I see the red box. Good morning and welcome to the county Transportation Authority meemeeting. Could you please call the role. role call . We have a quorum. Can we have our next item, please. May i make an announcement about Public Comment . Yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045987 and enter access code 2858465 as seen on the screen and follow the system prompts. Once you join, you can listen to the meeting as a participant. 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 taken in the order which they are received. Best practises are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. Please allow for audio visual delays and a 30second lag time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 2, Citizens Advisory Committee report and this is an information item. Mr. Larson, good morning. Good morning, chai. Im chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee. At our june 24th meeting, we adopted the support to pr provoe sales tax force. They commented on the scaling of fonts used in the signs, the similarities between the number 8 and letter b, for example. In the new street sign designs that are part of this request and the fact certain lines were used did not really exist. Staff said they were included to illustrate the look and style of the designs but would consider the confusion they might cause being widely shared. In addition in response to a question about sign location and reprioritizing if a route slated for new signage was under construction, cac members were to do active routes with part of the sites election process for signs. They will adopt the next study final report. In particular, addressing the current mline termance on san jose avenue at the railyard. The desire for a more integrated vision was also in Public Comment. However, the bulk of the cac meeting was taken up from Jeffrey Tumlin and dan howard from sfmta and theyre stillberryinstillbringing an ase plan. They asked about the continuation of certain Capital Projects and while it was not so bad of pic particular interest,e reality that it will not store the service that they had to cut and operators shortages by com pending retirements. Director tumlin reassured us that the priority would be most dependent on transit and it would mean resources would be denser is less affluent areas and relatively low ridership bus lines, such as the neighborhood lines in the center and western neighborhoods would be the last, if ever, to return. But that discounts would help to ease the challenge for the residents and help keep the residents out of their cars. Director tumlin was encouraged to reach out to cac members as another way distribute messages to the districts about transit and updates and gather feedback and return to a future cac meeting and that completes my report. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Larson. Are there any questions for mr. Larson andmen and the cac ad seeing none, is there any Public Comment on the cac report . Chair, no Public Comment. Public comment is closed. Madam clerk, can you please read the Consent Agenda. Items 34, item this was approved at june 24 Board Meeting and considered for final approval and the remaining item is considered routine and staff are not planning to present on these items but prepared to speak if called and if the member objects, think of the items may be removed and considered separately. Ok, is there any Public Comment on item number 3, the approval of the june 23r june 23rd minutes . There is no Public Comment. Public comment is closed and is there a motion to move the Consent Agenda . Moved, mandelman. Is there a second . Second, preston. Motion made by commissioner mandleman and seconded b by preston. Role call, please. role call . Consent agenda is approved. Next item, please. 5, federal legislation update. This is an information item due to staffs watch recommendation which requires no action. Ok. Is it miss crab or mr. Watts . Hi, miss crabs asked me to present first and introduce her when i finished my presentation. So mr. Chair and commissioners, thank you for having me and mark watts, your representative in sacramento. Sacramento has been through very interesting schedule changes which ill touch on briefly and try to illuminate how i think that might affect the ability for general legislation to move forward in the coming weeks. But before i do that, a longawaited series of actions related to the state Transportation Commission were undertaken. There were two appointments made by the governor and mr. Rocko davis, in Northern California, Business Manager and general manager for the Northern California laborers. And in addition, leanne eager are both now the commission. Theres a full slate of active members. There was one displacement in the appointment process and that was the chair, mr. Va mr. Van kaninemboard. So beyond that, theres been some significant changes to the legislative calendar and it offers some challenges going forward. June 26th had been the last day for bills to pass out of their house of origin and that was met and then july 2nd, the summer recess commenced and the idea was to bring the two houses, calendars into snyc when they would return from a short recess due to some onset of cases of covid19, amongst members of the legislature and the need to do a deep cleaning of the capitol, theyve delayed the return from july 13th, yesterday, until july 27th. The other intervening deadlines that are active are ones that could be changed or modified by the legislature, just not the august 31st. And so i do expect given the fact they return on july 27t july 27th and they have a policy Committee Deadline to pass any bills of august 7th, that they may want to loosen that up and maybe give themselves another week. They havent described that as an action they intend to take, just my experience in this building, trying to cram one whole legislative sessions worth of bills from each house in their opposite houses for hearings and it will be difficult. And so, i expect to hear coming up shortly that there will be some changes. Theres also the very matteroffact complicated matter of conducting the hearings in this environment. They have intended to shut down phone access hearings and it looks like they may have to retain some version of that, as well as some very modified personal presentations made available to the public at large and advocates. With that, i would bring my presentation to a close. Its been a quiet month, but with these backdrop activities, you have stay on top of it daytoday. If there are no questions, i would like to present amber crab with the updates she intends to provide on the watch bill as b288. Miss crabs. Hello, good morning, chair and commissioners. Amber crab with the Transportation Authority and so, we are recommending a watch position today on senator weiners senator bill 288 and this would provide a statutory exemption for the California Environmental quality act or sequa view for transportation projects, including rapid transit, bicycle and pedestrian projects, publically accessible zero emission fueling stations and conversion of highway lanes to each of the express lanes. And there are requirements attached to it, such that projects need to be in an urban environment and they have to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions and they cannot expand capacity for private vehicles. But those sponsored by spur and the Bay Area Council and they frame this as a way to implement projects that can help local jurisdictions, get the necessary infrastructure in place as people return to work, so they have sustainable options and are not just driving alone. And so sfmta is recommending a support division to the Mayors Office and they think, in particular, it would help to advance in a timely fashion the busonly lanes, as well as enhance bicycle facilities, because these projects without the statutory exemption can be held up for years sometimes in litigation. We do understand that there are amendments pending to the bill that would address some of the concerns weve heard that have been raised with the author. In particular, amendments to strengthen the Public Engagement process. And so we are recommending a watch position until we see the amended language and see how stakeholders, such as environmental and social justice organizations respond to the amendments. If there are concerns are addressed. As mark noted, especially with the extendedded recess, only the highest priority bills will be moving forward. If this doesnt make it through the legislature this session, senator weiner has indicate that hell pursue similar legislation next session. And so as a reminder, this is a watch position, not an action and i provide staff with direction to closely public bill, engage with the author and report back to at a future meeting, potentially with a recommendation to take an action. And so just quickly an update on whats going on at the federal level, as executive director chang reported in her last executive directors report. On june 22nd, House Democratic leadership released hr2, which is also known as the moving forward ability. And we did want to report that did pass out of the house on july 1st with a vote along partylines. Its a 1. 5 trillion infrastructure package with one billion is things for schools and safe water and clean energy, but really the cornerstone is the 500 billion reauthorization at the current federal transportation bill which expires on septembe september 30th. It represents an almost 50 increase above current spending levels and really focusing in on urban transportation and transit, as well as creating a new Climate Change program. And on top of that, it does include, in the first year, some flexible relief funds for local and state governments to respond to the covid crisis. However, it was a partisan effort so weve heard its pretty much dead on arrival at the senate. However, the senate did release its own proposal last year, at least for the surface transportation portion and we had heard that things were changing everyday and we had heard nothing would move forward and now were hearing that the Senate Leadership may be open to considering some stimulus package this year still, but given the challenges of that legislative schedule before the recess for the november election, we are placing our bets on a bill that just continues the current federal transportation package. And so, with that, just wanted to note we are actively advocating at the senate level and during reconciliation on the reauthorization package, but then, also, most importantly, looking for other covid relief package for transit to get the essential funding we need to keep Transit Services running. And so with that, im happy to answer any questions. Thank you, commissioner yee. I wanted to express my support to senator weiners bill, to watch. Theres a tendency to tip aaway a lot of the validity to express their concern and sometimes i believe some of it is warranted and i support it, but i also am on the side of being cautious of not wiping out everything that exists for people to, basically, articulate and express their concerns about any projects. And so, thank you very much. Thank you, commissioner yee. Are there any other questions or comments for miss crab or mr. Watts . Commissioner preston . Yes, i just wanted to add a piece of federal legislation that has been announced into the various bills that youre tracking, and hopefully it is on your radar and would love at the next meeting to have some update. Iona presley is introducing the freedomtomove act, which is it would incentivize fair, free transit, as well as having provisions to approve safety and quality of transportation and address equity gaps. I think its an interesting piece of legislation, very timely. And again, its at the early stages but i did see the announcement and would very much like that to be included in future updates. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item . Chair, there is no Public Comment. Ok, Public Comment is closed and there is no action to be taken and so we can move on to the next item. Item 6, allocate 11,230,724 in sale tax funds and 1,043,89, 1,043,898 and double a Registration Fee fund with conditions. This is an action item. Miss leport. Good morning. Chair, are you able to see my slides . Yes, we are. Super. So the first of the three requests presented today is for the annual funding that the sale tax Program Provides to the paraprogram and weve been supporting this Program Since 2004 and there are a suite of services that mta offers as part of the Paratransit Program, most of which are still operating, of course, with declining ridership or lower ridership to the tune of 70 to 80 overall. Over the last quarter of fiscal year 1920, th 1920, include thei Incentive Program for Taxi Services to have wheelchairs, as well as other services, including the essential trip card program that was for launched to provide services to folks to seniors and disabled, as well as the shoparound shuttle, with access to Grocery Stores with assistance. The temporary suspended programs include the a inning go shuttle which provides access to cultural events and folks with common destinations. There are services that would provide for covidrelated activities to be offered by the Paratransit Program and Service Levels with increase, even if ride every shiridership is downd additional drivers is vehicles to operate the Service Levels that are required at this point. And so, we are expecting to see some costs go up, propk funds about 30 of the program overall. The next funding reques requestm the sfmta and this is for green paint and safehit post replace. Threplacement. This is foyou can call 311 oro the sf311. Org website to log a location where you would like improvements made and they are based at least for the protected bikeway network, theyre prioritized where that network currently exists and, also, for quickbuild locations are going in, as well, so that theres a safety measure that are in state of good repairs as other improvements are put into place. The last of the three requestions is for the prop double a vehicle Registration Fee fund for just over a Million Dollars for the new poles, the new bus stop signs and also for the munibranded solar powered lighting at the top of these signs. These would be improvements done on a routebyroute basis. The lines would be im going to pull up a revised map. Thithere are a map of locations that has been distributed and mta includes a couple of additional lines and they were distributed earlier or late last week and they reflect some requests that we have heard from board members, as well as additional input from the transit Operations Group at mta and so this these ar these are t would improve this funding. Overall, there are 89 lines currently in this sftas service portfolio. However, with each route taking a month to implement the new signage ad, it will take several years and mta is prioritizing the active lines that are currently operating in service right now in order to receive these upgrades, as well as prioritizing other muni equity lines. And with that, i can answer my questions or we have several project managers that are here, as well, who are able to answer questions. Thank you. Are there any questions from members . Commissioner yee . This is about the paratransit and as you mentioned, they have to worry about distancing and there would be fewer passengers per trip, i guess. And at least if the past, my understanding of how it gets reimbursed is per passenger. And so, have there been any adjustments in regards to the reimbursement for passengers loading up like they used to . I would like to ask Jonathan Chang who is the Program Manager to respond to your question. I do know that while jonathan is coming online or another sfmta staff member could address the question, there are costs that are associated with the negotiated Paratransit Service contract that are ridebased. So, we are likely to see cost savings for the program because ridership was lower and so how that would impact the 2021 contract is that if ridership is low, there will be cost savings and that is true. Prop k is a portion of the funding plan and so, the savings born by prop k would be a reflection of the proportional share of the total funding plan and so with 35 of the funding plan, the savings would be reflected into prop k. But lets see here, just taking time while sfmta staff is experiencing difficulties yes, if ridership is significantly lower, there will be cost savings associated with that. So im sorry, my question wasnt about cost savings. My question, really my understanding of how the Companies Get reimbursed for their services per ridership per person. Because i went through this several years ago to increase the reimbursements for the west side