Rubke present. Directors please be advised directors brinkman and malcolm are absent in todays meeting however you do have a quorum. Item 3 announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Please be advised the ripping big of and cell phones pager and similar sound producing Electronic Device are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. Please be advised that cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference so the board respectfully be requests they be placed in the off position. Item 4, approval of the minutes of september 16 regular meeting a. He there is a motion. Motion to approve. Second. Second, okay, all in favor say aye aye. So order, thank you. Item 5, communications directors, i have none for you today. Item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. Board . [speaker not understood] im happy to he see the new meter ha been installed all over town, especially whe
Commuter network and maintenance services. Good morning, miss wong. This is a routine administration item. Its a contract for Transportation Authoritys Computer Network and maintenance and services which include Desktop Computers hardware, software, our computers, our phones, our servers and data backup and retrievals and Disaster Recovery preparation. The current it provider right now is onsite at least once a week and comes as necessary when issues come up. When we do have smaller issues we try to triage that within the office, with the help of the Deputy Director for technology and data analysis. We issue and rfp back in july 30th and with the goal of 25 lbe and dbe, local Business Enterprise and disadvantaged Business Enterprise goals. We received two proposals. A third proposal actually came in, but came in after the submission deadline. We advertised the rfp at the chronicle, examiner, the bay company and we also included this in the tas list of small disadvantaged services. The
Enforcement she is the first one to inform me and do what we can do from the safety standpoint. And thank you. Thank you. Congratulations again. Mr. Riskin . So i just wanted to give you an update. And you will recall that you all approved both in the budget and via contract or the placement of all of the parking meters in San Francisco and so just a little bit of an update on that, almost all of the multispace meters have been upgraded and we are now in the process and we have started the replacement of the single space meters and this is something that we are doing for a number of reasons but the primary reason being to make it easier to pay for parking. To make the meters easier to use. And for anybody who wants or needs to use them. And they are easier to use, because they accept all forms of payment. And including credit and debit cards and the sfmta parking cards as well as pay by phone and coins, and have the larger display screens which is a concern that we heard a lot from the
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Prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. Please be advised that cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference so the board respectfully be requests they be placed in the off position. Item 4, approval of the minutes of september 16 regular meeting a. He there is a motion. Motion to approve. Second. Second, okay, all in favor say aye aye. So order, thank you. Item 5, communications directors, i have none for you today. Item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. Board . [speaker not understood] im happy to he see the new meter ha been installed all over town, especially where i park. When im not on the bus, that is. Very seldom. [laughter] okay, the director reiskin. Item 7, directors report. Thank you. Mr. Chair, members of the board, members of the staff and public. Were going to start off today with some special Recognition Awards and first i want to ask our real estate manager Christin M