Chair mandelman, present. Vice chair melgar, absent. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner preston, absent. Ronan absent. Commissioner safai, absent. Commissioner stefani, present. Commissioner walton, present. We have quorum. Thank you madam clerk. I think you have a Public Comment announcement. Yes, i do. Thank you. For members of the public interested in participating in the meeting we welcome attendance here in person in the legislative chamber room 250 in city hall. Or may watch channel 26 or 99 or stream the meeting at www. Sfgovtv. Org. To make Public Comment the best way is dial 4156550001. Enter access code 26646110156 then press and again. You will be able to listen to the meeting in real time. When Public Comment is called for the item you wish to speak on press 3 to be added to the queue. Do you not press 3 or you will be removed from the queue. The operator will advice you have 2 minutes to speak. When the 2 minutes are up we will move to the next caller. Calls are taken in the order received. Best practice is speak slowly, slowly and. Public comment will be taken first from members of the public in attendedance and from the queue on the telephone line. Thank you. Thank you madam clerk. Vice chair melgar is not able to be here today and asked to be excused. Commissioner preston will be late and asked to be excused from the items he misses. I will grant both excuses unless anyone has objection. I want to invoke 3. 26 from rules of order to limit Public Comment for 30 minutes. It is intention to give each speaker two minutes unless indicating otherwise at the start of the item. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Item 2, chairs report. Information item. Colleagues, consistent with the connect sf Long Range Program and srk f Climate Action plan, we are investing year round enGreen House Gas reducing products. In the transit system. These investments inhadclude caltrain electrification, new bart vehicles and sfmta fleet and facility electrification. Every day bart riders save us 1. 2 million miles of driving and 52 thousand gallons of gas they would other would use. My office is working with ta staff, mta staff and department of environment on ev charging facility program. The ta is supporting the port of San Francisco on waterfront rehab and resilience and br yond the items we continue to support other Transit Oriented Development, bike, pedestrian and Tree Planting projects. Caltrain successfully conducted testing of the new electric trains between San Francisco and san jose marking a milestone in the lect rifaigz project. April 14 the new [indiscernible] 52 miles alignment. Later this months caltrain will conduct live testing of complete San Francisco to san jose corridor with electric trains reaching track speed of 79 miles per hour. The trains will be quieter cleaner and deliver faster and more frequent service including doubling freakancy on weekends. Congrat ulations to caltrain and look forward to the start in the fall. The public is inviting to the san mateo electric train celebration in san carlos saturday may 11. Thank you again commissioner walton for your service on the caltrain jpa. I want to congratulate the upper market corridor Safety Improvement project recognized with local street and road comploot streets award by the California State Association of counties. The project is located in my district on Market Street between octavia and castro and features pneumerate upgrades including 31 new curb ramps, cross walks, high visibility traffic signal and new bike ramps. Including widen sidewalks, bulb outs and bording island with special railings. Thanks to San Francisco public works, sfmta, Planning Department and our own county Transportation Authority which provided Sales Tax Funding for the project. I want to thank Assembly Members ting and haney offering regulatory bills and fire chief darious luttropp and tilly chang testifying at the Assembly Transportation committee yesterday. Also want to thank the committee i believe for forwarding these bills onward. Important we update california laws governing the fast growing industry as continuing to join the market in San Francisco and across the state. And also of course thanks to commissioner peskin for keeping all of us focused on this isue. With that, i conclude my remarks. I see no questions or comments from colleagues. Is there anybody in the chamber who wants to comment on item 2 . Dont see anyone. Any remote Public Comment on item 2 . There is no remote Public Comment. Alright. Public comment on item 2 is closed. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Item 3, executive director report. Information item. Thank you. Good morning chair mandelman, commissioners. Pleased to begin my prort with a addon to chair mention about the av bills proceeding through the legislature this month. We learned this month zukes a av provider owned by amazon. Com is authorized by the california dmv to expand the driverless Testing Operations to parts of San Francisco this month. Zukes has been testing with safety drivers since 2016 and obtained to test driverlessly in foster city in 2020. Under the new april 2024 permit zukes will be allowed to conduct driverless operations in San Francisco initially in the south of market neighborhood with a bidirectional Autonomous Vehicle with no breaks and no steering wheel. We are seeking Additional Details about the operational design domain or odd and understanding their permitted operations for all of San Francisco. Initial media reports indicate the authorization is for weekend day Time Operations only, stow well keep you posted on the developments. Turning to senate bill 1031, the connect bay area act, amended by senators wiener and [indiscernible] there is no language released prior to the Senate Hearing today. The amendments include revised language around Transit Agency consolidation, new language providing financial guardrails for transit operators related to Regional Network management and potentially fare integration and detailed revenue expenditure framework that insures minimum return to source of 70 percent to counties in the bay area funding most or all the region transit operator shortfalls depending on the size of the revenue measure. This bill will be considered later today at the senate Transportation Committee meeting and tomorrow at the Senate Revenue and taxation Committee Meeting and we will keep you posted. As you recall, we have a support amendment position on this bill. Next turning to the local level, we have a update in the geary boulevard improvement project. Earlier this month sfmta held open house to share proposals and seek feedback on Community Enhancements that foster a sense of identity and other enhancements in the corridor, Community Members weighed in on sidewalk pavers and decorative concrete, street trees and neighborhood identity markers to focus on locations where there is a opportunity to coordinate with future construction work for that bus Rapid Transit project. This is for the 38r and rapid bus stop locations to learn more about the proposals, please provide feedback at sfmta. Com projectupdates and geary boulevard improvement project. Next a update of delivery of quick build and muni forward projects. Funded by the Transportation Authority. Sfmta continues to make progress on quick builds including lincoln way that reached substantial completion this month. Bringing pedestrian Safety Improvements to 3 miles of roadway alongside golden gate park. The improvements include cross walks, painted safety zones, left turn safety daylighting and up graded bus stops. On 17th street, along potrero avenue to pennsylvania avenue, the quick build project is scheduled to begin construction at the end of this month and those up grades include protected bikeway daylighting painted safety zones and curb management. Last month sfmta board approved also red lane frz the k inglesidelight rail mune route consistent with the mobility action plan last year. This is ocean avenue from [indiscernible] to lee and includes transit lanes markings, pedestrian bulbs and rapid flashing beacons so great progress on those fronts. At the Sales Force Transit Center we see wayfinding advances with phase one replacement work starting which is replacing 200 Media Players at kiosks throughout the center. This work will greatly enhance the digital way finding at the center improving reliability and functionality of the way finding sishm and Community Visitor experience by connecting folks to transit connections more easily to the public at the open space at the center roof top park and elsewhere in the facility. Finally, pleased to report that last week our staff welcomed middle and high school kudants from San Francisco and east bay to the second girls in motion spring 2024 summit and annual event introducing girms to careers in transportation. This was sponsored and organized by the American Council engineer ing companies and the California Bay area chapter of women transportation seminar wt is rks, the San Francisco bay chapter so we want to thank the organizers allowing us to host and share in the wonderful events. It featured Panel Discussion programming and planning and other aspects of the field and hands on activity the student designed multimodal intersection with teams and professionm mentors. I want to thank our whole staff lead by cynthia fong, finance administration for working with acec and wts to organize the special event and we look forward participating in many more and grow the next generation of transportation leaders. Thank you. Thank you madam executive drether. I do not see comments or questions. See if there is any Public Comment on your report . Anyone in the Chamber Wants to talk about the executive directors report, please come up. Lets see if we have remote Public Comment on item 3. There is no remote Public Comment. Public comment on item 3 is closed. Madam clerk, please call item 4. Etum 4, approve the minutes of april 16, 2024 meeting. This is action item. Open the item to Public Comment. Anybody in the chamber with comment on item 4, come up . I dont see anyone. Lets see if there is remote Public Comment on item 4 . Yes, chair, there is. Im going to the caller right now. Good morning chair mandelman, commissioners. [indiscernible] i like to brink to your attention the fact the minutes are not posted on the agenda on the west side so wondering if you can delay approval to the next regularly scheduled meeting of the authority. Thank you. Thank you caller. We have anybody else . There is no additional comment. Public comment on item 4 is closed. As i look at the agenda, that looks correct to me. Do we typically have the minutes on the website . On the website there isnt a separate link for the draft mntsd, but the draft minutes are included in the link on the website. It is possible if we want to post it separately as well. Do we care . You are saying there are other ways the public could find those minutes if they wanted to, but normally we would have a link under 4 which takes the public to those minutes . Correct. There is a request. Do i just to continue this item to our next do we need a vote or just do it . You can just are do it. Just do it and move to the next agenda. Great. Madam clerk, could you please call our Consent Agenda items 57 . Yes. Consent agenda items 57 comprise the Consent Agenda. Staff is not planning to present but is available for questions. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the Consent Agenda . Moved by dorsey, seconded by walton. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Commissioner chan, absent. Commissioner dorsey, aye. Commissioner engardio, aye. Chair mandelman, aye. Commissioner peskin, aye. Commissioner preston, absent. Commissioner ronan, aye. Commissioner safai, absent. Commissioner stefani, aye. Commissioner walton, aye. We have on the motion to approve Consent Agenda, we have 7 ayes and the motion is approved. Thank you madam clerk. I received a request from commissioner safai to be excused from votes on the agenda which ill grant. Madam clerk, could you please call our next item . Item 8, next generation bay area free way update. A information item. Good morning. Just by way of a brief introduction to this item, which is a presentation by mtc, the lead agency for the next generation bay area free way study, which is meant to reimagine the role of freeway throughout the region in better meeting the climate and mobility goals that we have by looking at all lane tolling. This strategy for all lane tolling was included in plan bay area 2050, because without it the plan was not able to meet the Green House GasEmission Reduction targets it needs to achieve. Mtc is asking is there a equitable and effective way to implement this strategy to achieve our goals. They have conducted midway through the study conducted several rounds of outreach, round of analysis, presentation to the mtc committee. They do run an executive and staff Level Advisory Group we sit on to provide feedback. Mtc will describe their schedule and what they anticipate to be their timeframe and what recommendations might look like, including 10 year Implementation Plan as part of what they bring forward through the study. With that, let me introduce mtc. Hello, mtc. Thank you. Good morning commissioners and thank you for the opportunity for us to share about our ongoing study. The next generation bay area freeway study. Im a principle planner in the Regional Planning team and the project manager for the study as well. We began the study in 2022 in partnership with caltrans. The study is first implementation action of the freeway tolling strategy that is one of the 35 interconnected strategies in plan bay area 205o, the most recently adopted regional plan. We acknowledge that freeway congestion while rampant and effect many people on every dare day basis is not the most important problem the region is facing today in housing shortage, homelessness, the transit fiscal cliff, recovery down down crime and safety, however we know that it is not a simple policy and starting the groundwork and trying to explore whether pricing as a role to play in the future. We are working closely with two advisory groups, staff and executive level and this is composed of not just government staff and non governmental staff from business, labor, citizen representatives and non profits. I meant to come to this slide now. Longterm view is that bay area congestion problem doesnt stand to get better unless we shift gears. One thing our freeways are largely over capacity with drivers responding 100 hours in traffic. There is also a Economic Cost to this. Workers who travel to multiple job sites spend more time driving between locations and less time to work and earn money. Delay Freight Movement which increase the cost of goods. Thecurrent state of freeways is exacerbating inequities due to higher housing cost, drivers are moving farther away creating longer more expensive commutes. All this mounting congestion is deterring from achieving the aggressive climate goals a urgent need for us all. Next slide, please. We address congestion over the years with a range of strategies. New lanes, express lanes, transit, commuter parking, Transit Oriented Development and many still continue to be really important strategies in our tool kit to decrease the depenedance on driving but may not address the elephant in the room which is people want or need to drive alone and do so for a multitude of reasons. The jobs and housing imbalanced, the land use is across the region, transit options are inefficient and all this makes freeways a valuable public good. There is really Strong Demand for it. The Current System is not equitable if those who absolutely need to use the freeway are not able to do so relibly so may need a shift