Jeopardizing safety of vulnerable users should be higher for the fine that is annn annoyance. Over staying your time limit for your parking space, your meter, should be greater than the fine for not paying your 3 muni fares for your three square feet of space. Were trying to make sense of all of them to the extent that we can. Ultimately, we know that fixing the equity problems in fees and fines requires a state legislative strategy because the most important once we do not have control over. Its one of the reasons why the sfmta has been leading in order to make sure that those fines for things that are jeopardizing the safety of vulnerable user are increased. And that its a fine for stuff that is an annoyance are reduced at the state level and we have an equity framework that would allow San Francisco to adopt and take it a couple steps further. As you can see im passionate about this topic and really frustrated that we dont have the control that we need as a municipality in order to
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 that. We usually as
Again this is part of the effort to slow the spread of the virus as much as possible. Kron fours dan kerman has been following the story he joins us live. Dan. Or out in front of Sanchez Elementary School here in San Francisco in as you can see theres nothing going on there hasnt been anything going on here any of the other schools in the area across the bay area all day because the schools have been closed because of the shelterinplace orders and now the School Districts have decided because those orders are in place and because the schools need to contribute to the slow the spread of the virus. They need to keep the schools close not to the beginning of april but to the beginning of may. Across the Bay Area School classrooms, playgrounds and parking lots are empty. Thats because School Districts of shutdown classroom instruction to slow the spread of the coronavirus of course he would rather be in school, we know that Public Schools are an essential part of or Greater School communit
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 that. We usually as
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