Good afternoon and welcome to the city and School District select meeting on october 22nd. I want to recognize members here today. We have commissioner haney and walton. Supervisor david campos will be joining us shortly. I want to recognize or clerk today derek evans and our staff at sf gov tv who make our meetings available in transcript. Please call the first item. City clerk [hearing free muni for Youth Program] sponsor kim hearing regarding updates on the free muni for Youth Program; and requesting the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency to report sf 11234 supervisor jane kim thank you. I do want to recognize supervisor cohen who will make comments after the presentation. I do want to recognize candice sue. Thank you for being here. Thank you, supervisor kim. Members of the joint city School Select meeting. Candice from the San Francisco transportation agency. They four allowing me to be here to report on the low income moderate yutsd around here we are here to update you and as the distinguished record of having processed most of the thousands of applications that came here and there is so much to say since the program has launched. I want to talk about a few accomplishments since our last report. Two informations. Sf mta had a lot of opportunities to coordinate and better our efforts since our last presentation. We have since begun meeting on a monthly basis with the School District in a committee that looks at the 20 or so intersections between sfusd and sf mta. Because of that, weve been able to better coordinate on a number of issues that are planning and operational things from muni school tripers and the times they start and arrive at each school as the crossing guards and where they are placed as well as parking and curb space. Many thanks due to the presentations at this committee, weve been able to look at that and start to coordinate more effectively. It still a work in progress of course but i think we are in the right track and many thanks to nick casner and Anna Velazquez who is at the department of Public Health who are helping with that coordination effort. Another item that we became aware of. On october 10th Governor Brown signed into law that decriminalize youth derivation that allows sf mta to through the Juvenile Court system. This following the success of free muni for Youth Program. So one of the goals as you will see of the free muni for yutsd Youth Program was to eliminate the fear among riding transit. And it was important for us as an agency to tie in in dedecriminalization of this program. This bill also defines noise violation and infraction and allows for if we choose to do so to have an infraction for failing to yield to elderly and disabled passengers. I will also note that it bill is carried by the San FranciscoTransit Association and by the yutsd commission and proud to have received a letter of approval from the School District. We want to make sure you are updated on that. Now i would like to introduce emmett nelson. Supervisor jane kim thank you for being here. Good afternoon, as candice said im emmett nelson, the Program Manager for sf mta muni program. Its an honor to be here today to present this program. This Program Provides free muni access to low and moderate income youth to San Francisco. When the program was initially passed, it covered youth ages 517 and this year expanding to include 18yearolds as well as sf usd learning programs for ages 922 and for all students enrolled in the School District. The pass is a one time pass loaded onto a clipper card. Its not a monthly card, its a one time pass that we load on the card for youth that they can ride until they are 19. Its a nice thing not to have to load it every month. It doesnt make the youth have to remember to upload their pass every month. Its available only to San Francisco residents. This is one of the strict issues from the getgo and it only applies to households that are making at or below 100 of the bay area need income level. Its a family of four making under 105,000 a year, then the kids qualify for the program. The initial goals of the program were to first and foremost to increase transit ridership in the city and to get them to school. We heard from surveys early on that a fare to get to school was often a barrier to getting to school in the morning. That was one of the big programs boost to get kids to school. As candice stated was to eliminate the fear and stigma and to incentivize families who are in the city to remain in the city. If everybody can get their kids to school, then they are going to stay here longer. I will briefly go through this but you know the application process. We send out a clipper card to youth if they dont already have one. Then they load the pass on the clipper card. They can fill out by mail or online. We process the application within 4 weeks. The School Districts our team did a survey of about 6,000 students to capture what peoples idea of riding muni was from before riding the pass to the difference between the students that have the pass to not having the free passch. We have a few responses here. The main point that youth with muni pass have a better overall experience on muni compared to the kids not currently using the free pass. This is the slide that weve been using quite a bit to show the bus line for students using the free pass which pretty much covers the entire city. A lot of kids do transfer on the way home but these are the ten most popular bus lines for free muni. As far as participants its been a Successful Program from students ages 517 and around 700 for the special program, the 1922yearold and enrolled in the special sf programs. Supervisor jane kim just to ask a quick question, this is a second year of the program . About the third year now. Are we seeing 18 crease an increase in the number of participation . Its remained static for the last year when kids turn 18. We see a dip in the beginning of the school year and it drops off when people cant use the pass and we cant figure that out. Its remained stagnant for the last year. Supervisor norman yee just really quickly. Is there any way to measure or collect information about you have individual participants. But do you know how many times they actually use it . We can get down to every use of clipper card. I have the average tag per day per youth and we can even go down by zip code for those types of things. I dont have that today but i can get you those late. This slide shows the zip code breakdown. The trend is mostly the same. Most kids are using the program in the western and southeastern neighborhoods. In this slide shows the last 12 months of ridership data for the youth using the free pass. During the school year months we see about 600,000 tags per month which come out to roughly 20,000 average daily tags. We are seeing between 812 individual riding everyday. They are using it for transfers and using it very well. As i stated, we can provide data based on zip codes for this as well. Supervisor norman yee what would be interesting for the 3 years that weve had it to look at the comparison sons of the years also. Yeah. For the first 68 months we didnt have this data capability. The trend you see here is pretty much whats been going on for the last 2 years. The ridership remains during the high peak during the school year and down during the summer, about 30 because the kids arent guaranteed to be making those trips everyday. The free muni program does everything to tie into the sf mta and looking to increase services to the 140,000 customers and focused on 7 of all the riders in the city and their increase in services will also encapsulate the students who will ride more effectively. We are adding more vehicles to help us relieve those issues and get kids to school and getting there on time. Over all we feel its been a great success. Its fun to work on and its grown to include seniors with disabilities. Its been a great boost for the city and residents to reach their destinations. Any questions im happy to answer. Supervisor jane kim thank you, mr. Nelson. This is exactly the type of data we want to see. Its great to see the actual ridership. Surveys that were done with the youth to see such high numbers and what they are able to experience on muni and feel like they are being treated with respect riding muni. I think this is really good data and to see what lines the youth are riding on. I think thats based on the tags . Yes. We have gps data point and bus line data point. You can tell where they are getting tagged and how often they are being used. We can at least see where they are getting on. I think its great we can collect that type of level of data and see where the ridership is. One other thing to note on average per card is the an average of two times per day. Its 2. 2 per card. Probably someone transferring. Interesting data. We do have a couple of comments from commissioners starting with supervisor yee. Supervisor norman yee thanks for the presentation. Its great to see so many kids are using this. I guess the 2. 2 is a good thing meaning they leave home, go to school. They leave school and go home. [ laughter ] if it was like four or five, you might wonder where they are going. It seems you have made improvements with the program. Going forward, are there other programs that you are anticipating that you would like to do or see from the survey are there any occasions on how to improve it . We are continuing to work with Community Outreach groups to meet families who maybe missed the program. I know every student at the School District receives an application but that could be lost on the way home. This program is available to help you and this is a service you should be taking advantage of. Im just curious is the outreach effort similar to Public Schools and private schools . We are a little bit more ingrained in the Public Schools. I have more questions after you finish your review. Supervisor jane kim great, commissioner fewer . Yes. Thank you, supervisor kim. This is great. I love to see this kind of data. When we first started we were a little concerned about how we maybe implementing this and will students use this. It seems to be taking off and its successful. Im wondering if our liaison if you wouldnt mind sending a copy of this to every board member so they are updated on free muni for youth. Thank you very much. Supervisor jane kim thank you very much commissioner fewer, commissioner haney . I would like to say how excited i am to see so many yutsd youth for taking advantage of this. I had a couple questions. Part of it was answered from supervisor yees questions. I wonder if you have a way to assess the level of saturation at individual schools or crossreferenced data at the individual schools to say this is a percentage of an individual school utilizing it and high schools and the buses with specific schools and a particular time and a name if it was referenced for those. How are those decided on in terms of which schools receive those and what sort of data do you rely on to make a determination that you are going to develop one of those more specific direct routes for an individual school because i see them at some schools and not at others. And lastly we just introduced a resolution recently at the School District that will be working its way through the process through equitable and Sustainable Transportation a lot of it around walking and biking and reference around Public Transportation and extending safe routes to schools to all of our schools. We hope to be working closely in collaboration even more with that policy. Most definitely. The buses that are hitting the schools that are more congested, i dont have that right now but i can get that to you. Its im sure survey data on the ground to see how those buses are and to get more buses out there. But i can get more information for you on that. As far as the school data, schools were self reported on the part of applications. We have quite a bit of information on each of the riders but not every participant report the school they attend. We have 60 of participants and what school they use and their date of birth. We can certainly use that data to try to make some effort with the School District to see what the saturation has been at schools. Its something we havent done yet but we can do. Is that something you can share . Thats pretty easy data. I can share that from the students that are enrolled in school. Supervisor jane kim i know at some point i heard this from some of the School Board Members because of the general increase in congestion throughout the city primarily with additional drivers on the street that we are hearing that more and more students and families are not making it to school on time due to traffic. Thats not an issue limited to muni per say but just a larger conversation piece citywide on what we can do and the morning for grid lock hours. Certainly not up for discussion today but something i have heard anecdotally from school board and principals. Supervisor norman yee to follow up . Okay. Supervisor yee. I will just call on you all the time. Supervisor norman yee commissioner asked about synchronizing buses and so forth. I would like to get a report in terms of update, how we are doing with that. There are lines that come up pretty frequently and there are lines that dont come up frequently. Those are the ones that i would like to have some focus on to make sure they are synced up so a student doesnt have to wait around for 25 minutes. A comment about one of the benefits of this program and at least leads into our next discussion that motivates families to continue to stay in San Francisco and its a big issue for many of us on the board of supervisors to the try to keep people in San Francisco because as you know San Francisco has the lowest School Population than anywhere in the united states. Its how to provide transportation and build housing for families. Thank you for pointing that out. As another thing i can say to families. We have free muni. Supervisor jane kim thank you, supervisor campos. Supervisor david campos i will be very brief and i apologize for being late. I was at an mtc meeting and part of that for making it possible and its exciting that after all these years and all the effort that went into it, very severe treatment for members for the board of supervisors that we managed to get this through. What i was concerned about commissioner haney talking about people being late or students being late to school because of whats happening with congestion. I hope thats something that is discussed as the mta moves forward on the continuation of the text shuttle program. Its one of the reasons we should explore for modifying that pilot so these tech buses come to some specific hubs in the out skirts of the city close to bart or certain areas to avoid or minimize some of the implications on traffic. So i think thats something i would like to learn more about what the data shows in terms of how kid are being impacted by traffic and you know tardiness to school being one of those factors. I dont know if mta, what data is being collected around that and i know you meet monthly with the School District but having that information would be very helpful. I will look into it and get information back to you. Lastly we have sheila back in my office and she made this happen. Sheila, look at what you started. Thank you. Supervisor jane kim we did a big shout out to your office before you got here and acknowledging and ensuring that this is something for our family and youth and proud of something we invested in and to provide muni service for our youth to get to school. At this time im going to open for Public Comment on this item. I have three speaker cards. I have alexandra and walter and elizabeth james. If you want to speak, please lineup on the right side of the chamber. Please come up. No specific order. Public speaker i go to sf state. And i think this program is a really good idea and its obviously done a lot of good for the youth. I think if this can be extended to College Students can also be useful because the state is a really big Commuter School and those kids that dont have the cash, they dont want to pay the cost today and that leads to emissions from cars and traffic. I think that can be a useful thing. Thank you very much. Public speaker hi. Im going to piggy back on what she said. There are so many students in college dont make it to class because its Something Else they cant afford. This program if we are able to expand it so more students are able to get to class, i think thats super beneficial or even having a reduced rate because more people are finding it more valuable to drive their cars but thats more emissions. We should cut down more and that would really really help and it will reduce the traffic and as you are talking about the grid lock and all of these cars, it would reduce that so much. If you go to sf state, the parking lots are loaded and the entire community is inundated with cars. That would be something to look into. Supervisor jane kim thank you. Public speaker good afternoon, board. And mustang muni wont you slow that bus drive down. Mustang muni wont you slow that bus on down. Youve been riding all over town. Want you to bring the price down. You bought some brand new bus some that are mighty in drive. Mustang bus now. Mustang muni. Wont you bring that price on down. Youve been