mr. reiskin and others to try to change the behavior and be more responsive on these issues. but it goes to heart the heart what we're trying to accomplish today, if you take on all of the criticism, if you take all of the heat and all of the concerns, but yet you have no authority, you and say that over and over again, people don't understand that. it makes sense that we have limits authority that supervisor peskin had worked on back in 2007, and it seems this is the time to exercise that. but he acknowledged, and i do want to say the sf mta has definitely made some changes, and we're going to ask them to present on the changes today. through the chair -- >> supervisor tang: supervisor peskin, do you have a statement? >> supervisor peskin: i want to say that proposition a, which only could have gotten on the ballot by the board of supervisors, actually created another legislative brank ch o government. so when we gave the mta commission or i should say the voters gave the mta commission the ability to legislate, that was a pretty amazing thing. i mean, it's very rare that a

mr. reiskin -- and i appreciate that he is following the spirit and the letter of the law, it takes six to eight to ten months. so the 60 day hard stop is not going to be the end of the world. and i insofar as i still have the floor, i have another question for the city attorney. >> supervisor tang: go ahead. >> supervisor peskin: so the other question has to do with the definition of a final sf mta decision, and i note that at page three, starting at line 14, the words changes in operating structure as it relates to private transportation programs is stricken, and insofar as the main thrust of my interest in this legislation really resolves around, and director reiskin agrees with having legislative surprise -- supervisory oversight over that policy. i'm wondering if it would be stricken and b i'm wondering if that body can still get to those issues in pilot programs or other ways. i wanted to give that to counsel to answer. >> deputy city attorney jon givner again. the reason it's to line it up is the authority that the charter gives to the board. so the abort that's the authority to rev

mr. reiskin. >> want totor off by recognizing a number of our employees the. first i'd like to ask our finance and budget employ director to come forward. >> good afternoon, director. at the scene ae with great pleasure i give this award to lee zhang. she started her career in 1996, she's got more than 22 years of experience. she is single handedly the person that handles the budget for us. so you give us kudos, but this is really the person that handled the budget behind the scenes for us. she's incredible at supporting the department's questions. if any of you have any questions on-line items, lee's the one to go to. she has developed the share point system and created on-line production of budget which used to be done manually, so thask terrific this last couple of years. her quality is work is incredible, and she has incredible work ethic. if i give lee something, i never have to check back. it's always done, so she's just incredible, incredible detail person. that's what we need for the budget, and she single handedly brings the budget to balance every tw

mr. reiskin. i appreciate your response. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor sheehy? >> supervisor sheehy: again, on the crossing guards, are we sure that 20 will be enough? i know in my district, i walked with a mother at school drop off at fair oaks and 24 who had been run over with her five-year-old daughter. both of them had been hit by a car. so in that reality, this is just a small part of your budget. it's 2.2 million. we went and we opened sanchez school with mayor lee -- everett school on sanchez, everybody was out, watch for kids, and they were a crossing guard down, and i don't think they've ever been filled. i heard supervisor fewer say there were a number of schools in her district that don't have crossing guards. i just -- i feel like -- it would be great to know that every school -- i guess what i'm looking for is a commitment that every school in the city that needs crossing guards will have crossing guards. i mean that's what i'm really looking for. and if you overbudget, and you don't need as many as you might need, but so many schools -- like, the s

director reiskin, the green zones that mr. haley mentioned, do we have a program about where those would be? i do think that the call for equity on those is a really good one because there are certain neighborhoods that are much more impacted by the buses that are going through. >> that's absolutely our intent with these. if we didn't include in the staff report or resolution but that's our omission but that's absolutely the intent. i think we can make a very direct connection to those areas that are impacted by bad air quality, such as baby owners point and the mission. we do have zero emission vehicles serving some of those areas. we are looking at deployment of the green zones, the clean zones, clean green zones in those neighborhoods so absolutely. >> chairman brinkman: do you think that we need to move this resolution forward right now? we are saying by 2025 we will be buying only electric and that will put us all electric by 2035 and the questions we seem to be getting is if we are buying buses will we be buying buses in

reiskin: here. >> sesay? >>is present. >> vice chair gee? >> vice chair gee: present. >> director davis just walked in and joined us. with that mr.rum. the next item is item 3, board of communications. i'm not aware of any. >> chair nuru: i would just like to say over the weekend i saw a light security at some of the job fairs and they were out trying to hire guards for the transbay so it was really great

mr. chairman. there is david kilpail, followed by herbert wiener. >> so followed by two speakers? >> yes. >> so if i may, director reiskin, i have a few questions, and then we'll turn to the members of the public. on the state ard with a, on the lrp vehicles, i know we had a -- state award, on the lrp vehicles, does the fact that we didn't get this award in the full amount affect that plan or are we still on -- on course to have that number of lrv's coming on-line the next several years? >> so the service changes that go into effect this coming june that have been approved by this board will be able to go into effect 'cause we have the -- the first 24 vehicles are fully funded, and what we were seeking was funding for the balance of the option of 40 additional vehicles, and right now we are short by about 14 vehicles or about $85 million, so we -- this is a -- kind of hot off the press, and while we weren't necessarily expecting to get every penny of what we requested, we thought certainly for the light rail vehicle ask, we thought we would get closer to the full amount that we've requested. and we twice previously appli

reiskin: here. >> sesay? >>is present. >> vice chair gee? >> vice chair gee: present. >> director davis just walked in and joined us. with that mr. chairman you have a quorum. the next item is item 3, board of communications. i'm not aware of any. >> chair nuru: i would just like to say over the weekend i saw a light security at some of the job fairs and they were out trying to hire guards for the transbay so it was really great to see them and really trying to reach out to the local communities to get people to come and help with the transbay. i thought that was a good thing. >> that's great. next item, item 4, board of director's new and old business. i'm also not aware of any. item five. >> good morning, directors. at the last board meeting we reported an executive site meeting scheduled with ac transit to assess the construction progress and determine the next steps needed to start bus training. the meeting went very well. we'll provide you with a more detailed update in the construction update later in the agenda. in regards to the status of the documents the federal transit administration is still performing their final rev