Course, that revenue will go as supervisor peskin said to the San Francisco m. T. A. And the San Francisco c. T. A. At the same time, there is a second thing going on, which is we are taxing a mode of transportation that is shown to create congestion and using that money to fund modes of transportation that could reduce transportation. There is an economic benefit. Unfortunately, the first of phnom economic impact, with the data to analyse, and the second we dont. When i say, as we conclude in the report, that this is a mildly negative economic impact. That is a result of placing the tax on the consumers and spending the money at the city. It is a fairly small impact of 25 milliondollar reduction to the g. D. P. , which is less then the tax that is raised. We are not able, because of Data Limitations to estimate how responsive t. N. C. Ridership would be to be an increase in fares, although we expected to decline somewhat. The only kind of caveat that we mentioned in our report is about the proposed tax and it also includes Autonomous Vehicles. At present, there are no Autonomous Vehicles doing rides in San Francisco. The case against the tee and c. Is there currently constituted for causing congestion. The evidence that Autonomous Vehicles will cause congestion is somewhat less clear. They miss they wish to make carefully consider whether they want to discourage Autonomous Vehicles in the future. Im happy to take any questions that supervisors have at this time. Thank you. Seeing no questions, we can take Public Comment. Both of you, you have your values mixed up. I will not let you fall for that first of all, your congestion is not caused by the people who are working and transporting people around the city. Your congestion is being caused by the department of transportation and kel tran. You had two bridges that are located sidebyside. You did not have this problem until kel tran and the department of transportation pertaining to this date destroyed the bay bridge. There is nothing wrong with that bridge. You use dynamite, tnt, and explosives to blow up that bridge. You did not have the congestion and after the last explosion that took place to destroy that bridge, theyre putting the tax on the people that are buying gasoline in order to to prepare our roles and maintain our bridges. They just use dynamite to blow up the bay bridge. And about your taxes, your taxi people and the persons that are writing the fares, you do not want to tax them. You want to tax the executives and management that have millions and trillions of dollars in the backs of the drivers of all of the taxi drivers that is working and moving people around. They are not responsible for the congestion. You have a tendency of blaming people who dont have a damn thing to do with the problem and tax them. You need to tax executives whos getting these multibilliondollar bonuses and by the same response the taxi drivers get to sleep in their cars, wait at a location for hours and then turn around and they wont have a place to live, and then they come back to the location [indiscernible] thank you. Thank you, mr. Wright. All right, that is enough. Are there any other members of the public would like to speak on the this item before Public Comment is closed . Not right now, thank you, mr. Wright. Public comment is now closed. All right. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Did you have any final remarks . I do not but i think supervisor mar may. I would like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you for all of your work on this. Thank you for clearing the way so that we have a relatively clean ballot. I also failed to acknowledge been rosenfield who was remarkably helpful, so i would like to thank the controller as well and then in one last remark relative to zero emission vehicles, mare breed and i have teamed up and supervisor mandelman and i have cosponsored an effort to require electric charging stations not only in city garages and parking lots, but in private ones. I think that will go a long way to in scenting this use in San Francisco. That was on an unrelated note. We dont have any speakers for today from the coalition for clean air, but this is fundamentally a congestion mitigation tax and that is the rest of it. With that, i would be delighted to send this to the full board with recommendation. That is a motion. We will take it without objection. Thank you do we have any more items before us . There are no other items. We are adjourned. Thank you. Lets be real. This is the toughest job in San Francisco government, maybe the second toughest job is the one that Jeff Kaczynski has running the department of homelessness, but it is truly the toughest. I just want to say i have known him in all three of his positions going back to my first tour of duty when he came and made 31 work, which has been a pain in your butts, but has been good of for the people of the city and county in San Francisco. I knew him in his income finished incarnation as ahead of public works. He also excelled there. But since 2011, i have mostly been delighted to work with him as he has stewarded the sfmta. This last sunday, head came to what will clearly be his largest Going Away Party against his will where he was joined by some 500 seniors in chinatown, and i was deeply touched by that. They want to acknowledge what ed and the sfmta and the staff have done for lowincome communities and for lowincome seniors, in particular. I wanted to acknowledge his calm and humble, lead by example nature, that i think has been a motto for many of the Department Heads who are here this afternoon. He is consistently demonstrating a sense of duty to build and operate a Transportation System that is safe, sustainable, and most importantly, equitable, and they after those words on sunday a few highlights, i think we all know them. Service levels of increase. I can give you the numbers but im not gavin newsom so i will not delve down into those details. An incredible commitment to vision zero, Guiding Principles for emerging Mobility Technology , which i sincerely appreciate. I was honored to give you the tools to do that and i think this agency, under eds stewardship, has done it well, in the passage of a halfbillion Dollar GeneralObligation Bond that we are still spending today i apologize for being a pain in your but, ed, and most importantly, while he is still under your employee, i ask you, commissioners, to command him at 2 30 p. M. , this is unexpected, to come downstairs two floors to the San Francisco board of supervisors where the entire board of supervisors would like to acknowledge you. So that is not within my purview as the author of proposition 80, but it is within your purview for a few more hours, so if you would command your executive director to come downstairs at 2 30 p. M. , the board of supervisors, we would be honored and delighted. Thank you for your service to the people and the city and county of San Francisco. [applause] miss boomer, as they say in a court of law, if i may approach on behalf of the county transportation authority, we would like to grant ed this. [applause] director, if you could just stay there i think we will have a few more things for you. [laughter] if you will indulge me up for a few minutes, i will just give some more context. I wanted to let the supervisor speak in deference to his meeting at 2 00 p. M. , but as many of you know, for the past 12 years, and has demonstrated unwavering to devotion to the city and county of San Francisco first is as a director as 311, then as director of public works prior to joining m. T. A. 2011. His calm and humble leadership by example has really been a model for our agency and really exemplifies what it means to be a Public Servant. He has consistently demonstrated a keen sense of personal duty to build and operate a Transportation System that is safe, sustainable, and perhaps above all, equitable to all san franciscans. He has had many notable achievements in his ten year, and i want to talk quite a bit about that and i might want to thank supervisor peskin for already acknowledging some of those, including the increased Service Levels by more than 10 , the fact that now we have free munimobile 415,000 lowincome youth, seniors, and people with disabilities, and until recently , we had one of the oldest transit fleets in the United States, and today, hours is one of the newest and the greenest fleet. I know supervisor peskin recently introduced legislation to make all of our transportation greener. We carry 26 of all of our daily trips in San Francisco and we generate less than 1 of the citys transportation sector greenhouse gases, which is really quite significant. [applause] munimobiles Rapid Network made strong transit a priority on our streets, and as a result ridership has begun to grow and we are bucking the national trend. Despite what people think, our numbers are solid and strong in the city in terms of our transit ridership. Our transit effectiveness projects was the First Comprehensive review of munimobile service in a generation, and now today theyre making our transportation safer and more are not liable. The city has met and exceeded his goal of 50 trips of all sustainable modes, and that is very much due to the leadership. You have seen ed on his bicycle are taking a munimobile bus. In 2014, San Francisco adopted vision zero and while we still have a long way to go, and we have more bed news at this meeting, we have done a lot of work to make a dramatic reduction in traffic fatalities on our street and we know we have a long ways to go. He has been a reader leader in this regard and it has been saddening. They provide a framework to allow growing emerging Technology Options in San Francisco that support our city policies and our values, and also, as was mentioned, we passed a 500 milliondollar bond measure to support transportation infrastructure and today, sfmta holds the highest Credit Rating of any Transportation Agency in the United States and that is because of its very stead and thoughtful leadership. Ed, you have tried such a tremendous amount in the city and so many capacities. I want to thank you and the entire board. And all the writers and people of San Francisco for your steady leadership. You came in at a time when the agency was in a lot of turmoil. You brought his milestones away from where we have been. As i hope you know, we would not be where we are today without your leadership. We have so much faith in you, in who you have been to us, and we want to thank you for all your time, you dedication to the city and we will miss you very dearly [applause] with that, we are going to present you with our wonderful cable car bell award. This is a little awkward. [laughter] [indiscernible] [applause] [laughter] there are many more people who are here john a. You, ed, so i want to call next, sean from the mayors office. Commissioners, ed, a lot of wonderful things have been said, but the first thing i would like to say, i have been standing in the back and they cant remember the last time publicly i saw supervisor peskin say such nice things about someone, and i heard him use the phrase im sorry. [laughter] i have never heard that, but you , ed, got that. Even more evidence of how fantastic you have been for the city of San Francisco. Let me just share with everyone, the public, last tuesday, the mayor held a Department Head meeting. She is not here, not in the city today, but on her behalf, let me reiterate what she said to all the Department Heads with ed present. We are so appreciative for your tremendous work here at the m. T. A. , but as a supervisor peskin, as gwyneth has referred to, your work at 311, your work at the department of public works, you were truly the a pick to me of a great Public Servant for the city of San Francisco. We are lucky to have benefited from your work and taken off my chief of staff hat and putting on my sean hat. I hope to still see you on the underground as we ride the rails together. Ed, i look forward to seeing you and seeing where the future takes you. All the best and thank you. [applause] next we have mark from Assembly Member tims office representing our members of the state legislature. Thank you. There not here today, or otherwise they would be here. They sent me here instead as the Senior District director. Theres really not much more i can add other than all three of our legislatures want let just it legislator servants want to thank you. Public service isnt easy. Managing a city agency with a budget that is the third of the size of u. C. Berkeley which has 30,000 employees in 1500 faculty and 45,000 students, you have to take that in. It is the big job. And having to deal with, you know, angry writers who sometimes call you and complain about bus drivers who almost hit their kid, or ticket machines dont work, and your wonderful staff, and so we just want to thank you on behalf of the California State Assembly for managing the largest Transportation System this side of the mississippi and what an incredible job you have done. This is a joint resolution from the California State Legislature to thank you. [applause] were also joined by a number of Department Heads. I will start with the tillie chan from the transportation authority. Good afternoon. Ed, you are who i wanted to be when i came into this job. I wanted to be like ed. I still want to be like ed. Thank you so much for your partnership, for allowing me to apprentice and partner with you, and to learn from you over the past eight years. We have teamed up for many things with the city and we have been so proud to be your partner , to follow your footsteps and your leadership on things like munimobile forward, vision zero, and a more sustainable and equitable city. You have contributed all of your knowledge from your other posts and brought them to bear on the sfmta. You brought a unique agency in the nation in terms of our scope at the sfmta, promoting San Franciscos policy vision for cities and innovative street designs and policies and practices where there is transit priority, or vision zero designs , street designs, as i said, are advocating for a fair and equitable and new mobility policy for the city. Ed is a fierce advocate not only for munimobile, but all transit in the region and beyond. He has been working regionally to advocate for funding and for all the core capacity needs of our region. He has been leading at the National Level on transit and as president of merritt to and supporting the practices and the best across the country and internationally as well. Nationally, there has been a following of your leadership and of the citys good work. I feel like that impact with the vision zero work, especially, is exciting to see, and given how pressing that work is. You have helped lead to multiagency multiagency initiatives together with us, and a whole host of capital projects. Of course, central subway, Market Street, venice, gary, and all those good things to come. Thank you for your commitment to San Francisco and to our industry and for your leadership although you have arguably the toughest job in the city, you have always stayed optimistic and somehow made time in your busy schedule for people, whether it is the board, whether it is staff, whether it is partners like ourselves at the t. A. , it has been a real pleasure and i will miss working alongside you. Please dont go for please dont go far, and we look forward to your next steps. Thank you. [applause] i will call supervisor sandra fewer. If i could ask everyone next to the doors to move to the other side of the room. It is a fire hazard if you are blocking the exit doors. Hello, commissioners. I wanted to extend my deepest appreciation for all that ed has contributed to the agency and to the city. Ed has been a true and tireless Public Servant for the residents of San Francisco for the past 12 years. Many of us know him best there his role as director of transportation at sfmta, but ed has also served as the director of 311, and director of public works, agencies that are crucial to the backbone of San Francisco and the nuts and bolts of operations that literally keep San Francisco running. Directing an agency like sfmta is nothing short of absolutely demanding. I have seen him lead with kindness, a steady hand, with a combination of heart and determination in delivering transportation improvements for the city, and especially our most transit dependent on low income communities in the city. I appreciate that ed has always been willing to listen, not just my opinion as a supervisor, but to the joint Community Programs in latenight evening meetings with neighbors to have real, robust conversations about transportation policy, and how decisions around transportation policies impacted everyday experience of my residents. Perhaps what i remember most about first meeting ed is that his suit was a little long for him. [laughter] and they looked at him from behind and i thought, this reminds me a little bit of mayor ed lee. I love to the fact that you are so humble, i love the fact that you are so open and kind to people that you meet, even people who actually, in my district, gave you a very, very hard time. But always so gracious, always so kind, and always so patient. Steadfast, absolutely, and determined, actually, to always bridge friendships and bridge relationships. Ed, there is more to be said, but i know that you are going to join myself and my colleagues at 2 30 p. M. Where we can fully recognize your achievement and everything that you have done for the city and county of San Francisco. I personally wanted to say thank you for saving my district, but all of San Francisco, too. Thank you. [applause] i will call our chief administrator, nah kelly. Good afternoon, naomi kelly, city administrator. I have to say that i have been city purchaser when the city administrator and deputy city administrator hired ed to be the 311 director, and im telling you, when he came in, he instantly, i realized he was a great person. He became a mentor, he became a friend. A lot of the major decisions that i made one oh, city purchaser, and even when they became the city purchaser, ed was one of the very first phone calls i made. His was done with guidance on how to manage at the 30,000foot level, had to died into the weeds and jump back out, how to manage our colleagues, how to manage boards, how to manage the workforce and you have been such a true friend and you have helped me as i became the city administrator. Thank you for that. It has also been great just to see how you have moved the traffic within San Francisco, especially during major events, world series, just any other events, and there has been time where we have been on munimobile when, after the world series of 2012, and i thought it was one of the funniest moments. Harlan and i are getting on a train to go back to the west side of town, and the train stops, and everyone likely it was at a platform and everyone files out, and we stay on there, and we look to the back, and there is ed and his daughter. They are on the munimobile train waiting to see how long it takes to get this train back up and running. Of course, my husband turns around and says, ed, you should have your toolbelt on fixing this train. [laughter] but it is just a testament to always thinking how to make and improve the city, how to make it better, how can we better serve the residents and visitors and businesses of this city, and thank you for your time here and you know we will all be looking for you to still be active and part of San Francisco. Well be thinking of ways to pull you back in. Thank you. [applause] and we have our Director Director of recreation and parks good afternoon, commissioners thank you for giving me a few minutes. Ed, you cannot last become the vocal park advocate you have always wanted to be. [laughter] i look forward to your emails and complaints. I too was around in 2007 working for mayor newsom. When ed came on his three what came on as 311 director. We all wanted to be like ed. If you look at ed of the ark of his career in San Francisco from 311, to public works, to m. T. A. , and then you go back a little bit and know that in d. C. He worked on criminal justice issues and was an adviser to the mayor, and in oakland he was an assistant he worked with the city administrator, there is not a position in government that ed cant play. And so it was m. T. A. s blessing that ed took on this herculean responsibility and ed, you are a mensch. You just are. Youre just a flat out mentor. You are kind and humble and thoughtful, but an incredibly talented leader. Bruce used to spoke about lee level five leadership as a manager, where it isnt about you, it is about your team and the mission of the organization, and that has always been you. It is amazing. We are a close bunch of Department Heads. We are a close bunch of colleagues. We do rely on each other, and we need each other. Government works because we consult problems together, you know, there is never a time when ed didnt pick up a phone and helped me work through a problem , or vice versa. Eds level of curiosity is not about government it is not limited to his own function. It was not just limited to m. T. A. I got to see ed on the Capital Planning committee, or back in the day with s. F. Stat. He is genuinely curious and caring about all functions of government, and so we have been on a journey together and our relationship will continue well beyond your last day here when you officially become a vocal park advocate, but it was important to me to say thank you , not just for being incredibly carrying, and a thoughtful human being, but as a supervisor fewer noted, you are the only colleague that i have ever worked with in City Government to actually makes me look welldressed and tailored. [laughter] so im very grateful to you for all of that. Thank you, ed. [applause] basically about his passion for doing this work, and to me, you have been the definition of a Public Servant. I appreciated that very much. When i think about your comments and questions where the directors are together, i think about your perspective on the city as a whole and what we should be doing with our work. I thank you for being a mentor to me in that respect and for your generosity and humility as we do on you o our work. Thank you, and all the best. [applause. ] i know there are members of the executive team that wanted to speak. Sf m. T. A. Good afternoon, director of government affairs. It soundings like in the next hour you will have more. On behalf of the sf m. T. A. Executive team having knowned for 20 years i am here to express our appreciation to ed for his leadership and support during the past eight years. What i am struck by is consistency of the qualities i am going to talk about. There is no waiverring on the depth of these qualities and characteristics ed shared as our leader. As we considered the qualities, it was easy to craft a lengthy list to qualify him for the gem award that he always wanted. He has always led with mutual respect, dedication to equity, sustain ability and fundamental ethics. They are modeled by the person rather than by words, ed is thoughtful, fair and kind. We know this. Eds intelligence is pure and combined with the photographic memory and every detail we could anticipate getting thoughtful questions on any topic. Working with him made us better at what we did every day. Ed leads by example. He rides the ride and talks the talk. He lives transit first combined with walking and biking. He is not only fit but familiar with the fabric of the city and the community he and his family are proudly part of. What do you not know about ed . You may not know during him time at s he has become a dog owner and lover. He has not taken his dogs on muni. Leading with common grace he has an open door policy to all staff all of the time and served with wisdom and patience. His accomplishments have been cited here. There are many and important for the city. On behalf of your executive team, thank you for being our leader for the past eight years and allowing us to do our best work and for making the hard decisions and for your dedications for the people of San Francisco, the city is truly better for your service. applause . Ed, your senior staff has one final gift. The classic sfmta going away gift. And for all of the support you have given us here at the m. T. A. Fonduing the complete streets movement around the country and being the president for two years, helping us start the organization of transportation officials. Let this street sign be a small token of our appreciation for that as well. [applause. ] now we will ask our police chief, bill scott, to join us followed by supervisor brown. If we can have people stand away from the doors, please. Thank you for allowing me a few minutes to speak to the board. On behalf of the San Francisco police department, we are vital partners in the movement of traffic and the Traffic Safety in the city with the m. T. A. , and during my time i want to thank you, ed, for your approach to how you do what you do, always very measured, calm, but you always get the job done. I just want to thank you on behalf of the men and women of the San Francisco police department. Thank you for your service and dedication and friendship. Thank you. [applause. ] the next is supervisor brown. I am the cautionary tale. It had nothing to do with not a protected bike lane, and it was my fault. I was trying to go fast to beat a light and when i came up to the intersection, i realized this is a stupid thing to do. I slammed on my brakes and put my leg down and i tweaked me knee. I have to be off it for a couple days. I wanted to come, and i know you are going to come to the board of supervisors today and we will talk about you. It is all good. I wanted to come with the commissioners because i have worked with you for a long time when you were the director of public works and then m. T. A. , and i just heard chief scott say you were always calm, and you always were. No matter who was rattling or rattling the chains. You said lets try to make this work. For a city leader in a department, that is so important to us on the board of supervisors or residents of the city we want to see someone in that position that tries to work to make it work for the best outcome we can have for the residents of San Francisco. I wanted to come here to thank you for all of the years that you have been serving this city, and im not sure where you are going. I hope it is not too far because this city really needs people like you. It needs people like you to keep us in a mode where we do the right thing. Thank you very much, ed, i will see you down stairs. [applause. ] head of economic development. Commissioners and to you, ed, on a personal note it has been an amazing experience for me to be able to learn from you, your sense of humility, the steady leadership so many people have talked about, your willingness to on the ground with people on the community. Your steady hand and guidance to me when i had issues and i needed help to go into, establishing Racial Equity goals and extraordinary staff to come to the department, to support those efforts. Really it is an inspiration to me as i assumed this new leadership role as well. All of the work to partner with our office to increase work force for drivers to meet a city need and Real Community need for people impacted economically and now a Successful Transition into steady city employment with all of the benefits it provides in your organization. It really is an honor to have spent 10 years knowing you both as public works director, dealing with the most intricate issues and as director of muni and being out there with you in the community, on the ground. I will take all of the lessons you have given to me and put them to hard work in my future years. Thank you so much, ed. [applause. ] i believe we have all of the members of the city family who wanted to say a few words, am i correct . Now we open it to Public Comment. Everyone has two minutes to embarrass ed a little more. I dont have speaker cards. Vice chair, directors, i am rick president of Market Street railway where the nonprofit preservation partner of sfmta. Our board chair wanted to be here today but she is under the weather. Organization is supporting muni 40 years. That is a lot of directors. When i first met ed 8 years ago the only thing we ask is that he be honest, tell us where he agreed, where he didnt, what might be possible, what wasnt. In other words, open communication and fair dealing sounds pretty basic. It hasnt often been true in the past. With ed it was. We accomplished a lot of positive things. We appreciate that. Though we focus on the muni cable cars and streetcars and buses in our organizations work, we are passionate about the success of sfmta as a whole. We have been transit first advocates for decades and we know how it works and sometimes where it doesnt work as well as we would like. We thank ed for his leadership in every area of the sfmta responsibilities. You as a board made an excellent choice in tom mcguire. You face a daunting decision in finding a permanent director to match the standards of ed reskin for the love of city and transportation networks. Thank you, ed, a great Public Servant. [applause. ] marta lindsey. What San Francisco wants to share gratitude for dedication to public service. You were instrumental in zero and always taken the goal to heart. You stood with us at deadly crash sites and stood up for the vulnerable on the streets and worked to move the city to the first city. Thank you for walking the walk and all you have done to create a safer more Sustainable Transportation city here. We wish you the best. [applause. ] thank you, vice chair and directors. Executive director of the San Francisco bicycle coalition. I would like to thank the director for your service to the city and in particular to the service to people who bike in the city. Much has been made about the difficulty of this role, and i know it has been my job to not make your job easier but more difficult at times. I have always respected your commitment and never doubted your values in this role. Sometimes we have to push. I knew that you would be a receptive listener. I do appreciate you pedaled the talk in a very fashionable fluorescent green safety vest, one of my favorite biking accessories on the streets of San Francisco. Thank you for your service. I think Civil Service too often goes unrecognized. Directors you have a difficult job ahead of you in selecting a replacement. Thank you. If people want to address under this topic if they could line up on this side of the room. Tom gi l. B. E. Rty. I am part of the iow of of the. Next, please. Thank you so much. I am a taxi driver. Dont know what to say. It sounds like mr. Reskin is a saint. I know that part of the ed reskin like club. I speak for the taxi drivers. Most of us are refugees and immigrants. People like me on the bottom of the food chain, and all i can say is that mr. Reskin was part of the dividing us that took out the taxi drivers at the airport. Basically, he wanted to make us pay for his mistakes of selling taxi medallions to immigrants and refugees like me for 250,000. Unfortunately, he asked to pay for it. I think tha that is a character flaw. I am happy you are here to tell you to your face. We learn very early in life not to pick up on weak people and not to abuse the less fortunate. Unfortunately, i think you havent learned that. Identify people giving you a lot of gifts here, and i have a tshirt which says taxi driver lives matter. If i knew i can give you this. I would give this to you. I dont want to expose my fat body to you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, vice chair and board and members. I feel i must speak. I am grateful, you know, i come as an ordinary every day rider of muni, and i have been fortunate to know ed. We have met up a couple times in stations and had brief conversations. I am grateful for ed services, vice chair of clipper executive board, which is a program i am very passionate about. As i close here, a few days ago i was in the vanness station, i came down the stairs and ran into ed. We talked a bit. I went down stairs and waited for a train. I let a couple of those new muni cars go by. Then i got on one. I rode to the embarcadero. Everything ran well, just one after another, those cars went through the station. When i left embarcadero later, walked up to the sunday, i just said to myself it doesnt get any better than this. Ed, that is how i will remember you. Thank you. [applause. ] good afternoon. I came to thank ed. I thought i would do it as part of his directors report. I am glad you are making this big deal because it is great. I want to thank him for his service. Normally we think of people dodging bombs in iraq and afghanistan. I first met ed in a big meeting in the mission where people wanted more parking. Ed knew that was wrong. He compromised them down. During the years of his service, leaning to transit first, never enough, what can we say . We have to keep the job and keep muni moving. Thank you very much, ed. Dont only by a park advocate, be a transit advocate in your next life. Thank you. [applause. ] anybody else to speak . If not we will move to the rest of our calendar. I would ask the directors too, of course. Public comment is closed seeing no additional speakers. Directors. Who would like to start . I will start. I never knew ed until ed lee told me about you, and to have me serve on this board with you as director. Everything ed said about you is absolutely true. The people that are here representing your agency and how they treat you is indicative who you are as a man and human being and clearly as the head of this agency. You also bring humility and a sense of humbleness that i rarely have seen in a director of such a large agency. When we sat down with almost a majority of bargaining units to receive comments what they would like to see in a new director, without question almost everyone said to have the same qualities of humaneness as ed. You have made an impact not only on your own employees, bargaining unit leadership but on so many of us. I want to than thank you for beo kind to my son. You have been an excellent teacher and mentor for him. He and i have always talked about how humble and supportive you have been of his efforts in a difficulting to. Ir thank you i thank you as a father and director. I wish you all the best, ed. I want to say thank you for all of your service. Particularly, thank you for listening to the Disability Community and having such respect for that perspective in doing your job. Thank you especially for that, but thank you for all of the things everyone else is talking about, and best of luck. Ed, thank you so much. The city is better because of you. I am the rookie on the board, but i have known ed since the first day he took the job. That is because from that day until this we did a lot of Regional Business together, and ed was unfailingly instructive in engaging in nose conversations those conversations. A lot of the colleagues were about how big a chun chunk of mt can i take home . Ed got the job done very well. I will echo the comments i have heard. It is about all cities across the country. I did want to mention one characteristic i havent heard discussed. I have always personally thought ed is too gloomy. Now that you are leaving the m. T. A. We will find out if that was the job or you. Best of luck. Any final comments before we close and move to the next item . I echo everything said. I think you have got an invaluable perspective having had this job so many years. I hope you stay connected and share your wisdom. We would be at a great loss if that wasnt the case. Thank you for your service. Ed would you like to say a few words . Well, i guess i would first say that i believe that one of the responsibilities i have had in this role is to develop the agendas for the board meetings. I dont recall seeing this item on the agenda. I am contemplating filing a Sunshine Ordinance Task force complained and i will have a lot of time to do that. I dont know what to say. It is beyond amazing honor and privilege to be able to serve in this role for so many reasons. It is an amazing city that we live in, amazing Transportation System and region. The people of the city whether the advo cats, civic leaders, the people have passion and love and commitment for the city that it is inspiring. For all of the good things people said got done within the last eight years, those got done primarily because of the staff of the sfmta and not just the people here now, but the people who have been here. It is an amazingly talented, dedicated skilled professional passionate group of folks. Thousands of employees. Not everyone of them but the great majority are what inspire me because they care about their work. They take pride in their work if they are cleaning the subway station