Port authority you gave yourself a projection roll call director brinkman down the road deis a block away director nolan director ramos director rubke we have quorum item 3 announcements of the please silence all electronic devices. Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Set cell phones on vibrate, the vibration could cause an interruption in the proceedings. To the board ask you to turn them off approval of the minutes of january 19th and 26 meeting. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Id like to take a moment to welcome our brand new second meeting City Attorney susan clevelandknowles welcome im glad youre here if you thank you very much. Ms. Bloomer ero mr. Chair we dont have anticipated litigation for discussion in closed session so that item is off the agenda new introduction of business by Board Members. Rocking and rolling item 7 directors report. Director reiskin good afternoon tom nolan and members of the public and staff i want to take the opportunity to recognize some of our outstanding employees well hear from 3 divisions first troyer. Good afternoon decorations id like to ask terra and mr. Washington to join us so sheryl is the transit inspector for 13 years and terra for 8 years on 2015 one of the inspectors garrett and washington noticed a group of people standing over a male the verticalal position when they approached the inspector noticed the male was not breathing and they immediately cleared the baupdz out felt area and called 911 and began cpi over 10 minutes washington observed the skin were recoloring just in time for the San FranciscoFire Department to take control another 0 example of front time staff with the parking control officers going above and beyond the call of duty they came up on a challenging situation and acted quickly and took control of the situation resulted in an outcome that frankly could have been a low worse. On behalf of the board of directors thank you for your outstanding performance it is amazing were proud of that forever and on behalf of the entire agency thank you clapping. id like to thank you. The board of mta and proof of payment that taught me my skills but under the circumstances you see the public asks for your help thats something i would do. Mr. Washington i would to say the inspector was writing up a bunch of ticket laughter winning this award shows that making the citizens the of San Francisco make folks feel safe im proud to be a transit inspector thank you. clapping. director reiskin. I want to ask our director of finance and technology to recognize one of her employees. Good afternoon decorations my privilege to introduce a person from the Management Group if 2009 and played a critical roll in moving the Technology Agency we have been lax and not having the best Technology Moving to the building departments and you can imagine not only the assistance but the culture change and having the folks change the way theyre doing thing is the difficult part hes a key player in some of the systems the Enterprise Management system and the Financial Assistance replacement the gentleman is involved in making sure were approving the control hes extremely detail oriented and has a strong work ethic as from his quality that shows us that way colleagues a lot of his team really supports him he as a backward in Business Administration so perry are thank you and keep up it up and looking forward to seeing the new systems so thank you clapping. on behalf of the board of directors and the entire agency thank you for your work. Thank you very much just a want to say thanks to any immediate virginia and others and especially the supervisor that helped me do any job this is a little bit unextended but very much appreciated thank you clapping. director reiskin. Finally id like to ask john our transit director to recognize the personnel. Good afternoon mr. Haley. Excuse me. Good afternoon to to my right is george and doug lee and a gary is the fleet engineering and the other two are the Quality Control group in keeping with the events of the last week through sunday ill try to recognize theyre terrific work in terms of whats happening with a lot of whats on our minds the super bowl as you recall some 5 years ago our league was the veterans the twilight of our career their performances was declining they could no longer make the plays they were not as reliable as they ones were and unprepared to meet the challenges of the unschedule so what and needed was to look to somebody to throw the playbook out and go to our version of the 2 minute rule in San Francisco you need to look more further than joe montana over the course with your help and support we added procurements we needed somebody to lead the projects that was initiative and look at it different situations could adapt and read the defense make adjustments as we went through the process the ability to check off and make necessary changes and under embarrassing leadership weve gotten a number of buses into the red zone but as you may know getting them into the red zone is not the same as getting them into the cross the goal line. Do you have a parttime job laughter . So as at all football fans know even when our closing the field gets short the last yards are the toughest ive winding up the statement and what you needed was a group of people to do something weve never done we never accepted vary sites and not a new pretty much in several years needed to once we got the our newly kwurd chargers getting them into the services so doug and george organized a Systematic Program worked with the vendors used their ability to block and tackle and resolve issues to get the bus if theyre in service now over the period of procurements it used to take us 6 weeks to get a bus into service now 6 cases primary to the leadership and skills so i want to acknowledge that their hard work in different areas and they are our Pro Bowl Team that has in fact delivered and weve talked about last tuesday a direct tribute to their hard work in honor to recognize them for in their efforts clapping thank you, gentlemen on behalf of the the board thank you for your outstanding work. Thank you, mr. Chair and Board Members and mr. Reiskin and thank you, my boss john halley what a privilege of working on this project i had fun everyday ive been with the program for 3 two years and privileged to have this job and a little bit about myself as a young child my family didnt have a car we rode muni i rode the green buses the late 60s with the gym i didnt see came out i saw them coming up california street i was excited it making made the funnier riding the bus my daughter rides the 38 gary she said buttons on every stop i dont have to reach crossed people my daughter enjoys the buses as well the muni has made blood progress in my cases limited service only on week days and saturdays and sundays this is a terrific increase in service i want to thank the board in every way for this vanishment. Forgive me this is my first time but i too wanted to thank the board and my boss john for take the opportunity to work with this group and john and people that are here that i really they support not only me but all of us we have a great group of inspectors we have inspecting traveling back and forth to minnesota so im giving thanks to them unquote them they wouldnt have all those buses we have 2 today and not we are getting them out no service i want to thank and john mentioned were open on the Super Bowl Committee so ticketed to hawaii. Thank you board so i think john and george theyve mentioned a fun experience to all of us. It is challenging everyday but we manage to overcome the problems in butt all the vehicles into service we have 70 new coaches and i want to take this moment and thank a few people first my mom and dad ive been needing the attention and thank you to them for guiding me and i also want to thank my wife i have a child 5 years old during the time im on a business trip shes doing the hard work behind the scenes and on the work side thank you for the upper management john halley they trusted me everyday a new challenge i pray to god ill do better everyday and proud it is an honor to work with all the working hard dedicated personnel like qualify assurance and engineering staff and without their support we wouldnt be able to make that happen and last but not least without your support i wouldnt have a job thank you very much clapping. were the lucky ones. Thank you i still get excited every time im waiting on the sidewalk and see one of the new buses come down the street and get excited about the stops thats my kind of kid and john mentioned it i i terms of the super bowl were right in the thick of it you as you may know the street closer started on monday the events opened up this past saturday and peter albert is here as you may know lead the planning of this and it was done i think the proof of how great the execution has been the last week and a half much of what was designed has worked with a few adjustments weve made not to declare a victory but the crowds are enabling over the course of the, we, of course, the possibility of urban planted event but it is from a traffic stand point transit stand point bike pedestrian accessibility from every dimension of the planning things are relatively well and well working hard to make sure it stays that way muni operator uniforms did beloved brown uniforms that are 26 operators wear around town everyday to make sure that in terms of it is a part of San Francisco we saw an opportunity for a number of reasons to take a step back and review the contracts and elevate the uniforms and the central of making changes to them both improvements the material and changes in what comes with their uniforms but most importantly what colors the uniforms will be so right now we have blue the muni operating division there are two voting a brown and gray those were the top two from a survey of operators done last fall and were looking for changes like a different jacket and options for breathable lighter fabrics so we have a kind of road show through the division what man tennis or kins with operators seeing what the uniforms look like and that will, a place through the end of this week or beginning of technique this is partnership and coordination with the local 258 so far you if not to keep the tabs the gray is leading the brown by several margins we will defer to the worries about the operators on muni but that is possible possible as soon as april you will start seeing new uniforms they might be a different color wanted to let you know about that one other piece of good news is that and again, we didnt want to celebrate but the system drops by 21 percent from november to december 5th percent drop in crime december was the lowest month for recorded crime in 2015 and compared to previous years often crime goes up goes up in december so were pretty happy with that 14 and Mission Number one has dropped to 4 highest for the first time in many, many months and this is a result we believe of really good data and analysis from the security folks and the transit folks and good cooperation with the department in terms of the the sources to be purchased through our work order and Police Department using the data for the resources and good communication between Transit Security and Police Department has been i think responsible for this and keeping it down with our Strategic Plan goal of reducing crime by 10 percent in each circle and Capital Projects the balboa park station well break ground mid february the next week or so on the stationary planning codes improvements project this is something that has been the planning for quite and it is initially from the balboa park station area plan that was adopted by the Planning Commission a number of years ago with the community this is kind of a streetscape portion of plan what that plans called around the balboa park muni and bart to improve the safety accessibility and the improve of transit and the overall Customer Experience in this what is actually a very easy multi facility not only for the light rail and the bart station but the bus line that go through the area particularly in geneva the scope is the sidewalk widening and relocating the medium on geneva transit only lanes red only transit lanes and the pedestrian lighting and flashing beacons and the curve ramps and moving the polled out of the walkway for those 20 who use the Santa Fe Geneva corner and coming out into the bart station if below poles that hold the overhead wires close to the tram way well remove those impedes for the traffic and construction is if all goes well should wrap up this fall make a very big impact on the area wear skeleton to try to avoid the trufrpt the week day traffic that will be some noise some disruption but well working hard to make sure we keep that to a minimum and make sure that everyone is impacted with the information it is a great project that will make people who are assessing transit will audits move to the intersection with a more pleasant experience. Youll recall for the second half of 2015 we are that shuftd the metropolitan we recognize was a inconvenience after 9 00 p. M. But recall the purpose was to make critical safety improvements and enhancements there were two things we were doing replacing the old radio system and replacing the integer phone those are items that go back to the 70s when tunnels were built so for about 6 months up until january 23 shutting down every night on the 23 and restore the regular services because first and foremost the tunnels have been completed a little bit of remaining work left well do during the nonregular hours and happening the station so folks the workstations to complete the work but while we recognize it was inconvenient that was really important just to do the repairs and safety work appreciate everyones patience happy to report that the work is nearly complete and then finally with the sunset tunnel were doing well replacement and overhead wire and genre furniture that is 100 percent one shut down think weekend doing this for a weekend at that time, and the last one in january, i building 3 more two this many month and one in march in nothing interferes with those well be done with that project in midmarch all the tomb track has been replaced there are important schematic upgrade with the tunnel those are breaks we identified the engineering with the rail replacements so simplistic argued and this parallels the triplet will signal loan the n judah through the sunset 80 Percent Complete so that will be done in about a month and combination the state of repair that will improve the ride for those on the n judah so grateful for your patience and hopefully 3 more to get this done and another significant part of our Capital Improvement plan youll authorize the Capital Improvement plan that ends my report. Public comment. One member of the public that indicated an interest Herbert Wiener. This is section to address matters that were. One brief anything or thing about the super bowl my feeling mta shouldnt spend a dime towards it i feel it adds towards the shortfall in future years and i believe that the expenditure and thats all i have to say about it thank you. Breblgz. I want to say the Capital Projects the balboa park improvements is easy to remember what a huge transfer service ive walked around in circles trying to figure out where the 29 and ocean avenue i think the wave for in area is huge cut down on the confusion as people come out of that station and the radio project that was improved a long time and people may have forgotten what a big impact can you remembered you briefly how that raises the bar for the communication. Yeah. Sure and very old radio system right now that has a number of limitations including the physical hardware no longer manufactured so we have a shrinking inventory of products and infrastructure that we need in order to communicate so modernizing is it critical it is Single Channel system so one person talking at a time it doesnt have the modern redundancy modern radios have and thats 911 on we appreciated the importance of were doing as part of project not just replacing the old system but a huge thing 2, 3, 4 delays they cant get through to the center so an Immediate Impact on the delayed i system but putting in a computerized system and a local system that allows for communication not just between the control center and the operators but folks the field our control center will have better realtime information that is happening what the vehicles are and theyll be able to deal with issues not only through voice but data communication well significantly impact the way we manage the system as well well be going from a single pipe oldfashioned radio system with much of the rest of the Street Management done with pencil and paper to a modern multi channel high band with a radio system that complimentaryly enables us to have the modern means right now the bus installation for the new radios will be starting this spring the tunnel work was necessary the railcars will follow and perhaps to a point where we are starting to get those the buses and starting to put them into use we can come back with an update but this project started many years ago before i got here and were getting closer to the finish line were managing the system we get. Thank you. If i could just i wanted to compliment staff and whoever is responsible i know there is great information about the super bowl rerouting of buses the downtown area that was great to pot people the community with the information to the accessibility for people with disabilities and so thank you to all i know that was a group effort i appreciate that information was available. Ms. Bloomer. Decorations item 8 the sidi