impressed with her grip on financial figures and concepts that would be difficult to comprehend without nadia explaining them so effortlessly. more than the knowledge she imparts in meetings, nadia just has a way about her that makes it a joy to always be around her. she reminds me of that maya angelou quote. i've learned that people will forget what you said. people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. i walk away from every encounter i have with nadia feeling good. i love that we're neighbors and run into each other on chestnut street every once in a while. nadia is a leader and example for us all, and i love what supervisor cohen said about black future month. nadia embodies that to me. she is inspiring, and she's a dedicated public servant. her resume is so impressive. she has been the executive director of the office of

community investment of infrastructure for the past year. in this role, she is responsible for the economic development of the new transbay, mission bay and hunters point shipyard neighborhoods which collectively provide over 20,000 new housing units including approximately 7,000 affording housing units and 10 million square feet of commercial space and the management of various properties and existing and expired project areas. prior to that, nadia served as the director of the controller's office of public finance since 2005. in this role, ms. sesay conducted financial analysis for the mayor, board of supervisors, commissioners, and department heads relating to debt financing and oversaw the city's $3.2 billion municipal debt portfolio. without nadia's skills and leadership, i don't know where -- i don't know that we would have have the successful bond and capital investment program that we have today.

i certainly couldn't do that. she has worked in the office of public finance for over 19 years, serving as financial administrator and bond associate prior to her appointment as director. nadia also sits on the san francisco community investment board and served as chair of the oversight board of the successor agency to the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco prior to her appointment as interim executive director. in 2015, nadia served on the state treasure's task force on bond accountability. whose final report in december 2015 prompted the state of california to adopt several of its recommended reforms. nadia was awarded san francisco's public managerial excellence award for exemplary leadership, fiscal ingenuity and vision in 2010. san francisco is truly so lucky to have nadia on our side, looking out for all of us. we commend you, nadia, and thank you for all that you do for all

san franciscans. [ applause ] >> i am truly honored for this nomination. supervisor stefani, i've had the opportunity and pleasure of working with most of you throughout my career here. i also happen to be a resident in the last decade, so i've been fortunate and been appreciative of the opportunity of working in the city, loving what i do and being able to make the impact i've been able to do. i've had the pleasure of having amazing bosses, amazing staff members who are here today. and i'm just thankful to be able to do what i love the most, which is working on complex projects, trying to deliver, trying to make sure that the proje projects improve the quality of life in san francisco, and i'm

honored and looking forward to what the next chapter will look like in my new role as executive director of office of community investment and infrastructure because that definitely impacts new development within the city and impacts communities that are most disadvantaged. so i thank you for the honor, all of you, and i look forward to working with you all in the future. so thank you for that. [ applause ] >> congratulations. congratulations. very well deserved. [ applause ] >> the next supervisor to present will be supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: so i would like to bring up my district 6 nominee, lashandra breaston.

please come up. [ applause ] i thought who better to honor in my last year on the board for black history month than the woman who has been at the forefront of organizing black history month on treasure island every year that i've been on this board. and i just want to recognize lashandra who is a pillar in our treasure island community, supporting all of our families and youth on an island that truly is a working-class family's neighborhood. i also want to mention that lashandra is a mother and has six children, four of whom are under age 18. and she's a mother and she takes care of the entire community all at the same time. lashandra is the founder and one of the creators for the treasure island parent council. and along with sherry williams and others put together the treasure island family resource guide in 2016.

you worked with the treasure island youth and family services plan, working to convince departments like dcyf to invest more in our treasure island residents. and as we speak, you are fighting to get a school, a grocery store, and also keep our county transportation agencies accountable on the island to the transportation plans that they're planning for the future of the growth. i know that there are so many needs on the island, but i just want to say that i've heard you loud and clear. and the need in particular for family resources. not many of us get to visit treasure island as often as we should. they have beautiful views, by the way. and this is probably a very good week to go on the island because of the weather. but it is really an amazing community. you go there after school at 3:30 or 4:00 p.m., and kids are just running around the neighborhood. you know, without adult supervision. it's just amazing to see that in san francisco, that that kind of community exists here.

it's both urban and also just really just small community neighborhood. and everyone knows each other. and we have such a nice community there because of leaders like lashandra who makes sure that she knows all of her neighbors and that all of her neighbors know each other and talk to one another. with the departure of some of our community-based organizations on treasure island, it really is important that we invest in our families on this island. and the data shows that along with mission bay and the bayview, this is where our youth population will be growing the most significantly. and before i leave as district 6 supervisor, i just want you to know that we are certainly going to make this a priority in our budgetary process this year. lashandra, you have an amazing story. i don't want to tell it for you, but you have just overcome a ton of diversity before you ended up in treasure island and part of community housing partnership. you have the biggest heart, the

biggest, biggest heart. you care. you organize young people to have -- to sing. in fact, you have a singing troop of young people on the island that have performed all around the city. and you yourself performed at the community housing partnership 25th anniversary, which was the first time i ever got to see you sing. and wow! you just totally blew the socks off of everyone's feet. also, i thought i would just end with two stories about lashandra. one, last week at the community housing partnership, you won a prize at the raffle draw. and instead of keeping it for yourself, you decided to share it with all of the families that came, even the ones that you didn't know. and second, last week, you brought one of our tenderloin groups to see if they could connect additional services to treasure island, knowing that many of our south market and tenderloin organizations can do

more to serve our families on the island as well. so i didn't do you justice, but you have done so much for our parents and families, and you are so talented. and our office depends upon you so much to do the work that you do in building communities, providing advocacy and telling us what we need to be doing to hold us accountable to this neighborhood. and so i just want to thank you so much for your leadership, your heart, and caring about everybody and making sure that this is a great city for all of us. thank you. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you, supervisor kim. it's an honor to be recognized on this day with everybody else who was in the room. i don't work in san francisco. i live in san francisco. i don't think i started out as an activist. i started out as a parent who felt stuck and who felt fed up.

sometimes i come down and i'll be hollering at y'all. y'all are not the only ones i used to holler at. i've learned a lot. you know, jane, you've been my girl since day one working at the school board, school district when you first ran, and i've always appreciated that about you, how you, you know, it's no pretenses, you know, you're listening, and you give what you can give. you know, you do your best, and i appreciate that. i appreciate the entire board. like i said, i was born and raised in san francisco, grew up in the portello district, got married and raised my family in the bayview, moved out of the city for a little while and i came on back to treasure island, and i love my city. and, you know, nobody plans to be homeless. nobody plans to be disadvantaged. nobody plans to be unemployed. but these things happen. and it takes for people like myself and my cohorts here, these are -- this is shawnte

brown and this is sten stenna. these are some of the parents and just knowing that you are your child's best advocate is why we do what we do. so i just want to say thank you for the honor, thank you for the support, thank you for listening because it's too many times when we feel like our voice isn't heard. so we appreciate this. thank you. [ applause ] >> congratulations. thank you. and last but not least, we will hear from supervisor sheehy.

>> supervisor sheehy: so colleagues, it's my great honor to recognize ginetta johnson, someone whose advocacy and determination is awe-inspiring. she's the director of the transgender, gender variant and intersex project here in the city. they offer support to transgender variant and intersex people who are incarcerated or working on reentry. many of whom are disproportionately people of color. you know, i read this story about her that i thought was just super cool. as a referral liaison to the tgi justice project, she wrote a letter to a federal judge because the correction officers were consistently and constantly

misgendering folks. and it was such a powerful effort that the judge send federal marshals in to excel co the corrections officers to use proper gender identification. ginetta and tgi -- the tgi justice project had been instrumental in advocating and organizing for more protections against the violence that transand gender nonconforming communities of color face on a daily basis. one of the interesting things, too, i thought was, like, the way in which you've advocated for mental health services for people as they come out of incarceration because so often incarcerated trans and gender nonconforming people end up in solitary. so often victims of violence and sexual assault, you know, for your own safety, they put you

into solitary -- put folks into solitary. but that has incredible -- is incredibly damaging to people's mental health, being put in solitary is actually a form of torture. it's been recognized by the united nations and the geneva convention. and i just think it's so amazing that both you and tgi -- the tgi justice project have really taken on the justice system. and i think that this is one of the biggest challenges that anybody can take on. it's one of the least forgiving, the least open, the least generous, and the harshest because no one has rights in there except people wearing badges and people who have guns. and i'm just -- like i said, i'm awe-struck. i also think that it's really cool how both you and tgi jp investcreating leadership in

the community. that's what we used to do in act up it's so important to create leadership and really direct political education and empowerment so that the community can be organized to fight back against the oppressi oppression that's being experienced. i also wanted to note the accomplishment of passing state bill 310 which removed barriers faced by trans individuals incarcerated in california prisons by making them able to change their name and gender and have that reflected on documents within the jail. i think the work as part of the broad coalition, trying to fight building a new jail in san francisco, which so far has been successful. it's truly admirable. and i also think with over 28 murders of transgender folks this past year, it's incredibly

important. i know that, you know, one of the tragedies of having this new president is that the liberation that people experienced and the freedom people experienced living with barack obama who, you know, was defending trans folks with his justice department and supporting trans folks in the military, that people in states where, you know, it wasn't usually safe to be oneself suddenly felt safe. and now we're in this reality where it's not safe. and it's getting less safe. and so i just, like i said, your work is amazing. your courage. and it's so important that we all keep going so that we can at least keep san francisco as a haven with all this hate that's growing in the world around us. so again, thank you for your work. it is my absolute honor to present this to you.

and thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. i want to say thank you to the board of supervisors for recognizing my work and the work that tgi pd does for black trans women and our fight for racial equality in the city. i also want to recognize and express appreciation for the board of supervisors that supported our work. jane kim and bobby lopez as well. most recently hearing to our demands and creating transgender cultural district in the neighborhood that has heard black trans women for liberation and self-determination. i'm happy to see this in history and the ongoing work of being recognized by the city and

county. thank you, supervisor jeff shee sheehy. i'm am not doing this work for recognition. however, i am doing this work for sisters and brothers and my ancestors in their struggle for black and trans empowerment. i'm doing this to get my people out of prison and into stable housing and well-paying jobs in supportive communities. we can all agree that supporting our community means investing in our community and people's health and well-being and self-determination. we know that increased investment in policies, especially in places like compton's district can lead to increased criminalization and trauma, even imprisonment for some of our most marginalized community members. if we are committed to supporting and transforming the compton's district, we have to do it in a way that increases

job training, not jail time, especially for formerly incarcerated and trans women coming in or out of prison. and as many of you know, i'm working on a new project, a cafe reentry program that will serve as job training program for formerly incarcerated trans women and community space in the compton's transgender cultural district. and my request -- and i ask that your further investment in creating this cafe management training program that will turn into a sustainable opportunity to better serve trans women living in the bay area and support the vision of black trans leadership and self-determination. thank you, supervisor sheehy, for recognizing the work of black trans women as part of black history month, and i look forward to continuing to increase and create a world rooted in self-determination,

freedom and expression, racial, economic and gender justice and continue to fight for black trans liberation. thank you. >> congratulations! [ applause ] >> and i also wanted to introduce one of my sisters, rajay earl. thank you. [ applause ] >> congratulations to you. well, colleagues, this concludes our celebration. congratulations to all the awardees, and we recognize you and celebrate you and continue to uplift you. madam president, i turn the meeting back over to you. thank you. >> president breed: thank you, supervisor cohen, and thank you,

colleagues. what an amazing way to end our meeting. and as i said before, all business of the board of supervisors is completed. madam clerk, please read the in memori memoriams. >> yes, ma'am. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor tang for the late mr. orion pitts. and on behalf of supervisor peskin for the late mr. edward carmen prudente sr. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, this brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned. thank you, everyone. [ gavel ]

>> this week at public works we came together to celebrate another construction milestone, fire station number five. a walk and bike through the neighborhood. lunar new year is just around the corner. >> hi, i'm director of public works. we are leaving city hall area and heading to chinatown to go

look at all the work that public works and the other city departments are doing in preparation for the upcoming chinese new year. ♪ >> graffiti is a big problem right now. >> yeah, we need to make sure we do something about that. that makes my eyes hurt. the devil is in the details. so all the little things, that's what makes things look good. but right here is not a pleasant sightseeing planters with no plants and graffiti. we can make chinatown look really nice. >> the demands of the community in terms of sanitation, making sure things are clean, working, making sure the safety is being addressed, all the things that people take for granted in neighborhoods like this, there's

a lot more need because there's a lot more people. ♪ >> making that thing look all right. how are you doing brother? that's okay. how is it going? things are looking nice. you're getting them touched up. all right. that's nice. ♪ okay linda. >> much better. >> get your gloves on. i need the brush. where's the brush? >> where's the scrubber. >> yeah.

what are you guys going to do here? >> we're going to fix all the white marks, a patch here and a patch here. >> it looks like you have to do the whole thing. >> it's used -- [indiscernible] >> i grew up in africa in nigeria, the culture of the chinese community of sharing and eating fresh food, it's very important. it's similar to nigeria. and then just the culture of people working together, community, very reflective of a community i grew up in.

♪ ♪ >> beautiful mural. look at this. nice. the dra ♪ >> thank you for coming to the

talent dance performance and talent show. [ applause ] >> today's performance and talent show. ♪ >> public recreation has every bit of the talent and every bit of the heart and soul of anything that any families are paying ten times for. >> you were awesome.

>> all right. good afternoon, everyone. i'm going to call to order this meeting. microphone, sorry about that. hi, everyone, we're going to get started. i'll call to order this meeting of the san francisco municipal transportation agency board of directors and parking authority for tuesday, february 6th. would you please call the roll. >> yes. director bordin. >> present. ramos. >> present. >> rutgy. >> present. >> torez. >> here. >> director brinkman. >> present. >> and sue is absent with notification so you do have a quorum. >> item 3, note the ringing of and use of cellphones, pagers

and similar electronic device right side prohibited at the meeting. please be advised any person responsible for ringing or use of a cellphone, pager might be removed from the meeting. those on vibrate cause microphone interference. please place them on the off position. item 4, approval of the minutes of the january 16th regular meeting. i'm going to go ahead and call the january 16th and january 23rd together. do i have a public comment on those meeting minutes? >> no, seeing none. do i have a motion to approved both? >> second and all in favor aye. >> aye. >> any opposed. hearing none, minutes for the 16th and 23rd of january are approved. >> item 5, communications. i have no items at this time. >> thank you. >> item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> board members. does anybody have anything

they'd like to bring up? no? great, thank you -- >> i had heard about work going on a lot 6:00 street and i wanted to know what was going on with that project? >> could we have an update on sixth street? >> great. thank you. anything else? no. seeing nothing. we'll move on. >> ok, item 7, directors' report. >> >> madam chair, members of the board -- >> i don't think your mic is on. >> there it is. >> i'd like to ask our director of finance and information technology to come forward to recognize one of her employees. >> is she on? hello? >> thank you. >> so i'm honored to present connie chu. this will be an hour when i talk about connie. she's such a superstar.

she began a career in august of 2016 with us. almost 25 years of accounting and finance experience of which 20 years of the city controllers' office. she has an incredible creative person. she's the one who single-handedly helping us with the financial. she helps how to address issues. she brings invaluable guidance and directions to everybody who is in the accounting end. her technical knowledge is unparalleled. so she has an ability to communicate the technical parts of the accounting system, to figure out a creative solution. she handles multiple competing projects at the same time. she's assumed the role of cleaning up all of our accounting for the new financial systems. so you can imagine decades and decades of data that connie has been needing to clean up.

she's a priority resourcer reporting. i want to ask everybody in the audience here to stand up and support connie. how many people depend on connie. [applause] and i hear there's other folks that are also watching this so connie say hi. she has the sunniest disposition. i'm the half glass empty and she's the half-glass full in the division. her character is unparallel. she has significant dignity. you can always rely on her. all of the values that they have respect and integrity. she's the epitomy of everything. thank you for all your great work and we're so lucky to have you.

don't you dare leave! [laughter] until i leave. ok, then you are done. [laughter] thank you. thank you for everything on behalf of everybody in accounting. we're so happy to have you as part of our team. we can't thank you enough. >> thank you, very much. congratulations. [applause] >> we're so lucky to have someone like you. anyone who has worked in a large organization or small office knows how important accounting and finance is to keep things moving. on behalf of the board of director and the agency and city, thank you so much for your work. to her colleagues, thank you all so much for the work do you and the team work and support you share with each other. thank you. would you like to say a few words, please? >> well, i'm really honored today to be standing up here receiving this very nicely framed certificate. thank you to the board and to ed and to sonali for this very nice words.

i'm not sure there might be another connie chu in this room that she's speaking about. [laughter] >> i am very humble to be standing here because i feel like a superstar today. i have all my friends and colleagues here today to share this very special moment with me. within the sfmta and within the city, there's many super stars. i'm just one person. i'm very insignificant by myself. it takes team work and collaboration and sometimes encouragement and support to get through the day and just to accomplish all the goals, big and small. i really feel like a superstar today. so thank you. >> thank you, very much. [applause] >> back to you. it feels like team work is going to be the theme of this year as

we heard at the town hall meeting last week. it's such an important part of what we do. we'll now resume the accounting functions of the agency. they've been on pause. >> thank you all very much for coming. [laughter] >> so, just a few other things to catch you up on or report to you. with regard to vision zero, the sfmta hosted the second of sixth distracting driving high visibility enforcement events last month. the event was hosted in partnership with the san francisco police department, who issued tickets to drivers spotted texting along octavia between market and oak over a four-hour period. the event spurred a lot of significant media a television including an article about the campaign and a couple of people behaving badly statements by stanley roberts. that's really the idea. it's so raise awareness, to let folks know that it's not ok to

be distracted when you are driving, particularly in high-injury corridors like this. our message really isn't that we want people to get cited, it's we want people to drive safely and responsibly and not get distracted. more of those to come. i wanted to let you know that happened and thank you to the media that covered that. some funding updates from the regional state and federal levels. at the regional level last week, our i guess it was two weeks ago, on january 24th, the bay area toll authority which is governed by the metropolitan transportation commissioners, voted to place regional measure 3 on the june ballot. it would be measured that would allow for increase of bridge polls across the bay area for all the bridges governed by the authority, which is pretty much all of them in the bay area except for the golden gate bridge. it would be up to $3 phased in

over a number of years, $1 at a time. it would be a measure that would require a simple majority approval by voters in the nine-county bay area. i don't believe it requires majority in each, but it requires a majority over all. it's a big area to get a majority for. but we'll bring a critically-needed funds for transportation and the region as well as here including up to $130 million of state of good repair funds for the city as well as potential ak toes other funds it has funding to support the extension of cal train and high speed rail to downtown san francisco. it has funding for ferries and other really important regional transportation projects so i wanted to let you know that was approved fo for the ballot in j. since our last regular meeting,

governor brown introduced his budget proposal for the next fiscal year. it includes $4.6 billion of new sb1 revenues which over its life, over 10 years would bring $55 billion in new revenue to the transportation system, half state and half local in the local side as significant amount of transit funds as well. in his state of the state address this month, he reiterated his commitment to protecting sb1 revenues. there's potential repeal measure heading to the ballot in november. he reinforced his support for sb1 for fighting off repeels. you will see those funds in our budget both operating and capital as that comes forward in the next couple of months. and then, at the federal level, the last continuing resolution approved by congress expires this week. we're back in this situation to see what will happen at the federal level. we don't believe that our

formula funds are our last installment of central subway grant funding is at risk, it's timing. but a lot of uncertainty at the federal level so we'll keep you posted on that. couple of train-related items. we have a couple of our new light-rail vehicles in service. we had our third one approved by the f.t.a. late last week. so that one will go and service within the next week or so. so we're a tiny bit behind where we expected to be when we rolled out the first one in december. we will catch up and starting next month should roughly be having one come in each week. and the ramping up to the full 68 bit end of next year and the first 24 still expected to be in service well ahead of our original schedule. starting in the summer, we'll start or even before, we'll start seeing more shuttle trains

in the subway, more two-car trains where they're currently one-car trains and really adding service where the demand is exceeding our current ability to meet the service. very exciting that those trains continue to come online well. we have, i think, we have at least 11 of them on the property already. so when they come in, they go through a testing on our side and they're submitted to the state foray approval to put into service. processing well on that front. and so speaking of trains, i wanted to give you an update on the teravel project which we discussed at the december a fifth m.t.a. board meeting. you may recall among the things that were discussed at that meeting was our recommendation to maintain the proposal to eliminate the 17th avenue inbound stop, the one by the

safe way. i know there was a lot of concern from the public and a lot of concern from this board. a concern from supervisor yee and other small business communities. we heard a lot about that subsequent to that decision and so we kept at seeing if there was a way that we could preserve that stop, although, i know they authorized the removal and sensed the board was hoping it might be a win-win solution in there. we continued to look at the geometry and geography and worked with supervisor yee and his office based on the feedback we got from the community. i want to credit supervisor yee for dedicating his time and effort for this which is very helpful. out of that work we have found a way to preserve that stop without any significant adverse impact to the operation. this is a proposal we'll bring

in a few months. i know it was reported in some media that we've made a decision or changed course. what we've been saying to the public and the media, ultimately is the decision for the m.t.a. board to make. we have a proposal we think you will appreciate. basically what it does is it consolidates a couple of stops that are -- the two stops inbound of the 17th avenue stop and would restore the stop at 17th avenue. again, trying to be mindfulful proximity particularly to safeway or the other small businesses in the area. initial feedback has been very positive on this and are proposing we will not do the trial removal we discussed in february based on now this change of plan or proposal.

i apologize for putting you through this. i wish we would have come to this sooner. i want to credit the work of the staff and the strong voice of the community and particularly supervisor yee for his leadership and encouraging us and working with us to find a solution. we'll be coming back probably, hopefully in march, with a proposal to legislate the new stop changes and the associated parking and traffic changes. so that's an update on the l. as you know, the l, along with the k and the m come through the twin peaks tunnel which this past saturday, celebrated its 100th anniversary. happy birthday to the twin peaks tunnel. last saturday, during the day, we partnered with the west wort merchants association, market street railway, san francisco

public library to celebrate the opening of the tunnel and starting of the k line, the k was the first line to run through the tunnel when it was completed. we had great photos and exhibits inside the library, and they'll continue to be there through the end of the month. if you couldn't get there i encourage you to go to the library. you can go also to the sfmta photo archive on the web. since i just got it, a lot of our other neighborhood groups are excited about it. this is the mer said extension triangle neighborhood association. they have the part 3 of a three-part series on the history of the twin peaks tunnel. so a lot of excitement about this tunnel, which really change the shape of western san francisco. we're proud to be the stewards

of it. they will close the tunnel in order to improve it. but that's what happens when you have 100-year-old infrastructure. and finally, on a different topic. i wanted to let you know that following some discussions that i had had with mayor lee back late last year in november or so, he was raising concerns about what he perceived as abuse of disabled placards in the city that were keeping people with disabilities who had placards from use them because of the abuse taking up so many spaces on our streets. so in that month, we started enforcement efforts with the san francisco police department with the sfpd as well as our own enforcement staff. we've been through those operations which have been throughout the city.

concentrating in areas where we've seen abuse of placards. we've been doing lots of placard checks including personal contacts which have resulted in some confiscations of placards and associated citations. we will continue doing that work to make sure that people who are legitimately using blu blue plas can find parking spaces. did want you to know that. again, just like the vision zero awareness, when they get word out that those placards are meant so they can get access near their destination. we will continue to work with the police department to enforce against those who misuse them. and that concludes my report. >> thank you so much. i just want to highlight the distracted driving events. i think we've all seen the specifics about how deadly using your cellphone is while you are

driving. worse than driving drunk, which a lot of people don't realize. it's important work. it was brought to my attention the success staff has had under the leadership of john knox white with some grant funding coming in and really being able to ramp up our approach and our data collection and our response to distracted driving. that is just fantastic news. it will help keep the streets so much safer. i'm very pleased with the l chair that we're able to find hopefully find a way to keep that stop at the safeway and the safeway supermarket. i think this just highlights what i keep saying is which we ask the impossible of staff sometimes, and sometimes they're able to respond to that impossible request and come back with something. i'm very pleased to hear about that. directors, does anyone else have something to say about the report? >> i have one question about the new train cars. i know we've had them out and there was a lot of brouhaha because before they had train cars go out and they had to have

service and they put them backout. i wanted to know is that a process that we're going to look at just because people jump on that as like it's a problem or a flaw and it would be helpful to understand how the testing process works when you put them on the street real time. >> yeah, and i spoke with bartz' general manager about this yesterday. i guess the basic story is that first of all, these cars go through a lot of testing before they're put into revenue service. maintenance requirements for all transit vehicles, like really all other vehicles, are based on mime age. while they're testing, they're accumulating a lot of mileage that leads to preventative main continuance that needs to be done, sometimes soon after they're put into service. what is also different is when they're put into service, there's all of the writer interaction and that can surface issues that need to be

addressed. what is happening on bart is very much normal. we will be pulling cars into service and it's possible in that process we will identify issues that have not been teased out through the very extensive testing we do as well as the oversight from the california public utilities commission. so cars will come in and out of service just like our existing cars do but we do expect, as we've said to you many times, that general reliability of these cars will be significantly, perhaps an order of magnitude better than the cars we have today i imagine, similar on the bart side as well. so far so good with our cars that have been in service. they've been performing well and we're very happy with how they're rolling out. >> great, thank you. >> thank you, very much. anyone else? >> yes. >> thank you. i could talk probably all day about the problem with the placards and the abuse that we see out there and the challenges that that proposed for people who really need the spaces that

are being taken up by people who don't need them. i'm wondering, is there any thought into how folks are getting the placards. if i was running a doctor office i would give them out like candy to encourage more people coming back to my office and referrals. i'm just wondering what steps, if there are any, to get to the root of the problem, which might be the distributors of these placards, giving them and not monitoring the distribution of them. >> so this could be a very long discussion and one we've spent time on before. quite a number of years ago, i don't remember it was 2012 or 2013 perhaps, director rupki and i participated in a task force with the head of the mayor's office on disability to look at improving parking for with

disabilities. we looked at a lot of data, we looked at what was happening in a lot of other jurisdictions and found well, the issuance of certification to get a placard as a factor, it was really not a significant factor in places where they had tried to significantly curtail who can give these out, for what purposes. really didn't change the situation on the street. the work of that study found, fact that in some places but not most places, the placardsen title you to fro parking is what creates the opportunity for abuse. so, to not go through the whole history fast forward to the present. there is a bill that has been introduced by a southern california legislat legislaturet recall his name, allen i think, that would change the free and

unlimited parking that comes with blue placards and create two different tiers of placard holders. those who cannot able to pay at the meter which would have continue to be able to access a placard that provides for free and unlimited parking. but for everybody else, as a wide range of conditions for which one can get, a placard, they would be subject to time limits and payment requirements. it will be an uphill battle to get support for that kind of legislation in the legislature. based on the work we did in this committee, if anyone is interested if you go on our website and search accessible parking, you can see a large report with a lot of research. i think although that was four or five years ago, i think much of that research would stand today. i think our best path to get a handle on the issue and a

systematic way would be for a change in state legislation and if that bill advances we will certainly are supporting it. it was part of our legislative program that the board adopted. in the meantime, the tool we have is unfortunate so we'll work with the san francisco police department from that angle. >> thank you, very much. >> thank you. no more director comments. do i have any public comment on the director's report. >> yes, paula cats has submitted a speaker card. >> ms. cats. how much time? >> thank you, two minutes, please. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm paula cats with save our stops here once again. i would like to thank supervisor norman yee, director of transportation ed reskin and staff for working out a proposal that will save our stop at 17th avenue across from safeway. so over 600 riders won't end up having to cross busy 19th avenue

every day. we are glad that director has recognized how vital this stop is to the community. and has agreed it should not be removed. we look forward to working with staff on this project in the coming months. i understand that when the rapid project is back on the agenda at your board meeting, the staff will recommend that you keep our 17th avenue safeway stop. we hope that you will vote to do so. we'll be there once again to support keeping this stop. i'm turning in this public event forward to you and thank you very much and please, keep our 17th avenue safeway stop. thank you. >> thank you ms. cats. anymore public comments? >> yes. mr. gilbert. >> tom bil gilberty, the terryve

stop, um, it's the people going out bound at 17th that won't have to cross to go to 19th to continue going out bound, they'll be able to board at 17th. >> that's the current stop. >> amen. ok. crossing 19th does not serve the community, does not serve the citizens, does not serve if you are having to cross that. the placard for visitors, when people come and visit, i have a placard. i don't drive. i have a license and i don't drive because i don't have a car but when people come to visit, i like to give them the placard so they can, just in case we all go out together, i hope that's protected. thank you.

>> thank you mr. bill gerty. anymore, yes, please come forward. >> hello. my name is marigoldman, i live on parker avenue and i'd like to make some comments about the traffic circles that have been put in at parker and euclid and collins and euclid. bottom line, i want to express my concerns. i think they have not made the area more calm. in fact, they've done the opposite. there are many, many comments on next door and i know it's not the kind of data you like, but throw generations all those who live on parker street, for my 25-year-old son to my 80 something-year-old mother law, all feel the intersection is more difficult to navigate. either by walking or by driving. and i've been in contact with patrick and he is summed up the concerns.

i just wanted to read those quickly. there's a lot of confusion about whether drivers should stop or yield while approaching the circles. a neighbor did take a video, a one-minute video from his apartment showing that in deed, hardly anyone is stopping anymore where they used to stop. concerns that the vehicles are encroaching on the sidewalk, and this is happening and i also wanted to put in a plea when construction is done on something like this, this has to be taken into regard because for at least two weeks, there was no way a car could get around those circles without going into the pedestrian crosswalk. not until they called 9-1-1 and they tried to resolve that. a lack of compliance with a pedestrian right away. when you drive into that intersection you have a obstacle that you have to take care of when you negotiate that

intersection and it's really very hard to keep your eyes on all four corners and watching for pedestrians, because as you drive up you have to go to the right and your vision goes off that way and everyone i talk to says the same thing. i know that people say it's working well, but for most people in the neighborhood, they're very upset about it and so i am glad that patrick has been involved and communicating with people about this and i look forward to surveys. >> thank you, very much ms. goldman. >> do i have any public comment. seeing none. public comment is closed on this item. next item on the agenda is item 8, citizens advisory council report and i do not see the chairman in the audience so there is no report. item 9, public comment, this is a opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters that are within the board's jurisdiction and not on tos