mr. reiskin. i'm betsy eddie and i'm honoured to serve as the president of the diamond heights community association. our board is delighted to be in support of the two new stop signs that m.t.a. went to install at diamond heights boulevard and diamond where it comes up the hill. we appreciate that your staff assessed the safety of the intersection, actually wrote to mr. reiskin, describing the safety concerns at the intersection. and we also appreciate supervisor sheehy's advocacy for the stop signs as well. it was just on the december 23rd weekend that there was an accident, a serious accident at this intersection. a speeder rear ended a car with a family in it. the car went into 5401 diamond heights boulevard. i was an injury accident. so we hope these stop signs, they're really going to be so important because it could possibly stop accidents like this. and the all-ways stop now will preside a much safer intersection for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists and will provide a much smoother traf

mr. reiskin. >> good afternoon. madam chair, members of the board. we had, i guess, ancient history in item 15. this is much more recent history. i assumed when i got here today and saw the room full, people were here for this item, but perhaps i was mistaken. so we have just today, i guess, released the annual report. it is on our website. cristen smith, our marketing manager who oversees the website is putting together the annual report which is a lot of work by a lot of people of trying to capture in a readable and usable format a ton of work done by a ton of people over the last fiscal year. and although they said it's the fiscal year 2017 annual report, it does actually bleed into fiscal year 18, so you'll see some things that happened in the second half of calendar year 2017 in the report. the report is on-line, and i want to encourage folks to dive into it. there's a lot of good information in there, a lot of kind of personal stories. it's not just that numbers and statistics. what i'm going to do for you today and for the benefit of the publi

mr. reiskin. i live at the corner of mirabel street, at the intersection of coso, mirabel, and lundy's lane. i can see all the traffic issues that have faced our neighborhood which i've known for many years. i just want to go on the record as saying it kind of breaks my heart to see good people pitted against each other over this issue in a process that's been very involved. we have one of the most progressive zip codes in our city, and i think we would all make whatever effort we can to make sure that teachers, etcetera, and nonprofits can afford to keep living and working in our neighborhood. i do want to go on the record as supporting the permit parking as the best based attempt in an imperfect world that we're living in. i just want to speak to the traffic testifying in our neighborhood. the red carpet made things worse. it's also the ride sharing in other things. we did write there reiskin about this in august of 2016, and we have been collaborating with his team members and staff since then

mr. reiskin do we have a member of staff that can answer the question for the work that's been done for this dollar amount and the work that remains to be done? >> yeah. and answer twlrnlts information on the website about the project is up to date. >> certainly. let me give an overview and i do have staff here. a lot of good questions and i want to join and convey my condolences to you? er the loss. with regard to this contract, i first want to say that a lot of what ultimately drove our decision to change the schedule and ultimately the rebid was driven on its impact community operations and the people that it serves so that was very much on the forefront of this decision process. we'll be bringing an item to you in february with a new contract where the service plan has been thoroughly thought through. lots of conversations we've had with various stakeholders on that and so you will see that all reflected in february as the going-forward plan. with regard to what was done, a large majority of the expenditure was for materials so the rails that mr. pillpel mentioned which i thought had bee

reiskin. and director sartipi. and chair nuru. >> present. >> clerk: mr. chairman, you have a quorum. go ahead and call your next item. item 3 is communications and i understand that the chair has something -- >> chair mohammed nuru: so i think that everyone is mourning the passing of the mayor in the last few days and i know that for me it's been difficult because he was not only a boss but a close friend of mine, but more importantly he was a champion of this project. when i joined the board there were a lot of financial needs and concerns and trying to make sure that we got the project to the way that it is now and we were able to finish it and through his leadership, really stepped up and did everything on behalf of the city. to make sure that the city could do its part. of recent, i mean, we've had closed discussions about the asidelinement and what should -- alignment and what would happen with phase two and i think that we should take a moment of silence to mourn him. thank you. >> clerk: we'll move into the next item on the agenda. board of directors new business. seeing none,