Transcripts For SFGTV Municipal 20240704

Any tvs or computers around you. We thank you for your cooperation. Places you on item number two. Roll call director lindsay. My apologies. Not used to going first present. Lindsay lindsay present. I see her joined. Yep director so present. So present. Director here. Present director. Karina. Present. Present directors eakin and hemingway are not expected today at todays meeting. However, you do have a quorum. And for the record, i know that director lindsay is attending this meeting remotely. Director kinsey is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting and in order to speak or vote on any items places you on. Item number three, the ringing and use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited. At this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing Electronic Devices places you on item number four approval of minutes for the july 18th regular meeting directors. Are there any changes to the july 18th minutes seeing none, well now open Public Comment for those attending the meeting in person. All right. No one lining up. Secretary silva, please go to remote Public Comment, please. At this time, well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. Each speaker will have two minutes. Moderator first speaker. Right. Can you hear me now . Yes great. David paypal two items on item on page three, item. Six, third paragraph. Chair you can share that she attended the juneteenth parade. Thanks staff and encouraged others. I would insert the word to encourage others to attend next year on page five, my Public Comment second line requested a discussion item was not regarding Automated Vehicle technologies. It was regarding a discussion item on electric transit vehicle technologies. Sorry, electric transit vehicle technologies at muni comma, and acknowledged annette williams, blah blah blah. Those are my requested changes. Thanks very much. Thank you. We have no additional callers. Thank you. Secretary silva. We will now close Public Comment. Colleagues, is there a motion to approve the minutes . Can we incorporate those changes . Secretary silva here, ill move the minutes as amended. Seconded please call the roll on the motion to approve the minutes with those corrections director, anz. I n d director. So so i director i deal i director i. I thank you. The minutes are approved. Places you on item number five communications. I have none. Thank you. Secretary silva. Directors are there any communications . Seeing none. We will now open a Public Comment to those attending the meeting in person. Oh, actually, for that item, we do not need to do that. We move on to the next item so we can move on to the next item. Then item number six and introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. Thank you, directors. Is there any new or Unfinished Business. Thank you so much, chair mahina. Acting chair for today and excuse me, colleagues, i have a couple of things this this week to mention. The first is i wanted to report back on oh goodness, i should have had this open the first thing i had. Yes. Here it is, was last week i went and visited about 30 of our custodial staff in the van nuys station. We have about 65 members of the custodial staff. And i had the pleasure and honor of meeting with about 25 of them in van ness and some of the folks whove been custodians with our agency have done it for over 20 years. And it was really wonderful to hear from them. Ask them whats working and what isnt, what it was like being on the front lines during the pandemic and just giving them some good Old Fashioned love and grace for all the hard work that they do. And so if its all right, christina would love to just show the image of the folks that i met while i acknowledge their names. Oh, come on. Iphone so from right to left, we have yifang wu, rick tong, ernest sevilla, leonardo cruz, jen lee, kirsten mcgarry, sandra goldsworthy, Francisco Paniagua sathyan kun. Huang yu. Lee shao rong chen ping pong chu chu hongmei qua tien chu, jiang chen jing, jiang chen rong chu, john zhong. And im there in front. So they were wonderful. And i just wanted to take a second and acknowledge them and thank them for all their hard work for our agency, keeping our stations clean and safe. The second thing i wanted to propose potentially, and i know i think internally we are thinking talking about this maybe director tomlin, i might be stealing some thunder from you tomorrow, but were about to hit the 150th year of our cable car system, of our historic rail car system. Excuse me. Right yes. And we also, unfortunately, had the passing of one of San Franciscos treasures and just wondering whether or not it would be theres an openness to naming one of the rail cars after the one and only tony bennett who died at age 96 recently. And so if there is, i think it would be a great way to honor mr. Bennett for all of his contributions to San Francisco. And the third and final thing is ive been having thoughts board about Market Street a lot. Ive been going up and down it and something really isnt working about Market Street. Weve taken cars off of Market Street, but in the absence of really active street life in all the kind of vacant storefronts our main thoroughfare feels empty and vacant. And it is something that is affecting so many of the businesses and the people who live and work around Market Street. There is a growing chorus of people who are saying that we should bring cars back to Market Street and reopen it to cars unless something, anything can happen on the street. Im not saying that we should do that. Im not proposing that. But what it has brought up for me is the fact that it does feel like in the postpandemic era, it might not be a bad idea to take a fresh, bold and interesting look at what we can do with Market Street in the interim. While we continue forth with our better Market Street project. Im thinking of turning Market Street into a real promenade, taking the lanes that are existing for cars and landscaping it, putting trees on Market Street, a redwood grove, a theater, music activations, something actually turning our Market Street into something totally different as a way to bring people back. Now i understand that this is not necessarily something that our agency can do alone, and im not actually saying that im not speaking on behalf of the board from this on this, but i think we shouldnt be afraid to take a fresh look at what is happening on this street, given the circumstances in our city right now. And so i want to plant the seed here in these comments as people start to advocate for bringing cars back to Market Street, to think about going in the other direction and leaning in to it as a car free street and actually turning it into a promenade, not unlike jfk was turned into as we thought about its eventual future. So consider the seed planted. Know that im interested in having crossdepartmental conversations about this idea as a maybe a few year pilot, perhaps from fifth to third. And with that i will accept all of the wrath and fury of everyone else in the city. Thank you. Thank you, director. Anymore and you are Unfinished Business or director. Do you want to comment on any of this . Id be happy to. With regard to the first request, we do have a formal request. And from Market Street railway relative to renaming a cable car after tony bennett at and i cannot speak to it any more than that and well defer all communications to Market Street railway, but let us know that request is being is currently under consideration. I can also tell you that we have been working with the Mayors Office of economic and Workforce Development along with various business interests along Market Street, thinking about what can be done to improve the vitality of the corridor and while we are not quite perhaps thinking big enough, we are thinking about a thousand small things. Things that would be really simple, like creating designated pickup and drop off zones for uber, lyft Autonomous Vehicles and taxis as well as improvements to the landscape and public realm and other ways in order to ensure that all of the businesses on long Market Street can get easy, pick up and drop off as well as deliveries and that people feel safe walking and taking transit on Market Street at all hours of day and night. But im encouraged by your Bold Thinking and would eagerly participate in an effort around rethinking Market Street. Thank you. Director tomlin, director, anz. Yeah exactly. Madam chair, if i could just one quick item. I did just want to let my colleagues know that i participated with the Mayors Disability Council at their meeting. They had a presentation from us, from our staff regarding accessible pedestrian signals for those who dont know, these are the signals that have that have the big button that blind and visually impaired folks can push and the signal talk to them and speaks to them and the council really pushed the staff on what it would take to implement apps at all intersections across the city. And they requested a plan for what that would take financial. So as we start to consider the budget and other policies around this, i started tuned on that. I think the councils going to have the staff back again. But i , i did just want to mention that item from the community as a request. So keep an eye out for that and welcome to our new colleague, director self. Thank you. Director kinsey. And i also know if thats it or did you want to comment on that . I also want to formally welcome the newest member of our team, director, lydia. So director so im so looking forward to the perspective that youre going to bring to the team. Im highly encouraged by all the things that ive read about you and cant wait to see you in action. Welcome to the team. Thank you. So now im really fully in action. Im sitting here and i am so happy to serve, continue to serve the city that i love alongside with all these amazing stars. Youre up here and also dialing in with with director haynes. Thank you for the welcome shout out and thank you for everyone here and many of you who are sitting in the audience that helped me to be where i am. I shout out to some former Planning Department staff, maya and a couple other ones. I just look forward to continue to be able to help our city and i have a left and right brain. Being an architect and also had done some amazing engineering that the war have never done using glass as a structural system. So i hope that with my perspective and my expertise, can bring a different perspective, then i just want to have everyone rise safely on muni, get out of the house, stepped out of the house, walked to the muni stop right it and feel safe and be proud to get to where they are and im happy to be here and anyone who would like to talk to me, you all know where to find me now. Certainly do. Thank you so much and welcome. And if we dont have any additional or Unfinished Business, will now open to Public Comment for those attending the meeting in person. Hey, board members. Luke bernheim here. I just wanted to thank director for raising Market Street as a priority for the agency. As you all know, during the pandemic, better Market Street was defunded, specifically the pedestrian and bike Facility Improvements at the time it was due to a lack of funding, but then when federal stimulus funding came in, those improvements were actually not backed back to the project. So it would be great to see more focus brought back to Market Street and actually make market what it was supposed to be as part of better Market Street and what many people in our community spent over ten years working towards for a vision of Market Street that has not been fulfilled. So thank you, director goodell and i hope to see the agency actually make that a priority. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. I dont see any additional comment for those in person. Secretary silva, please go to remote Public Comment at this time. Well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. Each speaker will have two minutes. Moderator first speaker. Hi, this is stacy decker and im practically shaking. Thank you, director. You people. That is for your bold suggestion, is exactly the type of thinking that we need. This is exactly what Market Street needs. We dont need need our streets to be given over to cars. We need to look for novel ways. Actually, not novel. Its what the rest of the world does when they have amazing streets like market and valencia and castro and 24th and chestnut and union and countless others. We should be looking to take space that we give to Motor Vehicles and give it over to people and merchants the way it used to be over 100 years ago before the introduction of Motor Vehicles. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I hope that this idea goes forward and as rapidly as possible. Thank you so much. Thank you. We have no additional callers. Thank you. Secretary silva, close Public Comment. Secretary silva, please call the next item. Directors that places you on. Item number seven, the directors report. Were going to start off the directors report with the Transit Division special recognition transit director julie kirschbaum. Would you like to introduce our guests . Yes i am going to start by asking our chief transportation officer, brant jones, to come up with demetrius jackson. These are two of my favorite people that were honoring today. Demetrius and sammy demetrius has worked for the city for more than 24 years. She started as a station agent. She transitioned to transit supervisor. Then the highly technical role of train controller into her current role as dispatcher manager. Demetrius is truly one of transits mvps. Shes both an incredible systems thinker and a detail oriented leader. She understands the technical aspects of our safety critical business, and she excels at the people and cultural aspects of our work. And as a result, brant and i have a deep trust for her work and were really excited about her vision. Dispatchers play a number of roles in our system. They coordinate operator vacation, sick calls and training needs. They make sure all the service gets filled each day. And when we find ourselves in operator shortages, they also are the team that lets our Service Management team know where we could have gaps that need to be addressed. They also provide operators with critical safety and Service Information such as special events, infrastructure changes. And finally, they check in on operator wellness and they provide support providing the dispatchers the support they need in order to support our operators. Is that the foundation of demetrius work program . Since taking this new role three years ago, she has developed the Dispatcher Training Program and implemented year round training. Shes developed, helped the department recover from massive shortages during covid, growing the department by 50 while maintaining a high level of focus on Workforce Development. So shes been able to increase our numbers while also increasing our quality. T she has improved Standard Operating Procedures consisting of new job response abilities that emphasize safety and customer service. And shes focused on building a management and Administrative Team behind her so that she can occasionally take a day off. Not something that was actually possible during covid and well deserved. Demetria cares deeply about our operators and has worked hard to give dispatchers the tools that they need to set a new standard for dispatcher and operator interactions. When were operators see dispatchers as a resource and a sounding board and truly a partner in our work and this is something that brant and i worked on really hard together this morning. We feel like in our work theyre always bad days, but what makes you special . Demetrius is how you approach those bad days with resiliency and empathy. You continue to build on the good days, your enthusiasm, energy, compassion and efficiency are infectious to your colleagues, to us and to your staff. You do not just want to say, i am so grateful to be here. I am so thankful to julie for giving me this opportunity to see a department that was shrinking and not doing as well. And to think that i could go over to that department and take charge and manage and implement Different Things to help support our team, our customers, who are the operators. So i am very grateful. Thank you. Thank you. Next, id like to call up emily williams, who is essentially my chief of staff, and sammy yee, who are honoring whos our Transit Division workforce manager. Um, sammy has been in the agency for over ten years, eight years in transit right. She is in a support role that does not get a lot of public glory or praise. But i can say truly, without her, nothing else that the Transit Division delivers would be possible. Sammy works closely with all of our transit managers to develop strategic hiring plans, and then she works with our partners in hr to carry them out. She wears a tremendous number of hats for the Transit Division. Her work is equal parts collaboration, strategy, compliance sounding board and for many, including emily and i, therapist emily and i want to wanted to articulate how important sammy is to the Transit Division. But we didnt think that we could do it justice. So we reached out to some of the colleagues that sammy supports. And i just want to share with you some of their quotes because theyre really powerful. Sammy is truly a champion for our staffing. She has a wonderful understanding of our operations and provides us with staffing so we can provide Excellent Service in addition, sammy always finds ways to carve out time in her busy schedule to support us. She is our lifeline line to all things workforce or hiring. The amazing part is her ability to keep us moving forward in often fraught and difficult landscape. She does so with poise and humor and grace and charm that might otherwise make impossible tasks seem bearable. Another person shared sammy is so patient at explaining the hr system of the city. In my case, over and over again, i cant tell you how many conversations start with sammy telling me. I know its confusing, but heres how it is. Shes adept at working within the constraints, but maximizing output. Shes professional, polite and patient. Final its been great working with sammy for the past several years. I admire her as a colleague and view her as an esteemed mentor. So emily and i recognize sammy today because we all know how challenging the hiring process has been at this agency for the past few years, and especially for the Transit Division, which has lost hundreds of staff people during the pandemic. But with sammy leading us, the hiring Managers Trust her to navigate the process for us, and shes made a difficult situation easy for us. And also really i think, elevated our work within hr for who we rely on so critically for all this work. So thank you, sammy, for everything. Thank thanks everyone. Thank you for part of supervisor. Thank you for director julie. I am so honored to be standing here accepting this recognition. It means a lot for myself as well as my growing team. I want to say thank you to my direct manager, emily williams, for all the support and all the managers that i have supported throughout my years at transit. Their trust in me has made my job a lot easier. So i want to thank you to all the managers that i work with, as well as my team. Just two of my team members are here today, but without them i wont be able to do this. So this honor goes to everyone in my team. Thank you. So you all have seen the data that weve been able to get around improved muni speed, reliability and efficiency. Were really proud of the numbers that weve been able to achieve arguably better than any other urban transit property in the country, despite the fact that weve been economically devastated. And those improvements come about as a result of people like demetris and sammy and julie reflected upon their skills, their technical skill, their strategic thinking. Theyre emotional intelligence, their communication skills and their abilities to take thoughtful risks. Its those five qualities that that demetris and sammy exemplify that are the heart of the culture change that the Transit Division is trying to accomplish. And its that culture change that is allowing us to make the Service Improvements that we would otherwise not be able to make. I am so proud of sammy and demetris and the entire transit chain for the work that theyre doing that is able to deliver the results. The public is starting to see. Anything else on recognition. Before i move on. So i just wanted to add that these roles are oftentimes not considered when were trying to define the success of the agency and it is so critical to have people with heart and people that understand how to lift morale, how to make sure that identify some of the challenges that folks are facing and addressing those in those positions. And so im so proud of sammy and demetrius for the amazing work that they have done during the pandemic, no less. Its absolutely remarkable. And so i wish they had stayed so they could hear this, but i know theyve already left. But i its a testament to some of the great work that has happened in the agency during this really challenging time. And its amazing. All right. Carry on with the directors report. Weve got some Transit Service updates, report back from fixit week, our anniversary, the cable car and graduation. So let me dive in. So as you know, we have no path yet to Service Expansion at muni, but we are keeping track of our data every single quarter and about every quarter, making adjustments based upon that data. The public can follow along with that data at sf, mta slash muni data. So for this summers changes which start on saturday, august 19th, were making a bunch of revenue neutral changes that are rooted in basic dealing with where were getting big ridership increases and having to deal with crowding as well as preparing for the start of school. So were excited that one of the changes will be able to do is to bring back the 28 rapid, the 19th avenue rapid in order to reduce some crowding on the 28 and 19th avenue. It will allow people to have a faster trip. It will also allow us to deliver a little bit more service. The same is true on mission street, where were experiencing some crowding. So were adding a bus to the 14 rapid and were very excited that were Getting Started with the changes to the 29 sunset as part of the 29 sunset Improvement Project will be widening out the stop spacing on the 29 in order to provide some quicker trips. And well also be in a revenue neutral way extending the 31 balboa down to fifth and townsend to serve the caltrain station. But really in response to requests that weve gotten from south of market seniors as well as folks in the tenderloin who want to be able to access Critical Services in south of market and in the tenderloin and finally will be restoring the School Tripper busses starting august 16th. And all of those Service Changes are detailed at sf, mta slash Service Changes next up is fixit week and andrea can pull up the video as you all know, i love fixit week so much because it allows us to get all of our maintenance workers down for a real big chunk of time to try to catch up with the decades worth of disinvestment that we have in the subway. So this week, which ran july 17th to 24th, we were able to get over 2400 maintenance hours of work, basically dealing with every single technical system in the subway. We accomplished a lot. And it is what has allowed us to continue to reduce major delays in muni metro by 60. Next up, as director uriel already announced tomorrow actually, in fact, in in roughly another ten hours from now is the 150th anniversary of our cable car system, which started up at 4 00 in the morning on clay street on august 2nd, 1873. Andrew halliday and his father, who were immigrants from scotland, failed at gold mining but managed to be successful at inventing a technique for manufacturing wire rope and then had the completely insane and much ridiculed idea of using technology for carrying or carts in mining and instead carry carts of people on a track on a really steep hill on nob hill on clay street. Andrew halliday himself had to actually do the first run because everyone else thought he was so crazy and that he would likely not survive that first trip. But of course he did. And he went on to invent a Transit Technology that not only became popular here in San Francisco, but around the world. So well be doing a special event at the cable car turnaround tomorrow morning at powell and market. That may include reappearance of mr. Halliday himself. Were also be doing tours of the shops where the cable cars are built and rebuilt. And well have an exhibit at the Public Libraries main branch. Were offering a special five day pass for the california street cable line. And were doing a whole bunch of other events in partnership with markets street railway, all of those are detailed at mta slash cable cars. 150. You can also learn more about all all of the history and operation of our cable cars at our podcast. Taken with transportation at mta slash podcast. And finally, i want to give a shout out to our Youth Transportation Advisory Board. And andrea, if you can bring up the photo last saturday, we celebrated the graduation of the mta Youth Transportation Advisory Board. This was our second group of youth advisory. And one of the things that inspired us to create the Youth Transportation Advisory Board is in fact a student project at Lowell High School that results in the 29 Improvement Project that we are just starting to finally implement this summer. So the tab Program Includes 25 San Francisco young people between the ages of 14 and 19, including we had a First Middle School member and they help us to understand the unmet needs of San Franciscos kids and youth. They have helped us design more effective outreach to young people, and theyve been instrumental and really helping us refine some of our Service Changes and other details in order to improve our service this year, our our tab members went on a whole bunch of different field trips to various mta facilities to understand how we work and we will be kicking off our third core cohort once School Starts in the fall. And if you want to see updates about our next application cycle, if you have special young people who are into transportation, go to mta and search for why tab . Why to be or Youth Transportation and Advisory Board. And that is my report. Thank you so much, director. Any clarifying questions on the directors report. All right. Ill just comment on my excitement to see an additional line of our additional bus on the 14 hour line. That is my line, so im quite excited about that. Also really excited. Just like all the preparation thats happening ahead of School Opening up again. I was hoping that you could speak a little bit more to that. Some of the what are some of the things that were doing to get ahead of some of the normal rush that we see for students and how were getting ahead of some of the growth areas that we heard in the past and how were going to do things differently this year. Yes. So director kirschbaum, do you want to speak to any of the Additional Details around the school trip or services and ways that were working with the School District around bell times in order to try to get ahead of problems . Okay. Um you know, as as you know, one of the most successful areas of ridership recovery has been students. And thats both because their travel patterns havent changed in the kind of the same ways that some of the downtown workers have. And also through our investment in free youth muni service. Weve also removed a major barrier to youth participating in the program. But it has created crowding and tension and we never want to be in a situation where a student is late for school or their learning is compromised because of their transportation choices. So the Service Change ages that we implemented in august are really designed to get service to two kids. So we are expecting less crowding on 19th avenue and throughout the 29, were expecting less crowding on the 14 and a just better overall service. We also im so grateful for our Muni Transit Assistance Program because they work closely with the schools so that when we do have the School Trippers in place, theyre helping young kids be on the bus. But to deescalate and to diffuse any issues. The operators have also had, as you know, that massive amount of both deescalate as well as self care training. So this is really going to be the first School Season where we get to see all the pieces together. You know, we have the free service piece. Weve now we think, addressed the major hotspots for crowding. We have our wonderful ambassador , our support system in place. And then at the places where we have really high volume of students coming, midline and we have the School Tripper program. So were really excited to see all of the pieces Work Together and were going to continue to get input from students. There are some of our best communicators, so if its not working, theyll be the first to let us know where we need to make tweaks. Thats right. And while were doing the best that we can in order to anticipate travel patterns, travel patterns are rapidly changing and continual adjustments in school, the School Selection process makes it rather difficult to predict in advance. So we advise parents, particularly as school is starting and patterns are settling in to not wait for the last bus that gets the kid to school in time. Many of the busses are going to be full. We add Additional Service to the line, so there may be another bus coming, but we also theres a chance, given our resource constraints that we have, underestimate and we can make some corrections later in the year, but please do, particularly at the beginning, that first month of school, allow extra time to get your kids on the bus and to school on time. And what is our plan to so were trying out we have all these different components now that were we think were prepared for. And theres still travel patterns that were trying to identify and to see how things have changed. Whats our plan to iterate on that . And we are limited. We are constrained on how much we can iterate. Yeah. So i think it would be helpful for members of the public just to set expectations of this is what it will look like if we do see we do need to make some changes on the 29 versus the 49 or whatever it is right. If you could walk us through that process, thatd be great. So after we implement any sort of schedule change, we do give it 2 to 3 weeks for the travel patterns to settle and people to start to make their more routine trips. That starts to then between both and using our crowding data, which we do at the very, very granular level, were looking at every stop sort of in 30 minute segments. We also then compare all of that data with what were hearing from public feedback. So we get feedback directly from students through our ambassador programs, through our tab. We also get a lot of input from 311 our Service Planners ride the system, so we take all of those information and then where we do find that we have additional hotspots for crowding, then we will look for ways to add service. But as we discussed at our previous meeting, because were in a resource neutral environment right now that will mean identifying other places is where we can operate with less service and those are difficult trade offs, but we think its important to keep up with these evolving patterns and especially with our equity and our sustainability goals where we are seeing ridership that we continue to invest in those corridors. So that transit continues to become a strong option for more people also bear in mind that when we do a schedule change, while transit app typically updates their schedule immediately, it can take google maps several days to adjust to the change. Moro over our ancient prediction system often takes between i dont know what four and seven days to actually adjust fully to the new schedule. So oftentimes what i do in that first week of a schedule change is use transit app and then look for where exactly the busses are and make my own mental predictions. Until our ancient i figures out that in fact the schedule has changed. So if im a parent or a student and i want to propose a change or identify flag, some crowding thats happening, whats the best way for me to do that . The two ways i would recommend send is through the 301 system, because because they can handle so many different languages and accessibility needs. We also have a real simple website. Tell muni. Com and thats another kind of easy thing to remember and to provide feedback. I really its really helpful when people provide feedback that they provide us the four digit bus number. And if they dont know that at least the location and the line we are able to really research in detail what people are experiencing during their trip. When we have that information on. So we really appreciate whenever customers can give us that precision. Thank you. In the event that folks do get their information from these meetings, which is my hope, i think it would be wonderful to have just like an update a mid year or like mid in the middle of the school year or the semester just to see if there are any updates or changes that or iterations that weve made to the schedule. Just like a part of the directors report perhaps, but just something really quick, just so folks are informed of any changes that weve made, wed be happy to. Thank you. Thats right. And you can always go to mta slash Service Changes for the latest information. And well be adjusting that as we as we move along. Thank you. Um directors, i dont think anybody else is ready to comment on the directors report. So were going to open this up now to Public Comment for those attending in person, not seeing anyone lined up in the queue. So now well go to remote Public Comment at this time. Well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. Each speaker will have two minutes. Moderator first speaker , this is herbert weiner. I would like to see a Senior Advisory Committee that has the same parity as the youth Advisory Committee. We have important concerns and so did the disabled and i would like to see that parity. You certainly gave audience to the youth Advisory Committee. I would like to see a senior and disability Advisory Committee. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I have a two a suggestion or question i guess is the should there be a maximum transit time for kids to get to school . I mean, since we dont have the sprawl of other cities, it would seem like something that would be pretty easy to sort of gauge that. No kids should have to spend more than, say, 45 minutes getting to school or a maximum of two transfers anyway, thats just one suggestion. And then the only other comment was the notable absence of one of the most provocative leaning endeavors, which launched today, which is the valencia street bike lane project. I was surprised to hear the director not comment on it. Thank you. Thank you. We have no additional callers. Thank you. I do see director tomlin in the queue. Yes. For the record, we do have a multimodal accessibility Advisory Committee thats aimed at seniors and people with disabilities that meets every third thursday of the month from 1 to 3 at the Union Square Conference Room at one south venice. Thank you, director tomlin. If there is no more Public Comment and well close Public Comment on item seven, secretary silva, please call the next item places you on. Item number eight, the Citizens Advisory Council report. We have no report this meeting places you on item number nine. General Public Comment at this time, members of the public may address the board of directors on matters that are within the boards jurisdiction and not on todays calendar. I have no speaker cards. Um, i do. So yes, well open Public Comment right now for those attending the meeting in person. I do see someone up and approaching the podium so thank you. Chair karina luke born heimer just wanted to talk about two Different Things today. One valencia and the second one slow streets. So fourth with valencia. Thank you to staff for removing the signs from the bikeway as well as starting the pilot while those actions took way too long to actually happen, im glad to see the pilot has actually begun. I am concerned about the greater than ten number of crashes and injuries that have occurred already since the construction started and kind of a question is, will those count towards the pilot . Will they count as a pre pilot condition . Will they operate in some gray area that will never exist and never be counted . Im also curious how the agency is counting and tracking crashes, injuries, collisions on valencia during the pilot and again before during construction. Im also concerned about ongoing incorrect and dangerous driving behavior on valencia. So theres been numerous accounts of parking driving both midblock and at intersections into the bikeway uturns through the bikeway illegal left turns at every intersection on valencia. And so i just want to echo chair eakins request from the valencia hearing that staff create a curbside protected bike lane design as a backup solution in case and when something terrible happens on valencia and we need a solution so that we dont go back to paint only bike lanes regarding slow streets, unfortunately, were continuing to see infrastructure deteriorate on slow streets and be watered down, with the notable example of lake street, which has a Bespoke Design that is different than every other slow street. Were also seeing posts and paint not be replaced with a notable example of at page street, masonic, there was a modal filter that has four posts and paint that has been missing for eight months. Despite many requests from the community. Meanwhile all of the local traffic only signs have been removed from every slow street. So were seeing more drivers use slow streets as cut through and we need to see more infrastructure out there. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Hi my name is sarah benton and im homeless living in my car. Im a muni retiree. Some one in your retired division stopped my muni dental. Did function which is right here. Right here. And they put me on they said they took 250 off my ebt. Im not i dont have an ebt card. They sent me two checks, which were half the amount that they were supposed to. They was type checks. I have them right now. I want to know who can i talk to repair this report because im not on welfare. They stopped my automatic deduction and i want to know who can i talk to . The lady changed my report and pushed me out in the hallway by the elevator. I want this corrected and i want some information from somebody. This is the second time ive come here. Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, this is we cant. I know ive been here several times, but i will. I dont like to be pushed out in the hallway when you when you stop my when fraud has been done on my with my money. Absolutely. So i think director tomlin may have well or kristen can you work to make sure that we can direct this customer to the right division. Thank you. Hello. All right. I do not see any additional Public Comments from those in the room or in person. So secretary silva, please go to remote Public Comment. Great at this time, well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a time of ten minutes. Members of the public wishing to comment to dial star three to enter the queue. Each speaker will have two minutes. We have no speakers. Thank you, secretary silva, can you please call the next oh , sorry. Well, now close Public Comment on item nine and can you please go to the next item . Director is that places you on item number ten your consent calendar for all matters on the consent calendar considered to be routine and will be acted upon by a single vote, there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the board or public. So requests item 10. 1 requesting the controller to a lot funds and to draw warrants against such Funds Available or will be available in payment of the listed claims against the sf mta. Those items are listed as items eight through c in the agenda item 10. 2 authorizing the director to execute master agreements with Star Elevator con Schindler Elevator Corporation and tc Elevator Corporation for the maintenance of elevators and escalators in the muni metro system and at various sf mta facilities for a period not to exceed five years from august 15, 2023 to august 14th, 2028, in an amount not to exceed 5 million each for each agreement. Item 10. 3 authorizing the director to execute contract modification number one to contract number 13161 is facility rehab, electric bus charging station Pilot Program with liffey electric to close out the contract by extending the Contract Term and adjusting the quantity of the schedule of bid prices to reflect the actual quantity of work performed. This modification decreases the contract amount by 63. 71 for a total contract amount of approximately 2. 6 million and increases the overall contract time to substantial completion by 219 days for a total contract time of 489 days to substantial completion item 10. 4 amending the transportation Code Division two, section 702 to reduce speed limits from 25mph to 20mph on 23 city street segments. Those streets are listed in the agenda as item 10. 4. That concludes the consent calendar. Thank you, secretary silva. We will now open Public Comment for those attending the meeting in person on the consent calendar. I see one person approaching. Secretary silva. If i could present something. I board member is luke born hammer. Im commenting on item 10. 4. The speed limit reduction. So what youre seeing here is the agencys own data on streets where weve lowered speed limits to 20mph. What you might notice is that the signs are solution to reducing speeds on our streets by installing signs on the side of the road has had zero impact on lowering speeds and in some cases weve actually seen increases in speeds on these streets. So unfortunately , while our sign shop is spending a lot of time and the Agency Spending money to put up signs in our city, and it sounds really great, were actually not seeing any improvement in the data. And also worth noting is that this is these are 85th, 85th percentile speeds. So what we dont see from this graph is whether the most egregious speeders, the fastest people on these streets, if those are being impacted at all. And i would posit that theyre not, because the people who speed egregious are not looking at speed limit signs. And so what i want to point out is we know whats effective. We know that reducing travel lanes on streets, notably by installing protected bike lanes or transit only lanes, reduces speeds because it makes drivers go behind each other in one lane instead of two, three, four. On some streets. And so we need to see the city and the agency doing that instead of just putting up signs and acting like were actually reducing speeds in our cities, we can also install modal filters or traffic diverter on streets to decrease cut through traffic, which is notably the fastest and most reckless drivers on our streets. And so i just want to ask the agency to put together a plan for connected network of protected bike lanes, including on these streets where this egregious speeding is happening so that we can reduce speeds but also increase mode, shift, which we know we need to do as a city. We have a goal about that. We have a goal about roadway safety and traffic fatalities and injuries. This solves both of those things. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Any additional comments on the consent calendar . Seeing none. Secretary silva, can you please go to remote Public Comment please . At this time, well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. Each speaker will have two minutes. Moderator for speaker. I i know a good afternoon. This is barry toronto. Welcome to the new director. So i believe were on on on consent calendar. I just want to address one of the items. There is the broadway. The thing is, is broadway are are multiple lanes in each direction and wide lanes. And i think its ridiculous. And unenforceable to have at 20mph through that section, which is the main street to get from the financial district toward toward the other parts of town through the broadway tunnel. So i think i think you need to reexamine having a 20mph through that on broadway. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, this is stacy decker. And im echoing everything that luke heimer said. Drivers dont read signs. They read the road and if the road looks like a highway, theyre going to drive like its a highway and we shouldnt have highways in our city. Complaining that roads are not like we need to keep speeds up. I dont understand how how we should have any road that is over 20 miles an hour in the city. Thats what is compatible with life. And we are the second most densely populated, large city in this nation. We need to have lower speeds everywhere, and that needs to be done through road diets. And that is protected. Bike lanes close entire blocks to cars, make alleyways or whatever for them to pass on. I dont want to deny access to anyone, but we cannot have this continuous grid be the bane of our existence that injures and kills people. We must slow cars. We must reduce the number of cars. Signs are not gonna help us. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, vice chair and commissioners. My name is Jodi Medeiros and i am the executive director of walk San Francisco and our organization wants to thank the mta for continuing to roll out the 20 mile per hour streets under the recent ab 43 law. We do know there is proof that reducing speed limits by putting up signs does change behavior. So i do want to counteract what some of the other speakers have said. And we know that reducing speeds by just five miles per hour, it does make a huge difference in whether a person lives or dies. If they hit by a car, 90 of people will survive if they are hit by a vehicle traveling 20mph. So i do want to thank the agency for continuing to expand the Speed Management Program to these 23 additional business corridors. And we are on the way of making San Francisco a safe speed city. So what im here to ask you today is to continue to ask the staff for evaluate of this program what luke did show you is that there there is an Evaluation Program and we sometimes need to do more to reduce speeds than just hanging a speed sign. That is indeed correct that some things need to change at times. If we are seeing that the evaluate is not getting the results that we need and physical infrastructure might need to change to bring down speeds. Third street in the bayview is a great example to that. So i do want to thank the agency we are leading the state of california in doing this program and putting up and using ab 43. And i want to thank them for continuing to make San Francisco a safe speed city. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you so much for allowing me to provide Public Comments on the consent calendar. And firstly, i want to say thank you to continue to take Public Comment virtually. And second, i think its time that mta give lucca medal the amount of work that hes doing to make this a safe city for pedestrians or kids or families on active transit is just beyond what ive seen. Anybody, any other resident in the city do. So thank you for all the work weve it does not go unnoticed. And i really hope that mta continues to work with luke and the sensible solutions that hes bringing on. The things that youve mentioned. I live in district ten and debut and third street was mentioned and is extremely high speed. It needs better design and means that the transit and it needs to connect and way to get from chase center where double bike lanes and all the way to the valley its way its a way to bring neighborhoods together and to make it safe for all. Mobilities so please continue to work with luke. His recommendations are fantastic and actually represent what people want. Thank you. Thank you. We have no additional callers. Thank you, secretary silva. We will now close Public Comment. Um. Lets see. Directors are there any comments or clarifying questions on the consent calendar . Id like to move. I youd like to make a motion to move the item. Okay second, um, before we do that, i did have just a question on 10. 4. Um especially seeing the different the analysis that was presented to us via Public Comment. And its more of a request, i guess more than a comment. I do wonder at our next vision zero update if we can get a like a deep dive, take a deep dive on the speed limit changes and seeing how effective theyre being and any additional sorts of treatments or any sort of additional interventions that we want to make to couple the effectiveness of the speed reduction on those corridors. It is it is a bit alarming to see that it hasnt really made any we havent seen any movement in speed reduction in those corridors despite changing the speed limits. So i just want to make sure that we could flag this for our next vision zero update streets director tom mcguire. Good afternoon, directors. Enthusiastic yes to that chair, vice chair aquino and theres quite a bit of quite, quite a number of the streets that are listed in todays agenda. We do have plans to do quick builds and road diets on. I think we certainly would never pretend that only signs reduce speeds. Theres a lot of theres a lot to be dug into in this data, including the fact that surprisingly, many of the streets in which weve lowered the speed limit to 20 already have an average speed below 20, but not all of them. And those are the streets we need to focus on. So id love to dive into this more in our next update. Thank you so much. Now the motion director, is there a motion to approve the consent calendar items . So moved we already had one, but so moved. So i hear a motion. A second. Secretary silva, can you please call the roll on the motion to approve the consent calendar . Director kinsey i. Kinsey, director. So . So i director i you goodwill i director i. I thank you. The consent calendar is approved. Excellent. Im secretary silva. Please call the next item places you on your regular calendar. Item number 11 presentation and discussion regarding an active communities plan project update hello acting chair. This is my a small planning director at mta. I just want to introduce our team and send a little bit of the context for the conversation. Were going to have today. And of course, welcome to the new directors. So grateful for your service and joining us, were going to be talking about the active communities plan today. Weve been here once before and were going to be here a little bit more. So we wanted to explain a little bit why and what the purpose of this process is and why were doing this plan. So, of course, for most of San Franciscos recent history Government Systems have designed and delivered streets for people walking for transit and for people in cars and everything, not in these categories, really moving by that kind of 3 to 20 mile an hour speed, including people in power chairs and scooters and bicycles on skateboards have really been left out of the system. And people navigating a system thats not designed for them often live in survival mode. Theyre at risk and they feel like they dont belong. They tend to either disappear further , they act out and break the rules because they dont fit their needs. Or in some cases, the rules have been intentionally designed for them not to succeed. Excluding people want to be seen and listened to and for the system to acknowledge and the error and to fix it. And the act of Community Communities plan is the vehicle for that repair to deliver and define and deliver programs and safe infrastructure for a rolling and biking communities. We know that when we have biking and rolling integrated really fully in cities as weve seen in other places across the world and including bogota and taipei and tokyo and amsterdam, it can be the quickest and most individually reliable to move way to move around a city, especially from door to door. Youre freed from traffic congestion, youre freed from potentially owning, buying, insuring and repairing a vehicle. And it can be available to people of nearly every ability, every age, even help you carry your kids or other precious cargo that make up your daily life. Engaging those with disability is at the core of this work. It can be essential to commerce. A friend of Small Business, a cheaper and more efficient way to serve your customers. Have your customers get to you. And of course, were relying on delivery more and more. Were actively engaging these stakeholders and we know that Small Business is absolutely vital to San Francisco. We know its been incredibly hard time coming out of a pandemic. Any approved plan must improve their livelihood. Studies also show that when bicycling and rolling is safer, it is fairer. You have a significantly wider range of participants in terms of race, gender and age, excluding it from our streets excludes peoples ability to decide for themselves what works for them at the same time, we also recognize that this is the cultural dynamics around rolling and bicycle infrastructure are really complicated. We must be honest and transparent about these challenges. The things that people face every day and what play out in our city every day. There are a lot of people who are at risk and there are a lot of people who are worried about change. For some of us rolling and biking comes from a place of privilege. We have the resources we have the time, we have the affluence and the comfort. But for some of us rolling and bicycling is the opposite. For some people it is a marker actually of poverty and that a car is a status symbol, that you have a resource to share with your family and your community. For some of us, biking and rolling is just really practical. Its a great and easy and healthy way to get around the city. Its a great compliment to how we use transit and we rely on transit, but for many of us, especially Small Business owners, employees and delivery people, the changes required to make rolling and biking feel safer is really uncertain and disruptive. For some of us, theres freedom, excitement and discovery and biking of senior city, your neighborhood, your community. It actually makes you feel more connected to your neighbors. Youre moving at a slower speed , but for some of us, it marks a precedes gentrification and building more infrastructure feels like it threatens the stability of our community. It also seems to show and demonstrate the sense of displacement thats already happening. And some of us are also the so called invisible cyclist. These often include very low income or unhoused people who can be underrepresented in infrastructure planning entirely. So we have to be thoughtful of the perspective we come from. The active communities plan is the place to work through the meaning, the power dynamics, the Decision Making process. We have to be compassionate with each other, build trust. Even with so many different points of view. So we want this process to be the Decision Making process. To be fair and to be transparent. Our team will be coming back to the board several times between now and seeking adoption in the spring to today. We also come after a lot of research and outreach, so were just coming with information. What have we learned to share . Listen to advice from the public, listen to advice from you all as the staff begin to develop a Draft Network and recommendations that will be released later this fall. So im going to hand it over to the project team. The very capable project team. Jean long is the manager who is not present today but will introduce her at the next one. Chris kidd is the project manager and we have christie osorio. Actually this is her first time presenting at the board, very happy to have her. Shes been at mta for four years and she will also be giving us some information on the plan. All right, chris, all yours. Thank you, director small, and thank you to the board of directors and director tomlin and the public again, my name is christopher cade. Im the project manager for the active communities plan. And we wanted to provide you all and Information Update and to receive your input today so we could go to the presentation. Great thank you so we can go to the next slide. Great. So really our our focus today is to really share the breadth of what weve done, especially since the last time that we appeared before this board and what weve learned and really how we are planning to integrate all of that as we develop and build our recommendations. And we really want to do so in a way that is collaborative, not only with this board but with the public, so that we can develop a plan thats really, truly representative of all san franciscans. Go to the next slide. Thanks. As a recap for our schedule for this plan, we began our outreach process in january of this year, really with a focus and an emphasis on on understanding what works and what doesnt within different communities across the city. That included bringing an information item to this board on april 4th, we then on earth day, april 22nd, launched our second phase of work, which really focused on understanding the needs and priorities of different people in different communities across San Francisco. What types of access and needs and barriers they experience to biking and rolling. And this presentation is part of that as well to share with you some of the analysis that weve conducted to date. When we get to the fall of this year, thats when well be sharing our Draft Network both with you and the public. And we want to use the fall period into the end of the year, really as a Public Engagement process. And discussion about how we refine that networks that it can truly represent what the city needs to accomplish, but also representing the needs of its residents. And that will result in our bringing a draft plan this winter, likely in january, to go back to the public to represent that engagement and that work that weve done with them together with the intent of bringing a final plan through this board for adoption in the spring of next year. And to just again recap what this plan is and what it represents is its our first plan for rolling in bicycling since 2009. That is the 2009 Bicycle Master Plan for the city. And really this will result in when we have it adopted in a 10 to 15 Year Investment plan representing our priorities for a new expanded active Transportation Network, but also our recommendations around parking and Facilities Needs not just for bicycles, but for a whole range of devices as well as new supportive programs and policies to ensure that were closing the gaps and barriers that people experience today that keep them from accessing active transportation. This plan, as i mentioned, we began our outreach in january of this year, which will continue for a full calendar year and really our outreach and work has really emphasizing two focus areas above and beyond a traditional Bicycle Master Plan. The first is that we need to ensure that were including what we call all devices that can legally use the bike network because theres a broad range of users. Now that we need to ensure our feeling included are feeling welcomed and feel like they have a safe and legible place for them in the street. And we also need to ensure that we are centering our work within our equity priority communities, really ensuring that we are building things from the ground up within those communities so we can have projects that actively represent their needs and values and that people can feel and believe that projects in the future are directly benefiting their daily lives. With that, i wanted to turn things over to my colleague christie osorio, to speak a little more about our outreach process to date. Thanks, chris. Good afternoon. My name is christie osorio. Im a transportation planner in the planning division. Im going to go into more of who weve talked. To great. So since january, weve talked to over 4300 residents. Weve gotten over 2500 survey responses. Weve held over 60 citywide events, 14 public hearings and in april, we launched an interactive web app that allows users to explore data that that looks at comfort, safety and network quality. And theyre able to compare that data to their own experiences and lastly, we translate all of our materials and provide interpretation for our surveys, presentations and fact sheets in english, chinese, spanish and filipino. So were also reaching folks through different methods. In addition to the surveys, we have neighborhood events, weve partnered with Community Based organizations in equity priority communities. Weve conducted in language events, conducted focus groups and webinars, and weve Led Community bike rides with some of our most recent participants biking for the first time in 30 years, weve convened a policy working group with leading Industry Experts and convened a technical Advisory Committee of city staff from different departments. So to add context to all the data that were collecting, we also conducted a Citywide Resident preference survey in april. The resident preference survey gives us a realistic snapshot of the entire city so that were not just polling people who are interested in bicycles. This results the results are weighted to be representative of San Francisco demographics in geography. And then moving on to our survey efforts, we just wrapped up our phase two survey that asks people what is the most important for them to start rolling in San Francisco. The survey was conducted online and on paper. And as of last week, we got over 1500 responses. And then the second prong of phase two was a dot sticker exercise where folks were ranked their level of comfort on different types of network facilities. With that exercise, we also received over 1000 hundred votes. So at the center of all the outreach are our Community Partners based in equity priority communities. They are located in soma, Western Addition, fillmore tenderloin, mission district, bayview Hunters Point, outer mission. Excelsior oceanview Merced Heights and ingleside neighborhoods, and specifically their soma filipinas new Community Leadership foundation tenderloin, Community Benefit district and bcs del pueblo bayview. Hunters Point Community advocates, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and in language in chinese, the Chinatown Youth Center and chinatown transportation, Transportation Research and Improvement Project. And so we work with these groups who are closest to their communities so that we can create safe and engaging ways for people to provide input on whats most important to them. So theyve led bike rides, theyve led youth led engagement workshops, they have focus groups and more. And so were working closely with them to also ensure that communities are engaged throughout the entire planning process. We send them regular updates and we show them how were using their input. And last but not least, we also have a policy working group. So this is a rotating body of 15 to 20 subject matter experts, mobility advocates, cultural district representatives, disability academics, cates and Merchant Group representative. The discussions inform the policy and programmatic recommendations in the areas of the goals, objectives, policies and actions. The Network Decision framework business corridor communities, programmatic needs, expanding access to electric mobility. And then we just added another one. Weve also formed subcommittees where were going to do a deeper dive into the Network Equity and messaging. So the policy recommendations that come out of the policy working group will be integrated back into the feedback that we hear from our Community Partners and with that, i will hand it back to chris. Thank you, kristy. So in addition to this broad ranging Public Outreach effort, we also have been conducting a broad array of analysis work. This really started with on on in april when we launched our interactive web map, which has a few example maps on there where you can kind of mix and match many different layers of analysis to understand and explore how the city is working in regards to its bike network and whos using it. We were able to look at things like our existing network, but also our pipeline of projects that are upcoming. We have conducted what we call the bike network comfort index, which maps every single city or every single street across the city for the expected level of stress or comfort someone would experience riding a bicycle or a scooter. We also looked at mode Share Analysis where people are living when they commute by bike to work and being able to compare that against things like where car, coffee, households are with distributed within the city. Weve also looked at Collision Analysis, trying to understand the trends of bicycle and scooter collisions across the city, both in terms of their distribution, the types of collisions as well as things like bicycle versus car versus bicycle, pedestrian collision, as we also know that we have a wealth of data from our micromobility operators, especially our e bike share and our scooter share. Those devices are gps tracked so we can understand what streets those devices are using and which street, which streets those users prefer and the volumes in which theyre traveling on those streets. And lastly, we were able through some model data to actually model the projected volumes of trips and uses for all city streets for bicycle and scooter trips. And we were able to kind of slice that data by the different elements of the bike network. So understanding on, say, protected bike lanes only or slow streets only, where are we seeing high volumes in this model data versus low volumes and being able to really analyze that for where the network is overperforming or underperforming the a few key findings out of that, we understand looking at the Network Today that about 24 of San Franciscos streets are on todays bike network, but only 8 of those we would categorize as high quality. So protected bike lanes or slow streets or bike paths. We also know that our bike commuting is very highly concentrated in the neighborhoods around downtown. Even with the pandemic, were seeing that its those are the neighborhoods where we have the most bike commuting taking place. We also have seen a very high correlation, understandably, between protected bike lane facilities and ridership and the only places where we havent seen that correlation take place with protected bike lanes is where those facilities are not as well connected to the rest of the network when looking at collisions, we were able to look at collisions pre pandemic versus since the pandemic began. And as part of that weve seen the distribution of crashes change significantly with collisions being grouped around downtown or far more dispersed across the city. We also saw collisions drop generally for bicycles and scooters since the pandemic began, but we saw the severity of those collisions increase. We also saw the types of collisions change, whereas as in the pre pandemic, the majority and collision typology was for turning movements. So a car would make a turning movement and collide with a bicyclist or scooter. We saw since the pandemic began collisions that are broadside where usually someone is either running a red light or a stop sign and is hit by a car traveling in a different direction than that. That type of collision has increased substantially. We also see that black bicyclists are more than twice as likely to be involved in a collision than other users. And so when we think about safety and our safety outcomes, we need to think about who is bearing the brunt of our safety outcomes today. And we also looked and were able to see that for injury and fatal collisions involved bicycles, only about 5 of those included a pedestrian. So also to kind of share what are the really important things that weve learned, especially looking at our survey data, especially looking at the outreach work that weve done, is the first thing is really that we can clearly understand and say that the more that we grow the network, the more people are using it in the resident preference survey, we had asked people to report which kinds of devices they use daily, not just looking at bicycles, but also looking at scooters and skateboards and other devices that we are including in this. And weve learned that 10 of san franciscans use an active transportation device every day , which is a very high number. And its a very exciting to see those types of results. And weve also seen looking at our quick build projects over the last few years that through our Evaluation Program that once we put in a quick build, we see bicycle and scooter trips go up on average by more than 25 but we also know that theres a long way for us to go with the network and that really is reflected in the fact that 80 of people in our surveys have indicated that they want to use active Transportation Network. They are interested in using it, they want to use it. But only 23 of people responded that they feel comfortable enough with the network as it is today to actually use active transportation. So this is a huge opportunity gap that we have in front of us to capture new trips, to capture more trips to make the bike network more accessible and egalitarian to a broader range of san franciscans and especially when were looking at our equity priority communities, we saw an even smaller percentage of people are comfortable with using the network as it exists today. We also know that the system we have does not function well. The system is not its not intuitive. It is can be confusing. I think especially when we look at scooter users, theres a lot of people that ride on the sidewalk because they dont feel safe enough in the network that we have today. And then that creates safety and legal hazards for pedestrians that are on the sidewalk and so that was really reflected in our survey results where we saw that 81 of respondents wanted more traffic enforcement. But what that says to us as an agency is that we need to create systems that are intuitive and that work so that people understand where they need to be within a Transportation System and that it creates more safety and more certainty for all users. For some other findings that we have that are key is more than a third of san franciscans reported having a bicycle or scooters stolen in the city, which is an enormous barrier to access, especially for our low income residents. More than half of our respondents have reported using a slow street, although that drops to about a third in our equity priority. Communities partially because some of those neighborhoods dont have any slow streets currently. And more than a third of our survey respondents reported participating in sunday streets events. So what does this really tell us when we look at all of these findings together and how we need to integrate them moving forward . First of all, people want more separation in bike facilities from cars. That is very clear in the results that we got across the board. But in addition to our needs around the network affordability access and safe parking for our devices is just as important. We also know that the projects that we bring cannot increase or or exacerbate existing past harm within our equity priority. Communities we really need to look at how we can repair harm actively and we need to ensure that were bringing projects that can speak to that and we also know that in some of our equity priority communities that being seen as other is a really big barrier to the adoption of active transportation. When people in communities see people that are using bikes or scooters that dont look like them and sometimes conflict within these communities, that can be a really big cultural barrier to being willing to step outside your comfort zone and to be able to associate it with something thats different or has a negative connotation within your community. Some other kind of high level findings from our survey is that we had very high priority in our need to look at improving our facility design and connecting our network as well as trying to create opportunities for Affordable Access to things like electric bikes and scooters, as well as improving our education and parking for our devices. And just this is a breakdown of some of our survey results that ill just move through pretty quickly. We can come back to it if we need to, but i think some of the compelling things is that theres a majority support from san franciscans to improve the active Transportation Network, specifically for the purpose of reducing driving trips within the city. Theres a high level of comfort around the affordability of active transportation devices, but there are still some higher levels of concern about that for our equity priority and lower income communities, theres a substantial number of people who dont feel like they have a safe place to park their bike. And if you cant park your bike overnight somewhere, you cant use the bike network. Its not accessible to you. And lastly, that theres a pretty broad range of opinions when it comes to whether people on bikes and scooters are following traffic laws, which i think speaks back to that, that interest in in enforcement and creating systems that are more reliable for all users as we also wanted to share some of the results that we got on on our questions for peoples comfort with different types of facilities and streets. We wanted to really understand and have people reflect back to us which types of streets they feel most comfortable using. And so this this chart kind of goes from streets with less separation down to streets with more separate. And we definitely see that people are not comfortable sharing lanes with vehicles. When we do introduce a painted bike lane, Comfort Levels go up. But when theyre in streets that have a lot of commercial activity or loading activities that Comfort Level goes way back down again. And then we kind of see pretty much across the board. Theres a high level of comfort with a broad range of facility options where were separating bikes from vehicles, and theres also a high level of comfort with slow streets in terms of whats next. We have a lot of work to do with our survey data. We need to slice it by geography and by different demographics to understand and how different communities feel about Different Things. We also have an Equity Analysis to complete, which were hoping to publish in in september. We also have a range of Community Partner events that we need to conduct through this fall and this winter with the intent of being able to bring what we Call Community action plans for each individual equity priority community, which will live as a miniature plan within our larger citywide plan and really we wanted to kind of bring them this with all of this information that were sharing. We wanted to bring some key questions back to the public and to the board. We want to try to confirm the findings and what we think this tells us what we need to be doing, which primarily is that we need to be providing high comfort and protected information for network thats connected for the city, but with a special amount of focus and agreement in our work, in our equity priority communities, we need to make sure that were clarifying our rules and our design for how the street works so that its more intuitive and people understand. And on a basic level how they can safely operate within the city and that we also need to use both our outreach work and our data in our continuing work in developing the network so that we can develop one that is defensible and supported across the city and so with that, i would love to open things up to questions. Thank you very much for your time today. Thank you so much for your presentation. Um, director kinsey sure. Ill go for this and thank you for this update. Its nice to see the team and welcome christie. Do your job. Um i dont have for this particular phase of your presentation. I dont have. I too much. I think will be all waiting to see what your recommendations are for phase three when you come back to us. But i didnt want to inquire also around because because one of the things then im sure if i didnt go first director equity, i was going to get to this eventually. But one of the things that we sort of i dont know if asked for, but one of the things were pinning on the active communities plan also is a network of slow streets. So i know that youre working on the bike, the bike or the active Transportation Network, but are we also working on a slow streets possible . So street candidate network . Yes. Yes. So our Draft Network in this fall, well include recommendations for new slow streets as and then you mentioned, i think to me there our meeting last week, you mentioned that you were also in your bike network. You were considered you were considering possibly some removal of some street. Could be. Could we talk a little bit about some of the standard that we might be using for removal. For considering removal . Yes, absolutely. So theres a limited number of streets within our network that were designated as bike routes on streets that really we cant and should not expect them to function as effective bike grounds for a Broad Spectrum of San Franciscos population. And so when we are able to find alternatives to those streets that are not an overly over overburdened for a typical rider and were able to provide a better experience and a better amount of safety and access for those users. I think it is appropriate for us to be looking at where we should be removing certain streets from a designated bike network that i would say that we would ideally then sell to those less than ideal streets with more ideal sort of companion streets, more ideal alternatives. Yes, exactly. We are looking for a comprehensive and complete network that can accommodate a broad range of users. And so we wouldnt be looking at elimination of streets without provision of better alternatives as perfect. Um, yeah. So i think i dont think youre your takeaways were at least were not surprising to me at this stage of your outreach. But im glad we are doing this comprehensive outreach. I think , you know, for, for those of us that are newer, this is the first time weve touched this plan since 22,009. And a lot of times interpretations in 2009. So i think im glad were doing this. And i dont and i dont see any of your findings as particularly surprising. But im glad were doing it in an informed way. And i think we look forward to really diving in and discuss your work in october. Thank you, madam chair. Thank you. New director, agency director. Any clarifying questions on this item. All right. Thank you so much. Uh my first question. You said clarifying. Do you want to go to Public Comment and then go back or. No, you can ask any question. Okay. Um yeah, im interested in the Community Events since most of them seem to have already passed. What was the reaction for bringing bike lanes to their neighborhoods . Did you find that people were generally supportive . What was the mood in the room . I mean, its very different by neighborhood. So how about the mission . The mission . Yeah, thats that is a very challenging discussion. And theres a lot of very you know, theres a lot of stakeholders in the mission as well that that have a lot of competing needs. And so i think the best that we can do in the way that we want to approach this work is to really provide context for why were doing it, what we need to accomplish as a city and look at and demonstrate the scale of investment thats necessary for us to do things like meet our safety goals, meet our Climate Action goals, meet our equity goals, and within that frame, within that context of this investment scale, we really want to engage deeply with communities about what are the best ways to accomplish that within that neighborhood specifically. So what were some of the ideas that people provided about accomplishing those goals that didnt involve some of the ideas that have been presented to them . Yeah, i think that a lot of our engagement in the mission has has involved youth. And so thats thats really a big frame of the work that were doing. I think that for them, theres a higher interest and higher need to be able to figure out how they can coordinate bike travel with transit trips. And so i think that that that is definitely one of the pieces that we want to make sure that were looking at. I think one of the ideas we are exploring around things called mobility hubs, where we can create the opportunity for people to park safely, potentially with either a Bike Mechanic or a valet or a charging capability for batteries and being able to pair that with things like rapid and regional transit. I guess im wondering what happens when we go to a neighborhood and they say we dont want bike lanes. Its not about like choosing which bike lane we want, but we dont want this. This is not what we want in our neighborhood. And were theyre collecting their feedback. Are we giving them assurances that were not going to build it or are we saying like, thank you so much for your feedback, well let you know what we decide . I mean, what is the kind of back and forth sound like . Yeah, well, i think we want to really first and foremost, represent the voices that were hearing. And we dont want to shy away from that. But i think that we still need to put those voices within the context of what we need to be able to accomplish through this plan. And so if that means that we need to more clearly understand and document the way that we do projects in the future within these communities to more accurate cover the needs that these people are expressing or ways that we can continue to build trust within these communities. I think that thats absolutely very Fertile Ground for us to be looking at for these Community Action plans. I dont think we also have to communicate very clearly to folks to say, if you tell us you dont want bike lanes, that is fine, fine. We still need to create a bike network for this city. Yeah, i guess my last thing on this is i feel like when ive heard of trust broken regards to mta and projects, it community has given feedback about not wanting something to happen and then it happens anyway. And so i just want to see what were doing differently with this plan. If community is giving us feedback that they dont want something to happen, yeah, and we do it anyway. Isnt that just going to repeat the same cycle of trust feeling like its been broken . Well, i think this gives us a starting point because nothing in this plan leads by itself to direct implementation, but by giving us a starting point where we can really very clearly and visibly do it and give context to the attitudes of different communities, the way that theyve expressed their desires that can help inform the work that we do when we come back to those communities to try to bring implementation. Okay so lets talk about implementation for a second. I think ive made my opinion on the matter pretty clear that i dont want this board or this agency to have to fight in a piecemeal nature for every single piece of this plan. Weve explained to us, and we understand why its important to go to specific communities to involve them in the planning of this this connected network. But i think in return, not having once we have a network that has been provided to us, that weve been that weve weighed in on, i feel pretty strongly that we need to agree on the network vote on the network and then the network gets built and it does not become a 1000 fights. Block by block by block on what this network should look and feel is that how the active communities plan project plan feels about this . And is what is the Implementation Plan . Once a plan gets approved, how long are we expecting it to take to get built . Is it going to be built all as one network . Yeah and i know that that was brought up at the previous Board Meeting and mayor tom, if you want to speak to this more after if you have a okay. Yeah. I mean i think we are as an agency very interested in understanding and figuring out a path towards rapid implementation. And we want to make sure that were exploring options that allow us to move in parallel with this bike plan process. We dont want to tie it directly to the plan just so that we can have very clear legal footing for our statutory exemption for this plan document. And so being able to keep projects separate from plans is very important for us to do so. But i think while we do this plan, we do want to ensure that were setting something up that can allow us to move forward into rapid implementation. Yeah. Just on the issue of going block by block, obviously were trying to avoid that with this plan. The whole purpose of doing this level of conversation, i think what were hearing in a broad scale is San Francisco needs this infrastructure. We need it in ways that it really works, that people really understand it. Even the people who dont want to use this network say, you have to figure this out. This isnt working. Now we have scooters on the sidewalks. We had a member of the policy working group get injured by somebody riding a bicycle on a sidewalk after coming back from a meeting right. So we know this has to happen. Well were recognizing also is that there are different places in the city that have different histories. And there are some neighborhoods that have to have Community Led process. They have to make those decisions themselves. And my experience in working with the city and planning is that the more you are sharing power within those instances, people who have not had power, who have been seeking to be participatory, are actually going to be quite generous when sharing it and when collaborating. And i know that that feels like a stressful thing to trust. We have to trust them. They then will build trust with us as well. So i think that there are these particular neighborhoods. I think the mission is one of those neighborhoods, the tenderloin is one of those neighborhoods. There are a lot of neighborhoods that have really been struggling for a long time. And i think in letting them take the time and the process to come forward with the things that they need, that will help those pieces knit into the larger overall fabric. There are other neighborhoods which i think are ready to go, and weve seen slow streets where the neighbors really want it. We can take those in to implementation, obviously fairly directly. Its really just an issue of resources and staff capacity. Right, with my colleagues. And then there are other neighborhoods where maybe its a little bit more ambiguous. Were not going to get that kind of pushback. Its going to be more trade offs. Its going to be more what about this and what about this . And so were trying to do this much more systematic. And we have to i mean, the staff alone at mta cannot. I mean, were spending a tremendous amount of our time navigating these little pieces, let alone, you know, folks here on on the board. It also is a matter in a moment for you as a board and the leadership of this board. Right, in approving this plan, were going to go through a process. Were going to bring you a draft map. Theres going to be options. We can weight it towards schools. We can weight it towards different issues that are at play. Then the Decision Making happens. We want to make this as unpacked as possible. People have their opportunity to come forward, not in the equity priority neighborhoods where were really doing that on the groundwork, but for Everything Else within the city. We have to move on those incredibly quickly. But help me understand my isnt the purpose of whats happening now going to community and getting having them power share in the Decision Making so that we can come back in the fall and then in the spring and actually decide on a plan. So that we dont have to do that. Yes the goal is for that to all be fully integrated time wise. I mean, we plan to have those action plans at chris described as part of this plan and to pass it with this plan. But we also i mean, this is meant to be as comprehensive as possible and to get through that as possible. There may be sticking points. I dont want to be unrealistic about. There may be some places that are still unresolved, but that doesnt mean we let them go. It just means we give them a little bit of extra time and we keep our eye on making decisions. Those places will be its part of the process working with the Community Based organizations in their level of capacity and their level of i mean, you know, in terms of the community conversations, those can be really complicated. And theres a lot of different kind of plays that are going on that are even separate from us. So i dont know where theyre going to be. Im hoping there are none of them, but i want to just be honest that that might happen. So i guess i just want to go back to my question, though. What im hearing is actually that when the when the plan is approved by this board, that for the most part, if not in its entirety, you will be prepared to implement it as opposed to going to chinatown north beach, the mission, the tenderloin and the bayview, and having each one of those pieces come before this board to get approved . Thats correct. In the sense that the map that we have will be it will be a level of detail. Its not every single line thats going to be going on the pavement right. So theres going to be process when these pieces come out in physical design. In many ways, what we want to have is systemic ideas around design, right . This is how we handle this kind of condition. This is how we handle this kind of condition. But its not that level of, oh, so it wont actually say on on grant there will be a protected bike lane on the right hand side. I think well probably have identified wide safety levels and types, right . So well have types, but its not going to be exactly how were handling every curb cut and how were handling every. And will the decision on how to handle every single curb cut and every barricade come back to this board to approve piece by . No, it shouldnt need to. So thats the goal is to come up with the approved level of what were doing and then begin to implement. There will like i said, there may be some places that we decide because of the Community Led process that it operates a little differently. I believe that happens at the staff level, right . Like those those nuances. So it wouldnt come to us necessarily. Yeah. Directors just wanted to add that a few years ago you created the Quick Build Program to solve this exact problem, which was we had a good policy idea. We had broad public support for Something Like a protected bike lane. We didnt have every detail nailed down. But you asked us to move ahead with implementation of it and to handle, you know, handle on the back end the very minute details of where Parking Spaces go and how its work. So were trying to take that model and id like this plan to fill up our our queue for quick builds. So big that we are we are overwhelmed with the amount we want to implement. Okay. The last thing on this, we still you still come back to us for all these quick builds and we have to vote on them and approve them. So what would be different about this plan . Well, i think this this plan will will answer a lot of the questions that that the process will initially needs to figure out. Whenever we approach new projects individually. I think in even beyond that, we are looking at where do we have opportunities in looking from a policy perspective within the plan, where do we have opportunities to streamline our process . Because we also we understand the urgency of this moment and the need to be able to deliver these things rather than to continue to talk about them. We cant have projects that take ten years to complete , and we need to look at within in within the structure of a comprehensive citywide plan, how do we create policy solutions that can lead to streamlining for projects . And, you know, the plan itself does not always and necessarily solve all of those questions, but it does provide us with the guidance and the roadmap to be able to prioritize those things. And get them done and really within the larger context of what we need to accomplish within the whole city. Okay. So my last question on implementation is when are we hoping or what line in the sand are we putting for us to enact this plan and actually make it real in the real world . And what are we doing now to build up internal capacity to be able to make that happen so we dont have a situation where, you know, in spring of 2024, weve agreed to a plan and then three years later we put quick builds down in the road. Yeah, so, so part of the plan itself will be developing full cost estimates around every project that weve identified. Also being able to understand and identify why our staffing needs to be able to deliver those types of projects. So thats all things that are in process for development. Also, part of the plan that were developing is to set for ourselves performance metrics around accountability for implementation and being able to ensure that we have these very lofty goals. How do we ensure that the actual work products that coming out of the plan meet those goals . So when we get presented to the plan, itll also say we would like this to be done by this date and this year. So itll actually come with actual real accountability metrics. On timing, yeah. ■ so we do hope to when we bring the draft plan in january as a full document to have performance metrics that we can tie to each of our plan goals to, to tie them back to the projects, to be able to evaluate does this actually accomplish the things that we want to do, but does it include a timeline for completion . I yeah, i believe i believe we will be looking at that. I i think that that, that that is part of the plan. Okay. I guess the exercise of bringing this to us is perhaps to get our feedback on it. And if there is feedback, i mean i think its important for us, i dont want to create a plan that then sits on a shelf. And i think creating actual timeline and a staffing plan to get it done will help with that. Yeah how are you hoping that this board provides policy direction for this plan . I mean, we havent actually seen any of the treatments. We havent seen a lot of the specifics. You know, presumably weve been appointed to sit here, sit on this dais and give you perspective on things. Where are you looking for the board to give you feedback . I mean, i think being able to confirm our own assumptions around what weve done so far helps to strengthen our work going forward. So i think we absolutely are interested in that. I think beyond that, where there are specific areas within the network that you as a board member believe that we need to be focusing our work. We are interested in that. If there are specific design types that you want us to be looking at within our solutions, within the network, we want to be looking at that when we bring this Draft Network to you and the public in october, we really want to ensure that it is reflecting your priorities and your understanding of how we need to change our network to better serve the city. Okay. I just have a couple more. One of the stats that surprised me in the presentation was that only 8 of our network is currently what we consider high quality bike networks. And i just want to im not a biker, so this is i just this is just my perspective as someone whos moving around the city, do we have a goal of what percentage of the network we want to see be high quality at this point . I dont believe that we do as an agency, but i think that thats very something we should be including within this plan. Great how are you defining safe in the plan like, are we are we including roads with zeros on them where the cyclists are sharing it with cars considered like a safe way to get around the city . Depending on the road, it can be. When we look at streets like the wiggle i think vast majority of san franciscans would call that a safe and comfortable facility. It primarily consists of sros. It also has some traffic calming. It has a few dividers here and there, but that is a great San Francisco success story. And we should be looking at ensuring that we are putting our facilities within the context of the streets that theyre on so that when we especially when utilizing a tool like the bike network comfort index, that can be a great tool on our part internally when understanding is this is this street meeting our own standards for levels of comfort and safety. But also as a communication tool with the public to be able to demonstrate to them why we need to be making certain changes. Okay theres been, at least since ive joined this board, just a lot of tension between what we consider to be efforts to make it safer, to get around San Francisco and things that might harm Small Businesses, in particular the great debate on access to immediate parking around a business. How are you finding those conversations in that tension and the kind of perspectives on that issue as you go out into community . Yeah. And i also invite christie to speak on this. If she has any further thoughts from her work in the policy working group. Weve specific we organized a meeting for that group to look directly at the challenges of commercial corridors, because those are our most contested spaces, the most varied broad variety of uses and needs. And so i think one of the things that we really want to be focusing on with active communities plan is what else are we bringing as a city beyond the network itself because of a lot of the challenges that a lot of Small Businesses experience and a lot of the reasons why they end up opposing changes to streets are because there are not viable alternatives for them for various reasons. So whether thats having access to ebikes for delivery or having safe space for overnight parking, for having ways to be able to create incentive programs for employees that are backed by the city, for them to be able to get to work without using vehicles for us to look at more creative uses of our own parking resources to support business corridors, theres a broad array of policy and Programmatic Solutions that we can be bringing, and we want to ensure that we look at that in a comprehensive way rather than just what are we putting on the street . Got it. Almost done. Can you tell me about the diversity of the project team and its contractors, kind of the demographic demographic makeups of the team that weve brought together in the contractors that we found actually going out in communities of color and speaking to them directly . Yeah. So the prime contractor is tool design, which is based in oakland under them. Weve then contracted safe streets research as well as interethnic and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and but in addition to them, we also have our Community Partner contractors who are new Community Leadership foundation tlc lead bayview, hunters Point Community advocates, poder and who else am i think some filipinos as well. And so really we did have a very conscious effort to look and partner with organization ones that do reflect the diversity of the communities that they work in and so when we do work in the tenderloin, we have in person arabic translators for the arabic families that show up because we know that thats a substantial portion of that population. But what is the what is the demographic makeup of those teams . The exact percentage splits . I dont have that on hand, but i can certainly look into that. Were tracking that. I believe that that was something that was looked at during the contracting and rfp process. But that was over a year ago at this point. So i can certainly try to pull those figures up. That would be great. It would be great to see if you take the total makeup of were trying to go into these communities and particular communities of color, like are we sending out into these communities and who are the people making decisions about this plan internally to kind of make sure that if we are truly meaning that were trying to have all voices represented, i would love to see if theyre represented in the Decision Makers of this plan as well. And the people that were contracting out to kind of help us figure this stuff out. So i would love to get that report back. That would be awesome. My last question is, what has surprised you so far in this process in reading your report, a lot of what i see kind of make sense. Director kinsey kind of said this already, like not a lot of huge people like to be protected. You know, if you have good facilities, more people will use them. But is there anything that youve that youve heard so far that has surprised you . Ive certainly heard more about scooters than i would have expected. May i . Maybe if i was working somewhere else in the city, it wouldnt be surprised by that. I think that theres also once we get past the initial pushback within certain communities, the historically have had trouble with with bike projects, there is a lot of latent support and theres a lot of latent excitement. And i think really and one of the major goals for this project is understanding how do we start closing those gaps . Because this is a city that has a lot of programs. We have a lot of offer offerings of programmatic work, whether its education classes and trying to provide people with more access. But were not always necessarily connecting them with the right communities or doing so in a way that that feels accessible for those communities. And so i think once we start to really understand and clearly close those barriers and those gaps and to be able to represent active transportation in a way that actively reflects the community, i think that im very interested to see where we go with the idea, especially in communities like baby Hunters Point in western edition is that use of active transportation is really centered around joy and centered around social activity. And thats a very different way to experience the bike network than it is when youre commuting to work. And so if we can find ways to align that work with that type of expression that allows those communities to embrace it in a way that they havent before. Well, thank you so much. Thank you very much to you and the project team for all the work that youre doing. Ill just end by saying and repeating my real hope, which is that we utilize all this work were doing on the front end to bring in community and utilize the benefits of that work by creating a clear, actionable, comprehensive Implementation Plan that can be done so that we dont have to relitigate all of these fights again in community immediately after youve just spent the last year and a half bringing them in. So i know ive said that i feel like i say that every time and i think it just bears repeating because we only get so many bites at the apple. But help us help you by creating a clear Implementation Plan that can be actioned, worked on once it gets implemented. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, director, for all those questions. Director so thank you. I am echo a lot of my fellow directors, many comment, but i also wanted to say i love seeing my master plan and studies, you know, because this is kind of like what the urban planning people do, right . You go and study and theres a plan mapped out here. And what i do wanted to say, though, just in my personal capacity serving the public in my previous experience, Community Outreach and its a its a delicate process. Like how do you be culturally appropriate to reach Different Community . And it needs to be go deeper. And i would love to see actually the slide deck was really succinct about you have reached to you have to conduct a 60 Community Outreach. I would like to know what are all the 60 Community Outreach and are you intend to continue to reach out more more just because sometimes some of these one of the things about equity is that a lot of these communities, they dont really have extra time to sit around and just to attend that day. And i would assume a lot of your meeting might have been in the time where they have to work. And even though off hours, some of these people are having 2 or 3 jobs. So we just kind of have to reach out. It might be sound like really exhausting for the staff, but there is something that i would like to kind of highlight that is a trust building process to actually reach deeper sometimes even medium. Its not the same like you could do a survey monkey to one group of demographics, but the other group, they really like to get together in a Community Center and bring some coffee to them. So then they will show up. I i would like to hear more about how you conducted your Community Outreach and if theres these things that i just share with you. Had happened and how do you handle that . And also who are the Community Partners . Yeah. So for our work in our equity priority communities, we primarily have relied upon our local Community Partners to dictate the ways in which we do our Public Outreach. And so that means that we do different work in different communities, is specifically designed to meet the outreach needs of those communities. And so it ends up looking different in different places, specifically for the partners you referenced, at least for contracted partners, thats solomon pilipinas, tenderloin Community Benefits district, new Community Leadership foundation, boulder and bayview. Hunters Point Community advocates. But in addition to those weve been working in partnership with broad constellation of other organizations. I think in addition to that, weve really been looking for where our opportunities, where we can meet people, where they are already at, rather than asking them to come to some another workshop on another weeknight. We really want to ensure that were lowering the barriers to participation and doing so in ways that are culturally appropriate. And to a large extent we rely on our partners to tell us that and to drive and dictate how we conduct our engagement. So not just determining who we talk to and when and how, but also having control and say over how we conduct our work, how we ask questions, what kinds of discussions we have, what else we need to be talking about. Western edition film. Fillmore were going to be talking about Parking Enforcement because thats what people want to talk about, even though thats not exactly about active transportation, thats part of their needs and concerns within that community. So were prepared to talk about it when we go back to that community. I wanted to emphasize one, i, i really appreciate you actually list out the partners on the back of your head. Its so amazing that you remember. It shows that you have spent like your sweat every day working with them. How about any Asian American chinese communities . Have you actually partner with them . Because considering i learned so much from a lot of many directors here that people look like me represen cent, like 38 of the ridership or Something Like that. Really a majority of ridership have you reach out, not just chinatown, but also sunnydale, right . The station valley, portola, they all have. And also our mission in the mission, theres a lot of asian communities. Have you done the culturally appropriate outreach to these communities . Yeah absolutely. So i have a long standing relationship with cic, primarily from my work in the bayview, but weve been working with them both in bayview Hunters Point as well as out in the Richmond District to engage with chinese language populations. Theyre really good at being able to reach folks through those. The means of communication, through those different language groups like wechat is very much a big thing, especially among chinese seniors. And down in kind of southern city, weve also been working with family connections centers, which we previously worked with for visitation valley in portola , a Community Based transportation plan. But weve been working with them to try to reach chinese language as well as Spanish Language and vietnamese populations in the southern city. I think we had most recently attended their family carnival event down in balboa park as part of that work. And so weve been really we understand that especially for the chinese language and asianamerican communities, they are very broadly distributed across the city. Theres not one place you can go to where you can reach them. And so we know that we need to have kind of broad partnerships across the city in a more distributed way. And supporting that work is inter ethnic, whos also been able to provide interpreters and translators. And they also do a lot of detailed Community Based work in the chinese language communities. And so weve been also relying on them to help us kind of inform that space and to make the right introductions. Okay thats great. And i was wondering, this is an active communities plan and you you know, things are kind of like a web, right . You can just look at one thing and then forget about the rest because theyre just all affecting each other. Its kind of like domino effect, especially were talking about everything linked together on the road. A lot of the focus on these report and findings, i found that its highly bike centric. What about but then in your solution, deck said that some of the recommendation you will come up with is some parking improvements and other things. So im curious to find that will your plan share with us some of the findings about transit riders, ride sharing and parking and vehicles . Yeah, it was to clarify around our parking recommendations. Those are specifically recommendations for parking, bicycles, scooters, other devices. So not car parking. I but we do. We are an agency that represents all transportation and we do want to ensure and we work regularly with our all of our stakeholders within the agency with transit, with curb management, with accessible services. They all sit on a technical Advisory Committee for this project and we want to ensure that the projects that we develop, the policies and programs that they complement, the broader transportation landscape for the city. I think the most clearest example of that is when we are able to provide things like floating transit islands on streets where we have bike lanes and that improves Transit Service, but then it also eliminates conflict between between bus routes and bike travel. And so by looking at where these kind of synergistic solutions, where we can both enhance things for active transportation but enhance them for other modes as well. Yeah i like what your answer is really great that this report what tells me is that its a the micro level showing us this is what is impacted or affecting or whatever we need to do with on bike lanes and along bike lanes. But also once you dive into identifying micro findings, which is in this plan, theres a macro level of how its effectiveness, right . Like in terms of overall transit speed, transit, circulation patterns throughout the entire city. Its kind of like river and streams. Once you improve a certain row of, lets say this is going to be like increasing the more than 8, being like the ideal bike lane. What are the consequences in terms of in order to do that , that will improve or have unintended consequences to the overall transit circulation pattern and speed limit speed that we are anticipating basically for everyone, when im looking at multimodal transit is not really just for people rolling biking or scootering, but its also many other forms of transit, transit, transportation. I write busses and i do know that a lot of aunties and uncles are sick and they can actually get on to these things to get to their Dentist Office or doctors appointments. So they need to share, right . So i wanted to know if when you come up with im just looking forward to see your proposal. Next up is that. But i want to plant that bug in your here in your ear that what im looking for is if you have a proposal to improve certain bike lanes because were going to hopefully increase the 8, the best bike lane, we have. And i love it, you know, because anything we can do to make San Francisco the best is in what im going for. But i also want to make sure that we dont hit upon other peoples choices of transit right . Like and also, i dont want people getting into this road rage where they end up ended up stuck in traffic. They just stuck stuck there, stuck on the bus, stuck in a transit because certain things that we have done had alter our other circulation path. I mean, maybe its already there. I just asking those questions that something you should be in. Chris chris, if i may. So just last year, together with the San Francisco county transportation authority, we developed and adopted connect sf. And that document includes two major sections. One is the transit strategy, which together with the muni forward program, is really designed as one of the foundational elements for the whole Transportation System, which is how do we make muni fast frequent and reliable. The other part is the streets and highways plan, which is about how do we make sure it is possible for people who need to drive to continue to be able to drive and for their drive to be smooth and steady, that traffic should flow in a smooth and steady way. So the active communities plan actually complements those two other plan document, and it may be worthwhile to have a primer on how the three plans Work Together in order to make the whole system work, both in order to accommodate growth. In San Francisco, were adding 80,000 new housing units. How do we make sure that we achieve our Greenhouse Gas emissions reduction requirements . And how do we make sure that were advancing safety support, getting Business Recovery and advancing equity all at the same time . And thats where our Strategic Plan tries to tries to tie all of that together. Id be happy to offer a detailed briefing either to you directly or if the board would like to hear that overall strategy as a whole. Well, thank you very much. That might that will be really helpful. And i thought that also the general public would love to hear that, too, because were looking at things on a multi level thats thats super helpful. And also just to note that the transportation element update will be coming to and that will be actually the last piece of connect sf thats going to try to sort of tie this all together as a planning document and that sits in the general plan and so really looks in particular about how in particular adding housing, we cant just add more cars, right . And so this is really about how all this stuff fits together and transit and active transportation work beautifully together. So thats something that we really want to make sure those systems complement each other well. Thats great. Thank you. My one last question to you guys is that all these do you have any Capital Funding already earmarked for this . Yeah. So the city recently reauthorized prop l and we look to prop l as a primary funding mechanism for implementation. This also as a plan will make as extremely competitive for other Grant Funding opportunities, especially through things like the active Transportation Program run through caltrans as well as other federal funds. So well be able to utilize the existing funding streams we have now as well as find new funding streams that we otherwise wouldnt be competitive for. Okay thank you. Thank you, director. Ill keep my comments brief. I just wanted to echo what director so noted in terms of the demographic mix, the data that was represented in the deck in the next iteration of this presentation, if we can get that disaggregated specifically by race and language demographics, that would be super helpful. I think it will help us understand are we really hitting our intended goals when we talk about outreach and engagement and you know that 1. 5 k is great, but what does that actually look like in terms of race and Language Access . The only other thing well, two other things to note. I was really surprised by by the note that you mentioned in the slide deck about black bicyclists being more than twice as likely to be involved in collisions that was super alarming to me. And so i was wondering if you were able to glean any sort of a causality for that or to determine why that is the case. That does seem like a major focus area for us. If we want to really try to advance Mobility Options for folks in different equity neighborhoods, in particular. But i was wondering if you could say a little bit more about that piece. Yeah. So the descriptive statistics memo for the Collision Analysis was also shared as an information item packet. So, you know, at its a very big packet. So at your leisure youll be able to review that. Certainly thats something id have to go back and review to, to pull out if theres specific correlations around that. And i wouldnt want to speak out of turn kind of speculating on, on anything around that at the moment. So as you know, as youre trying to find some guidance from us to figure out where should you all focus your attention, certain things that you should be drilling down on a bit more, thats an area that i would definitely encourage the team to look at to see if it is a matter of just awareness, whatever it is, right . Just trying to understand what that is because thats definitely a percentage that i do want to actively work against. And the other thing i wanted to know was that, you know, as were and i think this is mostly squarely into what christie is working on, but in terms of the policy piece mode shift, cant be done alone. We cant do this alone. Right . So theres only so much infrastructure can do and accomplish all these other things that you guys have or have flagged in your deck, such as like housing issues, public safety, you know, like all these different elements are huge factors that determine whether somebody feels safe riding their bikes. Scooter skateboard down a bike lane, whether or not, you know, their streets are paved, whether its well maintained, like all these Different Things. Right. And so we as an agency cant do this alone. And so i do wonder, um, you know, you spoke a little bit about like the workplace strategies, perhaps like creating sentinel programs. Im assuming theres a partnership with pd in the midst perhaps that that might come out of this, which i think would be great and worthwhile. Just like an anecdote, thats something that in napa was something that we attempted with the hotel industry, with some of our larger employers. We were able to get an mtc grant to be able to incentivize mode shift there. So thats something to think about or just planning a see there as well. But thinking about, you know, all the other different partners from our sister agencies that well have to lean on. Is this part of like what youre seeing . Christie right now in terms of like the policy analysis as youre looking at implementation, partnerships, relationships that we have to build, programs that we have to build out, again, infrastructure only goes so far. So we need to make sure that as were working with our partners and planning, were also trying to figure out how to make sure that different units are equipped with bike infrastructure within their units or with or just safe bike storage, things like that. So if you can speak to that a little bit, thatd be great. Yeah thanks for naming that. We start off with like 15 people that we contact and then exponentially, like everyone who needs to be at the table starts growing. And so. Right, ill name that when we started talking about Small Business, weve specifically talked to the restaurants association, so we still have more work to do. And they have told us and made introductions to industry folks in hotel as well as retail. So when we say business, were specifically talking about restaurants. And so thats private. And so as we start also talking in in the policy space for like business corridors, we also started inviting folks in from uber, from lyft. What are, what are your policy goals . And so the intersectionality of like everything that needs to happen in order to succeed and have a robust, active Transportation Network is happening. We see one thing that keeps coming over. And again, i just want to like shout out our Community Partners down boulder is they really want to see trans portation muni specifically tied in with with active transportation. We cant keep talking about these two things as separate things. It needs to be about connectivity. We need to be integrating these two programs together. So in terms of your original question, talking about like what partnerships do we need, we are looking at Agency Partners. We are doing one on ones with Agency Partners to go over our goals, objectives, policies and actions. We are we have private partners who are helping us inform policy there. We have our advocate. Its our mobility advocates. We are doing extensive work to make sure that were not just looking at a bike lane in the road. Excellent. And so i think in this in your next presentation, i would love to see more information on that. I understand that a lot of it still in conversation. So probably doesnt live in a deck just yet, but definitely would love to just get more information or context around some of the work thats happening there because we cant do this work alone. Its impossible for us to do this alone. It really is a cultural shift for the city as as a whole and we need all our different sister agencies to be supportive of that work with these different policy measures. So i hope that this is part of what were trying to achieve with active communities, not just a network, but also im trying to figure out policy changes that we need to implement citywide to ensure that were really trying to advance active mobilities across the city. Thank you so much. And id so before we go to Public Comment, we are going to take a ten minute recess. So well be back at 328. Is that right . All right. Thank you, everyone everyone. Were going to resume the meeting. Were currently on item 11 and we are about to open it up for Public Comment. And this is Public Comment on the active communities plan project update. Is there anyone in the room ready to give Public Comment on this item . I do have two speaker cards. Trish gump and annie freeman. I annie, unfortunately had to leave. My name is trish gump. Im an advocate for safe and slow streets and ive volunteer with groups including the peoples love Streets Coalition and kidsafe. And im also a San Francisco resident and a mom to two boys who ride their bikes and walk all of San Francisco and also use transit. And i do want to say that the combination of transit with the bike riding for them has been amazing. One of my kids got a flat tire once and he was able to just put the bike on the muni and no problem. Im honored to be part of the policy working group that is sharing ideas with mta on the active communities plan. I want to say that i support a very bold plan that will allow our city to be a city where any child or any person of any ability should feel free to choose any mode of transport that they choose to get around in addition to being involved with the policy, working group, ive also been coorganizer doing community acp rides with the Bike Coalition district supervisor, local Community Groups and with chris kidd. I want to give a lot of credit to chris and mta for participating in these rides. Many of which have been taking place after working hours and on the weekends. They have been an effective way to get real on the ground. Feedback from residents and communities and provide the mta with the type of feedback it needs to confidently move forward with a bold, active communities plan. I wanted to share some specific feedback after ride last week with members of the western edition and fillmore. The ride included members of the community that were first time riders or hard not ridden a bike since childhood, and this ride with less experienced riders was really, really highlighted. The need for safe and very high quality infrastructure. And i just wanted to share some of the quotes. So here they are. The ride was incredible. I felt totally safe being with the group. It is something im looking forward to be being a part of much more often. It was so i was so much more cautious driving this weekend, having the firsthand experience of being a biker. Im excited to use these share bikes again in the future, especially when i go somewhere where parking is hard. At first i didnt understand slow streets and felt they were excluding me. Now that i rode one, i understand. I get it. Thank you. Thank you so much for your comment. Hi. Good afternoon, zach lipton. Im also a member of the acp policy working group and frankly, theres been a lot of skepticism about the active communities plan. I think we put a lot of hope on this plan and on the shoulders of this great team here as our way forward. And ive heard a lot of people, even members of the board of supervisors, really just wonder, how are we actually going to have a bold and visionary plan that really delivers the kind of change that we need to live up to our values and goals . Everyone fears that this will be another one of those lovely plans with great ideas that just sits on the shelf and that when its time to actually implement parts of this plan will be right back to the years of delays and the nine hour hearings that we make. You sit through to argue over just one street. So theres been a lot of discussion this year about Building Trust. And to me, Building Trust doesnt mean compromise on our values or dragging things out for years. It means doing what you say youre going to do and doing it well. So if we say were going to build this great active Transportation Network, we need a bold plan and we need the resources and processes in place to do a high quality job of implementing it quickly. What does this look like for the plan . I think it means designing a network where the entire city is within a five minute walk of a safe, connected, well used and joyful active Transportation Network, one thats safe for all ages and abilities. It means using this Robust Community planning process were doing to establish a mandate for the plans construction. So every single project doesnt involve relitigating whether or not this network should exist. But we also need to get the implementation right so that we can build out this network. Id love to see it if we could come right out of the gate next year with a series of showcase pilot streets that would demonstrate the networks potential and streets that are not just safe to bike and roll on, but really the joyful and business boosting public spaces with art and plazas and greenery that we want to see really means developing the capacity to work with city agencies to do these kinds of projects and bring those into our quick build toolkit. So i hope this board can really push for a bold, active Community Plan and also establish the accountability well need to actually make it happen. Thank you. Thank you so much for your comment. And we have one more. Thank you. Board luke bernheim, our first thank you to staff, specifically chris and christie for their work on this plan, as well as the policy working group, which ive had the privilege of serving on. Im impressed by and proud of staff for their work, outreach and engagement with a wide variety of individuals, communities and places and policy makers on this plan. I encourage each of you to go to the outreach and engagement events to see this work firsthand, and so you have confidence in their work when the plan and its policies are brought to you for approval. I want to call attention to the need for three critical elements for this plan a network map with specified facilities, notably protected mobility lanes on a per block basis with a timeline and deadline by which the agency will install all of those facilities on that network. Second, policies that mandate the aforementioned map and facilities to be built while empowering staff to do what they do best and what theyve been engaging about with communities throughout the city. And finally, i would like to see a definition from you about what is a quote unquote enough outreach. We talk a lot about outreach, but i think its i think its important that we define what is enough because as this plan moves forward and staff in the city need your support, we need to have a clear definition of what is enough, because there will inevitably be individuals who say, we didnt do enough outreach, we didnt do the right type of outreach. And so i think the board actually taking a stance on what is enough trying to define that. I think is really critical. This plan has the potential to be positive and transformative, but it needs to have a concrete map with specified facilities, a concrete plan and timeline for implementation, concrete policies to mandate and enforce implementation and your support to enable and empower staff to implement that plan quickly and effectively. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for your comment. I dont see any more comments or folks approaching the podium, so were going to move to um, remote Public Comment at this time. Well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. Each speaker will have two minutes. Moderate or first speaker. Hello, my name is eric roselle and im a long term resident of the tenderloin in the director of safe program at tenderloin Community Benefit district. Id like to thank chris and christie and the mta staff for their effort and ensuring the Tenderloin Community is included in the active communities plan that are needed for safer streets and improved active transportation are noted discussed plan for and eventually implemented on behalf of the community, i ask that after the planning process is complete, we immediately begin bringing about the most urgent safety changes we desperately need over the course of many years, we have done extensive outreach in the community, highlighting our concerns, needs and wants for safer streets, more accessible, reliable transit and safer active transport, oftentimes resulting in extremely slow or no changes. Therefore is imperative for the Tenderloin Community to see our Planning Efforts be implemented. It only further complicates the relationship between the city and community and creates further distrust and harms. Outreach credibility. When our Planning Efforts are ignored or never implemented. Therefore, we ask that the city begin exploring and security Funding Sources and get sister city agencies approvals like the Fire Department that will be needed to bring about the planning recommendations we need to transform our community into a safer and more vibrant community for all. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. This is stacy decker. This program would make a lot of sense if it had been started ten years ago, but it is completely out of order today. Youre asking communities to comment on something that sounds like Science Fiction or alien invaders to most, they dont know what a real bike and slow streets network is because how many of us honestly have actually ever experience it here in the United States . Youre asking only those who are brave enough have the Time Available and are so inclined to comment. The first thing that should have happened is to take those plastic posts that you use everywhere and actually put them everywhere to create a comprehensive network of visually not physically protected lanes so people could get an idea of what could be then ask people how it is going and what should be changed. When i hear about 61 events, 14 public hearings, calls for more input to make sure everythings okay before we proceed. We dont know it here, but the planet is burning. We are in grave danger in terms of the climate and our streets are not safe enough for people 8 to 80 to bike here. We cannot wait for this plan to be completed. Theres been too much at the wrong part of the process already. We need to act because we all bleed and break the same. It doesnt matter what color or country we come from, 30s we are. We we need help. We need a network and it needs to begin now to earnestly start, make making it start moving cars out of the way and let people see what could happen and where we should fine tune it. This is crazy. Please act. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. This is herbert weiner. Now, i asked him question usually about outreach has been miserable. All people who are concerned and testify and then the original plan is implemented. What i would like to see publicly stated is what is proposed and what all parties have proposed and how this contrasts with the original plan. Now you talk about accessibility 85 minutes. The sun means the transfer station. Does this apply also to people who are seniors and the disabled and in light of this, are you willing to revise bus stops and revise bus runs . And even allow more coaches . And will this clash with the plans and muni forward . You really have to do this democratically or otherwise. Its going to be another mta project where certain parties are favored over another. This you must do and so far ive seen the services of mta of muni get worse and worse and worse over the years. So you really have to revise your intent as well as some forth with a new policy. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Good afternoon. This is barry toronto. I unlike some other speakers, i actually think its great to do more outreach through the active communities plan. But the thing is, what is outreach . Thats a good question that another speaker asks the taxi community has given outreach, considering the board of appeals, but they didnt tell us that actually they wanted to eliminate them. So define outreach. And that is something that has not been very well done by this agency mentioning it in a meeting is not the same is actually engaging in communities and what they want, like when they want speed bumps on the on their block that is that is outreach. So if they want Autonomous Vehicles in their neighborhood, well, the puc is not doing any has not done any outreach except monday is outreach. I hope people will call in and do and do their outreach. They dont want Autonomous Vehicles on their blocks. So the thing is, is that its important to ask the community and do the democratic process, unlike mr. Trump, who was indicted today for interfere with with the democratic process. So i tell you that make sure when you when you when you continue to undergo these these these asking for feedback and participation by the community, that you actually do outreach. Thank you very much for your time. Oh, and last thing, when you talk about outside lands and the community not wanting to pay surge pricing, that is making sure the cap stands are there for outside lands and enforced so people dont have to be wandering all over the place looking for vehicles. So i ask you again, again the find outreach. Thank you your time is up. No additional callers. Thank you. Secretary silva. We will now close Public Comment. Can you please call the next item . Sure. Places you on item number 12 discussion and vote pursuant to admin code section 67. 10 as to whether to invoke the Attorney Client privilege and conduct a closed session conference with legal counsel, we will now open Public Comments for those attending the meeting in person on this item. Not seeing anyone secretary silva, do we have remote Public Comment on this item at this time . Well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. Each speaker will have two minutes. We have no speakers. Thank you, secretary silva. We will now close Public Comment on this item. Colleagues, may i have a motion in a second to go into closed session . Move to go into closed session. Second. Thank you, secretary silva. Please call the roll on the motion to go into closed session. Director hindi. Hi hindi director. So i. So i. Director uchitel you i director i. I thank you. The motion passes president. Oh sorry. Thak you. Secretary silva, please call the next item. Places you on. Item number 13. Announcement of closed session. The board met in closed session to discuss the listed case and voted to settle the matter. Places you on item number 14. Motion to disclose or not disclose the information discussed in closed session. Motion not to disclose. Second. Thank you. Secretary silva, please call the roll on the motion to not disclose. Director hindi i hindi. Director. So. So i director uco deal i director kina i. Thank you. That motion passes and concludes the business before you today. Thank you. Colleagues, staff and members of the public. We are now adjourned the next meeting is august 15th and september 5th. Thank you. Thank you. 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Field trips are 2 and a half hours long and like i said, they can happen in any city park indiscernible the market is one of our vehicles for reaching out to public and showing them how to prepare delicious, simple food. People are amazed that the library does things like that. Biblio bistro is a Food Education program. It brings such joy to people. It teaches them life skills that they can apply anywhere, and it encourages them to take care of themselves. My name is leaf hillman, and im a librarian, and biblio bistro is my creation. Im a former chef, and i have been incubating this idea for many years. We are challenged to come up with an idea that will move the library into the future. This inspired me to think, what can we do around cooking . What can i do around cooking . We were able to get a cart. The charlie cart is designed to bring cooking to students in Elementary Students that has enough gear on it to teach 30 students cooking. So when i saw that, i thought bingo, thats what were missing. You can do cooking classes in the library, but without a kitchen, its difficult. To have everything contained on wheels, thats it. I do cooking demonstrations out at the market every third wednesday. I feature a seafood, vegetable, and i show people how to cook the vegetable. A lot of our residents live in s. R. O. S, single resident occupancies, and they dont have access to full kitchens. You know, a lot of them just have a hot plate, a microwave, and the thing that biblio bistro does really well is cook food accessible in season and make it available that day. We handout brochures with the featured recipe on the back. This recipe features mushrooms, and this brochure will bring our public back to the library. Libraries are about a good time. I hired a former chef. Shes the tickle queen at the ramen shop in rockwood. We get all ages. We get adults and grandparents and babies, and, you know, schoolage kids, and its just been super terrific. I was a bit reluctant because i train teachers and adults. I dont train children. I dont work with children, and i find it very interesting and a bit scary, but working here really taught me a lot, you know, how easily you can influence by just showing them what we have, and its not threatening, and its tasty and fun. I make it really fun with kids because i dont look like a teacher. In the mix, which is our team center, we have programs for our kids who are age 13 to 18, and those are very hands on. The kids often design the menu. All of our programs are very interactive. Today, we made pasta and garlic bread and some sauce. Usually, i dont like bell pepper in my sauce, but i used bell pepper in my sauce, and it complemented the sauce really well. I also grated the garlic on my bread. I never thought about that technique before, but i did it, and it was so delicious. We try to teach them techniques where they can go home and tell their families, i made this thing today, and it was so delicious. Theyre kind of addicted to these foods, these processed foods, like many people are. I feel like we have to do what we can to educate people about that. The reality is we have to live in a world that has a lot of choices that arent necessarily good for you all the time. This is interesting, but its a reaction to how children are brought up. It is fastfood, and the apple is a fastfood, and so that sort of changes the way they think about convenience, how eating apple is convenient. One of the things that i love about my program out at the market is the surprise and delight on peoples faces when they finally taste the vegetable. Its been transformative for some people. They had never eaten those vegetables before, but now, they eat them on a regular basis. All they require is a hot plate and a saute pan, and they realize that theyre able to cook really healthy, and its also tasty. They also understand the importance of the connection that were making. These are our Small Business owners that are growing our food and bringing it fresh to the market for them to consume, and then, im helping them consume it by teaching them how to cook. It connects people to the food that theyre buying. The magic of the classes in the Childrens Center and the team center is that the participants are cooking the food themselves, and once they do that, they understand their connection to the food, to the tools, and it empowers them. Were brokering new experiences for them, so that is very much whats happening in the biblio bistro program. We are introducing kids many times to new vocabulary. Names of seasonings, names of vegetables, names of what you call procedures. I had my little cooking experience. All i cooked back then was Grilled Cheese and scrambled eggs. Now, i can actually cook curry and a few different thing zblz. And the parents are amazed that what were showing them to cook is simple and inexpensive. I didnt know this was so easy to make. Ive only bought it in the market. Those comments have been amazing, and yeah, its been really wonderful. We try to approach everything here with a well, just try it. Just try it once, and then, before you know it, its gone. A lot of people arent sure how to cook cauliflower or kale or fennel or whatever it is, and leah is really helpful at doing that. I think having someone actually teaching you here is a great experience. And its the art of making a meal for your family members and hope that they like it. I think they should come and have some good food, good produce that is healthy and actually very delicious. Cooking is one of my biggest passions, to be able to share, like, my passion with others, and skills, to hel who doesnt love cable cars . Charging emissions and were free which were proud of you know, its not much free left in the world anymore so we managed to do that through donations and through our gift shops. You got a real look and real appreciation of what early transit systems are like. This was the transit of the day from about 1875 to about 1893 or later, you know. Cable car museum is free, come on in. Take a day. Come down. Rediscover the city. You can spend as time you want and you dont have to make reservations and its important to be free because we want them to develop a love for cable cars so they do continue to support whether they live here or other places and people come in and say, yes, i have passed by and heard of this and never come in and they always enjoy themselves. People love cable cars and theres none left in the world so if you want to ride a cable car, youve got to come to San Francisco. That what makes the city. Without the cable cars, you lose part of that, you know, because people who come here and they love it and they love the history ask they can ride a cable car that has been running since 1888 or 1889. Wow thats something. Cant do that with other historical museums. Rarely, have i run into anybody from outside who didnt come in and didnt feel better from knowing something about the city. Its a true experience youll remember. I hope they walk away with a greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in San Francisco because once they are gone, they are gone. Its the heartbeat of San Francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in San Francisco. We would lose part of its heart and soul. It wouldnt be San Francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing] welcome to the Small Business Commission Meeting july 24, 2023. The meeting is called to order. This meeting is held in person in city hall and broadcast on sfgovtv and available to you online or by caller 4156550001. The Small Business commission thanks Media Service and sfgovtv for televising the meeting viewed on sfgovtv 2 or sfgovtv. Org. We welcome Public Comment. There is a opportunity for general Public Comment at the end of the meeting and opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. For each item the commission will take Public Comment first for those in person and then from people attending the meeting remotely. Members of the public who are calling in, the