Ed and director hsu, present. Director nolan. Director rib key. You have a quorum. The ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chairman may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. Sell phones set on vibrate cause interference so request they turned off. Motion approval of the minutes from august 16. Motion to approve. Aye item 5, communication director yz have none. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business mpt i want bring up my favorite topics, elevators we have on the consent calendar a item for improving improvement on the escalators and elevators which provide access to our station. In light of the fact that currently civic center i believe is out right now and i know in the Disability Community there was a littlea lot of concern about the lack of notice and there was some notice but not enough notice and think where people are demanding on escalators and elevator, it is important to overknhunicate communicate so when we do the upgrade to infrastructure over communicate when the outages take place and do everything we can to minimize the impact on the riders. Thats it. Director rib key, i think we did everything to coordinate with bart. Thank you. At our last meeting which was long we had a gentlemen stand up in general Public Comment and he called attention to the stockton street discussions go around and think his call if i remember was to make sure we continue on the public process as we always do and know we will but he waited a long time to make the comment and want today bring it up. We have got a lot of emails about stockton street and look forward to the public process on that. Item 7, directors report. Director riscon, and good afternoon member thofz chair and board and staff. I want to start out my report by recognizing a couple of ow moust outstaning employees. First i like to ask [inaudible] our chief ficial officer who is director of finance and Information Technology division to come forward to recognize one of her employees. It is pleasure to introduce Naomi Steinway who has been with us 35 years. Before i was born she started. She demonstrated deep commitment to womeen owned businesses and as we rely on diligence and making sure we fulfill obligations to the stakeholders mpt she is a go to staff member regarding the db program and vauchbed in a large variety of other areas such as procurement of [inaudible] and third street lightrail extension to make sure we are fulfilling our obligations there to the communities. She is also been instrumental being lias ons with the auditors and said naomi is terrific gathering, analyzing and reporting the participation. She is thoughtful i hard working and has a dry whit that really positively impacts a lot of the unit. She is looking for challenges and way to enhance the community. The last comment i make, she is a big contributor of healthy snacks for our meetings and she a key member of the contract compliance office. Many of her fanerize here. Thank you tr 84 work for throw fiver years, it is a incredible achievement and congratulations. Thank you very much and the commissioners, thank you. I hardly expected this at all. Hoping to quitely retire with caucasian male majority. Hope i can hang on another year. Thank you. On behalf of the board and city thank you for your work, wish you all the best. [applause] next i want to ask john hailey the transit director to come forward and recognize one of his employees. Good afternoon mr. Hailey. Good afternoon mr. Chairman. I just it is my pleasure this afternoon to recognize gentlemen to my left, leroy wilson who is one of our longstanding transit supervisors. You may have noticed recently in the controllers report that over the last 5 years the average driving speed in San Francisco dropped some 25 percent. At the same time our evening rush hour has lengthened as new industries have come to change the commute patterns. One of the things that at the same time we have been able to improve our on time performance incremental but not where we would like us to be, and one of the reasons we are able to do that is because of people like mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson works in the most difficult locations, south of Market Street, during the most difcult times. He has the opportunity to make adjustments to lines like the 27, which are frequently backed up because of bay bridge commute and also in many respects is a very sod after figure at the transbay terminal as operators will go and have issues that mr. Wilson has resolved. He is a outstaning representative for all of us in terms of getting our service and making adjustments to the invariable situations so the supervisor would encounter but also is highly regarded and well respected by our operators. My apologies but i should say to the right is brent jones and [inaudible] in charge of our service management. So, it is my pleasure to introduce you to mr. Wilson for his recognition. [applause] on behalf of the board and whole city thank you for the important work you do and do it so well for so many years. Thank you. Thank you. I just dont know how to responds after mr. Hailey says all that but want to thank god first of all for giving me all the tools that i need and placing me in the department with managers that you have just met and making sure i have everything i need to get the job done. Also, like to thank my wife whos sitting right there. [applause] a lot of this work i take home and she helps me out with it and my phone stays on all the time for my other coworkers out there and she says, honey, we are out to dinner and you are still taking calls. And that is just the dedication i center to my coworkers because without them i could not get that job done. I could not do this job without my coworkers and want to thank all of them even though i dont see any here. My daughter, my niece and ist iser in law who comes over my house and bugs me all the time. My cousin sean who ran for District Supervisor last year and he lost to malia, sorry about that. Again, thank all of you for being here and this isthis caught me by surprise right here. With that being said, i have more work to do. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] thank you mr. Chair. Vision zero update for the month. Mayors executive director on vision zero included we report regularly to boards and commissions and primarily to this board. Two update said today. First one very exciting we broke ground last week on 9th and division. Probably one of the first in the country. This is a area on the High Injury Network and anyone who is troyed to pass through there on a bike or in a car very rarely do people pass on foot but it is a hairy place to try to get through and made a number of improvements on division street in recent years but this particular intersection is one we thought was a good place to try this very innovative design based on a dutch intersection design. Protected bike laneatize is clear, you ride along a curb on one side and protection whether it is parked cars or delineators or barriers on the side but that works while you are in the block but when you get a intersection it is much harder to protect because intersections are open for allow of the flow of vehicles. This design coming from europe puts concrete islands at all 4 of the corners and raises the cros walk s and changes the approach and turn geometry so cars have to slow and so that the visibility between people on bike and foot and people in cars is much better. So, we are really excited to try it out here. We are also coupling with improvements on ajaistant streets on 9th and division, but very exciting to see what will bewe posted when we started this and put photos up when it is done and well evaluate and watching it carefully to see how well it performs and the potential applicable may be else where in the city. Exciting stuff there in the ground for the engineering e on vision zero. On the education e of vision zero, a aspect of the executive directorive is directing us the sfmta to implement a comprehensive vision zero Awareness Campaign within 30 days of the exectev directive. I reported at the last meeting we initiated radio ads in english and spanning to raise awareness of vision zero. We followed windup a second round we laurned yesterday. This is 6 speeds sf and just like the Engineering Work on the education work we use data driven or Research Driven process to conform the work we are doing. In this case we got feedback from focus groups as well as Community WideResearch Polling and interesting results. What we found is that, people do see speeding as a bad thing and in San Francisco we are focusing on speed because it is the leading primary collision factor of serious and fating collisions. Wheel people say it as a problem, people dont necessarily think of it as a problem in San Francisco. They see it as a freeway thing or open road problem. There is a perception to recognize unsafe speed happen in the city and urban virems as well. More interesting, most drivers consider themselves above average ijskill and not at need to adhere to posted speed limits. Like many other things we think the problem isnt with us, it is with other people. It was with that in mind that we developed this adand it is essentially meant to inform people that the speed limit in San Francisco is 25 miles a hour unless otherwise posted and that small increases in speed correspond to less control in stopping, less reaction time in terms of seeing people and that traffic deaths are problem in our city so raising awareness but targeting at the perceptions. I will ask lorie to play the spot so people can hear what people hear on the radio. Playing on drive time and pandora and running english, spanish and chinese then last month. If i drive 10 miles over the speed limit it takes [inaudible] yfs going to fast. [inaudible] i have to live with that. Speeding can lead to traffic deaths on San Francisco streets. The speed limit is 25 for a reason. Stick to the limit. Know more at vision zero sf. Org. If you havent heard those already, you and thousands of others will be hearing it as they make their way to work this week and the rest of the month. Moving on, another campaign addressing another safety issue that is of great importance and this deals with the safety of our employees. As we discussed and heard periodically over time, we have employees be transit operators or parking control officers, inspectors and custodeian and station agents subject to attacks by memberoffs the public. There were 58 reported last year or just on muni operators and that compares to 24 in 2014. So, it is unacceptable thing happening and very disturbing trend including a couple very public incident you may have read about in the past couple weeks. We have been work wg folks internally as well as unions that represent the groups, primarily twu and sciu on a number of things to address the issue and reverse that trend. One aspect of that collaboration is new adcampaign that was launched last week, which is just one part of a comprehensive approach. The theme is keep them safe and these will be in the form of ads placed on buses and featureed throughout the Transportation System and i will ask lorie and sfgovtv go to the screen to show the ads so you can get a sense of what they look like. So, we have these you see from the perspective of the employee and family and others. So, youll be seeing those if you havent already on muni buses. That is one part and this came from our employ ease they thought it st. Important to raise aware ness to the public of the difficult work they do and there are people like the rest of us that want toget home safely like the rest of us. Well continue working on that campaign but happy to see that come forward. Couple of other muni items. On the heals of the news we were announcing recipients of 45 million of state, cap and trade funds toward the lightrail vehicle expabz program. Chair nolan and i traveled to sacramento this last week along with mayor lee, board president london breed and Assembly Member david chiu to visit the sea mans factory. It was great to be able to go there to celebrate the recent news. This is 45 million on top of the 21 million so more than 80 million in support. First vehicle should be here about theened of the year and start seeing them in service in 2017. By the end of 2018 we will have 20 new vehicles hitting the street. That was great news. In the mean time to address crowding and to focus our resources where the demand is the highest, this morning we launched a shuttle that will shuttle cars between coal valley and embarcadero during rush hours. We have basically 4 trains, or 2 trains doing two loops runic between the points which are the inner part of the [inaudible] which anyone who ride at that time of day once you get to that portion the cars are usually full so the folks often cant board the train, so we are inserting capacity during the rush hour to try to insure the folks who want to take the injudah to get to work or to the city it k do so. We started it this morning, worked well. There are logistical issues we worked out when we tested this a few years back and hope to keep this in service and will be the first of such efforts we roll out over the next few years. Meanwhile, down at balboa park, there is a a lot of various construction work going on. One of the more significant aspects is we have largest or oldest railyard there and have been in the process in the last couple years of preplacing all the rails, many switches and overhead wires and infrastructure in that facility. It is generally not public work but very important to get our system in the state of good repair. We have largeby be able to do this work without impacting the public but starting part the project today that takes the part of the revenue loop, the j and k normally travel on out of service to replace those rails. So, as a result, there are different patterns for people to board and offboard for the j and k at balboa park. The k is boarding on ocean avenue. We have done a lout of outreach and trying to make the public aware of where they need togo to catch their train or once they get off the train to get to where they are going safely. We understand it is inconvenient for folks but have done everything we can to minimize the inconvenience but excited to see this work donefelt the entire project should be done mid2017. A very large state of good repair project you provided funding and support for in Previous Capital budgets. The last thing, i mentioned last time the votes for the muni art program were opened till last week and the vote are in and have the 5 winners. You can see on the screenthere is the new multimedia presentation for the directors report. We had 5 winners that werecame from the votes. The top winner is monica and her exhibit is called teens of sf. Followed by Lillian Shan Hann with bit by bit and a 3 way tie for third place which is [inaudible] Counter Point studio which is peter tomen son and lisa luvene for city walks and todd [inaudible] for sight seeing. These will go up. Each of the artists our groups will have their work featureed on muni buses and artist receiving the most votes gelt a 2 thousand cash prize and [inaudible] get 1250 and this is a partnership between sfmta and San Francisco beautiful. A win, win for artist and muni riders. That concludes my report. Just to go back to the 45 million of money we got for more lrv in the future. It is probably confusing we state our need without having identified all the funding and i know we have seen the same with the buses as we have more funding become available we place a order for more buses and i dont find that unusual for large infrastructure purposes or projects. Is that standard we identify the need and know what we want and as the money becomes available we place those orders . In most cases we identified the funding and just not secured the funding. We identified for the lightrail vehicles this as the main source for this part of the expansion. The procurement for lightrail is 151 to replace the ones we have and that is funded with federal and local sales tax and that we identified and secured. There is expansion of the first 24 vehiclechise is something we committed to as part of the Grant Agreement for the federal government for the central subway grant. We wroifed the revenues and secured revenues for those. Then we had exercised an option on the lightrail vehicle for additional 40 car squz for that we identified main source orphfunding being state cap and trade funds and now secured in subsequent years the first pieces of that. Yes, that is typical and most cases we have identified the funds, we just dont have them secured commitment from whatever the funding partner is. Thank you for clearing that up. I think that can be confusing for people that dont understand how the procurement process works. Thank you very much. Congratuless on the end shuttle surfbs. That is great. As you know since you have been in the chair i pestered you about Shuttle Service and sure it wasnt my pestering that did it but glad you and mr. Hailey got around to this one. As we procure lrv and stuff coming on stock you will look at way tooz expand this. I assume the ways to expand this dont just include Shuttle Service but reintroducingi urge the switch back in west portal to acamidate that. For me this is great news and something that is of great policy interest to me, so with the permission of chair nolan and vice chair bringman, i support that wewhen you have the data and you and mr. Hailey are ready, report how the Shuttle Service is working. Maybe also a update how it works comparison with the bus Shuttle Service and other options we throw at that line and plans for expansion for Shuttle Service whether plans for west portal or castro. Happ