Is that it, supervisor ronen. I remember the first meeting where trent came and we just were on the cusp of it and trent immediately pivoted. It was so crazy. It makes me sad to see this, but trent, i see you have 224 vacancies. I knew you would come to that. 224 vacancies and are those general fund vacancies . So, supervisor, none of our positions are 100 general funds. Either we charge them to a state or federal program and in some cases like a medicale would be federally funded. So because were the county designated Public Human Services agency, were able for every one of our employees, draw at least a portion of funding through federal and state sources. Its generally 40 issue, Nongeneral Fund for each position, yeah. And so its hard. When we say a hiring freeze, youre not hiring a medicale worker and even brings overhead. I think you understand. What i dont understand is that so many vacancies. Yeah, well, its a function of the hiring freeze, the modified hiring freeze, where we only hired somewhere in my notes 12 people between april first and august 11th and the normal rate of hiring would be way, way more than. And when i same normal attrition, its not as if its the same 160 vacancies throughout the year. It just represents someone resigns, retires or gets promoted and takes four to six months to fill that position and very often when you fill a position from hsa, youre filling somewhere else and so if you look at the vacancy number and pretend its static, it doesnt give you a real picture of whats going on, which is at any Big Organization with 2400 people, it takes time to hire and thats what youre seeing in a normal sort of salary, which is why and so, in the normal budget, we werent trying to fill a deficit, we would sort of estimate what is that average attrition, average turnover and its generally around seven. Five or eight . I think we say thank you for staying so late and if you for your service especially during this time and also, ingrid, too. Thank you to very much and well move on to another department and that is going to be mta. Oh, my god, mta, come on up. So welcome. The floor is yours let me bring up my presentation. And can you see that now or do i need to go to the full screen . Can you make it big . How is that . Yes, thats great. Ok. And so, good evening. Thank you for this opportunity to present our budget and the values that will guide it through the interrelated Public Health crisis we are now facing. The most powerful statement of any agency values is not its policies but its budget and when i started at the sfmta, i worked to clarify the values in order to implement the expansion of Services Planned by the mumii revival group. You haveyouwith covid, our value same and change emphasis in this budget, so, those, we must expand our community imminen coy to protect the health of our workforce and our customers. And we must understand the Critical Role mobility plays in supporting the entire citys economic recovery. And we must put equity first. We are keeping hundreds of positions vacant and shrinking through attrition over the next two years. As all of you know, covid has had a huge impact on muni service and it cut or Available Service hours by 30 to 40 and social distancing is cut each vehicles capacity by that twothirds. Meanwhile, travel demand patterns have changed dramatically and almost no demand exists now to the financial district. Instead, our riders are traveling to key institutions to neighborhood commercial districts and our riders are also overwhelmly people of color and lowincome households. We have had to completely rework the muni system in order to respond, limiting our Service Hours where they were most needed, where people have the least assets to basic services. Meanwhile, weve also reinvented all of our other services working with you. There are slow streets, share spaces and adding four new Customer Service centerser around the city. We have been guided by equity and established an Equity Branch in our Operation Center and working with district ten to add a new third street, 15 express serving bayview and hundreders point. Hunters point. please stand by wow, i dont think that the bell went off. Okay, colleagues, any comments or questions for our m. T. A. General manager . Oh, yes, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair fewer, and thank you director. And you and your agency have done extraordinary things over these last six months. I really want to note the recognition that i think that you received, and maybe you could talk a little bit more about it. But our response was compared favorably, your response favorably from the equity responses to the other transit agencies either around the United States or the world. And i think that is something that you should brag about a little more. Go ahead and brag. Thank you for the opportunity. So researchers at Mcgill University published a Peer Reviewed findings looking at how all of the larger transit operators in north america responded to the covid crisis. Their findings were that because sfmta shifted resources dr dramatically, include out of your district towards places like bayview were aware of that, direct director. Because of the way that we shifted resources we not only were one of the few agencies that advanced equity in declining Transit Service resources, but we were we did so in the biggest way of certainly any agency in north america, and potentially in the entire world. And i actually really want to thank all of you on the board of supervisors for accommodating that shift because that those shifts were painful for almost all of you. Thank you for that. You started by talking about the need for the agency to do more with less. But i want to thank you also for talking about your agencys need for more and for this board and you and your leadership and your agency to spend some time over the next year or so really thinking through how to begin to get m. T. A. Some of the additional Financial Resources that multiple task forces have identified you are needing on the order of billions of dollars over, you know, a number of years, whether it is 2030 or 2045. But that was you know, what we found six months ago, eight months ago when we were wrapping up the working group work, you know, we knew that there was a need to increase service and that we could not increase Service Without finding new revenue for the agency, not to mention, you know, the Capital Investments that need to get made going. So im very committed to working with you on that and look forward to coming up with a package of additional revenue for the m. T. A. Over the next couple years. I think that my colleagues are as well. And it was im glad that we put the 8 sales tax for caltrain on the ballot. It also feels like we should be putting revenue on the ballot for our own m. T. A. And then my last point is small but important, i think, which is, you know, one of the things that you have done incredibly successfully during this time has been to allow this to be reimagine how to use the rightofway for things like closed streets and shared spaces. The shared Spaces Program i think has been incredibly successful for those who have been able to take advantage of it and it has provided a lifeline to businesses that would not otherwise have a chance at survival during this difficult time. It is also an underresourced program that is not functioningopt male becausfuncte the funding to respond promptly, you know, to people when problems arise, to get applications processed quickly, just to do the things that you need the staff to do. And im wondering if you could talk a little bit about what this is a short term problem, but it is financial, you know, what it would take to kind of address some of those financial needs for that, for that particular initiative . So for safe streets were trying to do several things simultaneously in order to advance that program. One is to make it a lot more efficient. And last week we made a number of decisions on all five departments that are involved in making shared spaces move forward. So were hopeful that we can get a lot more efficient. That said, we definitely have a need for more people who are still engaged with Small Businesses and people who are having creative engineering problem solvers. And we have a limitation and talent in that area, and we have only so many people. Theyre great. And we need more. We could potentially bring on outside support for a time, and i am loathe to do that because i want to make sure that were activating our current staff first. We could also bring on outside consultants in order to help with slow streets in order to move people from the slow Streets Program to the shared Spaces Program. So theres some things that we could do to help with staffing. I think that we also very much need simply Financial Resources in order to remove some of the obstacles that Small Businesses face, particularly in our lower income neighborhoods. So, for example, the cost of acquiring barricades or other materials, in order to close off streets or to protect shared spaces in a parking lane, thats a significant obstacle for the businesses that are already struggling. We would love to have a Grant Program that is directed at equity neighborhoods in order to be do that. Wed love to have a Grant Program that offers design services, that Small Businesses could have the same kind of creative approach to shared spaces as some of our, you know, the better situated businesses. In order to attract more customers. Yeah, and then theres, you know, theres a list of things on my wish list they could certainly provide you. And given how much we are cutting everywhere at the sfmta, we are struggling to allocate our cash for that, for our program. Supervisor mandelman i know, cha chair fewer, i know tt youre not looking for ways to spend money on the departments when they are supposed to be extracting money from the department. But i do think that this board and the mayor has come up with a lot of creative ways to spend money over the last several months to try to to try to help out with the economic catastrophe thats going on around us. I think that these investments are the kind that we are talking about are relatively small. But it could be meaningful in allowing some businesses that might not be otherwise able to participate in shared spaces to do that and to actually profit those applications in a timely manner. So, thank you, director tumlin. Chair fewer and i think that the linguistic ability and the cultural ability to talk to some of the Small Business owners that are maybe, you know, not necessarily English Speaking that feel isolated already, that wouldnt really buy in, i feel that cultural sort of, you know, kind of connectivity, really helps to shepherd them in to think differently. President yee, did i see you raising your hand and i see supervisor ronen also . President yee yes, thank you, director tumlin, for your presentation and all of the work that you have been doing to make things to keep our city moving as well as we can. And even thinking outside of the boxes, like, creating new ideas once we get out of the pandemic situation. So, you know, as you know, you had to sit down with a bunch of lines and quite a few, actually, and kept the main ones that would have the volume to support to keep it going and so forth. Im glad that some of the lines came back into my district because pretty much indiscernible is running in the district. And so the question that i really have is, like, once you get over the hump, how many lines youre bringing back in the next few months, if any . And then what is going to determine your ability to to bring back other lines . Would it be a sense that maybe the ridership is going to come back to normal for those lines . Or what is it . I mean, you know, as, you know, im trying to see the couple more lines, going up into the mountains or the hills, so that people could actually get out. Otherwise youre forcing people to just buy cars. Also there are really only two factors that are guiding the decisionmaking about what brings them back. The first most important is equity. And the second is funding. The new outside funding, we are not expecting to be able to do any substantial Service Improvements over the next two years beyond our august Service Improvements. It is not ridership that is driving our decisionmaking from a revenue perspective, it is ridership that is driving our decisionmaking because we have to allocate service in order to accommodate social distancing on our vehicles. Or, otherwise, we believe that hundreds of essential workers are left behind. We are already every day leaving hundreds of essential workers behind at the curb because our current buses dont offer enough capacity. That is really what is driving our allocation decisions, including the changes that we are making on the subway. We simply cannot possibly run cars and trains at the subway while having social distance. Literally for some of the lines in your district, those are fairly low ridership lines and serve communities where people do have more mobility choices. They can afford to buy cars. Thats going to be a Lasting Impact and a lasting tragedy of covid is that we will lose transit riders to driving because we cannot possibly afford to provide another service that would keep them from choosing to drive. The covid crisis has hit the sfmta and its budget harder and faster probably than any other agency. Our key sources of revenue are down from 75 to 95 . President yee yeah, i understand the choices that you have to make and im just curious what its going to take to bring back some of the services . And its its i also want to not push back, but shed some light into peoples sort of image or attitude about who lives where and not taking into consideration people live with inlaws like, i dont know, if they have many more resources than other people somewhere else. So i think that we have to be careful of stereotyping our districts. Absolutely. Its one of the reasons why we did invent the essential trip card and why were planning to expand it. We know that there are lowincome people and people with disabilities, older adults, scattered in every neighborhood in San Francisco. And we especially dont want to leave those people behind. One of the things that were working on now is trying to expand access to essential trip card and to expand the benefits, in order to concentrate on the neighborhoods that we know we have left behind. Were failing to serve them. Its really painful to all of white house realluswho love pub. If the balance of power shifts in november in the senate, the next federal stimulus bill that is pending in the house would potentially go a long ways to being able to close our budget gap and to be able to restore more service. Absent that or other outside funding though, we are highly vulnerable at the sfmta. President yee yeah, no, once again i know that you have your hands tied on this. And, you know, i also want to make sure that we dont assume a lot of things and just ignore, you know, certain areas in San Francisco. And, by the way, the transit lines that are going to go by City College Even now is pretty good. I mean, you know, its like i see the buses that are going through there are still running. And so i really appreciate that, especially if school ever starts opening up for classes, that serving that population seems to be pretty well taken care of, with the 29 coming back and so forth. And the 43 also. Thats right. In fact, all of the transit lines serving city college will be restored in the august Service Improvements as part of our commitment to equity. City college is nominally important. Its actually more important now than it has been in decades as part of our economic recovery. President yee yeah, and that doesnt go unnoticed by me. I walk around there all the time. Thank you. Chair fewer supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen yes, thank you, thank you, director tumlin. A quick project, what projects are left in the 186 million Capital Budget . Oh, that is a good question. I probably need to phone a friend, jo jonathan would be abe to tell you exactly what those projects are. Good evening, supervisors. Supervisor ronen hi, jonathan. So the 186 million, you know, just to remind the members of the board of supervisors so the m. T. A. s fiveyear Capital Improvement project is more around 3 billion. Our normal Capital Budget in any fiscal year is around 500 million to 600 million. So that component of funding is the funding that moves to the city. So most of it is development and taxis that come in, like the p. S. F. , the transportation and sustainability fee, the proposition b, the population general fund set aside 25 of that as required to go to capital. Director tumlin noted that were taking the transit and shifting a huge amount of that over to operations to try to balance our operating budget. And the remainder of that is as director tumlin noted, were using a significant portion of our fund balance that we have over our 10 reserve. Thats to backfill the losses that were seeing in impactees, and keeping some of our larger projects whole. So that covers 95 of that amount. There is one other project that is funded as part of that and thats the replacement of our parking meters across the city. And theyre at the end of their useful life so its time for us to replace them. Since that is an enterprise function of the m. T. A. , we dont have a federal or sales tax force and we need to use our operating funds to complete that project. Supervisor ronen