Other sound devices are prohibited. The board respectfully requests that you turn them off. Minutes of the february 4 regular meeting, mr. Chair, ive not received a request from the member of the public to address you. Is mr. Kennedy coming back . Clerk yes. So Board Members, unless theres a question, ill entertain a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Okay. All those in favor . Opposed . Item 5, miss boomer. Clerk item 5, communications. Board members, any new or Unfinished Business . Clerk directors report. Director tumlin . How are you . Im still great, and im litt still loving about 80 of my job. 20 in three months. Good afternoon, directors. So last week, San Francisco was called to testify in congress at the house energy and commerce subcommittee. Theyre hosting a forum on Autonomous Vehicles and pending litigation. San francisco was called to testify, and i spoke covering a couple of critical topics related to the pending legislation, including asking that we put safety first, including having event data recorders board all Autonomous Vehicles that preserve data both before and after the crash and investment in a National Safety incident database that could hold that information and allow that information to be analyzed to inform future policy choices around au autonomous vehicle. Also, that the legislation not preempt state and federal governments from learning from our own experience, particularly here in San Francisco, which we believe has far more autonomous tevehicle testing on our streets than any other city. We want to make sure that california and San Francisco from the ability to regulate a. V. S based upon the latest safety regulation and not have to wait for congress to do so. We will continue to work with california for regulations around autonomous video and ride share. And enrique, why dont you cue that up. This is enrique from our communications team. There we go. So were making a variety of changing in order to the 23 in order to deal with construction thats happening at the southeast Treatment Plant that is being constructed on gerald street. Well be changing the schedules of the express buses that serve the richmond district. Were adding bigger buses to the 7 haight in order to accommodate growing ridership on that line. Were also making some significant improvements to the very early weekend service, particularly the k, j, and m lines so that well provide one seat rides via bus between when the owl Service Stops and the full Service Subway opens in the morning, adding a lot of convenience to our riders who travel early in the morning and on the weekends. See how much better that is . And its like you can play pacman on the way to work. They really seem to be flying down Market Street. Im glad you noticed that. You can get Additional Details by going to sfmta. Com servicechanges. We have another video for you, as well. Can we cue that video up, and this one really helps it needs sound. So one of our members of our Capital Projects and grant team worked with staff to create a tribute video featuring charlotte down and mary ellen present do we have sound . Were still working on the sound. The video is amazing in that it it features two San Francisco women who, in the 1860s, sued to the California Supreme Court to win the right for everyone to be able to access Public Transportation throughout california in the 1860s. And can we have we memorized the lyrics . We may need to do our own singalong. Maybe not. Well, we will be sure to oh, there we go. But on this day, charlotte bravely responded and said no. She says we had a right to ride and had no intention of leaving the car. Instead of seeing charlotte as a paying customer, the company forceably removed her and her fathher her and from the car. She and her father filed a lawsuit against the company. On october 8, 1865, a judge called the practice a relic of barbarism. Mary ellen pleasant attacked Racial Discrimination in San Francisco as she began a series of lawsuits seeking prohibition of black laws. In 1893, street car segregation was officially outlawed on street cars in california legislation. Thank you to our local San Francisco activists for pioneering Racial Equity in transportation. This information was delivered to you by the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency. The sfmta is recognizing black history in the bay. [ ] [applause] this was done all in house . This was done all in house, yes. I like the way you got yourself a credit there. Well done. So this video will also be featured at our black and African American working groups big event celebrating black History Month next tuesday, where mayor london breed will be coming along with the chief of staff. Were very proud to feature Charlotte Brown and mary ellen pleasant, who are two San Francisco heros. Also last week, we held our first conference call, kind of a work in progress, where we had updated the progress on the sfmta. We had some skype and email in advance, and its likely something we will continue doing in order to help us track the cultural change that were tracking at the agency. And then finally, i wanted to add that we are going to be upgrading the Church Street station outbound elevator starting the first week of march. The elevator will be closed in the outbound direction for about three months while the work is being done, so therell be inbound accessibility for Outbound Service to direct riders to the parallel lines. Itll make the elevators more reliable and also add a level of security. That is the end of my report. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comment on director tomlins report. Clerk no one has turned in a speaker card, and i dont see anyone making their way to the microphone. Okay. Public comment is closed. Directors, any comment or questions for director tomlin . Okay. Am i having some kind of cool post Holiday Weekend dream or is this going smoothly . Its a rich presentation. All right. Thank you, director tomlin. Clerk Citizens Advisory Council report. Is mr. Weaver here . He is. Mr. Weaver, welcome back. Thank you for your continued service. The floor is yours. Thank you. Im here to make a few observations on our february meeting. First thing i have to say is it was the most comprehensive and long lasting and difficult to listen through the whole thing, but amazing Financial Report from the agency. Its amazing what all the things that come into making Financial Decisions at a Public Agency like this. We also passed a motion on the Bayview CommunityTransportation Plan. Sfmtacac encourages the board to adopt the Public Transportation plan. What we liked about this plan most is the involvement of the community and the result, apparently, is something that makes everyone involved very pleased, so we like to see plans like that go on in the agency all the time. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. Any Public Comment on the citizens advisory report . No cards . Clerk no, mr. Chair. Okay. Directors, any questions for mr. Weaver . Wonderful. Thank you for giving us that feedback, and i hope youll talk to the folks that gave us that presentation, although i think they are, and i see them smiling, too. Okay. Onto item 9. Item 9, this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the sfmta board of directors on matters that are within the boards jurisdiction and are not on todays calendar. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. One of the concerns raised by s. F. Muni management in presentations that i have seen have been around the overall decrease in the level of the users of the system. One of the reasons is the system is simply not safe. My wife would rather use uber to get to work rather than risk her life getting on and off a station. For her, russian roulette is not something shed like to play. Many of you might remember a book that ralph nader wrote called unsafe at any speed, and because of that book, the u. S. Rewrote laws on transportation. After having had multiple and successful meetings with gordon mar, district 4 supervisor, jeffrey, having received advice from the Mayors Office directly on two separate occasions which are very supportive, and the number of speeches that i have made at the San Francisco chamber of commerce, i fully believe its time for your organization and this board to completely reactivate the muni forward proposal first suggested by your Wonderful Team in 2014. Therefore, i will conclude by asking for a Budget Allocation of between 100 million and 800 million for the creation of a 21 century, fully auto mated system in the outer sunset. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] im Harold Finley and have now completed the trifecta of traffic violence, driver violence. Driver hit me with his car when i was riding my bike. A driver has hit me with their car when i was on foot, and two months ago about, a driver got out of his car, ran the half a block, sucker punched me in the face from behind, knocked me to the sidewalk, blood everywhere. I got up and ran after him. He jumped in his car, squealed away. I hope the police can catch him, but in a sense, i dont blame him. He was behaving the way the streets are designed. Our streets tell drivers theyre more important than anybody. Our streets tell rightofway for everybody are just objectio directions not to be taken seriously. Our streets tell our drivers that if anybody gets in their way, questions them, its a level of insult, that whatever level of violence they choose to use, whatever tools they choose to use, if its their cars, their fists, whatever. I know you inherited from your predecessors, an antisocial and hostile environment, but you shouldnt be inheriting and furthering that. Youre better than that. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] good afternoon, directors. Can i have the overhead, please . Im making this comment on behalf of a friend who cant be here because people have jobs, and its 1 00 p. M. On tuesday. So in their words, sidewalks are roads for humans, for transportation and recreation, for the abled and disabled, for strollers and pedestrians. When this is not the case, parking control officers are tasked with delivering their sidewalks, defending sidewalks against Vehicle Owners who have left their car on a sidewalk. No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle on any portion of a sidewalk or with the body of the vehicle extending over any portion of a sidewalk. So my friend submitted this 311 report. You can see here after she was forced to walk around this car because this car was blocking the sidewalk. Yet the case was closed with tno citation because the officer figured out there was enough room for the pedestrians to pass is what the comments was. This is an aiming and baseless direction by the officer. We have a sidewalk parking epidemic in San Francisco, and its time to overhaul p. C. O. Training to combat it. Vision zero is failing and stuff like this makes our Parking Enforcement department c complicit in that failure. Thank you. Next speakers. [names read] if youre one of the speaker that she called, please make your way to the front so we can be more efficient about this. Welcome, the floor is yours. Thank you for your time. I arrive here today simply to ask that the board of the m. T. A. , which i believe you all comprise seriously consider ethical i know thats a difficult word in city politics, ethical considerations when it comes to cancelling the medallion loan program. I havent driven in a year. Im vaguely associated with the cab industry, but i read this article in yesterdays newspaper. I did talk to people down at the bank, id say six weeks ago, two months ago. I have talked with cab drivers constantly, and the cab industry is close to morabund in San Francisco. The cab industry is not a viable business proposition. Anybody who looks in and sees that so few medallions have been sold over x. Number of years realizes this. Its obvious, its prima facie. There is no doubt that the Medallion Program is totally and a relic. As far as compensation, i know theres different viewpoints on this. I dont expect you to be on my side or the drivers side. I think you work at the behest of the mayor, if im correct in this, and im sure the mayor doesnt want to put out any money from his exchecker, why should he . Theres no money in it for him, theres no votes into it for him. We have a woman mayor. Im sorry. I live in the east bay. Youre right. Thank you. Theres no reason why the mayor would want to do this. Your time is up. Thank you very much. Thank you. Please consider the ethical prospects to this. [names read] clerk those are the last three speakers who have turned in speaker cards under this topic. Welcome. Hello. Im mr. Abraham and a couple of years ago actually, sometime around now, there was a program called shoparound that i qualified for because it was free and i should say, and it was free. And it became unfree, and its costing something that i needed i still need to shop. I mean, thats less money to eat, and i already qualified for calfresh, etc. And i already have free muni. So my request is that you reconsider, but perhaps all seniors are not created equal. All disability are not created equal. Maybe you could link the fee for using the service to our free muni. Im asking that of you. All i know is that now i cant use the service that was once free, and it was our day out. It it was a Community Day out. We werent talking to each other on that on that little bus, but once i started telling the jokes and chatting with people, we called each other up, and we had kind of a Community Going there. And we go to the different we go to senior grace up at Grace Cathedral together, so it became something bigger and more, and more refreshing than just shopping. Please consider refunding the shoparound program so that we like me with qualify for it again. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [names read] good afternoon, commissioners and staff. My name is bridget leblanc, and im just here to request i know that the chase center is a community partner, and that air from dogpatch to sunnyvale has been impacted by new business. But on game nights and special event nights, i know ive heard complaints. Im just requesting that we have more trains that go beyond chase center during the games. The concern seems to be that were getting people in and getting people out, and theres several other people that need to go to work. When i go to games, i have to walk ten or 12 blocks because the t never came. Ive before complaining about the service on the t for over seven years, so hopefully now that we have that new partner in place, maybe more people will listen. Thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [names read] hi. So director lee. Good afternoon, directors janice lee. Im here as an outer sunset resident. I have other things ill also speak of. As someone whos served on the transportation board, you dont often get positive things. I often take the 7. This is a real surprise. I work at the s. F. Bike coalition, but i love muni, and i have a pass for the bus. The 7 serves a lot of chinese senior who are going to 19 and irving. Going to articulated buses is huge. The other thing i really like, and i know sfmta, you get a lot of complaints, i thought the signage change to tell people things was great. I really like the symbols. Just very, very easily explained to people, whats happening, so i can tell you, february 22, youre going to be putting these articulated buses in. Any way, good work you all. I dont know who in your staff did that. Super excited to see the change, and thank you. All right. Well find out who made that change when they show up at the next b. A. R. T. Meeting to compliment you on something. Next speaker, please. [names read] hello, commissioners. I am a staff person for the youth commission. Im also the staff lead for the housing and land use committee, and im here to speak on behalf of our commissioners who cant be here because theyre at school. And i just want to reemphasize a point that we were talking about our last meeting to reconsider the fare increases on muni and just reconsidering the impacts that would have on lowincome communities as well as young people, we have the free muni program for all right now, and were also trying to help keep our lgbtq young people who are homeless and also struggling, if theres any way we can extent the program extend the program for k. U. S i know that dean preston is working on something in district 5, and i just wanted to make that comment. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. [nam [names read] clerk mr. Chair, just for the record, the fares will be an item discussed on your agenda, so thatll come later. Herbert wiener. I wish to protest the atrocious service at the airport as far as ge