22 meetingly of government audit and Oversight Committee im supervisor dean preston chair. Joined by vice chair connie chan and supervisor mandelman. Clerk is jessica perkson and want to thank sfgovtv for staffing the meetings. Board of supervisors are now convennes hybrid meeting for in person and online comment and Public Comment via phone. The board real lieses it is essential. First comment taken on each item. Those in person allowed speak first then those who are waiting on the phone line. Watching on channel 26, 28, 78 or 99 the Public Comments number is stream access code 2493 392 7760. You will heart meeting discussion and muted and in listening mode when your item come up and comment is called those in person lineup to speak near the podium and those on the phone line sdiel star 3 to be added to the speaker line if you mean are on the phone turn down your tv. You may submit comment in writing. E mail to the government audit and oversight clerk at jessica perksins. 4156550001 item 5 a resolution mem ranldz update of understanding with the joint powers board Transportation Authority. San in teo Transit District and city and county of San Francisco related to the upon governance off joint powers board. Member who is can wish to comment lineup to speak. Remote call the number 4156550001, access code 2493 392 7760. And press upon pound twice. You will press star 3 to enter the line a prompt indicate you raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Thank you, madam chair and madam clerk and we have with us president walton who is the sponsor of this item. And want to turn the floor over to him. Thank you president and colleagues for take this out of order this is to approve the memorandum of understanding with the peninsula upon joint powerhouse board. Santa clara transportation and district and the city and county of San Francisco rolling to governors of the joint powers board when we voted we promised we would have a process to reach governance agreement and required the work to address our governance concerned. This is that result. We have been working on caltrain governors now for over 3 years since i have been on the board of supervisors and serving on the jpb and we did as a body the jpb did consider various governance models and adopted the term sheet on march 30 of 22. Lead to the mou we have before us the jpb pass the mou on june 23. Passod june twoochlt sfhta passed this week and the vta is set to pass on august fourth. Mou will allow the jpb to increase oversight for caltrain and ensure caltrain and the executive director has the independence and the team needed to operate the railroad as we embark on electricification it is Ambitious Goals as we get on prepandemic levels. I want to thank deputy City Attorney innes. My colleagues for working with me and the jpb governance effort and jpb colleagues and to our cta chair supervisor mandelman and peskin worked closely with us in the caltrain board to get to agreements and move things through. We do have with us today one of our sfmt aboard of directors steve the chair of the jpb. I know that director heminger will provide insight to the mou. So chair heminger, what you like to add we will love to hear from you and appreciate you being here this morning. Thank you, president walton i want to check if supervisor mandelman wait . Welcome. Supervisor, the agreement before you today has a history. Like most agreements do and actually the history on this guess back when Abraham Lincoln was president i will start more recently. In 1980, because at that point the southern pacific railroad, which was running that service those years decided to get out of the passenger business and start focusing only on freight. And at that point, we were looking around for somebody to run the railroad since sp was going to back out. State decide to do so in its role as a transportation entity. But i think the state quickly discovered that building a highway is in the the same as running a railroad. So at the upon end of the 80s. We were at a point where the local agencies needed to step up and that is what they d. The 3 counties formed a joint Powers Agreement and that is essentially the way we have been upon governed since. At the time they took over the service they we also had an opportunity to buy the rightofway for the public. And all of you know, about rightofway and how precious it is. And in the case of this peculiar rightofway, it is easily the most valuable transportation asset in our region. And fortunately, we were able to put together the funds to do it. Most came from a state bond measure the voters approved but there was a reporter for a local match. And at the time of the 3 part nerts only san matteo was willing to put cash down on the barrel head, which meant in order for the transaction to go through. They had to advance funds not only for its share but shares of 2 partners in San Francisco and santa clara. There was an expectation created. I had an agreement passed to try to structure a repayment plan. That eventually resulted in 30 Million Dollars being provided to sam trans but left 20 million short. And that is one thread that makes its way in the agreement that is before you today. To finally pay up on that dent. And also to pay what i would characterize a late fee. Because the debt was not paid not only in whole but not paid according to the schedule we had agreed to. So, that is one thread as i said that i think is in in agreement. The other thread and supervisor walton had a lot to do with this one, is the fact that we really and when i say. We i referred to San Francisco and santa clara county. We felt that the role that san mateo played in advancing the funds they were given the opportunity to be the managing agency for this service essential low as long as they wanted to. That left the other 2 counties in the position of irrelevant not having a lot of fluents over things you would think arc a board would have. And as a result of supervisor walton, we were able not to long ago, to get our own lawyer hired. We were able to get our own auditor hired. The most important step was to get the 8 to hire our own executive director, which is something that every organization i know about has. One of the responsibilities. Thats the other thread. I would characterize this agreement as a classic quid pro quo agreement. Where each party gives something and gets something. What the 2 book end counties get is that higher level of accountability. And what san mateo gets, finally, is that being discharged and also the late fee being paid to acknowledge the fact they have been waiting for the money for a long time. I conclude by saying, that as the board chair this year as supervisor walton indicated; i have been working on this during my whole tenure that was true of my predecessor and her predecessor. This has been enormously preoccupying for the board t. Is important to have a shape of the table when you need to they hog up the oxygen in the room that is happening here. It is vitalally important we get this agreement behind us and turn our attention back to the real business of our board, which is first of all to find 70 of riders, which we still have not found because caltrain is doing much worse than muni, for example in terms of current versus prepandemic ridership. And the fact that caltrain has under way 2 billion Dollars Program to electrify that service i characterize the second great investment by the public in that corridor. First of all by acquiring the right of way and secondly, now electrifying the line which is something we have to do to all of our infrastructure in the country to deal with climate change. But we are really out ahead of the pack i would say here in the San Francisco pel anyone slut. By getting that done for caltrain. Thanks for bearing with the history lesson. I think the history is relevant and i would be happy to answer questions if you have them, supervisors. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you chair preston i want to say thank you to president walton, and commissioner heminger. For all of your work on this. I have been part of a few of the meetings along the way as commissioner heminger said this has been going on for arc while and i think pretty important for 3 counties to get to a resolution as we try to make the case for federal funding for projects like downtown extension and many other projects that the region wants and needs. And i had understood one of the Major Concerns that the m. D. Federal government had has been challenging around governors. The jpb. So, the fact that we have gotten everybody godding heads and got to tees peace is a testament to the seriousness of folk and it is desire to come together and work through difficult issues and im grateful. Thank you. Vice chair chan thank you, chair preston for my own understanding and if you could help me, where are we in the approval process of this mou . We are i think supervisor may have mentioned we are most. Way through we have 5 boards that have to approve this tells you how complicated the governors structure is. And you would be the fourth the fifth would be vta in early august. We are in the home stretch, supervisor. Nicely done, thank you. Thank you, i want to echo the thanks to you chair heminger and our president. President walton, thank you this has been i will say there is a lot of work we do in public view and a lot of work we do that is in the so visible to the public. I know you and your office put in time and energy this representing the city on this. It is important. Unless you have additional comments, lets open up Public Comment. Thank you, mr. Chair. Members of the public who wish to speak and join nothing person may line up to speak. If you are joining us remote call 4156550001 enter access code 2493 392 7760. Once connected press star 3 to enter the line. For those in the queue continue it wait until you have been unmuted that will be a queue to begin. Im seeing no in person and 8 upon listening and one in our queue. Can you put that caller forward . Good morning, commissioners i would like to thank director heminger and director walton on the caltrain for getting us [inaudible]. My only comment this morning is i support approving this mou. The thing im correspond moving forward is going along the same lines in casting this proposal of governors in concrete amending the jpb. And past performance and for the future. Moving forward must be consider changing the [inaudible]. I want all the supervisors to be very alert and making sure that nothing happens that we may regret after 10 years down the road. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your comments. I will double check we dont have combeblgs. That was the final caller thank you, Public Comment on this item is closed. And seeing no one else on the roster thank you president walton for your leadership and perhaps supervisor mandelman as chair of our Transportation Authority you would like to make a motion to sends this resolution to the full board with recommendation as a Committee Report . Wonderful on the motion to sends this to the board as a report. Vase chair chan. Aye member mandelman. Aye. And chair preston. Aye. You have 3 ayes. Thank you. Motion passes. Madam clerk call items 1 and 2 together. Agenda item 1 a hearing on the 202122 civil grand Injury Report shovel ready best practices and collaboration to improve the Capitol Construction program. And 2, responding to the judge on recommendations contained in the upon 2122 civil grand jury report and impelementation of accepted findings and recommendations through Department Heads and the annual budget. Members. Public who wish to comment may lineup to speak or if you are joining remote call 4156550001 enter access code 2493 392 7760 press star 3 to enter the line. Prompt will indicate you raised your hand wait until you have been unmuted then begin comments. Thank you, and colleagues, we added these items to the agenda in order to sends the boards upon response to the superior court and philadelphia our duty to civil grand jury and under statutes my staff has been in touch with the Mayors Office and other diameters regarding todays date over the past weeks. After we added this to the agenda we received request to continue these items to allow departments to better prepare and identify speakers that can answer questions about the facts that are set forth in the conclusions in the grand jurys report which touch to many departments. The Mayors Office was the only executive office to require to submit a responsibles to the civil grand jury it makes sense to continue this to be able to ask the remaining departments questions about the civil grand jurys finding and a better understanding of their perspectives. That would be in the interest of the public and help the board better prepare responses to the findings and recommendations of the civil grand jury. Apologies who was hope to weigh in on the merits today. But want to thank the civil grand jury for the flexibility and understanding and want to thank supervisor mandelman who will take the lead on the work on this. And so, which that open this item up for Public Comment and we can hear from a motion to continue after. Thank you, mr. Chair. Member who is wish to speak on the continuance and in person may lineup now. If you are remote call 4156550001 enter access code 2493 392 7760 and then star 3 to enter the speaker line. Checking with our 9 people listening and zero in the queue. Mr. Chair. Thank you, Public Comment is closed. Id like to make a motion it condition items 1 and 2 to our meeting on september 15th. On that motion to continue the items to september 15th vice chair chan . Aye. Member mandelman. And chair preston. Aye. You have three ayes. Thank you the motion passes. Item 3 . Item 3 is a hearing on the citys sponse on the monkeypox vire. Efforts to vaccinate at risk groups against monkeypox and coordination with Public Health and cdc and requesting the d. Public hasnt to report. Member who is wish to comment may lineup to speak or if you are remoted call the line 4156550001 and enter access code 2493 392 7760 then press star 3 to enter the speaker line. Thank you madam clerk. This item is know sponsored by supervisor mandelman i want to thank him for his leadership on this issue and for moving swiftly its the board and working with advocates and making sure we can have this hearing before we break for our recess in august. Time is of the essense. Im looking forward to the presentations and supervisor upon mandelman, do you have opening remarks . I dpo and thank you chair preston for making time for this hearing so we could get to it before the august recess employees i want to thank did cohen from public will health for being here as well as drr tammy ear from the aids found a recollection and folks from the [inaudible] and from the hiv caucus who have been leading the effort to try to get more public attention and urgency around the response to monkeypox. Thank you. We are here today because gay and bisexual men and transfolks in the United States are being failed by our Public Health institutions and the cdc and hhs. And i thought i would share 2 stories about folks who are familiar to most of us. And experiences they have had trying to get vaccine in San Francisco. So this morning at 5 50 a. M. , our own hans how of the Housing Stability FundOversight Committee, and other organizations and civic commitments; got himself in line outside general hospital. And after a wait of 3 hours was able to get the first of the 2 dose of vaccine that will immunize him from monkeypox. The problem is, the 3 our wait is you know in the Early Morning is not great. But in fact, probably waited for 12 hours for this vaccination he had been at general 3 times prior waiting for hours each day and each day being told when he got to talk to somebody they had run out of vaccines for that day and welcome to come back the next time of our own tom who folks may remember from my office and is now of k with equality california alerted after pride weekend he had been to a party there were folk who is tested positive for monkeypox. He called all of the numbers that are website directs to you call to make an appointment to get a vaccination and never heard back from any of those numbers. And he was alerted not by d ph tweet but gay twitter. That he could get vaccines on a day at a place and as many [inaudible] and are doing, got himself in a line and able to access a vaccine between 14 days of exposure. Sadly not with help from our local department of Public Health. And he has learned from gay twitter that the second dose may not be coming that is in the communityed him he has an appointment. Our own tom is not quite sure that is going on with his second dose. These are 2 people with extraordinary access who have been involved in City Governments. You know we are talking upper percentile of ability to access Public Services and their frustration is great. I can only imagine how great the frustration and feelings of powerlessness are for thousands of other folk who is ought to be getting the vaccine. Now this is in the the 1980s. And joe biden is not Ronald Reagan and monkeypox although very unpleasant and not something anyonement system not hiv. But this is an eerily familiar experience for the Queer Community especially for longterm survivors of the early ugly days of the aids crisis and the terrible federal response another thing peculiar around monkeypox this is the tail end of another pandemic where the response was quite differents. Federa