Now the session. Commissioner andrews . Present. Commissioner renne . Sfe. Here. Commissioner hur is excused as is commissioner studley. First off, any Public Comments . Matters appearing on the agenda or not appearing on the agenda at this time . Yes. Good afternoon commissioners and director st. Croix, my naik is dr. Derek kur sxim a whistle blower. You are violating the city charter. Specifically, article four of the campaign and governmental conduct code. It is also known as the whistle blower protection ordinance. You are mandated to annually report four things. One, the number of complaints received, two, the types of complaints, types of conduct complained about. Three, the number of complaints that you refer out to other agencies, four, the number of investigations you conduct. This assures the public that complaints coming in are matched by the complaints going out. You have not done this since 2005. Your annual reports only note the number of cases quote resolved, unquote. No
Now the session. Commissioner andrews . Present. Commissioner renne . Sfe. Here. Commissioner hur is excused as is commissioner studley. First off, any Public Comments . Matters appearing on the agenda or not appearing on the agenda at this time . Yes. Good afternoon commissioners and director st. Croix, my naik is dr. Derek kur sxim a whistle blower. You are violating the city charter. Specifically, article four of the campaign and governmental conduct code. It is also known as the whistle blower protection ordinance. You are mandated to annually report four things. One, the number of complaints received, two, the types of complaints, types of conduct complained about. Three, the number of complaints that you refer out to other agencies, four, the number of investigations you conduct. This assures the public that complaints coming in are matched by the complaints going out. You have not done this since 2005. Your annual reports only note the number of cases quote resolved, unquote. No
Of course what we want. Still dont like the word [inaudible] want to hear from the public first or members . Okay. Thank you. Dont go for far. We have members of the public that would like to address on this topic. [calling speaker names]. Those are the two people that have turned in a speaker card. Good afternoon sir. Good afternoon directors. I am taking off work because this is important. I live and work on van ness. I have been transversing that corridor over the years since high school. It hasnt changed much since then. There is no need to spend 125 million to tear up the street and do something that is a disaster. If you want to speed it up make the 47 a limited. Do bulb outs and save time and hold the light. All of those things are done quickly and cheaply and theyre taking away several of the stops. If you do that anyway with the 47l you will speed it up. There are other problems. Obviously youre taking a way a lane of traffic. We have three. Youre putting it to two and one of
Blower. You are violating the city charter. Specifically, article four of the campaign and governmental conduct code. It is also known as the whistle blower protection ordinance. You are mandated to annually report four things. One, the number of complaints received, two, the types of complaints, types of conduct complained about. Three, the number of complaints that you refer out to other agencies, four, the number of investigations you conduct. This assures the public that complaints coming in are matched by the complaints going out. You have not done this since 2005. Your annual reports only note the number of cases quote resolved, unquote. Not investigated. The directors monthly report deleted all of this data in 2011. Now, the public has no idea how many complaints are coming in, how many go out, and how many are buried in between. Since you are responsible for reviewing claims of whistle blower retaliation, real advertising should be listed as a type of conduct complained about.
New coaches that the agency is getting for brt service. 23 of those will be 60foot trolley coaches and 15 of those will be 60foot motor coaches which will upgrade the 47 line to 60footers and allow for increased capacity of the 47 line. The project is currently estimated to run about 125 million in design and construction dollars. We have between 105 and 108 million in funding at the moment and that involves negotiation with cal trans and other agencies exactly what their contribution to the project will be, so there is a funding gap that were working to close. And finally where are we now on the project . Were finishing the eir eis, the environmental process and expect a decision from the federal government in september of this year. Weve already started preliminary engineering and are working on what the mta refers to as conceptual engineering report and essentially 30 design that will help lock down the final costs of the project as well as the total scope of work of the project, an