we re sad to have the director not joining us and i know she s on the call and i d like to open it up to directors and i ll start with brinkman. thank you, very much, chair board and it s going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and we re a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we won t have to sensor ourselves at all. thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. director eakin. thank you. christina, director rubke, it s been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. you bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. you are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. i ve learned so much from you and i really join director borde
combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. that s what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people don t like it and some people do we re concerned about that. it s about thirty something out there that s risky. you know, disliked by someone torn apart and that s the whole point of what we re drying to do you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. amendments to the amendments. the corrected minutes were reposted yesterday as requested. a directors, do we have a motion for the reposted minutes for the may 19 meeting? so moved. second. all in favor? before we do, we should see if there are minutes of the public who wish to address the board. my mistake. open up for public comment on this item. to the amended minutes that were recirculated from may 19
watching this meeting via sfg tv who wish to address the board call 888-808-6929 and press 9961164. all right. we will wait a moment to see if there are members of the public who wish to address the board with respect to the amended minutes of may 19. director borden, put yourself on mute. all right. moderator is telling us there are no callers. seeing of no callers s the floor closed officially? yes, madam chair t moderator will close public comment for the minutes. and there is still a roll call vote on the minutes? a yes, madam chair. director borden. aye. director brinkman? dr. brinkman, unmute. aye. dr. eaken? aye. heminger. and that is approved by unanimous approval. item 5, communication. before i get into the extensive directions here, i just wanted to say a few words because we are coming together in a tumultuous time in our city, our state, our country. and we are seeing ravage of a legacy of systemic racism that has been ignored and been ove
we re watching up on some of that work as well as completing the westportal cross over that the former director advocated for. we should be able to complete the westportal cross over in time for the restorative rail service allowing us to be able to potentially offer three-car shuttles in the subway between westportal and embarcadero stations. we re also moving forward rapidly on the van ness improvement projects and the lack of transportation on van ness avenue and it has been able to allow the crews to accelerate the sewer and water work that s been the source of so much of the disruption on that street and that work is continuing quickly and it means that we ll be able to start the sfmta portion of that project and the transit portion starting this spring. i ll remind you all, that while the sfmta is in the lead of the brt project, none of our work has started yet. the work for creating the bus rapid transit line so we re very much looking forward to that work getting movi
start with brinkman. thank you, very much, chair board and it s going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and we re a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we won t have to sensor ourselves at all. thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. director eakin. thank you. christina, director rubke, it s been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. you bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. you are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. i ve learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your insights. thank you so much for your eight years of service and encoura