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The chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing electronic device. This places you on item four approval of minutes for the october 3rd regular meeting. Thank you directors with any changes to the october 3rd Meeting Minutes hearing none open Public Comment for those in the room on item 4th october third Meeting Minutes and seeing none, please go to remote at this time well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a 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. No speakers. Okay. Close Public Comment. Is there a motion motion to approve the minutes . Second. Second please call the roll on the motion to approve the minutes. Director hemminger a hemminger. Director henderson. Henderson and director. Hinsey hi director. So i. So director Uchitel Uchitel i director kahina. I. I kahina chehregan. I ekin. I thank you. The minutes are approved. Places you are on item number five communications. I have none. Moving on to item number six introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Okay colleagues, are there items of new and Unfinished Business . I see you, director uchitel. Id like to open with one new and unfinished item, which is i had asked previously our new directors director so and director henderson to share a few reflections on their priorities coming into the meeting, into the board and i know you had a chance to share priorities with the staff at a town hall, and i wondered if we could just turn the mic to you all to share a couple reflections on your priorities for your service. Thank you. Chair. Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. Welcome back. Many and i my priorities are pretty consistent. I think everyone had already hear it many, many times. And but i am really appreciative of putting it on this form. Um, because its become an agenda item and then we are going to set some of these items interactions in our next year. So my first foremost priority is Public Safety, but thats a really broad item. So i wanted to distill down to a few things that i think it could be in immediately actionable. So, so its a safe ridership on Public Transportation is what i really want to focus. And precisely it touches along vision zero. That is something that we all really wanted to get better at and we are working to get better at this and i wanted to see that we have this thing. Imagine every parents feel confident and safe to let their own children to ride muni to schools and after School Programs just as simple as that. I understand that this is not something that in our own agency we can single handedly to achieve that because there is so much it takes to how to get these kids to be on the street and get to the stop and safely wait for our muni and then get on and get off. So i would like to continue to work and foster more, relate with our Police Department and some other community. His group to help us to achieve this priorities that i want to have because thats a very important thing. Everyone has kids and everyones friends has kids. Not everyone, but we all understand. We all are kids once. So that is my priority number one. And my second priority is reaching out to more culturally appropriate community outreach, focusing on people look like me and people look like like they are a minority in this city. So Racial Equity and belonging is something that i hold really dear to and i carry it on from my previous experience in the Arts Commission and then in the Planning Department in this commission called Historic Preservation commission. And so i would love to continue you to see we i think our agency had a really robust program. So i would love to continue to elevate us to continue to adapt and be very, very culturally, appropriately reaching out to our different communities and especially in our community stations. So the third one is my priority is focusing on how can we find more money, more funding and i because this is this is really important, you know, at the end of the day, we need that gas. We need that juice to run. And precisely i see this as not just a local issue, as a regional issue. So we have to really think really outside of the box. And i would love to have a lot of creative thinking of people here and also whoever else is listening to. Im like really tapping into my friend us who have done Amazing Things themselves and just to see what can we do locally and also regional in the state level and federal level, because i think that this will really help us and to solve one piece of the puzzle or to better position our agency to be competitively to hire staff with a purposeful skill sets that are ready to face our current and future challenges. Thats it. Thats all i have to say. Thank you so much, director. So its really helpful to hear your priorities. Director henderson good afternoon, everyone, and thank you, chair, for allowing me the opportunity to share with you all a little bit about the priorities that i see. I pretty much am in alignment with with what director soul offered. I think that safety is really important. Safety on our systems, but also safe neighborhoods. I am a hauser by profession and so part of my every day job is to make sure that im creating communities that people want to live in, feel safe in. And part of that, i think, is our ability through this agency to really connect neighborhoods, make certain parts of San Francisco so that oftentimes are under the radar or or a little bit on the edges of the map. Make them accessible. You know, the hills dont make the city super easy to traverse. So i think that we really do have an opportunity to ensure that folks, whether they live in the center of the city or on the periphery, are able to access shops, health care, to have stable housing and stable neighborhoods and really are able to enjoy their neighborhood and parts of the city that they may not necessarily be visit often, but it doesnt take forever to get there. And i hope that i hope that we are able to focus while im here on on really creating neighbor hoods that families, that individuals that people can enjoy and feel safe in, safe walking down the streets, wide sidewalks. I think its so, so important to create a sense of place and so i look forward to learning more, but also contributing to creating that throughout the city and especially in areas where where they historically have have not had those types of amenities. I also really prioritize equity and want to make sure that those neighborhoods that ive mentioned across the city are adequate represented, have that seat at the table, have the voice at and are open for business. Just like just like other areas. I really want to make sure that the mta can continue to make the city excel and surpass all of the expectations that we have to be the great place to live that ive grown up in and that that i hope to, you know, be in forever really. And then finally and i think that, you know, its funny that find the money but also ensuring that we are caretakers of this resource that we ensure that the fiscal and financial viability of this agency is top tier and top notch, that were able to have a successful the next 100, 150 years of our Transit Systems building and building neighborhoods and commuter city. I think its one thing to create place, but really to create that sense of community. And i think ensuring that the Financial Stability of this agency long term will make sure that we can create that community, that that that is so important. And so i look forward to all the work that well do here together. And id thats it. Thank you so much. Yes. Really really grateful to both of you for sharing some some thoughts and just as a reminder for everyone, this was a question i asked all the members of the board at our february workshop at the beginning of this year, and were closer now to the january workshop next year than we are to that one. So well have another opportunity to revisit priorities. But its helpful for me as chair to know your priorities and i also think for staff and ensuring that we make sufficient air time at these meetings and Staff Resources are allocated to those priorities. So really appreciate that other members of the board, director yakusho. Thank you so much. Chair eken and im so excited to see both of my new colleagues get all that shit done. And i believe that you can. I also see the fire marshals in the room, so i just want to acknowledge him. Thank you for being here. Fire marshal coughlin and. I. I have some new business a lot of you may have heard. Maybe you didnt hear that i spent the last week and a half in israel, pretty much in and out of bomb shelters and decided to throw myself into the volunteer effort that had been going on there to collect donated items and deliver it to families who are suffering and being there was deeply inspired bring. I saw thousands of people come together, old and young people from all walks of life. And i actually was able to see in front of me what it looks like when a whole community can come together to get things done, to put their differences aside and work as a unit. And it reminded me of why i am in this work. It reminded me of why i consider myself an organizer and an activist and why i came to San Francisco. It inspired me and frankly, when i came back a few days ago, it made me really reconsider everything about about what im doing and how i spend my time and what motivates me and what lights me on fire. And so because of that, i decided that this is going to be my last meeting as an sfmta director and that im going to be leaving the board. I have so much respect for this agency and i know its tough because we just got our full board. I have respect for the agency. I have respect for you all, and i have even more respect for the thousands and thousands of workers who allow us to do what we do. So im really, really proud of what weve been able to accomplish on this board. Navigating our aging agency through a once in a century dark time and a pandemic, and being in the trenches with all of you on fucking Microsoft Teams building the jfk promenade and building dozens of miles of transit only lanes, creating a new slow streets network, pushing this agency to create a connected network of bike lanes, helping institute a first in the nation. Text before tow program re negotiating our contract with Clear Channel to clean our bus shelters and get them looking like we want them to look like and helping. Working alongside jeff, tom and julie to get our internal house in order. Im so proud of where this agency is now and all that weve been able to accomplish together over the last three years that ive been on this board. I have absolute confidence in the sf mta i have confidence in all of you and im so excited to cheer you guys on from the sidelines working with directors ly and board and brinkman eken kahena hemminger. So henderson and hinsey has been one of the great honors of my life. This is a varsity team and im so proud of what weve been able to do together. So thank you for making me feel so welcome. Thank you for giving me this opportunity and for believing in me. Ive only just gotten started. And that is my new business is. Who i know. Is there a motion to approve or disapprove . I make a motion to reject the premise of director leaving colleagues. I know this is probably shocking news, so i want to make some space. Not necessarily today, but at a future meeting. For some remarks and reflections and gratitude for director yekutiel. Once you can gather your thoughts, obviously, if anyone would like to add anything now, please feel free. But he has committed to me to come to at least one more meeting to be recognized for his service so we could do that. The next meeting perhaps. Okay are there any other items of new or unfinished. Director . So. Ill take this moment to say a few words because this is my new favorite neighbor for a few times in the past few months. And you or two. But is like to soon you are a legend. I always i met many many years ago in a lot of community benefiting event and hes always so enthusiastic about everything that is for the community and i live in the mission so many cafe is always the corner where i will hang out with my girlfriends, you know, and seeing the place had looking really spiffy. And jesse now for me, it was before and im going to miss you a lot. I will take some moment to process what i also need to say more glorified version of what i feel about you. But i just feel a little missing you, you know, like youre just going to be an empty seat, you know . And but i think that the work that you do throw yourself out there in this past ten days where everyone was fleeting and trying to find a place to leave, you actually jump into the fire to help really, really, really. Really hit really hit me. You know, its like that selfless of courage to go out and do your part. And thats i had you have my highest respect for you for to do that im just really grateful that you come home and safely and also use your ability to continue to do what you feel is the best use of your talent and your influence and advocating for the cause that you care for your. Yes. And this is really heavy and it trumped over what i actually wanted to also share. And that is something that i thought thats also really important and its a different topic, but many i just really, really appreciate you and were going to continue to be working on a lot of other issues in other capacities, right . So im going to share another thing i wanted to share for last week. I attended well, this month is the Filipino American filipino heritage month. So last week i got some time to actually i got invited to our Cable Car Museum and actually did that celebration with our Filipino American asian friends and colleagues and staff and even our fellow i believe hes in enai commission. Al perez was there Asian Heritage aapi, Asian Pacific islander heritage month organizer. So and our favorite secretary, christine, was there, too. And it was a really great moment where our equity, Racial Equity and belonging group find their time and actually some of the manager went across town to their favorite filipino stores to buy the best lumpia to share with everyone. And it was a very warm getting together moment in also in a very unsettled time of our current world. And i think its always good to take a moment and really reach out to our neighbors and friends and people that you you know or you dont know and you just get get together and celebrate each others press alliance. And this is very important. I actually was saying that we every year were going to go bigger. Right, christine . Every year were going to go bigger and do more celebration because i am aware of that. We have a lot of Filipino American in our agency, see, and i love all of them. They all have their talent and they spend overnight to decked out the cable car with the history of all the significant Filipino Americans that had contributed not only to San Francisco, but the history of transportation in our city. So that was very important. And i want to share it to everyone. And please ride the cable car with me next year. Okay. If theres nothing further from my colleagues, i will open this item for Public Comment for anyone attending the meeting in person. Board members. Luke bornheimer. I missed mannys share director eukaryal share. So i dont know exactly what was said, but i gather that Director Director is stepping down or stepping away from the board. Im saddened to hear that and i really appreciate the service that youve given our city, what youve done here, what youve done for our city. Beyond this board. And yeah, im sad to hear that, but hopeful for your future and whatever that brings. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, stacy randecker. I first just wanted to say i was so thrilled to hear your priorities. Director so and director henderson kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, kids. The only thing i would say is can we also get them to bike to school, to the bus . Is top notch. Yes. We want muni. My kids are muni kids, but i wish they could have been bike kids to you and making places. Oh my god. Are we could have so many places if we just prioritized people instead of Motor Vehicle throughput in our city. And we really need to look for those spaces where we can bring people together, you know, and our merchant corridors, we have so many spots and on the east side of the city is doesnt have enough. I live in potrero and its like i have to go on vacation to the west side to get a