Our policy will continue to be indexing the fares upward on the average of cost of living and inflation. This is important in order to allow fares to continue to increase with our costs and so that we dont artificially hold fares flat and then be forced to have a massive increase every few years. A modest increase every year is more helpful. All of this is in the context of however we shape the next new revenue measure. The next new revenue measure could ask what is the appropriate fare box return rate for s. F. M. T. A. And make changes there. We can continue to look specifically at who uses individual fare categories. Rather than increasing all fare categories at the same Percentage Rate we can make adjustments to allow Cost Increases to be more eckwetable and have equitable and a accumulatetor pass to the extent we are allowed to buy the agencies. Does that answer your question . Very much so. Anything else . My second question relates to i know in the past that you were able to mak
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
Directors . I am hearing on tow you are comfortable with option two. There are three of us to speak here. That is what i was getting from that group moving in that direction. I am getting on the fare policy you are in the middle. Well maybe the director was on one side and director themingger was on the other. What i heard from the four was there was except acceptance of the premise and which option to use to fill it. One point to clarify with regard to the fare policy and indexes is the board has always had certain goals, equity being one of them, ease of access to the system. Those goals have always existed with regard to the fare policy. With regard to indexing the question is from all of our transit fares, are we increasing the revenues to match the cost of the labor and cpi . Within the proposals before you, you are meeting the spirit of the fare policy and hitting the revenue mark. The trigger of the cost is resulting in the need to collect more revenue from the fare media, diffe
Reporter before they left the diamond princess, and before they got on the flight this morning, they were screened. The number of new cases on board the ship continues to rise. So, the evacuation of these passengers follows a recommendation by the u. S. Government that american passengers and crew members leave back at your life juliette, it is not exactly known what time these passengers will arrive at Travis Air Force base , but we are estimating about 11 00 p. M. Arrival. What an ordeal, i cant even imagine them being confined to their own state rooms on the cruise ship, let alone now what is going to happen. Will they have to then be in quarantine for the next two weeks . What happens . Reporter yeah, this ordeal for them is not yet over, they will be on u. S. Land, finally, but once they reach the military base year they will be under federal quarantine for another two weeks, before they can return home and of course, they will make sure that they are showing no signs of the coron
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