Director brinkman here. Vice chair eaken present. Director heminger present. Director lai present. Madame chair, direct ors, you have a quorum. Were legally required to put this on the agenda. Were using sound producing devices. Approval of the minutes of the september 1, 2020 regular meeting. Directors, any amendments to the minutes before we open up for Public Comment . Seeing none, moderator, can you let us know if there is anyone on the line for Public Comment on the september 1, regular meeting minutes. Staff is opening the line. You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden with that, we will close Public Comment. Motion to approve . A second . Ill second. Great, secretary boomer, can you call the roll. Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Sfgovtv has the phone number scrolling at the bottom of their screen. 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I will give you a 30second warning when you have 30 seconds remaining and when your time is up, ill say thank you, or the chair will say thank you and at that point, the moderator will put the speaker back on mute. I will repeat the instructions on Public Comment. Directors, in addition, know that staff with regard to item 11 today with regard to Church Street, staff wishes to conduct additional Stakeholder Engagement, so the board will only hear the item. The board is not being asked to take action today. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. Chair borden any items you would like to address at this moment . Seeing none, next item. Item 7, directors report. J. Tumlin thank you. Were going to cover vision zero, talk about the tenderloin, the transportation Recovery Plan and the ongoing work with Transit Service recovery. So we did have one fatality on september 7 in the Richmond District, motorcyclist and vehicle interaction. As a result, the Rapid Response team is in the process of installing an additional stop sign. As you know, the tenderloin has been a topic near and dear to my heart since the very beginning of this. And let me share my screen. We have within working hard at prioritizing street work in the tenderloin. Here we are. In fact, weve made substantial progress. As i described before, street changes in the tenderloin are not limited by the transportation system. We at the sfmta know that we have to prioritize the most vulnerable users and the tenderloin has the highest concentration of vulnerable citizens. The tenderloin also has the most intense Emergency Response need. Both for police, but especially for the Fire Department. And so we have had to work collaboratively with the Fire Department to achieve the goals of the slow streets program, while ensuring rapid Emergency Response access to every single building. Staff has been phenomenally creative and as a results of the intense staff work, the communitybased organizations in the tenderloin, essential partners with us, weve been able to either implement or get approved or get close to approval, at least some form of street intervention aimed at tenderloin residents that touches nearly every single block in the neighborhood. So lets provide a brief summary of that work that includes partnering with livable city, in order to do play street events. They have their kickoff on turk street on september 5th. And it was a phenomenal success. There are a lot of kids in small apartments in the tenderloin, while parks are open in other parts of the city, theyre not open in the tenderloin. By partnering with them, weve been able to open up streets for programmed play. It allows the more monitoring of the program to allow for not only safe behavior and social distancing for the events, but it also, because it is managed, allows us to very quickly restore access to Emergency Services in a way that permanent infrastructure that closed off the streets would prevent. And so were hoping to, assuming the air quality improves, be able to continue these programs weekly in the tenderloin and we can expand them, but only if our communitybased organizations can find additional resources. Im personally working at trying to find some assistance from philanthropy committees to provide additional capacity for our communitybased organizations so they can create these very, very important events in the neighborhood that needs it the most. Weve been busy rearranging parking and putting krail in order to effectively widen sidewalks. As you know, its many hundreds of millions of dollars to physically widen sidewalks in the tenderloin because of the subsidewalk basements, so weve been trying to use simple materials to figure out where can we create more space for people to walk and finding new locations for people who have been living in tents on the sidewalks in the tenderloin in order to sleep. Were continuing these efforts. Continuing efforts on turk street. Were getting review, from Emergency Services on additional play street and shared street proposals. And were working on new quick builds on levin worth and golden gate. While it took us longer to get in gear on the tenderloin, the intense amount of staff work from many agencies and our Community Partners have allowed us to invent an entirely new toolbox of solutions that work for the unique considerations in the tenderloin. Im very proud of all of that work. Next up is the transportation Recovery Plan. As you know, from the very beginning, we have been trying to take advantage of the sfmtas extraordinary array of data in order to use data in our decisionmaking. And in particular, to make adjustments and do creative new things with our data in order to use data to advance equity. From the beginning weve also had a series of covid related dash boards. We just today dramatically expanded the amount of data that we are pushing out to the public. So i would encourage all of you, as well as any members of the public who are listening, to go to sfmta. Com trp. Thats trp like transportation Recovery Plan. In order to look at the data were showing. In fact, let me just because im also proud of this staff work, we can actually show this. Sorry. Lets go here. Lets go here. Can you see my screen . Yes, you need to close some windows. J. Tumlin which windows . Im making a joke, you have so many open. J. Tumlin yeah, yeah, i know [laughter]. Sfmta. Com trp we have dash boards according to goals, health and safety, equity, sustainability and infrastructure and mobility. In each of these tabs, there is a broad and growing array of data that we are pushing out to the public, including for example, for objective one, were counting the amount of effort that were putting into mask distribution, physical distancing, and sanitation. You can see that we are right now distributing about a thousand masks to the public every single week. And there is also that, weve been able to get the covering around 9394 mask compliance on muni. Were also collecting data about the specific lines and demographics of people who are not wearing masks, so we can direct our Education Programs where they are needed the most. Were also, of course, continuing to invest in the shared spaces and slow Street Programs. Today we received over 1400 applications for shared spaces. Those applications tick up with each reopening stage of the economy. We have a crew well over a thousand shared spaces including 33 full blocks roadway closures to open spaces up to commerce. Those activations have been delayed due to air quality, but were expecting as soon as the area cleans up, well have very active thriving in neighborhoods all over San Francisco. Weve succeeded in creating 32 miles of slow streets. We have applications for 20 more. We have 18 miles of roadway and closed those to cars to open them up successfully to outdoor exercising in a socially didnt distant way. Theyre a major part of our effort, that despite the fact that we have 200 million hole in our operating budget and despite the fact that we have to cut our budget by a third, were using our limited resources in the most effective and transparent possible way. We did two introducing workshops that are worth reporting on. The Human Rights Commission has been a Strong Partner from the very beginning in helping us deal with covid and our resource constraints. We spoke to the Human Rights Commission about our ongoing effort to use our declining resources to advance equity, which of course means taking resources away from neighborhoods and populations that have the most abundant choices. And it means expanding access to opportunity, including rethinking the way were doing our fair Enforcement Program to focus on compliance and making sure were distributing our discount fair program to the people who need it, making it easier for people who need our programs to access that. Last week, we had a productive Town Hall Forum with all of the frontline workers. Our muni operators, our station agents, transit fare, transit ambassador and School Crossing guards. They have been seeing, just as we are seeing, an increase in aggressive, violent motorist behavior in San Francisco as a result of covidrelated anxiety. So are we seeing a level of aggression and assault against our frontline workers in this time. This is something that has to be stopped and it has to be stopped in partnership with other agencies. This Town Hall Forum was an opportunity for the mayor, the District Attorney and the chief of police to talk with our leadership here at the sfmta and our frontline workers about what it is that we need to be doing in order to protect the safety of our operators, in order to make sure that all of our frontline workers feel respected, honored and secure in their work. So weve made a series of commitments and have started the beginning work of some action processes, in order to conduct communications and Awareness Campaign that our frontline workforce, our actual vulnerable human beings out there doing public service, and if youre angry at the city, that needs to be directed at the director and not the frontline crews. Were collecting data to get a better understanding of the problem. Were making sure that the District Attorney office has the information they need to successfully prosecute. Were also looking at differences in ways that Bus Operators have special privileges when it comes to, if they are assaulted, the penalties are greater than the penalties are for assaulting other frontline workers. Were working to stress equity across the entire front line and were continuing to focus again on compliance rather than punishment. We know that we are still at the very beginning of a slowly unfolding set of compounded tragedies. We know that san franciscans are deeply stressed as a result of these tragedies. And that our role, we know that sometimes the best thing we can do is be kind and patient with people. So were trying to use that in our outlook with our customers, in trying to cultivate civility rather than having an environment of punishment and punitive action. Finally, i wanted to talk about our Transit Service. As you know, from our meeting of two weeks ago, weve invested in a bunch of Service Changes. One of the Service Changes that remains to be done because of construction work on mason street in the presidio is the extension of the stockton to chrissy field. It is important work because it allows us to expand the size of the buses to 60foot buses in order to serve crowded conditions in chinatown. There is not enough room to lay over a 60foot bus in the marina district. In order to create a new layover place while still allowing marine District Residents to get into the garages, weve moved that to the nearest location, which is chrissy field. It allows presidio workers to get to work since the shuttle has been shut down due to the devastating Economic Impacts on the Presidio Trust and it gives chinatown and south of market residents access to a National Park for the first time. Something were quite proud of. If i may, i wanted to talk about our rail restart and our slice issue. Something we told you about last week. We just presented this morning to the board of supervisors in their role as the sfmta board talking about the latest findings of the splice. It is clear now that we made the right decision back on april 8 in shutting down the rail system to begin with. The muni bus system is our base of strategic resiliency. And the buses operating out there are significantly better than what we thought we were capable of meeting. Were meeting with our constrained sources. Were getting to the bottom of not just how to repair all the splices, but asking the question, what additional Maintenance Work can we conduct in the subway given the fact that ridership is lower now in San Francisco than it has been in muni 110year history. All the buildings in the financial district are empty. What were hearing from owners, building operators and the chamber of commerces in downtown, its going to be quite a while before theyre occupied again. I directed all of our staff to think creatively and big about how long is the optimal length of time to shut down the subway. How much Maintenance Work can we get caught up on relative to that impact on passengers . And is there any work weve been planning a couple of years from now, we can get done now while the impact on the passengers are less . So were not through yet with the answer to all that. We will be bringing information to you and hopefully recommendations at one of the board meetings next month. And were looking forward to thinking big with you. Thank you again for supporting all of the work that we do. Chair borden thank you for the thorough report, jeff. Director brinkman thank you, director tumlin. Yes, you bring up huge topics and thank you so much for the reminder for all of us to be kind. The question i have is kind of a small one based on the challenges you were discussing, but with tenderloin widened sidewalks, how are we handling access for people with wheelchairs . The sidewalk widening in the tenderloin, there are gaps. If you notice on jones street, the key Residential Hotel there are gaps for accessible vehicles. That is done intentionally at strategic locations. And of course at the corners, it is still possible to get all the way to the curb. Weve also seen people take care of their pickup and dropoff in the traffic lane. As you know, probably the traffic volumes right now on the street like jones are very low and so the streets accommodate a fair amount of making due. Thank you very much. Director heminger thank you, madame chair. I have three questions for our director. The first is, where is our Monthly Budget report hiding out . J. Tumlin good question. I believe he can speak to director, hes scheduled for the october 6th meeting. J. Tumlin we put it off to make sure we had a clear set of financials for you. Theyre scheduled to come to the first meeting of the month. Director heminger so were not quite hitting the monthly cycle. And im sure well catch up to that. Secondly, i had raised a question, i think pretty inartfully at our last meeting, but some other program that is attempting to use our street space differently and it may be connected to this ceqa litigation that is ongoing that was in the paper just a few days ago. Im just checking in on that to see whether anyone has located that program . J. Tumlin we were not sure what you were referencing, so we have director heminger neither was i. J. Tumlin [laughter] so weve been transparent with you about each of the programs that involves changes with streets. There is the shared spaces and the slow Street Program and those sometimes get completed. There is a semirelated program that has involved other agencies around full street closures like j. F. K. , recreation parks department, and twin peaks boulevard. There is a variety of changes weve been doing in response to rail system restart like the transfer hubs at Church Street station and west portal. There is the emergency transit only lane project wh