measures, they're -- we compared san francisco to its piers according to 20 performance and the other topics you see here. i'd like to highlight beginning with operating cost of mode with transit. this figure shows the total cost broken down by motor transportation. mta is in the middle, it has higher cost. for both light rail and trolley bus rail. for example, mta operates nine fully staff, and newer has been able to operate with less

staffing. the likely hood for mta higher cost, it has more vehicles than its piers. you can see that in this chart which shows the average numbers of vehicles and mid and weekday service. on a week day, mta operates between 3 and 14 times. the number of light rail operates nearly double than seattle. it makes since that mta cost are higher for these modes. when you have the operating cost as we have done with mid rail, there's a correlation between the two variables. this chart make it's clear that mta cost are in line the train established. the mta cost are higher, they do not seem to be

unreasonably so. this is coverage throughout an agency service area. the chart make it's clear that mta stands far apart. this is out of necessity because many parts of the city would have charter fee. a high number of miles per square mile may indicate routing. in some cases that may be intentional such as lines that have lined on on or expressed -- >> continuing with the theme of acceptable and availability have compared fares across the system. this shows the bus fares during peak periods of operations and the cities are sorted from highest to lowest and you can tell by the shading that the fares are lower throughout the categories.

light rail fares is similar. with extensive coverage, it shouldn't be a surprise that mta has high rider ship. the number of ride rail boarding per person is the next highest city and the number bus boarding is the next highest city. it does appear that our high rider ship comes at a price in terms of vehicle speed and the top chart shown here, the idea of highest speed -- it's plotted on the vertical session. our vehicle was slower on average for both modes. buses is an apparent reason for that. there's a high correlation. this makes sense because each time a vehicle stops or boards, it experiences a delay. but

again, you can see mta performance is in line. one of the mta's challenges is figuring out how to elevate the green dot in that bottom figure despite increases in rider ship. vehicle speed depends on more than rider ship. we have seen the improvements that mta is implementing such as the use of a priority system and that can reduce travel time. the more these are implemented, it will be interesting to see how it is presented compared to our piers. i'm going to discuss revenue miles which is used as an indicator of delays that arrive due to equipment problems. vehicle fail yours are divided into two categories. one presents a present or starting its next trip because of safety concerns or movement

of the vehicle is limited. a minor failure is one that prevents a vehicle, but that's because the vehicle should be taken out of service. this chart shows the average number of miles between -- between vehicle failure, of either type, major or minor. you can see for buses -- it is common if the industry to look at the number of revenue miles between major failures only and when we do that, you can see our performance increases substantial from 617 miles between total failures to more than 2500 miles per failures. our peers increase and they have a high number of miles between major failures. these number was

generally consistent with data from prior years so they're not reporting errors you we're not sure what was behind them. it could be allowed to do more investigation into how these investigations achieve these numbers to apply the practices here. that concludes our presentation and we're happy to take any questions you have. >> very interesting. >> thank you. >> members of the board. brinkman. >> no specific questions but i find all of this data fascinating because as a bench marking exercise, this will be great to have as we move forward with our improvements. i'm sure it said in here, the year that we looked at this. >> yes, all the data is based on 2011 which is the last year of data that we had when we began the analysis. >> this was before signal

priorzation. q. -- >> the take away is for cost. we provide more service and with we carry a lot more riders and we have vehicles that are slow and they break down a lot. the improvements that's represented by the tep and funded by the general bond and address that the and vehicle replacement that we have since -- they have started on the rubber tire fleet and we'll be moving forward on the light rail fleet. we'll address of the vehicle fares as well and the funding license increase that the task force

recommended that would allow us to increase the number of vehicles as well. i think the task force is a funding that comes from them including on what's this november addresses those issues but i think it was interesting to note that more higher density of service and still at a relative cost compro ability. >> the slides are interesting and a lot of the information both good and bad at least to me can be explained by gee -- geography. when you look at houston, it's a different kettle of fish, but i do hear all the things you're saying. can you go to your last slide which was the light rail. mr.

haleigh will be mad at me if i didn't ask them question. >> i'm sure he'll be happy to provide commentary to the slide as well. >> we have all these charts where it lines up and we have these comparisons where okay, san francisco is more dense and more transit riders and then you get to this slide which is the last slide and you're like, this doesn't line up. if this was a chart, we wouldn't be on the chart. it's a very significant thing. so i guess my question is, why? i mean, there's got to be some answers because we failed to do mid life rehabs in the last administration, is it because that our light rail vehicles leave right away and don't have to operate in the streets more than others. is it because of the nature -- what's the reason? there's got to be something that comes to you right away as the reason for the fact that our light rail seem

egg shell fragile compared to everyone els. >> again, i'm sure mr. haleigh could talk for hours on this. what i would summarize and if you'd like him to answer, i'm sure he'll be happy to answer as well. the number of riders put more train on viewer vehicles. and the design of the rails and 120 moving parks and the doors and the steps mechanism is a high maintenance design. it is a very high failure design. we think that vehicle design wasn't the best and we see the manifestation of that and the failures. and the third is, i think, not having the resources to invest in the mid life overhauls where they have done some components specific, mid life overhaul

investment and replacing the wiring and the harness that connects the vehicle or the trucks that the vehicles ride on. we've soon some benefit from that, but we're not doing that overhaul on all of the vehicle systems as the manufacturer recommends and like we would do with the license fee revenues. those are my top three reasons why we're off the charts. i think there is probably some measurement difference from 200,000 to 300,000 but i don't doubt we're at the low ends and those are my guess at the top three reasons. >> this jumped off the page at you. >> he have -- we haven't had time to look into that. >> it could be --

>> i suppose. okay. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. speaker: thank you. stevenson. >> public comment? >> opportunity for members of the public to address the board. mr. winer. that's the only person who has turned in a speaker card. >> winer. >> herbert winer. one thing that is interesting about this report and i grab the density with the factor in this evaluation but we have the second highest density to new york city and i would have liked to see new york city in this and also chicago who has a good transportation system which i'll enjoy this weekend. also has a good system. those are major cities that should be compared. now, another factor regarding our density and this is very

important. the bus runs that existed 40 years ago reflected a density of the city, but the transit effectiveness projects does is removes it from the neighborhoods and thins out and does not reflect the density of the neighborhoods. this is a major problem and i think what we have to do is we have to address this. so these are the aspects of the report that i'm noting and i hope the board notes it too. thank you. >> thank you, certificate. anyone else like to address the board. >> this was only a presentation. item 12 is a discuss to vote a closed session. >> motion to conduct a closed session. >> any further discussion. all in favor say . >> item 13. the board of directors met in closed session

and just the abu d a verses the case of the poured. they voted to discuss the case. they took no action and there was no discussion of litigation. item 14 to be appropriate to disclose or not disclose. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> we're adjourned. thank you very much.

>> welcome to the fifth in our series of working family forum (clapping) we're very honored you can join us today and thank you to senator leno's to his staff and to be in this lovely building and for the executive board for the retirement i'm pleased the mayor and commissioner hur is here and we have several members of congress london bremember cor

englander and thank you. we have other lady that's the could owner of the nicholas company recognized by president obama on their workplace flexibility thank you nicole for being here. (clapping.) many of you know that the women bureau was created in congress shortly after the women got their rights to vote our vision is to incur all women and our priority secures is hire minimum wage for women and over the past few months we've been engaging groups if a don't even dooeven to chicago to boston and here in san francisco to identify initiative that benefit the

america's working families and the economy we're bringing together high ranking officials and researches and business leaders and federal and local elected officials to have a conversation been business practices that benefit working families. the conversation and story as those regional forums will be encoder on june 23rd at the white house we want to list up the key issues that american families are facing and you encourage everyone to add our voice to the national discussion you throughout the forum you can tweet our comments urging the ash tag followup. please consider drafting a tweet after today and post it you can see more on twitter. we also have a story sharing

wall in the reception wall you can add your thoughts on a posted notes on how families need to be supported. i'm honored to introduce mayor ed lee he's the 403 reading mayor and the first asian-american mayor i was elected in 2011 and has a long record of public city he began working in the city and county of san francisco as an investigator for the first whistle blower ordinance and the director of city purchasing and the director of public works and the city administrator he's worked are hard to keep us on introducing track to create jobs and champion everyone that supports parks and transit and quality of life in our neighborhoods and pedestrian

safety. we're very fortunate to have him with us please welcome mayor ed lee >> kelly thank you very much and thank you for your work for the people as well. >> hello, everyone welcome to san francisco. i was tickled when leader councilmember englander said you're looking thinner i said that's what a lot of contracts and other things pelosi thank you and welcome back and establishing san francisco we're honored to host one of the forums across the country to be chosen to be a location for a discussion on working families and also just want to take an

opportunity to thank all the chronicle representatives we have a national agenda we can do everything locally and hello, again to melanie she's been a wonderful contact welcome back to the recreational office. ellis you know your economy that red hot we're a thooifl economy and we got another great enhancement we're at a record low in unemployment of 4 percent there are challenges. and while our economy maybe the envy of other places around the world i'm hard at work to make sure our residents are getting the full-time work they need and that's sustainable. we know there's no greater income gap between that person

who has a job and that personal who doesn't we will be relentless to grow jobs in our city crossing across all sectors not only technology it's fast growing by not the big driver biotech and international trade and film and video production and construction and health care are on a having having good foundation all growing ail parts of the diverse economy and creating good paying jobs for everyone. we're making sure that we do everything we can to make sure the workforce policies are friendly to families. that's why i've joined up with supervisor david chiu on his family friendly workplace we're going to be funding a bit of

that this year. he's been asking for that extra funding to make sure it's not just a good sounding ordinance but we reduce the barriers for working families. we need to make sure our priority is that you're working families can afford to call it home one of the many ways in which we'll be addressing affordability is through housing. we've got an aggressive agenda got to create thirty thousand new housing pardon mely affordable to locate and moderate income families and we're making good progress we're opening up more homes for cities families in the first 5 months of this year there than the entire year of mifl. we know your city is an

expensive place so we should bring an increase to all minimum wage yet still (clapping) yeah. but we've got to keep pace and this is what paying attention to working families is all about not about what we did yesterday although we celebrate that we have to keep the pace with rising consumer costs i know that a few more dollars an hour can make a difference and san francisco has done we need to lead by example we're the first city in the nation to establish our own minimum wage a model for the rest of the country. we're going to work with the board of supervisors that impacts small businesses and experts to seek coincidence in a

significant wage increase for working families. we also continue to join in the fight for equal pay giving our women equal pay for equal work. yes (clapping) equality for all was not only a slogan but also been a san francisco value and our city values equal pay for everyone and make sure our women are succeeding and treated equally and nancy pelosi said when women skeekdz san francisco skeekdz yes (clapping) and you can see it's true in the leadership of our city i'm proud to nominate carmen chu the

assessor recorder she's going to deserve that i've appointed katie tang to our board of supervisors you'll find women in the highest levels of local government and fire cheer chief joanne haynes-white our health director and port director and other and our naivety department head appointed last week debbie so many more critical leaders in position that direct policy and function for our city. i'm proud to have as my council nancy pelosi and dianne feinstein and congresswoman spear joins us in making sure we're strong and we have a strong fight for our san

franciscans and here in san francisco and washington, d.c. so joining with others congress members honda and hoffman and spear and nancy pelosi we're going to move forward and advance workers rights and equality for all of us in san francisco and across the country i know there's a lot of work ahead i remain committed for all residents i commend you and people in the audience and those i've just met even those years i was just happy to see roses come and join us thank you for coming here today congratulations (clapping) >> good morning and thank you four attending this important

forum i'm emmy i'm the region representative for the department of the labor in san francisco i've had the privilege of working at the department of the looker no washington, d.c. for the past 4 years and how time flies when you do something you love with amazing people you deeply respect but it's an honor to introduce secretary tom perez when we were sworn in as the 26 secretary of labor he infused a new energy and rebranded it as the opportunity for every working family every working person to get ahead like a fair days pay for a fair day's work connecting ready to work people

promoting gender equality in the workplace and insuring the developers have access to equal and safe opportunities secretary prez binges a commitment to service and prior to commission he sirtd as the attorney general for the justice department and should to restore and transform the conscious of the in addition to further fulfill the tutored vance equal opportunity and leveling the playing field he also served as deputy attorney general under janet reiskin with the task force. he was special council to the late senator edward kennedy as a

civilize revoke and he served as secretary of labor licensing and regulations for the state of madagascar he resides with his wife and which were i was born in buffalo new york he graduated from brown university where on saturday, he delivered the com mention time speaking speech all of these make him an amazing secretary of labor a great boss we're sad at his dispatch from his old office but happy to have him here please welcome secretary tom >> (clapping) >> good afternoon san francisco

it is great to be here thank you for your kind words it's an honor to be here in the presence of so many important people all of you are important i really enjoyed meeting the rosaries we'll talk them more but nancy pelosi thank you. i know a few people in america is that have not done more for americans than you so thank you for your work (clapping) and again to all our elected officials and have mayor thank you for the warm welcome we have a wonderful partner i used to serve on their board and mirror was fantastic and the progress is all about progress and moving america