Barrier between pesticide application and trades and play areas and areas frequented by children to 50 feet. In the future well probably ask for 200 but the problem is we need the city to expand the safety barrier because 15 feet not enough. So thats the rest of them so i wont have to bring it up at future agenda items. It looks like i thought there was some meetings planned in november around this and it looked like that doesnt happen. Maybe one meeting didnt happen so it looks like our schedule is slipping so do outreach to the public so let them know the meeting and whatevers happening in january, february and march. Commissioner thank you. The next item . The clerk item nine, announcements and items for discussion. Commissioner commissioners, any announcements . Public comment on no announcements . Hearing none, next item. The clerk the next item is new business and future agenda items. The speaker is valdez and the document is the 2018 push on the environment meeting schedule the
Staff [applause] a lot of whom are in bright colored vests and jackets. As well as many other parts of our agency, the safety division, the training division, the communications division. Materials division. Maintenance. Everybody coming together. Accessible services. Everybody coming together to get us to this point. The reason why this is so exciting for us is because the demands on rail Service Continue to grow in San Francisco. And if you look at the cranes in the sky, if you look at the projections of growth, thats only going to continue and so we need a better, more reliable, higher capacity, more enjoyable way for people to be able to get through the city and that is exactly these rail cars signify for us. This car is the first of 24 of the first batch that will be going into service. Those 24 will be in service before the end of next year. Following that, there is another 44 that come and these are all in addition to the 151 cars that we currently have in service. So, this is e
Fulltime dedicated team, i want to acknowledge manny enriques. [applause] manny is somewhere here. For the last nine mo fnzes he has been out overnight, virtually every night five, six, sometimes seven nights a week to help us hit this deadline. And hes probably inside because i realize at this point he is no longer used to sunlight. So [laughter] im sure he is glad that we will be getting these trains in service. But congratulations to all of them. And finally i do want to recognize some of the other people who contributed a lot of their time while they continued to do their daily responsibilities. Scott broder. I see lisa wallton from i. T. Whos worked with us in resolving system problems. Terry fahey with the track crew. Part of what was done was constant adjustment to fit a highly technical vehicle on to our system which has to accommodate b. C. C. S and brada cars. Not an easy test. Maintenance. Kept the system going while we drained a lot of key staff to work on the l. R. V. 4. S
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I dont have to acknowledge him because he is not my boss anymore. [laughter] but i do want to give a special shoutout to tom nolan. Under his leadership of the board that we brought forward the central subway and brought forward this procurement and we would not be here but for not his leadership. Thank you for that. [applause] and so with all of the fire power that youve heard from represented here that put together the money, that put together the leadership, that authorized and approved all of this to happen, someone actually had to do the work. And that is where some might say the part really begins. Somebody had to execute on this promise that we made to our funders, to our policymakers, most importantly to our rider and to the public. The person who is at the tip of the spear for our agency, but even coordinating beyond our agency, with the fire department, police department, the Mayors Office on disabilities, the rest of the city family is our transit director whos made this pro