Elp you in a lot of these other areas, and lot of the issues that people are talking about. Thank you very much for your cooperation and for your look at this. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. My name is perry jones, im a San Francisco native. First of all, i would you tell me like to give thanks to the office of cannabis for allowing the work theyre doing and the Community Group in the audience thats been showing support towards the development of upcoming operators and entrepreneurs such as myself that have been impacted by the w. O. D. , the war on drugs. Mainly i hope that it doesnt be tok tokenizeked when it comes to those who live in this community, and business owners, being able to contribute to the committee and give back, and some of us who have been taken away from the community to have the opportunity to give back. Having a collective with the permitting, we all know that San Francisco is expensive to live in and to start a business. When it comes to planning and commissioning, it seems that its red lined. What it takes to get through a conditional hearing, it takes a lot. It makes us investable. Who will want to invest when you have to wait a certain amount of time. Just as the terms are permitable, i think it would be a good idea to have people in these groups to do business with each other and we nvr had a chance to do that. I think it would be a good thing and way for us to contribute back to our community. There is money that could be made, opportunities that could be made and also showing the different face of business when it comes to cannabis, which use to be a taboo. Thank you, next speaker. Hello again. Even though everything has already been said, i would like to say and let the record reflect and let the city know that i am also too impacted by the war on drugs being born and raised in bay view, Hunters Point but im not necessarily looking to be a dispensary. Im not looking to be a cultivator, so im being left out of the movement because those are the only things lined up. I am an educator. I have spent 30 years of my life going to school trying to be an educator, an activist and voice for the community. The funds released could help me start the california lets talk cannabis movement. I didnt initiate that. That came out of california. Thats the movement that california, the Public Health is using to get the conversations going so that we can educate the youth, so that our youth wont be thinking they can drive around smoking weed. I dont need to be a dispenser, but i do need to benefit from the aftermath of the war on drugs. Thank you. [applause] good morning, my name is rami. I am an equity applicant. The citys concern for this piece of clean up legislation is in vain until funds are dispersed from the Community Investment fund through the office of cannabis for the purposes of workforce development, commercial real estate, and investment funding. Thank you. Thank you. If there are any other members of the public that would like to speak, please line up so we can go one right after the other. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning supervisorser terrance allen, served as your three year chair of the Cannabis Legalization Task force. Ive been taking time to build my own equity business in the castro. I come before you because there are three legs that youre hearing the Community Speak of. One is the need to release and invest in the equity programs that you all established so carefully. The second is one that i thought i would never stand in front of a public body and say, the need to begin the conversation about moving those that remain in the unregulated market into the regulated market. We have a very draconian policy that says if enforcement hears that youre in the unregulated market, then youre banned for 10 years. That draconian policy does not afford the opportunity of the cannabis, the office of cannabis to move people into the regulated market. We need to give them the power of coercion, suggestion, and the beginnings of enforcement for that to happen because those who have been waiting in line for the regulated market are running out of resources to do that and those who maintain 1 foot in the unregulated market seem to have an unlimited amount of money due to black market sales. So, with those two things, i urge you to move this forward and the third, the office of cannabis was never designed to handle 300 permit applications. We have to give them immediate resources to get this project moving, whether a City Department can give up those resources after they have them is a question for the future, but if we dont afford those resources now, this entire Program Continues to grind as opposed to ushering forward a new day for San Francisco and their equity members. Thank you very much. Thank you, any other member of the public wish to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor walton. Thank you. First of all before i make a motion, i do want to say that i share the same concerns about not allowing cooperatives, but in this case were bound by state law so were making a change and hopefully that changes in the future. This is definitely administrative to being in line with state law. I do have a quick question. Can i move to duplicate the file and amend a new file with the circulated amendment or do i have to do them one at a time . You can duplicate the file as a single supervisor, you dont need to make a motion to that. Just say i like to duplicate the file and then you can amend either one or the other. I like to duplicate the file and amend the new file with circulated amendments that strike the reference to the name change in the new file. Thank you. Oh, to amend. I wanted to make a couple comments. Thank you. I, i just wanted to i do think we have to make these amendments in order to comply with state law. I wanted to echo a lot of the concerns i heard from the public, particularly the Community Reinvestment fund, anxious to get that funded and distributed so that we can make equity real in this industry and right the wrongs of the failed drug war that has decimated so many communities. So i just, you know, i dont think we should stop these cosmetic well not cosmetic changes, but these changes to comply with state law, in order to get to the meaty work we need to do in order to have some reparations injustice in these communities, but i just wanted to make that comment that im anxious to get that work under way and its a huge priority as well. With that, i will second the motion to amendment the duplicated file and without objection that motion passes, and then the original or that duplicated file is the one then that we will send to the full board and im happy to make a motion to send that with positive recommendation. Without objection, that motion passes. [gavel] thank you very much. And the action on the original file . And the original file, if we could leave it in committee to the call of the chair, that would be great. That will be continued to the call of the chair. Thank you, we are very encouraged by your remarks over the Community Reinvestment fund and funding it because i think its very important and needed. Thank you. So. So much. Make sure i have this correct. The file has been duplicated. The original file has been continued to the call of the chair. The duplicated version has been amended, and referred as amended to the board. Yes, thats right. Thank you. Thank you so much. And if you could please call item number 7. Item number 7 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to affirm the county agricultural Commissioners Authority under state law to certify and inspect Farmers Markets and producers, and to enforce state law governing the direct marketing of Agricultural Products to consumers. Thank you, claudia, the director of the Real Estate Division. Before you is an ordinance amending the administrative code dealing with Farmers Markets, including the city owned and operated a main any flea and Farmers Market. Its the longest operating Farmers Market in california. Most are operated by nonprofits and receive public funds or private fundraisings efforts. The Real Estate Division, which took over responsible from the parcel and the operations of the mark over a decade ago increased fees because they have not been increased for over a decade and cover expenses for the operation of the site and the markets because it runs as a deficit. That would close the gap, but it wouldnt completely get rid of it. We did a survey of other markets in the area and for example, a heart of the city, which is in the u. N. Plaza, a nonprofitly run but received a lot of gifts and private funds charges 55 a stall per day. Thats more than what were proposing. We sent the proposed change in fees to the city attorney, who then under took and rewrote the entire sections because it hadnt been done in so long and there were things that needed to be cleaned up. It relasz places the agricultural commissioner. The agricultural commissioner is not a building or facility or Land Management person. It doesnt have the resources to operate and manage the facility in the markets. The Real Estate Division has been managing and operating the land for over a decade. It transfers responsibilities from the agricultural commissioner to the director of property to approve applications for permits to sell products at the city operated Farmers Market. It allows the director of permits or suspensions there of. It allow it is director property to impose fees and to appoint and form an Advisory Committee for the alamani Farmers Market and guidelines to rule the market. The heart of it is to increase the fees that an individual farmer and or flea market vendor would pay. Currently its 50 a day, just during the summer, we would like to raise it to 50 a day all year round. It wouldnt go down 10 during the winter months. If a farmer went everyday that the Farmers Market is open and its open every single day, every saturday of the year, they only closed once, that particularly farmer would pay an additional 240 a year in fees. The vendors, which are usually food trucks, would pay 85 a day, up from 60 a day, pretty much what theyre having to pay in other markets. Thats why we went to that. The fees for the flea market vendors would be 50 a day, which is just every sunday, up from 45. The revisions also increase the certification fees paid by the markets themselves. So the markets have to be certified. We are a certified Farmers Market. That certification is done by the agricultural commissioner under the department of Public Health. They are recommending that the Farmers Markets with less than 16 vendors stay at 500. Markets with 16 to 45 vendors go up to 1,000 per year from 500 and markets with over 45 vendors would be 1,500 a year, up from 500. The department of Public Health can wave the fee for city operated Farmers Markets. We would ask them to allow us to wave our fee. It also authorizes the agricultural commissioner to charge 113 per hour for inspections unrelated to the issuance modification or renewal of a Farmers Market renewial certification. And also fining the illegal use of the premises. There have been car shops and others that go on to the property because its a huge vacant space and actually set up businesses and try to run businesses on the market. We had to kick them out when there wasnt a law to do that, it was very difficult to have the police enforce it. We just asked them to do that. Were putting up gates, which we think will prevent anything from occurring in the illegal use of the site. The agricultural commissioner had to leave, he had another meeting. Im here if you have any general questions. Yes, im wondering what outreach you done to the farmers themselves. I know in the relative scheme of things, not the hugest increase, but it could be substantial. So there wasnt any formal. We dont have that committee anymore. It was years ago, i think it was when it first came over to the real estate commission. We had a committee which consisted of the various people that the mayor chose and farmers and the manager. People left, other people didnt want to do anymore and it was no longer in existence. Thats why were putting it back in the code so we can have it under the direct property. Both the manager on site and the manager, her supervisor walk the stalls every saturday, basically. So when we kind of did this, i think they did an informal test of it and they know who will be there during the winter and who isnt. Not all the vendors sell during the winter because they dont sell winter crops. They get other vendors that come in to do it. They didnt seem to be bothered and half of them felt they were paying that any way. They didnt know they were being charged less during the winter months. They didnt think it would be a very large issue. Supervisor walton. Thank you, just along those lines, why the additional 244 vendors that are there more frequent . It seems that you said vendors who are there more frequently well, thats just if a farmer went every saturday, the whole year round, that would be the additional cost. Most of them dont go all year round. You have summer ones and winter ones. Got it. Thank you very much. Really appreciate it. Thank you. We will open this item up for Public Comment. Feel free to come forward if you like to speak. Good morning, or good afternoon, i keep saying that. Good afternoon, my name is ashley. Im speaking on behalf of what this lady is just talking about. I lived my family lived at 376 bradford street since 1962. I was born i was raised right there at the alamanis Farmers Market. I feel this is overblown as far as the outrageous changes in the prices and the opportunities for people to have an opportunity to make some money down there or be involved in it. It looks kind of like shedding people, shedding vendors out and other vendors come in. I dont really know. I do believe that to do this, they do need some type of committee, some type of investigation to find out the difference in what is going and whats not happening there because it is something that really worked for the people that are there, all the people that come there on saturday is awesome. So, i dont know how the vendors i dont really know. I just happen to be here to hear this, but i live right there. I know about performance market. She also spoke about the sunday where they do the flea market there and my time is up, but a lot needs to be done in regards to the clean up, in regards to the stuff thats around there on sunday, if you would come by and see how that is. A lot more needs to be done and i dont know where, but ill see whats going on. Thank you. Thank you so much. Any other member of the public wishing to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] im going to comment because im the supervisor of the area where the Farmers Market is. In my conversations with folks at the markets, they seen increases for some time. I think it will be okay and its not going to dissuade people from selling at the market. I would also sorry, were not allowed to have a conversation. Im happy to talk to you after the Committee Meeting is over, but i also just wanted to let you know that this is a site in the district that i had my eye on forever. Its both an incredible blessing for the neighborhoods on the two days that its operating and can cause some issues on the five days that its empty. We are looking into the possibility of what we can do to activate that site all the time without ever disrupting the market because its such a historic and plays an Important Role in the neighborhood. To be continued, if you have a couple minutes to stay after. This is the last item. I would love to chat with you about it. Moving forward on this item, im happy to make a motion to send this forward with positive recommendation and it looks like theres no objection. Without objection, that motion passes. Mr. Clerk are there any other items on the agenda to . That completes the agenda for today. Then the meeting is adjourned. Thank you. [ ] he is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. Brought this department together like never before. I am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the San FranciscoFire Department, ladies and gentlemen, lets welcome, Jeanine Nicholson. applause . I grew up total tomboy, athlete. I loved a good crisis, a good challenge. I grew up across the street from the fire station. My dad used to take me there to vote. I never saw any female firefighters because there werent any in the 1970s. I didnt know i could be a fire fighter. When i moved to San Francisco in 1990, some things opened up. I saw women doing things they hadnt been doing when i was growing up. One thing was firefighting. A woman recruited me at the gaypride parade in 1991. It was a perfect fit. I liked using my brain, body, working as a team, figuring things out, troubleshooting and coming up with different ways to solve a problem. In terms of coming in after another female chief, i dont think anybody says that about men. You are coming in after another man, chief, what is that like. I understand why it is asked. It is unusual to have a woman in this position. I think San Francisco is a trailblazer in that way in terms of showing the world what can happen and what other people who may not look like what you think the fire chief should look like how they can be successful. Be asked me about being the first lbgq i have an understands because there are little queer kids that see me. I worked my way up. I came in january of 1994. I built relationships over the years, and i spent 24 years in the field, as we call it. Working out of firehouses. The Fire Department is a family. We live together, eat together, sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. When i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. I didnt want to talk to any of my civilian friends. They couldnt understand what i was going through. The firefighters knew, they understood. They had been there. It is a different relationship. We have to rely on one another. In terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. That hasnt been there for a while. Part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. I worked there. People know me and because i know what we need. I know what they need to be successful. I have known Jeanine Nicholson since we worked together at station 15. I have always held her in the highest regard. Since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism. She is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. I appreciate that she is concerned with the issues relevant to the Fire Department today. There is a retired captain who started the Cancer Prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were getting cancer. He started looking into it. In 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the San FranciscoFire Department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. It was a higher rate than the general population. We were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didnt have to worry about the paper work when they go through chemo. The turnout gear was covered with suit. It was a badge to have that all over your coat and face and helmet. The dirtier you were the harder you worked. That is a cancer causeser. It casser. It is not cancer causer. There islassic everywhere. We had to reduce our exposure. We washed our gear more often, we didnt take gear where we were eating or sleeping. We started decontaminating ourselves at the fire scene after the fire was out. Going back to the fire station and then taking a shower. I have taught, worked on the decontamination policy to be sure that gets through. It is not if or when. It is who is the next person. It is like a cancer sniper out there. Who is going to get it next. One of the things i love about the Fire Department. It is always a team effort. You are my family. I love the city and department and i love being of service. I vow to work hard to work hard to carry out the vision of the San FranciscoFire Department and to move us forward in a positive way. If i were to give a little advice to women and queer kids, find people to support you. Keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep trying. You never know what door is going to open next. You really dont. [cheers and shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of San Francisco. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . Im one of three owners here in San Francisco and we provide mostly live Music Entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and its not a big menu, but we did it with love. Like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. For latinos, it brings Families Together and if we can bring that family to your business, youre gold. Tonight we have russelling for e community. We have a tenperson limb elimination match. We have a fullsize ring with barside food and drink. We ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. Were hope og get families to join us. Weve done a drag queen bingo and were trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. This is a great part of town and theres a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. Theres a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. We have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. Some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and its exciting. We even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. Its in the San FranciscoGarden District and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. Its important to shop local because its kind of like a circle of life, if you will. We hire local people. Local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. I hope people shop locally. [ ] this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your San Francisco history used to be. We hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. Even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. And they tell us that. Youre going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something thats very, very good. The legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by San Francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. It really provides for San Franciscos unique character. And that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. Im Michael Cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. The bakery started in 191. My grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. It is a small operation. Its not big. So everything is kind of quality that way. So i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. Im leslie ciroccomitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. So we get up pretty early in the morning. I usually start baking around 5 00. And then you just start doing rounds of dough. Loaves. My mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. After that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. You know, i dont really think about it. But then when i sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and weve been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. You know, that geez, weve been here a long time. [applause] a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. We all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. Our lineage and ill use one example of tommys joint. Tommys joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and hes a fourth generation san franciscan. Its a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was San Francisco like back in the 1950s. Im the general manager at tommys joint. People mostly recognize tommys joint for its murals on the outside of the building. Very bright blue. You drive down and see what it is. They know the building. Tommys is a San Francisco hoffa, which is a germanstyle presenting food. We have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. You prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. You want your pastrami to be very lean. You can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. Tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. San franciscos a place thats changing restaurants, except for tommys joint. Tommys joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. San francisco in general that we dont lose a grip of what San Franciscos came from. Tommys is a place that youll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. Youll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. Thats important. The service that San Francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in San Francisco. So well help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of San Francisco. But i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in San Francisco that has history and that is unique to San Francisco. It started in june of 1953. And we make everything from scratch. Everything. We started a you we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. The business really boomed after that. I think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of San Francisco. We were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. Businesses come and go in the city. Pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and theres so much competition. So for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. We got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. She was our customer in 1953. And she still comes in. But she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that were carrying on our fathers legacy. And that we mean so much to so many people. It provides a perspective. And i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, youre missing the context. For me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. I just think its part of San Francisco. People like to see familiar stuff. At least i know i do. In the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommys joint and looks exactly the same. We havent change add thing. I remember one lady saying, you know, ive been eating this ice cream since before i was born. And i thought, wow we have, too. For joining us here today. We all know that our Public Transportation system in San Francisco is important to our present and it is definitely critical to the future of our city. As our city grows, as our economy grows, as we build more housing, as more people work here, we know that we cant continue to grow in those areas without thinking about improvements to our Public Transportation system. As someone who grew up in this city, i relied on muni, the 31, the 22 philmore, the 44, you name it, i was on those buses. The 19, i know the routes by heart. But the fact is, you know, we need to do better. We need to make sure that people, especially people who rely on muni to get to work, school, doctors appointments, so many of our seniors who cant drive and need to pick up their medications and other things, we need to make sure that our Public Transportation system is reliable for all of our communities, in all parts of San Francisco, especially on those communities that have consistently been neglected. It means safer streets for pedestrians and bicyclists and all of its users. We know over the years the city is a lot more congested than it has ever been, but we also know to make it a better city and to reach our climate goals, we have to leave it less congested. We have a lot of work to do and we are doing the work. In june we created a working group with city leaders and staff and Industry Leaders with the goal of making this better. I am looking forward to seeing the recommendations coming out. Over the past few years we have made some significant investments. We committed to doubling the pace of building more protected bike lanes. We established a Quick Build Program to increase the delivery of lowcost units. And we expanded our focus on traffic safety. Thankfully the voters gave us one more tool to improve streets with the passage of proposition v. This will allow us to invest 30 million in light rail vehicles anduses as well as Street Safety improvements. So the work continues and we will continue to do the work that we can to move these objectives forward as quickly as possible. These objectives are the responsibility of the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. The m. T. A. Managing our streets, Public Transportation, other Mobility Options like bike shares and escooters, and a lot of Public Infrastructure projects, like the central subway and van neessb. R. T. This is a system that looks at daytoday operations as well as looking at the future and how we make sure that the challenges that existed now dont continue to exist in the future. This requires a strong vision and strong leadership. So today im proud to announce that the s. F. Board will be recommending the s. F. M. T. A. Board will be recommending Jeffry Tumlin as the next director of s. F. M. T. A. This is jeffry. You can clap. [ laughter ]. Mayor breed jeff is an International Transportation expert who brings over 25 years of experience of improving transportation in cities. He was recently the interim director at the Oakland Department of transportation, where he laid the foundation for the agencys future success with a lens on environmental benefits and equality. I believe jeffry will do the same at s. F. M. T. A. Throughout his career, he has been known for bringing a visionary perspective on transportation in cities and helping to implement innovative ideas that are desperately needed. He will be joining the city as a longtime resident of noey valley and will be the first lgbtq director in s. F. s history. I look forward to working with jeffry to help us deliver a great Transportation System in San Francisco, and i want to thank the board, including the president of the board who is here today, malcolm heinikie and gweneth borden, thank you for your leadership and coordinating the interview process and everything that you did, to make sure that we found the best person possible to do the job to make our Public Transportation and infrastructure and all that we need to do to improve mobility in San Francisco in a safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly way to choosing that person who could do just that. Ladies and gentlemen, Jeffry Tumlin. Good morning. My name is jeff tumlin, and i have been in the Transportation Industry for a long time, for 25 years, advising cities and transit agencies how to clarify their values and then use transportation investments to make those values manifest. I like asking questions about what is most important, what does success look like, and more importantly how would we measure whether we were actually successful or not. Thats where my Technical Work comes into play, trying to use tools to be able to measure social equity and environmental outcomes and to align our transportation spending in order to best achieve the public good. I ended up in this industry against my better judgment. I discovered very early in my career and sort of by accident that we in transport have a bigger impact on Public Health outcomes than the medical industry does. We have a bigger impact on Economic Development, than Economic Development programs do. And more importantly, we are arguably the biggest driver of opportunity. We decide how many jobs people can get to in a reasonable commute time. We determine whether children can get safely to school, which impacts their academic performance. We are fundamental drivers of Economic Opportunity or destroyers of Economic Opportunity. We have resources. If we use those resources wisely, we can correct the ways in which my industry has historically destroyed opportunity and wealth for people of color. Early in my industrys history, if you wanted to build a highway project, you got extra points for removing light. Light of course being defined as africanamerican and latino ownership. The city and county of San Francisco did not escape that dark period in our industry, and we have a key responsibility to correct for the past and to equalize opportunity for everyone. We can also do what some Mobility Tech Companies want us to do, which is to provide more exquisite convenience for the privilege. Im committed to doing the former, and using transportation as a tool to make San Francisco achieve its potential. That includes addressing problems like the fact that 25 people have died in our streets this year and were on track to injure nearly 3,000. We lose in injuries and fatalities about 647 people in San Francisco. I want to change that. You can see from my social Media Presence that ive long been an outspoken proponent of changing core practices in my industry and using the power that we have in transportation to reduce climate change, improve quality of life, foster Small Business success, and advance equity. Ive reached the point in my cle career, however, where its time to stop advising and start doing. Ive worked all over the world, and San Francisco remains the only city that i felt was my home. San francisco has assembled all of the pieces that we need in order to create dramatic and progressive change. Weve got a visionary m. T. A. Board that i cannot wait to work for. We have the most talented agency staff in the industry. We have a tenacious and harddriving mayor who i know will make a great partner. We also have a progressive board of supervisors ready to ask the tough questions. I am ready to serve all of them. I dont have a 30 or 100day plan. My first task is to listen carefully to staff. We do have the most incredible assembly of talent of any city in the country. I trust their professional expertise. It is my job first to listen and then secondly, and more importantly, to remove obstacles so that they can do their good and productive work. I do not know all of the answers yet. Its going to take me a while to learn from staff what the best answers are. I want to close by saying that we have talent, resources and some clarity about what our resources are in San Francisco, but there remains a gap between San Franciscos potential and its current reality. I am deeply excited to do the hard work to close that gap. We have the tools and all of the resources that we need, unlike really any city in the world. I cant wait to get started, particularly with the help of all of you in this room, the press. With that, im happy to take questions. Malcolm, did you have words to say . Absolutely. I know i stand between you and the questions for our new director of transportation. I am the chair of the new m. T. A. Board. If i seem excited, its because i am. We are in the process of hiring a star for San Francisco. We are very excited here today. The first person i want to thank is is the mayor, not just because of her commitment and support, but also i want to thank the mayor for not just her support and partnership in this, but the fact that you challenged us you were the result of a challenge to get a bold leader to take this agency forward. Im grateful for that challenge. That challenge led us to an international search. We searched far and wide. I want to thank the Search Committee for the wonderful job that was done to conduct a Truly International search that led us to someone in our backyard, a san franciscan to run our agency. What has struck us about jeff more than his expertise, dedication, and his experience is his passion. You just heard it. He recognizes how transportation affects peoples lives, making it better when it goes well and worse when it doesnt. With that, we are very excited. I wish jeff the absolute best. I know he wont need luck because hes a true professional and im excited to see him be a star and a partner. In my closing comments, i would like to say this, the last few months have been tumultuous at the agency, but not as much as without a director. The acting director kept the ship steady, was professional, calm, and an absolute pleasure to work with. Thank you for your service. With that, i will turn the podium back to the super staff to answer our questions. Thank you for the questions. What questions do you have . [ indiscernible ]. [ ] good morning sh everybody. Clvment. Good morning, evening. November 14th special meeting of the sub safety and neighborhood servic services committee. Our clerk is john carroll and i want to thank Lawrence Bryant and corwin cooly for staffing the meeting. Please ensure you silenced your cell phones and other electronic devices, and items acted upon today will appear o