Employed in professional roles at bart and other transportation employers. Finally, the Fourth Annual winter walk on stockton street begins this saturday november 25 and will continue through monday january 1. This year to activate the plaza well be working in partnership with off the grid and will have two openaired beer and wine gardens and holidaythemed photo opportunities. Last year 750,000 people attended the winter walk. For more information about it visit the union square website visitunionsquaresf. Com and if youre interested in extending it it will be open to 11 30 every night through new years eve. That concludes my report. Thank you for the updates, much appreciated. The winter walk i know how popular that is every year. I go down a lot and its fun to see everybody enjoying the space. I know its been discussion what the street will look like once the construction is done on the subway. I wonder if we can get an update on how to use that space. There was talk of having a bus pedestrian only and having a convertible space to continue to do things like the winter walk. In light of the discussion we had around north beach it seems there is public appetite for space like that if we can simply find good spaces i think it would be a big benefit to the area. The compto award is fantastic. I went online and looked at the work they do. Its a great organization. Congratulations to the entire agency for getting that award. Directors, any questions or commence for mr. Mcguire. Thank you, lets move on. The clerk madame share chair, we have members of the public. Brian and jody mederos. Would you like to set a time. Two minutes. Im the executive director of the San FranciscoBicycle Coalition. After yet another fatality on San Francisco streets this one on slope boulevard on halloween, the San FranciscoBicycle Coalition wrote to demand immediate action to halt the bloodshed and another who died in the middle of the day was 78 years old. Another killed halloween night was 47. The deaths follow of another who was hit and fell on baker streets. David was 90. Tragically, this list goes on. The response to the recent spate of fatal collisions asked to deliver the leadership needed to meet the goals. Having appointed the members of the board and having written the board last week requesting leadership on moving San Francisco towards mission zero the mayor is looking to you to set the tone. Not only the mayor but our 10,000 plus members and members of the public at large are looking to the board and demonstrate your unwavering commitment to achieve flag goal. Unfortunately ive noticed a troubling trend in recent discussions when Public Safety is at issue. Increasingly the board has entertained the argument that parking should be breaking newsed against the loss of lives. And when the Safety Improvement project requires this the city does a grave disservice inviting watered down Safety Improvements by worrying about the loss of an against the community. Well be watching closely how the board chooses to lead on the charge of eliminating serious injuries and fatalities and our work is to Work Together as partners to improve safety for everyone who uses the San Francisco streets. Thank you. Next speaker, please. The clerk jodie medderos. Good afternoon. My name is jodie medderos and the new executive director of walk San Francisco. We appreciate the board commitment to vision zero. We know this agency bears the front of vision zero. Its a very Serious Public Health and Transportation Safety crisis. The letter from the mayor the asks he makes from the board are a great start to accelerating a pace of vision zero. We realistically need concrete actions that is timely and measurable and need your leadership to make sure its visualized. Heres the steps we recommend to champion the mayors asks. Resolve bureaucratic obstacles and vital vision zero objects including 11th street, the embarcadero, townsend and the upper market Safety Improvement project. All unanimously approved by this board. We recommend this board ask the mta staff for regular reports on delayed vision zero projects. This will bring the reason for delays to the open so they can be addressed. The mayor also asked the mta to implement nearterm improvements on vision zero projects with a start date beyond one. We can ask the staff to develop a list of the projects by end of this year including a time line for the improvements to go in the ground. The mayor asked the mta and other agencies to develop a Rapid Response team. Again, you can ask us for regular updates and also deliver improvements to these locations within a specific time frame. Ideally one month from each death. Your renewed commission to vision zero and prioritize safety above all else is the only way well reach zero. Were counting on you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for bringing that up. I was remiss in not discussing the Rapid Response task force after he talked about it and were going to be anxiously awaiting what that will look like, how it will work and how we can all help speed up these projects because we do all agree with you that any loss of life on our streets is absolutely preventible and tragic and i think this board recently in the last few meetings has really shown itself to be fully commit to vision zero and recommitted ourselves to that goal. It has been a tough year in San Francisco especially recently. We all feel it and take it to heart. Once again, i will personally recommit myself to that vision zero goal and we will focus on safety over Everything Else. Thank you both. Next speaker, please. The clerk madame chair, thats the last speaker who turned in a speaker card on this matter except one. Mr. Mahmoud. Thank you, directors. Your talking about vision zero and ive been listening to the issue a long time. Driving on the city streets i mentioned its nearly impossible to see at nighttime where the pedestrian ends up coming in at the cross intersection. Because your lighting is so poor, so poor, so poor. I mean, how can we control that situation . Why dont gou to led lights. We heard you intend to but why not buy a couple thousand bulbs and start changing them immediately. Vision zero is not complete without that kind of thing. Thank you. Thank you. Do i have any more Public Commenters on the directors report . Yes, sir, please stand up and approach the podium. Okay. No . Okay. Thank you. Seeing none. Public comment is closed. The clerk item eight the Council Report i do not see a chair here so well move to item nine general Public Comment. Its time for members of the public to address the board under jurisdiction of the mta board of directors but not on the agenda. We have two speaker cards. Sleexcellent. Two minutes. I bought my medallion for 250,000. That was in july in 2017. I used live in palmdale because the rent is 1300 i went to gilroy to live and the rent 2,800. Because the rent is high i [indiscernible] after that i go back to the bank and they took my medallion away. After paying 145,000. I sandy over there she said we are going to throw you out. She wanted to throw me out of the bank because i dont pay three months. I put my name in the medallion list but because when i change my status in 1998 they said my last name was different here in the passport. When i changed it they said you have to buy again because you are not. She said born in california. We changed it to the new passport. They said here in that time i had to apply again. Thank you. Im sorry, your time is up. Do you think we can make sure that he has a good contact at San Francisco credit union. Perhaps it would help to unravel the situation with the missed payments on the loan. Thank you very much. I want to say something, please. Im sorry. Youre time is up. We need to give everybody the same amount of time or its unfair. Im sorry. The clerk the next speaker. Tomorrow im going i dont have money to pay the rent. Im sorry, sir, your time is up. The clerk you need to sit down. Thank you. Next speaker please. The clerk Tariq Mahmoud and the last person to turn in a speaker card under this item. Thank you. Im a taxi driver. I have a question about a sign to put on the cabs to take the people for 30 from city to sfo. The first day i put the sign one of the people, mr. Peters, standing on the sign looking at the people on the bus stop and said its a violation of the code so and so. I told you in the last meeting that yellow has 200 cabs with that sign for two years and theyre not in violation but i am in violation. This is the way you are running the taxi industry. Coming to that, 400 cabs are moving in the city which are legally required to have the top light connect with the meter but 400 cabs have a different meter not connect with the top light. A very serious incident happened one cab was driving his light was on but the customer in the cab. The customer in the cab somebody flagged him and said i want your cab he said i have a customer and he said your light is on. He said its a switch system and not automatic. The customer on the street pulled the gun on te driver. He has to see if theres a customer already in the cab. Can you not shut down this 40 400meter tonight . Otherwise if he was killed youre liable because you listened to this from me ten times and you didnt do it and it was going to be killed that day. You are totally liable and shut down fly Wheel Company and this is super serious and youre destroying taxi. Thank you. Thank you. Do i have any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed and well move on. The clerk madame chair youre at your consent calendar considered to be routine unless a member of the board or public wants an item severed or discussed separately. Ive not received any notices. Do i have a motion to consent the calendar. Do i have a motion . Second . The consent calendar is approved. The clerk youre onto your regular agenda. Item 11, presentation and discussion regarding the Human Rights Commission creating an equitable city for everyone framework. Ms. Dorrin. Thank you. Director of taxis and access able accessible services. Its a treat for us to have our presenter here to present to us. Mrs. Davis is the executive director of the San FranciscoHuman Rights Commission, hrc and will be presenting on the citywide equity work and zoom in on Racial Equity. Director davis served as an hrc commissioner between 2011 and 2016. Prior to joining hrc, she was executive director the community had communitybased Organization Collective and she oversaw mo magic a collaborative of nonprofit organizations addressing challenges facing lowincome children, youth and families in the areas of income development, Community Health and violation prevention. Magic zone which provides Wraparound Services to k12 students in the hutch Community Center which provides communitybuilding services and Workforce Development opportunities to neighborhood residents. During director davis impact she forged private and Public Sector partnerships to provide Critical Health and social services to historically underserved communities across San Francisco. Director davis has demonstrated her commitment to San Francisco residents by serving on the sfpd fair and Impartial Policing and Fillmore Community benefits district and the redevelopment agencies western edition citizens advisory committee. She supported the mfta communitybased Transportation Plan as mo magic facilitated Community Engagement with the fillmore neighborhoods. Director davis developed the engineering for Equity Program to ensure City Services and resources are leveraged to achieve equitable outcomes for all. The Program Works to advise city departments on how to eliminate disparities in Public Service and ensure Community Involvement in the full range of government decisions. Sfmk is fortunate to work with director davis in multiple areas including the equity strategy, our poets Public Outreach and Engagement Team strategy and Government Alliance on race and equity which is a yearlong in depth training mta had for participants in 2017 and the process is underway to establish the 2018 cohort. And our diversity and inclusion strategy as part of our Strategy Plan goal four creating a workplace that delivers outstanding service, were developing an inclusion strategy with a training component and support for sfmtas cohort and activity. Under director davis, hrcs work helps provide a framework, tools and expertise. Thank you director davis for your outstanding work in this area and presenting today on hrcs strategy and Racial Equity work. Thank you. Commissioner welcome direct er davis and the work youve done for the people of San Francisco. Thank you for the opportunity. Ill try to move quickly through this. Its been a pleasure to work with the staff at mta. Its been awesome. Weve had an opportunity to engage with different departments within the office and are excited for the participants that have been through to see what theyre going to do within the agency. Ill say one of the things just sitting and listening that struck me and one reason we do the work is it becomes difficult to balance the decisions with an agency this size and sometimes the people that come to the meetings arent always the most negatively impacted by your decisions. Coming from Community Work and its been my passion and desire to see how those folks who are usually the people that dont realize the decisions are being made here and the decisions are made and they impact them and make sure they get included in the voices of whats happening. Those are sometimes the people pushed out of the city because they didnt know what was going on. And basically one thing were charged with is to think of what equity means in terms of City Services in the work and how were advancing equity. One of the Strategic Plans or goals for the city is to be equitable and inclusive and diverse and thinking about what that means. Sometimes when we have these conversations around equity its uncomfortable because it means we need to support people and sometimes they dont need to be supported and thats an unfortunate truth and were trying to balance and deal with that and making people more comfortable around the challenging coverings on whos in San Francisco, who has a voice in San Francisco and who is cherished in terms of being a resident of San Francisco cisco. I have some copies of the tools weve develop we can share. Its just a strategy and framework. We encourage depends to use whats best for them but we want people to think and talk about it and not afraid to have the conversation. Really asking individuals to think about what equity means to them and how we advance that. This is one of my favorite quotes so just to be thinking about the legacy were leaving or how were supporting the needs of the most vulnerable and helpless in our city. These are the shared definition the hume Rights Commission has put forward and has shared with the different depend heads in terms of what equity and community and how we can have a shared language and definition for the words moving forward. Full and equal access to opportunities, power and resources so all people may thrive and prosper regardless of demographics. It shouldnt be where you live or what neighborhood youre in should not dictate what life youll have in the city. Unfortunately sometimes when we think of certain neighborhoods we think of their income and what their opportunities will be and equity says it shouldnt matter where you live or what bus you catch or how you get to work we should all have equal opportunity and were trying to work towards that and community of stakeholders across San Francisco diverse neighborhoods impacted by policy. So im just going to go through now the five areas of the framework so the first one is assess conditions and that is basically what some of the participants in the alliance for equity are doing. Its the idea of thinking about the impact of our discussions, looking at the communities that are impacted, and thinking what voices should be in there and should be heard. The second one is the other day i was thinking about the negative impact. How its going to be impacted by the decisions you make. Will they be negati