April 5, 2016, meeting of the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency board of directors and Parking Authority commissioner ms. Bloomer read the roll director brinkman director borden director heinecke director nolan director ramos mr. Chair you have quorum please silence all electronic devices. Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Item four approval of the minutes to mark 4 regular meeting motion to approve emphasize. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you communication Board Members and walton flynn died was a think outstanding citizen and loved dearly a thinker public works when oversee muni in 1970 the first africanamerican to be serving this position and was the first chairman of the board with the manifesting he did an amazing contributions we flew the flag in halfstaff for what he did if we can adjourn the meeting in memory of mr. Flynn. Mr. Chair two items please be advised item m m m n have been removed from the consent calendar at the request of staff in order to make a presentation also want to clarify item 4 in closed session amended politician of the california code v two and San Francisco admin code the board will discuss the potential anticipated litigation arising from the sfmta permit from flint transportation arising there from item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business yes, he wanted to ask through the chair to the staff to review whether we have business relationships with companies located in North Carolina i think the reason for that request is simple but to put it out there as i suspect were on track there is similar legislation in other states because Bay Area Companies have exercised their financial strength showing their displeasure with the mirrors were a big contractor for services and equipment and appropriate to look at whether we have such relationships with companies in North Carolina so we can mr. Whether that he with respect to their employees and consider more broadly whether well use our financial muscle to get involved. I appreciate that i feel strongly and grateful to the mayors leadership for the City Employees attended the meetings one of the meetings is our transportation meeting no may ill write a letter to the board of directors to ask them to move it somewhere else i think the legislation is a real awe fronted to everyone. Director borden amiss miss passed something similar so also i gotten a lot of people reaching out to me on the Mission Street the red paint for people that met with the Mayors Office and perhaps we can have a months 90 days look at the implementation i know the beginning for people to get used to something knew new the buses are moving smoothly and it is a challenge i know weve gotten concerns it from others that are concerned about the impacts on the enticing clients obviously concerned of the loss of a bus stop but i just wanted to make sure to have a look back on that and looking forward to look at the permit denial we talked about in closed session it is important. Thank you and the members consent on both of those items any new items for business ms. Bloomer. Directors report. Good afternoon director reiskin and good morning to the board and staff wanted to start off two recognizing our outstanding employees and john haley to come forward to recognize longstanding leader in the agency good afternoon. Mr. Haley good afternoon oh, mr. Chair and Board Members it is my great pleasure to introduce and celebrate the career of one of transit deputy directors and probably the hashed it worker sincerely resident has been here for 35 years and here career really tracks the development from what it was in the late 70s and 80s to what is become today into one of the most growing Transit Systems of my city in north america i know im supposed to say how thrilled to recognize sincerely resident for her accomplishments it is so well, she deserves nothing but high honors for her accomplishment so with mixed feelings were losing one of the greatest human assets derrick the course of 12 thousand plus days here sincerely resident has held a job the Transit Division and other ones a leader on both the management side and the union side and one of the things from a personal stand point from her work ethnic she comes to work as a brand new day in signs whatsoever hes slowing down or ready to retire and one of the things that shes embraced is the initiative we as an agency made to improve our agency through changing the culture and while weve talked about somewhat employee morale sincere she remembered the goal shes the reality deal in terms of walking the walk and talking the talk they believes in Holding People account so at the same time serrata has been the most effective manager in terms of Holding People accountable but she serves the best food laughter because when whether you were at at rodeo on saturday or at some of the sister operators of the month you you know she takes pride in doing things right with that, i want to recognize here pubically for her accomplishments and not only for what she has done for the agency but no matter how busy makes time to mentor and develop people and while i have decided with mixed feels shes leaving and she 30s shows to sign of slowing down shes leaving us because of her good work in a better position and leaving us as an inspiration to many people and going out the door will, in fact, were better off from the roll shes played i feel an obligation because of her commitment i dont know who exactly i would send it to but i feel like i need to want somebody shes retiring and moving on to Something Else with that, its my pleasure area honor to introduce he serrata clapping. thank you guys ive been here 35 years ive served various departments what is was a dispatcher and right rail the p pc this was my admires depiction or decision and served as a union rep i know when i came i had goals that john and that others wanted me to do i believe in training educated people and people going to school our area and technology it changing so i came i have 7 divisions and great diversities with with men and women and our agencies i have two myself right hand is a very good leaders and outstanding everyone go knows him wouldnt have been possible i couldnt have accomplished and candice was good being involved in the agency and factoring that to women coming up so women and john has a lot of women in his department i enjoyed working with him, i retired i said i dont slow down i come to work everyday with a lot of just to say a lot of running and moving just moving and sometimes he tells me to slow down overwhelm to miss you on behalf of the whole board of directors thank you so much for your outstanding years. Thank you clapping. and was on the commission when i was here he was so he used to come to our operation and give us 50 he was an outstanding commissioner and man, i know him but thank you, again. Thank you director reiskin. Yes. Next, i want to ask our sustainable streets director tom maguire to come forward with his heroic transit inspectors. Good afternoon mr. Maguire good afternoon directors i feel like a month or two i was asking you to recognize by our fair inspectors and here the four inspectors in front of you calling names who have been with the agency for a variety of years sheryl 16 years and then for 3 and terrance for 9 years on february 19th those four inspectors were working on the street station when necessary noticed a man constitutionally at the station he feel to the ground motion timely they ran to his aid and a immediately starting cpr and Terrance Smith and others continued the com presentations the man had food in his airway they assisted with the crowd control and called 911 the San FranciscoPolice Department arrived a fair intervention of those four inspectors that prevented this from the airway blockage went beyond theyre expected duties a challenging situation and quickly took action with the cpr skills to please join me in recognizing them tod clapping. on behalf of the director of public works thank you for your outstanding work on a daily basis it is your extraordinary be to helping this individual so thank you very much would you care to speak to the board. A im terrance i appreciate this and the training that mta give us in first aid and cpr if not for the training maybe a different outcome it was our pleasure the gentleman is okay. And were at the right place at the right time. Thank you very much. Board thank you very much im african a native san franciscan i hold everything the city as dearly and my supervision of my supervisors and accessibility and the Media Department and the diligence of the city we did what we can and thank you for people that do this on a daily basis the Police Department and fire department. Thank you. Im sherman i reels appreciate the opportunity to be here and with my two partners they really did the hard work for saving that person thank you very much. Sergeant. Good afternoon, board and mr. Chair im sergeant broadcaster im accepting this award foyer inspector garrison so proud of all of them they bloufd their expectations thank you clapping. director reiskin. Yeah. Two other quick things one and i think mr. Brit made reference this saturday the 31st rodeo we held it at the cal palace this year lead by paul if our Training Division and your Enforcement Division and what the rodeo is an opportunity for operators and parking control officers to test their skills and in terms of maneuvering their vehicles they were obstacle courses for the two vehicle types that had a lot of ways they were evaluated for time and accuracy and it was impressive to watch those folks with the large or smoul u small so moving through the different courses the winner for the pco had bragging rights amazing how fast he could caulk vehicles and others and lawrence the defendant champion what the second and third theyre all occupying and impressive on the operator side more than 60 operators and supervisors who to throw their name into the operator driving portion this is a standardized course set by the American PublicTransportation Association so very difficult course for them and happy to report that kooefrn o graded not just the reigning but the international reigning championing took home the top outoftowners are andrea the second place and a third place winner we had another category of nonoperators this was a supervisors and trainers and 3 took home trophies we are proud of all the folks that competed and competition amongst the employees were not in it to compete but the internationals competition but for the fun of it they were maintenance folks who were other operators that couldnt qualify and the winners in that category were jazz men that is the daughter of ms. Johnson that came in second the full and Mother Daughter Team by tony and michelle the first time weve done this since 2008 and we looked forward to competing a lot of folks had a good time and the late thing to note update on units plaza awhile since the changes and the contract came before you but construction is underway and should be completed by the summer this was the plaza adjacent to the City College Terminal kind of between the City College Terminal and the Mayors Office of Housing Project there are on ocean avenue theyll be at 210 by 65 foot plaza with landscape and pedestrian lighting a number of pieces of art from the Arts Commission and will serve the residents and this folks from city college and the folks that use the terminal at bayshore start their route it the plaza came but a Community Driven process through a 10 year better neighborhood planning process for needs for open space the area and public naming contest from the naming of the unity plaza and it the committee was helping to guide the construction well have to close the bus loop the last weekend april 23rd and 24 make sure to november the people to facilitate the construction at the ends of this year will be a great xhibd amenity were happy to support this that concluded my report. Members of the board. Thank you director nolan and director reiskin i wanted to add with an amazement on the caltrans as you may know ive been privileged with the opportunity to represent the board of directors on the caltrain board and had the privilege of welcoming the thirds bike car into all the trains they put me on a loudspeaker and the director heard me in her apartment that was surreal but i wanted to make sure that the public knew that was the case there are notice a new bilk an caltrain as we Work Together to get more folks off the centered in cars and get folks on to other modes of transportation caltrain is one of the most that offers a real option and for us that ride bicycles regularly it is not too long you go around and trying to link up with other modes of transportation you run into a wall you are stuck and i will encourage the public if you run into that there is a new more capability caltrain is working on a more bike parking as well to be able to facilitate more ryder and looking forward to representing anywhere of boards position on that board particularly the way funding the future so thank you. No one else ms. Bloomer any Public Comments. Ive there are no speaker cards for items addressed by director reiskin and moving to item 8 the Advisory Committee report and we do have the chairman from the Advisory Committee here. Good afternoon chairman. Good afternoon got a lot of collected deeds this is the budget season the time were challenged to make the biggest dent in our system dealing with a billion dollars budget this is what we picked out to focus on we start out with the months ago that were adopted first one the cac sports extending the t line with North Station and Fishermans Wharf a 1. 25 million for detailed funding and Community Outreach motion number 0 two the sfmta cac recommended that the sfmta increase youth age from 17 to 18 in order to bring it in line with other agencies and similar to the free muni program for low and moderate income use motion 3 to help address the fiscal year 20172018 shortfall and the cac recommends that the sfmta established discount fairs for youth and seniors and people with disabilities at 50 percent of adult fairs motion 04 to help address the fiscal year 20172018 budget shortfall and to encourage increased use of clipper card the cac recommends that the sfmta establish a 0. 50 premium for riders pga cash to reduce Cash Payments and also to reduce Cash Payments so 3 goals here deal with the budget shortfall, promote the increased use of chairman of the board and reduce the amount of cash needed to be processed motion. 05 the cac recommends that the sfmta increase the Commission Paid to vendor from 0. 50 to 0. 75 and motion 08 to help address the 20172018 shortfall the cac recommends the sfmta increase the aide pass by 5 above the index price letting the charge by bart for bart rides one San Francisco motion 09 the cac recommends that the sfmta provide a c0 Percent Discount for tokens and passes purchased by north korea agencies that serve motion 10 point one to address the shortfall the cac recommends that the sfmta board not lower administrative fee for towed vehicles and not raise the fee for storjd or stored vehicles ever watchful of cacs brth perhaps too much so well adopt that as a position motion 11 to help address the fiscal year 20172018 budget shortfall further support of citys transit first and allow for efficient Parking Management and reduce Carbon Emissions recommendations the sfmta reinstate the parking meter on sunday and appropriate locations motioned 12 and 13 were presented to us as an either or choice whether to immediately go with the 2 Percent Services beyond the 10 percent planned or whether we wanted to carry out other activities with the fund before we go for the Additional Service and we voted to not go for the Additional Service immediately but to support programs that will enhance transit performance including collision reduction and regulatory requirements and establishment of on independent Quality Insurance to fully staff the transit and provide maintenance and Technical Support to the Transit Services division and hire dedicated pcos and additional staff for overtime we understand thats the position the staff that make sense motion 15 manifesting cac recommends that the mta hire additional staff and purchase the tools for Preventive Maintenance Program number 16 the cac expend funds to enhance existing parking related applications and relaunch sf park 17 cac recommendations that the mta provi