[laughter] chairperson nolan: thank you. i assumed with creative people like you have here, sometimes there are differences of opinion, which is fine. to me, the high-level thing is exactly what is strategic plan ought to be, the goals. anything else? thank you. we have a speaker? >> yes. bob has expressed a desire to address the board on this matter. chairperson nolan: good afternoon. happy new year. >> i am bob planthold. i wanted to come to positively make a statement of support and request that you endorse this. it is not just the content i agree with and support. it is also the process by which this was made. that process itself generates respect and credibility. there was a widespread outrage through stakeholder workshops and interviews. that inclusiveness and diversity was helpful. the waste of responded as facilitators was also refreshen -- the way staff responded as facilitators was also refresh ing. they listened to what we said. the process was hopeful. the content i agree with. this is well written and understand

chairperson nolan: on behalf of the board, thank you. we appreciate it. >> thank you very much for this honor. i would like to acknowledge the sponsorship of the proof of payment study by our leadership from finance and technology. some of you who might have been around when the study was conducted -- it consisted of surveying over 40,000 customers on over 1000 vehicle runs, all over the city, all times of day. that level of effort could not have been done but a single individual. it required transit operations and sfpd. i wanted to thank them for that. our survey team consisted of city hall fellows and interns, as well as the 78 staff in this room today. -- as well as some of the sfmta staff in this room today. i want to acknowledge their effort, and the proof of payment officers. often, the only in counter the public has with them is unfortunately negative, getting a citation. but they do and not standing job helping keep our fair regulations -- fare regulations in place. they do a lot of things work. i want to acknowledge them. i got

chairperson campos: thank you. is there anyone from the information and technology department? any other department head who is here to speak on this item? please come forward. >> nancy holmes, director of insurance and controls. not a department head. we had three recommendations. chairperson campos: speaking to the microphone. >> we had three recommendations applicable to the puc regarding stand by and call back pay. the majority of our standby pay relates to emergency responses for water quality and water service delivery. what our water and power group has committed to doing is they are looking at operational protocols to define the levels of service where such a response is needed. once they formalize those protocols, they would then define situations where standby pay is necessary. they did have a bit of a late start. this will take place within the next quarter or so. for our information technology services group, they disagreed with the recommendations. they felt that due to the high level of expertise need

chairperson nolan: all in favor? >> item 5, communications. there will be no discussion of anticipated obligation under a closed session today. item six, new or unfinished business by board members. >> i was aware of the advertising leading up to new year's eve. there were television commercials which were very well done. from my point of view, it worked out very well. it was like a trial of our boarding, since it was free, despite the fact it's sort of like a cocktail party. but it was great. well done. chairperson nolan: thank you. other directors? >> item 6, -- seven, executive directors report. executive director reiskin: welcome. i am happy to be here with you. this is the first reading of 2012. happy new year, everyone. we will start of the year acknowledging some of our outstanding employees at the as 78. we are going to start with the transit division. i would like to ask patsy came -- cain and ricardo del barrio to step forward. they are the dispatch team at the green division, the division out of which most of the trains run -- the l

chairperson nolan: good afternoon and happy new year. welcome to the january 3 meeting of the board of directors of the san francisco municipal transportation agency. please call the roll. director bridges: [resemt/ -- present. director oka: present. >> announcement of prohibition of sound-producing devices at the beginning of the meeting. pagers and similar devices are prohibited. anyone responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the meetings. item four, the approval of minutes of december 6 regular meeting. chairperson nolan: all in favor? >> item 5, communications. there will be no discussion of anticipated obligation under a closed session today. item six, new or unfinished business by board members. >> i was aware of the advertising leading up to new year's eve. there were television commercials which were very well done. from my point of view, it worked out very well. it was like a trial of our boarding, since it was free, despite the fact it's sort of like a cocktail party. but it was great. well done. chairperson nolan:

chairperson kim: thank you. are there other further comments? i do want to acknowledge some of the public anxiety concern over the haste the city is taking in regards to insuring redevelopment agency activities are transferred to a successor. i want to clarify there is still a lot left in that process of redevelopment that the public will be able to engage with the board of supervisors on. the oversight body will have a narrow jurisdiction over a narrow spectrum of projects that redevelopment currently does, around housing and the land use designation. we still have many other area plants where we have made promises to neighborhoods around economic development, workforce development, and infrastructure needs that are not being addressed, either in the legislation that came to us at budget yesterday, or in the powers to the oversight board. given the narrow spectrum of authority that we are looking at today, if you feel comfortable moving this forward, i think it makes sense to do that by february 4. but i acknowledge it there are concerns of peo

chairperson kim: thank everyone for working so quickly on this. i know there were weekends and nights spent on this. there were moves toward protecting affordable housing in the city. one of our priorities here is insuring more residents can afford to live here in san francisco. prior to that, there are a number of amendments the mayor's office would like to make on the motion to clarify that these appointments become effective only upon appointment of a supervising body. do we have a motion to move these appointments forward without recommendation, as a committee report? we have that motion in a second. we can do that without opposition. can you please call item no. 5? >> item number 6, hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending april 29, 2014, to the children and families commission. there is one seat and to applicants. -- two applicants. chairperson kim: we have a motion to continue because the director was able -- was unable to attend, and neither were the applicants for the seat. we have that without opposition. at this time, that

chairperson nolan: all in favor? >> item 5, communications. there will be no discussion of anticipated obligation under a closed session today. item six, new or unfinished business by board members. >> i was aware of the advertising leading up to new year's eve. there were television commercials which were very well done. from my point of view, it worked out very well. it was like a trial of our boarding, since it was free, despite the fact it's sort of like a cocktail party. but it was great. well done. chairperson nolan: thank you. other directors? >> item 6, -- seven, executive directors report. executive director reiskin:

chairperson nolan: all in favor?

chairperson kim: thank you. are there other further comments? i do want to acknowledge some of the public anxiety concern over the haste the city is taking

chairperson campos: right now, are there guidelines that govern lead pay or standby pay?

chairperson campos: thank you. is there anyone here from dpw? how about human resources? i want to thank mr. grant for his patients, for waiting, and thank you for being here. >> martin grant, department of human resources, employee relations division. the budget analyst audit had relatively few recommendations for department of human resources. one involved the definition of lead pay, an issue we visited with our labor partners. we try to ensure we are getting value for all our premiums. this has been sticky, because it has gone back so far in history. of course, we are in a collective bargaining environment in which we cannot dictate the terms of a contract. we will be proposing, in the next round, the new definitions for lead pay, which will hopefully set numbers as to minimum numbers of employees you have to supervise or direct, before you are eligible for the benefit, and to make sure we are not paying people for doing what is already required as a minimum of their job duties. that is one. when the dust settles, we will know if we have changes, and what those changes

chairperson nolan: good afternoon and happy new year. welcome to the january 3 meeting of the board of directors of the san francisco municipal transportation agency. please call the roll. director bridges: [resemt/ -- present. director oka: present. >> announcement of prohibition of sound-producing devices at the beginning of the meeting. pagers and similar devices are prohibited. anyone responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the meetings. item four, the approval of minutes of december 6 regular meeting. chairperson nolan: all in favor? >> item 5, communications. there will be no discussion

i was going to respond to care person -- chairperson kim's question. the intent of 26 -- there were a number of issues. the project center was intended to be shut down as part of this, not public projects in construction, like ours. some of our union friends are here today. we have thousands of people in construction now. we are not a golf course or shopping mall, which was one of the issues raised regarding problems of redevelopment. that is point number one. like hunters point, which has received $800 million to clean up the site, we're getting over $400 million from the federal government for our project, substantial commitments, that we would want to preserve for continuing economic improvement and betterment for the entire bay area counties. i did want to add that to the response. to your question, director ortiz, there are three funding issues that are affected as a result of the california supreme court ruling. one affects affordable housing. it is unclear if we will meet the 35% mandate. that is something the city is working on very closely wit

. >> good morning, chairperson, supervisors. my name is reginald mason. i am director of safety, training, security, and enforcement for the sfmta. today, i will have the commander speak to you about the partnership between our agency and the police department and how we perform enforcement on the muni system. she joined us in may of last year, and before that time, we had issues regarding how we did fare enforcement and security on the system. we met and devised a plan of using the comstat statistics to target high-crime areas. as you will see in the presentation, shall go over some of the hot spots in the way we do our saturation that you will get a better understanding and the public will get a better understanding of how we perform enforcement. i will turn it over to her, and then i will be up here with her for questions. >> supervisor -- supervisor avalos: is that for your powerpoint? do you want to be able to speak from the microphone? then i guess. thank you very much for holding this hearing -- >> yes. thank you very much for holding this hearing

[laughter] chairperson nolan: good afternoon and happy new year. welcome to the january 3 meeting of the board of directors of the san francisco municipal transportation agency. please call the roll. director bridges: [resemt/ -- present. director oka: present. >> announcement of prohibition of sound-producing devices at the beginning of the meeting. pagersnd

his probe basis from the bus theft included jobs washing with chairperson cars and say he stole the car and drove to sacramento, even stopping a few drivers to write them fake tickets. when we come back on "a second look," the history of of how san francisco's cable cars came to be and a bit later a famous san francisco landmark that was almost blown up for than a year- ago. . overrer the years you might have seen a very famous film shot at beginning of the 20th century call "i trip down market street." for years it was thought to be shot in 1905 until a local historian examined while car license registers to include it was shot in 1906 just a few days before the great san francisco earthquake and fire. that film was shot from the frighten cable car and in 2000, ktvu's george watson gave us this look back at the rich history of san francisco's historic and world-famous form of publication transit. >> reporter: if it wasn't so dangerous this norad trip down mark would be extraordinarily and hilariously keystone cops-scientmovie funny. horse drawn wagons crawl slowly down one side of the

chairperson nolan: we are finished. >> and i win. >> it is the first time ever. >> that sets a precedent, you know. ok. >> i am one of the board members for the burning man project. welcome to the plaza and the launch. [applause] we are so thrilled to be here in the tenderloin. we're thrilled to create relationships, to work with other people, and make something crazy and magical happened here. we're also extremely happy to be working with the san francisco city itself, with the reinvigoration efforts happening. we have two esteemed people with us from the city. we have mayor ed leave with us. [applause] -- we also have mayor ed lee with us. and from the board of supervisors, david chu. please come and join us. [applause] >> thinks ank you. it may be premature, but welcome home fellow burners. it is great. there are invitations going on for that burning man. i am going to call our board president, david chu, to come up here and join us. he plays a mean violin already. i am also going to invite supervisor eric mar, who is the only one of us who has been to burning man. i will say this. th

purdue university's president is becoming the chairperson of the governing board.ordova was selected in september. she's an astrophysicist and led the university since 2007. she succeeds a former microsoft executive. stonesifer served as chairperson since 2009 and will become vice chair of the board. >>> a heads up for metro riders. plan on some delays all week on all five lines because of track work. trains will single track between dupont circle and friendship heights, as well as tacoma and forest glen on the red line. the orange line will single track trains between boston and foggy bottom and eastern market and stadium arm rye. there will be single -- armory. there will be single tracking between arlington, cemetery, and foggy bottom on the blue line. on the green line, trains will single track between ft. totten and prince george's county plaza between 10:00 and 2:00. because of the track work, yellow line trains will only operate between huntington and mt. vernon square until 7:00 p.m. >>> just about 5:51. that means weather & traffic on the 1s. we're contend

they met for the first time to set priorities for the upcoming year and that included electing new chairperson. ballots were tallied, mary was elected for the next year with walter as her vice chair. bel one thing that could become a reality next year, backyard chickens. that could really happen this year. one of its priorities for 2012 is exploring urban agriculture. he is hoping a tax of residents will address the push, as well as explore. >> a few flurries around here today weren't much to talk about, but the snow coming off the great lakes, that is a totally different story. check out this video from south bend, indiana, topper can't help but be excited by that lake effect snow started falling late last night and it is not expected to stop until early tomorrow. when it's all done, local forecasters are expecting as much as 10 inches of snow and topper, i'm so glad to see that our friends in indiana are the ones dealing with it and not us. >> yeah. flurries today. that said, you jump the divide up toward western maryland, you're going to get 6 to 12 inches. >> they could use it. that's wher

chairperson kim: i know that the soma pac was informed of developments. i imagine the others were as well. that is not impacted by this motion that is coming before us today.

chairperson nolan: we are finished. >> and i win. >> it is the first time ever. >> that sets a precedent, you know. ok. >> we're going to get started before everybody freezes. we want to welcome everybody to the groundbreaking of cayuga playground. is an important milestone for us. it was built in the 1950's and renovated almost 30 years ago. we are long overdue for the next renovation of this park. this particular neighborhood has become a family neighborhood. it is so important that we keep our playgrounds clean, safe, and fun. we're so grateful to the voters for supporting the 2008 neighborhoods park fund. the project is a $9.3 million project. about $8 million is from the bond. we're thrilled we received an $800,000 grant from the state to cultivate the open space. it has been a team effort. i want to acknowledge some folks who are here. this is in no particular order. i really want to thank barbara, josie, and all the folks from the cayuga improvement group. mohammed will speak and make some introductions. i want to thank lizzie hirsch, richard yee, marvin yee, our capital planning

chairperson nolan: we are finished. >> and i win. >> it is the first time ever. >> that sets a precedent, you know. ok. >> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track buses and trains, estimating are bought stocks with a high degree of accuracy. the bus and train our arrival information can be accessed from your computer and even on your cellular phone or personal digital assistant. knowing their arrival time of the bus allows riders the choice of waiting for it or perhaps doing some shopping locally or getting a cup of coffee. it also gives a greater sense that they can count on you to get to their destination on time. the next bus our arrival information is also transmitted to bus shelters around the city equipped with the next bus sign. riders are updated strictly about arrival t

chairperson nolan: we are finished. >> and i win. >> it is the first time ever. >> that sets a precedent, you know. ok. [music] paratransit is specialized transportation for seniors and people with disabilities who are unable to use the muni system. in san francisco, we're proud that we've had a paratransit program since 1978 long before it was mandated by the americans with disabilities act in 1990. san francisco is a unique city and our paratransit program reflects this. we have a network of services, including sf access van service, paratransit taxi, including wheelchair accessible ramp taxi and group van which serves groups of individuals going to a single location like a senior center. [music] >> i'm elsa scott and i'm a retired federal employee and i'm a native of san francisco. i use paratransit because, i've been using it for about six years because six years ago i had to start dialysis treatments at cpmc. so i'm very dependent on paratransit three times a week, coming and going.. my current driver is brian berquist.; he's just such a friendly, sort of a teddy bear kind of a guy.