we think it's a reasonable investment for us as the transit agency to be making. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. yes, director -- [ inaudible ] >> i wanted to say i did a tour one morning with dpw to look at their work in this area. i know that they are spending a lot of money in their budget that's really outside the purview of what their agency does on this issue. but i do think it's great that we're doing our small part. i guess the one question i have is related to the -- one, i didn't fill up in the crossing guard one, when i asked during capital, what i meant on that -- or operational, and two in terms of growth of positions, do we see any technology in the future can help us with some of these areas that we're seeing job growth in. for example, planning, it looks like they might be instituting a way to do some permits on-lines, and there's ways that other departments have, like, plan checks that can be done actually by computer. i'm not trying to get rid of people's jobs, but we are trying to achieve greater efficiencies, and we are hiring more and more technology

the clipper card an use it in any transit agency in the bay area. the last one we just added treasure island flex cash where a pass holder can buy any products such as a.c. retail transit pass and we added this at the request of one of the stakeholders who wanted to see how would this pass perform given our goals and objectives if we have s.f. muni and s.f. ferry pass. so we had an assumption in the future there would be a pass where it has all s.f.muni and ferry included in it. along with this, our goals and objective we also conducted outreach in winter 2018. at this outreach we had four focus groups. two with residents in this -- residents focus group had spanish and chinese translators. also the residents focus group represented treasure island demographic. we had businesses focus group and san francisco tourism to understand the need of visitors and with developers to understand the need of future residents. we also presented at the tidal board and food pantry. during this focus group we tries to understand what were the needs assessment as we are designing the affordability program. we ls a did a dot exercise where we -- we also did a dot exer

we recommend as we move forward that both transit agencies and m.t.c. could use theaterials and information to continue to help spread the word. >> we worked with monitoring performance of the all nighter network on an ongoing basis and develop specific matrix including ridership and reliability. moving forward, we are formalizing that process of a biennial monitoring effort that will plan to lead. a couple of other things we worked with sfmta on share d soe proposed contracts and regulations proposed to the taxi task force. and also the transit agencies that operate rail service all agreed to produce white papers looking at the opportunities and operating more service hours during the night. bart and cal-tran have released those taking a closer look at the barriers and maintenance and capital issues to running more service hours and sfmta is wrapping up their own white paper. moving forward, an as well as working with agencies on funding for implementing additional service recommendations. and our umbrella recommendation here is that moving forward this is really a

satellite the transiting exoplanet survey satellite or tess as it's known is the agency's most ambitious attempt to search for the world's reports. lift off the space x. falcon dime carry us this isn't the first mission to search for new worlds but it may be nasa is most revealing for the next two years that test will take over from the kepler space telescope in search of alien planets whilst in orbit this new telescope will observe two hundred thousand of the brightest stars in the sky mission scientists say could discover twenty thousand new worlds now tess is going to dramatically increase the number of planets that we have to study. it's going to more than double the number that have been seeing and detected by by kepler and moreover the planets that we're going to find will will span to a much greater range of host star types than was the case for copper when the kepler space telescope launched in two thousand and nine it transformed our understanding of planets beyond our own solar system based on its observations astronomers now believe the milky way is home to at least two billion potentially habitable planets kepler only observed a fraction of the sky tess is abl