Director you have a quorum. Item four communications. Chair borden due coth chair borden we ask the public to participate remotely. For all comments received in advance of the meeting, we have received an appreciate these comments. Thank you for honoring our request. We continue to urge the public to write the board. While this Technology Allows us to hold these meetings via teleconference, there maybe gap and silence as staff is transitioning the technology between speakers. We are doing our best and we ask for your patience and understanding. If we lose the connection during the meeting, we will pause the meeting until the connection has been reestablished. Lastly i want to thank the village that it takes to keep this meeting possible. This meeting is televised by sfgov tv, theres a time lag between the actual meeting and what members of the public is seeing on sfgov tv. If you wish to comment, please call the phone line when the item is called. 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I will reinettes instructions i will repeat the instructions. Chair borden one more piece of communication, item number seven on the agenda theres no action taken on that item. I want to note that item number six, resolution about the bylaws and rules will not be heard in the meeting. Item number five . Would you like for me to call them together . Youre not going to call item numbe6. [agenda item read]. Chair borden staff, i know weve already heard this item. Are there anything for you to add at this point on the item director tumlin or monique webster, at this time . We make a brief presentation. As you know, what youre seeing today is a very similar proposal compare to what you saw last week except all of the conditions around governments have been removed. As you also know this needs to be placed on the ballot by friday of this week and san mateo, county board of supervisors have all act to affirm this ballot measure. Since last week, all three counties have been working together very closely in order to make sure that we can get the ballot measure on the ballot with the affirmative vote with all the seven entities that need to approve it. At the same time, to address the governance issues that have been long standing concern for all three counties. While governance will not be part of the measure that you will be asked to approve today, a series of government recommendations will be going to the j. P. B. Board for adoption tomorrow. Provisions that the three counties have negotiated among themselves included allowing the j. P. B. To approve up to 40 million in each fiscal year out of the tax measure with the simple majority of j. P. B. Members. For expenses above 40 million, it will require the approval of six j. P. B. Members until the governance issues have been implemented. The governance reform items include the ability of the call train j. P. B. To appoint its own executive director. Requiring all caltrain to be reimbursed. Allowing the j. P. B. To requiring that the j. P. B. Appoint special counsel an auditor by end of november 2020. Allowing for items to be placed on the j. P. B. Board agenda request of two j. P. B. Members and making sure that all of this work is complete by december 31, 2021. As i mentioned the two san mateo entities and board of supervisors was approved today. Santa clara county will be voting on this item form as well and finally it goes to the San Francisco board of supervisors on friday of this week. That is all we have for presentation. Thank you. Chair borden i know we have representation from caltrain. Would you like to add any comments at this time . Thank you chair borden. Nothing further to add. Were happy to answer any questions if there are any. Chair borden thank you. Directors, before open it up to Public Comment, are there any questions that you have at this moment . Yes, this is director brinkman. Director brinkman i want to confirm to the public listening and watching this is what everybody was referring to the clean ballot measure, correct . That is correct. Director brinkman thank you. Vice chair eaken i want to question, one of the item itemss around reimbursement. Could you mention the dollar amount of the reimbursement if. From m. T. A. We have remaining 200,000 that we owe. Chair borden nil additional questions from the board of directors . I want to remind the public the item number six is not going to be heard. We are not going to be taking any action on approving a resolution. That is the role of the j. P. B. Powers board. The information was included in online for people interested. Only action were taking today is approving this resolution or not. Lets open up to Public Comment. Would you like to set a specific time limit for comments . Chair borden two minutes please. Okay. For members of the public who wish to make Public Comment, the phone number to use is 888 8056929. You can dial 10 to be added to the speaker list. Please open the phone line. I have several specific concerns here starting with the website page for this meeting. The link in there to remote meeting access it says watch Board Meeting online is the link to sfgov tv channel 2 which is currently carrying the j. P. A. Meeting. Its the wrong channel. This is covered on sfgov tv tv channel 1. The next concern is that there were at least two different versions of this agenda that i saw. Youve explained earlier that item 6 wont be taken up. The staff report for item 5, at least the one posted, is the staff report from the july 21st meeting. Im not sure if thats the resolution that youre considering. If not, i would suggest that you post for public review the proposed resolution for today and to the extent that the language is different that the public have an opportunity to review that particular language. Also, the Powerpoint Presentation that was just made, i have not found that posted anywhere. That would be helpful for the public to view. Clearly there are fastmoving items here having a chance to inform public involvement would be important. There was also reference made to the board of supervisors meet offing on meeting on friday, that has not been schedule the or posted. Thanks. Chair borden thank you. Next caller. Next speaker please. Good morning. This is roland. Chair borden can you spell your name for me please before you start . This is roland leblun in san jose. By the way, you just made a violation of the brown act. Chair borden you stated your name and i asked you to spell it. All right. I like to echo the comments the previous speaker made. Item 6 is an information item. I dont understand why youre not hearing it. Youre not going to vote on it. Second thing i like to do is to recognize director heminger to be known as Henry Kissinger of transportation taxation warfare. Last comment i like to make is that now that we figure out a way of this impasse, i like you all to vote on this unanimously please. Thank you. Next speaker please. My name is chris barger. Ive been a daily caltrain rider for the past five and a half years. I want to thank you for your work on this. Particularly director bringman who served on the j. P. B. Thank you in particular for your help last week. Thank you director heminger for your work trying to broker a compromise. This seems like the best possible option to get caltrain running now and into the future. I encourage you all to support this. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good morning Board Members. As previous speakers have said, i would like to encourage you to vote for this which offers clean resolution which will be easier to pass and has fewer legal issues. Thanks to director brinkman who spoke up at the previous meeting in favor of having the caltrain ballot measure and Caltrain Service riders and director heminger for the role bringing forward this compromise and to the entire committee for being willing to bring this back in a special meeting in order to be able to move forward if there is an agreement. I do hope that you vote for this so we continue to have Caltrain Service including the equity measure that the caltrain board also prepared hopefully to support that will be funded with this tax. Next speaker please. Good morning to Board Members and director tumlin. Im bruce, for identification purposes im in mission bay. Im speaking in support of the resolution in front of you today placing the eight cent sales tax on the november ballot. Im in support of the separate resolution being introduced to the j. P. B. To establish certain specified rules and bylaw of future conduct of caltrain including its governance structure and procedures. I appreciate the efforts, collaboration and agreement by the representatives of all three counties that conditions addressing governance and oversight can be addressed in a separate resolution. We know there are tough times ahead prior to the pandemic. The system was stretched to capacity. Its financially stretched during the Current Public Health crises and will be postpandemic. With a Stable Funding stream in place, the j. P. B. Will be best positioned to hold the abc accountable that meet the needs of the contributing counties. With your approval today and those of the other agencies this week, i look forward to all three counties working closely together to ensure voters have confidence that the measure on the ballot is sound and good for all constituents. Thank you. Next speaker please. Thank you chair board and members. Alit dupree. I like your virtual backgrounds. When i am visible on zoom, i can be zone at Grand Central terminal. Worlds largest train station in new york city. Regarding new york city, as i said before, i remember the day that the declines of northeastern railroading. It took leadership including taxation to save passenger railroads in the northeast region. Including the formation of metro north in 1983 and new Jersey Transit in 1979. Among other plans going back to 1965 with the formation of the metropolitan commuter transportation authority, forerunner of todays m. T. A. I have also supported this modest one eight cent sale tax. This economy is going to come back. This seals ta sales tax will ene Stable Funding for the railroad. I see other railroads in the United States that have to go and ask for money every year. Thank you for your bold leadership and bringing forward this simple resolution of a sales tax. Governance is important but its a separate conversation that needs to be done at a separate time and place. I look forward to your unanimous vote today. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good morning. My name is sarah oglvie. I live in San Francisco with my husband. We do not own a car. We have no intention of owning a car ever while living in San Francisco. We are asking for you to pass this clean resolution because Caltrain Service is critically important. Hopefully governance will include integration with regional and local service which caltrain cannot do alone. We need to see more integrated transit moving forward and im hoping that this clean resolution is an important step in that direction. Thank you. Next speaker please. This is martin. Im calling in support the resolution to fund caltrain with the sales tax. I wanted to thank director brinkman for her steadfastness in getting this resolution to be clean, to get passed and hopefully i hope all the people that were on the other side of the argument do find a way to reconfigure the way that caltrain is governed now. It is inequitable. Right now its about making sure that folks are able to use clean Public Transit to get to and from work and to and from their homes. Playing political gains with transit is unacceptable. Thank you so much m. T. A. Board for considering this resolution. You like read a quote from the former mayor of columbia. Its a city i also have lived in the past. A developed country is not place where the poor ca carved. Its where the rich used transportation. I wapainting caltrain riders ash and discounting caltrain riders who are middle class or working class or even in below the poverty line. I hope the governance issues are solved. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good morning directors. Im mike, im a member of the San Francisco transit riders. Im speaking in support of the measure. I hope you vote yes. I appreciate all what you doing and the time to call the special meeting this morning. Thank you very much. Thank you. Chair borden any additional speakers . We will close Public Comment. Well turn back over to the directors and man of the hour to director heminger. Which we owe huge gratitude for your ability to bring conversation together and unite leaders. I want to thank you like everyone else has been thanking you. Director heminger i appreciate that madam chair. I have to start by acknowledge how wrong i was over our last meeting. I said it will take a long time to recover from this stalemate. I couldnt be happier to have been more wrong about that. I do have a short list of thank yous that i want to mention. First of all, our three San Francisco supervisors who were engaged in this question. Supervisor walton who is my colleague on the caltrain board as well as supervisors peskin and haney. We got a much better result than we were a week ago. Their peninsula counterpart who is a san mateo supervisor as well as cindy chavez in santa clara county. I wanted to single out another santa clara director, jenny brewer who went above and beyond the call in making sure that we could do all this work in the short period of time we had. In particular, i want to single out the mayor of san jose. Who intervened in a strategic moment. Which is a euphemism when we were really in the dumps. He got us going again in the right direction. Like several other Public Commenters, i would like to thank director brinkman. My predecessor on the caltrain board. I think her no vote administered a shock to the system. People understood how serious this was and that we were on the knife edge of defeat for the whole enterprise. When director brinkman is ready to make the motion, ill be happy to second it and lets see if we can get a yes vote this time out of her. Director brinkman thank you director heminger. Thank you so much to everyone who got involved to get us to this point. It goes to show, we can all get along as a region and we can pull together for a common cause. In this case, it didnt just take a village, it took a region and it took all of you and it took everybody that director heminger listed. Thank you all so much and so grateful that were here at this moment. Motion to approve. Second. Chair borden i want to join others as well thanging director brinkman for her leadership and sharing with us her insider knowledge and understanding how things work. I want to commend her for standing up and having such great integrity and doing whats right and voting in the way she thought what made since. Most people dont always realize that decisions are very much individual decisions that we make here at the m. T. A. Board. People make them based on their experience and knowledge. Theyre looking out for the best for the public in general. Thank you so much, you really help advance good public policy. I want to say thanks our board of supervisors, mayor and everyone and jeff whos come together to make sure that we can keep caltrain solvent and deal with issues that will make governance and future more smooth. With that, secretary robinson [laughter] cal call the roll. [roll call vote] the ayes have it. Motion passes. Chair borden item six is not on the agenda. That cleats that completes our agenda for today. Ly adjour i will adjourn this meeting. Thanks everyone. Call the meeting to order of. Please call the roll. roll call . You do have a quorum. Should i call your next item . Yes,