Forward to moving this project is head expeditiously, and well comment further, and i appreciate your commitment to this. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Strauss. Seeing no other couple pom on this seeing no other Public Comment on this, ill close Public Comment. Chair peskin i think that its pennywise, pound foolish. With that, mr. Fisher, maybe you can respond to a little bit of what youve heard and address the difference between the status quo and the recommendations around reform. Thanks, mr. Chairman. And really, i just wanted to address a couple comments that we heard on drnthat this po s poms i think the region has changed a bit since this project was initiated. As you start to look at a second crossing, i think the comment about how do we prioritize this in the region and then, on the delivery side, its a bit of the panel felt very strongly that we needed to have a look at this again. I think the idea that john picari laid out, we are in a National Competition for federal dollars, and i would argue part of this relook is coming up with a credible funding plan that is going to make it easier to get Political Support at every level. Right now, the notion of sort of recasting the business proposition around this is a San Francisco project. Its part of a Regional Rail system that is not well articulated that right now. I think that is the core and the recommendations. We did layout in the report a pretty detailed two year plan. We laid out if we start working together now, in 24 months, we can look at a credible funding plans, and we would have a better defined initial phase that i think would be more credible to voters. It would help drive that consensus. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Fisher. I really appreciate that. All right. Seeing no questions or comments from members of this body, thank you all again, and we will give the public and members of this body until our next meeting to digest that report, and we will then take up acceptance of the report at our meeting later this month. Mr. Clerk, would you please read the next item. [agenda item read]. Clerk this is an action item. Chair peskin should we go back to the last item . No, no, its for this item. Chair peskin all right. Miss la forte. I will jump right into the 23 requests that you have in front of you today for allocation. The first group of questions is from the caltrain, the joint powers board from San Franciscos member contribution to the caltrain capital budget. There are a host of projects that are shown on your screen. A couple of projects strictly to San Francisco. In addition to the state of good repair categories for caltrain and the prop k expenditure plan, there is also a category for the electrification project, so San Francisco has a contribution of 80 million to the project. We as the Transportation Authority are providing just about half of that funding, and so this is the last tranche of funds, 4. 9 million this is the last portion of prop k going into the program, and this is to convert the system into an electric system between san jose and San Francisco. Next, this is the only operating funding that prop k provides in the expend expenditure plan for paratransit operations. These are for scheduled group van services, a. D. A. Eligible passes, as well as shopping around and vango shuttles for folks that can access Grocery Stores and organized trip plan and also some ramp taxi incentives and this is to give a monthly stipend to taxis that have converted their vehicles to ramp accessible vehicles so it provides some supports for monthly operations and for some many for maintenance and operational items. This would be open for use in spring 2022 once the construction phase is funded and advances. Bayview Community Based transportation plan, this is for an additional tranche of funding to complete the funding efforts that are currently underway and are about to be wrapping up for the bayview planning. This is inclusive of the participatory planning property. We are participating in a highlight which enables us to qualify for 600,000 from the m. T. C. To implement the amendations from the plan. So you as the board will need to adopt those projects, and that list will be in front of you the next couple of months. Any objection 11, cycle construction. Next request is from m. T. A. For bike to workday. This is for event day services, and you can see the energyizer services on the photo in your screen where there are bicycle repairs and other Safety Information that is passed out on the day of the event, which is scheduled for may 14, 2020. At the c. A. C. Meeting, you heard from chair john larson. There was a recommendation made by the c. A. C. To condition these funds on an equitiable distribution of these energyizer stations around the city, and we have been working with the Bicycle Coalition to come up with a rhendation of what that looks like. At a minimum, that would be something that the Bike Coalition will do. I would also point out that we had staff of the coalition, raul young, whos here today, can certainly speak to how sfbc provides an equitiable distribution of the day events as well as the distribution of planning for the day of the event. Next request is for bicycle outreach and partnering. We have been funding this for several years and we will be continuing to do so with the allocation. Safer streets allocation. This is for another ten months of the work that we do to oversee the safe routes to psychologicals program. The program was transited this year, so we are continuing to support that programs. The next request is at the request of supervisor vallie brown for her district; to come up request recommendations how to improve safety and circulation and accessiblity excess landfill revenues from former central freeway parcels which the revenue is intended for improving the Transportation System within the area. We will be working on that with m. T. A. We will be the lead as the Transportation Authority on the project, working with the market advisory committee. The crooked street paved reservation system at the request of supervisor stefani using the funds to advance the system. We are waiting to see what happens by october 13th, which the governor has the ability to take action or not take action to sign or not sign the legislation that is in front of him to create the ability to implement this type of a program, of a paid reservation system. This would fund the full first year of operations, planning for and operating within so there is funding as well as general fund support and support from the anticipated paid fares or reservations from the reservations and the fees generated from the reservations. With that i can answer questions. The project managers are here as well. Thank you. Commissioner brown. Thank you. Supervisor safai wanted me to make sure it was amended the energy stations were in every district, a couple of them. Since he is not here today, he wanted me to really impress on you that a lot of families actually had to walk a far distance. In certain areas of the city, maim on the west side, that couldnt get to those stations and so he wants to make sure all of communities have opportunities, especially back to school when we had the back to school day where riding bikes, things like that, that the bike to workday, there are stations throughout the district. He wanted to make sure. I saw on your presentation that you presented this and said, yes, we recognize that. We are looking at stations throughout all districts. He wanted me to bring that up since he is not here. I also have questions about the octavia study. I requested to look at the traffic patterns coming into that area because it has become an absolute mess. I have asked enforcement to go there and look at that. I think we also probably need pto officers because it has been a pedestrian bicycle and car mess around there. When i did ask for the study, i also wanted to have it go further west. I notice on your map it does not because what happens is that it is a three lane from stanon coming down. Then it bottlenecks. I think this is an issue. I want to see how we can divert traffic away from there, especially if we are looking at closing page off to get on to octavia to get on the freeway and now the haut street neighbors. How are we looking to divert them before the bottleneck. Thank you. I am the transportation planner with sfta. The way we are proposing the study is to look at not just the octavia part but the west side. As you said, just to understand who is traveling through octavia at different periods of time. The map is just showing where the congested area is on octavia, as you said, it cues up up north. That is the only reason we have kind of focused on octavia going up to fell, but we will be looking at where people coming from much more upstream, as you said, some of the solution may be diverting the traffic before octavia. Rerouting, diverting traffic are the solutions we will look at. The map is just showing where the existing congestion is on octavia today. Commissioner fewer. Thank you very much, chair. I have a few comments. One about paratransit. I wanted to get a little more information about paratransit. I understand that they have a mobility management center. When someone signs up for paratransit is it necessary for them to sign up at the center because through word of mouth this is what i am hearing . Let me bring up jonathan chang. He is the program manager. That was a question i had. What is the cost of someone taking paratransit, and also the demographic information about who is actually accessing paratransit. First question about mobility on paratransit. Mobility manager office operates separate from the paratransit program. They Submit Application and go through interview and they are accepted. Mobility Management Program is to help all seniors and people with disabilities to help them identify Transportation Resources and help them kind of figure out which transportation best meets their trip needs. Maybe paratransit and having them sign up for people for disabilities, lifeline, maybe having them connect to other Transportation Systems, but you have to come to a mobility center. The application is Available Online in nine different languages. You are telling me you must apply for paratransit and go through interview, but you can apply online. Is the interview in person . When someone applies for paratransit, if they are called in for an interview it is in person and paratransit pays for the trip to the interview and back home. The applications and all of the instructions are available in multiple languages. Do you have any Demographic Data on who is accessing Paratransit Services . I dont at the moment. I can get it to you when i get back to the office. I would like that language how English Proficient or whether or not another language. The preferred language. About income level. I think that would be great. I want to say that i see that outreach that you are doing, i also just think that when we collect this data that we would then see sort of if the outreach plan is adequate to meet the community of most need. Do any type of surveying around people who have paratransit who access the services of paratransit, do you have any surveys about satisfaction, improvement, on those type of things . Every year we do a Customer Satisfaction survey,sure vying 550 riders on the most recent trip and asking about the overall satisfaction with the paratransit service. They are with the Broker Service quality. We have a coordinating council comprised of consumers and service providers. We meet every six weeks to talk about ways to improve the service, and we have subcommittee meetings each month to focus on a specific transportation mode of the paratransit program. How much does it cost to access a paratransit ride . For our clients it is 2. 50 per trip. For the taxi program, they pay the meter rate. It is subsidized on the user side. For every 6 ther 6 they give te Paratransit Office we load money to pay important the meter there. The taxis, this is sort of an expensive endeavor for them. They pay it is subsidized by the city. They give 6. We load 30 on the debit card. It is 80 . Is average trip is 13. The user would pay 2 or 2. 50 and the rest would be subsidized by the city. I would love to see the Demographic Data and what the surveys are saying and for improve meant but also what is working and i just think when we are looking at this population that it is wonderful and in my district, the largest growing population in my district are seniors, and seeing many more that are slowing down a little bit, and what i have heard from them about paratransit, inconvenience. You have to request it a day before. The planning part, are there plans to make it more on demand for emergency situations . So for the van you have to schedule i day in advance. We have same Day Service Available through taxis. They can request a taxi like the general public. We are also working with by will, a taxi app to have the clients request a taxi through the app. For the van service we are working on an online reservation system. Instead of an individual calling they can schedule i online. Thank you very much. One more question for the Bicycle Coalition around the bicycle education and outreach program. Good morning. Are you mr. Pick ford . I am the Deputy Director with the San FranciscoBicycle Coalition. I was looking at your Demographic Data on ethnicity and what you collected around your program about bicycle education. I wanted to make sure during your Bicycle Education Program that you are educating bicyclists not to ride on sidewalks, to yield to pedestrians and yield. I will refer to the program director. Supervisor, thank you for your question. To the second part of your question, absolutely. We definitely teach in all of our classes that bicyclists should follow the rules of the road including staying off sidewalks. Everything that is covered under the cbc. Can you repeat the question, please. I want to say i look at this demographics who is taking your classes, and i dont think it is as racially diverse as it could be. I think we are both on the same page that we want to represent all those in San Francisco and have access to the classes to all those in San Francisco as this is taxpayers money paying for this. I want to put a bug . Your ear about my concern looking at the racial demographics on this. I understand that a lot of it is this is not intentional that it comes out like this. A lot of data in the city and not just these classes, but a lot of data we collect reflects the same sort of demographic issue we have about accessibility to everyone. Some communities are harder to reach. I want to make a note here that i would like to see some improvement around racial diversity and also if you could collect information on age, that would be very, very helpful to me. Thank you for the question. We do collect information on age in our surveys. It is an optional question for people to answer. It is often incomplete information. Your other point is definitely noted. We work frequently with communitybased Organization Partners to facilitate reaching demographics that are more challenging to reach, and coming up this year we have for example classes in partnership with communitybased organizations specifically targeted at specific communities in San Francisco, and we expect by the end of the year some of the data you are looking at should change. This is the first part of this contract that we are under right now. Because of a lot of the changes that happened to the program to make the classes more accessible, some of the more readily accessible front was front loaded towards the beginning of the contract and more of the classes that required translation and outreach are loaded towards the end of the year. Some of that demographicdatda should change by the end of the year. Thank you very much. Thank you, commissioner ronen. I want to agree with supervisor brown and safai regarding the location of the stations for bike to workday around the city. I dont know if it is appropriate, but i want to see if perhaps we could include an amendment in attached to the funding that requires at least a station in every district. Is that possible . I think we did that. I thought you were commenting on it. I didnt hear that. I think in the presentation they said they were amending it. Fantastic. I apologize. I missed that. Thank you. I think we need a motion to amend. Do you have language . Yes, we do. I believe that the language is over here. I would like to make a motion to amend that it is in the language we have the charging stations throughout the district one or two. They are conditioned upon the San Francisco bicycle district locating one or more throughout the district. We have a motion. Before we take that, i need to open this up to Public Comment. Are there members of the public who would like to testify on this prop k allocation item . Hello. First of all, i want to thank you for the caltrain. The reason i am addressing you is to give you a little bit of heads up on the alternatives which are open to us in the south of san jose given the line may or may not be electrified. We dont want these d