Supervisor ronen this is commissioner ronen, im here, i might have to jump off. Clerk thank you commissioner ronen present. Commissioner yee . We have a quorum. Supervisor peskin Commission Er ronen when you need to leave, just let me know. Well excuse you until you come back. Well go to our Citizens Advisory Committee report. Mr. Larson, the floor is yours. Good morning chair peskin. Vice chair mandelman im reporting on our september 23rd c. A. C. Meeting. There was extensive discussion among c. A. C. Members regarding Program Guidelines, programming and allocation request concerning the Traffic Congestion mitigation tax or t. N. C. Tax. Given it was the first time a request related to this new source of funds, this come before the committee, c. A. C. Members inquired about the difference between projected amount of tax and lower amount actually collected even before the impact coded. Oversight of time lines and budget delivery of projects and the prioritization of quick build projects especially in communities of concern. Because priority is being given to quickbuild projects, defer to the sfcta tax goals. The c. A. C. Unanimously approved these recommendations. Equity and concerns about communities of concern were highlighted in the discussion of the prop k request for paratransit replacement in item 7. There was lack of familiarity among c. A. C. Members how services are provided by paratransit and whether communities of concern are adequately served by the reservation system. Because this item had to do we placing vans, the c. A. C. Recommended approval but requested a future presentation on Paratransit Service delivery with particular focus on population served and the distribution of service at its future c. A. C. Meeting. Another c. A. C. Member inquired used vans can be purposed safe option for transportation if they arent well served by Public Transportation. Even though the vans will be auctioned off, they will work with m. T. A. To see if theres other ways the van can bees used. The c. A. C. Had a verbal presentation. C. A. C. Members welcomed conclusion of the sewer and utility work and wonder if the knowledge gained, utilities in the area could be helpful to future builders of project on this corridor. Sfmta staff said the contractors doing the work has provided as built drawing reflecting what was found and done in the area. Accessible for anyone noticing a project in the area in the future. C. A. C. Still wish to see more data and information about this impact and use of mitigation strategies in the area. The committee was told that m. T. A. And the office of economic Workforce Development, will be preparing a more detailed report for future meeting. Finally, the c. A. C. Adjourned its meeting hurrican hurricane g ms. Ernestine who pushed for Public Transportation. Thank you. Supervisor peskin are there any questions for mr. Larson . Seeing none, are there any members of the public who like to comment on the c. A. C. Report . Clerk theres no Public Comment. Supervisor peskin madam clerk, please read the next item . Clerk before i read the next item. I like to make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 4156550001. When prompted enter access code. 1462531573 then pound and pound again. To be added to the queue to speak. When it is your turn to speak, you will hear a message saying your line is unmuted and the operator will be advised youre allowed to two minutes to speak. Calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly and clearly. Please allow more audio, video delays during the course of the meeting. Item 3, approve minutes of the september 22, 2020 meeting. This is an action item. Supervisor peskin is there any Public Comment on the minutes of september 22nd . Public comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve the minutes . Seconded by commissioner yee oneonthat motion made. Roll call pleasely. [roll call vote] minutes are approved. Supervisor peskin next item please. Clerk item 4 appoints two members to the Citizens Advisory Committee, this is an action item. Good morning. Im the transportation planner for the Transportation Authority. The Transportation Authority has 11 members Citizens Advisory Committee. The board appoints individuals to appoint any open seats and staff or c. A. C. Make recommendations on appointment. To qualify for the appointment, applicants must be San Francisco resident. Attachment 2 in the packet is list of applicants. Vacancy is under consideration today. There maybe other candidates available to speak on the Public Comment line. I can take any questions. Supervisor peskin thank you. Are there any questions for ms. Smith . Supervisor fewer im delighted to reappoint david klein to the c. A. C. He has consistently demonstrated a passion about our Transportation System and ensuring that the system infrastructure and Services Work well for our district in our city. I appreciate that david bring touch questions to the questions and looks at the issues through data and metric with the lens on equity for how whether transportation is working for diverse transit dependent community. David has elevated the need for data points to prove what is working and not working, to helping solve our community needs. He spotlighted conversations regarding a Transit System efficiency and safety among other priorities as an Outer Richmond resident, i know david use Public Transportation regularly. David thanking you in advance for your support and thank you colleagues for your support. Supervisor peskin thank you. Commissioner safai you like to reappoint mr. Gaoer . Yes, sir, i would say very similar comments to supervisor fewer. Robert gower has been passionate about Public Transportation. Hes been active in Neighborhood Improvement Association first before he moved in district 11. Hes licensed attorney. Hes been involved in local government and very interested in public policy. He understands how heavily reliant many of the families in district 11 are on transportation. Understands the unique challenges that we face. He has been very engaged in many of our Community Conversations that involves him. Im very proud to appoint him today. Supervisor peskin thank you commissioner. Are there any other candidates for these or other seats that are not yet up who would like to comment . Clerk theres no one on the line. Supervisor peskin is there any general Public Comment on this item . Clerk theres no Public Comment. Supervisor peskin Public Comment is closed. We heard from both of you in the past. I will make it easy and ask one of my colleagues to make a motion to reappoint both of you, which one would you like to make that motion . Move. Fewer. Supervisor peskin moved by commissioner fewer and commissioner safai would you like to second that . On that motion made, roll call please. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Motion passes on its first reading. Supervisor peskin congratula tions thank you both for your continued service. Next item please. Clerk item 5, state and federal updates. This an information item. Im pleased to connect with you today. I always seem to have some problems. I will report to you on several bills that were passed by legislature enacted by the governor towards end of session. Kind of give you a brief update on couple of major executive orders that are all the emphasis in transportation circles in sacramento in current month. In terms of legislation that did pass and was acted upon ab1286 which was the shareability device agreement was approved by the governor as was sb288 ceqa, expansion for transit and finally sb1291 by the Transportation Committee in the senate. It allows regional transportation agencies to skip this year in terms of submitting a ftip. Which is a federal mandated requirement but its also enacted in state law and state law is a little bit federal law. It gives the transportation agencies a break for turning in the paperwork necessary for that program. Last budget bill was approved by the legislature, ab107 in the last days of the session back in late august. It allows use of state repair funds which is transit funds. Instead of being directed entirely towards maintenance only, it broaden the uses for use by transit agencies so they can use it for operations or capital purposes given the impact the pandemic has had on ridership. Little bit more flexibility and its been greatly received throughout the state. Looking forward to the next session, i think the early focus will be entirely on the state budget as we sit here today, its uncertain what will be happening or not happening with extended recovery legislation at the federal level. State budget is predicated on anticipating some of the it coming and having triggers built in. Thats going to be front and center. Both chairs both committees can including your representative here whos heads up the budget committee, made very strong statements to organizations throughout sacramento that its budget all the time. Feels like weve gone back about 10 years back to when we had the budget problems decade ago. This is very serious and well see how this turns out. I did allude to the fact that there are executive orders that are very under scrutiny in sacramento. Last year the governor proclaimed executive order 1919 that required the secretary of transportation to basically develop a climatebased action plan for transportation funding. Trying to tie or align some of the funding discretionary pot that are available to the secretary or transportation commission, tie that to or align with climate goals. The pandemic did interfere with the work effort by cal sta. They brought forth a Climate Action plan. They were on a Conference Call with the secretary. They are conducting a workshop on updating their strategic goals with respect to their Climate Action plan. Tieing it more strongly into the executive branch of the governors executive order and 7920 which was introduced in september which dealt in terms of the Media Coverage of the order, dealt with zero Mission Vehicle requirements by 2035. No sales of Passenger Vehicles in 2035 or later if they dont meet zero mission requirements. There were other key elements in that executive order. One of which tied back into the september 2019 executive order and main date mandated that the secretary continues more work and move forward with a formal plan early in 2021. Thats under way now. Im engaged in it. Im keeping staff apprised as the workshops pop up from time to time. The next major public activity with respect to what is going ton with these executive orders will occur in november there will be a joint h. C. D. Resources board and California Transportation Commission meeting at which the secretary and his staff will present the Climate Action plan and strategies for the interest in approval of those organizations. Lot of activity going on in hat background. Back in the meantime, we are all starting to appear for next years session and looking for idea or followup ideas on bills that have been set aside due to the pandemic. Ill bring my presentation to a close. I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you. Supervisor peskin thank you mr. Weather. Watts, any questions . Good morning chair and commissioners. I wanted to give a quick update on whats happening at the federal level. Before the september 30th expiration date, congress did manage to pass oneyear extension of the federal transportation bill. This will allow Congress Little bit of breathing room to pick up negotiations on a longer Term Extension next year. Well continue to be working with sfmta and the Mayors Office and other organizations to advance San Franciscos priorities in this area. With respect to covid relief, hitting the refresh button on the computer to see if theres any late breaking news. On october 1st the house did approve a revised version of his covid relief proposal. Which will provide 2. 2 trillion in aid, which is 1. 2 trillion less than the original made proposal. It includes actually higher amount of funding for Public Transit, 32 billion, which is more than the prior version or the cares act that was approved earlier weve heard the speaker in negotiations but unless agreement is reached in the next day or so, its unlikely that anything will move forward until after the election. Even if something is approved, it will still have to go through the senate which theyve expressed its unlikely to move anything forward at the proposed spending level. Not hopeful it will happen before the election. It could be as late as early next year that they look at a relief effort. Finally, in late june, commissioner preston asked us to come back and report on the federal freedom to move act. Which congresswoman presley introduced. This will provide annual 5 billion Competitive ProgramGrant Program for jurisdictions to provide free fair Public Transportation and eliminate penalties. The funding will be available both to implement the system to expand service and then to do physical improvements such as painted bus lanes and accessibility improvement. One main challenge is that they provide the funding to implement the system. But then, its a question of how its funded wasnt the federal seed money goes away and Transit Systems are faced with needing to have the Financial Resources to continue the program. Unfortunately, this bill is not going to be considered this session. It did provide an opportunity for congresswoman to familiarize congress with the idea going into the negotiations over the federal transportation bill reauthorization next year. Mark and i will be happy to answer any questions that you have on the state or federal programs. Supervisor peskin i dont see any questions. From what i hear from our nations capitol, its looking more and more like february . Yes. I believe so. Supervisor peskin seeing no questions, thank you both for those very thorough presentations. Are there any members of the public who like to comment on item number 5 . Clerk i will check on that please. Im going to make a brief announcement. The Public Comment line is 4156550001. Then enter access code. 1462531573 press pound and pound again. When you are unmuted, the operator will advise you that you have two minutes to peek. At this time, chair, theres no Public Comment. Supervisor peskin thank you. Public comment is closed. Please read the next item. Clerk item 6, adopts Traffic Congestion mitigation tax Program Guidelines in t. N. C. Tax fund to two projects. This is an action item. Supervisor peskin good morning ms. Milton and ms. Lyons good morning. Not as lucrative as we expected. Covid has done that in different arenas. Nonetheless, the t. N. C. Tax is here. The floor is yours. Thank you so much for that introduction. Good morning chair peskin and commissioners. Im kayla lyons with the Transportation Authority. Just pulling up my slides now. We provided an informational update back in july on our approach to the t. N. C. Tax guidelines and now were ready to adopt those guidelines. As a brief background, this was passed by San Francisco voters on november 2019. Its the first of its kind in california. The portion of the trip that is in San Francisco after two percent goes to the city and county for administration, 50 comes to the sfmta for muni and 50 comes to the Transportation Authority for pedestrian and Bicycle Safety projects. The taxes is 1. 5 on shared ride and ab rides and three quarter percent tax on nonshared rides. Initial revenue estimate was 30 million annually. As you alluded to, the revenue is coming in drastically lower than that which ill provide information on in a moment. Since this is a new revenue source, we met a variety of stakeholders that we developed. Program guideline and incorporated their feedback. We have four programmatic categories to guide the allocation of funding. These has not changed. We have the quickbuild category so we can get funds out the door to safety projects that are reversible. We have the safe streets category. These are meant to go those permanent more complex and expensive safety improvements. This category will have an open call for projects. Then we have signals which can be new signals, upgrades retime and maintenance category as well. We have actual revenue totals from january 1st when collections began through june 2020. We have been anticipating 15 million in that sixmonth time frame and actual collections came in at 5. 2 million. Obviou