[ roll call ]. Clerk you have a quorum. Its be advised supervisor pemiger. Please be advised that the ringing of personal Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. The board respectfully requests that you turn them off. Any device that goes off in the room, the person may be asked to leave the room. Approval of the minutes from the last meeting. There is no Public Comments. Wonderful. If not and if there are no questions, i will entertain a motion. All in favour, please say aye. Clerk item 5, communications. Mr. Chair, directors, please be advised that the closed session has been removed from the agenda at the request of staff. Okay. Depending on time and quorum needs we may be juggling a few things. Clerk item 6, introduction of new business by board members. Board members. I was going to say i had a chance to meet with the tmc staff last week and they make sure of a lot of things. One thing they make sure we have screens in real time and they manage in the transit system, in the tunnels and letting them know when there is an incident. So i sat down with the team and talked quite a bit what are the tools we can use to be of assistance there. We better spoke about how we can uplift that team and get a better sense of the things were dealing with and how we can better communicate information to the public in real time. Theyre on the trains and buses and talking to various people across the mta and to also let the public know where were going. It was a really great time i had with the group and it was awesome to see how excited they were as the mta. They were people who were operators and now are in supervisory roles. Were fortunate to have such hardworking people. I also had the chance last saturday to attend the annual meeting for the Paratransit Coordinating Council and multimodal advisory committee, and it was a great opportunity to honor the hard work of the folks that work on those communities as well as our accessible staff that deliver huge amounts of service to a huge number of people in San Francisco the last fiscal year our Paratransit Service delivered 720,000 trips. I want to recognize the drivers and the staff and all those folks that serve on those committees. New Unfinished Business has turned into a love fest. I like that. Is there any other new or Unfinished Business . Today we will honor two people in memorium. Kathleen knox was on the committee. She was blind due to a disease she had and she passed away at 50 earlier this year. She was a pioneer of getting accessible Items Available on the docket for the public and really sort of helped bring us into the modern age. In fact, one of these agencies or the predecessores. We also lost a member of our team from the city attorneys office, vice chair borden, if i could ask you to take that over. We lost buck talbot. He was most recently supporting the mayors transit the Transit Working Group task force that was coming together. He was recently here in meetings, so its unbelievable. This man lived for service to the city and he was very physically active and just really was a breath of fresh air. Its a major loss to everyone that he has moved on and he was involved in transportation issues. We want to honor his memory. Item number 7. Good afternoon, directors. I would like to ask my colleague to come up and recognize a couple of employees. Well keep the love fest going for another minute or two. Im a caroline solaya and i am manager of the front desk at the 7th floor at the headquarters. At that position, we dont have a permanent person, so we work with the transition to work program, those on light duties and those with the Human Service public trainees to learn and grow. I would like to introduce john jones and ebbie elfaro who were recently working in that position. That position is really the face of the agency when the public arrives at the seventh floor. Today were recognizing both of these gentlemen for the Exceptional Service they provided while working in this very important role. They were both great communicators. They were always on time, always reliable, and eager to learn. They helped their fellow employees and members of the public when they came in. They basically greeted everyone with a warm, welcoming smile, very friendly. They were an absolute joy to work with and they raised the bar for this position. John has now returned to his regular position. Hes an operator out of the kirkland position. And ebbie accepted a position working in the sustainable Streets Division in the sign shop. We are going to miss them, but are happy to know that they remain a part of the mta family. [ applause ]. Wonderful. Congratulations. Now, you can speak, but everyone is going to ask the same question, which is, which is harder, dealing with the public opt on the bus or at the front desk. You dont have to answer. Please, the floor is yours. Thank you, i appreciate it. It was a great position. Im grateful to be there and i hope to be with the mta for the foreseeable future. Thank you. Chairman heinicke and to the board members, i stand humbled before you. It was a great honor to work for the city of San Francisco. I grew up in the bay area and San Francisco is a great city. Great opportunityies. Times have changed. Weve been through some hard times, but i have the opportunity like given a Second Chance and i dont take that lightly. Then the blessing is light duty came to work through caroline and roberta and was able to do the light desk and met some incredible people on the seventh floor. I didnt have a clue, never been up there. Ive been to the sixth floor, but you never know until you go yourself. I went and i experienced i call it the seventh floor experience, and it was great for me. Met a good friend, and im blessed. So i stand here humbled. And it was my job, you know, and dan for someone to say we appreciate you, you did a good job, which i was paid to do. I thank you very much for this honor. Its awesome. Thank you so much for saying that. If you ever find yourself on light duty again, would you please apply to our Public Relations department and be a spokesperson for this agency. That would be wonderful. Congratulations to you both, and im particularly proud of the shows of the commitment have to invest in our program. [ applause ]. I have to report a Pedestrian Fatality took place on halloween, a female pedestrian walking struck by a motor vehicle. The San FranciscoPolice Department is investigating that crash. South vaness is a street on our highinjury network. There was an emergency resolution passed which will be going to the full board of supervisors this month, essentially declaring a Traffic Safety state of emergency and focusing on vision zero enforcement programs and projects. The resolution calls for the mta to increase the number of officers dealing with bike lane violations and double parking and also increase the red light enforcement. The sustainable Streets Division is working with our colleagues in finance to figure out the best way to implement and accelerate these efforts. Particularly on october 22, the calsta had its third workshop about posting speed limits and automated speed enforcement. This came out of a legislated mandate in 2019. The task force expects to issue draft findings by the end of november. And our own director is representing all the policies weve been talking about in vision zero as part of that. Finally, with the end of daylight savings this week, pedestrian accidents increase because of the shorter daylight hours. Weve started to include safety messages reminding drivers to be extra vigilant of pedestrians at this time of year. Moving on to the central subway, i want to give an update on that team. Were currently in the next phase of the Construction Mitigation Program that were partnering with the Economic Workforce Development program on. Its going to include loan and grant funding, an advertising campaign, and direct support for Small Businesses that were affected by the multiyear construction along the subway line. Weve made some great progress over the last month because of commitme commitment. We reset the completion date of the contract and that created a better relationship between owner and contractor. This is the communitypreferred design that will make sure the central subway is a great urban design and public resource for chinatown. At the union Street Market station, our crews are getting the public art in place. This is an exciting part of the central subway. 2 of the cost of the program is devoted to public art, and ten permanent art pieces have been commissioned. 80 of those pieces have been fabricated. Finally, to stay ahead of the potential schedule and cost risk issues, our team recently completed a comprehensive Risk Assessment review by the federal Transit Administration in which they were looking at such topics as our substantial completion date and some of the technical risks related to the constructi construction. Finally i wanted to talk about the role the mta has played in the city city family in the sonoma fires. People sheltered in Grace Cathedral but also with friends and families. Many of our staff live in areas where the power was shut off by pg e during the power shutdown. We saw an increase in traffic on the streets and an increase of cars parked in the garage in the city. We also saw muni ridership drop. We got people to the Grace Cathedral area. We waived Parking Enforcement fees, provided visitor passes and free muni passes for those in the cathedral area. Despite the fire and the power outage, we worked to deliver service. We had a few runs on the 82 x up to the 88. Some lowfrequency lines were affected, but for the most part weve been able to run a normal service during the kinkaid fire, the Public Safety power shutoff and do our park to make sure the life in the city carries on. Just another reason to commend the folks who get this job done every day. Finally im going to ask my colleagues to come up and give us a presentation of a map that theyve created to help make our projects a little more accessible to the public. Thank you for your time today. My name is tory winters, transportation planner. We will be presenting on the multiagency interactive project map. We worked with an internal team to develop an interactive project map where people could go to learn about a specific project type or projects that are happening in their neighborhood or supervisor district of concern. This map was created to increase transparency through better communication of project work that the sfmta is working and to facilitate coordination among projects. After the launch of the sfmta map, a project directive was released for our use on this project. The agencies include San Francisco public works, the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission, as well as us the sfmta. The timeliness of this request was spurred forward by the opening of the chase center. As youre well aware on any given day we have hundreds of projects that visually touch the streets of San Francisco. To the outside observer, they have no idea which agency is responsible for a given project. What we sought to do was provide a user friendly solution so people could find out about project information on the street that they may encounter, in their neighborhood, or elsewhere in the city. The sf streets interactive map does this and its fully mobile as well as on desktop. It further allows sfmta to actualize two of our Strategic Plan objectives, 4. 3 and 4. 5 to enhance Customer Service and also enable better project delivery. So wed like to give you a quick demo of what you can expect when you get to the sf streets project map. If you visit this map on mobile, so youll be greeted by a splash screen that gives you some basic information about the map. When you close out of that, then youre provided with the option of panning around or clicking as you would with any other map. When you select a project, there is an information panel, that includes a project name, short description, type, phase, as well as a link to the web page. You can also search by key word, by neighborhood, by supervisor district, or by project type. This is maybe familiar to some of you who have used the sfmta project map, its building on that work. So if you searched for bryant street, you would see a number of projects that come up that have that key word in the description. You can also subselect a project from that list if you want to know which of those projects is the bike project, you select it from the list and see it highlighted on the map. For a supervisor district, if you click on that, it will load a layer on the map to see all the projects that fall within or immediately around a given district. So as stef mentioned, the project map is optimized for mobile and desktop. When users visit the map on the desktop, they are presented with a view you see here and get projects by neighborhood via mini map. As with the mobile, it will appear on the panel. As you can see here, weve selected south of market neighborhood as the example, in which projects within 250 feet of the neighborhood boundary are selected and you can subselect from the results list to further allow the projects of interest from the results to stand out. Similarly, you can also search directly on the map by searching by neighborhood, supervisor district, or project type. There are seven projects here that we grouped from us, public works, and puc in, our pedestrian and accessibility projects, bike projects, transit projects, dried parks and paving, sewer projects, park, and water projects. Weve selected drive, park, and paving citywide. As you can see there is a lot on this map. Most users will subselect to see all of the projects standing out again. So a little bit more whats behind the map and whats included. So the projects here are any projects you see on the website as well as active projects from puc that have started or will start in the next two years. Phases of projects included on this map range from being in the environmental process to the project itself. The staff are responding to related and distinct requests about temporary street closures and special events rerouting. So those are not displayed on this map. For project data that is featured on here is maintained by each of the lead agencies. We really hope as a result of this map and because of this map it will have project development throughout the city. This was created by myself and tory winters. We had critical contributions from a number of other staff at other agencies. We developed this under the leadership of lisa walton, sara jones, jonathan runs. Betsy laupa communications at p puc. A number of other staff have contributed to this as well and we look to coordination with our Agency Partners around this map as we move forward. With that, that concludes our presentation. Were happy to take questions now or later, whichever is your preference. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you very much. Directors, any questions for our presenters on the map or for director mcguire on the overall directors report. When is the map going to be live . So they are live today. You can find the link directly on a blog post that will be going out on moving sf this afternoon. Additionally, were putting out an faq that will refresh the resource as we get more common questions from people. I hope we do a more robust social Media Campaign because a lot of people would love to get this out there. If we can get it out there broadly, it will make people feel less frustrated and how they get around the city. We will be posting on facebook and twitter, so i encourage you to retweet and share. We should post on instagram too. I know we dont do a lot, but we should post it there. Any other questions on this or on the overall directors report . Why dont we start, is there any questions on the map . The one question i have is thank you for doing this. We often get issues of advance notice and it will be nice to point to this. This is a neighborhoodbased map. It would seem to me this would be a wonderful consumer for this map, if you were to fill in the map and you get alerts any time theres something new. I think outreach to those groups right now to let them know about the map not all of them are on social media, they have different ways of connecting. Whatever we can do with our neighborhood groups to let them know about this new resource we should. Congratulations on the project. Questions on the report more broadly. Yes, thank you. Mr. Mcguire, to go back to the vision zero and the declaration of a Pedestrian Safety emergency, youre right, we did have a very good presentation to peg on the red light cameras. Thank you for that. I think all the members really dug into that and asked a lot of questions. Im not sure that that really satisfied the public from what ive been hearing. We got people to talk about it more. Im not sure what the answer is there to get the information out more broadly and to help people understand about that program, sort of when we use it and what the steps are. The presentation was fantastic, so im not sure how we can roll it out at this Board Meeting or maybe there is a good blog post on it, but something. I think it raised more questions than we answered. We can look for ways to get that out. Because it was a good presentation. I certainly do understand a lot more about the red light program. I worry that we have let the public think t