Starting off low and moving in the right direction its might have and consistent we should continue that and get even better by focusing our Maintenance Programs on things like doors and steps and propulsion that represents the majority of details again, we cant get the new cars here soon enough but we have almost two years the public is excited they realize the potential for the cars on our outreach process to ask for input on 3 factors most importantly the comparison configuration got own 9 thousand responses we met lookeron the design well have that done by the end of the year some of the key Systems Integration issues well work through them and we want to move forward and make sure we stay on schedule to have the first car coming in december of 2016 and really in terms of transformation was it maples not just new, new is sometimes not better in this case its spectacularly better standpoint we even though up the procurement we looked at with 2 hundred and 60 cars long Term Contract
Clerked by our clerk, steve, if i can get the last name. Steve, stamos, thank you and, cell women to your first leading, clerking the Transportation Authority, the meeting is brought to us by the staff, and hegan and thank you for your service, steve, would you please, call the roll. Roll call . Avalos . Present. Breed. Here. Campos . Absent. Chiu. Here. Cohen . Absent. Farrell. Absent. Kim. Here. Mar. Absent. Tang . Present. Commissioner weiner. Present. Commissioner yee. Present. We have a quorum. Very good, and lets call the next item please . Item two, approve the minutes of the october, 21, 2014, meeting it is an action item. Questions on the minutes . Motion to approve. From commissioner weiner and we will go to Public Comment, and any member of the public that would like to comment. And seeing none, we will close Public Comment and we will take a roll call vote. Avalos . Aye. Breed. Aye. Campos . Absent. Chiu . Aye. Cohen . Absent. Farrell. Absent. Kim . Aye. Mar . Absent. Tang
Leading, clerking the Transportation Authority, the meeting is brought to us by the staff, and hegan and thank you for your service, steve, would you please, call the roll. Roll call . Avalos . Present. Breed. Here. Campos . Absent. Chiu. Here. Cohen . Absent. Farrell. Absent. Kim. Here. Mar. Absent. Tang . Present. Commissioner weiner. Present. Commissioner yee. Present. We have a quorum. Very good, and lets call the next item please . Item two, approve the minutes of the october, 21, 2014, meeting it is an action item. Questions on the minutes . Motion to approve. From commissioner weiner and we will go to Public Comment, and any member of the public that would like to comment. And seeing none, we will close Public Comment and we will take a roll call vote. Avalos . Aye. Breed. Aye. Campos . Absent. Chiu . Aye. Cohen . Absent. Farrell. Absent. Kim . Aye. Mar . Absent. Tang . Aye. Commissioner weiner . Aye. Yee . Aye. The item passes. Go on to the next item. Item three, chairs report,
Balance that out its not a lack of confidence but sometimes being on the street or being in a place is a little different is a little different than observing from the outside. Id like to suggest an amendment that is the amendment would be to avoid what director breed is saying like it just goes nowhere [laughter] that we direct staff to come back in a month to have substantial conversations with the folks here today about the concerns they raised and report back early january about specific points that have been made. Thats my motion is there a second . Second. Thank you director breed. The amendment all in favor say aye. Opposed no. On the resolution. Aye. All in favor say aye. Opposed no . How many nos . Two knows okay the motion carries. Opposed . Okay. Thank you. Item for discuss to conduct a closed session. All in favor say aye. Okay. Good morning, today is november 25, 24, welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority. My name is john avalos, the chair of the authority,
A study it demonstrated the policy bolstering the local committee and working to reduce our fingertip in terms of the energy and heard the Governance Committee and working hard to improve the project delivery to deliver on the capital theres the divorce have provided to us youve heard earlier from john with with a great delivery with the central subway on time and on budget and we expect the rest of our project to follow suits in terms of improving the workforce in the workplace to deliver on the rest of the goals through creating a culture of service to go along with the culture of safety insuring that all employees have clear expectations for their performance and get honest feedback and in here we recognize employees for theyre great work ms. Booze may reference to last years close out fiscally the budget the service increase for free muni weve heard about today and adding for staff so we can better and better support the service on the capital side a significant investment thats be