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SFMTA boards efficiency plans, approves 2‑year paratransit contract extension with Transdev
Summary
The board heard a detailed briefing on efficiency and cost‑control measures tied to a multiyear deficit plan and unanimously approved a two‑year sole‑source extension of the paratransit contract to secure approximately $1 million a year in negotiated savings and maintain service continuity.
At a meeting of the SFMTA Board of Directors, agency finance and operations staff presented a multi‑year efficiency plan intended to help close a growing five‑year budget gap while minimizing impacts to core service.
Jillian Johnson, acting chief financial officer, reviewed a five‑year forecast and said the SFMTA is pursuing a three‑leg strategy of internal efficiencies, a regional sales tax and a local parcel tax. Judson True, chief of staff, described benchmarking work comparing Muni motor bus metrics to peers using Federal Transit Administration national transit database data and outlined efficiency actions across people, service and technology: reorganizing…
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