Director borden is anticipated director heinecke director nolan director ramos director rubke directors please be advised director brinkman will not be here phones, devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic devices. Do cause microphone trenches the board respectfully asked they be turned off approval of the minutes arrest second discussion. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it thank you. Item 5 Communications Directors please be advised no anticipations discussion in closed session. Introduction of new business by Board Members id like to ask the staff to prepare a report on paratransit ive been think the board for 10 years im trying to comboings id like to hear if the staff and providers consumers of the service the drivers perhaps a comprehensive idea ive heard a number of things respect or recently about the longtime to get on the system to go anywhere in the city i is a say it is partially because of traffic time for a competitive traffic director reiskin can you put this together in midoctober. Absolutely. Then i want to mention well, an award well get from the Mayors Coordinating Council for the free muni for seniors and people with disabilities well send out a formal invitation at the Library Friday afternoon anyone else with new or unfinished business. Item 7 directors report you, you good morning director reiskin. Good afternoon staff and members of the public a few staff recognized id like to ask Jerold Williams our industrial safety manager to present this quarters maintenance safety award. Good afternoon arrest director reiskin and members of the board id like here to present the Second Quarter maintenance safety award that emancipation proclamation that hiss that unit that be focusing on which is best on safety but helping the agency to meet its strategic goals with the under the influrence on safety id like to introduce michael and his team mr. Henry with his team members showed significant efforts Sherry Anderson showed significant teamwork in our injuries and Safety Training their d s c bringing the presidio facility to a zero count of injuries for the last i believe 6 months. All right. clapping . Thank you good afternoon chairman Board Members and mr. Recess kin i take it my honor to accept this award on behalf of a group of individuals that support me and the thoughts of pertain to employee safety two of my Staff Members tim and dennis and another you cant gentleman those are the guys that helped to achieve that award it is known pub that nothing at presidio is done solely by one person we hold our safety team weekly and Good Housekeeping records and question by question corroborate with the Industry SafetySherry Anderson and through the support of her and donna we were able to achieve that award i appreciate that an on behalf of presidio we appreciate this award. Thank you clapping. director reiskin so next, we will of president to recognize a member of executive team after a quick 16 years with the city asking is going to be moving on to Better Things alicia our chief of staff joined by two key assistants laughter alicia starting work with the city in 1999 with muni in 1999 i learned one of her first jobs robbed to complaint letters that was when muni had complaints laura laughter she became the muni mta with as a budget decoration in difficult fiscal times and went to the San FranciscoCity Planning Department and held a bunch of leadership and finished as chief of staff we lured her back to the mta about three years ago where shes been serving ann as the chief of staff what id like to do is ask a couple of members susan and john halley to come forward to speak on behalf of all of us on the team and agency to acknowledge alicia and wish her well as he moves on. Good afternoon Tom Nolan Candice director ever Communications Im pleased and honored to be speaking on behalf of Alicia Alicia eye worked on the sfmta two weeks apart at the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013 we were capable from the start i knew i found a partner and someone i learn from as a working mother and as someone who truly wanted to make a difference no surprises to anyone that alicia lives up to our expectation and exceeded them in her time she is made a defensive in 80 so many aspects of our work at sfmta it is easy to talk about from the Transportation Sustainability program and see it is moving introduce the legislative process now to the process to the passage of prop a with the 500 million general Obligation Bond to the projection to increasing our operator hiring and training so were on our hundred and 5 consequence day of the prop goal; right . John alicia steadier the course so many of the achievements were high profile and visual but what is less visible how she went about her work at sfmta that left a legacy of hope at the agency are ii asked a few people to share their prospective ill read a couple of the quotes she has a unique ability to bring out the best for the goal of sfmta she going above and beyond to get the project outcomes she has the rare ability to know the policies well, shes not only unafraid but actually eager to tackle big issues shes fantastic at bringing together the right people from all walks of City Government to get things done shes calm you feel that; right . With 4yearold will twins sitting in the Board Meeting this was something i didnt know shes visited every con innocent in the antarctica ocean alicia i know youll be only away ill miss you for quick laughs and i know the agency and everyone on the board will as well so on behalf of our executive team and staff and others members well miss you and we honor you and our honored to have you been a part of the our professional lives im going before i introduce john haley for additional words the team wants to present you with this gift and photo card laughter and it says for the record alicia changemaker for a better tomorrow clapping. and ill introduce john haley director of transit probations. Good afternoon mr. Haley thank you candice id like start by thanking my colleagues for providing me the opportunity to speak about alicias contributions and how much shell be missed that is an honor as candice indicated to show our collective appreciation one the great debates raging for years and years in support history was billing russel and wilting charming listen for his tremendous permanent scoring records and russel the winner team player winning his position in support and also won two matt championships was a regular rider of the 540 so that i couldnt verify but it makes sense televised in this discussion right thinking people came down on the side of russel in a team game he made his teammates better alicia is our version of bill russel in successful organizations like with sports teams goals are accomplished by working together per alicia focused and developed her role as chief of staff in collection with all of us to focus to achieve the agencies goals and objectives she focused and galvanizing the resources within the organization to address them she tigerlessly brought individual and unit throughout the organization to get solutions to get a fair and equal attendance policy after most and most of tireless efforts she made the teammates betters as a leader shows without peer no knowing how to find the right person for the job mike henry if youll stand up. Way back when when were at a Crucial Point trying to get a approval from a Labor Council to get proposition 8 to fund our future Goal Investments alicia suggested that mike henry might be the guy to step up and advise the Labor Council mike is a terrific manager hes well liktd by all the employees and a good technical knows vehicles but im thinking Labor Council i dont know thats a lot to place michael in but to is a say mike next in order it out of park it was an example how she made her team better by working with us as a team as she also led the charge to pass the bond issue with her corroborate style she led meetings and visits for the mayors key counselor and advisors on the long term needs jonathan if you would john was one the staff alicia showcased to gain support for this Key Initiative yes. She made her teammates better led the process not only to establish the management fixture but ear skill and persistence i dont want to say he invented but pioneered the use of something called the action law. laughter now the action law has become not only a function it is your at every Agency Meeting regardless of division but it serves to reinforce the essential organizational core values of respect for others in honoring our commitments again she made her teammates better alicia is the standard for treating everybody with respect there is no issue no grinds two small or insignificant that didnt require somebody looking at it and making sure weve dot all the is and cross the ts and resolved it to that end stafrnd in for travis box is jonathan oh, theres travis im sorry traveling is recently been appoint at chief office and part of the duties to make sure he tracks down every issue to make sure we followup again incurring every feedback big or small just like mr. Bill russel she makes her teammates betters im sure under different circumstances alicia could run of the statistics like someone like wilting chamber lane but hats off to the were far better for having the privilege to work with her and well miss her dearly clapping the board would like to thank and congratulate you for the grace you do our job very, very well, we wish you well. Thank you very much i had all these things i was planning to say and touched by whatever you had to say thank you very much for that i was regretting as mentioned earlier in 16 years i worked for the city ive been thinking about my past over the last 16 years and all the letters since 1999 people actually wrote letters they were hardcopy letters he was responding to and there were some of them were thanking us but the majority on other topics what i being the person i am i felt we should tell people why the bulls passes went up or the bus went out the service or the train door wouldnt open or the air conditioning was running full speed on the coldest day what happened on it day what i found was literally highrise probably thousands of people who were working with extreme commitment and daigs dedication to deliver transit city and circumstances is in which they especially\have the necessary resources and the bus was going out of service because it was thirty years old and you know, i tried to give them answers in the letters i left the mta inform about 8 years when i came back in 2012 obviously the mta has been bigger and more complex and has a broader mandate but what had remained constant there were literally thousands of people and mta everyday with complete dedication to deliver services for the city ive been proud to be most of you know them working on the projects ive been allowed to work on at the mta is special to me in i look at the whole cycle of my time with the city i started out by planning out for myself as well as the many people writing letter what a lack of investment in our system will do in the last couple of years ive thank you for the opportunity to address the situation i was grateful to have had that privilege all of this going on particularly in the last 3 years i just want to acknowledge nothing ive done that would have been comfortable in isolation not the way things work ive tremendously enjoyed work for this board and appreciated our guidance and leadership and frankly our counselor in some of the different decisions and really appreciated it and really appreciate as leadership shes a clear vision of what the mta and challenged each of us and entrusting me with work that is profound and impactful i also want to acknowledge my colleagues on the achieve team you you know im not sure weve been giving each other hi 5s but we worked well together and it is a group of people who just have again, this very deep commitment to serving San Francisco and to making transportation really work in this ever changing city im grateful to have of the opportunity is it work with them and want to acknowledge my team like the others teams ranging from the team it came together on transportation 2030 and in transit and specifically wanted to mention 3 people that have a huge impact on the ability to move forward specifically sophia i work with on a daily days and patricia and chief of staff that have contributed a tremendous amount and made it possible for me to do what ive done im going to grateful for the 16 years with the city and essential the past 3 years one thing i cant forget to do that i want to see thank you to my family that was a period of time in the front row there was a period of time we were working through the labor negotiations and were there was a lot of late nights and early moernlz and im grateful for them and being able to be here today so thank you very much clapping. tough act to follow one the alicia kids going like this right now i cant wait another mormon detain things later this month we will be nirt and putting into place another round of Service Increases you passed the two year budget were in the middle of the unprecedented 10 percent in the budget we did a big increase in march the next one this september well be on september 26th increasing service by 80 thousand hours had brown will impact the routes that effect about hundred and 40 thousands of our customers so a really big significant increase in particular increasing the frequency on the crowded crosstown route the 22 and the 24 and little 43 as well as adding some rush hour trains on the k t and m line so focusing on the increases on the lines that are carrying a lot of people we are always implementing a number of route changes you approved specifically the 7 x and the 18 and 47 those routes are schaveng on the 26 and the final service in the spring of 2016 but this after march this is the next really big one that be tangible increase those people will notice im kieftd about that good news coming one quick followup from recent meeting when you protectiveed the 5 fulton u full name along mcallister one from the public or board whether we can look at the idea of turning the signal to flashing red and yellow over knitted our traffic engineers looked at that we think this is doable so well test that when we install and see if this works and make adjustments as needed next some good news in terms of dancing vision zero vision zero as you may know is built upon a few 3 legs of a stool making the design streets and enforcement that is the Police Department but your parking control officers and education is the thirds e of the stool and while i think everybody agrees that education and awareness is really critical in terms of changing behavior because well never be able to design out ever instance of bad behavior behavior changes is essential but everybody or everybody believes that outreach and education is essential but maybe not quite clear how to do that effectively youll change behavior so we created along with the department of Public Health walk sf and Police Department other partners in partnership of program called save streets sf it stops are here weve talked about that when we rolled it out earlier this year those are the billboards youve seen on building but particularly on the buses the program had numerous types of outreach but rather than throw it out there we tried to take an analytical approach with great support from the folks at the department of Public Health really targeted this so we can measure we choose 8 directs 4 we were going to target and 4 with a control group we tried a number of enforcement specific enforcement having folks out there with information the ads on the buses and elsewhere to cut to the chase we actually were able to measure improvement in terms of driver compliance at the four sgrshgs as compared to the other 4 actually, the 4 where we had the focus was a compliant increase of three or four perpetrating not huge during that time we had a decrease we cant explain bend they were 10 percent apart in regards to jooeldz to pedestrians one of the primary collision factors were trying to attack in vision zero we did a survey of residents to determine whether this was reaching people and what we found that 40 percent remembered seeing one the slogans from the campaign or hearing simon smoking gun something on tv and those that saw those slogans are more likely to think they can do something about the problem the key philosophy the good news were not that only be able to make an impact on the intersection it demonstrates with the right kind of prescription of outreach we can achieve behavior change well be using the lessons as we scale and add what can from the budget to get hundred and 65 thousand dollars or so to put targeted our outreach strategy that is associated with vision zero so but it was great work and John Knox White was the lead but collaboration within the agency and drive a behavior that is associated with those behaviors that make us safety this was good news and then want to let you know frail muni art or art on muni collaboration between sfmta and San Francisco beautiful which is as you may know the organization that is got it start by helping to save the impracticable cars weve been replacing all of the interior advertising on 50 buses with art made by San Francisco artists more our artist there were 10 if not lifts that included local grerp artists and institution