move not to take the dr and approve it does propose. >> second your your -- second appeared in good -- second. commissioner antonini: i agree with what has been said by the other commissioners. we know views are not protected, and although there is not a big change, there is a little bit of a change, and the privacy issue is one in an urban environment that is really difficult. as long as there is adequate separation and light and air, those are things that i do not see the fog -- do not think the factors exist enough to make any changes, though i can certainly

understand concerns. commissioner moore: the only thing that could be added is due west facing windows, and i think this will almost inevitably necessitates some protection or to keep your car parts from the bleaching out -- carpets from leaching out, so it will probably provide some privacy. >> is there a motion on the floor to not take the article as proposed, on that motion -- [calling votes] that motion passed unanimously. you are now at general public comment. >> is there any general public

comment? seeing none, the meeting is adjourned. captioned byhe national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> item number four, approval of the april 17 regular meeting. >> motion to approve? >> second. >> those in favor? so moved. >> item number five, communications director. there will be no discussion today. >> there will be a closed session? >> just no discussion of anticipated litigation.

item number six, introduction of unfinished business but board members. >> thank you, chairman. good afternoon. first of all, of a bite to -- i feel that we did this in the last meeting, but the budget was approved last meeting, and out of work goes into the budget. people spend hours that we cannot even comprehend, home working, trying to work on problems. i would like to commend them for that. by and large, i would say that i support the entire budget. there is one that i oppose, the sunday parking, i want that to be known. in saying that i know it has been agreed that you and your staff would come back to let us know how you plan to implement sunday parking. i would like to go on record as

looking forward to seeing a preview of that plan recommendation, said the vacancy but we have in the community in sentences go. >> thank you. i said that would be willing, myself, to work on this, or a way to work on this in a way that works for the most group's possible. any other new or unfinished business? >> thank you. >> seeing no one. >> item #seven. directors report. >> that afternoon. members of the board, members of the public, staff, i am happy to start off the meeting by recognizing some of our best. this month we have folks from a few different parts of the agency that we want to recognize, as we do each month.

starting with the transit division, i would like to ask mr. hanley to come to the microphone. if there are here. >> did they recognize me? >> if you could go to the microphone? >> absolutely. >> moving along to our sustainable streets divisions, two different groups of awardees. if mr. yi is here, i would like to have him come forward to honor some of our transit fare inspectors. if you would all kindly come forward. these inspectors had been with us for about five years.

as everyone knows, they do proof of payment, but they also serve generally in a significant customer service role, which is often overlooked, but the operators in the public value it greatly. they are here not just for their good day to day work. before the end of last year, they were doing their proof of payment work when they encountered a female customer that appeared distraught and upset. they tried to console her. they were trying to make sure at that point that she was safe and that everyone around her would be safe. she then indicated that she was suicidal, making a beeline for

the tracks, at which point inspector parish restrained her, giving her professional and medical assistance. the inspector rated with her. they literally save the life that day. besides making sure that people pay their fair, we certainly want to commend the three for the above the end beyond saving a life. if you like to say a few words? >> good afternoon, cmdr.

>> members of the board, director, you know there is a whole group of the inspectors in the back of the room and i have to say that i could not be proud of the work that these folks do every single day in our system for our agency. this is a perfect example of the types of things, the types of compassion that our fair inspector show our patrons every day. they went above and beyond anyone's expectation. i could not be prouder of the three of them. i thank you all, director particularly, for acknowledging their work, first and foremost. >> thank you, and on behalf of the board, i had the privilege of meeting everyone. it is really impressive an outstanding work that you do.

i probably saw a bunch of you there, doing this great work, coming off and getting on the bus. it was impressive. this is truly heroic. thank you. >> before you leave the podium. i know you have your video recorder at home, taping this. i would love for you to go with a brief word. >> on the spot? [laughter] i did not want to say anything, but i guess that i will. transit fare inspectors, it is fantastic to be recognized for all the things that for the customer service, trying to

advise, assists. this is what we do. the rest of us do the same thing the department is fantastic. we have great co-workers. it is different every day, if you can believe that. i would suggest that everyone comes with us at least one time to check us out. you get to know the patrons and the riding public. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> director? >> thank you. moving on, also in the sustainable street division, i want to ask reggie to come forward.

is reggie here? reggie has been the supervisor of the traffic paint shop. he has been with us for more than 18 years. demonstrating outstanding work efforts, a great performance. he has been a great leader in that role, producing the work backlog by 50% over the last three years. this backlog includes work that was referenced in an audit that the comptroller's office and did a while back, indicating that there is work that needs to be done to improvements in the streets. reggie has been a big part of making that improvement. anytime anyone is doing excavation, given the work done

by the utility companies and other city departments, there has been a lot of work. he is not a set in the office kind of guy. he works with field crews and serves as a mentor, sharing his knowledge of the 18 years, with high-profile projects, and the bike lanes they have all been hearing about. a big part of the paint shop and the operations group. >> good afternoon, mr. chair. members of the board, i am with sustainable streets. it is my pleasure. i want to acknowledge tony, the director of might -- the

director of the newly appointed division. back to what i was saying, i always have the opinion that the engineers and planners do really good work crafting plans and so forth. reality is something else in the field. we always rely on folks like reggie and his staff to be our safety net. inevitably, we always make some errors here and there. he is always here to make it happen. we are very grateful for that. thank you for being our safety net. >> good afternoon. i would like to say that we just recently hired and reggie stepped-up, along with fellow

supervisors to fill in that cap and work with me in a daily basis. it has been a big job. reggie has been an invaluable asset. we cannot thank him for the valuable work that he has done. in the jobs to the extent that we have been able to, planning how we move forward with expanding the operation to really get it up to date. with all the back log knocked down, fewer complaints, having the city in good shape in the near future. thank you, thank you all. >> we would love to hear a few words from you. >> thank you.

i would like to thank the bike lane engineers, car engineers, the genie, we have been working hand in hand together to keep this going. the biggest goal was jfk. we are down to finishing it all up and so far, so good. things are looking really good over there. i want to just say, time to make it short, i cannot do this without my crew. they cut their heart into this project. the new work, the backlogs, always with me. always side-by-side.

a lot of respect there. i want to bring out names, if you do not mind. my lead man, charlie. mine lead man, taking care -- taking care of the big jobs. making little changes their, but we all work together as a team in always get the job done. thank you. [applause] >> in my first few weeks as i went to visit different facilities, i went to the new bancroft facility, where they were operating out of. the paint shop is a high energy

group you can feel it, a gung-ho and high energy crews. the hard work is acknowledged. finally, mr. haley is back. it looks like we have at least part of the crew. tonight, from washington, and i think that i saw cynthia chambers here. >> a sister. >> we will take " we can get. i had the privilege of attending the recent operator awards ceremony that we have each month. these were the three women that were honored. ms. chambers tells me she

operates the best division in unique. [laughter] -- in muni. [laughter] apparently they have a particular women's division tradition that she might want to tell you about. at this last one we were honoring this vision. this is a message for the operators out there that it is possible to go years without having preventable accidents. a great role model, she seat -- service as one of the people who has demonstrated excellent in those that are coming up. ms. washington is relatively

new, having been here for about five years, never having had a preventable accidents. operator of the month, march of 2011. these two women, one very long serving, one relatively new, demonstrating the kind of accident free record that we are striving for. congratulations to you on one of the best provisions in muni. we are happy to have jonathan say a few words. >> i have been operator for 35 someone years. it would be even better if we had new coaches.

i would like to thank you for the acknowledgement. [unintelligible] and i would like to thank my chair person. my sister, i thank her for coming, hazel. [laughter] >> congratulations. thank you very much. ms. washington? >> how are you, the day? >> good. >> that is good. >> i would like to thank mr. [unintelligible] for the award. it is so lovely. i would like to thank everyone. this is a tough job out there, but we get through it. we really do. it is kind of tough to deal with, but we do our best and

maintain our composure, getting to our destination. >> would you like to say something? >> hello. >> the best division. [laughter] since i came, my goal was to motivate my operators to come in and put a smile on their faces. in there, probably, day and night, making sure they're ok. they are the motivation that i have it exhibited toward myself. we are having less accidents, in

a contest called race to zero. the no. 1 or no. 2 spot, we're really striving to make sure that everyone really pulls together. we have something called a breakfast club. every tuesday and friday there is a lady there who brings breakfast for the operators. those new mothers to come there, single parents, grandparents, whenever, we try to get there is a family. new equipment would be wonderful, yes. new coaches, we would really love to see those. >> there is absolutely no truth, reading the capital program to them. [laughter]

just to make an observation based on what ed said, one of the things we are proudest of here, we have the best of our operating culture. in my words are our words, collectively you have an incredible record, with a lot of her time and highlights that were drawn attention to, the fact that she mentors or works with newer or younger operators. here is the result of some of that. it is something we have strived to make happen. people that care about their jobs and are motivated, sometimes we need to just get out of the way and let people do what they're very good at.

i wanted to make that point about how you learn from excellent role models, as well as understanding the equipment. >> talking about the equipment there. thank you very much. [applause] director? >> just a few quick updates. in terms of the state of repair work, for those who live along the n line, that work is continuing. as well as on the carl and cold with switching replacement projects. thus a number of weekends during planned shutdown work. the work will resume the weekend of may 11. we will have a shutdown of the

end line, a prelude to the big work. and in a day. that will be the time we will be redoing the entire section. one of the most critical junctures, we are very excited to get that new overhead up in working, and new. it will be a significant benefit in terms of service it will come with disruption in distraction, we're working closely on promoting alternative forms of transportation and, of course, we'll have outreach, cited the,

shovels, people that need to get around on muni still can. in terms of the future of muni, we have been coming toward the end of this phase and the outreach associated with the environmental impact report, going around to different neighborhoods, really tailored toward the rapid line in those neighborhoods that we have been developing travel time reduction proposals for. the chairman was able to attend one of the ones this past weekend. today we have had seven workshop taylor presentations for the seven neighborhoods. they are ready to go. we have been promoting them through various means, beyond

the many town hall format and accessibility advisory, going to the pedestrian safety advisory council. lots of different stakeholder groups. these large focused workshops are giving us feedback that helps us to refine and change and adjust our proposals. we have put out information and are trying to get feedback electronically we have gotten a couple of hundred responses to that. that is very helpful. at 10:00 a.m., and therefore we will see if this is a central location hearing in we will be

putting these corridors up for review. we had one good recognition. our park manager was featured in a series, a nationwide blog that focuses on aggressive transportation issues, for lack of a better phrase. the airport -- profiling 11 officials and putting them in the 21st century. jay is the manager of the park program. but he put this dynamic pricing model in place, the first in the country. if not the world. for circling the admissions and congestion of those associated, the lessons will be powerful for

cities everywhere. we have won a number of boards, and cities like new york are now falling gas. a great honor that is well deserved. this sunday is the first of four mission sunday streets, we are doing four of them. the vice chair has been a strong advocate, if anyone has not been to make sunday street mission, they are the ones to go to. hope to see everyone out there. in terms of yc