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Submission of one eighth of one percent retail transactions and use tax for cal train to support immediate and long term operational and capital costs at election to be held on november third, 2020. We have staff team manager of Regional Affairs who will be presenting. Thank you, chair. Good morning. Regional manager is sfmta. Were here to give you a brief presentation on the one eighth cent sales tax. Our executive descrecto directon transportation authority. We can move to the next slide. Thank you. In 2017 senate bill 797 authorization to put a one eighth cent sales tax on the train counties. Being a dedicated sales tax. The measure would require two thirds of the voters in two thirds of the county. Precovid estimated it would raise just over one million per year and one tenth being generated in San Francisco. Prior to the covid 19 pandemic the majority of cal trans funding came from self generated revenues. Today many riders are working from home and the riel riders dropped to 5 of precovid 19 levels. Annual contributions from the member counties and annual good repair projects. San francisco annual share was 14 point six Million Dollars. As noted senate bill 797 was proposed to raise and good repair needs s needs the expende outlined on this slide, the ballot question hasnt yet been finalized. We ask voters to approve one eighth of the sales tax to support regional economics recovery, prevent traffic congestions, make cal trains more accessible and affordable; make travel times faster, increase frequency and capacity. Authorized legislation they can put the sales tax legislation on the ballot. The measure requires the approval of the majorities of three thirds majority of supervisors. The board of supervisors approved resolutions to place the measure on the ballot. These go boards would need to it pass another resolution to provide those resolutions. Turning to the governance before you established an ad hoc committeea special council was hired in february in regards to governance. Two governing documents that cal train operates under today. The direct Powers Agreement established in 19 the one when ca1991 when caltrains is formed. The Real Property agreement that was amended in 2008. For giving thirty eight million in debt for the right of way purchase. Twenty Million Dollars outstanding. Theres a typo on the slide. The correct amount is thirty eight Million Dollars. Additionally the co ceo and c. Turning to the gornance governae provisions. Eligible expenditures at anytime with a two thirds majority vote. Up to the first forty Million Dollars collected. Its provided by san trans and covid 19 related relief options. If the governance solution is identified, the escrow account would be closed and funds would be transferred to regular use accounts. If no resolution is found another forty Million Dollars would be made available for operations. Next slide, please. All parties commit to working with state delegates on a legislative solution for the 2023 solution. Next slide, please. A joint statement was signed by 12 elected officials calling for this approach of funding for the california transportation authority. Last week voted to support and held a public hearing and adopted the resolution earlier this week. Im going to jur turn it over to jonathan to close out the presentation. Good morning. Budget manager. Next slide, please. Just as she mentioned, through the joint Powers Agreement. San francisco provides both the capital costs and operating costs for cal train. The formula is a little different for both. On the cal tal costs. Theres a category for specifically cal train. On the operating side the contribution of the operating budget and the need is split proportionally based on the percentage of ridership. That would be San Francisco. Thats typically 27 percent. We do budget contribution as part of our two year operating budget and the last one you a approved was on june 30th of this year. Youll see to the right, youll see amounts of the contributions over the last few fiscal years has been increases. In addition it includes that theres no dedicated funding source. As cal train has provided additional service, the need with contribution from the members increased. The budget contribution was twenty nine point nine million. The current cal Train Service plan in preliminary budget that has been presented to their board increases the amount of their deficit after the application of the cares act fund for both trunk one and trunk two. This would be additional five million contribution for a total of 14 million. If we did have to make that contribution we would have to look towards reduction in other areas to cover those costs. Just over time, this is an analysis of the impact of the legislation itself and the resolution that the San Francisco board of supervisors passed and the policy issue before you today. Again, the impact if approved and if the bill tax were to pass as proposed, it would remove the requirement for that additional five Million Dollars in fiscal year 21. It would reduce our member contribution to about three Million Dollars in fiscal year one. That will not cover the complete deficit but reduces it. Because we do a two year budget, i just wanted to tro throw this. Assuming it stays exactly the same. Thats seventy trains. Our contribution and this sales tax were applied in the way its proposed, our member contribution would be 12 million worth three million more in fiscal year 22. If the sales tax were not to proceed in the way were talking about, there were no additional salessorry federal funds that went towards the operating program, our operation could be a tie of 23 million next year. That is the last side. Were happy to take any questions that you have. Thank you. I know we have a couple members, i dont know if there was anything you wanted to add at this time before we open it up to directors for questions. Thank you. This is chief communication officer. Just want to thank the board for considering this item and holding a special meeting to do so. We understand that time is of the essence. We dont have anything further to add to the presentation thats already been given. Look forward to answering any questions or providing comments if we can be helpful. Thank you. Thank you. Directors are there any questions that you have at this time. Maybe you can queue up Public Comment at this time. I do have a question. Thank you. You mentioned the crafting of the ballot language, what process does that go through and the changes that have been made by the San Francisco board of supervisors to include the governance requirements. Do we have any idea what kind of impact thats going to have on the crafting of the language because it did seem pretty straight forward before those governance concerns were added . Thank you, director. I wonder if you would be able to respond to this question. It would be best answered by cal train who has been working to craft the ballot question. We hav i can speak from a can perspective which may or may not be helpful for this particular question. Weve been working over the last year plus on this ballot measure and working with stake holders from all of the agencies, the seven agencies that need to take action on this measure in addition to some board members. We did just as recently as the last cal train Board Meeting get direction, confirmed direction from a two thirds majority to pursue placement of a clean ballot measure that did not include these directions. Weve been working under that direction. The cal train have not had a chance to review these conditions. We do not have direction from our board at cal train in terms of what our position is on these conditions. That is the honest answer about where we are. Maybe you could talk a bit from the c ta perspective. Certainly. Thank you. The drekor of sft c a. The los angele language that the supervisors introduced on tuesday, building upon the question. Im wonnerring abou wondering ag the conditions today given the august 7th deadline which is coming up. Could somebody speak to the logistic the other five poreds s and coming back and the likelihood of that occurring . The effect of today is one of the seven required approvals foreplaysing thapprovals approvr placing it it on the ballot in november. Mtas approval in the process. What remains are the dta and board of supervisors and the two san mat mateo agencies. Cal train would be the final in order to place the measure on the ballot. There can still be changes as long as theres the practicability to handle those changes. I believe its still possible. Were running out of time. These conditions have all the other boards acted to pass the resolution, would we have to go back and revisit their approvals. I can take that which is that the, this particular version has beenwas approved by the San Francisco board of supervisors earlier this week. San mateo county transportation district and board of supervisors approved the measure without the governance changes in may. Santa clara is set to act on this on august fourth. A demand for ridership a couple weeks ago in the context of our transportation recovery plan. Pushing out tele work based, are you able to share any of the projection nz terms of your ridership returning in terms of the bol a ballot in 2020 and 20. I can take a shot at that. We do have, i think its anybodys guess. What were doing is scenario planning at this point and trying to understand what the parameters might be for a spectrum of ridership rurp thatn given circumstances that might play out. The go pass program which is an annual pass program that drives a lot of ridership on the cal train program. Its very encouraging. Seventy one percent of former riders that would call themselves frequent cal train riders said they would expect to ride just as much or more when they can get back on the system. Thats an encouraging number. Similarly the majority of companies that are participating in the good pass program indicated that they anticipate bringing their employees back to work on their sites and campuses and not have gone a long term tele commute policy is also encouraging on how ridership may return to the cal train system. None of that may occur until they can go back to work, we dont know how long that would be. I think you covered it very effectively. I would add during that interim where we really in a latency period with much of the other transit operators around the region, our focus is to meet the needs of the riders, folks who depend on transit to make regional trips that cal train is uniquely positioned to serve. Anymore questions . I cant leave you out. As a matter of fact, i dont. Im a little bit too informed on this issue. Ill wait for a little later to give you some comments. With that why dont we open the floor to Public Comment. Madam secretary if you can open the phone lines. We can file questions after the callers. This is a reminder to the public. The phone number to call is 888 8086929. The access code is 9961164. Moderator do we have any callers on the line that wish to speak at the moment . Great. Wonderful. Good morning. This is peter, im one of the San Francisco riders. Im not entirely in support this this measure. The process that led us here today. I strongly urge you to support this measure. Cal train is an essential service. Its in desperate need of a funding source. As stewarts of mta directly, were in strong support of the measure today. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. This is cal train as an organization dedicated to Successful Organization and Stable Funding for a regionally integrated Transportation System that is accessible to all. We have been when this first came forward preparing to support this measure as covid lifts and people return to traveling, this has the risk of bringing crushing traffic to our road ways and having can you hear me . Yes, we can. Having people need to go buy cars who dont own cars today. Its an essential piece of our regions transportation net work. Weve been working four years to build the underlying groundwork for some equity measures and new policies that would be funded by this ballot measure. That would make cal train who is historically accessible im sorry your time is completed. Thank you so much for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Ive been advocating for changes in grchanc governance for eight. San mateo countyill give you an example, the [indiscernible]. There are some things in it that could be fixed. It talks about amening the joint towers agreement in a way that the joint towers agreement cannot be amended. A two thirds vote to amend the agreement. The agreement does not allow itself to be amended that way. It requires a vote from all three counties. It needs to be clear to voters and not needlesly muddle the issue with all the governancing at the last minute. Thank you. Next speaker, please. This is david. First of all, the agenda states that people will have two minutes but youve only been giving people one minute to speak. Can you clarify that so i know how long i have to speak. What does the agenda specifically say . On page two in the box when prompted callers will have two minutes. Thats correct. If people want to come back and give their second minute, they should be allowed to do so. I agree. Im a long term cal train supporter. Theres a lot going on here in money and governance an turf and such. I havent gotten into that. I wont go into that right now. My primary concern today is the noticing of the meeting. On tuesday the notice that was posted had the wrong date and said tuesday june 30th 2020. I saw that in the Late Afternoon and left a mess abl message boad secretary. And because of my call or somebody else noticed it, that was changed and corrected on wednesday. At the time when that was changed or corrected, that was less than seventy two hours prior to this meeting. In my opinion, there is a brown act and sun shine ordinance vi violation occurring by having this open. If you have this today, you open yourself up to a vailation and hand any tax pai payer or groupn issue on the tax because of this procedural problem. If you actually want to get this measure on the ballot, i strongly encourage you not act today. Renotice this meeting and take action at a different meeting with the proper date next week. Thank you. Any additional Public Commenters. Please be sure to give everyone two minutes. Thank you to the previous speaker for clarifying the amount of time to talk. As i had been saying. The friends of cal traib was cas preparing to strongly support this measure. We also support of the measure of cal train to achieve the long term goals of the Business Plan to increase ridership and have connectivity with the rest of the transit system. We do have some concerns with the current language and well be watching to see what the implications will be in terms of deciding what to do in terms of what are the legal risks of the problems in the language in terms of if there is something in the language that cannot be done. What does that mean in terms of legal suits and a ballot language that will be really easy to persuade voters to support. I urge you to move this forward so the process can continue and well be watching to see how these issues are dealt with in order to decide how to support the measure. Organize grass roots support to pass it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have three questions remaining. Theres two bridges. They are about to close the bridge and were going to have a new chavez station day. Let me just wrap up here. We have the exact same problems. Please vote on this unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have two questions remaining. Thank you, chair. Im taking the one minute. We just have to do this and get this passed Going Forward. I was bringing up the matters of new york with the decline of the sub way and Grand Central terminal. Its very difficult. As the city sub way goes, so does the city. Im asking you to pursue the uncomplicated solution. This is about giving the public the chance to vote on the most important decision for this railroad which is in the process of electrification. Its going to take some bold leadership for you to step out. Because really we have to have the lowest common denominat