. >> heinicke is absent. director heminger? >> passed over me? >> director eaken? >> no. >> director rubke? >> aye. >> director torres? >> no. >> it is 4-2. with one absent. the motion passes. >> great. thank you. now we'll move on to 10.2. maybe would you like staff to come forward to talk about it, first? >> please. i had a few questions. >> i can read it, first. >> yes. thank you. >> reporter: amending the transportation code, division 2, section 801. and approving parking restrictions to expand existing parking restrictions on turk street, except for vehicling displaying the sfmta issued permit as follows. >> i have got the details. i just have a couple of questions. is he here? >> yes. >> there he is. so this is about the emergency operations center on turk street, right. >> that's correct, yeah. >> and how many employees are there? >> i don't know how many employees they have. >> roughly a round number? >> i would be speculating. all i know is that they have made this request, because they are rapidly adding 9-11 dispatchers to that location. >> yes. 9-11 dis

. >> 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 embarcadero is port jurisdiction.

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 inclusion seriously and not put up with harassment in the workforce. someone who embodies vision zero. if you read the fine print and see th

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 to hear from d.e.m. >> might also be nice to give chair heinicke a chance to weigh in on this. >> right. i think -- >> yes. >> he's absolutely on his way. we can go either direction. we can take it up at the end of the meeting. i do think th

. >> 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

. >> thank you, chair heinicke. if this board decides to only approve the two bus manufacturers, which i don't support. i would like to support all three of them. is there another one out there that would possibly be able to purchase some test bus from or are these truly the top three and only the three that we really think will work in our situation? >> thank you for that question. it was announced in october that nova, which is one of the three large bus manufacturers is partnering with b.a.e. which currently makes about two thirds of our hybrid bus engines to produce a battery bus, so we're currently exploring other competitively bid consortiums to see if we could possibly include them in our pilot. >> so it's possible we could approve two or three today, and then sometime we might say there's another one we want to test, as well. >> yes, i do think there would be a strong benefit to doing that. >> okay. so the pricing issue and the legal issue have been teed up. i know we were in the middle of your slide present

. >> chairman heinicke and to the board members, i stand humbled before you. it was a great honor to work for the city of san francisco. i grew up in the bay area and san francisco is a great city. great opportunityies. times have changed. we've been through some hard times, but i have the opportunity like given a second chance and i don't take that lightly. then the blessing is light duty came to work through caroline and roberta and was able to do the light desk and met some incredible people on the seventh floor. i didn't have a clue, never been up there. i've been to the sixth floor, but you never know until you go yourself. i went and i experienced -- i call it the seventh floor experience, and it was great for me. met a good friend, and i'm blessed. so i stand here humbled. and it was my job, you know, and dan for someone to say we appreciate you, you did a good job, which i was paid to do. i thank you very much for this honor. it's awesome. >> thank you so much for saying that. if you ever find yourself on light duty again, would you please apply to our

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. >> director heinicke. >> you got a second already? >> we have a second? >> i wanted to ask some questions. first of all to the folks who came down here and shared with us their neighborhood experience, it's very moving. i've known mr. black for decades now and i've never heard him speak so passionately about a civic item. so that meant a lot to me. and those of you who took time to help your neighborhood be better and our city safer i appreciate it. it's meant a lot to all of us. so i will support this program. it seems to me this is a matter of life and death and that's an easy call. and now the next question is how do we accommodate our small business community and others with legitimate concerns about this project. personally i would absolutely favor looking into evening matters, metering spots that aren't metered right now and speak directly to the businesses. don't assume that the city planning model will work for these businesses speak to our friend and to her other businesses there and see what is it that you need. it may be they need a couple of p

. >> director heinicke. >> you got a second already? >> we have a second? >> i wanted to ask some questions. first of all to the folks who came down here and shared with us their neighborhood experience, it's very moving. i've known mr. black for decades now and i've never heard him speak so passionately about a civic item. so that meant a lot to me. and those of you who took time to help your neighborhood be better and our city safer i appreciate it. it's meant a lot to all of us. so i will support this program. it seems to me this is a matter of life and death and that's an easy call. and now the next question is how do we accommodate our small business community