From staff as to the results of that on the ground yacht outreach. There have been businesses and some of them highprofile in the media that have gone under very early on in the van ness b. R. T. , but can you respond to commissioner haneys question . Hey, everyone. We have been trying to figure out how to best do outreach considering covid19 restrictions and not really being able to engage in person with businesses in the way that we have before. We have conducted a lot of outreach to businesses online, the phone and weve done a couple of things doing social distancing and wearing masks. We are canvassing businesses over the next two weeks to get them information about the grant and to find out how theyre doing. Supervisor peskin right, but i think what commissioner haney is saying, and i believe this to be true, we have a lot of precovid premarch 16 data. So i think when he hear this at our first meeting in october, it would be very helpful if the sfmta and oewd can present what the precovid data is, as well as the results that youve been getting on the phone through electronic sources and in your ontheground social distanced survey youre doing over the next couple of weeks. We look forward to seeing that at our first meeting in october. Commissioner haney, back to you . Supervisor haney that was all. I appreciate that. And i think a lot of the questions have to do with the business focus and residents and how to improve this in the future. So i was done, thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Are there any other members of the commission who have any comments. Seeing none, i would i wont make a motion to continue this. Im just going to ask staff to agendize the hearing that we all want for our next meeting. That is an information item. Any introduction of new items . Seeing none, is there any general Public Comment . Yes, commissioner, there is. There are two callers. First speaker, please. So, again, commissioners, this pandemic, as you can see, very few people want to participate in any of these major projects. So we leave it to you, our representatives, to do Due Diligence based on third street, which is a mess, the central subway, we are waiting for the opening, the van ness bus rapid transit, the businesses that needed to be helped have gone. And we havent learned anything what happened on Market Street before. We always dont seem to learn something from the past projects and we dont seem to have a checklist. We just live it to become project managers, who are not really project managers, because they cant do a needs assessment. And then we love to have our fire chats, the Public Comment period, where we allow them a couple of minutes and you dont seem to be paying attention to us. Its going to come to bite you all in the back. Supervisor peskin next speaker, please. Thank you, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Thank you. Supervisors. I apologize, what im going to say. The first thing i would like to do is thank you about some of the downtown [inaudible] from the meeting and the new improved [inaudible] classification is appreciated. The thing i do want to bring to your attention. On the one hand, we have the c. A. C. Moving along and potentially a general Engineering Services contractor meeting for the proposed. You have a parallel track between caltrain and high speed rail on this alignment. I would like to bring to your attention, there is a high probability that this analysis will essentially make it impossible for caltrain to rail yard potentially however. So i would suggest moving forward, you do something to delay the award of the contract, because [inaudible] problems and capacity, thats we can have on the line fort person have to take it from there. Thank you very much. Thank you, caller. Supervisor peskin any other members of the public for general Public Comment for todays meeting . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and were adjourned. Thank you, chair. Please remember to remain on team. Sfgovtv and producers, getting ready for timma board. Treasure island Mobility Agency board. Britney milton is our clerk. Please call the role. Supervisor fewer here. Present. Supervisor haney present. Supervisor mandelman present. Mar absent. Supervisor peskin present. Supervisor preston present. Supervisor ronen present. Supervisor safa supervisor safai supervisor stefani present. Supervisor walton present. President yee present. We have quorum. Thank you, madame clerk. Please read the next item. Public comment. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 14156550001, and when prompted, entering access code, 146 226 7339. Once you join, youll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. To make Public Comment on an item, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. When it is your turn, you will hear a message saying your line is unmuted. The operator will advise you have two minutes to speak. When the two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Best practices are to speak, slowly, clear and turn down radios and televisions around you. Please allow for a 30second lag time. Thank you. Next item. Item 2, chairs report. This is an information item. Thank you, madame clerk. I first want to recognize the effort that the timma staff with our board support have made to secure federal, state and city funding for yerba buena. We received five Funding Proposals for the various on the island. The water Transportation Agency granted a inner city rail Capital Program funds to planned new service to mission bay. We supported the original Grant Application which requested two allelectric vessels, one each to serve the Treasure Island and mission bay routes and were hopeful this grant will benefit both services. In june, the California Department of housing and Community Development announced awar awards infill for the 30,000 grant to the Treasure Island authority for road and bicycle and pedestrian path improvements. This funding will support the final design and implementation of the Treasure Island toll and transit affordability and equity programs. And finally, this past month we submitted two separate applications for funding to support the yerba buena pathway project. We still have over a quart over the year left to quarter of the year left to go. I want to appreciate staff diligence in collaborating to security outside funding to secure outside funding to support the islands. With that, i conclude my remarks. Is there any Public Comment on the chairs report . There are no Public Comments. Great. Madame clerk, please read the next item. Yes, item 3, executive directors report, this is information item. Good morning, thank you, chair haney, commissioners, short update in addition to the chairs remark and appreciating staff for those funding efforts. I wanted to report out on the good news on ta federally funde meeting. And were about a third of the way through the planning for the on island shuttle demonstration of Autonomous Vehicle technology. Yesterday, we received good news that the federal Highway Administration which administers our federal grant did approve the concept of operations and System Engineering management plan. These are documents weve been working on closely with caltrain and our partners at tida and sfmta. So just a progress note to say that were making good use of the funds so far. Weve taken direction, again, from the committee as well Going Forward to ensure that were looking at safety as well as involving the community in the whole project. And we are preparing now for procurement next year with potential deployment in the fall of 2021. Given high interest in this topic, our team also presented at last weeks kickoff session for the International Intelligent transportation world congress. In addition, the session included updates from columbus, ohio, which is the furthest along of the u. S. Pilots and tampa, florida. So we were pleased to participate and you can see that online at the its america website. Thank you so much. Thank you. Any Public Comment on the chairs report . There is one caller. Your two minutes begins now. Caller . Supervisors, what i want to state, the director has said, ive been involved with Treasure Island since 1989. In 1991 we surveyed the entire island, including yerba buena. What i see is that this project should be helping our citizens. We started by putting a lot of indigent people on Treasure Island and now weve treated them with disdain. And we stopped talking about transportation and stop talking about housing in a general way. What supervisors are doing is they are taking added responsibility with Treasure Island by compromising quality of life issues within the city of San Francisco. Not everything that is happening on Treasure Island is transparent. I repeat. Not everything that is happening on Treasure Island, which is manmade, is transparent. You have serious quality of life issues. If you all dont want to dive into it, then tell me i should dive into it and i will be held responsible. So while we talk about transportation and housing and whatever, the most important thing is the environment. Thank you very much. Thank you, caller. Any additional Public Comment . There are no other Public Comments. All right. Public comment is closed. Thank you. This is an informational item. Madame clerk, please read the next item. Item 4, approve the minutes of the july 28, 2020 meeting. This is an action item. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes . There are no Public Comments. Can we have a motion and second on the minutes . So moved. Second. All right. Moved by commissioner peskin, second by commissioner walton. Roll call vote, please. On item 4. Supervisor haney aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor peskin aye. Supervisor preston aye. Supervisor ronen aye. Supervisor stefani aye. Supervisor walton aye. President yee aye. Supervisor fewer aye. There are nine ayes. Minutes are approved. Thank you, madame clerk. Please call the next item. Yes. Item im so sorry. Unless changes were presented at committee, or not required since items presented to committee already substantive changes have been made. This is an action item. So moved. Great. We have a motion, a second . Moved by commissioner peskin, seconded by commissioner walton. Roll call vote, please. Supervisor fewer aye. Supervisor haney aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor peskin aye. Supervisor preston aye. Supervisor ronen aye. Supervisor stefani aye. Supervisor walton aye. President yee aye. There are nine ayes. Item has final approval. Thank you, madame clerk. Please call the next item. Introduction of new items, this is an information item. Any new items . Not seeing anybody on the roster, are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . There is no Public Comment. Great. Public comment is closed. Madame clerk, the next item. Item 7, Public Comment. Operator, are there any members of the public who would like to speak . There is. Hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Thank you, supervisors. What i want to introduce to you for your consideration. The first one is delay the foundation somewhere down the road having some kind of to the island directly. You know to Treasure Island. A good example in london which is known as the wolf station. Its a station that is entirely submerged, run entirely by the private sector and they are below water and have been open for businesses for three or four years and trains getting there. Its a good example to go with. The other thing i wanted to tell you about, the [inaudible] is essentially looking at the island somewhere between a meter and in the arena of 16th street. But thats never going to work without the high speed rail and capital. The only viable alignment is the bay bridge. And yerba buena island. [inaudible] San Francisco and the other two having [inaudible] on the other side. The reason im bringing these to your attention, if you do this, all the materials are going to suddenly magically materialize on the yerba buena island. The question then is what we do. I would suggest to Treasure Island. [inaudible] but also to be with pollution and everything else. Thank you. There are no more callers. Thank you. Public comment is now closed. Please call the next item. Item 8, adjournment. Thank you. Meeting is adjourned. See you in a bit. My name is sofy constantineo and a documentary film maker and cinema togfer, producer and director. It is inevable you want your movie to get out and realize yoi need to be a commune tee organizer to get people together to see the story you will tell [inaudible] pretty rich and interesting. In what we do as film makers is try to tell the best story possible so i think that is where i [inaudible] learn everything. Lighting and cinematography. I got jobs of stage manger at some place and projectionist. I kind of mixed and matched as i went and kept refining i feel like it isnt just about making things that are beautiful and appealing and rich and [inaudible] the way that the films [inaudible] it has to tell a story. My name is sumell [inaudible] free lance multimedia produce. My project is [inaudible] mostly oof street photographry with a few portraits. 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[inaudible] where i want to go, what i want to do and it is totally possible so, the impossible is you know, is not something to listen to. [ ] you are watching coping with covid19. Todays special guest is you are watching coping with covid19. My guest today is the acting director of San Francisco public works. He is here with us today to talk about how his department has pivoted to help the city during the pandemic and talking about some of the ongoing projects. Welcome to the show. Thank you. I know there are some unique challenges for our unhoused population during this crisis. Namely handwashing handwashing and social distancing. How has public works been addressing these problems . You know, ever since public works got involved with the response to covid, it really began from day one. We have been working with the unhoused community and the city more broadly doing things like something to identify and design and construct a safe sleeping sights. We have been helping other areas like helping to do some of the prep for the testing centres that are all over the city now. We have also been helping to retrofit and design some of the medical facilities. We are prepared to address the surge if and when that does happen. We have also been working on the aberration side where we have been able to double the program. [indiscernible] its just some of the things that we are regarding specifically to covid, but then on top of that, we have been doing our daytoday work that we always do in helping to resolve some of the and the encampments across the city, working with the city to make sure we are doing extra cleaning at the food stations in areas where they are trying to distribute food. And its something that we have been doing more recently which is imparting with our colleagues at the m. T. A.