Chairman heinicke all right. Good morning good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I will call this meeting of the San Francisco m. T. A. To arrested. I will read some preliminary rules after the roll is called. Call the roll. [roll call] clerk thank you. You have a quorum. Chairman heinicke all right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by phone at my request. Caroline and others in the room here to assist with our City Attorney deputy City Attorney, susan cleavelandknowles. We will say, at the end, get through this together. I will ask Board Members to mute their phones. It sounds great right now, but if you want to speak, unmute the phones and let us know. For this meeting, we would like public to participate remotely about writing
Clerk thank you. You have a quorum. Chairman heinicke all right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by phone at my request. Caroline and others in the room here to assist with our City Attorney deputy City Attorney, susan cleavelandknowles. We will say, at the end, get through this together. I will ask Board Members to mute their phones. It sounds great right now, but if you want to speak, unmute the phones and let us know. For this meeting, we would like public to participate remotely about writing a question and contacting us electronically. Thank you for honoring this request. Going forward, we urge the public to write the board at mtaboard sfmta. Gov or calling 4154464470. That information is also on our website if you need th
We have proposed two different options for the board to consider, and y, we hope to get feedback on this. Again, taking an equity lenses, we have two options, the equity monthly option, and the equity clipper option. The position of the budget, we have budgeted or assumed the equity, but the differential is not substantial. Its within a few hundred thousand dollars. The equity monthly option keeps the cash fare at 3, keeps the electronic differential where it is per policy now, at 2. 75, adds free muni for youth, and that is all youth across San Francisco. I will say that a lot of the feedback we got, especially from the San Francisco youth commission, was around this particular program. And while there is a cost associated with it, the 2 million we reported to you during the workshop, theres also costs that we dont see, i. E. , the cost of fare evasion, the costs associated with the program. So when you really think about it, we will be able to direct a lot of those resources towards
Right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by phone at my request. Caroline and others in the room here to assist with our City Attorney deputy City Attorney, susan cleavelandknowles. We will say, at the end, get through this together. I will ask Board Members to mute their phones. It sounds great right now, but if you want to speak, unmute the phones and let us know. For this meeting, we would like public to participate remotely about writing a question and contacting us electronically. Thank you for honoring this request. Going forward, we urge the public to write the board at mtaboard sfmta. Gov or calling 4154464470. That information is also on our website if you need that. We usually ask for speaker cards, but today, we are no
Hello, mine is not turned on. Mr. President , supervisor aaron peskin is rising to make a motion to recess the Board Meeting pending legal counsels answer to our last question. Second . Second. Seconded by supervisor mandelman. Can i ask a question. Could we could i make a friendly amendment to your motion and say that we we leave it to our president to decide whether or not we need a special meeting on monday or or if were unable to vote down the order number three . Yeah, thats what i suggested earlier that if we dont get a clear answer then we could always do that. And we dont need a motion. Excuse me. Can you get to the mike, i cant hear you. Theres a motion on the floor to vote on the first and second supplement and there wasnt any questions about that, except supervisor peskin asked if we read it point of order. Actually there is a motion to go into recess. So i think we need to address that motion first. Oh, okay, i was getting there. Can i make a friendly amendment to the motio