Before we do, we should see if there are minutes of the public who wish to address the board. My mistake. Open up for Public Comment on this item. To the amended minutes that were recirculated from may 19. Members of the public who are watching this meeting via sfg tv who wish to address the board call 8888086929 and press 9961164. All right. We will wait a moment to see if there are members of the public who wish to address the board with respect to the amended minutes of may 19. Director borden, put yourself on mute. All right. Moderator is telling us there are no callers. Seeing of no callers s the floor closed officially . Yes, madam chair t moderator will close Public Comment for the minutes. And there is still a roll call vote on the minutes . A yes, madam chair. Director borden. Aye. Director brinkman . Dr. Brinkman, unmute. Aye. Dr. Eaken . Aye. Heminger. And that is approved by unanimous approval. Item 5, communication. Before i get into the extensive directions here, i just wanted to say a few words because we are coming together in a tumultuous time in our city, our state, our country. And we are seeing ravage of a legacy of systemic racism that has been ignored and been overlooked for long period of time. And with that, there is so much rage with so many people and rightfully so and so much that is unjust and for whatever reason it seems in our society that for whatever reason without bloodshed, we dont move forward. We are meeting on blackout tuesday. The meeting was planned in advance. Obviously as a Public Transit agency, our top imperative is Economic Opportunity for all. Public transit is the engine for people to get to jobs and have opportunity. And for too long systemically the system has been designed to not go to place where is people of color live or displace people from the places where Public Transit is, and so i just want you all to know as we stand here today, we stand in solidarity with everyone who is standing up against racial injustice. We are as an Agency Working on those issues. I want to thank our director and all the work that hes done with the staff internally to work on the issues that we as an agency need to improve on, to grow for our tremendous staff and the people that work for us. And for the public that we serve. I know t is been a difficult time for our drivers and all of our teams who are out there in a difficult place where they are struggling and suffering but still continuing to work, and at time where is we are still all under sheltering in place for a disease that is also ravaging the same communities that are being killed on the street. I just wanted to acknowledge that and say that and say that dedicate this meeting and our efforts to be a more just agency and a more just society. And i just want people to know that without the work throughout the work we will be looking through the equity lens and as a society ewith must do better. The system was set up to oppress people and way to create a new system is to tear down the one we have and make it better. So that has to happen. We have to pull apart assumptions that we have about how things should work and look at who created those systems and why they put them in place to make sure that were doing the work we need to do. I just wanted to say that. Its a difficult time for many of us. And i think we all just want to figure out a way to see a path forward where were making meaningful strides to make our Community Better and stronger and make everyone that is participating. So with that, i will turn to our actual way that people can participate in the meeting. And based upon our rules. So due to the covid19 Health Emergency this, meeting is being held virtually and all members and staff participating via web conference. To ensure the safety or the board of director, staff, and members of the public. In our published notice and we ask the public to participate by leaving voicemail messages and we have received and appreciated the comments prior to meeting. Thank you for honoring our request. We continue to urge the public to write to the board, call us at 4156464470 and that is not the number for this meeting so that is in advance. While this Technology Allows us to hold meetings via tele conference, there may be gaps and silence as the staff is transitions between the technology and speakers. Please know we are doing the best that we can to ask for your understanding and patience. If you have not already done so, please put yourself on mute. Lastly, i want to thank all the people who have been working hard to make this meeting possible and put a lot of Work Together and the board very much appreciates that. So with that, the Commission Secretary will give her report and a special accommodation request for a Public Comment. So this meeting is being televised by sfg tv. For those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a time lag between the actual meeting and what members of the public are seeing on sfg tv. If you are watching via sfg tv and wish to comment on a particular item, please call the phone line when the item is being called. For members of the public who wish to make Public Comment not on the agenda, the phone number is 8888086929. The access code is 9961164. Please make sure that you are in a quiet location. Turn off any tvs or raid owes. And if you are Live Streaming the meeting via sfgtv, please mute the sound. That will reduce any reverberations so the board can hear you. At the appropriate time, the chair will ask for the phone lines to be opened. If you wish to comment on the particular item, youre on the phone line and you will be prompted to press 1, 0. I will add you to the speaker line. And the auto prompt will say the callers are entering the question and answer time. But this is the Public Comment period. You will be queued up in the orreder in which you pressed 1, 0. And there will be an automated voice that will tell you when it is your turn to speak. When your phone has been unmuted by the system, you will hear us ask you to state your name and to make your comments. I will start your two minutes when you begin talking. I will give you a 30 second warning when you have 30 seconds remaining, and when your time is up, i will say thank you, next caller please. And at that point the moderator will automatically put the speaker back on mute. I will repeat these instructions for how to make Public Comment as i am aware some members of the public may join the meeting after i said this and may not have heard this information. So madam chair, you asked the phone line to be opened up as there was a request yesterday from a member of the public who wished an accommodation. Yes, please. All right. If the moderator can unmute the phone line for the member of the public. Do we have our commenter online . Hold on a moment. The moderator will let us know. All right. So madam chair, just for the members of the public, this is an opportunity for the one member of the public who requested an accommodation and this is not for general Public Comment on matters not on the agenda. So first caller please. Caller, give us your name and we will start your two minutes. All right. Speaker, if you could please give us your name and we will start your two minutes. Hi. I am zachary carnasis and i have a coup of notes to say about the way meetings are being conducted. I appreciate sfmta board granting me to leave Public Comment now. It is my understanding that Public Comment cans be made anonymously and that is not been made clear to in the process of these meetings or in the introductions to the meetings. I ams a highly disturbed that there is pressure being put on the public to submit questions and comments ahead of the meetings assuming that they will be even read or listened to at all as that often times is not the case. And also, one of the reasons that its beneficial to have Public Meetings is so the public can engage with the public and we can be assured you are hearing what we say and speaking is also different than a typed email. Also, there is different accessibility needs for different people. So i really just want to strongly encourage that the board and the local government encourages Public Participation as close to the way it was done before covid19 pandemic. Additionally, i want to point out that the 88 grievance procedure is really broken for people with disabilities. We are bullied and harassed in these proceedings and they do not focus on 88 issues as a whole but focus only on driver discipline, individual driver discipline. They dont look at systemic problems with the sfmta stability structure. 30 seconds. I ask that you penalize the drivers and which solves nothing and that sfmta focus on driver education and driving trainings and they are supposed to be giving to drivers already and have not been doing. Again, punishing drivers and harming people and individual basis is not how you solve accessibility problems with transportation, and i have been begging the board to fix their a. D. A. Procedure for a long time now. I havent spoke to the board since october. Time. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Thank you. All right. So other callers, madam chair, we can close the phone line. Public comment is closed. We will have the regular Public Comment in a bit. That was a special accommodation. Thank you. Number six is introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. A directors, do we have any new or Unfinished Business . No, appearing to be none. There a citizens we can move to item 7. An item 7, directors report. Sorry. Item 7 is the directors report. Great. Director tumlin. I dont think we should be in question and answer mode. We are this directors report right now. We should close i dont know if a question i dont know if that matters anyway. Okay. Okay. So as all of you know, this has been an intense couple of weeks, so i apologize in advance at my directors report will run long. Theres been a lot going on. This should not need saying that public streets and Public Transit are for everyone equally. But for ages, transportation has been designed to exclude and oppress. Sidewalks and travel lanes added only through the nonwhite neighborhoods starting in the 1930s and throughout the 1950s the freeways were cut through the area where they were. And because transportation projects got extra federal support for removing blight. Blight means, of course, being defined officially as nonwhite ownership. In the purpose and needs statement for the mcgeary expressway where we demolished a pedestrian bridge, the document stated that project was necessary and the removal of black businesses and japaneseowned homes was necessary to, in order to, and i quote, halt negro advancement. Even today the legacy of our industry continues and today residents of historically black neighborhoods in San Francisco and oakland have 10 to 15 years knocked off their life span as a result of particulate emissions as a result of streets designed to prioritize the speed of commute traffic rather than the need for residents. And the fact that our transportation land use patterns and services deny folks living in the neighborhoods access to employment, to services, to education. We in the Transportation Industry have far long time been complicit in stripping away opportunity from people of color. We celebrate the legacy of rosa parks, mary ellen pleasant, and Charlotte Brown here in San Francisco, but neglect our continued priorization of the convenience and privilege over the needs of everyone else, particularly the most vulnerable members of society. Like any decent human, i am heart broken and outraged by the murder of george floyd. His murder was so calm and methodical. Simply going about the business of government. Weve seen the video. We have seen the videos of so many africanamericans killed by agents of government for simple infractions or no reason at all, no reason certainly that i as a welldressed white person would even be arrested for let alone executed. George floyds murder is acutely dehumanizing. We at the sfmta firmly support the sacred right of public protest on our public rights of land in any democracy, and unlike other transit agencies, we have continued Many Services and service all through the night of each protest, rerouting around the protest areas in order make sure that our passengers who are essential workers as well as people attending the protest are kept safe along with our operators. Two days ago i learned from social media that our buss are being used to transport Police Officers. This is apparently something that the agency has been doing for many years. I quickly confirmed that our buses were not being used to transport detainees. And this created obviously a conundrum for us and so i reached out for advice. I talked to people of color throughout the agency, on our board, with our labor union leadership, and asked questions about can an agency committed to social justice also provide mobility for Police Officers during National Protest against police abuse of power. Their advice like my own thinking was also deeply conflicted, but also in the end, fairly clear. Over the last two months our Bus Operators have experienced a pretty significant increase in assaults and why they are all horrified about the abuse of police nationally, they are independent on local Police Officers to protect their safety. We are dependent on the officers of the San FranciscoPolice Department for protection just as all people should be. So as i work to try to reform the horrific history of my own industry, i need to honor sfpd bill scotts leadership towards necessary structural change within his. We are a City Department just like sfpd and sfpd officers are our colleagues. We collaborate with them every day on Traffic Safety and operator safety. But at the same time we also have to acknowledge and own the emotional impact of our riders seeing such visible partnership between the police and Public Transit. Police for many people being a symbol of ongoing oppression and Public Transit which is a place where Everyone Needs to feel safe and protected and comfortable. So i am antiPolice Brutality and also at the same time not against the officers of the police who do seek to protect the vulnerable and regress Police Racism and cruelty. So this is one of the many challenges i get to face as a bureaucrat, and the only way i can do it is with stability, continuing to seek advice throughout the agency and the public about how to proceed, how to thread this needle, and how to at the same time keep trying to bend my own agency toward justice and while righting past harms. So that is a lot to say. I also need to cover the more cotillian work of our agency. I am continuing to do the hard work of internal change around ensuring that people of color within the agency are respected and heard, and that means continuing to advance all the social equity work that we have been doing in our external work but particularly leading toward the Racial Equity action plan that is due to the city administrator and Mayors Office that is here to require ongoing trainings that we continue to do and even despite the covid process. I also need to talk about safety. So we had another fatality in this last week. A cyclist was riding on frederick street. A motorist opened a car door. The cyclist as a result of that ended up being pushed into the street and was run over and killed by a second motorist. Dooring is a not unheard of form of violence and death against people on bicycles in San Francisco, and so, of course, the Team Immediately went out within 24 hours to do a Quick Response and come up with recommendations about quick changes we can make to frederick street, but also more importantly stepping up the Citywide Campaign against dooring and training tourists to look over their Left Shoulder before opening the door. We will be providing more detail on that in the coming weeks, and well be speaking to that as we talk about our Recovery Plan as well. Some other work we are doing, we are, as owe know, most of the construction was shut down during the shelter in place order and we are starting work again on transit on 4th street and stepping up on work that we have cancelled during the covid work and completing the protected bike ways on seventh street and also struggtology deal with how readdress our own tenants that is a financial crisis of the fallout of the covid crisis. There was a chronicle headline that was incorrect about our rent and immediately after the shelter in place orred we are a threemonth rent fore bear rans for all of the tenants. We are now working on an extension to that and also a forgiveness plan because it is essential for us to maintain the viability of our tenants. It is not in our economic interest as a landlord to have a retail space that is vacant and is cert