Not real front line stuff, but important in terms of back house. We have a lot of skilled professionals within the agency, many of whom are getting close to retirement and we dont necessarily have a lot of folks to come in after them, so we are really happy to be about to launch a partnership with a couple of the Machinist Union recollect local 1414 and Electrician Union local 6 together with the city. Well start apprenticeship programs for a number of our most critical difficult to fill and mission critically important craft positions we need. These are the fonegs maintaining the muneee and traffic and signal systems. We are joining to create these apprenticeship programs modeled an successful programs in place in the sit a such as labors local 261 and in addition we joined a National Partnership of transit agencies that are led by a Organization Called the Transportation Learning Center to develop rail car technician program. A small effort on our part we contribute to a larger effort that will create paths inside those type of jobs. The partnership got 3 quarter of a Million Dollar grant from department of labor and will participate as a part of the implementation of that grant and somewhat timely at the beginning the month the Obama Administration announced the First Ever National recognition of apprentices. It is something we in San Francisco go to local hire program for contract employees and internally recognize the importance and excited to create the internship programs not just so we have a workforce coming into dlaess kraestz the maintenance needs but to create opportunities for san franciscans to get meaningful good study career jobs and careers. We are excited about that. And then lastly, director boarden made reference and there is a lot of discussion about the super bowl and overhead wires so want to touch on it briefly. It was back in april i think when the Host Committee of the super bowl, for the super bowl announced their desires to have a super bowl fan village at the foot of Market Street. There was a big graphic on the front of the newspapers. It wasnt until this past week people got interested and excited about it. We have work would the Host Committee with the other city agencies since actually before that time to figure out how to make this a great event. We have lots of big events in San Francisco from the parades to americas cup toother activities that make use of our streets, take advantage in a good way to the the streets and bring peep tool the struts and that is all good. It is our rowel role to make sure the events can kbungz people good too and from safely to the events and also at the time making sure that we are not significantly adversely impacting the rest of us who are not participating in these events. San francisco has to move z people have to get to work and school and to where ever they want to go so that is how we are approaching this, making sure the event is safe and accessible but make sure the rest of us are not too adversely discorrupted in the process. Part of what their desire is for some structures in the roadway towards the foot of market, there are state safety regulations that dont allow structures to be within a certain distance of overhead wires so the extent we permit structures to be in the streets it requires overhead line remubl. We have not agreed to anything, we are discuss and negotiateating with them. We have been trying to help them understand that we need to minimize any disruption to our Transit System and to the cost to the extent there is overhead line removal we agree upon they will cover the cost for that. We already have a service plan that allows all the buses that go down Market Street to get to terminals within a block or 2 of where they normally go so we have the beginning of the Transportation Plan the soaper bowl and are committed to make sur the event works. Our next meeting to give a little broader picture of all the Transportation Plans associated with the super bowl. Member thofz board have questions . I havent receivedgy indication a member of the public wishes to address you on any matter discussed by mr. Riscon. I dont see anybody making a move forward, so moving on. Item 8 Advisory Council report. Mr. Weaver here . Yes. Good afternoon mr. Weaver. Good afternoon. Today the recommendations i will go through resulted from discussions at the november 5 meeting which primarily involved the revaluation of the Residential Parking Program and also the Commuter Shuttle Program. First motion here is that the sfmtacfc recommends the agency investigate parking permits to the number of licensed drivers in any given household. The cac recommends sfmta investigate making temporary parking passes easier to obtain. I think the model that was mentioned in the discussion is same day. Perhaps printing it out. The next motion had it do with parking permits. The cac recommends the sfmta investigate eliminating parking permits for buildings built with fewer Parking Spaces than residential units. The next motion was introduced but failed of adoption. The ca cr rks recommends the Planning Department do a full Environmental Impact report and i believe that has to do with the Shuttle Program. Next motion also failed adoption. Cac urges the boardf directors to remove the computer shuttled buses from the red zones and create shuttle hubs or legal spaces that are in compliance with the law. The next motion, motion 6 did pass. The cac urges mta board to investigate pricing by weight of computer shuttle bus to encourage appropriate sized buses and cross straet recoverry road ware. The next one the cac recommended parking control officers tasks with monitoring the shuttle bus. Motion number 8, the cac recommends the board of directors adopt the Commuter Shuttle Program condition on inclusion of the other recommendations related to it. The next motion is not about either of those subjects, it is about the geary brt program. The caa recommends prior to adopting the final configuration for the geary brt a study be done regarding the proposed geary light rail project and that the geary brt be designed in a manner to facil thait the rail project including making the segment between palm and 27 avenue rail ready including surface work, [inaudible] in order to avoid disruptive demolition in con junction with the rare project in the future. Thats it. Student any questions or comments kblrks before we move on, we have a fire code which doesnt allow peep tool stands if so if you can find a seetd in the room. We also have a overflow room in the north light court. Those members who wish to address the board seated in the north light court well read multiple cards ahud so you will have plenty of time to make your way up to this room; item 9 Public Comment. Opportunity to address the board in matterer within the jurisdiction of is rks fmta but not on todays agenda. Well start with john lowell followed by alice beerman and bob dockens. Good afternoon. Good afternoon member the board of San Francisco. My name is John Alex Lowell and serve as the Pedestrian SafetyAdvisory Committee and Senior Member of the San FranciscoBike Coalition since december 99. I come to you to site 3 points of my concern and encouragement. I encourage you to engage the state. Engage such 2 years ago when you proposed changing in parking permits for people with disabilities in San Francisco. I encourage you again to approach cal trans to talk about automatic speed enforcement. You have done such by approaching the state directly before and i encourage you to do such again particularly in the need of enforcing speed limits in San Francisco to prevent any collision that can lead to any injury or fatailty. Please approach the state. The second point i encourage you to work well with particularly [inaudible] and Barbara Garcia and directors of city agencies to coordinate changing in street ways as there has been collisions that have occurred because of delayment of it that you had recommended of stop signs and stop lights and encourage you to coordinate that. Lastly, i encourage you to really consult with the mtc about closing of Market Street transit lines because it will effect construction of the transbay terminal and the san trans bus line on Second Street so you need to consult with those other agencies and the mtc. Thank you. Next speaker, please alice beerman followed by bob darkens and rosy gozauly. Good afternoon mr. Beerman good afternoon, my name is alice beerman. I think some ofia know me, i am here to represent people with disabilities and asking you to not reroute the bus 33 line. I know you have what on your plate making changes and making sure safety is number 1 like you said earlier so i want to ask you again, please do not reroute the 33. People with disabilities and seniors have to get to the hospital and they should not have to transfer. Thank you so much. Next speaker bob dockens followed by rosy gozauly and herbert wineer who is the last person to submit a speaker card. My name is daub docken and speak ing for the veterans at the Veterans Hospital cht the 38 bus that comes to the hospital, when the bus comes he discharges passengers and close the door and most the patients are on wheelchair, sticks or something and it gets cold. If you can ask the driver to get on at the hospital without closer the door i appreciate it. That is what we need because we are old and when your bones get cold you are finished. Next speaker, please rosy gozauly and herbert wineer. Good afternoon good afternoon board members. My name is rosy gozauly and live at 239 claiten and every week i visit a friend who lives where [inaudible] fredric and belvedere. I called the 311 number spokingen with people and received a callble this issue. With was going to be looked into and this is months. Im very happy i just heard that you say safety is number 1. That is a good thing. I want to talk about fredric between claiten and coal. There is a stop sign at claiten and coal but there is no crossing lines at fredric and belvedere and according to my friend who owns his house for about 40 years in the last 5 or 6 years the traffic is crazy. People drive very fast, it is downward slope and i notice quh i Cross Fredric to get to his house walking up belvedere, if there is any sizable truck, suv they cant see me crossing and it is taking ones life in their hands. I come here today to speak about the shuttles, but i think that after reading on line about how quickly one of thsupervisors said he would have stop signs put at bay and buchanan because of the unfortunate accident of the 12 year old boys i dont want to wait at thaintersection for Something Like this to happen before the board takes action to put opstop sign. I dont think crossing signs are enough. Next speaker, herbert rineer is the last speaker regarding general Public Comment. Herbert wineer. Ip to follow up on the paratransit presentation that was made at the last meeting. One concern i have is the paratransit may be overloaded. They do a commendable job and trying their best to serve all the people they can, but when you force people to walk a quarter of a mile to the bus stop, that will create more demand on paratransit. They will be over taxed. The present arrangement the buses are moreachy sessable is workabilism you create more of a problem, you create more of a buden on paratransit. It is difficult to reserve paratransit vehicle tooz begin with and it is only a quarter of a mile to the bus stop. This seems to be particularly wasteful when you eliminate bus stop squz consaltidate and modify bus runs. This is socially unrealistic. Now, i made the reference at the last meeting there was rational planning and it is perfectly rational with supply z demand, but it is like bomb people 50 thousand miles in the air, you dont see the damage below. There is another qualification too. When you bomb people 50 thousand feet in the air you bomb the enemy and in this situation you bomb your own passengers. Mubing to consent calendar. These are considered routine unless [inaudible] no members of the public have use muni joan and white curb zoning1 staff made request for modification to the transportation code. It modifys section 914 [inaudible] av and the language that would be added reads as follows, a description the means by which applicants have considered the San Francisco board of supervisors march 2015 labor harmony resolution including steps taken to address the concerns set forth in such resolution and agreements or documents evidencing such steps as well as information regarding shuttle driver schedules including split shift, work hours, working condition squz wages. And then additional language would be added, a new number, d would be ated that states the permitee shall provide notice to sfmta of labor dispute in which it is involved that has a potential to cause disruption of service. Staff asked a amendment to the resolution be made too as follows, the new resolve clause reads the San FranciscoTransportation Agency finds [inaudible] in attachment a the resolution supports the determination the proposed Commuter Shuttle Program and transportation amendments are exempt from Environmental Review section 15301 and 8. Incorporates findings by this reference fully set forth should we ask on that first . No it is recommended that you hear the staff presentation and take Public Comment at the end when you consider the entire motion you would consider these 2 motions prior. Lets have the staff report. Thank you. Hank wilson from sustainable Streets Division will give ooverview of what is before you for consideration. Good afternoon chair nolan and membersism thank you for having me. I am the project manager on the Commuter Shuttle Program and know about 2 years a lot of folks have worked hard and did a lot of outreach and this is a culmination of what we are working on so excited to be here. This slide tells what ill talk about today. History and context for why we have a commuter Pilot Program and talk about the Pilot Program is drawing to a close january of next year. Talk about the evaluation we did and talk about the proposal Commuter Shuttle Program before the board. The upgrades we made to the program and how we built upon what we learned before you proceed, joined by supervisor wiener who is here and want to talk about this and has another commitment shortly. You care to address the board before the presentation . Good afternoon supervisor wean, i am here today to encourage you to adopt the Commuter Shuttle Program and also continue to work closely with the shuttle providers to make sure that impacts on our neighborhoods continue to be addressed and reduced and also to encourage you to fully implement the labor harmony provision i know is in active discussion and reflects both the language and the spirit of labor harmony revolution i authored at the board of supervisors. I really appreciate the work that chs done during the Pilot Program. The data that was produced is incredibly useful and actually very reflective of some of the more informal surveys that happened before so we know of course there are i think 8500 San Francisco residence that are relying on the shuttle to get to work. We know this removes cars from the road because about half of these residence would drive by themselves if they didnt have the shuttle and the vast majority of the people riding the shuttles if they evaporated tomorrow still live in San Francisco. The notion that the shuttles are causes gend fiication regardless of the relevancy to ceqa, it is simply not connected to the data that we have. People live where they want to live and whether they have access to the shuttles they will live here, so we need to address the issues by housing policy not by depriving people of the ability to get to work using mass transportation. We also know that we have seen through Pilot Program the conflict with muni at bus stops is reduced. I represent a district that is probably the most impacted by the shuttles and probably has the most residence who ride the shuttles and i want to thank mta to working to try to disperse the shuttles mpt we had 26 street and duncan street that early on were very heavily impacted by too many shuttles going down the streets and the agency worked hard to disperse the shuttles. There are areas of impact and the agencies continue to