. >> item number 2, motion confirming the mayor's reappointment of tom nolan term ending march 1, 2017 to the municipal transportation agency board of directors. >> okay. i believe mr. nolan is here today, mr. nolan, please approach to the microphone and if you would like to say something. >> first of all, congratulations, supervisor breed on your election. yeah, i'm delighted to be here in afternoon and delighted to be reappoint by the mayor for your confirmation and a little bit from my own transportation experience, i served 28 years on transportation boards starting with the san fran board, i was on the mta board for 7 days and was reappoint last year to the joint powers board yet again, and i served as chair of the mta board, every time i get a chance to speak about the mta, i'm proud to be part of it, it is an amazing organization, i think we have a terrific board, our vice chair is with me here today, our secretary, outstanding public servant, my other colleagues on the board, everybody takes it very seriously, works very hard and very conscientious and i think the goal we've al

all those in favor of electricking tom nolan chair and cheryl brinkman vice-chair? aye. >> the ayes have it, so order. look forward to a good year. thank you on airplane, 2012 he returned to enforcement as a pco supervisor. supervisor cal calgaro is well-liked and respected by his colleagues and leads by examplele and is positive in his interactions with the public. on october 31, 2012, the day of the giant's world series parade a citizen brought to his attention that a man was attempting to slash people with a pair of scissors near grove and larkin. he asked the citizen to point out the suspect, and notified our dispatch, so the police came and apprehended the suspect as soon as possible. he also asked the witness to stay, so that he can provide a detailed description of the suspect. because of his actions the dangerous individual was apprehended and a complete account was given to law enforcement by the witness for follow-up. for his exemplary performance in his regular duties and for his calm, clear thinking response to such a potential tragic episode, we are ver

breed, i'm cheryl, i'm the chair of the board of directors and i'm here to voice my support for tom nolan's appointment, he has amazing experience in regional politics and serving on boards, he has four board members right now, myself included, who have less than three years experience on that board, myself and director bridges were appointed about the same time, dr, ramos also has been on the board for a short time, so having someone with tom nolan's experience and to be able to use him as a role model with his interaction with the city is important to us and we do continue to face a lot of challenges at the mta, we know there still is a lot of work to be done, but like tom, i'm incredibly impressed with the agency, i'm impressed with the employees, i have also been impressed with the support from the board of supervisors with the -- so, i'm here to hope that you voice tom's nomination on to the full board and thank you very much. >> are there any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed now. colleagues, -- well, i'll give my thoughts. i think i'm very happy that tom's

chairman tom nolan. [applause] >> leader pelosi asked me what is of going to say after reverend frong. i didn't have a chant rate for that. this is a great day for san francisco. this is a labor of love. we know the economic and transit values of this. as an agency we are committed and not only committed to bringing this fruition on time but under budget as well. is that good? and we will continue the vil against of all of our assets and focusing on the priority number one is safety. this day is possible because of so many people that did so much work here. senator leno is here and the assessor. we have a wonderful working relationship with fta regional leaders and mtc and lazarus from the mtc board and the china chamber of commerce and the san francisco chamber of commerce and the market street association and the business improvement district and joe an hayes and mike from the building and trades construction council. anytime i get a chance to speak on the mta board i say i am so proud of what we do an

corridor joint power boards that owns and operates caltrains unanimously elected our beloved chairman tom nolan as their vice-chair. many of you may not know that chairman nolan was the founding chairman of the joint powers board and was instrumental in the acquisition of caltrain. >> thank you very much. i like to win an election every week. i'm not sure what is out there next week. must be something. [ laughter ] >> thank you. the train is just such an important part of the entire peninsula, and it's growing in popularity all the time. over 50,000 people a day are riding it now. when we first started there were about 16,000 and it was just hanging by a thread. it's doing extremely well and the hope is to take it to downtown san francisco and electrification is underway. i would like to get back to one thing you said, mr. yee, i think almost had an opportunity on december 28th to go to the divisions. and i went to woods and i know others went different places. i learned some things and there were some questions and i think at some point, another meeting or another retreat after that, miss boom

my colleague tom nolan is in the back. you are probably familiar with him from muni, but he works can department of aging and adult services and he will help me take notes. i am here to hear from the council members and members of the public on what you think works? doesn't work? what you would like to see for service and supports for people who live in the community, to remain living in the community. >> i have a number of speakers scheduled. we have a good amount of time, but i will limit them to 4 minutes, roughly. and we'll begin. first i have mr. max lane. >> i will be very brief. i think i have come to the wrong agenda item. so the introduction was very helpful. i will stay for the session to hear the information. mine was more of a process comment. i am a san francisco resident for the last 40 years. south of market resident for the last 17 years and have watched steady improvemented in access on the sidewalks. so this was the closest agenda item i could find to come in and compliment whoever is doing that process -

when national security advisor tom donlin was briefing reporters on the summit last year he deferred to nolan>> it's risky to do this with historian mark nolan in the room. i'll do it anyway at the risk of being corrected immediately. >> how do you feel to be unofficial records keeper of the presidency? >> it certainly isn't what i set out to do but i guess i'm artificial. >> he started in the clinton administration when he noticed the president kept going to california. >> i tried going back to reconstruct how many trips he had made to california and it took all day. >> so he noller started keeping his own records. he spends each day logging the president's activity. when he reported george w. bush had spent more than a year at his texas ranch, it came up at a white house christmas party. >> i came up to shake his hand and he says to laura, this zbeit who tells everybody how often we go to the ranch and if we get there at 10:00 in the evening he counts it as a full day. i contradicted it. i don't count it as a full day. >> chris: do you think its tad obsess active -- obsessive. >> i am obses

the president has held and when national security advisors tom donlan was briefing reporters on the economic summit last year, he deferred to nolan> it's risky to do this with mark noeler in the room, but i'll do it anyway at the risk of being corrected immediately. >> how do you feel being the unofficial records keeper of the presidency? >> well, it certainly wasn't what i set out to do, but yeah, i guess i'm unofficial. >> he started his record keeping a couple of years into the clinton administration when he noticed the president kept going to california. >> i tried going back to reconstruct how many trips he had made to california and it took all day. >> so, noeler started keeping his own rrdz. he spends 60 to 90 minutes at the end of each day, logging every presidential activity. the presidents have noticed. when noeler reported george w. bush had spent more than a year at his texas ranch it came up at a white house christmas party. >> i come up to shake his hand and he says to laura, this is the guy who tells everybody how often we go to the ranch, and if we get there at 10 in the evening, he counts it as a full day and i c