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 item is for discussion and possible action. Commissioner is this any discussion on item 10 . The commission on the environment . The calendar for next year . The clerk in your pack eth packet for the 2018 meeting. The next Commission Meeting is january 23, 2018. The focus will be on the 100 and the citys routes and having the city powered by Renewable Energy and well have local guests to discuss projects on energy if, and zero Mission Vehicles among other things. In january well review the departments budget and the annual report for 2017 and the next policy Committee Meeting is january 8, 2018 and the next Operations Meeting is in 2018. The budget is the clerk the Operations Committee will hear the budget january 17 before the Commission Hears it on january 23. Commissioner that will be an interesting meeting. Any comments . Any Public Comment on the calendar . Okay. Next item, item 11 . Its Public Comment on all matters pertaining to the closed session on all matters pertaining to the subsequent closed session on Public EmployeePerformance Plan and appraisal report. Commissioner can you go back to the dates. November 27 is the thanksgiving meeting its usually the tuesday after. The clerk its a week after thanksgiving no commissioners were available. Thank you for thinking ahead on that. The clerk sure. Commissioner so then we move ahead to the clerk item 12. Vote on whether to close hold session to evaluate the performance of the executive director Deborah Raphael the administrative code 67. 10v and is an action item. Commissioner i need a motion. I move. Commissioner moved by xhe commissioner wald and seconded by commissioner to move into closed session to evaluate the performance of debbie raphael. All in favor . Any opposed . Motion carries. Thank you to all of you who have come to join us today for the come to join us today for the so the Commission Environment is reconveneing from closed session we are in item 13. We have to say the time. The time is 9 02p. M. Ok, thank you very much and were now back in session and i need a motion to not disclose any or all discussions held in closed session . So moved by commissioner. Seconds by commissioner walls and in favor. Aye. Any opposition. Motion passes s. There any Public Comment . Ok. The next item is adjournment the time is 9 03p. M. Were adjourned and our next meeting is january 23rd, 2018. Happy holidays. Coffee. How many agencies does that take in order to convert a parking lot into Affordable Housing in the middle of the tenderloin . Well no longer 7, of course, tndc of course, the Mayors Office of housing, of course, the incredible financing organizations that came through the department of hud enterprise came in indicating to construction their compressed be contracted so all the agencies came together with tndc working with the community making sure at least one and 13 unit get built all accountable jobs are another stake and certificate of preference and having the schools and community theyre all at stack if we cant get in housing built im here to thank everybody for putting this together and making sure wear on our way to do more housing that by the need and build the kind of Housing Housing for everyone but in particular the hardest thing to build 100 percent even if a parking lot so many fencing mechanisms to meet the champion clapping. sew mr. Mayor i think what is really special about this project the fact over 60 percent will think two bedrooms and three bedrooms apartment we know there a sdaerth of Family Housing no inform has an incredible impact on the economy and, of course, on the communities if you cant have families that work here afford to live in the city they living live and work we have much, much more to do across the country to make sure were housing the middleincome and workingclass this supplement will help to solve the problem thank you for making that neighborhood healthy and congratulations to tndc for the groundbreaking this a once in a generation good morning, everyone. My name is ed riskin, im 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 thats behind us. And a lot of folks are responsible for getting us here. I want to acknowledge mayor lee, president breed who is, im 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, 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 expansion. That means more service. That means longer trains. More twocar trains. More threecar 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 stateoftheart, 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 were introducing this. Like i said, this is a once in a generation kind of thing. And were 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 were missing is the tree. And so once we get the tree down, then were 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, were 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, were 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 youll 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 im 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 im 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 theyre 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 theyre experiencing. Whatever things they cant solve. They hop on muni. For that short period of time, we experience their lives. And the first person are the muni. Lets thank the transport Workers Union and every driver every day that has to put that smile on and make sure theyre the fun face of our municipal transportation agency. That is why were celebrating the family of larry martin. Well 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 were 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. Shes 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, weve incorporated the publics 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 whats promised and getting it to be people oriented and people friendly. So, that is my way of saying thank you to everybody thats involved. When you get everybody together and find all the room for people to have input, youre 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, were trying to exceed expectation with this procurement. And speaking of exceeding expectations, were 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 its a very hard job, a very challenging job. Every day youre touching hundreds of thousands of members of the public but you are doing really gods work in this city. Ed was totally right when he started by saying that we are growing as a city. Were 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 wouldnt happen without eds leadership or the mayors leadership or supervisor breeds leadership. It is an honor to represent San Francisco at the state legislature. Ed was totally right. We had an amazing year. Were rolling out sp1 to pave our roads and fix our roads. But we demandedour 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 youre 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 were 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 whats happeninging in washington that very little is getting done. The exact opposite is happening in San Francisco. Every day were trying to make a difference on transit, on housing. Ed mentioned the ballot