hard work and with that, i want to invite to the myself of microphone the vice chair the mta sheryl brinkman. >> thank you ben and thank you all for coming i want to thank the mayor and the supervisors and oats heads of all the

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director brinkman. >> we will consider that as a direction. >> chair borden: thank you. >> director brinkman: it was not an easy exercise but it made you think when push came to shove, what did you want to find and how much did you want to find? so i gave myself four values at the end to apportion that money and one for me was revenue generation. the things that will generate revenue for this agency really need to be prioritized to me. and the second was safety. and we talk about vision zero and safety. a person losing a life is priceless. that impact that it had has on the family is horrible. and number three is something that chair nolan used to talk about a lot, we need to serve those who need us most. so that is a really important thing that i bring to any of these decisions. fourth, for me, was efficient service, because that helps us to achieve all of those other things by allowing us to spend less money and to move more people and to do it more efficiently. when it comes to the risk -- yes. i know that we are a conservative agency. we've been pretty conservative the whole time that i'

director brinkman. >> thank you. jonathan, leo, thank you both so much and all of your staff, the work has been amazing, from the very first discussions about budget at the board workshop, we've been able to go in depth into this and you've taken all of the feedback and you've come back with what i think is a good compromise and intend to support this. i just want to note that when we first start the wited with clipd offering a discount, i was 100% all in on clipper. i was looking at the golden gate ferry or whenever one was losing clipper that went to a high adoption rate so quickly and thought, we could do that and go there. but the big difference is, our riding public just doesn't have access to clipper load sites. bart is so lucky, there are clipper machines at every bart station. so if you're riding bart, you have access to reload your clipper card and so much of the city doesn't have that and we need to keep that in mind. as much as i would love us to go 100% to clipper, you're right, it's cheaper than running

condolences to the family and to drink tore brinkman especially. a huge passion for life that he passed to his children. he left his family when there were times when they were gathered at dinner table. we offer our deepest condolences in passing. i know how deeply painful. it is something and a void that can never be refilled. thank you for being here in this difficult time and thank you for your father for having such an amazing daughter. >> thank you very much. much appreciated. >> due to the covid-19 health emergency, this meeting is held virtually. all participants are via teleconference. in the notice and on the web page we ask the public to write the board or leave a voicemail. for comments received in advance before today we have received and appreciate those comments. we thank you for honoring our request. we will continue to urge the public to write the board or call us and leave a voicemail message. this allows us to hold the meetings via teleconference. it may not be seamless. we even lose the public comment line. we are doing our best

. >> director brinkman: aye. >> vice chair eaken: aye. >> director heminger: aye. >> director hinze: aye. >> commissioner yekutiel: aye. all right, consent calendar items passed. >> you didn't call me yet? >> dr. lai? i'm so sorry. i apologize. dr. lai? >> director lai: no worries. it's an aye. >> now the items all pass. item 11 is authorizing the director to execute contracts number sfmta 202107 with creative bus sales to secure 30 hybrid buses related tools, training, manuals and spare parts not to exceed $26 million and for a term not to exceed six years. >> chair borden: great. director kirchbaum? you're on mute. >> can you see me and hear me? >> yes. >> okay. excellent. and then for my final trick, let's see if i can share my screen. >> then we'll all go off camera. can you see the powerpoint? >> yes, we can. >> excellent. good afternoon. julie kirchbaum director of transit. i'd like to talk to you today about a small vehicle replacement for our 32-foot buses. this procurement would be part of a long and deliberate process to bring our fleet to a state of good repair. one of the

joined with people on foot and on buses thank you all very much. >> (clapping.) >> thank you cheryl brinkman the shoves shovels are being sharpened but thank you to my partner in the streets of san francisco our public works director to say a few words they're the partner in delivering projects there are unique aspects of working with the public works support we're using a unique mechanism it is called the contract approach different than your typical lump sum low cost build public works has had a lot of experience with this bringing to our support that experience for this long horizontal project as well as great design support and support in many ways please help me welcome the director of the department public works mohammed nuru. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> ed and thank you for your speakers as you can see are true testimony on everybody working together to make a project come through and in public works how rare do we get an opportunity to do a lot of things it in one project new sewer lines and water and bus platforms but also the beauty of project it's the landscaping the sidewalks

hard work and with that, i want to invite to the myself of microphone the vice chair the mta sheryl brinkman. >> thank you ben and thank you all for coming i want to thank the mayor and the supervisors and oats heads of all the city departments for in their focus when is fundamental to everyone in our city this is about saving lives this is making your streets more welcoming for everyone who lives in the city traffic collisions really extract a department staff stating emotional toll the victims and loved ones and the person behind the wheel of car a had a kroshg it came across a traffic crash in the marina he and highs wife with your taking their children to daycare they saw the aftermath of the too young boys hit that made them feel less safe in the city and worried about about the future of the children in the city so our core philosophy in vision zero that traffic deaths with preventable and your honor, acceptable i'm proud and humble to work with everyone in the city on this project to reduce traffic deaths it get rid of traffic deaths traffic gathers are not like the weather not unlike

joined with people on foot and on buses thank you all very much. >> (clapping.) >> thank you cheryl brinkman the shoves shovels are being sharpened but thank you to my partner in the streets of san francisco our public works director to say a few words they're the partner in delivering projects there are unique aspects of working with the public works support we're using a unique mechanism it is called the contract approach different than your typical lump sum low cost build public works has had a lot of experience with this bringing to our support that experience for this long horizontal project as well as great design support and support in many ways please help me welcome the director of the department public works mohammed nuru. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> ed and thank you for your speakers as you can see are true testimony on everybody working together to make a project come through and in public works how rare do we get an opportunity to do a lot of things it in one project new sewer lines and water and bus platforms but also the beauty of project it's the landscaping the sidewalks

joined with people on foot and on buses thank you all very much. >> (clapping.) >> thank you cheryl brinkman the shoves shovels are being sharpened but thank you to my partner in the streets of san francisco our public works director to say a few words they're the partner in delivering projects there are unique aspects of working with the public works support we're using a unique mechanism it is called the contract approach different than your typical lump sum low cost build public works has had a lot of experience with this bringing to our support that experience for this long horizontal project as well as great design support and support in many ways please help me welcome the director of the department public works mohammed nuru. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> ed and thank you for your speakers as you can see are true testimony on everybody working together to make a project come through and in public works how rare do we get an opportunity to do a lot of things it in one project new sewer lines and water and bus platforms but also the beauty of project it's the landscaping the sidewalks

. >> welcome director brinkman and use of cell phones, please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. >> approval of the minutes. >> >> any further discussion? our. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> communication directors i have nun. >> members of the board. >> introduction of new or unfinished business by the board of directors and siege none director's report. >> good morning. >> director nolan and members of the public and staff a number of things to update you as you may know i want to imagine that last week on i think the 22 we had to people who are riding their bikes in the city that were struck and killed by speeding automobiles as you may know we declared through our adoption of vision 2025 we'll no longer accept that people need to die in traffic violence and those too late fatalities like every other one yield avoidable we're not accepting this should be happening in our city anymore i think everybody knows the tran

let start with director brinkman director rubke director ramos and director nolan so director heinecke is expected and director borden is also expected item 3 amazement of please silence all electronic devices. cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. >> thank you. >> next item. >> approval of the minutes may regular meeting minutes. >> motion to approve second any further discussion? >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the i's have it. thank you very much okay item 5 communications and i do have one item item 11 regarding the contract for the van ness improvement project has been removed from the agenda at the request of staff. >> so ladies and gentlemen, what that means if you're here for that item you my 1956 during general public comment and if it comes back you're welcome to come back as well board members new and unfinished business. >> we talked about the better market street plan that was need did configuration of the street was in consideration with bikes share a baseline and several directors indicat

commissioner -- director ethan and brinkman have experience in transportation -- public transport. and director borden, significant experience in government. and how nominees yekutiel and heinz fit into that, our thinking in why we put their names forward, their experienced on commissions, which we can observe part of government and bringing community process to government is important aspects of that and the ability to build the coalitions and make sure the coalitions are represented in government, as well as their individual experience, both with the small business community. not to speak for him, but mr. yekutiel has been very engaged in aspects of sfmta that are not public transport specifically. i realize that is not the named qualification, but we think is relevant. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. ms. pearson, can you direct this body to the actual language -- and i am now looking for the appropriate charter section for collectively read. >> sure, it's section 8a, 102 of the charter. subsection a, the second paragraph. it starts with -- >> supervisor peskin: hold on. my comp

hope that when tom nolan our current chair is turned out, our current vice chair and my friend sheryl brinkman will become the chair and i hope to help her in that transition. i'm not suggesting she'll need my help, but i look forward to helping her. finally specific projects going forward. it is important for each board member to identify projects that they focus on particularly and like to see forward and as i discussed with supervisor tang recently, i do villea great affinity for our taxi industry. i think it's important that our board work with our staff in the industry to help it through what is a difficult time right now with the competition from the tncs and i will continue to dedicate myself to doing that particularly through regulation relaxment and traffic control if expanded red carnts and taxicabs will help them, i'll support that. and i've been a strong proponent for expanding the ban on public cars. private cars, excuse me on market street. that is something i would like to see go forward and really be sort of a paradigm or example for other transit improvement throughout the cit

regiment brinkman brinkman >> i continue to be impressed and thankful for the work you're doing. we were discussing of policy and governance the numbers and some fact some of the new residents of san francisco are choosing not to get around by car but taking the bus and walking or biking. i said we are so lucky to have that. i call myself and i corrected myself and said that's not love. this is all because of the planning that you are doing that staff is doing all because of these improvements are you making did i see it on the line i write all the time you had an articulated bus to the route and they fill up. you make the buses move faster and they continue to fill all. so again i just congratulate you all of us in the city are so lucky to have this work going on. we may get some pushback on projects here and there but overall the work that we are doing is really helping to keep people choosing to take muni and choosing to walk advice when they can get i have no substantive input. i just want to say thanks for all the work and i see it's doing a good job and i really appreciate

hard work and with that, i want to invite to the myself of microphone the vice chair the mta sheryl brinkman. >> thank you ben and thank you all for coming i want to thank the mayor and the supervisors and oats heads of all the city departments for in their focus when is fundamental to everyone in our city this is about saving lives this is making your streets more welcoming for everyone who lives in the city traffic collisions really extract a department staff stating emotional toll the victims and loved ones and the person behind the wheel of car a had a kroshg it came across a traffic crash in the marina he and highs wife with your taking their children to daycare they saw the aftermath of the too young boys hit that made them feel less safe in the city and worried about about the future of the children in the city so our core philosophy in vision zero that traffic deaths with preventable and your honor, acceptable i'm proud and humble to work with everyone in the city on this project to reduce traffic deaths it get rid of traffic deaths traffic gathers are not like the weather not unlike

joined with people on foot and on buses thank you all very much. >> (clapping.) >> thank you cheryl brinkman the shoves shovels are being sharpened but thank you to my partner in the streets of san francisco our public works director to say a few words they're the partner in delivering projects there are unique aspects of working with the public works support we're using a unique mechanism it is called the contract approach different than your typical lump sum low cost build public works has had a lot of experience with this bringing to our support that experience for this long horizontal project as well as great design support and support in many ways please help me welcome the director of the department public works mohammed nuru. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> ed and thank you for your speakers as you can see are true testimony on everybody working together to make a project come through and in public works how rare do we get an opportunity to do a lot of things it in one project new sewer lines and water and bus platforms but also the beauty of project it's the landscaping the sidewalks

joined with people on foot and on buses thank you all very much. >> (clapping.) >> thank you cheryl brinkman the shoves shovels are being sharpened but thank you to my partner in the streets of san francisco our public works director to say a few words they're the partner in delivering projects there are unique aspects of working with the public works support we're using a unique mechanism it is called the contract approach different than your typical lump sum low cost build public works has had a lot of experience with this bringing to our support that experience for this long horizontal project as well as great design support and support in many ways please help me welcome the director of the department public works mohammed nuru. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> ed and thank you for your speakers as you can see are true testimony on everybody working together to make a project come through and in public works how rare do we get an opportunity to do a lot of things it in one project new sewer lines and water and bus platforms but also the beauty of project it's the landscaping the sidewalks

next up is director brinkman >> director brinkman: director hinze, great comments. i agree with all of the questions that you asked. shannon really good responses. i think that it's important to help drivers understand how do you as a car driver use the slow street and when are you behaving correctly and when you might be behaving that makes the other street userrers nervous. it's a really good idea. comments that really resonated with me was children who called in with the help of their parents. thank you parents for facilitating that. that's not easy. i know it takes a bit of time. thank you, kids, for calling it. it reminds me, there's a lot of people ask, they build our cities for the children. they can't drive. they're going to be using these streets decades and decades longer than any of us. let's build these streets correctly for the kids now, create that network of slow streets. we'll all adapt to it going forward. i was in union city not too long ago dropping something off for a former coworker. people celebrated they live on a cul-de-sac. these are our ver

so director brinkman. >> thank you. thank you very much. what you said at the end of your report, thanking directors rubke and torres. i've been so impressed with how the staff has managed to work through so many issues on this. i think it's sort of like the duck analogy, where it lukes all serene on top of the water but under they're paddling furiously because we can't see everybody and people aren't working together and we don't get that glimpse of it. it's really impressive what they've managed to do and i have been, i'm a huge open streets proponent but what i've seen on page street and lake street has just take not my breath away with how quickly people have come out to enjoy those streets. i just want to say thank you to all the staff. i'm sure you and everyone in the agency are working so hard and just because we don't see it doesn't mean we don't notice it. thank you to all the staff, thank you so much. i know the challenges you are dealing with working remotely and childcare at home and uncertain financial times all around us with

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joined with people on foot and on buses thank you all very much. >> (clapping.) >> thank you cheryl brinkman the shoves shovels are being sharpened but thank you to my partner in the streets of san francisco our public works director to say a few words they're the partner in delivering projects there are unique aspects of working with the public works support we're using a unique mechanism it is called the contract approach different than your typical lump sum low cost build public works has had a lot of experience with this bringing to our support that experience for this long horizontal project as well as great design support and support in many ways please help me welcome the director of the department public works mohammed nuru. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> ed and thank you for your speakers as you can see are true testimony on everybody working together to make a project come through and in public works how rare do we get an opportunity to do a lot of things it in one project new sewer lines and water and bus platforms but also the beauty of project it's the landscaping the sidewalks

going to open up item four to public comment >> thank you, supervisor. >> good afternoon, i'm sheryl brinkman i serve as the vice chair of the board of director and i'm here o support the reappointment of director heink representing and rupee. what we have in common on all the boards and commissions is a desire to see this city be the best it can be and a deep love of city. we're so fortunate that two people like christina and malcolm will take time from their lives and families to guy the mta and push us to be the best we can be. i know already fellow board members and mta staff appreciate the knowledge and dedication they bring and i hope you'll agree that they're important members of the board and support both for reappointment. i would like to echo what director heinke said in the deep pride and sense ever accomplishment in seeing the agency move forward and we do take the needs of all of our citizens into account when we make decisions about the transit agency, about policy and goals that we have. i know that i hear it from my coworkers downtown. when they talk about their commute on mun

joined with people on foot and on buses thank you all very much. >> (clapping.) >> thank you cheryl brinkman the shoves shovels are being sharpened but thank you to my partner in the streets of san francisco our public works director to say a few words they're the partner in delivering projects there are unique aspects of working with the public works support we're using a unique mechanism it is called the contract approach different than your typical lump sum low cost build public works has had a lot of experience with this bringing to our support that experience for this long horizontal project as well as great design support and support in many ways please help me welcome the director of the department public works mohammed nuru. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> ed and thank you for your speakers as you can see are true testimony on everybody working together to make a project come through and in public works how rare do we get an opportunity to do a lot of things it in one project new sewer lines and water and bus platforms but also the beauty of project it's the landscaping the sidewalks

and director brinkman, i think as some. >> yes, thank you chair borden. i recently was sent the lasco, the local agency formation commission report that was the findings of a survey from on demand ride hail and delivery workers in san francisco. and i had a chance to read the survey results issued regarding on demand ride hail and delivery workers and i look forward to centimetre mfta working and supporting lasco to accept and implement the recommendations of the report in particular those pertaining to health and safety of the workers and the public. we have a lot of opportunities to make sure that these services, which the public has shown that they value a lot, can be delivered in a way which is not harmful to the workers or the city. i think that helping move delivery workers to more sustainable modes, such as electric assisted bicycles from cars, fits with so many of our city goals and making sure the workers are being treated fairly is just basic human rights. i look forward to staff being able to work with lasco on that. >> great, thank you. >> any

. >> clerk: director brinkman. >> aye. >> clerk: director heminger. >> aye. >> director hinze. >> aye. >> clerk: director lai. >> director yekutiel. >> aye. >> clerk: the motion passes. >> commissioner: that brings us to item 14. 14. authorizing the director to execute modification no. 13 to contract no. 1289, van ness corridor transit improvement project, with walsh construction company ii, for direct costs related to various design changes in the amount of $1,240,049.98, for a total contract amount not to exceed $221,747,266.01, with no time extension, and make environmental review findings. >> commissioner: great. and on this one we have mr. grabonzo. welcome. >> good evening, chair borden and commissions and director tomlin. i'm the project manager on the project. construction of van ness has proceeded. the team has resolved project challenges in the field and found ways to improve the final product so it better serves the sfmta and the changes have required redesigns and contract modifications. this is a collection of such we're bringing this evening to make sure we get the contr

. >> director brinkman. >> aye. >> vice cherrygan. >> aye. >> director heminger. >> aye. >> absent i will note for this record she has stepped away. the consent calendar approved 5-0. that places you on item 11 of the regular calendar. presentation and discussion regarding th the s.f.m.t.a. racl action plan. >> this is something we have been asking for. it is one of the number one issues we talked about in this board is working on the culture of the agency and on the racial equity issues here. we wore last year when the mayor got the ombudsman here we were keen to implement. we will hear about the status of the implementation of the report when we were hiring jeff it was top priority. someone very much committed to real action on those issues. not just lip service but action brought to the front. we have a long history of a lot of things to work through. i am excited to see this coming forth. welcome our deputy chief of staff to present the plan and i look forward to hearing from the various groups, particularly black african-american affinity group. i will turn it over to the team.

regiment brinkman brinkman >> i continue to be impressed and thankful for the work you're doing. we were discussing of policy and governance the numbers and some fact some of the new residents of san francisco are choosing not to get around by car but taking the bus and walking or biking. i said we are so lucky to have that. i call myself and i corrected myself and said that's not love. this is all because of the planning that you are doing that staff is doing all because of these improvements are you making did i see it on the line i write all the time you had an articulated bus to the route and they fill up. you make the buses move faster and they continue to fill all. so again i just congratulate you all of us in the city are so lucky to have this work going on. we may get some pushback on projects here and there but overall the work that we are doing is really helping to keep people choosing to take muni and choosing to walk advice when they can get i have no substantive input. i just want to say thanks for all the work and i see it's doing a good job and i really appreciate

. >> director brinkman. the item passes. >> i'd like to call item 11 and 12 together. >> item 11 adopting the sfmta action plan and item 12 adoption of a resolution declaring anti-black racism a human rights plan. >> i'm bad at names and i apologize in advance. >> i'd like to introduce this item since it's true to my heart before he speaks. we brought to you our draft racial equity action plan. i'm pleased to bring it forward today for adoption. i'm joined by a resolution on anti-black racism. we can go into detail on this but before they do i want to talk a moment personally for my expectations for equity work at the sfmta. first, i understand this work is ongoing. it has to involve each and every one of us in every movement every day and iterative in that we're not going to get it right the first time. we have to learn from our mistakes and seek continual improvement as we try to do the hard work. it requires us to reflect on our personal actions. we've got to be candid particularly for the way those in po

cheryl brinkman. >> yes. first, i want to say thank you to staff who i know are just working flat out on projects. they are working a lot of overtime, they have so many competing demands on their time, and in such uncertain times during this time. i just want to remind the public that staff is working so hard to not only keep the system going but to work on all of our emergency transit projects that are going to keep this city moving, so be sure to keep that in mind this time of year. and the other thing i wanted to talk about, we have a lot of new measures enacted during the emergency, and i would just ask us all to remember our strategic plan goals when it comes time for considering those projects to be made permanent. i know sometimes competing criteria can get caught up with the flood of e-mails and the flood of feedback that we get from our constituents, but let's just remember we have strategic plan goals, and we need to keep those in mind as we talk about making a lot of those projects permanent. thank

hard work and with that, i want to invite to the myself of microphone the vice chair the mta sheryl brinkman. >> thank you ben and thank you all for coming i want to thank the mayor and the supervisors and oats heads of all the city departments for in their focus when is fundamental to everyone in our city this is about saving lives this is making your streets more welcoming for everyone who lives in the city traffic collisions really extract a department staff stating emotional toll the victims and loved ones and the person behind the wheel of car a had a kroshg it came across a traffic crash in the marina he and highs wife with your taking their children to daycare they saw the aftermath of the too young boys hit that made them feel less safe in the city and worried about about the future of the children in the city so our core philosophy in vision zero that traffic deaths with preventable and your honor, acceptable i'm proud and humble to work with everyone in the city on this project to reduce traffic deaths it get rid of traffic deaths traffic gathers are not like the weather not unlike

hard work and with that, i want to invite to the myself of microphone the vice chair the mta sheryl brinkman. >> thank you ben and thank you all for coming i want to thank the mayor and the supervisors and oats heads of all the city departments for in their focus when is fundamental to everyone in our city this is about saving lives this is making your streets more welcoming for everyone who lives in the city traffic collisions really extract a department staff stating emotional toll the victims and loved ones and the person behind the wheel of car a had a kroshg it came across a traffic crash in the marina he and highs wife with your taking their children to daycare they saw the aftermath of the too young boys hit that made them feel less safe in the city and worried about about the future of the children in the city so our core philosophy in vision zero that traffic deaths with preventable and your honor, acceptable i'm proud and humble to work with everyone in the city on this project to reduce traffic deaths it get rid of traffic deaths traffic gathers are not like the weather not unlike

then i know that drict director brinkman made a proposal. did anyone second, so a second to her motion? i'm sorry, is there no second to director brinkman's motion? >> so if there's no second to that motion, what -- what is the alternative here, colleagues? >> someone needs to make an alternative motion. >> or the item gets continued, i guess. >> okay. maybe the question that i would like to ask, what is it that people feel like they need to make a decision about how this should proceed? and then i will -- i see director heminger has his hand and up and i know that director lai was about to speak. director heminger you can go, and miss lai was willing to rescind the motion so maybe you could tell us what you're thinking. >> commissioner hamasaki: i agree with director brinkman that we're spending far too much time on this item. and, frankly, part of the reason is that it was confusingly presented to us. i think we need better work to proceed through these items in a more rapid matter. with every question, we got more questions. look, the wor

and that's all, chair. >> thank you, director brinkman. i'll just add, i think it's really important. we need everyone talking about this and in fact, we need to talk about this. we need people learning. [inaudible] think -- this is about everyone leveraging their power and no one can help white privilege that they're born with, but they can help what they do with it. i'm looking forward to working with our senior managers and level of staff. we want everyone talking about it, and everyone more comfortable and informed when they do, so thank you for that, director brinkman. >> thank you. that's it, exactly. it's everyone's work to carry, and we have to remember that. >> thank you, director brinkman, and i just wanted to add, talking with a colleague yesterday, we get focused on the recommendation we want to achieve, we've got to get this many actions, but the bottom line is there isn't really a finish line with this work. there isn't a finish line. we do have to continually work on it, and there isn't a finish line, and i think it's really

thanks so much. >> great feedback. >> director brinkman. >> thank you everyone. good comments. i think that we are all really appreciating the deep dive on this. i have a couple things to add. i think it is great to break these into what we can do and what we have to go to the voters to do. i think we should take advantage of everything that we can do, everything we have the power to implement regardless if it seems kind of small. what sticks out is the metering. we don't need to ask permission. we need out rich thoughtfully and carefully unlike the last time we did the funding metering. the transit lanes. we bring down the cost of offering the service. i just want to reminds everybody that, yes, it looks like we continue to run into the funding problems. we do continue to run into funding problems. we do this hard work so that future boards and executive directors and citizens don't have such a big rock to roll. our rock is smaller because of the work done in the past bypassing the bond measure and sales tax and changing some of the policies out there to help us operate more e

regiment brinkman brinkman >> i continue to be impressed and thankful for the work you're doing. we were discussing of policy and governance the numbers and some fact some of the new residents of san francisco are choosing not to get around by car but taking the bus and walking or biking. i said we are so lucky to have that. i call myself and i corrected myself and said that's not love. this is all because of the planning that you are doing that staff is doing all because of these improvements are you making did i see it on the line i write all the time you had an articulated bus to the route and they fill up. you make the buses move faster and they continue to fill all. so again i just congratulate you all of us in the city are so lucky to have this work going on. we may get some pushback on projects here and there but overall the work that we are doing is really helping to keep people choosing to take muni and choosing to walk advice when they can get i have no substantive input. i just want to say thanks for all the work and i see it's doing a good job and i really appreciate

i want to end with a statement for director brinkman. director brinkman, you exemplify how to hold staff and officials accountability while respecting and hearing all sides. thank you, and good luck in your travels. that's all. >> thank you. directors, any questions? i see director lai. >> thank you, director tumlin. that was a lot of good updates. i just want to make sure i understand the upcoming calendar for when we're going to be considering service again. so i think i heard from you -- obviously, the board made a resolution, and i believe it requires the m.t.a. to provide some sort of a solid plan by the end of september, and i believe i heard you say we had our restoration service in august and then, the next restoration won't be until 2022. would you just remind me and the board and the public on when would be our plan to restore service levels? >> so we'll be coming back to the board with updates on our planning process throughout the next six months, with the expectation that, in the fall, we will ask for an action from the m.t.

brinkman. >> members of the staff and public, at least those who are not at the jients game, or watching it, i'd like to first direct our director of transportation to come forward to recognize a few of his outstanding employees. >> good afternoon, board member members, lyon. it is my pleasure to recognize ryan price who i will point out, this is our first -- more progress on succession planning. ryan, i would point out is the youngest station agent. sometimes instincts kick in, but on the night of march 23rd at church street station, we had a fire on the platform. any time you have fire around electricity or certainly trains, it's a very dangerous situation. not potentially dangerous, dangerous. ryan, being both young, alert, and i would say fleet footed immediately secured the booth and went down to the platform with the fire extinguisher and put the fire out, which is very significant because you'd say wow, how big a fire was it? we had to make a snap second decision to send the fire department into the stations, and fire around electricity, i don't need to draw a picture. so any quic

thank you. >> director brinkman: thank you. >> mr. peterson, he is the last person to turn in a speaker card on the director report. >> good afternoon. my name is christopher peterson, i have comments specifically on the transit report and requests regarding the next 90-year plan and what muni should be considering there. first of all, i think these reports should be considering muni metro performance during non-peak hours as well. certainly it's done in experience significant delays in the tunnel leading to west portal at nights and on weekends. so i hope that can get focused attention. also, i think the ports should look at pinch points for muni metro that are outside the tunnel system. there can be major delays there. st. francis circle, i'm not quite sure, if church shows up in the report already or not. also we're in baseball season, looking at how giants games affect muni service. my own experience, they can have major effects on that. i'm happy to see muni is considering implementing new traffic rules in terms of west po

>> approve. >> chairman brinkman: second? >> second. >> chairman brinkman: it is approved. thank you so much and thank you mr. hyde for your work on this and we look forward to see what park and rec and mta will bring us next. >> madame chair, item 12, the residential parking permit area x, establishing residential parking area ee in the dog patch neighborhood, mends the transportation code to limit the number of residential parking permits for residents of area ee to no more one permit issue today an individual person, no more two permit to a single address. provides for area ee residents a waiver process for receiving up to four residential parking permits issued to a singling address with specified permit fees and provide that permits issued to ee residents for healthcare or child care workers do not count towards the maximum number of permits and the time limit and major parking notifications throughout the neighborhood. the agenda does list the various traffic and parking modifications. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. mr. wilson. >> good afternoon, directors. my name

thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. i think that we'll go to the public comment and come back with questions and clarifications. any public comment? >> yes, madame chair. >> chairman brinkman: 2 minutes. >> thank you for your time today. we would like to ask for your support and approval on this plan. i called kathy back in november of 2015. it's been a long engaging process. we've had a lot of disagreements from a lot of neighbors. i think that we've come to a compromise and a good solution at this time. our neighbor has already doubled so we are looking to triple the population of the neighborhood. we welcome that and the density of the neighborhood. we just need a plan to engage the neighbors as well as the parking condition which right now is 24/7 and free so we would like to change that. i do want to thank kathy and hank for their persistent and their engagement in this process. it's one of the more unusual and engaging endeavors that the city has come into the dog patch with so thank you for that. >> chairman brin