Washington, d. C. A couple weeks ago to testify before the house highways and transit subcommittee on the topic of pricing strategies. Americas roads. This is the first hearing that the Committee Held to talk about the way to pay for infrastructure. Not only did they discuss the gas tax, the traditional source, which is a declining source, but also explored permile tees, tolling and congestion pricing. So my testimony certainly emphasized the need for more longterm federal funding, in particularly raising the gas tax. But also to be exploring other innovative, diverse sources of revenue as well. On the federal fuel economy standards, as youve seen in the news, the e. P. A. And department of transportation announced new lower standards. Theres a conflict, of course, with our california standards and our stricter requirements. And really pleased that the governor has, along with other 20 other states, filed a lawsuit attorney general has filed a lawsuit to overturn the new rule. Were tracking that work. , not only because of the policy implications and meeting our climate goals, but also the project delivery implications for some of our projects that could be caught up in modifications to analysis and modeling related to the new standard. So in addition, i think we learned just late last night in a new development, the administration threatened the the white house threatened to withhold federal highway funds from california, pending updates of about 100 pollution control plans in california. It continues to be dynamic and well be tracking all of that together with our colleagues in the city and the region. Planned bay area in our region kicked off officially. Weve been doing advanced planning work with m. T. C. , supporting that work through the horizon effort. However, plan barry has officially kicked off, as the portion of the process that will really contemplate the land use distribution, as well as the transportation investments to support future growth. The agencys around the region will be seeking feedback together through a series of popup events, including here in San Francisco, which well be publishing on the web site and getting the word out on social media. Our role is to coordinate San Franciscos input and to plan bay area, building off the local priorities that had been established in prior plans. And continuing through our connect assess effort. So well be probably bringing more updates to you through the winter and, anticipating approval of a fiscally constrained transportation investment package early next year. As chair mentioned, Transit Center in downtown extension work continues. Resumption of the a. C. Transit bus continued in august. And once again being enjoyed by the public. So we are also glad to report our preview final report is coming to you at the october 8th meeting. We look forward to presenting that. We have been working hard to support the peer panel, as well as having thoughtful conversations with stakeholder agencies and their staff. We presented to the tgpa board and the c. A. C. A few times and met with vice chair gee to discuss some of the potential recommendations and findings. And we are also working with partners to discuss ways to potentially implement some of these recommendations in the near term, including through m. L. A. , as well as potentially funding items here at the Transportation Authority, should the recommendations be accepted by the board in october. Turning to some local issues. Our pricing study has kicked off as well. We want to really appreciate the metropolitan transportation commission. Thank you missioner ronen for serving on that, which approved 400,000 in regional funding to support our study. Combined with our local t. A. Funds, thats enabled to kick off with consultants and study partners. Weve been working on Community Engagement plans and equity analyses at directed by the body. We look forward to bringing you updates. Treasure island outreach continues, particularly for the nonprofit and forprofit business communities and their employees will be holding two collaborative workshops in october to talk about different ways to implement the Treasure Island policies, pertaining to service, transit, proposed toll and how we can balance the needs amongst the users of the system and the residents and the merchants. The m. T. A. Board, of course, also recently approved central subways new schedule. And some budgeting increase to settle claims with the contractor, as chair mentioned, the new construction schedule is now slated to end in mid2020. And with revenue testing would then allow for the opening of service to be in mid2021. So just wanted to again share that update. Well be tracking along with them what the different sources of funding are to cover the new 31 million, as well as potentially increased costs as they continue to explore what its going to take to deliver the total project. We have sort of committed all of our Transportation Authority funds here. So we understand that they are looking to their own surplus funds in their budget or financing from Revenue Bonds or reprioritizing Capital Projects on the m. T. A. Capital plan. M. T. A. Has done some great delivery work on the Vehicle Program in the Fourth Quarter of fiscal 19, ending just this past june. He they placed into a Revenue Service the very last motor coaches of the 424 total motor coaches, that theyve procured with our support. All together supported 240 million of vehicle replacements from our prop k program. That includes the motor coaches, as well as new 40foot trolley buses and paratransit vehicles. Congratulations and thank you for getting those vehicles out on the street. M. T. A. Will be providing an update on the replacement of the bright to light vehicles later in todays meeting. Finally, id like to welcome and introduce two new members of we have hugh, our new Deputy Director for planning here today, along with the assistant Deputy Director for Capital Projects. Hugh joins us from planning and design firm alta, where he was principal Vice President overseeing a group of 25 planners, designers and analysts to help deliver sustainable designs to clients across the bay area. And yana, working most recently on project delivery and sustainable and resilience planning and structures for europe. Were very pleased to have both of you on our team. Chair thank you. Any members of the public who want to testify on the executive directors report . Mr. Finebalm, come on up. Just a quick question for tilley. Chair bob, we cant actually do that. But you can make a Public Comment and secretary talk to you offline. Ill take a Public Comment to the effect that i hope that the consultants report, thats going to be presented on the 8th, will be fully available to the public, at least a week in advance. And i also would suggest that if you could have the supporting documents on the website as well, that would be very helpful. Thank you. Chair thank you, mr. Finebalm. Seeing no other members of the public for this item, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] i want to apologize to folks who have been waiting patiently for the c. A. C. Item were going to blast through the consents agenda, which will just take a second and well go to item number 7. Could you please read the consent agenda. Clerk item 5 approved at the september 10th board meeting. Now being served the final approval. Its prepared to if, desired, a member objects and the consent items to be removed and considered separately. Chair any members of the public that want to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to move the consent agenda, made by commissioner ronen, seconded by commissioner safai. A roll call please. Commissioner brown . I. Commissioner fewer . Aye. Commissioner haney . Aye. Commissioner peskin . Aye. Commissioner ronen . Aye. Commissioner safai . Aye. Commissioner stefani. Aye. Commissioner yee. Aye. We have final approval. Clerk next item, please. Item number 7. Appoint one member to the citizens advisory economy. This is an action item. Chair ms. Smith. Again thank you to the members of the prick for of the public for your patience. The Transportation Authority has an 11member citizens advisory committee, with each member serving a twoyear term. The board appoints individuals to fill any open seats nor the staff or the c. A. C. Itself make recommendations on appointments. To qualify for appointment to the c. A. C. , speed limits must be San Francisco residents and must appear before the board at least once to speak to the interests and qualifications. With that i can take any questions. Chair seeing no questions, im just going to make one little suggestion to staff about c. A. C. Appointments. This is one by way of saving paper and time, which is i think when theres a vacancy for a particular seat, it would just be great if you just sent out those applicants who actually are eligible for that particular seat. So rather than having to go through applicants from 11 different districts, we can just read the handful who are eligible for the seat thats hope, for what it is worth to staff. A friendly suggestion. With that are there any individuals who would like to be a c. A. C. Member, who come please come forward. And youll have two minutes to tell us your interests and qualifications. Good morning, everyone. My name is im interested to be part of the Transportation Agency citizens advisory committee. Im a resident of district 1 in the Long Mountain neighborhood. For the last five years. I think i have a unique fit to be part of this community and help enhance the ties between the agency and the public in general. I grew up in louisiana. Ten years ago i moved to San Francisco. The scale of the transportation need and complexity in the city amazed a country boy like me. And also share a confusion from lack of understanding and context of the public works, just like every other transplant to the city. As a firstgeneration immigrant, i know personally too well it takes a lot of energy and learning just to understand how Government Works and how the Public Service work in general. Aside from a unique perspective, i also have a strong ability to help relay and inform the message to the public. I regularly hold local meetup and discussions for immigrants with topics focusing on Public Service. I help them such as adopt we successfully have a couple of people that are part of the drain. I cofounded an online publication that educates and fact checks about politics and political systems in the United States for chinese immigrants. As i regularly have more than 20,000 readers, we have interviewed and reported by the new yorkers, washington post, the New York Times and other national agencies. [bell dings] my wife and i cofounded metoochina. Org, a leading platform for provision education, recovering assistance and other legal help that we help more than 5,000 people so far. I think my background as a transplant and firstgeneration immigrant can help the agency have a better understanding of the needs for the two fastgrowing demographics. [bell dings] and my ability to inform, educate both in online can help relay the message for the agency and reduce confusion and increase transparency and understanding between the two parties. Chair thank you. Thank you. Chair are there any other potential applicants, if you would please come forward and well open it up to members of the public on this item. Good morning. My name is danielle so. Im a district 6 resident. I walked here today and saw an example many of the issues on our streets, that supervisor haney has talked about a lot recently. So im very concerned and passionate and eager to join the c. A. C. A little bit about me professionally. I was trained as an urban planner and currently work as an Affordable Housing developer in alameda. I previously sat on caltrains bicycle advisory committee. So it was great to hear the update today that things are still moving along. I think its really important within our district to call attention to the recent injuries and deaths on the streets and both to get enforcement measures and other, you know, kind of Quick Projects in the ground. As well as the longerterm things that the Transportation Authority undertakes. Vision zero is just a vision unless we put the policy and the procedures and the money where it needs to go to make that happen. So i think to the c. A. C. , i would bring a vision of ensuring that what were funding really walks and talks the same thing that vision zero says and ensures that, you know, ten years from now, a project thats receiving funding today or next month or next year is implementing those goals on the ground. So i appreciate your consideration. Chair thank you so much. Are there any other potential applicants . Seeing none, are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item number 7 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] commissioner haney. Supervisor haney thank you, chair peskin. Im excited to be able to nominate danielle today for the seat on the c. A. C. , representing district 6. I also want to take a moment to thank our outgoing representative becky hoag, who is a Treasure Island resident. Really a legendary leader in our city, who had to unfortunately step down from seat. I want to really thank becky for her service and her leadership. As you heard today, danielle has expressed to me a very strong desire to not only advocate for traffic calming, t. N. C. Regulation, red light cameras and equity in transportation planning, but very relevant for this body, she brings an eye towards putting our money where our mouth is, regarding transportation planning. She has a background in planning herself. And i think well make sure that were using our money most effectively. I also think its wonderful. Shes also a tenderloin resident and understands firsthand someone who walks and bikes on a regular basis the disproportionate challenges that our neighborhood faces with unsafe streets, speeding and daily collisions. So im excited that shell bring her perspective to the c. A. C. And i want to thank danielle and i want to make a motion to nominate her to the c. A. C. Chair motion made by commissioner haney. Is there a second for that motion . Seconded by commissioner ronen. And on that item, we have the same house, same call. The motion is passed. [gavel] next item, please. Clerk item 8. Update on the San Francisco municipal Transportation Agencys siemens lightrail. You got to hear all about caltrain. Thank you for your patience. Good morning. Im julie kish balm, the director of transit at sfmta. I appreciate the opportunity to brief you. This is part of a monthly briefings that were done to add accountability and transparency to the l. R. V. 4 process. I am pleased to be here with some good news. We have made significant progress over the last month. We have now delivered 67 of our 68 phase 1 vehicles. And the phase 1 vehicles are all expansion vehicles, which it means more training out in the system, less crowding and better connections for our customers. The last train were going to deliver next week, if any Board Members are interested in having an opportunity to come and address the employees that have been building this equipment, we are really proud that these vehicles are being produced as part of our megaregion and creating more jobs and opportunity within San Francisco within california. We also have seen city performance improvements. And ill walk through some of those. We still have some technical issues were working out, primarily being the hydraulic power unit, which currently makes up about a third of our inservice breakdowns. Weve worked through some of the technical issues, but are still having some software challenges. As part of our 90day plan, we did identify a set of what we thought were ambitious but achievable performance targets. Photo most part we did meet all of our goals. The first one was related to availability. We want these vehicles out in the system. We want customers enjoying them and experiencing them. Were at a low point of only 22 vehicles out in the system. Were now averaging over 35. We also have are now able to couple and have twocar trains. Weve had no followup issues with doors or with couplers since those retrofits were put in place. As i said were just about at our 68th vehicle being delivered. That will happen next week. And our breakdowns have reduced significantly. And then the last piece is that we have made some Good Progress on addressing the flat wheels. As we discussed, one of the challenges weve been facing with this vehicle is that it has aspects of it that are different than the brayed. When you hit the emergency mushroom button on the l. R. V. S 4, the wheels flatten. So weve been working with the manufacturer to put on additional track brakes. This will allow the vehicle to stop quickly, but will not put the same pressure on the vehicles. This will significantly improve our vehicle availability. As we typically have three to four vehicles on hold, so that we can round out the wheels and we have about five vehicles right now that we cant even use at all, because their wheels are too narrow. A question that ive gotten is why couldnt we just address this problem with training. So train folks to use the track, the tstick when theyre in the lrv4s and the mushroom when theyre in the braydas. The best way to equate it, the vehicles are different enough in their braking system, its almost like youre drive