roll call . Please be advised directors emergencheinke and torr sessiont be present. Any person responsible for an Electronic Device going off may be asked to leave the room. Item 4. I have a motion. Madam chair, no one has indicated they wish to address. Motion to approve. All in favour . Aye. Item 5, communications madam chair, none. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. I just wanted to tell chair heinke, hes getting props to move more strategies in San Francisco to a bikepedestrian transit lane situation only. I wanted to mention that and tell him that hes really getting just so much excitement and support and after the unfortunate incident in the tenderloin where a young boy was hit, theres so much interest in that neighborhood, so many families with young children, overly affected and theyre talking into looking into carfree seats. It puts a lot on staff, but its gotten a lot of people excited and happy to hear its moving forward. Thank you. Any other directors have any new Unfinished Business . Seeing none, we will move on to the director of transportation report. As you know, we have been conducting staff and stakeholder outreach most of the summer and were community to receive subject input through a survey we post ed this summer and received 344 employee responses and 29 295 stakeholder responses and we wanted to summarize some of what we learned through the surveys. The top areas of focus where the employees want the new director to focus are on longterm visual ship, setting clear priorities, ensuring Safety Operations of the Transit System and standing up to political pressure, providing strong, responsible and fair leadership and ensuring Customer Service to the paying public, inspiring and empowering staff and ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion and service to customers. In terms of the Stakeholder Input for the next director, where safety for pedestrians and cyclists, safety for transit riders and a vision for environmental and financial sustainability. The Interview Questions that we are asking the candidates came from the input we received this summer from staff and stakeholder outreach. We are actively seeking out individuals that must closely fit the ideal profile, and that profile was itself generated from a lot of that staff and Stakeholder Input we received. As we consider candidates, we are strin striving to find the s from employees and stakeholders. So that is my report and any question, is, im happy to fied them. Any director whos were on the search committee, want to contribute highlight level comments . I want to thank director eakin for directing that cause. Well move on to the directors report. Madam chair, it would be report for public comment. It doesnt look like anyone submisubmitted a speaker card. Any comment on the overview of the search process . Seeing none, well move to the directors report. Item 7, directors report. Good afternoon, im going to start with a review of recent activities and when im done ill ask julie kirshbaum. Its on the opening of the center and i want to recognise thousands of mta staff, every division of the agency who made the launch of Transit Service in the opening of the chase center and overwhelming success for opportunities of thousands of fans, workers and just regular San Francisco people who wanted to get around. On friday, the metallica concert, there were 500 passengers on the bus service and 3,000 to 3600 on the tline and the tnshuttle line. According to the giants who operate the large parking lot at lot a, very few cars in parking lot a and so, we did not see the feared karmagheddin that many of us were prepared for they parked or traveled on foot from somewhere else. As many as 1500 using tnss. The 78x, the nonstop to the bart station was crush loads and 79 loads was half full. Over the course of a few events, we did see muni ridership going up but did not see the traffic crush materializing. We had additional tests last week. The first time that we had a dual event, meaning a giants game at the ballpark and again, got the same observed the same smooth conditions on the streets and didnt get a lot of negative and only positive feedback from the public. Bike use was light, only 30 bikes at the first event and one of the works in progress we have is cleaning up the operation of the smooth operation of bicycles on 6th street between third and the bay and then, bees, the completion of the fully bike path. We have construction all over mission bay and the dog path and as streets open, well be tweakintweaking signage, with sy post and the convenience of everyone trying to travel is prioritized. I want to acknowledge we heard criticism last week of the impacts of the chase center on riders on the number 8 bus. Specifically, we missed about three runs on tuesday on that bus and we immediately got into dialogue with supervisor walton representing the constituents and we offered free service on the 8th, 19th on thursday and friday, but more importantly, it was a wakeup call to us to make sure the message the promises we may the public, we would not let the chase Center Events disturb access to the eastern part of the city, making sure that message is communicated to the details of where we send a spare bus where were short a vehicle or two. The other things will be works in progress and we were, on the hole, the way we worked. Next up, i would like to invite our new resource directors, and i would like to introduce you to her, as well. As youve told us consistently, getting our Human Resources operations is a top priority for mta, as well, and kimberly joined us as a new director of human resource. She has 25 years working in state and Regional Transit agencies and came to us from ham Hampton Roads transit and oversaw the entire operation of the Resources Department from talent, acquisition and retention, benefits, compensation, ceo, compliance, Performance Management and policy development and an divert in Human Resources. Before hr, she was an urban planner and passionate about developing efficient Public Transportation systems and creating the dynamic workforces fostering the charging ratio coo get there. Maybe kimberly will say a few words. Thank you, thank you so much. Everyone has been so supportive and welcoming. Not only the employees but San Francisco as a whole. Im skated to be her scooted exe sure were working together to be inclusive and have a diverse work environment. So i really am excited and thank you so much. Youre welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you. Welcome to the agency and happy to see you on board. I just do want to flag that in the course of the search process, one of the things weve heard a lot about is that we are ensuring mta is an environment free of harassments and free of discrimination issue. The board received a letter that im sure you received a copy of from change mta, concerned about the issues and theyre persistents at the agency. I see no reason for a new director to come on and im happy to meet with you any time. I feel these are foundational and urgently address these issues and wipe them out. Thank you so much. Thank you. Looking forward to working with you. Welcomanother scooting excito announce, last week, september 10th, the county admitted 17 million to the overall flier fleet and doing a properly funded overhaul is the way to make sure the investment pays dividends over the use of the buses. So we dont have to retire them early or deal with maintenance issues down the road. This is a good example of funding and planning for keeping our flu down the road. A couple of street improvements, over the last three months, weve rolled out Traffic Signals to keep traffic flowing on some of busiest streets in sanfrancisco. We installed new timing patterns at 50 intersections in eastern soma, east of Fourth Street and another 50 intersections on california pine and bush in lower pacific heights. The improvements that we put in place include making the signals for visible, higher visibility to pedestrians, separation between pedestrians and traffic and weve installed activated two more redlight cameras, two more redlight cameras are active and two are turned on and issuing warnings and another eight installed by the end of the year. So were ramping up quickly in that programme. Some morning, i will join the director of public works and some other city officials at eighth and judith to ribbon cut the straight scape improvement. Its a multiagency project and were reorganizing the end judith stops and also doing some needed sewer work from public works and puc. Customers and pedestrians along juda will see new crosswalk ramps, newly striped crosswalk and improved Traffic Signals to go along with the sidewalks at t the transit stops. I know outreach is on the board. Im proud our team has won awards for Public Outreach and planning. The 2017 bryant project was awarded was given an award by association for Public Participation, better known as iap2 and specifically gave an award for diversity, inclusion and culture category and for improving one of the slowest routes and able to reach populations in soma and tenderloin. That was recognised by the transit riders who gave out a rider first award and at those awards, they recognise the Planning Team that quickly put in place the resign, the common sense pilot at the west portal this year to improve and make the lightrail service smoother. Were giving free muni tickets and for the tthird for providinproviding readable signd to 250a for successfully pass ag contract to improve conditions for operators and kept riders moving. That concludes my report. I will turn it over to director borden, to julie. Dr. Kirshbaum. Good afternoon. Im the transit director and thank you for talking about the Upcoming Schedule changes. These are a part of our ongoing approach to make incremental improvements to improve or reliability. Were in a resource constrained environment right now as a result of the operator shortage, so were not doing big ads to the system, but we are constantly making shifts and refinements to make service better. The changes go into effect early 2020. Were targeting january. Although it may be early february. And some of the things that were doing is enhancing reliability, making new or improved customer connections and also we believe will help with less misservice. On the reliability side, the first thing were doing is well pilot in the morning a change to the rail system where were going to turn the jline along ebarcadaro rather than turning it at ebarcadaro station. Its an experiment but we believe it will decrease congestion and really reduce the amount of delay that customers are spending stuck between stations particular lookly between montgomery and ebarcadaro but well seeing it between powell and montgomery. The crossover move, because we dont have a dedicated pocket along the ebarcadaro, the crossover move, weve tested and it takes about 90 seconds. So there will be some delays if theres an end train or a ttrain coming in either direction, but we believe that delay is better than the big delay that were seeing in the tunnel itself. If it doesnt work, you know, we have the ability to quickly revert back to the current system, but we think that it will make an incremental improvement. Then as we discussed, we are looking as we develop our Capital Programme at an additional pocket track along the ebarcadaro which would really, i believe, help with the terminal. The second thing im excited about and weve waited a long time, is that were upgrading the buses on the weekday. It currently has longer buses on the weekends. Weve been holding off on doing that because weve needed coaches, the bigger trains for some of the Rail Construction thats been happening, including the warriors platform that was you have completed. But were excited to be rolling that out and getting a lot of positive feedback from folks that are experiencing crowding on that service. This will also allow us to retire some of our very oldest 40foot buss that weve been holding onto. Theres small incremental changes. Unfortunately the city continues to slow down and so, we have to make adjustments in the schedules to keep up with that negative trend. The second category of changes is looking at ways to have better connections and one of the things i am most excited about is that we are going to be restructuring the Early Morning service for our rail customers. On some of our routes like the tline and mline, we provide a route downtown but on others we wdont. We force a surface lane to west portal and then they transfer to a bus. When we interviewed the Early Morning customers, many whom are going to jobs and making connections that without reliable transit they wouldnt be able to get where they needed to go, about a quarter said they were transferring two times just to access our earlymorning service. Additionally, were putting extra rail miles on the system when we dont need it. The bus loads the customer loads are more appropriate for a bus at that hour. So what well be doing, well be pulling out the trains a little bit later to match when the subway open and deriving direct connections on our bus system. This is something we will do Extensive Customer information campaigns so those Early Morning customers know what to expect. Theyll be told, you dont have to get off this and this will take you down to make your destination. This reduces the number of vehiclevehicles on tonsend. Weve been hearing feedback, the 9r, which is something that has had positive feedback, for example, in visitation valley isnt starting early enough. We will be implementing service to rinkon hill which is something weve been work o worn for a long time and something this board off proved. Another change is an equity change, currently the 29 sunset is not very customerfriendly. We dont have a very good layover at the end of the line. So what we do and weve done it for many, many years when the bus gets to third street, customers have to wait through the entire operator layover before heading to the end of the line. So what were working on is to try to work to get a terminal and a location but if were not able to, well do the terminal loop twice. So we will take customers directly to the end of the line. Well go back and do the layover and start the line again and pick them up. I also want to flag on the 29, we continue to get a lot of feedback about all of the schools and all of the activity. I know we had an interesting presentation from students last summer. Our transit planners are doing a yearlong process with that class to look at the needs of students along that route and looking at how we can get potentially some skipstop service or express service focused around the school time. We dont have the resources do that now, but im optimistic as we continue with our operator hiring that we may be able to consider ha in the future. So i wanted you to know the planning work is going on, even tothough were not able to add f extra service. The last areas were looking at is to sea what we ca see what wn minimize misservice. Were changing the schedule. We have the number of parttime operators. Even with all of our recruiting efforts, we only have about 35 parttype operatorparttime open the system. So well be adjusting the schedule to reflect that. Well be as a paper exercise, were going be reducing the amount of service on the f line. It will not be different than what were delivering today because, unfortunately, we just dont have enough operators trained on the historic fleet, but as our training improves, well be able to rachet that back up and it will be more stable because instead of having big gaps in service, everything will be more smoothed out to match our actual resource levels. We will also be making some judgmentadjustments to the lrv e to reflect the number of vehicles we have. The end result will be fewer car trains in the system. The last thing, weve taken a hard look at all of our routes to shift resources and one place were pursuing this is on the richmond expresses. We currently provide one trip after 7 00 p. M. On all of the rich monday routes. Its a very expensive trip because it forces or schedule to go from 12 hours to 13 hours, which doubles the number of operators that we need. And theyre not very well utilized. So we are going to ask customers on the richmond express to use the 38 rapid and one california after 7 00 p. M. So these changes right now, i know january or february seems far off, but in scheduling world, were actually kind of in the heat of developing those changes. This will also be a general signup for our operators, so they will have the opportunity to change modes. This will be our last traditional general soonup, where people can go from bus to rail. One of the things we changed in the contract negotiations was how we do rail training, by the commitment that we would be doing one more traditional signup. I do believe that the rail service will be more stable than it was the last time we did a general signup. The last time we did a general signup, we had about a sixmonth slow down in training because of the blue light phone replacement in the subway and weve had an extended period of shutdowns in the subway impacting our hiring. Our hiring levels continue to be good on the lrv side. But this will have some impacts. It also means that instead of our october class being 60 students, we do have to rachet it back to 30 students because we need trainer capacity to train existing operators on their new modes so people will go from a 40foot bus to a 60foot bus or a motor coach to a federall trolley and we need t those contract obligations. I think thats the end of my presentation and im available to answer any questions have. Directors . Director eakin. Thank you for the update and i know its making tough decisions, making a decisio