organization has been supporting munimobile for 40 years. that's a lot of directors. when i first met ed reiskin eight years ago, the only thing he asked, the only thing we asked is that he be honest with us, tell us where he agreed, where he didn't, what might be possible, what wasn't. in other words, open communication and fair dealing. it sounds pretty basic, but it hasn't often been true in the past. with ed, it was. we accomplished a lot of positive things, but i will not enumerate now. we appreciate that. and though we focus on munimobile's cable cars and historic streetcars and buses in our organization's work, we are passionate about the success of sfmta as a whole. we have been transit first advocates for decades, and we know a lot about how sfmta works , and sometimes, why it doesn't work, as well as we would all like. that is why we would like to thank ed for his leadership in every area of sfmta's responsibilities. you, as a board, i've made an excellent choice and tom maguire as interim director. you face a daunting decision in finding a permanent directo

i am living in soma and i am a daily munimobile rider. when the embarcadero freeway was demolished, rose knew it was an opportunity to get central subway for the chinatown community. whether it is leading the efforts of gathering over 10,000 signatures in support of attending community meetings or city hall hearings, her presence was instrumental. without rose there, there will be no central subway. we should all support the naming of chinatown rose pak station to commemorate this female warrior in our community. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i'm sorry, i have to report a situation. the names that you called, the sheriff will not allow them to come in. >> we're working on that. thank you. >> if people's names have been called, they should be allowed in. >> hello, we are a group of four people. >> please state your name. you have a name -- you have a minute. we are a group, so we will stay continuously. we understand you are under pressure to make a decision today on the naming of the chinatown new subway stat

hopefully we will still see you writing munimobile to work every day. we are clearly grateful to paul because he started nine years ago. when he think about where the agency has been over the last nine years, we have been through leadership changes, political changes, but he has been a real constant and somebody who helped me and many other people find our voices with respect to the media and he gets our story out there. he has a large number of family matters with him here today so hopefully we will be able to spend more time with him not be taking those calls in the middle of the night from people like me and the press. i would like to ask you to join me in recognizing -- recognizing him. was pause -- [applause] >> thank you very much for the honor. i want to point out i do have my family in the entire front row and kind of going into the second row. i really appreciate their support in allowing me to do this job and take on this adventure. i have two people who want to introduce themselves, though. >> i'm link in, his son. >> i'm brooklyn, his daught

take a cable car, take munimobile, walk, bike. so we initially screened a range of alternatives against the goals of using that data. first using price only, but with no cost, a free reservation and a couple combinations of the two the only concept was for them to require a paid reservation to drive down the street. having advanced the paved reservation concept, we wanted to advance details about how that would work. we identify the potential for fully automated system, sort of like how tools are collected on the golden gate bridge. we also wanted to evaluate using people on the street to enforce the program. if anyone has been here recently , this is how they check their parking reservations that have been enforced for the last two years. it also has the potential to be a faster and simpler way to implement and also be more visitor friendly. based on community feedback, the data we collected, we develop two options. one that was automated and enforced 24/7, and another that was only operational during the period that we saw peak

events, so that we will be able to sufficiently move people out and connect them to the rest of the munimobile system as well as other regional connections -- connectors, and eventually the trains will go into the central subway. in order to complete the construction on the platforms, it will take testing, and we will do the final track concrete and paving work. we will have the best substitution on the tee third starting on july 27th. i believe that is a saturday, and it will last approximately ten days. so one workweek, and we will have the line of services suspended during this time to facilitate the work, and then we will have the platform open, and all the new infrastructure that was put in place up and ready and in-service at the beginning of august, well in advance of the first chase center event in september. the final stretch there, anyone who has been down third street on the tee recently, you will see it is just about done. the other big construction project is set to begin construction this summer. this is a project that we've talked about a lot here. you legislated it some point l

we had a little snafu with munimobile. the staff person that is in charge of it left and you know how long it takes to rehire a staff member. so the artwork has been worked on, and we're just waiting for them to have a staff person who is going to put them on. inside buses, inside trains, and then on some of the bus stops, you know how the bus stops have -- >> yeah. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> any other questions? >> i did have a question. i want to say thank you, as well , but i notice that there's currently 2,494 certificate of preference holders that have not been reached out to you. has your agency considered reaching out to genealogy companies and stuff like that to locate and identify -- >> you mean genealogy like ancestry.com? >> not necessarily. there are genealogy groups out there specifically. there are once within the african-american community, and you are also looking at 78% of african-american people who are certificate holders. when you're talking about seven cisco displacement, we're talking about people

she knew its construction would be more than just another munimobile line, it would be a lifeline for chinatown, a lifeline for commerce, cultural exchange, and connections for years to come. voting today in favor of the name chinatown rose pak station is a way for san francisco to both symbolically and specifically continue her work towards making chinatown truly thrive. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is donald. i grew up in chinatown and i have a professional office inside chinatown. i'm also on -- i'm also a board of director of the san francisco chinese chamber of commerce. i'm here in support of the resolution of naming the central subway station to chinatown rose pak station. rose dedicated her life to the community. she fought so hard to keep chinatown what it is today, affordable housing, affordable businesses, and fighting to keep healthcare within chinatown chinese hospital. she thought for this station. there's no doubt about it. that is a fact. i encourage you to look at her contribution to the community and her dedication, her life dedication to

sustainable streets and in the other agency staff, it turns from a capital project into parts of the munimobile system. nadeem started yesterday, and he relieved albert ho who graciously agreed to serve as interim central subway project director, somewhat against his will, and i assured him that it will be for a brief time, and that was 18 months ago. he stepped in when john moved on to go to caltrain, and i was talking to him earlier, albert really helped navigate this project. it was some of the most difficult periods in the last year and a half, and he has done so ably and professionally, probably spent too much time at the expense of his own family. i know they will be glad to be getting him back. you will, of course, stay with the project, and i'm hoping he will stay until the end of the project, but i really want to thank him. he has been on the central subway for 15 years, nearly half of his long-time it -- long tenure with the city, and really has been a steady force throughout all of this. first with john leaving, with my leaving, albert will be the steady guy to support nadeem and the

the sitting county of san francisco has plumbers and electricians who work at munimobile and the p.u.c., and what have you, but that -- it is not like, somebody was promised a job, 750 of them to do something here in town, and then they think that is your career decision. that is just not the way it works in construction. people actually do work many jobs. that is just the major -- that is just the nature of construction. i would like to know how that works because people do have misconceptions about how, oh, boy, i got a job at, mother, and i will work there with the rest of my life. no, that is not the way it works you will go many places. i just wanted to put that in the record as a difference the difference between a permanent job versus the vagabond nature of the construction industry. >> thank you. any other comments? any public comment on this? >> thank you. >> this situation of clean power should be clarified once and for all. at one of my offices, supposedly -- [indiscernible] who do i pay? if i have problems, who do i call? if i have to upgrade electricity and bring higher po

assigned is essential, and also, i just wanted to mention that it would be better to coordinate with munimobile and sfusd because i think that can be perfected so more some more people are taking other transportation. >> thank you. >> commissioner mar? >> thank you. thank you for the presentation. it is really informative and exciting to see this program and the plans to enhance the program ahead. i just wanted to say, my daughter is entering high school in the fall, so i really understand firsthand the challenges that parents face in getting our kids to school and, you know, i must confess that throughout, after eighth grade or middle school, you know, either myself or my wife, you know, drove my daughter to school almost every single day, so i think, you know, really expanding our safe options, convenient options for cancer get -- parents to get their bids -- gives to school is important for so many reasons. that is also why i am now working on a transportation study with the t.a. and mda staff in the school district. look for to working closely with you on that. what opportunities for input

we hop on munimobile and go to clayton tower, we come to city hall, we visit the cable cars, but we don't have a postcard location in the portola, we don't have a monument to our particular history, to the part that our neighbours in their neighborhood has played in the city's broader history. what i am asking today is that you consider whether the children of our neighborhood deserve to have their history memorialized just assume the other parts of the city have been to add value for all in the city. the 770 woolsey site is unique and it is uniquely heralded. it is the last of its kind in the city. i think that it is a core part of our neighborhood's identity. it is a core part of what has brought us together as a neighborhood and it has a bright future. i think for the children of the neighborhood and for the children of the city to understand more deeply another aspect of their own safety's history. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners my family and i have been a longtime resident of the portola district for 50 or 60 years. sorry, i'm really passionate about this.