Or other similar sound, producing Electronic Device places you on item number four, approval of minutes for the april 2nd regular meeting. I do want to share that Herbert Weiner requested a correction to his Public Comment on page three, item seven, expressing appreciation specifically for paraTransit Service. If you feel inclined to include that correction, it would be appreciated. Thank you, directors, are there any other changes to the april 2nd minutes . Yes seeing none, well open Public Comment for anyone in the room wishing to speak on the minutes item for okay. Seeing none, we can close Public Comment. Is there a motion with mr. Weiners amendment so moved. Second, second. Thank you. Please call the roll on the motion to approve the minutes with the correction director. Hemminger a hemminger director henderson, a henderson i director hinsey i hinsey i director. So i so i director tarlov i tarlov i director. Katina i katina i can, i can i thank you the minutes are approved places you on item number five communications i have none. Moving on to item number six. Introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members directors. Is there any new or Unfinished Business . Director henderson, please. Thank you. Chair, i just wanted to say thank you to you and to director tumlin and twu local 250 a for having me at the safe driver awards ceremony on saturday. It was so cool. I had the chance to, watch a number of the operators accept awards for 15 to 45 years worth of safe driving, and not having any preventable accidents, which i find an amazing inspiration for my own driving. So i, i really am trying to embody, you know, some of the spirit of the, of the operators that were there. I just was so impressed by the level of obviously skill that they approached their jobs with and poise, and it was just such a joyous and fun filled room. And so i appreciate the opportunity to attend and to say some words. And it also was an opportunity for me to, you know, just remember my grandfather and, you know, the same sort of, i think, approach to his day to day is what i saw in the room, just really hard working people who are delivering an Important Public Service to the city and take it very seriously. And so i wanted to say thank you. And thank you to madhu for helping escort me around a little bit. And i look forward to attending other ones. I also heard a little bit about the rodeo. I know you went last year and so i look forward to that. Im definitely putting my, my, my name in the, in the ring for, for attending that. So thank you. I just wanted to, to point that out. It was a really nice event. So thank you for having me. Amazing. Thank you very much. Director henderson, for attending the event and just also reminding us how important it is to acknowledge, just pause to acknowledge and celebrate hard work and accomplishments. Are there any other items of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members . Okay. Seeing none, well open a Public Comment on director hendersons report out on the safe operators event. Any Public Comments . Okay and close Public Comment. Please move on. Places you on item number seven, the directors report. Id like to call up our cfo, bri mcwhorter, who will be honoring some very special awardees this afternoon. Good afternoon. Directors im barry mcwhorter, the cfo, and were here today to honor the Financial Reporting team. They are a group of very quiet, very hardworking people who do not often get the light shined upon them, but often get bugged by me, if it werent for these people, i would literally have no clue what was going on. They tell me all the things all the time and they are very, very hard working in fact, theyre i have had to tell multiple of them on multiple occasions that they are not allowed to work while waiting to go into surgery , while immediately coming out of surgery or while on vacation. These are hard boundaries, and as you know, from going through the budget cycle recently, it is a process that has very strict timeline lines, and i only have to do that every two years. These folks do it every year because we have a year end close, and they produce the reports that are foundational to what we do. We could not exist without our financial statements. We could not issue debt without our annual debt report. We could not get hundreds of millions of dollars in operating grants without the mtc report. And we would not be a legitimate Transit Agency without our ntd reporting, all of which is done by these folks. Also they are one of the few jobs where you actually get a grade like you do in school. They are the folks that do all of our audits, all of our audits, and say whether we did well or poorly as an agency. And we have had no audit findings in libreville memory, which is a real testament to their work, and so i would like to call them up, im going to say each of their names, but if we could just all come up and do a round of applause at the end so we can move speedily through this process, and then is there matthew, would you mind coming up and doing the, this is matthew matthews, the controller. He manages the team. And then evelyn bruce also manages the team. Come on up, evelyn. Youre one of the people that i want to thank. Evan is, like, the human embodiment of a hurricane. Its crazy. Shes like, shes an accountant with, like, so much energy and personality. Its amazing. Okay, so this is evelyn. Paulette shes not. Shes just in surgery because shes recovering from surgery. Shes the one i had to tell she wasnt allowed to work, pwyw is. Come on up, howie. Sally tan. Kevin. Woo. Winnie wan, selena li, rita. Sung, suzanne zhang, connie chu, aparna gorky, michael. Ho, cindy. Kong deo. Ahsha. Merrillville. Paula paula. Ganas. Burton. Woo, teresa chan, rochelle ralston, and samuel say names i see in my email all the time, its nice to be able to put a face with all the names. So this is the Financial Reporting team. And thank you guys so much for all of your hard work. And now a round of applause. Do you want pictures in the hall . Yes. Okay. Were a large team. So. So come on. What evelyn or anyone else like to say . Say a few words on behalf of the team. Oh, i will, im not shy. Not at all. Im. Im one of your recycled one. Its my third year coming back to mta and im proud of doing it in the last 40 years. But im really, really lucky to have a team of accountants, cpas as well as going through and sleepless night to make the deadline and making sure that we make the deadline and with no findings as much as possible at the same time too, though, this is the first year that we went through a change in auditor kpmg for 30 years, first year of growth, which we went from low, low risk to a high risk, and we came out with no findings and we intend to improve it even further. So that we can they can all enjoy thanksgiving. Thank you. And i am very appreciative. She knows what shes asking for and sometimes we said, does she really want this . Yes she does, and shes very detailed and she knows she goes through it. And my staff are able to actually provide her with, with all the responses that she needs. And thank you to mateo. Thank you on behalf of the board, i would just like to thank you all for your public service. Anytime. I dont know if you are invited to join the Ribbon Cuttings, but any time we cut a ribbon on a bike lane project or celebrate the highest transit recovery numbers in the nation on van ness in the 22 fillmore, that is because of all of your hard work, and we want you to know that we recognize your work, and we thank you so much for your dedicated public service. Thank you all. I dont know somebody. All right , carrying on with the directors report, im also incredibly grateful to this team, our accountants not only have an incredible, attention to detail and to precision, but theyre also, problem solvers and troubleshooters. Like, theyre the ones who identify when something is going awry that needs some correction. And so in order to actually manage the agency, i am utterly dependent upon good accountants in order to figure out, how to make sure that were spending our resources wisely and in a way that upholds the public trust. Speaking of public trust, i am very pleased to announce that we are starting the formation of a full Service Office of civil rights. This is something that i have wanted to do for four years, and we figured out how to make it work, we are going to be actually doing a little bit of internal reorganization to pull together all of our civil rights related functions, much like most big transportation agencies do around the country, and we have not yet done, but we are now doing so. Were going to be pulling together eo, the office of Racial Equity and belonging, our ombudsperson, workplace complaints, title six and contract compliance into one house. And this is a great opportunity to recognize that for so many of these job functions, its not just about stopping the problem. Once a problem arises, its about correcting the problem at its root. Its about making sure that everyone at the sfmta feels a strong sense of belonging and is not in any way held back as a result of their race or, or or level of education or ability or gender or Sexual Orientation or any protected category. So this is a team that i am excited will be actually doing the structural change necessary in order to make sure that the sfmta is an equitable, and welcoming workplace on the inside. And that is also collaborating to make sure that our external work puts equity first in how we allocate our resources and how we engage successfully with communities. So im also really happy that our current, eeo and contracts manager, virginia harmon, is going to serve as the initial interim director of our office of civil rights. And one of her assignments will be to identify a Permanent Office of civil rights director. She will not be a candidate for that position, but i trust her completely in order to find the best possible person for it, next up, i wanted to talk about some of the ways in which we are working to implement the mayors Transportation Vision, some of which were able to finally do since our parking control officer staff is fully staffed up for the First Time Since the beginning of covid. So in addition to doing their regular duties, our parking control officers are going to be doing some intense operations in each supervisorial district around the city, where we do about a week of intensive enforcement of all the rules, but particularly the safety oriented rules like parking on the sidewalk, blocking fire hydrants, blocking the crosswalk, parking too close to the corner, so we are now in ongoing conversations with each of the members of the board of supervisors to make sure that were able to get the word out to community that this is happening, because in many San Francisco neighborhoods, given the scarcity of parking control officers that we have faced for several years, there are people who think that the rules dont exist. So we want to make sure that we get the word out that we are finally able to start enforcing all of the rules, next up, we have an update on winston avenue. Weve been notifying community who are living along winston through fliers that we are going to be putting up signs the week of april 22nd, restricting parking to four hours from 6 a. M. To 6 p. M. On both sides of winston from lake merced boulevard to Buckingham Way. And we will not be doing any enforcement of these new signs until after the paving program is complete. And after we give hsh the opportunity to do additional rounds of outreach to winston residents, we also wanted to let you know that we are making progress on some changes to lower great highway near the terminus of the n judah line. Were making a bunch of changes there in order to address, mandatory safety upgrades that weve been directed to do from the California Public utilities commission, as well as converting some of the parallel parking to angle parking, at the request of supervisor engardio, in order to increase visitor parking availability along lower grade highway, the some of the striping work, has already started. As of today, but the angle parking work will be happening the week of april 22nd, i also wanted to let you know that we, in the aftermath of the terrible tragedy in west portal that both our streets and transit teams have been working together to try to reimagine an the intersection of west portal avenue and yolo. Weve been working closely with the mayor herself, as well as supervisor melgar, supervisor melgar is pursuing this in tandem with her district seven participatory budgeting grant and weve also been partnering with the department of public works and the planning department. Were starting to develop some, conceptual ideas in collaboration with the neighborhood and with west portal merchant stakeholders and will be hopefully getting back to you very soon with some conceptual designs, update on our taraval project. Were really proud that the rail work is now at 100 completion. All of the water lines are fully complete, the sewer replacement, along with all the sewer connections, are fully complete, and were now moving on to the final surface work. And that includes weve completed about 70 of replacing all of the overhead lines, about 90 of the new curb ramps, about 70 of the final work on the boarding islands. And now were at about 60 for redoing the rest of the roadways. So this project does remain on time and on budget, one of the remaining risk factors is the shallow gas lines that are owned by pg and e. As you know, pg and e has been a big challenge to do schedule coordination with. But thanks to direction from the Mayors Office and the mayors chief of staff directly, we are finding that were getting much better collaboration with pg and e, so were hoping to eliminate that final remaining risk factor. We also, as a reminder, will be doing the special track work out at 46th avenue, but were still on schedule for resuming el Terrible Service in the fall. I do this normally. I wouldnt bring this up in a directors report, but we had a kind of adorable little, Ribbon Cutting on april 4th with supervisor mandelman, this was for a flashing Pedestrian Crossing sign at douglas and Diamond Heights, douglas and clipper, not Diamond Heights boulevard, i think. Douglas and clipper. Yes and the what makes this newsworthy is typically when were installing any kind of signal infrastructure like this, the work takes an extraordinary long time, given the constraints that we have on our contracting mechanisms. So for this project, we worked directly with the department of public works, allowing us to actually install the work in house, which enabled us to get it installed in record time. Still not the sort of timeline that i would like to see, but were Getting Better and its demonstrating what once again, what our crews are capable of are really absolutely extraordinary and efficient crews, next, i want to just update you on a couple of additional things. And were also proud, as you know, as youve seen from the work that Jessica Garcia and sean kennedy are doing around Equity Analytics for muni, were finding that people are increasingly taking our data and taking it further. And recently, ucla grad student ryan caro did a report on using data science for equity at sfmta, and ryans work just won a 2024 American Planning AssociationAssociation Northern california section award for the Equity Analytics. And were expecting to actually see some more of that, particularly as we are able to share more and more of the data that is coming out of our muni planning team. I do want to thank director henderson, along with board president aaron peskin, for joining us at the safe driver awards and would love to invite any of you and all of you to come both to our upcoming bus rodeo, as well as our rail rodeo and a special invitation, a special invitation to do some Operations Training in advance so that you can compete in the bus rodeo. And theres potential maybe even for doing so at the rail rodeo, one of the most extraordinary things that i have ever done at this agency is compete in the bus rodeo, which was utterly terrifying and gave me a lot more understand ing of what our operators deal with on the streets every day. And, you know , we will later have a moment of silence for the orange cones who sacrificed themselves and i will continue to confirm, despite those in the audience who would contest this, that my second place prize was totally legitimate. I did not get any any extra points from, from the judges, and then finally, i do want to, cue up a video that our team has produced on the history of the central subway project, focusing really on the Community Engagement work that weve done that not only influenced, but led much of the design, including not only the public art and the station design, but even more so now. How for example, the public spaces at chinatown rose park station are being used with community actually leading in the programing of the space. So with that, if you can bring up the video. Its a Strong Coalition that would bring a new subway system downtown. This new system later would be known as the central subway. A project of this magnitude required a Strong Partnership between city leaders and ag