benefit from. i wonder, with the positions that are open in the coming year, are there any recruitment efforts to get people to jump the possible? perhaps, on board? >> pamela lebron. for a lot of the positions, engineering positions especially, there are lists. so, there is the opportunity for people to apply. they get on a list. there are all of these different measures in terms of the rule of the list, three or 10, however it works. i think that a lot of people are coming out of the state who have been laid off. and then some other jurisdictions. so, i need to look into, as part of trying to fill all of these

positions, i will definitely work on the proper act that you requested, but to look at how often they open things up so that the people who are going to be experience now that we went through several years ago, that they can be seen in considered. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on any of the items of the director's report? 5 a-g? >> good morning, again. nancy [unintelligible] i want to go on the record with a recommendation for the permit tracking system. i have noted that the outside departments that have been met with so far are fire and dtw -- dpw. i want to encourage a strong

alliance with the assessor recorder's office. they need to have accurate and up-to-date information from this department, which i know is going to them already, i am not suggesting that it is not, but because we have this wonderful opportunity, i want to reinforce the subject of who owns the building. this was a subjective expos day in one of our local papers lately. there is a great opportunity, when someone comes in with an application and they named the owner, it should be double checked and corresponded with the records in the assessor's office. it would inform each side if there is a discrepancy. perhaps the assessor did not know that there was a change in ownership that had been identified. a wonderful gift. on the other hand, if it is not true, we need to correct the fact that there is a discrepancy. the other issue that i wanted to

talk about, a complement on the enterprise at addressing system. they are delighted to have one address for a huge property. it is really going to save a lot of time and trouble. back to the issue of communications, i also think that when there are changes in valuation, the basis on which the assessor's office makes their first determination on how properties will be reevaluated, once completed, it is important to make sure that that information is a line item that goes directly over to the assessor's office. the last thing that i would like to mention is that when projects are finaled, it is important to get it over to them in a timely manner. so, i envision that this is a wonderful opportunity for the tracking system to benefit the revenue of the city and keep

everyone informed on the same basis. we should not have different departments thinking different things about the same address. >> are there any additional public comments on items number five? seeing none, item number six, -- commissioners questions and matters, 6a, inquiries to staff. >> commissioners, questions? i have one for ed. at one time there was a proposal -- [tone] >> times up? >> sorry about that. >> this discussion on additional emergency generators for high-rises? is that ongoing?

>> i would have to review that and get back to you. >> i just remember something from within the last -- maybe last fall? >> probably in chapter 4 of the building code, under life safety. i would have to review it. >> all right. maybe at next month's meeting? >> thank you. >> item six b, future meetings and agendas. at this time the commission may discuss and take action about up -- regarding the date of special items that may be placed on the agenda for the next meeting and other future meetings of the building inspection commission. i wanted to say that the next regular meeting is scheduled for march 21, 2012. >> my opinion one comment on that is that the election of officers would then take place when the new appointees are in

place. when commissioner walker is back. and that i strongly support those new appointees that are consistent with making this commission not only better, but the hard work that this commission does is something that is not only to be commended, but is to be the measuring stick for other commissions by which our collaborative efforts in the past have always been never divisive but strongly fought for other provisions. more importantly, the working opportunities and abilities for this commission should be the measuring stick by which we continue to make these projects moved for -- move forward. getting those projects permitted in a way that continues to maintain a life, safety, and

welfare for the system. >> i just wanted to say, commissioner romero, i enjoyed serving with commissioner romero for, i guess six years? and i want to welcome our new commissioner. a law with all of those languages that you speak, you do not speaking gaelic. i was disappointed. [laughter] >> maybe she might need a tutor or something. >> that's possible. >> thank you. additional comments or questions? >> is there any public comment? seeing no one, item number seven, review and approval of the regular minutes of august

17, 2011. is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> i make a motion to approve. >> second. >> are all in favor -- sorry, public comment on item number seven? are all in favor of approving the minutes? >> [various ayes] >> the minutes are approved. the next item is item number eight, adjournment. motion to approve. >> approved. >> second. >> we are now adjourned. it is 11:12 a.m.

chairman nolan: >> welcome to the news of transportation authority meeting for february 22. please call the roll. secretary boomer: directors heinicke and lee will not be with us today. [reading roll] devices are prohibited in the meeting. anyone responsible for them going off may be asked to leave the room. the minutes for the april meeting. chairman nolan: all in favor?

say aye? ok. members of the board, i would ask that we adjourn today's meeting when we do in memory of hanna freelander, and our hearts are with the family at this time. ok. any other communications at this point? secretary boomer: no, mr. chairman. item six, the introduction of new or in finished business -- unfinished business. vice president brinkman: i wanted to talk about where we had an accident, and i know the community is upset that there was not to more action with a century or ticketing or

following charges against the driver, and i know we have seen a lot out there. i know that the police chief has said that he would get back about that incident, so i just did not want to let this meeting go by without acknowledging that. doing so much work on reducing pedestrian injuries, and that one is, to me, frustrated, because that industry has received the treatment that makes the crosswalk so well marked, and we were lucky that the man was on the injured, and that reminds us that we still have a lot of work to do on that. chairman nolan: thank you. one thing that i should note is that we received a number of valentines. valentines from all of our friends at numi.

thank you, director brinkman. secretary boomer: the director'' report. director: just a few highlights to touch on, i met last week with the d.a. and some folks from the police department, and we talked a little bit about the episode, the issue in terms of the enroll enforcement plays in pedestrian safety, and we touched briefly on some things happening, in terms of pedestrian safety last meeting, and we will be bringing a more complete report. we all know that we need to make sure that the enforcement is working correctly and that we are well coordinated on it, so we are actively working with the police department and the

district attorney's office on that. so just a handful of things to update you on, starting out with the central subway. some very good news in the president's budget that was just introduced or submitted to congress last week, another $150 million allocation for the central subway. that is the amount that is in our spending plan as far as the applications. we are very pleased to see that president obama included in in his proposed budget for the department of transportation, and along with that, we continued with that for the fifth consecutive year to be one of the highest-rated new star projects in the country, -- new start projects in the country. a couple of weeks ago, we got

our second letter of no prejudice from the department, which essentially allows us to continue spending money to begin digging in the ground to create a large box -- launch box. it will be right under the freeway where we will be digging down to put the tunnel boring machine in place. the contract will be advertised in about a week or so. there are two other contracts and the systems contracts, which is the rail and communications equipment. between them, that is probably $700 million, $800 million worth of work that we will be advertising, so it is a lot of jobs, opportunity for san francisco and businesses, and it

just kind of cements the fact that it will be capped off with an agreement that we believe will be on track roughly for this may. the final piece with regard to the project, for the chinatown station, i think we had mentioned before that it would be going to the board of supervisors committee after it came from the planning commission. it did go to the committee last monday and went to the full board on tuesday and passed unanimously, so it will have its second reading, and we expect that to be done. we have issued the first of three notices to proceed to the tunnel contractor that allows him to purchase the boring

machine any day now. a second notice to proceed, which will allow for construction of the launch box for the tunnel. in terms of chinatown, we have now taken possession of the stockton street building, which is on the site of the station. we have moved successfully everybody out, and we have now hired someone to basically clean up the inside of the building to seal the outside of the building to make sure that in the interim, until it is removed, that is not only does not become a polite to the neighborhood but that is attractive -- does not become a polite -- blight to the neighborhood but that it is attractive. that should be in place by mid march and will be there for the

balance of the year until the building is taken down. this past weekend, as everybody in the bay area knows, the bridge was closed. your stmta played a role in making sure that was moved from our end. we had our traffic engineers working with caltrans to provide notice. we have officers and supervisors on a cost recovery basis, you will be happy to know, managing our heaviest corridors, van ness, south of market to direct traffic, and we also met some people, since it was moving 24 hours, to move people, and the

project was finished early, and i think we're going to start budgeting a couple of extra years in all of our project so that we can and them early. -- end them early. we had no complaints, so i thought it was pretty good. a pretty significant closure can go off without any adverse impact in san francisco. next, we, this is something i started working on in my last job, which is the repaving of mission street, it down in the mission. the work to pay for this, this is a coordinated project between the pc -- puc, dpw, and us.

it is very important as a corridor for us and for the city, so we are working very hard with the other agencies to do adequate outreach and planning to make sure the process goes smoothly, but very important infrastructure work for us to get done, so we will have re-routes. many will operate on south or red -- south van ness, so many of the buses will be able to continue running as electric. there will be some other re- roputes -- re-routes that will be on and off, and we are working to make sure that the impact is minimal for all of us, but it is a good project, which anyone in the submission street knows is long overdue. just a little bit of an update on the mission bay parking management plan.

i think we touched on it briefly last time. the interest in this project continues. we did send out a communication to all of the stakeholders, and we hope to reach an even larger audience, kind of a acknowledging that we want to take more time to go back and gather more data, work more closely with folks going block to block so that we understand, particularly with the residential nature versus the commercial nature, which was some concern. we are working with other city agencies, and some of these have significance stakeholders in the area. rather than bringing this all together in one package, we are breaking it up into its four or five component parts, and we

will be working sequentially that we have enough staff bandit to have in the process and develop a much more refined proposal which we will be coming back to you with, so rather than one big thing, we will see over the next six to nine months each piece coming, as it has been re- analyzed, we thought, and repackaged, so that will be coming back your way this year. an important milestone on a project that we were not leading but we were supporting and eagerly supportive of was the f- line streetcar.

as you know, right now, it stops at fisherman's wharf, but there is a tunnel that goes under fort mason, and there was a bar mental impact analysis of that proposed extension -- there was an environmental impact analysis. this was a long debate, through the tunnel, ending up in the fort mason center. the final environmental impact statement was released last friday. the next steps would be the record of decision, which will be forthcoming from the park service in the spring, at which point they will transfer the whole project to us to continue to start the design, the community planning process and to find the funding to do it, but a pretty major milestone getting the environmental work

done, said that is good for us, and then, finally, i think it was in just the last year, in the last week, the mayor's office announced a kickoff and plan for the 2012 sunday streets season. we're doing this along with the nonprofit city. the first event will be march 11 on the embarcadero. this year, we have 10 events for the year, and that will include continuing and possibly expanding the chinatown side that we launched last year, increasing the frequency of the mission district events, which are the most popular, so we are going to do four of those, may, june, july, august, trying to do this at the peak of the season,

and also adding a new route in a part of the town that does not have that much benefit, and we are excited to kick them off. chairman nolan: thank you, director reiskin. members of the board? thank you. ms. boomer? secretary boomer: you have one person who would like to address it. he has turned in a speaker card. you only have this one person. chairman nolan: congratulations for being appointed to the

citizens' advisory committee. >> thank you. my name is roland long. i am a member of the citizens' advisory committee. the muni accessible services and also the mayor's this bill to counsel. i am here today to talk about the fair -- faregates. we have only one accessible fare gate in the system. nearest to the station agent boot. and oftentimes, people in wheel chairs, people with disabilities have to wait, especially when it is grounded, and we have to get

out of the gate. i am in that dialogue with the council. we had a big discussion as far as trying to figure out how we can maybe add a sixth of all -- at accessible -- add accessible faregates. this may be for the project. maybe there will be a chance that we could maybe look into having two accessible faregates to allow people to go in and out, and also, another factor -- [bell] the station agent may not be available.

making us having to figure at how to get in and out of the faregate, so i am hoping to get some support from the board here and maybe look into this, at least the central subway. chairman nolan: thank you? anyone else wish to address the board? secretary boomer: no one else has turned in a card under the directors' report. chairman nolan: ok. secretary boomer: moving on said that members of a publicly address the board members within the board jurisdiction that are not on today's calendar. chairman nolan: good afternoon.

>> good afternoon. members of the board, thank you for your time today. my name is david sayle, and i am out of vancouver, washington. i intentionally drove here last night to attend this meeting in regards to bring attention to driver behavior with the transit agencies. on april 24, 2010, my daughter and four for friends were in a crosswalk in portland, oregon. all five of them work mode over in the crosswalk during a green light, and they are in the crosswalk, meant to be seen. my daughter, as a result of that crash, my daughter passed away, as well as one of her friends that were with her. her boyfriend was seriously

injured, and two others who were the sister of another girl passed away. i am here today to describe the behavior that caused me to do what i do now. the driver at that time to an illegal left hand turn at the intersection at a courtesy stop that was not supposed to be done and was not supposed to be made in that part of town. she crossed over two lanes of traffic, mowed them over in the crosswalk, drove 60 feet down the road, proceeded to back over them, drive over them again, and then she turned the bus off. as you well know, this would be a difficult situation for anyone a difficult situation for anyone to handle, and it is for her