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Is making some progress on some fronts and there are significant continuing challenges and i think its incumbent upon all of us, not just with our words but actions, to support muni and its ability to continually invest in its system, to improve its reliability, and expand its capacity so colleagues if there are no introductory remarks i will call up john hailey from mta for his presentation. Mr. Hailey. Thank you mr. Chairman i will i appreciate your incites and the opportunity to speak to the board. I will say regarding the report card and how it looks after the first year i think you did an...

Question of the sew spaces. Potentially we could see buildings like active space completely taken over by start up. Coms. The kinds of businesses that were moving into the spaces in the late 90s that lead to the creation of this sort of category and so i think thats a pending issue that still needs to be resolved. Putting an office cap on those things so they dont turn completely into tech spaces, a 50 cap seems quite in agreement with it elsewhere in pdr. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. I am david pierce. Thank you for having me. Kate is humbled as mart of sf made and were partnere...

Have another 50,000, 75,000 cars in San Francisco or another million cars in the bay area. It doesnt work on our roads, in terms of parking, in terms of pollution, and so forth. Were going to be in a world of hurt if we dont have a transit system, not just muni supplying to all of our systems, but si system capable of providing Reliable Service to the city and this region so people can either want own a car or if they own a car can drive it less and that will only happen if Public Transportation is able to get people where theyre going in a reliable and consistent and efficient manner. For too...

And some historic rehabilitation projects. For a variety of reasons the procurement has been delayed, if you will, to the latter portion of the five year plan period, so these reasons include mta has recently updated its fleet plan and revised its fleet procurement strategy to incrementally refresh the fleet with staggered procurements. They have been coordinated with us for the other project and now that the locally preferred alternative has been selected this procurements are moving forward so all of this is to say that in the fall the board approved the programming, or the reprogramming of ...

Realized the second the bus arrives they cant eat on the bus. So where do they toss it . If they werent looking or realized there was a trash can next to them as most bus stops do have them. They were irresponsible. We literally saw people tossing things as they got on boarding the buses. Thats not good behavior. Obviously we need to do a lot more education. We need to end that practice and we need to keep and attitude, a very spirit of keeping our public assets clean and beautiful as you see them today. This is what these buses ought to look like a few years from now. We know they wont, but w...