Transcripts For SFGTV Transportation 20240706

Chair mandelman. Present. Melgar. Present. Commissioner peskin. Present commissioner peskin. Commissioner walton. We have quoteum. You happening you have an announcement. We welcome your attendance in person and the chamber room 250 in city hall or channel 26 or 99 or stream it live at sfgov. Org. For those wish to make comment remote the best way to do so is dialing 4156550001 then access code 2594 799 0703. You will listen to the meeting in real time. When comment is called, press star 3 to be added to the queue. 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 are allowed 2 minutes when that is up we will move to the next caller. Calls taken in the order received. Best practices to speak slowly and turn down radios and televisions Public Comment will be taken first from members of the public in attendance in the chamber and after from the remote queue on the phone line. Thank you. Thanks. Before calling our next item i want to invoke rule 3. 26 to limit comment for items 30 minutes each speaker gets 2 minutes. Mr. Clerk call the next item. 2 approve the notes of april 25th meeting action item. Do we have Public Comment on the minutes . And i dont see anybody, see if we have remote comment on item 2. Checking for remote comment on item 2. There is no Public Comment. All right Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve the minutes. Moved by peskin and seconded by ronen. Mr. Clerk . Commissioner chan. Aye. Commissioner dorsey. Aye. Commissioner engardio. Aye. Why chair machine man. Aye. Vice chair melgar. Aye. Why commissioner peskin. Aye. Commissioner preston. Aye. Commissioner ronen. Aye. Commissioner sa say. Absent commissioner stefani. Absent commissioner walton. Aye. The minutes are approves. Next item. Item 3 Community Advisory report an information item we received one comment on this report has been posted our website. All right. And i think we have vice chair cat segal . I think we are supposed to. Yes. High. We had another packed agenda april 26cac meeting. Requests for bart elevator attendsant program requesting expanding to include all San Francisco stations those in the mission and balboa park. And requests this bart staff the program with Community Based organizations in each neighborhood around each station. There was a lot of discussion on the School Access report of the several membersmented to seat muni Ambassador Program recommendations to tier one recommendation. Multiple members expressed interest in the Shuttle Program and in expanding sfusd school bus program. Some expressed identified strategies would address the need to families without impact quantified with 2 members abstaining and one voting, no. On the active Community Plan report. Members requested more onow partners from priority community have been chouven and additional partners from d10 and chinese language partners identified. Im happy to answer questions. Thank you, vice chair segal. I dont see comments, open up to Public Comment. If you would like to speak about item 3 come forward. If not, lets see if we have remote comment on item 3. There is no Public Comment for item 3. All right. Public comment is closed. Thank you, for your presentation and work vice chair segal. Mr. Clerk. Item 4 appoint sean kim to the Community Advisory committee this is an action item and received multiple comments which have been posted to our website. And we have amilia wally here. Good morning. Program analyst at the ta. Transportation authority 11 Member Committee with each member serving 2 years the board appoints individuals to film open seats each the 11 commissioners nominate one to the committee. Neither staff nor cac make appointments. They must appear once to describe their interest. There is one open seat requiring action d1. And i believe the district one applicant sean kim is here remote. I can take questions. All right. See if sean kim would like to make a few remarks. You are muted. Hello chair and commissioners. This is sean kim ice cream shop and resident in the Richmond District. It is honor to attends [inaudible] [echo]. And geary [inaudible]. Vice president. Business in San Francisco for 11 years and have been in San Francisco for 10 years. Im south korea there Transportation System such as bullet train, train, subway, long snans distance [inaudible] regular [inaudible] and [inaudible]. I can share this experience to help improve Public Transit system in San Francisco. Since i moved to San Francisco i have [inaudible] walking distance for business. I own the business i live in the Richmond District. I walk to business. I walk to gym, i walk to church. I walk to grocery and i walk to restaurants. Im very interested in Pedestrian Safety issues. I [echo] and parents of so that im interested to school by Public Transit. I believe i can add voices of family [inaudible] Small Businesses. And thank you for having mow here. [inaudible] allowing mow to have a chance to [inaudible]. Thank you very much. Thank you sean kim. Commissioner chan. Thank you, chair mandelman you know sean kim has already mentioned his story. First generationim grant koreanamerican Small Business owner in the richmond. Joes ice chrome is a legacy business. He and his wife alice has been dedicate to the community building. And actually even his daughter and kids also help out at the ice cream shop the most popular spots in the neighborhood. Of course it does not hurt it is next to a comic book store. You can imagine joes ice cream and comic book store demographic is everyone and definitely working families in the richmond. So i will i am you know pleased to appoint sean kim to this ctacac, he also has been working as or serving as a geary brtcac for the last year. And has been organizing and representing many interests but the mall business ordinance especially the Small Business owners of color and imguarantee on geary. I do believe that sean kim will bring a different voice. A voice of people, color andim guarantees to the space. I request your vote in supporting sean kims appointment. Thank you very much the thank you, children chan. Vice chair melgar. Thank you. We did receive comments about this i want to thank commissioner chan for put thanksgiving appointment forward. I will be. And i want to explain that you know this is a community add sunrise Row Committee the point is to get feedback from different people in the community. And i believe that you know engage with people that you disagree with is a very good thing to do. We come up with better decisions and better processes this way. And so, even though i have not agreed with this appointees views all the time, sometimes. I will support commissioner chan and i do think that it is good for us to have all sectors of the community in the diversity of our city reflected in these commissions. Commissioner safai thank you, thank you, supervisor chan for putting seans name forward i think it is wonderful to have a voice of a Small Business. Someone dealing with transportation issues on a daily base i. I help to have a great conversation with sean know recently and had insight and knowledge and spoke from his personal experiences as a mall business owner,im guarantee and someone who cares about the future of the city. Great appointment of the happy to support him. Thank you, commissioner safai. Commissioner chan. Thank you and thank you clothes for your support i appreciate both commissioner vice chair melgar and what commissioner safai mentioned. Most definitely i agree i upon dont think we agree with appointee 100 and handled percent of the time. I think it is critical to are different voices. I think that it is is important to think about when it come to pace of especially land use housing and transit in city and time and time again we see this decisions are being made for the community instead of with the community. And i think this i agree with vice chair melgar if we could hear from people this may have a difference of opinion this well have a better policy and better programming and per project for all of us that we endure. Thank you all right. Thank you. Hope this item it Public Comment if there is and anyone hold like to talk about item 4, come forward. I dont see. Remote comment on item 4. If you like to comment press star 3. And we do have a couple callers im going to the first now. Hello caller your 2 minutes begins now. Hi. Nvenlt resident of San Francisco and [inaudible]. I have been a mall business [inaudible]. Im in support of [inaudible]. Thank you, caller. Your 2 minutes. Good morning im gene im a d 1 resident and a member of the board of directors of Planning Association for the richmond and Vice President of save muni im speaking on my own behalf. Thank you very much for giving mow this opportunity to speak in support of nomination of sean kim. As a d1 resident im familiar with seans work and qualified to serve. He runs the joes ice cream on geary. A legacy business in the richmond. He is the leaders of gear boulevard Merchants Association and worked closely with the organization to representative interests of our merchnt and Community Members on issues. Done a terrific job in this area sean is a first generationim guarantee relies on municipal tow get kids to school. He understand the needs that all richmondress debts have to get around the neighborhood and the rest of San Francisco and experienced with transit in seoul korea. Seans a team player who works with everyone. He is a good listener with excellent judgment and outstanding decisionmaking ability he will be a tremendous asset. I encourage you to street approve his appointment. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners im Richard Rossman d1 resident anticipating transportation issues. And this seat hen vacant for awhile. I think sean would be an excellent candidate i heard him speak in meetings and he really cares about the Richmond District and what goos geary street. And he is a mall business owner. And knows the neighborhood. And i think this is the kinds. People we need to have us representative, i strong low urge you to support him for this position. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your comments. That is it for Public Comments. Public ment on item for you is closed. Commissioner chan would you like to move the appointment of sean kim to the Community Advisory committee. Yes , i like to move to appoint him is there a second . Seconded by melgar. Mr. Clerk. On the motion to apoints sean kim commissioner chan. Aye commissioner dorsey aye commissioner engardio. Aye chair machine man. Aye voice chair melgar. Aye. Commissioner peskin. Aye. Commissioner preston. Aye. Commissioner ronen. Aye. Commissioner safai commissioner stefani. Aye commissioner walton. Jot motion is approved. Thank you, call item 5 state and federal update. An action item. We have America Watts our sacramento advocate remotely and then hearing from amber crab. Mr. The watts. Thank you, chair and commissioners pleaseed be here the first item can is an update where we are in the legislative process we near the turning point in the legislative session. Last week was the dead line for all policy committees fiscal bills and this coming week will see a number of budget bills take up items that are the resulting from the miresunrise. The week after that will be the deadline for appropriation and june second is the final dead line for all bills to move out of the house. Today we have 2 bills to discuss. The first bill is a new recommendation for support. Tell take action at the end of my presentation. Ab361 by [inaudible] san diego, this measure would authorize forward facing cameras to be used by parking control vehicles to paragraph vehicles park in the bike lanes. Now the control rate of speed can issue a ticket with the vin number from the vehicle requires interact with the vehicle. Jul are un muted. And cameras would speed update process and allow much more safe travel in the these plans for bicyclistsrousing ping in the bike lanes. This would be a pilot program. There are other cities that are authorized and we are taking a position of recommendation for request of say sfmta. The second measure as a result support po ithz is ab645. It has been amended in the last week or so. Now includes limitos how many am speed Safety Systems based on camera could be installed per jurisdiction. And the limit for San Francisco would be 33 system citywide. The amended bill added 3 members from the San Francisco delegation, ting and member hene wiener as all coopposite. The bill is in Appropriations Committee participateed be heard next week when sent to the calendar and dealt with later in the week. Finally a brief touch on the budget. The may revision is due it come out in the Governors Office the 11th, which is friday. And last week the legislator dealt with several early action items there was great support for Early Childhood education component. And a couple of policy items like that. Expect the may resunrise to be on may 11 will be to the budget meeting next week to take on the new proposals that the govern put in motion. And with this, i would conclude my comment and turn the meeting over to amber crab. Thank you very much. Appreciate the time good morning. We wanted to provide an update for you on the transit fiscal cliff at the state level. So sense our presentation to you this year we have been continuing discussions and discussions happening in general across the state to identify the needs with magnitude and how needs differ from agency to agency with respect to the fiscal cliff. Governor and legislator are debating the budget next year there has been a coalition lead by the Transit Association and committed a proposal that would restore cuts to transit as well as provide a 5 billion dollars package of spending on transit operations over 5 years. The Metro Transportation commission has supported the california Transit Associations proposal as well as advancing bay area proposal that would add several options for revenue measures and a budget many of options 7. 4 billion over 5 years. They would provide account act measures make sure that operators are dog had they can to get riders become to transand i improust quality of service with respect to safety and connectivity and also reduce costs and spending the caucus framework restoring the transit cut and advancing Funding Solutions and provide local flex ability and protect infrastructure projects. We want said to recognize senator wieners leadership in his support of the regional menu of options a champion for San Francisco and transit riders across the statement i will be happy to answer questions. If there are any. I dont see combchlt but, vice chair melgar thank you, chair, mandelman no questions just thank you for the presentation and good news. [laughter] thats great. And i ulcmented say how excited i am to be supporting christopher words bill. Ab361, so i have to admit that when i am late, which i often am to the cta i take portola on my bike. You know chair mandelman the bike lane you know is narrow and not markd and there are commercial vehicles including from google busses that use it as a staging area and encroach on the bike lane it is very dangerous. That happens all over the city. In your district i observe folks double park and thank you is an important tool that we can use to conserve staff time on enforcement while deterg bad behavior. Thank you very much im happy to support this. Thank you and i sailor those sentiments. Least open this item for comment if you are here export to talk about item 5 come forward. Lets see if we have remote comment on item 5. Mr. Clerk, call the roll. Dmrn chan aye commissioner dorsey. Aye commissioner engardio. Aye chair mandelman. Aye. Vice chair melgar. Aye commissioner peskin. Aye. Commissioner preston. Aye commissioner ronen. Aye commissioner safai. Aye commissioner stefani. Aye. Commissioner walton. Absent j. Lawyer 10 ayes it is approved. Call item 7. 6 allocate 4, 270, interior 00 in traffic mitigation conditions to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency for fiscal 24 25 Residential Traffic Calming Program this is an action item. Good morning im lind aTransportation Planner. Sfgovtv appears im showing my screen we will present a funding request. The board had approved programming to this project in april of 23. After hearing mta give a presentation on the proposal to shift the Traffic Calming Program to be rolling based. This request is to allocate 4. 2 million in tax funds to fund a planning, design and construction phases of this program. It is very short im able to answer questions and we are mr. Curtis available. Thank you. When does the new process start . Good morning. Traffic Calming Program manager at sfmta it will begin july one of this year great. Thank you. It all right. Lets open 6 for Public Comment if there are folks here would like to talk. Come forward. And i dont see, see if there is remote comment on item 6. Chair there is no Public Comment for item sick. Public men on item 6 is closed a motion to approve item 6. Moved by melgar and seconded by preston. And mr. Clerk, call the roll. On item 6 commissioner chan. Why aye commissioner dorsey. Aye. Commissioner engardio. Aye. Chair mandelman. Aye. Vice chair melgar. Aye commissioner peskin. Aye. Commissioner preston. Aye commissioner ronen. Absent. Commissioner safai. Aye. Commissioner stefani. Aye. Commissioner walton. Absent. 9 ayes motion approved. Thank you, mr. Clerk item 7 now. Item programming priorities up to 5, 640, 000. And San Francisco fiscal 23 24 state transit assistance county block grant funds. This is know action item. We have Deputy Director for policy and programming for the report. Good morning, commissioners. Noise to be with you today. Sfgovtv im going to share my slides. Thank you. The item for you today is to Program State transit assistant funds fta funds through the furthermore of a block fwrnt that mtc prosecute voids to congestion management agencies such as the sfmta this funding used to be distributed to counties based on a proportional share. Transit regional Paratransit Program. Life Line Transportation program and a subsidy tow small operators. They are now pool exclude given to counties to program as they see fit this is a Flexible Funding source than i can be used for operatoring and Capital Projects the few sources that the Transportation Authority has to be used for operating type of uses. And the ref nows from the state sales tax on diesel fuels. A volatile Funding Source before covid and continues to be. On may 15th we are required submit distribution of funds to mtc. Prior to 2018 this was distributed by mtc you in than i are distributed boy cta and since 2018, we have funded the sfmta Paratransit Program and created a San Francisco Life Line Program to address gaps or bear dwlaers were identified through equity assessments and Community Planning processes. You will seat programming actions the board has taken. Paratransit a constant over the cycles we have program funds. We have funded elevator attendants at the downtown station. A program that is pritted by bart that responds to needs that have been exacerbated by the pandemic including safety and security issues. And so the recommending to funds pair transit and continuing to fund bart Elevator Program with the funds. So for the Paratransit Program this , is for the fitsical year 23 24. Next years program. This is the program this mta operates ad a and nonad a service. Includes the scheduled group van trip and preschedule orrin are count and he taxi trips and for non, da the trip card various shuttles so folks can shop and also to recreational events and it is taxi program to give incentive to taxi drivers to convert vehicles for vehicle use wheel chair use. The Elevator Program is funding that would cover 2 years worth of the program cost. Upon funding credit it bart and municipal that he share the cost of operating this program it provides service on elevators at the 4 downtown stations and bart and muni patrons. This supports economic recovery for downtown and encourages pokes to take transit and stay on transit. We have staff to answer questions on both programs as you wish. Thank you. Thank you Deputy Director laforti dont see comments from colleagues open up to Public Comment. Anyone in the chamberments to peek on this item come forward. And if in the we will see about remote comment on item 7. Checking for public upon comment on this item. There is no Public Comment for item 7. All right. Public comment is closed is there a motion to approve item 7. Why moved by preston a second . Seconded by safai. And mr. Clerk, call the roll. On item 7 commissioner chan. Absent. Commissioner dorsey. Aye. Commissioner engardio. Aye. Commissioner mandelman. Aye. Vice chair melgar. Aye commissioner peskin. Aye. Commissioner preston. Aye. Commissioner ronen. Aye yoochl commissioner safai. Aye. Commissioner stefani. Aye. Commissioner walton. Aye. And children chan. Aye. Why we have 11, motion is approved thank you, call item 8 adopt the School Access plan final report this is an action item i think we have david long Transportation Planner. We do. Thank you, chair and commissioners. Sfgovtv im sharing my slides. Im david long Transportation Planner. Im pleaseed present the San Francisco School Access plan. Before i star i like to recognize our partners without whom dh work would not have been possible. First, that includes care fwifrs and student who is shared experiences ideas and feedback. I will discuss the goals and the out roach and draft strategies, evaluation and recommendations. We have 3 goals the first improust quality and availability of Transportation Options to school and after school. Second, School Transportation is safe and thirdrous Green House Gas e missions, congestion and air pollution. The plan focusos circumstance5 in schools take medium come Long Distance trips. Long distance for young are students the work by the Transportation Authority found the trips are challenging for care givers. San francisco is a safe routes to School Program solutions for care givers and students who live close enough to walk or bike. The access plan will comp tliment finding strategies to improve the School Commute for student who is live far from the school. Here is an over view of the out reach. Earlier in the pandemic partnered with children, youth and families to talk to 9 Community Hubs across San Francisco. The art museum came from students who were asked to draw how they would like to get around. They were followed by groups with care givers heard the challenges of the commute and ideas for solutions. This information was used to develop i lives draft stjs refined through 5 in language workshops with care givers. They were shaped by feedback. Garthed through a survey. Pop up eventses and two online town halls. Here is a lives Community Based organizations and affiliate who is reached out to for out reach. Out reach and events designed to ensure voices from a selection of care givers were heard resident in the city with a capacity deficit. English think learn exteriors care givers with incomes. The strategies are focused improving transportation optionos safety, happening community, information and reducing costs for care givers. We developed strategies for fast exert homeless youth. Unique needs and operate in a legal context. Identified high performs strategies the framework measured strategies and performance on 6 categories informed by our second rounds of out reach. Survis, pop ups and strategy workshops. This shoes the ruffle strategy evaluation. We are calling our 6 highest performing strat gees top tier. Infrastructure, safety improvements transit trainings loading zone, shuttles, transportation coordinators and discount fare awareness. Next set did not score well enough to be core plan recommendations but showed promise and thinked be revisited in the future after projects [inaudible]. Included expansion of the embas dover program and electric bike lends and car pool cordination. Top tier. Highest scoring was infrastructure, safety improvements. Recommending expanding the sfmta existing walk audit program. Brings care givers. School administrators and staff to discuss needs and design and implement improve ams. Rapiding this sfmta together with sfusd conduct trainings for youth to help young people feel comfortable riding and the next generation of riders. We move to loading zone guidance. Pick xup drop off positions are made by individual cites. Sfmta coordinates with the department on loading zoney needs San Francisco schools benefit from i consistent process for developing and implementing pick up and drop off management plans informed by best practice and guided by agency clan rachlgz recommending this begin with sfmta developing informational materials about best practices for school site administrators and informational materials for care givers about behaviors and norms. Top tier strategies the shuttle strategies are nuanced. Found community interests lead to high scores on community metrics. Concept scored poorly on implementation criteria. Reflecting the reality this funding opportunities for new neighborhood shuttleers limited at this time. When we asked what would be needed to make shuttles w a lot of the must haves were consistent drivers and routes. Role time tracking. And trained drivers. The future they built in Yellow School bus service. The School Access plan was intended identify strategies that city agencies could pursue they lead us to recommend the city and district explore ways to expand sfusds existing yellow bus service. Another way that the city could support Shuttle Service through department of children, youth and families to provide transportation to after school activities. The second strategy involves transportation coordinators trained to deploy School District level or individual school sites to improve communication and information share to care givers around transportation issues. Our final top tier strategy involved the awareness of the sfmta existing discounted fare programs. The cost did not feature prom innocent in out reach discussions about barriers special needs some did share they use muni more if it cost less. This was more common on care givers with lower income and found many were un, wear that the existing discount fare programs they qualify for. Sfmta work with sfusd to include discounted fare programs in the school sign up process. Weave have a series of promisedations focus on planning capacity at sfusd. And updating existing policy and Regional Planning processes to incorporate the needs of youth. With that i will conclude my presentation and available to answer questions. Thank you. Thank you. David long. Thank you for your work and thank you for your presentation and lets open this item to Public Comment. If there is anyone hold like to speak on item 8 come forward. And if not, see if we have remote Public Comment on item 8. There are no hands raised. Public ment on item 8 is closed awe to approve. Moved by melgar and dorsey. Mr clerk . Item 8. Commissioner chan. Aye commissioner dorsey. Aye. Commissioner engardio. Aye. Chair mandelman. Aye. Vice chair melgar. Aye. Commissioner peskin. Aye commissioner preston. Aye. Commissioner ronen. Aye. Commissioner safai aye absent commissioner stefani. Aye commissioner walton. Aye. Then ayes it is approved. Item 9. Item 9 fiscal 23 2 budget and work program an informational item we received a Public Comment which has been posted our website i think we have lilly yu. Good morning, commissioners lilly, Principle Management analyst. Today i will present our prilimnary fiscal 23 24 budget and i will pass over the presentation to our executive director to go over our work program in a little bit this will be an information item and next mont we will come back and present and seek approval for the proposed fiscal 2324 budget and work program. This item starts on page 159 of your packet. The Transportation Authority Sales Tax Program function as Congestion Management Agency for San Francisco administer prop aa vehicle registration pee and traffic mitigation tax. We act as the local Program Manager for funds for clean air and operate as the Treasure Island mobility management agency. The activities under the timma program are not included in the preliminary budget will be in the proposed budget and work program after we present to the Committee Later this month. Fiscal year july first to june 30 of each year. Fiscal 24 projecting revenues 182 million. This is an increase of 20 Million Dollars from fiscal 23. Sales tax revenues slight increase of a Million Dollars to a toll of 112. 4 million. We are seeing forward growth leading to the new fiscal year. Given high Interest Rates and reduced Consumer Spending this is in line with the Controllers Offices forward growth projection for fiscal 24. Our vehicle registration fees seeing a slight decrease and this is due to few are vehicles register in the San Francisco consistent with Population Trends we have seen during the pandemic. The mitigation tax is projected increase to 10. 2 million. 50 of the revenues of this tax gos sfmta and remaining to the Transportation Authority. And the projection is in line with the Controllers Office mate and these ref nows are affected by travel demand by the pandemic. Next revenues projected to increase to 52 million. Majority of these revenues are related to Congestion Management Agency projects such as yerba buena west side bridge project as well as the ybi hill crest road improve am project. These are federal and state grants. Next i will go over our expenditure budget the majority are related to Capital Projects under the Sales Tax Program. Budget 152 million for capital expenditures, this lists the learningest reimbursement requests for fiscal year including light rail vehicle procure ams and many facility projects including the 1399 marine and potrero yard. Capitol project expend tours are shown on this slide and correctively all of them, count for 60 of the prop aa budget of 11. 8 million. This includes the San Francisco public works rich upon monday residential streets pave am reasoneration and sfmtas well taraval enhance am prblt project budgeted 258 million for fiscal 24. This is know increase of upon 75 million compared to fiscal 23 amended budget of our capitol project costs increasing from 149 million to 222 million. Most low related to the sales tax Capital Program expend tours mentioned earlier. That is included in the project costs are cma projects including the west of side bridge project. This will be the first full year of construction activities for this project. And then other projects include the i280 southbound off line realign am project. Capital costs for tax includes sfmta vision wherevero quick build and the Residential Traffic Calming Program. In terms of administrative costs we budget a sloit increase to then. 9 financial for 2024 include personnel expenditures and rent and also commissioner related expense. Total operating costs are 5 of the total budget. The increase is due to personnel costs and increased personnel costss we hire anticipate hiring new rail Program Engineer and project manager for the first and Second Quarter of the fitsical year. New positions were ooh proved earlier this morning. Other vacant positions that will be filled or will be fill in the fiscal 24 include the controller position and the transportation modeler. Had is included in the budget are the Debt Service Costs. We are seeing levels compared to left fiscal year. The Debt Service Cost includes a bond payment and Interest Payments relate to 2017 sales tax revenue bonds. Ref nows are projected 182 million and expend tours are 258 million may draw down 75 million from our agreements. We have 125 million Revolving Loan agreements to support authoritys interim borrowing program. We monitor our expend tours bring become to seek approval from this body if we draw down from that loan agreement. With that,il pass over the upon presentation to our executive director to go over the work program. Thank you. Xhfrns. Good morning. Happy to present. Thank you for your guidance and of your staff. In past years our work program is organize in the 4 categories mrarng funds, deliver and report. Under planning as you see we begin with a close focus look at what is situation with congestion, in downtown given work from home and office vacancies, it is confusing why well is so much congest yong. We are doing additional surveying and hope to report become fall through the Management Program update. In addition, we implementing the Transportation Plan and plan bay your with partners, this year big for transit the fiscal cliff mtc Management Network and planning happening. We stay focussed on transit through plan bay area. Thank you for approving the expansion of manage lanes study on 101 and 280 to include express bus and lane planning that will be coordinated the regional level. We are advancing the bayview station location and geary 19~ 19th subway and connections study this year. Turning to more local planning, there is alost work for vision zero. The phase 3 project funded by a federal grant. And will focus on a location outside of the downtown area we had always focused phase combon 2 efforts and continue to work on partnership with your offices on the neighborhood Transportation Planning efforts shown for districts 1, 2, 4 and 6. We will also present this 5 and 7 studies in the next mont as well as working on district 7 lincoln way study requested by vice chair mefor and in the mission. The request of commissioner ronen. Turn tog our data tome they are busy wanting study this is we lead and those of partners. The team is very focused on Technology Policy as we described earlier a rising need to address tnc and Autonomous Vehicle regulations at the state and federal level. Appreciate the support and guidance in this area. Turn tog fudged a big year for prop l. Anna lafortand her team are looking to bring it in 3 phases starting with the Strategic Plan and revenue estimate, the baseline and the categories to you in 3 parts. With different look aheads for the first 5 years for the use prop l. We try to position prop l to support leveraging and thissier well is funding at the federal and state level. This is a lot of work to coordinate that financial strategy. Turning over to the delivery effort. Lead by carl homes Capital Projects congratulations to him. We had a Ribbon Cutting thank you to vice chair melgar and commissioner dorsey for south gate road opening in a mont we will close the lest east exit Treasure Island west side bridges project under construction for 4 years starting this summer. A lot of design on ocean avenue. Hill crest road and the pennsylvania avenue rail extension what continues the downtown rail extension project under mission bay. 16th street. And we also continue to support our partners in testimony high speet rail and transbay joint powerhouse authority. Dtx or portal and fourth and king cal trin is looking at ways to organize that terminus and doing a lot of work with sfmta and muni whether facilities the potrero yard project or subway and muni metro work in Core Capacity Programace sfmta. Which is the vehicles and train control and facilities that will be an important effort. And also the part on the bart side a Core Capacity Program to over site role there, too much and transparency and reporting we conduct audits and Financial Report being to support the agencys many activities and roles. We have a lot ofy Debt Management w that will be an outcome of the Strategic Plan for prop l work and this year we are looking at ahead to the 2 year time frame where lose will expire we need to anticipate whether we renegotiate with our land lord and stay in the concern location or look for alternate office space. So with that, i want to thank our team my team for work throughout the year. And look forward to your question and feedback. Thank you. Thank you. Director thing. Like comments or questions only gratitude. If there is any public upon comment on item 9 come forward and talk you to. And if not lets see if we have remote comment on item 9. Chair well is a comment, i will go to the caller now. Good morning commissioners. I like to echo the comment made that year last month. T is this im concerned that safety performance and objective number 26 is missing from the plan. And why this is [inaudible]. It reads. Bring forward a sales tax appropriation request to planning concept for transit commission. Cross the u. S. 101. Between [inaudible] and bayshore presentation. Coordinate with the east bay in san mateo the City Department sfmta and Planning Department on 5 county transportation improvements on both sides of the county line. Including the [inaudible]. Traffic calming studied by sfmta and viz shun valley plan. And move [inaudible] we think the extension and related transportation facilities [inaudible]. The reason why this is know emergency is this the [inaudible] corporation [inaudible] preparations of the plan. [inaudible]. The plan completely lack [inaudible] upon municipal tow caltrain and brt. Tonight thank you. Thank you. Chair well is in additional Public Comment. Public comment is closes. Commissioner chan. Gi really want to thank director chan for her leadership and thank her entire team. I want to say this as a layperson who has not a lot of clue about transit issue and learning as we go or i go. Appreciate your expertise and good advice how to move the project forward i want to express my gratitude and look forward to really work to embark this journey on gear and he 19th subway. It is i 99ing your handses it will go well. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner. Well, with that thank you very much. We dp to the next item. Call item 10 y. Introduction of now items informational item. Anyone. Mr. Clerk item 11. Public comment. Do we have remote comment on item 11. Yes, we do. Hello caller your 2 minutes begins now. Hello. Chair mandelman and commissioners. I like to briefly touch on the [inaudible] deals with the fitsical cliff and lack of [inaudible] contribution. Which i [inaudible] San Francisco and San Mateo County and [muffled] the 96 jd agreement. The Service Shall be based on the existing passenger boarding formula, et cetera. Then carries on and says. Shall be responsible for all costs. Of the geary Service Based on the allocated [inaudible]. This is tht [inaudible] my proposal is as follows. Make [inaudible] physically acountable for the obligations which for this service founded in the year and then let the others to much them and havical train [inaudible] thank you. Thank you. Caller. There is no additional Public Comment. Why Public Comment on 11 is closed. Mr. Clerk. Item 12. Why we received i written comment for 11 posted on the website. Item 12. Adjournment. We are adjourned. [music] welcome to the 2022 sfmta bus roadeo. Today what we will see is competitions of different levels. We will see transit operators through a obstacle course. Also see the office rfs maneuver the g4 cars through a course. inaudible [beeping] then also have a element of inaudible who are doing inspections and repairs and some of the equipment related to our buses. [applause] i enjoy coming to the event because of the camaraderie with the staff and seeing the departments and everybody meeting arfbd so the more we can do these things the better well be and it helps the agency grow. The winner of the local bus roadeo the person goes to the national inaudible one additional item we add to the event and call it a fun event where managers at the senior level get to test their skills operating a bus. inaudible transfer officers inaudible basically maneuver the course and they inaudible interesting to see some of the main managers run the course out there. They havent had as much experience but they did pretty well. Ill submit the bus damage for the bumps they did to the body shop for estimates. [applause] behind us we have vintage buses that were brought out for folks to see. Some of these vintage buses are sfmta, part of the historical fleet. Two others belong to the Pacific Bus Museum and a personal bus of a individual that owns it. We take great pride in the historical buses we have and try to keep it up to date. It is a way to bring employees together, Work Together as a team. A great morale booster something the employees have been asking for a year and it is great today because you can see how happy they were to once again do something they really enjoy. [cheering] first place inaudible [applause] third place goes to monica collins. inaudible this is my last roadeo. Im the Bicycle Coalition was giving away 33 bicycles so i applied. I was happy to receive one of them. The Community Bike build program is the San Francisco coalitions way of spreading the joy of biking and freedom of biking to residents who may not have access to affordable transportation. The city has an ordinance that we worked with them on back in 2014 that requires city agency goes to give organizations like the San Francisco bicycle organization a chance to take bicycles abandoned and put them to good use or find new homes for them. The partnerships with organizations generally with organizations that are working with low income individuals or families or people who are transportation dependent. We ask them to identify individuals who would greatly benefit from a bicycle. We make a list of people and their heights to match them to a bicycle that would suit their lifestyle and age and height. Bicycle i received has impacted my life so greatly. It is not only a form of recreation. It is also a means of getting connected with the community through bike rides and it is also just a feeling of freedom. I really appreciate it. I am very thankful. We teach a class. They have to attend a one hour class. Things like how to change lanes, how to make a left turn, right turn, how to ride around cars. After that class, then we would give everyone a test chance chance to test ride. We are giving them as a way to get around the city. Just the joy of like seeing people test drive the bicycles in the small area, there is no real word. I guess enjoyable is a word i could use. That doesnt describe the kind of warm feelings you feel in your heart giving someone that sense of freedom and maybe they havent ridden a bike in years. These folks are older than the normal crowd of people we give bicycles away to. Take my picture on my bike. That was a great experience. There were smiles all around. The recipients, myself, supervisor, everyone was happy to be a part of this joyous occasion. At the end we normally do a group ride to see people ride off with these huge smiles on their faces is a great experience. If someone is interested in volunteering, we have a special section on the website sf bike. Org volunteer you can sign up for both events. We have given away 855 bicycles, 376 last year. We are growing each and every year. I hope to top that 376 this year. We frequently do events in bayview. The spaces are for people to come and work on their own bikes or learn skills and give them access to something that they may not have had access to. For me this is a fun way to get outside and be active. Most of the time the kids will be in the house. This is a fun way to do something. You get fresh air and you dont just stay in the house all day. It is a good way to exercise. The Bicycle Coalition has a Bicycle Program for every community in San Francisco. It is connecting the young, older community. It is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. It has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. I have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program. Shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local Services Within neighborhood. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. Where will you shop and dine in the 49 . San francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. Each corridor has its own personality. Our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. You are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping Small Businesses grow. It is more environmentally friendly. Shopping local is very important. I have had relationships with my local growers for 30 years. By shopping here and supporting us locally, you are also supporting the growers of the flowers, they are fresh and they have a price point that is not imported. It is really good for everybody. Shopping locally is crucial. Without that support, Small Business cant survive, and if we lose Small Business, that diversity goes away, and, you know, it would be a shame to see that become a thing of the past. It is important to dine and shop locally. It allows us to maintain traditions. It makes the neighborhood. I think San Francisco should shop local as much as they can. The retail marketplace is changes. We are trying to have people on the floor who can talk to you and help you with products you are interested in buying, and help you with exploration to try things you have never had before. The fish business, you think it is a piece of fish and fisherman. There are a lot of people working in the fish business, between wholesalers and fishermen and bait and tackle. At the retail end, we about a lot of people and it is good for everybody. Shopping and dining locally is so important to the community because it brings a tighter fabric to the community and allows the Business Owners to thrive in the community. We see more Small Businesses going away. We need to shop locally to keep the Small Business alive in San Francisco. Shop and dine in the 49 is a cool initiative. You can see the banners in the streets around town. It is great. Anything that can showcase and legitimize Small Businesses is a wonderful thing. Youre watching San Francisco rising with chris manors. Todays special guest is jeff tumlin. Hi, im chris manors and youre watching San Francisco rising. The show on starting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. Our guest is jeff tumlin and hes with us to talk about our transportation Recovery Plan and some exciting projects across the city. Mr. Tumlin welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. I know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m. T. A. Having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but things have improved. How are we doing with our transportation Recovery Plan . So we just got good news this week. Were getting an extra 115 million from the American Rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when well have to find some additional Revenue Sources in order to sustain the agency. In the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore services and to make sure muni is there for San Franciscos larger economic recovery because downtown San Francisco doesnt work without muni. Quite right. I guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements had to be put on hold. Are we starting to gear up on those again . Yes, so its an interesting case study. Of right before covid hit, we were about ready to invest in quick build bike lanes. Arguably the most important bike order in San Francisco. That got stopped with lockdown and then as youll recall, during covid, we invented all kinds of other new programs like shared spaces in order to support our Small Businesses as well as sunday street light events for neighborhood commercial streets where streets were closed off to cars and turned over to commercial activity. Those successes now that theyve been made permanent actually interrupt the draft design we had put together. So weve gone back to the drawing board and we are looking forward to having some Additional Community conversations about other design ideas for valencia. Were committed to completing a quick build project on this calendar year. Thats such good news. Valencia is a really great street for biking. So there are two huge and exciting projects that are about to be or have just been completed. Lets talk about the bus Rapid Transit project on van ness avenue. How extensive have the improvements been . Whats called the van ness transit rapid project is in fact more about complete reconstruction of the street and most importantly, the 100yearold utilities underneath the street. So all of the water, sewer, telecommunications, gas lines under the street were basically rebuilt from Market Street all the way to lumbard. The part on the surface which provides dedicated bus lanes for golden gate transit and muni, that was relatively straight forward and were so excited were going to start Revenue Service for muni on april 1st. Thats fantastic. I understand there were some sidewalk improvements too. There were sidewalk improvements. We planted 374 trees. There is new storm Water Treatment including infiltration in the sidewalk, theres a bunch of art. Theres all kinds of things. We put in new street lights for the entire corridor. Finally, the other big news is about the central subway. Can you briefly describe the project and give us an update. Yes, so the central tline project, another stop at union square that connects directly into powell station and a final stop in the heart of chinatown at stockton and washington. That project has also run into challenges. Its 120 under muni, under bart, 120 down and out under chinatown in some unexpectedly challenging soils. But that project is nearly complete. Its at about 98 completion right now which means were testing trains, were testing the elevators and escalators and the final electronics and were still on track to open that in october presuming all of the testing continues to go well. So fingers crossed on in a one. Were really looking forward to allowing people to have a subway ride from the heart of chinatown all the way to the Convention Center to the caltrans station and all the way down to bayview and visitation valley. Its great to see all these projects coming to completion. Were all grateful for your teams hard work and i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. Tumlin. Thank you for the time youve given us today. My pleasure. Thanks for having me. And thats it for this episode. For sfgov tv im chris manors. Thanks for watching