Present. Chair mandelman. Present. Voice chair melgar. Present. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Present. Preston present. Why commissioner ronen. Present commissioner safai. Absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Why commissioner walton. Present we have quorum. Thank you. I think you have a Public Comment announcement. Yes, thank you. For members interested in participating in this Board Meeting we welcome your attendance in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or watch channel 26 or 99. Or stream it live at www. Sfgov. Org. For those wish to make Public Comment remote low dial 4156550001, access code 2660 908 7338 and then press pound and pound again you will listen in role time of had Public Comment is called you wish to speak on press star 3 to be added to speak. Dont press it again or you will be removed from the queue. The system had the system says your line is muted unmute it. The live operator will advise you allowed two minutes to speak when 2 minutes are up we will move of callers taken in the order which they are received. Best practices to speak slowly, clear and turn down televisions or radios around you. Public ment for items on the agenda will be taken from members of the public and attendance in the chamber and after from remote speakers on the phone line. Thank you. Thank you. Madam clerk before calling our next item invoke 326 to limit total comment per item to 30 minutes for todays meeting. Each speaker will have 2 minutes to speak unless i indicate otherwise at the start of that item. Madam clerk. Call our next item item 2, chair report an information item. Thank you, madam clerk. I want to begin this month with an appreciation for senator feinstein whos service was held here at city hall early 30 month. With her career first the lone and national willfuls the first female burden president and mayor of San Francisco and first to serve senator from california and many first in congress. Greatest for her leadership and condolenses to her family. She served on the environment and public works and Appropriations Committee advocates for infrastructure and the law. Early 30 year she and senate pidela 200 Million Dollars for high speed rail and 30 Million Dollars to transition the bus toward zero e Mission Fleet and left year a raise grant for yerba buena west side bridge project. Senator feinstein worked with senator gill brand of new york to represent the concerns about the safety Autonomous Vehicles on the ad start bill a topic well talk about today. Speak of safety, it was after our citys passage of vision zero policy in 20 then that tom mc guire joined the director of sustainable streets. Now 10 years later we want to take this opportunity to wish him well as he joins the Transportation Authority to lead their bart it Silicon Valley phase 2 project. Tom lead implementation of vision zero street innovations and capitol projects. From the vaness brt and central subway projects to jfk and great highway project to street redesigns like folsom. Parklets and shared streets. He let permitting for scoot and bike share. Provision of taxi and limitation of sf park. It is i long and important list and never easy to shepherd change thank you, tom for your contributions to San Francisco we are happy you are able to celebrate passage of 8645 the speed safety camera bill. We wish you the best. And finally im excited to welcome the annual convening of co, ligz of california 25 transportation sales tax agencies to San Francisco next week. Will be great to share experiences and learn about inclues itch planning. Funding and technology and protect deliver we a thousand atendsees across cam cal a week later we welcome the visitors from asiapacific and home everyone enjoyce our city. Thank you in advanceed Public Transit prirts and street teams to manage all the changes to keep San Francisco moving during this busy time. With that i conclude my remarks. And lets see if well is Public Comments. In the chamber on the chairs report. See if we have remote comment on item 2. Checking for remote Public Comment. And well is no Public Comment. Public comment on item 2 is closed. Madam clerk call item 3 executive directors report this is information item. Madam clerk. In dam executive director. Here we go. Good morning. I begin a quick update from regional level the metro revenue measures 2026, over the past year staff conducting rounds of out reach, stake holder engagement to explore the possibility of a bill that authorize 2026 or beyond measures for transportation. Feedback collected to date indicated that there is interests in some potential expend tours to transit transformation. Safe streets and the like as wells on the table sales tax, payroll or mileage fee among others. Mtc commissioned a second pole of voters with results expected by mid november. In time for engaging with author and state legislator to potential low again carry a bill next year. We will keep you pestod this. In the meantime we have been collaborating with mtc on a bay area travel survey this time together with santa clara vta a major design to learn how people are traveling throughout the area and in San Francisco for us, this will include information about work and nonwork trends and travel, telecommuting Online Shopping and the like. Support a number of efforts in the region come in San Francisco. Relating to congestion management and travel demand management strategies. Again, look forward to those results later this year. In addition, commissioner supervisor peskin and i among others joined the Bay Area Council and the port of San Francisco for great water front tour ever a ferry tour of the waterfront. A conceptual Ferry Network connect the fer building. Mission baker rock, power station, candlestick and Hunters Point ship yard and points further south. The Water Emergency Transportation Agency is developing a shared vision for a potential Ferry Network and across the bay for 2050 including the level of service and operations locally within San Francisco. Services will be a fundation for Business Plan and we participate this will be brought back to the board for consideration this winter well keep you posted that. The first part was network i should mention Treasure Island to support this development as well. Turning to local issues. As you may recall look at studying car pool and transit lanes on the 101 corridor the northbound 280 extension. Touching down on king street. This project is entering out roach phase. Idea to continue managed lanes under development south in the pel anyone slam man mat is studying highway 380 to the county line and pick the corridor up at the county line. We have been working with san mateo and caltrans and sfmta on potential designs and traffic analysis and this fall we will conduct out reach meetings including counsel halls and neighborhood garthings to provide feedback and guide our design and evaluation. Folks learn more turning to project delivery updates had a happy event in late september at the balboa park and upper yard plaza opening celebration. Joined commissioner safai issue treasure fiona ma, scott wean and janice lee with Mission Housing and bart this idea the new transit oriented housing and open place plaza across from the bart station. Home to 131 new affordable units and beautiful new plaza for a transit hub and Public Open Space that will benefit residents and transit passengers alike. The ta was pleaseds to criminalitied 950 thounz and sales tax funds for the plaza a pass to the passenger loading areas seating. Light asking security and land scaping throughout. As well on the update on the quick builds we are fwlad to see sfmta make progress on implementing safety projects the like merced quick build. Hyde street quick build approved by sfmta board in mid october. And mta beginning construction on hyde sloat and lincoln way. Quick builds. Sfmta has also launched a dash board that shoes how a High Injury Network progress map is evolving and folks can look at that at sfmta. Com quickbuild. All of the projects are supported by sales tax and prop d tax funds. Another update page street completed there supported by our prospect a avehicle Registration Fee funds. Sfmta and public works wrapping up the final items on this page Street Project between webster and going constructed sidewalk extensions and traffic calm at page and buick an an streets and slow down turning vehicle traffic improving Pedestrian Safety and comfort. And this built on the page street bikeway pilot complete in the 2020 in upon support of streets. I was pleased help present keynotes at the World Congress remote low in china and i wanted share our experience with the technology to mobility and goals and participated in us. Arpa i workshop the dara back in the day. Initiative using [inaudible] collaborations and applying technology to project research efforts. The defense, energy and public healing sectors they have theiron arpa and this is for infrastructure. Authorized in bipartisan infrastructure lu. We look forward to participating in those efforts nationwide. And with that, im happy to take questions. Thank you, in dam executive director do we have Public Comment on your report . See if we skr any remote. Checking for remote Public Comment. There is no Public Comment. Public comment on item 3 is closed. Madam clerk, item 4 approve the minutes of october 17, 2023 meeting, this is an action item. Do we have Public Comment on item 4 here . Remote Public Comment on the minutes . Checking for remote public ment on item 4. And there is no Public Comment. Public comment is closed. Is this a motion to approve item 4 the minutes moved by supervisor peskin and a second. By dorse. Call the roll. Commissioner chan. Aye commissioner dorse. Aye. Commissioner engardio. Aye. Chair mandelman. Aye. Vice chair melgar. Aye. Commissioner supervisor peskin . Aye. Commissioner preston. Aye. Commissioner ronen. Aye. Commissioner stefani . Aye. Commissioner walton. Aye. The minutes are approves. Call the Consent Agenda items 59. Item 59 the Consent Agenda. Staff is in the planning on to present on these but available for questions. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the Consent Agenda. Moved by melgar and seconded by walton we can take that same house same call without objection the motion passes. Madam clerk, item 10. Item 10 San Francisco municipal Transportation Agency fleet electrification update report this is an information item. And we have bonnie gene von crow. Sfmta building Progress Public Affairs manager. Such a title. Good morning. Im bonnie von crow, Public Affairs manager im theme proviedz an update on the paratransit electrification process. Our paratransit fleet is a van and taxi program. For people with disabilities that are unable to take our muni service. Unlike municipal theruns on fixed routes paratransit is a door to door program. We have been provideing for 40 plus years last year served approximately 500,000 trips per year. Im here before you as part of our funding request circumstance and part of that request is to provide continuing updates on the electrification process for our paratransit fleet. And that looks at vehicle procurement and charging infrastructure at our facilities and maintenance and storage of vehicles. And then funding and other risks. Just a bit of background or paratransit electrification is part of our larger Building Progress Program a 2 plus billion dollars program. Capitol program to modernize and electrify the sfmta facility paratransit fit in that program. We have one pillar is modernization so looking at sfmta aging facilities and sequencing them present low and merrying this with the electrification requirement and regulations for 1 huh zero e missions muni fleet which we include paratransit in this. A pai pillar is public out reach. Our facilities in neighborhoodses in some case over 100 years and planning for the next hundred years. To talk more about the over all electrification program. Pair thanz transit is not a stands alone project there are a number as part of this program. And leading with the kirk clt landiard electrification this will be our first retrofit to electrify the yard to support battery electric bus. Prior, in the run up to the kirkland project implementing chargers, pilots at woods and creek yards. We are excited receive fta funds nothing 30 million are if the pilot programs. And upcoming presidio yard project and paratransit electrification as well. Over all, our paratransit fleet goals to provide service, safe, Reliable Service for our seniors and disabled patrons. And we are looking at transitioning the float to a completely electric fleet. But we want it make sure we have facilities to do so. With the prior funding requests if prop circumstance funding we are able to replace 17 gas powder victims in the last fiscal year that allocation also included funding for one electric van. This is where we are excited procuring that in the next fiscal year. And when we been electrifying the paratransit fleet, we look at the California AirResources Board guidelines for float electrification they have i requirement that the sfmta work to comply with. To electrify our fleet by 2040 and a certain number of paratransit vehicles fit into this guideline. Or large are 68 ford ev40 universals which are larger group vans, those weigh over 14,000 pound and said be regulated by the guide lines. The veterans that take the seniors to senior facilities or adult day care facilities. The heck facilities those are the veterans we use for that under the carbguide lines however we are look at possibility of electrifying our entire paratransit float and how we fit had in our over all fleet procurement planning and facilitys planning. The past year we have been evaluating our various vehicles on the market today. To date we evaluated the turtle top and ford ev. Both vehicles sit too low to the ground for our San Francisco they scrape the pavement going over hills. We are looking forward to testing the lightning in the coming months. To date we have not found a vehicle this is operational on our unique vipir that is the risks associated with paratransit and the other is price per vehicle. Paratransit electric vehicles are more expensive than gas they run 350 to 375,000 per vehicle met low because currently they are built as gas power exclude retrofited be electric. We do look forward, ford has a vehicle developed from the upon ground up in electric paratransit vehicle and look forward to this bringing price down in terms of cost per vehicle. In february. 20 twooshgs the sfmta completed the battery electric bus Facility Master Planning process this baselined our projects and locked at sequencing for charging infrastructure. Identifying Power Requirements. And looking at that schedule so that we are merrying both our electrification of our vehicles into our facility planning process that existed around modernization of yards. Fair transit is woven in this over all Planning Press. We learned a bit regarding Power Requirements. At our facilities and the sequencing of our yards in concert with our vehicle procurement needs. Look at paratransit where it is today we lease facility in brisbane we have a number we lease there and our goal with the float is to house it at a permanent sfmta facility. We also you that would save us costs and also save cost in terms of service, our vehicles in and out of brisbane now if we bring them to the city that is key for us. We are not look at building a new facility or acquiring new land but looking as part of our facility planning process as we upgrade and modernize and electrify them; where can we identify space for our paratransit fleet. We are looking at a number of options presidio yard is one that is being studied. Our woods yard was suggested for our fleet back in 2017 during the framework Planning Press and we also are analyzing that at the potrero yard. So we are currently reviewing the sequencing and timing of over all planning. And how we ask interweave paratransit the electrification of the paratransit fleet is department on having facilities available that can charge that float and space to store and maintain it. You know risk this is we looked at in the past year and as we were to electrify facilities include the Power Requirements at the facili