[roll call] please be advised that director torres will not be at todays meeting. Item three, announcement of prohibition of soundproducing devices during the meeting. Please be advised that the ringing and use of cell phones, pagers and other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. And cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference so the board respectfully ask they that be turned off. Item four, approval of the minutes from the december 5 regular meeting. Welcome back, everyone. Happy holidays and happy new year. Any Public Comments on the minutes . Any Public Comment on the minutes from december 5 . Oh, oh. Sorry. Ok. Thank you. This is just for the minutes. A motion to approve. A second . Second. Item six, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members . Item 6. 1 is the election of the m. T. A. Board chairman and vice chairman purchase saounlts to your rules of order. Thanks. Ok. So i will take over this item as the vice chair, assuming that our beloved chair wants to continue in her role or at least consider it for the next few moments. So, as were on the nominations for consideration for people for chair of the commission, i would entertain nominations for the chair position at that time at this time. Ill nominate Cheryl Brinkman. Ok. Would you be so good as to continue in this role . I would be happy and honoured to continue in this role. There a second for the nomination of chair brinkman . Second. Very good. Are there any other nominations . Ok. Seeing none, well close the nominations. Do we call for Public Comment on this . Yes, mr. Chairman. Mr. Vice chairman. [laughter] dig yourself out of that one. [laughter] is there any Public Comment on the nomination for chair . Seeing none, well proceed to the election. All those in favour of Cheryl Brinkman as chair of the commission, please say aye . Any opposed . Very good. Congratulations again. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] you can clap for her. Shes worked very hard. [applause] thank you, vice chairman. Theres a reason no one else want this is jofnls ill tell you that. Happy and honoured to continue to serve in that xas activity. Ill ask for nominations in the position of vice chair. If i could nominate our esteemed colleague vice chair director heineke as vice chair. Excellent. Thank you. I do not need a second on this nomination. Are there any other nominations for vice chair . No . Thank you for joining us. Glad to see you. Any comment on the vice chairman nomination . Oh, yes. We do have one Public Comment. On the nomination of Malcolm Heineke for vice chair. Directors, im a taxi driver. Very much involved in whatever youre doing here. The thing is mr. Heineke here for a long time and hes expert to be called of the taxis. What happened with the taxi is a complete ruin. A miserable situation. And he come here, just give a smile. Dont do the thing which is need to be done. On Public Outreach in his own area, on safeway, on 17th avenue, the public came here to give you 400 signatures not to remove the bus stop over there of your l line and that was removed. So, whats the benefit of that kind of 400 signature and outreach . What is going on here with the taxi driverser fund . Hes sitting here and he listened to everything and its going on for six months. It was delayed from september to october. Ok. One time objection from the objection on him. Can i not do that . Yes. So im doing it. Then october to november. Ok. Two time. Excused december, now theres january. Now theres february. What kind of taxi department he holding and is in charge and not supervising and watching and other people here. It is a terrible situation. Everybody come here and say yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir, no its a no, sir mr. Heineke, you ruined to have a future. Theyve gone from 300 a day to 50, 80 a day. Many of them had heart attack due to the 77 medallion which sold for 250,000, they returned back as default. You should not be here totally not here this sfmt must be broken. I am going to go to supervisor from now on and demand all of you are incapable people sitting here and destroying our lives terribly destroying our lives and you come here, what for, this board . What board think about 5,000 waiting for money which was approved in december and its not delivered to them. You should not be sitting on the vice chairman seat. You should just resign and go home tonight. Thank you thank you, mr. Mahmoud. [applause] anymore public excuse me. No applause, please. We need to keep this meeting moving along. Applause is simply disruptive. It doesnt help anything. Thank you for being here. But please, no applause. Thank you. All right. So, weve got a nominee for the vice chair. Do i have anymore Public Comment . Nope. Seeing none, all in favour of our esteemed colleague vice chair heineke continuing to serve. Aye. No . Hearing none, you are the vice chairman. We appreciate the talent that you bring to this board. Thank you. And let the any other other new or Unfinished Business by Board Members . Seeing none, thank you very much. Well move on. Item seven, directors report. Director erskine. Good morning, madame chair. Members of the public and staff. I want to start out by asking our director of finance and Information Technology to come forward to recognize one of her outstanding employees. Thank you. Good to see you. Good afternoon, everybody. Its with great pleasure were giving this award to Julie Rosenberg who is a manager of our hearing section. She actually began work for the d. P. T. In 1998, a year before prop e. So im sure she was surprised at what happened the rest of her career. She conducted public hearings for engineering and she is a existing attorney. In december of 2005, she became the head of the management of the hearing section. That section actually conducts over 18,000 hearings a year. And during her tenure, the scope of the hearing section has increased dramatically. Now she she and her team hear protest, taxi disciplinary hearings, taxi and medallionrelated hearings, a. D. A. Accessibility hearings from patrons, spot hearings. And hearing from contractors cited for traffic restriction violations as well as the [inaudible] operations. You can see she has her hands full. She does some of the hearings herself, particularly the more complicated ones and the ones that are with the person whos pretty upset. She gets she is really involved in the booted or impounded vehicles so you can imagine how pleasant that hearing might be. Shes also our representive at the California Public Parking Association and shes now the legislative chair so she gets updated on all the parking sthaouz happen around the state. She just got an award from them for doing exemplary work. She is an incredible, careful reader of all the statutes and will focus on one word, and if there is any greyness in that area, julie will bring it to our attention. She is a handson manager. And if i can get her team to stand up, who are here, to show their support for julie, there is you can see she has one of the toughest jobs in the agency. Much tougher than most of us can imagine and she presents the agency with a sensitivity, firmness and she is extremely responsive and very professional in her communication. So, julie, thank you for the incredible work you do. And it is a pleasure to have you as part of the team. So, thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. As she said, i started in the late 1990s for d. P. T. Because i was starting a family. I had 1yearold. I remember working on the city contract about two weeks before i had my third child. This was obviously before city tow settled with the city for 5 million. So, i just ive seen a lot change since i started. D. P. T. Is now sffta, im the manager and two of my kids will be in college this year. So it is quite amazing. I feel like sfmta is my family and has been through a lot with me. Or anyways. I think the agency has made tremendous strides under eds leadership and im grateful to work here and proud of the agencys many accomplishments. But first and foremost, id like to thank my team of highly competent hearing officers and my assistant manager. Many of them started in the early 190s when hearings were conducted from the windows of the hall of justice. They deal with difficult customers and situations on a daily basis. Theyre professional, hardworking and they make my job much easier. They also take the initiative to improve the system. Id also like to thank Carol Alexander my tow hearing coordinator and my analyst who do tremendous work for the section. Next id like to thank the other groups that contribute to the success of the hearing section. Primarily the groups in sustainable streets. We work very closely with enforcement and the engineering groups. As you know, the hearing officers are in a unique position to identify problems and these groups are highly responsive and dedicated to fixing the system and improving the system. We also work closely with Diana Hammonds group, citation and permits and they do a tremendous job. Lastly, i would like to thank sonali. She is really the best boss ive had here and she provides direction [laughter] support and holds us accountable so that we can do a better job for the agency. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much, ms. Rosenberg. Thank you for your years of service to the agency, which indeed are service to the entire city and all the citizens. S on behalf of this entire board t agency and the city, thank you so much and thank you for being here and thank you to all the other hearing officers who came to support your colleague. We appreciate all of your work. [applause] thank you. Thank you, madame chairs. And congratulations, by the way, to you both. For your reelection. All elections around the globe should take note of the smooth transition of power. [laughter] so, just a few updates. I did want to give you as we do each months f not each meeting, a vision zero update. As you know, kind of the big recent news was that the preliminary data that we have from 2017 showed that year to have the lowest number of fatalities in San Francisco since we started recording traffic fatalities in 1915. So, in more than 100 years, the lowest number weve had, there were 20 people who were killed in 2017 on our streets. 14 of whom were pedestrians. And while both of those numbers have been successively coming down in recent xwraoers and again this was the total number was an alltime low, and while that is encouraging in terms of all of the work that weve all been doing, not just within this agency, but across the city and with our partners, we are certainly not celebrating. The fact remains that 20 people died on our streets. Every one of those deaths was tragic and preventable. Surrounding every one of those deaths are family and friends and colleagues and loved ones who were coping still with that loss. But the numbers do, i think, suggest that we, despite the fact that around the region and around the country, the numbers are generally going in the wrong direction. The fact that there are many more trips taken in our city now than there were a few years ago. Many more cars on the street. Many driven professionally, but not by professional drivers. It suggests that something were doing seems to be happening in the right direction. And it gives us encouragement to redouble our efforts, to recommit to vision zero so we can get to that goal of zero by 2020. We see this as a big part of ed lees legacy. It was under his leadership that vision zero was established first here in this room by this board in if he can of 2014. But mayor lee really made it not just an m. T. A. Effort and not even just a city effort, but a whole San Francisco effort and that, i think, is part of why hopefully were seeing numbers trend in the right direction and more importantly, will continue to see them trend in the right direction towards zero in 2024. We we we do have there are a number of things that weve been doing, that we cant, i think, fully attribute to the direction of this trend. But hopefully it is making a difference. 77 miles of engineering improvements in 2017. More than half of which or nearly half of which are on the citys High Injury Network which, as you know, is the 13 of streets that account for 75 of the serious and fatal collisions. Weve been doing a lot supporting the Police Department on enforcement and then a lot on education and outreach because and the mayor, as was his commitment and legacy, vision zero requires everybody to Work Together. Its not just about redesigning our streets or enforcing the laws. On that note, last thursday,s the m. T. A. Working together with the San Francisco Police Department and department of Public Health launched the first of five high vizability enforcement targeting distracted driving in San Francisco. These events will occur at various locations throughout the vision zero highinjury network over the next couple of months, running through march of 2018 and we are doing this based on data that we know that suggests that 80 of collisions in california involve some type of distraction, be it texting while driving, which is the most common, but doing that increases the likelihood of a collision by more than 20 times. So, weve chosen, based on that data, and corridors where that behaviour has been more prevalent, thats where were focusing the enhancement efforts. So, to be smart about how were targeting our resources. And this is part of our larger vision through our effort to stop distracted driving which launched last november, using both education and enforcement to raise enforcement of this issue. Previously we did a speed focus. This is a distracted driving focus. Well continue to focus on speed as one of the leading causes. But wanted you to know that were bringing those streams together. And then finally in terms of communications, regarding vision zero, last year our campaigns combined for over 130s million impressions and onetoone street team outreach. More than 10,000 people at 41 event in many different languages were touched by our outreach staff. The campaign aids in a 40 increase in awareness of vision zero in San Francisco with 28 surveyed saying they had heard of vision zero, which was up from 20 the year before and when we launched vision zero, it had 17 awareness by 2018 so we already surpassed that goal and will continue. Awareness is one of the most important elements of this. There were a number of different outreach campaigns and ad campaigns, including what was called the heartbreak campaign that folks probably got the most attention, which was pictures of family members who had lost loved ones with a silhouette of the lost loved one crossing the street where the loved one was killed or thats a thorough partnership with San Francisco bayarea partnership for safe street which is has been a powerful voice and also gets the credit for whatever success weve had. Well keep on reporting to you and on that well cover it a little bit at our meeting next week. But encouraging is still unacceptable data from 2017. I wanted to give you updates from the state and federal level since it has been more than a month since weve met. I wanted to update you on things that have happened. Starting with the state, were in a the state operates in twoyear legislative sessions and this is the second year. So, they just started that session, the deadline for introduction of new legislation is mid february. So, we are, as we always do, in line with our state and federal legislative agenda that we shared with you back in december, tracking and monitoring all of the relevant legislation and potential legislation very closely. As you know, and relating back to vision zero, our top priority in the legislative agenda was automated Speed Enforcement, which was introduced last year as Assembly Bill 342 which would have authorized a medic as a pilot in San Francisco and san jose. Im happy to report that, due to continued, strong opposition from unions representing the california Highway Patrol and some local Law Enforcement, not necessarily Law Enforcement here in San Francisco, the bill was not put up to a vote at the Assembly Transportation committee in january, commenteded its chance of being advanced as a carry over bill from within the current legislative session from last year to this year. It does remain still our top legislative priority. Theres still a potential path within this twoyear legislative session that ends this calendar year. So were exploring the options for a possible bill this year within this legislative session. So it will remain our top priority. Well keep you informed of any progress that we make. The preliminary budget released last week which highlights to some extent the work to implement s. B. One which is the landmark transportation funding bill last year. Talked a lot about work of various state agencies in 2017 to get it ramped up and provided a look ahead in 2018 with some high level funding estimates for various programmes. Youll see that theres certainly direct positive impacts from sb1 in our budget. And well be talking about that as part of our budget process. There are no surprises in the budgets. Just really reinforcing and emphasizing the Forward Movement on sb1. And finally at the state level, late, breaking news. California secretary of transportation brian kelly was announced today as the new chief executive officer of the california high speed rail authority. Effective february 1. You may recall that the previous c. E. O. , jeff morales, stepped down i guess midway through 2017. And i think there was speculation as to whether anyone would be appointed in advance of the Gubernatorial Election of 2018. So its great that theres someone back in place at california high speed rail. Obviously an important part of addressing our transportation challenges here in San Francisco. High speed rail getting into downtown San Francisco is a big part of that. So brian kelly has been a great partner as secretary of transportation to the city and i have very high expectation that hell continue to do so in his new role at high speed role. The current undersecretary for transportation brian annis has been appointed as acting secretary of transportation for the state. Good news there. And then at the federal level, just a few thing. If f. Too. The f. T. A. Acting deputy administrator Jane Williams was in San Francisco a few weeks ago. She met with a number of the transit agencies, and for an open round table discussion about things that are happening or rumoured to be happening in washington. A lot of interest in the north coming infrastructure bill. Not a lot of details. We did have a chance to take the deputy administrator down into some of the central subway construction, which she was happy to see. And private sector funding such as the Development Fees we have here in San Francisco, the zoning such as weve got at the Transit Centre district plan, which captures revenues for Transit Centre. She asked us for followup information which we subsequently sent and perhaps may or may not factor into the administrations thinking of the infrastructure bill. But it was nice that she took the time to come out here and understand transit from the regions perspective. Which was encouraging. Subsequently last week i was briefly in washington, d. C. , met with a number of capitol hill staff members. I also participated in annual meetings of the Transportation Research board and of the National Association of city transportation officials. Both National Meetings of national organisations. One of them had 13,000 people. One of them had about 20 people. A little different in scale. But one thread that ran through all of these discussions to folks on the hill at the transportation meetings and with the deputy administrator are two main topics. One was the infrastructure bill, which earlier in the month folks thought we might be seeing the first draft of this month and now it looks like its sliding into february. The fact that transportation funding was not addressed in the recent federal tax legislation leaves the fate of the infrastructure bill a little up in the air as theres expected to be 200 million of federal funds, but now no funding source. Arguably even less available federal funding. But that was a large topic of conversation. The other one was the Technology Changes that are impacting the transportation industry, particularly Autonomous Vehicles. There is a lot that were doing within the agency, with the Transportation Authority and others in the state and across the country to think about and plan and thats something well probably be wanting to talk to you about as we move forward this year and wanted to reflect that this is the top level of conversation for a lot of folks around the country dealing with transportation. And ill just close by noting that the next bus system was having some, which is the arrival prediction system we use, was having some issues over the weekend and then shut down completely. Some point late last night or early this morning. It was back up and running before noon today so were working hard to try to figure out what the contractor, what the causes were, why it took so long to get addressed. We dont have any information out. But wanted to acknowledge that it happened. Apologize to folks that were inconvenienced, including my family members, this morning. But we will commit to learning aniless sons and implementing any lessons from the closure and remind you we will soon be issuing a request for proposals for the successor next generation version of that system. Sorry. After a month, that was a little bit long of a report. But that does conclude it and happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much, director rei skin. We have to remember that 20 deaths 20 deaths too much and it does involve family members and loved ones being impacted. Again, im very encouraged by the progress that weve done and the distracted driving numbers that 80 of collisions in california involve some time of distraction are ones that we should all take to heart. We do a lot for Street Safety in San Francisco. But without car drivers helping us by paying attention, putting down their phones and slowing down, were never going to get to zero unless we have the help of all the car drivers throughout and that means you and family members and not texting people that young are driving and not calling people that you knows are driving. To slow down, if necessary. We all have to start to be really firm about this because were not going to get there unless we get everyones cooperation on that. The state bill for automated Speed Enforcement would be a huge boon. It is so fiefl me that there is opposition to, that especially because i know at the federal level, i believe the National Transportation safety board said that we need more automated enforcement or were not going to get safety numbers that we want to see. So thank you for commiting that well continue to work on that. Very, very encouraging. Directors, does anyone else have some comment . Yes, director ramos . Yeah. I just wanted to make sure that we acknowledged all of the advocates that were supportive of the vision zero infrastructure, that came into place that has helped us get to lowering the levels. Of course, weve got a long way to go, but im rather confident that the lives that we didnt lose, you know, we can all be appreciative of that. But it doesnt come without trade aves and we wouldnt be able to make those tradeoffs if it werent for the support that is often generated by neighbours that the understand the value of making our street safer for everyone. So, i wanted to make sure that we acknowledge that. I also wanted to speak to the subject of the Autonomous Vehicles that came up and its something that i think is something that we pay close attention to and i, for one, on this board would like to make sure that were making an effort to address this as best as possible in some capacity as to ward thinking. Maybe we can talk more at the retreat later on about it and talk about it in that capacity. But i think that, you know, the ride sharing industry, obviously caught some of us flatfooted and were dealing with the repercussions of it, obviously. Also recognize that we, as a city, are not an island unto ourselves. A lot of the policy in the state, including ride share and governance s dictated at the state level. And we often suffer the pain of those decisions that are made there. So i want to make sure that were thinking about it as progressively as possible when it comes to Autonomous Vehicles because that is going to send yet another shock wave through our city when they come online. Thank you. That is a good point. Were looking for forward to the safety improvements. Youre right. Directors, anymore feedback . Thank you very much, director reiskin for your report. Lets oh, Public Comment on the directors report. Im sorry. An opportunity for members of the found address the board on matters that were discussed by mr. Reiskin, nots on any other topic that is on the agenda. I have received no cards and i see no one moving forward. All right. If we have no one to comment on the directors report, Public Comment closed and well move on. All right. Item eight. I do not see mr. Chairman weaver here. So, there is no report. Item nine, general Public Comment. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the m. T. A. Board of directors on matters that are within the jurisdiction of the board but are not on todays agenda. All right. We have a full agenda. Lets have a twominute time limit on these and id like to remind the members of the public, please no applauding. It just slows us down. As much as we appreciate you being here, we dont praoeshltz the applause. Thank you. Marcus gomez, followed by paula katz. Good afternoon. Madame chairman, members of the board. Thank you for this opportunity to fwroing your attention an ongoing problem were having on the sfmta central subway project, phase two, contract 1300. Im marcus gomez, the project manager of alberta construction, a minorityowned Small Business enterprise, a disadvantaged veteran business, entity working as a subcontractor who is in turn working for sfmta. Our scope on this spronlts to relocate underground utilities across 12 city blocks from the cal train area to chinatown. Over the course of our work, which began in the fall of 2014, and should have been completed in 2016, we have encountered over 425 conditions that were different from what was represented in the plans and specs provided by sfmta. These changes have caused monetary and impacts that sfmta is responsible to pay for through the change order process. Of the 425plus change orders, only 114 have been executed to date. That leaves a balance of over 300 outstanding change orders which represents upwards of 750,000. Currently sfmta has taken over twoyears to execute a change order and were still here working and still encountering new deferring site conditions. For Small Business, this is a death sentence. Without timely payment of change order, we struggle to pay our taxes, Employee Benefits to local unions and local vendors for their service and their materials. This cost in excess of 1 billion has affected our ability to bond and pursue new work. So far we had to borrow money to meet our financial obligations, but were now entering into a position of insolvency. We do not believe that this is what the federal Transportation Authority had in mind when it subsidized this promise and required sfmta to establish goals to hire Small Business entities. Thank you very much. I certainly hope that your company is pursuing this within the standard grievance process because this board actually cannot get involved in that measure. So, thank you very much for coming down and updating us. Next speaker, please. Paula katz. [sneezing] thank you. Im paula katz with save [inaudible]. [bell ringing] im paula katz with save our stop. Were here to ask you to reconsider your december 5 vote to temporarily remove the 17th avenue stop across from safeway. To do that by placing this item on the agenda for your february 6 or 20th meeting and tell the staff not to remove the stop until after reconsideration. The biggest reasons to move the stop seem to speed up the l by 20 to 30 seconds. What the board did not really discuss is the best way to speed up the l is fix the delays of up to 20 minutes at west portal and in the twin peaks tunnel, which infuriates riders. Your website says replacing the tracks will speed up travel times and the staff told us that completing all the tunnel projects will save about six minutes each way. Fix tunnel and fewer l riders will care about saving an extra 20 to 30 seconds at the expense of our critically needed safeway stop. Especially with the the time savings youve already achieved with other stop removele as, transitonly lanes and the upcoming Traffic Signals with transit priority. All of this will help mitigate the loss of time savings to determine [inaudible]. In addition, as the only supermarket on the street, safeway equal fis as major trip generator, which is an exception for the stop spacing guidelines under your short range tranls sit plan. In the surveys that the staff conducted last fall, the Community Overwhelmingly wants to keep the safeway stop. [bell ringing] and in the me mailed and verbal comments you received, there were few, if any, arguing that they wanted you to speed up the l by removing this l stop. But you had many residents up and down the street begging you to keep it and we ask you to reagenda this issue and reconsider your decision. Im turning in this Public Comment and other documents from ms. Boomer to forward to you. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. We submit that sfmta will not be removing satisfaction by removing the stop. Theyre already happy with muni with the changes that took place last year, mer chance as well as residence denlszes and we dpred the two to three years of disruption that well face while it is torn up for construction. Riders will be further disgruntled if you take away this muchused sthaop will inconvenience us even more. As we mentioned in a letter to you last week, if you proceed with the 17th avenue stop removal, it will be very difficult for us to find the nearly 700l riders who currently use the stop on a daily basis and difficult to determine how they are impacted by its loss. It will also be difficult to restore a stop that has been gone for since months. It is also likely that because of the inconvenience and safety concerns of crossing 19th avenue, many riders will make other arrangements to get downtown and do their food shopping. Therefore, with ask a director to place the issue of keeping the 17th avenue stop on your february 6 or february 20 Meeting Agenda or ask that mr. Reiskin does so if he sets the agendas as you would be continuing your discussion from the december 5 meeting, you already have the staff report. We were told by staff that sfmta planned to remove the stop on february 3 so we request that you ask mr. Reiskin to hold off on the action until the board has had an opportunity to discuss the removal ramification further. I will submit the Public Comments to ms. Boomer to forward to the Board Members. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Nancy warfel followed by lynn lohama. Good afternoon. Im nancy warfel. It has come to my attention that there was a violation of the brown act regarding regular item 11 on the december 5 board Meeting Agenda. Section 54954. 2a states that, quote, no action or discussion shall be undertaken on any item not apeinger on the posted agenda, unquote. The language of agenda item is 1 did not have any meaningful description that included the discussing the 17th avenue stop. Therefore, a violation exists because the minutes show that the board did discuss and take action on the future of this very popular stop without noticing the matter. This means that interested members of the public who might have attended this meeting were not properly apprised of the boards deliberation on the safeway stop. The good news is that the brown act does permit a member of the legislative body or the body itself to direct staff to place a matter of business on the future agenda. So the previous actions the board made erroneously took concerning the 17th avenue can now be agendaized for discussion based on the december 5 staff report perhaps at your february 6 or 20th meeting this time with the benefit of stakeholders, residences and l riders in attendance. We request that the items description include discussion about keeping the stop with a boarding island or if it is going to be removed, what evaluation criteria the board will want staff to use to explain the impacts of a trial removal. Lastly i invite the Board Members who have not yet done so to please ride the mun toi, the inbound is theth avenue stop. Get off, walk east across six lanes of 19th avenue, see the widths of the median island you might have to get stuck on, continue on to the 17th avenue stop and walk uphill to the 15th avenue stop with your imaginary groceries and then you will know what you are asking the public to do if you take away our stop and why saving 20 to 30 seconds is not worth the human cost. [bell ringing] also i have thank you. I have a brandnew map for you and thank you. Im providing this information. Thank you. Your time is up. Leave them there. Thank you. I appreciate that. Next speaker, please. Lynn lohama, herbert weiner. Good afternoon. Im from the lower haight and im representing several neighbourhoods in San Francisco frantically working to stop approvals for wireless antennas in our neighbourhood and the sfmta and president are the original administrators that made a real estate deal with the wireless antenna companies to put their antennas on supporting polls. Im asking the board to do a moratorium on some of the antennas going into our mixed use residential neighbourhoods until we can get community input. We have no environmental oversight for these antennas and the wireless Antenna Company are working with sfmta to put their antennas off of private property and on public property so there doesnt have to be any public notification and the sfmt master Lease Agreement requires several things that i dont have enough time to put into place right now. But im just asking you to revisit your master Lease Agreement with the antenna companies. One main discrepancy is the fact that the Lease Agreement pertain to east of van ness and were on the west of van ness. And the Lease Agreement ends in 2018. It warns against residential encroachment and you make about 4,000 per antenna and allowed i dont know if youve allowed all 3,000 antennas yet, but it is basically conflict of interest for regular real estate. You call the poles real estate, but residents who own real estate conflicting with the 12 million that you are making and it opposes our Public Health. So i ask you to put it on your agenda so we can have community outreach. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Mr. Reiskin, can you make sure that our Real Estate Division is aware of this and make sure that somebody is in discussion with the yes, will do. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Herbert weiner followed by ruth landry. Herbert weiner. The sentiments im expressing are totally my own. They do not represent that of any organization. They are my own individual opinion. Now the proposals ill conceived, unrealistic and detrimental. I personally see no difference in the quality of service to frequency of service. Great cost was spent on the el teravale line. What was simply needed is adding four coachs to that line. There would have been frequency to this service to this line that is underserved. Thats all that had to be done. You may say, gee, mr. Weiner, why didnt you bring that up . Because thats the job of the m. T. A. Managers who live in never never land and dont live in reality. You should patronize it and experience the waiting time and experience the discomfort of walking that street. How can someone who has had two knee replacements negotiate that Long Distance between stops. Now this has been very detrimental to seniors and the disabled. In fact, it is wicked. And you have signed on to it as this board. And what is really disgraceful is the nonprofit corporations which testify and endorse these proposals have greater power than we do. But we have relatively less power and we can be steam rolled. You are supposed to serve everyone, not these special interests and you have to stop doing that now and reverse the whole project. Restore the bus stops and stop inconveniencing people. Its really disgraceful. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Is public speaker landry here . Ms. Landry here . [inaudible]. Oh, ok. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Boomer will remove your speaker card. Mr. Mahmoud. So, i met with mr. Reiskin and he said it should have been distributed at that time. Then another months gone. Then another meteorologist gone. Then another month gone. Were listening. It will be in february. What is wrong with your department, mr. Reiskin . Are you not a good manager . 200,000 salary, plus 100,000 plus 30,000 benefits, 130,000 10 people more . What a job this department is doing. You are a mess. Sfmt must be broken and all of you should go home. You are a pain to the public, to the taxi. How come that money cannot be distributed . Let me come to your office, ill volunteer in 48 hours what she is saying she can not sign over a paper . 5,000 paper. In 48 hour, i will sign all the paper and put it in front of you. Just one single man can do it. There are 20 people in your staff and six months gone, nobody could [inaudible] it out. What kind of business are you runing . Look at the terrible [inaudible]. Think about it. I have 200 heart attacks and we went at the same time to the hospital for heart attacks. I came out, god let me come back and talk to you. So, the point is, when [bell ringing] [inaudible] is going up the hill with the guy with the heart attack on some other problems of life with a knee problem, two bags in his right and left, how he can walk two blocks up the hill go and see yourself people are crying and you are not listening i was watching you for 10 years of incapabilitieses. A man whos 70 years old and lives in that neighbourhood. Its terrible [bell ringing] fix it next speaker, please. David pillpal. Hes the last person who turned in a speaker card on this topic, maybe. Good afternoon, directors. I wanted to start out by saying that i agree with the previous speaker on saving the stops and hope that the bloweder discuss the matter further in the future. Your board secretary and staff are aware that i suffered a personal loss over the holidays. My father passed away. I very much appreciate the condolence note from board secretary boomer and thank you for that. S the twin peaks tunnel has a 1 is00th anniversary coming up. I mentioned that a couple of times last year. Next months in if he can. Id be interested to know in addition to previous activities if anything is planned for or around that date relative to that anniversary. I had can conversations last year with m. T. A. Staff regarding Environmental Review and how board items are prepared and related to the Environmental Review of projects. And other discussions with deanna desaitis regarding project outreach. Those conversations havent occurred for some period of time both due to the personal loss and some other changing things at m. T. A. I would like the restart those conversations with those people and would ask staff to be available so that we can keep moving in a productive way. [bell ringing] in those areas. And finally, more broadly about relationships, as ive said several times before this board, whether its the Charter Amendment that will be discussed tomorrow at the rules committee or how this board conducts itself with the public, how itselfs agency staff deals with the public, i think relationships are incredibly important and the way we deal with each other, whether we agree or disagree or how we Work Together is very important and i think we can all do better in that regard and i hope that will happen this year. Thank you. Please accept our condolences on the loss of your father. Hello. My name is judith and i just wanted to have some general comment on transportation and families. It limits parking permits to two, even though my family is a family of four and we were all in three counties every day. I have some kids who are under 18, over 16. A lot of your systems are not set up for people with children. For example, the bike share doesnt allow people to use it or under 18. Uber, their terms of service dont allow people to United States under 18. Not that id want my kid to use uber, but it is not even an option. And also ive spoken up before you in some of your outreach things about the lack of a loading zone on the 22nd street cal train station. There is no place to drop kids off. I do that every day. You really need a white zone to allow people to load and unload. You have to wait. And we need a place. And now people double park and it is basically unsafe. So i would just urge you to think of the impacts of your policies on those under 18, on those with children, also kids cant rent cars. [bell ringing] you know, until theyre 22, 25, whatever. So a lot of the Solutions Like zip car and bike share and p. N. C. S are not open to those under 18 or those even in their 20s. And i urge you to incorporate that in your policies. Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments, judith. Anymore speakers . General Public Comment . Yes, please. Step forward. Unless i see another hand, this will be the last speaker under general Public Comment. I see one more hand. Ok. Two more speakers. Thank you, commissioners, for allowing me to speak unafoundsed. Unannounced. Evelyn posmantier. Im wondering. And its kind of serious. With paratransit, what kind of oversight is there . I know theres the paratransit council. But theres been a horror show relating to the new phone system. And that is normally if you call in, you can confer reservations and there are two caller ahead of you or so. And then there are 15 caller ahead of you, so you know where to stand. Gone. Also with dispatch, i was out by kaiser. I was leaving at 7 30, the french campus. The doors lock behind you and the where is my ride again . I could not get an answer and i thought i was going to have anxiety i did have a major anxiety attack. But if you all could kind of look in that, i think it is dangerous. It was an emergency. And just f. Y. I. , another thank you to the el terraville supporters. I noticed on the way over here on sacramento street between fillmore on webster, there is a bus stop for the number one, which is on the southeast corner. And then there is also a stop at the south further up the same block at the corner of webster. So theyre two stops in one block. So go figure. That is my point and also thank you director reiskin for your report on vision zero. I hope they raise awareness, but also including pedestrian education, too. Like look left, look right. You know . [bell ringing] thank you very much. We appreciate it. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Director reiskin, can we check into the para transit phone system and still serving people in a way that gives them correct information and up to date. Thank you very much. I think we had one more public speaker on items not on the agenda. No . [inaudible]. Thats still coming up. This is still nine. Public comments for items not on todays calendar. Seeing none, well close Public Comments on item nine and move on to the con sent calendar. A number of items have been severed at the request of the public. 10. 5, 10. 6 and 10. 7. Thank you very much, ms. Boomer. Do i have a motion to approve consent calendar, 10. 5, 6 and 7. [laughter] there are items left. Taking those out. Do i have a notion approve . So move. Do i have a second . Second. All in favour, aye . Aye. Any opposed . Hearing none, the ayes have it and the consent calendar minus those items is aproved. Lets start with 10. 2s. Item 10. 2s has to do with establishing stop signs on Diamond Heights boulevard northbound and southbound at diamond street. Would you like to hear first from the public . Yes. All right. Betsy eddie followed by richard craig. Good afternoon, directors. And mr. Reiskin. Im betsy eddie and im honoured to serve as the president of the Diamond Heights community association. Our board is delighted to be in support of the two new stop signs that m. T. A. Went to install at Diamond Heights boulevard and diamond where it comes up the hill. We appreciate that your staff assessed the safety of the intersection, actually wrote to mr. Reiskin, describing the safety concerns at the intersection. And we also appreciate supervisor sheehys advocacy for the stop signs as well. It was just on the december 23rd weekend that there was an accident, a serious accident at this intersection. A speeder rear ended a car with a family in it. The car went into 5401 Diamond Heights boulevard. I was an injury accident. So we hope these stop signs, theyre really going to be so important because it could possibly stop accidents like this. And the allways stop now will preside a much safer intersection for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists and will provide a much smoother traffic flow for all concerned. Including the drivers of the 35muni come up diamond street and they have to turn left on to Diamond Heights boulevard. They have a stop but there is no way for them to easily stop. So were pleased there is a number of things that m. T. A. Has helped us with in Diamond Heights and we hope to continue work on traffic concerns on Diamond Heights boulevard because there is a lot of speeders. We have lots of curves and hills going up and down. We probably dont have enough stop signs, but we really do want to look forward to a safer street and we thank you for your help. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Richard craig followed by karen kerner. Good afternoon. 575year resident of Diamond Heights. I think to be the second most tenured resident in that development i just want to say i fully support Diamond Heights Neighbourhood Association and betsy eddie in this respect. There is a lot of improvements that could be done to the Transportation System in Diamond Heights yet so i think ill reserve my comment for that point. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Craig. Next speaker, please. Karen kerner. She is the last person who has turned in a speaker card on this matter. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is karen kerner, a longtime resident of the neighbourhood. Ive lived there 24 years. This intersection is very dangerous. I forbade my children from walking on that side of diamond mines boulevard. That is the south side of Diamond Heights boulevard. They can walk on the other side where there is no street crossing. It is very dangerous for pedestrians. I myself do not walk on that side because of the danger. But its also extremely dangerous to drivers as youve been hearing. People turning left on to Diamond Heights boulevard are competing with driver and bus drivers speeding down from safeway. So i strongly encourage you to add this stop sign. Thank you. Thank you very much. Anymore Public Comment on 10. 2s. No . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Motion to approve . Yeah. Let me just say that there was an earlier comment that we should be mindful of the needs of our children and transportation and safety and i very much appreciated that comment from a member of the public and ill move this item because i think it is very important to the safety of everyone in that neighbourhood, but particularly the children who live there, who use that park and use that street so i enthusiastically move this item. Do i have a second . Aye. Opposed . No . Its approved. And thank you to the members who came out to speak in support of that. It is good to hear from you and good to hear that you support the safety measures. Moving on. Item 10. 4, authorizes the director to execute contract for building progress and Environmental Review and Public Outreach with swca Environmental Consultants and engagement surveys for the building progress programme, an amount not to exceed 1 30i7 million and for a
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