The same time, people have to be safe on the sidewalks. And i would like to see the Security Services expanded for this. Otherwise, i completely agree with what is proposed. We really need a safe Public Transportation system. Thank you. Any additional Public Commenters on the security contract . No one has turned in a speaker card. Maam seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Directors, its back to us. Any additional comments . All in favor. Aye. Item passes. Moving on to our final item. Item 15, approving the fiscal year 20192030 shortrange transit plan. Steve poen will present this item. This is an alternate item. All right. Good afternoon board members. Happy holidays. Im here to talk to you briefly about that the latest update to the agency short range transit plan. Also known as the srtp. So, what is an srtp. My apologies if you already know this. Its a required document and every Public Transit agency in the bay area has to provide an update of its srtp to mtc every two years. As for content, srtp are summaries of plans, policies, programs, projects and they include important financial information. On their most basic level, they are funding and on policy and performance all under one cover. If done right, they can make clear the connection between major policies such as the transit first policy, the Service Equity strategy, vision zero and the way those policies are reflected in the actions actions. As such, its helping to hold the agency com pot able and act as a resource. And by the way, i should just note while this is a short range transit plan, as we are a multi motellal agency rsrtp includes information on agency finances as well as brief summaries of non transit programs. I wanted to call to your attention a future notable changes this includes updated financial and today you are being asked to adopt the srtp. Following that, we will satisfied our obligation and well turn our attention to the next cycle. We are actually pretty excited about this. As this was the first srtp produced by the transit division. I know its odd. The srtp was produced by the Planning Group of insustainability streets but as i said, this is relatively minor for the last one and were hoping however to introduce fairly major changes in the next one and information on some of the subjects you see here. One of which the Public TransportationAgency Safety plan update is coming to you soon and they are here to talk about that. Good afternoon. Members of the board. My name is mike and im one of the managers in the Safety Division and this is my colleague robin courtney. For the past three years, weve been weve been pass with the Public Transportation safety. This is a project thats been longstanding going back years and its the largest and major change in safety regulations over the past 25 years. It falls under federal regulation title 49 go to fed regulations part 673. It documents our Safety Management system. Or s. M. S. This replaces the document weve been using since 1996, which is our systems Safety Program plan and in this case, it adopted it was adopted only for rail but this new document applies to all our remotes, both our rail systems, our trolley bus systems and our diesel bus systems. Unlike the previous system Safety Program plan, it must be approved by you, the board of directors and it will be signed by the director of transportation. And when we have the package done, it will be effective next july 20th for a system safety plan and the former regulation having said that, let me turn this over to robin and give you an update. I wanted to walk through the timeline for completing both the Public TransportationAgency Safety plan. As of november 1st, we did complete the draft ptas which is this document here. We have submitted copies to our City Attorney and also the divisions from their reviews. Michael and i have been having a series of oneonone meetings with all of the subject Matter Experts to get their feedback and we expect all of the comments to be returned to us by december 10th. We will then accumulate those comments, incorporate them into an updated draft and have a completed second draft available december 31st. To have a draft of the puc and and we have and we have been communicating with them through the process about our ptasp. Well give them time to review and get back to us. We will expect to have a copy to the board of directors by apri april 2020. It will be signed off by our director of transportation, both of which are requirements and theyll be some time after that is certified by july of 2020. Theres no requirement to send this document to the fta although its their regulation mandate it and we will submit it for the rail but we do not currently have an Oversight Agency for the bus to be sending it to. Any questions . Directors, any questions . Thank you for your time. Were going to open to Public Comment. Any members of the public would would like to comment on this item . Mr. Wiener. Good afternoon, david pillpel, i happened to be down here for the Memorial Service and its very nice. Mr. Wiener is nice. Apologies. Thank you. I was saying that i was here for the buck delvin memorial. It was a very nice service. I heard two things of interest. One, the updated srtp which has not had a chance to review by read document like 40 years ago and its just been evolving since then. I think its important to look at the facilities portion, not just the potrero rebuild but the other Facility Needs of the agency. Particularly as it relates to the fleet needs in the future and ultimately it goes back to the service plan if ridership is flat, and in some cases decreasing, and other cases increasing, i really question whether the fleet needs to be expanded overtime and whether the facilities need to be increased or simply renovated or remodeled. Its a large question to think about. As relates to the safety piece that was just presented, i didnt see anything in the slide about Public Outreach whether the Citizens Advisory Council is being consulted and what other Public Outreach is being done relative to safety. Its important clearly to review internally with staff but the public has great concerns about safety on vehicles at stations, et cetera, and that needs to be addressed just as an example, over the weekend, the lights were out at westportal station for three days straight. It took that long to get the Electrical Work addressed. Those are the kind of daytoday safety concerns the passengers experience and should be incorporated into this . I did hear the staff say at end just now, although the state puc overseas with regaroversees, tht oversees them on bus. Its the chp that does safety inspections on bus and perhaps that could be incorporated. Its safety and increasing our funding relate today our facilities facility in the tunnels so we just approved an item that will address that issue substantially and then again, generally safety will be brought up both in the Transit Working Group and also in our workshop. Any additional comments . All in favor. Aye. The item moved and approved. Director, next item. Approving a contract approval delegation and requirements policy which delegates to the director of transportation the authority to approve and execute an expenditure and revenue contracts amendments and other agreements within certain limits. And since i am presenting, im going to go over to the podium. If its on speaker card. Directors, i will keep this brief. The mta board has approved about four different contract delegations approval policies in the last 20 or so years. What we are doing today is we are consolidating them no one document. The last time the board adopted revisions to contracting policy was nine years ago. Contracting costs have increased since then. And staff has recognized the agency enters into a lot of different kinds of contracts. Some are relatively low value that are not within the directors erup current delegatd approved authority. Today we want to do is ask for your approval for our consolidated delegation and requirement policy. The biggest change in this policy is that we are increasing the directs or of transportation approval contracts from 500,000 to a million dollars. Again, in the past years, contracts have increased and taking the time to bring relatively small amount documents contracts to the board results in delays in approval and it can stop construction contracts, construction from moving forward. So, we are trying to reassign the Approval Authority so the director can sign documents that will keep projects moving forward. Also, the document also allows the director of transportation to redelegate to certain establishmented individuals and within the organization and all of this is under the scrutiny of the board, as you would continue as you have for the past 20 years, gotten a Quarterly Report on contracts. Also, it is under the scrutiny of auditors and the controllers and a lot of checks and balances. Right now, his Delegation Authority of 500,000 is under what other city departments have and so were just looking to make an adjustment because we dont expect to bring a revision back to you for a number of years. So, we dont want this change to make them have to change their path at the last minute. So, were con if dent that by having an Effective Date of january 15th, 2020, this will allow those contracts to complete their process. With that, i think i will pause for questions. Directors. These all look reasonable to me. The person to whom well delegate these authorities will change in a couple of weeks. Yes. And has he been consulted . Yes, he has. And he supports the documents. The policy. Any other additional questions from director . My only question is, you mentioned the 500k increase to a million, its also a section on reDelegation Authority. Which grants to several Division Officers authority to approval contracts and amendments up to 10 million. So i just wonder if you can speak to that update . Up to 10 million. Theres a whole list of not exceeding 10 million of different authority granted to Different Division managers. Ok, do you know where that is . Ok, good. Ok. Rob stone, City Attorney worked on the drafting of this document and knows the contracting process of the mta inside and out. Great, thank you. You set a high bar. Rob stone, deputy City Attorney. The 10 milliondollar element is for the purpose of general goods, things like uniforms, fuel, tires, things that are generally consumable and some non professional service contracts, theyre not construction contracts, theyre not engineering contracts, theyre the general daytoday purchases of the city. The Current Practice of the agency, although its not been captured in a board policy, is to follow the city purchasers requirements and thats what is memorialized in this policy and made formal that the director and the directors delegates, which are the director of purchasing for the sfmta will have the same power as the city purchaser but are required to follow the city purchasers regulations and procedures will are generally advertising Competitive Bidding using the citys contract forms. Amended as is appropriate for a particular contract but basically following those general procedures. Is there any language in there around just in terms of accountability purposes with consistency with the existing adopting budgets or anything like that . Any language that con strains that authority . The citys contracting process would not allow a contract to be served by it if the funds were not already budgeted. I dont know how deeply you want to get into the weeds on that. The processes is that when a contract is certified, the city controller, first through the m. T. A. s own budget process but the citys mr. Wiener. One of my concerns about this proposal is the concentration of power in the executive authority where there should be checks and balances. Includes a boards of supervisors, it includes this board, it includes advocacy groups. And, i am unsure right now about this proposal. It seems harmless. It seems like conducting the routine daytoday affairs but it could be expanded. It could be widened. It could be a loophole that you could drive a truck through. So, i would be very cautious in evaluating this proposal. I think that weve seen, right now, i see a centralization of power because this board routinely a proves everything that is proposed. Ive never seen very rarely do i see a proposal denied by this board. Basically this board has to be a watchdog with teeth. Right now, its a fury pet that cuddles up to the executive director. I feel that we should have checks and balances and that is why i question the proposal. Thank you. Thank you. I do want to say that we have a policy in Governance Committee that addresses or discusses a lot of these topics. Traditionally thats why a lot of things arent voted down because the board is not supportive, staff doesnt present it to us for us to vote it down. It doesnt mean that there are things that staff proposes that we support everything that staff does it means that staff doesnt waste our time entertaining items that were not going to support. Madam chair, in anticipation of a question so much of that, we did take a look back at the last 18 months, actually the last three years to see how many contracts that this change in delegation would apply and for the last 18 months, it was zero and for the prior 18 months it was two contracts. So, it does not have big effect. Really the big issue here is the authority of the director of transportation to delegate a Contract Authority to his direct report so he doesnt the former direct are of transportation commented he adds no value but signing hundreds of poll license agreements for antennas so this is really to streamline the work that staff does. The fact that people cant spend unallocated money and the Controllers Office and so many other people are involved provides the necessary check and balances. So unless director have any further questions or comments i will entertain a motion. A motion to amend the to january 15th, 2020. Ill move the amendment. Second. All in favor. Aye. As we voted for the amendment and now the original motion. Ill move that. Ill second it. All in favor, aye. Madam chair, that concludes the business before you today. Wonderful. Happy holidays and well see everyone i guess the workshop the first meeting. January 7th. Well see you all january 7th. The meeting is adjourned. For joining us here today. We all know that our Public Transportation system in San Francisco is important to our present and it is definitely critical to the future of our city. As our city grows, as our economy grows, as we build more housing, as more people work here, we know that we cant continue to grow in those areas without thinking about improvements to our Public Transportation system. As someone who grew up in this city, i relied on muni, the 31, the 22 philmore, the 44, you name it, i was on those buses. The 19, i know the routes by heart. But the fact is, you know, we need to do better. We need to make sure that people, especially people who rely on muni to get to work, school, doctors appointments, so many of our seniors who cant drive and need to pick up their medications and other things, we need to make sure that our Public Transportation system is reliable for all of our communities, in all parts of San Francisco, especially on those communities that have consistently been neglected. It means safer streets for pedestrians and bicyclists and all of its users. We know over the years the city is a lot more congested than it has ever been, but we also know to make it a better city and to reach our climate goals, we have to leave it less congested. We have a lot of work to do and we are doing the work. In june we created a working group with city leaders and staff and Industry Leaders with the goal of making this better. I am looking forward to seeing the recommendations coming out. Over the past few years we have made some significant investments. We committed to doubling the pace of building more protected bike lanes. We established a Quick Build Program to increase the delivery of lowcost units. And we expanded our focus on traffic safety. Thankfully the voters gave us one more tool to improve streets with the passage of proposition v. This will allow us to invest 30 million in light rail vehicles anduses as well as Street Safety improvements. So the work continues and we will continue to do the work that we can to move these objectives forward as quickly as possible. These objectives are the responsibility of the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. The m. T. A. Managing our streets, Public Transportation, other Mobi