this is the last slide and then i will ask john haley and mr. mason to come up. we are looking to fill vacancies in the parameters of our budget and we're having a significant difficulty in attracting, recruiting, training and identifying individuals. mr. haley can speak to the number -- like operators that enter into recruitment and driving a new large difference between the number of operators to end up driving between the ones who actually initiate interest in the position. the board is receiving monthly overtime reports and their drilling down on these overtime areas. we are also working to schedule -- working to manage unscheduled absences. that increases over time needs. we have significant issues with unscheduled absences for a variety of reasons. we are trying to drill down and look at those areas. as i mentioned, we are looking at our scheduled practice and contractual requirements. for example, we are able to implement part time operators that we would see some reduction in over time because there is over time where we could staff the peak time schedule

the one piece of information that i got from john is that -- mr. haley, is that if we did not use this level of overtime we would not provide the 98% of service we are providing, it would sink to 96 pk or below level service. the bottom line is, if we don't use overtime, you are impacting service delivery. >> one additional fact i want to point out if a statistical standpoint, scheduled overtime, built into the skell jewels, built off the contract an scheduling capabilities but built off the work rules and policies in our contracts, is approximately 80% of the overtime that you're seeing here. there's actually the remain 20g% is kind of what you call management discretion or unscheduled overtime that we do have some clear day-to-day responsibility in terms of controlling. as we go through these contract negotiations, once we hopefully have a negotiated contract or arbitrated contract, that will change the rules of the game in some way in terms of overtime usage, sick leave usage, all those things that we have discussed with you as a board. >> so the mess

both john haley and reggie mason can speak to that in more detail. we also saw accelerated retirement because of the sunset of the wellness program. we are still using overtime to fill a significant portion of our run. the other area that has hit us unusually this year is that a lot of our front-line individuals actually participated in the agreement which requires furloughs and so we are seeing the impact of the furloughs, particularly on mechanics where on average day, individuals are taking furloughs and so we need to back fill them. those are one of the things happening this year that is exacerbating overtime. the other area we have is, as a city, we have a significant amount of special events. almost every weekend, there is something. this is service above and beyond this regular schedule and we have traditionally funded that because of the cost-benefit perspective. it is actually better to fund these events over time, but it is incredibly resource intensive because it requires a large number of our workforce to be participating in these special

here to present the award is john haley, our director of transit services. [applause] >> thank you. i will point out one thing. gary is, in addition to a successful record, is a practitioner of his words of wisdom. he has handled all kinds of folks. he is literally an ambassador for our organization and the city of san francisco, including presidents of countries as well as movie stars, including -- tell him. >> i was in a movie with macaulay culkin. [laughter] i enjoyed my 34 years with muni. i am going to miss everybody here. thank you. executive director ford: thank you, mr. wong. on behalf of the board of directors and san francisco, thank you for your outstanding service and enjoy your retirement. well-deserved. next, i am pleased to recognize jodie mcdowell from the sustainable streets division. she works in our sign shop, in the unit operations selection system. could you please come up to the podium? >> thank you. i am here. executive director ford: she is a traffic survey technician and has been with the agency for 15 years. her duties include inspecting and gathering vario

john haley is the director of the municipal transportation agency. rhonda simmons, with the office of economic work force and development. chief jeff godown, the chief of the san francisco police department. phil ginsburg, general manager of the rec and park department. ed riskin, director for the department of public works is also here. thank you for your presence here. mayor edwin lee, without further -- adult probation is here, too. mayor kelllee, thank you for yor patience. the microphone is yours. [applause] >> thank you. as you all know, i am not going to have been long speeches. and i'm here to listen to you tonight. but i want to say a couple of things. it is my pleasure to be here with supervisor avalos, supervisor carmen chu, the other department heads, to make sure that i fulfill a promise. while i am occupied this great office of mayor, i will listen to everybody in the city. the matter where you live. that is what i have been doing this whole year. i am three months on the job and it is wonderful to have a new relationship with the board

i am john haley, director of operations. >> i am reginald mason and i'm the director of safety -- safety in treading enforcements. supervisor campos: the want to take questions or do you want to add to what has been said? >> if it pleases the board, we're happy to take questions. supervisor campos: why don't we turn it over to president chiu? president chiu: overtime has affected different apartments for many years. elected officials may come and go but this is something your department has not been able to get a handle on for a long time: so if we could try to drill down a little on that. do you know with other jurisdictions: are the best practices and what are good agencies doing to manage overtime? how did the percentages compared to what we've got here? >> in our system, and this amplifies to some of what was said earlier, over time is not a four-letter word, if you will, in transit because especially the service plans driven by the amount of service and operators and applied the work rules and we have the ability to have someone working 12 hour day. the nature of our business is rei

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. >> the especially now that haley barbour is out. >> and john huntsville the former governor of utahambassador for the obama administration to china look for his name to pop in the field for week to ten days. >> there are a whole lot of conservatives who aren't so excite abouted him. >> you can understand why. >> they say that the guy is switching. >> and onto the white house correspondent's dinner, there was a highlight reel this deep from last night. >> a lot of funny stuff going on there. >> and here is just one much them. president obama taking on donald trump who was there. and he may have given one of the best correspondent's dinner speeches in years. >> and say what you will about mr. trump, he certainly would bring some change to the white house. see what we've got up there. (laughter) >> there he goes and that's just one of the many-- >> that was tame. very tame. >> he conspired, he talked about donald trump had to make some tough decisions as president and as president, he'd of course have to deal with lil john and meatloaf. >> and decided to fire gary busey. >> and took ai

obama was tied with john edwards and gore at this time, during that period. so so much happens. even this week we can tell, haley barbour dropped out of the race. that is already is starting to remake the field. and i also think i'm not sure donald trump is going to run. either he is facing the prospect that he was a democrat for all those years. gave money to -- >> chris: registered democrat in 2008. >> exactly. gave majority of his money to democrats. i'm not sure that he, when push comes to shove and he has to release financials about his business dealings and when more starts coming out in the press about his business dealings, i'm not sure he is going to run. >> chris: bill, as we sit here today on sunday, romney has not decided whether or not he is going to participate in the fox debate on thursday. but, you know, you look at the numbers and he is largely stayed under the radar. he hasn't really gotten involved. he hasn't come on any of the sunday talk shows. he is doing just fine. he is at this point maybe by default, the leader so is his strategy the right strategy? or should he be out more, engaging mor

haley said there's a time and place for newt gingrich. is his time up? >> is his time now? >> he's been out of office for 12 years. john quincy adams was out for 17 years before he became president. but he's john quincy adams. newt gingrich's problems are so bar beyond his multiple marriages. his ethanol love affair. on the 7th of march he said let's get gadhafi and then on the 27th said i never favored intervention. he did it on television. one of the people who said to understand barack obama you need to understand his kenyan, anti-colonial mentality. >> i want to go -- i think one of the other interesting thing s you talk about, he's the idea person. talk to anybody about newt gingrich. even before they jump in, he's going to set the policy table for republicans, the person who is a bigger threat is actually paul ryan. paul ryan has become the idea generator for the republican party. he's now the new face with the new ideas, and he's the one sort of forced the republicans. >> the policy agenda is not him. that's the policy. and, you know, the whole question of, oh, we don't like our candidates and all of that. that