Rubke present. Directors please be advised directors brinkman and malcolm are absent in todays meeting however you do have a quorum. Item 3 announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Please be advised the ripping big of and cell phones pager and similar sound producing Electronic Device are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. Please be advised that cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference so the board respectfully be requests they be placed in the off position. Item 4, approval of the minutes of september 16 regular meeting a. He there is a motion. Motion to approve. Second. Second, okay, all in favor say aye aye. So order, thank you. Item 5, communications directors, i have none for you today. Item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. Board . [speaker not understood] im happy to he see the new meter ha been installed all over town, especially where i park. When im not on the bus, that is. Very seldom. [laughter] okay, the director reiskin. Item 7, directors report. Thank you. Mr. Chair, members of the board, members of the staff and public. Were going to start off today with some special Recognition Awards and first i want to ask our real estate manager Christin Mcgary to come forward to recognize ken yee. Good afternoon, [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, chair nolan and board members. Im Christin Mcgary senior manager of san sfmta. [speaker not understood]. For the finance divisions real estate section. Kens management and problem solving skills, computer and multilingual communication talents and his california Real Estate Brokers license have been put to good use at the mta on several major projects, including managing the tenant improvements of facilities and moves to and within 1 south van ness, 14 55 Market Street for the transportation Market Management center, 1508 ban croft avenue, 15 28 to 38 yosemite avenue, and 26 50 bayshore boulevard in daly city for the sustainable streets shops and toed vehicle. Acting as a key member of the central subway project Real Estate Team to acquire the rightofway for tunnels and stations plus successfully locating 11 commercial tenants in 19 residential households with 57 residents from the chinatown station into new locations to work and live. And participating as a member of the mtas real estate and facilities vision for the 21st century report and the addendum team. To rebuild, renew, and expand our facilities for the agency to meet the needs of the citys growing population and demand for more transit and transportation services. Congratulations to ken for his 29 years of service to the mta and the city and best wishes to ken on his retirement and his next endeavors. Ken . applause on behalf of the board of directors to our agency and all the people of the city, congratulations on your Outstanding Service for almost 30 years. Job well done. Were very grateful to you. Thank you. Good afternoon, and good afternoon chairman nolan and honorable directors of our board. My name is again ken yee and im honored here to be receiving this award. As a matter of fact, thats my third award from the board. So, the first one was on the resource conservation, the second one was for the central subway relocation project. And im here to thank my manager Christin Mcgary, our cfo [speaker not understood], and our director of transportation ed reiskin, giving me this opportunity to work with a wonderful Real Estate Team. And i am also would like to thank all the dedicated hard working and professional staff within the mta family whom i have worked with, and thank you for the assistance that they have provided me. And special thanks also goes to our wonderful legal team from the city attorneys office. My pleasure to be here and its a wonderful experience working for the mta. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. applause you can tell with 291 2 years under his belt he started working here when he was about four. [laughter] [speaker not understood]. I think were all jealous. Next i want to ask john haley, our transit director to come forward to recognize Rigo Hernandez, one of our mechanics who is bringing some modern maintenance practice to one of our historic systems. John . Good afternoon, mr. Haley. Mr. Chairman, board, ed. Its my pleasure to introduce mr. Rigo hernandez who is in charge of the facilities at cable car. The weekend like this, with fleet week coming up, will emphasize the importance of cable car not only to us as the agency, but to the city and to the region. And first of all, be accurate to say in the last 18 months under his leadership we have put in maintenance programs, preventive maintenance programs, run them on a schedule, posted them in the division so that im pleased to say the infrastructure and there is some 5,000, no exaggeration, moving parts, to support cable running underground through the city are in great shape because of rigos leadership and emphasis on that. But also in many places, of course not here, but two of the biggest societal problems are depression and tension. So, part of rigos healing powers is to make sure that the cable travels through the system at just the right tension and depression, theres some 35 depression beams throughout the system. So, in addition to being a well trained first class manager, leader and mechanic, hes also a healer of sorts. So, it is my pleasure to recognize Rigo Hernandez for his work. Rigo, please. applause on behalf of the board, the agency, thank you for your terrific work and it is a very interesting psychological lesson we got there, john. Maybe some day ill get a little help. [laughter] congratulations and thank you for outstanding work. Id love to hear from you. Thank you very much. Like mr. Haley said, ive been superintendent for the cable car maintenance. Its a challenge, yes, but its exciting to see the tourist riding the cable cars up and down. They ask me if i get paid for it. I say, yeah, i do. [laughter] they envy me, yes, but its hard not to get excited, you know, in the morning going down on high street, cable car, first cable car. Just checking the lines. Its an amazing job that i have. Id like to thank management for the support. Also id like to thank my crews. Without them i couldnt do anything. So, its a team effort and its an ongoing effort. Its 7 days a week and 24 hours. So, thank you. applause if i may, im sorry, one more thing. I just wanted to introduce the board to our new senior manager at cable car, carl bean, who arrived two weekends ago. Welcome. Glad youre here. Welcome. Thank you. Director reiskin . Thank you. The last part of our recognition stems from something that weve been talking about for a few years now and thats really bringing in the culture of safety to the agency. And part of doing so is recognizing the bus safety performance we have in the agency. And to that end weve established two different recognition programs or really competitions. One of them goes to the operating division at muni that has the best muni safety performance in term of the least preventable collisions. The second is one that goes to the best Division Within the mta in terms of work safety performance. So, im going to ask gerald williams, our industrial safety manager, to present this quarters award. Good afternoon, mr. Williams. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, mr. Chairman nolan, director reiskin, board member. Well be presenting an award this afternoon to the proof of payment for the Second Quarter april to june calendar year. Proof of payment distinguishes themselves during this time frame with a 50 decrease in injuries, a 100 Safety Training compliance. Their efforts, the management efforts to coaching employees through exposures on the job daily, and team response, managements response to employee incidents. Accepting the award will be pop manager cathy passad. Yea applause [laughter] good afternoon. Good afternoon, member of the board, chairman nolan, direct r reiskin. Im nervous again, sorry. Okay. I accept this safety Recognition Award on behalf of the entire proof of payment unit. You guys stand up. applause i also say thank you to sfmta for having this trophy as a symbol for recognizing individual departments quarterly for their concerted efforts to combat injuries. Most of which are preventable. We couldnt have done this without the assistance of our supervisors which are the 8121 supervisors. Diligently reading the weekly pay day safety notes or conducting our march madness training, we had track safety, conflict resolution, we had a verbal jude owe training. We had terrorist training, credit cpr training and deeescalation training to name a few. I am personally work with napoleon ~ hes a safety analyst [speaker not understood] to modify existing training by adding additional Safety Training in the unit. It is not my job or not my responsibility to report t. Just imagine if we all did our parts and reported it, how many injuries less injuries wed have. So, today we must all take a stand to do our part to make safety our number one priority because the house divided cannot stand. And thats abraham lincoln. [laughter] applause take a moment to thank proof of payment officers for all your hard work and often challenging, very difficult work, but very important to the city and the agency. So, thank you very much for that. applause thank you. Keeping in line of safety recognition, just wanted to let you know that we did hold our annual safe driver Award Ceremony last sunday at the Golden Gate Club in the presidio. We were honoring the nearly 170 Union Operators that have 15 years or more of safe driving, that is a. M. Driving without a preventable collision. I want to thank director lee who was there to present a proclamation from the mayor and also to recognize those with 35 or more years of safe driving. I think we had five of those, two of them had 40 or more years. Also want to thank director ramos for attending its was a very good event. The more we can do to recognize good safety performance [speaker not understood] from all employees, the safer our agency will be. It was a great event. Well do it next were. Were probably going to change it up a little bit, but hope to see everybody there next year. Next thing i wanted to mention, the National Association of city transportation officials of which i am currently president , its an association of folks from the largest city in the country really trying to focus on how to improve street design and urban mobility in our cities. I think we found that theres a lot we have in common in our different cities and an organization bringing best practices to bear in term of how to improve transportation in cities. The organization whose acronym is nacto is holding its annual conference here in San Francisco. 3 it called designing cities conference and it will be here october 22nd through the 25th. Its going to be taking place down at the park 55 hotel. It will have really the best minds of urban transportation from across the country. City transportation folks, other academic and professional consultants, really the best in the country will be converging on San Francisco. So, its pretty exciting. Themes will include reimagining rightsofway, he economic benefits of sustainable streets ~, bike and car sharing, pedestrian and bike safety, strategies to create public space using low cost temporary materials. A lot of things were doing some of here, some of which weve learned through other cities, some of which weve been at the lead of, but this will really be an opportunity for us to all share best practiceses and continue to learn from each other. It will be kind of a compilation of break out sessions, workshops that are active forums, not so much sit in the room and listen to somebody drill on with a powerpoint, but much more interactive and engaging session. Ive been to the last two of these conferences. Theyve been pretty high energy and pretty lively so i encourage folks to consider attending nacto. Org is where anybody can find more information. It should be a great opportunity for the sfmta to showcase what some of what weve been achieving here in San Francisco. And finally somewhat along those lines we have similar of a safety theme today. Tomorrow is walk and roll to school day. Tomorrow morning some of us at the mta will be joining other elected officials and department heads, Betsy Carmichael school at south of market seventh and harrison is the Elementary School there. Were going to start with whats called a Walking School bus which means a bunch of people will be walking with kids to the school from a park thats nearby. The purpose, as you can imagine, rock and roll to school day is to encourage active transportation and safer routes to school for kids getting from their home to school or from wherever they get dropped off to school to encourage physical activity and reduce traffic, protect the environmental and of course to make them safer. While well be doing the event at Betsy Carmichael it is a citywide event. There are at least nine of our supervisors are going to be walking to schools in their districts with students from their districts throughout the city. Nearly 90 schools and more than 13,000 students are expected to celebrate the day which will be a new record in term of participation. So, the School District and other schools are really stepping up the city through rec and park, department of Public Health, the mta and other the police department, Strong Partnership to try to raise the awareness of walk and roll to school day. The safe routes to School Partnership in San Francisco, of which our agency is a part, helps organize the day. What the partnership does is implement the federally funded safe routes to School Program to encourage more families to walk, bike, take transit or car pool to and from school. Dph, Public Health is the lead agency and has lots of other public and private partner. So, it will be a good should be a great morning if the weather holds a it should, given that its october in San Francisco. It should be a great day. We should see a lot of kid out on the road and everybody should be extra safe and driving tomorrow and encourage everybody who can to participate. And that conclude my report. This is interesting. Members of the board, questions or comments . Member of the public . We have two people who have indicated an interest in addressing you, members of the public. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board only on topics discussed by mr. Reiskin and not on other matters not on the agenda. Herbert wiener followed by tom lee. Mr. Wiener . [multiple voices] mr. Wiener is right behind you, mr. Lee. Mr. Lee, if you could have a quick seat. Mr. Wiener is first. Herbert wiener. Just a fast question. Can nina tend the transportation conference or is it restricted . Its open to the paul. Natumimabvv ~ public. Nacto. Org. Thank you very much. Mr. Lee. Good afternoon, mr. Lee. Good afternoon, mr. Nolan, chairman of the board, and mr. Reiskin. Im so glad to see that you are promoting the safety issue and driver. They are so happy. There are 170 drivers, but a know, you have 1800 muni drivers. 170 is only 10 of your workforce for the driver fleet. They are the most safety. If driver of the taxi is only 10 safe, we are way out of business long time ago already. But we are fair employment. We have to drive, be more careful than the muni driver. Muni driver [speaker not understood] no dui, go home. You are cut off from everything. They make a mistake, mostly they are nice drivers. I know that. But the thing is that is you have to concern about our taxi business also. Yes, safety, everything youre talking about safety, id like to talk about safety also. You are promoting a bike lane, bicycle, whatever it is, that may make people more in danger because not everybody like mr. Nolan biking on the street im a biker [speaker not understood] because im biking, biking, biking. But the thing is not safe. I dont do bike. Whatever is, if i can afford it, i walk. Yes, now better and better, but i still see a lot of accidents for muni on the street on the newspaper. So, yes, better than nothing now. Im ll be coming before you every other week. I have to pay. Im a citizen of San Francisco ~ and cab driver, i need to bring my own issue to you. I hopeedththctiontion next Public Comment that i can bring somewhat [speaker not understood] and i hope you can [speaker not understood] on that also. Thank you. Okay, mr. Lee plea. Moving on to item number 8, citizens advisory report, i do not see [speaker not understood] here. Therefore moving on to item , Public Comment, this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board that are on the matters within the jurisdiction of the mta and not on todays calendar. Well start with hahn sue kim followed by herbert wiener. ~ good afternoon, mr. Kim. Good afternoon, chairman nolan, board members. Hahn su kim de soto cab in San Francisco. Recently theres been some bad press about the new Ride Services here in San Francisco. You might have heard about the hammer attack recently. You might have heard about both district attorneys in San Francisco and los angeles talking about illegal activities of these services. Well, there isnt a day that doesnt go by without drivers telling me what are you going to do about this, what can the city do about this. One of the things i want to say today is weve talked with several attorney about state and municipal law and weve put together a white paper with members of the taxi industry that were going to present to you at the next meeting. This white paper clearly shows that you have the right to regulate Ondemand Services in this city. Right now when i say enough is enough, it is outrageous. This is not about competing about technology. Im all supportive of great technology. If people want to book for technology thats innovative and works well, but what were talking about here are companies that are facilitating private citizens acting commercially without the same rules applying to them a it does to taxicab drivers. There are 2000 licensed cabs roughly in San Francisco, 10,000 plus people in their personal cars picking up the public. Its really not that different from hitch hiking. Com, which im calling it now. We dont mind competing against those that have technology, but an industry cant survive when it has to compete against others that have a different set of rules doing the same business. The taxi industry is hanging by a thread and we talk about Public Safety here. It is in the citys interest to know who is picking up 20 to 30 stranger a day. The type of car that theyre driving, it needs to be done immediately. Thank you. applause herbert wiener. Shawn lee, way lau. Hello. Herbert wiener. I have a question about the recent muni fare hike. Its my understanding that under the proposition ee that raising the fares was contingent upon Public Performance of muni, that when you raise the fares it was on the basis that muni improve the service delivery. The fact that muni service right now is at an alltime low makes that it would seem to make that raising of the fare inappropriate. And i think it is illegal to do so and i would like clarification on that. Also, with respect to the previous speaker i think the public is at risk with these ride share cars because we do not know the backgrounds of these individuals. They could be ax murderers released from prison the day before. They could be severely disturbed individuals. And i think this board in its right mind would not want to take ride share because they may not be appearing at the next meeting. So, i think its very important that it be regulated. These abuses are happening on your watch and you bear responsibility for any disaster that occurs. Thank you. Next speaker. Tom lee followed by wei lau then homg umgo. Mr. Lee. Thank you so much again. [speaker not understood] and members, please, we need your help. We need your help for restriction of taxi business and layer. Now our breaking point 140 a day before we start making money. We dont like your muni driver hourly making money. We have to take everything. Its 140 bucks. So, we need the new city free car scheme for us to run our business, just like new york. New york driver didnt pay any car [speaker not understood] fee. We have to pay for that. And we had to pay [speaker not understood]. We never can claim this money. [speaker not understood]. We dont need to pay for this. We have now obamacare already, even undocumented care Children Care by the government. Why should we adopt every medallion carry 21 2 family make a living . Why you not thinking about how this driver, how the driver and medallion . If you can put the new city free color scheme, your medallion put up the price, i guarantee you. The driver be more [speaker not understood] to do their job because now we have too many uber everything. Before we started to make our own money, we had to make 140 first. Then we start making our own, a little bit blog. ~ income. How can we afford to do in this kind of environmental . 8,000 uber on the street. Muni is not attention to our business. Please do something for us because a cab driver struggle. You look at a lot. Lucky if make if furlough. [speaker not understood]. Because you cannot take care the yuber, we need time to live, we need time to make a payment. Please give back the new city car layer. As the independent car driver we join the independent. Thank you. Wei lau, [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, mr. Lau. My name is wee. [speaker not understood]. Im pleased the city should help us to lower down the cost. And about the rush hour, a lot of people not getting the ride, not having other cabs because just like every business when its rush hour, people have to wait. There is a cab right there. Its no way to nobody can be 100 happy on that situation. I think ubers, they are really hurting us. They are really, really hurting us and they have no regulations whatsoever. I dont see that. But please help us to lower down our side of the cost. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Lee. [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. Ibrahim [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. My name is hong [speaker not understood]. Taxi driver. And i come here today to talk to you for the color scheme we want color for the city like new york and maybe we can [speaker not understood] for the color scheme. Right now we dont have the driver when we have to drive every day about 15 hour day and 7 day week, and we dont have time with no family. And if we make less money, we can take a break more little bit. And all i come here to say that. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Xiad masri, abraham [speaker not understood]. Last person to turn in a speaker card is cad ami. Good afternoon, sir. We are struggling. If the cost is so high, we even cannot compete with the others. The lower the price from the Companies Like yellow, like de soto, we couldnt compete with them. Like he said, we work so much. We work hard. In the city everybody ignore us. We only go to the airport. Airport is full. They kick us out. We have to go around every ti20