Good morning everyone. Welcome to the september 26 meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority board. Im supervisor mandelman. I want to thank jason from sfgovtv. Our clerk elija saunders. Mr. Clerk, would you please call the roll . Chan absent. Commissioner dorsey. Dorsey absent. Commissioner engardio. Engardio present. Chair mandelman, present. Vice chair melgar, present. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner preston, present. Commissioner ronan, present. Commissioner safai, present. Commissioner stefani, present. Commissioner walton, present. Chair, we have quorum. Alright. Thank you mr. Clerk. I think you have a Public Comment announcement. I do. For members of the public interested in par ticipating we welcome. Or watch cable channel 26 or 99 depending on your provider or stream live at www. Sfgovtv. Org. Enter access code 2661, 6292260. And press pound and pound again. You will be able to listen to the meeting in real time. When Public Comment is called press star 3 to be added to the queue. Do not press star 3 again or you will be unmuted. The operator will advice you are allowed to speak. Calls will be taken in the order received. Best practice are speak slowly and clearly and turn down the volume. Public comment will be taken first from members in attendance and afterwards from remote speaker on the telephone line. Commissioner chan has entered and present. Thank you. Before calling our next item, i want to invoke rule 3. 26 to limit total Public Comment to 30 minutes. Each speaker has two minutes to speak on a given item unless i endicate otherwise at the start of that item. Mr. Clerk, will you please call our next item . Item 2, chairs report. Information item. Thank you mr. Clerk. Colleagues, as you know, september is transit month. I want to thank the San Francisco transit riders. Thanks to folks on the board who attended the kick off rally september 5 and participated in various activities throughout the month. It was a joy and delight to join vice chair melgar, commissioner dorsey and director chang this past weekday along with thousands of members at the caltrain event tour of the new electric trains that operate as the caltrain electrification project opening next fall, 2024. Thank you vice chair melgar for speaking on behalf of this board as well as supervisor dorsey. High speed rail at sales force transit. The ta provided 4 1000000 in prop k and one bay Area Grant Fund to support the electrification project which usher quite less polluting and faster Train Service serving communities along the line including the southeast sector through potential new station in the bayview. Thank you commissioner walton for serving as director on the caltrain jgb working with caltrain leaders on these exciting improvements. Another recent development is the legislature approval of ab645, the speed safety camera pilot bill from Assembly WomanLaura Friedman that authorize implementation of speed Safety Cameras in six cal cities including San Francisco. I focused on the need for sfpd to step enforcement of unsafe traffic behaviors and will hold a hearing on that at our pss committee at the board of supervisors this thursday september 28 beginning at 10 a. M. Thank colleagues and Community Members for your support on the effort. I want to thank walk sf, bay area safe streets, commissioner peskin and commissioner dorsey and broad state Wide Coalition that advocated to get this speed safety camera bill to the governors desk for signature. We need this tool along with sfpd Traffic Enforcement and all the other tools to counter the sad disturbing increase in severe and fatal crashes, including the tragic death of a child and two seniors in the past month alone on our streets. I submitted to Governor Newsom [indiscernible] vision zero strategies implementing later on this morning agenda. Finally, as many of you probably all of you know and experience yourselves, San Francisco has seen a steady increase in selfdriving cars and now the epicenter of driverlessthe California PublicUtility Commission approved expansion of driverless av permits in San Francisco. We had advocated for more limited incremental expansion out of consideration for the continued Emergency Response conflicts among other concerns, crews and wamo can provide Driverless Service in San Francisco 24 7 and no restriction on the size of the fleets. Crews did reduce the fleet by half following a crash with responding Sf Fire Department truck at the request of the california dmv. Thanks to City Attorney david chui and staff working with our city av team to file a motion to stay and rehear the cpuc decision on the av permits. I know lots share the concerns and have questions about this topic of av policy and note this has been a state wide and National Area of discussion within the disability and Labor Community as well. In particular, i want to thank commissioner peskin who has been very much taking the lead on sounding the alarm on these issues. I look forward to a robust discussion on National State and local regulatory policy at that time and with that, i will conclude my remarks and i see no comments or questions, so lets see if there is any Public Comment. Anyone in the chamber has Public Comment, come forward and if not, see if there is remote Public Comment on item 2. Checking for remote Public Comment on item 2. Chair, there is no Public Comment. Alright. Public comment on item 2 is closed. Mr. Clerk, please call our next item. Item 3, executive director report. This information item. Good morning chair, commissioners. Begin my report this morning with good news that San Francisco has received three caltrans Sustainable TransportationPlanning Grant awards in the recent months. It was really a pleasure to hear out of the entire state wide San Francisco received 2. 3 million including 474 thousand to Caltrain Joint Powers Authority for Climate Change vulnerability study to address the impact along the caltrain corridor. In addition, bart received 515 thousand for its embarcadero structure longterm adaptation project to look to see how they might adapt their infrastructure along that corridor and are then the sfmta together with port of San Francisco received over 1. 3 million for embarcadero mobility resilience plan, so those will be coordinating along the embarcadero corridor. This is a great outcome and congratulate all four agencies. Thank the staff for their investment helping make San Francisco infrastructure these areas more resilient. Turn to outreach. Just wanted to note the Bayview Caltrain station location study has upcoming outreach. As you recall, this is study to advance a single preferred location of the two remaining options at oak dale and evans. Since the closure of paul avenue back in 2005. So, we have been advancing work on the study including preliminary Station Design options. Seeking community input. The Team Presented so far to the Bayview Hunter point and ship yard cac and host oorlth outreach at the hunter point ymca10 30 a. M. October 14. More information can be found at the project website, sfcta. Org bayviewcaltr ain. Also the Planning Team are working on brotherhood way safety circulation plan. Outreach launch this month and into negative. Connecting with Community Based neighborhoods organizations to introduce the outreach approach and are details about the first round of outreach which begins in november. This will focus on the transportation access needs and barriers. Multimodal challenges in that high need and high area traffic area focus. Including pedestrian and bike access. So will be incorporating these into subsequent coordination with the state as close to the interchange of highway 1 right in the southwest sector. Next, just want to highlight district 4 Community Shuttle outreach. This is a shuttle to look at a Business Case for serving the sunset area with potentially different kinds of on demand shuttles. This could be implemented perhaps in the next year or two following the study and we are right now in the process of serving the community about tradeoffs in terms of Different Service attributes. Also include focus group with merchant senior and Community Based organizations. Encourage folks to look for the survey, both online and contact our Planning Team at the Transportation Authority as well. We have Deputy Director for planning who can help engage folks who may need access to that study. We also will hope to bring that report back to you all in early 2024. Turning to project delivery. The brada light rail vehicle overhaul is complete. The overhaul of the prior fleet of 149 light rail vehicles that is being used out and bringing on the scene to replace, about there are still some of them that need to be operating so thank you to sfmta overhauling the fleet. Turning to school engineering. Prop k funded School Audits are complete. Sfmta finished walk audit reports and improvements at five schools Aptos Middle School [indiscernible] loten elementary, mission prep and are paul revers in district 9. 95 potential improvements across all the 5 schools, 20 have been completed. Each school does have a budget of about 50 thousand for their near term improvements. Staff implemented starting in september earlier summer of 23 and anticipate completing improvements winter of 24. Just want to thank them again. This includes measures such as signs, curb paint, roadway paint and speed humps, raised cross walks and signal timing modifications. Turning to additional traffic calming in the bayview. Commissioner walton i think sfmta celebrated the completion of 8 new traffic calming devices along gilman avenue and [indiscernible] that is really great news. Very much needed. This is near especially bret heart element. This project is funded by a prop k grant of 3 million. Golden gate avenue and laguna street paving. That project is also substantially completed. Happy to report it is 3 million grant as well from the prop k program. This would be golden gate and laguna. Van ness to divisadero and haight to golden gate and turk to pine street. This is about 36 blocks of pavement renovation, construction, retrofitting of 21 curb ramps and new sidewalk construction so thank you to sfmta for that work and public works. Joyce alley district 3, the lighting Improvement Project a very small modest one, but very key to china town has been completed. This is is to help make the sidewalk inviting and safer near gordon elementary and cable car line and new subway station at rose pac. [indiscernible] the new lighting and ta provided 500 thousand in prop aa vehicle Registration Fee funds to support that project. Two more. The sfmta bike rack instillation around the city is making great progress. Mta completed another traunch,ic about 1400 bike racks installed with funding from the Transportation Fund for clean air from the air district we administer for the air district. The board approved this round back in june, so want to take a moment to highlight the progress mta continues to make and appreciate that approximately 30 percent of the racks are in equity priority communities over the last few years. Members of the public can continue to request instillation of new bike racks by visiting sfmta. Com gettingaround. Fulton Street Safety project completed the last final piece. The speed radar sign on fulton at 16 and 39, these were the final elements of the fulton Street Safety project in district 1 and funded by district 1 neighborhood and tip funds from the prop k sales tax and again this started with Community Driven process to identify safety imprubments along fulton and installed various other improvements including painted safety zones and intersection daylighting and with bike signals along with a new paved path to Golden Gate Park at 22 avenue for cyclists. Turning to a few admin updates, i was recently privileged to attend the its australia summit in melbourne as a member of the u. S. Dot sponsored federal highway delegation. Included panel and discussion with europe and asia on connected and Autonomous Vehicles and av regulation. Ologist talks btd net zero transportation policy. Honored to give short talks on both topics and was able to tour the melbourne tunnel project at 9 kilometer 4 station subway under construction in the heart of melbourne and shared a lot of lessens learned from our tunnel projects as part of that exchange. The long time director of communication eric young departed after 10 years. He is now moving to the port of San Francisco where we wish him all the best and so want to thank eric for his tenure and contributions and also note we are now recruiting for a successor director of communication and more information on that position is on the website, sfcta. Orgment thank you so much. Thank you director chang. Lets open your report to Public Comment. If anyone in the chamber who would like to talk about item 3, come forward and if there is no one, lets see if we have remote Public Comment on item 3. There is Public Comment. Let me go to the caller. Welcome caller, your two minutes begins now. Good morning commissioners. I just want to share that im extremely excited about the director changs visit to the melbourne project and i look forward hearing more about what she learned down there. In closing, i would like to echo a comment about eric young. I had the opportunity to interact with eric multiple times over the last 10 years. [indiscernible] launched the autonomous shuttles on the Treasure Island and as always eric was [indiscernible] he was knowledgeable and extremely helpful. I will miss him and wish him the best. Thank you. Thank you caller. There is no additional Public Comment. Alright. Public comment on item 3 is closed. Mr. Clerk, please call item 4. Item 4, approve the minutes of september 12, 2023 meeting. Action item. Any Public Comment on the minutes in the chambers . Not seeing any. Lets see if there is remote Public Comment on item 4 . There is no remote Public Comment on item 4. Okay. Public comment item 4 is closed. Motion to approve the minutes . Moved by preston, seconded by dorsey. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll on item 4. [roll call] there are 11 ayes, the minutes are approved. Thank you mr. Clerk. Please call our consent aagenda items 59. 59 comprise consent. Staff ist noplanning to present on these items, but available for questions. Is there a motion to approve the Consent Agenda . Moved by walton, seconded by melgar and think we can talk that same house same call without objection. The Consent Agenda is passed. I think we have jen wong, the sfmta quickbuild Program Manager. Hello and good morning. Jen wong. I am a transportation planner and also the vision zero quickbuild Program Manager at San Francisco mta. Today ill provide a update on various projbects of this program. As i was initially invited to by members of the cac. Ill begin with valencia street. Hold up. You have a slide show you are trying to show . Yes. There we go. Do we want to take a couple minute break to sfgov, can you please share the slides . Are we happy . We can see slides. It is not the ideal format, but do we want to just go with it . That seems excellent. We had one moment of likewas exactly right. There you go. You got it. You are good. Success. Take it away