December 15, 2015. San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency brooks Parking Authority president obama director brinkman director heinecke is on his way from the train director nolan and director ramos describing and mr. Chairman you have a quorum please silence all electronic devices. By person responsible maybe asked to leave the room cells set an vibrate you cause interruption for the approval of the minutes regular meeting so moved second. Technical all in favor, say i. I. The is have it. Thank you very much item 5 communication directors please be advised for the establishment of a blue zone on delores regarding the arguable and others for closed session have within removed from the agenda at the request of staff item 6 introduction of new and Unfinished Business by Board Members. First happy new year and thank Internal Revenue leader ed reiskin for a fabulous 2015 we really feel the agency has accomplished so much and seeing a result often the streets with and know how much hard work we appreciate if very much and it is is mark of a great leader ed and the leaders and his Leadership Team theyve moved forward hiring the right people supporting them and getting fabulous results happy new year and thank you to you and youre Leadership Team i dont see very many of you today but thank you. Id like to add that the agency is so well served by every level we see it all the time basically continues very supportive and the ambitious we get a well thought out and advanced on behalf of the people of San Francisco and this board thank you very much and director reiskin thank you. So as just one more thing id like to request we adjourn in the memory of mary brown a city Family Member a brick coalition person was constitutional in the valencia street consul general he went on to get over graduate degree at San FranciscoState University was a member the agency and passed away at 46 and socializing misses by the family she was amazing so adjournment in her memory. Other business and item 678 directors report. Again director reiskin. Happy new year mr. Mayor and members of the board and public and stave a staff a few quick things fir twifr r tom maguire. Like to add the forestry is joining me. Houston is a traffic technician in the trespasser who has demonstrated sound ability for all covets events and street closer if approximately visits to others visiting San Francisco to a small family scale event we worked with the public go to trouble shoot and solved problems they say defendable and over the last couple of years every position within a temporary and dependent Decision Making abilities to step enter a supervisory role to work with the consumers not only the events are signed correctly but successful and the public is invented as little as possible above and beyond the call of duty is Great CustomerService Person he determines the needs of each location and moves little handicap parking and moves the staff around and helps to keep the streets safe so all Public Events we host in San Francisco, california took place a great positive example for this is a colleagues and supervisors with a positive easygoing attitude and a consider it done attitude for that reason we recognize. On behalf of the broshgdz he recognize that youre family is here well to see the folks we promise. Well be on tv come on up. laughter . clapping. this is my daughter charm and im glad she came today you dont i did not think she could make it her mom said she said and thank you very much for your service to the city thank you clapping . We also have with us today mary lee our long time crossing guard working as a crossing gaud for mta for 38 years since 1977 clapping. since 1979 assigned to the school and being there for 36 years shes well known to the community as a puny i cant tell and courteous public sirntd with a positive attitude railing members of the commission a shift the commission recognized here and almost every year shes received an award that is a tremendous tremendous feather in the cap she reports 15 minutes earlier four her shift and makes sure that over ask the crows the street safely and for the parents and general public we are happy to have her protecting our vulnerable on the streets. On behalf of the board and the mta thank you for your services for 38 years you have family here good; right . Right. clapping. mr. Chair a few other recognized happy to announce that earlier this year the polk street bike way on the awards won the trails project if the bay area section of the American Society of Civil Engineers in addition the city agency will recognize for the Caesar Chavez straight prong four outstanding highway projects and the central subway for outstanding projects and looking at those first two within polk and cesar chavez they are won 7 awards not just here but internationally with the outstanding projects ill close by saying youre easily remarks and accommodations it is the kind of folks we recognize here and a lot of the folks on the engineers and mraernlz and mechanics and operators the pcos theyre the ones that are responsible for the achievements were able to accomplish in 2015 and 2016 on behalf of the team wear fortunate to have a strong workforce and it is our job to take the policies and Budget Authority you give us and give them the support to implement so thank you and happy new year. Members of the public want to address the public reports. Seeing none. The advisor report not seeing mr. Whatever and the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, 306k we have to speakers that have turned in speaker cards Herbert Wiener and another gentleman. Good afternoon mr. Wiener and Herbert Wiener the new line when is the resurrection will coffer absurdity street and terminate at 6 and clement street to get to the stop at samson and Market Street if the embarcadero e. R. To joining areas transfer will you been required ending the direct service if those areas this will result in garage travel time in addition there are be no stops at clemente streets and forcing are shoppers to walk a longer Zoning Districts e distance this will have an effect on the distances the line has been in the cross hairs of muni management for years it began with the clemente line to the new termination and now is effectively there because this new run will be a toe line the ensues have been taken from the droplett of their line fortunately passengers were you able to stop that from being end but the management says it will be a clean plan moving forward hopefully the busses will run frequently than in the past and not end in the evening the two clemente line was a good one until it was stopped when the department began its on the tip of my tongue with that paratransit ask proposed for the disabled and seniors who bend from this line it is a solution for already overloaded service that is desperately he trying to serve the passersby just as this can be immediate bliss and strict advertising covers a awe strits. David and others good morning. Good morning and a belaid new years to all of you in any event id like about a one and thirty others senior cab drivers are what is called single operator permit households holders permanent a decision we have a certain amount of revenue for this theres been a decision made to end this program this is as closed to any kind of benefits for all the years of driving that we get and i think would recommend bra this program is terminated there b b be a full Board Hearing to review it we want to consider the consequences to Public Service what will happen if at the terminate the f single operators permit holder for the taxi riding public over and over force them into a maneuver no. I dont think so this decision needs to be reconsidered at the full board level as soon as possible thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Those are the last two speakers who turned if speaker cards. Good afternoon commissioners and happy new year to all of you pursue im a colleague of david 123450id the name is glen eagle ending been driving a taxicab im 78yearold and still driving not as much but we have a real concern one and 35 senior drivers they address this as single operators but it is allows up to 9 shifts no drivers by themselves is going to do that but to combrd of osmosis senior drivers the ones that you are still out taking care of the senior passersby people what wheelchairs a walkers and canes elderly that dont have smart phones yet the mere thought of could go this smacks to me of age discrimination measure and simple on average those drivers have been driving thirty years theyre in the neighborhood of 70 years of age this is absolutely ridiculous i mean, why would anyone say we need to get the most experienced out of the industry and leave to people that are licensed well leave this to the uber lyft so much turnover the tons of money that is driven theyd be gone please address this and at least we expect that and deserve that my feeling those Green House Gas emissions so be experienced to regular medallions and the people that have most this of the medallions these days were handed they got on a a list most of the drivers got on the listless because of hundreds of people never got an medallion so thank you very much for additionally that. Howard the last person to submit a speaker card. Good afternoon corrections and happy new year i want to add something to your work schedule this year we know that the budget is a very political process but also, if he look at the budget we ought to look close enough to see who subsidies more youre transit rider subsidies more private cars i think if we study this in great detail and deal with the special things ill see more work are you guys youll have to approve certain sdpingz probable a thousand budget item is this the drivers e. R. The disabled how pays all the different stuff i hope we can dig into this in a complete way you know we have the push and pull of politics that gets us to where we are this is not satisfactory in the areas of the politics we can use facts and study it it would be it may take some of the expenses this is not for transit this is not only for cars but it is split it up you dont have to make that decision and then certain fees like i would look at the parking text it is a fee for giving someone the conveniences and right to hold the piece of San Francisco place in parking for in their convenience and others feehey agree to pay the fee it is market rate these kinds of decisions should be made in the public and transit riders think they dont get enough lets discover the facts as you anyone else care to address the board seeing none. Moving to our complete calendar directors ive annunciations 10 p. S. 2 and 6 haves cabin severed ive not received any other requests from the boards or members of the public for any other items. Is there a motion to approve. Motion to approve. Any further discussion. All in favor, say i. I. The is have it. Moving to inform item 11 for the sfmta 2015 financial audit. Good afternoon. Good afternoon happy new year to everybody i dont see the auditor here they were supposed to be here so we can wait or do it i will do any presentation it is required they do a presentation in front of you. Okay. Thank you. All right moving forward to item 12 then approving the sfmta 2016 legislative program. Good afternoon ms. Good afternoon, directors this is the faster meeting ive seen. Not over yet. Fair enough. Youre not with the auditors outside are you laughter . Thank you for the opportunity this afternoon to present the 2016 go legislative program youve seen this format so ill not go over the packet but a quick overview utilized to acknowledge our local are affairs person that has done a fabulous job and the way that the local program is laid out the ongoing engagements and relationships with a reaction those are broad in addressing the board of supervisors and little Transportation Authority with those entities and moving on to the High Priorities that are fulfilling the local agenda this year is the approval the budget the 2015 ballot for the charter measure which is yet to be determined for the november 2016 election as well as other things with the Sustainability Program which a comprehensive program for the sustainability fee all of that will entail the hand in hand work that is necessary for the supervisors following onramp it will be the contracts and grants that need to go to the full board fettered at the local level related to vision 2025 and item a through e programs youve been briefed on, on an ongoing basis that also have various aspects recommended to local approve with with the brts that will execute the small combranlt agreement in the spring and aspects the muni for the record and the central subway and Market Street thats a lot all of those major initiates underway on with an o one stage or another ill leave the Locals Program if you have any questions certainly will encourage you to ask them and bill and i will respond moving to the stated this year, the approach i wanted to reflect on the fact were hesitate in the second year the occurred two year legislative session obamacare in the legislative start up time, if you will, were, on the success in year one with the i mentioned action with the enforcement of parking violations and consistent with San Francisco leadership on the free muni for Youth Program we were successful in working with cal spaca to secure 41 million in cap trade for light rail vehicles an ongoing effort with the state this year as we move into 2016 the governor under item one will realize his budget on thursday that will be a start to the conversation about the budget within that context will be an ongoing conversation started last june in Infrastructure Investment and a Something Else session in praerlt to the current legislative session our efforts working studying with other transportation agencies a glimmer of hope for a moment i would say in august or september but then as time passed no reaching of the agreements we were able to get the votes this session is formally in place that is to is if there were something to come to pass in terms of of an agreement on a fund source that is directed to future translation we will pathologically have something news worthy to talk about as of today in predictions under cap trade the good afternoon will speak on thursday the program is growing in size i think San Francisco was very successful in achieving 341 million this past year in the superintendant guerrero city program that program is going to grow the funding circles are moving into two year cycle that will be followed by 5 years and our decision to see had a is the most expensive as they feeds on this Important Program it is important to remember whatever we put forward has to show the enernex between the Green House Gas emissions and our team is figuring out what is the best project that is eligible for the fund give feedback, if you will, to the guidelines to evaluate those projects and advance those projects working with the designation some of them were set aside to the programs hike transit in the europe city capitals rails there is still a lot of money on the table thursday well see whether the governor choices to make a call but those dollars are in play we have an arbitrary to insure that at least to the extent those radio designated by little transportation forces they go to transportation the third item on the agenda is really ill characterize is as the centerpiece in addition to the initiates it initiative it is vabs at the state level the proposal is to embrace all aspects of the education and evaluation and policy and look to specifically the Action Strategies commitment to seek authorization for the use of automated Speed Enforcement it is currently prohibited state law we have about this working with the walk sf and little Bike Coalition and others allies to start early in building the probation of support on the possibility of getting approval for this we have an interested and eager champion partner in the city of smoz you you know youre experience with the transit only lane Enforcement Program revealed us is us the longstanding concerns with regards to the use of cameras anytime you be enforcements activity wed like to have so grinning to the conversation another voices that perhaps have not been as historians for example, Public Health interests those families that suffered losses 12 will take a Broad Coalition of interests if we are successful we can say that the city is 12 in alignment with the springs and braid in having sdouptd this as a provided strategy parking policy this is really again sort of a place holder and put 24 to the extent any legislation related to assessable parking or 12k5i7b89d parking or more some of us in the organization that continue to serve and resources when asked because San Francisco has done love work i was on a panel and folks in the room from oakland and los angeles in particular that look at this but i think that at this point, were not sponsoring the legislation bu