Director rubke and director nolan is absent with notification item 3 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 4 approval of the minutes. Do we have any Public Comment on the minutes. No members of the public have come down forward wait herbert wiener. Mr. Wiener 2 minutes please. Herbert wiener id like the minutes to amend the following when stated i took you know the bus lets say i had to walk a block to the ophthalmologist on Mission Street yesterday id like to add this and it makes it somewhat rocky on the minutes i want to a traffics of the eliminates of the accumulation of bus stop and outlines mta can truly be called the broker of passengers they might as well be sold as commodities on the stock exchange. Thank you, mr. Wiener. Normally in the minutes would we include something that was more opinion than fact of what the comment was is that fine. Well, its distorted. Thank you, mr. Wiener thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you. Perhaps approve that with the amendments if you have a tape. We have a tape. Okay. From the previous meeting well look at. Bring them back thank you that is a good, huh . Also in a member of the public feels the statement a was not what they meant to say submit an amended statement to the minutes for future but we cant change with the speaker said at a previous meeting. Well go ahead and approve the minutes and well note the speaker wanted to clarify the action. Do you have a all in favor, say i. I. Okay the is have it. Minutes approved thank you. Item 5 communications. I dont have any. I do would like to mention under this section there is at the Mayors Office on disability on Market Street a poster card for Carla Johnson the executive director of director of the Mayors Office on disability has left her position any members of the public can stop by the office to extend their worries about. Telecommunication. Item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Board members anything nothing thank you moving on directors report. Director reiskin youll go down excellent. Good afternoon madam chair and members of the board and staff i want to come down and take the privilege of making this recognize myself and here to recognize period of time albert what r who after a thirty year career in transportation and urban design in the city made the envious choice of retiring tent ostend of this most wanted to honor him today his 3 decade career is marked by enthusiasm and somewhat enthusiasm is an understatement for making streets of San Francisco more safe and attractive and for his ability to draw on the strength of diverse professionals within the city and outside the city to spark their enthusiasm he was known recently for the successful preparation and corresponding regional agencies for big events like the americas cup and the superbowl and to host the 2024 olympics bereft but were density in the case of two events that happened here i think proud of out the excellence of his ability to bring a plan into place that prevented many of the horrors that people anticipated would happen for the two events, in fact, enabled those events to go off extraordinary well with folks praising and commending the effort to that to happen the deeper efforts with the city have been an much more complex longterm issues some of which recently, there was a lombard safety project that came to the broad previously San Francisco bicycle plan the mta contributions to the better streets plan guess so support for the commuter shuttle and regulations and dissolutions and initiatives but the real ambitions ones were rolled roles he played in developing the transportation plans for some of the mega projects the candle stick point and shipyard and the park merced and Treasure Island and 5 m project those were extraordinary efforts from the community for many agencies to take those very large developments happening and built motion out of the city in developing transportation plans that would enable them to function enable them to function if in a way not to contrasting cause problems and make them the embodiment of transportation not easy to do when i take ann a big project those are really starting construction and wont see the benefits of that planning work for a little time to come and the Warriors Arena too but i think what we saw with the superbowl and americas cup demonstrated that he brought people together in order to anticipate the events and in this case, the developments and make and device a transportation station that will work well see the same thing i know that peter is not going anymore well see those things come to fruition currently served as the director for planning for the mta he is currently in addition to those big things overseeing the sustainability and he does Corridor Development and related planning and Environmental Review and the Transportation Planning program and our Transportation DemandManagement Program that Court Reporters for which are before you 24 many before coming to the mta peter was ahead of the bart he worked for the our Sister Agency the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency as well as for the San FranciscoPlanning Department and this time with us hes continued to work with the agencies and prairie with the office of Economic Workforce Development spent a good deal of time working for both agencies making sure those big developments promotions are coming with the right transportation plans hes known and there is a lot of kind of stories circulating those days anticipation or in support of his refrmentd about his sense of humor and readiness to get involved id like not to read all of this we have thousands of employees they dont get to be in a position of an active public roles but but all the forecloses ive worked with not a simple person that has unsolicited pile of feedback from neighbor organizations that people within city hall ive had so many people say peter albert is amazing what we do in bringing people dough together and finding solutions and taking technical stuff and making that understandable he is really been unparalleled and working hard so not just himself but really leaves and legacy so wanted to just permanent congratulate perpetual on wrapping up a great career were looking forward to celebrating peter albert day may 26 to be declared by the mayor happy to present peter with the cover he did mta duty award clapping. peter is a testimony to see how many of your coworkers are here i wanted to thank you images on behalf of the board and on behalf of the entire city of San Francisco we thank you for your services and those words ring true i think the satire city of San Francisco if you havent had the pleasure to work you are realizing in the years to come what a huge impact your dedication has and even though well not have our physical presence on van ness we are going to be living your legacy with the projects to this to on behalf of everyone congratulations and thank you for your years of service youre not going anywhere please before we let the other directors speak do you you want to say something. Thank you members of the board and people in the room im caught off guardian i dont have a problem ufts words but there are a few things this is law school been a labor of love i mean, if you knew my family when i was a kid and looked if san jose to San Francisco and saw the city wow. What a cool place to be in shaping the city and work with the community and work with the experts that make things work and see a positive change is amazing ive been asked why im taking the time a short answer you leave when things look great when you have amazing staff to take what you start and take it to places you really know that needs to go and only with great in any energy you leave when you feel the program is up i love the judge do in the city changes changes you can relax relax to the change and make that positive to that stent one of my favorite things working with the members of the public they have a passion for San Francisco or they wouldnt be here when they have the chance to have the microphone and talk about what we care about and the developers listen you can come up with a winwin i hope that is the future one more thing im touched by the with regards you gave director reiskin and one of the few times i wouldnt mind you if you kept on and on i appreciate this board laughter . I go to love commissions youve been a great support i hope the outcome of my work makes your job easier. Before we give him another round of applause director ramos. Thank you peter for all your fantastic work i i mean as a board member and seeing the products of your work youve been an ass permission im sure your colleagues will miss you and realize quickly what a tremendous talent weve heard nothing but good things that director reiskin mentioned youre certainly one did pilars of mta that has made San Francisco a wonderful of a place as it is and youll be missed i wish you many, many happy days that are very well deserved and looking forward to seeing you on your runs and seeing what you produce and Creative Time and cant thank you you enough for your good work and Creative Energy youve been an inspiration for me. I think your 9 first sfmta person he met the americas cup thank you very much for your awesome work and Community Meetings for people complaining about traffic but im surprised they do that but they were collapsing and you turned it around and trying to find exclusions by the end of the meeting people are starting to get excited about transportation ill definitely miss those meetings thank you very much. I had the pleasure of not only working with you on the Planning Commission but thank you for your hard work and the shipyard 50e the projects we worked on we knew we were in good hands working with you and those things come together in a way for the best for the city thank you and love the fact you have a smile and the best position every in dealing with the potential projects weve had i thank you for your leadership for your service and wish you all the best. I was going to say a similar thing your enthusiasm a infectious the one thing youve been here for thirty years it suggested you were 13 or Something Like that thats impressive laughter . Not bad at all since you have your mom drive you, you from san jose laughter shes oh, that was transit early as well as transit first, i like it if many, many things ive noticed up here reviewing our work is seemed every time we have a project we dont have a lot of complaint about the Community Outreach we have the opposite of people particularly business communities and other interest leaders telling us they presenter the support were all ambassadors for the agency your work within the agency with Transit Agency sustained us and ill say personally ive presenter the fact about every touch is proven youre a great ambassador and thats most 3rer7b9 best of luck well miss you. Thank you peter well miss you very much clapping. so moving to two other employees we want to recognize for all the streets director for the first recognize. Good afternoon its great to be here to recognize our associate engineer in the liveable streets ask will to join us clapping. i also want to ask will and the streets from liveable streets employees to let us know youre all here. Oh, clapping. so wills has been with us at mta for 5 and a half years as an enter and intern to join the mta will is about recognized for his commitment to the citys goals and mta and for the accomplishment will the the kind of person it comes in early and in we understand and checks out the projects even when hes off the clock hes a real quiet force within the division but his technical ensure to earn the trust of his colleagues and supervisors a great asset for mta and liveable streets with the Fire Department and Planning Department and others in the terrain informative hes worked through a challenging part with templates for all the fire trucks and fire engines to prove to the engineers that we do all this great stuff and traffic calming part of our navigation of the city his work and dedication to stay at the table and challenging conversations helped United States to build the trust and worked on Division Student and public works and caltrans to make sure the projects with Cost Effective and minimal go disruptive but achievement and designed the streets for protecting the intersection we believe is probable the 4 or 5 time it the treatment has been used and once again mta is the leader in design we are able to have leaders like that his coworkers value his time and powerful nature everyday and with others inside and out please join me in welcoming will clapping. thank you. Sir, your not getting off that easy say a few remarks on behalf of the brokering well be impacted by your work i want to congratulate you and please is a few words. Thank you for this great recognition it is really i think the culture we provide in our office ever since i was age intern my colleagues and supervisors were here have been that force in shaping the career so far and really inspiring me many of the employees are native resident and talked about our we understand and the things we see the culture of excellence from that, we tubed with peter throughout their whole agency from top to become a great pleasure to work for everyone here and worked in the city of San Francisco and very much appreciate 24. Thank you, thank you tom clapping. id like to ask our transit director john haley to recognize him. Mr. Haley i see you have a prop again. laughter . Good afternoon. Thank you later on in the Board Meeting for a few minutes well have the opportunity to update you on 0 the leadership will that for a project and the potential that it holds for really complovm our system but today we want to recognize the works of two people jim and Thomas Sheridan that laid the foundation for the Service Improvements youre seeing and see more of you any remember in the battle we this is the loop cable into the subway with the duct tape a long delay caused by parts off of cars cutting the duct tape and cutting the cable stopping the services and made changes on the maiden side and mythical over the first to put in the infrastructure of the foundation not only will get us Better Service right now but as youll see in a few minutes laid the foundation for existing Service Improvements and enhance times but today what those guys after we fix the infrastructure we make a series of updates and there has been tone components changed and im pleased to say those two lead the campaign to replace the antennas on the cars with the loop cable and made the cars go our trains enter into there so through their work and successful work effect work james is the Campaign Leader and tom leading the electronic shop that supports our rail activities weve now seen our 22, 22 straight week of studying our goals of 98 discuss rates on portal enterprises were pleased just the same my pleasure to acknowledge their hard work and introduce them so thank you. Thank you clapping. so thank you both and congratulations on this recognize and again on behalf of the board of directors the agency and city congratulations and please say a few words. Thank you yeah. It was been and always is rewarding to be acknowledged and there are a lot of other people that were involved as well support the jer Engineering Department naming folks dealt with the problems and the ventilated or vendors and the overall management and working with james was unparalleled one of the hardest dedicated people we worked well together and a lot of diversity it is wonderful improving the service and the whole safety and liability thank you. Like to say a few words. Thank you id like to thank the board and, of course, john lee and all, all the named individuals that helped improve our system and the citizens of San Francisco and the support to continuing to have my skills utilized to help to improve thank you. Thank you both and again, thank you all to the staff much appreciated clapping. okay tough act to follow but lots of folks worthy of recognition i want to circle on something we talked about in the budget process to drill on the incentive youve approved from the budget for way you call a quick option for riding muni muni mobile and 7eleven people to move way away from cash as you may know the budget authorized the differential the budget will go into effect on january 21st, 2017, the single ride fair goes up for people buying a ticket from the ticket machine and stay at 225 at the are clipper and the main reasons just to kind of refresh for the public were recommended 24 change that cash is expensive to process and slows down the service as people stuff their coins and bills into the box we spend 10 to 15 percent of travel time on muni stoppin