Item two, approval of the minutes of the september 23, 2014, action. Any comments . Any member of the public that would like to comment. Seeing none, we will close. Avalos . Aye. Breed. Aye. Campos. Aye. Chiu. Aye. Cohen . Absent. Ferrill. Aye. Kim. Aye. Mar. Aye. Tang. Aye. Weiner. Absent. Yee. Aye. Item passes. Okay. Lets go to the next item. Item three, three chairs report, this is an information item. Colleagues, in what has become a ritual i begin high report with the sad news that four pedestrians were hit by cars in the past couple of days, one of whom, 87yearold, mr. Louis van belson died of his injuries after being hit, and as he tried to catch a bus. And this is truly an acceptable and, we must act to make the streets safe and her to ask our drivers to slow down i appreciate the work of the sfmta the Police Department and the department of Public Health and other agencies supporting the citys vision zero team, around town reminding everyone that every intersection is a potent
That we must continue to invest in the infrastructure in earthquake preparedness and resilientcy planning and this will take levels of eninvestment and coordination and public involvement and i am pleased by several key initiatives that they are already under way, and including the transit core, capacity study, freeway, Core Management strategy and the neighborhood, transportation, Improvement Program and on the issue of capacity, i want to add my support to many other colleagues, and including commissioner kim, cohen and weiner, who are calling for cal train to purchase, compatible electric vehicles with future Blended Service with california high speed rail. This is a very important Investment Decision that will determine the capacity and Operational Flexibility of the system for years to come. With that, colleagues, icon include my remarks. Public comment is open if any member of the public, seeing none, we will close Public Comment and go on to the next item. Item four. Directors r
Currently deploy at sfmta for the security will be paid the prevailing wage we wanted to address jufshlg concerns in the armed areas the result that some of the services is are no longer necessary as a more streamlined revenue collection process is in place that requires fewer personnel in the unarmed area certainly not described that situation as ideal, however given our budgetary concerns it is a decision we have to make to pay for the serviced we have, however, im certain the discipline and springs well provide condition to those continue to serve the agency over the last couple of years weve had improvement not video system and the evaluating assessment made will several recommendations we anticipate be able to pay for with a u. S. Grant from the state this includes additional intrusion protection and surveillance so what is a seat protection were in line with the sfmta to secure the assets patrons and staff i welcome our questions. We have can you quintessential revisit the histor
Our report that the sfmta advise that the proposed security hours is driven brirm by the department for wages as the department has testified and thats required by ordinance 26014 of board of supervisors and also the sfmta advise as a stated in todays meeting with the proper sprirngs the unarmed services should be adequate to address the needs our recommendation on page 16 we recommend you amend the proposed resolution to include and not to exceed 499 plus for the first 3 years with 3, one year options at sole discretion weve made the recommendation to be consistent with the resolutions that have been approved by the board of supervisors and recommend you approve it as amended. Thank you very much mr. Rose. Supervisor katie tang. I apologize if i didnt hear this i wanted to confirm our okay with the budget Analyst Recommendations okay. At this time ill make a represents to approve it as stated and after that approve the flying im sorry reds with a with a positive recommendation to the
How we got here today. Im going to ask my colleague mr. Chair. Good morning, supervisors. Im the manager of the mta so the history we issued a request for invitation for bid last year being the low bidder in norwalk the involved andrew at this point we came to this board as well as the supervisors recommended approval of the contract to Andrew International there were issues relayed to the bid pricing that andrew simpleminded they felt that the prirz was not positions essentially under bid there was allegations to other bidder that may have increased the wage rates at the end so at the time tests full Board Meeting surrounding international pulled out of the bid allegations will be the wage increases we did an imperial revenue if the time of the r f b was issued we didnt find any descriptions only anywhere things nothing major so when andrew pulled out we issued a request for a proposal went to the Selection Process and 5ur7bdz scored the highest we entered into negotiations with 5ur7b