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Chairman heinicke all right. Good morning good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I will call this meeting of the San Francisco m. T. A. To arrested. I will read some preliminary rules after the roll is called. Call the roll. [roll call] clerk thank you. You have a quorum. Chairman heinicke all right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by p...

Clerk thank you. You have a quorum. Chairman heinicke all right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by phone at my request. Caroline and others in the room here to assist with our City Attorney deputy City Attorney, susan cleavelandknowles. We will say, at the end, get through this together. I will ask Board Members to mute their phones. ...

Our policy will continue to be indexing the fares upward on the average of cost of living and inflation. This is important in order to allow fares to continue to increase with our costs and so that we dont artificially hold fares flat and then be forced to have a massive increase every few years. A modest increase every year is more helpful. All of this is in the context of however we shape the next new revenue measure. The next new revenue measure could ask what is the appropriate fare box return rate for s. F. M. T. A. And make changes there. We can continue to look specifically at who uses ...

Right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by phone at my request. Caroline and others in the room here to assist with our City Attorney deputy City Attorney, susan cleavelandknowles. We will say, at the end, get through this together. I will ask Board Members to mute their phones. It sounds great right now, but if you want to speak, unmut...

Directors . I am hearing on tow you are comfortable with option two. There are three of us to speak here. That is what i was getting from that group moving in that direction. I am getting on the fare policy you are in the middle. Well maybe the director was on one side and director themingger was on the other. What i heard from the four was there was except acceptance of the premise and which option to use to fill it. One point to clarify with regard to the fare policy and indexes is the board has always had certain goals, equity being one of them, ease of access to the system. Those goals hav...