Three, two, one. [applause. ] congratulations everybody. Thank you. So the project was driven by the need to improve conditions for people biking and walking from beach street to mcallister. Between 2010 and 2015, there were 290 traffic crashes including two deaths, 110 bike collisions and 78te 78 pedestrin collisions. The construction was a little over two years. It including pedestrian crossing, better bike facilities, new street trees, we repaved the entire corridor. Fern alley has decorative street plants and new palm streets. Cbd helped maintain the alleys and they are planning farmers markets and pop ups and bands. The goal was to build on the economic vibra vibrancy of polkt and to provide a safe street for and to provide a safe street for good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority for our last meeting of the 2019 calendar year. Today is tuesday, december 17th , 2019. Could you please call a rollback could you please call roll call . [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you. I would like to begin this meeting by welcoming our newest member c. A. Q. I think the 307 th member of the sfcta that i have served with c. A. Q. Commissioner dean preston c. A. Q. To the Transportation Authority board. And we look forward to working with you and your staff not only on district five issues c. A. Q. But on citywide issues and regional transportation issues. Now that i have acknowledged commissioner preston c. A. Q. I want to have him participate in his First Official act. Is there a motion to excuse commissioner haney . Would you like to raise your hand and make that motion . I would. Is there a second for that motion . As much as this will upset our attorney c. A. Q. We will take that without objection without a roll call vote. Commissioner haney is excused. Welcome to commissioner walton and before i make the chairs comments c. A. Q. I would like to afford commissioner preston a moment to say a few words on his first day in his First Official meeting as an elected official. The floor is yours. Thank you, mr. Chair. It is an honor and a privilege to be sworn in last night and to serve on this commission and especially as a 26 year every day munimobile rider. I have a lot of thoughts and i am really looking forward to weighing in on transportation issues in my role on this commission and on the board. I look for to working with you all and i appreciate the briefing from staff that we got yesterday even before being sworn in, to be up to speed as much as possible on issues before us. Thank you. Thank you and welcome. It was a pleasure to show you where the kitchen is. Commissioner prestons inaugural meeting coincides with the arrival yesterday of the sfmtas new director of transportation, who i have known for least 20 years. He is dedicated and visionary and we are all wishing him well and look forward to supporting him in his new position. Of importance to district five constituents and all of us as the state of munimobile, that is why i was pleased to serve on the Reliability Working Group with vice chairman andelman, which concluded his work last week while i was at my preop so i was not able to go to the last meeting. That body was convened by mayor breed this past summer. The task force brought together over a dozen Industry Experts and policy advisors or around the state in the region and it was it was like going back to college. It was quite fascinating. And we reviewed many to cheat s operations and structure to advice to discussing on shortterm and midterm actions to improve performance and reliability. I would really like to thank the cochairs of that effort. Sfmta back the director, in the former controller and sfpuc director or general manager at harrington, as well as our controller, and most particularly, our executive director here who did a remarkable job of supporting that effort, as well as seven t. A. Deputy director and all of the respective staffs were keeping the group remarkably focused and productive. I think the only thing that we punted on was the issue of governance. At the top of the working Group Recommendations was to focus on hiring and retention of moneys workforce including adding 500 new bus and train operators by 2021. There is a huge deficit of operators, but not only on the operator his side, but also as it relates to trades and crafts. There have been structural vacancies in a number of places that are critical to the reliability. So we are talking about electricians, maintenance workers, supervisors, and this will take reforms to expedite training and hiring and partnerships with Community College and workforce programs to maintain it munimobile could you workforce and will require the department the department of Public Health to do Health Screenings for operators more quickly. In addition, the agency needs to replace his outdated train control system, at service to reduce crowding and close equity gaps and continue to implement on street priority treatments to address rising congestion. The final report will be issued next month and in the new year and we hope to put it on the agenda before this entire body soon thereafter. Finally, on a less optimistic note, we were to support the upcoming changes as we work to support the upcoming changes to munimobile service, i wanted to acknowledge all of you accept for commissioner preston who hadnt been involved in this. The progress and let me underscore the continued challenges with the new munimobile and siemens light rail vehicles commonly known as the l r. V. Four and i understand the doors have been solved and breakdowns are improving, the story with the pins that came out last week was quite disheartening and while i thought, and in some areas think that the situation was improving , i now have, and i hope you all share renewed concerns. I look forward to a full report from the sfmta in january. I do have to say, the story that i saw on tv about the cannibalization of existing vehicles that come out of the 68 that we procured was deeply troubling. On that happy note, colleagues, i wish you and yours and the publics a safe and relaxing holiday season. Is there any Public Comment on the chairs report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item three executive director s reports. Information item. Good morning. Let me begin by trying chair peskin and welcoming commissioner preston and his staff. Thank you for making time for the briefing on the very first day before you were even sworn in before in preparation for today. We look forward to working with you and your whole office. Let me begin the report this month with an update on the federal safe rule. This is a new policy from the White House Administration proposing that we roll back National Fuel efficiency standards, which would invalidate californias even Higher Standards and more ambitious Clean Car Standards in electric vehicle mandate. We oppose this in the governor his also support opposing this. Were supporting that whole effort, but in the meantime, california must update our air quality conformity model to accommodate the new standards. This is a subjective coordination and negotiation between Environmental Protection agency and a variety of states, and particularly california. What this would mean for us, until the models have been updated or there has been a negotiated resolution is transportation projects statewide that are not exempt from conforming analysis and by and large these are projects that would expand either roadway or transit capacity, these projects could be unable to receive federal environmental approvals and other types of federal actions. This is essentially a restriction on access to federal funds. It is a very, very high priority for the state and all of us to support california agencies that are working on this strategy and the car and e. P. A. And the governors staff are all working hard to figure this out. Meanwhile, well be tracking this around with our colleagues in the state to make sure that we keep the projects moving and alternative in alternative ways as needed with other funds. We will keep you apprised as we learn more. Staying at the state level, the California AirResources Board has been implementing the clean a mild standard. This was senate bill 2014 which required an establish of baseline emissions of Greenhouse Gases for vehicles associated with tea and c. Activities. This is a really important baseline that compares tea and sea missions in the fleet. Our staff have been working on helping them to implement this mandate and created the baseline emissions methodology. The estimate did come out and it shows that they are producing an average 75 more emissions per passenger mile and california private auto fleet. This is direct evidence of the higher impact of t. N. C. On air quality and Greenhouse Gas emissions than the general fleet and it is for a variety of different reasons. They did take into account the cleaner vehicle technology. That is the more modern modern vehicles that t. N. C. His are operating, but they also have more nonpassenger cruising miles. There is the extra miles that are being travelled as well as a lower occupancy. This is an impact of Greenhouse Gas emissions per personal miles travelled. It takes into account the person occupancy of the vehicles. We will have a more complete update update for you next year because we are trying to make sure we are getting our comments in on the next stage of work. Once they have established this baseline inventory, the next work is to set targets. Staff are busy supporting them and commenting on this process. We will also have a january 14 th information item on the electric vehicle roadmap that was requested a couple of meetings ago. On the potential for original funding measure, wanted to keep you updated that like other counties around the region, staff are working with city agencies and regional agencies to put together our list of projects. These are projects that have been endorsed by this body. We will put that list together and submit it to the author. We are actively participating in a Interagency Working Group and coordinating with m. T. A. On those projects. It is important to get that information to the senator early in the new year as he tries to advance to 78 for consideration by the legislature. That would enable the regional funding measure that we had presentations on back in november. This is the potential 1 cent or multi revenue potential Revenue Source that would create 100 billion for transit improvements regionwide. In addition, we have been working with caltrain staff on the potential for a one eighth sent three county sales tax measure that would support caltrain investments and the idea would be that either of these two could potentially advice, advance, but probably not both. If the regional funding did not make it on the ballot, the idea would be to advance the three county funding measure if we could get consensus on the different policy aspects of that in order to do that, it does require approval of seven entities. These are the members of the Caltrain Joint Powers Authority and this would be caltrain, san mateo and santa clara counties and the board of supervisors we need to act on this measure for the november 2020 ballot as well as actions by the transit agencies. Sfmta, and others, as well as the joint powers board itself. Order to make the November Ballot to the work would need to take place through the First Quarter of next year and consensus by march or so would enable actions to be taken in the april through july timeframe in order to get that ballot on the november before the voters in november. The one sales tax would generate an estimated 95 to 100 million per year and that would be needed to implement the statistician and the Business Plan that was approved by caltrain over the summer. We will continue to work with the other sister agencies in San Francisco and along the peninsula and keep you all apprised. Thank you to commissioner walton for serving as our representative from the board of supervisors to the caltrain organization. On the downtown extension, our staff did represent the second show the peer review findings to the tjpa. This was on the agenda in november and they got the most the presentation and then there was an incident so they had to vacate the whole building. They continue to the item until december. This is just by way of saying that work was well received and we will be moving forward with the funding allocation to resume funding of the downtown real extension work at tjpa and with ourselves in the january timeframe. The m. O. U. Discussions are taking place so we are helpful that we would see that action. Sorry to interrupt the presentation, how would you characterize the conversations and the tjpa as it relates to the m. O. U. . There is a few items that do remain outstanding and most of them has been closed up with all the other partners and we do want to make sure that we have the right structure for who is responsible for which task and who is accountable for which task and how are they going to be accountable. I think we have closed off agreement on things like the integrated project team and the executive Steering Committee which is the big proposed new way of doing businesses a team, a Collaborative Team. That body would report to the tjpa board itself and that was one of the more recent developments. I think we have reached agreement on that. I think now were just we are just trying to ensure that as we prepare to do this work in a new ways a Collaborative Team that we have the right ability to ensure the board has oversight of the work that we are doing and that the accountability makes sense from the standpoint of who is contracting with consultants and who is contracting for certain work to be done. As long as the structure that you proposed to this body, which was fundamentally a bottomup structure and not a topdown structure is honoured. Correct. Thank you. We appreciate that reminder and absolutely agree. We working to ensure all of that the next item is the eastbound 80 offramp. I want to mention this is one of the major project delivery Construction Projects we have on deck for 2020. Theyve made sure that they are able to get the project listed and advertised. We have meetings happening tomorrow to december 18th on Treasure Island at 1 00 p. M. This is as a reminder of 26 and a half Million Dollar contract or so. That is our engineers estimate. We expect opening to happen on january 14th. We do have a 16 target for this target this project. We anticipate bringing a contract to the board for approval in february of 2020. This is all to support the development on the island that tied up that tea ida is managing. On project delivery, a couple of items. The Transportation Fund or clean air, we are ministers of the air quality funds from the air district and we funded some electric vehicle fast chargers. The good news is that our partners at e. V. Have identified two locations for new chargers. We left that open and let them identify those locations so the two new fast chargers are going to are proposed to be at the lucky supermarket at the masonic and fulton masonic intersection and in district one i believe it will be the safeway at seventh and cabrillo. These are really great spots in places that do have a lack of publicly accessible e. V. Chargers. That is good news. We will continue to bring updates as they identify locations for the remaining chargers get them available and installed for public use. On geary boulevard, the pavement contract will get started here. We are excited to update the public works expects to give their contract or notice to proceed in january and start repaving 28 blocks of gary boulevard between van ness and masonic avenue. This was funded through our phase i prop kl allocation prop k. Allocation. It is funded the prop a. A. Program. The two Funding Sources are working in concert. This is to pave these 28 blocks and it will support the sidewalk construction, new carveouts, and some of the new bulb outs in the program in addition to the bus lanes. With that, im happy to take any questions. We want to wish all of you and your staff and very happy and relaxing holiday and thank them for their hard work and supporting us. We appreciate your guidance this year and going into the new year thank you. Thank you. Are there any questions from commissioners . Commissioner fewer . Thank you very much. Thank you for your presentation. Very informative. I wanted to mention there is a stretch west of masonic, just that one block that is really in need of repaving. I know that you mentioned is from van mess to masonic and it doesnt quite it is just that the five runs on that block a lot. As most of you know, i am on the back of the motorcycle about 90 of the time so i know that block very, very well. It is the westbound lane that the bus is on and it really needs repaving. I am wondering if there are any extra funds to do an extra even half block of that. We will be happy to follow up on that. Thank you very much. Are there any other questions from members of this body . Is there any Public Comment on this item . Please come forward. Good morning and happy holidays to all. My name is albert. I am a native of southeastern San Francisco. Born and raised in this compassionate city for all, including the disabled. Im here because i want to advocate for the wheelchairbound users under a. D. A. 1964 civil rights act. I