Again, this will expire in less than four months. Before then, if this board a proves an ongoing permit program and staff expects to bring you something before october 15th, to improve the program birdscoot would have to apply just like anybody else for a new permit. So this current permit will end in october. We are, as we told you when we brought the mid point evaluation, using all of what were learning as an ongoing program. So just wanted to give you a little back story on that. Another one you may have heard of but just wanted to give you an update on, that theres a lot to say is being called faster bay area. Formally known as mega measure. Its an effort to advance a revenue measure on the order of 100 billion to a ballot across the region as early as november of 2020. It is an effort thats being led by some of the Large Employers in the region along with Large Employer organizations such as the bay area council, the Silicon ValleyLeadership Group and spur. Their intent is to think boldly about future regional transfer needs with the focus on regional conductivity and modeled on or inspired by what los angeles and seattle did with their 120 billion and 54 billion respective transportation measures in recent years. The idea is to include the nine county bay area, 40year Revenue Source that would generate on the order of 50 to 100 billion. Theyre using the term faster. Faster as an acronym that stars for freedom, affordable, transparency, equity and reliability. These firms have engage consultants. Communications firms and polling firms and theres been initial polling, which apparently, weve not seen any actual results, but weve heard has been suggested there may be support. While theyre potentially aiming for 2020, theres a lot of details what the expenditure plan would be and what the Revenue Source would be, what any kind of governance mechanism would be. As well as the imin timing. Whether its 2020 or later all tbd. Theyre opportunitily talking to currently talking withfolks. They met with the transit general managers a few weeks ago and theyve talked to us here in San Francisco separateliment theyre doing conversations around the region and i think based on their next polling, if its looking positive, it will be a much more public effort. We are currently working with the other transit agencies and the region to develop a proposed framework. Slate of projects that we think, based on what weve seen, are the gaps here and what weve seen from seattle and l. A. Would be appropriate. It would require, if this were to happen, for the legislature to authorize eyes placinize plan the ballot and in order for the governor to act on this on an emergency measure in calender year 2020. The good news is folks are trying to raise very significant amount of money for significant transportation improvements and i wanted to let you know what we know about that. A couple more things. I just wanted to remind you again really remind our riders that fares are going up on july 1st. As you approved last year in april, we are holding the cash fares, the cash singleride fares. Not the cash one the clipper. And muni mobile single ride fares. Its onlyel cash fares going up. Indexes with inflation according to the boards indexing policy. And in terms of u asked for an update based on some input you got on the internal workings of the agency, one of the things we have learned from our Employee Engagement survey it s that people who were looking for recognition for the good work that they do, particularly when theyre doing work above and beyond just their job descriptions so based on that feedback last year, we created the agencys first ever peer to peer Employee Recognition program its called the gem wards. Gem being an acronym for going the extra mild celebrating the good work that so many of our individuals staff do throughout the agency. The programs focused on the core values of the agency which are respect, inclusivity and integrity and it was based on the feedback we got from Employee Engagement survey and from focus groups, employee town halls and looking at best practices from elsewhere. So it highlights specific accomplishments of staff each year with a focus on how they reaffirmed those Guiding Principles in support of bettering transportation in San Francisco so the program has been pretty well received this past february. We got double the number of nominees that we had the Previous Year which was the first year and next week well be celebrating the 60 individuals who have been designated as gems as well as more than 300 that will be honorably mentioned. I want to ask you to congratulate those who work hard to improve transportation in the city. Speaking of recognition, last week, the wts, the womens transportation seminar, which is a Transportation Industry group, supporting women in transportation, held its annual awards. The local chapter here and we had a number of our own from here in San Francisco that were recognized. The executive director of our county transportation authority, tilley chang was recognized as woman of the year for the bay area. So a well deserved honor for her. Our own Annette Williams who manages our Accessible Services program received the chapters Lifetime Achievement awardment giving a recognition of her great work, in particularly her efforts in facilitating professional opportunities for women and minorities and people with disabilities. Also from the m. T. A. , Danielle Harris was presented with a rosa parks diversity Leadership Award for promoting diversity, inclusion and multi cultural awareness within the agency and within the industry in general. So great honors for a number of San Francisco women by their colleagues from across the bay area. And last, i want to end on a unfortunate note. We lost a valuable members of our family on june 6th when sulu polega passed away. I think she worked for the city for Something Like 40 years starting out working under mayor brown and worked in those days advising a number of city departments as well as outside groups meeting affirmative action goals and generally working on diversity initiatives and outreach issues promoting equal rights and opportunities through employment and training. For us, he has been with the m. T. A. For about 20 years or had been and was best known for the Muni Transit Assistance Program mtap, which is the embassador program now being mirrored by bart and others across the country where we bring people from the communities from some of our disadvantaged communities to work with us and to work with schools to help maintain order and keep the peace on our buses particularly around the school areas and school times. It was really a creation of his and he was a great leader for that program for the agency and for the city and a great civic leader in the community so we perhaps we can adjourn the meeting in his honor. I just want it convey our Great Respect and condolences to his family and friends. That concludes my report. Thank you. Well definitely adjourn the meeting in his honor. At this time, are there any further questions for the director for his report from our board . If not, id like it to open Public Comment. If you have any comments, this is the time to comment. Specifically on the directors report either what director ruskin. We have one person with a speaker card. Alena duprie. Welcome, you have two minutes to speak. Chair board and members, a lot said. Good report. Very important to keep up with the subway. Its no fun in the afternoon when im sitting on a subway train and sometimes were sitting at platforms with the doors closed. The door should be open when were at platforms and trying that i guess double stopping thing again. So, we should have a nascar pit stop type of preparation so we can handle problems on the main line and keep those trains moving. Matter of scooters was brought up and today i used scooters both here and on the other side of the bay so for those in the room who have never met an actual rider of scooters, you now have. And your life you will never be able to say that you havent met a scooter rider again. And so, i am familiar with a number of operators. I am very encouraged about bird entering into this space. Theyre a reputable company. Bird and the other big five operators have always been responsive to my concerns and questions. Always been very easy for me to reach them in a very timely on the spot manner. Its important to have continuity with this. In los angeles there are about 22,000 of these scooters in the city of 4 Million People so i think in order to satisfy equity concerns, we need to have more scooters. We cant have equity with scarcity and it can be constructive denial. Bird, as a matter of fact, has a Discount Program for veterans of which i am one. So its important that we have an open mind and have continuity in this matter. Thank you. Thank you. Are there additional speakers at this time . Tom gilberty. Im a little concerned with the term nascar turn around. I kind of think its going to be the employees of muni at the turn arounds to perform in a schedule that is up to nascar effectiveness. I dont think that that should be a goal of muni to make our workers rise up to that level. Effective, efficient, yes. But we dont really want to dump on our Union Members to whip them so they can get the trains in and out at a nascar level. Thank you. Thank you. Any additional speakers at this time . This is just on the directors report. Well move on. I was wondering with the increase, the fares increase, i was wondering if we can do anything around our communications to emphasize that the fare is not increasing with clipper and muni mobile. On the bus today, it shows the cash fare and people were saying its going up and it would be nice if theyre not using cash its different. The car cards on the buses they show the new effective julw the clipper muni mobile fare, maybe were not emphasizing enough that its not changing. I pointed that out and i just feel like its not very clear to the people on my bus. We can do that. Its a good time to remind folks if you are low or moderate income and you have a senior people can ride for fro or if you are an fault can you ride for half price. Well refresh that messaging as well. Thank you. Any final comments from directors . An Advisory Council report. Welcome. Good afternoon, directors. I am neil ballard with the citizens Advisory Council and happy to be giving you a brief report today. We had no recommendations from our last meeting we held in july or in june. But we had a lot of Public Comment about the name of the fourth coming station central subway station its going to be in china town. Im here to remind this body that the citizens Advisory Council passed a motion last year in support of the existing naming policy to name stations after geographic areas. Also, we heard a presentation about the southeast muni expansion project which was very struck tive and seems like theres a lot of good data gathering on on right now. The thing that stood out the most to me was the preference that respondents indicated for trips that go north to together see more service on those types of trips. I am talking about bus not the vebuses, notthe street car. When it comes to just getting around town on buses only, eastwest, not a problem. But northsouth, its app area to focus on more. It was interesting to see that on the east part of the city where i dont make that many trips but i hear from people anecdotally that thats the case. The data backing that up was, as i said, struck tive and great for you to keep in mind as you consider the topdown big ideas the agency faces. 9 last thing id like to mention, the last gentleman making a Public Comment about the phase nascar like efficiency for the embarcadero. I think that point is well taken. I was thinking that myself. I back up julie with that idea. Its going to be a very worthy goal to really try to tighten that up so we can get the turnarounds going better. We dont want to alienate any operators. What i would like to hear from operators as we pursue this goal. If there were someone that would be able to talk at the citizens Advisory Council, maybe someone who is part of some new crack team that is responsible and really jazzed up about implementing this, i think that would be wonderful to see. So Operation Staff are on the same page and share the same goals with this. That concludes my report. Ill stay if there are any questions from any of you. Any questions . Thank you. And thank you for your service. Thank you so much. Is there any Public Comment on the Citizens Advisory Committee report . Seeing theres none well move on to general Public Comment. This say time to comment on things with the subject matter of the sfmta but not on todays calender. If you want to speak on todays calender, pick the appropriate item. If your item is something on the consent calender, then you do need to let us know because the consent calender are items considered to be routine so they will not be called separately so if you would like to speak on a consent item, please, ask us to pull it from the consent calender and well call that item up separately. Inn who wants to speak on items in the subject matter of sfmta or consent item have it pulled, please and m an come and speak. Theres a soft time and a final chime to let you know your time is complete. We do have a number of people that have turned in speaker cards. Ill read them off in advance so you know you will be due up. First one is betty louie followed by alena dupres, nathan dreary and jay natoli. Hello. There are a couple of familiar basis. Betty louie here with the chinatown Merchants Association. Im a Community Activist and i am a china town revitalization person. I am here to ask you, and plead with you, not to name the central subway station after rose pack. I have been on both sides. Ive worked with her. Ive worked against her. She is too divisive in the community. We have not had the Small Businesspeople be able to come to meetings because theyre busy working, they dont have the time nor the money to come here and launch a campaign. I promise you, there are many, many people in the community who do not want her name on that particular subway station. I also have a very personal story for her. This is to show what a bully she is. She gets what she wants and if you are not on her side, so be it. Shell do what she can. Shes dead. But she also put out a death threat to my father in the chinese paper when she decided she didnt like what he was advocating at the time. So you will get many stories about her. She does a lot of backhanded, backslapping, lying, cheating, cussing maneuvers to get what she wants. We dont need another bully in the community. We have one in the white house. Do we really want to be reminded of her name on our subway station . Please keep it to china town, im begging you. I know its a divisive subject but i am so not in favor of this Chinese Six Companies isnt the chinatown community, the Merchants Association is very much against it. Thank you very much. Appreciate your time. Thank you for sharing your comments. Next speaker, please. Thank you chair, board and alena dubr ive been riding munn and off for 10 years. I think it is very important for everybody to be well practiced and pro efficient in their muni tasks and i like the idea of nascar. Ive never been involved with nascar. I am one of those rare birds with a military background. So when you go out there in a far away place and conduct missions you have to do things right. Everyday we need to be polished in how we do things. Again, im very passionate about the shared mobility and these shared Mobility Programs have equity because they allow for people not to have to invest substantial sums of money in their own equipment which they have to maintain and unfortunately because of a rampant bike and scooter theft problem in this country, the loss of such devices can be financially disruptive. Here we have the equitable program of having bike and scooter libraries much in the same tradition as our own San FranciscoPublic Library down the street so i continue to advocate for that and the need for you to form standards when it comes to shared mobility devices. Many people use them are people of modest means and challenges and so we need to keep those programs alive so we do not marginalize and constructively deny those people. With such challenges where we need to have abundance rather than scarcity in such programs that i continue to use and support responsibly on a daily basis. Thank you. Next speaker. Nathan dreary followed by jane toley and david walton and eric wong. Thank you. My name is nathan dreary and among the accomplishments of this life i graduated from Everett Middle School in 1953 but im not here to talk about that. Im here to talk about the shallow support and recommendations in it. One of the observations that they made is the driver requirements set fourth in the regulations has not been enforced for some time. I believe around 10 years. Another recommendation is the fees assessed to taxi