Chiu absent. Commissioner cohen. Kim aye. Wiener aye. Commissioner ye the item passes. Chair report this is an information item. Good morning colleagues it has been another busy and productive year at the Transportation Authority. In particular i wish to thank vice chair scott wiener for your partnership and leadership on transportation issues and eric mar for plans and programs and on behalf of my colleagues i wish to thank all of our aids to help with the large work we have here and the transportation staff. During the Selection Process i would like to thank you maria for your great work keeping the Organization Running smoothly and helped to keep all of our projects on track during the transition period. As you know colleagues after a vetting process we appointed tilly cheng to her executive director position. And i look forward to discussing later on our agenda. 2013 also was a big year for local and regional Transportation Planning with the adoption of plan bay area the first regi
Increasing number so equity is served by providing jobs for people on polk street who are working in that entire delta and also i wanted to say that obviously a lot of people in our organization are very excited about the possibility of their being bike share in the polk corridor to witness all the tweets and retweets and replies i think im not allowed to ask questions directly but wed like to see an effort for crowd funding for some of the stations. People feel much more invested in their civic space when they have had a roll like that thank you. Thank you very much. Good evening. Afternoon. Sorry about the voice but anyway, so i wanted to bring up first of all the point that bike share is a great idea. I had some questions that i wanted to talk about real quick like where are they deployed and what are the Service Areas and in what communities are they posted and number 2, who do they serve . Who are the riders . Are they tourists, community, business persons . 3, what are the local
That we care about thinking about expansion are geographic equity and social equity we care about jobs this system has the Great Potential to create a lot of great jobs for San Francisco ans and we care about universal design to continue to improve the design of the system so that it really is accessible to everyone and blends into the public right of way and in a way that doesnt create obstructions for people. They all approach them in a slightly different way so for us these things are critical when we think about expansion. We want it to create local jobs and we want to achieve equity and we want the design to be the best that it can possibly be and it all hinges on getting the right fund er as quickly as possible and how that all plays out is a little bit uncertain at this time but were continuing to talk about it and we have a high degree of urge see in terms of expansion because were trying to do something a little different here than a lot of other folks in the region. They are
Quorum. . M. Any comments or questions on the minutes . Okay we can do comment on item number 2 seeing none well close Public Comment and the motion to approve the minutes a roll call vote. Commissioner avenue avenue. Aye. Commissioner breed . Chiu absent. Commissioner cohen. Kim aye. Wiener aye. Commissioner ye the item passes. Chair report this is an information item. Good morning colleagues it has been another busy and productive year at the Transportation Authority. In particular i wish to thank vice chair scott wiener for your partnership and leadership on transportation issues and eric mar for plans and programs and on behalf of my colleagues i wish to thank all of our aids to help with the large work we have here and the transportation staff. During the Selection Process i would like to thank you maria for your great work keeping the Organization Running smoothly and helped to keep all of our projects on track during the transition period. As you know colleagues after a vetting
Continuations and it looks like the various conditions i believe have been met and i was going to ask if staff could brief us on what our options are. Commissioner mar thank you for the pointing this out we have actually just received the Maintenance Plan for mta staff we had worked out with them to receive it and its reflected in the resolution before you that we would receive it by friday. We can forward it electronically to the board right now. We understand from mta staff that they would like to move forward with the allocation today and they are here to answer questions that you may have about the potential impact of moving this forward today versus moving it forward in january. And chair avalos i would like to recommend that we move this forward today. Given that the mta has met the condition to get the Maintenance Plan but my hope is that staff can look at the plan and i think that would be good to forward to all of us electronically as well. Okay. Thank you commissioner mar. Wi