And so, theyre able to space them out very far. I mean bart is the same way. When were running short, twocar trains we have to deliver the same number of people. So right now, were running about 42 were scheduling 42 trains an hour and thats a signal of muni to run as many trains to fit into the tunnel. What this graph is showing is that were falling short of that because the tunnel is not able to handle the volume of trains that were scheduling for it. And so we need to provide upgrades to the tunnel in order to increase the capacity of the tunnel. As a comparison, cities like boston are running 15 trains an hour through their most congested corridors and were running 32. So were about double some of the other larger cities with major metro systems. And the result of that is that we run fewer, longer trains, which is something that were looking into. And that is one prong of the strategy and the other prong is increasing the number of trains that we can run in the subway, so looking at this, trying to get that actual number up to the scheduled number and through investing in the train control system, we can run those trains closer together and eliminate the primary bottlenecks at embarcadaro and have vanesse te what were scheduling. So the traincontrolled system is not really the issue in us not meeting the number of scheduled trains and its more the physical issues with the tunnel and so, are there is there also a separate plan to address that. The solution to that will be capitol intensive and more tracks, more opportunities to turn back trains at embarcadaro, its the most effective way to achieve an increase in capacity. I would call that a modest increase in capacity. Were looking at, probably, 20 as opposed to a paradigm shift of changing capacity which would require a major capital expend tour oexpenditure and the train control is not to blame for the situation were in now but more the physical layout of the system, but what were limited in the options that we have with the capital that were able to expend at this time. Thank you. Thank you for that cojent answer. Any other questions from members of this body . Seeing none, any members of the public who would like to comment on this item number 6 . Mr. Patrick . Im with pac patrick and comy in sanfrancisco. Do we do a failure analysis of parts and therefore predict what the failure of those particular parts will be . Also, im curious if we do a simulation of what were talking about here. There are lots of programs that are available. I remember back in college, that was a long time ago, we did simulations of these systems. These are all discrete systems, predictable and they have vary variability but by tweaking it, you can prohibit where these problems will occur and if you do have a problem, you run a Simulation Program and boom it seems were learning this all by trial and error and not using our head. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Miss kirshbaum, if you would like to respond to the member of the public, you may do so but neednt do so but you are given this opportunity, if you would like. Insofar as youre not underring one bjumping up,is there a motim number 6 . Item is approved and next item . Item 7, authorized executive director to increase the amount of the professional Services Contract with civic Edge Consulting for media and Community Relation services for the connectaccess program. Mr. Young . Good morning. I have two parts to my presentation and the first is an action item requesting and increase the amount of a consultant contract to enable additional engagement for connect sf. The second part of my presentation is information vertebralal,giving an update on. Connect sf is the longrange planning process with the mta and sf planning to build an effective, equitable and susta Sustainable Program for San Franciscos future. For the contract amendment, last year on behalf of the team, the Transportation Authority awarded a 150,000 contract to civic Edge Consulting for assistance in Strategic Communications and outreach. We would like to increase this by 100,000 for further consultant support. Specifically the additional funding would be directed to various outreach between now and 2021. Those activities would include staffing for general Public Outreach events, staffing for focused workshops alled at youth and southeast neighborhoods of the city and an Online Survey popup engagements and the Transportation Authority cac and board previously approved the additional 100,000 in prop k funds as a part of the connect sf Corridor Study. The action before the board today would enable us to amend the consultant contract to add the prop k funds. And now for a quick update on connect sf outreach. These are the phases of connect sf, phase one, we have completed throughout outreach across the city establishing a vision for San Franciscos Transportation Future over the next 30 years. Phase two is where we are now. During this phase, we will work with the community to determine the project concepts and policies to move us closer to the vision. During phase two, well complete the statement of needs which details where we are in relation to achieving our Transportation Vision and we will also complete the transit Corridor Study and those two studies will outline project concepts to pursue us closer to the Transportation Vision. Phase three will take place in 2021 and this is our citywide long range investment and blueprint for sanfrancisco. Now to the current outreach for sf, we have multiple goals in in current round of outreach to engage the public in a discussion about what works well and what doesnt when it comes to local and citywide travel. We want to learn more about what it would b take to get more peoe into travel by more sustainable modes and ideas for Public Concepts and policies to reach the Transportation Vision. And the outreach will happen during workshops aimed at youth and southeast communities in november. In january, well have two public workshops and an online susurvey that will parallel much of the workshops and we will offer presentations to any neighborhood or Community Groups that request them and we continue to engage with our futures task force which is croiscomprised of over 100 peope representing different perspectives of San Francisco. And that is my presentation. Im happy to take questions. Before i call on commissioner furer and with no disrespect to you mr. Young or my staff, my concerns about sf and efficacy remain and i want to let you know on behalf of myself and commissioner tang, i will be voting no. Commissioner furer . Looking at this outreach and i am wondering when you said it will be in language, are we including russian . Yes. And when i say inlanguage, for workshops, language assistance, we will provide that. So meaning that it is going to in english and if they want to participate, they can have teainterpretation, is that corr. Interpretation, yes. I think this is so important for my neighborhood and this is why im pushing back. What i have learned very few russian speakers come out, but if you hold one in russian because i have so many russianspeaking folks in my nakedneighborhood that are 100 dependent and i feel their voices are not at the table. If youre doing it in language, then you should do it in language, meaning that it shoul everything should be in that language and if people want english interpretation but we know its 70 at best. I wanted to give a plug for not such a passive outreach but not if they just request it but actually working, you could work with my office about spots where they could actually you could actually hold a miniworkshop, even, that would be a russian language one or a chineselanguage one and you could get a robust participation, just fyi. They dont do webinars or all that stuff. Pui think that if we so in order for us to do it, weve had to do it just for russian speakers. If we want to be totally inclusive. Thanks. Thank you. Are there any other questions or comments from members . Seeing none, any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And mr. Kinania, could you please call the role . Could we get a motion . Good point. A motion to move item number 7 made by commissioner furer and a second . Seconded by commissioner mandelman and a role call. role call . Peskin no. We have nine ayes and one no and the item has first approval. Next item, please. Item 8, internal accounting report and dead exposure report for the threemonths ending september 30th, 2019. Miss fong. This is a quick update for the First Quarter of fiscal year 1920. As of september 30, 2019, total assets equal to 205 million, liability at 332 million and revenues at 37 million and exposures were 14 million for the First Quarter. Both revenues are on target and expenexpenditures are low. 50 are in the city treasury pool and in compliance with the california government code, as well as the tas fiscal policies. As a quick update of debt compliance, the second year of our 2017 sales tax revenue bond and we have spent approximately 74 of the proceeds at this point. We have one year remaining and i have no doubt that well be able to spend these funds. We have currently spent approximately 70 of the bond proceeds on the Radio Communications system and cad replacement and trolley and motorcoach procurements. With that, ill answer any questions you have. Now. Thank you, miss fong, for yet another clean bill of health. Any questions from members . Seeing none, any Public Comment . Seeing none, the Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion on item numben item and there are no motion required. Is there any introduction of new items . Commissioner safaye. I spoke with the chair, the ta the other day and i think we had this conversation a few months ago and it got lost in the overall conversations, but i think its time to reignite the conversation about the ta allocating money to Purchase School buses for the School District. Many children are spread all of San Francisco and its not i dont think its 100 fair to ask them to rely solely on mta. We see some buses, but i think theres an underfunding for those and i know that during the great recession, the sfusd had to make decisions to cut those buses. I know we have the ability to purchase or allocate or replace, so id ask through the chair, ta to investigate how we can use some of our ta money to work with the sfusd to bring school buses back to sanfrancisco. Im follow up with that and sorry, commissioner marr. Thank you, chair peskin. It actually. I did want to say te with your point and, in fact, i started working on a new School Transportation study with the ta, the mta, the School District, dcyf and others and i think expanding our school bus service, you know, is something that will be a key part of that and would look forward to working with you on that, as well. And then colleagues, today, im requesting a presentation and discussion at a future ta Board Meeting on the citys electric vehicle roadmap, which was released in june. To reach our goal our citys ambition goal of Greenhouse Gas emissions, we need an alloftheabove reproach and that means public transit, walking and biking. But it also means expanding the ev adoption and infrastructure so that what car traffic remains in the future is cleaner and greener. My district is among the most car dependent in the city and yet, we have only one publically accessible evcharging station, with a second now on the way. Evadoption rates are improving but slowly and we know we must do better and more to switch to more sustainable options to address our climate crisis. So my hope is that this public discussion and presentation will help to provide insight as policy makes as ta as an agency and the public. Thank you. Commissioner furer. I wanted to mention commissioner safyeys request for transportation of school buses, i would caution you that this is an area that we have no jurisdiction over. Only the school board has jurisdiction over. And net are redoing the Student Assignment process to give more preference and actually assigning students to their neighborhood or their attendance area schools. We should give that a chance first, and also, i think, the full choice, we also know that choice is not equitable and i think the school board has now realized that full choice is not equitable. If you have three children, going to three different schools and you dont drive, you have no choice to get them there. Parents choose to take their kids to schools outside of their district, they should be carpooling with other parents, but actually, theres very little effort to even form carpools at school sites or even in classrooms. I think theres other things we can do as the School District spends about 20 million on transportation. Thanks. I may just also, in a different venue, suggest a hearing at the joint city School District board of supervisors chaired by supervisor hainey may be in an appropriate form. I dont wante want to get stan y talking about something not on the agenda. I know commissioner safaye will say something. I wanted to say thank you to all of the other commissioners and i know we have a lot of members that served on the school board. Because weve reignited the joint committee, we could have a fuller conversation about this. There we go. Commissioner ronan. Yes, i just wanted to chime in. I have been communicating with a lot of my constituents who have a really hard time or the neighbors surrounding the schools dropping their children off. Its an unsafe situation. So that seems like an area where the ta could take a larger role. I know we had set aside a small amount of funding, but i think almost every school in my District Needs some help figuring out how to create a safe system for dropoff and pickup of kids and its long, long overdue. So im hoping, maybe theyre innerrelated discussions but im hoping to combine that and would love more discussion in that area. Thank you, commissioner furer. So me again. I wanted to commissioner ronan, that the program that commissioner yi implemented, and they are doing at our schools, its excellent it gets them in and out in a safe bay. Way. And theyre doing the dropoff with students that yeah, so it works well in my neighborhood. I have say that we have blocks of traffic for dropoff and now it the traffic moves quickly and smoothly and students arrive safetily and parents love it and the neighbors on the block love it. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment, general Public Comment, mr. Patrick . I was disappointed you didnt move item 4 to a vote, where i had a chance to at least make a statement before it was voted upon. I thought that was a bad policy. I would like to talk about item number 4. I know its a done deal now, but this is my observation of whats happened. Pout we formed this committee and well, first of all, i will call your attention to a calendar. This represents a year. You may have seen these hanging around. Guess what. Weve had a chance to form this committee and now weve wasted a year in getting the dtx built, constructed and going. Now what well be doing is were going to study this problem and create a body, somehow or another, to do this. This is next years calendar. Weve wasted another year. It will take us a year, then, to hire the people to implement the program. Guess what . Weve wasted another year. Three years, ira one year down e drain and two more going. This is dtx to the third and were not making this successful. So i think this board has not performed well in bringing the best Transportation Systems possible to the people of sanfrancisco and especially the 60 or 70,000 riders from caltrain. Im very disappointed and thank you. Thank you, any other members for general Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is close oh, come on up, maam and ill say, mr. Patrick, when you write a 6 billion check, well build it right now. Go ahead, maam. Good morning. My name is annie vung and im here with my classmateses from the school of pharmacy. Were here to draw your attention to a bill that would create Safe Injection Sites in San Francisco to help combat the increasing rates of opioid overdoses and we would like to express our advocacy for this bill, particularly maam, you are totally welcome to do this, but this is not the San Francisco board of supervisors. This is the San Francisco county Transportation Authority and at 2 00 p. M. , we will be the San Francisco board of supervisors and ab362 is totally in that policy bodys world. But here, we deal with transportation issues. You are welcomed to continue talks, but i want to let you know, youre in the wrong venue. So w