pretty consistent in giving her over all performance goal of exceptionally good which is where we were at before and six months ago for the 6-month review. and the 6-month review that we had was actually not a mandatory review, but one that we set up earlier and one that we brought miss changg on and we are seeing the continuation of that effort and we are actually between exceptionally good and outstanding over all rating. and we actually really appreciated the presentation from our executive director, and hitting a number of high points this past year. and especially in the collaboration in cooperation with the mayor's office, and many of the agencies within the city itself. but also within the region. hitting some significant, you know, achievements, working with, you know, cal train, and with the mtc and abag and then we have a number of projects

that we have been able to see that go forward. and that we have really been the high point as well for the transportation authority and we are seeing too much and in the mobility agency come together for the leadership and the continuation of the doyle drive as well as the work around the ear for the geary bus, rapid transit, coming for us next year, and the leadership that she has shown within the transportation authority has been quite exceptional and we rated her, you know, according to that and we want to thank you, miss chang for your work and it is really been a pleasure to work with you this past year. i will be not serving as chair, after this year, but i know that there will be other folks coming in. but it has been a real pleasure to work with you and i have been proud in the work in the transportation authority and the collaborative lacing that is going on with the colleagues and the board and all around city hall. are we in open session?

>> we are, and so i just want to thank you for your great work in that. and i am not sure if the colleagues with anything else to add to it? >> actually i will just briefly say that i think that our director really increased the visibility of the agency and i think that her active involvement with as much as the city transportation, but also the community related events is very noticable. and i think promoting the 25-year organization to as many organizations whether they are city wide or neighborhood based is really an important improvement. i think more work with the press and communications is visible to the chinese press and i want to thank you and appreciate that and i think that you have shown a self-critical approach to how you are running the agency based on a lot of feedback and i noticed that, and as a con stanlt, effort to improve, i think that the morale of the

staff that we have put in the feedback is really a great morale and i think that you are continuing to build a great team, especially the office of the deputy directors and also the whole staff. and i really appreciate as our chair avalos has mentioned, the work in regional bodies, and the visibility there. and especially joint work, and better relationships with the mta. and lots more of a collective approach to our city wide transportation issues. and i think that those were the main points that i wanted to just give appreciation for, and acknowledgment of all of the great work that is being done. >> great, thank you. >> so, just want to make sure that we are going to call a roll call vote on each of the items 3 and 4 but i want to make sure that the colleagues that we agree not to disclose the content of the closed session. >> okay. >> very good. so when it comes to item number

four, recommend annual compensation, and what we had decided was that you know coming in as step five and some of the you know allowances that were provided as well we wanted to see more time leading the agency before going to the next step and so we were going to continue at this step, but it is something that we felt that the work certainly warrants you know, getting there with time. and continue on the same trajectory that we are on now and so i would like to bring it up again next year, the step next step increase and to me, that makes sense that we, you know, given the trajectory that you have been on that makes a lot of sense after two years of service within the agency. and i think that will kind of a consensus on the commission as well. so, what i would like to see with the motion to approve item number 3. and i guess, what will the

motion be on item four? >> okay. >> and so item four will be to maintain the current step. and item three will be to approve the over all rating of, you know, exceptionally good, and we have in the record as well. our just, well, we will expressed was to you, was our real satisfaction with your work as a executive director. >> so, i will make the motion to move. or those two motions. >> i will second. >> and we will take that roll call vote. >> item 3 and 4, commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> cohen? >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> the items pass. >> i think that we didn't have a comment on those. >> so, let's rescind the vote. >> the motion is rescinded.

>> great, and we will open up these two items up for the public comment. >> so thank you so much, for your thoughtful feedback for your consideration and your support of me and the staff this past year it has been a privilege and an honor to serve the city in this way. i have really grown a lot in my first year and i continue to strive to improve personally in my leadership of the agency as well as far as the over all agency's effort but we are on a very strong path. i think that your guidance and your support over the past year have been critical to our agency and to our staff from the leadership on the policy aspects of the transportation plan and the investment proposals from the t2030 plan all the way to the staff proposal and it has just been a pleasure working with you and your staff and we want to thank you very much again for your support. >> thank you. >> okay. so we will take that roll call vote. >> okay.

>> on item three and four. >> public comment. >> okay. >> items 3 and 4, commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> cohen? >> aye. >> pa mar? >> aye. >> the items pass. >> thank you. >> and again, thank you for your great work this past year. our next item please? >> item 5, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> where we did talk about reviewing the steps for next year and, so i think that we can possibly put forward as a personnel committee item. >> okay. >> and so now this item is opened up for public comment. any member of the public that would like to comment, seeing no member come forward, we will close public comment. >> item 6, public comment. >> the next item is public comment. any member of the public? seeing none, come forward, we will close public comment. >> and go to our next item. >> item 7, adjournment. >> we are adjourned. thank you.

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>> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> we're right at the true whole church of christ this calls for a response (laughter) so welcome, welcome thank you all for being here i'm la shawn walker the director of community affairs for the ervin thereby a wonderful, wonderful occasion i thank you so much for coming particularly at the such short notice we womb you and thank you and i'm going to spend a few minutes before i i'm going to turn it over to over to our lustrous mayor to my left i wanted to take a minute to make some acknowledgments and

say a couple of other words we have all of you a lot to beautiful we have special guests in the house sitting right in front of me i have commissioner cam brandon and commissioner linda and cac chair doctor veronica honeycutt and director bohe and dr. awe requires walker and co-chair coming in ms. ali nixon and where is ms. ashley ward there showing she i see one of my speakers couple of over there say is null elected school board pointing hallway man before i

turn the microphone over to mayor ed lee i want to say for most of you i know who are in the audience in addition to the work i live here in this communicated this is a great moment for me, i come from a mother who never left the house without a hat and glove and i come from a father that had a perfect double black and white inch and a half cuff with a medium break you know what i take the opportunity i'm talking to you i've been known to do a bit of shopping in my day this news is exciting news with that i i'm going to turn it over to you're also also snaply dressed mayor ed lee chp thank you la shawn welcome to candle stick our wonderful

hunters point and our beautiful southeast sector of the city of san francisco you know as soon as i saw la shawn he's in the business of carrying anti elected official whiz with our youth we're going to work closely together every time i'm here in this community pits burglary something we'll work together on fulfilling promises whether our youth or our former redevelopment commissioners in ocii members that are all here today whether citizen's advisory committee or members for the port commissioners who have been in this community for many, many years when people that are elected in city hall came back we're we've got to be fulfilling promises snit that right dr. yes, it is and amelia that is

also right so we're here today, i want to make sure that as you leave i'm making sure you not carry any of those seats trying to take those seats out on your own before - this is a wonderful full time a fulfilling of a promise to this community and the entire san francisco as painstakingly as it was to have the warriors leave us and mr. mccartney play the final concert we're ready to fulfill the promise with 12 thousand new homes we're about to see in all part the place housing a great promise to people that need that to make sure that at least a

third of them with permanently affordable dr. our part of that and so is ocii with tiffany's leadership we're fulfilling those promises but another promises about to be made mr. bryant and urban lamar will do to have ma redevelopment of this entire air where myself and dpw used to pump this water out of the parking lot for playoff games to get everybody in here now it turns into the development that invites everyone and the real promises i get to oversee 50 percent of local hiring beginning if the candle stick area and in the adjacent communities its within jobs also been about jobs

whether alice griffith or the other projects that we're rebuilding or the new housing we're putting up local hiring is a major part of that principle how we do it as well as another promise that 50 percent at least of small business interaction with this development this will be a development they're all going to be very, very proud of i've already seen some of the wonderful shopping retail sites that has been involved whether the closet to creek the skoom or in queens new york they tell me where their shopping this being a wonderful, wonderful opportunity it also reflects investor confidence in this part of the city that doesn't get to talk about investor confidence now with all the people with the

citizens advisory committee and the residents along with people that work on this plan for years and years getting the input now is when we get the promises fulfilled i'm overjoyed as you can tell we get to work in a community that approved the homes and the retail and the jobs that are conducted and see this transformation as we're already seeing in the shipyard a real transformation with people that are really here that are lifting up their lives and being part of the astronomies not a victim but a part of that that they see their own future and the future generations that is a mann anyone is going to be a part of first things first, we promised and deliver that's part of our education to the very people we have gotten together to make the promise i'm so proud

to be a city a 3 times world series championship city to also bring those promises to full time in this community so with that, shawn thank you for your work on behalf of lamar and keep coming with all those investor and we're proud to work with you on the gown let's get this job done and the crews here don't take any seats with i thank you (clapping) you see so many people as you look out i want to i'm a little bit taller there (laughter) i just want to take one more minute to acknowledge there's so many community people that have

come to share with us i want to acknowledge i see tracey ward from the foundation and the ymca and dj from y c, d, and the social director from the ymca and lo la and i see yvonne there's 80 so many of you i want to acknowledge more contingent people i see vincent part of the i c and others have joined us so with that, i'm sorry to bring up sherman the null elected to our san francisco school board we know him as a executive director of the y c and that work has grown to include the youth