May be removed from the meeting. Cell phones on vibrate cause micro phone interference. Approval of minutes for january 3 regular meeting. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor say aye. The ayes have it. Item 5, communication. I know of none. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. I like to [inaudible] i nominate Malcolm Heinicke. For chair . I thought we were doing both at the same time. We are just doing the chair. Any members care to address the board . Seeing nonenominating cheryl to do it this she is dedicated and knowledgeable person. The agency and staff and colleagueerize very fortunate to have sheryl step in. She is knowledgeable about mta and transit agencies around the country and world. She is very artechulate advocate for the goals of the agency and spend Many Community meetings during the year so will be a outstanding member of the board. All in favor of Cheryl Brickman say aye . Opposed . Thank you. [applause]. Call for election of the vice chair. We have a nomination . I know this is surprising but like to nominate Malcolm Heinicke. Any other nominations . Members of the public have comments . Seeing none. I like to say we are very fortunate malcolm stepping into the position. So knowledgeable and dedicated and thoughtful and not afraid to take on hard issues. That is the bft benefit of the agency and city. If no other comments i will call the question. All in favor of Malcolm Heinicke for vice chair . Opposed . Here it isi cant believe im giving this up. I was just getting the hang of this thing. Thank you. I want to thank tom nol frn nolan for his service for 8 years. He led through change jz been a calm and thoughtful voice and honored to work with him and call him a friend. His leadership shaped my time as vice chair and will continue to shape and inform my time as chair. Our city and Transit System will be a unfinished project and changing. Helping to create a transportation worthy the great city woompt regoing in the right direction even though bumps and challenges occur but always towards our goal, which is a great city with slnt transportation choices. I think our current and past boards i thank the current and past bord for the work they have done and continue to do. We bring unique speerns and dedication to create a collegeial board and proud to serve along said all och you as well as mr. Reiskin and team and thank you to roberta boomer and i look forward being your 7th chairperson. [inaudible] [laughter] thank you very much. Thank you. Let me justthank you very much. Ill echo comments and thank tom for his services and leadership and i will also say that one of the reason i am taking the position as i enjoy work wg all you so much and particularly ed and roberta and other Staff Members and susan, and while you received plenty accolades and echo them. I respect you a great deal. Let me talk about somebody. I am the second more senior person on the board after tom so normally in the order of things especially with a ambitious person by my slf i would be in the seat but you dont get it by being the longest you get it by being knowledgeable and dedicated and passionate and cheryl is all those things so i look forward supporting you in the position which you deserve. Thank you very much, malcolm. I have the gavel so we will move on. Directors report. Mr. Reiskin. Members of the board and public and staff. I will thank the outgoing chair for many years of Great Service including the dubiate leading the bubious decision to hire me as director, hopefully the new chair will consider that appropriately but do want to thank tom for his many years of serviceess to the board not just while i was here but long before that and decades Service Transportation and other public interests then bay area. It will be a different board after in the wake of your service, so thank you for that and madam chair and mr. Vice chair, welcome. Congratulations, look forward working with you. Not to turn on a down note, but in termoffs my report i had a bad week last week on oo few different fronts. Within the muni system we had two fatalities the causes of which in both caseerize still under investigation but disturbing. The first was last tuesday at the end of the line in dally city on a 14 mission bus. A woman was found unresponsive. The woman is on the bus unresponsive. It was 911 was called and corner came and she was determined to have passed at some point on the vehicle. There were many news stories circulating about this over the weekend and discussion about men ingitis as a possible cause of deaths. We understand as of this morning the san mateo Corners Office ruled out minen jites as a cause of death. We will wait for the final determination and dont think it was muni related but it did happen on a muni bus and thoughts and prayers are with her friends and family. The next day there was a 57 year old man found dead around castro street station. There is a robust Investigation Underway which we are providing a lot of support to in terms of video and anything else that we have will help us all understand what happened, but tragic none the less and for him our thoughts and prayers are with his friends and family as well. Then, shifting gears, last week we also had two bad collision in the city. Pedestrians sthin street. The firstthese are both on the same day. The first was a 67 year old man crossing the street at 19th and judah. He had a green light around 8 p. M. And struck by a car and sustained life threatening injuries. This is a intersection that has history of collision. It is also one where there had been improvements such as signal upgrade in 2009 as well as added leading nrtdivals in 2014. This will be subject to significant upgrade and working with caltrans and going into construction the next couple years but tragic and wish him and his family the best. The same day a scith 6078 60 year old woman was struck at buchanan and was struck and kimed by a truck towing a trailer. Unlike 19th avenue this is not a area with a high collision history and along the union street corridor no real trends in terms of collisions there. None the less, will be following up on that and seeing what there is to be done but tragic all 4 of events happened in the last week. Just a reminder, the importance not all f othese were Street Safety related but the importance of our commitment to vision zero so since we are at the end of the year and have updated numbers for 2016 i like to ask tom mcguire sustainable streets director to come forward and give a update related to vision phreero. Good afternoon directors. We received from the department of Public Health the preliminary year end numbers for traffic fatalities in the city in 2016 and before i give a overview of those i want to make a couple caveats. The first is at least one crash is still under investigation by the medical examiner for its cause and could potentially bree considered a traffic fatality. It is important when we talk about year end numbers there is a lot of year to year variation and a lot of statistical fluctuation so important not to direct too many conclusion. Over the last year as many know there is a very alarming National Trend towards increasing trafic fatalities. All most 9 Percent Nation wide in fatalities and that is trend we are working against in the vision zero cities. Every year we luce about 30 libes on in San Francisco and 200 serious injured. In 201529 traffic deaths and compared to 31 deaths in 2015 and 14 so there was a slight decrease. Looking to the numbers a little deeper thrfs a decline in pedestrian fatalities between 2015 and 16. 20 pedestrians in 2015 and 16, 15 pedestrians. A lot of the 9 Percent Nation wide is cons trailted in pedestrian deaths rchlt we had 3 cyclist in die in 2016 and one motrist die in 2015. Thrfs a increase in the number of drivers killed this year. Only one person was killed in 2015 and 5 in 2016. Back in january there was a Early Morning hour collision south of market involving a california high way patrol chase where the driver and two passengers struck a taxi and accounted for deaths so that accounted for 3 of the 5 fatalities. At the end of the day i think we dont want to draw too many conclusion of this a long term trend. It is a year of data where it went down and up and that is good news going down than up especially given the National Trend bullet have a long way to go. December 31, 2024 which is our end date for vision zero is less than 8 years away and still losing 29 people a year on the streets. This year and years to come it is ourjob to get those 57 high priority engineering enforcement education projects underway to change policy about automated Speed Enforcement and the culture of speeding in San Francisco. The approval of Traffic Signals in south of market and tender line will make projgress and two year strategy will continue to chart the path to getting the number down from 31 to 29 to zero by 2024. That is my update on the vision zero statistics. Thank you. A few other items that have some vision zero connection. One is that a couple days after your last Board Meeting, the San Francisco county Transportation AuthorityCommission Approved the gearo brt Environmental Impact report. They certified the report and approved the hybrid design which is bus lanes in the center and van ness and richmond portion and side running brt on the eastern portion. There was two small changes made, which was the restoration of the rapid stop at laguna street and local stop at collins street. Other than that, the project was generally approved as recommended so it is a pretty significant milestone for the gearo brt, which i mention in the realm of vision zero because the project we call it brt is really a corridor transformation plauject with significant amount of vision zero elements that are part of it. So, next steps are a lot of Community Outreach will be happening over the next 6 to 9 month jz continue to work with the federal government to get the federal Environmental Impact statement finalized and then well bring that with potential parking and traffic changes for the eastern portion of the project to this body some time in the summer hopefully. So, great progress there. One other item with vision zero connection is that i think it was last week or maybe the week before, the u. S. Secretary of transportation, anthony fox was in San Francisco to join mayor lee and our past and current chairs of the mta board to announce the federal government awarding San Francisco with a 11 million grant to develop innovative transportation Tech Knowledge to address congestion, but also to make sure that the system is safer and more efficient and there are particular elements within the grantthere are 6 different projects and a couple are specifically aimed making the streets safer using technology to address safety issues. So, we will be implementing these in conjungz with the county Transportation Authority. There is Research Support from University California berkeley, pretty exciting stuff particularly anything we Bring Technology to try to make the streets safer so pleased to participate in that. A few other items, we have pretty significant storms last week and looks like we may have more coming this week and just wanted you know to there were lots of mta staff out and about trying to keep the city moving during that time. We had 31 signal outages over the course of the storms late last week and into early last week that our signal shop was able to quickly repair and get back into order. We had extra parking control officers to address things such as signal outages and lots of trees down i understand from public works. They had more than 300 trees down in the city over the course of the storms so having the folks out to direct traffic and redirect traffic was important. There was numerous muni operations and maintenance staff out supporting to keep the systems running. We had a lot of impacts to muni service as a result of the trees and a mud slide, but we didnt have a major flooding including in the subway where we had flooding before and i think that is thank tooz preventative work we did together with public works and pu c. Just want to acknowledge, a lot of folks as we are inside trying to stay warm and dry the field staff are out sthr making sure the city will keep moving and will be ready for the next storm as well. I did want to just speak to the next bus ushue which is issue of great discussion of late. Ill start with the good news is most the next bus predictions are restored based on good work by folks inside and partners, the companies that help us deliver the next bus system. There has been a lot written and said about what happened and why it happened and i guess i would say this, i think there was a confluence of a number of Different Things from work that we were doing to work that others external to the agency were doing that collide said in a unfortunate storm that led to the outage. We worked very quickly to replace it and worked quickly to provide as much information to the public as we could but i recognize it was very significant inconvenience for a lot of folks so want to apologize for the rider jz anyone else impacted. It increensed a lot of folks and take responsibility for the outage. In hindsight i think there is more we could have done to mitigate it from happening but have it up and running for the most part. It was a lesson for me in how important the service is to our riders. The reactions we got was amazing. I dont mean in a good way amazing, but it spoke a lot to how valuable having arrival predictions are for the riders. We are just about past it now and dont expect anything like that to reoccur in the future but wanted to acknowledge that was not our finest day and want to accept responsibility for that. Two more quick things. One is that mayor lee along with mayors from a number of different cities including los angeles, portlands and seattle made a joint request last week to automobile mrfer inviting to improve pricing and specifications of existing electric vehicles for use in all municipal fleets to help reduce fuel and maintenance costs. Obviously most the transit fleet is electric so we know this but much of the non revenue and rest of city fleets and city fleets across the country are not. To the extent we can move those vehicles rks which are necessary to our performing city service so we can move those to the zero emission electric vehicles that have a impact on greenhouse kbas reduce reliance on fossil fuel, reduce air pollution and quality and reduce maintenance. A lot of folks look to San Francisco as a leader because we have a mission free power from hetch hetchy that powers the majority of our muni system and city buildings so i think mayor lee was able to exempify great leadership but have this not just be San Franciscos voice but bring together a coalition of cities to advance for this. There are plenty of products out there for Passenger Vehicles and sedans. There are increasingly a number of electric buses starting to come on the market. This push was to broaden the market to more municipal fleets. Many of the heavy duty truck jz other equipment we use or agencies like public works departments or parks departments, there are not electric vehicles available for those fleets so this was a push from the mayor to the manufacturers to expand their repertoire. And finally, speaking of zero emission vehicles, i was pleased to be joined by former chair nolan, then chair nolan last friday with our director of transit john hailey and his team to welcome thest if of ow neurlightrail vehicles to San Francisco. It arrived over night in our metro east facility from sacramento. This produced by see mans and the first of 260 new lightrail vehicles we are in contract for. It was 2 and a half years in the making to get to this point from developing the first specification and request for pro posal and bringing the contract for your consideration and finally for the board of supervisors approval and exhaustive planning and design and quality assurance, public vetting to get to the point where we have our first vehicle here that is dollar irfbed, which is great. I remiped you the first two traunchs of 6 or 24 vehicles by the end of nest year and 40 after that are expansion vehicles so will be adding to the fleet and starting around 2121 the vehicles after that will replace the Current Fleet under the current schedule so we will have more lightrail vehicles in Service Starting later this year after the first vehicle goes through its paces and safety certifications, but very exciting moment and huge mile stone for the agency. I want to credit john hailey for his extraordinary effort to get the project to this point and look forward to more vehicles rolling in and hitting Revenue Service later this year. That conclude my report. Thank you, thank you very much director reiskin. I know the new lightrail vehicles will do what the buses have with fewer break downs and more comfortable. Thank you for highlighting the next bus issue. I completely can appreciate and empathize in the pain that caused riders. How reliant on the on time arrival cant be overstated so glad we will have that cleaned up. It reminded us again when you first came on board how a schedule if you have predictable