Mr. Chair, i have not received an indication that a member of the public wishes to comment. Any comments, the hours from the august 20th meeting . Board members, if theres a motion to approve . Moved to approve. All those in favour say aye and item 5 . Communications, none, and Unfinished Business by Board Members . Other than addressing the lack of air conditioning in our meeting chambers which has been addressed, Board Members, any items of new or Unfinished Business . I jill say, i was at the opening of the chase center but to and from was challenging. It took me over an hour to get there and i had to hop into a taxi to get here because waited 20 minutes and there was no kt. So this cant happen and members of public to note, people like me are trying it out and ive been in contact with Julie Kirshbaum but its critical because we will have a lot of people going there start on friday and tonight, too, so it would be great if it worked well. Thanks. Any other new or Unfinished Business . Item 7, directors report. Mr. Mcquire. Ill start with a special recognition and ill go to the podium for that. We dont have your walkup music today but hum it to yourself as you get up there and get revved up to give a great award. Now batting, tom mcquire. [ laughter ] there i was like to ask the director of communications to join me. So directors, i have the honour to honour but the sad news to share that after six years as an integral part of our agency and key member of our executive leadership team, candace sue is moving on. Shes been responsible for communication, Community Outreach bubble relations, social media, Digital Creative services and during her time with us, shes redefined what a Communications Director could main for a Transit Agency like ours and leaves behind a great legacy of all of the endeavors hes undertaken. Im wearing my blue mta pin and prides herself on inclusive on values important to the way the mta does business and i can tell you she responses to emails and texts 24 7 and shes a terrific partner. While shes a technical expert in almost every aspect of communications, theyre full of experts like transit and engineering, shes brings a perspective to the team, and thats something we need to hear working tirelessly on your strategic priorities. Her idea of how our actions will be received and well miss that. I hope youll join me in thanking her and wishing her well at the university of california. applause . Well say a few nice things but maybe first well let you have the floor since youre the communications expert. [ laughter ] thank you. Im director of the communications and marketing and its almost hard to approach the podium and speak today but i have been deeply honoured to have had the opportunity these last six and a half years as role in communications and i remember the day that i stood before this board to be introduced all those years ago and i think i said that i was so deeply. Impressed by the people of the ssmta and i stand before you to say the same thing. Six and a half years in, the time of working with every aspect of this agency and you all as a board has been an incredible experience and such a pleasure to work with the people of this agency. I think that my family, when they came here as immigrants in 1895, and they landed and tried to establish themselves here never would have dreamed that their great granddaughter would have stood in front of this board, in this role at city hall to do the things ive had the great honour to do. And im proud of that and really proud that the lee family, which is my matriarchal name had the opportunity to represent in that name. And i want to say a couple of thank yous, because i cant of course, stand here without deepening thanks to ed risken too hoo took a chance on me andi came to him with no one spec of transportation experience and i never lived here. He saw that was an opportunity to bring a fresh perspective to the agency and we both took a huge risk to relocate, for me to relocate here and able to correct in the way i believe i have. I want to say a huge thank you to this board to your support for my ideas and of my team, for all of these years and just, you know, the council counsel, connn and friendships. Ive watched you make so many hard decisions in this room. As a San Franciscoian, im thank you. Those who are here today as well as those who came before, i cant not mention bonji, who extended such an olive branch of friendship on my first day. Im deeply, deeply thankful to my communications colleagues, many of whom are here today. They make it look so easy, even when its really not and they make everyday a pleasure to come to work and finally, i just want to say and express my deep gratitude to my family. My family, my husband rob who is behind me and my daughter, violet, who you can see popped out of school today. They were willing to pick up everything to move from new york city to here for me to take on this opportunity and for me to move back home and that has been so meaningful for them to allow me to make sfmta my second home in San Francisco. Yes, im moving on to another Public Service opportunity and i think i would not have even thought that i could make a contribution in Public Service had i not had the opportunity to come here. Im looking forward to doing some new things and other things at the state level, but San Francisco and sfmta will always have a place in my heart and youll always be able to count on me to come back and testify at your podium for two minutes of my Public Comment time. Now. [ laughter ] thank you so much. Directors, director brinkman, may i call on you in. Ill miss you so much. Its been a great time working with you and your future employer and your future coworkers are so lucky to have you. Youll be great. I said hello to your daughter and his without realizing who they were and im so glad you could be here and thank you so much for sharing her all of these areas. These years. Violet, dont forget your home s an amazing woman and youre lucky to have it. I was so sad you were leaving. I was hoping it wasnt true and you would change your mind. Youve been a great asset to this agency and helped us think about communications in a way, i think, the agency had not and you helped us grow and helped to figure out how we do that well. One of my favourite changes the change from an l bus to a r bus, rapid. For those of us who remember the limited for a long time, thinking differently about transit and making it so were prioritytizing the right language, which is rapid not limited, which is negative connotation but makes a difference in market and people know this when they get millions of dollars. Youve brought that professionalism, that guidance, that voice and then overall skill to this agency that we were so lucky to benefit from. You are obviously a great Public Servant and im happy to you see you in Public Service. Im sad to let you go because we have benefited from all of your great work. So youll have tough shoes to fill. And the best to you and your family as you move on to your next endeavor. You and i have gone through a fair amount together, obviously, difficult issues we took on as a team, but for me, the image is not what we did here as city hall or at 1 south annex. Our daughters were in the same ballet class and we ended up riding the 43 bus together. When violet and gretta were small. I remember one time after my daughter, gretta had met violet and we saw her on the bus and chatted with her and her daughter and showed what books they were both reading. She said so, what exactly does candace do for muni and shes not driving the bus and dressed well like shes not riding the bus. Shes in charge for communications inbound and outbound and after a two or three minute conversation after what that meant and gretta looked at me and said, boy, that sounds hard. And she was right. You make it look easy. Not just easy, but through some of the most difficult times, you always handled yourself with poise and grace and professionalism and for someone who is the voice and the message of the agency, that calm and that class is really important and ive always appreciated that about you. I thank your family for sharing you with us and i wish you the best the university of california and i will note the last person we sent to the university of california sat in that chair and she came back. So just remember that little history point right there. [ laughter ] and best of luck. You have our deep gratitude on behalf of the board, the agency and the city of San Francisco. Thank you, candace. Thank you. Dr. Torez. Where are you going to in university of california. Im going to the university of California Office of the president. Well, give janet my best and i just swore in the new speaker and if you need help, let me know. I want to thank you for treating me with respect and i never thought you were going to leave, so im sad by your departure but i wish you all of the best and youll be working for an incredible woman who i knew as the university. Shes tough, a visionary and you fit right in. Thank you. Director e arakin. Congratulations on your new move. Im happy that you think of this as your second family and i hope youll stay connected to impart over your hardfought six years to whoever ends up being your sec cessor successor. You have helped people to take pride. My husband wearing his searc tr. You make people feel part of one team and thats vital work thats not always recognised. So thank you for recognising that work and i wish you the best of luck in your next steps. Thank you. Good luck, candace. Thank you. applause . So work on our central subway project reached an important milestone as of last week. If you have traveled around chinatown or union square over the last few year, you know stockton street is in various states of closure for over three years and were happy to announce that stockton street was open, completely to pedestrian, vehicular and transit. The first time its been this year in over three years. Restoring stockton street is a huge priority for the community and something we aim to get done this fall. Our new subway director and his team focus on getting it done ahead of schedule as in recognition how important for the communities who use stockton street. Were important to continue the dialogue by getting the central subway done. I was fortunate enough this morning to travel with candace to the new chase centre where director bordon was directing we cut the ribbon. I got a piece of the ribbon for my trouble. Its great to go there and see how integral transportation is to the mayor, devoted her remarks to thanking the warrio e warriors, as well as the partnership where once again, it was announced to the crowd and well keep announcing it through advertisements and messages that your chase centre ticket is your muni ticket. So excited about that partnership and watching the chase centre for the whole city today. We do want customers to know that starting on september 13th, the cable car will be shut down ten days and this shutdown will take place to enable us to finish the last gable car box. Bus shuttles will be serving all lines and the gear boxes that have been in Continuous Service since they were rebuilt need to be overhauled and we rehabbed the other ones. So this is the final one, but this gear box is used by every cable car line and the only way that the each of the cars can get back to the cable car barn. Weve done outreach to district supervisors, residents, merchants and tourism groups. This is an important investment that will enable the kabul car r to run for decade. We have the rehabilitation of the l tire ball and this is between mta, public utility commissions. And its a project that i know intent quitwe spent quite a bite talking about. Because of construction staging turned out to be an important issue to the Sunset Community and supervisor marr, we pulled the community, actually, about where they were prefer to see the equipment laid down and gave options, gave an option whereby we would stage the equipment and take up as many as 96 Parking Spaces and gave another option to take 16 parks space buzz have to remove a lane on the highway. While there were strong voices on both sides, the Community Voted to take less parking and taking away the travel lane. Network is underway and you can see crews replacing the sewer line between 45th and 46 proceeding and its a longterm project. We will be announcing bus substitutions passwordcallsubstd well make sure to let customers know those changes are coming. Two exciting upcoming events, september 7th and 8th will host the muni heritage weekend. This is a collaboration at the Market Street railway and an opportunity for customers to ride some of the oldest vintage vehicles. I know people travel from all over the state and all over the world to ride some of the vehicles from 11 00 a. M. To 5 0y at the San FranciscoRailway Museum at 77 stewart street. The highlight this year is an opportunity to ride cable car number 19 which was built in 1883 and has not run on our streets for 77 years. We have rehab ed this cabl rehad run a car that hasnt run in most of our lifetimes. Community heritage weekend is the kickoff of transit week, september 13th, a weeklong celebration by the sanfrancisco transit riders and a groups annual event to reach out to riders and operators and thank them for the choices they make to ride muni and the work they do to help us build a more sustainable, livable city and were pleased to be a partner and that concludes my report. Very good. Thank you, aremcguire. Any questions . Director torez . Do we have any idea when the central subway will open from your perspective yet. So we plan to bring an item to this board for action later this month and well be fai wonr to give you a completion date. Im tired of receiving all these letters and referring them to you with no response to the agency to the subcontractors who have not been paid. A lot of Small Companies will go under because were not paying them. I thought we were getting close to a resolution on paying some of them. Just want to reiterate again, that these subcontractors, im talking about the folks that are doing the subcontracting work, Small Companies and theyre getting hurt. Thank you. Thank you. I do have one question. About the cable cars. I saw ed is head of travel and i dont know why the information about the kabu cable cars didnt to him and he had all of these people calling because its a number one tourist attraction. So whatever we can do in advance, as much notice as possible, because this is one of our big tourism things to make sure i think Laurie Armstrong is the person on the press side and joe, the president s office, jessica richardson, just get those people just because they do call them specifically wondering whats going on with the kabu kabul cable cars. Thanks, well fix that right away. Mr. Boomer, Public Comment and how many cars do we have . For this topic, one speaker, this is an opportunity for members to address the board on items addressed only by mr. Mcguire. Two minutes, please. The speaker. Terry mamude. Good afternoon, directors. Stockston street traffic flow, crossing Market Street to fourth street, you have created such a pain. Every time i go five, seven, ten times from that route route, i d my teeth. Theres a threecar space to turn right and the second lane for the bus and taxi to go forward is blocked. For the people who are waiting to get into the right, they cannot. And the left side, one lane used to be a small narrow lane to make a left and so the spaces which are left in front of cole hardware, you have to remove them. So the right lane can become eight, ten cars, not two, three cars. Where there are ten cars every minute. You have made such a mess on that one block that literally five minutes is one block. Can you imagine that . You have a staff who go there and check it i . No. Because millions of dollars is spending. Do you see how much pain is there . I went through 500 time and i have a horrible, horrible pain from you just not fixing that shinning the wathe way you open. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, public item is closed. A scheduling issue through the directors report, if i could. I will not be able to be here most likely next week and i know that excuse me, next meeting. I know, miss kirshbaum, the plan was to present on the uni service and the issues i raised last time. So if i mai may invoke perfect privilege to move it to the first meeting in october and if they are agreeable on agreeablee any fellow Board Members throwing things at me. So if possible, to pull that off, i would appreciate it. Theyre nodding at each other. Thats great communication. Item number 8. Mismr. Chair, there is to report today. Item 9 . An opportunity for the members of the public to decreasaddressthe board on matte jurisdiction but not on today agenda. Mr. Chair, you have five, at least five speakers. Well go two minutes. The first speaker . Nancy arbuckle. inaudible perfor. Mr. Camude, the floor is yours for Public Comment. Good afternoon, directors. Taxi driver. So recently, i started driving a new meter, flyway taxi meter and that is a havoc on the taxi drives. Toudrivers. My metre started at 3. 50 and thathen it was 22cents. This is a meterimposed on us. I dont know if this will turn up on the screen but you will see from the point, ive trimmed it and can it show on your system . No, its not. And i wentu will send you a full video of six minutes. Im trying to download it on youtube. So let it start again. So this meter has ten other problems. You see, for example, 7 16, 8 02 and now reversing, 7. 85. Can you imagine this kind of meter . I trimmed it 20 seconds to show you this portion. Let me put it back ag