From faster presented today. We have been in conversations with them. We do agree that any kind of regional transportation measure will take everyone getting on board, which is why i say im a little bit concerned about the process, more than a little bit corner concerned about the process and we have been having this conversation with stakeholders, so several things, one, i think often with some of the processes we are concerned about regressivity and potential Revenue Sources. No conversation on why, and the polling data, theres some interesting things included, some things i think were not included. No real conversation about other potential Revenue Sources. We have gotten resources to work with the Silicon ValleyCommunity Foundation and some consultants to look at other potential Revenue Sources and we think that should be part of the conversation, that it should not just be a conversation immediately to the sales tax, we have heard several transit agencies, the Board Members expressing concern about us local officials losing the ability to raise sales tax revenue with a new threshold with this proposed measure and if we want to pass something, we all want to do, we need to look at the revenue mechanism and jumping past that. And news to a lot of the riders of your system that theres a process going on that they dont know about, and are not part of, and i dont know if members of the board have been part of the process that faster has laid out a well. So hopefully you will address that today. Edward mason, peter, and michael. Thank you very much, edward mason. Faster bay area remove the 200 plus private oneseat commuter busses operating on 24th street as authorized by the board . A caltrain expansion presentation at the county Transportation Authority indicated major peninsula employers desire to eliminate commuter busses, but this collides with the s. F. Champ model done for the hub study indicating that 45 would drive if they had to travel to a hub. About 730 busses operate and transport about 8,000 employees in San Francisco, demonstrating an exclusive ridership, poaching employees from competitors. Supporters, Silicon ValleyLeadership Group supported the Santa Clara County light rail system which has the worst performing system almost in the nation. And then replacing the 50car fleet midlife with 100car fleet that is now 40 cars are in, for morning pullout are sitting in the yard. They now support the private commuter busses utilizing the right rail parking in Santa Clara County. Greyhound was the Regional Express bus system 50 years ago, which i used. The question is, where is m. T. C. During the intervening years . And another sales tax when the employers rely on the infrastructure, i think that they ought to pay 5 7 of the cost to operate, since they didnt have the infrastructure they would not be able to carry on their business. So, thats a direct connection with that. So, they always come back to the private person to say well, g the roads are bad, dont you want to improve it . Yeah, but if you didnt have the infrastructure in place, these companies would not be able to function. Thank you. Peter strass, michael. Good afternoon, board of the San Francisco transit riders. Several of us have been working on this for several years now as well as some of the faster folks. And we come together as the voices for public transportation, which is a coalition of transportation, housing, labor, healthcare, and social justice folks. About 20 folks have signed on to that voices, the vision and principle statement that we sent to you. I would like to note that faster at this point is an organization, voices is an organization, we dont know yet what this measure that comes, we hope will be on the ballot in 2020 will be. We hope it will not be, if not the faster measures as presented right now, but we do realize that Everyone Needs to come together on a single measure if this is going to get anywhere. Pick up on the word transformational, used in the faster presentation. We agree it needs to be transformational but not just in terms of some of the things that we build. We feel very much needs to be transformational in terms of the Revenue Sources. We want to measure that will win. We dont believe a 1 sales tax ultimately will win if it can even get through the legislature. A lot of lot of criticism, including by legislators, and the approach should be seattle, three Revenue Sources, not a single one, on to their measure. We also feel very strongly that the operation support is critical and need to be transformational in terms of the very sources we provide for this. Seattle and l. A. Put between 20 and 25 of the total resources in operations, not just the new toys that get built, but also the existing Services Like those that have been critically cut. So we think its important that the percentages be higher than what is currently in the faster proposal. Thank you. Thank you. Michael warden, followed by nia selby, the last two people. No worries. I appreciate your senior moment. Thank you. My name is thea selby, chair of the San Francisco transit riders and i believe you are the president now . Vice chair. Borden for being at our transit week last week, i think was a huge success and got a lot of supervisors to take Public Transit and the mayor as well, she was on there all week, i understand. So, a lot of what im part of voices for public transportation, i was one of the people who helped to start this movement looking at seattle and los angeles. I have a strong connection to move l. A. In los angeles, we spoke to mr. Heminger some time ago when he was with the m. T. C. , and want to point out one thing. A lot has been said already. We were down in san jose and there are two, speaking of voices, two different kinds of voices. Theres a voice of the Transit Agency and i want sfmta to not be like this. A voice of the Public Transit agency in san jose and they very much are interested in making sure that bart gets built. And then the voice of the rider, and we spoke with the riders, called the Silicon Valley transit users down there, and they are very interested in more service on their busses. And i want to point that out, that there are sort of two different kinds of voices here and we want to make sure that the rider, we are very ridercentric, thats what we are, we are transit riders and make sure the different voices they use, and the seniors, faithbased and the environmental, that they all get heard, and so we believe that our valuesbased way of working on this, and hopefully you have all read the principles and the vision and the principles will lead to the best outcomes which will then make this a winnable measure, all of our hopes at the end. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Madam chair, the last person to turn in a speaker card on this topic. Great. Ok. Public comments are closed. Directors, any input with faster . Director heminger. Thank you. So, i had two subjects i wanted to raise. The first one i dont think will be a surprise to nick, and thats housing. And since you are an m. T. C. Commissioner i think you are certainly aware that the legislature, the governor signs the bill, just gave m. T. C. An authority to put housing measures on a regional ballot at some point in the future and i do wonder how that initiative and this initiative will play off each other and whether or not they could possibly come together. I think as subject matter, they belong together. As a political matter, that may be somewhat of a challenge because we are asking people to bite off two big subjects at once instead of one. But whatever goes first puts the oat in a secondary position if they dont go together, and i worry about that. Housing seems to be left at the altar every time. Thats one subject. The second one like peter, i wanted to talk about transformation. And the project ive heard most associated is the initiative of the transbay 2, between the west and the east bay, and that would transform things in lots of different ways. But how many people with actually ride it will depend a lot upon the, in my opinion, the demand side of the equation. What ive heard talked about here is a lot of new supply, and we need new supply, but unless demand is working in tandem with that new supply, we could have some empty supply running around. And just as an example, the idea that many agencies in our region and elsewhere have been working on, is introducing price into the Highway Network as a way of encouraging travel through other modes. The fact that youve got an employerled coalition, if all the employers charge their employees to park, we would have a pretty big demand difference, too. So, i wonder how your group is going to be looking at the demand side of the equation, if at all. Because that does not tend to get you a whole lot of votes at the ballot box, but going to make the investments a lot more meaningful. If we could pull off the demand and the supply transformation at the same time. Unsurprisingly great questions. So, thank you director for kind of starting the process that led to and whatever you call that, which is now the authority that has the right to put a potentially 40 billion housing, Affordable Housing measure on the ballot in 2020 at the regional scale, incredibly exciting. And we have been coordinating and talking regularly with the proponents of that measure and the Affordable Housing and equity community. And the Business Community is driving that measure as well, a big coalition. And a lot of learnings we have from that, and also have sort of spoken about how these housing and transportation are two sides of the same coin, and you can kind of sum it up, if you were to do it together with like live here and get to work what we are trying to do. And so i think there is sort of a, you know, we are on slightly different time scales, they passed out of the legislature, we have a bill in the legislature, a spot bill, start moving in january with senator bell from san jose, the chair of the Senate Transportation committee is authoring, and so i think we are going to sustain sort of close discussions with them and with the author of ab1487 to see whether down the road it makes sense to kind of put these two things together. And certainly i think even if they dont go together, formally on the ballot, makes more sense, i think a lot, you have heard a lot of to just sort of have the policies kind of work together, so they are both getting the same sort of, they are both trying to envision a future for the bay area. Just to follow up on that, nick. Can you imagine a scenario where you are trying to get a bill passed in a very compressed period of time, and buying a twothirds vote because of it. Would there be a way for the housing measure to go first in 2020 and then the transportation measure to follow after . We are really focussed on the november 2020 ballot, seems the political alignment. Is ripe for that, but also dont feel that if we dont do it in to 20 its not worth doing. We are sure in 2022 we will have the same problems we have today if we have not made the substantial changes and transformations. I cant stand up here and say we dont have a backup plan, but we think a real momentum behind what we are doing and momentum to get on the 2020 ballot. And then to address your second point on the demand side. You know, we spoke about this before and i think this is its very true and so you know, the work thats been done at m. T. C. And elsewhere on starting to build out the express lane network is something that we have heard from a lot of people, should be completed as part of this measure. And having a sort of a regional, gapless Regional Express lane network, which operates seamlessly so we dont have nine different counties and a bunch of j. P. A. S operating their express Lane Networks with their own rules and everything, having a gapless express lane network, forms the basis for a sort of a sort of a truly seamlesslyrun express bus network around the region, which integrates with an upgraded rail network, also operates seamlessly could be the sort of one of the foundations and express lanes could be one of the drivers, one of the demand sort of producers. We are also thinking that on one of the ideas that we are exploring with our Business Partners and others are looking at kind of the regional scale t. D. M. Program. Thats something that the last time this was tried was in the early 1990s, coming out of some federal Clean Air Act and then implemented by the bay area Quality Management district and others. But at the time it was not really possible to do it, but the time was not right, basically, and not possible to do it in a way which was flexible and easy to administer. And so there was a revolving in the legislature and 1996 the legislature stopped the programs like the one we are considering. But we think the combination of Major Investments in transit, which kind of provide an alternative to a lot of employees for driving alone, will be sort of whats necessary to get employers to the table and to provide their own incentives for people to get out of their cars driving alone. And i think some of that will lead to more people taking transit, especially if its, you know, if it can get them to work and a lot will end up in carpooling and van pooling as well. At the regional scale, many people who carpool to work to take transit, put that in context. But i think we have more work to do there. But this would be a transformational start to put Something Like this t. D. M. Program in place if it makes its way. Other directors . Thank you. Thank you, all of you for the presentation. Its fascinating. My first thought is i wish we had done this five years ago, ten years ago, i wish we were already well on our way to these solutions that are outlined here. At first i wanted to say im a little bit agnostic on how we get to that funding. I do understand the regressive nature of the sales tax. I think the low income sales tax credit could help address that, its a serious issue. Do you know off the top of your head briefly, los angeles was sales taxbased, correct . Yes, 0. 01 sales tax. And seattle . Combination of different measure, including if im not mistaken, and off the top of my head, probably also a senior moment, a sales, a vehicle license fee, and peter parcel tax and sales tax. Combination in the measure. And go ahead. Im saying, i feel like i dont have the knowledge to say where the Funding Source should come from. Others probably have better knowledge to say we need this so badly that im at the point where i will, i will support it, i will support it almost wherever the funding comes from. I would love it to be as aggressive as possible but i think the idea we can make this transformative will speak for the region, people are tired sitting in traffic, putting on my caltrain board member hat, we are topped out on passengers because we are overcrowded. We cant take more cars off the freeway, we cannot fit them on the trains right now. So we need these type of projects to switch people to cars on to this, so i understand there are serious reservations, but boy, we have to try it. We have to, we have to do something, otherwise we are going to be drowning in the same traffic and the same pollution that we have right now. So, thank you for support on this. For your work on this. You can count on my personal support and hopefully well be able to get the region on board and get something passed because we need to. Thank you, director. Director eaken. Thank you for being here, for the presentation. I was actually a little surprised when i read the briefing materials last night this was going to happen so quickly, ambitious and clearly a smart moment to go. I am a little bit concerned that some of the folks who have spoken up today should be your natural allies, they should be right there with you Holding Hands in the coalition and they are not there yet, and a chance when you want to go fast and be inclusive always, double down on the efforts to be inclusive of equity, environmental, health, social justice organizations. To be honest you need them to get through the legislature and this measure to pass. I know you have initiated, reached out to my organization but i just, it seems to me very clear theres more work to be done to build a broader winning coalition. I think thats absolutely true and we appreciate all the work that the voices have done and i think we are sort of working our way together, and i dont want to speak for them, hopefully they feel we are working our way together, and i think that we, you know, have enormous amount of respect for the coalition they put together and the work they have done. And i think this is part of the process. And this looks a little more like it kind of a, the type of outreach process that a state legislative bill goes through, rather than sort of a county sales tax, and i think thats one of the challenges because at the start it is a legislative bill that has to go through the state legislature and then its going to be sort of, if this passed, a whole other level of outreach and kind of Community Engagement that would happen before there was an expenditure plan and on and on, so i think we are trying to, the best intentions inherent to this and trying to work our way through them and really appreciate kind of, you know, everybodys availability to work with us and try and get through. Director. Add on to that. I think its important at this early stage understanding that you need to get to the legislature to engage with the Disability Community in particular, you said a