Transportation Authority Personnel im mandelman our vice chair is peskin, commissioner ronen will be here shortly the clerk is angela tsao and michael with sfgovtv. Can you call the roll. Yes. Want to make sure that the we can hear the mics and teams. Was i so one moment here. Roll call. Commissioner mandelman. Present. Commissioner peskin. Present. Commissioner ronen. Present. We have quorum. Great. I think you have Public Comment announcements. Yes , sir. For members interested in participating in this Board Meeting we welcome your attendance in person and the legislative chamber room 250 and city hall you may watch channel 26 or 99 depending. And stream live on sfgov. Org. Wish to whent remote dial 4156550001 enter code 24928793483. And press pound and pound again. You will listen in role time. When comment is called for the item you wish to speak on press star 3 to be added to speak. Dont press it again or you will be removed from the queue. When the system says your line is unmuted the operator will advise you you will be allowed 2 minutes to speak. Well move on to the next caller. Calls taken in the order received. Best practices are to speak slowly. Clearly and turn down volume of televisions or radios. Public comment for items on this agenda be taken for members of the public in the legislative chamber and after, from the remote speakers queue on the phone line, thank you. Thank you, madam clerk. Before the next item i want to invoke rule 3. 26 from the rowels of order to limit Public Comment per item for 30 minutes for todays meeting. Would you call our next item . Item 2 this will be a final approval on the first appearance approve the resolution making findings to allow teleconference meetings under california Government Code Section 54953e. This is an action item. Since we have all members here in person i dont imagine we need to use this during this meeting at least. Im going to move that we continue this item and take that without objection. Okay. Madam clerk, call item 3. Item 3 approve the minutes of december 8, 2021 meeting, this is an action item open this to Public Comment. Upon dont see anybody. Anybody calling in . Check for remote comment on item 3. And well is no Public Comment. Okay. I will move the approval of minutes and i dont think we need a second in committee. And can i take is that without objection . Are we all allowed to see im the chair. Nodding. Yea. Yes. Without objection. Okay. Great. And then lets call. Minutes are approved. Item 4. Recommend adoption of 4 new job classifications in revised salary sushth. This is an action item. We have cynthia fong remote. Yes, thank you, good morning can i have it pull up my slides now. Oovenlg from my view i see i can see the sliders can you . Have confirmation the slides. We see it. Okay. All right. Next slide. Good morning, commissioners cynthia fong, what i have before you today an approval for 4 new job positions in addition to a Salary Survey to increase ranges for the ta staff of this slide, the ta has 47fte in 6 division its has been 4 years since the last. And contracted with Cascade Employer Association to conduct a total Compensation Study except for executive director position will be the end of the calendar year. Salary ranges are maintaining consistency with directly surveyed positions. On slide 2 we listed the agencies used in the survey. To determine their appropriate averages. Together with our consultant cascade we defined the labor market. Agencies that are in the in our immediate geographic vicinity and conduct work like ours and Similar Organization structure. They evaluated to the classifications considering factors education, experience, scope, type of work, level of authority and responsibility and conditions of the working environment. These are the 9 various agencies we reviewed. The last saul row survey was complete in the 2018 and similar to the competitors we had except one we added Golden Gate Bridge this time. On this slide, we listed the results and observations from cascade. By division. They included that our salaries are below fo to mead yawp for all the compared agency salaries were between 321 below an average of 8 and median of 9 . Tda staff were below by 3 . Capitol project engine ears below 4. Our Planning Division varied 4 to 9 . 9 for the Transportation Planners. Our programming policy division ranged 4 to 11. And 9 for the planners and 11 for the Program Analyst series. Our executive division ranged 3 to 20 . This was for mainly our communication staff at between 4 to 7 and our director of communication at 20 example lastly our finance and administration staff. Accountants below by 11 and im sorry our Program Management analyst was below by 11. Accountants by 12 and our admin assistance below by 21 . Okay. Cascade evaluated the benefits package and gathered data from the various competitor agencies listed in the previous slide. Over all our benefits are in line with agencies and not recommending changes to benefit packages at this time. And forker last slide, as part of the this process we reviewed job descriptions and applied a Racial Equity lens and 4 new positions to descriptions. Mainly as i have been sitting on the city wide raushl equity group it is satisfying to have this opportunity to respect remove barriers for candidates apply to entry level planner positions the position for assistant Transportation Plan are 1 and 2 for programming and policy division we would not require a graduate degree and in the require any years of experience. Would be a level entry with an under grad. We are proposing 2 others 3 and 4 the communication manager and the general manager series for various divisions. To allow flexibility for staff to progress within the agency this benefits agency by helping diversify our workforce and advancements and lateral moves and maintain a healthy culture. Facility proposes 4 are approved we will have 47 job classifications. In terms of fiscal impact estimate an increase in personnel exy penned tours 300 and 11,000 to 450 thousand dollars an increase of 5 to 7 percent. This can be accommodated for the budget of anticipating this for arc while. So we made room. But will if this item is approved we will bring it and reflect it in our 2223 mid year budget amendment. I welcome questions you may have. Thank you. Thank you. Director fong. I dont see comments or questions. So lets open this up to Public Comment. I dont see comment in the chamber. See if there is any remote. Checking for remote Public Comment on item 4. And there is no Public Comment. Thank you. Closed. I want to thank Deputy Director fong for her work. I know this study is manage we wanted get done for a time and we now have it. And can act on it and i think that is important to do. So i will move approval of item 4 the adoption of the new job classifications and revised salary structure. And we can take that without objection . Cool. All right. Madam clerk item 5. I announced the item has been approved. Sure. Item 4 has been approved. Thank you. All right. Item 5, introduction of new items this is an information item. I am not seeing new items from members of the personnel committee. Madam clerk y. 6. Item 6 general Public Comment. Any in the chamber. Do we have remote general Public Comment . Checking for remote Public Comment on item 6. And there is no Public Comment. Why Public Comment of item 6 is closed. And madam clerk, item 7ch adjournment. We are adjourned and Transportation Authority will be starting up again at 10 a. M. Thank you. 2022 and the time is 9 02. This meeting will be held inperson as authorized by Government Code Section 54953e and mayor breed to her february 25th, emergency proclamation. Its possible that some members may attend this meeting remotely. In that event those may participate and vote by video. In the physical meeting location listed online on the posted agenda found at the Fire Commission website