We have quorum. Commissioner stephanie and vice chair melgar asked to be excused and unless there are objections i will grant that request. I also think your have a Public Comment announcement. Members interested in participate this meeting we welcome your attendance in city hall. For those wishing to make Public Comment the best way is call 4156550001. Enter access code 26608075143. Press pound and pound 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 press star 3. Do not press star 3 or you will be removed from the queue. The live operator will advines you can speak. When your two minutes are up well move to the next caller. Calls are taken in the order received. Speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of televisions or radios. Public comment will be taken from members in attendance and after the telephone line. I like to welcome commissioner chan to the meeting. That concludes my announcements. Thank you mr. Clerk. Before calling the next item, i want to invoke 3. 26 to limit Public Comment for 30 minutes. Each speaker has two minutes to speak on a given item. Please call the next item. Item 2, chair report. This is information item. Alright. Colleagues have several pieces of good news on the transportation grant front to share. The federal Transit Administration earlier this mujt awarded 2 2000000 to [indiscernible] and golden gate transit for all electric fleet and balance to golden gate transit. Retrofit ferry floats in alameda and San Francisco by installing Battery Storage system. This is great news for Treasure Island and mission bay routes which is the first with zero emission ferrys under development and in operation by late 2025. The 6 million to golden gate transit will replace the Ferry Landing at the ferry terminal. We thank fta [indiscernible] nury fernandez and coming to San Francisco to make these awards in person. We are also beyond excited by the federal Rail Administration award of 3. 07 billion in federal state Partnership Funds to california high speed rail. A investment that accelerate completion of the Central Valley segment. The 3 billion support construction of true track lectifyed Passenger Rail line connecting the city merced, fresno and bakersfield. Speaker pelosi and padilla advocated both sets of grants and thank them for strong sustained support. High speed rail [indiscernible] create jobs while bringing benefits and climate and access and equity from the peninsula to Central Valley la and beyond. In a separate related action, far federal Rail Administration announced new grants for high speed rail through the corridor identification and development or corridor id program, which drives future Passenger Rail expansion nation wide including up to 500 thousand for phase 1 corridor including developing a scope schedule and cost estimate for preparing completing or documenting the Service Development plan. We thank president biden, [indiscernible] our federal delegation for this good news. Finally, this is our last Board Meeting of the year and i want to wish everyone a safe happy Holiday Season with best wishes for 2024. With that, i conclude my remarks and if there are any members of the public who would like to address us on item 2, please come forward. Seeing none, lets see if we have remote Public Comment on item 2. Chair, there is no Public Comment for this item. Alright. Public comment on item 2 is closed. Mr. Clerk, please call item 3. Item 3, executive directors report. Information item. Good morning. In more good news following chairs remarks about high speed rail and wita, San Francisco environment received a grant from the u. S. Department of energy, 600 thousand to extend the city ebike dlirfby pilot program. This grant will more then double the number of participants in the ebike Delivery Program that the department had initiated. It will continue to monitor the impacts on the delivery efficiency and working revenue. Help us at the ta understand how to build upon their success and address any remaining gaps through our eco friendly downtown delivery study which is underway. Convene working group of Small Businesses along with environmental organizations, Delivery Companies and other stakeholders to discuss and identify these Good Movement strategies to reduce emissions. We look forward reporting back on that. The out reach continues with one on one [indiscernible] Transportation Team hosted a town hall meeting and pas participated in the potrero Booster Association in november focused on i280 transit car pool lane at terminus of northbound lanes add king. This is in the Environmental Planning stages and the purpose of the project is provide priority for Public Transit vehicles, particularly muni and buses and other shuttles and buses and car pool in that area. The idea is to continue the corridor facility from downtown san jose to downtown San Francisco through san mateo extending their lanes to the airport. Our outreaches focus on introducing the project and hearing feed back on alternatives and analysis approach and we look forward sharing the evaluation of alternatives next spring. Outreach is also currently underway for the brotherhood way study. We released survey which folk s can find at sfcta. Org brotherhood and share a map with existing conditions and will be hosting a walk around the neighborhood with Community Members december 16, so interested members from the Community Folks invited to join the walk 11 a. M. December 16 at daly city bart station. Continuing with outreach events we have been doing a lot on Treasure Island with av shuttle hosting numerous groups round the country and world in fact. Associationinternational Association Union of Public Transportation agency for europe came and learned about the project and we also been working with local businesses to promote businesses on the island through a new brochure that points out all the different resource agencies, businesses and other points of interest along the shuttle route. For more information check out our video and brochure at timma. Org tiloop. Project delivery, sfmta good news on the quick build front continues to roll out that program and they expect to Start Construction of the lincoln way quick build over the coming months. Now they completed outreach and design. The lincoln way quick build will install 20 new cross walks 12 painted safety zones [indiscernible] as well as visibility upgrades to signal and timing adjustment. Mta is on track to complete construction of the hyde street quick build project and deliver the lake merced project. Mta held a open house on december 5 at city college and the team is reviewing public feedback. Folks can learn more at wwwsfmta. Com[indiscernible] regarding the lincoln way at kezar rolling out the [indiscernible] 6 intersections improvements with flashing beacons, traffic pedestrian and bike safety improvements and Traffic Management improvements as well. Earlier the fall mta activated the first new signal at lincoln and kezar on High Injury Network and improvements accessible and signals and median upgrade. Turning to sales tax revenue updates we collected in the First Quarter of the fiscal year, 27. 3 million. This is slightly lower then the First Quarter of 2023 about 4 percent lower and 3 percent below our annual budgeted revenues, however we are seeing hopefully pick up in shopping and downtown activities through the holiday jz hope that bears out over the coming rest thof fiscal year. Finally, before we end the year i want to add to chair appreciation and are thank you to you all and your staff for the time you provide our team throughout the year. We appreciate your guidance and brief egz. Also want to appreciate our Community Advisory committee and air agency consultants and ta staff and team. Wish everybody a very happy and relaxing holiday and look forward to 2024. Thank you. Thank you director chang. Lets see if there is Public Comment on the director report. Dont see any in the chamber. Any remote Public Comment on item 3. There is remote Public Comment going to call 1. Hello caller, your 2 minutes begins now. Good morning, supervisors. Thank you for the opportunity. [indiscernible] i like to briefly bring your attention to the fact that the executive directors report was not on the website at 9 a. M. And wondering could it be possible to add these reports posted no later then close of business prior day, probably 5 oclock in the afternoon . This gives members of the public more time to prepare comments on the content. The thing i like to bring to your attention in the report is la to las vegas lines and basically reset the expectation of what people are expecting for [indiscernible] on the one hand, we have the portal, which is proposing to extend 8 billion. On 1 and a half miles of caltrain track expansion to the transit center. Meanwhile, in nevada, the private sector is proposing to build a 218 mile high speed line for 12 billion. 50 percent more. 8 billion of that line is coming from the private sector. I bring that to your attention and discussions [indiscernible] thank you. Thank you caller. There is no additional Public Comment for this item. Alright. Public comment on item 3 is closed. Mr. Clerk, please call item 4. Item 4 approval the minutes of december 5, 2023 meeting. Action item. Lets see if we have Public Comment on the minutes. Item 4. Anyone like to come forward . Seeing no one, lets see if there is remote Public Comment on item 4. Checking for Public Comment on item 4. There is no Public Comment. Great. Public comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve item 4 . Moved by walton. Is there a second . Seconded by dorsey. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. [roll call] 10 ayes. Minutes are approved. Thank you mr. Clerk. Please call item 57 . Item 57 comprise the consent agenda. Staff is not planning to present. Moved by dorsey. Seconded by preston. I think we can take this same house same call without objection. The motion passes. Mr. Clerk, please call item 8. Item 8, introduction of new items. Information item. I dont think there are new items. Item 9, Public Comment. If anyone would like to speak on item 9, please come forward. I want to echo the executive directors report. I thought it hit all check marks and as the last meeting of the year i want to wish you guys a very Merry Christmas and festive happy new year. I was here as you guys know earlier in the year, just wanted to get those you know, points down and im happy to see that its come to fruition. Basically what i just want to tell you guys is, it is very important that you guys stay active in the Online Platforms that connect you to your district and i think thats twitter has been one of the tools you have been able to get in touch with people and want to encourage to the greatest extent possible to continue the engagement. You dont want to let people hanging. You want to let them know you are around and looking out for them so i want to echo that if i can. I know ahsha, im sorry, not supposed to mention people by name, but some of you are still involved and that is great to see. I think you are as well, so lets go ahead and do that, keep doing that and again, this is the last meeting. Thank you very much for all your hard work alright. Thank you. Lets see if we have remote Public Comment under item 9. Yes, we do. Let me go to the caller. Caller, your 2 minutes begins now. Hello again supervisors and thanks again for the opportunity. I would like to make the board aware of serious [indiscernible] created by the current proposal replacing the creek bridge and replacing a section of the t3 line with a bridge over two years. First, i would like to remind the board that the t3 extension and the central subway were designed to reconnect two chinese communities. Chinatown and visitation valley. Not [indiscernible] less then 2 years after opening the central subway. Second, there is no accredable reason why the [indiscernible] to be treated any differently then the replacement of the [indiscernible] caltrain bridge in palo alto which no longer requires a bridge, also for two years. The solution is simple, build separate bridges in each direction in phases. With each bridge carrying [indiscernible] reducing the impact of singing tracking during the construction phase. In closing, i would also like to take the opportunity to wish you happy holidays. Otherwise known as Merry Christmas and happy new year where i come from. Thank you and i look forward continuing this conversation next year. Thank you caller. There is no additional Public Comment. Public comment on item 9 is closed. Mr. Clerk, please call item 10. Item 10, adjournment. We are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] [music] San Francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. At this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. One the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. There were 800 people in 1848 it was small. A lot of Historic Buildings were here including pony express headquarters. Wells fargo. Hudson Bay Trading Company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. Africanamerican decent and the first million airin california. Wilwoman was the founders of San Francisco. Here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. He spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. 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