comments it director yekutiel and director hinze. now is the time to do so. we'll go to online comments. any online commenters about new and unfinished business by board members? >> clerk: i see no callers. >> chair borden: we'll close public comment. next item. >> clerk: item 7, the director eats report. >> director tumlin: thank you. i would like to call annette williams who's the manager of our professional services taxi, access and mobility services division who will be presenting a special recognition to our paratransit van riders. >> thank you for having me. annette williams manager of professional services. i'm here on behalf of m.t.a. to congratulate and lift up our workers who have been working in paratransit through the pandemic. who has been there for taur customers, providing exemplary services to seniors and people with disabilities. i wanted to start recognizing paratransit van drivers. i want them to please come forward. i wanted to especially point out that not only do they continue to provide exemplary service to our customers, our paratransi

both of them touching on subjects director hinze introduced. my own view is that the train control system is the linchpin for improving the subway in general and the system in general. we can have a whole fleet of brand new cars which we will have. if we can't plug them in the system, that portions of those cars makes the system work, we really wasted lot of money. i thought i heard you say today that the r.f.p. might be coming to us in the summer. i thought you might have told us the spring few months ago when i asked the last time. just a question about the health of the respective process and are we slipping and can we recover the slippage? >> we did slip a little bit on the grounds that we have to get it right. it's really complicated and it needs a lot of different people eyes and expertise on it. i had hopes to bring it late spring in may. i think we're going to be closer to the end of the summer. i believe that the time that we're spending now is going to save us delays in the future because we're clarifying and increasing what will pote

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and says presented by jessica layman and fiona hinze, may 20, 2022, s.f. mayor's disability council. >> thank you, jessica. and i'll just piggyback on what jessica was saying. jessica and i are part of several groups and each have several advocacy priorities they're work on this year. so we just chose a couple from a couple of our groups that are really important to us. so i was here first to present on the dignity fund coalition and priority for the [inaudible] season and for those who don't know about the dignity fund coalition, we started in 2016 and works to pass the dignity fund, which is a [inaudible] for services for seniors and folks with disabilities. and [inaudible] continues advocacy for seniors and people with disabilities and this year our priority is really around the digital divide. so if you would go to the next slide, jessica. we'll see on this slide [inaudible] the name of our campaign and there are folks of various races using various assistive technology devices. next slide, if you would. this was really informed by first the entire san

. >> director hinze: aye. the minutes are approved 7-0. places you on item number 5, communications. next item. item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> i understand this is not new business, but i would like to let the board know i was in berlin on a democracy fellowship and moderate feelings of jealousy as their public transportation system. it was amazing taking their below and above ground tram. it was really eye opening. they've opened up a bunch of new stations in the last few years. i sent an e-mail internally how the wi-fi was. the purpose of the trip was not transit-related, but i was able to experience their transit system and learned a lot about it. i'm going to bring that experience back to the bay. >> did you learn how to restore democracy in the united states? >> i'm working on it. >> any directors with unfinished business >> i do, chair. i just want, first of all, it was nice -- hope you had a good vacation and productive. new business, i wanted to bring up was sort of increases in people aroun

he has killed numerous numbers of children, but the 12 hinz prior to that, prior to his entry into theain, this is repetitive off of what tom has pointed out and what sam has reported, the confusion and the muddling of accounts given to the public in a horrendous, horrendous crime like this, is maddening. actually is beyond maddening. you have parents who have been waiting for some information for two, three days now, the first information that's been dispensed, i won't say it's a lie, but it's horrifically misleading. we have to find out exactly what happened, who did what, and where they were. >> sam brock, this tragedy becomes even more unbearable, if you can imagine such a thing, as you watch this morning, when we learned yesterday that the husband of irma garcia, the fourth grade teacher killed in the classroom found huddled over their children trying to protect them, suffered a heart attack and died. what more can you tell us about that? >> irma garcia, willie, taught at the school for 23 years and she was married to her high school sweetheart joe who you're looking at the left s