Directors be advised director heinecke will not be here please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person s responsible for the ringing or use of a applying cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. At the cause visitation trufrngs turn them off for the approval of the minutes for the regular meeting of second any Public Comment on the minutes no seeing none. All in favor, say i. Opposed . The minutes are approved the directors be please be advised its been removed at the request of staff item 6 Unfinished Business by Board Members. Directors. Anything under new and unfinished director ramos. I have a quick showandtell we have a light agenda this was one of the noticed i found on one the transit lines i was on in now time away in melbourne they hung those there the rails youll hold on in my capability i thought that was a wonderful way to communicate Service Changes and information to the public where were kind of like in our face not no one of the tax one, if you be inclined and care about the box in the corner that is a Service Notice for new years eve i thought that was an interesting way to communicate ill leave this with you ed, i was going to send that is a postcard but you know. Thank you director ramos it is helpful to see what is going on in other cities nephew. The directors report director. Good afternoon director brinkman and members and staff im distracted with the sign here and because you do have a short agenda i having a long report to treat you to today. Fine. Like to start off by asking our director of finance and Information Technology come forward to recognize one of our outstanding employees. Good afternoon decorations cfo it is a pleasure were honoring henry today, i want to speak to a little bit about henry. Want to speak to the team that in the hearing section they have one of the harder jobs, jobs communicate a lot of disjumbled folks they work to work with a variety of issues so the team is lessor to celebrate as herman and joanne so see how hes loved been with us since 2002 and had complicated cases he was incredible district and as a manner you can imagine the hearing functions requires that when we complicated Case Scenario he has been instrumental in developing a policy and procedures around the adu and key in the Taxi Commission and adjudicated the taxis hes also the primary administrator hearing officer on the shuttle and the equity for the permits whenever the Department Asks us for a herself we turn to henry he can overstate how much henry has done and incredible i certainly couldnt do his job is he henry unfortunately henry has decided to leave us soon so going to be a huge loss i wanted to thank henry for the great work and the incredible, Incredible Service to the city to thanks for everything i know the team is as appreciative and has a great sense of huger or humor would you do and United States of america if you want to speak. I dont know want to say i a lot about leeblthd up washingtons farewell address and watched the oscars ill combine dgo both i want to say in the discharge of that i have contributed to the organization in the administration of the government best for which a judgment was cable from washingtons farewell address and for the oscar thank my mom and my wife joann and my son jacob here in spirit and thank the hearing sexists i worked at an academic about an attorney and never had the Academic Department with this particular group of wonderful people a lot of are my friends and they just thats what made this a wonderful job for me, i think that is all thank you very much. Thank you and behalf on the agency from the city and our coworkers thank you for your years of service. clapping. thank you so, now just a number of kind of miscellaneous topics regards to the maintaining our Transit System and making sure that we are making the investment to keep it safe and reliable in ways that is not a woo to do this work with 24 7 without implications so first remind you that the tunnel that the subway tunnel to connects the portal is one hundred years old next year that is hard to imagine is it of those built one hundred years ago given that age it needs attention that needs repairs to keep to running for another one hundred some of the impacts for the infrastructure for the recent unusual winter weve had here a reminder of the importance of the investing in the upkeep of infrastructure we have an extensive go rehabilitation that will be replacing all of the rails inside the tunneled and seismically sturdying the tomb with a Fire Suppression system and fixing the drainage with the recent weather with rail cross officers that provide the flexibility into the rails if we have a problem in one part of tunneled most o move trains to the other side this is the good news that result in much Better Service well eliminate the restrictions we have for the condition of rail should be a faster smooth and more reliable trip when the project is done in order to that work well need to shut down the tunnel which is the k and m line for 5 times over the course of the next year two or three weeks along with an Extensive Service plan and have working a lot with the directly impacts of the neighborhoods that started thousand to the ridership well be back soon with the details of the schedule that didnt want to start that on the radar but when we do the work understand that is significant we have a Robust Service plan for the people big deal to get to where theyre going and want to as soon as as soon as we have it nailed down well get the information to you and the public to plan our minded and know what needs to be done different for the corridor that is one the second one is the cable car system and as some of us remember the there was a ambitions overhaul of the cable car system in 1984 with the administration also i guess the Ronald Reagan administration its been awhile and the boxes are the gears it do the pulleys that pull the cars were last overhauled not more than 35 years old and we have are on the heels of getting a contract to replace all the gearboxs all the work and again like the twin peaks tunnel over the years the system provides entirely on the machinery that moves the cables in the street the work will start this coming summer takes place over the span of 3 years with the boxes but well at the end of that improve the safety and reliability of the system four of 5 gearboxs are financing inside the cable carbarn and there is a spare that we have in the storage room that is basically a back up if one of them fails we have a spare and get it refurnished this summer and not a Public Impact and follow with the california line with the powell next string and the mason in the following fall and in 16th street 2019 working with the stockholders to show the demand is different donnas the time of year with the touft and other can understand to but 10 days for the box and to make sure it is working properly so we will have bus shuttles to continue to provide service for for San Francisco and work even the high line well shut down the entire system well continue to do our best to minimize the disruption of planning and outreach to make sure that folks know what the alternatives will be but the work will be starting soon so we have street projects but at the intersection of transit and the street we have issues that may have been heard about on 17th street we have a rail line and bus route important and weve been hearing concerns about cyclists interactions with the rail specific with the bike tires stuck in the rail causing collisions or causing you to fall so we did participate in an open hows that was held out by 7th street a furio few weeks ag share some of the things over recent years there the intersection and curb paint making sure the radio roadway is in Good Condition and trying to use signage and other clues to Better Direct folks to not get themselves into a situation weve been working closely with the residents and supervisor jeff sheehy and the suppose and had 60 people with feedback and basically, were piling all that feedback to see what we can do with the rail line for the muni service but we will take that feedback and see what further improvements unfortunately for the transit and bike network part of 17th street is needed for both we cant push on one or the other but work with the supervisors and the Community Outreach for the folks to figure out how to make that area easy for people on bicycles. Speaking of bikes our first raised parking let the record reflect bike lane was last week on a short stretch of van ness on Caesar Chavez and what this does the design flips the traditional set up you have the cars against the curbs and then we flipped that and now the parks cars are out in the street and theyre providing protection for the bike lanes so as im sure you saw a bit of a learning curve all the cars continued to park in the reserve that blocked the entire bike lane for the defeating the purpose but we sent the ambassadors signage and our doing more proactive ac act Police Station for the street designs once that got out it got positive feedback from folks and continue to make adjustments as making it more clear but it is great to see that go in and in terms of launching Something Like that once it is completed but happy to have that done in the meantime in sustainable streets that is a pedestrian swamp bell the scramble bell red lights in all directions and the pedestrians get precede signals in all directions including a diagonal so we have the confusion without the diagonal signals and finally were able to place that in a celebration with the community and been happy for supervisor peskin and other Key Stakeholders to celebrate but raise awareness for all the yours for that intersection weve seen a lot of illegal turns and that put people in risk seen people die there and the last year and the year before a huge improvement for a heavily traveled areas for pedestrian addresses motorists for the muni and coming from kearny and clay so that completes the work we did a year ago with the scramble with a happier place as a result there is a set of projects were preparing to launch this is a new residential neighborhood project called the neighbor way initiate it a attractive residential streets that interconnects people in their community and beyond neighbor way could include the engineering with the cost for the traffic diverter and recognizing the street and blocking well be working closely with a grand last year level to develop the proposals that work best for their specific situation working in the richmond and page street and hayes valley and the western edition to the possible projects and get the community Ferry Building and open houses that will be happening in the next week that saturday, march 11 be at the richmond go Public Library if 1 to 3 00 p. M. For the richmond project and necessary wednesday march 15 at john elementary from 6 30 p. M. To the hayes Valley Street it is an exciting way to address the specific needs and looking forward to that and speaking of streets and neighborhoods in 2017 it kicked off on march 12 starting in the mission march 12 that will be in the mission from 11 to 4 between de bois and 26 and know you know this particular our chair an annual event that stretches the streets throughout the city and into space for people on foot and bikes and my that he any other way they want to travel with entertainment it is giving the streets back to the people and something that happens every year if march through october typically this is somewhat a local event 85 percent of participants from the city about half that come from the neighborhood in which the events took place this one active hubs at the 24th street and 26 and a lot of free activities offered by local murdered and others that organize the work with the local businesses to help the owners benefit economically and we want folk see to be on the streets but patronize the businesses after the mission next month will be the dog patch and sunset in june and mission in july and western edition in september and closing out with the excelsior in october exciting to be kicking off some of the streets for daytime savings time and then next, i building we talked about before we started with the Planning Department and the office of Economic Workforce Development and Transportation Authority with a long term transportation process called connect sf and the process that detains a 50year vision for the Transportation System i know we spent a lot of time talking about yesterday or today or next week but we do need to plan forward and this is will be the first ill say real thoughtful transportation Long Term Plan weve had in the city in quite a few of the so part of the progress were calling connect sf hosting an open house at the southeast facility 18 hundred oakdale next monday evening started at the 6 45 p. M. We currently people to come out the next 3 years of this effort will be advancing the subway sophomore ground transit updating the Transportation Plan for two having looking at the different modes of transportation the light that pads the streets and developing the conception to help with the investments and updating the transportation element of the San Francisco general plan so a lot of pieces that are under the umbrella and very much want this it be a Community Driven bottomup process go monday at the Southeast Community facility go to see folks there and then finally since were here about 3 a lot Public Comment can be sometimes frustrating given we dont have the Regulatory Authority want to give you an update of the activities that he Public Utilities commission as it reports to the companies that most poem know weve been participating in the rule making processes with the jurisdiction and put it in the hands of the imp to develop rules for how theyll regulate this new form of transportation which is the same time prevented us to do that locally theyve been in the formal rule making process for coming up on 4 years weve been participating from the start of the official party this the preceding during that time we submitted 27 sets of formal comments. Through the world cup had a background check and the responsibility we see for the taxi industry in terms of protecting Public Safety that includes the review sheriffs station able to look at the rules and allow for more communication communication for the Customer Service and explained how our checks are in alignment and mindful of concerns raised for the criminal justice and the impacts on the community this is something the to the call of the chair didnt want to do for the background checks yet documented we can do in those ordinances she was able to share our taxi drive qualification were part of the driver applicant no prior convictions at risk of the Public Safety and this is such as assaults and felony and fraud and recklessness in disregard for Public Safety and explaining our approach to insure the due process is in place for hearing before the bodies if they dispute the determination based background checks we dont believe they have a place they emphasis the background check will help with the 1289 on january one pass as state law to expensive background checks and have this drivers that are re7b8g9d sex offenders with felons and convicted of battery and d u i this is new starting john january 1st the checks at the as a result of there are lobbying not based on fingertips and therefore we believe it is less vulnerable to fraud weve consisting over the years with the ruled making commenting on prevention i know strongly in support of bio metric background checks for any of the folks acting as professional drivers even though their not professional drivers so the takeaways from this working group that appeared with the tdm background check a systematically information regarding the crimes or arrests and convictions our process is simply going on for a taxi driver or employee once weve done the initial background check with the tdms dont do that nor is there much the way forever applicant under the tdm process for all the purported concerns about the impacts of the different ways of doing the background checking for populations if you get i think to their process youre out of luck two levels with a review and independent hearing from the permitted is denied and we will provide the discretion to the staff in that process so we dont get to talk about that i want to give a window into what were seeing with the or lack of regulation for the im going home to my city by the bay and how we are activity participating in writing and trying to educate the dooeksing with the state legislators what we think needs to change with the regulation with the tmc for being safe in San Francisco. So that concluded my lengthy report. Thank you ed reiskin i know anyone on the streets can see the tmc has to repo