Reporter first question is from jamie harp, associated press. To date, how many people experiencing homelessness have tested positive for covid19 . Thank you for that question. Im only aware of individuals who have tested positive at sites in the homelessness response system. Its a large system of care where people experiencing homelessness touch many different aspects. In the homeless responses to date, there are only three who have tested positive for covid. Those are the individuals that i discussed earlier. Reporter a followup to that where are they now . Those three individuals are in Good Condition and are either receiving medical care or at an isolation quarantine site operated by Human Services agency and staffed by the department of public health. Reporter thank you. Question from john king of the San Francisco chronicle. What is the status of the Vehicle Triage Center on geneva . Right. For those who are unfamiliar, we have a Pilot Project that allows people who live in their vehicles to come inside and receive access to our system as they work to end their homelessness. As of late last week, there were 25 vehicles on site, which is essentially full for us, and we have pivoted, as we pivoted our entire homelessness response system to be addressing that in the system of covid. People are receiving the education they need to follow all of the social distancing guidance. Reporter and a followup to that. How many r. V. S are in place and is the ramping up on schedule for the r. V. Sites . For future sites . John, i will assume that you mean your future question. So its on its on schedule for the pilot. Its working really, really well and we learn add tremendous amount and i was very pleased to speak at a hearing about it coordinated by supervisor safais office, feels like a long time ago now, honestly, and i think we need to look at everything Going Forward in the context of what the coronavirus will do to the citys response system to the citys budget as the mayor has discussed and so we have looked at every aspect of our system and what is planned for expansion and were continuing to evaluate that on a casebycase basis. Reporter final question from brian howie of San Francisco public press. Does the city plan to place into hotel rooms unhoused people who do not fwlong vulnerable populations or have not been exposed or tested positive coronavirus . That is a great question, brian. Thank you. For all of you who care so much about our unhoused and particularly our unsheltered and sheltered neighbors living in public settings, as i said, the priority for city is to move people out of hospitals and also out of congregate settings and people who are vulnerable to covid19 that are living on our streets. That is a significant portion of our unsheltered population and well be working to include them in hotel rooms first and then continue to evaluate the situation. Reporter and followup to that. Where will those currently in musconi, who are not post covid or tested negative, be moved . Those who are thank you for that question. I understand now. Those who are currently at musconi west who moved there as part of early shelter thinning as opposed to the adjustments that weve been making over the last couple of days, those individuals are being relocated to hotel rooms operated by the Human Services agency and staffed by the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and our partners. Reporter thank you. Good morning, i am San Franciscos director of transportation. Were here today to have a conversation about our budget. Even though that you have a lot of other things on your minds. These are unprecedented times. Many of you are having to deal with children unexpectedly being at home and you are having to deal with worrying about how you will pay your rent or how to keep your families safe. We really appreciate that youve joined us here to talk about something that should be seemingly minor which is a government bureaucracy budget. But for us, nothing is more important than our budget. Because it is the only relevant statement of our agencys values and it determines how we use our very, very limited resources in order to uphold the public good. Public transportation plays a Critical Role in the unfolding of this Health Crisis and in the unfolding of what will be likely a long economic crisis. Our job is to figure out how to steward our declining resources in order to therefore the services that essential workers need to have to get to work and in order to poise San Francisco for recovery, thats what were here for. Everything we do, whether its muni, parking is connected with the health and safety of budget of San Francisco. I want to introduce my colleague, victoria wise, who will facilitate this meeting. Do you want to go over what were doing today. Thank you, jeff. Good morning, everybody and almost afternoon. While we cant meet inperson were grateful you are joining us today online and really appreciate that you are taking the time to provide input on our budget. Its especially important that we have public input and continue to have public input as we move our budget through the approval process. So, just a couple of logistical issues and housekeeping kind of stuff. This conversation is being broadcast live on our website, on our twitter page at sfmta underscore muni. On our Facebook Page and youtube channel. And all the links are posted on our website at sfmta. Com budget. The way things will go, for this conversation, were going to get to watch at 13minute pre recorded video where jeff shares with you some of the challenges that we face in our budget and talks about what some of our proposals are taking a deeper dive no some of the issues that weve heard frankly quite a lot about like our muni fares. Now, i want to tell you that this video is pre recorded three weeks ago before we had the Health Crisis that were having now a lifetime ago. It feels like a lifetime ago, in deed. Of course, needless to say, our agencys financial circumstances have changed significantly since that time. Nevertheless, the video is still relevant because it talks about some of the challenges the agency is facing and some of our priorities and so, we will play that video for you and it will be informative to the discussion and to some of the questions that we hope to get to you in the rest of the hour. Speaking of questions, i wanted to share with you that there are different ways that you can interact with us. First of all, leave us au revoir mala voicemail or tweet us. And if you can, please hashtag that with sfmtas budget. Definitely please send us an email and leave a comment on youtube or Facebook Page. All those channels are being monitored and jeff and i will be seeing your questions and taking them and hopefully answering as many of them as we can and as time allows. I want to share with you that if you wanted to submit questions in chinese or spanish, feel free to do that. We have translators standing by. So they will translate the questions for jeff and i. We cant quite answer them in chinese or spanish but staff will be providing you answers in followup after this conversation. So, again, thank you for joining us and without further adieu, if we can view the video, that would be great. Welcome to the sfmta online budget open house. To provide your input or ask a question about the key transportation decisions to be made for fiscal years 20212022, please email sfmtabudgte sfmta. Com call 415646222 or tweet at sfmta muni. [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] [ speaking Foreign Language ] im jeff tumlin. Our agency is working on our next twoyear budget, which is the yo ultimate reflex of our values. Running a safe, equitable Transportation System, reducing our Carbon Footprint and creating a welcoming workplace with excellence service. The goals are important were making progress on operationalizing the values but i also want to acknowledge that were coming up short on several key issues. These include street safety, muni reliabilit reliability and. We will address these issues in our next twoyear budget but we have tough choices to make. We recognize that were in an extraordinary time without question, it will impact our budget outcomes. We must continue to plan and discuss the trade offs that we want to see reflected in the budget we passed within the next month. Im going inform go over the details of the budget. If you want to see this content clearly or in another language, you can see it at sfmta. Com budget. We need to get back to basics. I ride transit in my bike everyday in San Francisco and i see these issues daily. Especially i experience the most common frustration that muni is unreliable. Muni service covers the city and is scheduled to run frequently it doesnt always show up when we expect. Now that ive been on the job almost 100 days, i am seeing the roots of these problems. It includes the fact that we have a thousand Job Vacancies which means less Transit Service on the street to meet current demands, traffic fatalities are not decreasing fast enough and effect our most vulnerable populations the most. Auto speeds have declined 20 over the last decade and while our investments and transit have helped some lines, our buses and trains have slowed by about 6 . I believe because of all these things, were seeing a decline in our most efficient modes and an increase in driving. All of this means that few are people can move through our streets and grown house gas emissions continue to grow. We also have challenges with our budget. Our costs, like yours, rise with the cost of living but our revenues have not kept pace. Our costs reflect the need to pay our workforce a living wage, which is particularly challenging given the housing shortage. As a result, as our budget grows, so does our structural deficit. In the next fiscal year, were projected to have an operating gap of 66 million. We will need to close that gap in order to have a balanced budget. A lot of our revenue comes from transit fares and parking and traffic fees and fines. A significant portion, 35 , comes from the general fund. Over time, we have become more and more dependent on the citys general fund. Which ties service to the state of the economy. The agency structural funding deficit and the need for on going sources of funds is not new. In the last five years, there have been multiple task forces that have identified significant funding gaps in our Transportation System moving into the future. Together, were going to need to solve for that because our city has been growing and expected to continue to grow adding 73,000 Housing Units and 275,000 new jobs in the next 20 years and increasing the number of daily trips by 36 to almost 6 million in 2050. Before we talk about the future and striving for higher standard of service, i need to focus on the nuts and bolts that keep San Francisco running more reliably. The proposed budget reflects this by making Strategic Investments into the existing system as a down payment for the future while being fiscally part during these uncertain Economic Times. Last year the city neighborhood the muni reLiability Working Group. A team of experts and Transit Service who detailed where muni must invest to deliver the service they promised. They districted us to stabilize the Current Service and develop and fund plans for growth to move towards a higher standard. This budget focuses on stabilizing the Current Service and this means, firstly, fixing our Human Resources department and getting more drivers on the road. Second, increasing maintenance staff and car cleaners. Third, increasing enforcement to keep transit and traffic flowing and fourth investing in reducing fatalities. These are strategic and critical investments to set the foundation for the future. That means implementing the rest of the muni row Liability Working Group recommendations like increasing service by 6. 5 and a variety of initiatives. Making improvements based on the Muni Service Equity strategy but ill be honest, these will require new on going Revenue Streams. Its that simple. Before we can talk about additional funding for transportation, you might be wondering can we deliver on our existing proposals . While this agency has had its struggles, we are at a turning point because we can demonstrate where weve invested we have seen results. Where weve made target investments in transit, weve seen ridership grow by 60 . Where weve made safety Em Improvements weve had reduced injuries to zero. Our plan is to continue delivering the kind of projects that have shown results that are reflected in our capital plan. As you know, the streets quickbuild projects have been wildly successful, just look at our success in market street. Following that success we have implement transit quickville projects and we have others in the works to improve transit, do state of good repair and implement vision zero. Were grateful to the voters for passing drop d to fund quick build projects and signal Hardware Upgrades like new and more visible traffic lights. In this current budget were proposing onetime funds for vision zero education which is important in order to capitalized on the vision zero Construction Projects but to make a meaningful longterm change, well need sustained revenue for non capital vision zero work. Now lets talk about fares. We know this is so important to so many of you. We have a current policy called indexing where fares go up and small amounts index to inflation and to the cost of living every year and in order to avoid huge sporadic increases. As a regular part of the budgeting process, we would have simply indexed all of our fares up at the same percentage. But, based on community feedback, particularly around the goal of equity, weve developed a number of new fares that requires some trade offs. All of these fares scenarios need to be what we called revenueneutral. They cannot increase the budget gap, i talks about earlier, or force us to make Transit Service cuts. So thats where the trade offs come in. I know this slide is complicated so let me walk you through it. The gray box are todays fares. The blue box is what would happen under our existing indexing policy where all fares increase by a percentage. The green and pink boxes show two different equity scenarios that result in free muni for all youth and there are full fare single riders are low income and 65 are minority. 37 of our single riders are low income and 66 are minority but to fund these equity options requires trade offs. In the green box were paying through an increase in monthly passes at a rate higher an indexing but matches other urban transit agencies. In the pink box, were paying through eliminating most of the discount to clipper users. People who use clipper would pay almost the same fare as those paying in cash. Our customers feedback about equity included a call for free muni, not just for youth but for all transit riders. While the desire for that is not understandable, it will actually make our system less equitable and this sounds counter innu innutive, they constitute 20 of our budget. If we do not collect fares well eliminate 20 of our service with less service on our streets and more crowding, people that can afford it might switch to other modes like driving or taking uber or lyft. Individuals who rely on muni and dont have access to alternatives will be stuck with transit that is much worse. Lets talk about fines. Fine adjustments are guided by our safety values. Behavior that is unsafe should carry a higher penalty than nuisances. Certain safetyrelated violations were increased to the maximum amount allowed by state law. Parking in a bike lane is going up 14 . Riding a scooter on a sidewalk is going up by 39 . In addition to adjusting fines were responding to widespread requests by increasing office and they can help manage and improved transit reliable to intersections and making sure cars arent blocking blocking the transit vehicles. Lets talk about parking demands. It used to ensure availability and manage demand not to maximize revenue but any revenue collected from parking goes back into the Transportation System specifically to fund transit. Our policies state if theres high demand during a certain time period, we should raise prices to ensure one or two spaces are available when you want to go to your favorite restaurant or store. When demand is low, we lower parking meter prices. We recently looked at our parking policies and realized they were little outdated when it comes to evening metering and sunday metering. We know that the demand for parking in many commercial corridors is high in the evenings. Thats why were proposing extending the time that meeters are enforced to ensure that evening visitors can still find a space where they need one. We wont do this city wide or immediately. Wore going to partner with local merchants associations to determine where the hours make the most sense and see how it works. Were also proposing enforcing parking meeters on sundays where we follow a similar community and datadriven process to make sure it works for our residents, visitors and faith communities. So, back to the big bud