Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Secretary silva, would you please call the roll. [roll call]. Clerk madam chair, you have five votes to approve the minutes. You are on item five, communications. Due to the covid19 health emergency, this meeting is being held virtually, and all members of the staff and the public are attending via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors, t
We have concerns about the accountability section of the plan. Specifically the lack of clarity around how feed paback will wor. Furthermore, we would like to see key indicators and metrics for successful implementation of the Racial Equity action plan shared at the beginning of each quarter with various Infinity Groups within the agency. Thank director borden for your comments. Sfmta executive team and our m. T. A. Board of directors on the implementation of the plan including proactive plan to report on key indicators and metrics as well as the opportunities to address challenges within the plan as they arrive. We know this is a draft. We might have to pivot. We want to make sure that Infinity Groups are part of that conversation in office of engagement. We are supportive of the plan and ensure right processes in place to ensure effective implement takes. Director tumlin, you mentioned you havent been able to meet with all at the groups. We to look forward to you attending your first
Of the road man to dev moving a burning quickly. We have had a photographer on the scene overnight gathering that video and getting the stories and spoke with folks burned trying to escape the fire and heard people gathering the belongings, taking photographs of the inside and outside and belongings to document what they have in case there is any damage from this fire. It is important to note that this all stems from the lightning that we had a couple days ago, that lightning struck some very dry brush creating this fire and thats where we are right now. Take a listen to someone working to escape this fire here in ive never evacuated before. But why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and fast and winds probably 45 miles per hour. Reporter and i can tell you the smoke out here very, very heavy. You cant see the flames. They look like fire flies in the distance but that fire still burning out here smoke very thick. There are cars covered with ash and looks like 5,000 outages a
I will also stand in solidarity with them too. Thank you. Thank you, is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor walton. Thank you chair ronen. Ms. Diamond, i do have a couple follow up questions if you dont mind coming back up. Thank you, what Nonprofit Developers have you previously worked with . Family house. The Jewish Community center of San Francisco. The San Francisco campus for jewish living. Temple emmanuel. The blood bank of San Francisco. And then you heard some testimony about not necessarily having a track record of working in certain impacted communities, what would you do to build a significant rapport with margin n marginalized community . I was listening to all the concerns that were expressed concerning my qualifications on equity, communities of color and how theyre affected. I will say two or three things about that. The first is my decision to leave private practice representin
Of Face Recognition Technology and i think supervisor peskin in our office wants to work with the city to exercise our purchase power and try to find alternative devices without that embedded feature. For now, its a stock feature that is impossible to remove, its necessary to preserve the citys standing. Great, any questions . Thank you so much. Were going to open this item up for Public Comment. Any member of the public wish to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] is there a motion . Excuse me, there are a number of clerical amendments. I apologize. Theyre throughout and clean up things to make sure what were talking about here is city issued software or devices and essentially to provide that for these software and devices, they would be subject to the rest of the chapter. Do i need to be more specific about that . Okay. So we would request those amendments to be made. And you submitted that paperwork to the clerk . I did. Well, heres for the clerk. I submitted copi