traditional and digital media will report to you. miss su comes to us from pfizer in new york city where she served as director of branded marketing and communications. i don't know what it is, but it sounds complicated. prior to pfizer she worked at warner lambert and chase manhattan bank in various management positions. thank you on behalf of all of my colleagues and welcome on board. >> congratulations and welcome, miss su. >> thank you. well, mr. chairman and members of the board, it's wonderful to have the opportunity to return to the city of my birth. san francisco. after 25 years of being away on the east coast. and i am truly honored to have this opportunity to return and serve the people of san

francisco by serving in the role of communications director at sfmta. so i'm looking forward to working with you and the sfmta staff and the people of this great city to ensure that we have great and wonderful choices available to all people here. >> thank yous miss su and welcome. glad you are here. miss jean baptiste. >> good afternoon chairman and members of the board. i also am really honored to be part of the team here. i was just thrilled to be returning to the mta. when i was here ten years ago, it was a smaller organization, still very large, but a larger organization. what i have been struck by in last month that i have been back is the sheer breadth and scope of the work that we do and the services that we deliver on a day to day basis is very impressive.

i have also been very impressed with the talent and quality of the staff at the agency and the level of the commitment that people show to achieving our goals and look forward to working with all of you. >> thank you. mr. yee, saving the best for last, the peninsula corridor joint power boards that owns and operates caltrains unanimously elected our beloved chairman tom nolan as their vice-chair. many of you may not know that chairman nolan was the founding chairman of the joint powers board and was instrumental in the acquisition of caltrain. >> thank you very much. i like to win an election every week. i'm not sure what is out there next week. must be something. [ laughter ] >> thank you. the train is just such an important part of

the entire peninsula, and it's growing in popularity all the time. over 50,000 people a day are riding it now. when we first started there were about 16,000 and it was just hanging by a thread. it's doing extremely well and the hope is to take it to downtown san francisco and electrification is underway. i would like to get back to one thing you said, mr. yee, i think almost had an opportunity on december 28th to go to the divisions. and i went to woods and i know others went different places. i learned some things and there were some questions and i think at some point, another meeting or another retreat after that, miss boomer, if members have things that they learned or questions, to bring it back to this body. to me it was a very rewarding several hours' experience with the various parts of the division. with members' consent -- i know you went to the cable car

barn with your kids. >> i did. i had the pleasure of waking up on muni's birthday very early in the morning and there is not much that will get my kids out of bed oearly on a holiday, but the promise of the cable car did it and i will give a special thanks to them. they were wonderful hosts. i did learn a lot, particularly about the double-boarding. i have sent thank you notes and my kids have as well. i will point out that they were wonderful hosts to two relatively young children and it was a lot of fun. also coming outstanding of the director's report i'm focused on the workshop and i think we picked up a fair number of ideas that we want to explore. and beyond what i learned on the visits i will say as i have said before, as we approach this workshop, to me in addition to ways to sort of expedite the metro service, which i know we'll be talking about later on in today's agendas, i think it's time to

revisit the idea of closing market street to all, but transit, bicycle and pedestrian. as i said in our last meeting, discussing taxis and now that we have revamped the medallion issuance system, i would urge you to set the agenda to devote a significant amount of time to discussing taxi service. i they it's same time for significant reform in dispatch and peak time performance and now is the time to address that. >> anybody want to comment? >> yes, thank you, chairman nolan. i also wanted to express my sincere gratitude to the staff that welcomed me into the -- cameron beach yard and the balboa yard or the station there and also got a chance to get over to potrero. we can talk about a whole lot

more things that i'm eager to talk about on the 29th, but i wanted to express my gratitude particularly to supervisors there, michael henry at the balboa facility -- or potrero, i'm sorry. potrero was most receptive and francisco tapia and her staff, everybody was so welcoming there. i too was up before the sun and did my best to -- i thought i was going to be there to steal the show with some doughnuts, but i guess i was upstaged by cupcakes. so i will try better next year. [ laughter ] >> thank you, mr. yee, members of public, comments on the director's report? okay. good afternoon >> good afternoon directors. i would like to congratulate muni for offering free rides on

new year's eve. like many of your policies, that was a very open-handed thing to do in our own much smaller way luxor cab also contributed to free rides that evening. at a time when other transportation services were doubling or tripling or quadrupleling their rates. offering free and safe and sober rides to reduce the incidents of drunk-driving. unfortunately only a few dozen people actually took advantage of that service, the free rides that evening. and we certainly look forward to expanding it in the future. and we'll do so next time on st. patty's day. >> how busy was your dispatch line? >> we were utterlying

overwhelmed for almost the entire evening. >> thank you. next item. >> moving on item 8 is the citizens' advisory committee report. [ inaudible ] >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. i am substituting today for dan murphy, who has been ill for a while and we thought we better get these recommendations to you as quickly as we could. i am presenting recommendations. we came up with at our october and december meetings of last year. the first two concern church street and transit improvements there. the mta cac recommends that both the church street transit-only lane and the 76x marin express pilot projects

proceed as presented. the cac requests that staff report back to the mta cac quarterly on their findings and at the end of the pilot project. cac recommends that the tep staff use other appropriate tools on the church street project including transit preferential significants and recommends that the agency take into account all modes flowing through the dubois/church intersection whether or not through signage or signals. the next recommendation, cac recommends that the agency report back on the possibility of selecting a low-income community as a destination for a second run of the 76x marin

headlands express. the next motion has to do with the tep again. cac recommends that a higher ridership line be chosen for the next tep pilot project. this next motion those do with sidewalk parking and infringement by parked cars on the sidewalk. the mta cac recommends that sidewalk parking laws be enforced not just against cars that leave less than 4' of travel room for pedestrians, but for any car being more than 1' into the sidewalk. the next long motion concerns operator training. cac recommends that the agency

expand its operator training capacity in order to meet the long-term operator needs of the agency. even to the understood short-term detriment to service that might result from shifting personnel from operator to trainer positions. the cac recommends the agency make adoption of polices and systems to decrease trainee washout rates a higher priority. the cac recommends the agency investigate whether simulator training would be cost-effective and whether purchasing simulator equipment in conjunction with other transit agencies in the region would make sense? cac recommends that operators receive more hands-on training in boarding and deboarding

disabled passengers using actual disabled passengers. the final motion from our october meeting concerns graffiti removal. cac recommends that graffiti in muni tunnels and property be removed within 72 hours of being reported. the same standard applied to property owners throughout the city. finally at our december meet ing we passed two motions. the mta cac recommend that the sfmta use existing street-level platforms to board able-bodied passengers and use the central platform exclusively for people with disabilities for boarding at the end of special events at the ballpark. the last motion today is

concerning recreation and park department special events. the mta cac recommends that the rec and park department collect a transit fee for special permitted events to defray the cost of providing additional transportation service before and particularly after those events. i am happy to answer any questions, if you have any. >> thank you. we appreciate the always thoughtful recommendations from the cac and i can assure you that the staff will give them their full attention very shortly. >> thank you. >> give our best to mr. murphy. >> this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board for items not on today's agenda. i have received two speaker cards. [ reading speakers' names ]

>> good afternoon miss hale. >> good afternoon and happy new year. i'm vera hale and i'm a member of the advisory council to the department of aging and adult services. and some of us became very concerned when we read that you were considering at some point eliminating age-based discounts. now we think the senior discount is very important and should be larger, but one of the things that we need to keep in mind is that if you do eliminate it, it would be a disaster for seniors. seniors, there are 155,000 seniors in san francisco. that is 19.2% of the population. and it's growing. as you know, baby-boomers are increasing. the older americans act

considers people who are 60 to be seniors. and there are 44 nutrition sites in the city and about 2,000 people go everyday -- not everyday, but go to these 44 sites and most of them go on muni and sometimes they go on one, two or three buses. to start segregating people when they are not segregated at meal sites based on their income would create big problems. people have developed social relations, in a time when few social relations are there for older people. and to tear those up by saying, no you can't, then that makes it very hard. also 61% of san franciscans do not have enough money to live here. i would like to give you a copy of the elder economic security index and some of what i have said to look at, and see what

it takes to live in san francisco. they estimate it takes $27,000 and 61% of our population do not meet that. >> thank you, miss hale, appreciate that. >> we hope you will not consider that. >> thank you. >> good afternoon again directors charles rathborn on behalf of luxor cab. i would like to submit our complaint against uber. uber is installing their own dispatch equipment in our cabs without our permission. the equipment consists of a smartphone modified to acts a

dispatch terminal. the terminal serves only uber's customers and not the general public. you cannot for instance order a cab using uber's equipment. but the unlicensed dispatch firms do not. unlicensed companies undermine our ability to respond to service requests through our own already strained dispatch service to the extent that our drivers are working with the unlicensed dispatch, they are unavailable to respond to service requests made through our own licensed dispatch. is the operation safe? does

the device cause more driver distraction than already exists of a complex work environment of a taxi cab? what about the fare? we know that uber always charges more than the meters fare. however, their transactions are totally invisible to us. i am running out of time, so i will just say you should not turn a blind eye to these services. they undermine our services and we ask you to adopt emergency regulations to prohibit that kind of activity. >> thank you. >> can i ask a question? >> sorry to turn this into school day for you charles. are you suggesting to us that luxor cabs are responding to uber calls? so a luxor cab dealing with flagged calls or

dispatched calls? >> yes. >> so they might get uber or luxor? you don't have the ability to control your drivers to tell them they can't do that? >> that is a good question, director. >> we probably shouldn't be discussing that. to miss hale, when director reiskin was speaking about ideas, i think while we certainly heard everything that miss hale said, i wouldn't want anybody watching this to get the wrong idea of what has been proposed. >> thank you. anybody else? >> no other person who

submitted a speaker card. >> okay to the consent calendar. >> item 10 is the consent calendar. items are considered to be routine by the board and will be voted on as a single block, unless a member of public or a member of the board severes an item for separate discussion and action. mr. chairman -- >> i do have a question on 10.1. i don't want to take it off the calendar, but the only way to talk about it if it's separated? >> directors, you can discuss it if you wish to agendize it for closed session at another meeting. >> i don't want to hold it up. can we just happening on to that one for a little later in the meeting and come back to it? >> yes. >> okay. thank you. so minus 10.1, is there a motion? >> move to approve.

>> second? >> >> any further discussion? all those in favor, signify by saying aye? >> aye. >> moving on to the regular agenda, item 11 presentation bun discussion regarding the sfmta's 2012 year-end financial audit.

good afternoon. >> good afternoon. so we're here to present the fiscal year audit, as we do every year, fiscal 11-12. as you remember from prior years, the auditor is selected by the controller, and the auditor comes in and gives the financial picture of our financial status. and also does a single-audit and provides letter. this is a second year in a row we have received no findings, which is good and this is the first year we have -- this is the earliest we have completed

the audit, which is a good trend. so here we're comparing fy11 fy12 numbers, our revenues went up by $6 1 million and you can see the areas where our revenues went up. the majority of it came from the general fund baseline, which you know, because the economy improved, we received additional general fund monies. and we also received significant more additional federal and state grants. those are our two largest increases in state revenue. we also got $16 million from fares and parking meters, a combination -- mostly due to our annual fare increases that we now have established a policy on and the fact that we are getting more money from parking meter because of our new technology. to offset the increase in revenue of $6 1 million we saw an increase in expenditures of $54 million and mostly in the personnel services and repairs and maintenance cost line

items. so we change our from $7 million in the prior year. here is a picture of our bloat, which gives you a sense of our assets and liabilities. our assets went up $225 million from the prior year. the majority of it is in higher revenues and investment of capital assets. we shows decreases because debt service were decreased because as you know we resised es reissued debt. we had increases in other postemployment benefit, and our liabilities went up.

so the full financial picture is much better. unless you have any specific questions for me, i would like to turn it over to the kpmg auditor, who led the audit. tiffany. . >> [tkpwao-frpl/], >> good afternoon, i will be very short. i have been doing this for 12 years now and on the audit everything went extremely smoothly. there was an unqualified audit opinion and the single audit, will be completed this month. i provided advance materials on required communications which tell you all that good stuff. so i will entertain any questions that you have.

>> thank you. there is no action required by the board? >> correct. >> if i could ask a question, i read in the paper that supervisor wiener is very interested in measuring performance in order to get more money for the agency. are you involved in this? can you tell us? >> we just received notification of the hearing. so i'm sure we'll be participating. i think he asked the controller to also look at the impacts citywide, so it's beyond just the mta impact and it would be interesting to know that information, the impact of the city with delay of transit services. >> very good. very interested in the progress of that. thank you so much. anybody want to speak about this one? >> no member of the public indicated that they are interested in addressing you on this matter. moving on to item 12, awarding

contract no. 1260r integrated smiths replacement project to blocka construction to replace and install the subway public address/platform display system, the scada system, a subway fiber broadband network system and uninterruptable power supplies systems in an amount not to skeet $24,116,000 and for a term of 573 calendar days. >> good afternoon, vince harris director capital programs. i'm also joined this afternoon by our mr. frank lyle just a brief presentation. the scope includes replacement of controlling and communication systems. it's a multi-faceted effort it improve realtime passenger information and system safety,

reliability, and expandable of the system by replacing the following components: first we'll replace the subway public address and platform display system, which provides the audio and visual information within the nine muni stations. it will provide enhanced realtime passenger information on a continuous basis, replacing the facility supervisor control and data acquisition system. the acronym you have heard us talk about, we call it scada. which provides the capability of remote monitoring and control of system alarms and emergency ventilation functions of the nine muni stations from the new central control facilities. the third part of the project will replace the mode of power scada system and control of the 26 transit substations used by the charlie buses and light rail vehicles.

i will note for members in this project the mode of power scope is limited only to the replacement of the system computers, and extension of the computers to the central control facilities. fourthly replacing the fiber broadband new mexico system which connects all systems in the subway to central control. and lastly, this replaces the uninterruptable power supplies systems, which is a mouthful, which provides critical backup in event of a power outage. for members' reference this project provides a communication platform for the existing sfmta central control functions to be seamlessly migrated and to plug in as one unfied and integrated network.