thanks pat for 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 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 cently and the small business commission that touched on the north east mission plan so wherwe 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 them and putting them through the rigors of the san francisco environment to make sure they meet all of our performance requirements they should be in service probably sometime in june and this was as you recall nearly fifty million dollar contract it significantly streamlined and reduced our costs and enabled us to get these buses to the streets

sooner so san francisco can look forward to 62 more buses getting here this summer. there will be no snow in minnesota as the production ramps up these are the 40 foot buses. they are low floor they are 40 percent more efficient than the conventional bus and not only ada compliant but had enhanced ada features they have the newest camera systems on them and including the transit only lane enforcement cameras and have a number of small features that may not be evident to the public but improvements for the operators

and easier to maintain and operate and hopefully more durable components so pretty exciting to see those i think it was 2007 the last time new buses hit the streets of san francisco so it will be a welcome addition to our fleet and we'll happily retire the buses that they are replacing. the park was nominated for another award a prestigious award for the government at the jfk school of government at harvard one of its top 25 innovations in government a pretty rigorous process. i don't know the numbers but they get a lot of applicants just to get nominated and go through an expert panel and other policy expertlies to review they will narrow that list down to 4 and

name a winner in the fall but the fact that the sf park made that to get nominated is in itself a significant achievement . with regard to the new transportation bill i had the opportunity to testify to the congressional committee it was an interesting discussion they had regional and state folks just trying to get kind of a sense i guess from those of us closer to the ground on how helpful it is and what we see looking forward. there was some kind of technical discussion but the main theme is we need a more robust and reliable source for transportation systems in this country moving forward and it was interesting some of the

congressional members were asking us panelists how we thought we should fund transportation in this country which i kind of thought was their job to figure out our answer was really whatever it will take to provide more significant and stainable source . so pedestrian safety about the severe inadequacy and address the growth that many urban areas are seeing so i don't know what will kind of come out of that process you will recall map 21 was just a 2 year bill or not even by the time it actually gotten acted so talks are beginning already on the next reauthorization to map 21 and we're engaging through the california transit

association and the national association of city transportation officials which i participate in through apta and other channels to make sure the needs and the voice of cities like ours and transit systems like ours are part of that consideration and i also had an opportunity to meet with fta administer and give him updates on where we are with regard to safety and central subway and as you probably know we had a new transportation secret ary just nominated by the president just a few weeks ago and don't know much about them but being a mayor and having implemented transportation projects i think it's a great thing to have

somebody from the local government leading the transcription transportation department so this is back to workday so i want to remind everybody it's a great day to get out there and dust off the bike if you haven't been riding it. we get a few converts so hope to see everybody there and that's what i had for today. >> thank you. members of the board questions or comments members of the public? >> good afternoon everyone my name is e r.n. estine, weiss i'm here to ask you where these buses are going to be placed?

we need them on the most heavy ly traffic lines in the city namely, number 1, number 38 and as a priority so i would hope that you are going to put them there because all these old buses were not planned very well because the real exits are too high, for anyone children seniors disabled etc. so no thought going into them i'd like to know where we can expect to see them. because it's such a need the announcements on the budget say take the real exit well i wonder if i could but i can't. >> thank you. good afternoon sir. >> my name is mark solomon i want to talk to you about the

parking plan. staff is doing what it wants to do and it's not being honest and forth coming with the neighborhood. the ideal elegant solution to this is that we have meters and the residential parking permit that work in hybrid that would require legislation changes by you all. put the needs of existing residents first. and then the commute ers. it would seem to work together but staff is just not hearing it we need leadership from this body and executive staff and it benefits the most folks and less maintenance and i appreciate you guys moving forward on that. >> thank you.

>> would you like me to address -- if i could just for miss m u.n. i i think we certainly agree with regard to the difficulty of the higher floor buses all of the buses that we will be purchasing will be low floor buses the buses that we're purchasing now are hybrid buses and some of the lines you referenced are trolley buses. and the 38 uses generally the 68 buses and we're purchasing the 40 ones first we will as quickly as we can replacing all of those buses and we will put it on the busiest lines first so just an update on that and on the north east mission we have heard that recommendation

and it's certainly among the things that we're looking at. >> mr. chairman there will be no report today. moving onto the general public comment this is an opportunity for the public to address the matters that are not on the agenda today. >> hi. i have to tell you that the f line which is my favorite line because i live downtown -- as you know, it's dangerously overcrowded. it can not take care of all the people that want to board and i'm tired of saying please move to the rear to help these drivers don't appreciate it but there's no signs that move to the rear

i've asked for it 3 years ago still no signs. i mean, this is unreal. and nothing gets done. so as a result we have pass ups it's happened to me many times where i motion to the drivers and finally they open up the rear doors to let them on i mean i'm not a paid m u.n. i employee but i'm so frustrated i need your help. you have got to lead the way. so please get the signs on. a new design i saw going up on market street downtown where i live i called up i said is there going to be seating for the disabled and the seniors? no. why not? because the platform is too narrow. well, i could totally put seating in

there within that shelter even the old shelter could accommodate that so come on. i can figure it out and you guys can't come up with something. if you are spending all that money on new shelters get some seating and even if you have to put one seat on the end of the shelter where the railing is you can do that. but we need it terribly soon. thank you. >> thank you. next? >> joanne, abe rna thy. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon every one i live in the bay view district and i'm here to address a couple of problems that i've experienced first of all, i never seen a -- that has 2 ne