from the train director nolan and director ramos describing and mr. chairman you have a quorum please silence all electronic devices. by person responsible maybe asked to leave the room cells set an vibrate you cause interruption for the approval of the minutes regular meeting so moved second. >> technical >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> the i's have it. thank you very much item 5 communication directors please be advised for the establishment of a blue zone on delores regarding the arguable and others - for closed session have within removed from the

agenda at the request of staff item 6 introduction of new and unfinished business by board members. >> first happy new year and thank internal revenue leader ed reiskin for a fabulous 2015 we really feel the agency has accomplished so much and seeing a result often the streets with and know how much hard work we appreciate if very much and it is is mark of a great leader ed and the leaders and his leadership team they've moved forward hiring the right people supporting them and getting fabulous results happy new year and thank you to you and you're leadership team i don't see very many of you today but thank you. >> i'd like to add that the agency is so well served by every level we see it all the

time basically continues very supportive and the ambitious - we get a well thought out and advanced on behalf of the people of san francisco and this board thank you very much and director reiskin thank you. >> so as just one more thing i'd like to request we adjourn in the memory of mary brown a city family member a brick coalition person was constitutional in the valencia street consul general he went on to get over graduate degree at san francisco state university was a member the agency and passed away at 46 and socializing misses by the family she was amazing so adjournment in her memory. >> other business and item 678

director's report. >> again director reiskin. >> happy new year mr. mayor and members of the board and public and stave a staff a few quick things fir twifr r tom maguire. >> like to add the forestry is joining me. >> houston is a traffic technician in the trespasser who has demonstrated sound ability for all covets events and street closer if approximately visits to others visiting san francisco to a small family scale event we worked with the public go to trouble shoot and solved problems they say defendable and

over the last couple of years every position within a temporary and dependent decision making abilities to step enter a supervisory role to work with the consumers not only the events are signed correctly but successful and the public is invented as little as possible above and beyond the call of duty is great customer service person he determines the needs of each location and moves little handicap parking and moves the staff around and helps to keep the streets safe so all public events we host in san francisco, california took place a great positive example for this is a colleagues and supervisors with a positive easygoing attitude and a consider it done attitude for that reason we recognize.

>> on behalf of the broshgdz he recognize that you're family is here we'll to see the folks we promise. >> we'll be on tv come on up. >> (laughter). (clapping.) this is my daughter charm and i'm glad she came today you don't i did not think she could make it her mom said she said and thank you very much for your service to the city thank you >> (clapping). >> we also have with us today mary lee our long time crossing guard working as a crossing gaud

for mta for 38 years since 1977 (clapping.) since 1979 assigned to the school and being there for 36 years she's well knowno the community as a puny i can't tell and courteous public sirntd with a positive attitude railing members of the commission a shift the commission recognized here and almost every year she's received an award that is a tremendous tremendous feather in the cap she reports 15 minutes earlier four her shift and makes sure that over ask the crows the street safely and for the

parents and general public we are happy to have her protecting our vulnerable on the streets. >> on behalf of the board and the mta thank you for your services for 38 years you have family here good; right? >> right. >> (clapping.) >> mr. chair a few other recognized happy to announce that earlier this year the polk street bike way on the awards won the trails project if the bay area section of the american society of civil engineers in addition the city agency will recognize for the caesar chavez straight prong four outstanding highway projects and the central subway for outstanding projects

and looking at those first two within polk and cesar chavez they are won 7 awards not just here but internationally with the outstanding projects i'll close by saying you're easily remarks and accommodations it is the kind of folks we recognize here and a lot of the folks on the engineers and mraernlz and mechanics and operators the pcos they're the ones that are responsible for the achievements we're able to accomplish in 2015 and 2016 on behalf of the team wear fortunate to have a strong workforce and it is our job to take the policies and budget authority you give us and give them the support to implement so

thank you and happy new year. >> members of the public want to address the public reports. >> seeing none. >> the advisor report not seeing mr. whatever and the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, 306k we have to speakers that have turned in speaker cards herbert wiener and another gentleman. >> good afternoon mr. wiener and herbert wiener the new line when is the resurrection will coffer absurdity street and terminate at 6 and clement street to get to the stop at samson and market street if the embarcadero e.r. to joining areas transfer will you been required ending the direct service if those areas

this will result in garage travel time in addition there are be no stops at clemente streets and forcing are shoppers to walk a longer zoning districts e distance this will have an effect on the distances the line has been in the cross hairs of muni management for years it began with the clemente line to the new termination and now is effectively there because this new run will be a toe line the ensues have been taken from the droplett of their line fortunately passengers were you able to stop that from being end but the management says it will be a clean plan moving forward hopefully the busses will run frequently than in the past and

not end in the evening the two clemente line was a good one until it was stopped when the department began it's on the tip of my tongue with that paratransit ask proposed for the disabled and seniors who bend from this line it is a solution for already overloaded service that is desperately he trying to serve the passersby just as this can be immediate bliss and strict advertising covers a awe strits. >> david and other good morning. >> good morning and a belaid new year's to all of you in any event i'd like about a one and

thirty others senior cab drivers are what is called single operator permit households holders permanent a decision we have a certain amount of revenue for this there's been a decision made to end this program this is as closed to any kind of benefits for all the years of driving that we get and i think would recommend bra this program is terminated there b&b be a full board hearing to review it we want to consider the consequences to public service what will happen if at the terminate the f single operators

permit holder for the taxi riding public over and over force them into a maneuver no. i don't think so this decision needs to be reconsidered at the full board level as soon as possible thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> those are the last two speakers who turned if speaker cards. >> good afternoon commissioners and happy new year to all of you pursue i'm a colleague of david 123450id the name is glen eagle ending been driving a taxicab i'm 78-year-old and still driving not as much but we have a real concern one and 35 senior drivers they address this as

single operators but it is allows up to 9 shifts no drivers by themselves is going to do that but to combrd of osmosis senior drivers the ones that you are still out taking care of the senior passersby people what wheelchairs a walkers and canes elderly that don't have smart phones yet the mere thought of could go this smacks to me of age discrimination measure and simple on average those drivers have been driving thirty years they're in the neighborhood of 70 years of age this is absolutely ridiculous i mean, why would anyone say we need to get the most experienced out of the industry and leave to people that are licensed we'll leave this to the uber lyft so much

turnover the tons of money that is driven they'd be gone please address this and at least we expect that and deserve that my feeling those green house gas emissions so be experienced to regular medallions and the people that have most this of the medallions these days were handed they got on a a list most of the drivers got on the listless because of hundreds of people never got an medallion so thank you very much for additionally that. >> howard the last person to submit a speaker card. >> good afternoon corrections and happy new year i want to add something to your work schedule this year we know that the budget is a very political process but also, if he look at the budget we

ought to look close enough to see who subsidies more you're transit rider subsidies more private cars i think if we study this in great detail and deal with the special things i'll see more work are you guys you'll have to approve certain sdpingz probable a thousand budget item is this the drivers e.r. the disabled how pays all the different stuff i hope we can dig into this in a complete way you know we have the push and pull of politics that gets us to where we are this is not satisfactory in the areas of the politics we can use facts and study it it would be it may take some of the expenses this is not

for transit this is not only for cars but it is split it up you don't have to make that decision and then certain fees like i would look at the parking text hold the piece of san francisco place in parking for in their convenience and others fee they agree to pay the fee it is market rate these kinds of decisions should be made in the public and transit riders think they don't get enough let's discover the facts as you anyone else care to address the board seeing none. >> moving to our complete calendar directors i've annunciations 10 p.s. .2 and 6 have's cabin severed i've not

received any other requests from the boards or members of the public for any other items. >> is there a motion to approve. >> motion to approve. >> any further discussion. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> the i's have it. >> moving to inform item 11 for the sfmta 2015 financial audit. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon happy new year to everybody i don't see the auditor here they were supposed to be here so we can wai or do it i will do any presentation it is required they do a presentation in front of you. >> okay. thank you. >> all right moving forward to item 12 then approving the sfmta 2016 legislative program. >> good afternoon ms.

>> good afternoon, directors this is the faster meeting i've seen. >> not over yet. >> fair enough. >> you're not with the auditors outside are you (laughter). >> thank you for the opportunity this afternoon to present the 2016 go legislative program you've seen this format so i'll not go over the packet but a quick overview utilized to acknowledge our local are affairs person that has done a fabulous job and the way that the local program is laid out the ongoing engagements and relationships with a reaction those are broad in addressing

the board of supervisors and little transportation authority with those entities and moving on to the high priorities that are fulfilling the local agenda this year is the approval the budget the 2015 ballot for the charter measure which is yet to be determined for the november 2016 election as well as other things with the sustainability program which a comprehensive program for the sustainability fee all of that will entail the hand in hand work that is necessary for the supervisors following onramp it will be the contracts and grants that need to go to the full board fettered at the local level related to vision 2025 and item a through e programs you've

been briefed on, on an ongoing basis that also have various aspects recommended to local approve with with the brt's that will execute the small combranlt agreement in the spring and aspects the muni for the record and the central subway and market street that's a lot all of those major initiates underway on with an o one stage or another i'll leave the locals program if you have any questions certainly will encourage you to ask them and bill and i will respond moving to the stated this year, the approach i wanted to reflect on the fact we're hesitate in the second year the occurred two year legislative session obamacare in the legislative start up time, if you will, we're, on the success in year

one with the i mentioned action with the enforcement of parking violations and consistent with san francisco leadership on the free muni for youth program we were successful in working with cal spaca to secure $41 million in cap & trade for light rail vehicles an ongoing effort with the state this year as we move into 2016 the governor under item one will realize his budget on thursday that will be a start to the conversation about the budget within that context will be an ongoing conversation started last june in infrastructure investment and a something else session in praerlt to the current legislative session our efforts working studying with other transportation agencies a

glimmer of hope for a moment i would say in august or september but then as time passed no reaching of the agreements we were able to get the votes this session is formally in place that is to is if there were something to come to pass in terms of of an agreement on a fund source that is directed to future translation we will pathologically have something news worthy to talk about as of today in predictions under cap & trade the good afternoon will speak on thursday the program is growing in size i think san francisco was very successful in achieving $341 million this past year in the superintendant guerrero city program that program is going to grow the funding circles are moving into two year cycle that will be

followed by 5 years and our decision to see had a is the most expensive as they feeds on this important program it is important to remember whatever we put forward has to show the enernex between the green house gas emissions and our team is figuring out what is the best project that is eligible for the fund give feedback, if you will, to the guidelines to evaluate those projects and advance those projects working with the designation some of them were set aside to the programs hike transit in the europe city capitals rails there is still a lot of money on the table thursday we'll see whether the governor choices to make a call but those dollars are in play we

have an arbitrary to insure that at least to the extent those radio designated by little transportation forces they go to transportation the third item on the agenda is really i'll characterize is as the centerpiece in addition to the initiates it initiative it is vabs at the state level the proposal is to embrace all aspects of the education and evaluation and policy and look to specifically the action strategies commitment to seek authorization for the use of automated speed enforcement it is currently prohibited state law we have about this working with the walk sf and little bike coalition and others allies to start early in building the probation of support on the possibility of getting approval

for this we have an interested and eager champion partner in the city of smoz you you know you're experience with the transit only lane enforcement program revealed us is us the long-standing concerns with regards to the use of cameras anytime you be enforcements activity we'd like to have so grinning to the conversation another voices that perhaps have not been as historians for example, public health interests those families that suffered losses 12 will take a broad coalition of interests if we are successful we can say that the city is 12 in alignment with the springs and braid in having sdouptd this as a provided

strategy parking policy this is really again sort of a place holder and put 24 to the extent any legislation related to assessable parking or 12k5i7b89d parking or more some of us in the organization that continue to serve and resources when asked because san francisco has done love work i was on a panel and folks in the room from oakland and los angeles in particular that look at this but i think that at this point, we're not sponsoring the legislation but certainly serve as a enforcement as san francisco has zone on item 5 this is also a place a holder is having as is relates to the taxis and potentially others

disruptive technologies initiative modes of transportation we will be mindful for this board in this role as a taxi regulate our to bring to those issues the concern that has been expressed brother the board before in this second year on some of the legislation that was introduced last year such legislative to require the tmc to enroll in the there that was entacked r acted ensue other pieces of legislation having to do with drug and alcohol testing you're aware of based on previous conversations with the board the last item oh, under 6 to make sure we work cooperating with the city partners when we do go to the city, state, legislation committee which we do when we have a proposal for

bills that fit within the pharynx with other city departments the last and it will be brief under federal legislative priorities we are happy to report that we have a federal multi year transportation reauthorization dubbed the fast act it is a 5 year bill and it grows the program sort of modestly but transportation interests are very pleased with a multi program and really what happens after that we look for opportunities to weigh in an transportation that effects the agencies priorities the second item on here is making sure that we keep on track with the federal fund infunctions for the central subway and van ness brt the subway has to years left with

the federal funds the next one is van ness brt to make sure those funds are commented and the number 3 is looking for other competitive grant we've exceeded in the tiger program last year others programs that will be keeping an eye on on grant opportunity which is where that item is for and the last one gosh at this point, i'll be disappeared we've seen that 5 millions times lee last month in the legislation they enacted the cropping congress and the president signed into law the par it's between vanderpool riders to workload 200 and 50 conflict of interests parking is treated equally in addition to it being permanent but adjusted for inflation really good news

and i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> >> members of the board q's. >> i have questions on the other legislation for the tmc any i'd like to hear more details about we're work with puc we want particularly i don't know some sort of coordination so i'm on one hand any discussion of any sort of legislation limiting 9 amounts of types of vehicles on the street. >> the answer to the last one i've not heard anything specifically but trying to figure out where is the place to navigate frankly the puc again, just issued rule macro that an order we're looting related to the tmc you know unlike others

interest areas where we plug into statewide organizations that you can really bring kind of a coordinated voice it is an area that didn't have that what you find we're trying to convene as of last summer to engage that is our best opportunity to really see how our others managing it constantly evolving realm i don't have an honest answer but working with the city attorney's office that involves more on the xum we're trying to be close 2, 3, 4 coordination what is happening with that. >> i would suggest on that i think under those a natural industry we can seek input that is the taxi industry we hear from them to the extent that you

can it is filtered i wonder if it make sense to coordinate is others in los angeles not only what legislation or regulations may favor with respect to the tmcs but they favor to themselves to be able to be more competitive i will urge it discussion. >> thank you that's very - >> thank you good presentation i want to say thank you, again, for the amount safety enforcement included in there i know we have tough lifting around that you mention the eye ever cameras for enforcement continues to cause issues for some people that will be fascinating so show how it

includes the situation i have high hopes it will not be a quick fix we've seen in surveys our insistence that satisfaction with the pedestrian environment is an area we're losing ground because people are understanding the streets are not as safe it will be important to continue extort capture that this disappointment what is like to be a pedestrian not only in san francisco but other crowded areas thank you for continuing to work on that. >> thank you just briefly i wanted to add share the interests from some folks we've received correspondence around the transit on this to get those enforced as quickly as possible i know what happened last year in terms of you know the camera enforcements on the vehicles for

moving violations i do know there is an increased need for this in other cities as well i know particular effort are you know across the bay in oakland and smoz and los angeles, san diego, shortening o stockton it feel like enough critical mass to help get this through i want to emphasize we going to need it once they come online and really hope you're taking that and running with that as solidly as possible in particular in support of community. >> i'll be happy to give a comment. >> okay. >> award to us to cite for driving in transit lanes that

under the proposal that was excluded in the proposal meet with strong resistance from the bill would 0 have been defeated from the assembly by the triple a and other resource those are positioned that were taken at the time i don't think necessarily building those are unretractable decisions we continue to explain the benefits and the burden that the system what work that we can bring organizations along when we continue to make the case it not about revenue it is not about the current bound but safety and performance but with regard - i've had conversations with brt

and others in terms of looking for the similar authority with the brt project and in the case ever brt double parking i appreciate that coming from the board members a little other organization it is really a question who is going to position themselves for a pursuit ensue certainly b be a resource. >> when you're ready to go again, you've have a lot of allies where a lot of support whenever possible it is critically important opportunity to move our transit along and get anymore people using transit and cost operations all of that thank you very much for you're direction. >> and supervisor campos i'll add to van ness and market street i've spoken to people and

feedback if the taxi drivers it was great the first several weeks pcos out there enforcing it oublt we cannot have all the councilmember parks on the streets every day but we now have although anecdotally from two sets of drivers how great it is when the laws are enforced and which other things have not yielded. >> i'd like to ask you a question this is terrific about san francisco, however, we're part of region could you describe by corrosive venues with washington and legislative things as far as congress all together and outreach from the bodies before you presented this. >> yes. as a matter of fact i would say in a positive we meet about october with our partners

at the regional level you know, i can is positively the results are that mp c is by the commission last week including the language that will allow them to be positions to support some of our initiatives like the speeding to the extents actually throughout the session we working closely with our transit colleagues as well as go transportation county c m a to make sure that the extents we have the alignment we're speaking with multiple voices we do that didn't mean when it comes to funding the measures i'm hearing some things that will take our pocket at our expense at someone else's benefit we're playing defense on some of the things but, yeah we do cooperate the clerk will take the roll with them.

>> there will be no washington legislative conference so it is important to say the region support and some give and take agencies will fill our pockets at the same time so all of this together. >> the nature the beast. >> i'm not we're not doing if thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> any members of the public. >> no members of the public have indicated an interest in the matter. >> come on come up. >> it helps when you turn in a speaker card. >> howard. >> when someone does a great job on this give them more work here is more things in the same order locally it is about time we changed the laws that require the planning laws that require the commercial businesses to

provide the capital had you get rid of of the required parking guess what there are a source office future funding you'll figure out in the years to come and continuing on i put my sfmta proof hat and supportive of cameras to enforce the right-of-way and one more thing add the yield to bus laws somehow we're not going to be able to afford putting bus stops in many cases it will not pay when a bus runs every 15 or 20 minutes but keep that before us for another minute those buses you really want to maintain the schedule to look to the 5 of that same thing we need a sign that says yield to transit a

book of signs you can't put the signs on the street unless it is in the book it sign is when we reach nevada even pedestrians yield to transit move the bus lines to help to provide us with the service so this is great you're attacking this early and done a great job. >> anyone else to address the board. >> to the gentleman's point it is important to acknowledge we're sorry a little bit hoarse today, we do that with full buses when the school buses stop we all stop and plenty of the support for something like that so i don't know how far we can go with the efforts like that. >> thank you ms. bloomer.

>> we need a most 80 motion to approve. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? >> back to item 11 the sfmta financial audit. >> good afternoon again. >> happy new year again, if i can use the overhead. >> that will show up but to get started the mta audit as you may know this is part of city's overall audit it is selected by whoops - the auditor is selected by the controller and it has 3 consonants a financial audience with audit and go status and look at it by the stakeholders we work with and this is your grand compliance the sfmta, looked at this to make sure we're doing everything good with

the grants and imagine that every year the auditors recommendation for any issuance and so for no finding is over the years this is good news jumping into numbers looking at the numbers here's our information comparing the last f for our operating side 90 in our operating revenues down by $23.02 main reasons the low taxi medallion sales and the parking fines and penalties went down we saw increases in the operating grants doing better that financially with the grants we had a decrease for the central subway that didn't mean a funding gap but the timing for the grants of central subway but

the good news we saw more money in the general fund to offset the decreasing line items our expenses went down $21 million and here so the majority of discharges in expenses were in 3 line items one in personal services so for the row counting based the county legislation and lower fuel costs the city has no fuel contract and we have purchased new vehicles four materials and parts not having to fix as much that's good news and were able to reallocate the police orders to fund the bicycle capital improvement plan and so we had a decrease in the payouts that was in addition to

the fy number 14 was larger a because we had a significant amount of payouts an increase in the paratransit contract and trying to fund for capital improvement plan and that's the other line item so let's see ohoh - so a quick last slide the balance sheet this is a snapshot of assets and liabilities so our assets went up by over $4 million that is cash due to the grants we also saw increases on almost every line item but we have the liabilities exceeded our assets by that amount so i'm going to turn it over to lisa that will do their report. >> good afternoon. welcome.

>> good afternoon happy new year thank you okay so ms. booze went over the financial of the finances of the year the operating for mta as the extra auditor i'm required to have discussions with members of management and have the slide up here for you so we want to remind the board you're responsibilities under the general september 11th controls that the organization has within their operations we don't express on thinking outside the box opinion on interim controls but required to report any finding as was mentioned not reporting to management over the years and have to design and implement the procedures to not absolutely

assure the finances are a statement if we provide the audit will be going on for years and perform the test with certainly laws and regulations as it relates to the audits with the laws and regulations we opi opine on the fidget statements this year, the mta received a clean bill of health and a modified statement we apply the limited procures to what we call the dna analysis this management provides a narrative and not going to the rigorous procedures and mta accounting policies are noted to those financial statements in addition to discussing the quantify aspects but the policies they have what

the county process included within the financial statements are stementsz that management makes it is impossible to tell with the pension liability will be over the end of time as of a certain date how the workers' compensation will be with the liability so managements prepares o estimates we work with the tick what has been marked as so taking the financial statements as a whole - the audit completed in the

time we discussed with management. >> so also as we raider to note any of the following let the board know there is no difficulties with management to our knowledge no problems with the accountants they've had office of the city administrator on issues no major issues discussed with the retention as auditor and management provided a representation letter they're required to do taking responsibility for their financial statements so this presentation is intend for that the board so see if you have any questions. >> i have a question i was in consultation so 86. >> it's not the issues they've

noticed but only to let us know if any communication not necessarily so. >> likewise. >> they talk to each other i see that is a requirement but what's the down see of talking to something else. >> there is isn't a down does the city auditors have an auditor as well and oftentimes the 3 parties meet together to come to a meeting the minds to come to the standards there is a lot of conversation so not those are not bad things to communicate so the discussions - and i want to ask a question members of the board. >> yeah. one comment to go back do the conversation that was hit on number 3 i think the decrease in operating revenues due to the lower sales and parking

penalties i know as we were phasing sf park in and new meters one of the stated goals we don't want to give people parking tickets we prefer them to pay for parking and move on and not get a ticket is this the results are we seeing the decrease in parking ticket. >> due to the medallions the fact we were issuing a lot of citations from sunday parking and sunday parking was disconnected for 1 to 14 that was the biggest reason for citations. >> i believe the accounting for citations over the course a gradual decline in sieksz issues

whether the results it is easier to pay the fines than for parkinsonian we know that but if you take out sunday parking enforcement it is roefk in decline singles 2007 you can 2008 a yeah, the the gentleman is correct about 8 hundred declined at citations issued. >> i thought for the cigarette tax things you want to decline becomes a prime sense of revenue the higher you take 9 - is it costs something when it is $20 to pack on the sidewalk now it is 78 or more. >> interesting i thought i'd not find this so fascinating it is fascinating so the ramification of actions it does

peak any interest in times of sf park and be taking a look at at packing i think that people appreciate the new meters and appreciate being able to park it is interesting to see those numbers. >> thank you. >> anyone else. >> thank you directors i'll submit another factor someone cut their street sweeping in half (laughter). >> so - and then to clarify on the decline in revenue in medallion sales that is more a factor that we sold a lot of medallions sort not a situation we budgeted for a lot of mettle revenues it didn't happen it on this changed when with i rolled out the program we sold a lot of medallions. >> that's correct it is actuals to actuals the rate of medallions sales and

transfers has been lover anticipated and right not to the tune of $15 million lower this is the difference; right? >> well, that is the case that we actually did sell a lot less medallions in 2015 because we didn't have the medallions to sell that's part of the reason. >> well, i people's it is a question that beyond this did we have a number bunted how much we thought we'd get off the medallion sales and how close to that number. >> were that who with blood the last few years i don't know how scientifically that number is developed it may have been by the year we sold a lot of medallions. >> we have not had a single default an manages. >> not a single default and looking for people purchasing

medallions. >> thank you very much. >> did we need an action no director this is for information only no members of the audience. >> moving to item 13 and i'll acknowledge a billion dollars multi capital budgets our cfo as done a interrelation job of getting us to the pointed those audits come and go and a lot of work behind the scenes but the audits come and go without notes of concern a complex budget giving the resources and all the way i want to acknowledge the work of her and her team to make sure we search warrant a clean audit every year. >> it's appreciated. >> mr. chairman i nodded the

head of the largest union i don't know why he's here but request you over him the courtesy not to have to sit through the entire events. >> happy new year. >> happy new year. >> happy new year to all last year, of course, we have had some accomplishments a lot of things we've been working on safety to our members of the public and everyone else in the city from our stand point we definitely time to continue that our part what's our responsibility as employees and a union to make this work briefly i'm sure you've seen the newspapers a couple of weeks ago last week about the issues surrounding 5 years waste preservation so hopefully you can we can sit down and talk about that more i know there is more to it then sitting and

saying okay what's right and wrong but hopefully over the next few weeks we'll sit down and talk about that for individuals you employ who are bailey making it in this region not just in san francisco we center like 80 percent of you're employees transit operators don't live in the city if you're not briefed i'm you pretty much you k pretty sure you guys are here equipment for one or two of what rolled out with the waste progression and you're employees experience being unable to barely make that one can say who's fault let's see if we have a remedy soon sooner or later thank you. >> thank you and director for

seeing. >> ms. bloomer. >> okay got that down. >> all right. moving to item 13 with the 4 hundred various section to increase the rates in parking meter and to eliminate a fee for transaction debit cards or paid by phone service and mr. chairman there is no members of the public that addressed an interest on this matter. >> quietly not double the fee (laughter). >> it's nice to come good afternoon howard you don't i

just don't come here to speak for parking meters 27 cents i don't understand when we buy you're gasoline we savior 80 cents to pay cash and somehow the credit card companies allow that over the state one fee to pay cash and another with a credit card why can't we do that with meters and when you raise fees parking fees by 25 credence you'll go crazy on it applies to the convenience fee for credit cards or whatever that's their own choice i came here to speak to why it is necessary to change this thing our banks feel they own two or three percent of whole knew they thought they

owned 0 the whole housing market they almost destroyed us we should encourage people not to use the card but if they had it costs 27 cents i don't understand the whole thing i was looking forward to someone telling us more about that. >> members of the board. >> do we have an explanation my understanding is that it is not our decision; correct? >> correct it is not up to us on the transaction fee the agreement between the city eetsz is bank of america has an underlining agreement with the transaction charges on the question about the gas companies carve out in state legislation that allows them to charge the transactions for credit cards

that's why we have to reduce the $0.27 transaction fee. >> what the contracts i mean, the priorities - >> yeah. >> we actually discovered it after the approved the transaction nia fee and found out by way of you shouldn't have done that unfortunately, we didn't know that but b before we approved the transaction. >> what it it come up. >> it got renewed by the city. >> what was interesting and director reiskin brought this up if you pay tax they can charge you are transaction fee but from the public is toughing and has a tough of the meters or a tough touch to the transaction it is not credit card it is difficult to understand it took us months

to understand what applies to the fee and the city attorney was a helpful. >> in a sharing the gentleman's concern we made every effort to make sure we didn't have to - in the end the citywide agreement is pretty clear we need to come into alignment what that maybe a little bit different there is benefit to us when folks use credit cards because although we're paying the processing we're not paying the cash handling in a way that maybe removed disincentive for us to use towards credit cards as meter payments any consolation. >> we have a question we haven't had to give back the transaction fees we've charged

so for. >> no i believe there was some threat of fees that will be assessed we're not to have made 24 change and presuming you approve the change we will actually execute the change rather quickly to avoid a position we're doing something in violation of the code but no financially course to date. >> well with technology and the irony howard needs i'll make a motion to approve and labor more work to do around parking i looking at look forward to that coming before us. >> second and i have a maybe a procedural question a piece of this that raise the limit and

therefore, the parking fees charged by everybody i suppose of what method they pay as you may know i'm looked at to do that on a one time basis for do we have policy as a procedural matter can we do what we're doing in the context of our indexing policy or somehow i mean again, i'm not against it we tried it we can't pass it into the credit cards holders but i want to be careful about this at least make clear that the one time it forced action. >> that's correct you compasses not to use indexing policy in 2009 and meter fees is you carved out (laughter) the board explicit raise the meter fees since 2009 because and didn't apply the index to

meter fees. >> we've held them flat. >> since 2009 arch over the course we'll be coming o coming back to you with ideas of expanding the pricing model for parking meter fees to the rest of the city one option to put the parking meter into the indexing with the new option or re78dz to take the sf park model and bring that citywide so that those i mean and what we've done in the meantime is neither so one quarter to demands we have essentially left them untouched for the last 6 years. >> i've forgotten that points that maybe part of messaging we have not raised parking meter in 5 years so thank you. so, now i'm remembering that i'll second

the motion. >> any further >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> emphasizing the i's have it. thank you. >> decorations it will be priority for a motion as to whether to conduct a closed session and also for the record the items the jack matter is off the record no discussion or amended litigation. >> motion to closed session. >> a closed session. >> second. >> any further discussion. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> the i's have it. we'll go into closed session.

>> all right. >> mr. chairman item 15 announcement of closed session the mta directors discussed the pa let case the board of directors settle the matter for the removal from the discussion and directors item 15 disclose or not disclose to discuss. >> not disclose. >> second >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> okay. >> director that includes. >> adjourning in memory of ms. brown and signed the letter and also remind you, we have two more meeting many month the 15 >> the 19 and 26. >> you're working group that will be it. >> and second that will start

at 9 o'clock a full day of fun. >> we're looking forward it it thank you, everyone and happy new year

>> hi everybody, we down here at the /ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. we we're going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about san francisco. how are you doing kelly? >> very well, thank you for having us here. >> in front of us, we have a typical soft story building. when i see this, i think this is some of the most beautiful architecture our city has. a lot of people don't know these are problematic buildings. why don't you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings?

>> soft stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. when we talk about the soft story, what we're talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or other /pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. so we're looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential buildings that are soft stories in san francisco look like. and the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have residential units. they have not only a fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and

corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea it's significantly less country /srabl in those stories. now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commercial occupancy in this ground story. that very often not only has a whole lot less perimeter wall but it often has little or no wall on the interior. that wall is the earthquake bracing and so he see very significant bracing in the top floor and very little on the bottom. when the earthquake comes and hits, it tries to push that ground floor over and there's very little that keeps it from moving and degrading and eventually /paoerblly keeping it from a collapse occurring. so we know they're vulnerable because of this ground story collapsing >> is this only a problem we see in sentence france? san

francisco? >> no, this is certainly a national problem. more acute in western but more up to california, washington, moving out into other states. this kind of building exist and this kind of building is vulnerable. >> when you're involved with the community safety, this is a different way of thinking about these types of things. we had a community group of over 100 people involved and upper 1 of them. tell us about * how that conversation went. why did we decide as a city or a community to start fixing these types of buildings? >> there were a lot of aspects that were considered well beyond just the engineering answer that these are vulnerable. and that effort brought in a lot of people from different aspects of the community that looked at the importance of these buildings to the housing stock and the possible ramifications of losing this /houbgs in the case of an earthquake. the

financial implications, the historic preserve vacation s implication as you mentioned, these are very handsome looking buildings that are importance to the tourist city ask which make san francisco something that people are interested from outside in coming and visiting. >> it's such animation story when you think about the 10 years that the community spent talking about this /seurb but we actually did something about it. now we have an order unanimouses put in place to protect 100,000 residents in san francisco and retrospective in 2020. so on behalf of residents and employees in san francisco, we want to say thank you for the work you've done in pushing this forward and making people more aware of these issues. >> and it was a fantastic community effort. >> so in an earth quake, what happens in these kinds of buildings? >> what happens when an

earthquake comes along is it moves the ground both horizontally and vertically. it's mostly the horizontal that we're worried about. it starts moving the building back and forth and pushing on it. when you see i'm pushing on it, the upper stiff of the wall stay straight up but the lower floors, they actually collapse just like i did there. >> luckily, we can put this building right back up where it came from so it's a lot easier. now kelly, obviously these aren't real frame walls here but when you talk about buildings, what makes the property for stiff? >> the easiest and most cost-effective type of bracing you can put in is either put in a brand new wall or to potentially go in and strengthen a wall that's already there where you don't need to have an opening is where you maybe have a

garage door or access to commercial space, you might go to a steel frame or other types of bracing systems that provides the strength and stiff if necessary but at the same time, allows continued use of that area. but some combination of walls or frames or other tools that are in the tool kit that can bring the building up to the strength that's required in order to remove the vulnerability from the building so that when ground shaking comes, it in fact is a whole lot more resistant and less vulnerable. ideally, this story down here would be made as strong and stiff as the floors above. >> if i'm a property owner, what is the first thing i should do? >> the first thing you should do is find professional that can come in and help you evaluate your building in order to, 1, figure out that indeed it

does need to be retro fitted and 2, give you some idea of what that retro fit might look like. and third, evaluation and design to help you determine the retro fit requirement. >> well kelly, i can't thank you enough for being here today. thank you so much for your wealth of information on how we can take care of our soft story problem in san francisco. and you the viewer, if you have any questions, please feel free to visit our website welcome to the epi did you know that many buildings in san francisco are not bolted to the foundation on today's episode we'll learn how the option to bolt our foundation in

an earthquake. >> hi, everybody welcome to another episode of stay safe i'm the director of earthquake safety in the city and county of san francisco i'm joined by a friend matt. >> thank you thanks for being with us we're in a garage but at the el cap center south of market in san francisco what we've done a simulated the garage to show you what it is like to make the improvements and reduce the reflexes of earthquake we're looking at foundation bolts what do they do. >> the foundation bolts are one of the strengthening system they hold the lowest piece of wood onto the foundation that

prevents the allows from sliding during an earthquake that is a bolt over the original construction and these are typically put in along the foundation to secure the house to the foundation one of the things we'll show you many types of bolts let's go outside and show the vufrdz we're outside the epic center in downtown san francisco we'll show 3 different types of bolts we have a e poxy anchor. >> it is a type of anchor that is adhesive and this is a rod we'll embed both the awe hey that embeds it into the foundation that will flip over a big square washer so it secured the mud sell to the foundation

we'll need to big drill luckily we have peter from the company that will help us drill the first hole. >> so, now we have the hole drilled i'll stick the bolt in and e post-office box it. >> that wouldn't be a bad idea but the dust will prevent the e post-office box from bonding we need to clean the hole out first. >> so, now we have properly cleaned hole what's the next step. >> the next step to use e post-office box 2 consultants that mixes this together and get them into tubes and put a notice he will into the hole and put the e post-office box slowly and have a hole with e post-office

box. >> now it is important to worm or remember when you bolt our own foundation you have to go to 9 department of building inspection and get a permit before you start what should we look at next what i did next bolt. >> a couple of anchors that expand and we can try to next that will take a hole that hole is drilled slightly larger marathon the anchor size for the e post-office box to flow around the anchor and at expansion is going into the hole the same dinning room we'll switch tamet

so, now we have the second hole drilled what next. >> this is the anchor and this one has hard and steel threads that cuts their way into the concrete it is a ti ton anchor with the same large square so similar this didn't require e post-office box. >> that's correct you don't needed for the e post-office box to adhere overnight it will stick more easily. >> and so, now it is good to go is that it.

>> that's it. >> the third anchor is a universal foundation plate when you don't have room above our foundation to drill from the top. >> so, now we have our foundation plate and the tightened screw a couple of ways to take care of a foundation what's the best. >> the best one depends on

what your house is like and our contractors experience they're sometimes considered the cadillac anchor and triplely instead of not witting for the e post-office box this is essentially to use when you don't have the overhead for the foundation it really depends on the contractor and engineering what they prefer. >> talking to a qualified professional and see what