Next speaker, please. Welcome. Question hi. So a number of individuals have discussed the system and i would like to remark on it. By the way, i believe i live in district 2. First of all, i would like to remark that before this week, i never even realized that people could go to could attend board of supervisors meetings and i feel this is something that should be more widely advertised to residents of the city because certainly, i think i was in more active in local politics and i know there was a venue beyond simply emailing my supervisor or calling if i knew that i could actually attend meetings and make comments. I would have felt more emparamedic aempoweredas a citi. Also, the schedule on the website had a more of a time frame because, for example, there was a time that was noted when comments could be made where i could have tuned out and did Something Else and called back in or when the relevant discussions were. Also, for people who have addressed the issue of defunding the police and i believe theres an article in sf gates about how after v ar valejo defunded their police force, shootings went up. Ill stop there. Thank you for your comments. I would love you to talk to any caller who would call our office and walk them through how the process works 415 5545184 and thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I understand theres one more in the queue. Again, this is the last call for speakers who want to get into the queue, press star 3. Welcome. Question hi. Im an oldtime taxi driver and i want to remind your guys t tht weve had the coronavirus years and years. indiscernible . Make a promise to buy them back. The buying rejected and the people losing right and left. Please renew this medallion. Go to the detail and find out the taxi commissioner or taxi directory what they are doing to us. This cannot continue any more. The taxi business is dead and we are stuck with the 250,000 payment. Its not working. Please, help us. I appreciate it. Please help, help. Thank you for your comments, sir. Operations, the next caller please. Question im mohamed. Hello . Yes, welcome. Im a longtime taxi driver and a medallion holder that i purchased from mta about ten years ago, nine years ago. And i have been making my payment since, you know, business start going down and down and down and weve been having trouble with the bank. Weve been having trouble dealing with the company, mta and we dont have we cant afford to pay any payments, either the bank or the mta is helping us with debt and the payment is kind of high. Unemployment payment will cover food and maybe a little bit of the rent but were behind in every bill we have. We were forced to purchase the medallion, not an option and now the mta is giving medallions for free. Wthey are giving it for free. So we are the ones that got trapped with the 260,000. We didnt pay that in cash. Were financing that for 20 to 25 years. Weve been in trouble with the banks and we tried to call the bank to get a break with too monttwomonths or three months. They said the bank did not help. If they pay this money, the bank will consider this as a positive move from mta to help the drivers. So we ask the supervisors and the city of San Francisco to help these taxi drivers including me and thousands of them who are trapped in this medallion thing. And now, the medallion is going high and there is only 43300 medallions left. The city is waiting for everybody to lose the money we move. Im 60 years old and i was waiting for retirement. Question i just got off work. Im a volunteer councillor at the Housing Rights Committee and so my heart is heavy. But im glad people are calling and asserting their rights and wondering what they are. And i think right now, what has to happen immediately regarding all of these various housing projects is to press the pause button. Were in the covid time, all bets are off and even the developers are saying, ors, this haoh, thishas been in the permig process forever. You know something . It has to be paused right now. Im thinking of the balboa reservoir and the last meeting where only one displaced student called in after we have evicted people, weve displaced them and then we want them to take all of this transit in. Out of 1100 units, 150 set aside for faculty, doesnt matter if theyre a faculty sleeping in their cars and we know there are and 150 units set aside for teachers. What an insult what an insult we have to press pause because the developers know theyll need for elevators so people can be socially distant as they go to the top floors and honest to god, we have to halt. Weve never seen a time like this before and my hearts go ot to taxi drivers. I grew up with people who drove taxi and it was once a way to earn a living and now its not. Anyway, thank you for listening. Thank you for your time. Operations, another caller in the queue. Question can you hear me . Welcome, join us. Question im Dana Anderson and i would like to draw this bodys attention to another issue of racial justice, namely that of the citys continued criminalization of unhoused people. As im sure youre aware, black people represent a wildly disproportionate amount of the Homeless Population here in the city and currently, the city is negotiating a settlement with uc hastings which involves us hey continuation to cleanse the area of this. I encourage this body to force the city to force hastings to force a lawsuit and not settle. Thank you. I believe operations, that concludes Public Comment here. That completes the queue. Mr. President , no more speakers in the queue. Seeing for more Public Comments, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets go to the Philadelphia Committee reference, agenda 3955. Items 3955 were introduced without reference to committee and a unanimous vote is required for resolutions on First Reading today. Alternatively, a member of the resolution to go to committee. indiscernible . Anybody want to sever any items . Yes, please. Item number 49. Anybody else want to sever . Seeing none did somebody Say Something . Madam clerk, go ahead and take role call on the remainder of the items. Items 5055. role call . Mr. Mar, did your audio go out . If thats the case, we should pause. Madam clerk, supervisor mar looks like he dropped off of the rotter anroster. Well pause for a moment and take his vote. pause . Supervisor mar just arrived back in the meeting. Continue the role call. Now. Aye. Ok. Then you were muted, madam clerk, but without objection, then, items these resolutions are adopted and everything passes. Lets go to item 49. Item 49 is a resolution to support California State Senate bill 939 authored by senator scott weiner and david chu to protect businesses and nonprofit organizations for evictions and permits, Small Businesses or restaurants that decline during the shelterin place. Supervisor stephanie. Today i have to make a motion to table this resolution after the legislature failed to advance sb939. This would are enacted a moratorium on evictions Small Businesses and renegotiate commercial leases during the state of emergency caused by the covid19 pandemic. A Small Business community is hurting now more than ever and im hopeful the issues raised can be worked out in sacramento and committed to working with senator weiner to continue the fight to protect our local businesses. With that, i move to table this. indiscernible . role call . There are 11ayes. The motion to table passes. Madam clerk, lets go and do the in memoriums. Mr. President , today i have no in memoriums to ajourn the meeting with. Colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, think other further business before us today . That concludes our business for the day. Thank you, madam clerk. As there is no further business, we are adjourned. Ready to go. Okay. I see the red box. Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation AuthorityCommission Meeting for today, june 23rd, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Angela, could you call the roll . Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai . Safai absent. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Should i do one more call for commissioner safai . Supervisor peskin i dont see him being logged in, so i think we have a quorum. Correct. Supervisor peskin any announcements . Clerk yes. Public comment is will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone, by calling 888 2045987, access code as seen on the screen. Then follow the systems prompts. Once you join, you will 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 the two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume on any televisions or radios around you. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30second live time during the course of the meeting. Supervisor peskin thank you. To the chairs report. Colleagues, earlier this month, democratic leadership of the house transportation and Infrastructure Committee released this proposal to reauthorize the current federal transportation bill which expires this coming september. The invest act proposes 494 billion thats with a b dollars in transportation funding over the next five years. A 46 increase over current spending levels. It would deliver significant new revenues for many of our priorities, including transit capital grants, active transportation, congestion management and climate protection. The first year would also provide much needed covid19 relief funds for transit agencies and local governments that have been suffering during the pandemic. These funds would build upon the heros act to preserve jobs while stimulating the economy. We would all like to thank leader pelosi and house members for passing these bills and await next steps on the senate side this summer. On the local front, i want to thank our state department of transportation, cal tran for awarding the partners, three planning grants, 64 announced statewide last week, these include funds to the sfmta for a valley Transportation Plan, for the access improvements and funds for the mtc to study Rail Development and governance. This latter would hopefully build on the downtown extension work to identify collaborative models for program delivery. We congratulate the project sponsors and are excited to undertake and support each of the studies as they move forward. Finally, colleagues, i want to thank tumlin and his team for being here to continue his presentation on the sfmtas transportation Recovery Plan. Which we began at our last meeting, but ran out of time. This month he and i also convened a Transportation Working Group comprised of representatives from a broad section of regional agencies. Well consult this group as we reopen the economy as were seeing the return of traffic and congestion on our local streets, regional highways and bridges. Certainly partnering among local Regional State agencies will be key to maintaining safe access for all of us during these challenging and unprecedented times. And with that, colleagues, i conclude my remarks. Is there any Public Comment on the chairs report . Clerk there is no Public Comment. Supervisor peskin then to the executive director report, ms. Chang . Thank you, chair peskin. Good morning, commissioners. Ill turn to the regional portion of my report having chair peskin having covered the federal update. The caltrain board as we know is potentially considering a oneeighth tax for the november ballot. Theyve been conducting polling at caltrain to inform the member agencies, all of whom would need to act prior to august if there is a desire to move forward. As you may recall, the sales tax would fund capital and operating needs for caltrain Going Forward. Caltrain does lack a dedicated Revenue Source and has long faced financial challenges with the precipitous drop in ridership and fair revenue. Sb797, the authorizing measure, requires operators and boards of supervisors in each of the three counties and the caltrain board to act to put a potential measure on the ballot. So were tracking those poll results which are just coming in i believe this week. And we will be reporting out certainly to advise commissioner walton as our representative to the caltrain board as well as chair peskin and those all of you on the board should we decide should we be interested in moving this forward as a city. So id like to appreciate and recognize commissioner walton for his leadership in advocating for affordability as a requirement of the potential measures. That is already in the potential resolution. But again there is a lot of information to take in and well look forward to updating you. Another update to dart, the Grant Program within the bart program is out and has been released for a new 5 million round to Fund Construction projects off the bart property that enhance pedestrian and bicycle access. Well be working with sfmta and public works to ensure that access routes to all of our bart stations are reviewed for potential improvements and the application is in july. Members of the public, let us know if you have ideas how to apply fort funds. At the local level, sfmta Traffic Calming Program is taking applications. This is what we fund with prop k sales tax. And the goal of the program is to ensure that neighborhoods can be equipped with trafficcalming devices such as bead humps and speed bumps and the like. Interested residents should submit an application to sfmta by june 30th. Their website sfmta. Com. In light of the current shelters in place tt, theyre weighting that would require a percentage of the neighboring households to sign on. That is, again, out for applications until june 30th. Turning to some additional good news. Chair peskin mentioned the cal tran Planning Event awarded to the sfmta. I want to congratulate sfmta for recognition on two Planning Efforts that they received recently. And San Francisco efforts have been received recognized statewide. Sfmta bayview Transportation Plan was awarded the excellent in opportunity and empowerment by the Northern California chapter of the american planning association. This was a planning effort that mta led. To improve transportation in the bayview Hunters Point community. This planning study was able to include a participatory budgeting process that allows Community Members to vote on projects to receive transportation funds. And in fact, we have on hold, on program, 22. 5 million in prop k funds to help implement the top recommendations which will confirm Pedestrian Safety, bicycle and shuttle projects in the neighborhood. I would like to acknowledge them for the communications plan, with the collaboration for the warriors. Finalist award in Public Outreach and award would be awarded in early july, july 6. Turning to project delivery. Two under that are very, very updates that are very very positive. Noe valley has seen repaving. Over in district 8 and i think 11. These are two separate projects. Both of which have been completed recently in district 8, the project consists of 24 blocks of paving work for clayton, and this is pavement renovation, base repair, curb ramp, sidewalk and the like at various locations. That was great news from public works. Additionally, significant progress is being made at the board pavement renovation project as public works reported there, 80 complete. This alemany project was both in district 8 and 11, consists of street resurfacing of 28 blocks to seneca avenue. It will construct new sidewalks and improve traffic control. This is part of a larger replacement that contains sewer replacements, bulbouts. The alemany project is anticipated to be open for use in september. Turning to update on Market Street. As you may have seen, the environmental document the federal document was out for comment earlier this month. And the project team, multiagency project team, is reevaluating the implementation plans, some of the design features to reduce Business Impact and anticipated higher than normal bicycle volume. So that project will continue to work to spoke out some of those features as well as work with federal agencies regarding the grant and other federal funds on the project. That original phase of the construction project will, therefore, be delayed. The original three blocks from 5th to 8th pending some of the refinements and the current schedule is to advertise the contract in early 2021 with all hands on deck to try and pin down this final scope of the design and prepare it for, again, any federal funds that may emerge or stimulus opportunities. Well invite the better Market Street team to provide an update to your july Board Meeting. Finally, on the sales tax front. We continue to monitor closely. You can manage the sales tax receipts. Good news was that in april, sales tax receipts were up from the march level. We received 7. 5 million in april 2020, which was again, about 20 below prior years, however, was a significant increase over the 3. 6 million in fact more than double that was received in march. So again, it does appear to be volatile. Were not going to read too much into it, but were encouraged to see