single more o most important thing you can do it approve the transit service not only forful now but future generations i'll remind the board the cars we're purchasing are state of the art extremely reliable 059 thousand miles between the fairs and the options that will approve the maintenance but most importantly we need railcars now we have a lot of people everyday despite 5 years in a row of ridership right now on the light rail that are not able to get on because of crowding we simply don't have the cars we are doing everybody to overhaul the program that is really a tremendous benefit for us we appreciate the fact that you as a board all the

policymakers in the region have colonel together to recognize the importance of this why it is happening right now in terms of why it's necessary to provide the contingency fund we're buying a good car the systems are in place on some 3 had had plus cars in north america and 3 other transit properties right now that are moving to exercise their option first cars that will come in for us the first car will be n here in october of 2016 the first group that will come and include the cars we support the center subway the second group that will be provided in 2018 to allow a 40 year option to deal with the expansion that's coming the increase in the jobs in the city and the increase in the population the development of

knowing along the waterfront so by moving forward and exercising the option right now your assuring we preserving the place in the production line to get a cost and we get the cars here most important in the quickest fashion i appreciate our support and certainly here to answer any questions. >> thank you, mr. halley. >> at the mayors press event the question came up about our capacity to service so many strrls do you think that's an issue i know the new cars will need less maintenance if you think there is an issue what is the program to take care of the lovely new cars. >> two things i will assure you

it's not going to be an issue for the following reasons at m m e we have a modern brand new facility we're in the process of bringing that up it is inside and outside with the intentions to make it a full service facility started at thirty doables we respect to have more maintenance staff and service overthrow so number one we're in the process of building out a full service maintenance facility, and, secondly we've done as with the bus purchased and with the trolley coach purposes none of the things but to look at the maintenance programs and do in in a way we haven't done in the past do the motorbikes on the original equipment manufacturers schedule for the sew systems one of the

things we've been incredibly supportive on the board is the number of special maintenance programs we've put in place in the last three or four years most of the components such the antenna and our signal system were never replaced that led to weak signals and bad service so the other thing we're doing the third thing so we are going to commit to train as we purchase in the contract you've approve there's a significant amount of money for training by the manufacturers of the cashes the sub systems are less complicated than the bones the whole approach to microscopes is mod lur last year and modern we'll have to train the employees differently and we're

accommodating for that our employees are from skills craft prospective our electronic employees can fix anyone they/have to unfortunately approve it on a day to day process we're paying attention to the maintenance both from the facilities and the employees training and the employee development for the future. >> thank you members of the board. >> the person that takes the muni trains every single day if the station to downtown those cars can't come soon enough i'll say on a daily basis there's a door issue with a train car it shuts down the system and massive overcrowding because of the bunching or the car system problems so you have sometimes several trains you have to let by before you get on or doors

are becoming worse off people are squeezing in to get on the cars i wish we could get them sooner ri89 i have to say whatever is a vast improvement. >> sound like a motion. >> i'll second it and two comments there was an earlier comment it may not a member of the board of supervisors inclines in ridership i don't know if that's true it's not true on the l l r vs not sure it's true anywhere it is something that will alleviate the problems i'm one hundred percent confident we'll have more cars in our fixed spaced

tunnels i assume we're planning how to accommodate one to pick one example we're dealing with the cars they'll get to embarcadero and making the switch was a back up all the way to montgomery obviously if we have more trains in the tomb ites bats problems but in our long term planning we're planning for a larger fleet 6 is that a fair assessment. >> it is we're independent of the exercise of this option we began last year the rail capacity study that's currently underway that is looking at how to increase 2 feet within the tunnels there are many things like the embarcadero turn around but we're planning the use of

all of the light rail fleet in particularly looking at the problem in our system the tunnel f in the prlt to the tunnels and and the related issue i'll take up with director nolan i know there's changes i believe there's changes in the way we're running the shelter service we may want to reinvite revisit the shuttle service and worthwhile to have a brief update of our our pilots went i get oath questions as we're planning to purchase new cars i imagine the questions where are we in the shuttle service. >> if i may to add the truck

tunnel to approve the other things and the shuttles 90 days or so we're going to redo the rail schedule from top to bottom we've continued to make adjustment in the real schedule based on the active car count rather than what we have i believe we've turned a corner with the car council holding it another a level that allows us to deal with what we can by capacity having two car trains in the m for the most part but in the short term we're looking at the schedule and certainly we're talked about only about the logistics and the capacities of the other thing that was mentioned when you do projects lie, sunset tunnels not

like twin peaks it will make not just operational reliability and safety improvements because of repairing the fiscal plant but give us additional flexibilities in the system to better manage the system along when you get you know as we move towards the new radio system and the control center that along with the measures i've mentioned will help us better manage the details and accommodate for all of that but in the short term there are things in the existing system that's not maxed out and you know looking at the schedules the first step and continuing to look at the way we turn trains in the embarcadero for example. >> very good thank you both. >> other members of the board if not we have a motion and a second alleyway all in favor, say i. opposed?

>> thank you very much let me go back to the what's the next thing consent calendar. >> consent calendar. >> anyone want to take anything off of that. >> no members of the board has come down. >> motion to approve your all in favor, say i. gracey's have it. >> quickly thank you to the staff for setting through the public comment. >> we've enjoyed it. >> (laughter). so, now we are going backwards is hard >> any members of the public. >> one member of the public. >> good afternoon. >> okay hi hello yeah. thank you very much for pga the seniors free muni for seniors and those with

disabilities that's a great moved and thank you for the reminder of the e ethics of the saint and the lifeline that exists for those who fall outside the perimeter for seniors i'm madeline the director for the folks report i wanted to expend any condolences to you colleagues of jerry lee i'm sad to hear about him and sorry for you for lou gehrig's disease one of the members regarding the polk street project the final project has been unveiled they're are a couple of issues some very, very good and we're pleased but because of short pet i'd like start with to have the city of chicago points the cycle will 0 no longer be between pine and california a that's a high

injury area and that change was done after everybody was told publicly no more fundamental changes that's not acceptable to us and also the pilot and the sidewalk extension pilots that were requested by the broadway back as of 2013 they're not we're not seeing the absence replied by the prelims of some of things and i have word if one of our members there will be a ballot initiative if they don't see that on the proposal for the financial hearing we can expect that will be on the ballot coming in november. >> that issue will come to us in the second meeting in february. >> i hope not i'm going to be

begun but if it does have everything we - >> i don't know the exact date sometime in the late winter or early spring. >> so the public hearing is the 30th of january definitely that is a friday at 10:00 a.m. and comes to you sometime after that again. >> thank you. >> but we'll make known all our preferences by then thank you. >> anyone else care to address the board. >> the next is from the citizens advisory committee. >> yes. i don't see daniel weaver hear. >> go to the closed session. >> i think is what months people came for but too much time for the other things i have a couple of things to touch on at the last meeting we

present the changes on january 31st that is part of the moving forward initiative those changes will include the restaurant access for operators and the construction details on katrero avenue based on the feedback we've go on gotten from our operator but more existing implementation of the 050 muni 55 line on 16th street address the service increase on one of our more crowded lines and the launch will be available on january 26th did official launch on the 31st we'll use those days to work out any kings and make sure that the public is aware of the change and has ability to look at the

service before the hospital opens we've been working with uc sf and the media both the mainstream media and the different language media to make sure that folks are aware particularly of the 55 but the other service changes we'll have ambassadors and others to make sure the introduction of the new like that is as smooth as possible sunset tunnel work is resuming like for previous construction that perceive done in and around the n judah line and doing more weekend shut depends on possibly this that weekend and the next as we've done at other times expensive outreach with the bus substitution and from the public's prospective we've

gotten it down nobody likes the disruption has a alternative to the other routes for the trains through the tomb while we do the sunset work taking advantage the work along the n judah line like the signal priority upgrades that connects the n judah corrects e vengeance with the with the traffic signals for the policeman's on n judah at the 28 we know that the shutdowns we're trying to get the most out of them wanted to also recommended to muni give you an update on the changes along hate street as you recall in november we braikt

brought forward changes from the hate ashbury association you have directed staff as part of the approving the action to work with the mentor to address in some of their concerns we met shawn kennedy and other staff met with the organization on november 21, 3 days after the meeting again in december and have been able to work to a nuke of issues with them we sent a letter to them refirmly the she will not were not part of the legislation through the board and work with them through the design how the bulb outs will look you may remember their concerns were about creating space that is misused and how the she will not

what aboutes batting the problems with security we did agree that the bulbs proposed for the in bound this is when the 71 turns from stanton on the hate moved to the existing zone in front of the mcdonald and hate and the out bound unbelievable at masonic and hate we're not pursue it you did approve that it but there's issues to be worked out we'll not pursue it at this time we're happen with the accommodations they were concerned with the timing of the construction and we'll be able to work with them and the partners of public works to make sure it is the lease disruptive as possible when we do construction in the neighborhood we'll be able to do so but i'm told there membership

expressed appreciation for the changes we were able to make and excited about moving forward we are that be able to continue to work with them on the design and the timing aspects you also asked us to look at the designing for bubbles into the side streets as you recall we got a letter proposing what we are proposing for hate and the side streets the time we told us one of the issues the turning rad. >> that are difficult to do there are speak we'll be able to do some might be small and they'll be worth doing but coming to you in february or march with additional prospering proposals bans that direction you got from you and in the lower hate the lesser or if i concerns continuing for the

folks the buchanan or the proposed signals that people have concerns with we did the follow-up added our direction and i think we're inadequate consensus from the community i wanted to note that is one of many we've been getting recently but an important recognize the institute of the engineers that is an eminent group recognized our caesar chavez straight project as transportation project of the year from the bay area chapter of the i he a pretty big deal we did this in collaboration with the ms. johnson to turn caesar chavez into a complete street we looked

at the days when it sprayed the mission under boiling heights many collisions on the streets and it was an unwelcoming street project which was nearly $12 million project transformed the street after replacing the sewer expanding the sidewalks and the medium and adding green infrastructure like pavement it was a major creek at one time an area prone to flooding has energy fiscal street lighting and plaza and really 2r0r789 the character of that street and committed together the community at full name on she and he there were parents and kids trying to cross it was difficult to cross and now it's crossing distances are less and the traffic is slower and bike

lanes in 0 both directions and this landscaping has made that a different feel there were one hundred and 50 recorded crashes in a 5 year period prior to this project and since the project bike a number of people own bikes on caesar chavez increased more than 4 hundred percent so it's being used at a much better street about the concerns of traffic never came to pass even though we took out a lane in both directions it is better infrastructure so for the whole district and since we wrote up the notes we've gotten another award so good recognize it's a

model project we should keep in mind when we're trying to transform other things we'll hear one had great outcome and the region other those parts of country recognize finally, i was in washington, d.c. for part find last week and it was a transportation research board annual conference and annual meeting i was able to as part of a small group met with secretary fox and number of folks on white house i wanted to point out much more positive things in which congress is passing as you recall the transportation bill is set to exterior on may 31st it was a relatively short bill there were concerns based on how things change and if the next

election it will be difficult to get things duplicate but quite the opposite they'll be able to get a bill done not in time for may 31st but very optimistic and hopefully about getting a long term bill done and being able to get the funding in last place and in the christen chronicle like a contract tax it was a little bit reassuring and as we go forward with things like making muni available to more folks it is - it was encouraging to hear that the federal government is not yet giving up on the federal transportation program and hopefully will sustain it more or less at the

level in recent years and that's positive that concludes my report. >> for the update thank you for the report on hate street sometimes creative thought and further outreach can go a long way in coming up with new outcomes in making people feel better about the projects. >> okay. now closed session. >> we'll move to item 13 conducting closed session. >> motion for closed session and a . >> there it goes okay thanks. >> item 13 announcements of closed session motion to gloss

are not disclosed the information. >> second. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? we'll not disclose. >> you have to announce the settlement or 234089. >> i do. >> okay. the cases well, there's only one settled the other one an update. >> okay. so the board met in closed session to discuss jess versus cc sf and the load the board voted to settle in case and relax on the t line case. >> that's it thank you for your outstanding vote for the leadership of the commission i was a little bit concerned but appreciate that the opposition.

>> you you know, i was happen (laughter) okay. great. thank you congratulations on your - >> no, but i say thank you

prrp. >> good morning everyone, this meeting will come to order. this is the regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee oopbd it's also my last meeting as chair of the committee. i'm london breed, i'm the chair, and to my right is our vice chair, supervisor katy tang and the clerk is erica major. i'd also like to thank jim smigtd and erica low for broadcasting us today. madam clerk. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the february 3 board of supervisors