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Operator this question is now in question and answer mode. To alert the speaker, you have a question, press zero. Each question will be heard in the way it was received. This is Public Comment for minutes on june 30th. So if you wish to address the board on the minutes, dial 10 now. There are no callers. Chair Public Comment is closed. Motion to approve. Chair is there a second . Second. Chair secretary boomer, can you please call the role. role call . Five communications, madam chair. Item 13 regarding the caltrian sales tax has been removed at the request of staff and proposing amendments to the board of directors and we will schedule a special meeting for members of the public to hear our item and for us to act. If you wish to address the directors today on this topic, you can do so under general Public Comment on ite ....
Tumlin will talk about this, but last week we did have a press event with supervisors peskin and preston announcing that we will be delaying our fare increases. Obviously when we were voting upon that fare increase, we could not have understood the magnitude of what was before us and not to mention we didnt really have a path forward in being able to fund the operations, so i want to thank you supervisors peskin and preston for working with us to come up with solutions which i cannot tell you what they are today. But to look at how we can fill those funding gaps which primarily effect us in year two of the budget cycle, not so much in year one. That will be coming back to us in the future. And also with that we will not be having a Charter Amendment related to sfmta. Thank director tumlin for his work in working with the supervisors, and just say it was a pleasure to be there to represent the board last week at kirkland lard. A ....
To regularly check in on individuals living in hotels to reduce isolation and support on site staff. We believe in San Francisco and in our community to set this up so people can shelterinplace. It is going to take all of our creativity and strength, but we are built for this. Thank you. Is the city working with homelessness related outreach groups to transition people to hotel rooms. If so which groups and what role do they play . I think i understand the question. I will answer as best i can. As we move to as director rohr said we are working on sheltered and unsheltered 60 and over people with preexisting conditions. We will work with Homeless Outreach but we are not ready for that yet. We will provide more information in the coming days how to bring them inside and we are working with those with covid19 cases. We are getting to scale rapidly and look forward to providin ....