One that had a lot of analyses and testing and contingency plans and vetting and support around it. But it went out without a hitch and were ahead of schedule in terms of the tunneling. It has been going well with no movement of buildings or the tunnel and its great news that its going, as well as it is, the second tunnel Boring Machine has launched and we now have two of them moving north throughout the city. We are stopping construction for the holiday or have stopped construction for the holiday moratorium and the public rightofway on stockton and columbus, et cetera. We will be working in the chinatown corridor to accommodate the Chinese New Year celebration, which somewhat spills out on the stockton street and continuing to work with the merchants and particularly union square, chinatown and north beach as we continue the work of the tunneling and the station contracts, which are underway. So Good Progress to report there. And that concludes my report. Thank you, director reiskin.
2013 meeting of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors and Parking Authority commission. Please read the roll. Director byrningman. Present. Director heinicke is anticipated. Director lee. Lee present. Director nolan. Present. Director rbi keis present. Mr. Chairman, directors you have a quorum. Announce of prohibition of sound producing devices during meeting and please be advised ringing of these Electronic Devices are prohibited at meeting and anyone responsible for one going off during the meeting will be removed during the meeting. [ laughter ] that would be the point. Case in point. Thank you for illustrating that. Cell phones set on vibrate cause microphone interference and the board respectfully requests that they are in the offposition. Item no. 4, approval of the minutes of the november 19th. Motion, second. All those in favor, signify by saying aye . Aye. Thank you item 5 communications. Members of the board, on next monday december 9 the mta bo
You. [ applause ] as well transport Workers Union has taken upon itself to promote transit Operator Safety campaign, because we need to have that, all across the board. Safety campaign. For the next month, all the chairpersons at each division will be out and about on the streets, promoting a Safety Campaign in which i have longawaited for since i have been in office from mr. Melvin henrys office to the Safety Department with the sfmta. We look forward to this, because our members take this safety issue seriously. No matter what we hear that is going on the streets, how many incidents or accidents that we have, that is part of the course, unfortunately. If you count the number of members that dont have any incidents or accidents out there on the platform, its rewarding. It should be refreshing. It should be acknowledged. It should be taken to the public in that aspect of what the hard work that the men and women do on the streets of San Francisco, navigating these 40s and 60s and troll
Devices are prohibited at meeting and anyone responsible for one going off during the meeting will be removed during the meeting. [ laughter ] that would be the point. Case in point. Thank you for illustrating that. Cell phones set on vibrate cause microphone interference and the board respectfully requests that they are in the offposition. Item no. 4, approval of the minutes of the november 19th. Motion, second. All those in favor, signify by saying aye . Aye. Thank you item 5 communications. Members of the board, on next monday december 9 the mta board will have a special meeting with the Small Business commission combining at 4 30 here in this room and the focus of the meeting will be on the impact of sfmtas planning processes on the Small Business community in san francisco. So were all looking for that and that will be noticed and would love you all to come back at that time. If people could please step away from the wall there. Also, out of respect for the fire codes we do need p
Cell phones set on vibrate cause microphone interference and the board respectfully requests that they are in the offposition. Item no. 4, approval of the minutes of the november 19th. Motion, second. All those in favor, signify by saying aye . Aye. Thank you item 5 communications. Members of the board, on next monday december 9 the mta board will have a special meeting with the Small Business commission combining at 4 30 here in this room and the focus of the meeting will be on the impact of sfmtas planning processes on the Small Business community in San Francisco. So were all looking for that and that will be noticed and would love you all to come back at that time. If people could please step away from the wall there. Also, out of respect for the fire codes we do need people to find a seat. We cant have people standing. Okay. Roberta . Yes. All right, directors, please be aware that with respect to item 10. 1 j the proposal to establish a towaway zone has been removed from the agen