things that that m.o.u. won't be able to cover and do. that's why we need the board of supervisors to take a step and take leadership on this issue so we can make sure as youth who feel protected. as someone who grew up in san francisco, who had police harassment on me, had guns pulled on me, how do we make sure young people know their rights and are safe and aren't setup for experiences where -- incidents where they'll experience harm, injury, or incarceration? we're not setup for that, and the police need to. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm here today as a concerned citizen, and to have this topic come before you in 2018, when i as a parent in the san francisco unified school district was dealing with this

very issue in 2002 and thought that it had been resolved by my activity and others and everyone on board. but to see about this and hear about it from my living room and from neighbors that the very same issues with presented here to students being questioned without family present, without an ally there, i'm beyond troubled. i got over here from a research project. i said i have to get there because it's baffling. i didn't tell my child who was at marshall in 2002, that this was still happening because

we'd done so much to make certain that it didn't happen again, and yet here we are. so yes, we need the next level of assistance because clearly, the m.o.u. is not enough. we need another body involved. please get involved, and don't let time let this fade from your memory. it is imperative that you stay connect today this so it does come through to help families and students and the residents of the san francisco community. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, community members, i am tommy craig. i'm from coleman advocates, and i would like to speak specifically in support because i am a parent, i am a part of the community, and i know how my community was affected. i had to have meetings with parent members as well as the youth because so many of our

demographic was affected. parents, youth, everybody was traumatized. there were helicopters, there were people that felt that they didn't know what was happening. the entire community got locked down. it wasn't just balboa. i mean, the whole thing was a mess. and the one thing that wasn't protected was the rights of our students. i feel for the parent that that happened to, that that child was perp walked. like, that's something that should never have happened. as a minor, they don't put your face on t.v. so i want to end that suffering for any of the family members and community, and just to let you know they're children, they're human, right? they got treated like animals. they got locked in a cage, and we need to know how to figure out how we can support them better, how do if we want relationships with the police, how do we get them to interact, and can we investigate further

so people don't feel like they stories are being heard or they're being believed. that's one of the reasons why we have issues with the police because we feel like our stories aren't believed, or see, we have a video. that's the only way we feel like we can be believed. it's horrible, but it's true. no family should have to go through this where you're innocent until you're proven guilty. i ask that we definitely revisit the m.o.u. and strengthen it so that it protects the most vulnerable. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. my name is alatiita fischer,

adoptive mother of four children within sfusd, in my 13th year as a parent and within sfusd. my two youngest have learning differences and other disabilities, and i'm really emotional right now because every time something like this happens, i think holy crap, my kid is next. i'm here because of my seventh grader, damian. he's the sweetest kid you'll ever meet. he's 13. he doesn't look like a kid, he looks like an adult. he's got adhd, sensory processing disorder. when he gets overwhelmed, when he get overstimulated, he shuts down. in a situation like this, i don't even want to think about what would have happened to him. so while we need to not only revisit this m.o.u., we need to consider all of our student populations. we have a huge amount of

disproportionality of sfusd of our african american students and latinx and pacific identifies lander being put into certain situations and not given the support they need. and we need to make sure that we've got all the appropriate safeguards in place, particularly in our m.o.u. to support students who need the additional layer of support, including training for all officers who work with students including cultural sensitivity. i want to just thank you very much for holding this hearing and for starting these challenging conversations and moving us forward, so thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. supervisor peskin, you had told us you would have to leave at 4:30. thank you for staying an additional half an hour. >> supervisor peskin: thank you for calling this hearing. i am absolutely available to work with supervisor ronen's

office and the p.d. and sfusd and really appreciate it. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. are there any further speakers who'd like to address us during public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor mandelman: vice chair ronen. oh, excuse me. public comment is now reopened. >> clerk: next speaker, please come forward. >> hello, everyone. my name is messiah and i'm an advocate with the youth commission. i am here today because i feel as a student i understand the trauma he's going through. i feel like no student -- well, no student, adult or child should feel scared of a police officer, where their job is to keep the public safe. but instead, situations like

these are traumatizing people more and more. so i feel like what these commissioners are doing, we should tell people about their rights, so they can know what to do in situations like this. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. >> supervisor mandelman: is there any additional speakers who would like to address us during public comment? seeing none -- here we go. >> i would like to thank you guys for having this presentation and hearing. it's very important to the community. my name is desmond jeffreys, past educator. also former teacher with san francisco unified. i'm here today speaking as an individual but also support the students and families, but also supporting san francisco police department. i know how hard it is to find that balance between safety and security, but also making sure there's privacy and protection as well of the individual. finding that balance is important, and what i want to

approach san francisco unified school district and the committee, when i was there as a teacher, we didn't have a lot of active shooter training. parents don't know the protocols, teachers don't know the protocols, students don't know the protocols. having a system of how things are going to be is going to be helpful. second, i think what needs to be taken into consideration i privacy. we need to consider and hold our children and our students to that same standard. i stand for a stable, safe, and supportive schools, and i hope you will, too. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, are there any further public speakers? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor mandelman: vice

chair ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. first, i wanted to read the statement of the young man who i had referred to in my comments and whose parents spoke. sunday, september 2, 2018. on thursday, august 30, 2018, during passing period from homeroom to third period, i needed to use the bathroom. i tried to go to the third floor bathroom because it is on the same floor of my first-class. as i was walking down the stairs to the bathroom, i saw the kid in front of me. he went into the bathroom. i also entered the bathroom to use the stall. as i walked out of the stall, i saw the spider-man backpack with the bullet hole. i washed my hands and walked out. i saw roman and said what's up to him as i walked up the stairs to my class. i also saw my friend sky letter by the bridge and asked him if he was going to class. he said he would be there in a minute. i still had no idea what happened. i got to my classroom, room

309. i sat down and started pulling my sketch book. my teacher followed the lockdown procedure. after 35 minutes into the lockdown, the phone rang. they were looking for rober roberto pena. i answered that is my dad. my dad called me to ask where i was, i told him room 309. he asked me if i was involved and i said no. ten minutes later, the swat tried to open the door but couldn't was it was locked. then freedom unlocked the door. the swat team pointed the rifles into the classroom and said sfpd. they asked if diego pena was here. i said yet, right here. they pointed the rifles at me as they told me to standup, put my hands up and incident lace

my fingers on the back of my head. when i was out of the classroom, they grabbed me, turned me around, and patted me down. after they patted me down, they asked me if i had a backpack. i said yes it's white and gray nike backpack. they asked me what i knew. i responded that i had heard that there was an accidental shooting in a classroom. they asked me if i knew who the student who shot the gun, i said no. they asked me if i knew what grade he was in. i said i think he's a freshman. i realize there were five police officers with me and four more officers are rifles guarding the hallway. as i was in the hallway with the officers being questioned, i saw my phone flash, notifying me that someone is calling. i assumed it was my dad, so i told free, i think it's my dad calling, can you call him. he said don't worry, i'm going to be good. he texted me dad and said he was with me. freedom texted me the whole time and told me that he was

going to be good. i was allowed to sit on the floor. after five minutes passed i saw two police officers come up the stairs. one police officer's pulled out handcuffs and they told me to get up. the police started talking to each other, then freedom told me that i was now a suspect and the officer cuffed me. they read me my miranda rights. they patted down again vigorously. i asked the officers where i was going, they said the station. i saw my coach, and i said don't worry, i'm going to be good. then i was walked out the main entrance. i saw the media at the corners and saw a lot of police cars. while i was being walked out of the black school gate, a reporter put a camera in my face and took pictures. while the officer took me to the police car, everyone saw my face and knew who i was. as they put me in a car, i saw

a parent i knew. he asked me what happened and i said i didn't do anything. while i was in the kari told the officers to tell anyone not to take any pictures of me. they didn't respond. i asked the officer which station i was going to, and they said ingleside. i told the officers to call my dad and gave them his name and number. the officers were it down on a napkin. they took me to the station. i waited in the car about three minutes. they opened the door of the car and asked me my name and address. they also asked me the name of my parents and a number. they took me out of the car and put me against a fence to wait. they told me i had to take a girl out of the community room and that i would be next. i saw my dad's car pull up and he started yelling. my dad told the police that he depth wa didn't want them to talk to me at all. they pulled the girl out of the community room and put me in

there. there were three officers in the room. i was still handcuffed when i was sitting in the chair. two officers were talking to me and the other officer was guarding the door. they searched my backpack again and didn't find anything. the police officers talked with me about the 49ers and football because of my sweatshirt. they asked me what position i play and i responded middle line backer. one of the officers said you must be strong then. i laughed. one of them asked me if i was hungry, and i responded no, i have food in my backpack. about ten minutes later, i asked if i could use the bathroom. i told him i could not use it and wash my hands. they put me back in cuffs and sat me down. about 40 minutes later, mr. lau came in and told me what the next steps were and that my parents were here and were going to be in the room soon. he told me what he was going to say and ask me. he told me i could refuse. he walked out and three minutes later he walked back in with my

parents. officer lau came in with the recorder, read me my miranda rights again and asked me if i wanted to cooperate. i said no. he then asked if i wanted to give a d.n.a. test and i said no. after the recording was over, my dad asked if he could ask me if the police had spoken to me. he said yes. my dad then asked me if the police officers had spoken to me, i answered yes. we were talking about football. my dad was super mad. officer 4r au told the officers not to talk to me anymore. from that point on, my dad stayed with me in the room the entire time until i was released. while i was in the room, the officers offered me water two times. i refused both tights. sergeant contreras came in and asked me if i had my medical. i said no. he came in five minutes later with some papers. my dad said he is not responding to this because he should have been asked this when he got here three hours later.

my dad and me were just talking to each other and had to wait for the lead investigator to tell us what happened next. the sergeant came in about 415. they took pictures of my face, and then we were let go. that's the statement. officer lozar, could you come back up? i have some questions -- commander, sorry. so you've heard now the testimony of the parents and heard the written testimony of one young man. can you respond to that? i guess my first question is why would it take three -- if the father arrived at the same time as his son, why would it take three hours to allow the father in the room with his son? >> well, it shouldn't take three hours, and i think, as we talked about earlier, we have

mentionedpress, i would be

irate, irate, if my daughter was questioned without me being present. so i absolutely understand why this family is so angry. if it is true this family had to wait that amount of time, it is unacceptable. it should not be allowed to happen, and i will do whatever i have to do to make sure it does not happen again. parents need to be with their chirnt in these moments. they need to talk to a lawyer, as well. that should be a shall and not an option. but just hearing that there was a possible -- whether it was 45 minutes to three-hour delay that the parent was not allowed in the room with his child is enough to make me irate, so i can't even imagine what the -- what the parents are feeling. and it's problematic to me that we don't have that information. i mean, this -- that's key -- that's the first thing that stood out to me when i read the statement.

and he's saying the same thing as you said, that they were talking about football. but as a parent, i don't care. i don't want my kid talking to the police about anything if i am not there with my kid, and you know you would feel the exact same way because i know you, and i love you commander, but that is outrageous. so i want to get to the bottom of that, and say that that issue alone is a problem that cannot continue to happen. so we can find that out, and that's something that i want -- i want to say that i'm going to follow up on, but i don't understand, if our policy is that a parent can be with their child, why there would be any delay at all. and the fact that the father arrived at the same time as his child, i don't know why the child was ever in the room for one minute without his father. so -- so that's the first thing. >> okay. >> supervisor ronen: the second thing, is it your understanding that the child -- that the police came into his

classroom and drew a weapon inside the classroom and removed the child? >> that is not our understanding as to what happened, and we actually have -- all the officers' actions are on body camera. >> supervisor ronen: okay. and will that footage be released? >> well, that's probably an offline discussion that we should work out in terms of confidentiality, etc. the answer is it's on body camera, so the body camera would show, like, what the officers did, so that's definitely a decision that we'll have to make and talk about. >> supervisor ronen: so i know when there's an officer-involved shooting there's a specific time period by which the camera footage has to be released. is that not true on just any arrest where the public requests to see the footage? >> we're dealing with the california code as it relates to arrests and juvenile victims and all this surrounding youth.

if we're having a conversation about this happening in a college and everyone is over 18 or what-have-you, then, it's well, everyone's an adult and there's a body camera and it's public record. we need to do a little research and stay connected on that and then make a determination as to who can view it and all that. >> supervisor ronen: so i am committing to the family that i will be following up on this. i do think these privacy issues are very important. it's why we're here, because that privacy was violated, so i do understand that, but i do believe that the parents and -- and -- and -- and other representatives of the family should be able to see that footage. and if there's a discrepancy between what the community is saying happened and -- and the child himself and the police, and there's evidence that will clear that up one way or another, that we should all be given equal access to that evidence to understand.

as a policy maker, are there interventions that i need to make in order to make sure that this -- that this doesn't happen again if -- if the young person's memory of what happened that day is indeed the case. because i have a ton -- i have a whole line of questions that we could be here all night talking about if it was indeed the case that the officers entered the classroom with guns drawn in that situation. again, i do -- i do -- i do want to -- to -- to make everyone understand that i understand how difficult this situation was. when a gun goes off in a school, it is appropriate that the police are taking every single precaution to protect the safety of every single child, so i really do understand that -- this is a hard one. i get it.

it was a real sensitive case, but i'd love to go through a timeline with you, maybe some youth commission present, maybe the family. we can talk about the right configuration to preserve the family's privacy and the young person's privacy, but to go over the timeline and how these judgments were made because once that it was determined enough that there wasn't an exigent circumstances that were putting youth at risk, i don't know about some of the judgment calls that were made, right? it really upsets me that this young person was paraded in front of the press. i don't understand why more precautions couldn't have been taking place to prevent that. i understand people were antsy, i understand people were

hungry. i understand that perhaps there were issues of still safety concerns, and that's what i want to understand a little deeper before making judgments? but how this kid could not have been guarded from the press or more efforts were not taken place to guard him from that -- from the press is really problematic. if that clearly needs to be written in an m.o.u., then it needs to be written in an m.o.u. if there are laws that i need to write and pass, then those are laws that i need to write and pass. but those are parts that unfortunately, i don't know if all these questions are going to be answered today, and i understand the sensitivity here with really making sure we protect the family's privacy, but also get answers to this and decide how to move forward. >> quick comment, quick suggestion. so in terms of what you said, you know, we should -- let's just, you know, have the dialogue and go a little

farther on this because you've alluded to, like, chaos, scene, gun, discharge, confusion, what-have-you, and then we don't know what the officers were thinking in terms of, you know, what their perception of safety and officers' safety was. we don't know what they were told, information over the radio, what-have-you. so definitely, let's have the conversation. the other thing is i've been very impressed with all the speakers today. they've come up, they're brave, they're talking about their concerns, their perceptions, how they feel. the letter is beautiful. and you know my personality. i think what we should do is we should sit down with youth commission and other folks and let's just have -- let's just talk about what happened. i'd like to hear further about what people feel, and i'd like to bring in other people, definitely acting captain yolanda williams. i know that captain hart got ahold of the father the next day and had a great

conversation with him. but you know, the community today is talking about trust with the police. and we need to be about having -- in the spirit of procedural justice, we need to be about having a further conversation. i think none of this would do us justice if we walked away and said that is that. i offer that up. >> supervisor ronen: i appreciate that. i am personally ready to take you up on that. i don't know about the penas, but what i would say is i clearly have some disappointment. we clearly have some notice of what the hearing was about. i introduced the hearing request, what, five months ago, carolyn? i don't know. so it wasn't as if there was notice of what we would be discussing today, so it feels like there could have been more information provided at this hearing today about what the officers' state of mind was about why they made certain decisions. and again, as i said many, many

times, this was not an easy one. so i'm not even necessarily criticizing the decisions that they make if i understand why they made the decisions. that's what i was expecting to hear today. but what i'm hearing from the pena family, and i'm hearing from them -- and i already heard it from them, which is why i called the hearing this afternoon, is concerning, and i hoped to hear from you the opposite of that. what was the decision-making process involved? and if there was the wrong decision-making process, i need to make new laws in the future. i'm underwhelmed with the amount of information i'm getting today. if captain hart -- in fact, he's one my favorite captains in the entire police force. if he made decisions, i'm sure

he was very thoughtful about it because he's a very thoughtful person. but if i believe that someone who's that good at his job led to a youth being paraded in front of the press, then maybe the system is broken. this is what i wanted to tease out and get to the bottom of today? and i agree we started -- i agree the testimony was very powerful and compelling. i will definitely take you up on your offer to have follow-up hearing -- i'm sorry, follow-up conversations and maybe do our best to protect the privacy of the family. but i wish we would -- i wish we could have gotten a little bit more information from you today. >> well, supervisor, you did accomplish a big goal here, and that is to put out about how the three young men were taken to the car. it's not falling on deaf ears, and i don't want you to think that i'm leaving here saying

well, i told my side and you told your side, and it's going to be business at usually. believe me, we're taking what you said seriously. we're always looking at how we can do things better. we balance in the moment -- you know, we evaluate, we try to debrief situations. i hear you loud and clear. it's how can we do things better, how can we improve? we can always improve in so many areas, from the largest of policing to these areas. so your message is loud and clear, and we take everything that you've mentioned today seriously. i know you felt underwhelmed. we covered a lot of ground here today. we answered a lot of questions. if there's follow up, maybe we can get together and go over everything point by point, so i'm hopeful that that happens.

>> supervisor ronen: okay. well, i will take you up on that offer, and i will be talking to you, and the family will, as well, so we will have that follow up conversation. do you have any other comments? >> i mean just to thank you for bringing this forward. i was not aware of what happened, and this is enormously disturbing and this is enormously disturbing, and i thank you, commander lozar for taking this seriously and for being here and for your openness to continue working with supervisor ronen to work on this. this was an extraordinary and we hope unusual situation, but i -- the united states being what it is, this is probably not the last time that a gun will be found or even discharged in a san francisco public school. >> unfortunately. >> supervisor mandelman: and i think that we need, you know, next time, if some of this is, you know, what folks are believe it to have been, then we need to do better. so thanks for taking the time,

thanks for bringing this to us, and i'm super impressed by the youth commission and by this family. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> supervisor ronen: and i just want to -- this is just hillary ronen, supervisor of district nine, i want to apologize to the pena family, because everything i've heard and read about your experience, mr. pena, you and i act very similarly. that would have been exactly how i would have acted in the situation. i would have been going nuts if my daughter was being held, i didn't know what was going on, and i wasn't allowed to be with her. so i just want to apologize to you for this incredibly traumatic experience and just tell me how much i feel for you as a parent. i'm choking back tears a little bit because as a parent with kids, it's our job to protect

them. i just want to commend you for the work you did to protect your son. thank you. [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: all right. so i guess i'm going to ask you, vice chair ronen, what is your pleasure to this item? do you want us to continue it or do you want to have this heard and filed. >> supervisor ronen: if we need to reintroduce it, i will, but for now, i would like to make a motion to file the hearing. >> supervisor mandelman: okay. we'll do that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor mandelman: and thanks, everyone, for coming out today. mr. clerk, is there any other items before us? >> clerk: there is no further business. >> supervisor mandelman: okay. then we are adjourned.

good afternoon everyone. i want to go ahead and call to order this meeting of the san francisco municipal transportation board of directors for tuesday, november 6th. would you please call the roll. (roll call).

madam chair you have a quorum. item three announcement of sound producing devices. the ringing of electronic devices are prohibited. any person responsible for one going off in the room may be asked to leave the room. also, note that cell phones on vibrate cause microphone interference. the board respectfully asks they be turned off. approval of october regular meeting. >> public comment is closed. do i have a motion to approve and second. all in favor aye. any opposed? hearing none the minutes for october 16 are approved. >> item 5 communications. directors at the direction of staff 10.2a has been severed

from the consent calendar. it will be called after item 11. >> i team 6 introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> any new or unfinished business. thank you. we will move on. item 7. director's report. >> good afternoon. happy election day. i hope everybody has voted or will be voting. i hope for good outcomes. i do want to start with a couple of special recognitions for a couple of highly valued but departing employees. i would like to ask the government affairs director to come come forward to recognize one of her staff. >> good afternoon. today i have the privilege and honor to start the recognitions with my colleague dillon young

or departing government affairs manager. dillon joined in 2014. during the last four and-a-half years has created a strong respected presence for the agency. he has provide you had highly effective leadership in an environment of constant change. he is a strategist and negotiator working independently as part of the teams to build and lead effective coalitions. his approach of keeping everyone informed no matter the issue, insured there were as few surprises as possible, and that the agency was as prepared and responsive as we could be. dillon is known for burning the midnight oil. if you got any of his misses sent after midnight. his updates are on any given

issue were always appreciated.

that is essential to the transportation system and emerging technology and different modes of transportation i have had the privilege of witnessing the dedication and i hope to contribute to the great work. anything i have accomplished is through my colleagues and folks in the room and the mayor's office, the transportation authority and passionate stakeholders during this disruptive time. so i want to thank this board,

director and kate you and director of government affair to entrusting me with this role and for your leadership and courage toward others. especially during these challenging times. finally, i want to acknowledge my colleagues. janette martin son, kathleen and jd. they further protected the agencies and the transportation agency at the federal and state and local represents. they represent the critical work of the divisions of this large organization. effectively and humbly in the service you of others which is true leadership. it made it possible for me to do anything i may have accomplished. thank you for having me stand up. i want to thank my wife trish, my in-laws, meredith and fred

and my 7-year-old daughter in school. they are all my favorites. from the board of supervisors, the of the who looks at the camera like she does. thanks for all of the voice messages with mom and all of the notes in my bag when i had to work late and when i am not with you i am probably with you. we will watch this on sf government tv later. i am with our amazin amaze amaz. as an american of chinese descent from the south of china to san francisco, where i was born, where all of my relatives lived in the sun set and richmond. to be recognized in the same meeting with a nationally

award-winning cfo and public servant of indian descent it is greater to be recognized on this election day as people vote to shape the future of the country. with that, thank you for the honor and for the opportunity to speak. [applause.] >> so that is a bit of a tough act to follow. i will say that as you know in this work and this agency, we

don't get a lot of positive feedback. let alone unsolicited positive feedback from o elected officials. dillon was one of the few rare sources of such unsolicited positive feedback from elected official that i would get regularly on the second floor. he is a tremendous asset. you can tell from what he said. tremendous asset to this agency. sorry to see him go, grateful for five years of outstanding service. we wish him the best. to move on. i am down here because i am taking the opportunity to you recognize you our cfo. i wish i had come up with a phrase like dapper diplomat. i don't think either of those

fit, certainly not the diplomat. maybe if our outgoing director of finance and information technology can join me, she told me already today she is tired of the accolades. we were planning a parade. we have to cancel that. for more than 10 years she has been providing passionate, professional outstanding service to this agency, to the people of san francisco. dillon mentioned she is nationally recognized. she is an amazing force not just for the agency, but for the ci city, transit agency and the region. someone we will not be able to nor will try to replace. she most known for being our cfo and managing our finances exceptionally well, much to the

dismay of her colleagues and people in the agency. because of her work, we have the highest credit rating of any transit agency in the country. when you read into the reports that sound financial management is one of things that jumps to the top. that is driven by her, all of good financial policies this board has adopted emanated from her fiscal conservatism, but with that fiscal conservatism she brought creativity and can do attitude to do the great work we have done in the decade applause expanding the muni service, amazing capital program double today what it was not too long ago. our operating budget is probably more than double today what it

was. a lot of that was her dogged determination and passion for the work of this agency. she was, although she was the cfo and known as director of finance and information technology, she over saw the real estate and other aspects of the organization. she often strayed to managing transit and streets and taxis as well. i always appreciated her lack of boundaries, her unsolicited advice, but her willingness day and night to be thinking about and trying hard to do what is right for transportation and san francisco and the region and the state and nationally. i could go on but i imagine some of you may have words. we did recognize her last week and she was also recognized by

mabymay or breed. it was the day she got a certificate of appreciation from the board of supervisors and the legislator and the assembly members. i know there will be a ripple effect with her departure because of how deep her impact was on what we do here. we are not going to try to replace her. we will fill the position. there will be no replacing her and we will try to make sure she doesn't shut off her phone so that should we need to continue to get unsolicited advice from her there is an avenue to do that. it is a great honor for me to work with her. sometimes i felt like for her. i certainly learned a lot from her. i do think the financial success

of agency is because you have her and her team and the great work they have done to make us all look good. i ask you to join me in thanking her for her great years of service. (applause). >> wow. dillon, you started crying. i may go down that route with you. before i say a few words. i want to thank dillon we have exchanged e-mails in the middle of the night. dillon, thank you for your great work. i have appreciated working with you. thank you, ed. you must be getting tired of saying nice things about me. in the last several weeks you spent a lot of time saying nice things. i am humbled by the accolades. i have many faults but hopefully you believe i paid a small part

in moving the agency forward. thank you for putting up with me. i am not the normal kind of cfo. i want to give a shout out to the nta colleagues as dillon did who work tirelessly without much recognition. i would like to recognize all of you today for your great work. a special gratitude to the fit folks who always supported me over the year and have done incredible work. i have not done any of it, these guys have done all of it. i leave with a plea that you continue your hard work. it is often very difficult and frustrating but i have faith that you will continue the work and the public deserves the system. my last i would like to leave you with a poem. she was born in calcutta.

i have got to leave. it is call farewell. i have got to leave bid me farewell, i bow to all you have you and take my departure. i give the keys back to my door and give up the claims to the house. i only ask the last kind words from you. we were neighbors for long, but i received more than i could give. now the day has dawn and the lamp that lit my dark corner is out. the summons has come and i am ready for my next a long journey. thank you all. [applause.] >> now you have made me cry. directors, would anybody like to say nice things while i stop

crying? >> well, to dillon as well, you are joining a wonderful company, the roberts family. i have been very close for many years. they helped start comcast from a small cable television station in new york. now they are nbc and universal. you are joining a good force, and i wish you luck. i want to thank you for always being there for me to give me advice and council. the poem last few words say to the last a long journey. i hope it involves tawing a call from a future governor. >> you don't have a poem. i can only say nice things. i said the funny things at your retirement party. i will repeat one thing that i said at the party here publicly

which is you helped us through a very difficult time. we are abelias well and i was always impressed by your candor. we have had offline discussions about the importance of the reserve and make training physical discipline around looking for the future and avoiding short term gain to get long-term benefit. this board has done that through your direction. i would leave that to some of the newer director on the board. i am proud what you and i accomplished together so thank you. >> i always have such confidence in the audits and financials. you taught me much more about public accounting which is different than private sector accounting. you were always looking out for the agency to make sure we were planning for the future and

making smart investments. we are so fort natural to have you. -- fortunate to have you. we are in a good place. i don't know if we will ever be able to fill your shoes. >> thank you. >> i am going to talk so much. i just want to say thank you for your hard work. you are amazing. thank you so much. >> thank you all. >> i work understand finance in a prior career. it was one of those things where it was easy to come here and know that was taken care of and done with confidence and skill and in a way i never had to worry about it. not thinking about it is a testament to how good a job everything was done in such a big agency. thank you. >> thank you. on behalf of the board of

directors and the entire city thank you so much for your years of service. i am amazed you are stepping away without a promise not to make muni free for everyone and immediately take all of the ads off the buses. thank you again. (applause). >> that was very dangerous the way you baited her just then. i do have a number of other things i want to cover some i didn't cover last time. vision zero. i want to let you know as speeding is a top cause of traffic collisions and fatalities on our streets. we have restarted the safe streets media campaign. you will hear it on drive time

radio and see it on bus shelter ads. reminder it is the leading cause of fatal and serious collisions in the city. we want to make sure people remember to slow down. we will continue to share that message and some good news is that san francisco's stick to the limit video is now playing at california dmv field offices statewide. it remains important not a day goes by where we don't have a reminder of the tragedy that can strike in our city. yesterday we had two of those within a few blocks of each other. on powell street. the first was 6:00 a.m. there was a motorcyclist involved in a collision on the corner of broadway and powell.

the preliminary indications we have suggest a car traveling eastbound on broadway made an illegal mid block you turn from the right lane hitting the motorcycle traveling in the same direction. a little after midday a block away on powell and vallejo an elderly female pedestrian was struck by a large truck turning on to stockton. i don't believe we have information or names of victim. in a single day in a couple blocks we had two more people die on our streets. that is tragic. the risk every peteing not just -- repeating both were preventable. we will continue to work with the police on the specifickics of these cases to see what we

can do but certainly our thoughts and prayers go to families and friends of those who lost their lives needless leo our streets. neither of these happened in the evening or they didn't happen in the evening. this is on the heels of daylight savings time. we want to remind everyone as it gets darker earlier and people are driving at dark when it used to be light to be extra careful, go slowly and look out for people in the public right-of-way. if you are driving, walking, biking, beware of that visibility change is something everyone needs to pay attention to. on a little more upbeat note. earlier this month san francisco was recognized bye-by by the big

magazine behind seattle. this is done every two years based on safety, bike friendlynis, political climate and culture. they specifically noted progress we made in installing protected bike lanes in 2010. you may recall we didn't have a single protected bike line. now we have 10 covering 20 miles of our streets and one is coming your way today. they recognize the city's efforts to reduce fatalities through zero and the goal through sustainable mode. despite the tragic news of yesterday, it is good to be recognized for some of the good work your leadership is enabling here. switching gear to muni. an update on the work we are

doing to improve muni service. as you know, after a decline in service during the construction shut down, the mayor called us to rye double our efforts to -- re-double our efforts to make it more safe. we have taken steps to do that. we have delivered 95% of our scheduled service over the last three weeks which is up from where we were in july. it is not where we want to be, at minimum 98.5 in the charter. we want to be at 100. we are making progress there. we have been able to reduce gaps on the rapid bus lines and on the muni metro lines and slight improvement in on time performance. part of how we address groups is adjusting balancing the