test, test, test, test, test, test, test >> ready. oops. i turned that off i know what it, result in. good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the august 20th meeting. please read the roll

>> (calling names) mr. chairman and directors you have a quorum. please be advice one of the commissioners b will not be here. please be advised that the use of cell phones and pagers and others devise are prohibited at the meeting. anyone responsible for one going off maybe asked to use the phones. please know that cell phones that vibrate can be disrupting. and this is the regular meeting >> motion to approve. >> ail in favor. thank you >> item 5 communications directors please be advised with the item on 20th avenue parking was removed from agenda and

there's no litigation in closed session today. item 6 new or unfinished business >> ladies and gentlemen we're joined by our colleague that was respect appointed to the retirement board from january 6, 2011, till january 2013. she have repossibility by mayor lee to retirement board just recently. director bridges serves on the viruses committee and she's an appointment at the and we're happy she's staging on say oversight committee. she's dedicated and we hope

you'll keep riding that bus. i'd like tow invite the members of the board who would like to add anything to our colleagues >> i'll be happy to start. director bridges it's going to be hard to break that habitual p. we know that the servant on the retirement board will be as fruitful. we know that is a labor of love and experience like yourselves was much appreciated on our board. i know that the retirement board will appreciate your service as well. we're sad you're leaving. best of luck on the retirement board and thank you so much you added valuable valuable addition to this board >> director bridges i want to say it's been a real honor and

player serving with you. you've been a good friend and i'm glad i had you to turn to >> thank you, chairman nolan. i want to thank you so much director bridges it's been an honor and principle to sit up here with you. you taught me so much when i was pouring over the financials or the cuban shuffle on the streets but running into you on the thaifkt or outs on the street and hearing the compassion on this board everything from the fair increases to the turn around these that you are i've brought a tremendous weight and insight to this board. you taught us ail so much. you will be missed. i wish you all the best and

sincerely thank you for your service. i hope we'll stay in touch and a hello. well, i second outline r all those comments. you left me next to the chairman no beautify that's scarey. (laughter) it was really fun to get to know you and i wish you good luck. >> i want to thank you for being one of my bosses. we first met and from that first meeting i was expressed you're from here and you had so much passion and it worked for all san francisco in all the community of the city.

it was an honor to work for you. i'm particle grateful you're willing to stay engaged and serve on the offer sit committee. we'll talk about bike share we want to see happen. i want to thank you in advance you're going to continue in advance but thank you for the opportunity to work with you >> i want to present this to you. on behalf of all the board in the recognition to improve the quality of life for the employees of mta and all the citizens of san francisco. so congratulations to you

(clappin (clapping) >> thank you, chairman nolan. i want to say to the chairman and to the board of directors and to commissioner reiskin i accept this award ann as a absolute to all of you. i know it's hard to render the citizens of san francisco so i accept this on behalf of and absolute you the staff of mta and all the employees of mta who worked very hard everyday to over their services to the city of san francisco. it's hard to do that but you made that look seamless. you voter your time and effort and i salute you for that. one of my regarding experiences

it was enlarging do work with you everyday and keeping us all on task. he brings so much to the board of directors. i want to thank you and slight you. i feel like i miss my home already. i'll continue to advocate for the city's transit. thank you. again i appreciate and love i (clapping) >> thank you. we have unfinished business. okay >> i'm moving the director's report. >> good afternoon, members of the board and public and staff. we're going to start out with some special recognition awards as we do each month.

first, i want to ask our director of taxi services to come forward. good afternoon >> well, i have to commend laura changing because she has taken a brief vacation and i hope she'll be watching from spain and then she'll study transportation and i hope she'll come back to us. she started as a temporary employee and she stepped up in particular to save our queen taxi program to marry we continue to monitor that program with the result we have the cleanest taxi service in the

world. she make sure we moved forward on that. she has a lot of responsibility for the grants for the electric vehicles and securing those grants as well as the face charges that will put us ahead of the worldwide clean taxi vehicles. and i hope she'll come back to us. >> i extend our congratulations. >> next for finance and technology we'll ask our folks to come forward. >> good afternoon. >> thank you so much. i want to introduce josh from our store room. many of you may not know this but every bus that goes out must have their parts and it's like

josh and his team all lined up in the back. angela joshs boss wants to speak but thank you josh. we'll continue to bring in technology and improve the whole process going forward. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, commissioners. josh has been a 192 the store keeper since may 2007. josh is responsible for receiving parts delivers and mar that the parts are given out. he's a serious worker. also ready to help out. in the group of 192 the store keepers josh stands out because of his willingness to help. in addition to making

suggestions for improvement. he's been selected for this award because of his dedication to the agency and his departmental issues such as working tools and forklifts and encouraging he teamwork for the entire store room. while it may not seem like much to so he's a leader because he serves as an example to consistency. he, he represents our agency with class and little fanfare. he serves our agency and our ridership. he represents the best of the store room. among the store rooms and maintenance he makes us shine.

josh is one of the engines that help our store rooms. josh we appreciate our service. >> thank you, mr. fong and congratulations on behalf of the board and san francisco. >> thank you i'm sorry, i didn't prepare for a speak this is overwhelming. this is a great thing for us down on the little shop woods. i recognize those guys also. those guys allow me to be who i am. it's more of a team effort but on behalf of everyone i want to accept this (clapping) >> and finally, i'd like to ask mr. david hill and another

gentleman to come forward. we've got 3 operators who are going to be commended today from the transit division. >> good afternoon mr. hill. >> good afternoon chairman and also to the board of supervisors. on separate occasions or separate concurrences those 3 individuals encountered life or death decisions. they experienced intruders coming into the trackway. an individual jumped into the platform and another one fell out of the cheer and there was

an toshgd person who fell on the tracks. in each stance they stopped the trains they were operating avoiding contact with each individual and saving their lives while keeping pegs save. and mr. gibson it happened to him twice. so on two occasions he had to stop the train to present an accident in the subway. so because of their actions we want to reward those 3 operators and present them with the 3 rewards. it's the safety of the system that's of most importance. our goals are to make a safer experience for everyone in

addition to creating a work place that has outstanding services. and she was a granddaughter who made her way up to being a supervisor. so denise, larry and billy had chauchd those goals and their outstanding operators. please well them with a job well done. i want to personally say they're an exemplar role for all our operators. thank you each and every one of you (clapping) and i'm sorry, i if the record could reflect to recognize their

supervisor mr. delaney glad >> denise. >> thank you we'd love to hear a few comments from you and introduce your family. >> you know my name i my name is denise. i was an traitor for 2 years and as of yesterday. so i want to thank you for this

award and on behalf of us you all of us who strive to be the best we can be at mta >> congratulations. >> i'm operator at metro division. i've been operating here for muni in 5 different modes for particle thirty years next month don't have the angel to a retire yet. it's been a pleasure and principle to operate here in the city that was born and raised. i started off working at the hospital at the uc medicaid center working in patient transport and now i'm in public

transport but i always rode the bus in the 60s. i walk until the bus catches up to you. anyway i don't want to go on but it's an honor to receive this ward and i'll say i'll continue to operate as safe as i can. i have no family my wife couldn't be here today but she'll see it on the internet later this evening >> you have a fan club here. >> yeah, i'm a nervous wreck. i want to thank muni for giving me my job. i recommend to everyone. my wife made it and she is with

my grandson. and i want to thank my supervisor to push me the rest of the way to get here and david hill and billy gibson they've been supporters as well as denise green. i want to say i hope we don't have to repeat this again >> you thank you very much outstanding service (clapping). >> mr. reiskin. >> okay moving on a few things to update you on. first of all, the bike share launch it's thursday august 29th. a couple of weeks away we'll be taking part with the water

addict on that day the location will soon be revealed. i'll make sure the public knows. when it does launch there will be 24 access for the and that'd be at 35 different stations prominently around the edges of the city we're hoping to expand to 35 bike stations. and we've already mapped out the full build out but i encourage anyone who might be interested to invite bike share.com and sign up and start peddling on on

that ground 29. so some updates on the center subway. we launch the first of the tunnel machines on july she's made it two hundred feet to the north and gotten up to 35 feet and she'll probably end up beating a schedule she'll continue to make her way up. the second machine is right behind here and as soon as she clears the launch box we'll clear the assembly of the launch box and we'll follow hearing her north. with regard to the that demolition it's underway and it is started yesterday and we're

working closely with the contractor and the neighborhoods to minimize any impacts and that work will be completed after which we'll start construction of the retrieval place. and then the next chunk of activity will be the efficiency of the stations as well as the track work. likely the first activities for that contract will be the demo of chinatown and the moscone station sites and we're remedying the process of public outreach around those. so good process all around on central subway. moving on to the t e p. i think this happened before our

last meeting but the draft was released and it was scheduled to be finished by august 26th but it's been extend and we got some requests from the public we wanted to make sure that everybody has as much opportunity to fully evaluate it, it's about seven hundred pages which is what the environmental law requires. most of the comments we've received are project merit based so on the merits of the project as opposed to what the environmental review is analyzing which is the impacts and where the mitigations are. we're gathering those and we'll gashth those in the environmental process to make sure we have not missed imply

impacts and we'll be responding to each one of those comments. the planning department is managing the eir for the environmental comments will respond to any project related comments. the planning commission is still holdings the hearing date of august 15th which will be another vehicle but for those who can't be there on the 15 the written comments what did i say - on that ground 15 >> yeah. i believe that was a few days ago. >> did it happen on august 15th? that was the original date - that's right we're on the 20th already but the beer still on track for the final eir in area 2014 so that's

on schedule. one other point to mention. the substantive work of the t e p there's policy and capita improvements and service changes. the service changes proposed will result in a net increase of muni service by 10 percent. so assuming that all gets cleared through the environmental process the funding for that is something we'll be bringing forward in the proposed budget for the next two fiscal years so we'll focus on the capital improvements but the t e p will also focus on that. we looked forward to that. the other the course of this trial t e p item of note is our

next pilot which is the filling ton limited. we hope to be rolling out in october. what this would do is provided limited stop service from sixth avenue into the downtown. so what we will be doing is running the trolley bus local from the beach to sixth avenue and that's limited downtown from 6th avenue we will have a motor vehicle and we'll be augmenting the service to get people downtown more quickly. we're trying to improve traffic time and safety and this will give us an opportunity to a analysis somewhat of a low cost way to a achieving the goals.

there's more detail now i don't think i'll go into right now. but we've been doing community meetings on august 8th and there's one coming up in district 5. so we're trying to make sure that we get as much public understanding and analysis for feedback before we launch the pilot but it's slated for october possibly early november so it will be a good traffic time benefit but a great way to test the assumptions in the t e p. next the c puc. so you'll recall and i think we've heard through public comment the cpc initiated a

process in december think january to evaluate what they were calling the new online transportation services. so those are the lessons and sidecars and those services that doesn't fall squarely within their jurisdictions as taxi regulateor. where that process is after a number of dismissing of comments and we're a party to this proceedings so we formally submitted comments. there was a draft decision issued i guess it was middle or late july and so the way the process works now that the proposed decide is out they had an open comment period which closed yesterday and the next step is for the commission to

hear - to have a hearing on the proposed decision on the comments at which point they could adopt the issue. they could adopt it september 5th at the cpc meeting. so in terms of the substance of the decision there was i think generally i'd say first, we're happy it they initiated this process in the first place. they came out and said their framework was build to deal with the services we anticipated at the time. there was some frustrations over the course o