director bridges present. heinicke is anticipated. nolan present director ramos, director rubke will be absent today. item 3 announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting.

please be adviced electronics are not allowed in the meeting. the board respectfully request they be placed in the off position. >> second. >> motion seconded. >> all in favor say aye. >> item five communications directors please be adviced that there will be no closed session today. >> from the market street railways for the e line report and i'm interested in getting a status report on where we are on that project. it's a very exciting vision and will this

be coming anytime soon? is it done? what's going on with that? >> so we'd be happy to bring you an update on the e line there's a few different answers there's kind of plans for a short-term piloting as we did last summer and it's also part of the water front transportation assessment but independent of that if you like -- >> it's a very compelling vision and i hope we're able to do that at some point. okay thank you. >> anybody else for new unfinished business? looks like we're seeing none. >> good afternoon members of the board and members of the public and staff we're going to start out today as we always do on the first meeting of the month recognizing some of our

employees rather than me trying to paraphrase on behalf of the nominees the great things that the employees have done i'm just good to ask the directors to do so themselves so i'd like to ask our director to come forward. our graphic designer jimmy lee. >> thank you for inviting me. thank you. to present this special award to chimmy, lee he has been our graphic designer for 7 years one of the many who perform a core function for the agency that is not always recognized for the value it brings to the customer. since

i arrived in january, chimmy has demonstrated a level of responsiveness. i called on chimmy to help out with a new campaign idea i had. having been adviced by our legal counsel that fighting them would be fruit less we decided to create our own peace campaign. chimmy did what he does best creating award winning design for sfmta he conceptualized a full scale campaign. it spoke to the

hearts of san francisco ans about peace love and acceptance. it was it was mentioned in numerous press articles as a key part of m u.n. i's response. perhaps more importantly now that that time has passed a bit we've received compliments from 311 such as the one i'm about to read which says in quotes to everyone at sfmta i would like to thank you for recent actions against big otry thank you to everyone who thought contributed and worked on this campaign i mention that we are

honoring chimmy here and there were a lot of other people involved in the campaign as well i'd just like to acknowledge and have a communication team for chimmy to stand. [applause]. >> the peace campaign is currently running on m u.n. i buses around town and on behalf of the agency chimmy your supervisor standing with you today and the entire communications team we celebrate and we honor you today with the special recognition award thank you for the work you do with sfmta. >> on behalf of the agency and all people of san francisco

thank you for the outstanding work it's a great campaign you created so thank you very much. >> thank you very much it's a great honor to be here and receiving this award again i want to thank the members of the board and especially candice and dea nna and of course the communications team without them my job would be impossible to do. but it's really a you know, great excitement and doing what a designer to do positive campaigns like this i live in the city and i love the city and it's the least i can do for us. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you. next i want to ask -- to come forward they are recognizing someone that's actually not an sfmta employee

but works in support of our off street parking program. so i'd like you to come forward. >> good afternoon mr. chair and members of the board and mr. risken i'd like to acknowledge the director of off street parking and he and his team are remarkable. they manage the entire off street parking program for our agency consisting of 40 garages and metered lotses it in itself is a huge business enterprise grossing over -- a year in reality there's 200 or more additional men and women who work indirectly for us through

the service contracts of the garage operators and most of them do a great job and today we'd like to recognize one of them that's done some things that are truly hero ic and beyond the call of duty. he's a security guard with the fifth and mission garage working for top notch security. on april 25th just before 6 a.m., before the end of his graveyard shift he was paroling the grounds and he noticed someone who was kind of suspicious who was parked in front of the sprint store on the ground floor he was checking out the site and he got in the car and left and shortly after he came back again parked got out of the

car, and really suspicious so langley was watching him closely at a distance he got back in the car drove his car through the plate glass window and got in and started taking away merchandise so langley took away the ignition key got inside the cashier's booth and he then called 911 and the suspect took off they paroled around the area and he actually identified the suspect not too far away all that was done within an hour we normally tell our employees to be careful and watch out for their personal safety and not take undue risk he really went out of his way

to help and place a personal interest behind that of our agency and tenant's welfare so we'd like to take this opportunity to recognize him for his great work. >> thank you so much. on behalf of the agency and the board of directors the people thank you for your outstanding work it's a very compelling story we really appreciate what you have done. you have friends here today you would like to introduce? >> i came here with my wife taking pictures and my manager gloria and john one of the garage managers and on behalf of top notch i'd like to thank you for the award and thank gloria for the job and thanks to the lord for watching out

for everyone and the police officers on duty. that's all. >> thank you. [applause]. >> finally i'd like to have john haley our transit director to come forward and a couple of folks who worked behind the scenes to keep our system in good shape every day. >> good afternoon mr. haley? y. >> good afternoon. yesterday late morning early afternoon we had a serious incident occur in the subway where the outcome was better than we had hoped for initially and part of what happens in this obviously there's an interruption to service a need to take care of anybody that may have been

harmed or injured in any kind of event like that and the process we have to go through to get everything back to normal and in the emergency response team we think of the police and other investigators claims and safety and mechanics will look after the trains, but one of the key folks that was necessary yesterday to allow us to put service back into the subway system, was the cuffed owed i c u.s. todian we have during the course of the day some 74 thousand trips through the subway we don't require all of them to take their trash with them, we don't -- some of the things that we permit folks to carry on to the subways that really um the un as s

u.n. g heros in terms of of taking care of our stations which are the face that we put onto the public are our c u.s. todians so it's long over due and with great pride i want to recognize mr. joseph free man who has been a c u.s. todian for some 13 years here he had a number of different jobs he worked every where in the system and has the opportunity to help us try to put our best foot forward to the public not only on a day-to-day basis but jumping in when we need help as key members of the emergency response team. please recognize mr. free man on behalf of our c u.s. todians.

>> thank you for your fine work and you promise 13 more years, right? >> i just want to say thank you for this moment and i appreciate it. [applause]. >> just a few other items i want to give you a brief update on the north east mission parking plan that you may have heard about there were a couple hearings recently and the small business commission that touched on the north east mission plan so where we are in the process is we brought forth some draft recommendations a couple months ago after many many months of additional data gathering and outreach and

analysis we had this community meeting we're continuing to solicit feedback and we're also working with the office and economic and workforce development that they are conducting a survey of pdr businesses production distribution repair businesses and a few others that have some needs that are different than typical or residential business needs that many of our parking tools were designed to manage we're also gathering feedback from that process and hopefully what we'll be able to arrive at a resolution sometime this summer that we will be bringing for your consideration. the draft plan that we put forward proposes a significant amount of residential permit parking

largely addresses the resident concerns but the proposal as of now doesn't address a large portion of the commercial concerns. there's a number of non retail businesses that believe that our proposed plan as it stands now doesn't meet their needs so hopefully we can get back to you as i said this summer and we would resume the other neighborhoods of potrero hills. we won't do them all at once so that's kind of a little bit of an update on the north east mission parking plan a few other items of note the -- machines for the central subway are arriving the first one is actually here and is currently be a assembled it's a 750 ton

350 foot long machine it will take 4 to 6 weeks to assemble and we're currently scheduled for a launch in early june the second launch would be late august early september so pretty significant milestones and physically impressive work that's happening in this next phase of the project. other good news -- the 62 harbor diesel electric buses that you all approved last year have gun begun to arrive. and also training we're training our operators and mechanics on