Clerk we have quorum. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk item 2, chairs report. Thank you. Colleagues, this month we had the pleasure of receiving a delegation from the California State Transportation Agency led by the new secretary of transportation, david kim, and members of his team responsible for safety planning and innovative mobility. They oversee the Transportation Commission and our state d. Ot. I want to thank our executive director and her team for organizing the round table as well as the sfmta acting director and the mtc Deputy Director for joining the meeting which i stayed for the entire time. The medium of the day was state and local partnerships and we had much to discuss, beginning with the storied history of Infrastructure Projects that followed the earthquake that took place 30 years ago last week. It not only damaged the bridge but also frees and other structures in San Francisco. We were allowed to rebuild the embarcadoro structure. These land grants were helpful allowing to make the terminal possible and we should acknowledge thenstate senators quinnton cop and john burton. Today our collaboration focuses on a new generation of partnerships, supporting Affordable Housing and climate goals with critical muni investments and the endeavor to invest in cal train and highspeed services and eventually across the bay. Initially the group was interested in how we work with different modes of transport. Here we discuss the pertrip fee, congestion pricing studies, as well as the need for sfmta to regulate our streets and sidewalks effectively with permits and data. Finally we discussed on partnering on clean ferries, autonomous shuttles for Treasure Island, and ensuring that next years u. S. 101 deck replacement impacts that we heard about at our last meeting are well managed. Secretary kim and his team were engaged on these issues and we outlined many next steps. Finally the secretary and i discussed the results of the legislative session as well as bills. I did express, commissioner stefani, our disappointment about two bills that were vetoed, Assembly Bill 1605 which was the bill authorizing a paid reservation system for lumbar street which we endorsed and supported, as well as senate bill 127 which was the bill to ensure cal trans includes street facilities. Secretary kim expressed the administrations commitment to advancing complete street projects statewide and pledged to work with us to find a solution to congested conditions on lumbar street. I think i nicely said to him that the proof would be in the pudding. I know our staff would be following up on both fronts, and we will be looking forward to moving those forward with legislative offers. With that, i conclude the chairs comment. Is there any Public Comment on the chairs comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Our acting executive director ms. Lumbardo will give the executive directors report. The report should be on your desk. Well do this briefly. Building on the chairs remarks. Its the end of quite a legislative session and we can disappointed by several of the actions the governor took. We saw 1847 that establishes the bay area housing authority. This will allow a relationship between the two commissions to put it ant ballot. Its suites of potential revenue measures, pretty much anything except sales tax. Mostly we want to say a thank you to our delegation that has been helpful to getting the bills passed and to the governors desk. We are going to ask your sack ca men toe advocate to come to the next meeting which is gearing up quickly. Another example is we have a spot bill that were talking about later on this agenda sb278 which is proposed to be the vehicle for potential regional transportation measure. If that goes that would be acted on as soon as january. Speaking about that regional transportation measure, i wont say a whole lot now because you will get a presentation under item 12. The two main ones that will be presented. They will present i just want to emphasize for you and folks listening, nothing has been set yet. This is a great time to provide San Francisco with the input whether we need a measure, have a measure, what should the expenditure plan look like and so forth. If you cant make the meeting, you can come wednesday, october 23. The c. A. C. Will get the same presentation youre getting today. There is also a public workshop on october 24 from 6 00 to 8 00 in our offices if you want to get a little bit more into the weeds on the transportation measure. Moving on to local issues, i wanted to welcome back commissioner haney and walton. The challenge offered by mayor breed and officials from several other cities around the country that are interested in arranging a debrief and a presentation to the board. There is nothing like seeing the tour. That tour also included a focus on equity and affordability packages, what it took to build coalitions to make it work and some of the pitfalls. Promises that happens with the Pricing Programs in those two countries. It has been on a different note a busy season for submitting grant applications, and the Transportation Authority has been submitting applications that would further our programs. We have a fund that would fund potential user submit an application for a San Francisco pricing and incentive demonstration pilot. This would be a little bit like bart perks, where we offered cash and prize incentives to bart riders to see if they would be willing to shift their trip a little bit off the commute time to make things a little bit more comfortable, and that was pretty effective. This would be a larger demonstration as well as a mock Pricing Program with debits and credits. It would be a soft way to test congestion study. This grant would be funded if we get it around december 2019, which would coincide with the end of the study. There has seven applications submitted from the city for the cal trans program. One is related to Transportation Demand management. Its called a Transportation Demand community of progress. What this would do is work with developers, coordinators, and Transportation Management associations really to develop a set of references and bet practices for Transportation Management. We have an existing citywide t. D. M. Program adopted by the board of supervisors in 2017, but everyone is doing their own thing. This would help improve the process and make it more effective and see if there are opportunities for employers to pool the things they do so its more costeffective. The second application we did in coordination with commissioner mars office. It was the School Access plan, both offed on medium to Long Distance trips for families. This would complement the other funding secured by commissioner mar to study School Transportation issues. These cal trans grants are expected to be announced in spring 2020 and the projects, if awarded, would begin next fall. Shifting to some outreach opportunities. We have been doing some Treasure Island outreach. We have one on thursday, october 24, on the island where were working for nonprofit and forprompt businesses on the island to give us feedback about the pricing policies that we want to bring back to the tima board. If you want more information, there is more information on the website if you look up Treasure Island. Outreach is coming out for connect s. F. Our longrange Transportation Program that we are working on with the planning department. This is the first big round of outreach after we presented the statement of needs, which was looking at existing and future conditions for San Francisco and how close or how far we are from meeting our longterm vision from a sustainable and equitable Transportation Plan in the city. The first bit of outreach is going to be two focused workshops. One focused on youth which will be focused on the youth. And another on those who live and work in the sector. Those will be public workshops same type of content in january. The focus will be what are the typical trips you make in the city, are they working well or not . What would it take to get you, your friends, your mom, coworkers to switch to more sustainable modes such as transit, biking. One of the findings in the statement of needs is we need to shift a lot more of the trips to be from more sustainable modes. If you have questions on that, ill flag that eric young will be bringing a contract amendment for the outreach consultant back to this board in november. Well have that opportunity. Lastly, a couple of project highlights from the Sales Tax Program are delivering several sales tax projects. We have projects starting on the hairball interchange. One is for the commissioners from districts 9 and 10. D. P. W. Is expecting to begin construction in the next week to improve the bike path that goes under the 101 freeway, including everything from regrading it so you have more clearance between the freeway and the path and landscaping and a buffer. Construction is expected to take about four months. Were very expected to see that moving forward. In district 3 weve seen under the sorry, a number of new bike lanes put in. Some crosswalk improvements. There is more work and more related tweaks to these projects. One thing that is nice is this particular set of improvements came up through outreach that was connected for sfmtas embarcadero project. Lastly yesterday mayor breed, chair peskin, the public works and the Public Utilities commission, and the Transportation Authority attended a ribbon authority for the jefferson streetscape improvement project. This is quite a Pedestrian Safety project. It includes wider sidewalks, lighting, and improves safety for all users along jefferson street. This was another example of a project funded with a variety of sources from our end tip funds, and i wanted to flag 6. 8 million from the citys competitive program. We will have funding coming up for that. Are there any questions . Is there any Public Comment on the executive directors report . Supervisors, maria touched on about 60 points, no mention of congeneration. How are you going to stop the congestion . What studies are being made to see how many vehicles come into the city and which areas are impacted. Why are we not talking about the carbon footprint. The thing that happens in london is a far cry from what happens in San Francisco because we have too many hills. We also have different values. Im not faulting the directors report. Shes just trying to touch on certain topics, but here where everyday san franciscans have to deal with pollution, congestion, accidents, quality of life issues linked to our infants, children, youth, our elders is paramount. Those are the things we need to touch upon. Thank you very much. Seeing no other members of the public for Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, next item, please. Clerk items 4 to 7 consent agenda. They are being considered for final approval. The remaining items are considered routine. If a member objects, any of the consent items may be removed and considered separately. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes of october 8, 2019 . Mr. Goodman. Goodday, chairman and members of the transit authority. We wanted just to highlight the comments that were made on the Meeting Minutes on the swit switchback policies and procedures. Hopefully that will come out. There is some of the transportation and traffic issues come from the issues. If we dont have the links and loops in Transit Service. We need to start seeing your Public Transit agencies treated as such. Get the loops made so we have a Network Across the city. You have to provide those new systems. The other issue was the update on the u. S. 101 deck replacement. There was no mention of cumulative effect of construction. It was discussed a little bit about 19th avenue and side streets used for routeing of that traffic. Thats a safety issue. Also, why arent we really planning for this way in advance to get a secondary system in place so that there is ways to cross the city or get to some of these construction sites. Youre going to have contractors getting their labor materials and it has an impact on people when theyre going to be using the side streets to get through the city. Thank you for your comments. Seeing no other members of the public for Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Do we have a motion to move the consent agenda, made by commissioner walton, seconded by commissioner ronen. On that motion, a roll call, please. [ roll call ]. Clerk we have final approval. Next item, ms. Clerk item 8, allocate 24. 3 million and appropriate 49,724. This is an action item. Anything you want to add . Good morning, commissioners, i am the Deputy Director for policy and planning. As mentioned before governor nusem vetoed this bill which would have allowed the board of supervisors to establish a paid system for managing auto congestion on the 1,000 block of lumbar street. We have withdrawn the lumbar street paid appropriation request as it was concontingent gent on that bill becoming law. That is reflected in your packet materials today. We are working with commissioner stefani to advance the program in light of the recent actions. Commissioner stefani, anything you want to add . Thank you, chair. I just want to make sure we have that money somewhat on hold to address the issue, that it does not going anywhere else any time soon. It is available as your neighborhood transportation funding to allocate to projects of your priority. Thank you. All right. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to move item number 8 made by commissioner fewer, seconded by commissioner yee. We have the same house, same call. The item is finally approved. Next item. Clerk item 9, accept the downtown rail extension Peer Review Panels final report on governance, oversight, management and project delivery. This is an action item. Thank you. We had a very robust hearing on this. Good morning, chair peskin, commissioners. On october 8, members of the d. T. X. Panel presented their findings and recommendation to this body. Since that time, we have been meeting with Partner Agencies and other members of the public and stakeholders. We have been advancing discussions about executing a memorandum of understanding so that we can implement most of the expert panels recommendation. Were also providing funding on related projects. We hope to bring those to you next month for consideration. This will also be followed by a request for d. T. X. Funding that will come to you in december. We also met with friends of the project, friends of d. T. X. , and some of our other advocates. Apparently there has been some confusion about whether that twoyear program recommended by the Panel Includes the engineer. We want to confirm that, indeed, it does. It is item 1. 5 in the work program. They want to establish an initial operating segment to get Transit Service and accommodate the rail by a date certain which is now hoped to be 2028. So this will be with a budget supported by higher confidence and to move forward. So after that the project team will conduct the signing in accordance with whatever the project delivery method is selected. With us here today we have john fi fisher who is a member of the panel and answering any of your questions. Mr. Fisher, iing you would like to add . Colleagues, we are in receipt of a statement from the tjpa. Is there anybody here from the tjpa who would like to say anything . Okay. So i would like to respond to the statement before we open this up to Public Comment. The president of the tjpa board, mohamed nuru, shared his statement with me yesterday. I think he i dont want to put words in his mouth, but i think he appreciates the findings of this d. T. X. Expert peer review. I think we all agree this project is of critical importance to the region, the megaregion, and the state. Of the two points raised in his statement as we move forward together, i would like to echo and clarify what i believe is our intent at the Transportation Authority. First, on the strategy and collaborative manner of work that the Panel Recommends, this one needs to be a truly regionalized process. We heard very clearly from the Expert Peer Review Panel that we need to reposition, reset the project, and confirm its business case. It will involve a hard look at the funding and phasing of d. T. X. To ensure its competitiveness for funding. We not only need to draw on the expertise of the stakeholder expertise and funding in major Infrastructure Project delivery, but most importantly to empower this group to work in a truly integrative way and not just as peer revie