chairman nolan: director oka? director oka: i have noticed on two or three occasions that people do not necessarily know that they should try it again, and it's still keeps being repeatedly, they should go to the operator. they just go and sit down. the operator does not do anything in that case. but i do think that becomes a problem, because the people do not realize, unless it beeped once, and how much are we doing to correct that, and is there a way to correct that? chairman nolan: thank you, director oka. do you want to respond to anything that director ramos brought up? >> that is a lot. i think it might be best to come back with more information on the issues that you have discussed. would that be a king approved >> -- would that be ok? >> we could come back with more information, we had what would appear to be a high failure rate of the onboard units. the data does not show it. it was part of the function of what was being measured as part of the functioning of the onboard unit. i think in practice, most pe

chairman nolan: thank you, director oka. do you want to respond to anything that director ramos brought up? >> that is a lot. i think it might be best to come back with more information on the issues that you have discussed. would that be a king approved >> -- would that be ok? >> we could come back with more information, we had what would appear to be a high failure rate of the onboard units. the data does not show it. it was part of the function of what was being measured as part of the functioning of the onboard unit. i think in practice, most people's experience was that it was a much higher failure rate than the chart showed, and i think the mta was losing revenue. but the software change that was made, i think it was in august, it pretty much solved that problem. it was a significant problem. the reports that we were getting from contractor as well as from the maintenance folks, it is that the failure problem has virtually gone away, and the percentage of those units that are working properly is very close to 100, and

chairman nolan: director oka? director oka: bicycle riding on the sidewalk. there is still a significant number of bicycles. riding their bicycles on the sidewalk. persons that use the sidewalk. i really do not think we have enough resources to enforce that. we really need to do something before somebody really gets seriously hurt by either a bicyclist hitting a pedestrian or a situation where they would be hurt worse. something has to happen. what are we going to do about it? how to resolve this problem? that is our job, i think. chairman nolan: thank you, director oka. point well taken. director, did you have something? director: i think these have to go beyond to make our transit more efficient. when we make transit more efficient by getting rid of double parked cars, that translates into savings and ultimately goes into some of the issues that were brought up by some of the members of the public a broader issues today, as one brought up the point of a 33% savings by dedicating a lane. every time any of our vehicles get stuck behind a double parked car, th

chairman nolan: director oka? director oka: i have noticed on two or three occasions that people do not necessarily know that they should try it again, and it's still keeps being repeatedly,

i want to thank director oka in advance, and you have the nicest hat of anyone up there, but i think it will make amendments to include two groups of people. they bought the medallions with the idea that they could sell them. i have sent you a couple of emails. it would be better to let people willing to sell to be matched up with people who are willing. chairman nolan: thank you. next speaker. secretary boomer: [reading names] >> i am a native san franciscan and proud to be a native san franciscan. i started driving a taxi cab, and that enabled me to put myself through college and get a college degree. that made the members of my family very happy and proud. in the 1970's, i took my life savings and borrowed an additional $20,000 to purchase a medallion and a bead of taxi from the bank regular cab company of san francisco. now, i am 63 years of age. on have a daughter that is approaching college age, and the fact that i am a pre k medallion older, i am too to sell it, too old to sell my medallion. i am a prek, not a post k, and i am another class of medallion holder, and it is that

without clipper, which means finely than to some of the communications issues that both you and director oka raised, the people of fast passes did not there to use an arm of the time. i found that out with a fair inspector letting me know. the fact that some people do not recognize the three deep versus one beep or in nonfunctioning unit, that it be a functioning unit. again, that issue as someone go away, but the effort that was made to transition to a clipper was tremendous and help to remove one ever was, 120,000 people over a very short period of time. mortification is going to be needed on the use of clipper. john has been working on this as he has been developing an outdoor boarding proposal. it is going to need to be accompanied by a very comprehensive communications initiative to make sure that folks understand their responsibilities with regard to payment and proof of payment and clipper in particular, so we will use that opportunity as the transition to outdoor boarding to address those communication concerns, which i think are very valid. chairman nolan: thank you. director brinkm

director oka: present. >> announcement of prohibition of sound-producing devices at the beginning of the meeting. pagersnd

director oka: present. >> announcement of prohibition of sound-producing devices at the beginning ofhe meeting. pagers and similar devices are prohibited. anyone responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the meetings. item four, the approval of minutes of december 6 regular meeting. chairperson nolan: all in favor?

to the director oka's comment. let's take advantage of an embarcadero that most people beyond just these events -- moves people beyond just these events. we have to make sure that the event day is really wonderful and shows the potential and takes us on to an embarcadero that is a great-great straight for breaking. a great street -- a street we have been talking about compulsory. looking at the parking map you see that we have the civic center that is in a prominent location. people will buy canned park there. how we get them up the street matters. polk street is key. we want to make sure we can take people on the shared paychex upholstery. you will hear us talk more about trials and moving people. it is a bicycle priorities straight. accomplishments i.n.s. -- van ness. we love the idea of combining that. the team is talking about this. when i walk up to sign there are many choices. let's give people some good information and they will what can buy. >> our next two speakers. >> board of directors, i was in auckland

director oka: it is my hope that paratransit's can be switched over to the clipper card also. i have been pushing with mtc since the beginning of time. we need one mechanism that works on everything, and, you know, i would love to see that before my time on this earth. i am not going to hold my breath, but we should be able to do that. chairman nolan: thank you very much. i thank you for bringing this to our attention, director ramos. secretay boomer: mr. chairman, no one has indicated an interest of addressing you up to this point. >> good afternoon, director. first, i want to wish you a happy new year and a major happy new year from munich. with all of the stuff i learned from this today, i thought it was just like the old days, so i learned something, and that may improve your numbers. one little complaint that i have heard about, the student clipper cards, it is very difficult for people to add money to the student clipper cards. there should be a place where every mile or so on major routes where you can get off and just recharged on a monthly basis. it is easy in my neig

[laughter] director lee, oka, okreiskin, ramos, my name is claire, a retired muni operator and formercretary and treasurer. cooin here with my colleagues, e of whom are retired and are no longer employed by muni, but we were all new drivers in 1984. -- mimi -- muni drivers in 1984. remember this, as i give you this summary. we were all muni drivers in 1984. all of us have been aggrieved by the actions of the trust fund trustees. a joint board made up of mta officials and of local 258 officials. their actions resulted in a group of workers being singled out and left out. therefore, we were each denied a monetary payment of $1,880. it was paid out last december 23, 2011. there was a total of 155 operators who received $1,880 each. they were actively working as transit operators in 1984. some of whom were still working in december of 2011. and some who retired in 2009 through a 2011. this group also received $1,880. this $1,880 that was received by some operators was the result of a 1984 cost of living adjustment that was placed into the trust fund, and has earned interest for the past 2

director oka: present. >> announcement of prohibition of sound-producing devices at the beginning of the meeting. pagers and similar devices are prohibited. anyone responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the meetings. item four, the approval of minutes of december 6 regular meeting. chairperson nolan: all in favor? >> item 5, communications. there will be no discussion of anticipated obligation under a closed session today. item six, new or unfinished business by board members. >> i was aware of the advertising leading up to new year's eve. there were television commercials which were very well done. from my point of view, it worked out very well. it was like a trial of our boarding, since it was free, despite the fact it's sort of like a cocktail party. but it was great. well done. chairperson nolan: thank you. other directors? >> item 6, -- seven, executive directors report. executive director reiskin: welcome. i am happy to be here with you. this is the first reading of 2012. happy new year, everyone. we will start of the year acknowledging some of our outstanding empl

chairman nolan: drvonfr -- seconded by director oka. ok. next item. secretay boomer: item 15, the clipper card. chairman nolan: good afternoon. >> i am with the sfmta finance division, and i am here to update you on the clipper card program. the commission began the development of a payments system, regularly named translink and most recently changed to "clipper." this requires coordination between transit operators. it is also intended to streamline customer payments and transfers between agencies. this will review the implementation, the regional and local level, as well as the performance of the new clipper integrated fair -- fare gate, and we will also touch on next steps for the program. but transitions across all participating agencies, as well as the estimated percentage of passenger boarding that are currently using clipper as the payment. this is as of 2011. sfmta met its transition calls with our monthly pass customers. major transition for bart and another occurred just a few days ago on december 31, and they are expected to complete their

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