I would like to begin this meeting by welcoming our newest member c. A. Q. I think the 307 th member of the sfcta that i have served with c. A. Q. Commissioner dean preston c. A. Q. To the Transportation Authority board. And we look forward to working with you and your staff not only on district five issues c. A. Q. But on citywide issues and regional transportation issues. Now that i have acknowledged commissioner preston c. A. Q. I want to have him participate in his First Official act. Is there a motion to excuse commissioner haney . Would you like to raise your hand and make that motion . I would. Is there a second for that motion . As much as this will upset our attorney c. A. Q. We will take that without objection without a roll call vote. Commissioner haney is excused. Welcome to commissioner walton and before i make the chairs comments c. A. Q. I would like to afford commissioner preston a moment to say a few words on his first day in his First Official meeting as an elected of
Please read the next item. Approve the minutes of the december 5, meeting. This is an action meeting. Any changing or comment on the minutes. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. We are joined by vicechairman delman and commissioner mandelman, we are approving the commentexhibit minutes from dec5 is there a motion . Motion made by commissioner ronen. Why dont you call the rolling othe roll onthat. roll call . We have final approval. Next item, please. Item 3. Remember adoption of rail Program Manager job classification and revised Organization Chart. Good morning. We convene once a year on personnel related items. Last december i brought before you staff reorganization plan with updated Job Description and reclassification of six positions and asked for a Salary Structure increase as well for all staff except for executive director. October 2018 the board had asked staff to convene a Disciplinary Panel review to review the current and alternative oversight project delivery of
Please read the next item. Approve the minutes of the december 5, meeting. This is an action meeting. Any changing or comment on the minutes. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. We are joined by vicechairman delman and commissioner mandelman, we are approving the commentexhibit minutes from dec5 is there a motion . Motion made by commissioner ronen. Why dont you call the rolling othe roll onthat. roll call . We have final approval. Next item, please. Item 3. Remember adoption of rail Program Manager job classification and revised Organization Chart. Good morning. We convene once a year on personnel related items. Last december i brought before you staff reorganization plan with updated Job Description and reclassification of six positions and asked for a Salary Structure increase as well for all staff except for executive director. October 2018 the board had asked staff to convene a Disciplinary Panel review to review the current and alternative oversight project delivery of
Parking, all of those things. And so i welcome this. And i hope we do it. Thank you. Commissioner richards. So just to be clear its nothing that you just said that i would say i violently disagree with. I did meet with supervisor moore a couple weeks ago and he asked to meet with me because when i first met him i said you should take the reigns and show sacramento that we are doing something. But i said to him two weeks ago we need to be careful that if you do things that there is some type of protection that we dont do something and then all of a sudden something rolls over us and everything that we did actually was more not because now theres some new mandate out of sacramento. We spent weeks years, on the market octavia plan. We designed it, 45 feet in the middle of the block, 55 feet at the end of the block. Got 85 feet in the middle of the block now. These are the kinds of things im talking about. We got to be careful. Thats all im saying. Thank you. Let me just add one more thing
Member in minneapolis minnesota as they began their conversation about eliminating Single Family homes that said something that resonated with me that there are a ton of places that it makes sense not to add density. There are rural communities. We have farmland we need to protect. But to expect San Francisco california, to be that place it just doesnt make any sense. And so while conversations will continue to happen at the state, i think the reallocation process going on now is fascinating. Its fascinating what happened in Southern California when you have bedroom communities having allocations going from 15 to 1500 over the next cycle. What that means for people who havent done their fair share, because this is not a San Francisco problem. This is a bay area problem, a california problem, frankly its a problem we have in our country. I know some of you are excited to see the housing was asked during the debate last time for the first time something we need to talk about. We are exci