Madame chair director, you have a quorum. Please be advised that director torres will be absent from todays meeting. Please be advised that the ringing and use of cell phone, pagers and other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. So, please turn your phones off and not to vibrate because when it is on vibrate mode, it causes microphone interference. Thank you very much. Item fours approval of the minutes. Do i have any Public Comment on the minutes . Madame chair, we have not received a a speaker card and it doesnt look like anybody is addressing you. Seeing none, do i have a motion to approve the minutes of november 21 . To move. Second . Second. All if favor . Aye . None opposed. Approved. Item five, communications. Madame chair, directors, an item on your consent calendar, item 10. 2 with regard to establishing a towaway, no stopping anytime except for San FranciscoPolice Department vehicles has been asked to be amended by staff. The original proposal is to remove parking on fillmore street right on the east side and the west side. Further discussions with the police and the supervisor at this point has prompted staff to ask that the noparking restriction on the east side be deleted. Therefore, the action before you today would only be to establish no parking except for on the west side. Thank you. In addition, directors at the request of the public, we do have Translation Services for cantonese speaker available here today. If anyone should need a headset, we ask you to please contact the translator. Right over here. And well give her a moment to make that announcement in cantonese. [speaking cantonese] thank you. Madame chair, that is all i have for communications. Thank you. Item six, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. Board ebb manies, directors, do i have any new or Unfinished Business . No . Seeing none, well move on. Item seven, directors report. Good afternoon, chair. Members of the board. Members of the staff and members of the public. I know we have a big agenda, so well try to go quickly. But a few things that i do want to cover for you today. First i want to ask our director of sustainable streets, tom mcguire, to recognize one of his outstanding employees. Mr. Mcguire. Good afternoon, directors. Tom mcguire, Sustainable Foods director. Im here today to ask you to help me recognize alex velez rering from sfmta after 11 years of service as a transit fare inspector. During this time, along with many other distinctions, inspector valdez is one of our most reliable inspectors. He once went five years without calling in sick. He is also almost certainly the most productive transit fare inspector in the history of the m. T. A. In terms of the number of customers he interacts with every day and the number of citations he issued. His partners in squad have given him the nickname bossing. Hes had that nickname apparently since he started because they knew from day one he was a person to hold in high esteem and special regard. You may recognize his face because a few years ago he was here with some of his colleagues, several times over the course of his time with the m. T. A. He has saved the lives of patrons or rendered aid to people seriously injured on the system. You may remember that he was previously recognized for this board for his efforts to save the life of a patron sightdisabled patron who had fallen on the tracks and was under the train and i was only alexs quick thinking actions and his partners actions that ensured that they patron was able to survive. So, i hope you will join me in recognizing his outstanding performance and wish him the very best if his retirement. Thank you. [applause] mr. Valdez. He has a few colleagues here to support him. Absolutely. On behalf of the agency, the entire city and the board of directors, thank you so much for your service. Youve really done such amazing work for the agency. And i understand you have a number of coworkers here. Would your coworkers like to stand up so we can see whos here . [applause] thank you all so much for coming. Thats such a testimony. Mr. Valdez, would you like to say a few words is this wed love to hear from you. Do you want to say a few words . Up at the microphone . [laughter] ok. All right. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you. And congratulations. I wanted to give you a couple of vision zero updates. First the Second Street improvement project. Finally had its groundbreaking last week. A number of departments came together to celebrate the breaking ground. Second street is a major northsouth bike connector on the eastern part of the south of market neighborhood. Its in an important street for vehicle traffic because of its proximity to the bridge and connecting from ballpark to Market Street. It is a vibrant area so lots of foot traffic and the street was not working as well as it should have been. The redesign, can you authorized a while ago, has led to the construction project which is under way. It should be about a twoyear construction project and well be actively working with public works to support the project and to minimize any adverse impacts to folks on the corridor. So, great achievement that that one broke ground. Another project, which you have previously legislated that i want to give you an update on. I know its gotten a little play in the news lately is upper Market Street. This is a project that you legislated i think it goes from octavia all the way to castro, legislated it earlier this year. Two things have been happening since that legislation was approved here at the sfmta board. First that the department of public works, we have engaged with them to begin the Detailed Design process. So that we can complete that. And enter into a construction project. The second thing weve done is at your direction that we may recall the Fire Department raised some concerns about the design. You directed us to work with the Fire Department to resolve those concerns. So, we have done that over the past few months and those have been addressed that will require some changes to the design, but largely keep the integrity of the project in tact and then so we will be beginning early implementation steps as early as next month, january. And well continue to work there is outreach and some doortodoor work that will need to be done in the meantime. But we will looking to implement that with all due haste and then ultimately bring forward the full project subsequently. I appreciate everybodys patience or impatience, with getting the project moving. We do have different needs that we need to address and needed, as you directed, to make sure that we could build this project in a way that was not going to adversely impact the Fire Departments need to respond to emergencies and i believe that weve done that. A couple of other brief updates. I wanted you to know that the general signup is under way now and that is a process that we undergo by our contract with our transit operators every two years where operators have the opportunity to move around the system to move from one bus to another, bus to rail, light rail to cable car. That process is happening now and it is a time when we put changes to the service plan. It also reflects other changes happening in the system such as the opening of our newest maintenance yard, which will be open it goes into effect this coming summer. By the summer, that yard will be opened. Well have our first 24 or so light rail vehicles going into service. Well have the Sales Force Transit Center opening and making some other changes. It is a little bit behind the scenes and it is kind of a big deal for the operators and it is an opportunity for them to change places. Its also an opportunity for us to make these service changes. So, well keep you updated on the progress of that. And speaking of sales force, it is currently scheduled to open in the spring of 2018. However, an Early Service start would be happening with munis 5 fulton which beginning on december 26 will be moving from the temporary transbay terminal from the transport center. So the center wont be fully rational but we will be moving the five fulton to get first baby step of initiating Transit Service at the new Transit Center. We start working out the kinks to evaluate the logistics. It will require some communications with 5 fulton riders. Because the 5 and the 5, are will have different riding points downtown. But were excited that the transit place is coming into place and we look forward to its full opening later in 2018. Wanted to remind you in the public that, as we do every year, we will be offering free muni service on new years eve from 8 00 p. M. To 5 00 a. M. Its a way to encourage folks to choose a safe way and a professional driver to get them around town on new years eve. Well be publicizing that as usual and let you know when that ones coming. Also coming the following day on january 1, there are fare increases for our passport products, which will go up by 1 on january 1 and that this was approved in the budget that you all approved last year. And it is in line with the automatic fare indexing policies of the board. And finally savinging the best for last, i wanted to let you know that we are launching new website for the sfmta today. I want to ask kristen smith, our marketing manager, to come forward. She has been laboring over this project for quite a while. And it is the first update since 2013. And its bringing a whole lot of great, new features to the general public that will make it easier for access the firefightersing. Ill turn it over. Thank you. Im kristen smith, the marketing and Digital Communications manager at the sfmta. Im pleased to give you a brief demo of the new website that launched this morning. So it is live. I want to first thank everybody who was involved in this project. It has been a massive undertaking from the Marketing Team to our contractors to all of the internal and external stakeholders and especially to our customers who participated in user testing and customer feedback. This is the full redesign of our old site so i want to spend a couple of minutes here highlighting a few of the areas that i think are of particular interest. The first thing you notice on the new website right here on the upper right hand side is there is a quick links. We wanted to make sure that people could get to the most common requests right away without having to go through the entire site to do it. That is at the top of every single page. If you scroll down a little bit, you see these icons here for different modes. They pull together everything for a single mode of travel. If you are interested in accessibility information or bicycle information, you can find it all in one quick stop. Well click on the mu, in i road page here as an example. I think it has been dramatically improved from our howtoride muni con tonals streamlined fares and in particular the routes and stops. If you go to the routes and stops and some of our rapid routes, youll see we first denoted our rapid lines with a red line as they are out on the network. Youll see that we have a frequency table now, which is very new as well as a live, embedded map from nexbus so we wanted to improve this experience for desktop animo bile users and then same with the stop i. D. And live data is in there as well. Everything accessible by screen readers and any other accessibility aspects. Another new section on this site is the neighborhood section. This is Hyperlocal News and information and transportation information. We did not have anything like this on our old site. So, you can either click on the Planning Department neighborhood map or you can just go right here to your specific neighborhood. So if i click on the bayview, you see every muni route that serves the bayview. All of the transportation projects by the sfmta in the bayview, news transportation news from the blog. And where you can buy sfmta products and fares within your neighborhood. So, we have those for all of the Planning Department neighborhoods. Another improvement is the projects page. We talked with a lot of stakeholders about this and heard a lot of feedback about what would improve this. If we were to look at the fullsomehoward street scape, you see that we have a new project timeline and these budget aspects. This is just to give a quick overview of what the projects are and not require our customers to necessarily have to read, you know, hundreds of words of text in order to understand what the project is and how it impacks them. Another new feature is the Businesses Services area. This is a section that has been completely rewritten and also pulls together information for both large and Small Business owners. So, everything you need to do to update your street in front of your business, to how to work with the sfmta to regulations about oversized vehicles. Everything in this onestop shop. Again, a lot of this site is about prioritizing information for different users. We have a huge user base and we want to make sure were giving them the information that they need. And then i think of particular interest to this group is the completely revamped board and legislation section. We talked with a lot of stakeholders on this and spent time indexing and searching the p. D. F. S. Noening loer do you have to go toing google to find out what the legislation is, you can find it right here and it is all searchable. If i were to just type in commuter shuttles as an example. I would be able to easily pull through and see all the legislation that we passed regarding that topic. Wi eve really increased the search overall in the site so we hope that customers will be easily able to find everything that they need. And then finally, another area that weve really improved is the translation. Our old site was just translated for the specific aspects that we were required to by title vi. Now youll see that the entire site is translated into 10 languages and in the places that require the title vi regulations. Weve done a manual translation that overrides all of that machine translation. Im happy to take questions and i encourage everyone to take the new website for a spin and we do have a survey on our site so we welcome your feedback. Thank you very much, ms. Smith. I did go through it today and checked out my western edition neighborhood project list. Its really much easier to navigate. Thank you very much for all that work. Directors, any questions . I dont have any questions. Thank you so much. People are always asking me when is van ness going to be done and when is this going to be happening and it is really great that people can do that. This is such a vast improvement. Kudos to everybody for making it easy for people to plan their trips and find the information. So i so from what ive seen, scrolling through, it looks fantastic and we have a lick of advanced notice about this. So Realtime Communications about what is going on in the transit world. Obviously we talked about that through signage in the system and through announcements. I know we have the whole twitter feed and all that. Is there anything on here that gets to that . In addition to the projects question, the question we get all the time is how do see exactly whats going on with this drain line or whatever . Sure, yeah. Weve definitely improved that with the new site. We have a longer road map in plan to continue to improve that. But places that youll see it right now is above this hero image. On the home page, you see these are the twitter alerts that are coming in. Youll also see that those feeds, when they are denoticed for a specific line will also appear on that line page. So, if you were to go to the jchurch, you see that there are specific alerts related to that. We also pulled out planned alerts from the media alerts so you could see what is happening maybe in two weeks and separate it from the things that are happening right now. Great. So, the twitter feed is now segregated by line through the web page. Yes. As long as they use their correct tag for i. But yes, we designed it in that way. Im not asking you to guarantee everyone will but the design is. Ok. Thats wonderful. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. And that con crudes my report. Great. Thank you. I just wanted to say kudos on the work for upper Market Street. I know that that was a challenge that the board put to you and the staff to come to some compromise with the Fire Department so we could make sure that we not only kept the bike lanes safe but that we were ready for them to respond to any fires along that stretch. I know last night there was another people protected bike lane event right in that stretch. That was really good timing today. Im sure that it is much appreciated. You can tell how important this is to people if theyre willing to put their little body there is to demonstrate the need for safe bike lanes in that area. If i get on the 5 fulton and ride it into the end im going into the Transit Center . That is correct. Im doing that. When does that start . December 26. Ill put it on my calendar. That sounds great. Directors, any questions or comments . No . Seeing none, well move on. And you have members of public who wish to address the poseder on matters that were discussed. Just for the public, this is only for topicks that were raised by director riskin. Lets do two minutes. Thank you. I was lock outside the room and there was no overflow room available so im not sure if all these comments are pertinent to his remarks. Let me start out in reference to the website, which the staff just described. I looked at the website this morning and then again just before this meeting. The agenda for this meeting is not on the website. The Staff Reports and other attachments are on the website, but the agenda itself is not. I would encourage you to pause, take a look at the website