Clerk communications. Mr. Chair i have none for you today. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Any new or Unfinished Business youd like to address . Very good. Clerk directors report. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to turn the mic over to director of transit, Julie Kirshbaum foray wards for her amazing crews who do the actual hard work of serving our public. I think the first photo is ready. Everyday our overhead line unit performs preventative maintenance and keeping our Service Running safely. Theyve also been one of the teams thats been pivotal in really taking advantage of the extended maintenance window and have replaced thousands of feet of overhead wire and i think removed over 30 slices from the system. But they also have a responsibility to respond to emergencies and addressed quickly as possible so we can get service that going. That means theyre working between trains, sometimes that means that theyre working on hours or under tremendous amount oof pressure. Most recently we had a situation. I woke up to the jay line is down, we had someone try onto the tracks. They hit a pole we have overhead wire down in both directions. But i was very, very late to the story because we had two overhead lines team and eric morris, within of our field managers and they had already been working well into the night restored. What they were able to do and it did take two was t crews was thy replaced a pole. It was a wooden pole in the area so we got a little bit lucky we had a replacement pole that they were able to secure it. They re adjusted the overhead lines in both directions and tested the trains. All before 8 00 a. M. They also were supported by our staff in the field led by eric morris as well as the Transportation Management center because it effected the jay train pulling out in the morning, it also meant the fline couldnt pull in that night. So, while we had half of the fline trains pulled in the other half were stuck on Church Street that we were able to get turned around and ready to go back no service the next day. This photo here. I dont know if we called sfgtv. We can see it. Ok. This is a little bit brighter. You see the pole they replaced and how the wire is secured on both sides. I would like to recognize our two overhead line crews. A lot of the crew is sleeping because they work graveyard and so well send them their awards. With us today to represent the entire team is louis giles and john devine. I also want to recognize rob are the ratoff, peter sangita, donald landry, donna silva, robert katelli and timmy. In addition to their overhead line inspectors, david chazinski and overhead morris. The overhead line crew request by name because he is one of very few poem that can speak language and as well as keep the Service Running an. Let us congratulate you for this recognition and all you are doing for the city. This is the work that goes unseen but certainly is felt by the riders on a daily basis so thank you for your actions that day and thank you for your actions everyday. If one of you would like to speak, wed love to hear from you. [laughter] i would like to thank our group when where ou we were oute scene. This is a surprise to me because i recommended them and in return they recommended me back. [laughter] i do appreciate the things that theyve been doing as with all our crews, our maintenance, our overhead lines crews. We learned so much through our chase center adventure. Being able to do things remotely and not just from a divisional standpoint as julie mentioned. We had a number of vehicles stuck outside and being able to get operators when they first report to work to those locations to take those vehicles and to provide some Similar Service we cant actual leggett past that damaged area was pretty good and we did that during the chase. Working with the overhead Line Department in terms of just voltage and what we are capable of doing now that we had practice it was good. It was brought vehicles around and i want to thank them formally and its extremely hot. Thank you guys. Thank you, very much. [applause] i couldnt have done it without my team. We had two crews and in total there was about 12 of us out there. We did it safely and that is the most important thing that safety is a top priority and before we engage in anien counter, the job is done safely and we a good safety and i was heading to do an inspection there and we have to keep a subway going and i got called off to 2 00 in the morning and i headed out there and it was a mess. We had wires down and there was a pole down. If you, when you get no an emergency situation like that, and you have a good tail board and you give everybody a task and everybody is assigned something to do, your sense of a safety heightened and its just a linear process of everybody working together. Typically a job to replace the pole and put the wire wishes ban the air could be 10 to 12 hours. We got it going at 3 00 and im not sure what time we restored power. When you have broken polls you dont know what you are getting into. We have downed power lines. If the pole if we couldnt have gotten the poll out in its original position because they snap at the base, we have to move stuff around and it could take the job 12 to 14 hours. Everything worked in our favor. We got it done. So it was successful. We actually enjoy that. We wish that stuff would happen more often. [laughter] you guys probably to do dont whoa like that stuff. You only get one plaque a year. [laughter] dont wish like that, ok. [laughter] its one of those once where the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Because you have to stay up all night doesnt mean tom lynn has to. If we can have more of that we would appreciate it. Although i dont think you would appreciate it. Job well done and we just want to acknowledge that you acknowledge us and we go out every day and every night and were 24 hours seven days a week 365 days a year and we are here to provide service and keep those trains and buses moving and thank you for your time. [applause] very good. All right. While they pose for the pap razzie its not only seen the Technical Skills and the teamwork and creative tee and safety orientation our crews have but the obvious pride they have in combining all those skills together in order to serve the public and the agency. I love working for these guys. So, on to other topics. Weve got an update on vision zero, on Human Resources, and a couple of other information items i want to pass along to you. Weve had two Rapid Responses in february. Both of which ended up being fatalities including this sundays recent fatality corner of taylor and gary in which an elderly woman was killed while in the crosswalk crossing on the green. We completed the Rapid Response for the first one which resulted in some daylighting in the south side at poll bein polk and werg on the one that happened on sunday. Weve got Good Progress on quick build related to safety and as many of you know, we hosted a public open house for our valencia street quick build many of the question from 19th street to cesar chavez from Market Street to 15th. Over 400 members of the public, members of the business community, congregation showed up and provided us detailed comments that were incorporating into design changes and some additional conversations for community. And well hopefully be able to move forward next month. The Opening Ceremony for the town send corridor quick build is scheduled for march 10th. If you can cue the photo up, we have this is the work wove done on division a bike destination and we did a transit Boring Island to handle it was challenging given the town that its an unaccepted street without real drainage or you know things like utility poles in the middle of the street so we did the best we could given the resources that were available. Were also working hard with the state of california so the state zero Traffic Fatality Task force released its report finally on a whole variety of topics including automated Speed Enforcement and other critical tools that municipalities need if were going to have any hope to make Real Progress on eliminating traffic fatalities. Our Government Relations team is working with Laura Freedman in order to draft legislative language for bills that will address the recommendations of this report and this is super important work that will make progress and looking at the data and the enforcement and on our High Injury Network that is high so back in 2017, in collaboration with the Police Department issued about 1800 speeding citations along a handful of high visibility corridors and resulted in some success about a reduck in speed that lasted for a week and demonstrated yes, enforcement is important but it has to be combined with. Chinese americans is the second racial group in San Francisco and the most common language other than english spoken at home is chinese and Chinese Americans including the fatalities of this last sunday make up a dis and so, we are doing a whole advertising and social Media Campaign aimed at chinesespeaking drivers including drivers who use we chat and other services that are less commonly used among the englishspeaking population and working with the World Journal for advertising and getting the word out to them. With that id like to bring up kim better will he on the progress were making on one of our biggest problems, the vacancy, space of hiring and ensuring that Human Resources is fully staffed to be able to allow us to achieve our goals. Thank you, director dom lynn. Good afternoon. I am really excited to be here to update you about our hiring trends and what we have been accomplishing over the past few months. And specifically the h. R. Team. The slide you have in front of you shows our transit operator hires by calender year. So, it shows from 2016 to 2019. Can we pull that slide up here. Sfbtv. Thank you. So as you can see from 20182019 we had a 65 increase in the number of operators that we hired so thats phenomenal work incustody owes to the h. R. Team for that. In february we have 2609 transit operators. For 2020, this table actually gives you a timeline of what 2020 looks like in terms of hiring our operators. And you can see on the left hand column, where it says 2020 recruitment timetable, there are four different recruitment slots. There are two week intervals and four different intervals where we accept Application Force operators. The first one closed on monday. Great news, we had 721 applications for that last year for our frame of reference, we have 561 so that is great news so were trending up in the numbers of applicants were getting so well have an examination ton march 31st and april the first and any of the, all of those applicants westbound called to test for those two days and then those who actually pass the test will then be referred to the city drive and tate for that is april the 17th. Great nus in terms of the city drive. We just signed another new contract with them which starts in april and through june of next year and i know you all heard through the reliability workgroup that were having issues getting our d. O. T. Physicals, et cetera, and weve really been able to successfully iron that out to the city drive program. Any candidate deferred to the city drive program will have it done through city drive so it froese up the lots that we have for our current employees as well as our new hires and other possessions and that is really a positive. When you had and then we generally have a 72 passing rate on the test. So if we lock at that for the numbers and the percentages well end up with 241 candidates and through that they still have to pass the d. O. T. The drug test and get their c. D. L. Last year we had six Training Classes so we increased it by three and were projection is well accommodate each class and well have 45 candidates in each class and we actually are in the process of filling classes through june 8th. So were on target and our goal for hires for this year is 396. That is for the operator. And i just wanted to also mention our miscellaneous position so this slide represents all of our new hires for january and february and we had 38 higher sustainability streets and so our total hires is 75. You can also see that we filled three h. R. Positions. We are continuing to diligently to in february we implement our recruitment policy and part of that is to make the process more efficient and reduce barriers to hiring and thank you for discussing our progress and i want to thank transit we really appreciate their appreciate. Wonderful. Director, in terms of outreach, is it state wide or regional bay area looking for candidates if. It depends on the position but we are doing both and were actually making sure that were reaching to other avs thats part of our policy wore making sure that depending on the position, whether its through other per odd cal transit related job postings, and other specific in terms of enhancing our diversity outreach as well so were making a concerted beyond the county and city of San Francisco. What other agency in the bay area you are competing with . Other Transit Systems definitely and also its one, telephone. And also you know, other city departments so wor were definiy trying to make sure our outreach efforts are broader, wider and more diversified. When those applications come in, what are they saying why they may not want to come here if the cost of housing or living . Board of directors. When we reach out to the applicants and meet the minimum qualifications and some of them, there was a 50 rate where theyll come in and test so one of the things we do is surveying that other 50 who dont show up to see what is the reason. Did they get another job . Was it the cost of living or housing. Its something that we want to implement. Thank you. Surement. Please. Thank you for showing us you hired three h. R. People. I know that you still have having savacancies. How many are left. 20. So three helps and you are still thats right. Thank you. So, my final question and we can move on first of all, thank you, kimberley, very much. When we had all of these vacancies to fill, there was a lot of intra specifics about the reason. Was there something unattractive about working at the agency . Was it a function of cost or a function of customer treatment and management . We looked at everything and i realized theres no simple answer but one of the overriding answers we heard was we just needed to expedite the process and free up the process to get people hired to fill these vacancies. I assume but i want to ask because i think its important that the public and everyone know what were doing and what the reasons are, i assume that this experience has taught you that analysis was correct and that when we free up and open the process, better, wore going to hire qualified people. Thats right. Thats right. So one of the things with our policy, were looking to make sure that were having a more efficient process and were reducing any barriers or impediments we may have to filling those positions so definitely. Right. So the conclusion, if i can can be a cheerleader is this is a wonderful place to work and were making it a better place to apply as well. Definitely. Very good. I have one question. I know we were training more trainers to actually have more operators go through the process, can you remind me where we are in that process. We are in the process of hiring more trainers and i believe we have a about another 30 days, i believe, where we expect to be staffed with that. As i consequence, how many classes will do it mont monthly . Yes, we have a class every five weeks and the expectations is we will put 45 employee 45 en each class. Even with the new trainers . I thought we would do more . It comes out to every five weeks. Ok. Yeah. All right. Your deposition is over. Well done. [laughter] and director tom lynn, i assume theres coordination with leo his staff because obviously we budgeted for all these positions but it wont upset our budget projections, it will make us happy from an operational stand point. Thats right. All of these oppositions were paid for. Very good. Ok. So two more quick items. One is sunday streets. This sunday marks the beginning of sunday streets season for this year. Were starting on valencia street which is closed to cars just for the day. From Market Street down to 26th. If you bring up the images online, as many of you know who have been to our sunday streets event, the streets are heavily programmed. We have some pictures available on the show sfgovtv. So the streets are heavily programmed with interesting activities for families and kids and people of all kinds. Next slide. And usually it turns out about 85 of the attend des are san franciscans who spend money in the neighborhood while theyre hangout. Were supporting a nonprofit called livable city which organizes it and were also partnered with the San Francisco department of publichealth. Wovweve got 10 events this yean the mission and we also have events in the excel seer, sunset golden gate park, soma the western edition for more information, you can go to sundaystreetssf. Com. And finally, and you can bring up the last image, i wanted to point out that on march 18th, transit driver appreciation day. Another one of our favorite days of the year honoring the day allegedly that the first horsedrawn omnibus debut in paris in 1662. Basically there to honor the extraordinary work our transit operators do every day getting the whole array of san franciscans to work and to their doctor appointments and also dough escalating conflict and providing directions and providing special as