You have a quorum. Item three, announcement of prohibition sound producing devices during the meeting. The bringing of sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. Also, directors, please be advised we do have an overflow room for todays meeting. Due to fire codes, if youre sitting or standing in the aisles, you must step outside, and fanned a find a chair. Item four, approval of the minutes of the july 16th regular meeting. Board members, anyone have any changes they would like to make . I will entertain a motion. So moved. Second. All those in favor of moving these minutes please say aye. Aye. Any opposed . Item five . Item five, communications, mr. Chair, i have none today. Item six is introduction of new or Unfinished Business more members by Board Members. Board members, and a newer Unfinished Business . Yes, we brought up the idea of looking into no right turns on red, and ever since she brought that up, i have been noticing it more and more around the city and i really understand now what a good idea that is, not just for the cars turning right, but the cars creeping into the crosswalk to look to see if it is clear, which has been impeding the pedestrians ability to get through. Im hoping that we can have a report on can we do that, do we have to do it citywide and can we do a citywide, and just to say that it really was a great idea to bring up a name looking forward to us being able to discuss that. As i understood the response to the directors response, it was two things. One, do we have the legal power, and what other cities have done it and what sort of results have been met there. Is that fair . I think thats fair and i think it sounds like something we may be able to get into more in september 3rd. Correct. Okay. Any new or any other new or Unfinished Business . There was a great article in the chronicle about getting people to slow down. It brought the topic of automated Speed Enforcement and i think our Police Officers union or association might have signed on about that. I would like to get an update on that and where is in the state level and remind people to slow down. Excellent. Okay. Any other newer Unfinished Business . Item seven, directors report this is normally the point where i turned it over to the director of transportation and we go through the report, and i will note as i do this that today mr. Maguire is in the chair and were thrilled to have you on board as our interim director. Thank you so much for agreeing to the task, thank you so much for being capable to the task and we very much look forward to working with you over the next few months. Before we get onto this report on the recognition, i want to recognize the man who used to sit in that chair, a consistent with his personality and humility declined a ceremony that would normally be fitting of someone who has given so much and so long to the agency. He was a true public servant. Account him among one of my great personal accomplishments as well as this boards accomplishment getting him into the position as director of transportation and he will be dearly missed. We wanted to say this to him publicly, maybe regaled him with some gifts, but true to his form , he was humble, preserved and rational. That is the way ed always carried himself. Those of you who work at the agency know that to be true. Those who work here at city hall and worked with him know that to be true and those members of the public would have dealt with him know that to be true. And reiskin was the consummate public servant. For that and for his awesome professionalism, diplomacy and humility, you will always have my respect. Director maguire, the floor is yours. Thank you. They are certainly big shoes to fill and i will do my best to fill them. I would like to ask julie kirschbaum, or director of transit, to come to the podium and present an award to one of her employees. This is the fun part. I would like to invite darius chan. Im thrilled today to be recognized dennis chan. He started his career at munimobile about four years ago and he is in our Maintenance Training unit. What i want to recognize him about is the work that he has been doing to support the new flyer training program. As you know, we have put in an massive investment in our fleet and the commitment we made to this board and to the writing public was that we would maintain that fleet to the absolute highest standard and making sure that staff has all the training and the support they need to make those changes is a critical part of that commitment. Dennis was assigned to help coordinate all of the filming logistics over the last several weeks. We have him making training videos for our hybrid and traditional coach fleet. They were out in our system. The film crew had such a positive experience that they wrote praising his work. I just want to quote them because i dont think i could have said it better. They said, i have been producing training videos for new fire across north american america since 1982. Dennis was the best prepared, most engaging, and knowledgeable executive producer i have yet to work with. Im truly looking forward to the remaining weeks of our production schedule. I just want to thank dennis for representing m. T. A. So positively and for representing here, to you, our mechanic, and a retraining program, which i know you dont get a lot of exposure to, but are really the men and women behind keeping our fleet in such incredible condition. I wanted to introduce and congratulate dennis chan. If he was producing it, that award would have been right there ready to go. [laughter] stick to buses and trains, julie fire appreciation, thank you so much. [applause] i will make this short. Good afternoon, directors. Thank you. Im honored to receive this recognition. Im grateful for the recognition i have received for my work. This award would not have been possible without the help of my colleagues whom i have the deepest respect. I sincerely thank each one of them for helping me reach this achievement. Thank you. Wonderful. All right. A lesson to everyone on the power of brevity. Dennis, thank you so much for your service to the city. Thank you and congratulations. Thank you. Okay, im moving around, this is a directors reporting which i get my steps. The next award we will give, i will do this one myself, i would like to ask paul road to join me at the podium. Many of you already know paul, if you dont know him personally , youve seen him on t. V. Or seen him in the class over the last nine years. He has served as the m. T. A. s chief spokesperson and Media Relations manager. He doesnt incredible job. He is about as close as we have to 24 7 oncall employee. He has taken calls with the media as early as 4 00 a. M. In the morning. I have been on the phone with him as late as midnight. He is always emailing, texting, and making sure that the right information the public needs and our message about the goals of the Transportation System are always getting out there and are always being represented properly in the media. Is a really difficult and stressful job. I dont know how he still has the smile on his face after nine years. He is a consummate professional, a real gem, we are so sorry to lose him, but we know he is doing he is going right down the street working the private sector. Hopefully we will still see you writing munimobile to work every day. We are clearly grateful to paul because he started nine years ago. When he think about where the agency has been over the last nine years, we have been through leadership changes, political changes, but he has been a real constant and somebody who helped me and many other people find our voices with respect to the media and he gets our story out there. He has a large number of Family Matters with him here today so hopefully we will be able to spend more time with him not be taking those calls in the middle of the night from people like me and the press. I would like to ask you to join me in recognizing recognizing him. Was pause [applause] thank you very much for the honor. I want to point out i do have my family in the entire front row and kind of going into the second row. I really appreciate their support in allowing me to do this job and take on this adventure. I have two people who want to introduce themselves, though. Im link in, his son. Im brooklyn, his daughter. [laughter]. They really wanted to get in front of the microphone. I guess it runs in the family. [laughter] thanks again for the honor. It has been my privilege to represent this agency. Every time i start an interview i have to state reporters request to say your name for the record, and every time i started with paul rose, spokesperson for the sfmta, and it has been a point to pry through my professional career. No matter the issue, i was always proud to do that. I just want to thank the staff i have worked with. Without them, nothing that i have done would have been accomplished. I just want to thank you for your work pick you guys should be proud of the work you do. The leadership that you provide is something that im proud to associate my name with and i just thank you for the honor and thank you for allowing me to be your spokesperson. Thank you. If you would stay there for me. [applause] i think all of the Board Members and all of the staff have an appreciation for what you do, we take on a special appreciation when you sit in this chair and deal with you as often as chairs at this agency do. I would like to call on, if i may, director brinkman to share some thoughts. Thank you. Paul, we will miss you so much and i just want to say what a fantastic job you have done at the sfmta. Although, when he turned on the news in the morning and saw you, i knew something was going on. I always had every confidence that you were going to relay the information in the most concise and straightforward and reassuring way possible. Thank you, again for all your years of service. We will miss you very much. Again, to your family. Thank you for sharing him with us. You have obvious a race of two very bright and articulate kids will have no problem following in your footsteps. We will miss you. Best of luck. I will say this, lincoln in brooklyn, you are lucky, most people dont get to see what your parents do. You get to see paul when it is the bad stuff that he is dealing with, but please know behind the scenes at the office, with members of the community, with us, he is always the same, levelheaded sweet guy dealing with difficult situations well, guiding us to what we need to do professionally, and frankly just a really good colleague, someone who is really a pleasure to be around and that is not true of all great professionals, but he is a great professional who is also a good person. Thank you for being here, paul, thank you and best of luck. Thank you. [applause] next up i would like to ask our Human Resources director. Him to join us i dont think he is here. We could put paul back into service. Unfortunately we have had three more traffic fatalities since we last met and had our last update on the vision zero initiative. We are now 23 fatalities yeartodate and i will give you an update on the three fatalities pick the first happened on july 18th at 5 42 a. M. At the corner of eddy and mason street. A. A 54yearold was walking north crosswalk. We were installing a pedestrian scramble and were prohibiting all turns on red at the corner of eddy and mason. At 2 00 p. M. , another pedestrian got hit as a driver read a very light ran a red light and struck an eastbound vehicle and killed a man. This collision occurred on a street that we have recently made safety upgrades to as part of our safety or it safer taylor project. We have installed 12inch signal headset all approaches to the intersection and we will be changing the signal timing to make pedestrians more visible and give them priority as they cross the street. Finally, the third fatality happened on august 4th just before midnight on carroll avenue near the new Alice Griffith apartment complex. A pedestrian was found in the roadway and transported to hospital where he died. His name is not been released at this point. There were no witnesses, but the medical examiner does believe the cause of death was Motor Vehicle collision, and the Police Department are investigating this as an active hit and run investigation. Again, these three fatalities remind us of the gravity of the vision zero commitment. Twentythree matches the number fatalities we had last year and it is only late august, just a reminder that many of the decise make at this board are about reengineering our high injury streets, including the streets that i just mentioned, to put our engineering tools in place. We have been taking the momentum that you put behind us to implement quick build improvements on some of the streets, a couple examples of that are the recently opened protected bikeway with painted safety zones, daylighting upgraded traffic circles from townsend all the way to 16th street. We also updated the Traffic Signals along the valencia street corridor, and later in august and september, will be upgrading townsend street and brennan street based on legislation that this board passed earlier this summer. We continue to try to shorten the amount of time we spend delivering projects and get those improvements on the street as fast as possible. We know engineering is not the only component to vision zero and we have watched several educational activities in the last month. We released a biking in San Francisco campaign, free bike focused social media videos, we launched another round of our Safe Speed Campaign which reminds drivers that excessive speed is overwhelmingly the most common cause of traffic fatalities in our streets, and the campaign will include shelter adds, radio adds on 15 bay area radio stations in english, spanish, and chinese and well be using our variable message signs, the signs of direct drivers around congestion and parking. You may have seen those signs this week that satan messages that kids are back in school, slow down. And finally, our director of Government Affairs is representing San Francisco m. T. A. And many of the large city in california on the zero Traffic Fatalities Task force, which grew out of a piece of legislation that was discussed and he simply last year. The task force to set up to rethink the approach we take to sitting speed limits in california with an eye towards safety and reducing the excessive speeding that doesnt just plague us in San Francisco, but is the cause of fatalities statewide. Were looking to identify new ways and new policy ideas that we havent San Francisco forward and given a statewide focus to save lives in california. The task force met for the first time in july and in august, and they are due to have recommendations by the end of the calendar year. That is the update on the vision zero program. I know later on we will be having a deeper discussion of the central subway, but i did just want to update everyone that our Central Subway Program director is here. They are in the process of assessing our budget, timeline, and schedule, working closely with our contractor, and we do look forward to coming to this board with some more clarity about the timeline and the cost of what it will take to finish this transformative project and open it for the public. The good news we have is that we are continuing to move Construction Activity off the streets, particularly in chinatown. We believe that by Early September we will have all of our construction footprint off of stockton street in chinatown, and the only Construction Materials remaining in chinatown will be the half walk up half block of Washington West of stockton which provides access to the area where we continue to work on the station. The conditions on the street in chinatown and union square, and south of market are a far cry from what you would have seen just a few months ago. Finally on the more short term maintenance, we have crews who work every night in the union subway to maintain tract track structure. They have a two hour window to get in there after the subway shuts down at night and before it starts up again in the morning. That activity is happening almost every night. However, we have identified critical Maintenance Work that cannot be done within those two hour windows. That include work that includes work with including overhead lines, and working on automated train controls. Im telling you this because we are implementing some early closures. We started early this month. We will be doing it through late august and doing another early closure window in december. That means passengers was lightly inconvenienced in the subway shuts down at 9 30 p. M. , but gives our crews a long maintenance window to repair things like the overhead wires, which causes so much trouble. We did have a brief subway outage this week resulting in overhead wire difficulties. The early subway shutdowns that we are announcing our august and december, they are all about preventive maintenance and making sure weve got the time for our crews to get in there and do the work they need to make sure the subway is running more reliably. That concludes my report. Directives, any questions for director mcguire before we go to Public Comment . Ive two comments. I know well get into this more deeply on september 3rd, but related to vision zero, one is just a request that as we think about our some timber third meeting on vision zero that we really take a hard look at the data and what we are learning from the data. We need to learn about how we prioritize our action plans. Im looking forward to the conversation. Secondly, please know that we are making some of the changes like the pedestrian scrambles that director brinkman referred to earlier, preventing all dang