Ms. Bloomer commissioner singh commissioner borden director heinecke director ramos director rubke mr. Chairman director we have quorum item 3 electronic devices. Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Set cell phones on vibrate, the vibration could cause an interruption in the proceedings. Please note that cells cause trefrnsz item 4 approval of the minutes and motion to all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. So okay under communication lets talk about a lot about of rearranging of the situation due to a closed session at a certain 7, 8, 9 ill proposing we go through the would hear from the introduction of new Unfinished Business and he is directors report for special recognition then we will postpone Public Comment and consent until after the call consent after that and item 12 then the closed session so something on a short break while we will do the closed session 10 or 15 minutes. Mr. Chairman item 12 and the consent calendar will be heard before the closed session general Public Comment the rest of the directors report will be heard after the closed session. Thank you. Directors please be advised that item 11 has an removed at the request of staff item 6 introduction of new or urban finished business by Board Members. Board. The election of board chair and having to the rules of order. Nomination for board chair. I nominate tom nolan. Elaborate on that a second. Im second that nomination any further. All in favor, say i. I. The is have it. So thank you is there a nomination for vice chair. Yes. I nominate chair Cheryl Brinkman to serve ill elaborate with you i think that weve all committed this things are approving at muni with the professionalism and the service were delivering to our customers not perfect but those of us on the board see it Getting Better and appreciate that there are a lot of people that desire the credit i cant see any reason to change the leadership i see many reasons to keep above you i wholeheartedly support the election. Nomination. All in favor, say i. I. Congratulations maam, chair this officially makes me a lame duck. If you want to give on openly speech okay and go ahead. I was part of meeting with the travel and tourism meeting took place in confronting o congresswoman and thanks to roberta and others pulling together 9 notes i dlashtd on the transbay and the speeches office has been briefed by director reiskin but was very, very supportive of what theyve asked at the meeting the head of golden gate parks someone is from the rec and park and someone from the Presidio Trust and the congresswoman asked us to talk about the transportation to and from the presidio they made that request im not not the right person but wanted to pass that on this is access to the presidio a big issue not just to people that work in the presidio but people around the city this is of concern to the congresswoman. Members of the board. Im sorry. Ill ask the Board Members to adjourn in memory of two individuals a cable car briefr or driver that died he lost his life struck by a modify he came to gary in 2014 and dedicated City Employee that is part of San Francisco cable car and franco a police have committed he passed away during surgery so thank you directors report. Item 7 directors report. Good afternoon director reiskin. Good afternoon Board Members i didnt get up and run because of election congratulations to both of you i said to give a special recognition myself id like to ask patricia if she would come forward after serving for 10 years with the sfmta patricia is moving on to bigger and Better Things actually moving to the School District sorry to lose her and happy her talents will be put to work on the School District but we wanted to take the opportunity to recognize patricia to the agency and the people of San Francisco she worked mostly in the streets decision a i 0 moved to the office of the chief of staff the founding leader of talent a division it is similar to what she is doing in the School District patricia has done a lot of things for the agency but in the last few years led the effort to implement the goals for the Strategic Plan about approving the Work Environment and Cultural Agency for all the folks folks to deliver on the 3 goals you know some shes been really the kind of person that folks from around the agency felt very comfortable to talk to a bounce idea and seek mentorship and generally because she was an open attitude and extremely knowledgeable about how the city works and the knowledge to come back by and very much can do attitude that is something people appreciate but shes easy going really can get things done a few of things shes done through the corroborate to improve hiring and Personnel Management it is critically important to how were efficient and Many Services brigitte people together to get things done no one is a great listener focused on building the riderships and trust and correlate within an agency but helping outside the to establish that we actually asked people to kind of make mimentsz on her and supportive an inspirational colleague honest and accurate assessment of and listens and celebrates successes and helps to brainstorm the strategic approaches we decided riccardo 0 wins the aware for she loves the Government Service and getting things done she does all that and did it really well, so we said to take the opportunity to pub recognize her for her years of service to wish her the best and office this certificate of appreciation clapping. on behalf of the board of directors thank you for your outstanding work i know youll be used in your industry. Thank you so much director reiskin as great to have you done here and thank you to the board for recognizing me today and thanks to my outstanding cheerleader for coming glad youre here im or ive cabin here under 10 years with 7 titles and 6 bosses and so many amazing opportunities my most memorable is working with the mta i dont think that is a Single Division that is greater in my first seven years i was in the division i want to give special attention to them and at the my time i had the pleasure of working with the engineers and planners to 2k3we78 confidence it San Francisco streets have been excellent and more recently in the staffs office through any management work had the great opportunity to work with folks without them not been able to accomplish what we did i want to mention tim and christen and on the incredible ann and chavez and i cant forgot the super transplanted people that helped us to move forward thank you for your hard work and denomination can i want to thank the mta the superintendant one thing ill knew theyll them what is on their minds and it helped me i want to say thanks for the Division Heads that worked with those folks one a mentor and also always tells me what is on her mind i want to say thank you to the team i worked with in the staffs office now the office of Talent Management lead by patricia who is an amazing leader and sophie and others what have joined us recently youre doing great work ill be cheering you on from affair as i move to the San Francisco unified School District as the director of the Talent Management im wiser for working at the sfmta thank you. Ill be cheering from down the street clapping. so mr. Chairman per your distribution on item 8 the Advisory Committee report mr. Wherever is not here in report but followup with the consent calendar the only item thats been removed from the consent calendar is 10. 3. So members a motion on the consent calendar motion to second. Any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. The is have it. 10. 3. Approving the program for 5. 5 million for the fund from the Municipal Transportation Agency from the light rail project to the hybrid bus 5. 5 million of general fund set aside in fiscal year 2018, 2019 for the llp project the members of the office o good morning, mr. Straus as. We thought the general fund was flush here we go. inaudible when. Hold on to the microphone thank you. When prop b was passed it included the provision that the fund had flexibility to be used for capital or operating fund. What is happening with the general fund this year already underscores the value and the risk of the vat i pulled this item from the agenda because i want to caution you about using prop b fund capitol hill for Capital Projects including to date inaudible . Thank you. Members of the board its a pleasure number 3. Motion to approve second. Per discussion. All in favor, say i. I. The is have it. Down the road. We thought about in terms of how we have the system and prioritize the plans for the Strategic Plan is that how we appropriate the fund. Absolutely we may touch on it at the workshop but a part of Larger Development do i need to stop. laughter . As the Capital Budget and looking at the prop b revenues were currently targeting them towards early developing a program ton on the capital side but as we do the budget on the operating side well do it parallel and be mindful the fact the legislation of legislation the voter legislation gave us the flexibility should we want to recommend them on the operating side that will be factored into this next week starting with the workshop. Ms. Bloomer. And mr. Item 11 is off the just not u junked and 12 the Division Section to spent transit and 16th street and Church Street and bryant and it castro and third street to 7 in the westbound and eastbound subjecting t t r public works an approving the proposed modified project and various traffic modifications along the fillmore corridor. Mr. Chair the project manager for this mini will be talking about the item. Good afternoon. Good afternoon director. I was who will be joining me also assisting in the planning and outreach as was mentioned the realignment of the ongoing muni Forward Initiative that brilliance it up. Did you load it. Yes. Okay. The overall goal of the transit reliability and operation throughout the city the networking streets on the opposite projects were moving forward with again here is the map that pretty much everyone is aware of the 22 first name is currently experiences much congestion along and focuses the liability of mission and commercial corridor so the goal again is to inaudible all this improved inaudible . Outreach we have meetings often the inaudible on the corridor the meetings were held on the corridor thats where we have a wide variety of people in attendance and not only the meetings 25 hundred flyers with 10 thousand inaudible and also online we created an Online Survey for people to provide their input what they thought about the project and parking improvements not only a transit corridor but on the sides inaudible develop those theyre welcome inaudible the project will be a political approach to look at the transit and see what we can do to improve the impacts el especially on the safety part so from some or serving i have a summary on some of the summaries are here and maybe on the power point but almsly we asked about the transit only lane where people live and how they commute to the neighborhood their impacts on the projects like this and over bundy there was a transit only lane along the corridors that go through 80 percent of people inaudible on the survey inaudible also as i mentioned weve also have submitted our in june of last year, we committed an application the application that the city submitted for federal funding with that, we received a variety of support letters if neighborhood organizations weve been working with as we made our way through the project so what are we are doing our proposal as we look at third street and again, the limits are 16th street between terrace and third street and currently it is two lanes westbound and third street two lanes going westbound direction and one eastbound our proposal to take one of the traffic lanes and convert it into the corridor in eastbound from shorts to bryant street physically narrower and unable to fit into both transit only lanes and be a commercial corridor if 0 approximately bryant streetcar towards third street it widen two transit only lanes in both directions so, now the consequences of this looking at the usage of 16th street between castro and 16th street two bike lanes were fast with the relocate if transit to those we dont have bike lanes only to shift the lanes if 16th street on the 17th street it will create the lanes continue mission and 17th street so mission fire station. Along the transit only lane were looking to update some of the traffic infrastructure fiber options and creating a series of the new traffic stops and were moving the transit to near side to the far side and working with the community we with got their feedback in the corridor and made adjustment to our plan this is just a snapshot of what it looks like it shows did transit lane in the commercial corridor and towards the bryant to 7th street and two transit only lanes were expecting improvements up to 25 percent along with improved safety within the corridors and also by having a more efficient system will be at this point, ill to thank my team members to bringing us where we are today and ann ive mentioned for the work hard and to others and theyre also with the community and j. J. R the support chair of loourtd and provided valuable input for this project inaudible thank you. Questions or comments director ramos. I had a quick question the area between church and bryant where we will not go with the westbouor space two dedicate lanes can you talk about that. We inaudible street wide. Uhhuh. And the corridor a high demand for input with the two transit only lanes and the parking within inaudible . Got it okay. No, i understand i wanted to make sure it was clear there is space we want to protect the parking okay. Thank you. Members of the public. Ms. Bloomer. Several members of the public who wish to address the board well swap out the microphone here well start with calling names . Real quick. Mute it. Mute it . Okay. Check, check. calling names . Good afternoon mr. Frank. Thank you board i appreciate your time im with the Church Association and wanted to express the concerns theyve provided me on Church Street stop traffic is stopped for the red lane and families cant get safely in and out of their driveways and mta zoning result 57 percent decrease in mere seconds compared to the 10 minute traffic con skating spaces will drive away tourist and for car shares is unfair for the public streets with all the road diets on santa fe and chavez and bayshore and future spreadsheets and masonic and the raising of i 2 the fruition and danger is reached Epic Proportions pushing the families and commuters is no solution so we propose we really think big long term San Francisco deserves a visionary regional acholic beverage approach we think we need citywide underground to accommodate the density and bring it into the future put our energy into incentive based positive instead of negative carrageenans we can do this thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Thank you Peter Straus Puc importantly the transit rider were very much in support of this project and urge to approve it today, the dpranz with the best invasions weve started to implement and were glad to see them expanded to the location in 60 years we might think the subway on 16th street im pleased part of proposal in the center the streets fiscal along the curbs and the center were better for reliability and urge the agency to be bold and visiony to look for center lanes and late night want to lastly want to expedite this project especially the electrification i understand is stretching out certainly years we wanted to see this fast tracked and in exclusion to support this is the sort of thing we want to see thank you. Thank you, mr. Straus. Christopher calling names the last person to fill in a speaker. Im christophers ill special hr o n e s thank you. And ill also speaking on behavior the San Francisco rider a planner and a residents of San Francisco and i ride the 22 bus i want to briefly state my support for the project prior to moving here to selfSan Francisco i worked on similar transit prioritization projects in new york city and brooklyn ive heard about the benefits theyre real real benefits in brooklyn and here the muni estimates 5 minute costs savings in the corridor for rider that didnt maintained seem like much efficiently the borders nerk a real differences in peoples lives and the safety benefits in the corridor that were briefly alluded to make this a worthwhile and important project and want to reiterate my support thank you for the opportunity. calling names the last person to address. Thank you, president and commissioners mark taxi Works Alliance the sfmta generally supports the transit lanes is not taken examined overseeing changes because we were not aware this will will be coming up now but i confidentially speak for the board to say we do support those transit lanes, however, i have a few comments one of which is under the resolu