are. so, yes, each one of these people has to -- there's a lot of coordination that goes into making sure the bikes get on campus and are stored. that the teachers are prepared and ready, et cetera. and then we meet a couple of people on site for the two-week period as well. >> so, why is there no line item for transportation? of the bikes. >> i'm sorry. of all the things i didn't bring. there is a line item that is related to the transportation that we do pay for essentially the gas. why bike owns the van and the trailers so we don't have to pay for those. however we pay for the time spent transporting them from school to school. >> okay. thank you. can someone answer the questions i have specifically about bike to work day? >> that is also me. >> okay. do you have a breakdown of the budget? because for the sponsorship, the bike to work someday, the $38,547, there's a list of items specifically but there's no breakdown of those items. i just would like to see a budget specifically for those particular items. this seems like a lot of money. i know in the bigger scheme of things it is not a lot of money. but it is a lot of money for one day. and i wanted to -- this has been going on for many years, every year. and so, i just wanted a breakdown of what those numbers actually look like. i didn't see a reason why those couldn't be provided in the report that we got. there's just a generalization of what it pays for. >> this is literally just a sponsorship. we are one of many sponsors for this. we are the biggest. >> but it is reimbursed. so, it is implying -- >> it is not reimbursed. prop k reimburses the mta for this. but the agreement that is signed with the bike to work day is for us to -- we simply sponsor it for that amount. >> so, it is a sponsorship. >> yeah. >> not -- because, for example it lists staffing and support and then it is listed again as construction and then it has all these things. then it says sponsorship and it outlines what the sponsorship pays for but not specific dollar amounts attached to it. then it says it is on a reimbursement basis. item lees we are award -- it implies that we are awarding -- the impression i'm getting is somehow it is a grant but you are saying it is a sponsorship. >> it is a sponsorship. >> which is contradictory to what i think we have in our packets. i think that's where some of my contusion -- >> i understand. i think what the staff report was trying to say is we sponsor this. where the sponsorship money goes from us from mtc is to funds the staff time and the activities. both the ta and the mta logos are located on the materials. we are listed alongside all the key sponsors. but there is -- >> why not just call it a sponsorship and take out the line items at not attribute it to construction which i think is confusing? >> the construction, my understanding, moniker is just a part of the art process for prop k. i would ask anna to exmra inthat. -- explain that. >> this is the phase that it fits best under. i suppose it could go under a planning phase. but we have certain phases that we fund with prop k planning design construction. >> we are funding a -- we are a sponsor for this event. we are giving money for a sponsorship and that's just what it is. that doesn't fit in any other category for prop k funding? >> the only other category is operations and the only operations project is paratransit. >> okay. it is confusing. so, that's why i was asking the question. >> okay. if i could also point out there is some material in the enclosure to the prop k request item that gives an overview of the classes that were conducted at each of the schools last year. >> i saw that. thank you. >> okay. >> i just wanted to understand the responses of the students. >> and there's additional surveying we can provide to your office. >> thank you. >> chairman peskin: commissioner ronen. >> supervisor ronen: i just wanted to request the ta and the chair bring back a report on sort of a near term progress on valencia street and if mta can report as well. in perhaps three months. is that enough time to come and give a progress report? march 1st? >> that makes sense. >> supervisor ronen: sure. okay. that would be great. thank you. >> chairman peskin: okay. it shall be. if there are no other questions or comments from members, can we have a roll call on item number eight? i would need a motion made by commissioner sheehy, seconded by commissioner ronen. >> clerk: commissioner breed, aye. commissioner cohen, aye. commissioner farrell, aye. fewer aye. commissioner kim, aye. commissioner peskin, aye. commissioner ronen, aye. commissioner sheehy, aye. commissioner tang, aye. commissioner yee. aye. the item is first approved. >> chairman peskin: next item. >> clerk: item ten. award three-year professional services contracts with an option to extend for two additional one-year periods to not to exceed $400,000. >> good morning. i'm here to seek approval to award professional service contracts for modeling as much ass to two teams. the contracts would be for a three-year period. these would commence after the current on call expires at the end of the year. it would be funded through the other projects they support. the two teams are led by wsp and rsg or are on our current on call. transportation analytics. additional sub consultants include the university of kentucky and bowman research. representatives from wsp, rsg are here in attendance and available to answer questions. the target 5% for both contracts individually. now about the process. staff issued an rfq in september. a selection panel evaluated and made a recommendation to award contracts to two of the three teams. the current on call has spent about $500,000 in the period between 2013 and 2017. the slide shows what we have used the money for. and for the new agreements we expect to use the projects for sftp and other modeling improvements and applications as needed by work program projects. thank you. >> chairman peskin: any questions from members? seeing none. is there any public comment on item number nine? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to award the three-year professional services contracts made by commissioner cohen. seconded by commissioner farrell. and do we have the same house? >> clerk: we do. >> chairman peskin: same house. came call. thank you. next item please. >> clerk: item ten. presentation on the san francisco municipal transportation agent 2017 facilities framework. this is an information item. >> ms. la fort. >> i would like to introduce jonathan from the mta. thanks. >> good morning commissioners. jonathan ruers here to talk about the building progress program and facilities framework. i want to start off very quickly to note the importance of this infrastructure. if you ride the 14 mission here in san francisco or the gary rapid network, you should know that a lot of our services start at the various facilities that we have throughout san francisco where we maintain, where we store and where we upkeep the fleet. this is where the majority of our 6,000 employees work day-to-day, where they change into their uniforms and take their showers. it is an important foundational infrastructure service here. i think everybody is florida with our muni forward with regard to getting a rubber fire fleet. that will go into service this week. and also following through with our 10% service increase around san francisco. now we need to focus on the next step and that is modern sizing our facility -- modernizing our facility and we have started our community outreach. so, a component of that is our 2017 facilities framework. what we wanted to do is we knew our facilities throughout san francisco which i will show shortly, were in need of reconstruction, renovation and modernization. but what we wanted to do was develop a plan that was both dynamic, allowed us to make continuous immovements across san francisco and our campus and realistically costed out year over year and we were continuously able to make improvements throughout san francisco. you will see our facilities. we do have a number and i do believe still we have more facilities than any other city department in the city and county of san francisco, minus fire stations and police stations. but significant facilities. so, 20 plus. nine major maintenance yards. this began with the 2013 vision report and when we looked at it as a baseline, what we found was it gave one option for the mta to pursue with regard to the growth of the muni fleet here in san francisco. if years passed or situations change, that plan didn't work for us as well as we would have anticipated which is why we wanted to move to something more flexible. it didn't consider all the operations of the sfmta which didn't include traffic operations. it includes all the operations and sets three important goals. one to modernize our facilities for new and more modern operations. second to slowly move the mta off of leases. so, if we have a permanent operation, we want to make sure to have that operation in a permanent facility, not a leased facility. and to prepare for growth and maintain our facilities in a state of good repair. so, with that, the first thing we did was go to the next level of state of good repair. i know all of you as commissioners are familiar with that term when we look at the age of an asset and the year it needed to be replaced. but we took our state of good repair to another level in which we actually sent out a team of consultants to do an inspection of all the systems in all of our building. while something might last a certain period of time, we reset that date and now we can tell you year over year the investment we need in our building up to windows, doors, air compressors. things needed to run our day-to-day operations through 2036 that averages to about a $7.5 million per year investment. we have been slowly moving forward with developing a full program to do that. but we do start off with about a $60 million backlog. second come poeptd was just -- component was just the growth of our fleet. as you are all familiar with, we have executed the agreements. both trolley coach and motor coach fleet. we have executed agreements for replacement of the light rail fleet. we have six numbers of delivery and we know over a certain period of time physically with regard to space, we will return out of room at our existing yards throughout san francisco. you will see the number 77 vehicles by 2025. about 130 by 2030 and 46 light rail vehicles in the 2040 period. again, this is based on current capacity of the yards as we were designed and this is based on the delivery schedules that we anticipate. we have two options we are currently working off of. one assumes that the mta is successful at securing a new facility. a brand new facility to store and maintain its vehicles. in that case, we would expand the four acres that the mta has at the east facility for the growth of the light rail fleet. we would modern size the presidio yard both for motor coach, hybrid electric fleet, trolley coach and 40 and 60-foot vehicles. moving towards the convergence of both technology and the convergence of the types of fleet that we have here in san francisco, we would also renovate the kirk land yard to allow for running repair so we don't have to do as much dead heading as we currently do. the second option assumes that the mta might not be successful at getting a new facility. in that case, we would use the four acres currently undeveloped east for a temporary trolley coach division and facility. that makes sense because a lot of electrical infrastructure we would need for future light rail operations there we would put in phase. we would shut down presidio and po ter ro -- potrero and the back end of the program would include the reconstruction of the kirkland yard. just as a highlight because i don't want to completely focus this on all our transit operations, we are also working to eventually inshert the animal care facility. we have been working with commissioner ronen's office on different housing options and joint development options. we will continue to look at joint development at all of our facilities throughout san francisco to maximize the opportunity for both policy goals at the city and county of san francisco has and both goals we have for our transportation system. we have looked at different uses of the building and now we are looking at expanding the use of that property to see how we can maximize it. here is the overall schedule. i think what i want to stress with regard to this schedule, typically with major programs such as this in san francisco, we work through a very steady planning outreach environmental funding and construction type schedule. in this case, we have a back end deadline. we thought that the fleet is going to be coming and we thought we need to be able to maintain these new vehicles that are being delivered. we have to meet certain time points and deadlines. we have developed a full schedule for this. we have had a workshop with the department of public works in august to come up with a project delivery methodology. we have our environmental team. shortly ready to execute on an agreement early in 2018 and we have got a joint development consultant contract that will be moving towards the mta board later this month. general next steps. we just began outreach last week. just overall program wide. we will go site specific with regard to potrero in both december and january. we will refine those two options with the hope we will have finalized which option we will proceed with sometime in january or february. we have done a second set of cost estimates and we have confirmed the costs. i will get to that in a second. in 2018 we do want to have all the technical teams together to begin the design outreach. we hope to begin on 1200, 15th street. we would have hoped to complete 1200, 15th street in 2023 with housing plus the permanent headquarters for our enforcement staff that are currently in a leased facility. and we would begin the reconstruction program. we have developed at least a cost estimate for the overall program. between the state of good repair work and the general redevelopment work, it is in the $1 billion range, if you consider all costs are in the 1.$3 billion range. the critical path and cost estimates for these three projects have remained steady. muni east 3 million. assuming joint development are just redevelopment of that building 12 oh -- the future regional measure three and we are looking forward to the san fran transportation task force. in preparation for that, we have developed a detailed cash flow and all of you were experts in funding. i know you know the difference between an actual cash flow. this is the most consecutive form. actual cash payments that would have to occur on a quarterly basis. means the last point in time in which we could receive a dollar. you will see that we are completing a significant number of projects this year. our burke warehouse is being reconstructed with the support of the prop k sales tax to include our overhead lines operations. we will maintain the amount of storage that we have always had at the burke warehouse. plus added operations crating a more efficient use of the facility. fast track is adding storage track for the lrv's that will be arriving and continue to work on operator facilities. the cash flow builds up for design work. promote 1200, 15th street and potrero and you will see it build up for presidio. we are working with the transportation authority staff and city and county of san francisco staff and mayor's office on a full funding plan for this program. i appreciate the time all you commissioners gave to both me and my team to help us prepare for the public outreach. thank you. >> chairman peskin: thank you. and thank you for all of the briefings that you have given each of us offline. with regard to the new facility in scenario one, which obviously is preferable in terms of timing, what is the status of the new facility discussion? >> so, we are continuing to work on negotiation and scoping. over the summer we worked with a consul stand to get performance criteria. meaning any any facility in we were to enter into an agreement needs to meet with our core transportation needs. part of the reason we did the second set of coast estimates in the sum -- cost estimates in the summer was to see if the city went it alone and we decided to go into negotiations with a developer, how far we could go. i think with that information in place, we are continuing to see what is out there in the markets. and hopefully we will have more news on that towards the end of this calendar year. >> chairman peskin: thank you. any questions from members? seeing none, is there any public comment on this informational item that is going to cost a lot of money over time? at least we are planning for the future. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for that. and we look forward to future updates. next item, please. >> clerk: item 11, introduction of new items. >> chairman peskin: are there any new items? i do, colleagues, want to voice some concern i have relative to a proposal that has just surfaced to stop the california cable car, line an hour and a half early. as our city grows and becomes more late night, i'm not sure why we would want to shut down a cable car that is not only used by visitors but is a source of transportation in east and west directions. so, i would like to ask staff to work with the mta and figure out why they are doing that. unless there's a good reason, we will use our purse strings to figure out how not to make that happen. are there any other items for introduction? seeing none, is there general public comment? mr. yip. >> public: good morning. the duties of political leaders will be making well being for our people. national character should return to true morality in culture. the true principle will make unity for our nation. [indiscernible] >> public: we have to cultivate justice for civil rights to have well balanced adjustment in our political system. our protection of the common good for our people will secure the stability for well managed nation. [indiscernible] >> public: a livelihood for our people. they are to take pathway of kindness and wealthiness. [indiscernible] >> public: obtaining social prosperity we have to take the right path for holiness and morality for all that matters to be truthful and righteous for a democratic system. >> chairman peskin: thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed and the cta is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]. women's ne sustainable future . >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv. g >> good morning. welcome to the personnel committee of the san francisco transportation board. i'm commissioner peskin. next to commissioner tang, and our clerk is steve stamos. >> clerk: approve the minutes of the minutes. >> public comment is closed. is there a motion to approve the minutes for the personnel committee? commissioner? >> yes. approve. >> okay. motion to approve the minutes. we'll take that with -- out of objection. and next item please. >> clerk: item three, closed session item, evaluation of public employee performance and recommended approval of the performance agenda for 2018. >> as far as this is a personnel matter. we are going to go into closed session on this item. is there any public comment on item number three? miss lombardo? okay. public comment is closed. we'll go into private session. a once in a generation -- >> good morning, everyone. my name is ed riskin, i'm the director of transportation here in the city and county of san francisco. so glad to be with you all today under this beautiful sunshine to mark really what is a once in a generation milestone for muni, for the transit service and for the people of san francisco. today we are putting into service this beautiful vehicle that's behind us. and a lot of folks are responsible for getting us here. i want to acknowledge mayor lee, president breed who is, i'm sure, on her way. our state and federal and regional partners and the tremendous work of our transit director john halle and his 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, that's 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 expansion. that means more service. that means longer trains. more two-car trains. more three-car trains and more frequent service along our raillines, which is really the workhorse of the muni system. and it is not just capacity. but these vehicles have been exceptionally engineered and meticulously designed to provide state-of-the-art, much better ride and much better experience for our riders. quieter, smoother, better acceleration, deceleration. better amenities in terms of customer and rider information. but also for us, better a.d.a. access, better access for people with strollers, wheelchairs or just people who need more space. but also for us and for our riders much, much more reliability. these are engineered to be reliable vehicles, to have -- to go much, much longer between times where they need to be serviced. they have advanced diagnostics that will make it easier for our folks to maintain, to do more not just preventive maintenance but predictive maintenance so these guys will spend more time out on the streets than they will in the shops. so i could go on about this. i feel very lucky to be the director at a time when we're introducing this. like i said, this is a once in a generation kind of thing. and we're only able to do this because of the leadership that we have in our city and our region and our state and our country that is supportive, all the folks working together to get us here. and the number one leader behind this, someone who, as a former public works director, gets the importance of information and supporting the quality of life and economy of our city is our chief executive. so, please join me in welcoming the mayor of the city and county, ed lee. [applause] >> good morning! >> good morning! >> really great to be here on a sunny friday. we have a lot to celebrate. you look behind on that nice, new l.r.v. with a red bow, all we're missing is the tree. and so once we get the tree down, then we're going to really have an occasion. but the friday before thanksgiving, we have a lot of things to be thankful for and i want to begin by saying thank you to our partners at the state. i know phil and governors office and all of our s.f. delegation work really hard to make sure we got cap and trade moneys because it allows us to go from a planned stuff with our federal partners blessing us here today. we originally planned for some 25 of these to arrive and in the same time period, we're going to get more than 5. -- 65. i think 68 is the number, mike, right? mike is from siemens. these are all built in the state of california by siemens corporation. but they also were designed with great input from our own staff. people who have years of mechanics, trouble and problem were in that design. our drivers for their ideas for safety and convenience of our ridership. of course, john halle and his whole operations had great input. and, of course, we get siemens, who is building rail cars for all over the world, but they gave us some priority here when we said we want more of new stuff in san francisco. so, we're getting that. this is the first one that rolls off. ed riskin to you and the commission and the entire staff, thank you. because you are delivering on a promise we made to our ridership. the hundreds and thousands of people that want and do depend on muni, now you'll have cleaner, more reliable. it goes from an average of five years before major maintenance to some 49 years of operations before we with retire these vehicles. that is a huge, huge amount of years to add with these new l.r.v.s. so i'm particularly proud of all the agencies that we had from the state level, the federal transportation agencies, the state department of transportation, working with our m.t.a., our commissioners and all of the operators. but i'm also wanting to say this. that every day i ask people in san francisco to display their best to represent the city of love and compassion, to make sure they're always welcoming. every morning for hundreds of thousands of people, the first person they see is the muni driver and for them to smile every time they see somebody, when everybody brings on all the things that we welcome in the city. when we welcome that diversity, we welcome everybody with whatever problems they have. whatever things they're experiencing. whatever things they can't solve. they hop on muni. for that short period of time, we experience their lives. and the first person are the muni. let's thank the transport workers union and every driver every day that has to put that smile on and make sure they're the fun face of our municipal transportation agency. that is why we're celebrating the family of larry martin. we'll say a few more words about that in a moment. i know iris is here as the daughter of larry b. martin. but i just wanted to begin with that praise and give the praise to people who work every day in the system. and we honor them by getting their input in this design as well. so, these l.r.v.s are not just a train that came from some. they were literally design with the expert engineering at siemens, complimented by all of our experience in making sure that there were less parts to deal with. it will give us better diagnostics and maintenance and seating arrangements, color arrangements, material arrangements that are much more appropriate for the hundreds of thousands of people that ride every day that we will provide them with the best transportation system we can have. this is a good occasion, too, because we already tested this so we're not going to make any mistakes. right, ed? [laughter] in fact, i think there is a first driver on here. i forgot her name. i met her. she's already a little nervous. i said no. no. no. these have been tested. and i want to thank the public. when we tested them, we had to close down a few systems for a few weekends and thank you to the general public for tolerating these testing periods so we can get everything right. when they roll on, we want everybody to have the positive experience of these new l.r.v.s. as voters and people time and time again when we get feedback, we've incorporated the public's demands that these be a better system and better l.r.v. and that is how you support future bonns and initiatives for the city to keep a high level of ridership and high level of the entire system working on time within budget, delivering more than what's promised and getting it to be people oriented and people friendly. so, that is my way of saying thank you to everybody that's involved. when you get everybody together and find all the room for people to have input, you're going to have some great gifts that we give each other. l.r.v.s are just the beginning because after that, m.t.a.'s going to deliver a lot of other things for the city, including a new central subway very soon. thank you, m.t.a. congratulations. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. it is not just on time, it is ahead of time. so, we're trying to exceed expectation with this procurement. and speaking of exceeding expectations, we're extremely fortunate here in san francisco to have such great representation in sacramento and generally speaking to have such a strong and progressive state legislature and governor in california. this here in particular was really an extraordinarily productive one for the legislature and the governor in terms of transportation. two bills were passed and signed by the governor that will allow people in the region to vote for increased bridge tolls, to better fund transit in the region as well as potential increased sales tax across the three counties to provide cal trains for the first time with a dedicated source of revenue and even more significant, senate bill 1. again, like this rail car, a onces in a generation kind of change in the way we fund transportation in san francisco and in california. none of which would have been possible without the strength of our delegation, our elected representatives to the state legislature. and particularly in making sure, not just that these bills got put together and got through the legislature and the governor, but to make sure that they reflected the needs of places like san francisco. so, very pleased to be joined by one of our members, i guess the most senior member of our state delegation. join me in welcoming assembly member phil ting. [applause] >> thank you, ed. let me just begin to thank ed and the entire m.t.a. team for doing the fabulous job that you do. i know it's a very hard job, a very challenging job. every day you're touching hundreds of thousands of members of the public but you are doing really god's work in this city. ed was totally right when he started by saying that we are growing as a city. we're trying to add more people in san francisco and have more people work in san francisco, live in san francisco. but that is only going to work if muni works. it is only going to work if we can connect bike lanes and pedestrian walkways into muni so people can get to and from work. that wouldn't happen without ed's leadership or the mayor's leadership or supervisor breed's leadership. it is an honor to represent san francisco at the state legislature. ed was totally right. we had an amazing year. we're rolling out sp-1 to pave our roads and fix our roads. but we demanded--our delegation demanded that a chunk of that money go to transit. when it started out, it was all about just paving roads and fixing pot holes and we said hey, that is not going to work for san francisco. we need to make sure that there are resources into transit to help and make sure that people can use rail cars to get that along. the other piece of passing cap and trade. people say what is cap and trade? cap and trade is a simple idea. it says that, hey, if you're a companies that polluting the air, the air is not just something that you can put pollution in, that that is something that is going to cost us to mitigate, require citis to make the air cleaner. one of ways we make the air cleaner is funding transis sit programs. so, this grant of $45 million came out of inner city rail program and that is a competitive program. it is a program that the m.t.a. team had to compete against other jurisdictions and the fact that they were able to win the grant shows how compelling what we're doing here in san francisco and how important it is to moving people, not just here locally but really in our region. so, we want to be doing more of that. i am so honored to be representing san francisco in the legislature. we see what's happeninging in washington that very little is getting done. the exact opposite is happening in san francisco. every day we're trying to make a difference on transit, on housing. ed mentioned the ballot measure. we hope to bring to people next june to raise tolls which i know are never popular. but that is going to pay for $5 billion worth of projects. that is going to help bring high-speed rail into the cal train station, into the downtown station right there. it is going to be a huge winch it is going to be more money for muni in that particular project. so, again, that's where this money come fr.s it comes from the voters. it comes from your will to decide to say, hey, we're going to be transit first. we won't be transit first when we feel like it but when we go to the ballot box and vote for that, it requires your requirement. again, thank you for working with us to make this a huge victory for all of us and look forward to keep working to make this really as transit first a city as we can. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, assembly member ting. there are other elected officials that are represented here. danielle chen u.s. director for our senator. and a district representive for senator scott weaner and genesis ga si i can't, a district director for david chu. [applause] thank you for being here, very much. i can tell you all three of them obviously are -- those electeds are from san francisco and particularly for david chu and scott weaner when they were on the board of supervisors, very strong advocates for transit and muni and they've take than advocacy to sacramento, which we're benefiting from along with the leadership of assembly member ting. but the board of supervisors has retained strong championship for muni, for transit in san francisco and we're very lucky to have a president of the board of supervisors who represents an area just really immediately to the north of here that is one of the more transit-dependent, more transit-using areas of the city. very low levels of car ownership. very high levels of transit usage. so, when we were bringing what would be somewhat of a daunting prospect to the board of supervise source and $1.2 billion procurement, at the time the largest light rail vehicle procurement in united states history, we had the support led by the president of the board of supervisors who was so eager for these trains to be here. she joined me and the mayor and john halle and a trip to sca. toe earlier in the year to make sure these cars were getting done and to make sure that the first one would be running on the adjuda line. please welcome the president of the board of supervisors. [applause] >> thank you. i kind of had to threaten ed riskin to get these in juda trains, these new trains running. but in all honesty, i just really want to say i appreciate the m.t.a. for working so hard on making sure that we pushed this city forward. this is a once in a generation purchase. to have these incredible new trains ready to be used, ready to be driven by the over 300 drivers that we've hired in the past couple of years. this is what's going to change, what happens with our public transportation system in the city and county of san francisco. as someone who grew up here, and dependent on muni for so many years of my life, just watching the transformation, watching muni become more efficient and looking towards a future, rather than doing what we need to do to repair old trains that we know are past their useful lifetime, we have these new trains that are bigger, that are better, that are stronger than ever, that are going to take us into the next century. i'm excited about this opportunity. i know the riders are excited about this opportunity. these trains are not only new and they will smell a lot better than the existing trains -- [laughter] but more importantly, they will be able to accommodate more people and they will be quieter because they're lighter than the existing trains. so many of you who live in the neighborhood where these trains travel, you will not hear as much noise. these are the things that we have done. they are better for the environment. they have a different seat configuration so they could accommodate more people. so the work we put in to making sure that we got this thing right was so important the community played a part in giving us suggestions. those suggestion, years later, are finally playing themselves out through trains which will be running on this line and there are more to come. we will be replacing the entire fleet. we have drivers that have been trained and ready to go. so i'm just anxious to get these things on the road so that we can have a more efficient system and i can get

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