people noise versus amplified music, so we've taken a look at both to address the feasibility of outdoor events, and it seems like with some moderate controls, those would be -- >> so have you done these tests yet? >> tests? >> yeah, on people noise. >> yeah, we ran calculations. we've been relatively conservative assumptions regarding how loud the speakers would be. >> calculation meaning you have devices that'll measure? you actually set a meter out there and record it, and you have decibel levels. i see your decibel levels. are theed live readings? >> no, those are estimates levels. the building is in its current use. testing -- >> sure. >> testing from the future rooftop, that's something that could be done but it's not -- >> so i have a question.

is this the kind of first time to do a sound test in our kind of jurisdiction where you're near a club where there could be 300 people outside smoking, and there's people noise. or there's -- and which we have no jurisdiction of street performers pounding on their trash cans. those are environmental issues, but what we're concerned about is live readings. so this is an office space which, you know, right now, is probably bare minimum. and i'm pretty sure with the hotel, you're going to have carpeting and a lot of things that go with it. but i think what we've been seeing from other sound consultants is actually live data. and i'm all about live data. >> sure. >> i think it -- in fairness to local edition, a reading should be taken when they're operating at your first level of resident or your hotel floor, and just

get a fair reading if you actually hear anything. they are running live music, but i think you have a deejay, too. so they might be running bass. i remember back in the day, there was a club called mecca. >> mm-hmm. i know that one. >> and they lost their entertainment license because they just couldn't get rid of that bass. is the fourth floor -- no matter how much sound proofing he did, he couldn't get rid of it, and finally, they just pressured the owner to stop it. we're kind of concerned about that kind of thing. there is a bar -- i think there's a bar on the first floor around the corner. i don't know if they're still going to be there when you do your renovations. >> right. so let me clarify. i believe i know what you're asking, but just to clarify,

that the the measurements that we have done are on the exterior. we also have done some measurements on the interior. those were operated during the weekend when local he litigatihe -- edition was operating, and those are data loggers running continuous voice monitoring, and we also have sound identification. >> and so your data is live. that's -- >> so that data's live. what i thought you were speaking about was the rooftop -- >> the only thing about the rooftop is there are four seasons, and a lot of those hotels have high-rise condos up there. >> right. >> and if you're starting to play music on that level, and i don't know what their windows are like, and they probably weren't thinking of it, they might hear you if you're going to have amplified sound. >> right. and we have certainly taken a look at that with respect to the noise ordinance and the place of entertainment noise requirements. you know, assuming no shielding

because they can look right down on the roof. so from a calculations perspective, we are helping the project sponsor identify what -- you know, what elements if any they would need to impose on the businesses who would use those spaces. >> okay. and you have all this ready for planning, right? >> yes. >> okay. and of course, you're going to do the outside lighting. i'm all about the outside lighting, and i know it's downtown, but the security on the street, i just want to make sure that's addressed. okay. so that's -- i have no further. [ inaudible ] >> okay. any -- i'm done. >> any other sound questions? all right. yes. commissioner lee would like to know about your lighting. >> we knew there would be

cliffs, so yes. i took some book handle readings kind of on the baseline. our office is on montgomery street, a block away from the m pyramid, just outside the office, outside the entry of my office, and i'm seeing three to 4 foot candles, but it's pretty dim. typically out in the street, i've seen about 15 foot candle the at intersections where it's better lit. across the intersection through the montgomery street b.a.r.t. plaza, kind of an open area, reasonably well-lit, and that was, like, ten to 6 foot candles, and a little bit of what i expected on market street out in front of the light -- local edition -- got it right. 20 to 15 foot candles.

little bit darker around the entrance of the building, an area we'd like to improve a little bit just to beautify the building. and then on around on third street, immediately where you turn the corner where our supplemental entrance, we'll maintain the main entrance on the corner, but a supplement cal entrance on stephenson street, it's 11 foot candles on the sidewalk. if i cross the stephenson, there's a parking garage there, it's a who it's a whopping 30 foot candles. >> what do you think you need to do. >> improve the lighting at our entrance. just as another kind of note of data, i looked at the plaza

hotel, and adjacent at the entrance, it was about 5 foot candles, and it bumped uch to whole 8 foot candles. so very dim, but till very functional. it's not how brieth it is, but the quality of the light that i think adds character and gives you a sense of security. and then obviously being kind of an upper end hotel, there would be a doorman 24/7 to kind of keep that alley, you know, trouble free. >> so you're thinking that local edition's 30 foot candles is way too bright. >> they're about -- they were, i think 20, yeah, 22 at their front entrance. i think the parking garage, i think historically, the -- the building owners have just put a lot of light out there to, you know, deter, and it's doing a good job? i was out there till about

10:00, and kind of no one around. it didn't seem too creepy. you walk around the corner to annie alley, there were a couple people loitering late at night, but stephenson seems pretty safe, aside from some construction areas that create some shadow spots, but i think it'll go away shortly. >> i think what we're here for is the future. if your clients come, and tourists, we're here to protect the tourists. if it's well-lit, people feel more safe. right now, it's just an office building where local edition is. they've got security. probably people leave them alone, but around the corner going to the garage could be a place of muggings or opportunity, and we just want to make sure that there's enough lighting. maybe 30 foot candle's too much because that's the garage, but maybe the same as local edition's 20 is good, but you

haven't really asaid what you decided on, foot candles. >> i was a little shocked in what i found in that i would have expected stephenson alley to be darker than what it actually is, but being there actually and seeing, i think it was they had one, two, three, four, five, six giant flood lights on the side of the building lighting up the street and the adjacent sidewalk. as a new owner and being where the entrance would be, it's really bright. i think it's actually too bright for kind of the character that -- it's brighter than the rest of the neighborhood. it's as bright as the b.a.r.t. plaza. it's less bright than market street or third street. >> but the light at local edition is good with you? i mean you think it's too bright? >> no. i think it's kind of -- >> if you kind of matched that, it would be -- >> it's not just the brightness but the glare from the flood lights, so we want to tone it

down to about 20 foot candles in the adjacent area. probably a little more incident rat -- intimate where the doorman would be. >> you get where we're trying to get to? tourism is our main thing here in the city, and we want to make sure especially in that location with all those hotels, that we don't have problems. and lighting helps. >> yeah, yeah, absolutely. >> we know we don't want you to light it up like a ballpark, but at the same time -- in front of a night club, we want lighting, and parking lots, now, we have lighting. so as a hotel. i know there's a certain style, but i think if you can work in blending with the club next door, not only just the sound in between, but the lighting and the safeties. >> yeah, i think that's our objective, to really create a -- just a better atmosphere. right now it seems like, you

know, a parking lot of a home depot with these flood lights, control those lights and limit the glare but keep the light level there and then enhance the lighting around the entrance. as we open up that finishestration in the new -- finsetration in the new entrance, and as we built it up, it'll have more life and new activity. >> okay. >> hi. i'd like to have an update on some of the outreach you've been doing with the p.o.e. i see an e-mail here summarizing your conversations as of april 26th. i'd like to know where you guys are at today and what are some of the concerns and what kind of support are you hearing from the p.o.e.'s in your conversations. >> my name's kate lynn. i was handling the outreach to the different p.o.e.'s. you guys should have the

e-mails and the letters that were sent updating them. in regards to dada bar, we received positive feedback. they said welcome to the neighborhood, good luck with development. no questions from their end. in regards to ho kr kesan, their contact hasn't been there very long, so i reached out to their g.m. who put negate in touch with their corporate office in las vegas. i reached out to them a couple of times, but i'm sure they have bigger things to deal with. in regards to hawthorne -- let me back up. i've e-mailed, sent letters, via e-mail and also called all of these people. in hawthorne, i actually choke with chadwick who is an -- spoke with chadwick who is an owner or partner in that p.o.e. i said i'm happy to setup any

meeting to answer any questions that you have. he seemed positive to that. i reached out a couple times, but i haven't heard back on a good date and time for him, so i'll continue to do so. i'll continue to reach out to hockesan to see if they have any questions. and then in local edition, we've been in constant contact with brian in regards to the project because obviously local edition's in the building and we will continue to do so there. >> but are there any concerns that are coming up in these conversations or is it just all a love fest? >> no concerns that i've seen yet that any of those p.o.e.'s have expressed to me, more just interesting in wanting -- if they have questions, and i said we're more than happy to answer those. >> okay. thank you. >> mm-hmm. >> commissioner bleiman? >> thanks. so i just have some general comments. so the reason you're all here is because of the legislation to protect the night club which is a cultural and economic

driver in the city from all of the development that's happening. it's also really important in the city. and so that's why we have to review this, obviously. so this is a little more unusual for us for a couple of reasons. one, it's a hotel because it's covablely a go cove -- conceivably a good thing. it's a little unusual because there's actually a place of entertainment in the building which is a little rare for us. it also fills me with a bunch of repatrepidation because i o bar that's in a hotel and we're

having to fix a situation right now. i'm positive that everybody has a good relationship with the future bars, guys. they're literally the best or among the best operators in san francisco, and we all know that in the bar industry. but my concern is that there will be some sound that's leaking up through some strange duct or through the building somehow and affecting somebody and it'll somehow come to a head, and i'm sure they won't complain about this, but this is something it's our job to kind of address. you will ai would say if that did come to a head someday, you know, the beiacknowledgements t are signed in this process make it very difficult to do anything about that noise. and the legislation was conscientious to have teeth in it to prevent people from saying it's too loud. it it's debatable if there's any

action that can be taken. my suggestion, short of what we can recommend, is that things can be done to code or maybe they can be done above and beyond, and it might make a little sense to do that now rather than later because later, it could be too late, and that could cause a huge issue that we're having to discuss with you guys, so those are my only comment. >> can i quickly address those? >> sure. >> i think i want to talk about one thing that my colleague, indicate lynn indicated. one, my colleagues one some of the best taverns, present company maybe excluded, in the city. we are working really closely with people not only really on sound issues but just the disruption that a project of this scale might create for him and his businesses. i think the other thing that's really important, i think to address, you know, commissioner lee's comments.

we actually are attracted to the site because of the activity level on this corner. it is two blocks away from moscone, which as mr. sheehy has mentioned, it's going to be a very exciting play for the next couple of years. we expect this -- our first floor, which is above local edition currently will be very active and vibrant, as well, so it won't be -- this is not planned or to be positioned as a -- you know, a hotel where people will necessarily seek out for a great night's sleep. i think they're going to self-select this location because of the activity and the energy that all of these great institutions at this very busy and historic section of san francisco offer. to the last point, i think as we work with mr. sheehy, i think we should think about sound issues and the discussions that we're having. thanks for bringing that up. >> just to bring it up, some of the p.o.e.'s in the neighborhood had serious issues

getting their p.o.e.'s because some of the high end hotel around there, and there's nothing we can do as a commission to compel you or not to act like that, but we just hope that this will be a positive member of the community that encourages night life and entertainment because it is a cultural driver for our city and economics. >> no, again. we're very actively engaged in the community. i met with the homeowners of the four seasons last week, which you can imagine they certainly expressed their desire to make sure their neighborhood stays the same the way they hope it will stay, so very -- you know, very engaging conversation, and we're going to continue that outreach. thank you. >> any other questions or comments? i think this is somewhat unusual in that you're acknowledging that you're potentially going to be a creator of noise from entertainment as well as a receiver of noise. that's somewhat unusual, so i -- we hope that everybody

will be able to live together in peace and harmony and active places of entertainment moving forward. >> of course they will. >> i just want to make a follow up, just a final recommendation. so now that we all have opened up here, it would be great if local he litigation, maybe not their live music, but really with the sound meter and everything and really crank that bass, and really see what the full impact would be. i mean, what happens if he wanted to sell his bar and maybe didn't -- the next owner just wants to do flat out house music? you mean, i know we can't keep people from keeping their business forever. these are things that will be helpful in the future. and since you are saying that this hotel probably similar to like, the w, you know, or even the standard hotel in los

angeles where a lot of the young people go, the lighting outside has to be safe, and if you're expecting that kind of activity, don't skip on the lighting and the security. so that's all on my recommendation. >> thank you, commissioner. is there any public comment on this topic? all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> discussion, commissioners? motion? >> well, i think -- i mean, for the most part, that's going to be a great location for a hotel. i mean, it's going to help, like commissioner bleiman says, it'll help a lot of the local p.o.e.'s that are there. local edition's busy, but hawthorne is also struggling. hockesan is well.

they're more of a restaurant, so i think the whole thing will complement each other. we're just really concerned about the internal sound leaking up, 'cause that's always going to be the hardest thing to do, and if you do get a -- hopefully, a p.o.e. for your entertainment down stairs then we don't have to limit it to, like, 10:00, or you have a noise from the local edition space. so you know that's all i can say. but i mean i'm -- can we put this in some kind of -- i recommend the project, but do we put extra sound -- sound testing, i mean, what do you guys want to do? i'm open. i think they've done a lot, but i'd like to do maybe a little bit more on the internal sound testing. >> are you making a motion?

>> no, i'm having a discussion. i'm discussing, what do you guys think as -- >> i -- the way i. >> go ahead. >> the way i look at this, this isn't somebody who's trying to build condos and then walk away from it. this is a hotel where there -- it's going to be pretty important to them to make sure that their guests enjoy the time there. so i -- i don't see the project manager skimping on anything here. i think that they're going to do their due diligence to get this hotel prepared for -- to be in that area with the places of entertainment there. >> and i feel like it's a little bit different when it's the -- when the venues are within the hotel building as opposed to outside, so there's a lot more that the hotel can

do within the building if there are problems during the road, including from their own -- their own entertainment noise levels. all right. would anyone like to make a motion to move this forward? skbl i' >> i'll do it. i'd like to make a motion to approve this mpermit. >> i second. >> all right. [ roll call. ] >> and this isn't actually a permit, this is just us moving forward the recommendation. >> yep. >> okay. >> all right. congratulations. we look forward to seeing what it looks like, the roof deck and everything else, so... [ inaudible ] >> and hopefully, we never have to have you back here again with anyone's complaints or anything about the noise.

so thank you. all right. moving forward to agenda item number eight. is this you, acting director weiland? >> this is from me. >> okay. >> so i have an update from everyone on the hiring of the executive director, the endless, endless habit. so for reasons that i've not been informed exactly, but are set in stone, we are reopening the -- we have reopened the search for the executive director. i have discussed this with jennifer johnson, and i'm continuing to act as the liaison. one thing that jennifer and i did want to bring up is that if anybody else has any interest in joining me, we'd love to have you. i -- i don't -- i don't have an opinion either way. i'd love to have you, so that's

it, and i'm happy to do it myself. we put the -- we put the -- we posted the ad, i think two weeks ago or three weeks ago, and we've gotten over 40 responses, including many of the people who applied the first time around and some new faces. we're going to go through a less lengthy process this time around. it'll be very much up in the area on whether or not the new director will be appointed by this current mayor or the next mayor, so this is where it gets a little bit gray. we really don't know at this point. so after this process going forward, whomever we recommend to the current mayor, that may be the slate that goes -- ex-mayor, if this mayor decides not to appoint. if that slate goes to the next mayor, that mayor may want a new slate. so a lot of murky area right now due to the elections and

things, but it's moving forward, and i think we'll start interviewing candidates next week or the week after. >> i have a question. >> yes. >> when does the application end? >> i think it ended last week. i think it either ended on friday or this current friday, but i can check for that. >> i'd like to participate in the interviewing process. >> okay. great. >> so you're starting all over again. >> also, we're not going to start all over again. basically, the way we're looking at it is we have some really good candidates for before, so the process that we're looking at before, are any of the new candidates better or equal on paper as opposed to before, where we started literally from scratch, and we learned a lot from all of the resumes that we read and the endless, endless interviews we did over a ten hour day in the city hall about whom ae we'd interviewed and what we could have done in the future, etcetera. so it's going to be kind of a little bit more of an efficient

process this time, knowing like, you know, we already have a pretty good thing going, so we can just kind of see if there's anything that we think would really add to that, any person that we think could add to that that we could bring in for an interview. >> go ahead. >> did we change the qualifications? >> no. >> everything's the same? >> there were a couple little generalizations we tweaked, but everything is the same. what happened is the mayor had chosen someone, and for whatever reason, that person wag unable to start working within a certain deadline, so then, the mayor was no longer with us, and then we went through another mayor, and another mayor, and at this point, they decided in their wisdom to just reopen it and redo it. but the new job description is almost identical to the previous with a couple little tweaks that we learned from the

candidates that we got last time. so we got some candidates last time that were under qualified but we were unaware of that until the interview process. so this, we were trying to weed out that wasteful energy, etcetera. >> perfect. thank you. >> so you're going to -- so the process is to screen out our top candidates again and wait till june 5th, when the mayor's -- >> no, no, we're moving straight ahead. it's not that we're waiting for anything, it's just whether or not they are -- the regular machinations of the city hall move fast enough for this mayor or the next mayor. >> so right now it's going to be 40 applicants processed umm canni

-- coming back to us. >> no. so what happened last time the city hr starts the process and then we work together before we start interviewing to make sure that each one of those individuals makes sense to interview. so this time around we don't have such a huge mass of people, and we know a lot more about the process, having gone through it. we actually did two -- we actually had two -- two full application periods last time, as well, where we had to tweak the offering a little bit. so we're a lot smarter now, should be a lot more efficient. we don't know -- we are going to go ahead first into this and get these people as quickly as possible and not take into account the june 10th election or whatever it is, so all right. >> so we could potentially -- you could be coming back to the commission on maybe the june 5th? >> i think that's -- this's not outside the realm of possibility. a lot of this is outside of my hands, so i just kind of wait for them to tell me what's going on, but yeah, that seems

reasonable, actually, given that it's a month away, yeah. >> all right. other comments? well, thank you for heading this up, and thank you, commissioner camino for volunteering to be a part of the process. >> i can say this, too. that part of the reason that this is not making everybody freak out is because acting director weiland has been doing such a good job. >> i know. >> so there's no figure atiati gun to our head, so we're going to take the most time possible and not rush it. >> i know. >> well, thank you, for keeping this process moving forward. we look forward to having a decision made. and that's it for item -- was there any public comment on item number eight? seeing none, public comment is closed. final item, commissioner comments and questions. yes, commissioner perez? >> yeah. i just checked my calendar and looking at the minutes from

april 3rd, i was actually in this meeting, and i was not on the list. you can tell i was here because i made a comment on the minutes. but i was physically here because i spoke, so if you can add that and add me to the roster, thank you. >> correction noted. anyone else? other comments? all right. then let's move forward with an adjournment, and keeping in mind our senior analyst rice's comments, perhaps we should adjourn in memory of larry harvey, any objections? >> nope. >> okay. very good. we're adjourned. thank you. .

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but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i

were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd get [ roll call. ] >> clerk: mr. chair, you have a quorum. >> thank you. item three. >> you want to make the announcement? >> yes. that's right. thank you for reminding me. some people may be disappointed to see me in this chair instead of miss brinkman. she will be back shortly. however, you still have to go through the board of supervisors approval process and so they will miss this meeting while that goes forward, so they will take over for today, but rest assured,

chair will be back here next time. okay. number three. [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. >> okay. we have the minutes before us from the last meeting. is there any speakers on the approval of the minutes? >> clerk: i have received no motion. >> seeing none, i will entertain a motion. >> motion. >> second? >> second. >> okay. item five [agenda item read].

>> okay. and i know there were some people today who wanted to speak on that. did you have a chance that you wanted -- >> clerk: i did, and two of them indicated they were fine addressing it when the matter is actually before you for k. the third person, jennifer morrow, is she here? miss morrow? not in the room. all right. >> well, to those people, we apologize for the clerical error that led to this being put over. and if there is someone who is here but perhaps not in the room who wants to speak now, when we get to the consent calendar, please so notify us and we'll let you get your comments on in that item. okay. miss boomer, next item. >> clerk: item six. [agenda item read]. >> board members, we have plenty to chew on today. is there anything anyone would

like to put into the mix? seeing none, we'll move to item seven. >> item seven, director's report. >> mr. reiskin. >> want totor off by recognizing a number of our employees the. first i'd like to ask our finance and budget employ director to come forward. >> good afternoon, director. at the scene ae with great pleasure i give this award to lee zhang. she started her career in 1996, she's got more than 22 years of experience. she is single handedly the person that handles the budget for us. so you give us kudos, but this is really the person that handled the budget behind the scenes for us. she's incredible at supporting the department's questions. if any of you have any questions on-line items, lee's the one to go to.

she has developed the share point system and created on-line production of budget which used to be done manually, so thask terrific this last couple of years. her quality is work is incredible, and she has incredible work ethic. if i give lee something, i never have to check back. it's always done, so she's just incredible, incredible detail person. that's what we need for the budget, and she single handedly brings the budget to balance every two years. so lee, she's the star behind the scenes. lee, thank you so much. folks here to support lee, and come on, come on, standup, guys, and so lee, thank you. [applause]. >> so everybody knows who's got the power, so that's why

they're all here, so she really -- she really does an incredible job. so lee, thank you for all the work you've done, and it's a pleasure to be giving this award to you. >> i just -- in case i missed anything, so i just want to read what i put on the paper. so thank you sinali for your kind words and for nominating me to this award, and then thanks to the board of directors for honoring me in this meeting. i just want to stress that for each budget cycle, we would not be able to fill through the process and get the budget done right and on time without hard work and the many hours put in by division staff and the managers or without the support from my colleagues sitting in this room. and especially my co-worker, maribel. [applause]. >> yeah. yeah. and we're really a great team,

and she is equally dedicated and works hard to put our budget books together and you lish it each time. it's a process of great team work. and finally, we cannot get this done without the leadership and the support from sinali, who i will really miss her really big when she's gone. and who seems to always have a few secret weapons up her sleeve and magically get our budget balanced the last minute, so thank you all. >> thank you very much. >> [applause]. >> thank you very much and as you enjoy your picture there, i'll just say on behalf of the board of directors and the city as a whole, thank you for all you do -- so much for all you do. i always thought sinali did it alone, and i'm seriously impressed -- no seriously, we give her the compliments, but we see it at the board level,

it's just much appreciated. >> thanks. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> director, back to you. >> next, i'd like chief director travis fox to come up and recognize one of his employees. >> i'm actually going to take sometime to introduce and saying kudos and as part of the team, travis is going to speak more detailed about ann, but i wanted to take the time -- ann, thank you so much for all your great efforts around the strategic plan. without ann, the strategic plan that the boofd approv-- board approves would not be possible. so she single handedly strategically brought the plan to where it was with her hard work. so with that, i'll introduce travis. >> i'm travis bach, chief financial officer for sf mta. in her nine years or nearly

nine years with the agency, ann's spent her time on a number of initiatives including planning projects like our prior strategic plan, participating in connectsf and also playing a critical role in the board shops that happen every year. but really while those accomplishments are so plentiful, today i want to focus on her leadership role and driving force in our agency strategic plan. as you know, development of the plan was no small task. it requires extensive planning work with management and staff across the agency, coordination with external stakeholders and serious follow through. i can't imagine anyone better for a planning project this like ann given the planning required. equally important to the process, ann ease unique in that she excelled in explaining things at the high level, while

having the solid pragmatic and management skills to get things done. she gets things done, and she's a great part of our team, and it's my pleasure to award this to her. >> thank you very much, mr. bach. the floor is yours. >> thank you, members of the board. thank you for this honor. what was supposed to be a six month project when i was a new planner has turned into an oversix year effort to develop and implement the strategic plan, and then, the last 18 months in particular have been an incredible challenge in particular to implement new plans and establish a new plan for the agency. along with the challenges it's also been extremely rewarding in getting to know my colleagues and the agency better than ever before. i was to thank the strategic and initiative team for their

incredible ability to retain a sense of human in the face of great dischord sometimes with the agency and throughout this entire process. also our partners on the performance and business support team, tim, michael, fernando, jane, and matty were instrumental in working with our partners across the agency to identify metrics and for each of the objectives that we have. additionally i'd like to thank the rest of the performance team in the project controls and design strategy team for their support and encouragement. beyond that, i'd like to thank ed reiskin for the leadership and their commitment to the success of this agency, and something that has often result index the spirited discussions that we had in developing the new plan, and the senior management team was particularly valuable in the development of the new values for this agency. we also benefited greatly from the partners in the sustainable streets planning division, the office of innovation, service

planning, and the transit managers organizational development as a fit budget team and the outstanding workplace committee. also especially the communications team, kelley, kristin, janice, david, laurie, and the entire graphics team were instrumental in completing and developing the document and launching it and arranging for something else that might be happening today, as well, getting the word out about our new strategic plan is critical in actually implementing it and looking forward to doing it as we go forward. finally, i'd like to comment the sf mta and i hope they find their comments in the plan and they find it useful going forward. i look forward on coming to you in the next several years with reports on our success and hope to see you again soon. >> thank you very much on behalf of the whole board and the city thank you for your service, and please know we appreciate your spirited d dischord, which means we have

less up here, so l congratulations and thank you on your award. >> and i'd like to ask our director of transit, john haley, to come forward, to direct one of his employees. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good afternoon. we want to try to outnumber everyone. thomas edison is not only known for having a rest area on the new jersey turn pike named after him but also for the invention of the light bulb which many people believe led to a cut down of one to three hours a night for many of us.

well, in transit, we have many opportunities to be up in the middle of the night and receive phone calls on various things. today, i want to ask you to honor someone who not only responded to a call in the middle of the night to take care of an urgent problem, which allowed us to provide service to a significant portion of our riders, think the 38 route for one, but also day in and day out in a leadership role, her work has been recognized by our riders consistently, and the surveys in the last cup will of years as our marks for clean vehicles has improved. so on the night of march 30th, i received a phone call sometime around 2:30 in the morning, saying that our flynn division, which has a fleet of about 125 buses, that over 50 of these buses had been tagged

and tagged significantly, which mean that we would probably not be able to make our pullouts. fortunately, we were -- we had coming into work at that time in the individual that discovered the acts of these vandals, myra phillips, to my left and honoree this afternoon. myra immediately called another guy named phillips, andrew phillips, who was working atwoods, and myra led the effort the plan and over a period of less than two hours cleaned 53 vehicles so that we missed not a minute of pullout. the vehicles were sparkling. they are the newest vehicles in our fleet, so it is a tribute to her initiative, to her

organization and skills, to the pride that she takes in her job, to the responsibility that she feels to the riders. so it is my pleasure to introduce you to myra phillips. i also want to acknowledge adrian scott who is the bus superintendent. lewis guzzo, mr. phillips, her husband, who's done an outstanding job in ed woods' division in another capacity. so it's my pleasure to introduce myra and ask you to honor her for her work not only on the night of march 30th, but day in and day out for great performance. [applause]. >> thank you. i want to say thank you to the board for allowing me this opportunity. thank you, john, for actually taking the initiative for the recognition. i really appreciate it. also, thank you to my

superintendent, mr. scott, for his leadership and how i like to emulate what he does and how it trickles down to even, you know, my car cleaners. thank you to mr. guzzo who's actually over adrian. we have a long history. we used to work together, and i appreciate him. i appreciate my husband. thank you. he trained me from day one, so i appreciate him. in it all, it could not have been done single handedly by myself. i had a crew of six car cleaners that night, and we knew what we had to do. the cooperation that they exhibited on that night was remarkable. regardless of what i said, you know, no, we haven to do it, n,

we have to do it, it has to get done. they are the ones that did all the work. i'm humbled by the recognition, but they are 're the muscles. they are the tools. although i orchestrated it, they're the ones who should be recognized on this day. so i'm humbled, and i thank you all for hearing me and just to piggyback on anything, i want to say that great leaders create more great leaders, so i thank everyone in the mta staff that has recognized me on this day. thank you. >> congratulations, miss phillips. thank you so much. [applause]. >> director reiskin. >> yes. continuing on, before i give the rest of my report, i'd like to ask our marketing manager, kristin smith to come

forward -- and as well as our communications and marketing director, to come forward and unveil something to you on their shirt. >> i'm kandise, and i'm the director of marketing and communications for sf mta, and we are very pleased to be before the board today to tell you about something really new, and today we're unveiling a new look for the sf mta. we're changing our corporate logo known as the grand union to better reflect on who you are as an agency and to support our newly adopted strategic plan that you all just heard talked about by ann fritzler, and as you may have heard as a board membe board meeting. the logo came to us by a contest, and that person who designed the logo didn't know

who we are as an agency, the legacy, the tremendous legacy that the original participants that now makeup the mta, the original departments really represent. the logo doesn't necessarily represent who we are and all we do as an agency, and we thought we could do better, and that's what we're here to talk to you about today. we wanted to create something that represents more than 6,000 employees, who makeup the mta and give them a fitting symbol for them to show what they do as an agency, to reflect our history and heritage as muni, as a department of parking and traffic and as a taxi commission, and to really just show all that we represent in serving the public each and every day. so we're really excited to talk to you about this. we started super early yesterday in the morning, at 2:00 a.m., to make sure our employees, especially our face forward employees know about

this grand chase first and can be on board with it, and we're really pleased to be talking with you about it today publicly. i want to first introduce you to a person who has just done an amazing job with her team to bring this forward, which is kristin smith, our marketing manager. she has led all the way, and thinking about this going back for sometime, including the lunch of our recently refreshed public website. she's really taken charge of this project, so i'll turn it over to kristin to talk about it morning. >> hi. good afternoon, members of the board. i'm kristin smith, marketing manager, and as has been cued up for me, i'm going to talk about the logo. >> the 2017 muni customer ridership survey shows that only about half of city residents are familiar with the sf mta and its responsibilities, so our new brand that we'll be unvailing momentarily is meant to understand how we manage the city's transportation and our

strategic plan commitments. i'm going to ask one of our team members to unveil the logo here while i talk you through a little bit more of the details. this new logo it better serves to align with our mission and values as well as to unite the 6,000 public servants who makeup the agencies. it replaces the sf mta logo known as the grand union. after public testing and design with focus groups as well as lots of conversations internally, we selected this design to you know identify the agency. making a visual connection with the iconic muni worm. when we tested this with people, they recognized there was a clear connection between sf mta and muni. they iced words like comforting and warm to describe the new look. i want to let you know that the

beloved logo will still remain on all of our uniforms and it continues to reflect our muni services. this new symbol reflects our transit roots, and the m. logo stands for municipal in our name. we think this will fit in really well. the blue color is representative of our heritage of the former department of parking and traffic, and our connection to the city and county of san francisco. through this new look we're showing that we all belong to a single transportation agency, and that we're one agency connected. whether you take muni, walk bike or drive, we want you to understand it's muni that gets you there. as kandise mentioned, we were ought bright and early at all of our facilities, making sure all of our employees embraced this logo. and just for a minute now, i'd like to show you a quick video

that we produced that i think highlights many of this and shows you again, face forward, our employees at the heart and the center of all of our work. [ video playing ]

>> and i'd like to take a moment also to just thank everybody who worked on this. the incredible members of the market marketing team and all of our communications colleagues, and anybody who worked on it who would like to standup. many are back at the office, working on everything that will be rolling out this afternoon. starting at about 3:00 this afternoon, you'll start to see it on our website and many of our documents