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colleagues, for the big support for the work. thank you. >> on behalf of the board of directors and people of san francisco, thank you for your outstanding work. >> next up, i'd like to ask ms. chris aashi to step forward, greg is a clerk in our taxi services division, making his he's first and foremost known as just being a very good person, very pleasant to work with. he's quiet and unassuming. he helps out anybody on the team, who needs his assistance. he's very knowledgable source of advice for a lot of people, very detailed oriented. and what he's done specifically is he's been working on some of the very disparate data that the taxi services division deals with, such as police department

enforcement data, getting that organized so that our enforcement and the police department's enforcement efforts are streamlined. but he created a unified database of regulatory data that the division is managing which enables the division to much better manage its regulatory functions. for example including the more than 1500 medallions with respective ownship vehicle history of each, getting that into a database, and then adding in the taxi companies has made it easier and more efficient for the division to do its regulatory work. he's i guess quietly behind the scenes, really revolutionized the systems inherited from predecessor agencies so we have

an administrative and enforcement systems that were described here as a triumphant effort on his behalf, to enable the rest of the division to work well. and he's in the process, really taken all the voluminous paper files that the division had and got them into electronic format so they're more easily searchable and usable. for that let me -- with that let me turn it over to ms. high ashi. >> when we started to oversee the taxi industry in 2009 we were up to our ankles in paper files with 10 years of the taxi commission and the police department and some files went back 50 years. we currently have 25 file cabinets of record for 7,000 taxi drivers, 1500 permits and over 40 businesses. as you can imagine as a regulator it's been difficult to

oversee an entire industry. so greg has been such a wonderful participant on our team. his attitude and his personality make us a good team. he's a good team player and frankly single handedly he has made it possible for us to be efficient. i'm glad the board is recognizing him for that important contribution to the foundation of our division. so greg i'm really proud. >> congratulations. >> thank you very much for this recognition award. it is a great surprise. i am a great believer of meaningful use of technology. i just happen to be the right place at the right time to explore myself, but knowledge of

my success to operate the mta taxi detail electronic base. it feels good knowing that this work is created data sharing capability. thank you very much. >> congratulations and thank you on behalf of the board and the people of san francisco. good work. before we proceed with the next one, members -- my intention this afternoon is to move item 11 up in the first thing in the calendar after the -- after the report. with members' consent we'll do that. if you're hear for the taxi items we will do that first and come back to the public comment consent calendar after that. >> mr. mayor chan for the record we are trying to find an overflow room. however because of the fire codes, it's not permissible for people to stand against the walls or sit on the floor.

so if you are one of those well ask you to either find a chair or you'll have to stand outside and we will hopefully get an overflow room open as soon as possible. >> okay. next item. >> continuing on, finally i'd like to ask mr. john haily and ms. kimberly robinson to come forward from the transit division. a great story here that some of you may have heard of. ms. robinson is an operator out of the woods division who exemplifies honesty and integrity. she was tracked down by a passenger through abc channel 7 news team so he could properly thank her. she's been with the agency just three and a half years. and back on september 6, she was assigned to drive the 27 line, when one of her riders left his briefcase on the bus. he immediately realized, and he's joining us today, he immediately realized he left his

bag with all of his findings, laptop, credit card, medication, platinum ring and most importantly a letter he had just received from the president and the first lady. and maybe we'll allow him to explain why he had such a letter with him. he called the police and filed a report, but resigned himself to the fact that he'd probably never see that stuff again. five days later he received a call from lost and found department informing him that they had his bag with everything inside including the jewelry. he was so amazed with the honesty that he contacted abc wanting to kentuck contact the r and thank her. he told the reporter that she deserves a reward and i would give it to her if i had some cash. we're happy to provide you with this on behalf of the mta. thank you very much.

john. >> well i'm the guy who left the bag on the bus. as the letter from the obama was for a painting that mrs. obama gave to mr. obama as a gift. i'm an artist and that's how i happened to have the thank you letter from them both. it was real nice that they both actually signed it. my new favorite driver, you know, we also have to thank)r÷ e honest citizen that gave her the bag and turned it in. we don't know who that is but thank you very much, whoever that was. kimberly, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> appreciate it. >> do you want to do the presentation? no? okay. >> i'm glad that he clarified that it was president obama, not the president of 258. >> thank you, ms. robinson.

>> i wasn't expecting all this. i was just doing my job. but this means a lot to me. thank you for honoring me with this award hereasu$ñ. >> take a moment to introduce your family members who are here. >> this is my sister, and my s son. >> thank you. and congratulations on behalf of all of us. thank you. >> thank you. congratulations everybody. a couple of quick things. we had talked about in advance of the -- or during the last meeting, but as you all know the first weekend of october was an extraordinary weekend for san francisco and the mta was front and center, along with the rest of the transportation providers in being a big part of making that weekend work. as you know, we had the america's cup, we had fleet

week, the blue grass festival, giants, 49ers, it was an incredible weekend, particularly sunday, when many of these things peaked and converged. there were roughly a million visitors came to san francisco. our estimates from the transit division is that we carried an additional 250,000 people that weekend, above and beyond our normal load. so it was well over 100,000 each day. so the level of service was really tremendous, the amount of people from muni operators, the supervisors, folks in the control center, parking control officers, fare inspectors, community -- outreach ambassadors. we really had all hands on deck to try to make the weekend go as well as it possibly could. i want to specifically commend lee mill tello, who i'm not sure

if she's here but she was tasked when we brought her into the mta with leading our special events planning. thanks, lee. which she really kind of grabbed the reins on, doled our first sfmta wide operations plan for the weekend, served as incident commander, did a tremendous job in bringing together the whole agency to deliver exceptional level of transit service, of other transportation service, working across all divisions of mta with other transit providers, with the rest of the city. we were able to move folks more or less with very minimal complaint. the level of service was right. we were able to make adjustments as needed. the communications were i think generally pretty good. so we're happy with generally how things went. we did, though, in the spirit of continuous improvement, identify things that we still need to do

better. there's more that we could do with signage to direct people to the right transportation modes. we had some issues in terms of ensuring people with disabilities could access certain transit and other areas, due to crowding, that we need to do a better job with, same with some paratransit. we need to do better coordination on drop-off locations for some of the america's cup races. with fisherman's wharf because there was so much congestion -- pedestrian congestion on the street which is good we had to stop the muni line short. we need to plan for that. as well as a little bit more planning for taxi planning and stopping. we had designated taxi zones but i think we found there's more we can do there. by and large it was an exceptional wgd and i think there's mta and the rest of the

city family and other transit providers stepped up. i want to commend the people who worked involuntarily, a number of pcos were compelled to work, but they didn't complain pretty much everybody showed up, did their job. local 250(a) was great assistance working with us, and encouraging folks to sign up voluntarily from the bus operators side. so it was a great effort all around and happy to report back on that. we're taking the lessons learned to incorporate into future event planning. someone had asked last time for just a little bit of update on the centennial activities. we had our big kind of kickoff event in april. there's been a number of small things happening during the year, including a historic photo display so line at many public

events. have a detailed listing of things we've been doing that we'll send to you. just to highlight in coming up next month the photo display will be on board, the eureka, and vintage photographs from the archive which is significant will be up at the san francisco public library. also, in november, our historic streetcars will be traveling along the j church line on november 4 and the t third line on november 11, bringing the historic lines out, into our -- some of our neighborhoods. cable car 26, which was built in 1890, will be dedicated on november 7, and working with the market street railway, our nonprofit partner, we will host a trolley festival from november 16 to january 1 which will feature specially decorated

vintage f line vehicles to honor our history landmarks and transit system. we're going to have special lighting on them to coincide with the lighting of snowflakes on market street. a lot of activity coming as we approach the actual anniversary day which is december 28 although i haven't talked to our cfo about it, i think, with your consent, we're going to make muni free for the day december 28, which will be easier than going back to the five cent fare which was what people were paying that day 100 years ago. a lot of stuff we're ramping up to and we'll send a complete listing and make sure the information is up on our website. i did want to note -- i know there's a lot of -- i'm sensing there may be a lot of taxi folks here. we don't have anything on the agenda today, specifically relating to attacks bu to taxisl include a recommendation on the

waiting list, downpayment assistance, board of appeals. so some items that have been hanging out from previous meetings, we bring back on november 20. but nothing on the agenda today. and finally, i just wanted to note that committee of the mtc, you may recall the youth fast past pilot that you approved with contention of funding on the region. there was a vote a few months back on that funding that did not advance, but it's coming back to life, based on committee that met last week, the mtc -- a committee of mtc forwarding to the full commission for next week, proposed funding for the transit performance initiative that will have $15 million incentive pool that will go out to the transit operators in the

region that explicitly has, as an eligible use, the low income fare pilot, such as we in vta were proposing. so it's not quite the same type of money that we were talking about before, but it is regional money that will be available for this purpose. so i will be reporting back to you on that but wanted to give you a little update of what's been happening at mtc. we'll likely go to the mtc full commission next week and we expect it will likely be approved. that will be money coming to us with the low income pilot as an eligible use of those funds. and that concludes my report. >> thank you. i want to say personally on behalf of myself the weekend of the 6th and 7th i think was amazing. i rode the 38 and 47 several times, very, very crowded but it did the job. i also appreciate very much appreciate your candor in the things that didn't work as going forward, because this certainly won't be the last big weekend in

san francisco. >> world series parade coming up. >> that's right. >> that's 2 million. >> thank you. members, anything? members of the public on mr. ris kin's comments. with members' consent let's go to item 11. we have a lot of people who want to talk about that. and we'll begin with the staff report, mr. ris kin. >> item 11 approving various traffic and paning modifications associated with oak and fail pedestrian and bicycle safety project. i'm not going to read through the entire list. also just for the public's information we do have an overflow room set up in room 416. so those of you who wish to address the board, who are in room 416, we will give you ample opportunity when your name is called to come forward to this room. so if people who are in the

hallway could move to room 416, they will be able to see and hear. thank you. >> thank you. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. mr. chairman, board of directors, i appreciate you offering me this opportunity to talk to you this afternoon about a project that i'm very excited about, the project that we've been working for about the past year, with the residents of several neighborhoods. and one that's generated a lot of excitement and interest as you can see from the folks here this afternoon. the project is the oaken fell bicycle pedestrian safety project. the genesis of this project, is as you well know, you all have set some goals for us in mta strategic plan of making san francisco's transportation network safer, and of promoting transit walking, boiging, car sharing, taxi, and other

alternative modes to single passenger automobiles. so this project starts to strive towards those goals as the very ambitious goal that the board of directors has set of having 20% mode share by the year 2020 in san francisco for bicycling as well as goal set by mayor newsom and subsequently reaffirmed by mayor lee to reduce pedestrian injury collisions in san francisco. so this project moves towards those goals and is one that we're very excited about. the project area is roughly in the geographic center of san francisco. it's kind of shares a couple of different boundaries with panhandle neighborhood, the lower haight neighborhood, alamo square. it's really a juncture in between different neighborhood and as well different modes of transportation. it's a key network connection. as many of you -- many in the audience know, oak street,