i have is why are we going to do this again? what happened here? i believe that you awarded contracts for some of these garages and the recent past. apparently, there was some questions that came up. the people that did not get the award and those people asked questions and apparently there was some private meetings held and they decided to go back through the bidding process. it seems that there is something that is not on the up and up. the former vice chairman started asking questions. i don't know if he got all the answers. the journalist asked for some public searches and requests. he might find out -- you might find out more than you want to

about why these contracts were not awarded when they were supposed to. i might take some time to ask some questions. this is and little sneaky. i urge you once these are awarded and once you have done the audits to make sure that the city is getting its due amount about what is being collected from the operator of these garages. we can make sure that there is not more being pocketed. >> think you. -- thank you. >> good afternoon, directors. i will not mince my words today. this is about corruption. i have never seen this level of corruption. this contract was awarded to a small bitter says -- bidder and

you would incorporate the it is that would allow small operators to be able to have an opportunity to manage these garages controlled by these larger management companies. lo and behold, a small company was able to win. this board says, can we get this thing going? sure enough, it turns out that the attorney and representative of one of the big companies also is a personal attorney of the ceo and the executive director. guess what happened? that contract is not executed. fred beckley is that a lot of money. and you reviewed this thing in the worst possible way.

you throw out of the good suggestions by the consultant and now you award more money to these companies and you put out a second rfp. the city attorney investigated and you are trying to put it out again. who will get it this time? will it be those that won't did not want this to go forward? -- will it be those who did not want this to go forward? this agency is corrupt in a way that it bids and puts out contracts. the attorney who did not want that contract to go forward is also the personal attorney of the ceo and executive director. thank you. >> good afternoon.

>> thank you for your time. earlier today, i filed a complaint with the united states district court of california. this alleged that the allegations and the fact that took place in connection with the reversal of the award violated multiple federal statutes and california statutes. i have copies of that lawsuit that i brought with me so that they can be made available to you for review. some of the fact that 40 been spoken to but i do think in flight of the lawsuit, -- in light of the lawsuit, you will take a look at it and give it due consideration. >> this is situations where we

have allegations of fraud that are so stark that they can hardly be believed. in the city attorney did an investigation and they did do a report. the fact will show that the city attorney's report is an embarrassment to the city and the people of the city that the attorney is supposed to be representing. to call it a whitewash is kind. given that the city attorney has indicated that he would not be involved in cases in which he has a conflict of interest, i think in retrospect, this is a matter in which he should have not participated particularly cents the company's involved in this shakedown is a major

contributor to -- we ask that you give this serious consideration. >> would anyone else want to address the board on this? is there a motion? >> it seems to me that the one thing, i am not ready to vote. we are a long way from settle in this previous situation here. i don't think we should move forward until we are sure what we're doing.

i would like to settle this publicly. i don't like the way we did this last process. i did not find any thing in my research that said we could not award the contract that was proposed. i could not find any of the research. >> can we go forward with this giving the possibility of a lawsuit? >> obviously, i have not read the complaint but we have anticipated that there was a complete moving forward and you are able to move forward.

>> is there a second? >> i have the utmost respect for you and your approach but i think the report, the investigation was pretty thorough and largely unbiased. we have been living with this for quite awhile. we will let the results speak for themselves. i would support the motion. anything else on the motion? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> no. >> aye. >> the motion passes. >> item 12, presentation and

discussion regarding the anti- gay system safety and security. >> members of the board and the public, this will be presented by r director. -- presentation and discussion regarding the mta system safety and security. >> as you are aware, we are working to deliver a response to the puc as the release of the executive order. -- as it relates to the executive order. we would like to give you the overall safety statistics and what is happening in terms of safety and security. >> so, we will not go over what they think the findings are?

>> on the advice of counsel, we have been directed not to do that at this point in preparation, hopefully we will be doing that on the new time line. from a legal perspective, that should come first in case there is litigation. >> we would be happy to report in closed session. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, mr. chairman, board of directors. i'm here to discuss the safety, training, security and enforcement division. we will give you a discussion of the things we're doing.

we will also have the deputy chief come and speak to the enforcement portion. what want to talk to about the system's safety group. we have four areas. one of the areas, this group is responsible for overall operations and anything rolling out on the streets and anything that happens out in the rail yards and facilities as far as maintenance is concerned. this group looks at the program and they review the video to look for safety-related issues. the also look at any issues regarding operations that can be security-related and those that

looking at their training issues. this has been in effect over a year and a half and has been a very good program for us. we have seen a reduction in dr camera events. we will be handling the discussions later this month to go over our quarterly report and how effective it has become within this agency. this group has been tasked with increasing the staff. we can change our focus within the system safe the group. when i started, people or more of a reactive group and they are mainly accident responders for the agency. we have changed their focus to

being a proactive group, the proactive safety approach. this group is required to do checks on buses and train operators. they go out and they do radar checks. they also go up to the terminals and they do checks at the terminals to make sure that they're not tampering with the equipment. they look at the adjustments to see what they are looking at. they also look to see if the operator is using the bus correctly. the more visible you are from a safety standpoint, the more results you will get. these people are visible and

they are out there. this group also handles our safety certification which is required by the federal transit administration. there will be major capital projects. this also confirms to the safety certification which is done to ensure that the project is designed to meet all safety standards. we do testing to make sure that it meets the minimal standards of the mta in all safety standards. we do perform all of the safety tests. this group is responsible for the senior management committee. this replaces an old committee

that we had which was called the safety review committee. this group meets on a monthly basis and they discuss accidents, statistics. they go through any corrective actions that can occur from safety inspection or an inspection generated by the pc -- puc. this group overseas the two of their -- that we had. operators were not involved in the committee. apparently, these have been in place for a long time. the committees meet on a monthly basis and there are union members. we will move forward to try to

close the hazard out. i have not had any issues brought to me from the safety committees. we also have the control board which is a part of the safety committee. this is where we look at procedures, we approved the engineering specifications. any changes that take place out in the field or in the facilities. this group is responsible for accident investigation and in sharing that the system is safe for our passengers. this is from the first and second quarter of fiscal year

2009, 2010, 2011. you can see non preventable accidents, these are not the fault of the mta. my main concern from a safety standpoint is how do we stop those preventable accidents. the way we operate in this dense track, if you look at how over the past three years, the preventable accident rates have gone down. you can see that we have had a 31% decrease in overall accidents over the last three years in that particular time.

we have seen a definite improvement in bus safety. accidents on the real side have gone up to where they were in fiscal year 2009. the accidents have climbed during the first two quarters and we have seen an increase in coalitions on market street. we are working with the traffic engineering group to look at ways to mitigate these accidents happening again.

we have seen a decline in real accidents. for the third quarter of this year, we have had a total of 38 accidents. we have seen a decline in real accidents. -- rail accidents. now we have 20 hours of coverage per day out in the field. yet people that come in at 6:00 a.m. and they go until midnight. we have 20 average of coverage. we have seen some definite benefits with coverage out in

the field. the operator training group handles all of the rail and bus operations. recently, we had a change in management and we put 45 instructors through a recertification class so that they can be attracted to safety institute, minimal standards, and also the outlines. these folks are also qualified instructors under the california education code. that is a big benefit for us as an agency. we also certified new instructors to help us with that the hiring taking place right now.

these new instructors that we certify, they have been a tremendous help to us. we have a some changes on the real side. last quarter, we had a rash of derailments. we put all of our rail operators through the stretch -- switch operations training. only two of those operators did not pass. we had pretty good passing rate, we only had two that did not pass.

the next group is responsible for the safety and side of this atilt -- facilities. they're there to make sure that we comply with all of the -- guidelines and also the epa. they also conduct safety committee meetings and they meet on a monthly basis. they go over industrial safety issues. this group also conducts the monthly facility inspections. any issues found are brought up to the safety committee for resolution. if it cannot be fixed, it is up for them to come to some conclusion. they conduct personal equipment

training. they cover all of our facilities and they do a great job. they're doing a good job because in this particular slide, we are looking at the employee injury rates. in the first the second quarter, we have had an 8% decrease in the employee injuries. employee injuries, we have seen a significant decrease this quarter. the majority of the entries that we see our injuries that occurred during the operators. the facility injuries, we have seen a significant decrease in all of the injuries out in the facilities.

next, i will turn it over to deputy chief murphy. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. when i first got to the mta, we listened to the comptroller's office and they helped us build a database. now that we have gone through all of 2010 and we are into 2011, we have an accurate data base as to crimes that are committed on muni. on a daily basis we research all the different databases that provide us with information regarding crime.

each police station sends us copies of the reports. thirdly, i have a dedicated person to do just the statistics. this is broken down by police district and citywide and then the individual captain's look at the statistics and then they develop their own enforcement plan for that district. the central district, their problem would be pickpocket's as opposed to the mission which might be graffiti. this is up to the captains to develop their own enforcement plan and what they do is that they actually put it on the calendar for me and they send it to me and they tell me that this is what the officers are doing

this month. i take that information and i plan to that with the information that the officers have that are actually working for the mta. right now, there is one the tenant, three sergeants, and 20 officers working specifically just for mta. -- responsibility is for muni metro. that is a sergeant and seven officers. they work hand and hand with the canine units. we now have five dogs. they have all passed their tsa training. the other team is a plainclothes team. they have done a great job. when you look at the last sheet,

you can see that we put together a comparison now that we have the numbers for all of 2010 and we can compare the month by month analysis. each station can look and see how they were month by month and look back year to date. i will direct your attention to the bottom right-hand corner. >> thank you. members of the board, are there any questions? members of the public?

>> i will speak. i wanted to address the issue of the report which did not include taxis. if i'm not mistaken, both the individuals that came before you that work for you have some say and some oversight over taxi enforcement. none of that had been addressed today. i would like to ask why. to address the fact that there is an mou out there and they're still drivers getting attacked. this goes between the police officer and those that have responded to the incident and a reported incident and those getting to be not getting to the

agency. i am concerned that this has not occurred or if there is any waist towards it or any documents to show this is happening. i believe that we should be able to hear some reports on how issues are being handled and also those regarding the illegal taxis and limousines. you think that would be part of your discussion. i had a meeting with the number of the staff regarding the -- issue which came before you some time ago. well, there was some compromise. however, the documents that had been discussed and approved have not been implemented. i am