Roman inspector was passed away and will adjourn employment of the agency since 2001 moved in the enforcement and he was an exemplar employee with your content well adjourn in his memory. Item 6 introduction of new business by the members of the board seeing none, item 7 directors report ed reiskin. Members of the staff and public to compensate for the lack of new business i have a lengthy report we had only one meeting in december 1st, i do want to ask our director of finance information and technology to recognize one of her employees. Good afternoon. Happy new year id like to introduce adrian part of our team in finance agency her manager wanted to introduce her ill let her do that. Good morning what a great way to start the year adrian a fourth generation person grew up here and went to Lowell High School and graduated into Lowell High School and San FranciscoState University i want to say a couple that things shes been one of the quiet assets managing a lot of people in the team over one thousand moves now evolved that role to encuss our 28 facilities and our zero Waste Resources shes saved us over 800,000 from mother pretty much new items and recently became resoundproofed associate but want to recognize her on our team representing us when it comes to new hires and dealing with peoples changes in the organization and say thank you for your service and appreciate you. Thank you clapping. so the only thing ill add as you may know our Strategy Plan goal 4 has a vision to create a Great Workplace for our staff i never always underestimate the importance of an individual jangs shes keeps our staff happy and she often deals with controversial issues adrian i know know youve dealt with issues and directors asking for Different Things and manage it to well, we appreciate our attitude and our expertise to keep us in mind so thank you, thank you. clapping. on behalf of the director of public works the people of San Francisco thank you for your outstanding and important work. Thank you so much i want to say a few words i received the agenda ill keep to short greetings members of the audience and sfmta thank you for this wonderful recognition for the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency i want to especially thank the manage for mentoring and fascinating any placement from the Redevelopment Agency and like to thank my fellow members in the administration they can stand up for one moment were a small team. clapping. so like to thank in addition calling names whose new to the team were a small team of 6 everyone is not here were a small team of 6 and the first people in problem solving unpopular decisions as director mentioned our team works to fill in gaps and answer questions and implement policy and to to look at the new issues about members having their own phone number and computer those are the Little Things people overlook but to make a huge impact on the impression on the workplace i want to thank the Technology Director who just spoke and director of transportation ed reiskin for trusting any ability to assess complicate issues problem solve, develop clear administrator processes to be a responsible fiduciary custodian for the public and cost savings and again, thank you members of the board and i looked at it to continuing my work to support the agency thank you thank you very much appreciate it. clapping. thank you. Director reiskin. Yes. Thank you, mr. Chair want to start with the updates related to vision zero notably last month we completed the first protective sdshgsz in San Francisco this is at the 9 and division street and cut the ribbon a week or two ago we reported back in Early September thanks to the good work by the public works and their contractors this is one of the spots if a High Injury Network where 12 percent of the city streets are responsible for facility cloiksz if you picture the intersection a wide intersection has a a gavel bicycle traffic and pedestrian traffic and taking inspiration from a dutch intersection design in San Francisco basically brought did concrete islands to making it requiring all road users to move for slowly as they communitybased to the directions and providing them all better erected were not to each other for pedestrian, etc. So very excited to get that done and it is now will be evaluating it a tool in the tool in the tool kit the right fit as we advance design work and with regards to vision zero were finishing up two week dry time radio time on Traffic Safety the additional methods that signifies are given out for speeding and we know that speeding is the leading clockwise factor when it comes to fatalities so this will think one the top messaging we have message time up reminding people to drive 25 it is a law and to remind people of Traffic Safety and continue on all fronts on vision zero couple of updates from project updates to vision zero elements good news with respect to van ness we were what did you do a one and 75 million grant from the department of transportation this was a grant we expected and was part of funding plan that but we are happy to have money the bank 2 make up the core project the bus ryan white and this includes other infrastructure and the vision zero components that brings the total to over 3 million that is 75 million from the federal government significant investment here in San Francisco leveraging a lot of funds as you may know the construction is underway and will continue for the next few years so great news to get it signed and next move on to terryville we know the muni forward project that you all authorized the legislation for a few months ago is moving into its phase one the pilot improvement in september and it is the first phase of what obviously will incorporate full infrastructure redo of the streets in this case the rails as well as underground fatalities and street paving but after working closely with the communities members and merchants and District Supervisors Office to shape the changes that were approved in september we are ready to move on the improvements now that will have more immediate impacts on safety improving the experience for the riders of which thirty thousand trips aon a day in the terryville as you may know 46 people were you hit getting on and off the l in the past 5 years we didnt want to delay and make the improvements to the improvements will start rolling out this month includes the following temporary clear zones basically painted areas that will demarcation the area adjacent to the vehicles where people hopefully makes them more visible to drivers these will urban design in place eventually have full boarding islands for full protection but will make it more clear the drivers are by law to allow for boarding and off boarding and pained safety zones at the curves around this part of town and others that are bulb outs and the paint instead of concrete were going to be converting some Parking Spaces to clear zones to make space for where the future boarding islands will be so the cars can move out of the way and give more space for people getting on and off the trains and think in bound does the boarding consensus as you may know it was controversial was of the collision parents or patterns were not the same on the in sighed and we did a pilot a painted safety zone adequate to prevent cloiksz well start the pilot and implement the wider stop spacing to reduce the muni service to replace the transit only lanes and will be continuing to work with the community i know ill be going to meet with some of the terryville merchants later this month or in february we continue to be very much engaged with the community and the Supervisors Office we are still out one item we have to come back on the 17 street in bound 17 avenue in downed i bounds zone we are coming up with a proposal so that will be on ongoing process excited some of the temporary improvements are getting into the ground another muni forward and vision zero project is the geary Rapid Transit 52 thousand people on an average day after many years with respect to the geary brt with the state Environmental Impact report under ceqa is completed and releases as the final was released about a month ago after more than a year of ongoing outreach to more than 60 meetings from that process from the time the draft was issued early and to the final there were a number of changes made to the document and to the project in order to address the very good feedback from the communities that includes retaining the webster crossing well call the over crossing for webster and steiner maybe 6 or 7 years ago at webster put in a crossing and move the bridge to make room for the vehicles we heard from the community that was important and work with the partners of the Transportation Authority to redo the design so the bridge can be retained there are a number of improvements for people walking and biking things that came up in the thats a great improvement also added a local only stop at the spruce street to make the rapid bus parking space for adjacent businesses that are a concern a few remaining outstanding changes that weve heard a lot of desire for those include the proposal for the local stop at the collins street, the transition from the center brt back to side running out of richmond between 26 and 27 and then changing the luna stop to a local stop well have strong concerns about all 3 of these and met with others o these groups to develop potential changes that can be incorporated into the final documents now or at a later date to address the concerns the public is invited to attend the hearing and the final Environmental Impact report which is tomorrow at the 6 00 p. M. Geary brts Advisory Committee with the transportation on 55 market from the 22 floor and then the item be up for concern of certifying the er the staff is recommending at the county transportation boards meeting 24 thursday in city hall in the board chambers following Public Comments at the geary brts Advisory Committee that 16 member group will vote on the finding and maybe adopt on thursday after arguably 10 or 20 years going back to the Corridor Study recommended this project very significant milestone following the action of the Transportation Authority board we will continue working with the Transportation Authority and the fta during the final Environmental Impact report statement that is the clearance that commitments the state clearance ones that are done and the remaining outstanding items have been addressed and incorporated into the Environmental Impact report should the ta board choose to incorporate them we will bring that whole package of the eis and eir and potentially parking and traffic legislation for the phase one the inner portion of geary to this board early summer so big milestone on guess geary brt that is a vision zero project especially with the additions weve made the last vision zero update is with respect to fulsome and howard in the south of market area we recently kicked off the project in early december with two open houses an opportunity to introduce members of the public in the early planning stages we may have had a presentation recently but a prolong that essentially came out of eastern neighborhoods plan back in 2007 variation or ideas for what the fulsome and howard project is in the soma plan this spring we are bringing forward now the concepts to get Public Feedback on this project all of it to prier his i its with the enhancement and the improving the unservice and traffic flow the next steps to the project will be for us to technically analysis some of the roadway configurations and incorporate and come pile the Public Feedback the Community Outreach will be ongoing and online questions in charge to the public can sfmta fulsome dash howard and as we get that well be able to understand the traffics involved a number of ideas such making fulsome a twoway streets umgs their wide one way streets and also proposals to keep them both twoway centers but enhance them from a perspective but once we have feedback well come back from the spring to anothers open house in the meantime there are things in the near term to implement the bulk and mass on fulsome and howard so like with terryville and other projects not waiting for the large big with respect to the central soma the draft eir was released he and has a 60 day period youll find the link from our sfmta. Com and howard a few other things sorry for the lengthy report we had a number of changes that went into place on january one notably we know that using cash free pavement like clipper and muni mobile make the process faster and saves people time and saves poem money that is because single trip fairs that are paid for with the mobile app or clipper will be 0. 25 less than cash fairs i want to note that if you pay with cash and get a paper transfer after 8 30 p. M. That is a late night transfer good for the rest of the service we are changing our practice to honor that think muni and clipper so not desensitize people that means if you get on after 8 30 p. M. Once youve activated our muni memorable or clipper card doesnt have to do so to ride the rest of the night so the system is easier and user friendly the other increases part of mandated automatic policies that help with the labor increase costs are changes you approved in april and that were part of budget signed by mayor ed lee on august 1st i think im not going to go through all the variation but the other not able change is that following the decision to make muni low income free were increasing the cost for people who you are not in the lower categories those are the other major fair changes that current think january 1st as you may know nobody like fair hikes and not popular but we need to pay for the system and arbitrate to the strong Credit Rating that helps us to borrow money such i talked about in the previous projects there are what gives good marks if the Financial Management so theyre important we did a lot of outreach to make sure that no one is left unaware with the language mechanisms so whether you like it or not nobody should be surprised those were approved last week and two more quick things i promise ill stop talking oh, 3 ill save the best for last wanted to acknowledge with regards to Transportation Network companies because it was quite a new story towards the end of year we learned from the fuzz as everybody that uber operating on driverless vehicles in and halted the program a week later with the demand from the california dph and we understand 16 volvo suvs were operating an uber engineer behind the whole with the vehicle equipped as we understand not only didnt have a permit but even though they didnt wouldnt allow passenger yours for the Autonomous Vehicle testing we had seen video and others first hand reports very disturbing and unsafe maneuvers a lot of certain from folks and the mayor and many of you what we were seeing happening on the streets the cpuc is considering a new rule that will actually that allows the uber and lobbyist to use rental cars a lot of things happening right now with regards to tdms and rapid changes that are very different than what theyve first said when they first came in being they were personal vehicles that were otherwise driving around with mtc and phil the seats and more a commercial operation has been for years but more legitimized by allowing people to rent a car and drive that with tdm let alone having none operated by the tmcs so a lot of changs as you may know weve submitted formal commits to the cpuc done that 26 times since the rule making began repeatedly calling for the cpuc to raise the standards for the mandates for the medallion holders and criminal background checks anddmv and encouragement of lower chore assessable vehicles and say frustrating very little of what weve requested and few have brink adopted by the cpuc and few by the legislature has circumvented and well continue to push the cpuc and the dmv to make sure theyll operate safely we dont have regulation over them but, but to push to make sure they are safe operating on the street and pushing for a level Playing Field that was in the news a lot i wanted to acknowledge that with regard to the muni brt the images from the local artists the contest was small San Francisco boost will be displayed on one hundred buses around the city 53 were submitted and and it is a great way to be supporting local artists through the program the second year in a row and then finally i promise finally the arrival of our first new light rail is scheduled to happen this month where this couldnt be more pleased that is arriving not in service right away but communitybased to rigorous testing through the Quality AssuranceProgram Later in the fall and this is the first of a total of potentially up to two hundred and 60 new light rail vehicles we have the first 64 under contract that are enhance vehicles they dont replace the existing vehicles but add to the number of vehicles we have and when we meet at the board retr