Chair seeing no other members of the public on this item, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] thank you for that brief, compressed update. Is there any introduction of new items . Im sorry, commissioner mandelman. I was going to express appreciation for chilly chang and ben rosenfield, who had done so much work to pull the group together. We have only had one meeting of the full group, but subgroups meeting. I thought the first meeting, it give me a little bit of hope that, you know, if you put smart folks in the room and start getting feedback from people from other systems, that we may figure some things out and get sort of path forward that is helpful. I felt really good about the first meeting. I want to thank everyone in the Mayors Office as well for their help in pulling it all together. Chair thank you for that closing comment on this ongoing item that we will hear more about. Is there any introduction of new items . Seeing none. Any commissioner walton . Supervisor walton thank y
Were working on is the track brakes. And as soon as i fish, ramona is going to come up here, because shes the expert in that field. Shes the one thats been driving them for quite some time. Another issue that were also trying to address is the mirrors. The lack thereof in terms of having them replaced. The track brakes, in terms of upgrading them and having them installed is not just a shortterm solution, but a longterm solution by saving money in terms of keeping all of these vehicles from breaking down through the flat wheels. Thats, indeed, good news. Id like to break up ramona to give a little more indepth explanation in regards to the track brakes. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for having me here today. Yes. The issue with the track brakes is something that we are pretty much concerned in terms of safety basically. The track basically we might defer in how we see through different lenses. We see track brakes like a secondary a secondary brake on the trains. Currently the l. R.
Transportation authority to conduct a study, bringing back bus service on 3rd street. Bring back the 15 and potentially routing it to connect with exsettlor and the bart rain to station to the south. Chair all right. Noted. With that is there any general Public Comment . A call for the calvary to come. [laughter] to your rescue. Sounded like that. So im asking the supervisors. When we have our projects that do the asphalting, somehow we should keep in mind our children, school children, our youth and our elders when they cross from one side to the other. We kind of have those things the asphalt. And you dont have the crossing lines in place. Three months now. On san bruno. And i have spoken here four times. You know, i have to stand there and see that our kids are safe. I have to ask like a policeman. Why isnt m. T. A. Doing their job . Why isnt m. T. A. Talking to somebody. Do you all have a check list when you do the asphalting, the contractor did this, the work, asphalting, whatever
I met secretary castro along agree as mayors and ill tells you this im thankful to president obama who picks mayors to be cabinet secretaries wherever you met a former mayor in a position you only have to talk half as much they get it laughter i know that secretary castro was picked by president obama not only do we get things duplicate when he saw the challenges we were all under months and months of discussions with the staff at hud he went to work like mia any mayor and god bless him the experience from san this or that that was a smooth Going Forward he had to champ his staff because everyone works in bureaucracies if you have the leaders that have is has the kind of experience running hud for the entire country the government has to have answers because thats my way of introducing someone whos been existing to me a National Leaders someone that will take what we do in San Francisco and brag about it to the rest of the country but to say we have to do it as a partnership he had to
Months from now brand new operating elevators that has thats right units done in a way that people with disabilities can get in and out of shoulders quickly and have safety bars and have a management they can speak to thats robust and fouls on challenges in their life not only whats happening around here in the community were proposing this from a Community Pro apprehension as hud wants us to do theyre about setting examples like San Francisco how are we developing community so for our residents not only buildings so i want to say that with all enthusiasm to welcome and thank skeet castro former mayor of San Antonio Texas but now a very good secretary for hud thank you very much. clapping . Thank you very much mayor ed lee i think the mayor said it all laughter . And well too let me begin may i mayor by thanking you for your convalescent leadership i think that in the six months ive been on the job spoken to you and mayor b. A. Abhors the most San Francisco has quite a champion in the