i'm daniel murphy, i'm the chair of the m.t.a. citizens advisory council. first of all, i want to extend the welcome to director ramos. welcome to the sfmta and also to invite director ramos to attend any of our c.a.c. meetings. all members of the m.t.a. board are always welcome at these meetings, and if you're interested in when they happen, they're on the m.t.a. website and also ms. boomer can direct you to the correct time and date and what's being discussed at those meetings. so welcome. we look forward to meeting you. >> thank you. >> i also want to express my thanks to executive director ford. it has been, as i was reminded before this meeting, 5 1/2 years. we have worked very productively with the executive director. we have made many demands on his time and staff time and he has been most aecom dating in those. -- most accommodating in those. we have been glad to be included in many of the major undertakings this organization has gone through in the last 5 1/2 years, particularly the transit effectiveness project and as you may know, once a month, i

the m.t.a. was recognized as a gold level stark fit friendly company by the american heart association's start initiative for fulfilling the following parameters. offering employees physical activity support, providing an increasing healthy options at the work site, third, promoting a wellness culture. and four, implementing at least nine criteria as outlined by the american heart association in the areas of physical activity, nutrition, and fostering a healthy culture. so we are extremely honored to be recognized by the american heart association's start initiative as a start fit friendly company. as it relates to the m.t.a. just more specifically, what we have been proproviding our employees is on-site brown bag health lectures, yoga and zumba classes. we are exercise and wellness room located on van ness as well as some of our outlying facilities. we've been supporting walking clubs at a number of our divisions. we have weekly staff visits to the divisions on healthy -- on our healthy strong b

other than that, there's not much to tell you about the m.t.a.udget, unless you have specific questions. so thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is maria. i'm going to stand so that i can see you. i'm director of the department of family youth and their pharmacist the goal for our department is -- and their families. the goal for our department is to make sure that services for children age birth to 24 is provided throughout the city wept fund programs such as the childcare, youth and teen programs, after-school programs, and violence prevention programs. our budget priority is simple. we do not want to destroy, to break, to interrupt any of those core safety nets that weave already established over -- we've already established over the years, things we want to continue. we're working hard with the mayor's office to identify ways for us to make that happen. you know, i don't think they want to hear me. >> they're happy to hear you. >> oh, is that the indication? right now we're looking at a 10% reduction, which equals $2.5 million, and

the operation in. i have confidence that m.t.a. will release space if and when it is appropriate to release the space. fitch muni's budget wes, i don't see m.t.a. hoarding office space unnecessarily and paying unnecessary rent. it would make sense they hold it and release it as it becomes appropriate to do so. this is a very, very important project. i will be supporting it, and i hope that others will as well. supervisor chiu: supervisor kim? supervisor kim: thank you. i also sit on the budget committee and had an opportunity to hear this item. first of all i want to say i agree with supervisor wiener. i am very excited we are moving forward with finally putting together a transportation management center. riding the underground a lot. i know how much delays actually impact people on a weekly basis. this is an important next step towards getting towards time efficiency and making sure that our trains and buses are running on time. with central subway coming, we have a great need to move this forward. i under that transbay is not goi

last but not least, they switched a lot of the taxi enforcement under the m.t.a., under deputy chief murphy. and he is not going forth trite let it publicly known what exactly was going on. they give the facts and figures to the staff at the m.t.a. and have them all sit down and figure out statistics. so i ask that lieutenant la carlo or sergeant that works with him, at least become more public. appear once every month or every other month at the m.t.a. and tell the public what they're doing to stop the illegal taxi operation or the operation by limousine drivers who are performing like taxis like they're not supposed to. it would be great if there was more information out there publicly. i urge you, sergeant reynolds did that and when sergeant reynolds did that, he did a great job and unfortunately, politics prevented him from continuing. thup for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> mr. steve johnson, police officers association. i don't know what, if any, recourse we have when a member of the public comes up here and slanders one of our police officers. i'm not talking about g

so as was mentioned, traditionally the m.t.a. has managed the overtime costs within the budget so for example, because we have so many savings and because we're not hiring quickly, those dollars available in our nonovertime line items to cover overtime costs and since i've been here for the past four years, we've always exceeded our overtime business but not our overall budget in salaries and benefits. that seems to be the way to create flexibility, to include overtime and to keep the positions on our inventory so we can continue to hire them. this is my last slide. what we're trying to do, these are the five points we're focusing on as a management group. we're trying to fill the vacancies we have, focusing on hiring and overtime an the training required to bring the operators, there's several classes right now, the mta board is starting to receive reports and the board of supervisors has asked us to go back on a regular basis and talk aboutover time. we are also working on unscheduled absences, for example when people are sick o

that is why we did make an amendment to require the m.t.a. and the real estate department to come back to us in three months to share with us a consolidation plan and to let us know what it means operationally to consolidate the space they are in. there is no denying it is a complicated issue because there are potentially operational impacts, but general fund and non-general fund impacts. some of the facilities in which the department is currently residing is actually city facilities, and to the extent that they are no longer paying rent and give them up, it would be an impact to us. that is why we wanted a plan in three months. i hope that folks will be able to support this merchandise. >> president chiu? supervisor chiu: for years we have all had our criticisms of the m.t.a., and i think many of us have had real issues with transportation management in san francisco. that being said, i am going to be supporting this measure today. this is a lease that is about the future of transportation management in our city. this is something that defini

they appear low is because a lot of this is city-owned or part-owned space, and this is operate the m.t.a.'s command and control functions dispersed among five locations in the city. if the proposed 39,573 square feet for the new lease is approved, sfmta's total cost for all five facilities would increase to $1,569,944 during the first year of the proposed lease, so the new lease would go up by $1,313,707 per year, an increase of 513% more than the $256,000 annual cost, which the mta is currently paying. in addition, if the proposed lease is approved, the m.t.a. would only eliminate 3824 square feet at 25 then ness avenue, of their existing space. as a result, sfmta's integrated command and control function would require a total of 52,273 square feet, an increase of 35,749 square feet, a 216% increase over the existing 16,000 square feet of space. we had been previously advised, and we say this on the bottom of page 14, that the proposed lease would be an interim facility until the new transbay terminals completed in 27. the sfmta would then decide whether to continue to lease the 1455 ma

>> i have a couple of questions i wanted to ask the m.t.a. >> through the chair, one of the things i am trying to understand is why the length of the lease is 10 years. my understanding is there is at least a possibility that before the end of that term, you could end up moving out of this proposed location. i am trying to understand why it is that we have a 10-year term for a lease? >> my name is carter >>> ohan, deputy director of the sfmta. two issues. one is the trance bay objection, which i will let him speak to more in depth. but that opportunity does not avail itself at the earliest until perhaps year eight of the lease. but more importantly from the ownership's perspective, because they are providing significant improvement to the building, they need an amount of time to amortize those improvements. really the other thanship is the one driving the 10-year request for release. they have a .1.7 million investment, and they need a return. supervisor chiu: i understand why they want the lease as long as possible, but the question is what the need of the city. if well in fact not

the other thing i want to focus on is the resuscitation of the transited sector from this rodget. -- project. m.t.a.'s personnel screens information and the report may been accurate. something from the group should share with the group. that would not inhibit the participation. a lot of people were very unhappy with the results including myself. the motto should say passengers first. >> michael wong, pejia madahar. ok. ken will follow. and then john haans. jerry mcchoir. the other night i had a pgnd e lineup. unless you cuddle up for 10 or 12 hours a day it is not harlemful. some are the choice of the m.t.a. board. you should ask that board if they saw that movie. someone with julia roberts, erin brockovich. >> i've you had small peters. how did you feel when they said we're going to put a smart meet ner their home? you don't feel uneasy about it. and how you would feel going to work each day wondering if my work is toxic. hybrids are a -- they're eight times the level of an average commuter mind. high e.m.s. 52% than that. thont tonight it's brain follow is this good for the public? you need to ha

president olague: at this time, do any members of the commission have questions for rhonda or members of the m.t.a.? commissioner antonini. commissioner antonini: if i could ask a little bit about the employment goals and i'm very much impressed in support of hiring the people of san francisco. however, being a private employer in the medical field myself, oftentimes we give preference to san francisco residents and tell new hires that if you move to san francisco, you have a lot better chance of being hired or maybe a condition of hire. i guess when you talk about a san francisco resident, how long do they have to have been a resident here and can they move as a terms of their employer to be counted as a san francisco resident? president olague: the way -- >> it is if you are a san francisco resident. all of the training programs that are run, the individuals are san francisco residents at the time we train. and generally at the time of placement. now if they move after place mncht did you to a number of circumstances, so about it. so it really starts at that initial time. commissioner antonini:

the m.t.a., the muni city, literally is one of the most productive systems in terms of per capita resident usage of a transit system in this country next to new york. so if we have 800,000 residents here in the city, 700,000 people ride the system everyday. the very demanding environment. and we need to build for the future and we're taking our capital dollars right now to reinvest, rebuild the system, build more of the system so that we can deal with the population demand and transit demand we see in the future. >> my name is paul simpson. there's a big elephant in the room that no one's commented on. i'm wondering if someone among our esteemed panelists might stand up and respond to this. first of all, i want to say that i appreciate at least stepping in -- ed lee stepping in as the mayor jumped off. we have a situation here where the city takes in $6 billion. it takes in a lot of money. but approximately $1 billion of that are going to employee retirement benefits and current employee benefits. everyone talks about a partnership of labor. that partnership is dysfunctional. is there anyo

>> item 15, regarding the m.t.a.'s real fleet rehabilitation program. >> this program includes the rehabilitation of our light rail vehicles and historic street cars, as well as the restoration of seven damaged light rail vehicles. the this program, we are improving the maintain ability -- maintainability of these services and are able to return several vehicles which have been on hold. i would like to ask our director of fleet construction to give you some background on the current status of these projects. >> good afternoon, directors. i am with fleet services and construction. i would like to thank you for the opportunity to present the current standards of our rail fleet rehabilitation and restoration programs. i would like to give you some background on the current operating fleets, which includes light rail vehicles and five historic street cars. in addition, there are 47 pcc s -- pcc's being held in storage in yards throughout the city. [pause] the rehabilitation and restoration projects involve systems and reh

the resolution will -- is requesting that the m.t.a. board require periodic reporting of the status of implementation of the work rules and corresponding savings that have been achieved, and that report would then be forwarded regularly to the board of supervisors so that we can monitor the work will implementation. i am also calling for a hearing to follow up on a church several months ago. we conducted the hearing, and the mta provided us with a number of ideas for improving service. i would like to hear from mta, and the public would like to hear about the status of those improvements. specifically, i want an tsa and recon park also to be there to talk about the right of way through the lowest part. anyone who has seen the muni right of way through dolores park knows that it is in bad shape, to say the least. there is graffiti. there's all sorts of other blights that happened there. to be honest, mta has not done a great job of maintaining that area and has not done a good job cooperating with rec and park to make sure the area is cle