create. and so, again, the board has passed this a long time ago and homelessness is such a serious issue and one that definitely needs attention and we can't put everything else on hold until that is solved. so i ask you from sunset district resident to support this. >> thank you. >> last speaker, calvin davis? >> all right. mr. davis is not here, madam chair there is not anyone else that wish to address. >> that closes public comment on this issue. thank you, i want to thank all of you who showed up for public comment, and i know that you have taken time out of your day and this is a difficult situation for the city that has been challenged to address not just now but in the past and i am sure that is going to continue to be a challenge in the future and thank you for putting a face on this for us and i appreciate it. and for those of you who are working to change your situation.

i really encourage you to work to change your situation. i know that being vehicularly housed is not the first choice for any of you and i encourage you to reach out and work with the system that we have to try on get yourself into a safer situation. and again, thank you all for coming. all right. board members? does anybody have any clarifying questions? if not i will ask for a motion and we can discuss. >> a couple of speakers mentioned the change in the scope, and i was wondering if mr. yee could address at that at all. >> when this legislation was being considered, of the board they asked us to provide a list of potential locations where the signs have been installed and we mentioned earlier that the list is compiled from the past experiences and also, input that we received from the board of supervisors and

residents and from our own observations and files, once that legislation has been approved, we took that list and we fine tuned it a little bit in addition to the input from the board and from the public hearings and so forth. so it is fairly similar to what we thought that we had a meeting and we went through the list of pretty closely and it is fairly similar to what was originally given at the board of supervisors. >> thank you, mr. yee, any other questions for director yee? if not, let's have a discussion, could i have a motion, please? >> yes. >> motion to approve. >> second? >> second. >> okay. >> discussion around this? board members? any discuss discussion. >> i know that what i am

feeling is that i know we have had discussions with the office of hope and i know that we have had discussions with the coalition and we have said that there are certain things that we can do to help make sure that before a ticket gets or before a vehicle gets to the status where it will get booted or towed there is the opportunity for us to bring that to the attention of mr. dufty's office and perhaps intervene before that happens. or get his office to intervene before that happens. >> yeah, that is correct. and i think that mr. yee made reference to this as well. and i think, that first of all i would just acknowledge that you said that this is a very difficult issue, it is most difficult for those who are vehicularry housed with or without this legislation. and this is legislation that as the last speaker mentioned was approved by the board of supervisors and the program was approved not before us today. it is really the first

locations to implement this legislation. and just to, speak to the last point, i think that we heard very clearly the concern from the coalition, and i have great respect for the coalition and the work that they do to serve the city's most vulnerable populations, and it was also a concern expressed to me by chairman nolan based on the letter that we received in terms of the expansion of the locations, my understanding similar to what mr. yee just indicated was that there was a preliminary list of ideas of a few pockets in the city. and there were a number of different locations that then kind of came on to the table throughout the process. from that initial list there were a little bit added and subtracted and by and large my understanding is that it is more or less on the same scale, maybe slightly larger but not i did not understand it to be a

significant expansion to the earlier question of after the pilot once we have results might we, is it just expansion? >> i say that the answer is no. i think that we will see what the dynamics of this are, and what consequences intened or unintended there may be, and we will adjust accordingly, and there may be some places where we might want to roll back, what we are proposing, and i think that you heard some concerns about the places that we might want to remove and the places that we might want to add and i think that we will see this as dynamic and as mr. yee also said to your last question, we are very much committed to working with the homeless out reach teams and with mr. dufty's office and with the police department to implement in this in a way that will have the least adverse impact to the people that are the most vulnerable and we will at a minimum have the ability

to flag the people that are getting multiple violations under this section of the transportation code and these violations will likely be issued by the sfpd because of the hours that there were restrictions apply and we don't have staffing so much on the streets, but we would be able to work with them to identify folks who are accumulating tickets and to try to work with the homeless out reach teams and with the hope office to intervene so that we don't get someone in a situation, where they get their vehicle, and their vehicle get booted and beyond that, we did have someone from the department of public health at the meeting when we met with the coalition, and they are committed to working with us to do out reach, in advance of this so that the people know, what locations this board ultimately decides on, and have ever opportunity to understand what the services are that they might be able to avail themselves of should they

desire to do so. and will continue and we have tried through the course of establishing the locations to do so, and we will continue to do so in a way that is more sensitive to a population that, i think, as we have heard clearly is vulnerable population in the city. >> thank you. >> and if we pass this today, at what time point would ticketing or signs go up in ticketing begin? would we have a grace period similar to what we did with sunday parking meters? >> what we envision and i think that you mentioned about a month to or from approval to get the signs in place and get things established. and we would use the intervening time, to make sure that we are reaching out to folks, and in conjunction with the dph and the hope and the police department and including working with it, and it is really concentrated two of the police district stations and so we worked specifically, with those the captains of those precincts as well as the folks that were on night watch and

seeing the officers doing the enforcement to make sure that we do this the right way and yes we will be doing a grace period as well and so we will start or the police will start with warnings and because the goal is to have it in compliance with the law that the board of supervisors approved. >> thank you. >> directors we have a motion and a second. do we have any other discussion or should we have a vote? >> i have one question. >> probably should ask. we do have it that presented it and urged us to expand this to pierce street and post and encenter and i wondered if that had been made or if that particular request had been considered. . >> i did not get that request,

as a request for consideration under this pilot. as i think that you discussed that we were trying to a little bit concentrate, othat we would be able to focus it within a few police districts. i think that you have heard and i think that it is a bit of an extraordinary issue and not so much the presence of the vehicles but there are some particular alleged criminal activity that someone else said that needs to be dealt with as criminal activity and that is something that we are working both with our folks and the police department on. >> understood, thank you. >> i have a question. >> my concern will be how we managed the process. >> my concern is waiting three months and it might be too late.

we may need to know, monthly, you know wha, is the progress because i don't want to find out three months later that we have impounded x amount of vehicles, i would like to know if we have to alter our direction we may need to do that. >> yeah. i don't think, if we have a way to bring data to the board sooner, and either through my director's report, or in writing, i would be happy to do so, i don't think that we are going to be able to gather the data that quick and i certainly don't believe that we will have folks that will be in danger of having their vehicles impounded in that sort of a period of time. as i said we are going to work, very hard to do what we can and working with the other city partners to prevent that from happening at all. and so, if we can bring information sooner we will but i think that three months was determined to be an amount of

time that will give us enough information to be able to bring something of substance to you, and otherwise, it will just be, you know, very preliminary raw data that i don't believe will be that informative on its own, but i hear your point from day one or before day one, we will be working again, implement this as sensitively as possible and to do whatever we can do to mitigate any adverse impacts of that and those that are caught in this, might feel as a result of the implementation. >> because i think that one of the areas that we will consider is that if we have these streets that have been identified, and is to pull the citation date on it and to see what is going on in those locations. >> that we will be doing absolutely. >> yes? >> thank you, madam chair. i want to express my gratitude for everyone who came to speak

and the correspondence and express my gratitude to everyone who has worked on this, the staff particularly, that helped to put this together and the supervisors that have worked on this, and mr. dufty for his good work in helping to develop a solution and to help us with this transition. and this has been obviously no easy thing for any of us to be able to talk about and to have to address. but at the same time the reason why i am going to be able to support this is because i am striving for a sense of equity with how we are enforcing what we are doing in the city and that the streets are being used to the best possible and to the utmost capacity in different ways. and we can't just do one thing in one neighborhood or one thing in another neighborhood and not expect every other not expect to have biases.

so, we are hearing from a number of folks in different ways that the use of the streets needs to change and i think that it would behoov, us to do that or we will face other problems in the future when we talk about how we do things, i say this all of the time, you know this besinger is a city where everybody in the world wants to live here and it is a tough place where we have to learn to do more with all of our resources. i feel like a lot of the commentary that was to our human resources or economic policies of the city and we are not in the position to do that. i would encourage the people from the coalition on homelessness to harness this energy and go towards the coalition for living wages or fight to is address these issues where informs where they

should be addressed. the root causes of these issues are not just you know how the parking is enforced it is really the fact that so many of these employers contractors, businesses that operate in this city do so in such a way where they under pay people and fall into a place of poverty. and get it into this situation, so, i would encourage you as an advocate to get with these different groups to harness this energy and address it where those places were it be appropriately be addressed. and i think that is all that i want to say but again i want to express my gratitude to everyone who has had a role in putting this together and this is a tough issue to deal with but i am ready to move forward on. >> i will ask to a vote. >> i am not going to support this legislation and i say that with utmost respect for everyone who worked on ti feel like the goal that we are trying to achieve here is not

done properly by th. i appreciate everyone to worked for so many years and i know that our agency is going to work hard with the different city family to make sure that this policy seems like will pass, but i know that it is going to be rolled out in a thoughtful way, i appreciate everyone's work on this. >> thank you. >> madam secretary, could we have a roll call? >> brinkman >> aye. >> heinieke. >> aye. >> lee. >> aye. >> ramos n >> aye. >> rubke. >> nay. >> four ayes and one nay and two absent and it is approved. >> for everyone who came for public comment, thank you for your input and we appreciate it. >> i am sorry? >> should we take a break? >> yeah. why don't we take a short break, ten minute break? would that be all right? we will make it a nine minute break and we will

>> let's get started. >> item 12, presentation and discuss regarding light rail service. >> madam, chair and directors, this is an item that we are bringing as a result of an inquiry from our board member heinieke. who had kind of raised some very legitimate and fair questions and concerns about the light rail service, and so we wanted to come and just let you know a little bit about what has been happening, particularly in the subway, but light rail in general but some of the things that we are doing about it. so mr. haily has prepared a presentation to walk through with you and he will enjoy answering all of your questions. >> thank you, mr. haily. >> thank you, and good afternoon. and i will just in terms of introduction, what you will see

is essentially a presentation that we are concluding and i think that you will, that we need to improve that this is a system that is going through a lot of transition right now in terms of on time performance, we will talk to it but clearly we are not satisfied with the results and we want to share with you some of the actions and programs that we are taking place to improve but i also want to both acknowledge and express appreciation because some of the things that you will see that we are introducing and there are positive, i believe, some positive things going on, that we are beginning to reap the benefits of and improve the service down the road but they result directly from your support and your leadership particularly in the last couple of years in terms of not only

adopting the budget that was proposed, but more importantly, the capitol program, that you have adopted, that has made a fairly dramatic shift in the way that the projects being delivered and projects that are in the pipeline moving forward, are closely very closely aligned to the needs of the transit operation and they will leave very shortly to infrastructure improvements that will benefit the whole service, and so with that, by way of introduction, again, to go through this quickly, what i will walk you through in terms of the service, and the continue to have difficulties with on time performance, i think that you all know the challenges in both in the subway which is the smaller part of the light rail system has indicated on the surface and we will talk about the programs that we are dealing with, with that.

and the delays to the principle source and the major source and the major culprit are delays traced back to the vehicles that represent a significant portion. we have a capacity issues in the sense that we, the evidence themselves and not having enough vehicles to run the schedule that we would need or that we would like to run. and then, it is important to note and this gets to comments that we want to talk about with the way that we supervise the system is that all five lines go through the subway at one point and how we respond with the incidents that will occur in a system as large and heavily utilized as ours becomes important. and this is an area and this is where we stand now and just quickly to touch on some of the things that effect the service, the vehicles, we have both the reliability and the availability problem, we are working on both of those which we will talk more in a minute,

and our vehicles run on a complicated infrainstruct stur and i look at the programs that you have dealt with improving the track conditions and particularly on the surface, there are 20 locations that have already been identified that have the capability for signal priority to be introduced and we are working with our colleagues and sustain able streets to get that process going, and that will make a big difference, on just on overhead lines that saw something that we talk a lot about and we had a couple of incidents over the last few weeks which were traced back to the problems with the overhead lines and those of you who look at the diversity of the vehicles that we have unlike other place wes have three

different kinds of overhead. we have historic vehicles, that run on one pole and they have overhead requirements and we have lrvs that have a different one and then we have trolly coaches sometimes having to interline with the places like the church and boats. and so that requires careful attention, and all of the time. and so, big part of the infrastructure. and you earlier saw someone who and acknowledged someone who has shown great leadership in helping us improve the management using the technology that we have with the line management center. you know the limitations of our radio system, one chanedle for the entire rail system with everybody on it. and it makes for, if it is an operator has an problem they have to wait in the cue to be picked up and supervisors can't talk to one another and so it places a greater communication burden on the managers and

their capabilities to understand what the problem is, and respond to that problem quickly, and make the right kind of service call. and it is not just having so it is a combination of having the managers, clarifying their roles and responsibilities and moving forward. and our service right now from a schedule perspective is limited by the number of vehicles. we are scheduling 114 and we dropped that down over a two-year period and we understand the impacts that has had in terms of bunching, caping and crowding and we want to talk in a minute about what we are trying to do with that and then also the operation in mixed flow and we talked some of the times where you have a challenges in the subway but at the same time you then look at the capacity of the subway or our ability to control what goes on there verses running a major push and a say line like the kt line on ocean satisfy

where you are subject to stop signs and traffic lights and all of that. and let's talk a little bit about or go through this, and on what we are doing, with your help and support, we are really doing a number of things on the vehicle side, we have not only two years ago begun a process, to do a modest overhaul for some of the components and we have done 60 cars and the components are showing an improvement in performance and if you trace back the measure and we will show you the distance over a couple of years you see a gradual upward trend and it is only gradual and we need to really evaluate on how we are doing it, and what our rehab program is and what the scope is and how we are delivering it in particular the other thing that we would build in here that has been something that we have got good results on, that will benefit with solving these problems, you may remember that we talked about a

number of vehicles that sustained heavy damage or a period of years that were kind of in vehicle and in a separate category, and what we did was work out a program so that we could begin to get what will essentially be ten vehicles that had structural damage, and back into service and there are three vehicles that are back in right now and two of them are in service and one of them are being tested and we expect to have three vehicles back by the end of the year. that is a straight up addition to our car availability number and it will allow us to do some things with the service that i will talk about in a moment. and we will continue to look at the way to overhaul these cars, many of the things that you are seeing, and i will focus on one point in particular on under infrastructure, and trained subway entries, and three, all

of our systems come in through three portals. and we need to have, to run the kind of service that we should be running, with we need to have those entries be successful at least 98, 99 percent of the cases, that means that you have somewhere between 15 to 30 trains a day have a failed entry, a failed entry is very, very detrimental to the service because it allows to operate at a lower speed, safely and you increase the safety margin and it backs up all of the service behind it. we have now gone through a process in the last four or five months where every failed entry, is taken out of service because it is for a train control program and we have replaced a number of components and these are 15-year-old rail cars that were never replaced

things like excuse me, like cards, in and out of the system that talk or facilitate symptoms there are not cards that were overhauled at the time and what we are doing now is today we went through the last couple of weeks later and we will now come and replace the antennas and so it is, what we are doing, is catching up and we will continue to catch up, and make sure that the vehicles are as reliable as we can. but they, along with looking at the infrastructure and to show you how sensitive, if you will, these infrastructures are in addition to vehicle issues, you have either train control issues and the counter that you have heard about that causes disturbed blocks and gives it the permission to go in and the other thing that we have seen as we analyze these incidents is that a greater and greater

percentage of these is once they have and fail and go into it manual and they are able to reacquire the automatic control later on and to that, it means that we have to work with the operation staff to make sure that the proper signage and procedure is followed and the train is positioned in the right spot and the train enters at the right speed. and so, we are making both on the vehicle side and the infrastructure side, substantial investments, the track replacement projects and there are three that are significant and moving forward right now, and mmt and down at the turn around outside between the mmt and the portal and we will be moving forward on the sunset tunnel and most significantly twin peaks tunnel, which carries the bulk of our rail service and so there is a number of actions in that area, and in terms of service, we have talked a lot about how we can better manage the service, and in driving,

the on time performances this is one of the variables that we have to do and the point to make here, is that in reviewing all of these incidents, we are analyzing, the roles and responsibilities of all of the responders and you have an operator who could assist with trouble shooting and communication. and you have a first line transportation supervisor who sometimes responds and we are entirely dependant too great of an extent on the controller, and working and particularly on the mechanics in the field that we call mru, and a lot of times when you think about the number of trains that we are scheduling through, 20-some odd trains an hour to go through the subway and if you have a delay or a break down, there has got to be a very, the right call needs to be made about how to respond, whether this is a safety sensitive critical issue.

or whether you can move or you can off load the train and move it to a place where you can move, excuse me, move by the train. so, how will you use the existing technology and how will you have, what our supervisors are trained to do and how we worked with them, to effectively give them the tools to trouble shoot and then where we positioned them to become critical to better management of the system. and one of the things that i talked about was the schedules. we have right now our scheduling around fleet availability and a number of cars that we can safely do and one of the things that we looked at in particular, and it would take us, it is going to take us two or three or even four cycles of schedules before we are able to work through all of the issues in the schedules. and part of it again, stems from capacity of the system and particularly the cars. and but, at the same time we

are moving devicively to do a number of things first of all, coming in june, at the end or excuse me, at the end of this month. we will go to a different operation at the embarcadero and we are calling it a fall back operation, but why we are worried about it at all is what we found was that three lines k, l, and m all turn around there. and we looked at the schedule time this they were all schedule to have five minutes to make that turn. and only ten percent of the cases were they able to do it on schedule. >> so you have a train coming out of there leaving late and it leads to bunches and gaps. it leads to everything, being late behind it. is he we were able to take a look at the operation to analyze both using the control, and the train control system and th