In a quiet location and turn off any tvs or computers around you. We thank you for your cooperation. Places you on item number two. Roll call director lindsay. My apologies. Not used to going first present. Lindsay lindsay present. I see her joined. Yep director so present. So present. Director here. Present director. Karina. Present. Present directors eakin and hemingway are not expected today at todays meeting. However, you do have a quorum. And for the record, i know that director lindsay is attending this meeting remotely. Director kinsey is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting and in order to speak or vote on any items places you on. Item number three, the ringing and use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited. At this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing Electronic Devices places you on item number four approval of minutes for the july 18th regular meeting directors. Are there any changes to the july 18th minutes seeing none, well now open Public Comment for those attending the meeting in person. All right. No one lining up. Secretary silva, please go to remote Public Comment, please. At this time, well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. Each speaker will have two minutes. Moderator first speaker. Right. Can you hear me now . Yes great. David paypal two items on item on page three, item. Six, third paragraph. Chair you can share that she attended the juneteenth parade. Thanks staff and encouraged others. I would insert the word to encourage others to attend next year on page five, my Public Comment second line requested a discussion item was not regarding Automated Vehicle technologies. It was regarding a discussion item on electric transit vehicle technologies. Sorry, electric transit vehicle technologies at muni comma, and acknowledged annette williams, blah blah blah. Those are my requested changes. Thanks very much. Thank you. We have no additional callers. Thank you. Secretary silva. We will now close Public Comment. Colleagues, is there a motion to approve the minutes . Can we incorporate those changes . Secretary silva here, ill move the minutes as amended. Seconded please call the roll on the motion to approve the minutes with those corrections director, anz. I n d director. So so i director i deal i director i. I thank you. The minutes are approved. Places you on item number five communications. I have none. Thank you. Secretary silva. Directors are there any communications . Seeing none. We will now open a Public Comment to those attending the meeting in person. Oh, actually, for that item, we do not need to do that. We move on to the next item so we can move on to the next item. Then item number six and introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. Thank you, directors. Is there any new or Unfinished Business. Thank you so much, chair mahina. Acting chair for today and excuse me, colleagues, i have a couple of things this this week to mention. The first is i wanted to report back on oh goodness, i should have had this open the first thing i had. Yes. Here it is, was last week i went and visited about 30 of our custodial staff in the van nuys station. We have about 65 members of the custodial staff. And i had the pleasure and honor of meeting with about 25 of them in van ness and some of the folks whove been custodians with our agency have done it for over 20 years. And it was really wonderful to hear from them. Ask them whats working and what isnt, what it was like being on the front lines during the pandemic and just giving them some good Old Fashioned love and grace for all the hard work that they do. And so if its all right, christina would love to just show the image of the folks that i met while i acknowledge their names. Oh, come on. Iphone so from right to left, we have yifang wu, rick tong, ernest sevilla, leonardo cruz, jen lee, kirsten mcgarry, sandra goldsworthy, Francisco Paniagua sathyan kun. Huang yu. Lee shao rong chen ping pong chu chu hongmei qua tien chu, jiang chen jing, jiang chen rong chu, john zhong. And im there in front. So they were wonderful. And i just wanted to take a second and acknowledge them and thank them for all their hard work for our agency, keeping our stations clean and safe. The second thing i wanted to propose potentially, and i know i think internally we are thinking talking about this maybe director tomlin, i might be stealing some thunder from you tomorrow, but were about to hit the 150th year of our cable car system, of our historic rail car system. Excuse me. Right yes. And we also, unfortunately, had the passing of one of San Franciscos treasures and just wondering whether or not it would be theres an openness to naming one of the rail cars after the one and only tony bennett who died at age 96 recently. And so if there is, i think it would be a great way to honor mr. Bennett for all of his contributions to San Francisco. And the third and final thing is ive been having thoughts board about Market Street a lot. Ive been going up and down it and something really isnt working about Market Street. Weve taken cars off of Market Street, but in the absence of really active street life in all the kind of vacant storefronts our main thoroughfare feels empty and vacant. And it is something that is affecting so many of the businesses and the people who live and work around Market Street. There is a growing chorus of people who are saying that we should bring cars back to Market Street and reopen it to cars unless something, anything can happen on the street. Im not saying that we should do that. Im not proposing that. But what it has brought up for me is the fact that it does feel like in the postpandemic era, it might not be a bad idea to take a fresh, bold and interesting look at what we can do with Market Street in the interim. While we continue forth with our better Market Street project. Im thinking of turning Market Street into a real promenade, taking the lanes that are existing for cars and landscaping it, putting trees on Market Street, a redwood grove, a theater, music activations, something actually turning our Market Street into something totally different as a way to bring people back. Now i understand that this is not necessarily something that our agency can do alone, and im not actually saying that im not speaking on behalf of the board from this on this, but i think we shouldnt be afraid to take a fresh look at what is happening on this street, given the circumstances in our city right now. And so i want to plant the seed here in these comments as people start to advocate for bringing cars back to Market Street, to think about going in the other direction and leaning in to it as a car free street and actually turning it into a promenade, not unlike jfk was turned into as we thought about its eventual future. So consider the seed planted. Know that im interested in having crossdepartmental conversations about this idea as a maybe a few year pilot, perhaps from fifth to third. And with that i will accept all of the wrath and fury of everyone else in the city. Thank you. Thank you, director. Anymore and you are Unfinished Business or director. Do you want to comment on any of this . Id be happy to. With regard to the first request, we do have a formal request. And from Market Street railway relative to renaming a cable car after tony bennett at and i cannot speak to it any more than that and well defer all communications to Market Street railway, but let us know that request is being is currently under consideration. I can also tell you that we have been working with the Mayors Office of economic and Workforce Development along with various business interests along Market Street, thinking about what can be done to improve the vitality of the corridor and while we are not quite perhaps thinking big enough, we are thinking about a thousand small things. Things that would be really simple, like creating designated pickup and drop off zones for uber, lyft Autonomous Vehicles and taxis as well as improvements to the landscape and public realm and other ways in order to ensure that all of the businesses on long Market Street can get easy, pick up and drop off as well as deliveries and that people feel safe walking and taking transit on Market Street at all hours of day and night. But im encouraged by your Bold Thinking and would eagerly participate in an effort around rethinking Market Street. Thank you. Director tomlin, director, anz. Yeah exactly. Madam chair, if i could just one quick item. I did just want to let my colleagues know that i participated with the Mayors Disability Council at their meeting. They had a presentation from us, from our staff regarding accessible pedestrian signals for those who dont know, these are the signals that have that have the big button that blind and visually impaired folks can push and the signal talk to them and speaks to them and the council really pushed the staff on what it would take to implement apps at all intersections across the city. And they requested a plan for what that would take financial. So as we start to consider the budget and other policies around this, i started tuned on that. I think the councils going to have the staff back again. But i , i did just want to mention that item from the community as a request. So keep an eye out for that and welcome to our new colleague, director self. Thank you. Director kinsey. And i also know if thats it or did you want to comment on that . I also want to formally welcome the newest member of our team, director, lydia. So director so im so looking forward to the perspective that youre going to bring to the team. Im highly encouraged by all the things that ive read about you and cant wait to see you in action. Welcome to the team. Thank you. So now im really fully in action. Im sitting here and i am so happy to serve, continue to serve the city that i love alongside with all these amazing stars. Youre up here and also dialing in with with director haynes. Thank you for the welcome shout out and thank you for everyone here and many of you who are sitting in the audience that helped me to be where i am. I shout out to some former Planning Department staff, maya and a couple other ones. I just look forward to continue to be able to help our city and i have a left and right brain. Being an architect and also had done some amazing engineering that the war have never done using glass as a structural system. So i hope that with my perspective and my expertise, can bring a different perspective, then i just want to have everyone rise safely on muni, get out of the house, stepped out of the house, walked to the muni stop right it and feel safe and be proud to get to where they are and im happy to be here and anyone who would like to talk to me, you all know where to find me now. Certainly do. Thank you so much and welcome. And if we dont have any additional or Unfinished Business, will now open to Public Comment for those attending the meeting in person. Hey, board members. Luke bernheim here. I just wanted to thank director for raising Market Street as a priority for the agency. As you all know, during the pandemic, better Market Street was defunded, specifically the pedestrian and bike Facility Improvements at the time it was due to a lack of funding, but then when federal stimulus funding came in, those improvements were actually not backed back to the project. So it would be great to see more focus brought back to Market Street and actually make market what it was supposed to be as part of better Market Street and what many people in our community spent over ten years working towards for a vision of Market Street that has not been fulfilled. So thank you, director goodell and i hope to see the agency actually make that a priority. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. I dont see any additional comment for those in person. Secretary silva, please go to remote Public Comment at this time. Well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the public wishing to comment should dial star three to enter the queue. Each speaker will have two minutes. Moderator first speaker. Hi, this is stacy decker and im practically shaking. Thank you, director. You people. That is for your bold suggestion, is exactly the type of thinking that we need. This is exactly what Market Street needs. We dont need need our streets to be given over to cars. We need to look for novel ways. Actually, not novel. Its what the rest of the world does when they have amazing streets like market and valencia and castro and 24th and chestnut and union and countless others. We should be looking to take space that we give to Motor Vehicles and give it over to people and merchants the way it used to be over 100 years ago before the introduction of Motor Vehicles. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I hope that this idea goes forward and as rapidly as possible. Thank you so much. Thank you. We have no additional callers. Thank you. Secretary silva, close Public Comment. Secretary silva, please call the next item. Directors that places you on. Item number seven, the directors report. Were going to start off the directors report with the Transit Division special recognition transit director julie kirschbaum. Would you like to introduce our guests . Yes i am going to start by asking our chief transportation officer, brant jones, to come up with demetrius jackson. These are two of my favorite people that were honoring today. Demetrius and sammy demetrius has worked for the city for more than 24 years. She started as a station agent. She transitioned to transit supervisor. Then the highly technical role of train controller into her current role as dispatcher manager. Demetrius is truly one of transits mvps. Shes both an incredible systems thinker and a detail oriented leader. She understands the technical aspects of our safety critical business, and she excels at the people and cultural aspects of our work. And as a result, brant and i have a deep trust for her work and were really excited about her vision. Dispatchers play a number of roles in our system. They coordinate operator vacation, sick calls and training needs. They make sure all the service gets filled each day. And when we find ourselves in operator shortages, they also are the team that lets our Service Management team know where we could have gaps that need to be addressed. They also provide operators with critical safety and Service Information such as special events, infrastructure changes. And finally, they check in on operator wellness and they provide support providing the dispatchers the support they need in order to support our operators. Is that the foundation of demetrius work program . Since taking this new role three years ago, she has developed the Dispatcher Training Program and implemented year round training. Shes developed, helped the department recover from massive shortages during covid, growing the department by 50 while maintaining a high level of focus on Workforce Development. So shes been able to increase our numbers while also increasing our quality. T she has improved Standard Operating Procedures consisting of new job response abilities that emphasize safety and customer service. And shes focused on building a management and Administrative Team behind her so that she can occasionally take a day off. Not something that was actually possible during covid and well deserved. Demetria cares deeply about our operators and has worked hard to give dispatchers the tools that they need to set a new standard for dispatcher and operator interactions. When were operators see dispatchers as a resource and a sounding board and truly a partner in our work and this is something that brant and i worked on really hard together this morning. We feel like in our work theyre always bad days, but what makes you special . Demetrius is how you approach those bad days with resiliency and empathy. You continue to build on the good days, your enthusiasm, energy, compassion and efficiency are infect