing in our staffs ability to use and understand technology does offer some potential to head some of this off at the pass. And if i may, director eakin, you used the words continuous improvement, and thats exactly what were striving for at the agency. Continuous improvement in the Agency Requires a very different approach to problem identification and solving and a cultural change at the agency. And this agency is better than most, but there still is lingering culture of fear of being blamed that gets in the way of continuous improvement. And so one of the things that i have been doing, even though i offer very little in terms of technical expertise, in terms of solving these problems. What i can do is to establish a cultural framework that emphasizes continual curiosity, early identification of problems, identification more importantly of risk. So as you all know, we have dramatically accelerated the pace of change at the sfmta and to a certain degree, that has involved accelerating risk. So in order to mitigate the increased risk, what were trying to do is identify problems immediately, continually assess risk and collaborate across different disciplines to figure out what the best solution is and implement the solutions quickly. Staff did not emphasize this as much as they should have, that we made the decision to shut down the train system at 6 00 p. M. On monday actually made all the difference. Like, i think, the agencys historic tendency would have been to fret and to delay that really, really hard decision, but if we had waited even just a couple of hours, we would not have been able to deliver what was a shockingly good level of bus service the following day, like far beyond what i thought the agency was capable of. And similarly, if all of the different disciplines hadnt come together and got down on their hands and knees and got dirty is talked to each other openly, about the nam about thee problem, we would have probablily misdiagnosed it. The Risk Assessment that was done, i think if either of the two problems, the splices or quarantine situation, like staffs intinge wa instinct wase on. If we had just one of the two problems, we could have mitigated and continued going. But we stopped and did the Risk Assessment of, all right, whats the worst Case Scenario here . And the worst Case Scenario was wire coming down in the subway with a full train, somewhere between forest hill and castro and having to evacuate that train while our Transportation Management center was weakened as a result of, you know, three people being out on covid quarantine. And not being able to manage that catastrophe. The fact those two came together made it easy to decide that we need to shut the train system down right now. And gave us practise, i think, in how to be able to do this sort of continual improvement and continual change management in a faster, more sophisticated way in the future. We were to able in six hours notice, send out an army of ambassadors to help our passengers figure out how to manage with a completely changed system. And so, definitely not perfect. Hopefully this wont happen the next time, but next time, Something Big gets thrown at us, i think staff will know what to do. Thank you. Any additional questions, director eakin. Dr. Lye. Thank you. Theres a lot of very nuanced technical detail here and so im doing my best to follow it. I think that what i am taking a way from this assessment, this tough decision, to shut down completely for the next couple of months until the end of the year is partly due to the fact that we still have outstanding open investigation as to what is causing the splices to fail. It sounds like were still waiting for some reports. And can i pause there and let staff answer that first . We want to make sure we check the two most recent parts that we broke. We are proceeding as if it is the same issue, given how exactly the break pattern is matching the previous incidence. There are a number of unknowns still, which is why we are shifting to a new manufacturer and to remove as many of the splices as possible. As we work through the issues. They want to potentially reopen the rail earlier because, like, the baseline solution here really is to we do have to, basically, go back to the system to replace all of the splices. Arthur flurry offers a warranty five times what the competitor was, but they have said they are useful up to 30 years of use, which is, you know, longer than a replacement cycle for the overhead in the subway. And yeah, some of the splices are been in use and their equipment has been in use longer than that and weve been using not in splicing, but in other hardware. I dont know what they claim for lifetime of their splice use. Again, if it meets specifications, it should be stronger than the wire. All of the hardware that is there should be stronger than the wire. I actually feel fortunate that staff started investigating this issue and started the resign process, i think, in january of this year, right . So we actually did have some time savings and, basically, having designed the new product before the critical failure happened in the rail. So thank you for pursuing that diligently. And also just echoing director eakins support and, you know, staff continuing to look for opportunities to get all of the infrastructure work done during this closure period. Very, very glad to hear there may be some improvements on the wifi communication capabilities and stations and that is super important to the User Experience for writers, but also safety, you know, one of the concerns that ive always had, when im stuck underneath the underground and theres delays with my kids and we cant get anywhere and we cant really communicate with the outside world. So this is really very important going forward. So thank you for thinking of that. Before i open it up to Public Comments, any final questions . No, ok. Moderator, can you open the line for Public Commenters. You have two questioning remaining. You may start. Speaker this is herbert winer and my concern is this. I believe that the subway has been under budgeted all along and you dont have uptodate equipment and, basically, the reason is, the funding was reflected to other projects, such as cycling and i think that the subway, as well as transportation should be given top priority. Now, this is the upshot of what happened. Splicing problems in the rest of it. So please, make Public Transportation which includes the subway system your priority. It should take priority over bike lanes, over vision zero and all of the other projects. Your funding has been deflected and the public is paying for it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have two questions remaining. Speaker hay, thithis is han miller calling in about the rail service. I was disappointed. I was out there riding on the first day and i think it shows our resilient we can be, but just looking at the bus service, like i said earlier, i think it would be beneficial as miss kirshbaum talked about the shortage of drivers and this would give us more buses to run on the endline everyday of the week instead of the weekdays and have more freak servic frequentn the tline and i was looking to reopening those so we can have strong bus service and then, also, in terms of the ambassadors, its great we have so many out, at a certain extent, its too many and theyre just standing around border at this point. Around bored at this point. If theyre just standing around, its not providing any benefit to the public. And so overall, thats my feedback. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have one questioning remaining. Speaker thank you, chair and members. And i read about this and im trying to catch up on all of the information. But the theme im bringing to the table here is be reactive instead of proactive and so, it looks to me like monday morning quarterbacking and we have to ask, how come it seemed like we didnt foresee these things in advance, where we had points that only one point of failure caused this to close down a rail system for a period of weeks, possibly months . And we have to ask how come the parts we bought were substandard and we didnt catch that. With all of the repairs we did, we didnt catch that. And that we had one point of failure with our control system. And so, our agency headquartered in oakland has been able to keep running and, yet, we lose our control room and we cant operate or we dont have a plan b to operate the railroad. We dont have a second control room or we cant go into manual operation. And wire failures on railroads have occurred before. I think this matter determines and deserves an investigation. Thirty seconds. And somebody has to own this. There has to be a person who will say the bus stops here and own it and solve it so we can reopen and maintain a safe timely and affordable railway. Thank you. Thank you. Moderator, any additional callers . You have one question remaining. Next speaker, please. Speaker so on item 12, here are my comments. Despite my pending sequa appeal, i was out saturday morning to see the operation on the first day. Ran into shawn and julie and i made a number of comments and suggestions regarding operations and signage, which i felt were actually heard. And i think that its clear that mta was not ready for the rail reopening despite whatever planning will be done. I still think there are enough operators and vehicles to provide a saturday level of Service Throughout the system on all routes that operate on saturday and i still think that we should not have to choose between service on key corridors, including rail, including garry, including Mission Street and service elsewhere in the city. There are sufficient resources to provide that service at this time and i think it continues to be both unfair to people on routes that are not currently operating, like the 21, the 31, the 33, the 37. And i think that it who put everyone at risk by restarting rail sooner than was ready and forcing people to transfer. I think thats unnecessary and exposes people to unnecessary risks. I look forward to continuing conversation about these rail and nonrail operational challenges at this time. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any additional callers . You have zero questions remaining. Directors, this was an informational item and are there any other final questions or thoughts that you would like to share at this moment . Seeing none, we will madam chair, that concludes the business before you today. And were going to ajourn in memory of an antonio coligne. As a friendyou can submit u questions by chat only. Please submit your questions as clearly as possible and include your name and outlet. We will do our best to receive questions up until the q a begins. Remaining questions can be sent to des sfgov. Org. And here is the mayor, london breed. The hon. London breed good afternoon, everyone. Today, im joined by Community Organizations that have always been amazing partners with the city and have really stepped up during covid19 for our community. I was out with the Latino Task Force earlier this week to distribute p. P. E. For all businesses, and they are doing amazing work organizing and fighting for resources for the community. The sisters for perpetual indulgence are always at the forefront for keeping the sister of lgbtq healthy, always while having a little okay, a lot of fun. And the African American arts and cultural district has been working hard to make sure the Community Members know where they can go for support, from sharing information about testing, business grants and loans, and working to empower youth in the bayview, and opportunities for all has helped distribute books, activity kits, and technology that students need to be successful this school year, and their terms and fellows have repaired with Community Engagement and outreach throughout the city. So since the start of this global pandemic, we have always heard and received advice about how we can protect ourselves and others and slow the spread of the virus. Overtime, as our understanding of the virus has evolved, some of that guidance has changed, like face coverings, while other guidance shall stayed consistent, like frequent hand washing. You cant walk down the street, go to the grocery store, listen to music our browse social media without someone telling you to stay 6 feet apart, wear your mask, and wash your hands. Since january, our city has launched multilingual campaigns on t. V. , radio, social media, newspapers, bus shelters, and bill boards. A team of Disaster Service workers han been on the streets daily, blanketing our city with posters, multilingual posters and flyers. Since january, this team has distributed more than 3 million flyers. Posters, and fact sheets across the city. You cant turn anywhere in the city of without seeing our blue and yellow signs. This provides good information, and many people are listening. However, as weve stretched into our seventh month of this pandemix, we are looking for new ways to capture peoples attention to sustain the good work of our residents and communities. We want to be bold and strategic how we reach out to people who arent Wearing Masks. We wanted to find out why people might not be wearing face coverings and see if we can change their behavior because were all safer when we cover our faces when we go out, and regularly wearing face coverings will help us keep San Francisco on a path of reopening that we so desperately need. I asked our team, our city team to start working with people and organizations in our neighborhood to did he vel Community Led education campaigns and outreach efforts specifically around mask wearing, and many answered the call. Our nonprofits arts and faith organizations are on the frontlines impacting communities. Because of their relationships, they are often the most trusts and the most influential than the government. Im proud to say, today, we are launching our first series of communityled campaigns ahead of Labor Day Weekend, and you are going to hear from some of our partners shortly. But first, i want to address why we are launching this ahead of this current weekend. Historically, labor day is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of american workers. Because of the pandemic, this labor day has a special significance. It is a chance to honor the special workers in our community. We know this virus has disproportionately impacted our frontline workforce, many of them who have to reuse their medical equipment every sipping wisipping single day. Labor day marks the end of summer, and most years, we have barbecues and cookouts with our families, and i personally wish i could attend one of those gatherings. As we set at the beginning of the pandemic, the safest thing is to do is for people to stay home, but lets be real. People miss each other, and theyre going to decide to get together. So if you do, we ask if youre going to be other with others, keep it outside, make sure everyone is wearing a face covering, and avoid sharing food and drink. We know that oftentimes, when people come together, especially when they start drinking throughout the day, behavior changes. In addition to keeping our friends and our family safe, wearing a mask is one of the most effective things we can do to keep reopening San Francisco. Lets be mindful what we are doing and how we are impacting the spread of this share. Lets share the love, not the virus. And at this time, id like each of our Community Partners to talk about their campaign and why its important to protect our communities this Labor Day Weekend and beyond. First, we have dr. Scott sampson from the California Academy of sciences, which lent their creative and innovative design experts to help our city. Thank you very much, mayor breed, and thank you for your strong leadership during this challenging time, including in relation to this coronavirus. And warm thanks to all of our partners. Im scott sanchez, director of the California Academy of sciences. The academy has been part of San Francisco since 1853, just three years after california became a state. We care deeply about our city, and we are here to putting all of our cutting edge science to keep our community safe. When we heard that San Francisco is so close to hitting an important mask wearing milestone, our organization jumped at the chance to help get the word out. The science is crystal clear, wearing a mask makes a big difference, and we need everyone, especially young people, to mask up. We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that wearing a mask, watching your distance, and washing your hands will help crush the covid19 curve. This campaign, available in four different languages all over San Francisco, is asking young people to take one small step that can make a giant difference helping to keep our entire community safe. Whether youre missing outside lands or dinner at your favorite restaurant, a giants game or inspirational evening of night life at the academy, we are all in this together. We are excited to keep the citys reopening on track so that we can all return to enjoying the many amazing benefits San Francisco has to offer. I wear a mask so that we ask safely open the academy and welcome you back for more awe and wonder in golden gate park. Thank you, and stay safe. The hon. London breed thank you, dr. Sampson. Now next, we have up annie chung from selfhelp for the elderly who will talk about efforts to conduct outreach and education with our asian and Pacific Islander community. Annie . Thank you so much, mayor breed, and good afternoon, everyone. Im annie chung with selfhelp for the elderly, and as mayor said, weve been on the frontline, providing essential meals and other Elder Care Services to all of our seniors in San Francisco. And were honored today, mayor, to partner with you and to support you in your relentless fight against the covid19 pandemic, and to educate the chinese speaking seniors and families how to protect themselves once they step outside their homes. Mayor breed, i think the seniors are doing their part to abide by the health order. I urge all the seniors and families to remember what dr. Sampson just said and practice the three ws one, wear masks, two, wash your hands, and three, watch your social distancing. I know the Labor Day Weekend is coming up, and we may be tempted to invite friends and family over for barbecues and gatherings. Only invite people that are in your immediate household, and if possible, try to meet outdoors, which will be much safer for you and your family. Remember, prevent everyone from sharing drinks or using the same utensils or chop sticks with each other. Be aware at all times. Protect yourselves and others, and think positive. [speaking cantonese language] thank you, everyone, and thank you, mayor. The hon. London breed thank you so much, annie, for all the work that you continue to do. Next, we have director glen from the African American arts and cultural district. I understand the district worked with local rappers to produce a music video that well see at the end of this press conference. Evan . Thank you, mayor breed. We really appreciate the continued support that the city of San Francisco has shown the African American community. Its been a lot of unprecedented work over the last several years, and we deeply appreciate that. My name is evan glen. I am the executive director for the African American arts and cultural district located in the bayview and third street corridor. So it was a process working with fran says zamora, the frances zamora, the department of emergency management, making sure the message put forth in our campaign was representative of the people in our community our culture, the way we look, and it just resonated with our spirits and our soul, and so thats what youre going to see in bill boards across the city. We also thought it would be a good idea to put a rap together to resonate with the young people. After talking with my codirector, erica scott, she says hey, you know, my daughters going to parties, and the young people need a message, as well. So we got together with a rap group out of the fillmore, 16yearold girls called the poppin twins, and they wrote the rap that were going to share for everybody today. With that being said, i just want to send a message out to the community to remain safe because statistically, the bayview has been hit the hardest with covid19 out of any other area in San Francisco. We need to be aware of that. We need to wear masks, stay 6 feet apart from each other, and remain safe. And think about your grandparents. Think about the elderly in your neighborhood because their immune system obviously isnt as strong, and so we have to start thinking about each other. But again, i just want to thank the city of San Francisco for the work that theyve been doing to support the African American community. The hon. London breed thank you, evan, for your remarks and for joining us here today, and were looking forward to seeing that video. Now we also know that the Latino Community has really been the hardest hit in our city. In fact, over 50 of the cases that have been diagnosed were people of latino descent, and we have not been able to do we would not have been able to do the incredible work that we are doing to support this community and to address this disparity if it werent for the Latino Task Force. Theyve been an amazing resource in not only mask wearing but keeping people safe. Theyre here to discuss the latino Awareness Campaign in San Francisco. So thank you, susanna. Thank you, mayor breed. My name is susanna rojas, and i am the director of the Latino Task Force. Thank you so much for allowing me to speak and to collaborate dpshfor allowing the Latino Task Force to collaborate with the city so that our city can feel empowered to take action. The virus is just one more challenge to conquer, to stop the spread of covid19 and to protect our latino families ahead of Labor Day Weekend and beyond, im here to showcase the Latino Community. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation]. Our actions speak leader than words. We can show love by masking up. We can stay 6 feet apart, and most importantly, by not sharing food and drink. Now we in the Latino Community know that food is central to our interaction. It is the backbone to our community, and gathering with large families is how we show our love. Love during the coronavirus looks like wearing our masks, washing our hands, staying 6 feet apart, and protecting our seniors and our young people. Hugging in our families and physical contact is something we do on a daily basis, but right now, we have to demonstrate our love by hugging virtually by wearing a mask. And last but not least, we have sacrificed [speaking spanish language] thank you. The hon. London breed thank you again, susanna, for joining us and for all the work that you do. Im so excited for our next speakers. Sister, you are one of my favorite speakers, and i am so glad to have you here with us today. The sisters of perpetual indulgence along with supervisor mandelman launched an outreach campaign, focusing on the Lgbtq Community. The poster that you created was just amazing. Thank you, and join me, everyone, in welcoming sister roma. Hello, mayor breed. I cant wait to see that video, and of course im hungry for some great latin food. I want to thank you for unprecedented leadership during these very hard times. Your team is amazing. Since the beginning of the pandemic, its been hard for people in my community to not compare it to hiv aids, which we all know ravaged the Lgbtq Community very badly in the early 80s. And the sisters stepped up at that time and were actually leading the fight against hiv aids with providing information and education. So when this got here, we thought oh, this sounds familiar. When tom temprano approached me, i went back to my sisters, and we were all on board, and we went back to our methods of Harm Reduction and reminded our community that its best to stay safe and stay away from each other. This weekend, people are just itching to get out and dance and see each other. Its difficult, and itll be trying, and i want people to know that therell be a time that we can get together with each other and hug and hold each other, like we used to. But the sisters want to let you know that Wearing Masks can be fabulous. Look for us in dolores park on friday, where were going to be handing out 1500 masks, and then were going to be heading to the castro for our first friday event, which will be at 5 00 p. M. In the castro. So thank you for including me, and its been my honor and privilege. The hon. London breed thank you, sister roma. I almost didnt recognize you without your makeup on. Maybe ill join you on friday. That would be amazing. Oh, thank you so much. The hon. London breed okay. Finally, i want to introduce a leader who has a Bright Future ahead of her. Athena matthews. It is so important to demonstrate proper covid19 behavior, and masks are just one tool to prevent the spread of covid. Bypassi covid by catching droplets when you sneeze or cough, protecting those around you. Indifferent while understandable is not sustainable. It is imperative that this generation feel empowered to take care of ourselves and take care of each other because we need to be more active and take on an active role in fixing our nations challenges, even beyond covid19, so to my fellow general fellow genzers, let this be a warning not to just be aware of covid19, but be aware of those around you. Tag us on social media at 60s. The hon. London breed thank you. At this time, i wanted to play the video that evan mentioned, so lets get to it. [ ] the hon. London breed very nice. Thank you so much. That concludes our press conference. I guess now well be opening it up to a few questions. I want to take a moment to thank everyone for joining us and really express my appreciation to all the organizations for the work that you are doing to make sure that we are staying healthy, and we are staying safe. I love the amazing posters, the graphics, the videos, and all the cool things that we are using to really get people actively engaged in this need to finding Creative Solutions to get folk to see comply with the mask folks to comply with the mask wearing compliance. I think about when i was a kid, and talking about wearing your seat belt and the work that had to go into getting folks to wear your seat belt, and today, its just natural to get in your seat belt when you get in a car. And i remember when i was little, people used to smoke in buildings and on planes, and now, its completely different. Even wearing a condom and the push for safe sex, the conversation about mask wearing, we have to get creative in what we say in the culture and the fabric of this country. The work that you do in getting the community to trust you to know that twhat they do is important and it saves lives. So were thankful for your work, and at this time, were happy to open it up for questions. Thank you, mayor, and thank you to all everyone who joined us here today. Well jump right into the same questions. Mayor breed, we received multiple questions on this, and this is one question thatll cover it. What do you think about speaker pelosis decision to get a blowout in San Francisco on monday . Does she owe the Service Industry an apology . Is ignorance of the Health Orders an excuse . The hon. London breed well, let me start by saying that its really unfortunate that with everything happening in this country, with the fact that we basically have a dictator in charge of running this country, and we have our speaker, nancy pelosi, working day and night to try and fight, again, the challenges we have with the white house. She has spent her entire career working for this city and working for this country. Its unfortunate this conversation has blown up the way that it has and distracted us from the real issue. The fact is we dont have good, solid federal leadership that is helping to facilitate this covid19, and over 180,000 americans have died as a result of this virus. And had we had what we needed from day one from this federal administration, then we would probably not be in as bad of a situation as we are. Our focus should be on making sure that we as a city are providing also good information. I know that theres been a lot of confusion with our Small Businesses and operations and whether or not they can operate indoors or outdoors, and so we as a city, and the confusion between the local information and the state information, we have to do a better responsibility of doing a better job around communication. So we can either focus and blaming and saying who should do what, but we have bigger issues as it relates to this country, and i have a tremendous amount of respect and appreciation for the hard work that nanny pelosi does every single day to take care of this city and this country. And thats what we should be focused on because we are dealing with very challenging times, and leadership does matter. I do understand that the industry is suffering, not only the hair industry, but the masseuses and the salons. I understand the frustration, and some businesses may not ever open again. I understand this is hard for everyone. The decisions that were making around Public Health have everything to do with keeping people safe, and unfortunately, the economy and peoples li livelihoods have suffered. So i understand that, but i think its important to get back to the main part of Wearing Masks, and staying apart, and staying heath healthy, and the city will do a better job of communicating with our Small Businesses in San Francisco as we begin or reopening efforts. Thank you, madam mayor. The next question comes from cristian captain with ktvu. With the weekend almost here and warm weather for the forecast, what city parks and impeaches are open beaches are open, and what distancing steps are you asking for people to observe . Look, we know that parks and beaches are open, and its important for people to socialize and pick up a date or two, but what we also need you to do is comply. There are more parks that are dolores park or chrissy fields. Theres other places you can enjoy, as well. So what were asking people to do is to just make sure that youre using good judgment. If you go to dolores park, and you see that its crowded and theres no place for you to go with your people and maintain your distance with your mask and so forth, why even step foot in that park . We will be out doing enforcement more so than we have in the past, but we want people to use common sense because we tend to see spikes in our numbers as a result of the holidays, and labor day, im sure, is not going to be any different. Ive had people reach out to be to invite me to barbecues, people who want today do a jumpy with the kids, and im saying, why are you calling me . Im going to say no way. Its not that im not only going to go, its just that these are places where the virus could transmit. Im just asking people to remember, be a part of the solution, and we will do our very best to be out there, to do enforcement. We dont want to have to do enforcement. We dont want people out there, creating more attention than already exists because of people not being good citizens by Wearing Masks. We just want people to do their part. Were going to do our part. We hope we dont have to shutdown parks and parking lots and make it difficult for people to get out and enjoy things. We have so many parks where theres no reason why people have to crowd in one or two or three park in San Francisco. The beaches have been a lot more manageable because weve opened up more space there. Again, just use common sense not only to protect you but the people around you. Thank you so much, madam mayor, and everyone else for your time. There are no further questions at this time, and this concludes todays press conference. Thank you, and stay safe. The hon. London breed thank you. Roll call, please. I think shes muted. Im going to start over, thank you. Thank you. [roll call] all right. Thank you so much. We are going to get started. I want to welcome everybody from the public. My colleagues, superintendent and staff and student delegates. Section a general Commission Notice regarding Virtual Meeting ada accommodation and translation services. First item is approval of board minutes. We need a motion and second. So moved. Again. These are for the regular meeting of august 25th, 2020. Are there any corrections . Seeing none. Roll call, please. Thank you. [roll call] thank you very much. Item 2 is superintendents report. Dr. Matthews. Thank you, president sanchez. Good afternoon, everyone. This month were joining the nation in celebrating la inx heritage month. Schools strive to be places where every student can see themselves and be themselves where learning reflects both the familiar and unknown. Board of education policies adopted over the years, honor and support various efforts in San Francisco unified. Students are seen and heard in their course work and each students heritage is celebrated. We celebrate la tin x heritage month by celebrating by honoring latin x leaders. Fairmont elementary was renamed dalores in honor of the civil rights leader now San Francisco unified is proud to have a cesar chavez elementary. Dalores has dedicated her life fighting for those who are oppressed or disenfranchised. She co founded the united farm workers and helped organize the delano grape strike in 1960. And she came up with the phrase happy heritage month to everyone. Starting september 1st, our districts grabandgo meal program is free for all students again. Previously students would be charged if they didnt qualify. Thanks tie recent policy change by the usda its free for all. Every wednesday from 10 30 and 12 00 a bag of five days worth of meals, including breakfast, lunch, supper, fresh fruits and vegetables and milk is available for each student. For locations and more information on what to bring to pick up meals, visit sfusd. Edu schoolfood. Students center in services has heard from many families the current meal pick up window is not convenient due to school schedules. We have a survey that gatherings your feedback on what meal pick up times work for you. Today is the last day of the survey and you can find it at the website, so please go to our website. To complete that survey. Im excite today announce that sf loves learning. The tv shows season 2 begins september 14th, this monday. We will be airing an hourlong episode at 2 00 on weekdays on ktv to aim towards pk through second grade students. This show will provide daily culturally affirming movement and Creative Content from our sfusd educators, students, families and Community Partners. The show will model sfusds core values, develop students graduate profile life skills and provide opportunities to showcase their work. On at t its 1,006 on comcast it is six or 106 on direct tv its channel 36 and on dish its 36 and on ray its. Thank you so much. I try to do it at least once a day. We have student delegate reports. Good afternoon, everyone. Hi. So, on our first item for our sac board update, we have the sac retreat. The topic is the student Advisory Council is the city wide youth Led Organization committed to providing a voice for students of the sfusd. By representing and presenting the interest of the students to the administration and policymaking bodies of sfusd. Our goal, as student leaders s. To strengthen our connection between student leaders and our peers. The orientation was over Labor Day Weekend. We go on a threeday retreat due to covid19 we will postponing our actual threeday retreat to the spring. Fingers crossed. Thank you to our presenters. We would like to thank our sbc and asb leaders and representatives for going on the retreat and especially shout out to weekend sal for hosting and making this cameo appearance. We have goals and achievements and the sac hosted a roundrobin conversation on Student Leadership goals and how they promote and foster anti racist work so that our peers are better served with Student Support services. Our goal is for the representatives to have an actual collaboration with the sausd so Student Voice at the forefront of the implementation of our new anti racist value. We discussed this during our asa retreat this weekend. To our cabinet, thank you to those who facilitated those collaborative conversations this saturday. Item 3, Sac Committee development. The sac is currently in the state us of brainstorming 2020 and 2021 committee and electing chairs and the chair position will create a unique leadership for student leaders where theyll manage our sac products and engagement. Our goal is to create committees that align with the projects that sac representatives have brought to the table with a passion. They will lead goals and projects that will be announced at our next sac meeting an meet. The sac would like to support the amendment of the resolution. The sac would like to support the amendment of this resolution since the aca was in support of the original resolution. The hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities are an as set to our community. We welcome commissioner moliga to attend and speak more about the amendment to this resolution and how sac can support. Thank you to the commissioner for such amazing advocacy and all the other authors who brought this resolution to our district. Our next meeting will be september 21st at 3 00 pm. The sac is a Public Council and anyone is welcome to attend our meetings. If you would like to attend, make a presentation or would like a copy, contact mr. Sal da dore lopez bar. Next we have recognitions and resolutions and accommodations if theres done day. Recognizing all valuable employees and rave rewards and we have coming special on this section. Superintendent matthews. Thank you, president s sanchez. Peer resources is empowering students to change the world by inspiring them as the next generation of thought leaders and public servants. The video were about to see will highlight peer resources for building the power of their students to create just change in San Francisco Public Schools and communities through educating our young people to support train and advocate for one another. Id like to introduce ow ofilia williams. Hello, everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. Just to be clear. Are we going to go ahead and show the video now. I submitted it but yes, well show that now and i want to introduce you and well show the video. Perfect. When the video concludes. Im going to chime back in and explain a little bit more about the organization and i will have the honor and privilege of introducing gary crews, the teacher who helped to bring the students together and put this video together that well be showing you so thank you again for your time and we are ready for the video. Being part of peer resources means you learn how to help people and advocate for the community. Peer resources has impacted me in my life by showing me how to treat others better. What you like most about peer resources is working with other people on fun challenges. Its impacted me in my mind from this and working with other people. Its really fun. You have projects to work on and you help the schools maintain itself. You keep everybody in the group so it wouldnt be all falling apart. What i like most about resources is they teach you life skills on what you need to help other people. They give you confidence that you can speak out. [ ] love it and change it and empowering youth to change the world. Thats your cameo in there . So again, thank you everyone for your time today. We know we have a brief time to share with you a little bit about peer resources. We wanted to open this presentation with the video because it never gets old looking at our young people standing in their power. I am the new executive director of peer resources. Our organization has had a weve had a 41year partnership with the San Francisco unified School District. We have been providing antioppression, pro liberation, curriculum that both introduces and nur tures the critical consciousness of our young people. Our practice has been to center their voices and the voices of those who do not ordinarily get the opportunity to leave and our mission is to empower them. They are most marginalized. We empower them as agents of change. Through the classroom, we trained students as leaders. Our students engage, mediate, mentor inspire, support and advocate for each other in order to transform their schools into Youth Empowerment institutions. Through activities like were highlighted in the video such as peer education, restorative support groups, tutor, Youth Action Research and project development. They are able to transform the Public School community into safe spaces for all students to thrive. Peer resources is on organization that is interesting black leadership. We are working together interrally, from the coreful organization, and from the board to the staff to the youth to dismantle antiblack racism, using a peertowere training and professional development modemodelthis illustrates the pe build with our students. After gary and the young people are finished, if theres time, i will share briefly, about another schoolled transformative change project that resulted in having a Larger Community impact and was born out of a peers classroom at lowell and i would love to share that with you if we have time. Gary, please feel agre free to o ahead and begin. Thank you to the board for giving us this opportunity to share our work and giving the opportunity to our young people, especially to speak about their experiences and pure resources. If peer resources our students can create change and offer peertopeer programs and they lead anti oppression and anti racist movements. One of my questions at the start of the year is how can we, as mindful active listeners save lives. And that they may sound like a good lofty goal but its very possible through the opportunities that these students have, the work that they do and be powerful, impact they have on their peers. As you know, some video. Many of my students Led Community circles. We have Community Circles on topics like Sexual Harassment and lgbtq plus pride week. They facilitated restorative mediation and they were conflict mediation but now they have a restorative approach. Theyve also worked on transformative institutional change projects and one year, my students, after a work of action resource, decided to create a male latino new come up support group that was led by a peer resources intern and that is something that has continued at everett and has been very impactful. The students who have experienced it have said that it has been one of the safest spaces on campus and they feel like they belong. With that, id like to give them an opportunity to talk about their experience. Sady will speak about teacher observations, collaboration of the essential schools and wisdom will speak about peer education workshops. Sady. Hi. My name is sady. So, we did teacher observations in our class where we had pre interviews and then we would go into a we would go in talking to the teachers and ask what they wanted us to look for and we would go into their class and objectively observe them, which was super interesting because we got to feel like we had a voice because we got to be in the classroom where we got to watch teachers objectively and we were in a safe space where afterwards, when we had compiled our notes and we got our post interview where we got to talk to the teachers and tell them what worked and what didnt in our classrooms and it was like, a space where it wasnt rude or anything. We got to be equals with our teachers and like give them notes and stuff and tell them what works. It was just super interesting. We got to be professional about it. It was so interesting to have a voice. Normally, you dont really get that. As a student, the teacher is the teacher. It was just super like being responsible for compiling notes and being objective and always staying objective was interested and impactful because i can take notes and be objective about things around me not just my teachers. Well talk about the workshops. Coming to middle school from Elementary School i had no clue about what was going on around me and about a lot of latino immigrants were being held up at the border and come to peer resources really opened my eyes to see what is really happening around the world that the news and people around you tha that t talk about. Its so uncomfortable that people chose to not say it. I liked how peer resources make sure you can talk about the uncomfortable things to make sure that you get to know and impact people around you better. So i would say i would like the workshops because we had real lifetime and we got it put ourselves in the shoes of our people who they have to go through if they are coming into america and how scary it would be to be in those situations. And show people what to do in those situations and thats the main point of the workshop. Telling people and giving them information of how they can be safe in those situations and thats about it about the workshops. Thank you, wisdom and sady. They were both in that class that participated in the video. That video was produced by an alum from owe con he will high s also in peer resources. Thank you so much gary and sady and wisdom. We really appreciate you presenting. I would just close us out saying that as gary shared, were in middle schools and were in high schools. So, from middle school, theres a soft hand off to high schools so that our young people go into a community of support and at lowell, our beer resources wanted to focus on the lack of diversity in that school and they want today know the barriers so they participated in a youth par tory Action Research project to identify what was keeping the diversity down at lowell and why werent other communities represented at the school and one of the largest barriers they found was transportation it was geography and not being able to get there so what they did and to introduce the 29r, the rapid bus. That would help to support our young people getting from the Bayview Community to the west side region of our city to make it more reliability, frequent and get them to class on time. I want today share it was one of the transformative change projects that came out of Lowell High School just as recently as last year and they were embraced by sfmta but due to covid the project was put on hold and remains on hold but our transformative projects and so if this Student Group graduates before theres any traction on the project, it will be passed on to the new student body because we do understand that transformative change takes time and requires consistency. Thank you very much. We are open to any questions that any of you may have if theres time. Which formally just have a presentation. Commissioner cook. Commission cook. Thank you for the presentation and its nice to meet you ms. Williams and i appreciate our district and your participation in the program. Thank you. Id like to thank you ophilia and gary and sady and wisdom and i would like to celebrate the things that are going well in our district. Often times we hear zoo many negative hinges and there are great things happening throughout the district and our schools. Its an amazing district. As underfunded as it is, we have great things going on and this is a great representation of that work so thank you for being with us. Next is section c which is Public Comment. Do you want to make a call for speakers . Thank you, president sanchez. This is Public Comment for items that are not on the evenings agenda. So if you care 20 speak on an item not on todays agenda, raise your hand at this time. Public comment san opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the boards jurisdiction and we have that you refrain from using employee and student names and board rules and California Law we cannot answer questions during Public Comment time and they will ask a staff to followup with speakers solve with that, lets get a gage on what were looking at here. Six. Thank you, public. You will each have two minutes and. If you havent been called, mute your microphone. Thank you. Natalie, are you there . David. Yes, hi. Go ahead. Great. My name is David Thompson and my husband, louis and i have lived in San Francisco almost 40 years and we are parents to a fourth greater and weve been active and animated discussions with many families at the school growing number of them i would say and i was asked to make a comment today on their behalf and we extremely concerned at the pace and track around the issue of reopening the school and the Elementary Schools and as a long time resident of San Francisco, i thought i would never say i envy detroit and its very interesting to see that districts such as those in detroit and new york are so much further ahead and than we are here in San Francisco. We as families are introduction liemly concerned by the virus of course but were also equally concerned about this social divide to have publish a plan with transparent specifics about when we will see our children back in school. Theres a feeling that a lack of responsiveness and transparency about this and i would like to urge the district and the board to when we have have the mou and we as parents are here to help and we very much want to be a part of the process and a part of the deliberation about this and for example, we stand ready and willing to raise money and to fill in gaps as it pertains to funding so thank you, very much. Thank you. My name is savory and im a parent of two children at an Education School and i wanted to speak to urge the district to reconsider the decision to resume charging tuition even though the school is still closed or to allow families to withdraw their children halting stew i guess was teaming with worries and unknown and the decision wouldnt lead to teacher layoffs and the decision made sense because as i school could not provide their primary service of providing daycare and this is been reversed and were asking for our family to pay 850 a month and to participate in Distance Learning and even with the incredible talents of the teachers Distance Learning is not appropriate and it does not come close to replacing facetoface learning experiences and socially motional development for two and fouryearolds and most important it does not solve the daycare problem and because and i quote, it wouldnt be fair to charge new families on the school that wasnt open so in the end, we are a current family put in a position of having to pay to hold their spots and hope the School Reopens which is complicated further by the announcement at the beginning of the sum theyre presidio will close next august. I feel our family in a privileged position where at the moment this is a choice its not the case for all families and that will also not be a choice for us if the school does the hybrid model where you are asked to pay 2,000 a month for full tuition of over 3,000 a month and they were only three days a week. While i fully support as a teacher myself, schools being closed until we can safely reopen them, i am urging you to reconsider charging families tuition while schools are still closed and to give us the option of keeping our children spots if we chose to withdraw until the School Reopens. Thank you. Thank you. Jennifer. Can you hear me. I would love to celebrate successes of San Francisco unified. Ive been in place for about 15 years now but this is the least supportive i have felt. It was my 20th day at work and im still working from an office and i had find and play for myself and they have not offered me a work space and i made expensive about my including naming gus routes that i could access and since i do not have access to a car and they are offer space at two schools a half mile from my own but they assigned me to lowell. Lowell is a 13 daily walk for me and i was not given access to lowell for all of my working hours so if i accepted the placement i would have to be doing zoom calls with kinder gardeners while walking. That is unreasonable. Beyond that, they are allowing teachers to teach from their own classrooms including districts with unique financial constraints like oakland and i cant differentiate instruction right now because i dont have the materials and i am unable to truck two carts of materials on the buses and move them from a work space especially one located six and a half miles from my house. I hope you will encourage the district to do what every is doing and let teachers use their classrooms for Distance Learning. The Current Situation unsustainable and inequitable. Whats your last name, jennifer . Molesf. Our union, our drivers have been driving the children of the San Francisco School District for 50 plus years. Our drivers are care takers for these children and have watched them grow up and often keep in contact with them long after they have left sfusd as they continue their lives journey. Our drivers children attend sfusd as well, those lucky enough to afford to live here. This and district have treated us like were outsiders. Like mean nothing and were not part of the San Francisco school family. You have ignored us and you don respond to our pleas for fairness. You do not respond to our writers and you threaten our jobs and our work is tied to the San Francisco schools and our workforces purpose has been to serve San Francisco schoolchildren exclusively since about the time that they came to california. The Company Names have changed from time to time. This is been the same for all this time and includes some of the original drivers. We are your School Bus Drivers and of your moral obligation to show us dignity and respect. Treating us like were a disposable workforce is disgusting. Where is the equity. Were not going away. We demand the San Francisco School District and the board of education respect our union to you your yture i aour time. H . Caller thank you. I also wanted to edges my opposition to charging preschool families and also request their support of the board to keep the pre sid yo early Education School open. Thank you. Thank you. Can you hear me . Wonderful, thank you. Alice cravens, im the Program Director for heat of the kitchen, which is a program at a continuation high school. Its a great collaboration with dcyf, ymca and the School District through Career Pathways and like jennifer, im also a teacher and our staff and teachers for heat of the kitchen do need access to our classroom and we have an amazing opportunity where were able to provide deliver and cook with our students and it has so much potential. I think all teachers need access to their pro yesh classrooms. And thank you very much, ill stop there. If this is already been communicate inside another way, if you can put me in touch with a staff member that can help us move forward with this, we would really appreciate it. Thank you for all your work. I wasnt going to talk about this but hearing the bus driver speak. Theyre not just a part of the San Francisco School Community, theyre a part of the bay area School Community and theres people that go to school outside of San Francisco that are funded by San Francisco unified and people that live outside of the county so its more than just that. Part of that is not every Single School follows sfusd schedule of plan of reopening. Will are schools in the bay area that are starting to reopen doing hybrid learning models and doing this to the School Bus Drivers is the wrong time and it should never happen but its ridiculous. Say fourth the School District should reconsider paying for students that go to treat interests out of california. I believe its a corrupt industry as which see with paris hilton. Its traumatizing with everything going on. Theres almost no oversight for the School District and los angeles knows what theyre doing. They have people inspect all the schools and in San Francisco i didnt see anything. All i saw was a contract and money given away. So it bothers me what the School District is doing. Thank you, its all i have to say. Thank you. Caller. Can you hear me. We can. Thank you. So i am concerned that the department of health has been given such unilateral control overtiming of the reopening of the schools. They plan to reopen schools in november and i dont why theyre setting up that date so far in advance and id like everybody on the call to know that there is a ramee to reopen schools today from 4 30 to 6 30 at 350 mcallister street and so, i encourage everybody who is available to attend and i think it is important to reopen schools in a manner that is safe for teachers, students and families but this sort of like, i agree with other callers that this is not done in a transparent manner but just kind of been behind closed doors and theres no real clear plan being given and its concerning. Thank you. Hello, mark. I can hear you. Go ahead. Like my coworker earlier, im also a School Bus Driver employed by first. Ive onlive only been with they five years. At this stage of the life, one of the reasons i took on the job for the union pay, which was competitive at the time it was for the benefits. I had four children, a mortgage, and i needed good coverage. I lost a child in february who was part of the San Francisco unified and he was special needs and he just couldnt hang on. My other children, you know, they depend on me and i know a lot of my colleagues have given dedication not only for 30, 40, some 50 years, a lot of dedication and their life and i must say i find it appalling that San Francisco, one of the richest cities in the nation, cannot back us up on covering our Health Coverage for a lot of people in dire need of it. Its no secret a lot of the other districts, los angeles included, obviously have backed their drivers. At this stage of the name its unnerving what is happening and you know, we would like to see some clarity and some support. From a district that weve been given our all. We love our jobs and at my age, theres not a lot of jobs out there right now especially during this horrific year. Thank you. Thank you. My name is sarah and im calling as a parent on behalf of myself and many other early Elementary School families and we are willing and able to send our kids to school under a phase 2 gradual hybrid model is the term. And under the conditions that are safe for teachers and students. Its a hardship for any family. I have multiple learners at home and while i do recognize and have the privilege of choosing other options, because the Current Situation sun sustainable i have options like moving, paying for a private oring into a pod or hiring a tutor, i know many other families are not this privileged and we are our situation is hard with young learners age 10 and other so that includes third strayed. Ive outlined Health Problems that my kids are presenting in our wellness checks. I wont get into details now. Sfusd should be prepared to open for hybrid learning as soon as data and science says its ok to do so and we will stay ready and really anxious for that to happen. Thank you. Cindy . Can you hear me . Yes,. Thank you. I would like to echo sarahs comments and i am a mother of a first grader and there are two fulltime working parents at home trying to juggle hearing ig ha has been happening and its difficult for my son and his Mental Health and trying to keep up with everything and doing what im doing for three plus hours is not ideal for anyone. I am pleading with the district to please, try to prioritize the younger children, as you have said in public. The science is it about to tell us its safe to do so and ucsf has shown data those are 10 and younger are at lower risk. Give the parents and teachers choice. The private schools will jump ton and if you talk about equity and the balance of everything, if the private schools open and the public dont the gap will continue to widen, both education and equity so please, open as quick as you can, thank you. Thank you. Julie. Caller my name is Julie Roberts vaughn. I want to speak a little bit to the calls to reopen schools as soon as its safe. And i want to make sure that folks are conscious of the data in San Francisco. We hit 10,000 case this is San Francisco and there are 1,100 children under 18 who are covid positive and when we were able to get the data about a month ago, inspections were split between kids 1018. I just want to see that information its not being shared widely. I would like to hear more from the district about what criteria is necessary in order to ensure were able to internet schools safely and i understand there are discussion besides that and it would be helpful for the public to hear more and understand why ar are or why not may be safe and recommended under science to stay home or to participate in schools and i feel reassured they will apply for a waiver when San Francisco is technically in a purple category but being given mer mission because were doing more testing so i appreciate the district is thoughtful and its the highest priority and i would like to ask that theres a little more transparency about what some of the constraints are that were facing so families can understand those dynamics. Thank you. Thank you. Natalie are you there. That concludes the Public Comment. Thank you so much for something out to speak to us today. We hear you. Theres a lot going on. And more information will be coming out. Section d is Advisory Committee reports and appointments. We have the parent Advisory Council, michelle jaques. Im joined by Michelle Delaney. My name is Michelle Delaney and im a parent of a first grader and a fourth grader and im really happy to be in this district with them. I think everything is you have done a good job and i appreciate it. Im a parent of two former usfusd students and a pack member and the coordinator for the parent Advisory Council. We wanted to start off with acknowledges and appreciations starting with the extraordinary efforts of all sfusd parents as we enter the fourth week of Distance Learning and all the many challenge thats that presents. And we want to appreciate the efforts, as the superintendent did of all the teachers, educators, district staff, Community Partners staff, and who are working hard to connect with and do the best possible job giving a Virtual Learning experience to our students and we were excite today hear about the extension on the waivers through december 2020 so that we can continue to provide fro meals to sfusd. Ive been involved since march at different sites and families are so appreciative and it just really makes a difference. Its an important step in ensuring that all of our kids have access to healthy food is our city and families navigate the fallout from the pandemic. We want to remind families to fill out that Multi Purpose Family Income form even if you dont think you qualify for free and reduced meals. Its really helpful and they can be on the imagine page of the website and both at site and the department who have been working to provide meals and who heard our feedback that the grab and go meal times were conflicting the Student Learning and you heard the superintendent matthews talk about the survey and today south last day. We hope that families are listening and they are conflicting with your Students Learning that you will complete that survey and provide your input to better serve our students and families and getting them food without interrupting learning. I just want to say thank you to the students. It was a fantastic covid19 just a moment peevideo. You heard some skills they get to learn and some of the impact theyre having. Im bummed they werent able to be implemented during the pandemic but i look forward to it happening in the future. The patch held the First Official meeting of the 2021 school year this past wednesday september 2nd, we welcomed over 20 participants including board president mark sanchez and the parent leaders andly say on from the African American parent at vice recouncil and the district English Learners Advisory Committee and thank you to emery gordon who presented updates and took questions on the budget and the learning contin to you plans and they were review the districts plan and the joint advisories will provide written feedback to staff by the friday september 11th deadline and we had communication between families and the School District and school sites and all things related to Distance Learning including access and expectation and engagement and Education Funding including the local control and accountability plan as well as initiatives to make it more equitable across school sites and we identified areas within the pack including recruitment, fundraising, and equity and how we worked together using an anti racist lens and they voted on the identified issues and communications and equity came up as top priorities. It will be our new officers for 2021 school year. Our chair, vicechair and secretary. We greatly appreciate all who attended and participated in our meeting and it was great to start the year in community with so many parent leaders and set the stone for a closer alignment and collaboration with our Advisory Partners over the course of the school year and beyond. For the pack is recruiting new members and were commit today reflecting the multifaceted diversity our sfusd student and backgrounds and this year were strategizing on ways to extend and recruitment and care delivers and students and to include the voices and experience of all families and the work we do and and pack sf. Org and available in chinese, spanish and english and applications are accepted and on an ongoing basis and for more information [please stand by] are there any board Advisory Committee appointments . I do not see any. Ok. Next is section e, the consent calendar item, motion and a sec fosecond. So moved. Seconded. Thank you. Well look to see if theres any Public Comment on the consent items. Thank you, president sanchez. If you care to speak on the consent calendar, please raise your hand at this time. Seeing none. Any items corrected by the superintendent in. No, president sanchez. Any items moved . President sanchez, could we pull, what is it, 16, please . Ok. Miss cosco, do you have that in front of you . role call . There are six ayes. I have a lot of questions about the rates we were charging attorneys. I think it was 385 and i think thats a little high, right . And im wondering how did we get there and how are we getting . I regret to inform you 385 for particular types of Legal Services is actually low. So there are many attorney whos are charging upwards of 800 an hour depending on the type of work theyre doing and none that are working for us, by the way. We have a standard provision in our Legal Services that requires the law firm to charge us the lowest rate than theyre charging any other School Entity and we make sure were not when we get bills, we review them to make sure theyre accurate and the time is well spent. With regard to your question about how were picking the firms, these firms are all continuing from last year and i would say that the last, at least the last six years ive been here, we have had fisherphilips and a professional services agreement, that firm assists with the williams inspections, which were legally required to do. The last contractor is now and that is adelinaburrow and she will be doing the piece of the williams inspection that george calagaros cant do. In the past we have traditionally hired jolee, who you may know is an official in the united Administrators Union and we could not hire her to do work this year and we had to find a different contractor. So i appreciate that and again around the rates, because what im hearing from other districts, they were paying a rate that was lower than that. Is that a San Francisco bay area thing or, like, a standard across the state rate that youre talking about . Right. And so, one, it would be great offline to get that information because if we have a firm that is charging us more than theyre charging other Public School districts, they want to know about that. But my suspicion is that the two law firms that are on here, theyre very specialized. So fisherphillips does work to bring in teachers from other countries and have them be here legally with the appropriate visas. That work is not typically inexpensive for employers and the ripp law firm is a specialized firm that deals with Communications Law and so they are supporting us with our kalw work and have been for the past six years and because i believe we are the only School District in Northern California with our own radio, i would be surprised, in fact, if any other School District had to hire a Communications Law firm. Its such a specialized service. Thank you, danielle. Youre welcome. So on that item, lets have a separate role call. Item 16 on the consent calendar. role call . There are six ayes. Section f, discussion and vote on consent calendar resolution severed for separate consideration and there are none tonight. And g, proposals for action, and there are five policies for action. All duly moved and seconded at a prior meeting from the board. If i have no objection from the Board Members, there will be one vote to all five of them and they were heard at the rules Committee Last week. So in section g, numbers onefive are 1312. 3, complaint procedured, 5. 332, work permits, 53. 2, bullying, 53. 3, nondiscrip nation harassment and Sexual Harassment. And 6. 142. 7, physical education and activity was heard at the rules, but it was referred to curriculum, as well. And so, commissioner lamb, can you get the report out on the rules committee meeting. They were generally updating to reflect current law and that all five had positive recommendations to the full board. We also wanted to note a couple of things. For example, and danielle, please jump in, too, that we have just acknowledging that theres been some recent updates with the u. S. Department of education. I believe it is section 5 5145. 7 and, danielle, feel free to chime in. We made sure we added additional protections under the nondiscrimination harassment, 5143 policies. Did i say that accurately . Yes. The only thing to add to that, commissioners, is that we also made changes to the bullying policies, 513. 2 to mitigate some of what we perceived to be bad policy coming out of betsy devose and the National Department of education. And so all of those changes are intended to try to capture the type of behavior we would like to stop early. Thank you, commissioner lamb. And dr. Matthews, can you role call, please. role call . There are six ayes. Section h is special order of business. One, the item 201. 8, a public call for the proposed learning continuity and attendance plan for the San Francisco county office of education and the San Francisco unified School District and superintendent matthews, can you introduce and explain this hearing . Yes. Explaining this item and reading into the director is a director of strategic resource planning, anne marie, gordon. Theres a new document we learned from the cde over the next month and if we t go to the next slide, i want to begin with a quick overview of two different acronyms that are both in lcap and that is related to our normal reporting structure of a local control and accountability plan which is a threeyear plan, traditionally, that describes the goals, actions, services and expenditures to support positive Student Outcomes and support. The lcap was developed alongside the local control funding formula or lcff. And we are reporting to the state on our use of lcff funds. And then, the new lcap, which you can see, the learning continuity and attendance plan is a oneyear plan that describes how Student Learning continuity will be addressed during the covid19 crisis in the 2021 school year. And we have more information coming about th the intent didnt purpose but it will memorialize the process underway for Student Learning this year. And the next slide, we have a calendar and an overview of our lcap collectively, our lcap process and so the different colors indicate when our recording document has changed over the past six month. So if we go back to march, we were in the process of developing a new lcap that would have come to the board in june with the2021 budget. But with the result of covid19, School Closures and shifting into Distance Learning, the California Department of education had us create the covid19 operations written report which you all will recall from june, which was a onetime report to share back how we adjusted our programs and services and support while schools were closed. The next slide gives us an overview of what the learning couldncontinuity and attendancn is. Because of the change of the chs year, it will replace the lcap and so we will bring a budget overview for parents to the board in december which is part of kind of the package of documentation that the lcap is a part of, but we will not have our traditional local control and accountability plan for this year. The continuity plan is the document. Also to have a formal documentation process for school this year amid covid19. We do have som have specific requirements related to the continuity plan itself. We will be responding in writing, as well. And then in terms of sharing publically and having the opportunity for discussion, we have one public hearing. The Distance Learning guide, the content and the substance is not significantly different and so this is, you know, to the extent that prior engagement is consistent with the requirements of learning continuity plan, an lea, School District or county may consider input from previous activities in the development of the plan. And so that was really our hope and our goal, is to not reinvent the wheel when it came to completing the learning continuity plan. We could focus on our priority activities and improvements for the fall. Some are new and very specific to this year and to the context of covid19 and Distance Learning. So, as you can see on the right side, that note is that the majority of the information in the learning continuity plan does come directly from our fall learning plans and Distance Learning guide and we have actually cited those documents throughout the learning continuity plan to kind of ensure that cross reference and make sure the consistency is clear. Theres two sections that contain the most that was different than what you are already familiar with and kind of the plans we have been in discussion. This coming friday is our requested deadline for feedback and this will give district staff a week to produce a written response in preparation for a september 22nd board meeting, where we will share written feedback. Next slide. And so that is the end and i will hand it back over to commissioner sanchez. If there is any Public Comment, raise your hand to speak at this time. Hello, julie. Hi, this is Julie Roberts and i had some questions and im hoping the boa board discussionl clarify. In the learning continuity, im learning if we can have moore me accusation on the Student Engagement and go back to the disaggregation which families are connecting through distanced learning and what supports are need. Does it mix fund sources and reflect sources and resources with changes or additions related to the covid . In the actions related to inpersonal instruction offers, the budget has 10 million set aside for expenses and thats the largest expenditure in that area and so im curious why were setting aside, you know, the largest portion in that section for things that are unanticipated and what we think they might be used for. In terms of actions to address people earning less, im glad to see theres a large portion to the english learning supports. Im curious what we think that might look like and again, whether this will be additives to what sites have or whether this is just im sorry, julie. Youre going way too fast. Im the interpreter. Sorry. Im slow down. The final question is around the 14 million in pupils and Family Engagement and outreach and im wondering if we can have more information on how those funds will be used. Thank you. That concludes Public Comment. Thank you so much. And commissioners, student delegates, any questions or comments . Speak up if you do. Do any of the Public Comments or questions resonate with you . Do you want to respond . Sure. I can speak to some of those questions and so i think in the learning continuity plan, there is kind of a caveat for the actions and expenditures that we are awaiting some clarification from the cde about the total amount of dollars that are supposed to be incorporated into the learning continuity plan and i think that is kind of the question about are these amounts additive or are they already built into our budget . Right now, it is a little bit of both. What we are hoping to clarify with the cde is whether we are supposed to be focusing just on our learning loss mitigation funding or if we have actually supposed to have the entirety of our lcff funding built into these actions because and if f the more notable changes that will make place between now and two weeks from now is adding some of the actions that are in our current lcap or in the traditional lcap to ensure that all of our general funds is accounted for. And so when it comes to the specific actions that you see listed in the learning continuity plan, i think, for example, that 10. 5 million reserves, that is the reserve that has been that chief Financial Officer Megan Wallace is myself have shared as a part of our budget plan for 2021, where we based on research and efforts of the cost of reopening schools, we built in an assumed reserve so that we have Resources Available to make adjustments without ready to deploy when we kind of finalized that plan. And then i think for a couple of the other actions, its kind of a combination of places where we already have, for example, support for English Learners built into our budget and the work that is being done related to those supports is being adapted and modified to support students during the distanced learning. And i think i can go ahead and pause there and see if that helps or if that has created more questions. Your clarification had clarity. Any questions or comments . Otherwise, we will move on. Again, thank you, miss gordon. And so, i end this public hearing and resume the regular board session. Item two is 2098so2, California Department of education, request for additional education, fiscal year 2021 and we need a motion and a second for this item. So moved. Second. Gracias. Superintendent matthews. Thank you, president sanchez. For this item presenting to us will be our chief Financial Officer Megan Wallace. Thank you, commissioner and dr. Matthews. Staff recommends that board action to direct staff that in the event sfusc is not able to meet the reserve as required under the california education code, to prepare fiscal year 20202021 budgeting plan for adoption no later than december 17, to 20. 20. 2020. The board of education adopted for our School District and county office of education. The next step, the California Department of education or cde must either approve or reject or budget no later than september 15th. And as part of the review, cde noticed or budget includes a significant amount of local revenues from the city is county of San Francisco, including 15 million proposed by mayor london breed. It will not be approved by the end of september and after cde, well have completed its review. To support the confidence in our budget submission, cde actually requested that the board take this action so that in the event rebalancing is required, staff will be ready to prepare a balancing plan. And so through this action, the board of education recognises the need to rebalance the budget in the event that were not able to meet our two operating reserve and we see increased costs, associated with a hybrid model of our schools or reduced revenues. Im happy to answer questions. Thank you, miss wallace and lets see if theres any Public Comment on this item. Please raise your hand if youre here to speak to this item. Seeing none. Commissioners and delegates, any questions or comments . I think you must have presented quite well. And theres to questions. Ok, so role call, please. Thank you. Miss collins, mr. Cook. role call . We have six ayes. Discussion of educational issues, one item. Superintendent matthews. Thank you, president sanchez. This evening, we will have an update on as you recall, we developed in the spring a District Partnership with the communitybased organizations and started a forum updating on that Forum Tonight will be our deputy superintendent of instruction. Good afternoon, commissioners. This is an update provided by both myself, as well as our chief of sfcsd and ill ask justin to project the slide, please. Just one moment. This is an opportunity to give a brief update on the work weve done with our Community Event organization, selfspeaking to our Community Partnership form thank you, deputy superintendent. Good afternoon, commissioners and thank you for the opportunity to present. Today, our presentation is focused on our Partnership Work and we all went into shelterinplace, it seep seemse so long ago. We all knew we would have to think differently about the way we did things and the way we partnered together with our students and families. Next slide, please. However, partnerships were not new to the district and as a district, we adopted the dual capacity framework to create authentic Family Partnerships and at its core, this framework named the conditions that need to be in place to develop both staff and families to service the Students Learning. And this includes honoring and recognising familys fund of knowledge, connecting Family Partnership to Student Learning and creating welcoming and inviting school cultures. We have been planning this since 2018 to work towards creating relational trust, and building the capacity of district staff along with families and Community Partners. As a result, we were able to call on our Community Partners to help us to coplan the First Partnership forum in march and ill turn it over to the deputy superintendent to talk about what weve accomplished and learned since then. Next slide, justin. So the purpose of this forum. The three that were called out by the planners and that was definitely developed during the convening was to strengthen and deepen trust along all sfusd and celebrate our collaborative work during the series of abhorrent and strategize how we can move forward and how we do this of pandemic and School Closures and be a better and more service to our community and families. Next slide, please. So the first convening of the Community Partnership forum was in april of this year, april 27th, and weve had two more in the spring and may and june and those were just kind of the spark. From there, the partnership grew and we had our partners coplan all of the the town halls that happened during the summer months and both family town halls and student town halls were coplanned with the Community Partners. We also, as you recall, convened the working group, Logistic Working Group and a Personnel Working Group that drove many of the decisions that were made for how we would reopen and when we would reopen and those groups have participation from our cbo partners. We decided that it was good work being done and we have continued this partnership and actually hope that our First Partnership forum for this school year on august 13th. Next slide. Our cbo form, just from the first one in april has hosted over 669 participants from various stakeholder groups and you can see that to the lefthand of the screen and we noticed i think i mentioned this in a previous presentation, that theres ways in which the Virtual World really allows for more access and participation and so, even though as was said, there have been other Community Partnerships forums held in previous years and months, the attendance of the virtual forums has been very surprising and exciting. With an average of 200 plus for each convening. Next slide. So what have we learned some weve learned a lot, think, individually and weve learned a lot collectively as we tried to respond to a pandemic is all exacerbated in this time. A couple of things to highlight is that we recognise from our feedback forums and from our evaluations that even with this structure of the Community Partnership forum, theres different expectations, right . Theres some folks who come with that 200, that are coming to learn about sfusd is learning and get information to take back to the community and their constituents and theres others who have wanted to leverage the networking. If you can imagine, 200 folks representing cbos across the city to come together for three hours, an excellent time to network and share ideas and practices and get information. But many more are ready to actually do some hardcore planning collaboration and making some plans of how together well be of service to the community and so weve learned a lot about not just what we need to do together, but a lot of learning about who we are individually and how we can come together better going forward. Next slide, please. And so, what have we accomplished . Even though there was a number of convenings that i shared in a previous slayed, weve only had three convenings in the spring. And even in the short three meetings together, i felt like we accomplished a lot. I think my national inclination is to say, like, whats the product . Whats the tangible and we have some of those but we wanted to serve we did a lot of work below the line and really thinking about how do we include Community Together that we think is porsch important to get to te products were trying to produce. We came together across gender, across organization and previous convenings were coplanned and this was coplanned and cofacilitated and another level. Any Community Partnership forum, you would see five or six different folks facilitating different parts, all having different input on the how and the what of the actual convening. We also established some focused areas that the groups want to dive deeper in. We want to attribute our partnership with the communitybased organizations to our ability to serve close to three million meals and we had a newspaper of partners who not only volunteered but have been delivering meals or hosted Food Distribution at their particular location. An example of that is our shipshape community center. We dont have schools there, but that partnership with the cbo has helped us to support families on treasure island. And our cbos have helped with the wellness checks and, specifically, making calls in the spring, but also, when we have families express a need for Immediate Service or resource, we were able to link them directly to the supports because of our relationships and because of the conversations we had at those forums of who can do what. We were able to distribute materials, both devicive, as well as instruction materials in the spring and again, in the fall based on partnerships and in collaboration with our cbos. And even as San Francisco prepares for the community hub, theres been a lot of thought partnership and sharing around best practices to manage the devices and weve also invited and shared our webinars and training with folks getting ready to facilitate the learning hub. Theres a lot more communication about resources and services for the community. Next slide. The group of folks ready for action are the ones that continue to show up and were excited about now identifying some very specific projects or areas that we want to focus on together and then communicating what will be the goal or objective and doing that work together. We are still wanting to figure out how do we better share information with the community thats not just wsusd information but what theyre offering and vice versa. I think were Getting Better but the whole idea of the relationship is that role and title isnt relevant and were coming with our passion and commitment to all of our different areas of expertise and skillsets. So were looking forward to our future forums to really move towards accomplishing those. A couple of obstacles and we still want to call them opportunities and, again, just really figuring out how to community katcommunicate. Sfusd uses certain platforms and how are we making sure we can talk to each other with the technology that we use and theres been a challenge and a lot of feedback around sharing information with our cbo partners, access to the data, et cetera, while maintaining an environment thats secure and safe and then how do we make sure that were having each other in the conversation . These Community Partnership forums cannot be the only place where we come together and collaborate and get information and so how are we making sure were in each others conversations and how do we reduce redundancy or replication . Next slide, please. And the comment i just said of the obstacle around balancing the need for access and student security and privacy, just wanted to highlight a couple of things on this. I wont go through each one, but this is definitely and area that were still focusing on and trying to figure out and we know that many of our communitybased organizations provide really Necessary Services to our students and in order to ensure safety and security. We have protocols around who can get an sfusd email account and so this is really for our partners listening and information about how do you get a new sfusd log inform, as well as what teachers can and dan not dand cannotdo to participate anf service and make sure student safety is at the forefront. Next slide, please. I think one critical difference as we move from the spring to the fall, its not new, but it definitely names more is thinking about how to do this work in a way that is of service of antiracist practices and true authentic partnerships. We want to move from planning events, so its nice to plan a forum together and really moving to true collaboration and coordination and having really concrete action plans. I think one accomplishment that i didnt speak to was, again, that 669 number. Its huge. And so now that we have all of the folks and perspectives in the room together, how can we really make sure our voices are lifted and that we can actually do more and better of students and families. Next slide, please. You want me to go . Ok, so, where do we go from here and how do we build off what we learned and what were thinking of is version 2020 for the Community Partnerships network or maybe we should call it 2021. And i just want to be transparent that were in the beginning stages for the best thinking today and nothing that im presenting today is set in stone and it may shift as we bring together a diverse leadership and design team to help us with some of the decisions. But in an essence, what we want to do is create a network is lead by diverse leadership and design team that would identify priorities and create structures across projects and event. We have a core team to support the coordination and align work over time and have shifting Planning Teams. The Planning Team may be responsible for clarifying objectives and the members of the Planning Team would evolve as the events evolve. And the idea is that we would want to be sure that we had the Broader Community participating informed and benefiting from the collective work and we have consistent participation over time, which that is what deepens our collaboration, our coordination and trust. And that is sort of the best thinking today of how we evolve to this next phase of the network 2020. Next slide, please. So what do we do right now in the next steps . Were in the process of beginning to convene the Leadership Design Team to design the structures and collaboration and sharing our best practices. And we will continue to share information through emails and newsletters, and much of the information that goes out in the family digest and such, we also collate and send out to our Community Partners tone sure thato ensurewere getting up upp information and what will be the forms to deepen our relational trust in our roles and continuing to find a common purpose in our shared work. Back to you. We want to be respectful that collaboration with our cbos is not new. We want to make it better and honor the strong relationship with our partners and the work thats done at that level, as well as the equity studys passport. Thats another sfusd kind of coplan section where we meet with communitybased organizations and partners. And we have many of our sfusd leaders, both site and central teams, and folks who are joining the cbo networks. Its not just coming to the sfusd but were going into their networks, as well. And finally, we do have over 89 afterschool programs and cbo partners who operate those programs and those groups are meeting regularly, as well, and we hope to see this continue and were committed to the ongoing collaboration and ultimately, moving toward really actionable projects that we can share with the community and give updates on and actually continue to be of service. And so we are going to open it up to questions. I told you brief, commissioner sanchez. That was our brief update. [ laughter ] thank you so much for the presentation. Well open it up to Public Comments. Thank you, president sanchez. If you want to speak, please raise your hand at this time. It looks like we have a couple of hands up so far, president sanchez. Yes, hello. You can go ahead. Good afternoon, commissioners. I want to, first of all, thank the leadership of the School District for giving me the opportunity to participate in the planning and the execution of a lot of the forums and i definitely agree that given that were working o in a Virtual World, it made it much more accessible and i really im in full support of the plan thats laid out in terms what will be the next iteration of this work is i do look forward to continuing to partner with the district as a Community Agency and make sure that our students and families are definitely at the center of our work. And i strongly agree that we should definitely come up with concrete actions in terms of what is going to be guiding our work . What will be the end product of convening us all through this forum . So thank you so much. Thank you. Hello, casandra . Speaker hi, thank you. Im the director at the middle school. Thank you for listening to me and thank you to the deputy superintendent and the director. It was really nice to hear about these Community Forums and participate in them. And i do want to just have a quick statement of when is our children and our Family Coalition going to meet again . This seems livinge seem climatek you do . And this is a larger issue across the city that needs to be brought out to families directly. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes the Public Comment, president sanchez. Thank you, mr. Steel. And questions or comments from Board Members or student delegates . Go ahead, student delegate almanza. Hi, and thank you, president mark sanchez. It might be funmy to say how much this 17yearold is so excited and inspired by the Community Partnerships. I really feel happy to know that sfusd partnered with the community in such effective ways. The question of how do we share more information . I really value that this is called an obstacle opportunity because the way i saw sfusd collaborate with the community was not own successful but engaging and it was facilitative, the technology we use in the town halls is transformative and im excited to see the Community Partnership grow with the more effective outreach for different perspectives and communities with different experiences. Im just excited to im just really excited because i really envision having more and more accessible collaboration amongst sfusd and expects, not just the cbos but, like, Community Members and leaders and student. And i just wanted to say that. I was a part of some of these meetings and i honestly really joyeenjoyed them. Great, thank you for that and any other comments or questions . Vice president lopez . Thank you for presenting this and for bringing this to our attention. Im excited that our student delegate is happy about the work were doing and its clear that we want to continue to partner. Its something that weve been saying for many, many years. And i think its just important to continue to share the work that we are doing as the cbos often hold stronger relationships with our family and i definitely am wondering about the actual planning, the specific projects that youve named and if you have any that we can learn about now, i would love to listen to them. Apologies, trying to find my clicker. No, we dont have any specific projects right now because were just getting to the point of assembling the team and looking at what were focusing on. I mean, the things that were working hard on right now is the technology access, which has been a big challenge and opportunity and so that has been one of the big focuses of the first couple of weeks and well iterate as we get folks together. So well bring it back as we identify more projects. Thank you. And its very clear that the people in the positions are super dedicated didnt read ando work is jump on requests that we are able to collaborate on together. And so, if we can, im also wondering about one more thing which is specific to any accommodations that we are giving cbos whos partnered with us before covid19, given that a lot of the work cant be done in person anymore. By accommodations, do you mean working with them in terms of the contracts we have to provide the services in person . Can you tell me a little bit more what you mean . I can be more specific, just some of our partners offer services that would is been done in person and through those interactions, they are given information that helps support the students we are both working with. But because we can meet in person, they are now not able to get that information and not able to follow up on their work. If i was an agency and doing work in the classroom, i would be able to support that student there and how do i get the information on that student so i can support them . Is that what youre saying in terms of accommodation . How can we mirror that . Yes. Thats a super great challenge that were having in terms of, i think, deputy superintendent talked about the different ways were trying to get folks to have sfusd accounts to be a part of zoom meetings and have access to that. So we continue to really think about how do we do that and so that we can make those connections with family. So that will be a big learning curve for us this year and we will keep you updated, but it is something that were continually working on. Thank you, and i know we have to be creative during this time, and, again, were all willing to do that. But i just wonder how a cbo in that predicament would know that this was happening. Would they reach out to you, your department . What would that process look like . Oh, you mean to ask about well, if they have an mou with us, were communicating with them regularly and if theyre just wondering, they can reach out to the Partnerships Office and i think its im going to go and look at the email to say it correctly, but its sfusd partnerships, but let me get that to you so i dont say it incorrectly. And they can ask us those questions. Were constantly trying to put faqs out to do that, but that wont be the easiest way to ask that question if they havent worked with us as a communitybased organization before. Im looking up the email now and ill announce it in a minute. Thank you. Any other comments, questions . I dont see any. So well move on. I want to thank you for this presentation. Im sorry to interrupt, president sanchez. The email is partnerships sfusd. Edu. Thank you so much. And section j is discussion and vote on consent calendar items removed at a previous meeting and theres none tonight. And k, introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. And so theres going to be public and board comment, and i just want to make sure people understand what thats about. And so we have a motion and a second for First Reading to superintendent proposal 2098sp one, renewal for the prepatory school. And so can i get a motion . Ill move. Did you get a motion . We need a motion and a second . Ill move it. Second. Thank you. And so, is there any Public Comment on this item . If you care to speak, please raise your hand at this time. Seeing none. Any board comment . I do not see any. And so this will be referred to the Curriculum Program and Budget Services committee and i would also like for our Charter School Oversight Committee to have the opportunity to discuss this, as well. And section l, proposals for immediate action and suspension of rules, theres none. And m, Board Members reports. We had a joint select committee on friday, august 28th and commissioner collins and commissioner cook, do any of you have an update or a rundown of that meeting . Thank you, president sanchez. Yes, we got an extensive update from Public Health, dcys and park and recs. And theres an ongoing partnerships that are continuing to happen. Supervisor hainey extended the meeting so were meeting biweekly now. Ok, thank you. We had an Ad Hoc Committee on Student Assignment on monday, august 31st. Commissioner norton. Yes, thank you, president sanchez. We reviewed the process and the timeline for policy development and also heard a lot about some interim changes, process improvements that epc has already made including the longawaited launch of an online application and were going to be moving deadlines back a month because with the new online app, we can accommodate a shorter timeline for processing the applications, which is great news since we know that every week we can push back the deadline. We capture more families in our first round of the process which is a huge advantage to navigating the current process. And i wanted to give the board a brief update on where we are with policy change because things are starting to move very, very quickly with our policy development and the staff expects to bring us a proposal for First Reading in late october, actually midoctober, i believe late october, i think. And so, between now and then, theres a lot of work to be done to get to an actual proposal and so, there will be, actually, a meeting on september 14th and another meeting on september 29th for us to really start to get down to the details on this proposal. And so the upcoming meeting on the 14th is from 5 00 to 7 00, and well be going off the action for, again, what are we trying to accomplish with the resign of the policy and reviewing the results of the simulations that stanford has done t to narrow down the concepts. I want to encourage you to tune in and participate in the meetings because this is all of our chance to really influence the direction of the policy before theres a proposal that comes before the board. And there also is, for anybody in the public interested, theres a number of theres a Speaker Series coming up that the staff has put together and i think there will be interesting opportunities to dig into the context around the policy change and theres a lot of information that has been put up on the Student Assignment website and so, sfusd. Edu studentassignment. The first Speaker Series will be friday from 3 00 to 4 00 on the history of Student Assignment in sfusd and an Additional Panel on the research about School Integration on thursday, september 17th from 4 00 to 5 00 p. M. And on monday, the 21st, a summary of research about School Choice and these events are free and theyre open to the public and theyll take place online over zoom. And anybody who is interested in attending can sign up at its a link, bit sfusdresearch and im excited that all of this is underway and a lot of work to be done. But obviously, this is really important work that the community is watching closely and affects a lot of our Community Members and so really excited to be moving it forward and let me know if you have any questions. Commissioner, thank you so much for your leadership on this work. Its so important, as well as the work of our staff. We had rules, policy Legislation Committee on thursday, septembew commissioner lamb reported i dont know if you added anything to your report. Yes, in addition to the five board of ed policies that weve adopted tonight, we had our regular update from capital advisers, our Lobbyist Firm in sacramento give us a wrapup and just for the public, state Legislature Just wrapped. The legislative session early last week and Early Morning hours and i think described it as chaotic and a final rush, but overall, again, the governor now has several hundred bills hes considering and theyre signing into law or not adopting. And so, in the coming weeks, we should have a good sense of some of where the governor stands with the state Legislature Bills on his desk. We also receiv received an updat at this time, it does not seem to be any Movement Towards a federal package, a stimulous so that from the conversation that we had as a committee, was trying to understand in absence of a stimulus package, would it change any of our kind of shortterm the state budget is trickle down to the local and from that analysis with mia lee, we wont have any shortterm impacts. But again, leading up to the impact, the budget and business Services Committee is meeting on this and will able to unveil the coming months and mile stones for us as a Budget Committee and what well be reviewing. So thats all i had as far as updates on the policy committee. Thank you so much. Commissioner lamb, reports to board delegates such as csba and city schools. I dont see any takers on that. And then all other reports by Board Members, if theres anything a board member wants to report at this time. Yes, just briefly, president sanchez. Last week, i participated in a call that was supposed to buy the San Francisco naacp, along with several black leaders with the chief of staff, part of which dallase addressed encantmd because our building was discussed as a part of the meeting and i wanted to make this on ground agenda to hear how were addressing that as a part of our facilitys approach or how were partnering with the city. And commissioner meliga, is that ok. Yes. We are planning a meeting at the end of the month looking to solidify the date on the 30th, but yes. Great. Thank you. Ok, so the following september Committee Meetings have been scheduled, budget and business services, thursday september 10th at 4 00 p. M. , curriculum and program, monday september 21st, buildings, grounds and services, september 28th at 3 00 p. M. And the Ad Hoc Committee, monday, september 14th at 5 00 , september 29th also at 5 00 p. M. Section n, other informational items in the agenda is the staff report on acceptance of monetary donations to the district for the months of june through august 2020. And section o is memorial adjournment and theres none tonight. And at this time, we will take Public Comment for those who wish to speak to items on the closed session agenda. And mr. Steel. President sanchez, yes, if you would like to speak on the closed session agenda, please raise your han at this time. Hand at this time. Seeing none. Thank you. Section p, closed session, the board will go into closed session. Thus, i call a recess of the regular meeting. So well see you all at this meeting and thank you, public, for attending this meeting. This is session q and one report of 10 matters of anticipated litigation by a vote absent collins provided direction to the General Council in the matter of chip versus sfusd and case number cps2059049 board approved a Settlement Agreement and authorized the General Council to pay up to the stipulated amount. That does it for the closed session read out. Thank you all. Thank you. All and all a short meeting. Sounds good. Be safe. Be safe. Be good. Thank you. Thank you all. Have a nice evening. Byebye. Bye. President yee of the 26 neighborhoods we have in west portal, its probably the most unique in terms of a small little town. You can walk around here, and it feels different from the rest of San Francisco. People know each other. They shop here, they drink wine here. What makes it different is not only the people that live here, but the businesses, and without all these establishments, you wouldnt know one neighborhood from the other. El toreador is a unique restaurant. Its my favorite restaurant in San Francisco, but when you look around, theres nowhere else that youll see decorations like this, and it makes you feel like youre in a different world, which is very symbolic of west portal itself. Well, the restaurant has been here since 1957, so were going on 63 years in the neighborhood. My family came into it in 1987, with me coming in in 1988. My husband was a designer, and he knew a lot about art, and he loved color, so thats what inspired him to do the decorati decorations. The few times we went to mexico, we tried to get as many things as we can, and wed bring it in. Even though we dont have no space, we try to make more space for everything else. President yee juan of the reasons we came up with the legacy business concept, man eel businesses were closing down for a variety of reasons. It was a reaction to trying to keep our older businesses continuing in the city, and i think weve had some success, and i think this restaurant itself is probably proof that it works. Having the legacy business experience has helped us a lot, too because it makes it good for us because we have been in business so long and stayed here so long. We get to know people by name, and they bring their children, so we get to know them, also. Its a great experience to get to know them. Supervisor yee comes to eat at the restaurant, so hes a wonderful customer, and hes very loyal to us. President yee my favorite dish is the chile rellenos. I almost never from the same things. My owners son comes out, you want the same thing again . Well, we are known for our mole, and we do three different types of mole. In the beginning, i wasnt too familiar with the whole legacy program, but San Francisco, being committed to preserve a lot of the oldtime businesses, its important to preserve a lot of the old time flavor of these neighborhoods, and in that capacity, it was great to be recognized by the city and county of San Francisco. Ive been here 40 years, and i hope it will be another 40 yeararararararararararararararr