Special recognize of employees i want to ask our director kate to come forward and as shes coming up a short trip i want to acknowledge on one of her presses williams and her team with the San Franciscopar trait they will be recognized for kworn the transportation cal act at having a Exemplar Program in california it is quite an honor its the program is being recognized for the Board Network ever service including the service par taxi service and the grocery shuttle and the debit card and the Escort Program which is a program for customers would go disabilities were in the process of developing association is the largest Transit Association in the state with more than 3 hundred members so its a pretty big deal their recognizing our paratransit folks so thank you to her staff and her team with that ill turn it over to kate to recognize other staff. Hi good afternoon kate happy to be here way to honor outstanding staff and theres a really fantastic team at the taxi and assessable service
Is to your overall benefit unless you think otherwise and the purpose is eliminate the amount of paper you have to read when approving multiple contracts for essentially the same service and we leave it up to the staff and anne as well to explain to you the nuisances or differences between the vendors and theyre collective approach, but essentially its to make it easier and minimize the reading you have to do in order to prepare for the job you have to do. Thank you. Thank you for that. I guess my only follow up question. In this case these are two stellar providers with tremendous reputations to the community and to daas but one of the concerns from my point of view is accountability and the metrics and if were approving one Program Budget and the set of accountabilities for one budget at a time to me i am more comfortable with that because it allows a discrete analysis over another of the Contract Period and if one contractor over permanents and one under permanents under the same pr
Advised no closed session at the end of today is agenda item 6 unfinished. Excuse me. Ladies and gentlemen, please okay. Go ahead. Item 6 introduction of new business by Board Members. Approved. Thank you just hearing from the Disability Community a few others around the communities have advised concerns about the private counterpart shuttles on charge i do not and thank yous some Movement Based name those contribute to people getting around town, however there are concerns about the lack of accessibility for people in wheelchairs and guide dogs perhaps get a report on what necessary deal with mta at all whether they use our stops to comply with concern laws would be really good for us to know. Director reiskin can you come back with a report. Thank you, director. Thank you. Any other new business. I wanted to bring up the unfortunate cable car accident one of our operators was hit by a car that was Illegal Passing a cable car i know that safety in vision zero extended not only to the
Business by Board Members. Approved. Thank you just hearing from the Disability Community a few others around the communities have advised concerns about the private counterpart shuttles on charge i do not and thank yous some Movement Based name those contribute to people getting around town, however there are concerns about the lack of accessibility for people in wheelchairs and guide dogs perhaps get a report on what necessary deal with mta at all whether they use our stops to comply with concern laws would be really good for us to know. Director reiskin can you come back with a report. Thank you, director. Thank you. Any other new business. I wanted to bring up the unfortunate cable car accident one of our operators was hit by a car that was Illegal Passing a cable car i know that safety in vision zero extended not only to the citizens again itself employees cable car that area is treacherous and people going places in their private automobiles is there anything to protect our cable
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