that we're doing a new search for executive director to take a step back and really take a review of the cta and sort of what we're doing and whether there are either examples of other jurisdictions that we can look to i know that a number of us thought about the opportunity we have right now to think about the most efficient and effective way for the san francisco transportation authority to be run and managed. i look forward to working with you and other colleagues and staff as we move this forward. >> thank you. >> thank you actually this is just a budgetary question i know that it was recommended that there's available budget in the administrative operating expenses because there's a vacancy i'm just curious i know this comes from prop k and i know prop k was set aside for transit needs and i'm not saying this is going to facility transit needs but i want to make sure this is an appropriate way to spend our taxpayer dollars. correct me if i'm wrong -- this is from the operating budget not from personnel salaries i'd clarify the authority's updating budget we don't receive general funds.

so much for allowing us to work on this very, very prestigious opportunity, executive director for the cta. definite nee lablonk is my name. >> >> transportation has really been an area that i have worked in for some time now. i want to say 20-25 years i have been recruiting in this industry. i came into it through the transportation demand management employees transportation coordinators, ride share, trip reduction kinds of things and it's done really well for me. i love it. this search in particular will be a marvelous thing to do. i think the interesting things about this opportunity for someone to be attracted to just far out weigh anything that anyone might call too challenging. i think the type of candidate that will be able to meet you where you are and move forward, move you forward, i believe we will be able to get you a nice cluster of individuals to review, and as long as we're able to talk with everybody and get your individual input as well as collective input i think that will help us to drill down -- if i put five people in front of you what makes you pick this one over this

significant team made up of representatives from dbw and the planning department and the mta and the cta and if you could go to the consultant team. colleagues, these are all of the teams that we have been funding for i think for the better part of how many years now? >> about two years. >> and from my perspective, we have received very little for the money that we have spent. additional increase, at this point, just feels challenging to me. i think in polite terms this is referred to as a cluster. and i would like to suggest, that you get your act together and provide us with ideas on the near projects because i am not particularly excited to continue to spend more money at this point when we have not been receiving what we need. >> okay. >> okay. >> point taken. >> okay, commissioner tang? >> let's see. commissioner farrell. i would like to associate my comments with commissioner weiner and chiu is there a date that you can commit to come back to us, could we suggest one month from now? >> that would be fine. >> two weeks? >> two weeks. >> better. >> we have a finance committee meeting

>> it's not the cta, congressman, but if the fda. as a teachers union is one of the most powerful political forces in america. i hope it's not as powerful as your teachers union here, but i wish i could tell you we found a combination, but the reality is if you advocate reforms that change the system, people organized around economic interest of vehicles is their job. in the case of florida, the teachers union represents teachers of coors and they also represent public school employees. they do it well. to expect them to embrace higher accountability, i didn't expect it and i didn't get it. it was a political fight. the required faithful execution of the laws the legislature passed. we were all in for eight long years to get results we had. teachers generally move towards the benefits of the new system. the unit itself didn't and still to this day are opposed to the substantive reforms, not just florida, but around the country. it's part of the process at the site. sometimes you have to say. sometimes you find common ground, but she'

>> we -- it is not the cta, congressman. it is the fda. i would say that teachers union is one of the more powerful political forces in florida. i hope it is not as powerful as york teachers' union here. but we -- i wish i could tell you that we found accommodation, but the reality is, if you are advocating reforms that change the systems, people that are organized around the economic interests of the adults, that's their job. their job is to collectively bargain for the adults. in the case of florida, the teachers' union represents teachers, of course. they also represent a public-school employees. they do well. but to expect them to embrace school choice or higher accountability or the kinds of things that we did, i did not expected and it did not get it. so it was a political fight. it requires staying the course. it required faithful execution on the laws that the legislature passed. we were all in for a nine years to kind of get the results the we had. teachers generally, i think, move toward seeing the benefits of this new system. th

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issues relative to re-location, some of the issues in terms of attracting the best kind of talent to work for san francisco cta. just briefly the first phase of our recruitment starts -- i guess it started last week when we met with staff to get a framework for the aggressive timeline that you set before us in terms of the outreach and selection and evaluation of candidates to talk about logistics, to talk about the steps in the search process, but in all honesty the search is divided into three phases. the first phase is what we call the getting to know you, and that is when we get a good understanding of the organization. we want to find out what the key core competencies are. we want to talk to as many stakeholder as you deem necessary so we're awaiting your instructions and directions relative to the stakeholders beyond the board of supervisors and beyond this commission to identify the people that you want us to talk to and we will do that either face-to-face where appropriate, some telephonicically but we will definitely spend consider time with the stakeholders. we will probing in three areas with the s