Is there any Public Comment on the Meeting Minutes . This moderator can open the phone line. Are there abe any modifications . Moderators do we have Public Commenters . Hot for a moment, please. Hold for a moment, please. No problem. If members of the public wish to address the board on the comment on the minutes, if you could please dial 18888086929 the access code is 9961164 and then dial 10. Moderator, are we opening the phone line again for Public Comment on the minutes . With that well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion for the minutes . So moved. All in favor . Madame chair with the understanding this is on all minutes. [roll call]. The minutes of all three meetings are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. To ensure the safety of the board of directors, sfmta and members of the public on the web page we ask the public to participate remotely by wright writing to the board or leaving the comment. We appreciate the comments. Thank you for honoring our request. We continue to urge the public to write the board at sfmta board at sfgov. Tv in advance of the day of the meeting. While the Technology Allows us to have the meetings it may not be as seamless as wed like it to be. There may be gaps, strange noises and know were doing our best we can and ask for your patience and understanding. If we lose a phone connection well pause until the connection has been reestablished. I want to thank the village of those involved in making these meetings possible and with that ill turn it over to our board secretary. Thank you, madame chair. For members of the public the meeting is being televised by sfgov. Tv. For those watching be aware theres a time lag between the actual meeting and what members of the public are seeing. Too if youre watching via sfgov. Tv and wish to comment on an item, call the phone line when the item is called. The phone line and access code is on our printed agenda. If you do wish to make Public Comment on an item the number is 18888086929 the access code is 9961164. Please make sure youre in a quiet location and turn off tvs or radio and if youre live streaming, mute the sound. This will reduce reverberation so the board can hear you. At the appropriate time theyll open the phone line and youll be prompted to press 10 to add to the speaker line. The autoprompt will say its question and answer time but its the Public Comment and youll be queued up. Youll be notified when it is your turn to speak. When your microphone has been unmuted and you hear the automated voice, give us your name and begin the comment session. Ill start your two minutes when you begin talking. I will give you a 30second warning when have you 30 seconds remaining and when your time is up ill say thank you, next caller please. At that point the nod rater will put the speaker back on mute. Ill make the announcement again. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinish the business by Board Members. Clerk Board Members. Madame chair, ive had one and ive been on a year and dont have much air time to our response act to the park authority. Responsibilities to the parking authority. Thats a large inventory of assets that ought to be of interest to us for a couple rebounds, one on the financial side and revenue collection and on the other side the fact theyre real estate assets and there are always other things you can do with arrest besides what youre with real estate besides what youre doing with it now and would like a top to bottom briefing on that area of our responsibilities in the next several months. Thank you, directors. Do we agree it sounds like a great idea . Wonderful. One other item i understand theres a ballot measure that deals with shared space and extending the time period. It deals with extending all the things currently existing for covid for a period of i think three years. Id like to put a question to staff when theyd hear about that and the specific impact on our agency in terms of the work we need to do with the program and parking as well all those sort of things. Second, i would love to in the future schedule the meeting with the Small Business commission. I think its really important to Work Together on these issues and i think itd be a great opportunity to to have a special joint hearing on all the issues and how we can generate revenue whether its parking. The final item ill ask a question maybe your directors report will let us know but it seems the mission bus line seems more crowded of late and dont know if were seeing an uptick in the numbers but i look forward to that in your directors report. With that i guess were ready to move on to the next item unless directors have more fnew or Unfinished Business. It may seem like a small point but i think we can look at items big and small during these meetings. I was made aware of someone almost being hit at the Traffic Circle and it could have been serious. Idlike to reflect on Traffic Circles and their purpose as corridors. To me it distinctly feels like a pedestriansafety tradeoff to have an uncontrolled intersection. I walk around there and anecdotally see a lot of drivers confused and near misses. Id like to hear staffs reflection on what you thought would be an improvement but there may be a tradeoff and how weve been monitoring. I know one was yanked out because of Community Opposition but how that has been going in our view and whether we feel the tradeoff is worthwhile. Director thank you, director eaken. If not well move on and well open it up to Public Comment in case they have comments on new and Unfinished Business items. Open the phone line for us. This is the Public Comment on items that were addressed by Board Members only. Is there Public Comment on items raised under new and Unfinished Business by Board Members . If you can dial 10 now. First caller please. Caller this is bob planthold. Im not sure what was addressed. I just got back. I wanted to talk about the j church improvements. That was not addressed by a member of the board and that will come up under the directors report. Caller then put me back in the directors queue, please. Clerk next speaker, please. Caller this is haden miller. Regarding the Traffic Circle along mcallister i dont think they improve the muni service either because often times when theyre running the busses on the r r 5 line theyll r5 line theyll scrape the Traffic Circle or curb. The busses cant make that turn even at a slow speed and would be more effective to have a signalized intersection or go back to a fourway stop sign because its not safe for pedestrians or the bicyclists and not improving the Transit Service so its failing at its goals. I agree. I think it should be removed. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. This is only on topics addressed by new and Unfinished Business by Board Members. Caller thank you chair borden and my pronounce our, she and her. Regarding the two items in hearing about Traffic Circles im not against Traffic Circles but i certainly think calming measures need to be instituted around Traffic Circles and ive probably been through this one particular one mentioned but theres certainly very common Traffic Circles are all over new jersey and theres some in nevada as well. So i think a way to slow traffic down using established traffic calming measures is an order and probably a lot easier than trying to demolish and rebuild an intersection. And concerning parking, i think we do have to have conversations about parking because the street gate adds up hundreds and hundreds of acres. I think we should talk about that more. And see how we can monetize that and use that as a congestion management tool. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, this is derek toronto. Im going address the shared spaces. Well talk more about on items under the agenda. The shared spaces mean youre also going to be taking taxi vans. We still dont have a new taxi stand and im going to file a claim for damages for the fact that ive lost income as a result of taking away our cab stands in the castro. I know other businesses deserve to thrive but does that mean giving more ammunition to the credit union for the fact youre ruining the taxi business . So i want to say theres no place to park during the peak time hours now in the castro or to stage and so the issue is does shared space mean ruining another business. Thank you. Clerk thank you, mr. Toronto. Next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon, david bil bil bi bilpoy i want to address the Traffic Circle on mcallister. I didnt think it was a good idea to begin with and would be great idea to eliminate it and i look ward to the board look forward to the board considering na in the future. Clerk thank you. Moderator are there additional callers . Well close Public Comment. Madame chair moving it on the directors report. Director tomlin. Chair borden, members of the board. Im jeff tomlin director of transportation. Theres been a lot going on the last couple weeks. My directors report is rather long. Well be covering budget, vision zero and the Transit Service changes maintained on saturday including some Additional Details we worked through. So let me share my screen. Can you see my screen . Director yes. Great. So last week we presented our budget to the of supervisors august 13 and received good feedback from them. Largely because of the ways in which we have used our values in order to deal with these catastrophic times. As you know because ive stated it repeatedly, our values are best found not in our policies but in our budget and back in december when i first arrived i worked to clarify the agencys values in order to deal with peak boom economy and figure out how best to improvement the reliability of the working group. Were in a different space now and values become even more important when youre having to make deep and painful cuts to your system. While covid hasnt changed our values it change the emphasis so the safe Transportation System needs to protect the health of our workforce and passengers. In additional to supporting Strong Economy we become central to part of an economic recovery for San Francisco which cant happ happen without mobility. We need to put equity first particularly at a time when San Francisco people have been impacted by health and economy. That means not only directing Service Hours and resources where theyre needed most but make sure we treat each other well because in order to get through the next two years we have to do more with less. That requires tapping the intelligence, creativity, collaboration and lived experience of every Single Member of the sfmta Team Including those who have been made to feel diminished in the past. When the pandemic first hit back in march we knew we needed to cut costs in order to avoid layoffs. We slashed external contracts, purchase orders and work orders and cut overtime significantly and all that together has saved us already about 20 million. We were also in the strange position of even back when i first arrived having hundreds of funded vacant positions. In many ways it has saved us here at the sfmta. We will hopefully not have to do layoffs in the next two years because we kind of already did them through not hiring and continue to do that shrinking everything we do through attrition. Were also fortunate we have an older workforce and many will retire as a matter of how things work over the next two years. These things will get us through but it also means we are going to have to effectively cut every single thing we do or get more efficient. So weve been working at that. As you know, we had a huge loss in muni Service Hours back in april. We had lost 40 of our total muni Service Hours to be a 30 loss and all of our busses are cut in that capacity by twothirds as a result of social distancing. Meanwhile, travel patterns have changed dramatically. We have seen geography of essential workers with little transit demand to the financial district but so remarkably high levels of demand to essential institutions and neighborhood commercial districts. Our riders are overwhelmingly people of color from lowincome households and people dealing with homelessness. We had to reorient our Service Goals around the needs of our essential workers delivering every Available Service hour we can where it is needed the most and that is meant that we had to completely rebuild the entire muni system twice now, reorienting service to the neighborhoods that need it the most and to the corridors that need it the most. Weve also reinvented dozens of other programs and focussed a lot of our efforts on achieving our equity goals. As you know we worked with you and the board of supervisors to not have our standard fare increase which means were making a lot less money off fares and that continues to hurt our bottom line. We launch the essential program and waived taxi fees and lowered meter rates and launch the shared Spaces Program and revamped our tow policy and have completely invented entirely new approaches to cleaning our vehicles and facilities. Weve also created entirely new Equity Branch with the Department Operation center focussing on Equity Analytics including a new tool using to evaluate Service Changes and investing in a new Training Workshop for our staff and management staff and people who work on the front line. Were changing our approach to Fare Enforcement and shifting more towards an ambassador model. Despite the fact were doing very little new hiring were continuing to create an office of Racial Equity and inclusion and addressing a whole host of problems within our Human Resources approach to achieve better outcomes. All that said, we started the budget at the peak of a boon economy with a structural deficit. That has now grown to 200 million. As you know our costs are driven overwhelmingly by labor and the labor costs rise with the cost of living because we are committed to providing our staff with a living wage. Our revenues in the best of times however, at best rise with inflation and many of them like our parking revenues are in decline. This is why even back in january at the peak of a boon economy we had a substantial and growing structural deficit. So this year our deficit is now 200 million. Were going fill that with onetime funds including the federal cares funding shown in purple and shifting a variety from capital to operations shown in orange. The orange bar there is structur structural deferred maintenance. Were take money from Capital Projects meant in order to get us out of the structural deferred maintenance problems we created for ourselves back in 2008 and were creating new deferred maintenance problems for ourselves in order to avoid layoffs. As you know, the cares funding runs out this december after which point we start gutting our reserves to get us to fiscal year 22. We have no path, currently, in order to be able to make it into fiscal year 2023. So our budget numbers for the next two years effectively stay flat at 1. 2 billion though our expenses are rising and our savings are largely a result of contracting and staff largely through attrition. So were not having a fixed hiring freeze because there are many missioncritical positions we cannot afford to lose and still be able to deliver service and theres also positions like car cleaners we have to expand in order to deal with the needs of covid. We also want to make sure you all are aware and are ready to invest with us over the next 18 months. That in order to get to 2023 we have to have new on going stable operating funds. Happily this is a problem weve known about for a decade and the work in the transportation 2035 and 2045 project have laid out many of the options available to us. We need to get on to the june 2022 ballot with some or all of these and well need to work with all of you, the board of supervisors and the mayor in order to get there. We are also very carefully watching the november elections where theres the opportunity to shift the balance of power in the senate in which case theres the possibility of additional federal funding that could make a world of difference. Theres also prop 15 the property tax measure. We still dont have the numbers of what exactly what that would mean to the sfmta but it would be a substantial increase in operating funds we would get from the general fund. So that was the summary of where we took our budget to the board of supervisors last week. Were continuing to make endless adjustments because the news keeps changing. So a lot of our work on the budget Going Forward the coming two years will be a lot of sce