Transcripts For SFGTV Transbay Joint Powers Authority 20240711

Civility toward cities and the challenge that cities face. I future looks promising and i look forward to 2021. Regarding phase 2, i was joined by the chair, c. F. O. To provide an update to the california project of transportation, tony tavares and numerous staff from the cal tran team and the statewide division of rail and mass transit. We provided an overview on project history, outlined work completed since the projects reactivation in june, provided forecast of upcoming information and the funding plan. Further, to our advancing phase 2, on october 15, we provided a project update to the bay area delegation which included senator and board chair jerry hill, san mateo counties. Along with the senate and Assembly Transportation Committee Staff and offices. 20 legislative offices participated. We provided information about the project history, current status and activities as well as future plans to advance the project. The presentation was well received and we plan to continue our communication with these offices. Regarding the r. F. P. S i briefed you on in the last meeting, we have two contracts today on the regular calendar. The pmis contract and the. It has progressed well. The Interview Panel that consisted of chair chang, director, recommended a candidate to enter into negotiations with. Those negotiations are under way. Regarding operations. Weve been pleased with the progress made by the citied on county of San Francisco as it relates to opening more social activities. On tuesday, mayor breed announced that San Francisco will roll back the activities in response to an increase in the covid19 cases. Well continue to monitor and adhere to guidance on the citys Health Officer and work closely with transit agencies to reduce the Community Spread of covid19. Well also provide commuters and visitors with the most uptodate information about maskwearing and social distancing through multiple lingual, Digital Displays and announcements. Additionally, enhancing cleaning protocols remain in place and well have a more updated report from john. Exciting news to share. Were proud to announce the sale force Transit Center has been selected as winner of the 2020 american architectural award. The process, the museum of architecture and design and art design in urban settings received a Record Number of entries. They are especially excited to rise through the field of other Great Projects and accept the award. Award ceremony would have been held in los angeles, but due to covid19, we received our award virtually and were still just as excited to receive it that way. We fully acknowledge that this was a team effort and we thank all that were part of that amazing project. As mentioned at our last meeting, director of communications, she returned to the fulltime. We undertook the recruitment of the legislative affairs manager. Im thrilled to announce we concluded negotiations and will have a wonderful new addition to add to our team in december. We wont share her name just yet as she makes the rounds to her department and what not, but i did have a little bit of knowing who she might be. Shell likely join us for our december meeting, if not [indiscernible] that concludes my report, directors. Id be happy to take any questions before having mr. Updyke do his facility director update on operations. Chair sesay do any members have questions . We have none. John updyke will give his report. Thats right. Well have him present his facility operations update. Thank you. Thank you, good morning. Chair, members. If you can tee up the presentation. Great. Thank you. You can roll to the next slide. So briefly a review of some of the changes weve made from an operation standpoint, just as smart cost saving measures. These were all done in concert with the affected transit staff primarily a. C. Transit, but also sfmta and others. One item we affected was darkening some of the kiosks that resulted in considerable savings of license fees that we pay each month for each kiosk. Its a skip stop affair, so there is a kiosk visible no matter where you are. And of course at each operating bus, were able to turn off almost 60 different kiosks on the bay and in the grand hall. Additionally, weve had uptick of vandalism behavior issues in the restrooms near bay 15, near the center of the facility on the bus deck. As a pilot, we have begun closing those on the weekend and opening restrooms up on the park, which previously were closed during the shelterinplace. So that patrons had alternatives. There are two other Restroom Facilities on either end. It has been a success so far. Well look at perhaps extending that, but well wait to see some Public Comments coming in as to whether that has been a problem or not. So well keep you posted on that. And relative to the bus storage facility, again, given the low tempo of use, weve made landscaping and engineering reductions. Theyre still having to attack the graffiti unfortunately at 2nd and 3rd street, but nonetheless, able to manage the facility with a slight reduction in resources there. Thats really a direct savings for ac transit. Again, thats been done in concert with the staff. While we have done that, we have not changed at all our cleaning regimen. So the hightouch cleaning remains in force. You can see the staff at the playground just before its opening. We placed new signage throughout the facility, consolidating the messages coming from the Public Health director in one laminated clear sign, rather than having multiple signs. I think that will have a good effect. So those are up at all elevators, stairways and entrance areas. Parks good news. The playground reopened october 19 after a Public Health regulations were posted and safely opening playgrounds. Were happy to see that open. Its been enjoyed by the residents in the area. Also, returning to zumba classes. A lot of folks were excited to see that come back. Were working with fitness s. F. And they did deliver that service from their contract trainers, providing everything we can for our anchor tenant to be successful. We wanted to make sure they had the first opportunity to open up those classes. Those are free and open to the public every wednesday. We have a smooth handoff to the landscape management. Theyve done a wonderful job. We have a punch list walk. One of the best ive had in my career. I believe we had one item that needed to be corrected which was resolved by the end of the day. That was terrific. Also, as director gonzales noted, s. F. Will have to dial back the use of the interior due to new restrictions imposed by the city. So there is a cap in the building reduced. As a result of that, we have begun discussions yesterday frankly to look at outdoor opportunities for them on the toma where they can still bring in more members and have activities, but do it outside. So were working through the logistics with them, we hope to effect that. Of course, in concert with the regulations by the Public Health department. Moving to retail leasing. Youve seen this slide before. It does have a few updates. The exploratory work done in the plaza to identify exactly which utility subs we had and how available they would be to a vendor, that work has been completed. It was very successful. Removed tremendous amounts of potential risk from our vendors activities or allowed us to dial in the anticipated costs to connect the kiosk. So we have moved now to just a sentence or two or away from a letter of intent. Well begin negotiations. I hope to have a positive announcement next Board Meeting relative to that. The prospective vendor is targeting a spring opening. So theyre excited about coming into the park and were going to begin to build that business as soon as possible. Negotiations for suite 232, just down the hall from our offices here on the beale street side of the facility continue. We have a little ways to go, but were progressing nicely and in parallel with that, were working with their the prospective vendor there and their architect on specific plans so we can define more specifically their anticipated tenant improvement package. So thats coming along nicely. Im also pleased to report that we do have two proposals were vetting for suites 133 and 137. Were not at the point where were trading paper yet, but very positive discussions and i will take positive discussions in that current era. Particularly in downtown. So thats good news. Colliers is doing a terrific job, out there hustling for us trying to find opportunities. Update on occupancy. So one change made since our last report to you. That is we have now effected the termination of foundation cafes, suite 141, as we have discussed with you previously. That really is a mutual agreement between the tjpa and stems from the unfortunate decision to close up their business entirely in San Francisco. It just was the economics were not going to work for them. We do feel for them. Theyre just going to move on in their life and this is best for all parties. So a mutual termination has been executed and that property will go back on the market actually starting tomorrow. That does change slightly our occupancy rate down from i believe it was 81 , now its 78 . I hope soon to bring that back up as we move forward with the leases i talked about that are in negotiations. Tenant improvements. Lots to report on that front. Very good news. Our friends at verizon suite 145 did a soft opening yesterday. They should be open to the public today. Its terrific to see them come on board and terrific to see them come on board at this time in downtown. Its just a wonderful sign we were able to have a tenant open in these very difficult circumstances. We wish them all the best. And just really happy to see them open for business. Cell phone work. If you need it, go and stop and see them. Another project that has been moving along nicely is the kaiser suite. That is almost 2000 square feet. Were nearing completion. There are a few things left to tidy up before they have their occupancy permit, but can see the facility is moving nice. Theyve done a wonderful job here. And they have pushed their opening to sometime between march and may. I put may on the slide here. It will be an economic decision they will make, but regardless, theyll be paying rent. Theyre just trying not to open in an atmosphere that makes it really difficult for them. We understand that. Were encouraging them to open as early as possible and the discussions continue. Great job on the suite. They do have a lot of staff training efforts. This is a prototype facility for them. There is none like it in the bay area for kaiser, so we can understand it will take them a while to open regardless. Another project under way is also just down the hall from the tjpa offices on the beale street side and that is spring fertility. Suites 222 and 224. They are hard at work putting in their infrastructure. Their targeted opening will be First Quarter of 2021 and rent will commence just before thanksgiving pursuant to the term or letter that was previously delivered to them. The general contractor, i must say they have done a fantastic job. Theyve had to work around our artifacts and our small museum area and the common area lobby and lots of tie ins and theyve done a clean job. Really happy to see them move forward with the project. Remaining tenant spaces, a change here on this slide and the next slide, is that we have pushed projected openings for the restaurants to q3, although we may see happy lemon open earlier than that. They did open up catty corner from the hotel on the embarcadero, thats a good sign. But they have work to do before theyre ready to go. So we have conservatively estimated a q3 opening in our daily conversations with the tenants wanting to be sure they have success and patronage upon opening. You see the other three per diems. Thats a pretty extensive buildout. So frankly, when theyre done, they will open and that will probably be q3 of 2021. And similarly, that package is being worked on now between their team and our team on the architectural side. Good news on the gender neutral restroom project. This is a precursor necessary for the opening of several of these restaurants in order to be code compliant relevant to restrooms. Just a few things to button up. Well make the targeted completion of this quarter of 20. So as we roll into 2021, that project will be completed on time and on budget. So happy to report on that approximately 500,000 project. Lastly, youve seen this slide in various forms before from the chief financial officer. What we will be doing is providing you with a future as we populate this with actual expenses accrued through the system. Right now we dont have that accrue yet. As they do accrue, we have agreed on the formatting and presentation youll receive, so well be able to give you highlighted, more details in the areas ive highlighted here. The base building contingency. Something were watching very, very carefully. The base building additions, tenant improvements, allowance budget and landlord work and tenant work we negotiate lease by lease. So you see the aggregate numbers. Those are consistent with what you adopted in the budget and then well bring you detailed realtime info as that amounts are put into the system. Well have much more details on that in coming meetings. Happy to answer any questions you might have. Madame chair . Chair sesay do we have any questions from Board Members . Thank you for that presentation, guys. Im excited that were still able to deliver on leases and were able to have openings coming online by 2021. Just really impressive work. Thank you. And i like the budget slide [laughter]. Thank you, chair. If i could just comment, im sorry, im having difficulty raising my hand. I will work on the technology. Sorry about that. I just wanted to congratulate on the opening. I think that is incredibly impressive of verizon and also the restaurants youre targeting. I think its good ground work being laid for recovery on the other side of this covid pandemic. So its very good report and thank you for having a lot of sparks of good news in your report. Thank you. Thank you. No other questions on this or comments, well turn it over to dennis to the b. L. A. Update report. Jason, thank you for bringing that up. Good morning, directors. Dennis, tjpa senior construction manager. Ill provide the q3, 2020 project Labor Agreement report. We held a joint Administrative Committee meeting on september 17 with all the unions present. During the interim executive director report we provided an update to each of the trades so they could understand the newly formed memo of understanding and also the executive Steering Committee as we look forward towards phase 2. The unions are as excited as we are. They know this new element is in the process. The construction closeout and the leasing updates were similar so the ones provided to the board right before that meeting. And then the update on the apprenticeship and veterans programs were very exciting news that we provided to the unions. One of our tenant improvement contractors, m. A. Steiner, he was m. A. Steiner is doing the kitchen exhaust for all those restaurants that are going to be opening up next year. I see the company was awarded the award of appreciation by the elite Service Disabled veterans own business network, which is a National Organization of very, very special organization. So we were very excited because that has been one of our core values, promoting veterans and programs and this was receiving this support is very exciting as part of the improvement program. So that will pass on to the unions. And then the p. L. A. Does continue through the tender of the improvements. That was reiterated to the trades as we work through for the next year or so with the tenant improvement. Under the labor development, all the labor needs are being met for the tenants improvements. And this were zero recordable or lost time. For the first half. And really through today, there has been no Safety Incidents on any of the tenant improvement construction. One other note. Just to mention that two of our tenant contractors are with the carpenters union. Theyre working directly with them. And theyre going to work it out to get through the process. Tjpa supports that to ensure that the p. L. A. Is upheld and well ensure that this issue gets resolved and we move forward. With that, that completes the p. L. A. Q3 update. If there are any questions, let me know. Seeing no questions, moderator, are there any members of the public in the queue wishing to speak on this item . There are not. Great. Move to the next item. Item 6 is the Citizens Advisory Committee update. We have our c. A. C. Chair who will address you on the item. Good morning, directors. Im derek holt. Earlier this week we had advisory Committee Meeting tuesday evening. The c. A. C. Is optimistic for increased Political Support for recent transportation projects in california after the recent election. We appreciate executive director gonzales level of consistency and familiarity with the complex issues she brings to the table. Its fantastic to hear about the award and recognition that the Transit Center has earned. The c. A. C. Members also appreciated updates by john updyke. A few moments ago c. A. C. Members have suggestions about signage. We were excited to see the recent changes in the report. Given the covid situation, the update was good news for us. A new food and beverage vendor, prospects for spring opening, engaging the neighborhood issues and the Verizon Store opening and other positive retail dynamics are all well received tuesday evening at the c. A. C. Meeting. From c. A. C. Members, there were questions regarding security, the number of visitors to the park and the homeless situation, the homeless population. We appreciate the successful efforts that the Security Director rodney harris. There were positive support comments of mr. Updykes update, including signage, gender neutral facility. On the topic of tpx, they shared a lot more color regarding the industry outreach, the details of the comprehensive work plan, the operational analysis and the shared funding between tjpa and sfmta. There were questions regarding the millennium tower. There were comments and questions regarding the decrease to ridership. Caltrain can and bart. More requests for review of information regarding the two tracks versus three tracks when it comes to the d. T. X. And future compatibility with the future transit. Hes opening to communicating and presentations at upcoming meetings from regional transportation authorities such as caltrain. Well make sure to identify topics were curious about so we can share that with those Regional Transit authorities. That basically concludes my c. A. C. Report. Chair sesay thank you. Chair, i dont see any of your Board Members with the hands raised to make questions or comments. At this time, members of the public have the opportunity to address the board on this item. Are there any members of the public in the queue wishing to speak on this item . Yes, there are. There is one. Caller, please state your name. Your three minutes begin now. Thank you. Good morning. Id like to briefly touch on the executive director report and my comments really pertain to general Public Comment which is the next item. With regards to the executive director report, i really appreciate the extensiveness of the content, but as a member of the public, it would be helpful to me if i could actually read that report on the day of the meeting. Now, i want to share with you breaking news. We just had the announcement that l. A. Metro washington has been appointed as the lead fort biden for the biden transition team. Im hoping that well have other executives in the bay area and director tumlin, in particular, will be able to assist mr. Washington with the transition. The thing i really want to mention with you, as a member of the public, its extremely difficult for me to follow this meeting and participate without the web link. This has been done for months with every agency in the bay area, caltrain. It must have something to do with sfgovtv and why we have to deal with the oneminute delay. With regards to the t. R. C. , we were provided with links last tuesday and participation in that meeting was absolutely superb and i appreciate the time that mr. Holt gave me to participate in the meeting. I would personally not hold it against mr. Holt if he wishes to share the comment i made with the c. A. C. Thank you. Moderator, any other callers in the queue . There are none. So at this time, i will move to the next item, chair sesay . Item 7 is Public Comment, an opportunity for members of the public to address the authority on matters that are not on todays calendar. Moderator, are there any members of the public in the queue wishing to speak on this item . There are none. Okay. Seeing none, well move to item number 8. Directors, item 8 is the consent calendar. All matters listed are considered to be routine and acted upon by a single vote. There will be no separate discussion of the items unless a member of the board or the public requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered separately. Seeing no directors hands raised to sever the items, at this time, members of the public have the opportunity to address the board on this item. Moderator, are there any members of the public in the queue and wishing to speak on the consent calendar . Moderator, any folks in the queue . No. Great. Seeing no members of the public wishing to address on this item, Board Members, youre items are 8. 1, approval the minutes of the september 10, 2020 meeting. And item 8. 2, authorizing the interim executive director to execute an amendment to extend the agreement for state Advocacy Services with Townsend Public Affairs for one year at 111,000. Do i have a motion. First. Second, lipkin. First from director hursh and director lipkin second. Director forbes . E. Forbes aye. Supervisor haney i think this was an aye. Supervisor haney aye, aye, aye, aye. Thank you, thank you, thank you [laughter]. M. Hursh aye. J. Tumlin aye. Vice chair gee aye. Chair sesay aye. The item is approved. Item 9, directors, item 9 is authorizing the interim executive director to execute a professional Services Agreement with sage method inc. For Program Management Information System for a four year term with an option to extend the term for two additional threeyear periods and amount not to exceed 556,200. We have the project director to present the item. Stephen, youre muted. Still seem to be muted. Looks like there might be a bit of technical difficulty. Well give stephen just a minute. Directors, can you hear me now . Yes. I am sorry about that. Lost my connection just as we started. Thank you. So this first item as read by ms. Miller is to provide Program Management Information System in a collaborative file sharing application dedicated for the things to happen with improvements. The scope of this includes software licensing, implementation, training, customization and maintenance, support and eventual closeout. The tjpa issued a request for a proposal back on july 2. The requests were sent to over 1500 individual contracts. And on august 14, we received 10 proposals from firms meeting all minimum qualifications of the r. F. P. Those proposals were scored and as a result a short list of four firms were selected for Software Demonstrations and interviews. During the scoring, we determined that sage application was the highest ranked firm and began to negotiate an agreement. The agreement that you see in front of you is to provide four years with an option twoyear, threeyear period. The sage is an sbe, so the participation with another sbe is 16. 86 . The Contract Value is 556,200. The work itself will allow us to provide software to control the project, to ensure filesharing and to assure that there is communication amongst the various stakeholders through the application. As you can see, the primary expense here is associated with the software licensing, but sage will be providing setup, customization and training for the staff and stakeholders associated with the project. Therefore, we request your authorization for the executive director to execute this contract. Ill stop and take questions at this time. Chair sesay thank you for your presentation. Do i have any members of the board have any questions . Hearing none . Madame secretary, can you see if any members of the public wish to speak on the item . At this time members of the public have an opportunity to address the board on this item. Moderator, are there any members of the public in the queue and wishing to speak . No. All right. With that, that concludes Public Comment. And were looking to [indiscernible] approval lipkin. With a first from director lipkin and second from director gee, a roll call vote. Director forbes . E. Forbes aye. Supervisor haney aye. Aye. M. Hursh aye. B. Lipkin aye. J. Tumlin aye. Vice chair gee aye. Chair sesay aye. With that, the item is carried. And i will move to item 10. Item 10 is authorizing the interim executive director to direct a professional Services Agreement with Parsons Transportation Group for general Engineering Consultant services for the downtown rail extension for a fouryear term with an option to extend for two additional threeyear periods and amount not to exceed 25 million. Good morning, thank you, again. This is an important item for us to advance our phase 2dtx project. As stated is the general Engineering Consulting agreement with Parsons Transportation Group, which we are asking approval to execute the contract. The purpose of this contract is to update the existing design documents which have been completed in the past to current standards as well as to the current definition of the project. Theyll also provide support to the phasing study which we are conducting as we speak to help identify initial project which is consistent with the operational and safety needs as well as available funding and to provide the engineering, management and execution required to help us obtain federal funding. So the procurement that was conducted over the summer included the r. F. P. Release back in july, 2, 2020. We made an extensive effort to outreach to the industry. Over 1500 targeting contacts and realized the demands to the program as well. On july 15, we conducted an online preproposal meeting and had 85 participants who were interested in subcontracting opportunities. And shared by earlier by gonzales, we received one submittal. The Evaluation Committee considered whether to reprocure or negotiate. And i want to acknowledge that in both the preparation of the r. F. P. As well as the Selection Committee, we have participation from the city, sfcta, caltrain, all contributed to this evaluation and recommendation, but was decided by the Selection Committee and the executive director that we had to proceed with negotiations. To the next slide please. So the agreement itself negotiated is for a fouryear base contract of 25 million for project development and project management with two additional threeyear optional periods. We are nine sbe firms on the parsons transportation team, totalling some 21. 45sbe participation. I do want to point out that the work itself under this agreement includes four basic elements. Project development, such as the aforementioned cost estimates, et cetera. The design team, quality and Risk Management and then in the future, we would expect project procurement, which would be the contract documents, including the advanced construction packages were contemplating for utilities and location. As construction proceeds, engineering. Theyll be available to evaluate contractors submittal and changes should they occur and other administrative matters. The work that we proposed to do under this contract would be done on a taskorder basis. So 25 million that i mentioned is the overall Contract Value, we would be negotiating individual task orders for specific scopes of work under that 25 million total Contract Value. With the executive Directors Authority and with our Technical Analysis and independent processes. At present, our internal estimates suggest that the 25 million will be sufficient to cover the project development and project management functions. We anticipate coming back to you in the future as we move into project construction procurement and engineering support which is the fourth element of work. With that, we go to the last slide. The ask your authority to execute the recommendation as contained in the staff report. Thank you, chair and members. Ill take any questions you have. Chair sesay thank you so much for your presentation. Do i have any Board Members wishing to ask questions or comment on this item . No, i do not. Do i see a hand . Sorry. Just a quick question here because obviously the point of doing competitive procurement is to get more than one bid. We have one. Can you describe on the quality and the qualifications of the proposer . Why the committee felt they met our needs . Im confident they do, but i want to hear articulation on the qualification side of things. And then on the price component, why we feel like this is an appropriate contract to move forward with given we didnt get other bids . Thank you, director lipkin. Parsons transportation is one of the largest transportation design firms in the united states. They are a top 20 company. They have done a number of similar projects across the country and around the world. So the qualifications of the company and the staff they bring forward, we felt were consistent with the needs of the project and met or exceeded the requirements of the r. F. P. They also have a number of partners of subconsulting firms, sbe and nonsbe, who have expertise nationally, but also in the bay area developing projects similar to dtx. In terms of the for that reason, we felt that they exceeded the qualifications that we outlined in the r. F. P. With respect to the pricing, based on the development of the project which has occurred over the years, the 25 million was consistent with past estimates of the required engineering to provide the design documents under a designbuild scenario. I want to stress that we have not made a recommendation yet and obviously, the board has not accepted or rejected our recommendation for the construction procurement methodology, whether it be design build or Public Private partnership. But using design build as a place holder if you will. Well be negotiating individual task orders on a casebycase basis to make sure that our estimate for the funds necessary to do those is consistent and something that we can stand behind as a fair and equitable price for that work. B. Lipkin thank you. Chair sesay . Director gee has his hand raised. Vice chair gee i want to follow up on your last comment to director lipkin with regard to why only one firm. And its primarily firms are trying to make a business decision, because we have not been fair, i believe, on the project delivery. Could you expand on that for the Public Record . The difficulty of trying to say, do i want to play now or get conflicted from participating later . Of course, director. In our followup conversations with some of the other potential, we found that the industry has assumed that the btx project will for the most part be procured in an alternative procurement approach. And i mean that as opposed to the socalled traditional design with no approach that many Public Infrastructure projects are procured on in the past where we would take the design to 100 and then do a pure lowbid competition for the construction. The industry has assumed that for the most port, we wont be doing that, although some of the advance contracts will be done that way. So many of the clients that we have talked to have decided that they want to wait for the opportunity to team with a contractor or project developer and pursue the designbuild opportunity which would be forthcoming in the future. Thank you. So if you are the prime for the engineering, you would not be engineer on the designbuild . Yes, im sorry, director gee, i should have said we would be naturally conflicted from bidding on the procurement documents weve developed for the tjpa. Vice chair gee very good. Thank you very much. Yes, sir. Chair sesay, i dont see any other hands raised. This is an opportunity for the members of the public to address you on this item. Are there any members of the public in the queue and wishing to speak on this item . Yes. Unmuted now. Caller, youre requested to please state your name and your three minutes begins now. Hello again, madame chair, members. I have three comments. The first one has to do with timing because as a member of the public, i dont understand how we could possibly be proceeding with an ntp for Engineering Services before the operation study has concluded. And hopefully confirm that this will be possible for caltrain to vacate the rail yard without having to wait for the new transbay tube. The second thing i would like to bring to your attention i believe director gee, is that Parsons Transportation Group have been suing caltrain for the last four years after a dismal failure for delivering a working positive train control signalling system. And this right now as things stand, its pointing straight to 100 million actually in access of 100 million for caltrain. I dont understand why thats not part of the conversation. The very last point, this firm in 2005 had been responsible to the [indiscernible] this is not the way that people design tunnels in dense urban complex. Nobody goes around digging a hole that size in the middle of the soma. And the fact that these were the people at the root of this disaster to then disqualify them from even applying for this contract in the first place. Thank you. Moderator, any other members of the public in the queue wishing to speak on the item . There are no others. So that concludes members of the public who wish to address you. And at this time, we are looking for a motion. Chair, before we take a motion, could i ask stephen to talk about the Selection Committee, because i believe caltrain was a part of the committee . Yes, director gee. We have participation in the r. F. P. Preparation and the selection representatives from the city, sfcpa, and caltrain. Chair sesay thank you. Madame secretary, are you waiting for a motion and a second . I am, chair. Ill move the item. Lipkin. Ill move second. With a first from director lipkin and a second from director tumlin, ill take a roll call vote. Director forbes . E. Forbes aye. Supervisor haney aye. M. Hursh aye. B. Lipkin aye. J. Tumlin aye. Vice chair gee aye. Chair sesay aye. With that, the item is approved. At this time, ill move to item 11, the San Francisco peninsula rail Program Executive Steering Committee update. The chair will present this item. Good morning, directors. Im pleased to be here to provide an update on our peninsula rail working group. And i will appreciate project director helping me here and there as needed, but weve been making great progress. Its been a lengthy update this month because we didnt update you last month. But the main item that we have been working on has been our work plan. Thank you so much for approving the last couple of items which will benefit us greatly in our work. So as you recall, the efc has been charged with developing the more detailed plan with the m. O. U. This spring and weve been engaged in the phasing study and operations study as early work tasks in in addition to finalizing the work plan. Next item. And so this work plan has been vetted by the integrated project Management Team which is compromised of the six agencies director level, deputy level experts. And they have been looking at each of the tasks, tying them back to the m. O. U. That was adopted by all of the members of the m. O. U. And making sure were getting to that getting ready for the procurement milestone that is at the end of the m. O. U. Period. Well be taking up the final version i believe as a work plan schedule later this month and bringing that to you all for action in december. So this is an opportunity to provide an update ahead of the action item that we hope to be agendized next december. These are the seven primary work areas. They encompass all of the project funding and early Engineering Work that supports the phasing analysis and early Design Development tasks common to any project we would choose as an initial operating project. As well as the federal funding process and state and other funding tasks that are absolutely going to be central to this ultimate decision on how to define the initial operating project in the initial phase. Heres a task map that kind of helps to bring the work plan, which is a very, very lengthy sort of document that shows all the interrelationships of the tasks. Were going to summarize that. Its shown here where we start with planning and the analysis. Drawing from the adopted plans that you see in the upper left corner, the caltrain and high speed rail plans as well as plan bay area 2050. Well take another look at demand over time in more detail as laid out by plans 2050 where we were pleased that this project was placed in the first period of the plan, meaning before 2035. The operations analysis work will lay out different combinations of caltrain and high speed rail service. Im not sure if the last time we updated you all, whether a plan had included a substantial investment in bringing high speed rail to the Silicon Valley and the bay area. That was a development that occurred i believe in late september, early october at the request of the mayor who sits on the mtc. This is important to see how Different Service levels and time frames will play out in terms of the demand of the needs we serve in this infrastructure. Well bring that all together into a business framework to enable you all to make a decision. We anticipate there will be tradeoffs and that is what this is designed to support in terms of decisionmaking. That would then lead to an iop decision and submittal for state and federal and other funds. As well as work on the delivery options and the governance arrangements that go with the delivery options as to who and how we would contract. Heres a summary of the scheduled targets for the coming year through 2021. Frankly, in this coming year our main goal is to support the decisionmaking by this body as to the definition of the initial operating project. So we will have all kinds of modelling for benefits analysis combined with the operations and phasing work on the engineering side, risk workshops are happening through. This will be the third one actually coming up. Weve had two already. Phasing workshops. And then well have a Business Case prepared for you over the summer. And we will bring, as well, i think, funding updates as we go in addition to the engineering and phasing operations and phasing work. Next the design and utilities. Ill just note that one development that has happened since we last met, the litigants of the bridge toll program were successful in gaining an audience with the california supreme court, so the regional measure 3 bridge toll program will be under, i guess, continued litigation for another year or perhaps even longer. And this, of course, program does have a substantial amount of funds for d. T. X. And we were hoping to access those funds for early activities, such as a utility and rightofway relocation and acquisition. However, its also very positive, as director gonzales mentioned, the administration, that we foresee in washington. And the potential for stimulus and other funds, whether its at the federal or state level. So we absolutely want to remain ready, prepare ourselves for early construction and implementation activities. So this remains on our schedule without any change. The phasing study, again, comes down to defining a safe and reliable and affordable buildable infrastructure phase 2, trains into sales force Transit Center. We want to ensure that the initial investment does meet the Transportation Needs and demands connecting to related projects both on the peninsula side as well as on the transbay side. Some evaluation criteria, i believe we have about seven. This is just to give you a sense of the work that, again, was portrayed in the task map that will help identify benefits, costs, tradeoffs and support decisionmaking. Costs and cost savings as well as future deferred item costs is the first item here. And, of course all of these things will eventually need to be refleblthed in our f. T. A. Evaluation and application, as well as looking at the longterm overall impact of any deferrals on future phasing and funding needs. Risks will be reflected in here as in multiple criteria areas. The consistency with regional plans i just mentioned will look at benefits and impacts on users in terms of travel times and connectivity access. As well, whatever the dependencies may be on other projects for those benefits and impacts. We do expect to be making a strong case for d. T. X. To be a project of statewide and regional significance. One of the tasks is to document those positive improokts. As well, consider resiliency factors and equity in terms of our benefits and impact analysis. User benefits, of course, these are just standard funding criteria for just about every funder. And we will identify any that are not within the footprint of the federally cleared project. However, if there is need to update or supplement that, we would identify that as well as any relationship to nonenvironmentally cleared project aspects. Operationally, we will be identifying operating costs associated with a Different Service level for both operators. I think well need to also reflect the funding commitment and the ability to rely on that f. T. A. And other funders will need to see the full commitment of capital and operating costs and they will need to determine their appropriate shares and can of course well need to be confident in your state, regional and local sources as well. The Service Flexibility will be important in order to make sure we have Reliable Service from both operators and ensuring that we do have room for growth. But also we want to make sure were rightsizing the investment and ensuring we have a plan for eventual connections for example, across the bay and timing will be important in terms of that analysis. Maintenance, of course, is a very important factor. Well have to make sure that the design supports maintainability of access for crews, as well as clear understanding of responsibility for the facility for the track, for the town by the operators and by tjpa potentially in the future as an owner. So those are the five areas, not the seven. Next ill move on to the phasing concepts on deck for evaluation and currently being evaluated for the potential to reduce costs and create cost savings, but also what that cost might be in the future when we bring that back in. None of these has been fully evaluated. I only mention these as options. Well just reflect these in the work plan and happy to take questions on them, but theyre shown here as reducing the length of the train box, deferring some pieces to a later time frame, including the connector for the bart, muni pedestrian automated connector, the inner city bus facility, sitting out of the station and highspeed rail components, perhaps, to such time the service would be able likely to get to the bay area and San Francisco, as well as deferring or eliminating one of the tracks in the tunnel. Next. Operations. Well certainly have an iterative approach. We have a set of options. Different combinations of caltrain and highspeed rail. Well look to ensure those are safe and operable, as well as looking at the deferral concepts add seeing how might we share the slots over time if we had a less than full scope. If we had to reduce our costs here and options that might affect the train capacity and how could we optimize the service and the profile for the infrastructure. Well be looking at it both ways and analyzing contingency situation, service and reliability and the ability to recover. And the runthrough option for a throughstation. Instead of the stub end station that we, which does constrain capacity and that has been cleared environmentally, but in the future we anticipate this will be a fully through station for the operators to go across the bay with the future bart capital corridor rail link, standard gauge rail link. And then we have completed, as i mentioned, some phasing workshops, as well as the breakdown structure, another way to say work plan. Weve done sounding interviews that did inform some of the early thinking and delivery options. Permit list, risk register, these are all things part of the Development Process that have no reason to wait. And its good to do everything early on. F. T. A. Requires the risk register and it will be compliant with that as well as the selection of the Engineering Consultant also helps very much. These are finally, again, a summary of the actions we intend to bring before you in 2021. The comprehensive work plan in december. The phasing recommendation in august. And delivery strategy in october. We do plan to bring between now and august other information items around, again, the operations work. The phasing analysis, the funding plan and strategy. All of these things you can also expect on your agenda in 2021. With that, im happy to answer questions. Stephen, did i miss anything . No. Great, thanks. Chair sesay thank you for that detailed presentation. Do i have any members of the board wishing to comment or do they have questions . Vice chair gee thank you for the presentation. Its a very bold work plan for next year. October 21 sounds a long ways away, but it really isnt. So a couple of things. One is there is a lot of information in your presentation, so i would appreciate getting a copy of the slide deck so i can study it a little bit more. And number two, would like to learn about what the risks are in achieving the work plan . What could go sideways to delay, you know, some of the work . Great question. And ill take a first pass and stephen, add to the answer. This is why weve taken its a great question. We appreciate. Its not the risk of the project implementation, but the work plan itself and achieving the milestones on schedule. This is why weve taken the time to delve in deeply across the Multiagency Team on each of those task, how they relate and inform one another, and making sure that we have the ability to manage each part so that we can form our analyses in a way that supports decisionmaking. So i think the main thing that is going to help here, is the clear understanding of the action item. Our Steering Committee will codify our understandings and commitment to one another. Stephen and his team are going to be making sure that everyone is meeting those commitments as he has done. We are actually pretty well on target as far as our schedule. Stephen can perhaps confirm where we may be a little off, but have done a lot of work to ensure those relationships among the tasks is clear. The questions were trying to answer is clear. And then the roles that everyone is playing to answer those questions is also are clear. Stephen, anything else . I would just add, chair gee, i think a significant risk that we have to grapple with is the funding to accelerate the program in light of the r m3 situation that we xhnmentioned, were constantly updating our cash flow projections to see whether the schedule can be improved upon. I think that is an obvious, but its still a risk that were that im quite worried about in terms of just having the availability of the cash to meet the program goals. Vice chair gee thank you. Chair, i see that director forbes has her hand raised. E. Forbes thank you so much for the very, very thorough presentation. I agree with director gee, it looks like there is a lot of time between now and october, but there is really not a lot of time. And there is big pieces of work that are coming together in an integrated fashion. So i liked your suggestion of coming back in between now and october to tell us how things are going, give us challenges, risk, opportunities along the way, because it is a very thorough work. And were happy to see it coming together, but there are a lot of pieces. Thank you so much and we look forward to hearing how its going in the future. Great, thank you so much. We will do that. Chair, i dont see any other hands raised from colleagues. Chair sesay okay. With that, now is an opportunity for members of the public to address you on this item. Azerbaij as a reminder, the phone number is rolling across the screen and is printed on the agenda. Are there any members of the public in the queue . There are two. Caller, youre requested to state your name and your three minutes begin now. Thank you, madame chair and director for the remarkable presentation. The first point id like to make with regards what the funding essentially planned and procured by the mayor in san jose. I want to bring to your attention that the platforms will be able im getting a background noise here. The platforms will be accommodate 400 meters. Thats 1,312 feet double length trains. You will not be able to accommodate the trains of transbay design. This is the very reason why the 7th street alignment, design, its now nine years ago. Actual date is november 4, 2011, to make that possible. To have two length platforms transbay. The second point, the funding. I dont really understand how things are going to work out with the n. T. P. On residency, if you want to achieve recognition at the national level, you must incorporate a new transbay tube into the project right now. Youve only got one project. Thats one project. Period. The next point, id like to director gees comment. This report was not on the website. Im looking at the transcript here and the presentation, which is one minute behind what im hearing on my phone. Its very difficult. And so if in the future, if you could post the presentations ahead of time, i would appreciate it. Which brings me to the last point. The agenda for next week will be posted either today or tomorrow. They are [indiscernible] on that agenda. I would like this to be posted on the website before the weekend so that members of the public have time to read them and make appropriate comments potentially in writing by next week meeting. Thank you. Moderator, please put through the next caller. Caller, youre requested to please state your name and your three minutes begin now. Hi, this is jim paekard and packard and company in San Francisco. We need to incorporate the transbay tube system as part of this conceptual program. I think that is very important. Number two, i believe the presentation in total are lacking any date goals. I heard one date of 2035. To me, that is unsatisfactory. What are the dates were shooting for . I know we dont know all the answers now, but the board of directors needs to establish some framework of what our employees who are working for should be shooting for. And we need to be out there and thats part of the public effort to get the better tie into the project. When will this be done . I know there are some uncertainties, but 2035 is not satisfactory. Thank you. Moderator, are there any other callers in the queue . No, there are not. That concludes members of the public who wish to address you under this item. This item is presentation only. So to the next item. Great. With sadness for our loss, but happiness for a good fortune of the people of detroit, and because im wearing the hat as secretary and its incumbent on me, ill call the next item. Item 12 is approving the resolution of appreciation for chair sesay. Directors, its a bittersweet moment and item. Chair sesay has been an avid supporter of the program, the agency. Through her many contributions to the city throughout the decades that shes been here giving back to san franciscans. So detroit is truly gaining someone wonderful and im excited about the work shes going to do. But again, extremely im sad. Im sad were going to lose her. So we wish her well. If it pleases the board, ill read the resolution of appreciation into the record. I dont know that it even does just trying to fit it on a page what she has given to city and this agency. I see no objections. Ill go ahead. Be presents this. Sesay was appointed in february 2018 and elected to serve as chair of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority in march 2020, a leadership position she currently holds, and whereas she served as executive director of the office of community and investment and infrastructure, starting 2017 and was appointed executive director in october 2017 by the late mayor edwin m. Lee. And whereas at the elm of ocii she is with the transbay, hunters bay that provides 20 thousand new housing units. And 10 million of commercial space in the management of various properties in existing and expired areas. Where she has been a consistent advocate for housing and the transbay neighborhoods. Whereas prior to her appointment, she spent 19 years as a San Francisco office of Public Finance where she served as director of Public Finance for 12 years. And serving in the office of Public Finance, she played a role in securing funding for the 2014 formation of a facility district and 2017 issuance of bonds secured by a pledge of special taxes levied and collected in the district, as well as the city and county of San Francisco phase one of the transbay program. And whereas the tjpa has benefitted from the depth of fiscal knowledge and the leadership she has brought to the agency. Be it resolved that we express our sincere appreciation for the work of nadia sesay, and as a member of the board of directors, be it that the authority wishes nadia sesay continued success and happiness in all her future endeavors. Detroit is definitely gaining a treasure. So ive never wanted to visit detroit other than motown maybe. But i will definitely come see the great work that detroit is going to benefit from gaining nadia sesay. I see many kudos by Board Members. I see a hand. Director gee . Vice chair gee thank you. Chair sesay, i want to say thank you for everything youve done for the city and county of San Francisco. I want to you know, when you called me the other day to share your news, the passion and the excitement, i could feel it through the telephone. It was incredible. And what an Incredible Opportunity that you have to give to the people and the businesses in the community of detroit. As everyone has said, our loss is detroits gain. So great for you. A onceinalifetime opportunity. And dont forget us. If it gets too cold in detroit, come to San Francisco and nila will put together a delegation visit to detroit. Ill be part of that visit to see all the great work youve done and are doing. Thank you and congratulations. And truly, detroit is receiving a special gem. And we look forward to all your accomplishments in detroit. Thank you. E. Forbes it is just a huge loss to this city. Chair sesay, nadia, i worked with you for 20 years. We started the city around the same period of time. A lot of work we did together in finance and budget and programming in the early days. And you are a treasure. You are a consummate professional. You have incredibly strong methods. You inspire people because you are so well prepared. You inspire people to find solutions. You inspire people to bring their best self to the table. You have gotten the city in the right position so many times, on so many different projects have benefitted from your great guidance and your work with the team to really come up with consensus and shared goforward plans. And i just admire you as a person and as a professional. And i will miss you terribly. And i know this board will miss you terribly, because youre a tremendous chair, because youre so well prepared and you make very good decisions and you help us all make very good decisions as a body. So it is detroits huge gain. I feel your passion, too. I know youre on for an incredible next chapter and well be watching with baited breath and were all coming to detroit. No doubt about it. Godspeed on your next endeavor, nadia. Well done. And director haney . Supervisor haney thank you. Can you hear me okay . Yes, its fine. Supervisor haney okay. I just want to echo the sentiments of the other members of the board about how much you will be missed, chair sesay. And you know you are always someone who is so much a professional and on top of everything and fair and just a tremendous leader in our city. And i want to also just thank you for everything that youve done for the huge swath of my district and district 6 and you really left a tremendous legacy here that will shape San Francisco for many decades to come. Detroit is very lucki to have you. Lucky to have you. It is a place that obviously has a lot of development and growth and opportunities as well, and were all excited to see what you do there. I just want to thank you on a personal level for how you led and the partnership, but also to thank you on behalf of the residents of district 6, who will benefit from your work for many years. So thank you. And please do stay in touch. And best of luck. J. Tumlin director sesay, as many others have said, your deep experience on project delivery and project finance is what we have needed here for this project. But i think what makes you so remarkable, you have this combination of both practicality and vision that allows you to get extraordinary stuff built. I love detroit. And as much as you have been perfect for this board, i know youre exactly what detroit needs. And i wish you all the success. B. Lipkin i want to echo the comments from other Board Members and mostly i just want to say thank you. While i wasnt on the board at the time from what i understand, you were sort of the critical linchpin in pulling off the financial strings to really deliver phase one. I dont think we could say enough of thank you and appreciation for the work you did in helping the city and the sfmta navigate those very Difficult Conversations and execution of those agreements and arrangements. So certainly the magical building behind me here is part of your legacy in San Francisco and for us, its what were striving to get to and keep working on. Im sure youll have Great Success in detroit. They have an old rail station they might have ideas for. I encourage you to get involved in that. I want to say thank you again for the great work youve done for us. M. Hursh i just wanted to say thank you. Its a really sad day. We didnt get to Work Together long, but positivity is effort. Whether were in the boardroom or on zoom or webinartype meetings. Dont know that ill come see new detroit, but i sure hope you love detroit. I would certainly love to visit with you when youre back in california. A big win in detroit. Wish you all the luck in the world, but a sad day for us. Thank you for your positive energy. I miss sitting next to you in the board room, but wish you all the success. Thank you. Chair sesay thank you. Wow, thank you, all. It is bittersweet. Im fortunate to be able to do what i love with the city i love. I still consider San Francisco my second home and so im hoping to but to do something that you love just makes it so easy. Ive been fortunate to work on projects i love, people i enjoy working with. Debra, we spent hours, particularly, debra over the nears on the complex negotiations. Ive come to really enjoy one of my proudest projects ive worked on is the transbay project area, particularly the Transit Center, which was the most complicated financing. I dont think there is any other kind in the country, to be fair. With all the pieces. Im going to take everything ive learned over the 20 years. I am sad to go, but it looks like youre all in good hands. A lot of progress already being made on dtx. Just when the fun begins, im gone, but at least we got to deliver phase one. I know im always available and ill be keeping a presence here and keeping an eye on things. But im honored, humbled and thankful to have the opportunity to work with such an amazing board, professional board, asking questions. I dont get to ask them, because youve all asked the good ones. Im honored to have the opportunity to serve as chair. And i hope you folks come to detroit to visit. Give me a call. And its going to be cold, im scared about it, but ill figure it out. Thank you, all, its been a pleasure working with the team. I wish you all the best. Good luck. And its been a pleasure, it looks like were moving in the right direction with the dtx. Thank you. Im honored to have served with you all. Thanks. With that, moderator, could you please confirm there are no members of public in the queue. There is one member unmuted now. Hello, caller. Please state your name and your three minutes begins now. Thank you, madame chair. This is roland from san jose. I would like to echo all the comments that the other directors made. The reason im regretting you is to leave you with some really, really positive outcome as a followup to a conversation you and i had five years ago. Which had to do with a block fire. I knew you listened to what i had to say and you were concerned that i raised the fact that block fire at that time was between the Transit Center and the bay. And that was known as and i shared with you that this was entirely my fault because i was new to the city of San Franciscos government. And i had expected that not only the prior, but the actually other chief executive prior to that would have listened to what i had to say. And i did not know that in the background, oti were responsible for block five. Which was also part of the funding for the dtx. We had the fully funded dtx at that time. But the thing i wanted to share with you, the recent development that took place in the last two years. And its a gentleman by the name of jonathan sharpman. I dont know if youre familiar with it. He asked me to study. And working with multiple European Companies in the last two years, and looking at the latest tunnelling technologies, we have now discovered a path between the Transit Center and the bay that does not require taking down a single building. Its actually a superior alignment that the alignment that we have on the front of howard street, we just did not know how to do it at the time. We do now. I want to leave you with that positive comment. And really wish you the best in your future endeavors. Thank you so much. With that, the resolution of appreciation for chair sesay is an action item, so were looking for a motion, please. Ill make a motion. Ill give that to director forbes. And the second . Hursh. Okay. Great. Thank you very much. Ill take a roll call. Director forbes . E. Forbes aye. Supervisor haney aye. M. Hursh aye. B. Lipkin enthusiastic aye. J. Tumlin aye. Vice chair gee aye. Chair sesay am i allowed to vote for myself . You can abstain [laughter]. The item passes. Youre scheduled to go into closed session under item 15. Property of Real Property negotiators. For the property 0 that is parcel of. Prior to recessing, moderator, can you confirm whether there are members of the public in the queue wishing to speak on this item . There are none. Seeing none, directors, give us just a moment and well recess into closed session. The parcel of develop site, there is no action to report. That concludes the business on the calendar for today. Chair sesay thank you, madame secretary. If the board has no objections to adjourning the meeting, we can adjourn. Thank you, all. All the best. Thank you. Bye. Thank you, chair sesay. Thank you, chair. Thank you. My name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field Interview Police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in law enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. Whawhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the a with the enou with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. Hi. Y of San Francisco. Im Chris Mathers with channel 19, and youre watching coping with covid19. Today, im going to be talking about exercising during the pandemic. First, im going to tell you what ive been doing, and then im going to be checking in with some friends and family. Ive been riding my bike. All i take is a pair of gloves and a mask if i come into contact with anyone. I try to ride my bike during the time im sheltering in place. I try to ride for at least 30 minutes. Surfing is my other regular outdoor activity. California state guidelines recommend you dont drive more than ten minutes for a spot to exercise, and although im close to ocean beach, im a bit wary to go there, so im using the time to do some maintenance. Filling in gouges and dings, and sanding it down. Im also repairing holes in my suit. Fellow sfgovtv producer chris took his first yoga lesson a couple of years ago and used to go to a class regularly before the lockdown. He and his wife set up a space in their garage for exercising. This routine is from an online class by power yoga. Deann and andy have been using the ping pong table that they bought off craigslist and set it up in their back yard. Ellie has been using this home gym to stay fit. It has everything she needed. And lastly, if the weather is bad outside, you can exercise your mind by doing a puzzle, sudoku, or just by reading a good book. Heres a quick recap. Since i started this episode, the guidelines have changed. For instance, jack may be able to go golfing with some restrictions. Go to sf. Gov to get the most uptodait. Shop dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so were will you shop dine in the 49 chinatown has to be one the best unique shopping areas in San Francisco that is color fulfill and safe each vegetation and seafood and find everything in chinatown the walk shop in chinatown welcome to jason dessert im the fifth generation of candy in San Francisco still that serves 2000 district in the chinatown in the past it was the tradition and my family was the royal chef in the pot pals thats why we learned this stuff and moved from here to have dragon candy i want people to know that is art we will explain a walk and they cant walk in and out it is different techniques from stir frying to smoking to steaming and they do show of. Beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is i really appreciate they love this art. From the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you dont have to go far. Small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. You dont have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. San francisco has to all good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Last week when we announced some rollbacks around the restaurants and a number of other businesses, we did make it clear that we are sadly seeing an increase in the number of covid cases and in fact, last week our reproductive rate was at 1. 2 and today it is at 1. 3. Just this past friday we have seen an increase in over 20 o cases. Our case as of today are 13,756 with 38 people who are hospitalized, 156 people who have lost their lives since the beginning of this pandemic in San Francisco in particular and the Positivity Rate is at 1. 87. Dr. Grant colfax is joining me to talk more specifically about the numbers and what they mean and where we are, the same way he did so last week. What were seeing here and what weve seen all over the country is what looks like to be a significant uptick, one that we have to pay i a tension to. And more importantly, one that has put San Francisco which has been really a leader on fighting against this pandemic, it has put all of the incredible gains that we have made at jeopardy. Effective tomorrow, we have been informed by the state of california, and we will be going from the yellow tier which we were so proud to be at to the red tier. And what that means is, sadly, a number of things will need to come off the table. One of the things that i have made clear from the very beginning is we are going to proceed with caution so that we can do everything we can to avoid a complete shutdown. And as of tomorrow, we will need to unfortunately roll back nonessential office space, making sure that people who are nonessential, that have opened their Office Spaces will need to close them at this time. And unfortunately, the gyms will need to go from 25 down to 10 . These particular things were mostly chosen because under state law in red we have to follow those guidelines, but also we understand that there are certain things that put us more at risk of increasing the virus than other activities. And again, dr. Grant colfax is joining me today and will explain some of the specifics around what this means for our city, especially in light of what we see happening. And we want to continue to make sure that we dont go backwards. And how do we do that . We dont go backwards by not getting comfortable, not getting complacent. The weather has been pretty nice even though its been cold. But the sun has been shining. People have been enjoying San Francisco. I had an opportunity to walk around the city this weekend, and i saw so many people out and about enjoying the parks, doing walking, jogging, hanging out at the restaurants and other things. A lot of people were outdoors. And what we have to continue to do is not get comfortable because the fact is the virus is still out there. And we are still going to have to adjust to this so that we dont continue to see a significant spike in San Francisco. Whats happening next week, of course, is one of our favorite holidays, and thats thanksgiving. And so we know that so many people want to travel and then theres other family members that want to come visit. The department of Public Health has put out a travel advisory asking residents to avoid nonessential travel, but more importantly, we need to think about the folks that come to visit us as well, especially in places where we are seeing higher case numbers. This year were asking people to sacrifice because of thanksgiving when we get together and we see large family gathering, especially indoors, when those happen, we could be dealing with the impacts of those decisions by christmas with a significant increase in hospitalizations. So what were asking people to do is sacrifice. Sacrifice and put off the things that we all know and love especially during the holiday season. For the sole purpose of trying to get to a better place and for the sole purpose of making sure that people dont continue to catch this virus and so that folks arent continuing to be hospitalized and that we dont see increased number of deaths as a result of wanting to come together for the holidays. This is where we are now. This is me sounding the alarm. This is me asking san franciscans to do exactly what i have been asking this entire time, to make adjustments, to make sacrifices, and to do everything you can to remember that this virus exists and make sure that our behavior and what we do helps to avoid circulating the virus in the first place. We remember not too