not understood] the many people across the cities across the country bringing the best practices and best minds to bear on how to redesign our streets, how to implement the better streets policy. and i just want to emphasize the point that the vice-chair made, that the tie back to where we started this meeting in terms of pedestrian safety, the things that we're being called upon and will be called upon under vision zero under the mayor's executive directive to do this guide, is one vehicle, one set of tools to help our planners and engineers, help the public to get there better and faster. i have the honor of serving as the president of the national association of city transportation officials this year. there's a lot of excitement about the existence of this guide, about adoption by not just cities, but more importantly by state d.o.t.s. we are talking to our own state d.o.t. and i think that being able to advance these

principles, get these concepts into the hands of the people who are on the ground and ultimately to get it possibly into the ashto green book and state design guidance such as the california highway design manual will be part of the further evolution of these designs, which i hope make our streets safer. >> thank you. mr. strassner. howard strassner for the last time today. thank you. [laughter] there are many guides and cookbooks. i hope there aren't too many conflicts in the better ones. i want to speak to an overriding thing. whenever we're ready to spend a nickel on a street to improve bicycles or paving or pedestrian safety, we also have to do the necessary to make you need run faster, more reliable. these things have to happen. if we're spending this money, now is the time to put in the best bulk and which side of the stop light, all that stuff has to be considered. if we do these things separately we're going to get

in real trouble tearing thing. i hope you can take care of that. now, some of these nice things are happening in my neighborhood off portal. but they're always so expensive. they're breaking the surface or they're putting in concrete. i have to tell you for a moment a little thing we saw in pares france near the [speaker not understood] metro stop. i can't remember the street. but anyway, all they did was pre-cast a disk about a meter in diameter of concrete, put it on the surface of the street with a pole. this is the kind of shelter. when you walked out there, pedestrians could have shelter from this. maybe cars would turn on one side. it's all these details rather than breaking concrete and making a big dpw design. you would be able to do so much more for pedestrian safety. it's appropriate and i know west paul there are some appropriate places for that rather than spend a lot of money. we're getting close to doing some of those things. i just want to bring that to

your attention as a cheap way to do good and save a lot of pedestrians. you don't have to cast concrete and make big designs every time. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. strassner. okay, is there a motion on this one? >> motion to approvement. >> a second? >> second. >> further discussion? seeing none, all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed no, the ayes have it so ordered. >> item 13, >> authorizing the director to waive new taxi driver permit application fees through march 31, 2014, retroactively approve the waiver of new driver permit application fees from december 18, 2013 through february 21, 2014 and extend the moratorium on issuing new color scheme or dispatch service permits through december 31, 2014. no one submitted a card to

speak. >> [speaker not understood]. >> [speaker not understood] the proliferation of companies continue. >> anything you want to highlight? >> i think director reiskin said it well given the hour. >> okay. no member of the public. the board? >> motion to approve. >> is there a second? >> second. >> discussion? all favor say aye. >> aye. >> the ayes have it. okay. we have two or three other things to do and ask [speaker not understood] to go back to item 14. >> directors, it's been observed that there was a procedural oversight in your vote on item 14. it was a resolution, the whereas clause of the resolution approving item 14 contemplated that you would make a motion and suspend your rules relating to notice of a new fee. the board has a rule that provides certain amount of published notice before a new fee is adopted that is in addition to legal requirements. this is under your board rule.

it's not requirement of law. and the notice provided for item 14 in some way not 100% consistent. i think it was not as early as contemplated. and, so, it would be appropriate for you not to make that motion to suspend the rules -- [multiple voices] >> motion. >> second. >> any further discussion? say yee. >> aye. >> [speaker not understood]. >> we need to revote on the thing or are we good? >> if you want to ratify the vote -- >> i would move to now that we've suspended the rules, reratify the proposal on item 14. >> aye second that. >> any further discussion? all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> okay, the ayes have it. thank you. just two or three -- one thing i wanted to bring up earlier, director reiskin. looking at the capital projects, the one that concerned me here is the bayview opera house plaza. it's the only one that i saw i think with a poor performance

indicator on it. could we get an update what is going on with that unless you have something now you can -- >> yes. so, we can certainly provide you an update on that. we've had -- it's a project that was originally funded with redevelopment dollars which speak in part to how old the project is. the demise of redevelopment. we had delays in resecuring funding. it's also a project that is split in part. so, what we're doing, the first part, which is doing a demolition and a rough grading and then there is a second separately funded project that doesn't use any of our federal funding under a separate procurement vehicle that will come in and build the streetscape component. the coordination between the two projects, the funding issues as well as a lot of different public process and different city agencies. that's really been an arts

commission lead with implementation by us and dpw has created some delays in the project. i don't remember offhand if the red status was on the schedule, but it's certainly been -- >> the project itself -- [speaker not understood]. >> there was a gap in terms of the funding that was created in part by the redevelopment dollars drawing up and those were the reasons for the scheduled delays. we're working closely with the community on this project. it's ride on third street. the city has done a number of different things in support of the bayview opera house. so, this will get done. the community is on board. the supervisor on board. we'll make sure to work with dpw and the arts commission to make sure it gets done properly finally. >> finally, two final things. welcome back, director bruce [speaker not understood]. glad you're here. expected to hear from you.

always glad to see you. and i wanted to say publicly what i said to bond personally. of the show of affection and respect is just enormous. haven't seen anything like it in this room for anybody. totally well deserved and it's great to see all the folks out here today. so, thank you. okay. with that, is there a motion to adjourn? >> motion to adjourn. >> is there a second? do you want to discuss it? >> just a reminder, director, your next meeting on february 4, it will be an all day workshop starting at 9:00 a.m. it will be held in the training room of the sfmta. so, you'll be where our operators are trained at 26 40 gary street which is our presidio division. >> thank you very much. thank you, everybody. thank you for your vote for one more year. i'll try to get it right this time. >> you earned it today. [adjourned]

>> hello, everyone and welcome back to the finance committee. let's see here. to my left, far left is katie tang and she is the vice chair and commissioner david chiu, are you? we are off to a rough start already. my notes. >> okay, well you guys know who everyone is, let's just go ahead and get started. i would like to take a moment and thank jessy larson