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>> brinkman. >> here. director lee. >> present. >> lee nolan. >> present. >> president director ramos is anticipated director. you have a forum. >> announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. similar sound devices are prohibited and any person responsible for bun going off may be asked to leave the meeting. cell phones on vibrate do cause microphone interference and we ask that they're placed in the off. discussion and vote pursuant to administrative code section 67.100dd as to whether approval of minutes.. q. second. >> all in favor say i. >> i. >> thank you. >> communications. mr. chairman i know of none. >> there was the board, ladies and gentlemen, i asked this afternoon that we adjourn our

memory in county member shoe marker. he was on the daily county supervisor and with the attorney also and a dear friend. so with your consent we will adjourn this meeting and send a letter to his wife, okay. thank you. introduction of new or unfinished business by board members.. >> thank you. seeing none, thank you. >> san director's report for discussion onlyy. >> good afternoon, members of the board, and members of the public and staff. actually i have quite a bit of things to cover today. and i'll try to move through them quickly, but first i want to take time to recognize some of our outstanding employees and today not just mta employees. first up i like to ask bonnie to present on behalf of the

streets division. >> good afternoon mr. yee. >> good afternoon mr. chairman and members of the board. yee, my pleasure to be presenting officer from the police department. we don't usually recognize people because this is the work that officer chin was too great that it helped us a lot in the work that we do that we feel compelled to recognize him at this time and this is timely because this is her last year of doing this, year end summary for 2012 wrapping up the accident statistics for us. officer chin started with the pd back in 30 plus years ago and the last 15 years or so she worked

in the record's room and working with us in getting all the accident statistics, the collision data. and also summarizing the year end fatal and injury collisions and she was kind enough and generous enough to share that data for us and for us that's a big deal because as you know the chp's -- the state wide traffic system because of resource constraints, they've been taking quite a bit of time to turn around the year end summaries for us, so without that information that she is sharing with us, we would have been in big trouble in terms of analyzing particular locations for improvements, so it has been really important for us and we just want to take this opportunity to recognize her before she moves onto other

assignments, and lee malato, her long time colleague would like to say something and they brought on a cheering section from the police department. >> police officer malato. >> this is a pleasure for me because linda and i entered the police department in 1981. i began in march and linda started in may. and then when i was a commander assigned here to the mta, i had the opportunity to work with linda in the traffic company and she's one of those people that's vital to getting things done, number one and number two, she's always willing to help no matter what the issue is and no matter what anyone needs and some of our police department colleagues can attest to that. i'm super proud of her and we're going to

miss her terribly when she leaves and linda, congratulations. you so deserve this. >> thank you so much. >> hi, thank you very much to the mta, the city of san francisco, to the police department, traffic safety advocacy group and all to my friends that i brought here today, officer juan who has written in one year 2100 citations. i have my lieutenant, lieutenant pam who says to give this speech is like cutting cake. sergeant rob are all supportive of traffic safety. thank you so much and my regret is i won't be able to do very much more, but maybe you can volunteer. >> thank you on the board of

directors and officer chin. thank you for your outstanding work and accept our gratitude for that. thank you. >> next , i want to ask our revenue manager to come forward to acknowledge one of the employees of the finance and information technology division. >> good afternoon mrs. evans. >> good afternoon, members of the board. i'm honored to present this employee recognition award to gloria johnson, the parking permit clerk with the mta. gloria celebrated her 40 year anniversary with the city and county. she first started in the controller's officer where she was working for a clerk for 13 years and transitioned over to nuni when it was under the puc and provided support for management for 17 years and she's been with the citation

section since 2005. she served as a trainer for a multitude of employees and dealt with customers in difficult situations with a smile on her face and with courtesy and respect. so gloria i like to thank you for your service and commitment to the mta city and county. to acknowledge a number of staff from citation section that came out to support gloria today. thank you. >> thank you. >> congratulations gloria. mrs. johnson began under areola. >> thank you. >> i want to thank the mta board and ed riskin that presented me with this award coming today, and the city and county of san francisco. i started working here at city -- at san francisco 40 years ago,

so different ways and different areas and departments always on the go. after leaving the school back in 1973, i walked into city hall and was hired on the spot. one of the employees jumped up and said "we need her now because i'm retiring." and here i am. in 1973 mayor aleota was on his retiring and i was working here in the basement and interested to learn from many things that we had to do. we had payments for the entire city, the school district, the probation department, the port commission, many checks that i had to get out every time and the health service checks that

people needed immediately. after doing keep punching and meeting up-to-date that lead operator for 13 years and onto the woods division from 17 state wide for another 17 years, i gained the experience with working with the water department for the year and the health department 101 grove for a year. many departments asked my help and allow me to recap on some of those places. the controllers office in 1973 and the health department and the tax office, the woods division and green division and the approaches in the department. i helped them input their information. the water department, inputting all their information into the computer which was on paper and parking and traffic to mta customer

service. i have been around a lot of changes with the city government and rules and regulations and advancements and changes from digging to a shovel to touch screen to tools. i was here for the first and second strike the city has ever seen. if i had to do it all over again, i wouldn't change a thing. i had -- i'm honored to be recognized by you as an employee worthy of this type of award and then to the mta board and the city of san francisco, i would do it all again. thank you, one and all for the opportunity to be apart of helping the city of san francisco grow and expand that i value more than you'll ever know. i want to thank my family and friends and coworkers and all who could

attend. >> thank you. >> i believe you have another presentation right behind you there. >> i walk right in and boom. we got a great 40 year employee. finally i want to ask john haley to come forward to recognize two maintenance technicians from the transit division. >> good afternoon mr. chairman

and board members. some of you may remember 1988, hoffman won best actor for a film called "rain man" and it won best picture and ron ald reagan was still president and we put in a series of cutting edge technologies for communications. this is a series of relays that were installed in 1988 that provide the source of communications from our control center to our bosses and to our transits. on september 3rd of this year, at some point mid-day we lost communications with our equipment and service. it required us to take a series of fail safe measures and guiding the trains through with the controllers and all of that and amazing in a short period of

time -- come on up -- i didn't fix anything. this is lawrence who was alumni for the award, but lawrence took a look at this re lay board which some of you may remember. this one is in the control center but some of the toys we've taking, some have aluminum foil around them and in the relay system. mr. chow was able to figure out which power supply shut the system down, identify the relay, replaced the power supply and me thoth cally we brought the city back. he built in a redundant system, would we couldn't be more pleased and honored to have someone of his technical skills that not only saved the day but continues to save the day and

we'd also thank you because there is help coming soon because eventually he will get tired and may slow down a little, but there's a new radio system coming on board, so for his extraordinary effort in keeping this system going safely and reliable, lauren chow. >> first of all, all the time i'm thinking i'm doing my job. when something breaks, i fix it and when john -- after you fix it, how can you improve it to present further damage, so i come up with an idea so if something breaks, it would take over and we'll fix the bad one and put it back in redundant. i want to thank by the honor of the board and recognition by

john and i want to thank my boss, neil for his support. without it i wouldn't be able to do my job and i like to thank in my shop for making me look so good. >> on behalf of the board of supervisors and those from san francisco, we appreciate it and thank you. >> thank you, hey, larry, we got the picture too. over the last several years, you've supported us and approved a number of projects that -- capital projects that will improve the safety reliable system. as a city we made an investment and rely on it as a diagnostic tool and safety tool on our video system. the next

individual that we'll be recognizing today, not only has effectively been able to take any new system which we brought in and ingrated it and made it work with all of our old systems because we don't have the luxury of stopping service while we piece all this together and secondly over the last couple of years, the most popular words at the sfpn is "please pull the video" and this individual makes sure that when somebody utters those words, we get not only a video but pretty good resolution that has helped us tremendously in any number of ways so with that, i'd like to recognize hong lew from the video shop and he has some of his colleagues here with him today. he does a nice job and video is very important to us, but hong, please. >> good afternoon. first of

all, thank you very much for this special award. we have done -- the work that we've done in all those years wasn't just done by myself. even though i was listed on many of the projects, without the team work and support and cooperation of the others, i wouldn't have made it happen. thank you very much for the generous thought. >> on behalf of the board of directors and the people of san francisco, thank you for your outstanding work and thank you to your colleagues for being

here today. >> thank you. between the four honorees today, we probably have more than a century of public have advice both with the mta and other agencies and all four cases, people were working behind the scenes whether dealing with a collision data or various administrative task from agencies or the mechanics that work on things that the public doesn't know about, but it's important to keep the system going, so it's great to honor them. so onto the rest of my report, i do want to report out on the bart strike which we were talking about happening at the last meeting. as everybody knows, the strike lasted for four and a half days, but the impact on us was actually greater than that because every night that we were going until

10:00, 11:00, 12:00 sometimes, 1:30 in the morning, not knowing if there was a strike, we would have to ramp up in case. so there was an effort of that given that bart carries 4,000 people everyday. a big challenge for us on the transit side to augment our capacity and on the traffic management side to deal with the extra cars that we had coming in. our ridership increased and jumped more than 20 percent, so we picked up the fan mateo and traffic that come up through daily city with extra service. we had folks pretty much -- we did a lot of advance planning and had folks around the clock monitoring to make this work. we had ambassadors and fair inspectors providing customer service and direction to people

at 15 different locations. we had maps and fliers in multiple languages and we worked hard on our communications so people know where to go. partnering with the police department, there were 54 police departments and we were serving as a key contact for the city departments during that whole operation. it looks initially that our costs were north of $700,000 for that period. so very costly for us for the first time, i believe it was $450,000, so we're looking to seek reimburse with that. not clear what that process is or what the likely hood is. we'll try to recover those funds. my main point is i guess, i think we really stood up and made it as painless as possible,

although there was pain with that strike, but i want to acknowledge the staff -- from the bus operators to the fair operators and maintenance mechanics to make sure that the trains got out. they had a difficult time getting to work because of everybody else in the bay area, but they were here and serving our public and doing it well. the supervisors some managers throughout operations of the mta also. a lot of folks working long shifts and hours to make it happen. so i want to commend everybody involved with that effort and hopefully we won't be doing that again at any time soon. the 5-l, 5 limited project, i think, it was at the last meeting you approved. we launched it a week ago monday, october 28th. i won't go over the details of it since we covered it last time, but so far the feedback has been

generally and strongly positive. we've gotten a lot of very good feedback from it. a lot of people happy with how its worked out. there's been a few kinks, but it has been received and unsolicited feedback. we're monitoring it carefully. we have a complete analysis that we use to evaluate it, but it has been really well received. there have been a few complaints, including the removal of the bus stop at baker, so we're looking closely at that. we have nothing from lion to the visit arrow so it's a three block stretch, and there's a hill. we're looking at that, but we may make a change long before we hit the six month mark on that and continue to work with the supermarket issue that came up a lot when we talked about it, but so far i say generally pleased with how that's been going so far.

another project in that neighborhood, i wanted to give you a little bit of post implementation feedback. there's a second phase of construction to be done on that, the main work of separating the bike lanes have been completed and we've been collecting data since may when those improvements were completed and the results are promising. one of which that we've seen, three to five mile per hour reduction on oak because of the bike lane. which has gotten us the advantage speed on oak below 30 miles an hour on that stretch and you've probably seen the charts, that the advantage speed increases and the likely hood of collisions increases,

this is expo initially, so getting the speed set to 30 miles an hour makes for a safer street. we've seen an increase with -- we've done an intercept survey of people riding their bikes and the results found that some of the project goals are already being achieved. 98 percent of these folks interviewed, felt that the area feels safer, 90 percent feels driver's awareness of bikers is greater and about one and five, so 20 said a that because of the existence of these lanes, they're more inclined to ride a bike even more so for women. one and three women are more inclined to ride a bike generally because we made these critical conditions, so we will

have a full report in the next couple of months, but i wanted to share some preliminary good news. i know you've asked us when we do these projects to come back and report on how have they done and what we've expected. and so far it looks very positive. >> moving onto other activities. you had asked earlier in the year that we come back toward the end of the year and provide an update on the issue of taxi and permits so i wanted to do that. you'll recall owe -- i guess it was a year ago that you offered a madallion and we discussed that. and in april of this year, you issued 120 new taxi

permits and 200 in 2014. where we are with that, of the 120 that you authorized for this year, 20 we designated as part-time single operator permits and those were in service by july 1. the remaining 100 permits were put into the half dozen medallion pull and issued to those on the waiting list. and that started in april and we'll issue the permits in july. 65 have been issued. the remaining 35 are scheduled to be issued within the next six weeks or so. so that first 120 would have all gone out and 100 are going to those highest on the medillion waiting list, so that's good. for the 200 you authorized for next year, and we plan to issue

100 to the remaining 100 so fulfilling that 200 designated another 100 as part-time single operator permits and the remainder 70, we would just really move to a full price and continue to work down the waiting list as we talked about earlier this year and last year. what that gets us to is we're up to 18 -- $1,018,000 permits. it wasn't that long ago that we were at 1575. so an increase in a fairly short amount of time. and by the end of this year, we'll be up to 1886 and 1536 will be sedan and 150 will be the permit lease to taxi companies and then of course with the additional 2004

be up to 2,106 permits. an increase per your direction and the only cautionary note, i'll offer and we've been hearing and watching this, we'll be evaluating the pace. there continues to be a driver shortage that the taxi companies are having trouble covering their shifts because they're losing drivers so we've been working to figure out how we can facilitate recruitment and stream lining our processes to make sure we're doing what we can to get that pipeline in place. i'll be talking to the mayor's economic development office and the work force unit to see to what extent they can help us. there was an article in the city, there's pockets of