9961164 and then finally 10. Mr. Moderator, yo if you would let us know if there are members of the public who wish to address the board. Operator to summon each question press 1 and then 0. It looks like no members of the public dialing in at thisman. This minute. So we will close Public Comment. Well close Public Comment on item 4 and ill entertain a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. I heard two and would you please call the role. role call . Mr. Chair, you have a unanimous vote. Very good. On communications, well provide overview as to why were doing things this way and ill be more brief than i was last time, but due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and given that the governor has lifted it, this is being held with all members and staff Via Teleconference to ensure the safety of the board of directors, staff and members the public. In our published notice, we ask the public to participate remotely by writing the board or leaving a voice mail messag mes. We have received and appreciate these comments and i will tell you they have been circulated to all Board Members both in voicemail and email form. Going forward, unless and until these restrictions are lifted, we would ask write mtaboard at sfmta. Com or call us and if assuming we will have more meetings this way, we would ask that you do so in advance of the meetings. There will be gaps or dead air as we refine this process today. So we would ask for your understanding and that folks show respect and let other people speak when it is their turn. If you are not speaking, i would ask that you mute your telephone lines so that we or mute your microphones so we do not have background noise. This is the second time we were doing this and i want to extend great thanks to our board secretary, roberta boomer, warren lamb, art wong, and tom loftess, as well as the board of supervisors. There was a lot to put together to do this and its really, really appreciated. Its been seamless for us Board Members. Roberta. Thank you. So for members of the public who are online, please be aware that this meeting is televised by sfg tv and be aware that is a time lag, so if members of the public have called in, and theyre watching the meeting, please know there is a discrepancy but seeing what you are seeing on sfg tv and what you are hearing. For members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on items on the agenda, the phone number to use is 888 8086929. The i. D. Number to use is 9961164. Hold on just a second. I just lost where i was. Please make sure that you are in a quiet location and that you turn off any tvs or radios and if youre livestreaming the meeting, that you mute the sound. This will reduce any reverbations so the board can hear you. We urge you when the item is called, if you wish to comment on a particular item, please dial the phone at the time that the item is called. This will allow you to be in the cue so we can take your comment when the chair aske asks for the phone lines to be open. The audio prompt will say callers are entering the question and answer time, but this is the Public Comment period. You will be cued up in the order in which you pressed 10 and there will be an automated voice that will tell you when it is your time to speak. So when your microphone has been unmuted, you will hear us ask you to state your name and make your comments. I will start your int two minuts when you begin talking. When your time is up, i will say thank you, next caller, please and at that point, the moderator will put you back on mute. I will repeat these instructions later on during the meeting. As im aware, that some members may have joined the meeting late and may not have heard them. So mr. Chair, moving on the agenda item 6, new and Unfinished Business. One piece of business is the announce of our april 7th, 2020 closed session and so miss boomer, if i could ask you to handle that, please. The mta board of directors met in closed session on april 7 to discuss anticipated litigation. The board of directors took no action. Mr. Chair, it would be appropriate for either a motion to disclose or not disclose the information discussed. Ok, and do we need Public Comment on such item . Yes. So lets see if theres Public Comment on the announcement of our april 7th, 2 2020 closed session. Operator to summon each question, press 1 and 0. For members who are watching and wish to address the board on the announcement, please dial 10 and moderator, please let us know if there are any callers on the line. Moderator confirms there are no callers on the line. Ok, with that, we will close Public Comment. I move to disclose. Im sorry, actually, someone this is the moderator and someone joined and dropped off. Never mind. Thank you. So that will close Public Comment and i heard a motion from director borden and is there a second not to disclose. Miss boomer, please call the role. role call didn and this is oe motion not to disclose the session. Mr. Chair, the motion to not disclose is unanimous. Wonderful, thank you. Any other new or Unfinished Business by Board Members . I think we have i do, director heieke. Anyone else besides director borden . So as many may not know today is dr. Heinekes very last meeting which is very sad. The chair has been on the board since i arrived in 2014 and has been a great, strong leader for transit in this city and we have been so fortunate to work with him and to see his knowledge and i dont know if everyone realizes, his knowledge goes back far to the Taxi Commission and hes been a great resource on taxi issues. He has been tremendous in helping us lead us through those sort of issues. Even before the Taxi Commission, though, the director was a servant of the city having formally been on the Human Rights Commission which i found quite surprising to know. He has a distinction of being the longest serving director since the mta was established in 2000 and so joining in 2008 with and the time with the Taxi Commission before that. Hes been so critical, as you all know, we just celebrated when we were able to be together, the carfree Market Street and malcolm has been a true leader on this issue and it was just so fitting to have him be about that on that momentous day and even throw out new streets with his quite a extreme seat when we think how easy it was to make the decision when the decision was in flux for so long. So thank you to him for that leadership. Hes also been actsly doinged dn improving the subway and improving the approach. There was the key portal specifically and we all know that the west portal crossover is really the heineke crossover which we will be honoring in his name with a proclamation and a plaque coming at a time when we all can be together in the future. But more than anything, i just want to thank him for his leadership, his guidance, his friendship and sharing his knowledge and his wisdom and being patient with some of us as weve come along to learn the new things as being more intimately involved with this and i want to thank him for his contributions. I dont know how he balances being a highpowered attorney, having been chair of the Bar Association and being chair here. He is such an amazing leader for this agency and so many others and im proud to call him a colleague and a friend. And then really looking forward to the day we can officially name the heineke crossover and the port yachal station. Thank you for everything and wish you well as you move on to your next endeavor. Well, thank you very much. I want to say something, too. Please, art, go ahead. I think im the only one who knows malcolm anyone currently on this call because malcolm began as a fellow in the California State Senate and served with the distinction and followed gavin newsom. Now here malcolm followed this, as well. Im grateful that malcolm welcomed me with open arms and gave me a good addition and understanding of the transit issues in sanfrancisco whe san i came on the board and ill always be grateful for that counsel and advice. I look forward to seeing that plaque, that tremendous asset that youve helped to protect and hopefully dedicate, as well. So thank you so much for your service and youre the embodiment of why term limits are ridiculous. [ laughter ] im glad i could be a help in your political statement. Working with you is a true pleasure and i consider you a friend. I see other people lighting up. Steve, you wanted to say something. All yours. Yes, i do. Youll have to sit there and take it. [ laughter ] ok. I just want to dwell on one word that i think epitomizes your service that ive seen just from my brief tenure on the board and thats courtesy. And your unfailing courtesy to your colleagues, to the staff of the agency, to the public, even when some of us may not have deserved it. I think this is a real halmark of how you conduct yourself and god knows courtesy is something our society could use a little bit more of. My only regret, and i do have a regret in terms of our own relationship on the board is that i was never able to contrive for you a 33 deadlock vote and put you on the hot seat to break the tie. [ laughter ] and so i guess i owe you that one. Fair enough, fair enough. Christina, thanthank you very m. I appreciate it. Christina. Thank you so many years of your Public Service. Ive been on the board since 2012 and ive enjoyed serving alongside you and im very thankful for your ability as the chair of the board to move discussions forward. Youre able to find consensus and when theres not consensus, you know how to move on to the next step in a constructive way and im thankful for the fact youve pushed carfree Market Street while still being really respectful of staffs expertise and skill. So thank you again for everything youve done for this agency. Well, thank you. Its been a pleasure to work with you. Amanda. Malcolm, i have delighted in the sense of humor you bring to meetings and i want to say theres nobody ive met for as much passion for turning around trains for turning around a pocket. I also hope you appreciate how apt it is that today mayor breed announced 13 miles of slow streets on what happens on your last day of service. If you think thats a coincidence, maybe you have another thing coming. [ laughter ] i want to thank you again for your service and please dont be a stranger. Thank you so much, amanda. Cheryl, the last word. Thank you. Malcolm, im going to miss you so much and i know that not everyone in the city realizes how fantastic your service on the board has been and what a huge impact youve had on Public Transportation and Street Safety and the subway and everything. Its been a pleasure to serve with you and all i have to say, malcolm, you truly are one of the good ones. Well, thank you very much for that. I will keep my remarks brief here today because we will, as has been announced have a ceremony at west portal and maybe when we have a meeting in person, i can come in and say goodbye to all of you in person. When i took over as chair, i was focused on expanding service, particularly that in the subway. As i leave this chair, the subway is shut down and the bus service has been cut. I wont take a total cause and effect on that from my being chair, but seriously, these have been very difficult times in having the group of you as colleagues and roberta and now jeff, as well as julie and tom and everyone on the staff has been truly remarkable and a real blessing for me. You know, ill save my further remarks for the ceremony to come, but just know that this has been a great joy for me because of you guys. Thank you. Director tumlin. Actually, before we get to the directors report or if director tumlin wanted to say a few words here. Ill conclude with my words. Go ahead. Very good. Is there any other new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. That takes us to item 7. Directors report. Director tumlin, how has your month been. Actually, i had to check my math three times when i was thinking about when our last board of directors meeting was, since weve gotten about, i dont know, 18 months worth of work done in the last two weeks. I was trying to figure out what i had covered in the last directors report and realized that weve been very busy. So my directors report will try to cover a lot of material as briefly as i possibly can. So first of all, i would like to start off with some gratitude, particularly to mayor breed who has made it very clear in her statements to the Department Heads and also in the press that the frontline workers at the sfta, our transit operators, line supervisors, the people out there in the field everyday providing us essential service to 100,000 people in San Francisco every single day should be considered in the same light as we do our police officers, our firefighters and other essential workers and mayor london breed has made sure that our frontline workers have access to the same personal protective equipment, masks and gloves and Hand Sanitizer and cleanser and also access to hotel rooms and other services that are necessary to acknowledge the tough job that our workforce has. Im really grateful to dr. Grant kolfax at the department of Public Health and they have been instrumental in helping us to do the scenario planning to get prepared for any scenario and, in fact, get prepared for the inedge abilitthetheinevit artge. We are happy to report that as far as we know, they are all doing well. Weve done dozens of interviews that our contact tracers have done and we also have 41 staff people in selfisolation as a result of the potential exposure. So far, the good news is that of each of the covid positive cases weve had, none appears to have been transmitted from one sfmta employee to another. This is a much better position than the dire situation that our counterparts are experiencing from detroit to maryland to new york and others. So we will continue to work hard to follow the dphs guidance to the t in order to do the best that we can to protect our workforce, rooted in the latest available science. Well also recognise that while on the one hand we need to follow the science in order to help protect the health of our workers, we also need to recogniserecognise this is a teg time and we need to respect the emotional reality of our workforce. Ive been spending a lot of time in the field talking to our workforce in helping to provide emotional support where its needed because we are, in fact, emotional beings. So there was a lot going on with covid and its all covid all of the time and a lot of information has needed to go out and im doing a series of twotofour minute videos a couple of times a week on not only what is happening with the agency wittheagency but celebrak the crews are doing from the paratransit workers who are helping out in countless ways, clerks and middle managers who are working as Disaster Service workers to do additional car cleaning, to make sure that not only do we clean all of our vehicles everyday, but we also clean the vehicles three times a day so each of the operators gets into a clean vehicle at the beginning of their shift. Weve been working on our external messaging, our coms team has been working, getting the message out that muni is only for essential trips. Its for essential workers getting to work and its for people in San Francisco who have to get to essential goods and Services Like food and pharmaceuticals. We are not getting out the message that thanks to the mayors most recent health directive, not only is wearing a mask required when out there in the public, but also required while riding muni. Wearing a mask for any other Face Covering, is not about protecting your own health but protecting the health of others around you, including our operators. Face coverings are about keeping your sneeze or your cough or your heavy breathing, whatever it is to yourself and not spreading the disease because one of the remarkable characteristics of covid19 is the fact that it can be spread while you are still asymptomatic. So wear a Face Covering in order to protect others. Weve also having been doing a ton of communication in the work we implemented before our last meeting which was stripping muni down to its bare essential core network, the 17 lines that served the majority of our passengers that is connected to essential services, particularly the hospitals and focusing the muni service wer where it was nd most with the fewest choices. That has involved a huge amount of engagement with the community. Were happy to report that starting on april 25th, this saturday, we will bring back four lines that we had previously cut or portions of four of those lines. That includes the fulton from downtown, serving st. Marys hospital and essential services in the tenderloin and the Western Addition and bart street to gerry. We have a lot of Community Engagement because it serves a lot of hospital workers from the peninsula as well as on gerry street and that was great to get that feedback. Were restoring a portion of the 12 pacific along pacific avenue between battery street and vanesse and a large concentration of Senior Citizens living in that corridor that didnt have any eastwest Transit Service. This was also something we saw in the data, as well as from Community Engagement. Were restoring a