Preston opeskin. Peskin present. Clerk present. Commissioner ronen . Commissioner ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai. Supervisor commissioner stefani . Walton absent. Yee present. We have quorum. Commissioner peskin for you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045984. Enter access today 2858465. Not sure if its showing up on the screen. But then follow the system prompts. Once you join, youll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When you wish to speak on an item, dial 10 to be added to the queue to speak. Each caller will be allowed two minutes to speak. When your two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Calls will be in the taken in the order in which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, and turn down the volume on the speaker. Please allow for a 30second lag time during the course of the meeting. Commissioner peskin thank you, madam clerk. I move on to the chairs report. Colleagues, this month, amidst all of the incredible difficulties that transit is facing locally, regionally and nationally, im very pleased to share some good news on the funding front. Last week the state Transportation Agency awarded 160 million to bay area transit and rail projects, including funds from muni, bart and the Water Transit Authority. These funds come from the states transit and inner city rail program, which advances projects that reduce emissions, while addressing highpriority mobility gaps. Specifically muni will receive 40 million in funds to improve reliability and travel times for the jade line and mline, as well as 1. 1 million for project developments in the systems. Bart will receive 111 million somebody needs to hit mute. All right. Thats better. Bart will receive 111 million to implement pits transbay court capacity program, consisting of vehicle purchases, train control and maintenance facilities, that will enable bart to increase service to 30 trains per hour in each direction. And carry an additional 200,000 passengers per day. And the Water Transit Authority will receive 9 million for a new Ferry Service between downtown San Francisco and mission bay. The vessel and related charging infrastructure will provide a critical 2. 6mile link between mission bay and our downtown. We are, of course, very grateful to the state for making these investments and i want to appreciate secretary kim and his team for recognizing the central roles of muni, bart and bay area ferry to connect our region and director chang and i had a very good meeting with secretary kim several months ago. And congratulations to all of the agencies on receiving these grants. And thank you to our state delegation and staff, who supported these applications. I look forward to working on each of these projects with all of you to make transit more reliable and resilient. And with that, colleagues, i conclude my remarks. Is there any Public Comment on the chairs report . Clerk chair, there is no Public Comment. Commissioner peskin okay. Public comment is closed. Next item, please. Clerk sorry. Hard time getting unmute button there. Consent agenda. Items 48 comprise the Consent Agenda. Item has 58 Board Meeting and no being considered for final approval. The remaining items are considered routine. Staff is not planning to present on these items, but are prepared to present. Oh, im sorry. I read the wrong item. Item 3 is the executive directors report. This is an information item. Commissioner peskin thank you, madam clerk. Director chang, the floor is yours. Thank you, chair peskin and commissioners. Ill begin my report with the continuing federal response to the pandemic. Of course, Congress Last week passed the paycheck protection program, previously funded for 349 million. And transit operators, however, continue to strug well the covid impact on their revenues and ridership. On april 22 bed, the m. T. C. , metropolitan transportation commission, on which commissioner ronen sits, approved a strategy to distribute the bay areas 1. 3 billion share of the federal cares act relief funds for the transit operators. This includes immediate allocation of 780 million via formula to address the shortterm revenue losses, including 197 million to sfmta, muni, 251 million for bart, and 49 million for caltrain. Sfmta has sent a letter to the m. T. C. Commission and executive director theresa mcmillan, which im included in the report. This requests m. T. C. Distribute future funding, according to equity issues and allocations that considerations that were not adequately addressed in the first transfer of funds. So thats something that we continue to track with m. T. A. Staff. M. T. C. Directed staff at the time to establish a transit Blue Ribbon Panel to make recommendations for future funding from the cares act. And to provide guidance for transit operators to ensure that regional connectivity is maintained with a focus on equity. And this really means ensuring that transitdependent communities and essential workers are able to maintain access to jobs and transit. Were working with the commissioners to provide input to this process. On the federal front, again we continue to work with Partner Agencies to identify and advance San Franciscos priorities for future potential relief packages or infrastructure bills. Additional nearterm relief needs include state and local governments, of course, which include state and local departments of transportation, transit systems, which will continue to need funds and support beyond the initial cares act three. And also the toll agencies of the nation, who are seeking 9 billion to replace lost user fees. On the longrange front, our latest understanding is that congress will likely not take up any infrastructure legislation until they reconvene in june. In the meantime, we are tracking whether they opt for a shortterm extension of the current fast axe, a full multiyear reauthorization of the transportation bill, or a onetime economic stimulus bill. So in any case, the drastically reduced gas tax receipts will exacerbate the issues, which were already quite dire, presenting continuing challenges about the debate over how to fund longterm infrastructure investments. Moving over to again the tircp grant funds award that the chair just announced. Were so pleased that the bay area did well this cycle. We want to congratulate all of the project sponsors. We want to also thank our state delegation and several staff amber and michelle for their work with the Mayors Office and all of the sponsors on this effort. We did coapply with funds with the water emergency transit authority. And are pleased that the electric ferry was awarded and hope that we will be able to build on that for the taillefery service in the future. Turning to local issues. Our Team Continues to coordinate with partners on tracking the revenue for the t. M. C. Tax and developing guidelines to administer the revenues once they do come in. I will note theyve come lower than precovid. Due to the impacts, however, of covid we do expect revenue to be much lower and for that reason we would like to propose that we bring this item for the board later in this year. And well work with chair peskin and yee and others of you to carefully consider the revenue situation and perhaps program the fund at the end of 2020, when we have a much Bigger Picture and reflect this in the new midyear budget we plan to bring in june and the annual budget later this year. We have, however, in the meantime been engaging with key stakeholders, such as the sfmta, the department of Public Health, the Pedestrian Safety advisory committee, the bicycle advisory committee, and all of the variation advocate organizations and Community Groups on the guidelines for how the program might be structured and what the process would be for eligibility and the like. So again we look forward to bringing that all to you later this year. Turning to project delivery. Pleased to share, of course, that caltrans has made tremendous progress. Youve seen this in the news. They were able to accelerate this project by three months, during shelterinplace. Took advantage of the lower traffic levels and we do want to appreciate that theyve been able to keep the public well informed. The detours are going very smoothly. We want to thank caltrans for expediting the work and sfmta and california Highway Patrol for keeping speeds safe through the area and managing traffic. So thank you again. For folks interested, a live web cam you can see the 24 7 operations here. Please visit 101alemanyproject. Com to have a look at the project in realtime. Caltrans, began repaving the northern section of state route 1, presidio. This was friday the 17th. Work will continue to be done through late may, most days of the week. This is again between lincoln and lake street. So for more information, please also refer to the caltrans website. Finally, on management and the administration issues, we continue to closely monitor the revenue streams. And estimates of the city and with other Partner Agencies to assess the short and mediumterm financial impact. The revenues received last week, as far as the sales tax reports for february, indicate that revenues were unaffected through the first two months. But, of course, we expect that significant decrease to show up in the march through these through months, now through the end of the year. A final amendment towards 2020 budget for your approval in june, as long as with the results of our review of bart program and fund program priorities, as chair had requested. So to coordinate with the city and county of San Francisco, well present the annual budget later this summer. In the meantime, we do maintain a Strong Financial position that were meeting the cash needs of our sponsors. And with that i will conclude my remarks. Thank you. Commissioner peskin thank you, madam executive director. Is there any Public Comment on item number 3 . Clerk chair, there is no Public Comment. Commissioner peskin okay. Public comment is closed. And now you can read the Consent Agenda, madam clerk. Clerk thank you, chair. Item 48 comprise the Consent Agenda. Items 58 were approved at the april 14th Board Meeting, and are now being considered for final approval. The remaining items are considered routine, staff is not planning to present on these items. But are prepared to present if desired. If a member objects to any of the consent, items may be removed and considered separately. Just a reminder that Public Comment will be available for item via telephone, by calling 888 2045984. Enter access code 2858465. Then follow system prompts. Theres a 30second delay, so please dial 10 as soon as you hear the item called in order to speak on that particular item. Please remember to turn down your Television Volume when commenting. Commissioner peskin thank you. Before i ask for a motion, madam executive director, could you just please speak to the new special condition on item number 6. Yes, certainly chair. Commissioner peskin . We yes, certainly, chair pesk. Including the requirement that the allocation funds for both their allocation and our portion of the appropriation of these funds, prop k funds would only be spent in accordance with the citys l. B. E. And i believe 12b and local hire requirements. Commissioner peskin thank you, ms. Chang. Is there any Public Comment on item number 4 . Clerk yes, chair, we do have a member of the public. Commissioner peskin okay. First speaker, please. Dont forget to press 10. Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk welcome, caller, you have two minutes for your Public Comment by which starts now. I apologize. Im for item number 6. Commissioner peskin we already had Public Comment on that item last week. We did receive your comment by email. And that is in our possession. But Public Comment on that item was taken at our last meeting. Caller thank you. Commissioner peskin thank you, mr. Lebrun. So with that, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to move the Consent Agenda . Moved by mandelman. Commissioner peskin is there a second . Commissioner yee yee. Commissioner peskin on that motion, a roll call, please clerk for the Consent Agenda. Commissioner fewer . Fewer. Commissioner fewer . Aye. Clerk commissioner mandelman commissioner mandelman aye. Clerk commissioner mar . Commissioner mar . Aye. Commissioner peskin aye. Clerk commissioner preston . Commissioner preston aye. Clerk commissioner ronen . Commissioner ronen aye. Clerk commissioner safai . Commissioner safai aye. Clerk commissioner walton . Commissioner walton . Aye. Clerk commissioner yee . Commissioner yee aye. We have approval. Commissioner peskin okay. Those items are finally approved. Could you please read the next item. Clerk yes. Item 9 is reprogram 197,500 in Transportation Fund for clean air funds from the San Francisco municipal Transportation Agencys fiscal year 2016 2017 alternative fuel taxi Incentive Program to San Francisco department of the environments fiscal year 2018 2019 Emergency Ride Home Program. This is an action item. Commissioner peskin thank you, madam clerk. I just want to start by thanking our staff for their collaborative work with the department of the environment. Thank you to ms. La ford and to our executive director for that work with the air district and thank you particularly to tyrone jew, who helped facilitate this collaboration. And thank you to commissioners walton and haney for making this small thing happen. With that, ms. La ford, would you like to present this item to the commission . Good morning, commissioners. Anna la ford, Deputy Director for policy and programming with the Transportation Authority. Im going to pull up my brief notation and then i will invite Charles Sheehan, from the department of the environment, to make some remarks about the program. At the april 14th Board Meeting, the board and in particular commissioner haney requested that staff explore ways to help essential workers, who are facing challenges getting home from their jobs, particularly at night. Due to recent Transit Service reductions, due to covid19. And since the meeting, we have been working with the department of environment and the San Francisco municipal Transportation Agency to develop a proposal to expand the existing Emergency Ride Home Program, that the department of the environment has been operating for many years. This provides taxi rides. The proposal is to provide additional taxi rides for essential workers, who are not able to take transit home, due to service reductions. Now by way of background, the Transportation Authority has been funding the Emergency Ride Home Program with Transportation Funds for clean air funds since 2009. These are funds that come to the county for programming for projects that have clean air benefits. And so what we are proposing to do is to expand the program. The program at its core is to encourage people to walk and bike and take transit and take sustainable modes of transportation to get to work. And that if there is an emergency, it provides a taxi reimbursement for a ride home for these workers. And the proposal is to expand this existing program during the covid19 emergencyrelated Transit Service reductions. And it is a proposal that responds to the needs of the special workers. And it will also provide air quality benefits, which is one of the goals of the Transportation Fund for clean air. It will incentivize trips to work and help transit riders say on transit during this time, rather than becoming drivealone park commuters. The way that we are proposing to fund this expanded Emergency Ride Home Program, for essential workers, is by reprogramming funds from the sfmtas alternative fuel taxi program. This is a grant that provides a financial incentive to taxi companies, to replace their clean replace their taxi vehicles with clean air vehicles, by providing an incentive, a rebate to the taxi companies. This grant, from fiscal year 20162017 will expire on octobe. A remaining balance of almost 200,000 that we would reprogram to the the department of environment Emergency Ride Home Program. And it will still, as you can see from this slide, this proposal will still leave 250,000 available to the m. T. A. For its taxi program. Sfmta is very supportive of this proposal. It continues to support the taxi industry and its essential workers. And i also wanted to note that we have been wor