>> aye. >> director eaken? >> no. >> director heminger? >> no. >> director hubky? >> aye. >> torres no. the item fails adoption. >> so do you want to -- should we, a, as a board, would it be helpful to have d.e.m. come and table this for another meeting or take it up at the end of the agenda, should director heinicke want to weigh in? >> i just think in this particular instance for this particular item, in addition to kind of like longer-term policies around this, i think it would be really helpful, it would be great to see better justification for why we need these 20 spaces, you know, more data to director eaken's point. maybe some more, you know, alternatives to consider, time-limited, things, time limitations on these spaces to address the issue of employees coming in on off-hours. that sort of thing. i think that would maybe address some of the concerns here, at least in the short-term and then obviously longer term looking at the issue and more holistically. >> okay. directors, do we have an opinion about whether or not -- i do think that it would be helpful

. >> director eaken? >> here. >> director heinicke is anticipate. >> director rubke? >> here. >> director torres? >> here. >> madam chair, directors, you have a core quorum. the ringing of a use of cell phones and sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any personal responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. devices set on vibrate do cause microphone interference. the board respectfully requests they be turned off. item number 4, approval of the minutes. >> do i have a motion from the board? >> yes. >> second. >> any public comment on our minutes from november 5th? >> no, madam chair, no one has turned in a speaker card. >> all of those in favor of our minutes? >> aye. >> all those oppose. >> clerk: item number 5, communications. >> are there any -- >> madam chair, i have none. >> okay, wonderful. >> item number 6, introduction of new or unfinished business by board member. >> yes. thank you. i heard that supervisor peskin is applauding the m.t.a. for adding the embarcadero to the bicycle list. my understanding is the embar

director eaken? >> would our hands be tide if we could use nonfederal sources of funding to procure those buses in the future? >> i'm going to defer that question, as well. >> well, 800 buses is a mess of money. i wouldn't want to put the agency on the hook without -- for doing that without federal money. >> i think that's a more concise -- >> sorry to take your thunder, susan. >> if b.y.d. turns out to be the best and they work out to be -- for us to be the best, there would be a marketplace for either someone else to buy b.y.d. or someone else to replicate what they were doing? i just can't imagine if they are the best out there, that somehow we won't be able to get ahold of them. i just have a hard time, and we all the time take action to counter what president trump decides every day, you know, at the governor's office and the mayor's office. i really think it will turn out for the best, that we'll be getting it from them or somebody else because the company will change hands or somebody else wil

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>> we'll get there >> director eaken. >> thank you so much. i want to say what a privilege and honor it has been to chair this committee. i want to thank chair heinicke in particular for trusting me. i have enjoyed getting to know the staff of the agency and hearing your concerns as well as hearing from stakeholders. and i will admit when we started this process in june of this year it seemed a daunting task. we heard from many this is the hardest job in the transportation industry. and we are very fortunate to hear from many stakeholders. we heard from over 750 individuals through this survey. we met with over 100 individuals. and i just wanted to take a moment to remind everybody of the themes we heard as a search committee again and again. people talked about wanting to have a leader who is decisive. someone who is a team builder and excellent manager who will unite the divisions of the sfmta into one cohesive team. someone will will stand up to political pressure and have staff to drive ambitious projects. someone who will take equity and

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i support torres and eaken's proposal to continue to study haight street, not only for parking management but to get rid of the freeway-bound traffic on haight street. because we do unfortunately we create winner and loser streets. and right now people are concerned rightly that haight is going to become more of a loser street with more car traffic which also can help address the business issue. we can't deliver more customers to these businesses via automobile. we can deliver it via fantastic transit and walking and biking conditions and evening parking meters. thank you very much vice-chair borden. let's reach out to the business community and see if they would support extending the meters to eight or even ten if the businesses are open that late for restaurants and night businesses. i think those are great things. one clarification. we had somebody who was talking about being a bike commuter but having his house kind of cut off by the prohibited turns. bicycle can make these prohibited turns correct? are there going to be turns prohibited for cars and okay for bicycles? >> everything b