Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Secretary silva, would you please call the roll. [roll call]. Clerk madam chair, you have five votes to approve the minutes. You are on item five, communications. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency, this meeting is being held virtually, and all members of the staff and the public are attending Via Teleconference. 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We are presently on item six, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. Board members, are there any items that you would like to have addressed . Director lai . In honor of director tumlins presentation, id like staff to give us an update to the board of supervisors request to provide us an update within 60 days of their resolution last week with regards to codifying and the implementation for proactively reducing the speed limits, but perhaps jeff might be covering this later, so ill just maybe leave this open. Thank you. Thank you. Director heminger . Thank you, madam chair. I had two. The first, weve received quite a lot of email traffic, and its been in the press, as well, about the status of the great highway portion of our slow street network, and as you all know, that network came into being in the emergency orders that were all living order, and presumably that emergency is not going to be completed any time soon, unfortunately, which raises the question, like the great highway, what significant changes are contemplated for one of those segments in the network . Is that something that the board should be involved in, i think given the significance of the changes that at least are being discussed publicly to the great highway, i would recommend we are, and so maybe i could just ask for some clarification on that point, either now or in the directors report or in an item that would be presented to the board so we have an understanding of what the procedure will be to deal with this network as it exists and consider changes to it or extensions to it when we reach the end of the emergency. So sorry about that was a little long winded, but thats the first item. The second was to check on the status of a previously requested item. I think many meetings ago, i had asked for an update on our parking responsibility. I dont think, at least in my necessity, that we have dealt with much at all, but i would like to know when we can get to that item. Thank you, director heminger. Unfortunately, as you know, these items have to be agendized to officially discuss them, so youll have to get them in the agenda ahead of time. Any directors have questions or comments okay. Thank you. With that, well close that item. We have we can open it up to Public Comment to see if theres anybody who has a comment on director tumlins or director lais questions. Moderator, is there anyone on the line . Operator you have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, we will close Public Comment and move onto item number eight. Clerk actually, item number seven. Oh, sorry. Ju jumped right over jeffs report. Sorry about that. Director tumlin . Greetings. So at our last board of directors meeting, one of the things that we talked about was how eagerly we were awaiting the results of the november election. Some of the results were excited, but arguably, the results for the future of the sfmta remains in the balance, which is the balance of the senate. All of that is contingent in the senate race in georgia, which is whether well have to be able to well be able to maintain our services or whether well have to cutback significantly. One of the things that weve learned this week is that the news continues to worsen for the San Francisco general fund. Most of the citys sources of revenue are tracking at or below the worse Case Scenario projections, so we were told we need to accommodate another 34 million in reductions in the sfmta budget. The voters successfully passed the measure rr, the caltrain one cent sales tax in all three counties. That will start to bring in new revenue to caltrain, to the tune of about 100 million per year starting in the fall of 2021. We in San Francisco contribute significantly to caltrain, including were currently programmed to contribute 8 million in operating support from the sfmta plus an additional 7. 5 million paid by the sfcta. Were now in discussions with caltrain about to what agree caltrans new revenue can supplant our current and future reductions. Citypassed prop i, which is an increase in the real estate transfer tax. That will increase general Fund Revenues by about 11 million in fiscal year 2021. That is good news. The city also passed prop l, the executive pay related business tax. It generates a significant amount of money starting in july of 2022. That money goes to the general fund, and the sfmta slice of that would be about 9 . The big tax measure, however, failed to pass, and that is prop 15, the split roll reconfiguration of prop 13. And again, emphasizes that even back in january, in our peak economic times, most of our Revenue Sources were in decline relative to expenses and certainly relevant to cost of living. As you know, the general funds tax base is largely property tax related, and property taxes increase at less than the pace of inflation, while City Government expenses increase at the cost of laboring because our expenses are driven by the fact that our work is driven by labor, and we need to pay our workforce a living wage even as the cost of living here in the San Francisco bay area continues to skyrocket. So as i said, well be digging into the implications of all of this news, most of it very bad, at our december 1 board workshop, including strategies on how to address the everwidening shortfall and ways to minimize the possible layoffs to the largest extent possible. We are preparing to issue fair enforcement citations again starting december 1. It is critical that we move forward with collecting muni fares since it is the Revenue Source that we have the most control over and most directly relates to our Service Delivery needs. But i also want to reiterate, as is detailed in our blog back in september and in previous board reports, that we have completely changed our approach to fair enforcement to focus primarily on compliance, on educating our customers about our services, about delivering Discount Program cards to our customers who need it, distributing masks, and at promoting civil behavior on our vehicles. In addition, our Fare Enforcement officers were deployed as Disaster Service workers early this year and, as a part of that received significant training, suicide prevention, mobile crisis response, human trafficking, mobile service, and deescalation training. Theyve also gotten new uniforms in order to look more like the civilian Service Operators that they are and less like police enforcement. This is all very important to ensuring, again, that our efforts at enforcement are really about our customers getting our customers to pay their fair share and avoid Massive Service cuts that will come unless we start collecting fares again. Youve also of course heard that weve gotten more detail on central subway. The central subway work for substantial completion will be delayed into spring of this coming year because of problems mostly associated with covid. Work has slowed down, social distancing, there was a cluster of positive cases, including changes that have affected just about everywhere in the United States at this time. Service will then startup approximately a year later, in the spring of 2022. These delays, of course, impact budget, but were still at about a 15 cost overrun overall. Next topic is twin peaks boulevard. As you also know, the San FranciscoPolice Department locked the gates to twin peaks early in shelter in place in order to reduce crowding at the top of the hill. Since the closure of the roadway, twin peaks park, a 67 acre park in the middle of San Francisco, has attracted far more users than likely ever before, attracting about at least 800 people every weekday and well over 1,000 on the weekend days, just on the portola side. That said, closing off the gates posed significant concerns. The only way to get up to the top of twin peaks would be to heft yourself up on your own steam, and so for a lot of san franciscans, thats not possible. So in order to restore the Lookout Point to all san franciscans while maintaining this spectacular 67 acre park in the middle of the city, we conducted a significant amount of Public Outreach for a couple of weeks, looking for guidance from san franciscans about how best to make the park work for everyone. We got a tremendous amount of feedback, over 7500 responses as of november 9, and the responses looked at several different alternatives as well as the reason why people would choose those alternatives, and the consensus pretty much across all demographic groups and geographies was a preference to keep the north gate open up to the parking lot while keeping the southern gate, the portola gate closed, in order to maximize the amount of parking thats available safely for people on foot and bicycles and other modes while allowing people to drive up to the lot to the shortest point, which is known as Christmas Tree lot. So we are going to be talking to the frisk Police Department, the p. U. C. , the reservoir up there, San Francisco travel, and the tour bus industry, about whether like, how to make this work, and so we will be coming back to you in december or january for a public hearing with our recommendations. Finally, i do want to note that there has been a lot of conversation happening about great highway, another street that was closed early in the pandemic and left closed, and perhaps the street that has resulted in attracting by far the greatest number of people to it, we have more people using great highway on foot and skate board and bike and wheelchairs than we had people using it in cars before covid. That said, the streets closure has resulted in a high level of complaints from residents of the outer sunset complaining about poor unsafe motorists behavior, speeding, ignoring stop signs on various streets in the outer sunset. So weve been working closely with supervisor mar and the District Four Office in order to address those concerns, implement traffic calming and some turn restrictions, make sure that folks know that there is plenty of capacity available on sunset boulevard, and well be working with the department of public works over the next four weeks to install a variety of traffic calming devices in the neighborhood in order to try to mitigate those problems, and again, well be coming back to this board as well as collaborating with other agencies in order to come to some recommendations about what the post covid configuration should be for great highway after weve made some attempts at getting the unintended negativeness cou negative consequences, and that is what i have for my directors report. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Directors, i know you have questions because we have a lot of topics that were dealing with. Obviously, theres a lot of bad news there in terms of the funding there. Directors, do we have specific questions for director tumlin at this time . No . Okay. With that, well move to Public Comment, opening it up to the public who may have questions or rather comments to director tumlins report. Madam clerk, is the line bridged . Operator you have one question remaining. First caller, please. Hi. Thanks for the time. My name is chris arvin, and im a San Francisco resident and transit rider. I want to comment specifically on the fare vision enforcement portion of the report. I want to say that we should not be resuming any type of Fare Enforcement during the pandemic. I dont think we should be using this time to handing out 100 or more fines when we have record unemployment and people might be needing to get to places when theyre getting back on their feet. The other thing is that will involve more interaction between people in close proximity in an indoor space like a bus, and i think thats just an increased risk during a time when we have covid, and we dont need to be doing that. Thats entirely my comment. Thank you. Thank you. Moderator, are there additional callers on the line . Operator you have one question remaining. Next speaker, please. Hi, yes, chair and directors, my name is kate richardson, and im the chair and director of legal inc. Since our founding in 2015, we have trained more than 1800 staff as San Franciscos leading front lines organizations. We have more than [inaudible] and weve seen the issues that are most problem at particular for lowincome housing and unhoused residents in our community. Wh now is not the time to cite people again. There are 50,000 san franciscans that live under the poverty line or under 1,000 a month, and for many, muni is their own option to get to necessary medical appointments, service appointments, or job interviews. Many people ride muni because they cant afford anything else. This criminalization is poverty is unacceptable, especially as we enter the winter of a pandemic. The sfmta has done so much work to create racial and social equity by [inaudible] below were a see commitmented to term city committed to justice and racial and economic justice. Thank you so much. Thank you, and i thank you for your comments. Well take those under advisement. Moderator, are there any additional commenters on the line . Operator you have one question remaining. Next speaker, please. Hi, i want to address the great highway issue, mainly in the context of supervisor mars letter on november 10. Yeah, my name is john elliott. Clerk thank you. Im a resident of the outer richmond, and i love the great highway, and for anyone who is really dorky and uses the straza app, i am the local resident of the great highway, which means ive spent a lot of time down there. Supervisor mars comment mentions opening the great highway back up to traffic specifically mentions the sfmta, and he says none of his efforts to engage the sfmta and this has proven successful, so i just want to draw to your attention the importance of addressing this because that space, as director tumlin said, it has become a transformative public space for the city during this time, and not just during an emergency. Its something that we need to think about permanently, and the problem is not the creation of the space, the problem is irresponsible and reckless people driving cars. That needs to be addressed, that is the problem, and thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you very much. Moderator, are there any additional callers on the line . Operator you have zero questions remaining. Thank you, with that, well close Public Comments, and ill move back to directors. Director heminger. Thank you, madam chair, jeff, you mentioned another delay on the central subway, and as you know, its not the first one. Every time we set a deadline and miss it, we take another hit on our credibility. As with that, i wanted to ask you, how did we put this latest packet commission together, and are we as optimistic about the rest of the challenges still remain