i also do communicate with munimobile on twitter. i happen to have a twitter account. i happened to be okay with the whole world knowing what can occasions i'm having, where i'm getting on, where i am waiting for vehicle by myself, and maybe where i am waiting for a vehicle late at night, but one has to buy into that and be willing to do it to even have the direct interaction with the control center, as far as i understand. i don't think that is right. i don't know what the solution is. i understand that somewhere along the line someone had an idea that communicating with twitter would be cool and we're here in san francisco and there's a lot of people on twitter, but the people who are most reliant on your service aren't, and the people who are most vulnerable in our community are probably not the most interested in logging into a public network and a public social media network to talk to munimobile in a way that doesn't ever go away, about where they were, where they were going, and what they're waiting for, and what information they want. i don't know what the solu

permit, but the operator shortage is not unique to munimobile. it is something across the bay area and across the country where we are facing, but ours is worse because we were slow to react to it. >> and what impact are these reactions, the steps that you have put in place, what impact are you seeing on the backfilling of those roles, and what are you doing in the meantime to ensure reliability? >> what we started to see is a stabilization, so we were going, you know, fewer and fewer trips that were being delivered. we have now been able to stabilize and we are starting to see it eating away at our shortage. we have increased the cost sizes we were doing classes of about 25 to 30. we have a low class last december where we only got 14 people. our most recent free or four classes have started anywhere from 55 to 60 students. we're graduating between 40 and 45. we more than doubled the amount of people we are putting through the pipeline. we're doing our best to spread out the pain and make sure the routes that need the service the most would be h

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

it means that the reservoir project can contribute four minutes of delay on munimobile without it being significant. it is b.s. read it carefully. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i am with united public workers for action. i think we see today, already the results of your disastrous planning commission decisions. warrior stadium is a good example of that. you approved that without proper transit. violation of your rules and you did it because you are basically a kept commission, which represents the developers that's why all today you have been going along with whatever the developers want. you are saying to hell with the people of san francisco, it is okay to have more gridlock. this project at the balboa reservoir is a project that will destroy city college of san francisco. that's not in your plans, although that will be the result, to have massive construction and 1500 condos to prevent the college from developing. it will create chaos. you don't even give a damn about city college were the people of san francisco because you represent the developers. that is what i think

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

requires expertise from creative agencies and funding to make media buys such as advertising on munimobile buses, street web banners, billboards, essentially advertising at and in places places -- in places that have been identified as effective means to reach the public. the department is a very excited to launch the campaign and to continue to support the goal of the dignity fund, which is to make san francisco an aging and disability friendly city. thank you very much and i am happy to try to answer any questions you may have at this time. >> thank you. >> yes, i am looking at page four of the appendix and item number six, the grantee shall ensure etiquette and culturally competent staffing. i am just wondering, what kind of language that staff and volunteers have. >> this would be of the community connector. are you talking about the connector sites? it would be dependent on the neighborhood and maybe i will check in with marie and kate in terms of -- okay. yeah, absolutely. >> thank you. my name is patty, what i am with the community living campaign. i'm all for representing district

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

coal-fired power plant for the first street car in san francisco and has been owned and operated by munimobilese this building for the project for a number of reasons. one is we are not far from the existing animal care and control facility, san francisco spca is nearby, and it is a nice nexus to have in the center of the city. [♪] >> what we are doing is we are going seismic upgrading the building. it is un- -- and unreinforced masonry building. we are going to be installing floor prate -- floor plates across the space to put in all of the animal housing. >> we will be able to get our -- give our animals adequate space. we will also be separating our small animals into different rooms. right now we have reptiles and bunnies and birds, everyone all crammed in together. >> the tricky part of it is to find open space in this existing urban environment. we did that by inserting an open air courtyard, and also using the roof deck for another dog in small animal run. [♪] >> three, two, one! [cheering] [cheers and applause] >> when the new a.c.c. opens and two years, it will be incredible and we wil

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