Miss chang, thank you for that process as well as your work over the last many years and the floor is yours. Thank you so much to you, chair peskin, and the commissioners and your staff. We are grateful for your time that you and your staff have given to us in taking briefings and meeting as a committee as a whole. The year is marked by fantastic discussions at this body. We appreciated the guidance, input throughout, and wanted to highlight a few of the accomplishments we documented this year. We were able to achieve with your help and guidance. Here is a reminder of goals and objectives set for me and the agency over the past year. I want to start by saying the year was marked by a lot of it focused on infrastructure, policy and revenues and projects that were under development that were being prepared for a big funding opportunities that was the tremendous focus with the measure three setting up next phase investments in extension of caltrain and host of other big projects. We look forward to setting up the next set of Rail Investments for the city. I have appreciated the guidance today. Longterm planning was a major highlight. We had adoption of the county wide plan in update in 20 is as well as mobility and Technology Services this. Is a pie on nearing circumstance shoe pie on nearing issue. It is debated and advanced for the board of supervisors. Highlights. We were continually managing the fund programs. I want to thank the programming staff. We managed 934 million in open grants. Adopted a aa vehicle registration program. We are about to program the federal funds. As part of that had a great country session about school transportation. Very important. We were able to support the passage of the authorization for bridge tolls next year. We were very fortunate to have fantastic delegation in sacramento representing us in that process. With your help we will get the ballot measure on the San Francisco ballot for june 2018. This will set up a whole host of Expansion Projects and Congestion Relief for the pro region and allow the local match and state fund match to bear more quickly. We opened vista point which is another highlight following the opening of the east side ramps last year on the island and were able to secure 30 million. Thank you for the leadership. On Treasure Island we advanced tolling with your help and commissioner kim of the agency we appreciate your leadership locally and at mtc allowing us to demonstrate the concepts on Treasure Island. We were able to deliver the Second Street opening. A lot of Great Projects are on the way and we were able to deliver a host of planning studies starting with the environmental document at the begin of the year. Completed the bicycle study in district nine and the crooked street study and Mobility Services and Technology Study underway and appreciate joanne his team for completing the Research Paper that shed light on the number of vehicles operating in the city. I want to recognize sipthia fong and her team for the longterm Revenue Bonds we sold at a good Interest Rate and very much appreciate chair peskin your leadership for these milestones of the agency and particularly the bond sale which was the first for the ta in our history. Providing board support we hope you are finding we are giving you use full updates in your capacity as Board Members and regional represents and in whatever capacities you are serving. We want to make sure we support you in the ways needed for the ta work and your regional capacities. This is something that will be more important as we make Big Decisions next year to the conclusion of the rail yard and the boulevard study setting up the highspeed rail and caltrain for future generations of rail investment. Indistrict nine we embarked on freeway study work and i thank commissioner ronen with her funds. We were pleased to leverage with private foundation from toyota mobility. In district 10 commissioner cohen asked us to look automobility and we mobility. Commissioner tank and kim and through the recent cop very sessions at the board. Our neighborhood improvement plans and projects are making good progress. We are proud to present in concepts that the community very much supports in district six through the zero ramps and to advance projects in other districts, one, two, five and nine. Customer service and efficiencies. Our priority is to move to online. Our tnc today website and my street. Com. To turn the data out to the public to make it easy to use. Behind the scenes it is making the online allocation request form in 2018 to help sponsors and administering these grant requests. Working in collaboration with agents to Work Together with support on rail yard and alternative boulevard study and rail plan sets up an important moment in the coming year for rail planning. This is intense interest on the part of a lot of folks to set up the next generation of rail improvements to fund what we have in the works particularly in the 101, bart in the south. For our city and county we are very much focused on ensuring the transbay terminal is the term us of highspeed rail to collaborate with santa chair are on the freeway moving forward and allows us to move across the bay to the east bay and tackle the transbay corridor that andy spoke about earlier the number one congested ling in the entire region. Working with our agencies means the state, regional, local level coordinating on these issues through not only the planned area but the studies, on funding. Regional measure three thank you for helping us get that authorized at the state level. This will come in january in order to make it on the ballot in march and be presented to the voters in june. We were happy poinclude the public engagement. We have been partner with city for local hire type strategies, and importantly rede nine the communitys concern to make sure we reflect the communitys needs who are already very hard to bring to the floor because of the nature of documenting some of these. We were proud to get the definition more correct here in San Francisco. That will be used throughout the region as well. We have been advancing our late night transportation study and initiatives and internally we have been participating in a Year Learning Program with other agencies around Racial Equity how we can better operationallize that in the hiring and budgeting and planning. That is very eye opening and very productive at our staff workshops on the topic. State and regional leadership we had the discussion about our alleged priorities. I want to thank you for your help and guidance. We are excited to continue to press for automated Speed Enforcement to vision zero goals. We are advocating for policies and programming requirements and standards for sp1 to compete well. This will be a big year for tnc and policies at the state level. You have expressed strong interest and leadership in pushing for the right policy framework around Technology Services. Thank you for your leadership which is at a National Scale given all of the different folks interested in this topic and looking at San Francisco as a center of these types of issues. Promoting staff and Agency Development is a continual process. We want to remain a workplace of excellence. We updated the mission, vision and values, implemented various training and coaching programs and ensured we have staff working groups to address topics of interest to the staff. Improving communications is a top priority. We launched a Communications Plan which we will hopefully be able to bring a culminate of that will be a new website in 2018. We are excited about that. Beyond that, 2018 will bring a new set of goals to continue the work that we are working on underway and we spoke about today, updating the Strategic Plan sets the next five years of priority for the prop k program. We want the focus on new revenues to continue. Completion of t25 task work is important. I i want to thank the chair, Mayors Office and the folks on that committee for efforts to try to shape what the potential revenue measure might look like. These are important revenues if we are age to pass them to match with regional measure three and the sp1 state funds. In 2018 we hope to launch modal studies in connection with the update of the county wide plan under the longrange planning studies. This is where we will look at the freeway and france it is side transit side where they intersect. I heard the interest on the part of the board in advancing the planning work for both the model and the freeway side of the studies. We will definitely get deeper to that and bring frequent updates to you in 2018. We also want to finalize some of the emerging mobility studies to deliver more research to you, advance work on the east side ramps and west side ramps and continue to provide board support to you in year programs. With that i am just going to make sure that we wrap it up quickly so you can get on to the rest of your day and open it up to any questions you may have. Chair peskin thank you for the thorough presentation and to all of your ever competent staff. Are there any questions or comments from commissioners for miss tang . Is there a motion to move items 14 and 15 . Commissioner ronen. I wanted to thank you, miss tang, for your great work and for your staff. You are accessible at all times and s soand i am happy to make e motion. Chair peskin seconded by commissioner kim. The floor is yours. I did get an opportunity to speak at the Personnel Committee. I want to thank director chang for your leadership. It was an intense process in replacing jose several years ago. You have followed through on the commitments you made in that process both to strengthen the relationships without side agencies and other city agencies. That was one of the big concerns this board had and also figuring out ways to streamline the funding with the grantees putting the projects that are important to all of us on the ground. I did have an opportunity to call a few people about their working relationship with you and how they perceive your leadership. It was great to hear such positive comments about your leadership and communication style. From a personal level you are incredibly responsive and perhaps you have over communicate with us. That is not a negative comment. I just want to thank you for always just being proactive about working with our office and im sure you do this with all of our commissioners addressing a number of different concerns we have and trying to be creative and brainstorming different ideas around the tnc or the Yellow School buses. I just have to say i appreciate the initiative that sftca did to do this analysis on the impact on the roads. That is something you know commissioners were interested in and members of the public were interested in. It wasnt something we asked you to take a leadership rome on. That report was outstanding and provided a ton of information and data we needed to see and we have been hearing about. It is just thank you for your dedication and leadership. You put a lot of hours in this and i thank your family for supporting you to be such a great head of this agency. Thank you for your generous words and i will reflect that to the staff who have done the hard work and heavy lifting. Thank you so much. Chair peskin commissioner sheehy. I want to express my gratitude for your leadership. You have come along ways since we hired you for this position. I have seen the growth of you and your staff. I want to thank the Personnel Committee for doing the work for us to evaluate you. I would say they were spot on. You have been not only a good manger here but your enthusiasm with the issues are just second to none. Some people when they work for the City Government they will be seen at city hall and nowhere else. In transportation in the community you are always there. Very impressive you take your work not just work but a passion. Thank you very much. Chair peskin thank you for your comments which i concur. We took Public Comment in committee. There is no need for Public Comment here. We have a motion and second. Could you please call the roll on items 14 and 15. roll call . Clerk items are approved. Chair peskin congratulation. Any introduction of new items . Seeing none, is there any general Public Comment . Seeing none, the Transportation Authority commission is adjourned. Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city thats on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. 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Thank you for considering a career with the city and county of San Francisco. A once in a generation good morning, everyone. My name is ed riskin, im the director of transportation here in the city and county of San Francisco. So glad to be with you all today under this beautiful sunshine to mark really what is a once in a generation milestone for muni, for the Transit Service and for the people of San Francisco. Today we are putting into service this beautiful vehicle thats behind us. And a lot of folks are responsible for getting us here. I want to acknowledge mayor lee, president breed who is, im sure, on her way. Our state and federal and regional partners and the tremendous work of our transit director john halle and his staff [applause] a lot of whom are in bright colored vests and jackets. As well as many other parts of our agency, the safety division, the training division, the communications division. Materials division. Maintenance. Everybody coming together. Accessible services. Everybody coming together to get us to this point. The reason why this is so exciting for us is because the demands on rail Service Continue to grow in San Francisco. And if you look at the cranes in the sky, if you look at the projections of growth, thats only going to continue and so we need a better, more reliable, higher capacity, more enjoyable way for people to be able to get through the city and that is exactly these rail cars signify for us. This car is the first of 24 of the first batch that will be going into service. Those 24 will be in service before the end of next year. Following that, there is another 44 that come and these are all in addition to the 151 cars that we currently have in service. So, this is expansion. That means more service. That means longer trains. More twocar trains. More threecar trains and more frequent service along our raillines, which is really the workhorse of the muni system. And it is not just capacity. But these vehicles have been exceptionally engineered and meticulously designed to provide stateoftheart, much better ride and much better experience for our riders. Quieter, smoother, better acceleration, deceleration. Better amenities in terms of customer and rider information. But also for us, better a. D. A. Access, better access for people with strollers, wheelchairs or just people who need more space. But also for us and for our riders much, much more reliability. These are engineered to be reliable vehicles, to have to go much, much longer between times where they need to be serviced. They have advanced diagnostics that will make it easier for our folks to maintain, to do more not just preventive maintenance but Predictive Maintenance so these guys will spend more time out on the streets than they will in the shops. So i could go on about this. I feel very lucky to be the director at a time when were introducing this. Like i said, this is a once in a generation kind of thing. And were only able to do this because of the leadership that we have in our city and our region and our state and our country that is supportive, all the folks working together to get us here. And the number one leader behind this, someone who, as a former public works director, gets the importance of information and supporting the quality of life and economy of our city is our chief executive. So, please join me in welcoming the mayor of the city and county, ed lee. [applause] good morning good morning really great to be here on a sunny friday. We have