Nobody has turned in a speaker card. Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Is there a motion to approve these items a motion. Second. Item five, communications, i have none for you today. Item six. Board members, new or unfinished business. Wow, a remarkably silent group. Ill volunteer one thing. I put myself out there on that one. I first of all want to direct director tomlin and all of the staff on the excellent workshop last tuesday. It was really rich and substantive. And you came to a lot of new conclusions. And i wanted to share ive had several colleagues reach out to me to share stories of their commute. Ive had them express faster traveling times, and remark about the aspect they did not anticipate, which is how quiet it is on Market Street, and they could even hear birds churping on their walks. I just wanted to share that. Im sure all of you are hearing positive feedback as well. But i think it is a great success, and it is clearly have an immediate impact. Wonderful, thank you, director ecan. I want to thank you for the workshop, and particularly for the Market Street opening. I was limited how much time i had at the microphone, so i didnt thank staff adequately, but i want to reiterate thanks to director reskin, to director mcguire, and director tomlin for all they did to make it happen. Victoria weiss, and all of the people on the staff. There were so many people who briefed me throughout the entire process, and who worked hard to make it happen, and they had appropriately big grins on that beautiful wednesday afternoon. I have certainly heard, anecdotally, from our operators, how much Better Things are going on the street. I think it would be useful if we were able to quantify that or get some sort of survey response simply so we can address that and let the public know that the effect that we promised is real. And the second thing, i dont see director toran. Cabs are allowed on Market Street. I have seen them moving efficiently up and down Market Street. So with that, we will move on to item number seven. Item seven is the directors report. Director tomlin, this is er your second meeting, third meeting if you count the workshop. So i know youre in the swing of thing. The floor is yours. First up, i would like to direct our chief financial officer, leo levinson, who can present the staff awards. Leo, welcome. I have staff present to be recognized. So today were going to recognize the custodial staff in our system that responded to the december 7th subway flooding. We heard last Board Meeting about the engineering staff, and this is the other half of the picture to make those stations clean and usable for the public. They responded on a saturday. They do their workday in, day out, on incredibly dlt difficult circumstances, and this is one particular time when they went above the call of duty that clean this flooding event up and made the system available. I would like to bring them up. Along with so we have the managers here to join with me. Kirstin, or director of facilities and Real Property management, lisa chow and lisa ising. Would you speak to the microphone . Yes. Come on up closer. And so on behalf, really, of all of the custodial staff in the system, we would like to recognize this particular group who responded on that day. And they include the swingshift supervisor, shen, lee shen, rick tong, shing jong, william quang, jean hi quang, jerry leyong, joseph freeman, lolita carrino, and cho yong shen. [applause] thank you all on behalf of the board of directors and on behalf of the entire city for your quick work that day and your constant and vigilant work every day. Is there anyone among you who would like to address us, not a command performance, but certainly welcome if youd like. Welcome, sir. Thank you. Thank you, board of supervisors. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. All right, were handing out the rest of the awards. While you guys get your awards, again, thank you so much. Thank you for your words, sir. And thank you, leo, and i think director tomlin, we can move on to the next award. I would like to call to the podium tom mcguire to begin our visions error report. And i think for our award recipients, i think there is a photo that we would like to take over there. Youre already on it. Youre a good man. All right. All right. Mr. Mcguire, welcome. Good afternoon, directors, tom mcguire, director of sustainable streets. If we could have the laptop screen, please. So im here to talk to you a little bit about why speed matters, and why it is so central to our vision zero efforts, and to give you a timely update on the taskforce that just released its recommendations yesterday morning. Youll hear us talk, in almost all of our talks in vision zero,wets whether i, whether it isenforcement are, the importance of reducing vehicle speeds. We know from the day weve been working with the Public Health and Police Department over five years collecting 62 of the fatalities that take place in San Francisco, the primary cause of that fatality is excessive speeding. It makes sense when you think about the nature of our streets and the fragilelity of our human body. It is really striking when you see if youre hit by a car, you have a 90 chance of surviving that crash with just an injury. If youre hit by a car traveling 20 miles per hour, you have a 20 chineschance of surviving crash. The results have been proven to be empirically true, when we look at states that have implemented our top legislative priority, automated speed enforcement. The 142 cities and communities around the country who have that, theyre seeing consistently their collisions go down. Anywhere from 13 to 53 , and theyre seeing their fatality going down because theyre consistently seeing their topend speeds go down as a result of that enforcement technique. So the link that we see in the data is very clear speed is what causes fatalities and serious injuries on our streets. So automated speed enforcement, or really any speed reduction tool, is only as good at the legal speed limit were able to set on the streets. It is interesting, when you look at the ways in which we set speed limits in california, they dont seem particularly consistent with the values that i hear this board expressing or with our vision zero transit first policies. This is a diagram from the california state transportation agencies speedlimitsetting manual. And youll see things that appear to be protecting drivers from speed traps, preparing your radar gun, making sure youve calculated the 85th percentile, and lots and lots of data about how traffic is moving on streets we know to be unsafe today. And then there is this one little section called consider other factors, which you only do after you prepare your speed gun and collected all of your data. So what are the other factors . You dig into it and you realize that the other factors include things like Accident Records they say Accident Records, not crash business, residential density everything that makes a San Francisco street is kind of buried away in this other factors box. And we and the other big cities in california dont think thats right. That is why Assembly WomanLaura Friedman from Los Angeles County passed Assembly Bill 2363 two years ago, and it created a taskforce to identify findings and recommendations to reduce fatalities to zero. It came out of her attempts to use state law to change the way in which we calculate speed limits, and to raise up those datadriven factors around, with the crash records of the streets. The effort to change state law to change the speed limit methodology did not pass in 2017. Instead, the taskforce was formed. It just released its findings yesterday. And im cautiously optimistic about the results for two reasons. The first is, there is the statement in bold on the screen here. I think this is the first and one of the clearest statements weve seen from the state of california about what we already know here in San Francisco the relationship between speed and injury severity is consistent and direct. The state is saying, if were going to get to zero deaths and get serious about controlling the rate of injuries on our streets, we have to control our speeds. And there are three encouraging takeaways, and none of these can happen tomorrow. All will require further legislation, but the report does provide a technical basis for future legislation. The first is a recommendation that prioritizes lower speed and speed limits on a highinjury network. We drew out our highinjury network in 2015, and lots of other big cities in california follow our lead. Secondly, lower speed limits near vulnerable populations, senior facilities, shelters, playgrounds, and health care facilities. While we showed the dying graham odiagram of the 80 it looks much worse for the elderly and people who are very young. We have vulnerable streets here in San Francisco, and the state is saying we need to protect them. And finally, while it doesnt give us the right to use Law Enforcement i think this is the strongest statement we have seen from the state today. It is not permission, but we cleell clearly have a roadmap to move two of the policies in our vision zero strategy, to move those forward. I want to acknowledge kate green, who served on this taskforce, and is working closely with our legislative affairs, folks in city hall, and with Assembly Members, who is continuing to try to keep the fight for o. S. E. Going in San Francisco. Thank you. Thanks, tom. So that was a very timely report. We are hopeful that the state of california will learn from the abundant data and case study analysis available from other communities throughout the world to legalize some of the most affective tools for managing safety on our streets. Meanwhile, our vision zero efforts continue, and last week we did have one fatality, a motorcyclist collided with a motor vehicle, resulting in a fatality. At this point, the Rapid Response team has no recommendations. Moving on to culture change, which has been a big topic these last couple of weeks. This week is also the oneyear anniversary of ombudsman person delores brandings report, doing a Detailed Analysis of conditions at the f. M f. M. T. A. , and offering a thorough set of recommendations. One of the things ive asked my staff to do is take a look at all of those recommendations and be tracking progress against each of them. In quick summary, our Human Resources director, kimberly acreman, has been leading that effort, along with donte king, and virginia harmon. They have been busy creating some standards that did not exist, about treating all employees fairly. It includes written recruitment policies that make the process more transparent. Integrating diversity into all of our h. R. Initiatives. Providing better training opportunities to managers and supervisors, as well as frontline employees, in partnership with the department of Human Resources. Reviving the e. O. Process to make it more easily understandable, and improving communication and transparency throughout. We are also, as you saw last week in our budget exercise, we have a significant ask around creating a new division for race and equity within the department, as well as a significant ask of increasing staffing at the department of resources in order to meet all of these goals. I believi think were making god progress, and the pace of that progress should step up as h. R. Becomes more fully staffed. So well be continuing to update you at Board Meetings throwlt throughout the year. In the meantime, were also working on cultural change work, including doing a better job of tracking specific outcomes around discipline, employer pathway progress, by race and gender. I have been meeting personally with our black and africanamerican affinity group, as well as the change fmta group that was organized around womens issues and masogony in the department, from previous administrations. And engaging all of those groups in really productive conversations. As you know, were creating a new office on race, equity, and inclusion. And donte king has been leading the development and implementation of classes throughout the organization at all levels and all divisions, around understanding and addressing the ins institutional and systemic issues. If you could bring up the slides, moving on to the next topic, were very excited about this as well, which is bus acceptance. This picture on a very truly foggy, wonderful day from last week, is the last of the rubber tire fleet replacement program, enabling us to retire our least reliable vehicles, and offer new vehicles that have a huge number of benefits, including extending the miles driven between failure from 3,000 miles per failure to over 10,000 miles per failure, and this is resulting in significant reliability improvements on the bus side. That is being complemented by, as you know, increasing the number of operators who are actually available to drive the service. Were finally starting to see some significant improvements in reliability on the bus side. And these electric trolley buses are equipped with an electric battery, and they can go off wire for significant distances in order to detour around a special veep event or an incident. And they provide a better ride ergonomically. And it means we have the greenest transit fleet in all of north america. The next photos are from our Market Street. A quick build launch of a better Market Street. Our crews have been working so hard to deliver this. They have been out there at all hours, and despite the Rainy Weather that slowed things down, it has been a tremendous success. This includes so many different divisions that have been working on this both within our agency, at the Police Department, at p. U. C. , at public works. And were starting to get the data now on performance. We knew that there was a lot of excitement last week, and so we didnt want to count what was happening last week in our performance data. And its a little too soon, i think, to reveal some of the numbers because we want to make sure things settle out. But what were seeing is at least a 20 increase in bike ridership on some very cold late january and early february days. Were seeing measurable improvement in transit travel in speed and reliability. One thing that is am moving tamusing to me is the rider savings greater than the actual savings because of the ways in which we perceive time. But our riders persceptions drive it. So we care about the data, as well as the quanti fiablquantifiable data. Welcome to the year of the rats. One of the biggest events in franchise is the chinese new years parade, which this year is february 8th. The sfmta has been a part of these parades for a very long time. Our staff and their families will be riding a dedecorated motorized car. And this is my first time being a judge, and im very, very excited. And im going to need some help practicing my tones in cantonese. Obviously, a huge amount of effort around making the parade successful, routing our buses around it, keeping everyone safe and figuring out how the whole city works. This is a hugely important parade, both for us, as well as for the city as a whole. And finally, id like to close by recognizing two very important africanamerican san franciscans. Marial pleasant and shor Charlotte Brown sued and won the right for all californians to have equal ra righright to public transportation. As san franciscans and as americans, we should know and celebrate their names. My staff has developed a video on their story. If you go to youtube and search transportation is for all. That will come up. And were also partnering with the San FranciscoPublic Library to make sure their biographies are available for anyone interested in their remarkable stories. Thats all i have for you today. Chairman excellent report. Do we have Public Comment cards . Robert shasana and he herbert riner wish to address you. Good afternoon. Happy new year, whatever. I just want to talk briefly about vision zero. I think you are missing completely the point of vision zero. The point is to keep pedestrians separated from the street. And the problem is, you dont enforce any of your own regulations. The amount of cars im sorrsorry the amount of bicycles, skateboards, onewheel whatever they are, electric vehicles going the wrong way, up, down, on the sidewalk. I also have an objection to wheelchairs. And the only way that i can think of making both of us happy is i think all electric wheelchairs should have a noisemaker on them because they silently approach you at twice or three times the speed of pedestrians on narrow pageants, and you pavemeu have to jump out of the way. If you have this idea that electric vehicles are going to have noisemakers, i honestly believe you should have them on electric wheelchairs. [buzzer] the other thing is, all these scooters, they have laws on them about helmets, about not using the sidewalk. And you dont have anybody out there enforcing your own rules. And i would suggest hiring a couple of retired police officers, with the ability to issue fines and summons, and equip them with electric bicycles. Chairman thank you very much. Mr. Riner . Herbert riner. I have some concerns about the culture of m. T. A. Is anything being done to stop bullying at the work sites. Women, ethnic minorities are identified, but there should be protections against being bullied by supervisors, and sometimes by peers. You have to address this because this is a real problem in any city agency, including m. T. A. Secondly, on the whole question of vision zero and safe Market Street, something has to be done about bicyclists who continually go through the red lights we have to be protected against automobiles, but bicyclists have to be monitored too. People all