the goals mta has have not been met in our case. in october of last year the cta and mta put out a eir that was over 700 pages long with a disk that contained another 8,000 pages and referenced 4 different alternatives for building a bart system. these were first shown to everybody in that forum in october. they had a meeting on november 5 at saint mary pfs and it was public comment. did they take public comment? no because nobody was allowed to make a question or comment. their idea of outreach to small business is very strange. the problem i think they have is they think if in the process of trying to think through alternatives to what they build, they brought a whole different sets of plans and ideas to people in the neighborhood that that would be sufficient even though they were not reaching out to what was the final product they thought was best. so, we have found very few, very few merchants along that area from masonic west to the end of the system which is point [inaudible] we have found very few merchants who know anything

the goals mta has have not been met in our case. in october of last year the cta and mta put out a eir that was over 700 pages long with a disk that contained another 8,000 pages and referenced 4 different alternatives for building a bart system. these were first shown to everybody in that forum in october. they had a meeting on november 5 at saint mary pfs and it was public comment. did they take public comment? no because nobody was allowed to make a question or comment. their idea of outreach to small business is very strange. the problem i think they have is they think if in the process of trying to think through alternatives to what they build, they brought a whole different sets of plans and ideas to people in the neighborhood that that would be sufficient even though they were not reaching out to what was the final product they thought was best. so, we have found very few, very few merchants along that area from masonic west to the end of the system which is point [inaudible] we have found very few merchants who know anything

in terms of mta on mission street when we did have votes people were so angry and mta would not talk to us. they would say, just vote. just vote. well, we're concerned about your concerns. so finally somebody said, how about having a thing where it says, no -- we do not want to vote on any project. send it all the way back. the amount of people that voted send it back was way over people that voted on cumulatively all the projects. and they said, we spent so much time and money on this, this is what we think you really need. and we said no, we don't want it, it's going to ruin mission street. so let's fast forward to all of a sudden they are rolling out their new plan. oh, heck yeah, we're going to cut busses, we're going to make it faster, we're going to do this and that. well, the two minutes that they whooped and hollered over in the mission was, guess what? they eliminated half the stops. these are long blocks and i'm handicapped myself, i have titanium knees. so i'm not, i walk because i have to. i just had the disks in my knees replaced a second time. so i can walk but there's

we have greg from mta here? morning commissioners greg with the mta and project manager the corridor multi level improvement project i'm the manager once that gets going and yeah to answer any questions to the sf funding and recently returned on a pedestrian scramble on kearney and craig with the interests in the community so, yeah i'm excited and saw it turned on the scramble and two other sgshgsz to the north with leading pedestrian integrals and pedestrian improvements i wanted to recognize my colleagues greg in the municipal transportation agency and is important to give her and other communities members for pushing for the immediate pedestrian improvements a team member yeah here to answer questions we're looking to kickoff the larger corridor project soon through the planning and design effort and the intent to do similar low cost quick implementation pedestrian improvements and other mode improvements and in the corridor on montgomery street and working to get a goes to assist us with outreach and once we

. >> i want to thank, mta for helping us to confirm the data. we average an enormous amount of did you understand, in the 300 million, that we allocated, about 1.7 billion, and we will keep this up to date, if not monthly at least, quarterly on the website. the next allocation is for a merry go round that is happening that you have seen in the board of supervisors where the mta is planning to vacation, 1401, which will become the new location for the an monthly care and for that happen, the long term project is happening at a quick pace and that is renovating the facility, and the project right now, the building as essential warehouse for like main nens and they ship them out to the other shops as-needed from here and about half of the building will be renovated to be more efficient and effective for that central warehouse function and the other half will be wrote troe fitted to have the over lines, and which is currently working on the 1401, bryant location, and the 4.4, million in prop k funds recommended and most of the rest, of the cost will

so wills has been with us at mta for 5 and a half years as an enter and intern to join the mta will is about recognized for his commitment to the city's goals and mta and for the accomplishment will the the kind of person it comes in early and in we understand and checks out the projects even when he's off the clock he's a real quiet force within the division but his technical ensure to earn the trust of his colleagues and supervisors a great asset for mta and liveable streets with the fire department and planning department and others in the terrain informative he's worked through a challenging part with templates for all the fire trucks and fire engines to prove to the engineers that we do all this great stuff and traffic calming part of our navigation of the city his work and dedication to stay at the table and challenging conversations helped united states to build the trust and worked on division student and public works and caltrans to make sure the projects with cost effective and minimal go disruptive but achievement and designed the streets for protecting the intersection we b

i see mta changes and effecting day time business. we have [inaudible] in the neighborhood that is we are just seeing less pedestrians and people come toog the neighborhood. they are avoiding mission street and want people to know that we are there and they should come back to mission street. like it is really important. if all the businesses geaway because it is easier for them to geto the different neighborhoods it will be a sad day. i also have been trying to get left hand turn signals at 29th and vulinsia to that a important to the neighborhood. safety a big issue. on 29th street i walk that to go to work every single day and when it is raining and seen a bus go through the intersection because the red paint that is painted is very very slippery. so that feel like a real danger my community. the paint they are choosing isn't safe for the buses to stop and pedestrians to feel safe whait is raining. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> [inaudible] lutineo cultural district and one of the first things i noticed in the pre

the board of supervisors then sf mta. since we're the newest commission we're third in line for broadcasting at the same time on tuesdays. we will follow-up. we will work and follow-up with sf gov and follow-up with mr. james as well. >> okay. >> next item, please. >> the next order of business ten, closed session. no closed session items. the next order of business is item eleven, adjournment. the mee>> the meeting is adjourd 2:15. thank you. san francisco san francisco san francisco rules committee rules committee >> i believe was just mailed to supervisors. i'm pleased to submit this letter of support for (unintelligible) candidacy. working as a lone female scientist. doctor (unintelligible) has demonstrated over 40 years of research. special focus on increasing female participation. (unintelligible) an at risk teenage girls have receive mentorship since 2008. has received national geographic explorer -- written extensively about the eucalyptus tree, a tree with importance to our city. honored as a fulbright senior spe

and i am joined here today by the project manager for this project from the mta. the radio project is intended to modernize the system, the systems that are in place now are 30 years old and as you know, in this age in which technology becomes obsolete, muni is forced to be working with the technology that is for the 70s. and the project is a lot more than just radio. the video, is treated in the back bone, but it is used to overlay transportation systems such as the vehicle, health monitoring and the vehicle locater and incident management and then such that are intended to improve the service and the defend bltd of the system. the project is being delivered by the sample contract. which was award inned 2012. to the heritage corporation. and right now, the project is in the study and the investing stage and that testing is under way. and they are hoping to start with the vehicle equipment installation in june. and those vehicles will start in september. and finally, the fleet, will take place between january and march. the budget as we see here is $126 million. a

. >> i want to thank, mta for helping us to confirm the data. we average an enormous amount of did you understand, in the 300 million, that we allocated, about 1.7 billion, and we will keep this up to date, if not monthly at least, quarterly on the website. the next allocation is for a merry go round that is happening that you have seen in the board of supervisors where the mta is planning to vacation, 1401, which will become the new location for the an monthly care and for that happen, the long term project is happening at a quick pace and that is renovating the facility, and the project right now, the building as essential warehouse for like main nens and they ship them out to the other shops as-needed from here and about half of the building will be renovated to be more efficient and effective for that central warehouse function and the other half will be wrote troe fitted to have the over lines, and which is currently working on the 1401, bryant location, and the 4.4, million in prop k funds recommended and most of the rest, of the cost will

. >> i want to thank, mta for helping us to confirm the data. we average an enormous amount of did you understand, in the 300 million, that we allocated, about 1.7 billion, and we will keep this up to date, if not monthly at least, quarterly on the website. the next allocation is for a merry go round that is happening that you have seen in the board of supervisors where the mta is planning to vacation, 1401, which will become the new location for the an monthly care and for that happen, the long term project is happening at a quick pace and that is renovating the facility, and the project right now, the building as essential warehouse for like main nens and they ship them out to the other shops as-needed from here and about half of the building will be renovated to be more efficient and effective for that central warehouse function and the other half will be wrote troe fitted to have the over lines, and which is currently working on the 1401, bryant location, and the 4.4, million in prop k funds recommended and most of the rest, of the cost will

of weeks so parking operators and shuttle buses and other airport transportation and transit at the mta and security janitorial services at the port you can certainly talk about them as the departments come up and typically new authorized 0 prop j has been of more interest and contentious but this is continuing services that have been contracted for many years. >> okay. thank you mr. rosenfeld colleagues, any questions on item 7? okay by the way, we'll save public comment until the end so with that, we're to go start with our very well hearings and we have 13 today so why want get going we'll start off with the unified school district i believe either mr. rosenfeld or the unified school district was one of each i believe if you're not ready we can certainly move to a different one >> yes. good morning a very small appropriation from the city's budget in the unified school district and this is for the county of office of education every county has a county of education provides technical support for the district this is the county of san francisco support it is unchanged to many years. >

on the mta said, a lot of these functions were performed by my team at the mta, but now it's up to motivate to perform these functions. but we spent a lot of time last year working on contacting and we served out largely a coronations and review quality assurance, quality control and support for the station design an outreach from my group is in charge of all of the permitting which sounds very simple, but nothing is simple. in san francisco. so where's you might be able to get a station permit in a daze in summer like not san jose might take 90 days in san francisco. there's a lot of stuff level review and intra-agency review and intra-agency review and ultimately a series of permits will be issued to motivate to deploy the equipment on the street. so, right now were in the process we've chosen the locations for the 60 or 70 new stations in the first wave were beginning to review the first designs have entered into our approval process and ultimately will be issuing permits the summer. and into the fall. then, also on outreach, that's primarily motivates response ability, but we have a lot

so wills has been with us at mta for 5 and a half years as an enter and intern to join the mta will is about recognized for his commitment to the city's goals and mta and for the accomplishment will the the kind of person it comes in early and in we understand and checks out the projects even when he's off the clock he's a real quiet force within the division but his technical ensure to earn the trust of his colleagues and supervisors a great asset for mta and liveable streets with the fire department and planning department and others in the terrain informative he's worked through a challenging part with templates for all the fire trucks and fire engines to prove to the engineers that we do all this great stuff and traffic calming part of our navigation of the city his work and dedication to stay at the table and challenging conversations helped united states to build the trust and worked on division student and public works and caltrans to make sure the projects with cost effective and minimal go disruptive but achievement and designed the streets for protecting the intersection we b

of weeks so parking operators and shuttle buses and other airport transportation and transit at the mta and security janitorial services at the port you can certainly talk about them as the departments come up and typically new authorized 0 prop j has been of more interest and contentious but this is continuing services that have been contracted for many years. >> okay. thank you mr. rosenfeld colleagues, any questions on item 7? okay by the way, we'll save public comment until the end so with that, we're to go start with our very well hearings and we have 13 today so why want get going we'll start off with the unified school district i believe either mr. rosenfeld or the unified school district was one of each i believe if you're not ready we can certainly move to a different one >> yes. good morning a very small appropriation from the city's budget in the unified school district and this is for the county of office of education every county has a county of education provides technical support for the district this is the county of san francisco support it is unchanged to many years. >

so wills has been with us at mta for 5 and a half years as an enter and intern to join the mta will isognized for his commitment to the city's goals and mta and for the accomplishment will the the kind of person it comes in early and in we understand and checks out the projects even when he's off the clock he's a real quiet force within the division but his technical ensure to earn the trust of his colleagues and supervisors a great asset for mta and liveable streets with the fire department and planning department and others in the terrain informative he's worked through a challenging part with templates for all the fire trucks and fire engines to prove to the engineers that we do all this great stuff and traffic calming part of our navigation of the city his work and dedication to stay at the table and challenging conversations helped united states to build the trust and worked on division student and public works and caltrans to make sure the projects with cost effective and minimal go disruptive but achievement and designed the streets for protecting the intersection we believe is

i would strongly urge the planning department to be more i don't know what your confusions with the mta but i think that overall development strategy in the city consider this is as whole so not only housing everybody knows we need housing there is a lot of people moving to san francisco no question the question though to develop the housing and at the same time have a infrastructure that supports this housing and so far as i know, that i talk to believe we have not come to the solution so i strongly urge to consider this project in the context of the infrastructure that is available thank you >> good afternoon. i'm joe butler the architect i've been coming to the planning commission for thirty years it seems to me not a moment like this one there is an ifd a metal sheds building that plays a significant roll in the rebuilding by it's ability to frame steel building downtown with the after the 1906 san francisco earthquake mr. global patrick the owner the mills was the for man at the previous rolling mills at potrero point and served uninterrupted to the time he was given the material a

of weeks so parking operators and shuttle buses and other airport transportation and transit at the mta and security janitorial services at the port you can certainly talk about them as the departments come up and typically new authorized 0 prop j has been of more interest and contentious but this is continuing services that have been contracted for many years. >> okay. thank you mr. rosenfeld colleagues, any questions on item 7? okay by the way, we'll save public comment until the end so with that, we're to go start with our very well hearings and we have 13 today so why want get going we'll start off with the unified school district i believe either mr. rosenfeld or the unified school district was one of each i believe if you're not ready we can certainly move to a different one >> yes. good morning a very small appropriation from the city's budget in the unified school district and this is for the county of office of education every county has a county of education provides technical support for the district this is the county of san francisco support it is unchanged to many years. >

. >> i want to thank, mta for helping us to confirm the data. we average an enormous amount of did you understand, in the 300 million, that we allocated, about 1.7 billion, and we will keep this up to date, if not monthly at least, quarterly on the website. the next allocation is for a merry go round that is happening that you have seen in the board of supervisors where the mta is planning to vacation, 1401, which will become the new location for the an monthly care and for that happen, the long term project is happening at a quick pace and that is renovating the facility, and the project right now, the building as essential warehouse for like main nens and they ship them out to the other shops as-needed from here and about half of the building will be renovated to be more efficient and effective for that central warehouse function and the other half will be wrote troe fitted to have the over lines, and which is currently working on the 1401, bryant location, and the 4.4, million in prop k funds recommended and most of the rest, of the cost will

and i am joined here today by the project manager for this project from the mta. the radio project is intended to modernize the system, the systems that are in place now are 30 years old and as you know, in this age in which technology becomes obsolete, muni is forced to be working with the technology that is for the 70s. and the project is a lot more than just radio. the video, is treated in the back bone, but it is used to overlay transportation systems such as the vehicle, health monitoring and the vehicle locater and incident management and then such that are intended to improve the service and the defend bltd of the system. the project is being delivered by the sample contract. which was award inned 2012. to the heritage corporation. and right now, the project is in the study and the investing stage and that testing is under way. and they are hoping to start with the vehicle equipment installation in june. and those vehicles will start in september. and finally, the fleet, will take place between january and march. the budget as we see here is $126 million. a

state and we have recommended a watch for that as well and although we have been notified that the mta may be seeking an amendment to deal with one of the aspects that deals with the broken meters. and maybe, limit the period of time. ab 2602, on page 24 as well. deals with disabled parking plakers. and establishes a two-tiered system. and with distinguished by the disabilities that have severely limited the mobility. and i understand while we are recommending a watch, that the mta as well, is looking possibly to support that in the coming weeks. mr. lavine on page 37 of the matrix has sponsored abx124 and introduced in special session late in 2015. essentially. and it would convert the mtc from the current appointed body. to an elected body of and transition over a period of time. and it is already on the sync with the reality of the time and dates, because it has a date of 2016, for the current law with a new structure to go in place in 2017 and he has not been able to move his measure because it is in special session, and the special session has not convened for him to have the bill

so wills has been with us at mta for 5 and a half years as an enter and intern to join the mta will isbout recognized for his commitment to the city's goals and mta and for the accomplishment will the the kind of person it comes in early and in we understand and checks out the projects even when he's off the clock he's a real quiet force within the division but his technical ensure to earn the trust of his colleagues and supervisors a great asset for mta and liveable streets with the fire department and planning department and others in the terrain informative he's worked through a challenging part with templates for all the fire trucks and fire engines to prove to the engineers that we do all this great stuff and traffic calming part of our navigation of the city his work and dedication to stay at the table and challenging conversations helped united states to build the trust and worked on division student and public works and caltrans to make sure the projects with cost effective and minimal go disruptive but achievement and designed the streets for protecting the intersection we bel

the mta has adopted a free muni program for youth, seniors and disabled persons. service performance improvement for low-income transit in the community and to the adoption of the transportation 2030 recommendations -- policy to build 50 into our transportation system to end all severe traffic injuries by 2024. preventing severe end of the crashes on our street and (unintelligible) behavior on the road. --- on page 2, line 18, inserting quote -- expand services to fully utilize these resources and provide transit services and -- and on page 19. inserting whereas (unintelligible). and then finally on page 3, line 3, inserting "including priorities that emerge after the task force convenes -- safety." --- i want to thank in addition to supervisor avalos, the mta and the petition authority for working closely with my office and with the community to really fine-tune a good expenditure plan. having a good extent of the plan for transit service, vision 0, for roads, for regional, for our commitment is important in terms of spending funds wisely. --- after the public co

on the mta said, a lot of these functions were performed by my team at the mta, but now it's up to motivate to perform these functions. but we spent a lot of time last year working on contacting and we served out largely a coronations and review quality assurance, quality control and support for the station design an outreach from my group is in charge of all of the permitting which sounds very simple, but nothing is simple. in san francisco. so where's you might be able to get a station permit in a daze in summer like not san jose might take 90 days in san francisco. there's a lot of stuff level review and intra-agency review and intra-agency review and ultimately a series of permits will be issued to motivate to deploy the equipment on the street. so, right now were in the process we've chosen the locations for the 60 or 70 new stations in the first wave were beginning to review the first designs have entered into our approval process and ultimately will be issuing permits the summer. and into the fall. then, also on outreach, that's primarily motivates response ability, but we have a lot

. >> i was incorrect been a lot of on behalf of self-mta. >> my apologies. >> ray no problem i have auick presentation i'll pull this up. >> on behalf of the real estate this is something the idea of users public housing is a goal we support and i know as a city agency with the land throughout the city in addressing the housing crisis one of the challenges we face is the fact we have a different property in different locations and first step is reilly coming up with crepe to determine which properties are culpable that teresa discussed and for ourselves given we have such a core important function providing the transportation services the first criteria we had was the current function and operation of the site not from a - and in certain that instances looking at did potential to enhance the transportation and the ability through substance from the development on those sites we looked at the potential for that new generation as well as others site constraint zoning and from the transit use facility those were outlined in 2013 there the division report implemented in 2014 some of the c

. >> i was incorrect been a lot of on behalf of self-mta. >> my apologies. >> ray no problem i have auick presentation i'll pull this up. >> on behalf of the real estate this is something the idea of users public housing is a goal we support and i know as a city agency with the land throughout the city in addressing the housing crisis one of the challenges we face is the fact we have a different property in different locations and first step is reilly coming up with crepe to determine which properties are culpable that teresa discussed and for ourselves given we have such a core important function providing the transportation services the first criteria we had was the current function and operation of the site not from a - and in certain that instances looking at did potential to enhance the transportation and the ability through substance from the development on those sites we looked at the potential for that new generation as well as others site constraint zoning and from the transit use facility those were outlined in 2013 there the division report implemented in 2014 some of the c

jibbed the government his resume i called up michael burns the general manager of the muni and the mtaould you vince is politically will be hire him he said i tried to hire him and couldn't get him to come to san jose that's one of the strongest endorsements and vince is about tremendous in the time i had the pleasure to work with him not just the expressive background and resume and criminals credentials but his manner the way the professional very even tempered with all the crazyness sometimes around the agency a steady solid presence with the project control system implemented within his division modernizing and keeping the big projected o projects moving forward and serving the demanding manager like john haley and the rest of the board is just such a strong presen not only in his executive team he'll tell you he's a kid from west oakland but a mentor and role model to a lot of folks we didn't blame him not wanting to commute 17 hours a day but certainly wish him the best and give him in special heavy duty mta you've earned that plaque. >> (clapping.) >> mr. harris on behalf of the

the city department, police department, mta, dph, rec and park and no one could tell what thatual be. in jan we got a figure that appears to be about 4 and $4 and a half million less than the expenditures that happened. there was no line items in the budget of the departments to say what the cost will be for the super bowl but the over time cost were dramatic and increased cost for super bowl were dramatic. i have no choice but to vote for this because if we dont support we scr a hole in the budget related to ovtime but the bigger hole is how to go through the budget process to be much more strong and much less conservative to make cuts in the departments where they can't squirrel away money to make their own initiatives like the super bowl that have huge impacts on every day san franciscan's and neighborhoods far from where these avents occur lose out while the neighborhoodss or financial district get a lot of money from tourism and people spending money at these events. this is a clear example where our city is support the top 1 percent. the corporation jz hotel chain jz left our ne

is getting that put together i don't know the delays it's up to mta. >> thank you mr. sanchez. >> okay. ready for public comment then. >> first speaker please step forward public comment. >> good evening, commissioners my name is john i'm a citizen the san francisco and appointed by the mayor to the board of supervisors to represent the public safety of seniors and people with disabilities there are particular points of interest that seniors and people with disabilities have with the use of cell phones and the frequency of the cell phones receiving the towers particularly under consideration for 4r5078d street i feel that is very important that it be development on that tower particularly for any concern for the ability for the residents of that neighborhood seniors and people with disabilities to have access to communication devices so they can notify their family and friends and medical care provider where they're at the second point it is evident not combruk u obstruct the view from the windows and fits the dimensions of 14 inches in diameter and not obstruct the vi

. >> i was incorrect been a lot of on behalf of self-mta. >> my apologies. >> ray no problem i have auick presentation i'll pull this up. >> on behalf of the real estate this is something the idea of users public housing is a goal we support and i know as a city agency with the land throughout the city in addressing the housing crisis one of the challenges we face is the fact we have a different property in different locations and first step is reilly coming up with crepe to determine which properties are culpable that teresa discussed and for ourselves given we have such a core important function providing the transportation services the first criteria we had was the current function and operation of the site not from a - and in certain that instances looking at did potential to enhance the transportation and the ability through substance from the development on those sites we looked at the potential for that new generation as well as others site constraint zoning and from the transit use facility those were outlined in 2013 there the division report implemented in 2014 some of the c

the board of supervisors then sf mta. since we're the newest commission we're third in line for broadcasting at the same time on tuesdays. we will follow-up. we will work and follow-up with sf gov and follow-up with mr. james as well. >> okay. >> next item, please. >> the next order of business ten, closed session. no closed session items. the next order of business is item eleven, adjournment. the mee>> the meeting is adjourd 2:15. thank you. >> the office of controllers whistle blower program is how city employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in city government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of city government that. >> you can below the what if anything, by assess though the club program website arrest call 4147 or 311 and stating you wishing to file and complaint point controller's office the charitable program also accepts complaints by e-mail or 0 folk you can file a complaint or provide contact information seen by whistle blower investigates some ex

on the mta said, a lot of these functions were performed by my team at the mta, but now it's up to motivate perform these functions. but we spent a lot of time last year working on contacting and we served out largely a coronations and review quality assurance, quality control and support for the station design an outreach from my group is in charge of all of the permitting which sounds very simple, but nothing is simple. in san francisco. so where's you might be able to get a station permit in a daze in summer like not san jose might take 90 days in san francisco. there's a lot of stuff level review and intra-agency review and intra-agency review and ultimately a series of permits will be issued to motivate to deploy the equipment on the street. so, right now were in the process we've chosen the locations for the 60 or 70 new stations in the first wave were beginning to review the first designs have entered into our approval process and ultimately will be issuing permits the summer. and into the fall. then, also on outreach, that's primarily motivates response ability, but we have a lot of

able to look at those locations and get a quick fix in the ground within a certain time period, in mta time, it's pretty fast, so we would encourage the city to be look at these quick fix locations, 13th street eastbound was -- sorry, westbound that was something that was graelt to be put in and get a protected bike lane on where we knew people were getting hit and being killed during biking, so try to continue to do more and use this vision zero priority project list as a way to increase urgency on delivering on these critical safety projects. thanks. >> okay. come on up. >> good afternoon, commissioners, my name is john alex lull, i'm the senior member of the pedestrian safety advisory committee and i emphasize to you the need to have open dialogue with the state of california caltrans as it particularly relates to lum bard, van ness, segments of south van ness and mission street and slo*ep boulevard which a segment of it is also a state road, to have dialogue with caltrans relating release of funds and approval particularly for these high injury corridors. that's a strong component

and director of the mta ed riscon. let me tell you about our honored guest today. born in west field alabama in 19thry 1 willie mays junior was introduced to baseball. his professional career began in 1947 still in high cool. ofew short years later the new york ginets signed willie a minor league deal and made his major league debay in 1941. the next year the army drafted willie removing him from it game befr about a year and a half and returned to baseball in 1954 with a bang winning the mrp award and selected to the a l star team. in 1958 the giants franchise relocated to beautiful san francisco where willie spends most of his career. over 2 twenty-two seasons with the new york and san francisco giants and the new york mets the beloved say akid with 660 home runs won 12 gold glove awards and two mpv awars and played in 24 all star games. 1979 in his first year of eligibility he was elected to the baseball hall of fame. willie mays is one the greatest to ever play the beautiful game of baseball but equally impressive is his cairth. he is president of & ceo of say

the mta has adopted a free muni program for youth, seniors and disabled persons. service performance improvement for low-income transit in the community and to the adoption of the transportation 2030 recommendations -- policy to build 50 into our transportation system to end all severe traffic injuries by 2024. preventing severe end of the crashes on our street and (unintelligible) behavior on the road. --- on page 2, line 18, inserting quote -- expand services to fully utilize these resources and provide transit services and -- and on page 19. inserting whereas (unintelligible). and then finally on page 3, line 3, inserting "including priorities that emerge after the task force convenes -- safety." --- i want to thank in addition to supervisor avalos, the mta and the petition authority for working closely with my office and with the community to really fine-tune a good expenditure plan. having a good extent of the plan for transit service, vision 0, for roads, for regional, for our commitment is important in terms of spending funds wisely. --- after the public co

program at the state level the high speed rail authority was in the area and received a hearing with mta and caltrain to have the corridors up and down the peninsula and hearing from the colleagues if abag we're working in concert with the regional effort in many of our projects are performing well as suspected but we need to insure the policies and funding will be there to carry forward the projects picture the state active transportation program this is the a t p for bikes and vehicle this is the third cycle of 200 plus million dollars across the state and looking forward to help to refine their applications to get the community members across the city for more information contact our agency and also mta and public works that are will be sponsoring those projects a little bit more on the grim side of the state level the 2016 our state transportation improvement program is facing a fiscal year cliff funding and one of the projects on the list is lombard street on the 2016 list because of the inability to close $750 million gap statewide we're not able to - we'll have to move forward wit

>> yes, sir, that falls into mta and our jurisdiction for occupancy and additional street space if the boom crane is operating in the right of way. if it exceeds that or go into the the traffic lane because of the space requirements then they have to get a special traffic permit from mta as well, >> i assumethality chiry piger wasn't 3 tons and not under anybodys jurisdiction? >> i done know. >> was that yours? >> it is our jurisdiction. that is a rough crane fork lift and it exceeded the stability. they were picking up a potted tree. >> sounds about right. >> that was handled by the san francisco office and called into offer support for the investigation. it is required the operator have a license to operate that particular vehicle, he has to submit to a written test so the test is recorded and maintained. again, that is something that we title 8 requires and we caen be at every point where that is operated and that responsibility is referred to the employer who is putting that employee hopefully not in jeopardy but in a position to operate that >> they are subject to written test but

and director of the mta ed riscon. let me tell you about our honored guest today. born in west field alabama in 19thry 1 willie mays junior was introduced to baseball. his professional career began in 1947 still in high cool. ofew short years later the new york ginets signed willie a minor league deal and made his major league debay in 1941. the next year the army drafted willie removing him from it game befr about a year and a half and returned to baseball in 1954 with a bang winning the mrp award and selected to the a l star team. in 1958 the giants franchise relocated to beautiful san francisco where willie spends most of his

we reached out to mta to get a comment about the lawsuit. a spokesperson tells us they have yet to see the lawsuit. right now, they are not making a comment. that's the latest here in silver springs, sarah . >>> more trouble for metro. started with delays on the other than, blue and silver line, metro officials say there was a fire while a train involved in a track test became disabled. the test was being conduct on a, pa of track that had actually undergone weekend repairs. the fire was quickly extinguished and no one was hurt. >>> meantime crews working on maintenance issues. transit agency gm stopped by fox 5, paul weidefeld addressed the culture of safety, recent fires, arcing issues, his ambitious plan to get metro back on track. >> some of the base things are different and it's one of the thing i'm talking on is that we're going to have the to be single tracking for long periods of time, weeks at a time. that will have major impacts and we will have to do it during commuter periods. we will have to shut down between stations. five of t