way system for 16 hours daily for the safety of our patrons and saf, supporting board president reid's antigraffiti initiative that documents graffiti and uploads it to the police department, six persons deployed throughout the transit system to check there ada compliance and of course 24/7 security, with that, i'm happy to take your questions. >> thank you for the detail behind that because this is -- it is a large dollar amount that we're approving so it's always good to hear the background on it. the fleet protection, that's at the bus yards and the bus barns patrolling them after hours when they're closed which i understand in the past had been an area with we were getting buses broken into, graffiti, vandalism happening. >> has th*'s right, madam chair, prior to 2008 when

cypress took over, security services for the mta, the previous vendor was suffering graffiti and other incidents while the vehicles were on the yards, an average of once per week, we're pleased to be able to say with the current vend do we've only had two major dinsbacker incidents on the yards for six years. >> that's good to hear, any questions before we go to public comment? >> we can do public comment first, that's fine. >> thank you, madam chair. >> public comment? >> (calling speaker names). >> good afternoon, my name is peter evans, a district manager with [inaudible] international, i appeared before this commission board before in term of a contract that was approved for andrews international, later on as we look through the pay registers that we receive from cypress security, we

withdraw from that actual bid and that was the last time. and the city actually requested pay rej sters the attorneys office that we turned over our reasoning for backing out of the first bid, we rebid it again and we worked hard and we won the actual contract again and then when we went into negotiations with the actual contracts department, we were faced with an issue that was not put in an rfp, if you put in your rfp and you say that two positions are to be unbilled for the operations position and the account manager, it should be spelled out correctly. what the rfp had said in your mark-up, you're only to focus on the guards and then all of the other additional employees, other positions are to be included in the actual mark-up, so the issues that we have at andrews international is when i look at as i receive the letter from mr. patel he states those

two positions should not have been billed, then why sit on cypress', as i look at their contract, the two of the positions are listed. the badging clerk and then also the ada, so i ask this board to consider the facts that are rfp was not written correctly and that we studied it, we put our information together. if you say to us that 6 positions that they have here are not supposed to be billed, this is on their rfp and then you turn around and let cypress security do this, it's a big problem. i ask the board to really consider this and i ask the board to call for a special investigation. >> thank you, thank you. >> brad lower. >> good afternoon, my name's brad lower as peter stated,

when we bid on the security program, we were selected as the top bidder and entered in negotiations in good faith. however, we have some concerns with how the negotiations were handled as well as the response we received dated march 16th in response to our letter of protest about the award of security services, i want to focus on the inconsistencies as peter brought up, one in the rfp, it was clearly stated on page [inaudible] services that these two positions, account manager and operations manager were considered part of the rfp process. these positions directly followed all of the listed security officer positions and there was nothing that stated either of these positions were not billed until we entered into negotiations and were basically told that we needed to remove the cost of these two

positions which would have impacted our bid by about 150 thousand plus on an annual basis. in the response to our letter of protest, mr. patel referenced a short sentence in section 3 which says not to include security officer pay rate ins overhead and markup, mr. patel claims from that sentence we should have known that all other positions should have been an overhead and not billed directly. my question is why would the burden be on the vendor to figure out from a sentence that says whatnot to do to understand what to do when it could have been very clearly stated in the rfp where to bill, what to bill and whatnot to bill to include an overhead so as we respect our competitor, we respect cypress as a strong competitor in the field, we respect the folks --

>> thank you, mr. lower. >> kessler buti is the last speaker. >> kefner, i'm here to thank the staff for all their hard work in these extensive deliberation, it's been a long process for them and we also thank the sfmta for the opportunity to provide service again and we ao*f been honored to do that for the last six years, i want to give recognition to the three local business enterprises that will be working with us, this contract requires 20% of the services to be provided by lbe's because they are only doing the unarmed component of it it probably represents almost 35% of the actual labor hours to be provided here and we've made a decision that the

community and the sfmta would best be served by dividing that very extensive amount of work amongst three highly qualified lbe's and we were pleased we were selected for that process, with that, i'm here to answer any questions you may have and other than that, we thank you for the opportunity. >> could you come back up, i believe mr. heinicke had a question. >> my understanding is and klek me if i'm wrong i aoep not trying to be flippant about this, the first time this contract went out, andrews bid won the bid, and then our friends from cypress and others said there's no way they can complete this contract on the bid they've committed, it

doesn't make sense economically, i asked my friends from andrews who represented themselves very well here today is that the case and we were told, no we can make this contract work, we asked our friends from the union, do you have a position on this, they said, we respect both cypress and andrews, we'll work with whichever one, whoever has the contract they didn't take a position. we asked staff maybe you directly, i won't put you on the hot seat, i think it was, is this contract going to work, all the assurances were given and then it turned out they couldn't make the contract work on the numbers and they withdraw it. now, our friend from cypress refrain framed the phrase i told you so today, so i wanted to make sure he was in a position to say i told you so is that the history that led -- and then cypress who was the incumbent bid on this and our feeling is that they have -- they've provided good service,

so i hear from the crowd that may not be true and i think it's important we set the record straight. i did mean that as a question because i think we all want to understand the history that led us here between the two companies. >> i think that's accurate after the ifb was issued last summer, we -- andrews had been identified as you noted accurately as the winner of the ifb, we came before this boater, sought and obtained your approval to go forward with with the full board four minutes before we were schedule today go before the finance committee, andrews withdraw their bid and we extend ted cypress contract for this rfp. >> regardless of that situation, an crews is a respected companies in the dountbacker country, it's our responsibility to get the best tax dollar for our best folks

and while they presented eloquently and politely, i do get the sense that there's an undercurrent that they're saying they weren't treated fairly and that cypress knew that these positions could be billed and they didn't know it. i assume it's safe to say there was no -- how will you say -- sort of discomfort or displeasure with andrews and that from your view, they were treated fairly is this a material difference? >> no, i don't think that that's accurate either. i think that -- and one of the things if i may, it was a

little puzzling to us when we initially received the rfp, cypress compiled with our instructions with a bid struck khu, andrews did not, we gave them an opportunity to make a correction, then when we entered into negotiations, we encountered this communication, we vacated our -- with andrews because we could not arrive at a deal that was consistent with what our available funding is. when we started negotiations with cypress, cypress seemed to understand the terms that were put into the rfp, so their proposals to us were consistent with what we were looking for specifically, that the two positions in question were not include as line items but were built into the overhead of the actual cost structure. >> okay. i think i understand that. >> director, do you have a question? >> no. >> director, any other questions? do i have a motion to approve?

>> yes. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> all in favor aye. >> aye. >> motion passes, thank you. >> director item 12 discussion and vote pursuant to administrative code section 67 .10 as to whether to conduct a closed session. >> a motion to move into closed section. >> directors, they're coming back into open session, we'll wait a moment for sfgtv. alright. item 13 announcement of closed session, mta bedaubed of direct toser went and discussed the harrington case, the board settled the matter, directors, it would be appropriate to disclose or not disclose the information discussed. >> do i have a motion? >> all in favor to not

disclosed. >> that concludes the information before you today. >> meeting adjourned. (meeting is adjourned). >> can everybody hear me thank you for hosting us all i'm john the councilmember gloria vice president and along with my much nor talented colleagues and megan our program managers i offer see the responsibility of

zen detect when we they moved no inviting one of the things we've heard loud and clear was the importance of the hiring locally and many technology growing companies we're distancing in search of specific talents those are hard to find in the bay area in the neighborhood of san francisco but as you sit here now detection has a great relationship with the office of economic workforce development and currently sits on the investment board this is where we learned ambassador tech sf graduation and the local jobs training program to provide relevant skills several

conversations led us to the realized the faster way to create zen dick technology to train the san franciscans on our product that will fast track them to an important job in as you sit here now deck some of the tens of thousands of people that use as you sit here now deck if not employed while having still have a foundation in customer support and experience as well as the state of the art i'm to introduce mayor ed lee that as you sit here now deck has a terrific relationship the mayor ed lee has impressed on the importance of job creation like the opening up pathways in the tech industry

so welcome mayor ed lee (clapping) john thank you for that introduction and i'm glad to be here and this is great to see this is the third cohort of our folks coming through tech sf he want to go through the boat came but jonas passionate as i am i've not had to work that hard as you sit here now deck and it is a lot of passion for the building of strong neighborhoods thank you to the leadership give my best to the entire staff there because as strons as passionate in the job training for the 21st century jobs we need partners

that are more experienced as you that kind of citizens of volunteerism is takes the hours and weekends and the attitude to folks that are in the community looking to see if they can gain skill sets with the new jobs and what they're doing in the clooks with tech sf starbucks a good training for people to see i have the confidence i don't have to be at the best engineering schools to get a job and we've often said the tonnage industry establishments 4 or 5 jobs in their applications or establishing all the technology kinds of industries we're also

seeing happen in middle school middle market and throughout the city it is one of the many what did you say and he know that as you sit here now deck is not only focused on job training a huge amount of philanthropic work for the lowest incomes and the institutions allowing for the use of community space as a reflection of they're very strong volunteerism within the community agreement and their work is great because along with my again friend benny hoff set the standard for what we want to happy in the city and we need it technology for many years and i think people in the room remember those are room we

talked about the digital divide how we'll be able to catch with tomcast or those internet essentials they're providing or 12 companies they're going so fast he didn't think the jobs were going to be driver's license we need this link if you will, so those jobs i emphasis your programmers you can be folks helping with customer service center to be of great support and those days more and more as companies establish their companies they need the mechanism and this is why the third and i hope tenth cohorts of trainers that come

out with the skill sets to repeating really join in a comfortable way the movement towards the digital jobs that are present here in the city and that we also will signal to the companies that i look forward to their literally going through tech sf and hiring the folks that are out the basic training i'm all for a what he can excitingly see those weeks of boat camping is allotting a truly a boat camp you're going right into job opportunity there and our tech companies don't have to be looking across the water but right here in san francisco and be part the promise that the prosperity in the city can be shared with those basic things we're doing

honoring training and having an open door policy and having a good neighbor policy and go benefits as forefront as the success of a company as getting their points out and designed and engineered and sold i can't thank supervisor kim enough she's a strong advocate we start this confidence about mid-market and seeking strong, strong indications coming to fruition not everything is there it takes time we have a lot of folks on line their k59 their support i love the fact we're beginning to focus on the staff black women and other different groups that we know have gaps in their ability to connect up with our technology industry and with

other jobs more and more we're seeing the technology into the health care industry the hospitality address the local manufacturers you can't see a line of manufacturers without the ipad overlay and censoring autopsying all the aspects of merchandising so this is a great year to embrace those kinds of programs and thankful to the bay area coalition as well as tech sf for joining us as a city and partnering up with as you sit here now deck so provide support and congratulations (clapping.) >> thank you mayor ed lee for being here today. >> thank you to your staff and as you sit here now deck and especially to all the students who are graduating today from the zen deck train and i'm the

executive director it is a pleasure to see you when we partnered with czechoslovakia deck with the employer driven training it makes sense because not only because we're the coordinator for the city of san francisco but because they've actually been providing employer driven technically e tech and media industry for more than 15 years i was chatting with the folks and we trained folks from places like mother jones and all kinds of tech and media companies other than the city and we've been doing this for many years in many, many ways and another thing offering networking event like gloun this is something we came up with to provide opportunity for contract workers or who are newly trained

to meet people that are hiring and zen deck is generous for two of the flounz so for so so thank you to zen deck i want to mention little initiative through the sf tech program for the contractor workers and helping folk up their skills and help them with their taxes and with the full union in new york we have more than 5 hundred members are eligible to get health care and other kinds of insurance next year it the amazing program i feel like our mission of hoping folks to tell their stories has been happening for 39 years it is important to be a

technology organization that's been around for that long the reason we've been around that along bus of the as you sit here now deck train so thank you, again, for zen deck go with that i'm going to turn it over to the trainer from zen deck to start the graduation (clapping) and thanks i'm joe i work as zen deck about 3 years i'm going to present the certificates to the graduates first up patrick (clapping). rose marie (clapping)

gary (clapping) there's gary michael >> winston (clapping) sorry winston. (clapping.) >> now (clapping) kit (clapping) emmanuel (clapping) marseille (clapping)

thank you, everyone all right. >> (clapping) photo op. >> ready everyone here congratulations can you please rise

for the pledge of allegiance? >> pledge of allegiance. >> president, i'd like to call roll. >> president loftus. >> here. >> vice president turman. >> here. >> commissioner marshall enroute. >> . >> dejes u.s. >> here. >>. >> also here with us is joyce hicks and chief of police. >> welcome everyone to the to

the march 11th police commission meeting welcome to those here in attendance and those watching at home. we haven't been here in city hall since february 4th so it's good to be back. >> please call the first line item. . >> certificate of appreciation mr. jeffrey man hierm man heimer and i understand we're going to have a presentation. >> i am lieutenant chin from the -- mr. manheimer, are you here? come on up [applause]. >> sorry sergio. >> correct i'm lieutenant sergio chin from the

investigative team. tonight we're here to president the citizen's commendation. let me give a little bit of detail. there was a robbery incident that occurred at the 1800-block of polk street the the suspect tries to leave without paying and mr. manheimer hears the ruckus and turns around and sees a big fight. a couple of things he could do take no action or push him off the bike and he did that pushed him off the bike