Meeting. And the. And is july 21st special joint meeting. Okay motion to approve pursue any further discussion . The is have it. Thank you very much. Item 5 communications. Please note we have asked members of the public to ask that certain items are severed from the agenda item 10. 2 and 4, 10. 5 a there c and 10. 6. Thank you. Item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. I felt remiss a at the last meeting a geary bart and in our Newport Beach we neglected to mention how much work has been done on that corridor in terms of red transit and the lower superintendent gerrero transit priority signals and what improvements on that for running time i didnt want to leave it is a of with the expression were not aware of the work in our enthusiasm to discuss the work yet to come and bring that up i take that line back and forth and this morning coming from carrie had 38 rs within a minute ever each other. Seeing none. Item 6 drorts report. Director reiskin. There is an overflow room. If you dont have a seat make your way to the light court. And well call four or five names at that time, and during the agenda too big items this afternoon scheduled for 2 and 12 oclock to move general Public Comment to the end of the meeting. Director reiskin members of the public and staff start off by recognizing a couple of folks normally were recognizing your own employees today, the first person we want to recognize is actually anyone that is not technically an employee but treated her as such mary from the deputy City Attorney from the deputy City Attorney office is retiring and want to recognize her shes worked as if an employee and partner of ours worked directly with kate on taxi issues so kate is going to provide the recognition but first i want to see if jessie smith wants to come forward and say a few words one the chief deputies for the City Attorneys office deference good afternoon ms. Smith. Thats the line item. Not a line item. On now. Thank you, again i want to take too much 7, 8, 9 i know with a busy agenda a bittersweet moment to say good job to mary and very much appreciate it is rare one the or of the Unsung Heroes is recognized by the clients were preservative of your action and well all missions miriams council and calm steady thoughtful and creative approach to legal issues and again, i thank you for giving us the opportunity to recognize her as well. Thank you, ms. Smith. Good afternoon. Hi kate director of the Taxi Services and especially happy to be honoring Miriam Morley and miriam can i call you up to say nice things about you we have a long list get comfortable. Start with some of the details and into the personally miriam a dedicate and valued members of the City Attorneys office for 28 years and recommended numerous clients in the extensive criteria and the rent board and the Police Commission and rec and park the investing and the Mayors Office on disability over the years developed expertise of law including the americans with disabilities act where they lead the implementation and Training Programs citywide she spear headed legal advice n judah the initial agreement with two on the city and the zoo society the creation of Golden Gate ParkConcourse Authority and the development of the sanctuary city ordinance, and for the past 8 years on the mta team and advising the mta a intern General Council shes couldnt the agency through integrate issues that may familiar recommended to taxis and city tow contracts and others too newcomers to mention an interval part of Taxi Services i talked to miriam daily and provides council on many issues in the taxi world and help to she said arrested the rules preceding and provided goons on guidance on the taxi and drug and Alcohol Program and all transportation codes amendments flow through miriam we keep her busy and obviously going to miss her shes so dedicated agreement sensitive issue miriam is 1r5ush8 over the weekends they called me on sunday for a hostile topic about to collapse think monday, i couldnt have been more thankful and the time she spent spoke volumes to me an Excellent Research and writing skills they acquired at the bottle in a two year clerkship that the Supreme Court rose bird and with the sounds like calm donor helped to guide the clients towards solution shes a suburb lawyer and implementing the effective Government Programs and shuns the spotlight for the author analysis a regular thinker and an extraordinary mentor and miriam never takes a shortcut if were talking about an issue that is complex miriam thinks through youll see relates aspects and weaves and cycles back to what we call weavering a basket not a shortcut but a basket that miriam we have the tonnage of our appreciation our basket filled with good wishes from the team for miriam for her retirement and best wishes from all of us and thank you clapping. ms. Moorely on behalf of the board of directors and the entire agency thank you for your outstanding work. Good afternoon director reiskin and members of the board i see you get a lot of the accommodation i didnt think of myself as such again thank you very much as jessie and state said ive been a City Attorney for 8 years its been glorious by many departments theres been numerous really interesting legal issues and many smart people to work with thats not more true than the last 8 years with the mta i appreciate working request director reiskin as you may know always wellinformed and is the most interesting legal issues concerns and his staff ive been just repeatedly impressed by their dedication to the public good and want you to know ive been combrelsz with our work as a board your prepared, you appreciate your staff hard work and showed genuine interest in what the members of the public say and a lot of difficult decisions on tough issues i seen how seriously you take this responsibility. It is really been a pleasure. Thank you very much. clapping. director reiskin. Very big shoes to fill were confidence that jessie and dennis will do their best to fill them but hard to incapacitate slut the roll well miss miriam and next john haley to come forward to recognize one of his folks that keeps the buses and trains moving everyday. Good afternoon ed and Board Members it might honor to introduce and recognize somebody who is very much in the forefront of the transformation that is taking place across the transit city we are literally introducing new infrastructure and vehicles everyday and somebody that has to help operationalize or make all the things work the way their supposed to today, were asking you to recognize mr. Ben hes served as the our cannery in the coal mine fulsome, if you will, number one when he was in the control center not only was the senior controller but in fact, the teacher he trained everyone in how to use effectively the thinking tries of the automatic train system like double bettering and how to do it so if the software didnt do what it was designed to do we turned to benefit what do we do and benefit made that work, and, secondly, hes now pioneering the concept of those to better manage the stiffer service and provided more stereotyping managerial level for the supervisors and the operators he left west portal and 55 market and working on the streets as a regular shift now overseeing major incidents taking corrective action and doing followup with all that and he will be one of the people that well look to tie all the technology to the Service Principles when the new radio system is in effect and to a full transformation and his my pleasure to introduce you to benefit. clapping. thank you and recognize the hard work. The microphones. Thank you thank you mr. Haley i could have told you. Thank you for recognizing the hard work that went into the agency its my pleasure to improve the system and more effective for the citizens of San Francisco and thank the senior staff mr. Brent jones, jeff and many of the senior staff for recognizing this hard work it is given me a great opportunity to work at tnc to learn the modes and finds the issues to try to correct the problems thank you. On behalf of the board of directors and the entire agency thank you. clapping. mr. Reiskin. Move on just want to highlight a few things one significant one on august 4th mayor ed lee issued an executive directive for vision zero and grateful to direct the city departments to step up our games with the principles of vision zero amongst the elements of the executive droifshg for the sfmta to deliver the improvements on 7 and 8 street for rec and park to work with us to deliver the safety improvements for the safety and traffic on jfk directive drive and the restrictions on the Golden Gate Park and continuing to automatic speed transportation at the state plentiful were working with others and were going to sacramento to keep the momentum up department for the 5 goals as the Quarterly Report and presentations to the commission for the mta to implement Vision Zero Campaign within the next thirty days with the widespread Public Knowledge well hear about that in the city fleet and also to make sure we are regularly reporting to the public prairie to this board as well as other venues like the Transportation Authority and the zero committee that is in line with what director brinkman asked well do that each month so just some highlights today first is that we have some radio adds on the air those are 15 second aids that people will hear about Pedestrian Safety and over and over again, we cant do that with the design and enforcement we need kind of citywide behavior challenges and raising the awareness for the behavior changes and those ads will run when the transfer reports are running when people are sitting in their car those were launched for back to school in the School Districts and side adds from the Research Driven comprehensive approach were taken not thirty something out but trying to understand who the audience is this the first in september with theist speeding campaign to keep the campaigns rolling every other month so we can get that awareness raised and understanding that each individual has an opportunity and responsibility to be part of the solution not just someone elses problem that each of us need to be personally involved to make the change and getting this upcoming we met the thirty day requirement so i want to ask john one of the people that reels spearheading the efforts on vision zero to play a clip well hear in english and spanish. speaking spanish. sports teams and tourist transmissions we are perfectly it vision zero sf to get to zero traffic deaths at the vision zero sf. Org. Thanks john the first of many folks well be hearing them they started this week; right . People will be hearing them as they drive around the city and hopefully start thinking of their responsibility when their behind the wheel or, however, a couple of vision zero speed radar designs in district 7 last month those i believe came to rec and park from an ad back if the board of supervisors in the last budget cycle those signs went in on alamany and panning ram and others those are generally an effective tool where other traffic calming tools are not appropriate for whatever reason we collected the speed data and continue on the valuation part of vision zero making sure the things were doing is effective glad to see those were requested by Community Members and supervisor yee. Is department of health launched safe streets for seniors and dpw made advertising on the high injury districts and grants to provide Traffic Safety education for seniors and people with disabilities as well as to citywide grants to focus on citywide traffic twoer citywide and 5 are neighborhood grants 58124 hundred an important part of population we want to reach sadly a disproportionate of the folks that are hurt and killed in traffic collisions then the last vision zero ill note it is on the calendar today, i think i heard it discussed 10. 4 the a gill bike and pedestrian project the cruise will complete the implementation next month for the vieblthd of people on bikes and separate bikes introduce Motor Vehicles and everyone who is a good project and it was Community Driven and supervisor mar was a big driver of this project and i bike up and down argyle it is a good thing for consideration a couple of muni updates on the things weve authorize one on the part saturday amended the changes to help the twoway used to be the south bound south and 10 go to battery and come back that put them in congestion with other cars to get them out of the way and not serving a ridership youll authorize the muni for recognize changes for the two ways for the 3 blocks that went into effect riding muni and people driving on battery a winwin there the other win because of all the changes that you have authorized on 5 fulsome over the years and they data back many years since 2009 and spending the Evening Service to transbay terminal and making mcallister a twoway then, of course, the limited service we stopped that became 5 r a couple of safeties improvements and a lot of things weve done and Traffic Signals under construction and a lot of ripen along the line as a result we firmly believe that are in part because of changes to help accommodate that ridership we have started running larger buses moving from the the 40 feet to the 60 foot trolley buses on the 5 r that started this week and good problems to have improved service more people want to ride so happy to see that go into place and did want to note for the public just a reminder that based on what you all approved and the board of supervisors approved in the twoyear budget the first increase in the fair buses for the two year period on september one effects the monthly passes the r m the bart plus muni those passes the monthly pays for kwvlth the seniors and people with disabilities adult lifeline and basically all the pass products will be incrementing up on september one and the single fair both passion and limited cards will remain the same going up on january 1st when the next round happens we have that had buses we understand the barts closures weve assisted with i had to get to the airport on saturday that is an experience getting on bart and the shuttle bus worked smoothly and working together with transit and muni and bart and continue to support those in the first two weekends i believe 5 more to come weve been using our parking control officers to help to manage the traffic and other moving around generally worked well likewise, the ousted side lands generally went well, we had more than 20 thousand people on muni particularly the 5 r and 5 and the 28 and 29 and, of course, the n judah we had extra service and implemented some changes based on lessons in previous years and generally events from a transportation stand point went very well and this coming weekends were getting ready for the mission on august 21st and last thing i want to mention the Second Annual muni art project which is a collaboration between sfmta and the San Francisco beauty to beautify the consumers by the showcasing the local artists on muni is currently now on the artwork will replace the voluntary space this is double than last year a great visibility for the local artists and great for folks you recall from last year, it makes a difference to see some of the artwork and 60 bay area artists submitted applications and 10 finalist with local gallery owners and institutions and sfmta and now public voting that is why i wanted to mention so the public voting to determine which 5 of the 10 finalists will have their work displayed and the online voting is up until august 29th up to the end of the month so we want to encourage folks go to sfmta. Org slashing muni arts and vote for the winners. Thank you director reiskin members of the board questions or comments and. I thought you may want to mention some thank you for that yesterday actuary and i along with director borden and the mayor and representatives from the Mayors Office and representatives from the new Office Department of homelessness in support of housing met with a dozen or office space so members of the Small Businesses citywide leaders if the Small Business community and had a frank confusion about the concerns the business communities generosity concerns, concerns about taxed, concerns about public process one of the issues their reinforcing the message of making sure that Small Business has a seats at the table as we as staff and the board are making policy decisions weve talked some, some of the outreach weve been doing such as when the Small Business commission and other forms getting representation on the board and cac from the Small Business communities and equipment to meeting regularly with Leadership Groups to continue and improve the conversation it was a good discussion i think there was acknowledgment of some of the at least after the meeting acknowledgment of some of the good things the Small Business communit