To regularly check in on individuals living in hotels to reduce isolation and support on site staff. We believe in San Francisco and in our community to set this up so people can shelterinplace. It is going to take all of our creativity and strength, but we are built for this. Thank you. Is the city working with homelessness related outreach groups to transition people to hotel rooms. If so which groups and what role do they play . I think i understand the question. I will answer as best i can. As we move to as director rohr said we are working on sheltered and unsheltered 60 and over people with preexisting conditions. We will work with Homeless Outreach but we are not ready for that yet. We will provide more information in the coming days how to bring them inside and we are working with those with covid19 cases. We are getting to scale rapidly and look forward to providing further updates. Thank you. Thank you very much. That concludes our press conference. While this Technology Allows us to hold these meetings via teleconference, it may not be as seamless as we would like it to be. There will be some gaps and dead air, so we beg everyones indulgence, but we think its important that muni go about its business and hold the meeting, and well have to go ahead and cope with the limitations that Technology Presents us. Sounds like everybody has done this before, but if youre participating via remote technology, please keep your microphone on mute so we dont get feedback on everything. Id like to thank people who made this meeting possible. Our secretary, roberta boomer, along with shawn, art, jack from sfgtv, the staff at the board of supervisors, carolyn and sophia. A lot of people worked to make this happen at this unprecedented time. I will say to our staff, from jeff tumlin down through the ranks, the response has been remarkable, and well talk more about this as the meeting goes on, but i just want to say thank you. You guys are emblematic about this city. Clerk announcement of prohibition of sound producing meetings at this time. There is no prohibition at this time with respect to this meeting. Item 4, approval of the minutes. This is for the minutes of march 17 regular meeting. Okay. Very good. Board members, as is always, this has been circulated to us in advance. I assume there are no comments, so at this point, i will ask first if there is any Public Comment on item 4. Miss boomer, do you see any comment on item 4 . Clerk thank you. Our moderator will check. So if members of the public would like to comment, please dial onezero if you wish to address the board on the minutes of the march 17 meeting. Moderator, please let us know when you are ready or whether there are any callers who wish to address. Caller there are no members of the public that wish to address the board. Okay. Thank you very much. Seeing that, well close Public Comments. Unless theres a motion from tfrom theres any comments, ill ask for a motion interactive talk mode. All participants are now in listenonly mode. Clerk mr. Director, you may proceed with the meeting. We had a motion from director torres. All those in favor, please say aye. Clerk mr. President , i need to do a roll call vote. [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, that is a unanimous approval. Very good. Would you call go ahead. Item 5. Clerk under communications. Okay. Would you please finish your portion of this . Clerk yes, mr. Chair, i will. All right. So this meeting is being televised by sfgtv. Please be aware that there is a 20to30second time lag, so if members of the public are watching, there will be a lag between what youre seeing on sfgtv and what you are hearing. If members of the public wish to make a comment on the agenda, the phone number is posted on the agenda, on our website, and i will repeat it during the meeting. Please make sure that you are in a quiet location, that you turnoff any t. V. Or radios, and if you are streaming the meeting at sfgtv, that you reduce the sound, and this will reduce any reverberations so that the board can hear you. If you wish to comment on a particular item, the chair will prompt you to press onezero, the chair or i. This will add you to the speaker line. You will be queued up in the order in which you president onezero. There will be an auto mated voice that tells you when it is your turn to speak. When your microphone is unmuted, you will hear us to ask you to state your name and state your comments. I will start timing your comments. When you have 30 seconds, i will say 30 seconds. When your two minutes are up, your microphone will be put on mute. I will repeat these instructions for those joining the meeting after the start. Mr. President , that concludes the introduction. Item 6, items or introduction by Board Members. Members, if you would like to introduce items, you can signal me online. Director. Director eaken directdirecto directdirecto director eaken . Director eaken director eaken i think at a minimum, theres sort of two phases at this challenge, but just wanted to say that ive observed this phase during this crisis. Many cities around the world are creating more space for safe walking and biking to make sure that people have enough space to use those modes of transportation in a way thats also adhering to Public Health guidelines, and its remarkable to see how many cities have made that essential space for walking and biking. The second is as we think about recovery, i talked to a colleague from another city talking about how pollution is down, traffic is down. I havent seen the numbers, but i would presume that vision zero and accidents and fatalities are down. So the thing is, when we go back, how do we get past the largest source of death and Greenhouse Gas pollution in this country . [inaudible] in terms of how do we come back and be more strong and equitable than our Transportation System was before this crisis . Wonderful. Thank you, director eaken. I certainly look forward to watching you push forward those ideas, no pun intended. I see no other comments, so well move onto the directors report. Director tumlin, crazy first couple of months for you. You are unflappable. Very impressed with how youre dealing with this. Thank you for taking care of our professionals and making sure that theyyre in the loo and looked after. Thank you very much. The floor is yours, sir. Thank you, director heinicke. Who would have thought that i as a lifelong transit rider and resident of San Francisco would be, in my first three months on the job, eliminating muni lines and telling people not to ride muni to save those spaces for someone who has a required or necessary trip . So theres a lot of work that weve been doing over the last few weeks that feels like a year and a half because weve done a year and a halfs worth of work in the last few weeks. Were very fortunate in the city of San Francisco under the leadership of mayor london breed and especially under the leadership of the department of health, under the leadership of dr. Grant colfax, we knew what was coming, and the city acted quickly as most other places. And as a result, San Francisco is in better condition than so many other places around the world. Here in San Francisco, we watched what was happening in wuhan, and even what was happening in seattle, who was a week ahead of us. San francisco infection rates tracked neatly in response with those other cities in a similar timeline. This allowed us to do scenario planning and get ahead of the crisis before it hit us. We knew that things could get very dire indeed. Wuhan shutdown their entire system. Our city did its efforts for a sheltering in place that didnt include a complete lockdown, but we didnt know what was coming at us. So we looked at very carefully at where were all the vulnerabilities in our system . So the very first thing we did was shutdown the cable car and histor historic street car lines. We did this to protect our drivers. On the historic street cars and cable cars, theres no separate space for the driver, so we shut those down very quickly and waited for bus replacement. The next step was the decision to shutdown the rail system. This was hard for us because of the capacity offered by our trains and the relative protection that our trains offer our operators, but our trains are not resilient. We were carefully watching as an increasing number of our workforce was being exposed elsewhere to somebody who was covid positive and needing to go into quarantine, and then, we started getting our first positive test cases at the agency. The rail system was unique in that there are a relatively small number of Mission Critical positions where if we missed just one or two of those people, it would have been difficult to meet the maintenance challenge. So as our ridership was plummeting, and as we were preparing for what we knew especially love blacks and latinos, love okay. So that was rude, thank you, sfgovtv. So the decision to shutdown the rail system was also driven by our necessity to increase cleaning crews. We increased them where they were needed. Our crews were cleaning enormous rail stations. Our [inaudible] sfgov, is there a way for restricting access to this call or at least cutting off sound . Hopefully, youll be on that. In any event. Is this system in any way related to zoom . Just having the guy doing me, maybe one or two or three [inaudible] and we can do with respect, too, too these this is david. Ive just unmuted all. Go ahead, jeff, and unmute yourself, please. All right. Thats excellent. That should work. So once again, one of the other critical reasons we shutdown the rail system was to be able to reallocate our car cleaners and station custodians in order to direct them to do more thorough cleaning for our buses and for our facilities. [please stand by]. We knew that we needed to have a system that was going to be resilient to an unpredictable amount of change. We also knew that we had to direct more service to our highest ridership lines because were having having a challenge onlines like the 14 mission, the 38 geary, the 8, and the 9. We were having problems with passenger crowding and social distance. We were leaving people behind, and having more people on our bus than would meet the d. P. H. Guidelines. In order to direct more service at the lines that need it the most, we especially needed to cut basically all of our lower ridership lines. These were painful cuts. So our effort was to look at the data. Weve got great data, and we new the lines that were experiencing cuts, and we knew the lines that were experienced the highest riders. So we stripped Everything Else out and started there. The next set of services were Critical Services. Where are the Frontline Services . Where are the Grocery Stores . Where are the Critical Services . So we wanted to make sure that the lines were served not with a Critical Service right in front, but within a tenminute walk. Next, we wanted to make sure that all neighborhoods were connected at some level, and then, most importantly, we ran the whole muni equity strategy to make sure that we were directing the most service to the neighborhoods with people who have the fewest alternative choices. In a few wealthily neighborhoods, people with limited Transit Services, that means that people can drive. And director heinicke, we gave you permission to drive to our last Board Meeting. Were asking those san franciscans who can drive, please drive, those who can bike, please bike, and those who can walk, please walk, identifying those parts of San Francisco that have the fewest choices. So the map is a map that we released on monday, and that were preparing to put into service tomorrow morning. It is grim, and if we can consider this a sign of success, we have heard from people in every single San Francisco neighborhood complaining why their neighborhood was singled out for stripping away service. So weve cut everywhere but held onto the Critical Service that san franciscans most need. Were now, today, spending a lot of time doing some additional service, particularly for elderly People Living in hilly neighborhoods, where weve removed a lot of service, for people who necessarily havent signed up for our paraTransit Service. Who can walk a block to get to service, but who cant caulk cant walk Transit Services. Were looking at for 6, you can get 30 of cab service, and looking at ways we can expand geographic coverage of those service to Service People who would otherwise be left behind. This would be in a time where were experiencing significant financial losses but a big help to others who are greatly in need, including our taxi drivers. I can also point out that even though were making these Massive Service cuts, these service cuts dont make us money. We continue to pay our operators. We offer very generous sick leave terms to our operators. We want to make sure that our operators that are feeling sick dont show up to work. Our drivers are frontline workers that are continuing to go out there and put themselves at risk for the benefit of our public. Now our service is stripped down, weve got better availability. Our cart cleaners are cleaning more efficiently. Were getting more guidance from d. P. H. On how to do that in the most efficient way, not only for our vehicles but our facilities. Were especially grateful for the advocacy by the citys Emergency Operation center, and particularly mayor london breed, who are seeing Bus Operators and our p. C. O. S and other frontline workers as First Responders, so we are getting our crew on the list for additional personal Protection Equipment as well as access to early coronavirus testing as well as access to overnight hotel rooms or for people who need to people working but not in selfquarantine. Were so grateful to the city to be able to offer these benefits to our workers. One of the struggles in all of this has been communicating the intensity of change both to the public as well as to our workforce. Ive been trying to do a threeminute video directed to our informal or internal workforce every single day. If you all like, we can send you copies of those. Roberta may have been forwarding them to you. They are our best effort at trying to keep up with the essential news as it arises and also to create a standard of deep transparency and truth. One thing we continue to emphasize as an agency is that we can only get through this if we maintain pretty radical transparency and truth because its going to require real trust. Were going to have to trust each other, and theres going to have to be trust up and down the chain of command in the organization in order for us to truly come together and make this work. So thats a summary of our health and service impacts. As all of you know, this Health Crisis is quickly becoming an economic crisis well, its already an economic crisis. Almost all of our sources of revenue, parking fees and fines are down to nearly zero. Transit fares are down by about 90 , and our biggest source of revenue, which is the general fund, is being walloped by the hotel tax and sales tax and business and transfer taxes. So the work that were doing now while at the same time developing this budget is to figure out how do we deal with our Financial Reality while minimizing all impacts to our workforce and preparing ourselves and the city for a very rapid recovery . Thanks Speaker Pelosis office in particular, we will be receiving a fairly significant amount of money from the most recent federal stimulus package. We are now having conversations with m. T. C. About how best to divvy that up, including posing really uncomfortable questions to the regional agency, including to what degree should we divvy up the agencies money, and should each dollar of financial loss be seen the same across all agencies instead of looking at the stimulus package as an opportunity to consider equity and how we spend our money. Specifically, should we be directing more revenue at the agencies that serve passengers who have the fewest choices . All transit properties throughout the region are going to have to make service cuts in order to balance our books. Should we all make the same percentage of service cuts or should Services Like tridelta transit, which carries an overwhelming share of transit dependent riders or a portion of the muni service, like were operating now. Should we look at those as more valuable than Transit Services that are designed to provide an alternative to driving for people who do have a car . So we are leading that conversation at m. T. C. Along with some of our sister agencies, that how do we put the system back together again in a system that is more equitable, more regional, and better connected . Other things that were working on, as two of you directors have already told me, to never waste a crisis, and so theres another opportunity that were taking advantage of in this crisis, which is to further our efforts at cultural change within the agency. Theres nothing like a crisis to bring people together, and t the many of the previous cultural changes in the agency that got in the way up and down across the agency and limited information in silos, that is breaking down. People are having open communication. People are collaborating across silos. People are getting together to offer Creative Solutions to problems rather than just complaining about the problem and blaming someone else for it. Were also seeing many people s