You have chair borden how many . You have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion . Secretary boomer, please call roll . Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Madame chair, the minutes are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. Chair borden as many of you have learned, our heart was broken this weekend with the untimely passing of one of our own. Antonio, a muni operator with the Transportation Agency for 19 years, was known for being deeply committed to his job and well known by the people on his buses and in many communities. He was born and raised in the Richmond District and leaves behind wife jennifer, three children and grandchildren. Well have this meeting adjourned in his memory, but im devastated. I want to thank his family to loaning him to us. He did die in service. If we could just take a moment of silence. [moment of silence observed] chair borden thank you. With that, i just, again, well i adjourn the meeting in his memory. I want to thank the Transit Workers Union who was with the family on saturday when this happened. It was wonderful he was able to be with them directly. And thank the mayor who also reached out directly to the family. Its important we support our operators and their families in these times. I just really wanted to note that, because i think its important that we are a family at sfmta and were part of a larger city family. I that i people have i think that people have to remember that. Our people are working hard during this pandemic to be there for all san franciscans and lets treat each other with kindness being the family we are. With that, ill read my fun covid19 messages i have to read. Due to the covid19 health emergency, this meeting is being held virtually with all members and staff participating via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the board of directors, staff and members of the public. In our published notice for the meeting and on the web page, we ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board or leaving a voice mail message. Thank you for honoring our request. I will remind the public, if you send the comments on the day of the board meetings, its less likely weve seen them. We continue to urge the public to write the board or call us at 415 6464470 in advance. Later, youll get a number for calling in now. It may not be as seamless as we would like it to be. There may be gaps and silence. Please know were doing our very best and ask for your patience and understanding. If we lose the phone connection during the meeting, we will pause the meeting until the connection has been reestablished. I want to thank everyone making this happen. There is a lot of people behind the scenes. If you could see, there are 20 people involved in making these meetings happen. Secretary boomer . Thank you, madame chair. Members of the public, this meeting is televised by sf tv. For those of you watching the live stream, there may be a time lag between the actual meeting and what members of the public are seeing on gov sfgovtv. If youre watching sfgovtv and you wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is being called. For members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on items on the agenda, the phone number to use is 18888086929. The access code is 9961164. Please make sure that you are in a quiet location, that you turn off t. V. , radio, or if youre live streaming, that you mute the sound. This will reduce reverberation to the board so the board can hear you. When youre on the phone line, at the appropriate time, the chair will ask for the phone lines to be opened. If you wish to comment on a particular item, you will be prompted to press 10. This will add you to the speaker line. The prompt will say that callers are he wanting the question and entering the question and answer time, but this is the Public Comment period. Youll be queued up in the order you pressed 10. There will be an automated voice that will tell you when its your turn to speak. When your microphone has been unmuted, youll hear us to ask you to state your name and make your comments. Ill start your two minutes when you begin talking. Ill say 30 seconds when you have 30 seconds remaining. When the time is up, well thank you and ask for the next caller. At that point, the moderators will put the speaker back on mute. Ill repeat the instructions how to make Public Comment again, as im aware some may join the meeting late and have not heard the information. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. Madame chair and director chair borden sorry. Director eaken, i know you had a comment. Ill entertain everybody else after. Vice chair eaken thank you, chair borden. I just wanted to join chair borden in welcoming director lai to the sfmta board. Were thrilled to have you here. I just wanted to come back to a scene that i heard a voice pretty strongly by the public during the last meeting which was around vision zero and the need for a workshop to examine how were going to get on track to the date weve committed to. So the staff is working toward that. Just wanted to resurface that conversation because there were so many heartbreaking stories shared last meeting. Make sure were moving to address the call we heard from the public. Thank you. Other directors, any other items of new or Unfinished Business . Wonderful, director lai, not to put you on the spot. Did you want to say anything . Its your first meeting. Director lai thank you, chair borden. Ill keep this really short. Thank you for the warm welcome. I look forward to tackling the tough challenges we have ahead. And really looking forward to working with the board as well as the community. Thanks. Chair borden with that, secretary, we can move on. Item 7, directors report. Good afternoon. Director eaken, as you requested, our staff is preparing a deep dive into vision zero. So im not covering that in this report as were preparing for an additional report. Im also not going to be covering the rail system restart because that is item 12 on your agenda, and transit director will be providing a deep dive on that topic in this meeting. Let me bring up my screen. Instead, we can talk a little bit about updates to slow streets and to shared spaces as well as our efforts on bus system expansion. Can you all see my screen now . Yes, we can. Great. So as you know, we brought this map forward to you at our last meeting. Our paint and sign traps have been very busy over the last six months and are gearing up for implementation of the next round of slow streets implementation. Well be working on clay and pacific in Pacific Heights creating a strong east west corridor in the northern parts of the city. Bernal heights and starting to piece together a network. More importantly, were also understanding that the interim materials weve put in place on the existing slow Street Network are very interim. Weve been grateful to residents in several of our slowstreet corridors who are working hard to keep our signs upright, to keep the sandbags filled with sand, to address the levels of vandalism were seeing on our products out there. But in the meantime, were working towards using slightly more permanent materials, specifically, epoxy posts. These will still be very temporary, but a little harder to move or damage. And, therefore, we hope more resilient. And hopefully reduce the amount of time were spending keeping signs in place so we can, instead, expand the slow Street Network. Were also working on better signage to help slow streets residents recognize that you are welcome to drive on this block in order to get to a destination on the block or to get to a business on the block. Some of the signage has been a little unclear weve heard. The other big news, with the reopening of many news businesses starting yesterday, weve gotten a huge increase in request for shared spaces. Staff are working very hard, both at the mta as well as d. P. W. And the Planning Department, the Mayors Office of economic workforce and development, and of course, the Fire Department, in order to process fees requests for curbside within 72 hours and mostly within two weeks for more substantial requests. We have approved over a thousand to date. And will likely double that number in the coming weeks as more businesses reopen. And were getting all kind of creativity out there on the streets, including requests for entire lane closures like this in north beach, to entire street corridors like weve seen on grant in chinatown. Or along 18th street in the castro. And were expecting to get more full block street closures in the coming weeks. Weve approved 14 of them. And some of those have been postponed as a result of the air quality, but were expecting several to be re opening in the coming months. The other thing, of course, that we did a week ago is made, not just changes to the rail system, which julie will be talking about later in this presentation, but substantial improvements to the bus system. Thanks in part to more stable availability of operators, but also very much thanks to the hiring that we have done for car cleaners. The fact that weve been able to expand car cleaning and the efficiency of the cleaning has significantly increased the availability of buses which enabled us to put more operators to work, which enabled us to expand services to critical corridors throughout San Francisco. Some of the most notable new lines weve been able to put back in place is the 67 bernal, serving not only the heights, but lowincome housing projects on the south slope of bernal. Very important place to serve. About half of the 37 lines serving the fairly high density apartments east of twin peaks. We were able to fully complete the full route of the seven along haight street. We extended the 44. We were able to restore half of the 48 between west portal to dog patch. And we were able to solve multiple problems in chinatown but reestablishing the 45 to serve union street that helped solve the congestion along stockton street, but extension of the 30 stockton bus to the presidio allowed us to run buses through client serving chinatown. The presidio solved multiple problems for us. It allows for better capacity in chinatown. It allows us to provide a proper terminus to buses while reducing negative impacts on the district. And very importantly, it allows residents in two of the densest parts of San Francisco, chinatown and south of market, also neighborhoods that have the least access to public open space, to have direct access to a national park. So were very pleased with that extension and very happy to have done that in partnership with the presidio trust. And then finally, we made another dozen improvements on a variety of lines that were experiencing crowding in order to allow us to reduce the number of essential workers that are left behind at the curb every day as a result of social distancing. And that is the end of my report. Chair borden wonderful. Directors, any question for director tumlin . Start preparing the moderator to open the line for Public Comment. Direct director . Director heminger yes, madame chair. Why dont we take the Public Comment. Im sorry about that, director. Go made. Ahead. Can you hear me now . Yes, we can. So i had comments on the minutes and i called in quickly and announced myself and was not called on. I dont believe that there is no crawl on the screen with the phone number to call and that was not announced prior to taking action on the minutes. So can we go back to the minutes, rescind the vote and take my Public Comment on the minutes before we get to the directors report . Let me have the attorney clarify. We did ask for Public Comment. I dont know if and we opened the line. It said there were no callers. So im uncertain with you the meeting but the meeting had not broadcast on sfgovtv and there is still no crawl on the screen with the information and number. Do you know at which point, the meeting, that you started to see the meeting visible . It was about its usually about 40, 45 seconds after the live phone voice audio. Chair borden all right. We actually im sorry, directors. City attorney, susan cleveland. Its up to, the meeting is under way, but if you would like to take the Public Comment on the minutes and revote on the minutes, you could do that. Its not legally required. I would suggest there is a delay in moving forward, that you allow a couple of seconds before you move on to the next item. Im not sure if were still experiencing that delay. Perhaps the secretary could speak to that. Chair borden secretary boomer, do you know if were experiencing a delay so we could pause a little more . Im not aware. I know members of the public may experience a delay under communications and that has to do with their personal band width capacity. There was a significant well, significant there was a certain period of time between the time you called the meeting to order following the roll call before we got to the approval of the minutes, so i couldnt speak to what happened here. Chair borden okay. Go ahead and make your comments on the minutes. Okay. In the meantime, there is now a crawl across the screen with the phone number and the access information. So thats helpful. So on the minutes from august 18, under item 7, directors report, there are two paragraphs about director tumlin making presentation and chair borden asking staff about vision zero. There is no captioning of director hemingers comments about having more openness and posting information in advance. I spoke to that in my Public Comment on page 4, so i would suggest and encourage you to add a line about director heminger asked information be provided in advance of the meeting. Im not going to get into the specific edits about how things are written here, but i would say on page 6, under Public Comment, i noted that 30 seconds the agency should have a protocol to recognize passings. Thats a plural and not a possessive. So the apostrophe should be removed there, otherwise, i think im okay with the draft minutes. Do you want to take that and then how do you want to handle my separate comment on the directors report today . Chair borden well take that actually, why dont we go ahead and take that under consideration and then maybe we can go back to revisiting the minutes to make those edits and then i dont know if director heminger has anything to add specifically to what has not been represented. Thank you for your comment. I think let me make sure no additional Public Commenters on the directors report, since thats initially what we were discussing. Thats fine. Ill hold my comments on todays directors report. Chair borden okay. So then all right. So any other Public Commenters on the directors report, well go back to the minutes momentarily, but this is specifically a time for people to comment on what director tumlin just specifically talked about, which was related to slow streets primarily. Moderator, are there any callers on the line . You have four questions remaining. Chair borden okay. Go ahead. Hi. Im actually calling in about the extension of 30 express. If you could give us your name, that would be great. Great. My name is joe ferraro, 25 year resident of the marina district, a frequent rider of the 30 and 30 express. I had some strong concerns about the 30 stockton extension. Summarized as its unsafe. Its unnecessary. And i think its bad government. And let me explain those in a little more detail. I know i only have a couple of minutes here. In terms of unsafe, the street is very narrow, so putting buses on a street where there are is retirees and young kids doesnt make sense. The route has multiturns where theyre not necessary and thats going to lead to delays in traffic, additional policing and potential problems. There is a threeton restriction for commercial vehicles on the boulevard. I know that doesnt apply to muni vehicles, but that threeton weight limit is there for a reason. Weve been told its anecdotal. I dont have evidence of this, but weve been told that the water barrier between the marina and the land is unsafe and has not been reinforced. And consequently running highweight vehicles around the boulevard is going to lead to problems with the sea wall there. Thats what i mean by unsafe. Unnecessary, i would say again, as im a frequent rider of the 30, it intersects with multiple lines that currently access the presidio. It might have been delayed during covid, but the intersection with 28 and the 43 at multiple locations. And what i encourage you to do is rethink why you want to connect the 32 to the presidio rather than just using the 28 and the 43 that are already connecting in there, and use that. And lastly, in terms of good government, i shouldnt say bad government, i hope were all trying to do the same thing [bell ringing] get the most out of our government. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have three questions remaining. Yes, hi. This is toronto. The delay on the watching on screen, the line across the Public Comment dialin was not on there until halfway through the directors report, so there is a problem there. I want to say about the director report regarding slow streets. It would be great if there is somehow there was Public Notice given to the email list so people could know that theyre going to be think being these slow streets, rather than finding out just through the directors report, so there is ability to do more Public Comment. There is a problem with a lot of the slow streets. You dont find out until youve already turned into it and found out its a slow street. There is bad signage going on. To say that lake and page street seem to work well, but some of the other eastwest streets are a problem. Such as the numbered streets. Because there is no rhyme or reason to them. And i think the ones hes considering for pacific or clay, clay is a very valuable street for cab drivers to get across town in some places due to its oneway aspect. So im concerned there has to be better Public No