When irish eyes are smiling when irish eyes are smiling, they can steal your heart away when irish eyes are smiling, it is like a morn in spring it is the tilt of irish laughter you can hear the angels sing when irish hearts are happy, all the world seems bright and gay when irish eyes are smiling, they will steal your heart away applause thank you, celtic voices. I cant help myself. The beautiful young woman with the red hair is my goddaughter. Go job. Since they just arrived, San Francisco has a great history of a number of Department Heads of Irish American descent. I would like to recognize mickey callahan, department of human resources, and bill scott from the San Francisco police department, and his assistant chief mike redman over there. Thank you for being here, gentlemen. It is now my privilege to recognize the Council General of ireland Robert O Driscoll who has a tremendous connection to San Francisco because his son was born in San Francisco. No matthe matter where his cares him, San Francisco will always be his sons home. Thank you very much. I think he is here today. This is his first st. Patricks day event. I am excited. If you see a green ball, that is mine. Distinguished guests, mayor breed, and supervisors and Department Heads and everybody, very happy t to be here today. Looking back for this event wondering what to say. It is 169 years since the first st. Patricks day parade. 170 years since the first mayor got appointed. How in the fliers year of a mayor was there not a st. Patricks day parade . The first mayor was appointed in may 1850. In january it would have been a parade that year, too. I have been reflected on my thoughts about the parade and first parade, and what were they doing . They were celebrating irish heritage. These are people who left under huge duress, typically in famine times and reached the east coast and no overly welcome home. California offered the promise of prosperity and good life for them and their family. They were celebrating they would never go back to ireland but never forget ireland. There is a grave yard from 1854. All of those had the names of people there and names from ireland but what county in ireland is listed. I thought that was in the last days when they were thinking how to be remembered. It wasnt enough to be from ireland. They had to be from cork and dublin. That connection to home was still as strong at the end of life as it was when they left. I am proud of that. I think the other thing they were doing that day, they were looking forward to what they would achieve because they had achieved a lot to get that far but they had a lot of work to do. The theme of this parade this year serving our communities, i think probably reflects the greatest achiev achievement of t community. That is what we do. That is the irish story in the city. The police in the city administration, politics, in the Fire Department, in the schools. Marry mckeever is here, principal of saint phillips, or all of the people who take leading roles. Our community serve. We should celebrate that for the next week over the course of the parade. Particularly they are so reflective of that. They are all some part of the story of service. As grand marshall you reflect the sense of community, that ethos. Look at the story. It is not just service to the community but the Irish American community through youth gaa. When we look back at your legacy, and i said this at the grand marshalls dinner in your honor. What a legacy for our culture to be passed to the next generation. It is very special. You have had a huge role in that. Everyone in the community here wants to celebrate on your special day. Please give him a huge round of applause. I want to thank shawn. I am scared of shawn with asia e shillelagh. Happy st. Patricks day. Thank you, Council General. I dont know if you saw what happened over there while he was speaking. The president of the Residential Builders was yelling that i hadnt introduced him. Shawn over there. Welcome. Glad you are here, shawn. I cant help. We also vointroduce supervisor matt haney. He has a great connection he studied at the university of galway, and he is the supervision or mar is the landlord of the center. He is the landlord of the krb. Supervisor haney on the mission street. We cant have a flag raising without dancing. It is a privilege to introduce the dancers from murphy school. Welcome. [applause]. I just want to introduce one of the dancers. This is mary who just this week received her irish citizenship. Congratulations. Welldone, murphy dancers. Thank you. All events celebrating st. Patricks day we could not do without the United Irish Society. They are doing all of the work. The president is not here today, but i would like to bring up john lynch, the Vice President to address everyone. Come on up, john. I hope i am half as exciting as the last performance. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the 169th st. Patricks day season serving our communities. I am the Vice President of the United Irish Society of San Francisco and member of carpenters 22. Thank you to the mayor for hosting us today for hosting us. Welcome to the general of ireland and vice council. Thank you for coming today. I would like to thank the San Francisco irish pipers, murphies school of dance and the Dance Academy and the beautiful sounds of the voices. Thank you for your continued effort working with the mayor in coordinating this event. Thank you to the supervisors for hosting the post reception event, i think. A tremendous amount of work goes into the st. Patricks day season. Thank you to the United Irish Society board and volunteers and sponsors that make this all happen. Thank you. Also, thank you to the city agencies supporting the many events. The San Francisco parks and recreation, San FranciscoFire Department and paramedics, San Francisco police department, San Francisco sheriffs department, the San Francisco public works, and the San Francisco m. T. A. A round of applause for those agencies. Thank you. I would like to thank and congratulate our 2020 st. Patricks day grand marshall, mr. Con lions. Thank you, con. Also, the families of our honorrary grand marshalls. applause it is a tremendous honor to be selected as the grand marshall, as well as a lot of work. Based on his track record he is up to the task at hand. Thank you, con. The st. Patricks day season consists of visits to friends throughout San Francisco as well as civic events commemorating the contributions of father peter york and kate kennedy. In conclusion, we are not new york, boston, chicago, or atlanta. We are San Francisco, and we put on one heck of a st. Patricks day celebration. Embrace this and go out aptry ty to have some fun. Thank you. At this time i would like to present the certificate of honor to con lions, our grand marshall 2020. [applause] our honorary grand Marshall William bill. Certificate of honor to john cassserly. She said it was a great honor. It absolutely is. Thank you. Certificate of honor to joseph teenrjosephine. Certificate of honor to the family of agnes monaghan. Thank you. It is good to see the valley represented up here. Thank you, john. I see spying over the side of my left corner the former District Attorney susie loftus standing over there. The mayor said she wanted to see a woman irish mayor of San Francisco. We dont have that yet. We do have a woman chair of the Irish Sister City Committee with cork, noreen, thank you for being here. You know charlotte has not been as successful without being diplomatic. You cannot have just the murphy dancers performing without having the wee land dancers. I would like to invite them up to do a little dance for us. [applause] applause thank you very much. One last announcement if you get a chance to drive by city hall tonight, the mayor instructed the building be lit up in green. That is tonight and i believe the mayor is saying green, white and orange. Okay, mayor, whatever you say. Also on st. Patricks day as well. Thank you, mayor breed. I would like to ask the dancers to come up to receive their certificates of honor for coming today to perform for us. Make sure you coun count to fivr 10 minutes. Go over to the office to continue the celebration. Thank you everyone for coming. Welcome to the sfmta online budget open house top to ask a question about the key transportation decisions to be made for fiscal years 2021, 2022. Call 415 6462222 [speaking foreign language] good evening im Jeffrey TumlinSan Francisco director of transportation. Welcome to the sfmta Budget Online open house. I know that this is very difficult time for all of us as the coronavirus situation unfolds. Were all thinking about how we keep ourselves and family safe, how we deal with our children at home and how to prepare for the financial consequences unfolding all around the world. Im grateful that you joined us at this time. We understand the challenge of having budget conversation given Everything Else that is going on. Yet, in order for Government Services to continue, Government Agencies need to have a budget. Were mandated by the San Francisco charter to submit a budget to the mayor of San Francisco and the board of supervisors by may 1st. A budget that is rooted in this agencys value. We understand that even if the mayor decides to use the Emergency Declaration to extend the deadline of our budget, we still need an adopted budget as a Reference Point for making the Necessary Service and financial cuts that will have to happen as the Global Financial disaster unfolds. We need a starting place for this conversation and that starting place needs to be rooted in our values. On the one hand, the details of our budget may seem unimportant. But at the same time, Public Transit is continuing to play an essential role and will so for months. It is on public transport that our essential workers get to work, that our residents get access to essential services. Its also our Parking Systems and bike way system and other programs that allow essential work to continue even as we deal with this significant Public Health and financial crises. Tonight, what were trying to do is to take our Public Engagement process online so that we can hear from you, understand your concern and your questions. Over the last three months, we completed hundreds of Community Engagements and we still know that we need additional engagement in order to finalize our budget even though Public Comments so far has resulted in significant changes to our original proposals. I like to continue that dialogue. First i want to introduce my colleague, victoria wise who will help me facilitate this meeting. You want to go over some of the details we established to help people engage online . Thank you. Good evening everybody. Thank you so much for joining us today. This open house is being broadcast on our website. You can find it on our twitter page on our Facebook Page as well as our Youtube Channel and you can also watch it on channel 26 and sfgov tv as well. The links to all these social Media Channels can be found on sfmtas website, sfmta. Com budget. Also just to share with everybody, the recording of this hour and a half will be available on our website. If you werent able to join us, you will be able to view the video later and can continue to submit your comments. Just to show with you, the way were going to do this is for the next 13 minutes, were going to share with you a rerecorded video jeffrey recorded custom days ago, share with you the challenges the agency is facing and dive into couple of details that ewith heard a lot about as it relates to fares. Well play the video. Once you have an overview, well come back live and work through some of the comments and questions that well be getting from you on various social media channel. While youre watching the video, please share your thoughts with us. You can leave us a voice mail at 6462222. You can tweet us sfmta underscore muni. You can email us. Sfmtabucket . Com. You can leave a comment on our Facebook Page. Lots of different venues for us to engage. We appreciate you bearing with us as we try something totally different in terms of public participation. Other thing i want to share, please feel free to share your comments in chinese and or spanish. We have translators standing by. They translate your comments or questions. We unfortunately cant answer in chinese or spanish, staff will be getting back to you via email or voice and the language that you leave the question in with specific answers. Lets watch the video. [video] im jeff tumlin San Francisco director of transportation. Our agency is working on our next twoyear budget. Ultimate reflection of our agencys value. [inaudible]. Tric[technical difficulties] one question that i have for the crew, is it possible to show any of the slides that were embedded in the video . Theres huge amount of data. For those listening at home, the entire content of this Powerpoint Presentation in were going to show you, those details are all available at www. Sfmta. Com budget. If you go and look at the materials there, somebody can tell me where to look, all of the material that were referencing including the details around our different proposals for fares as well as detailed proposals for cuts as well as detailed proposals for new services. Can be found there. I will try to walk you through some of the highlights of this program. Please bear with me. This is live tv and we were not prepared to do this. One of the first things that i want to say, the most powerful statement of any agencys value is its budget. The budget is a reflection of how we spend our money. Its about making decisions about what gets funded and what does not get funded. The budget must contend with incredibly difficult tradeoffs. One of the things we tried to do in creating this budget is to be very clear about what our agencys values in order to help us address those inevitable tradeoffs. The most difficult tradeoff were facing given our serious financial constraints, is tradeoff between do we reduce or keep fares constant or do we improve service. Or phrased different way, do we cut fares or do we cut service . Do we keep the fares the same or cut Service Given the reality of our budget. I want to talk about our values. One of the things we value a great deal is system safety. Here in San Francisco, there are about 30 people who are killed result of traffic violence of ey year and 3000 are injured. We want to focus more on social equity. This means something very different than providing equal service to all sa san franciscas it means prioritizing better choices for people who have the fewest cloyses. Many ways for us this means prioritizing the delivery of Public Transit service particularly to the neighborhoods where people either face poor access to employment or inadequate access to schools or other critical services. This particularly means prioritizing access to neighborhoods that have been historically underserved. Like neighborhoods in districts 10 and 11. Particularly districts where we see high levels of residents of people of colour and also People Living in poverty. Another core value of ours is decarbonation of the transportation of the economy. Transportation is well over half of the citys carbon dioxide. Many you know as the economy has improved up until last month, the congestion and vehicle miles traveled as well as the rate of driving have increased. All of that has resulted in an increase in Greenhouse Gas emissions. Another core factor that were contending with in our budget, as congestion rises and as the rate of driving rises, as more people drive, our streets move fewer and fewer people in a given year. Its not that im necessarily a better person when i ride my bike or take the bus. I do take up one tenth of a space when i drive a car or ride in the back of lyft. In order to accommodate San Franciscos significantly growing population and job space, its very important that we manage our streets for the movement of people rather than the mov