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chairperson nolan: good afternoon and happy new year. welcome to the january 3 meeting of the board of directors of the san francisco municipal transportation agency. please call the roll. director bridges: [resemt/ -- present. 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 mi...

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> [roll call] please be advised that the ringing of cell phones, pagers, and electronic devices are prohibited during the meeting. any person responsible for them going off will be removed from the meeting. please be advised that sell phones on vibrate provide interference and be request that they are turned off -- and we request that they are turned off. >> i do have one item of note. may 17, 2011, the board of directo...

a couple of things that are still problematic, in terms of the turnaround service, i understand the flexibility the mta would like to have to readjust the system, but as super out -- supervisor ablow is mentioned, it does matter what time of day those switchbacks happen. when you have three train going downtown, it could be a different scenario. but often, when we hear complaints, they are when people are coming home from work, when it is the evening time, and dark. the five-minute pol...

information to people. so one of the things that we all believe is that in a system like ours, there will be daily challenges, given the nature of the system. but to the extent we can manage through them, part of it has to be the information to the public. this is something that you as a body had been very consistent in demanding that we do it, and were doing our best to improve in all these areas. just a quick overview of some of the things that were doing on a regular basis. we have ...

please be advised that the ringing of cell phones, pagers, and electronic devices are prohibited during the meeting. any person responsible for them going off will be removed from the meeting. please be advised that sell phones on vibrate provide interference and be request that they are turned off -- and we request that they are turned off. >> i do have one item of note. may 17, 2011, the board of directors unanimously executed the purchase agreement for the acquisition of property at...

greater notification when switchbacks were going to happen. i have not seen the rest of your report to see if that is being implemented. that was something that a lot of riders requested, that there would be some anticipation about switchbacks occurring and what the next train will be like that they will be able to catch. sending also want to add to this, i am not sure if youll be touching upon that on your presentation now? >> what is the question? supervisor avalos: we had a discussi...

at least to try to address the issues. what supervisors have failed to understand is whether you really have the clout. you agree to a proposition where your hands are tied, and literally, the mta does not need to come to you for anything, except for superficial meetings like this. you have no clout. having said that, we really need to understand, as it john stated, the software, those lines that are operated manually, some explanation about the automated control system, which we need ...

machine that we are. on behalf of all of those who you have helped along the way, thank you very much. [applause] >> on behalf of the board of directors and entire agency, i know that you brought along a cheering section. >> thank you to all of you for coming. i have amazing colleagues. without them, i would not be able to get anything done at all. the first person id like to thank is martha campbell. the first person to hire me. even though i had no experience in the public sector and...

ms. peterson, 21 years of service. more years than i have days. [laughter] myra tellabs and nim lem, with years of service given to the people of san francisco, it is all extraordinary. the work that they did to drive down the generation of waste is what we are recognizing today. thank you and congratulations. >> thank you. i will actually turn the microphone over and i will say only two things. one, you do not get the kinds of results that they got by not being passionate at the job. ...

[applause] >> thank you. next speaker. good evening, city officials. its been a rough night. an entertaining night. my name is ivan velez. i just wanted to say three things. a lot of things have been said. the mayor has been on many, many times tonight especially about occupy s.f. and the new movement that we are all part of. and i would like to hope that you enjoy it. you gathered a lot of information from us. and you appreciate whats going on on this day. you can use all your powers ...