City and County of San Francisco Tuesday, April 03, 2012

>> let me call the roll.

[Roll call]

i will note that the ger

Chairman

Nolan cannot be with us today.

He wishes he could be here.

can we wish you well and we cannot wait for you to come back.

Item three

-- the ringing and the use of cell phones are

prohibited.

Any person responsible for one going off in the room May be removed from the meeting.

The board respectfully request that cell phones be placed in the off position.

If I could just let you know

that we had arranged for two

overflow rooms for today. 408 and 416.

If there are people who wish to

address the board on any matter, we will give ample time for them to make their way to this room.

Item four, approval of the minutes.

>> any comments on the minutes?

>> that is approved.

Item five, communications.

There will be no discussion of anticipated litigation in closed session today.

With the concurrence of the board any important decisions we

have before us today, I am going

to move general public comment to later in the agenda.

We will see how the agenda goes.

It looks like we will move to later in the agenda.

We have a request to call item

14 regarding the youth transit fare. At a time when students can attend.

We will call the service standard items, all three together, and then we will ask

the board secretary to call the

budget item, which is item 15.

We will take public comment on

the budget item, but we will not have our board discussion.

Depending on the time, the rest of our students will be here to join us.

We will call the student youth

fare item and then we will go back to the general public comment.

we will be a little

fluid on the agenda today.

We will call the item first, hear public comment.

Have a board decision on that

item before we go back to board discussion on the budget.

If that meets with everyone' s approval. But? Great. Thank you.

Item six, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members.

>> anything?

>> thank you, vice chair.

last week, I had the privilege de with the black coaliti

ike coalition.

I want to commend staff on the work they have done.

I think it is great, it will

promote usage by families as well as individuals. It is very exciting.

I felt a very safe going through their because of the way it is sucked up.

Set up.

I salute the coalition for advocating to get that done. >> that is a great step forward.

i have one thing I would like to

bring up, we have some individual board briefings.

I know that is an item that will come to the board for a decision. I would like to request before that comes to the board for a

decision, we go ahead and have

an informational meeting where we can have some discussions in public about the different

options are around it.

So we can make sure we get a chance to your input from the public.

I know that is a really big policy decision that we will be making. Thank you.

Item seven, anyone else?

Item seven, director' s report. >> good afternoon.

Members of the board, members of the public, and staff.

Happy to start off the meeting recognizing some of the staff of

the mta.

I want to start by asking david

kim to step forward.

David is an accountant.

He has been with the agency for five years. The work he does is a little bit behind the scenes, but it is

part of what enables us to do and deliver capital projects.

He does fund incumbrances, he

analyzes policies, reimbursement.

When we get a grant from a federal or state government, it

is not until we invoice it that we actually get the money.

Very important step in the process.

He also serves as a mentor and our accounting intern program.

Very importantly, he has documented accounting procedures. It helps make sure that we

comply and are consistent in their application of the accounting rules. it is important for audit purposes.

He has been identified as someone who demonstrates his dedication and commitment to the agency.

Operating and delivering our grant fund capital projects according to the best practices out there.

i want to congratulate david for his excellent work.

>> thank you, director.

Good afternoon, board of directors. David is a pleasure to have in the agency.

He is a team player, always has a smile on his face.

thank you, david, for the hard work he did do. Would you like to say a few words?

>> I want to thank all the members of the board of directors.

it is a recognition --

everything is possible because of our colleagues.

Our manager is making great changes.

it is indicative, I have a

feeling that some things -- out

of the box change, so thank you very much.

Everyone working with me, thank you very much.

>> thank you very much on the behalf of the board of directors. [Applause]

I know the accounting departments are sometimes the unsung heroes.

We appreciate the work that you do.

>> anybody who is standing because of the fire codes, we

need to have you find a seat in the realm where we needed to

move to the overflow room, which is 408.

Either find a seat or move to 408. We would appreciate that.

As with the fire marshal.

>> speaking of on some heroes from our transit division, I

want to ask debra francs

ks to come

to the microphone up with rhonda ford.

These folks are being recognized

for something bad is outside of their day-to-day work -- for something that is outside of their day-to-day work.

It has to do with the contributions they have made.

Rhonda ford made the largest contribution of any city employee gave.

29,000 city employees, I do not know what the participation rate is.

The number one contributor of

all city employees was misfortune. I had the pleasure of -- was Miss Ford.

I had the pleasure of being at

an event where she was honored

with an award for her the general pledge.

It is pretty amazing from a modest -- a modest salary, she has taken so much of her

paycheck to give back to the people of san francisco.

she has been with mta a short six years, but has already demonstrated great leadership.

Jaime has been the campaign capt..

He has been the captain since

2000 aid to and they are the

unsung heroes -- 2008, and they are the unsung heroes. They hustled to try to get as

many employees as possible to participate.

He has generated more than 100 pledges.

As a result of their work, we exceeded our goal for the agency of 25% participation.

More than 1200, almost 1300 pledges on behalf of the agency.

Thank you for direct generosity and leadership.

>> thank you very much.

would you like to say a few words?

>> I am honored to receive this award.

I was a bit surprised because I had no idea.

It is good for our morale.

I am really honored. thank you again.

>> Mr. Garcia?

>> I am also honored to be here.

I would like to

thank debra franks.

And Miss Rhonda ford for her generosity. I hope we do better next year. >> thank you. [Applause]

>> on behalf of the board of

directors and the entire bay area, thank you very much.

>> from our capital programs

construction division,

--

a civil engineer who has been with us for 18 years.

He has served as a project

manager on some of our most critical projects.

such as overhead wire reconstruction in the subway.

He is now managing the overhead

for the transbay project.

Almost all of our electric vehicles rely on the overhead system.

He has been one of the lead engineers on that.

He also supported f-lines when

that ran out to fisherman' s wharf.

Over 18 years he has and

continues to provide leadership

for this important and unique part of our infrastructure.

The expertise is rare and quite valuable. Looks like he is not with us today,

. >> good afternoon.

It is my pleasure to be here to

recognize one of our standing -- outstanding employees.

It is unfortunate that he has taken ill and could not be here today.

I am here to recognize his accomplishment.

he is a veteran of 18 years with us. Not only has he been a very outstanding and talented engineer and are overhead

contact system, he is also has mentored a lot of young engineers.

We Miss Him today and I know that he is disappointed that he is not here to address you himself.

i will take his award to him .

>> thank you. Please relate our congratulations.

I know the overhead wires are

such an intrinsic part of our system. Thank you. Director?

>> this is one of the pleasures of this job. Meeting our staff and learning about what they do. You' ve run the agency, but if you would like to invite this individual to come to another

meeting so he can present and take our thanks in person, I would have no objection. It is your call.

>> I think that is a great suggestion.

>> I would welcome the opportunity.

Thank you.

>> a few more updates.

as you May have read in the

newspaper last week, the mayor

announced that he had come to an

agreement with the california

pacific center to build two of the city'

s most seismically of vulnerable hospitals.

it is pretty significant agreement that has approvals to go through.

It is expected to put $2 billion into the economy.

Create construction jobs and

generate over a billion dollars of community benefits.

There are good things for health

care and housing, but I wanted to mention that was part of the agreement.

The agreement includes $20 million for transit services and

facilities, $5 million towards

the bus rapid transit projects.

$13 million in pedestrian safety

improvements as well as $500,000

per year for 10 years to sfmta

for a surcharge at the campus as

well as $400,000 to fund studies for a bicycle facilities.

This is largely a health care initiative, I wanted to recognize that the mayor' s

office has recognized that a project of this scale has impacts on the transportation system.

They endeavor to incorporate

impacts that will address those impacts to the benefit of our system. That is good news.

The project goes to the planning commission this week.

it will likely get to the board of supervisors and a couple of months.

It is a good step forward for a significant project.

Also, I wanted to mention, and I

guess remind you, that as we are

in the centennial year of muni,

which was started December 28, 2012, we are kicking off the

centennial this thursday at 10:00.

Are under very committee chair

-- on every committee chair will be presiding.

She has been a long time muni supporter and a supporter of public transportation. She was the driving force

getting the street cars back on market street. She will be leading that

committee in an honorary capacity.

our great partners at market street railway.

The event on thursday will include the mayor, board of

presidents, board Chairman, the director of the market street

railway, and are very special

guest, muni streetcar number 1. That will be put back into service on thursday.

It was the first car into service when we launched 100 years ago.

It was the first public transportation system in the country.

this is the car that was slashed, it has been incredibly restored.

--

a lot

alliance -- along the

lines, some related, at the

centennial is being featured by the mayor' s new office of

innovation on its improved website.

It was launched today, or will be launched today.

engaging in the energy and knowledge and interest of the

public to help solve government problems.

The

first challenge out of the gate is one that we are participating and.

it is a challenge to create a

new look and feel for the mta as we enter our second century of service with muni.

We have put that out there to the creative community in san

francisco as one of the initial project.

we are dovetailing that effort

with the centennial.

The process for that to is a competition for the next few

months with a winner selected by a panel of judges next month.

I wanted to call your attention to the fact that the controller

released its administrative report on overtime expenditures.

It will not surprise you to hear

that the mta did not fare very favorably in that report.

We are on track to spend 55 or $60 million in overtime cost.

I will

be the -- it requires a

hearing be held, so we will be at the government oversight and audit committee.

I, and other agencies, will explain what is happening on overtime.

i will address this during our

budget discussions.

This is going to be going to the board of supervisors

committee and, I wanted to bring not to your attention.

-- bring that to your attention.

finally, a quick update, as part

of the budget, we are moving forward.

We are

targeting July 1st as the kickoff.

As part of that, there is a legislative change that needs to

happen in the transportation code that we have submitted to the board of supervisors.

We have submitted that legislation.

We will be coming back with a more complete update to this board in May or June.

I wanted to confirm that we' re still moving forward. that is my report.

>> thank you, director.

Board members, any comments?

I know the overtime is of special interest to you.

>> I will be very interested to

see what the controller has to say about that.

>> I would lead to report to you

that the workshops or efficient, very well done.

i encourage everyone to get out to a workshop.

There are a few more that are scheduled and you' d be

surprised, at least I was, about

the improvements that staff were suggesting that could be made to increase efficiencies.

At the same time, there was a

fantastic workshop about the

improvements -- it was interesting and I would encourage everyone who is

interested in that to get more plugged into that. Thank you.

Thank you to all the staff that help put those together.

I know the san francisco bicycle coalition was also involved. Great work. >> thank you.

i appreciate the reminder on that.

We have initiated these outreach workshops. The first one was held this past saturday.

We had a decent showing despite the rain.

The staff has done a great job in putting this effort to gather.

it is very important for the environmental process.

The

next one is this saturday, 10:00.

Thank you for the reminder.

Very important to help us moving forward. >> thank you.

>> on the overtime issue, I am

looking forward -- it is a very alarming number to me.

With some of the changes we have

proposed, I would like to see

how that would augment our

reduced overtime moving forward. The number is extremely high. >> thank you.

Thank you very much for the report.

I am looking forward to the centennial kickoff.

The pictures

of car 1 resuming back-and-forth across the internet. We' re all looking forward to seeing that.

No member of the public has

indicated any interest in discussing any matters.

>> icy Mr. Murphy. Welcome.

-- I see Mr. Murphy. Welcome.

>> good afternoon.

First of all, before I get to my recommendations, I just want to say that I speak on behalf of

the entire cac when I say that

we wished the chairmen a speedy recovery. We look forward to his return.

Especially if he is at home

watching this on sfgov.

all the recommendations that I have for you today pertain to the budget. The city charter requires that

the sfmta cac

review and make recommendations on the budget. We have completed that process that is mandated by the charter.

We have made a number of recommendations on the budget.

I will get through.

Here as expeditiously as possible.

first of all, speaking of the

charter, as you know, requires the board to seek new revenue sources.

We urge you to consider the following for additional

revenue in the upcoming two-year budget.

we would like to see an increase in the meter batting feet.

-- meter bagging fee.

We would like to see an increase in citations by an amount sufficient to offset the entire

court house fee that is passed on to the agency by the states.

We May have made a

recommendation on this before ,

in which we specified that we

like to see this called out as the court house d

fee so that people understand when this hit

a parking ticket go up, this is a fee from the state that is being passed through.

It is not just us raising parking fines.

sfmta has raised parking fines and off and gotten criticism for

that from some , it is not

reasonable that the agency be

blamed when it is the state that is imposing the fee.

we also believed extending

parking meter hours to evenings

in commercial districts is a good idea.

We think you should allow

logging -- longer parking durations during those hours. You want to give people time to

have dinner, or dinner and the movie. There have been a lot of concerns expressed by neighborhood merchants, restaurant owners. We want to make sure that that is accommodated. We think if you look at other

cities , overwhelmingly, there

is parking meters with wander hours than they are here.

We have come to expect -- that

does not reflect the patterns of

use anymore. we think you should extend

hours to noon to 6:00 on sundays and commercial districts or parking availability is low.

To allow for longer parking directions during those hours.

The sfmta also recommends the board work with neighborhood merchants to choose the appropriate locations for this policy. This is not necessarily a one size fits all thing.

This is something that it May make sense to look at this on a

case by case basis and see where

the parking use is sufficient

that meters would be beneficial on sundays.

we have also had some

discussion about this today in the budget balancing committee

and I think they will be addressing the board a little further about that. I will not belabor the point.

We also support adding 500 to 1000 new metered spaces in front

of parcels under not zoned --

that are not zoned r.

That was one of the things that

was brought up as an objection when the whole north mission parking expansion discussion.

we think having those -- it is appropriate to do these kinds

of parking meter expansions, but they should not be in front of

residential buildings.

We also recommend that if the board were to consider charging

for transfers or increasing the

single cash fair for non clipper users. If it is a choice between

charging for transfers or charge a little extra for people were

not using clipper, if you opt for the latter option.

we think the agency has had some bad experiences with charging

for transfers, and we think that going the other route would be preferable to that.

I know both of those that have come up as options considered

to fill revenue gaps, and we think one of those is preferable to the other.

We do not think charging for

transfers is a policy this agency should pursue.

The system is, after all,

designed around the idea of making it easy for people to

transfer when we went to be modified gridf

system.

Because san francisco is a

transit first city, we urge the board to undertake all possible

efforts come at -- efforts to

preserve federal funding.

I am sure this is not a controversial recommendation here, but we felt it important to underscore the importance of pursuing that federal money

given all the tax money san francisco sense to washington.

We also recommend the sfmta board request from the city

attorney and memo outlining the

constraints on the mta to

regulate or charged franchise

fees on tour buses, a charter

buses, a private shuttle buses, a private educational institution buses.

There has been a lot of

discussion about what is and is

not legal for us to do.

what is and is pre-empted by state regulation.

These buses interfere with mta' s operations. In some cases, they do not.

We need to have a real

discussion about a word that fits in and whether they should

be paying their fair share --

about whether that fits in and whether they should be paying their fair share.

We think to have that discussion, we need to know the

parameters of what the city can

do about this, if anything.

That starts by knowing what our legal options are. We think this memo should be

made public so that the cac can deliberate, so the public can

have a discussion, so that any interested parties can talk about it.

we have a recommendation about recorders.

In November of 2007, san francisco voters approved proposition a.

A dedicated 80% of parking

revenues to transit.

in subsequent budgets, work

orders send those new resources

out of the mta at the expense of transit operations. We think in order to establish

public support necessary to

secure additional resources, to go back to the people of san

francisco,

to restore the faith,

we really need to and at least $26 million worth of work orders

to reverse things to the pre-

prop a stage in order to show

good faith to the voters that

money allocated to this agency

will actually go to transit and

will not go to, say, pay for the

traffic division of the sfpd.

we think this is something important to do before going

back to the public to ask for more money.

We have a recommendation that

the sfmta work with 311 for arrival time requests.

There are some requests for

arrival times that have to stay at 311.

511 is not quite as culturally

competent as 311.

It does not offer as wide a

range of language support.

Many calls are simply people

asking when this next -- that is something that machine can answer.

In fact, when you call 311, the operator is looking at up on the web.

They' re just telling you what they find there.

we think that finding a way to

channel does do 511 will lower cost.

We should also publicized 511.

In the past, the

cac has

recommended putting prominent signage.

It is much easier to use 511

when you have date stop number.

Seventh avenue, no?

Seventh avenue.

It is easier to key in.

so the -- that is something we would like to see it explored

since we are paying for 511 anyway.

We made a recommendation

supporting the staff proposal for $2 million reduction in management salaries and benefits.

That is also something where the

agency is taking a positive step

toward establishing good faith with the public.

We also further recommend that senior management positions be reviewed to determine they are

under the correct civil service classification for the actual

duties and responsibilities of their respective positions.

This is something where we think

it is important that to win so many people are being asked to

sacrifice in a difficult budget

year, we make sure that is being handled as well.

Our last recommendation, which will be the most controversial,

we recommend the sfmta sick enough grant money so there is

no loss revenue from the agency

from sources that would

otherwise not go to sfmta --

with a limited number of rides set per day.

This is a difficult budget year.

I think most people think there

is a good policy aim behind

providing free muni

for low end,

youth, but we also think that

you have to look at this as a decision about priorities.

are we going to take money that

would come to the sfmta , at things that affect service for everybody?

When the bus is late, it is like for everybody on the bus,

regardless of their age,

regardless of their socioeconomic status, regardless of whether they are disabled.

We think that this is a good

idea, but it needs to be funded with money that would not

otherwise come to sfmta for transit purposes.

The staff proposal we have seen

so far does not meet this recommendation.

We think that in a difficult

budget year like this, this is

not -- we are holding a budget balancing committee to try to

figure out how to close our short-term and long-term

deficit, it is not realistic to

say, by the way, we will throw

an a

five or $10 million item

that it is coming out of money,

much of which would be going to be sfmta and be able to be spent on transit.

We support doing this.

We support during this with

funds from a source that does not impact transit.

You know, young people have somewhere to be, too.

Young people get in trouble if they are not to add school lunch time.

If they show up at work late. They are the ones -- young

people get in trouble if they are not to school on time.

If they show up at work late. Providing reliable service is doing more for use than

providing -- youth than providing free service for youth.

That is where we came out on this.

we understand it is a difficult issue.

We had a lot of discussions about exactly what we support and exactly what we do not support around this.

That is where we stand on end. That is what we are recommending to you.

If you have the questions, I would be happy to answer them.

Otherwise, it thank you very much for your attention to this. >> thank you, Mr. Murphy.

Thank you very much for the recommendations. >> thank you very much.

>> [Inaudible]

i am sorry, just one moment.

as previously discussed, we will move general public comment on items not on the agenda to further down the agenda. We will move on to consent calendar.

>> these are items considered.

members of the public have

requested that items with regard

to establishing left and right

turn lanes be severed from the consent calendar.

Those are the only request I have received. >> thank you. >> I have one question.

why do

we sole source our agreement for workers comp?

>> generally, we do not.

What we are doing, rather

than separately contacting for third- party administrative services for workers comp, we are joining with the city.

we are doing a joint request for proposals.

This is just an extension .

We will do a competitive process. >> thank you very much.

>> all in favor, aye.

Thank you.

we will go on to e and f.

I believe the director has a comment.

>> I wanted to note these items

have to do with the changes we are recommending to facilitate

the bicycle lanes that were approved in the plan as well as a number of other plants.

Bicycle lanes on cesar chavez east, there has been a lot of work to get to this point.

i wanted to note, the meeting we

had this weekend.

As we are discussing the cesar chavez east, we at the same

time have the jfk bike lanes going end.

-- going in.

they are separated from traffic.

It is a significant amount of

progress that we are making

post-and down -- post- injunction. To the naked safe.

We are encouraged -- to make it safe. We are encouraged by that.

>> thank you, director. Public comment?

>> those are the only two people who have turned in speaker cards on this matter. >> good afternoon.

I am

a 46-year resident of san francisco.

I am an urban planner.

Thank you very much for severing this from the agenda to hear my concerns.

I' ve long been involved with projects along the california coast line.

cesar chavez expressway is the

major corridor in the city of san francisco.

In my involvement in these kinds

of projects over the years, I do

not feel there has been adequate

consideration or out reached to

the maritime industry, to the

maritime users along the corridor.

I would ask you to consider

about three conditions if you do choose to approve this.

I do have three conditions I would like you to consider,

which I did segment in a letter over the weekend.

Those conditions are that it is

very important, it is imperative

that the monitor the traffic to determine how the level of service is going.

These cargo movements, northern california, the region.

We are concerned about the impacts on bicycle lanes.

The second comment -- the second, if it starts to show

signs of failure, it did it to the very lowest level possible, that you remove those bicycle lanes.

in conclusion, that you hold an

outreach session and educational session with san francisco

bicycle coalition, to discuss a

safety concern. Thank you. >> thank you.

Bill butler.

>> good afternoon.

Members of the board.

My name is bill butler, I am a former executive for one of the port of san francisco'

s largest industrial tenants.

I am addressing you on the same issue.

the proposed cesar chavez east

bicycle lane project.

As you know, the cesar chavez corridor in this area is here

important for trucks and

industrial users from the port of san francisco and the

surrounding industrial areas to

access to under 80, 101, and

east neighborhoods -- 280, 101, and the east neighborhoods.

I fully support needed bicycling improvements in the city.

In this instance, I am concerned

that the proposed changes at

this intersection will create

some major conflicts between

bicyclists and the current users

and truckers for the maritime businesses.

I am very concerned that there

could be a future capacity fell

years for this intersection.

i understand the staff report

indicates this proposal will not

significantly increased traffic under existing conditions. But I am concerned about the future.

That could have significant

impacts on the viability of the industrial uses.

I, too, urged the commission to

adopt the conditions recommended.

That the mta monitor the traffic levels at the intersection, at issue a warning when it approaches the level of failure.

When it reaches levels of the service, restore the through traffic lanes and the intersection.

it would place them at of the existing right of way, so they could be maintained.

Facilitates educational safety outreach.

>> thank you, Mr. Butler.

Last speaker.

>> good afternoon, directors.

i am a community planner with the san francisco bicycle coalition. I urge you to approve the changes that allow for more

dedicated bicycle space on cesar chavez east.

Dedicated bike

space is essential.

for a long time, cesar chavez -- the mta has not invested in safe

bicycle connection to these neighborhoods.

I am happy to see your staff beginning to do so.

Community average started a decade ago.

I know we have an injunction kind of halting things.

Staff has devoted significant resources.

I have been a part of two community meetings, the public hearing about a month ago was very well attended.

Trucking companies, residents,

industry people that rely on cesar chavez were there.

There was one person at the public hearing last month but was not in favor.

We made every effort to reach

that person to try to talk.

Today, I am urging that you please approve these changes.

Hopefully, -- I will submit to use some of the latest support letters.

As well as folks from a major employer on cesar chavez.

Thank you very much. >> thank you.

>> is there anyone else who wishes to address the board on this matter? Please step forward.

>> we have two more speakers.

>> thank you very much.

I lived in a resident of san francisco for 69 years.

I have been a resident -- I will

like to say that in the area of

cesar chavez, I did not come to speak on this issue, but I would like for you to think about monitoring that area.

We are having problems right

now because of rezoning without the community knowing anything about it. i did not know this meeting was being held today because I am

not a bicycle rider and I do not own a business.

You really need to be careful on what you are voting on because of that area.

The southeast sector, a lot of people do not know the community.

people come here 10, 15, 20 years ago and started making decisions.

Do not know about the land and this area.

The fact that most of the area is landfill.

I want you all to take the advice of the young lady that spoke.

it needs to be monitored.

That way, you will know what is going on in the area. Thank you during a match. >> thank you, Ms. Jackson.

>> -- thank you very much.

>> thank you, Ms. Jackson.

>>

one of the things that people

do not realize in this city, these trucks cannot stop in stanley.

-- instantly.

I am seeing more and more bicycles, and running in front of trucks that are extremely large.

I think she is correct.

We have to take a close look at this issue.

They have blind spots.

It does not matter.

You have to be very, very careful.

with this many trucks in an area, and bicycles. I did not plan to speak on this either.

I wanted to put my input and. >> much appreciated.

Director? >> one question for the director.

with any major changes, we will monitor them. If we got to intersection

failure, that is something that we take action on.

I assume you do not have any issue with the suggestion that we simply monitor that to make

sure this change does not

inadvertently harm commerce in the city. is that fair?

>> that is absolutely fair.

That is an explicit part of the conversation that we had with the port of san francisco.

They had some similar concerns.

Everybody recognizes that the traffic is such that from a capacity standpoint, these changes will not create a problem.

there will be more capacity with these changes put in place.

This is a lesser arrangement. There will be more capacity

than there is currently volume.

Our agreement with the port and with the public is that we will

monitor this and adjust as necessary. There were some alternative

ideas that could be part of the solution in the future if we reach that point. We are ready to do so.

I believe reiterate one point that was made, there is no question that there are safety concerns where you have these large vehicles.

That is what troubles on this road.

that is exactly the reason --

that is what travels on this route. That is the reason we are proposing the change is that we are.

>> given that confirmation on the monitoring and given the comments we heard about the public outreach, which I think

all of us knew about, I would be inclined to move the staff recommendation. >> thank you. I have a motion. I have a second.

I want to say I do appreciate the members of the public speaking out on this. This is a very important connection and we did receive a lot of e-mails.

May I have a vote, please?

thank you.

>> on to your regular calendar, Madam Chair.

>> we will go ahead and called the budget, which is item 15.

I am sorry we are being a little

fluid because of time constraints.

We will then do service

standards and to move on to the

youth muni item after that.

>> the operating budget --

certifying that the budget is

making progress from meeting the

performance standards, approving various changes and the rates

and charges.

[Unintelligible]

>> we got it.

>> exactly, I' ll move on.

Approving labor affairs for new year' s eve.

authorizing the director to implement short-term

experimental affairs about

various contracts regarding

performance of these services by private contractors.

Authorizing the directive to make any necessary technical and clerical directions.

to allocate additional revenues, the director will return to the

board.

Directors, there are a few

corrections in your resolution and in the transportation code that we want to go over right now.

One is

to note to the one of the

whereas clauses, the staff recommendation reflected in the

result clause is a time of 12:00 to 6:00.

>> thank you for another

adjustment in the water hole.

Another are a lot of people here that want to speak to the budget.

I want to not keep people any longer than necessary.

The reason why we included the service standards.

I think it is important,

considering there is a vote on the budget.

it is a proposed budget valley of her to the board.

I want to the knowledge some of

those folks, cfo'

s as well as the rest of the executive team.

You'

ve already heard from many elements of the budget.

There were a number of town hall

meeting this in which we have a lot of public comment testimony.

I want to thank those that participated as well as the the

defense -- thsoe that

ose that sent by mail.

Inspired by last year' s pension

reform panel, I' d convene the

budget balancing panel to

review the M.T.A.' s budget,

fiscal situation, and look at

short-term and potentially long- term solutions to this structure

about -- structural gap.

I asked gabe metcalfe to co-

direct that panel with me which he very graciously and generously agreed to do.

We have been meeting since

January, and I want to have him

come to them by --

>> I am the executive director

and was pleased to co-share the budget balancing panel.

this has been an incredible cross-section of stakeholders

including business groups of all kinds.

probably others are in the

room .

It has been a constructive group.

Our charge was to the ideas for revenue that could come to the mta.

the budget you have before you reflects thinking as far as our input. We are very pleased to see this

budget that law only has a core system maintenance.

That is easy to shortchanged for a while.

In the long run, her reliability

depends on putting enough money into maintenance.

This budget represents the right direction.

In the long run, when he did get you more money.

probably between $50,000,000.70000000 dollars in the operating side.

Our

work is not done in the long run, but it is done for now.

in has moved to the agency in the right direction.

We specifically want to support staff proposals for establishing sunday parking meters.

We probably would have preferred all day.

We would have preferred a variable rate pricing structure,

but as meters are deployed city- wide, that is the way that sunday parking is going to work.

We would encourage you to go ahead and implement it.

We strongly want to recommend

that his board to push back on the subject of work orders.

The intent of the voters is to increase the general funds set

aside to the mta.

It was undermined by the work orders.

We would urge you to push back on that.

reasonable people can disagree

about the right amount.

We estimate is between

$10,000,000.5000000 dollars a year.

10 million

-- $10 million

and $5 million a year.

If the government agrees to let

us have that, we will be working on that.

In conclusion, we are proud of

the work of this group and pleased that the budget that you have before you.

>> I participated in most of

those budget meetings, and you did a very good job facilitating

with ideas and lively discussions.

Directors, and the questions?

>> I will try to walk someone quickly through the presentation.

There is not a lot of brand new

material, just tell it has been packaged.

I just want to point out a few

technical changes and I look forward to public comment.

If we can go to the slides , i

will see if we can operate this remotely.

It looks like I can' t.

If we can get a manual process

here, it is beyond my pay grade.

I will quickly walked through the proposed budget a little

better, to the crosswalk of

where we were to where we are.

We will speak to what to me is

the theme of the budget, investing in maintenance and the future of our system which is a

very big step forward, some of

which your referenced by Mr. Murphy.

And a reminder of where we are in the timeline.

On the revenue side, we started around $800 million.

We are ahead in

the first year, 40.5.

You will see the major changes

in the next slide, and I will

walk through all of these.

In terms of parking and traffic,

one of the biggest changes is

that we have an in lieu fee

payment for parking tax revenue.

Based on the joint report, it is projected to be quite a bit

higher than what was originally in the base line.

it is set aside from the general fund.

Good news from the city' s economy was a big part in getting the balance.

It makes my job somewhat easier.

We are not proposing an increase in transit fares beyond indexing.

We

are able to project more favorable revenues in based on

the actual things today.

a pass through on the state, I thought it was part of the size of occasions.

That makes of the balance of the revenue.

i am not sure if those February numbers are right.

In November, it looks like the

february numbers -- one of the

most significant components ,

there are salary and benefits

increases here if the have

costs of the golan with parking enhancements.

numbers you will see, there are

some additional staffing that goes along with that.

What we are also presuming here

is that we are currently in

labor negotiations with employees that represent about half of the mta.

there is no wage increase.

Those of the purposes of the budget.

We are assuming some level of

concessions from the partners on the labour side.

there are some kind of

swaps for

management reductions have other things.

If we go to the next slide, was

also in here, this is the heart

of the budget relative to where we were before.

I realize this is difficult to

read, but this represents

nearly $30 million of investment in the staffing to provide closer to the level of maintenance that I think we

need to deliver the level of service that we are providing.

This is largely in the system,

but there are costs elsewhere.

For crossing guards, there is some investment.

In late summer, we have design

work that is ready to implement so we can start realizing some of the benefits is to improve service.

The lion'

s share of this is a smaller number in the first year

because I am proposing to fund the physicians for half a year that will take us awhile.

it is for maintenance of them system.

The overhead wires, and the key

components are more substantial

ha of preventive maintenance.

Focus work of the components of the aspects of the system.

this is the best way to improve the reliability of the service.

out there every day, there are

various types of things that have an adverse impact.

By putting that level of

investment can, we had out.

You can see the correct expenditure numbers.

In the next slide, they show

what they are proposing to you.

this is kind of along the lines

of what we need to put on the table to negotiate with labor.

In the city has of proportionately similar budget gap to close something.

We recognize that labor has the the to the table every year.

This is my fifth year, and labor has stepped up every year.

the concession

for the last round of negotiation, we believe

that this level of concession is reasonable for us and the city.

We will move forward in the next fiscal cycle.

With regard to parking, I think that Mr. Murphy cover this well.

These are state fees on part of

the parking citation. The revenue doesn' t come from us, but we don' t pass fees along to the recipients.

We still have to pay the state the costs.

I like the recommendation to

call it out as a separate ryan -- line.

I think it is important that

folks know that

that is what this increase represents.

$3 of the $5 increase is set to

expire in June of 2013.

If that expires, louis dropped $3 off.

We would put it in the budget

for the next two years because

it is not unreasonable to think that the legislature May extend

that period if it gets extended taurus buyers, we will drop by $3.

The other point I wanted to

make, due to some of the

technology innovations, where we'

re lengthening meter times

and pay for parking, the number

of citations we are issuing is declining significantly.

We are making easier 80 easier

to comply with regulations, so we have to go further and out

of the way.

We would much rather get revenue through the meters than through parking tickets.

the next about this kind of a firming direction from the border a few years ago.

We had a policy transit fare in some of our fees.

We are extending the index to all categories, including parking citations.

The line below represents the

extension of that same index.

On to the next

slide, and of that will hear public comment

on sunday parking.

We have not historically managed parking for sunday.

There wasn' t much commercial activity in the streets.

times have changed significantly, and we don' t

think that there is parking and managed on sundays.

We believe this is fully consistent with the transit first policy.

anybody trying to find parking

on sundays, when it is managed

and more available, it also has the benefit of reducing

congestion that helps .

i recognize there are a lot of strong feelings about sunday parking.

This is not something that they have entered into lightly.

especially changing against

something that has been free of long standing.

This May cause a disruption for

folks.

While we had knowledge that, I

think this is good policy at the right thing to do.

likewise, there are areas of the

city that have changed or have not been managing parking.

these are small areas that we believe will benefit.

Finally, there is work that is

done, the capital were from the operating budget.

It is legitimately funded by the capital for which we have sources to fund.

We are correcting the accounting of where people charged their time to make sure that the

folks doing capital were not hitting the budget.

In addition with the good news

from the city economy, that is what got us to the proposed

budget that is before you.

Just a brief snapshot, it is more complete.

i want to gut that there are risks associated with any

budget, more so with a two-year budget.

I just wanted to point out the underlying this budget, there are assumptions.

We are in negotiations, because

the budget cycle goes ahead of

the labor negotiations, we had to put something there.

We could have left it alone, but

we think the responsible position for us to take any reasonable one for us to enter

into with our labor partners is to assume some level of

contribution from them.

it is ultimately positive in that regard, but predicting the economy can be dangerous and business.

Local, state, national events can change that. We get about a quarter of the

revenue -- significant changes

to the economy will directly impact the us.

Fuel costs, everybody that

drives their own vehicle does that it has been very high.

We have a portion of the fleet

that runs from low-cost power,

we run a good chunk of that on by a diesel.

That is something difficult to predict where it is going to go.

Writer shift is difficult to project and the vessels save

discussion on the fast pass for that item.

This budget assumes fast pass for low-income use only.

What it would do to writer ship or other things that the board

May consider how largely rough estimates.

Other risks are in terms of the

number of service hours, the

management of overtime, special events, state and federal

budgets that May have impacts as well.

I said I would mention

overtime, and what I presented

at the March 6 hearing is that a number of steps that we are

taking in this proposed budget for already taken to reduce

costs, operate more efficiently before we started thinking about

asking transit riders or people working or anyone else for

funds, the main components of the reductions in management

salaries, those of already taken effect.

the other is over time.

Our current overtime budget is $32 million.

Expenditures are around $55 million.

What I am proposing is an overtime budget of $42 million.

it is going

from 55 to 30 -- to 42, then the 37.

There are a number of ways we can get there.

proposition g. Enable the things like the use of part-time

operators that we are hiring as

quickly as we can to reduce some of the schedule overtime.

Otherwise, staffing up and some

of these maintenance areas, both

to fill vacant positions had to

reduce breakdowns, it will be a significant way that we reduce

overtime and an overall general

management of the overall ha

overtime budget the the board

has provided a very strong

leadership and clear signals of the levels of overtime.

there are a number of steps that we need to take that will allow

us to get the double-digit percentage reductions in our overtime budget.

That is something we are focused

on, reducing costs to deliver the services that are expected of us.

He mentioned we' re still looking at long-term solutions.

The panel will have a final meeting in two weeks to make recommendations along those lines.

where we are today is the first opportunity for you to consider

the budget until we hit the

service standards item.

We suggest tomahawk but you will

have the -- we suggest that you have the opportunity to do so today estimate by May 1.

With that, I want to point out a

couple of technical changes.

These are pretty minor things,

but just for the record, the three-day at a seven-day

passports are part of the

indexing as opposed to January 1 that doesn' t require changes.

A special collection fee should

have been shown has a rounded

figure that will require changes in the transportation co.

That is changing of the the

currently reads as $36.75

to $37.

They should

be $20 in the first year at 25 in the second year.

otherwise known as meter

backing, it has been shown as $22.50 in the transportation co.

We are proposing $6 the first year at $7 in the second.

Those are relatively minor changes that the record can reflect.

>>

now we will go to public comment.

I want to check and see if anyone has clarifying questions.

>> I have questions, but I am happy to save them.

>> the first three speakers, I

will call groups to allow anyone

in room 408 to conserve -- come forward.

[Reading names]

>> can we clarify how much time?

>> 2 minutes.

>> I hope you are better and come back quickly.

I am testifying once again on

behalf of the 800 congregations in this city and county of san francisco.

a few of the leaders are present here today.

The proposal that we brought

forth from the

until 6:00 P.M., it will place an intolerable burden.

anywhere from 1 to 3 hour

services, especially in the vast

majority of the neighborhoods is one hour.

They are not impacted by this change.

we want to point out the following.

A significant number of

congregants come to attend church services.

They have loyalty to their city congregation and they want their

children to be exposed to diversity.

the city congregation, that opportunity is not necessarily available to him the in the suburbs.

While in church and on sunday school, a inhibits participation.

this will have a severe impact on our conversations, especially

those the conduct services in native languages.

Having to pay for parking could

drive of the cost of church and sunday school to $100 a month or more.

And I have a little more time?

>> can you clarify the next problem that you see?

>> many of the residents take

muni to church, but the decrease in services requires many to

drive across town.

we worry about the increased cost of overtime.

And what impact that has on the budget, there has been financial

analysis that has been generated.

>> thank you.

>> [Reading names]

>> pastor of calvary church,

right on one of the corners of one of the commercial strips.

When the church moved from union

square to pacific heights, it didn' t leave any off-street parking.

It relied on our on-street parking for parishioners.

Converting the property into a

parking lot, we continue to rely on the on-street parking.

we were able to hearth in a lot

that we least at the newcomers school.

The remodel that school in the

past year, and we have been told that the lease will not be available in the future.

We noticed it decided drop in attendance, especially among the older members of the filthy only way they can safely get to

church is by driving in their own vehicle.

The prospect of losing available

space on sunday would mean that fewer of our older members feel

like they can attend sunday

services, especially with the proposed new start time for

meter enforcement.

The hollywood definitely experienced the negative impact

of that report and it would

impact the quality of life from many older members.

>> members of the board, thank you for giving us this opportunity to address you.

I am via executive director of the interfaith council.

The council was founded 23 years ago in response to the homeless

crisis we count among our

constituency a hungry -- the 800

agencies that provide essential services.

Our mission is to celebrate her spiritual conditions, bring people together to build

understanding and serve the community. How many of my colleagues will have or share with you the

negative impact of the proposed sunday metering.

I would like to take just a

moment to sensitize the board to

of a couple of other factors of consideration. There has been a growing

concern of people living san

francisco because of high cost of living.

they have deep-rooted connections and return on

sundays for worship because of those connections.

These of the families that we

wish were still here.

For many of them, the sacred

family at a worship worrying

about feeding a meter or a parking ticket could be the straw that breaks the camel' s

back a severing the last connection with the city.

The congregations in the city will pay the ultimate price.

As the budget shrinks, so

essential services in san francisco.

The majority of congregations

impacted are located in some of the most economically challenged if not depressed neighborhoods in the city.

>> good afternoon, commissioners.

Also a member of your budget advisory panel.

I stand with the director and your staff and supporting the

budget before you today and implementing steps.

But at large, there are concerns

over sunday parking as one of the issues before you.

You need to direct your staff to allow the implementation to roll

out two hours, three hours, four hours.

I would urge you to have your staff look at this on a case by case basis.

How much parking is available on

sunday morning, parking can be considered for churches on

sunday as an example hoarsen and dogs on saturday.

for youth past, it is a positive step.

We have to go a long way.

Perhaps some assumptions and the second year.

The chamber was back these last

we left the federal transportation commission on a number of issues.

We urge you to approve this

budget and it moves in that direction. We look forward to working with you on the other revenue sources.

>> how we know it was a big time commitment for people, thank you.

>> I am the director of the san francisco taxi coalition.

I am here to talk to you today

about your taxi services line- item. There aren' t much changes to it.

the budget is zero.

I am absolutely dumbfounded.

The taxi industry is one that

where it is dysfunctional, very

difficult to work with, but something happened that I thought would never happen.

Reforms started.

As much as I have been critical, i have always been supportive dealing with tax measures.

What I just don' t understand is you have an opportunity to

raise $100 million-$300 million selling taxi permits.

You have a pilot program that is

hugely successful, and where you are looking to add meters on sunday, we have an opportunity to raise hundreds of millions

of dollars into it in a politically correct way.

There are no medallions available.

There are none of for transfer.

And you have this amazing

opportunity for the entire taxi industry.

You' re looking for ways to

balance the budget when this is standing in front of you.

I know how the other markets work, and we did something that the other markets are now looking at.

how do we sell medallions and empower the working driver?

These are so valuable, that they lined up several hundred preapproved divide them.

We are allowing more medallions of for transfer. You' re looking down this of the path.

i asked you to please reexamined the opportunity to raise

hundreds of millions of dollars.

>> I have the pastor of first friendship baptist church.

I stand before you to strongly

oppose the enforcement of meters on sunday.

I struggle with adequate parking space to accommodate parishioners.

furthermore, many businesses are closed on sunday. I don'

t see the benefits to enforce parking.

The scripture community is

severely compromised as

festivals have sunday streets

activities calls parishioners to make alternative parking arrangements.

I urge you to abandon sunday meter enforcement by remembering

the 13 stands of the prayer of st. Francis.

>>-doubt about this hearing literally an hour before it.

Haikou the small business

commission, who called the small

business network, I called the

district council, and small business california.

Not one person was notified of this hearing.

We saw things in the papers, but

never hours until this morning about 10:00.

i am asking for the sunday

parking increased small-business commission.

The redistricting groups are doing it correctly.

your gerrymandering year meetings against the public.

I would suggest that you start doing more outreach.

I did not know about this budget advisory committee which I am not really thrilled with who I heard was on a.

I think the small people, the small businesses are being ignored.

The four-car parking works in one place but not another block.

they think we are rich.

58% of seniors are neighbors.

They can' t get around because

they are far enough away in our neighborhood.

the marina is largely retired

military for a world war one -- >> thank you.

>> I think you need to do more outreach.

>> [Reading names] >> I'

m david varnam.

Muni must be

speeded up, it is -- I of the card readers have been installed in nearly all vehicles, so let' s get going with that.

We should be tougher on fare evasion.

We should publicize that there should be no warnings and penalties will be significant.

On revenue, I will make it simple.

Lots more parking meters,

commuters often use the space is there for which they should pay.

god never said that parishioners are entitled to free parking on sundays.

Even as if it discourages the private automobile.

eliminating the work order expenses for the police department would go a long way

to paying for free rides for

youth, and that will help develop the new generation of lifelong transit riders.

>> [Reading names]

>> herbert weiner, former member

of muni and the center of learning in retirement.

Yesterday, we came up with a proposal about the parking meters.

Instead of charging for parking

meters, why not track down the fair daughters?

To many people are boarding the bus for free.

No one is stopping them.

In the millions, to be fair to say.

why not pay for fair inspectors

-- fare inspectors? It'

s a win-win situation.

People should not be punished for parking on sunday.

You can give free passes for

youth, but I think senior citizens and other people deserve a break.

It is simply not fair.

That is a spiritual violation.

we really have to work at that very carefully.

I recommend looking at the

transit effect of this project and placing it on hold.

See where it is going before you

put out any more money on this.

These are my suggestions for cost effectiveness.

Don' t balance the budget on the backs of religious people.

>> I have a former member of the board of supervisors.

And getting past the baptist

church, the oldest predominately african-american community

celebrating 160 years this year.

Of creature had a sermon that he had at his head sermon.

I am glad the God made me on monday morning.

When he asked them why, he said you must' ve forgotten.

Got arrested on the sabbath day,

so he must of been at his best on monday when he made me.

There are people in this town

that feel that the sabbath day is sacred. We are an inclusive city.

we are becoming a secular city.

In which we have no regard for

those that do express the fact that they are believers.

He says in his book, the people' s religion, that african- americans are the most religious group in the world.

53% are in church every sunday, 43% of whites.

We have maybe 25% of hispanics.

I am not making this a racial thing, but I am saying to you

that we need to be sensitive to the peculiarities of the community and make sure that

the city is the verse where everybody is welcome.

We need to rethink this thing

and make sure that we don' t further penalize the people that

have been the least of those --

it happens in this city, african americans are the least of them.

We are the one ethnic group that has been disproportionately pushed out of san francisco.

Of this measure, -- stop this measure and we' ll be a real

inclusive city. >> thank you.

>> [Reading names]

>> that is tough to follow.

i am here to ask

you to sever a

tiny little lion that talks about the fees and fines for taxis.

I put out a letter yesterday, I am hoping some of you got to see it.

In 2007, the fees for

doing a taxi medallion or $490.

Today, they are almost $1,300.

They wouldn' t be half of what they are right now.

The only explanation I have been given is that the money

collected from taxi permits and

color scheme permits his to subsidize the taxi division.

I understand that.

But up until a year ago, that was the only revenue coming in.

Became million dollars has been raised to the sale of taxi medallions.

I think that it needs to be looked at. We haven' t had a great increase

in eight years, and 90%, 95% of the revenue.

And yet the fees continue to go up a disproportionately.

I won' t go over those, a lot of the schedules haven' t been vetted.

there is one in particular how that could be illegal.

I know you shouldn' t be able to solicit, I am agreeing with

that, but I am not sure where the other came from.

let us talk with staff and bring it back another time.

>>

[Reading names]

The last person to turn into speaker, on this matter.

>> I am a proud member of the san francisco transit riders union.

I would like to address the folks from the interfaith council and expressed hope you guys talk to the jewish

community that has been dealing with a saturday metered parking for years.

Speaking on behalf of the transit riders union, we wholeheartedly support this

budget that the plot of the mta board as well as the advisory

group for putting the town budget together.

Transit

first has been a monitor in this city that has been

adopted and practiced.

in those as transit first until somebody starts complaining

about parking and that it is transit last.

We are happy to see a transit first policy implemented this year.

We support this budget because of the very thoughtful components that are

implementing to make buses more

reliable, and new sources of revenue including sunday

parking, there has been a steady

in seattle that shows that

businesses are benefiting from

sunday metered parking in the extended hours.

the transit riders union is behind you and we thank you for putting this budget together.

>> [Reading names]

The last three people to turn in speaker cards >> . >> I'

m nathan dweary, I have been the cab business for more than 30 years.

I drove a yellow cab, all of this stuff.

I am here to talk to you about this vehicle for higher code penalty schedule.

i happen to hold an M.A.

From san francisco state and the pride myself understanding the english language.

I read some of these things and I have no idea what they mean.

I want to draw your attention

to response time goals, .

There is no way in this world we can ever meet these response time goals.

So we can be fined every hour every day. Why is something like this on the books? If you don' t understand what this is, why vote for it?

>> if there is anyone else that would like to address the board

of this matter, so that a speaker card.

-- submit a speaker card.

>> we are based in soma, I am

here to speak on behalf of the residents that are against the

idea of putting sunday meters.

A lot of the residents are low- income families.

They are already burdened with a

lot of things to making sure

they can feed their children,

they have a bus pass.

Insuring that they are able to park in their neighborhoods.

Therefore, adding on sunday

meters would put more stress in the existing community.

We hope that you would consider

not passing the idea of having as and the meter.

In early talking with the community about it.

Having

a sunday meter is not one thing for the budget.

>> these

are the last speaker cards I have.

>> I am here to speak about

the parking meters here in soma.

I am asking you guys not to

raise the meters, because there

are a lot of low-income families that don' t have the money.

i am urging you guys, please don' t raise the parking meters.

>>

espinola jackson?

>> yes, espinola jackson.

I am surprised to hear that you' re talking about meeting in front of the churches on sundays.

I was sitting back there have at level.

The devil really does know how to work on sunday.

We go to pray, and imagine that

someone tattoo on the back that says the meter man is giving you a ticket.

do you know what type of distraction this would be for the churches in san francisco?

There are more churches than just the jewish church that have services on saturday.

We have the seventh-day adventist me on saturdays.

I would wish they you all not

even think about doing this, putting meters in poor neighborhoods that can' t afford it?

When I saw you getting all of

this money from the city, that

means some of the human services programs are being cut all

across, even those schools, and I want to let you all know. Do not do this.

In the soma

community.

As the lady said, a lot of

people do not have garages to park their cars.

Do not pass on this.

vice Chairman

Brinkman:   thank you.

Secretary

boomer:   next.

>> this would affect the community in san francisco.

Frankly, you have not provided any justification or any rationale for doing it.

I know is zero restaurant owners or bar owners you are in favor of the 6:00 P.M. Meeting.

if you seek to destroy the

restaurant and bar industry, you should move ahead with this.

Yes,

free media and -- freed meter rink should always be sacrosanct. You have not all provided the justification for doing this.

we all know this is not going to

solve the problem but simply creating another tax creep in the city of san francisco.

Your director said there is no defense of ok' s against doing it.

I say there is no defense will

case for doing it, so because of that, I urge you to reject this

notion for the sunday parking

meter in and the evening meeting. Thank you.

Secretary

boomer:   Madam, this is

the last person with a speaker

card, and I do not see others coming forward.

Actually, Madam, you cannot speak a second time.

That

is a separate item, ma' am. But thank you. Thank you for sharing.

chairman brinkman: if there are no other comments, we will

close this item 15.

We are going to move on to the service right now.

Which is, I am sorry, i have totally lost track.

>> I recognize that we are waiting for the students to arrive from school, so we have

promised that those items will

be fast, items 11, 12, 13.

The first and second quarters service standards.

11 and 12 is a presentation and

discussion of the fiscal

results, and item 13 is adopting

the 2013-2014 service standards and milestones, and, Madam

Chair, no members of the public have expressed an interest to address you on any of those matters.

that afternoon.

Good afternoon, the chair --

good afternoon, chair brinkman.

i will discuss the first and second quarters standards and propose the standards for the fiscal years to come.

>> thank you, travis. My name is donny nelson.

I am the principal at a school,

and I believe this is the fifth quality review that I have had the privilege of coming forward to discuss with you.

this quality review has enabled

us to really take a look at

performance reporting for sfmta

and eyunni in particular over one decade of service.

The quality review as you know is an audit of the data collection and reporting methods.

We analyze the performance reports that you receive on a

quarterly basis, and we made recommendations for improvements

on both the handling of data and the types of information provided to the public.

I am proud to say that after

working with sfmta for the last decade, we can find no major problems with the reporting and data, the collection of data at the agency.

Over the decade that I have been involved with this, I have seen

a much greater level of detail and more accurate data.

We have identified a couple of major changes to performance reporting that we think would be an excellent idea.

one is to switch from quarterly reporting to monthly reporting of a handful of major indicators.

This is important so that management gets timely information and is able to react

to it more quickly, and also

because you can provide your

riders with a report card.

We have analyzing the on-time data and allow you the

opportunity to measure bunching and gapping, which are the two

things which are most annoying to your passengers and will give

them a measure of something they can really relate to.

Without going into data, I know that you have had the

opportunity to look at the review. Reporting has improved

significantly, and most of our previous recommendations have been reported. We found only slight discrepancy

is in a couple of reporting

areas, and these were things that were relatively easily corrected.

Because the quality reviews are

done in arrears, you have much more current data than what you

are able to report, so I am not going to go over the performance

information with you, but I will

say that in fiscal year 2009 and

2010, U.D. Received its best on-

time performance in all of the years I have been doing performance reporting, and while this has fluctuated slightly

since then, on-time performance remains high, and there is hope that it will continue to go higher, particularly as you

implement the T.E.P.

And the rail service declined

sharply, partly due to changes in definition but also due to greater attention in that area.

On the other hand, we do know a

significant rate of vacancy, and this really speaks to the need to focus on maintenance of the existing system.

In all of the years that I have

been a muni watcher and doing the quality reviews, what we

know as the vacancy rate in it vacancy increases, the next time

we take a look, we find that the time between mean failures has

decreased -- has increased because we have not been able

to do that, so we want to

support that recommendation, as well.

Since the audit period in fiscal year 2011, and you will be getting a report today from

travis on more current

information, we find that operator absenteeism is down slightly.

We find that between failures on

the real side, it is continuing to improve.

-- on the rail side.

In another area, it is very

high, near 20%, but the number of customer complaints has

fallen, and data that was not available at the time of the report is showing continued increases.

We find that the number of trips

that exceed capacity has increased in 2011. This is due to the overall

increase in ridership but also shows the need for

implementation of the

T.E.P, particularly on the busiest routes.

And another market is the

highest we have noted in previous audits, and we know that you are paying attention

to fare evasion as we move to outdoor boarding.

Many recommendations are already being implemented, including the need to replace the quarterly

reports with monthly reports, to

report by service type, it again

in keeping with the T.E.P, setting different expectations for different routes.

To use the data more practically as a management tool, and I know

that is being done more proactively direct the agency, and I mentioned we wanted to deal with bunching and gapping.

This is a way that your customers experience the system, and we think this type of information will be very useful.

We would like you to measure not

only the percentage of hours of

service that you provide but

also the number of missed trips. this has proven to be a

difficult thing for mta to

count, but we know that these missed trips, especially with

routes that have infrequent

service, especially near and

dear to your ridership.

and the ada complaint, 60 days.

This will allow more time to do

more research and adequately addressed these complaints, and

also, to restore a measure of trading hours, which is something you had reported in the past but stopped reporting recently.

We are also recommending that

your report invasion rates,

citation issues, and the number

of contacts by mode so we can better understand where this invasion is a problem, and we can better use this as a tool

for applying your enforcement tools.

And that you report employee grievances by division.

This was supposed to be reported but was not reported in the most recent year.

We think that is important as a

management tool to understand where employee grievances are

surfacing, so in summary,

performance was mixed, but there

was improvement in key areas of

most interest to ridership, and we are making recommendations to make reporting more timely and relevant to your customers and useful as a management tool.

I will be happy to take your

questions either now or after a presentation by travis.

Chairman

brinkman:   thank you. Questions? Great.

Mr.?

>> all right, we are going to move fast and furious here with the volume of information. I will speak briefly to some of

the highlights of the first and second-quarter service standards for fiscal year 2012.

If given the limited time, i will focus on some metrics and move on.

Fiscal years 2013 and 2014.

As always, with on- time performance is where we start.

On a quarterly basis, this debt

to to 72.1% in the first quarter

but rose in the second.

Polite real performance increased significantly in the

second quarter from under 65% to over 75%.

The management center having longer hours has allowed us to improve efficiency.

In addition, they are auditing individual lines on the one by one basis and looking at improvements in those routes.

looking at several routes,

before and afterwards, and one final note, one schedule was

adjusted to allow for a labor.

There is some good improvements to be seen there.

In terms of scheduled service

hours delivered, increasing

from 96.2% the last fiscal year

to 97.4% in the most recent quarter.

As you know, service delivery is directly linked to the number of operators available.

The goal is greater than 98.5%.

and last, great progress in reducing late pullouts.

This also resulted in improvements in that area.

These are at the lowest level since fiscal year 2009.

Those are just the top three.

To keep it short and sweet, if that is all right with you.

>> --

chair

brinkman:   short and sweet.

>> I am mindful of your time and everyone else' s time.

and on we go into 2013 and 2014.

These are the service standards for the fiscal years to come.

The recent transportation

quality review and the developing process provided great opportunity to give a complete look at the service standards program.

At the outset, we identified five key goals.

first, we wanted to make sure the metrics were clearly linked

to the strategic plan. We have identified a key performance indicator as well

as other supporting. Second, we really have been

focused, as bonnie mentioned, on increasing the frequency and timeliness of reporting.

In the past, we reported on a quarterly basis.

but there has been a 38 to the or more delay in some cases.

Where possible, we will be going to monthly reporting and trying

to get wherever possible a 15- day turnaround. For all involved.

Third, we took a look at the

existing service standards report and asked ourselves, is

this a metric that is important? Is it a useful metric?

Is this something that is easily digestible by the public?

In some cases, we have some long

key metrics that are not easy for folks to identify with.

One is about gaps, because that is something that is very clear to people and very real.

then we reviewed all of the recommendations and inc. Those whenever possible.

We really have an eye towards what we can establish an attorney to review these metrics

on an ongoing basis and also do a better job of getting that information out to the public. In terms of some of the key

changes, I will speak about the four goals in the strategic plan.

The first goal is to create a safer transportation experience for everyone.

We teamed existing standards with muni, customer perceptions,

secure to complaints, and collisions and supplemented those with metrics regarding the safety of the taxicab experience.

things and bidding staff, -- things involving staff and missed workdays.

Mrs. Per 100,000 miles to make sure the near consistent with the federal reporting standards.

The second strategic goal, which

is to make others the preferred means of travel.

We have a whole host of exciting metrics to gauge our progress.

First, to try to capture the customer satisfaction with transit services, taxi

availability, the bicycle network, and the pedestrian environment. This will supplement our standard. this will allow us to track how our efforts are improving customer satisfaction and the longer-term goals of making those preferable.

Second, we are rounding out our mandate to more effectively pinpoint the opportunities for improvement and also see how we are doing going forward.

We are supplementing the service

hours delivered and the late

metrics with the bunching and gaps metric that I mentioned.

We will be looking at that

specifically and focusing on on- time performance. It is critical there.

Also, we will be looking at on- time departures from terminals, as well.

We are also looking at measures

to engage escalators and

elevators, as that is key to the accessibility of our services,

and also looking at how we' re

managing our parking inventory and increasing the availability of secure bicycle parking.

The third goal is to improve the quality of life in san francisco. Measures in this area track our

progress towards improving

reducing consumption, emissions, waste, as well as broader

efforts to increase the positive impact on the economy.

new metrics in this area

included focus on our agency and our cities resource consumption, our effectiveness of the

building -- of delivering things on time and on scope. We will also be looking at reducing the structural deficit.

And last, the fourth goal is to create a workplace that

delivers an outstanding service.

Without good internal communication and improve employee accountability and also good relationships with our stakeholders, we cannot accomplish our first three goals.

He metrics in this area are tied to more frequent employee

satisfaction survey, planning and evaluation is for all agency

employees, engaging r. Stickle

dissatisfaction.

Now, just to go back to bonnie' s

recommendations, and in the review of our performance, we

did our best to include these in what you see here. There are a few examples where we will not be able to do this immediately.

The rate of pole in, that will take some time. One was to look at training hours and restoring that.

From our perspective, these are

not an outcome matter.

That May not necessarily be tied

to a reduction in collisions, so with the effectiveness of our training is service.

But by and large, we are doing our best to incorporate the recommendations that they put forth.

So, following any comments or concerns or suggestions, we certainly have a lot to tackle in the months to come.

We started out as I mentioned to

you, we ended up with about 70 metrics. It was a completely different direction than we originally intended.

Currently, we are in about winning the data metrics, working with folks to get that all cleaned up where necessary,

and also identifying champion organizations that will be charged with driving improvement. We will add an internal review process and will be producing our first full monthly report

on July 2012 by mid August.

We are embarking on a pretty

significant expansion of the

prior performance metrics.

I am sure this will be a learning process along the way,

and we will keep you informed throughout. That concludes my presentation

on the progress metrics, and I would be happy to answer any questions you have at this time.

>> if I May provide just when to

add, someone rushing through the senate we could get to the more

juicy topic at hand, but I do

want to emphasize how important these service standards are, not so much the looking back but the

looking forward, and I want to thank both Ms. Nelson and Mr. Fox or their efforts to keep

this current and really make it more meaningful.

When we adopted the strategic plan, one of the things that I know was your interest as well

as mine is that it be a document that we could use to hold ourselves accountable and that the public could use to hold us

accountable, that it would not be a document that we celebrate and then put up on a shelf and forget about, but that we use it

to drive the decisions when making everyday budget decisions, such as the one we are contemplating today, the

policy decisions, and without specific metrics, such as the

standards that are imposed and the improvements to them that the audit called for, we would not really have the specific

means, so I know it is a little dry and a little rushed, but I think it is very important,

whether we have much discussion now or later.

We will certainly be bringing back our performance or our

results, but based on these standards, and I think that is a big part of the accountability that we need to bring to the mta.

chair

brinkman:   director hein

icke?

director

heinicke:   I think the minister runs are great things to monitor and those metrics as opposed to the traditional ones which we saw today.

>> I have given my direction to staff. We will see if they can respond to this.

>> we will certainly be available for July 2012.

>> part of what we are doing is

we have to develop something.

We are working from bass lines, but we are aiming to have as

much of this done as possible

by July 1 and to have the reporting done it for the most part monthly so you are not seeing things six or nine months after the fact.

We are trying to get the reporting back to for management

but also for the board and the

public much closer after each reporting period.

director heinicke: I do not have

any objections to that, but this makes me wonder whether we need to have a discussion at some point or get input at some point on what the metrics should be

rather than just proceeding with 70 metrics, which seems like a burdensome thing to do.

My suggestion at that would be at the very least to consult the

c.A.C. And get their input and then maybe come back to us and give us a progress report or maybe discuss it at our next board retreat, but it seems to me that you guys a clearly understood the message, and I

appreciate the work, and maybe

we need 11 followup discussion before we delve into hundreds of

metrics, also giving time for the public comment, as well.

>> I did get their feedback.

I did not mean to overstate. Some are new metrics.

Some of those are the annual basis.

Director heinicke:

the point is

to say that we recognize this, and the goal is not to have metrics reported as quickly as

-- as frequently as humanly

possible but as frequently as usable.

that is the balance I was try to

strike there, so I appreciated.

We will look forward to July and see what happens.

Chair

brinkman:   do we have any public comment?

Secretary boomer:   we have won public comment.

francisco.

Francisco, a director.

I was paying very careful attention to the presentation given by the gentleman.

Missing in his presentation is the drivers. You talk about this, that, and

the other thing, but what your

main concern should be are the drivers, the muni drivers.

I take public transportation and have been taking public transportation for a very, very long time.

I happen to know

most of the mta director is pretty well.

monitor them pretty well by

reading the empirical data, so

you have to be very careful, as one of the board directors pointed out.

The focus, then the discussion

points will be fewer, but a standard to encompass the whole

universe, you are not going to

have any standards that meet quality upright standards.

The supervisors, whether you

like it or not, you are going to serve the constituents of san francisco.

811,000 in the daytime,

1.5 million when others come here to work.

That is all your responsibility directly and indirectly.

The bottom line is service.

The bottom line is addressing

quality of life issues, but most importantly, whether you like it

or not, you have to focus on the

human being, and today, the distraction among the muni drivers is very high. I help you incorporate that in

your future presentations and metrobuses. thank you very much.

Chairman Brinkman:   thank you.

Secretary boomer: seeing that

there are no more further public comments, the motion is before you.

chair brink

man:   all in favor?

Secretary boomer:

those young

people that are using a clipper

card or any of the other options as presented by staff.

chair

brinkman:   ok, can we please have a report on this before we move to public comment? >> I will be brief. I know a lot of people have been waiting to speak on this item.

Chair

brinkman:   84 your patience.

-- thank you for your patience.

>> there has been great

leadership, david campos, and

james, the chinatown cdc

and other organizations.

I would say it is one of the more positive and pro muni

efforts that I have seen in my relatively short time in san

francisco, and the one thing that is encouraging about this

is it is very much a pro muni initiative, and that is something that regardless of

where we end up, this is not people lining up by the dozens to speak against something we

are doing to tell us to stop doing something.

It is people saying they want to use our services and want to be

able to access our services, and that is significant.

What I think we are on the verge of doing here, and, again,

regardless of what final shape

it takes, it is really an

unprecedented step ford in the city and largely for the

country in terms of making

transit accessible to a large

portion of our young people, whether it is part of them for

free or a reduced amount, it is

a tremendous step forward, and whatever the outcome, it will

really affect the region and across the nation.

So what I am proposing is the

option to make for a pilot period of 22 months to make me

any free -- to make unique --

muni free. I know the original call was to make it free for

all of the young people at all

income levels, but to arrive at

this, it includes that the great

majority of public comment and the impetus for it in terms of

the decline of the yellow school bus system and the increase in the cost of the fast pass and the state of the current

economy, this has all

surrounded and been related to affordability.

i know there are larger desires

at play in terms of rolling the next generation of transit

ridership, but the real core

issue, to me, the real impetus

has been about affordability, and I think that that is something that we should address.

Bear have been concerns that restricting to low-income young people would create administrative burdens, which

creates stigma, and I think that we have been able to

demonstrate that we can address those issues.

I think the goal to get all of the young people on muni for

free has merit in terms of the next generation of transit ridership, but we do have to remember that it is not free. Transit is not free.

And we have to be responsible in

how we manage the resources that enable us to make me work.

-- make muni work.

i think it is questionable for

what extent for hiring, the $21 with a 75 cent fare is really a

barrier, and I am not sure that the fare change would address

that, but to the extent that it would and we would have significantly more revenue -- more ridership and less revenue, there are trade-offs that we

would have to start considering as we start opening this up for free to more than half of the

young people in the city, and I

just want to reinforce that

opening it up to half of the young people in the city is I

think a huge step forward and one that I am proud that we were able to include in the budget.

i believe, although Mr. Murphy stated somewhat to the contrary, that we' re following the spirit

of the C.A.C. Recommendations, and this is what we can do.

The board has already set aside for this purpose plus the anticipated funds from the

region that would otherwise be coming to us if we were to expand this to all young people.

We would have to use funds which would otherwise be coming to us, which is counter the recommendation, and that is

where the trade offs come. This is a pilot.

It has been put forth and recommended as a pilot from the

start from both advocates and the supervisors as well as from

staff, and as a pilot, we should limit its scope in terms of the number of people who are in it,

because we do not really know where the operating impacts May be.

You May have noted during the standard presentation by Ms.

Nelson, the crowding on our

system is increasing, and some

folks to write some of the bus lines that carry a lot of school

kids after school know that some

of those lines are already at crush status.

We have estimated what costs

will be for the additional service to we now have to

provide as a result of making

this free for the low-income young people, but those really

are not factored into our

expenses, so to the extent that

those costs materialize, that is

going to be within our operating

budget , still looking at the

impacts we get, the impact in terms of truancy and the other goals of the program, I think it is important.

That is why we do pilots to take a small slice and see what the impacts are.

The other issue is that since

the funding was largely one-time

in nature, at the end of the pilot, we will have a hole in

our budget.

The more we limit it, the smaller that will be in two years to fill.

Supervisor campos and the other advocates have been very

insistent and determined it to work with us to find additional

funding sources, and I have no

doubt in their sincerity and desire to do so, but we do have

a challenging fiscal environment at the state and federal levels,

and it is not really clear where those additional moneys would

come from, so we somewhat limit

our exposure by limiting this, as well.

Finally, I would say in the long

term, what this whole initiative has brought to light for me is the idea that we should be

looking at our fare structure,

more specifically as it relates

to men come as opposed to how it relates to age.

Under our current system, high- income seniors and high-income

young people pay less to ride

muni them low-income adults, and

I do not think that is a tenable

situation, so to the extent we have learning'

s from this, I will be working in the next couple of years to see how we

can extend their reduced or eliminated fares for low-income

people,

independent of age, and if more revenue comes in, that is something we should at least

be mindful of the desire to do

or being mindful of that.

I just want to credit supervisor campos and his colleagues on the board and particularly the community folks who have worked

so hard, not just to issue a

call for a change in the young

fairs, but to help with the

analysis, the planning, the policy, expressing willingness

to work with us to find funding,

on about winning the program, on doing education and outreach,

and to find the funding for it,

so I think it has been a phenomenal effort.

Whenever version of this that

the M.T.A. Board adopts, it will

be a huge step forward for transit in the city and in the

country, and so with that, and it forward to hearing from the public.

Chairman Brinkman: thank you.

I think we will move on to public comment. I know a lot of you have been waiting for a long time.

And the translation services, I

know you have been going for a long time, as well.

the first comment cards that we have turned in, and then perhaps we will give the board a break after we hear that public comment.

>> -- secretary boomer: thank you, Madam Chair.

We have students in another room

or outside, so we will call a number of speaker cards in advance to allow them to come

into the room and line up so we can proceed and hear from them. Stephanie.

I will read about five at once at this point. Stephanie. The lease.

Angelina, tim,

tina, and lorena .

Are any of those people here? Thank you.

And for people who have not commented before, let me just

remind you that we are going with a two-minute time it.

You will hear one warning bell

at 30 seconds, and when you hear

the louder bell, that is your two minutes, and I do not want to be rude, but I will have to cut you off publicly at that point. Thank you.

>> my name is stephanie.

I am a teacher from a high school.

Some of the students had to leave early.

There are students here that are during the spring break.

and we are here because we think this is such an important issue,

and this idea is really

visionary for the free muni for all youth. It is really visionary and also really simple. I want to urge the board. You have four options before

you, and I want you to put forward this and vote on it for providing this free to all young people. It is simple.

Just in my school community, we

have more students who qualify

for the free lunch than those that have families that will go

through the bureaucracy.

Just by doing this for the

youth, you will not be able to reach everybody.

By providing it for them all, you will bring in wealthier

families, middle-class families it May be right on the edge, and more of them I think would be

quite more likely to use public

transit if they had some members of their family who could ride for free.

As you noted, this measure is

here because of the incredible grass-roots organizing that has happened over the past few

years, so it is very clear that the community has done the work to determine that this is needed endurable.

i realize I am close to out of time, so I just want to point out that the overall budget, the amount that would be needed to make it free for all of the

young people is 1% of the overall mta budget.

The funding has already been identified. It exists, and I see this only

as a win-win four of the san francisco families, that muni as

well as the students the also come in from outside, and I know

for my students, most to do not live in san francisco, they will

be more likely to come in and take advantage of this.

Secretary

boomer:   [Leading names]

chairman

brinkman:   I am sorry,

secretary boomer.

Can we go out of order would be set with the supervisors?

-- can we go out of order with the supervisors?

supervisor

:   I want to thank everyone who has come out to

push for this free for the youth.

And I want to thank mr.

reiskin and his staff. My name is david campos.

We have been working on this

issue for close to one year now,

and we came the year before, and started to talk about free muni

for kids, for use, we wanted to

make sure it was not an unfunded

mandate, and at the time when we had those discussions, the message to was was if you find the money to pay for it, we will do it.

Part of the wonders if the folks who said that at the time just did not think that the money would be found, and that is why

it was easy for them to say

that, but we took that message seriously, and we took that

message to heart, and we have found the money.

You have heard from us. You have seen a very detailed

funding plan that outlines this for a two-year private.

Fat, more money than the two- year pilot would come from.

And if we have the money, and money that would not otherwise

be available to muni, it is not money that comes from parking

meters or any other operational fund that could be used to

improve services, this is money targeted for this purpose, if we

have the money, why would we in san francisco not have free muni

for all of the kids?

And you have before you a resolution that includes a number of options, and the one that has been recommended is only doing it free for low- income kids.

I respect that perspective, but let me say that I think that that option is not the way to go.

The fact is that there are many policy reasons why all kids

should have free access to public transit. We are trying to create the

future generation of riders, and that requires that we make public transit something that all kids regardless of income due. We also want to make sure that

there is no stigma that comes with public transit, that we do

not have a situation where public transit becomes the mode

of transport for only low- income, poor kids. Public transit is something that should be available to everyone.

chairman brinkman: could you please wrap up? I do not mean to be rude, but I have to ask you a question in order for you to keep going.

>> -- supervisor campos: they

could not do it for only three

months, so how can they do it when something that is more long-term and that an even more citywide? I think the message of choice here is clear, and I

respectfully ask that you made history today and make public transit free to all children in san francisco. [Cheers and applause]

supervisor kim: thank you for letting us speak out of order.

I am supervisor jane king m..

-- jane kim.

We have people from all over,

bayview, which meant.

It speaks to how popular this is an needed.

And I think we all in this room

agree that we want to provide this unique access for free for

all youth -- provide this muni access. I am here to express my support.

in our budget, we make a lot of tough decisions, and in the

decisions that we make, we often show where our values and priorities are.

I think we could say that people

should have access to the great city of san francisco. They should be able to ride for

free, and it should not be based on income.

i will speak on the altar to of providing be free muni.

I would still support this proposition, but I want to say

that I think it puts the mta in a difficult position around the budget.

By assuming a $4 million generation of revenue, I think

we will have, definitely have a shortfall from that amount next

year, and I say that because it' s only 50% of our young

people are eligible under the

free lunch or low-income, I

would say that 80% of the young

muni riders are low-income.

i think $4 million or 50% is a very lofty and ambitious number, and I think we would be putting ourselves in financial risk by

supporting that proposition as we move forward, and I think we

should really give this two-year

private a chance, and we can see the generation of writers ship, and also, young people able to access so many of the great things we have in the city.

Thank you for your time, and I want to thank the commission folks are being here and being consistent and coming to the meetings. I know you have to hear them all, but it speaks to their support, as well. Thank you. [Applause]

chairman

brinkman:   thank you, supervisor. >> I appreciate the work you are doing around this.

I have to tell you, free muni

for all kids actually encourages

families to ride muni, and that is what we want.

Think of those families that will join them, and that is what

I look for, not just our public

school kids but all kids and

their families, and I see that

when I see people coming on the weekend, going to movies, the parks, all of our museums.

i see families, and this is what

free muni for all kids will do,

and that is what we want. We want that shift in ideology,

that we do not need a car to ride around san francisco.

"can take muni."

and, "if my kids are taking

muni, I can take muni," and that is what we want.

That is what I want to encourage you. That is what the board of education is thinking about,

free muni for all kids, and I want to let you know that you

have my support on this. The supervisors, their

perspectives about what this will do for mta and the work you will have to do going forward, but I do so appreciate you thinking about our kids for free

on the muni, because that will

bring the families to the mta, and good afternoon to all of you.

Chairman

Brinkman:   thank you. Applause]

Let' s go back.

secretary boomer:   let me read more names.

[Reading names]

>> I am a community organizer. I have been here several times to speak with you.

I am here to urge you to take on

free muni for all youth.

we hear that the recommendation

is for free muni for low-income

use, but san francisco is a transit first city.

But this needs to be for all

youth, as you know, san

francisco is very expending -- expensive. this can all add up quickly.

The sec lead to a crisis. San francisco currently has the

smallest child population of any

major U.S. City, and while it is

a complex issue that involves a tremendous amount of things we can do outside of the realm of the mta, including affordable

housing novel around work, bringing jobs to working-class

families and other things, you know, a very small investment that we can do here in the city

today, right now, is this

investment in making it free for all young people.

In comparison to what that can get you for affordable housing,

that would give you 17.

We could say to the thousands of families in san francisco that we care about them, that the city really, really wants them

to be year, and we are taking steps to alleviate the suffering

that they are going through, so

I urge you to make a historical statement today and make muni

free for all youth.

Secretary boomer: thank you.

[Reading names]

>> hello, my name is -- I am a huge organizer in chinatown.

I am here to really urge you to

consider making muni free-for- all youth.

Meeting our climate objective goals. In san francisco is really committed, if this board is really committed to get kids out of cars and use public transit,

we need to provide a way to get kids to think about that.

the free muni for youth would get them out of cars.

It would help reduce our carbon footprint as a whole.

We have seen 60% of all traffic in san francisco be made by a car.

Young people make up some fraction of that. We really want them to start taking the buses. In new york city where they have run this pilot for many

years, we have seen great success. It is a culture about getting on the buses.

It is not something that they just depend on, they want to get on. Free passes to all young people.

we want to see san francisco be modeled after new york, be

modeled after portland, oregon. Thank you.

Secretary boomer: thank you.

Chair brinkman:

do we have a group of more people coming? I think he is just concerned

that there are too many people standing.

Secretary

boomer:   if you are not coming up to speak with something specific, please have a seat.

[Reading names]

>>

tim is not here, as you can

tell, but I am here. I am judy.

Tim is an organizer.

he has a message to share about

the free muni.

This excludes 18-year-

olds that are still in school.

Urging that we implement a pilot program for all use, and that

includes the 18-year-olds that are still in school.

We really encourage you to

include the 18-year-old full- time high school students.

Chairman Brinkman: supervisor avalos?

Sorry, I would just have supervisor avalos, up.

Supervisor avalos:   I am here to

speak on behalf of the free

access for the youth in the city. I have actually been really impressed with the effort that has gone on now for over a year

to win this great victory that would go for working families and people in san francisco.

I have been part of many hearings and many processes at

the board of supervisors, and in

terms of the work of public transportation -- education, transportation, when the young people have done, above what I have seen other groups that are

well funded, that represent the wealthy interests in san francisco, what they used have

done over the past year is remarkable.

-- what the youth has done is remarkable. We are creating the next generation of transit riders in the city. I believe that our young people in san francisco should have

access to this form of transit.

We have money for the next

couple of years to be able to

pay for that service, and I want to thank you for that effort for making that happen.

I believe that this time has come.

I am willing to work with you as a member of the board of supervisors in the coming years for how we can look at funding

this with the budget on the general fund side and on the mta side, so I encourage you to

support this great effort, and thank you for your consideration.

Chairman Brinkman:   thank you, supervisor.

Secretary boomer:   [Reading names]

>> I am 17 years old, and I ride

the muni.

On in here to tell you also issues that I see.

Number one, 18-year-olds still

in school, that is one of them.

i turn 18 and a couple of

months, so what makes you all think that if I am struggling to

find 75 cents, I will pay $4 a day to and from school?

I have no job or no money that would support May. I am living with a family that

has kids of their own to make

sure that they have the things

that they need, and if education is free in our country, why do we have to suffer to try to

find money to go to school and back from school?

Life for us would be so much

easier it there was bus fare for the young people 18 and down

would be free, and these are

some letters from

mlk and some

other schools in supporting this for all young people, so thank you for listening and for your

support to make this free for all young people.

Chairman Brinkman: thank you.

Secretary boomer:   [Reading names]

>> hi, I am lorena, and I am a director of engagement at a center.

You know, we have been here

talking about free muni for all youth.

We have been here for three hours.

We definitely as an organization seen the need for the free muni

for our young people, and we would like to invite our

leaders to speak about it.

>> I am a senior from missionize

go, and I live far away from mission.

I live in the sunset district,

and I had a sister, and she had to pay for me and my sister to come to school.

I think it is not fair, because

when I it was $10 for

me and my sister, and two years

ago, it increased to like $15,

and now, I am 18, and I have a

few months before I am 18.

$5.

I think it is not fair, because I am going to school.

it is not fair because we do not

have money to pay at school, so why?

School is supposedly free. So that is the message.

chairman brinkman: thank you.

>> hi, my name is maria.

They all go to mission high. I work with them.

First of all, I think that we

should get free muni for the youth.

just to get here, we spend $5.

And right now, we have to go to another program, and we have to

pay another $5 just to go over there. It is really hard.

Most of us have full-time parents working in the morning and night, and it is really hard for them.

I mean, they are already

struggling to support us and just to go to school.

It

i have to spend $2 every time I come back and forth.

You know, we really want you to support us.

Chairman Brinkman: thank you.

>> I am from mission high school.

I will be translating from -- for her.

>>

[Speaking spanish]

>> this is my second time it being here. I will keep coming to support the people.

>>

[Speaking spanish]

>> I have a question, and it is

mostly -- we have the same question.

If we have no money, --

>> [Speaking spanish]

>> how come they keep on raising the price for everything?

And we cannot get free muni?

>> [Speaking spanish]

>>

we hope to have your support and together, we can do something.

Chairman Brinkman:   thank you. [Applause]

>> [Reading names]

>> good afternoon, members of the board.

Bob allen with urban habitats.

I want to acknowledge the entire city family. In the five years I have been

working on issues, we have not

seen this type of unprecedented effort to leverage funds.

Just a couple of points quickly.

We want to focus on the intent and use of some of these funds.

we have met with mta and we agreed on how much we think is available.

We have worked closely with mta

to identify projects that might mean the funding going forward.

The intent of this program is to see pilot projects and to meet

the needs of the community-based transportation plans.

it is to identify funding for projects that need piloted

efforts and to also see projects that are identified -- if you look at the kennedy based

transportation plans, cost of

their -- community-based transportation plans, cost of

fare is always at the top of the list.

As someone who has spent a lot

of time analyzing the use of the funds, it is exactly what we need to be doing.

We have set aside $7 million to

cover existing projects that i talked about earlier.

It leaves us with a balance of $10 million.

Again, it is not clear -- there were concerns about project' s funding going away.

Some of those projects, mta has applied for federal funds.

take away that this is an

appropriate use of funds.

Chairman Brinkman:   brinkman thank

thank you.

>> I am speaking on behalf -- she had to leave early.

The pilot program is free muni for all youth.

mtc would be hard pressed to

represent a higher amount if the

program is killed b the money we are hoping to -- is scaled back. Some of the money is tied to

helping san francisco achieve climate goals.

if we give free passes only to low and,

income youth,

we feel that encouraging higher in,

youth to take transit.

Thank you so much. [Applause]

chairman brinkman: thank you.

>> good afternoon. My name is jane martin.

I am excited that we are here today.

I want to thank all of you for your work.

we are an organization of very low income members.

The folks I work with our super low income.

We wanted to propose the right policy decisions.

That is why we are supporting

free muni it for all youth.

We want to invest in our system and encourage more san

franciscans to care about how

the boss is doing and whether it gets there on time.

We talk on the revenue paddle about how hard it is to make an

investor of -- investment in the

muni that is felt by the riders.

this is something very different. This is something that people

will feel as soon as it is implemented.

I want to reiterate that there

are some assumptions and the staff calculations. We have been working closely with them.

There is an assumption that a

percentage of youth in school is the same the percentage of youth

on the bus that is low income.

We really hope the mta will use something much higher than that.

it is only 47,000 for a family of four. The cost of the low-income option would be much more than what is represented in the report. I hope you consider that.

All -- I hope you consider what

we have said about the lifeline funds being available for this project.

Thank you for your time.

i want to ask everyone here who

supports free muni for youth to

raise their hands. Thank you so much. [Applause]

> [Reading names]

>> because I have to leave -- I am with the sierra club.

I am here today to support power and all of the other groups that

do want to expand muni for all.

This is a chance once again for san francisco to lead the nation and lead california.

We believe in this because

expanding beyond low-income

because the definition of low income in san francisco has changed so much.

Working-class families need to have that option.

You did address the issue of stigmata.

-- stigma.

There are some administrative

issues when you develop, implement, and evaluate a program.

How you determine a low income and all of the administrative issues that go with this. Speaking on the issues of sierra

club, when we help the city developed climate change goals, we looked out emissions.

We look to achieve those goals by reducing cars.

Once you build the ridership

from the public, you have less people driving, less commissions, less impact.

for all of those reasons, the

sierra club supports -- also,

you brought up the issue of free rides from school.

The cost of muni fast past has risen.

I think it is going to be cleaner and easier and more fair.

It will be a win-win for all.

I realize that revenue stream is an issue. Having worked on policy for many years, where there is a political will, there is a political way.

We ask you for all those

reasons to please expand muni for all. [Applause]

Chairman Brinkman: supervisor olague.

Thank you for your patience. I would like to let the supervisors speak.

Supervisor olague:   we are in the middle of the meeting. I have to rush back.

I want to reiterate my support

for free muni for youth.

I think it should apply to all incomes.

It is very much in concert with the transit first policy that we promote. There are some on static

impacts -- unstudied impacts the are greeted by parents dropping their kids off at private schools that we have not looked back.

There is double parking.

There is the stalling of traffic. There are neighborhood impact that occur as a result of parents transporting their children to private schools.

At one time, transportation to schools was something that was given to most children.

Private schools and public schools, it should be something

that is encouraged by the city.

finally, I want to mention that there are a group of seniors

here from chinatown tenants association.

They are getting a little tired

and I was going to ask if at of

courtesy, they could speak after me.

They could have one person representing them, I suppose. I didn' t want to make mention of that.

again, thank you 8 -- I did want to make mention of that.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak.

Chairman Brinkman:   thank you, supervisors. May we have the seniors?

I would like to go ahead and have the seniors. Thank you for your patience.

>>

>> [ Speaking foreign language]

[Applause]

>> good afternoon.

I am the vice-President Of the tenants' association.

we are the largest tenant space organization and the city.

-- tenant based organization and the city.

>> [Speaking foreign language]

>>

accessible public transportation is very important

to the community. A lot of immigrant working class families are dependent.

If we can help alleviate some of these financial burdens by providing free transit for

youth, that would improve quality of life for these families.

>> [ Speaking foreign language]

>> thank you.

>> seniors rely on public transit as well.

Consider options that can ease the burden on seniors.

public transit is a necessity for senior residence. Affordable and the accessible

transit is a fundamental matter and we will continue to advocate for that. [Applause]

Chairman Brinkman:   thank you for coming. Thank you for providing the translation.

>> [Reading names]

>> good afternoon, everyone.

[Speaking spanish]

>> I am here supporting free muni for all youth.

>> [Speaking spanish]

>> I am a member of power and I used need to travel to all different places.

-- muni to travel to all different places.

i used muni to take my children

to the store, to the doctor, to appointments.

As low-income people, we are

also concerned by the proposal

++ only be for low- income families. Because of the challenges that

we confront an

>> [Speaking spanish]

>> for example, with the adult

lifeline, we often have to wait on revlon lines.

Sometimes only get to the end of

the line, the window is closed.

the documents we have will not let us access the lifeline.

>> [Speaking spanish ]

>> sometimes the days you can access the lifeline or try to fill out an application or only during week days.

Those are the days we are working. That limits our ability to apply for today' s program

spread -- apply for these programs.

what is going to happen with

parents to work who do not have a document to prove, and they make?

How can we overcome these barriers?

>> [Speaking spanish ]

>> I want to thank you for your time and for listening. [Applause]

Chairman Brinkman:   thank you.

>>

[Reading names]

>> good afternoon.

The points I want to make today,

many families do not even a word to get a clipper card.

-- even know where to get a clipper card.

The documentation has prevented many families from getting there.

You need a birth certificate or

a state, city, or permanent resident card.

Many youth do not have governmental a

i.D.

It can be a difficult process .

It is even harder for immigrant families who often have more trouble getting berkshire dividends from their native country.

-- giving birth certificates from their native country.

we are

begging you to work with

us to change the list of the acceptable documents for proof of age.

Some options are the school transcripts.

If we do not help our kids now, but happens to them later?

chairman brinkman:   thank you.

Supervisor mar?

>>

I am strongly supportive of the community coalition and urging you in a difficult

budget to consider the needs of young people in our communities.

my daughter, her school bus is the muni system.

I feel that -- I understand the concern about low-income youth.

Many young people debated the issue for many months.

I strongly stand behind their decision to say that it should

be free for all regardless of their income. It'

s an important precedent that san francisco supports their young people to use public transit.

The coalition has been very clear about that.

I know how difficult the budget situation is.

I strongly urge you to support the proposal that the communities are strongly demanding. I thought the seniors were

awesome, but I think the young

people are speaking up in a strong voice. Thank you so much for listening. [Applause]

>> [ Reading names]

>> [Speaking spanish]

>> good afternoon. I am a member of power.

>> [Speaking spanish]

[Applause]

>> I come here before you today

as I did over a year and a half ago to express the needs of our community. I want to reiterate what we have been fighting for from the beginning.

All of the youth have a right to

a free and fast pass in the city.

>> [ Speaking spanish]

>> this is a representation of what we have been working on.

>>

[Speaking spanish] [Applause]

>> we want to -- people who have fought hand in hand have signed

in paper or over the internet.

We have gathered over 7406 signatures in support of free

muni for youth.

>> [ Speaking spanish]

>> we have also had families

use -- whether taken pictures of themselves in support of this campaign.

People will not take pictures of

themselves unless they believe in the cause.

We unloaded those photos so you can see the faces of those who been supporting this.

--

we uploaded those photos so

you can see the faces of those who have been supporting us.

>> [Speaking spanish]

chairman brinkman:   thank you.

If you could please translate.

Thank you.

>> [Speaking spanish]

chairman brinkman:   thank you.

If you could please translate those last statement.

>> I want to thank the board for listening to us, but I want to

challenge you to listen to our full cry and give us what we have been asking for.

Asking for 100% of what we have been fighting for.

I want to recognize that if you

support us in this way, the community will also support you in this way. If we feel you only supported

50%, you will also feel that from the community.

This is going to fall on your shoulders and it will be your

names seen on a national level. [Applause]

Chairman Brinkman:   thank you.

>> [ Reading names]

>> good afternoon.

i am representing the public defender' s office as well as a nonprofit collaborative.

We are in line with the

families, the various agencies, the U.S. Commission, and community activist letter urging

---- the youth commission, and community activists.

A monthly pass

of only $20 May not seem like it contributes to much of a financial barrier, please consider if we can keep multiplying this over a period

of nine months, the typical

length of the school year, $189.

That adds up per child depending on the household.

Assuming that each job requires

the use of the pass, that adds

up to $576 your fourth three children.

-- a year for three children.

For a family of four children,

-- again, this is only nine months.

A summer program increases the cost.

muni cost for t

youth directly

affects disproportionately.

With 59% of african-americans

and 56% latinos expanding assets poverty, we urge you do consider

the costly fees per child to get to school. This does not include other school related costs for families.

Many

are harassed, with the

greatest impact creating a culture that criminalizes our

cities youth and poverty.

Chairman Brinkman:   thank you very much. That was your time.

>> [Reading names]

>> I want you to support what has been presented to you.

Free muni for youth.

Here is my card.

Some one talked about a citizens' advisory committee. I did not know anything about this committee.

when you start talking about

raising fares, I lived in

chinatown in the late 1940' s. I had to catch the bus.

I walked down the hill in order to catch the bus to go to school.

Coming from school, I would get

off at fifth street and catch the cable car.

The city has made chinatown a tourist area.

The people that live there do

not feel like it is a tourist town. We have people with a lot of children.

I am the mother of six children, ok?

What the young man was speaking about, how much the bus fare

cost, it is ridiculous. We cannot afford it. People cannot afford it.

$5 to catch

the cable car, can anyone imagine how many people

is not counting the cable car that live in the area?

a lot of people do not know anything about san francisco.

That is all they do, they come and vote.

They do not know the condition

of the people live in different neighborhoods.

I have lived all around san francisco. I want to be a part of that cac

to keep you guys on the right track. [Applause]

>> [Reading names]

Chairman Brinkman:

are those people here?

>> we are with the families united collaborative.

We are speaking as a group.

We are a citywide collaborative

of families who live in single room occupancies. I am a staff and one of the organizations.

they will be speaking cantonese and I will translate.

>> [ Speaking cantonese]

>> my name is nancy and I am a. Organizer at the collaborative.

-- I am a peer organizer at the collaborative.

My daughter goes to school.

She is a junior and every day,

she took four muni trains at the minimum. She is turning 18 very soon.

after she turns 18, she will

have to buy a $62 passes every month.

That would be $744 per year.

That makes us in eligible for a lot of the tax credits.

that is a lot of burden for my low income family.

>> [Speaking cantonese]

>> my husband and I work really

hard so my kids have could convert -- education.

A free bus passed lets them know that society treasures them.

It is an affirmation and an encouragement for education and

for them to participate in the community.

>> [Speaking cantonese]

>> all of our kids need a free pass. I am here to ask the board to

give the future of our country and our city a fair chance. Thank you.

Chairman Brinkman:   thank you.

>> hello.

>> hi, everyone.

I have two kids.

>> [ Speaking cantonese]

>> if my kids have a free muni

pass, they can participate in community activities and go to

the library whenever they want. They do not have to stay at home because we want to save money for bus passes.

>> [Speaking cantonese]

>> because of budget cuts, the kids are not going to school as much as they used to.

I do not want my kids to stay at home and play video games all day.

>> [Speaking cantonese]

>> the bus passes are $21 per month.

With the two children, I have to pay $42.

Dad is a big line item in my

budget for -- that is a big line

item in my budget for my family.

>> [Speaking cantonese]

>> the city of san francisco is a progressive city. We hope that all young people

had a free mini past to go to wherever they want.

-- have a free muni past to go

wherever they want.

Chairman Brinkman: I feel like we need to give the board of directors a break. If we could take 10 minutes.

We will take a 10 minute break

and we will pay back here at --

we will be back here at 4:46.

We will make it 4:50 to give them extra time.

>> to the extent that there are

any people remaining in room 408, I believe because of the

number of shares -- chair, could we please get started?

We can call the next speakers. Ok.

if there are any remaining

people in room 408 or 416 who wish to participate.

We have space in the main hearing room, we will ask them to come into this room so that you can proceed.

[Reading names]

>> good afternoon.

I am with the market community action network.

I am here to support to provide free muni for youth.

we know that san francisco,

there are a lot of families

living san francisco, especially middle-income families because they do not feel the city loves them.

They do not feel the love in the city anymore.

It is a huge problem in san francisco. We have the lowest number of

children than any other major city in the U.S..

By providing free transit, we

can take a necessary step to

support youth who are struggling to get by in this challenging time.

That is why we are asking you to consider the free muni for youth.

we want to see the city invest in our young people, invest in our families.

We want them to feel valued and important.

We ask you to provide free muni for all. Thank you.

Chairman Brinkman:   thank you.

>> hello, commissioners. Thank you so much for the opportunity to come and address you.

I am a commissioner with the san francisco board of education.

Last year, the san francisco board of education unanimously

passed a resolution in favor of

free muni for all youth.

The governor is proposing not to reimburse us for any transportation whatsoever.

Free muni ensure that every student would have the means to get to school.

Add san francisco unified, we like to say the city is our classroom.

in recent years, we have less of our children going on field

trips to our museums, parks,

historical sites because of the cost of muni to take all of the kids.

I would be remiss to not bring to your attention that we have hundreds of students in our

system who have turned 18 before they have graduated from high school.

They depend on muni every day to get to school. They are full-time students. The majority of them do not work any job at all.

We are getting them to graduate.

San francisco unified is the top district in the state of california press school districts concerning test scores.

I would ask for you to consider

our 18-year-olds who are still

in high school, full-time students, when you are

considering free muni for youth.

I am a san francisco fourth

generation -- I rode muni all over this city.

It would not just be access to the schools, it would be access to the whole of san francisco.

I urge you to pass free muni for all youth.

Thank you very much. [Applause]

>> hello.

>> good afternoon.

I currently attends school of the arts high school. I am also this didn' t delegate

to the board of education and we

represent the student -- to the

student delegate to the board of education. We passed a resolution with the board of education with the

support of implementing free a

fast passes for all youth and san francisco.

56% of the school district

school buses have been cut.

The cuts will continue to increase over the next two years. In our society, we have the responsibility to make sure that

youth have access to a free and public education. That should not exclude

accessible transportation to and from school.

we are urging you to vote for

free muni for youth in san francisco. Thank you so much.

Chairman Brinkman:   thank you. [Applause]

>> [Reading names]

>> hello, everyone.

I am chair of the san francisco

youth commission.

I have spoken in front of you before.

There are three things.

We do not want to stigmatize muni as being only for low income.

i am appreciative that the

proposal includes -- it has

proven that they do their free

lunch status data, but it does not reach everyone.

People do not consider

themselves low end, and they do not want to apply.

That is one of the things I fear happening.

Administration of the program, I read the proposal that you have here.

On page 5, it is sam' s that

administering would cost less

than administering it for all

low-income -- let' s backtrack.

Administering the past for low- income students would cost less than administering it for all students. I find that the really interesting.

I want to make sure the board took notice of that.

another point is family flight.

Not only are low income families

leaving the city, all families are leaving san francisco.

I really want to make sure we get them to stay.

This gives families a reason to stay. It addresses the administration challenges.

a couple of other things I want

to include, we have been

working with the supervisor' s office in coming up with the finding.

We have identified those funds and they are available to us.

Free muni for all

allows us to

leverage climate funds, going to

drivers of all income levels to get out of their cars.

We do

not -- it helps the city

reached being a transit to first city.

[Applause]

>> [Reading names]

>> good afternoon.

I am here today -- I am an

appointee on the youth commission.

i come here today to support a free pass for all youth.

The budget is tough, but we have to think about what it could mean for investment in our future.

Congesting, drunk driving, these are problems in our city.

They are not because of cars. They are because people are not

comprehending how great public transportation can be.

Or adult generation has been exposed to a life style in which cars are the only option.

This is going to continue until we make a change right now.

Transportation is cool. I think transportation is cool.

i have some type of fun. [Laughter]

This enlightenment of public transportation needs to be for everyone. I want everyone in the audience to have a clipper card like

mine that has the plastic torn off because that means everyone is respecting muni and everyone is really into just the idea of public transportation.

So, yeah, this will help the environment and improve, eliminate car-related danger

and also it will just make our public transportation system something that we'll all share in the future and be extremely proud of. And san francisco's goal is to

be a modern city so we need not

only a modern mode of transportation system but think

in a modern way and enjoys taking the future into account, not just the present.

So for the future, let's not trade a stigma but come

together to build a new sustainable city.

This will only happen if all

youth are involved and that would mean making muni free-for-all youth. Thank you.

[Applause]

>> selena lane, maria tapia,

francisco dacosta.

>> is selena here? maria?

Tapia.

Stanitruculo.

Francisco decosta.

Jessica enron.

any of those people here?

>> hi, my name is jessica, and

I'm speaking on behalf of ymac

members and coleman advocates.

I support free muni for all youth. I believe all youth deserve a chance for free muni not only

for school but for work and

extracurricular activities.

All youth deserve a chance to explore a place they call home and that's san francisco,

obviously. So, yeah, thank for you

listening to all of us. [Applause]

>> thank you.

>> Madam Chair, the speakers I've called haven't respond. Is there anyone else who has

not had a chance to speak who would like to address the board

on this matter? All right.

No more speakers, in that case we -- oh, one more.

>> two more.

>> good afternoon, board members, I'm earnest stokes, a long time resident of san francisco and have been a resident of san francisco for

approximate 30 years.

and I'm here to support free muni for youth.

Free muni for all youth, not

just a free muni pass for low income youth because that

doesn't stop you from raising

the fare, not just a free pass for local youth because it doesn't stop you from raising

the fare in the future if you set a fare for low income youth.

That's number one. And really my statement is more

about values than it is about

muni and stuff like that.

If I can read what I've got here. It's on money and the cost of war.

we as a nation are willing to

spend any amount of funds on

needless wars, and by needless wars, I mean wars against

nations that have not attacked us.

I'm talking about iraq. Libya, afghanistan, and even now we're considering going to

a shooting war against iran.

We as a nation do not need any more wars against nations that have not attacked us. We have better use for that money.

We can start by spending it on

infrastructure and yes, that

includes free muni for youth. >> thank you. Yes, sir.

Good afternoon.

>> how are you all doing?

>> spread the word! Free muni! >> spread the word.

>> for the youth. >> free muni. >> for all the youth. >> yeah.

>> good afternoon, board, my name is anthony navarro

representing S.O.P. Solidarity organizing at the high school.

Working with power two, wimac, excelsior district, all our neighborhoods. Can we give it up one time for

all of the grassroots organizers, youth, students, families who have been coming

for a year now out of their own time, not getting paid, out of the love and accountability to their community. Can we give some love for all of you all.

[Cheers and applause]

>> once again, as all of you

know, I'm not going to repeat -- I'm going to repeat a lot of what the community says but we

want to be accountable to our want to be accountable to the community and to serve the people, to provide the best service you can as public

transportation. And it's my understanding that

you need to listen to the -- you all can hear me? You all good?

that we have fought and

organized a lot of these folks

who secured the funding for two years. These folks aren't getting paid to do this.

They have done out of their own blood have been supporting this campaign. We want to hold you accountable to your words saying you want to serve the people of this city.

And look at the long-term pro

muni folks, young generation. Think of the impact you can

make for this country, not just the city and changing the game.

We have secured this funding and can see where we're going after this. This is pro muni. We have been pro muni. We ride the muni every day.

You don't want to serve us into anti-muni. We'll hold you accountable and

we love you all because you all

are supporting this but we are

asking to meet the needs of the people and we're saying free muni for all of youth. In solidarity, can you say this with us? Spread the word. Free muni. >> for our youth.

>> right on, Mr. Ramos.

Right on. >> all right.

Thank you and I think that was our last speaker for public comment. One more. One more. Good afternoon. [Cheers and applause] >> hello. Good afternoon, board and members of the public and community.

Any name is renee antivaros, youth minister for district 9

and is my daughter, and we're here to represent the thousands of youth that were not able to attend and we're also here to represent the thousands of youth of our future.

As you know, the 2000 census

compared to 2010, the age from

0-18 has declined by 5%. we need to secure the future of our youth in this city to not

only stay here but thrive here,

teach ethics in our schools so we can bring forth innovation

together. When my daughter is older, I

would not want her to be segregated because she May

qualify for free muni for youth

as of now but I know when I get

my degree she will not qualify for free muni for all.

But for low income, however, I would like her to be able to unify and interact with her peers on the bus, not profile each other and say hey, you're the kid that got the muni for free, I'm the kid that got it and had to pay for it.

story telling and dialogue changes life and changes the course of history. We need to unify our youth

again and we need to be that leadership city which we are and promote transit, be the

first transit city of san francisco.

I know we have a great, efficient city and need to continue to promote that leadership within our peers. Thank you.

And I appreciate all your willness to hear us today.

And appreciate your willingness to work for this and let's just remember secure and invest in our future youth as sometimes financial burdens May not

outweigh the outcomes if our peers interact with each other. Thank you.

>> thank you.

Do we have any more public speakers? Are I think that was our last

one in which case we declare public comment on this item closed. Thank you very much. You're very patient to wait all this time. We appreciate it very much and appreciate hearing from you. yes? >> I want to thank everybody

who spoke and who came and left

and wasn't able to speak, and

all those who wanted to be here. A lot of good comment. I just want to try to offer

some clarifying comments to some of the comments that were

made or some of the themes that

were brought up, and then just had one other -- couple other pieces of information.

I do want to clarify that I didn't really speak to it much in the budget.

The budget is built on the

assumption of the staff

recommendation which means that

under a different scenario, we would have to rebalance the budget, so just wanted to -- I don't think I said that.

I wanted to clarify that.

There was a lot of public

comment about the revenues that

are available for this, and I want to make two points that I

think we heard some kind of conflicting things on.

in terms of the source of funds and the different bucket of

funds from the region, there is

up to $5 million available from

the M.T.C. That arguably without this movement would not

have been coming to muni or to san francisco, and I think the folks here and supervisor

campos all deserve great credit for those even being in play.

That still is the subject to

M.T.C. Approval, a vote of the commission, but the fact that

those are even in play, that

wouldn't otherwise be coming

our way, our testament to this effort are only available because of this effort. The balance of the funds from

the region are lifeline funds that will be coming to san francisco and for the most part

to the M.T.A. Regardless so that I think there were some speakers that suggested that all of the funding from the

region were coming only for this purpose. The balance of those funds are

for the overall -- they're lifeline funds and is a combination of capital and operating fund. We endeavored to explain that in our staff report.

And the lifeline funds are for

-- are meant for low-income populations so there was some

commentary that -- making muni free-for-all youth is exactly in line with the lifeline program.

i'm not sure that's entirely correct. So two clarifications on the revenues there, the lifeline

revenues would be coming to san

francisco and to the M.T.A. And they can be and would otherwise be used for other purposes.

That's not the case in that first, up to five million which is really there because of the

efforts of this group.

There were some discussion

about whether the $4 million revenue loss was a low estimate. We acknowledge, and I think I

tried to indicate that we don't know what the ridership impact of this would be. It's possible that is low.

it was among the risks that are

in the budget, to the extent

it's greater, that's kind of more of a hole we will have to fill at the end of the two

years if we were to go with that option.

We heard from a number of seniors, as I said. i just want to reiterate, I think in the long term we maybe

want to look at our whole fare

structure so we don't have a situation where high income

kids are paying more -- paying less for muni than low-income adults.

And I think seniors who are on

fixed incomes have perhaps a

higher call on any additional

expansion of the program than

high-income youth.

There have been in this meeting

and in others discussions about fare enforcement and about targeting youth.

I just want to state, I think

again, that less than 2% of the

citations that we issue for fare revision goes to youth and

while we don't have great

ridership numbers of youth

versus adult we know the youth constitutes more than 2% of our youth and are underrepresented

on who is receiving citations on the system. whether that was true in the

past or not, I can't speak to but that's where we're running

often at 1%, 1.5% last month. So just a factual clarification.

And there was some discussion about the clipper card and the difficulty of getting a clipper card and requirements to

getting a clipper card and we're certainly willing, and i think we put in the staff

report, big to work with M.T.C. To see if there's a way to change the requirements. The use of a clipper card for this program in whatever option

the board chooses was always meant, and I believe by all of

the advocates as well, to be a clipper based program.

If you're paying cash, you're still going to pay the regular fare. this is a clipper-based program, so whether it's

free-for-all or cheap-for all

or free for low-income youth, the clipper issues are there and we're committed in whatever format it takes to try to get clipper cards in the hand of the youth.

That's what the regional

climate forms would be

supporting some of those are

dedicated only -- or eligible

only for use for education and outreach which would largely be getting clipper cards in the hands of students. So we would have to work through that. We will have to work through that issue regardless.

And I guess two more points.

one is I neglected to mention

that the mayor has been supportive in principle of this concept just as I think the board has. I think he shares the concerns about not wanting to engage in a program that adversely impacts muni. I don't want to presume to speak for him but I did want to

communicate that he has been working with private sector entities to try to see if he could augment the revenues for this program from private sector funds that wouldn't otherwise be coming to the

government or to the M.T.A.

So that's another factor that is -- I'm about there.

finally, I'll just second the notion of public transportation is cool.

I wholeheartedly agree with

that sentiment.

>> thank you very much, Mr. Reiskin. In order to get this on the table for discussion, can I have a motion and second on

this item and then we can

discuss any --

>> I would move with the staff representation. >> ok.

Do I have a second?

I don't have a second?

You can second it if you choose? >> I'll second it and go ahead and discuss this item now. Who would like to start?

who wants to be the -- " >> I would rather have spoken

to a recommendation that we go

with the free-for-all that we create a resolution that would

have -- that would send them

back to M.T.C., getting the

funding they need, the reassurance and commitment from this board that we would make

something -- make it work out, contingent upon finding the funding.

I don't know if this would be the appropriate time to talk -- [Applause] >> I don't know if this would be the most appropriate time to talk about that but that's what I was hoping we could talk about. >> all right. So we have on the table for discussion the staff recommendation.

now, we can absolutely talk

about adding a whereas to that

recommendation. I'd like to hear from some of the other directors.

Director oka, would you like to start?

Commissioner oka:   everything

that everybody has said has --

for me, made a big difference

because those of you who know where I stood from the beginning of my term on this

board knows that the first

thing that I said was I wanted to lower lifeline.

lifeline right now is too high.

It is uncomfortable to me.

For lifeline, low income,

transit dependent individuals

have to pay $30 a month, and

yet I tried and tried and have

tried to get down into the 20's. The mayor's office at that time wouldn't support that.

I think we have no choice but

to do something for youth in

this city, and I've always been

a proponent of

free muni for all youth.

[Applause]

Commissioner oka:   if we can't do that, somebody has to tell me why we can't do it.

Beyond what I've already heard because there are people

telling me the funding is there and I believe the funding is there. I think we can make this work.

And I'd like to propose an

amendment to the motion that

puts free muni for all youth.

[Applause]

>> can I say something?

>> yes, please, director lee.

Commissioner lee:   I have to say that this group has been very

well organized, very

professional in their presentation, very passionate in what they're saying.

and if I were to just base a vote on the passion, you'd get it 100%.

And there are some things that

I totally agree that free muni for youth is admirable.

The question is, we have to ask ourself, where does muni stand right now in terms of

operational scheduling, overcrowding the buses right now.

I kind of see even if we did do

the low income first, that it's mostly a two-stage process where we can capture the information, know where the

operational shortfalls are and maybe come back again two years after we run this test to say ok, we understand, we know where the cracks are, this is

where we can fix it, this is

where we can go with free muni if that's what we want to do.

Right now we open up the floodgates and if the buses are

crowded now, can you imagine if

by tomorrow we said it's free? So I support what you're saying. I understand what you're saying but from an operational standpoint, nobody has convinced me that, you know, the money that we have is going to cover all the runs we've got to make and if we can't make it, do we put more drivers back on overtime to try to make the runs? That's what I'm not convinced on, that we have that feasibility to do that.

I agree with everything you're saying.

And I wish I could totally support it 100% but there's

this one little voice that says operation, what's going to happen to the rest of the riding public?

I'm willing to say -- to still add a second clause that says ok, we'll run the test and if

we can identify where we need to strengthen and can we do it,

then we do the free youth for

muni as the next phase. I'm recommending like a two-stage phase. >> thank you, director lee. I just have a couple thoughts. Again, thank you all so much. Your passion really is amazing

and this was an amazing program and an amazing outreach and you've done such a good job. I think you've put something on the table for all of us to think about, that as you heard, the very first time you came before the board, a lot of us had never really considered the fact that when we were growing up those yellow school buses just showed up and we didn't have to worry about it so we really do appreciate the fact that you kids have to worry about it, you have to think about it, you have to think how you're going to pay for the muni bus getting you to school. So I want to just mention a

couple things that director reiskin mentioned, which is the commitment to work with the m.T.C. About the clipper card documentation.

I do understand that level of

documentation can be daunting, providing paperwork and providing documentation for anything can be a daunting prospect. There's no guarantee we can

change that in any way, but you definitely have our commitment, because as you mentioned,

anything that we implement will be clipper card based and doesn't mean whoever gets this, whether low income or all, you don't just get on the bus, you still have a clipper card and

tag on the bus. We still have a commitment to

work with the M.T.C. To make that process to getting the youth clipper card more accessible and making it

easier. I think that one of the big

things that came up was the

idea of a stigma around a low income clipper pass.

Again, I think with the clipper

card, that stigma is removed to a great -- in a huge way. I don't think the clipper card is going to look any different. The clipper card will look like a clipper card. I think one of the commissioner's held up his, one of the youth commissioners held up the clipper card.

That's what it will look like

no matter who is using it, whether you paid full fare,

reduced fare or paying cash and riding ride by ride off the

clipper card. So what I'd like to propose is that we have a motion and we

have a second on the measure as it's written.

I would like to propose a whereas. We heard concern from supervisor campos' office and

from the organizers that if we don't have some type of commitment on this board to providing free muni for all youth, that it makes it difficult to go after some of the funds. So I thought about this a lot

today and we've come up with a whereas clause that I'm hoping everyone will be able to agree on and perhaps this will alleviate some of the concern around the ability to go out and get the funding.

whereas, the sfmta board of directors recognizes the difficulties many face given the current economic situation, as well as recognizing the

public interest in encouraging muni ridership among young people, the board wishes to endorse the idea of providing free transit for all youth in the future as long as it can be done in a fiscally responsible

manner.

Do I have any feedback?

I'm sorry, I would need a

motion and a second on that whereas. >> you made the motion. You need a second.

>> I need a second. >> I'm wondering if that kind

of language would work. >> no. >> it wouldn't work.

>> you need a second in order for that -- >> I'll stecked. >> for purposes of discussion. >> we've got a motion and a second on the whereas. Now May we have a discussion among the board with the whereas.

>> so I just want to be clear, you're amending the motion to

give free muni for all, whereas the fiscal funding is available

to fund the entire program? >> correct.

It will take the staff recommendation, add a whereas that says we endorse the idea

of providing free transit for all youth in the future as long

as it can be done in a fiscally responsible manner. >> but my question is, the first part of the staff recommendation says low-income, so does that -- will that remove that part? >> no, this is in addition, this is it the additional money can become a available, then it

would be extended to all youth. But the staff recommendation stands.

and then if by the board

signaling that we find free muni for all youth to be a

laudable goal that is not within our budgetary means at this time, shoot money become available and should our making that statement help that money become available?

Then we would do free muni for all youth. >> I guess my concern with that

is, will that affect the funding that they secured? Because I guess my undergo is

the funding they secured is

based on the fact -- maybe I'm misunderstanding it but I want to make sure I understand that. >> that's a good question. Because I understood the M.T.C. were -- that you had talked about, the new

money, the $5 million is essentially there to fund the staff proposal. So I guess maybe I'm asking the

same question but this whereas clause wouldn't jeopardize that money, would it?

>> if I could clarify, first of

all, there has been no money secured.

there has been money identified

that following resolution by

the M.T.A. Board that would have language saying whatever is adopted would be contingent on M.T.C. Funding, then I

believe supervisor campos would

introduce language at the

M.T.C. To try to secure M.T.C.

Support to get that funding, so

that's point one. This is contingent on action

the M.T.C. Would have to take. This hasn't been introduced at

the M.T.C. Yet.

it could be after our vote

today.

Supervisor campos would want to know, have the commitment before the M.T.A. Before bringing something to the M.T.C. And the

right approach

>> with refard to the funds, as

I understand it, and I did

speak to the head of the M.T.C.

Is this, there would be I think

the higher percentage of the overall program that we would be seeking the region to fund, the more difficult it might be

to secure that funding. If you look in our staff report

on page 11.

We are identifying a $9.4

million revenue loss.

so that's $9.4 million and assumes a $4 million revenue loss which many of the public speakers think is low.

It also doesn't include any additional service or related

costs that we might incur.

So the.4 is at the low end of what the program would cost

under this scenario.

And what we proposed, $.7 would be half and of this I would say a relatively low estimate.

so I think the concern people

have been expressing is by seeking more than half of the

program to be funded by

regional funds might be a tough

sell but I would argue that

$9.4 million is quite a low

estimate and we've heard much public testimony in support of that, such that I think there is still a case to be made that we're not really asking the

region to pay for more than half of our program. So that's the issue.

There has not been any money secured.

The money I'd find -- the money

identified, from a pragmatic standpoint, at the regional level can't fund more than half of whatever it is we propose

and I think that's the point that the folks have been trying

to make. >> I just wanted to make

certain, that the other half would come from the lifeline

funds, and not the mass transit authority.

>> the balance is the operating

budget, and they said we needed to use -- they said that we needed to use the lifeline funds for the other sources.

>> can we take comments

from supervisor kim? >> we can' t ask questions at this point.

We can ask the staff but not the supervisors.

>> you know -- it is your

discretion. >> you can.

>> yes, please come up. [Applause]

>> unless we

had amended the

sunshine and public records, I don' t think there is a problem

with you asking the question.

i just want to clarify, the

reason we wanted the board of

directors taking action -- is

that the point is that they want

to see what it is that the board

of directors are willing to do

before they talk about the funding that would be available.

I would tell the body that this

is what the board of directors

has to approve, so that the

language from the chair, will recognize the intent?

This does not accomplish the objective because this talks about what May happen in the future.

And what this is is very difficult to find.

And what they need to know when

I asked for the finding is, what

is it that the mta has agreed to right now?

>> thank you, supervisor.

>> it sounds like it would make

sense to either take a vote on this motion or withdraw this motion.

On the amendment of the motion.

I think that I would withdraw this and there is no point in

taking the up and down vote on this.

And we then, if there is any

more discussion around item 14,

or if there is another motion --

>> is there no reason for the amendment?

>> I have had a few things I would like to say.

>> I apologize for botching all of this.

This is my first real chance to do anything here.

It has been a year since I have

been here and this feels like

the first real tension that I have had to deal with here.

and I hope we can get to a solution to make as many people happy here as possible.

I think that we are all on the same page with respect to the community.

I want to express my gratitude

to everyone who came out and who has come out for over one year

now, and I especially want to thank the mothers that have been

here, coming out and bearing your soul, encouraging the children to come out here.

We would not be here without you.

When these organizations made the call, you came.

We need you here today and we will need you here in the future.

If we have this kind of investment of your time and

energy in this issue before, we

would not have this conversation right now.

We need you engaged in transit issues.

I appreciate the comment from a

woman wanting to be on the C.A.C.

We make this a priority for off in advance to do what we need to do.

My issue were my concern for a

free muni for all use, is an

attempt to create a world-class

transit system, that everyone can be weldcome

come on and want to take.

When I am not doing this, I am

working for transit in the east bay.

Transit has a stigma of being

called, "rolling ghettos,"

"mugger movers."

I know -- lawyers and

bankers who drive from

diamond heights because they are

too good for muni.

The clipper car would look the

same but it would still have the

stigma of, why should I be

finding these low-income people.

We get around that by going to a free system for everyone.

I want everyone to think about

the free systems that exist that we value so much.

when you get off of the train at

the airport -- this is free transit for people getting to the airport.

In emery -- this is a system that everyone loves.

This is treasured by the community.

the broadway show in oakland is free.

They have figured out ways to do this.

They have a ballot measure that

will go to the voters in

November that makes transit free

not just for young people -- not

just the low-income people but all of the youths.

it is important that we start to

keep up with this, because where there is a well, this is away.

We have the central subway, america' s cup -- this is a chance to empower the supervisors that are leading

this fight to do something that

would be in the direction of the world-class transportation system.

60% of the trips are taken by

car, and if we had a system where people were encouraged to

take this we would have more

people say, this is not more

money to take a transit -- so i

will just put my family in a car and drive.

I hope that whatever is done

today, will at least afford the

idea of free muni for low-income folks.

What would like to accomplish is

empower the supervisors with what they need to fight the good fight and bring us back whenever

they can, and if you can get

this for everyone -- we go with

the low-income passes for now, knowing that we are committed for the long-term 5 fight for

free muni for all.

>> so you are in favor?

>> the amendment does not sound

like it would cover what we needed.

I hope staff is preparing an amendment.

I have something to propose.

>>

it might be available.

Is there language available.

>> the only language is in this proposal.

And right now there is a motion on the floor.

This is the motion before you

for discussion, to the extent

that an alternative motion -- if the motion fails to be adopted and there is another motion for

another option, we have language

to support the old

emotions that the board should approve.

the current motion on the floor is to approve the implementation

of free transit service for the

low-income use, and to use the

card for the pilot program in 2014.

This is the motion that is before the board.

You need to deal with that

motion, up or down.

Can we have a little bit less audience participation.

I know that you are very excited but this is a very confusing

item and we all mean well.

If we could just have a little bit less audience participation, we would appreciate this.

>> you feel it would be proper

to deal with that motion, or if there are amendments to that

motion, to deal with that motion.

At that time, if it is not

approved, another motion, another option could be moved.

And then we have the language to

support other options, all of these options presented.

>> do you feel that you should

take an up or down voice vote

authorizing the board of transportation?

I think that we need a voice vote on this.

Director bridges? No.

Heinke? Aye. Bringkman? Aye. Oka, no. Director rama, os, no. The motion fails. [Applause]

>> it would be appropriate at

this time, perhaps we should

discuss, if this motion fails, it means that we would need to provide the budget document.

so, do I have another motion on

the table instead of this one?

>> I am having to make a motion

to amend the resolution to

include language that has been

prepared in anticipation of this predicament.

>> if you' ll just tell me which

of these options you are going for.

>> this is free muni for all youth. [Applause]

>> so, the language related to

that, the last three paragraphs in the resolution would be

deleted, and the new clause

would be on April 2012 -- we have decided to approve the

option to provide free transit

clipper card for the pilot

program through May 31, 2014,

then the fares will return on

June 1, 2014, abscent explicit action.

the mta board of directors asks

the board of transportation to

authorize all youth who use the

card for the pilot program,

through May 31, 2014, at which

time they will return to an

index value, abscent explicit board action.

And the implementation of transportation service for all

youth during the pilot program

-- through May 31, 2014 is

contingent on the mass transit

authority and the transportation authority approving the allocation of necessary funding. Mtc. >> mtc.

>> director?

>> based on the vote, what

happens if this is approved and we do not get funding?

>> adel language

of the resolution and the

understanding all along -- has been if we do not get the

funding, and then things stay the status quo.

>> and it goes back to the way that this is right now.

>> this is within the index,

just like the senior phares.

>> why would there need to be a change to the budget document?

>> we assumed that the finding

in the budget -- we assume the revenue of said base.

We' re talking about a $4 million difference.

based on the assumption of

certain revenue level, with a $4

million of said -- we had programmed the lifeline funds in a certain way and they would have to change those.

>> is this current resolution contingent on the pilot program being funded by new money?

>> whichever resolution -- the

resolutions would have the same contingency language.

What was assumed in the budget,

just like I assume certain labor

concessions in the budget, this was that the revenue loss

associated with free muni for

the low-income youth, this is assuming the funding is there to support this.

if it goes forward and the

funding does not materialize, we have a whole that we would need to plug.

>> but under the current

proposal -- would there be a place in the budget even if we get this money?

This is getting confusing because my understanding was

that one of the main reasons for going with the staff proposal is that if we went with the other

proposal we would be counting

on the unsecured funding, and the digging a hole in our own budget.

>> we are counting on secured

funding, and the balance of the funding plan would likely come

from the lifeline funds that are

currently identified for other purposes. >> and not new money.

>> we would need to identify all the resources for the things

that we would fund the lifelines for, and cut elsewhere in the

budget, or we cut those

services, which we likely would not do.

We have to fill in the gaps of

the $4 million per year and this

would be in the revised budget.

The budget was built on a certain assumption.

>> this is a

pliot -- we have

time to look for money.

This is a dismal financial outlook.

but we have to make -- the outcome is to do this. [Applause]

>>

if the current proposal is

voted on, how will we address this in the budget document we

have right now, and if we go

forward with this, where will we address this in the budget?

What will we not do?

>> in two weeks I will bring

back and revised operating and capital budget that will change

the assumptions of where those

lifeline dollars will go, to fully fund.

The exact amount would be $6.70

million of lifeline funding, and

those May be coming from the capital and operating budget.

I do not know how I would close

this whole, but with this budget

-- there are the tradeoffs that

were made, and I would propose a revised budget.

And it will make those adjustments.

I did not come up with a backup plan.

This is the two-year number.

>> so we cannot just make

-- we cannot read-program the funding

in the lifeline, so that we don' t have to bring this back?

Is there anything that we can do

to move the funding around just in case there is the fall back plan?

>> if I can confer with the experts.

I would love to have a budget adopted today.

>> the answer --

[Inaudible]

>> I think that the most

responsible thing for me to do,

again -- a two- year, $1.60

billion budget -- I don' t want to be cavalier with throwing

together some balancing plan.

As much as I know people would like to have the budget

resolved, ahead of that list, I think it would be most responsible if I came back.

The capital and the operating budget revenue will be affected

by this, and I need to figure

out a responsible way to balance the 6.7 million.

we have committed to try to get the resolution passed and

approved today, so if you do something other than we had

recommended we would just need

to come back with a revised budget. I would like to give this the

time that it result -- time that it deserves.

>> just so we know the options

on the table, if the second

motion also fails, things stay

as they are, they will stay status quo.

And then --

>> the board could reconsider,

if there are other options, but if there are no actions with

changing this, it would be the status quo.

>> and we would move on to the budget item. Or would it be prudent to continue the budget item?

>> this would also change the budget.

>> we will probably -- unless

this second motion passes, we will end up continuing the

budget, which is not a huge problem.

>> and we have failed in the time for this.

>> I am concerned about the idea of status quo.

status quo for now, until we vote on this again.

As an item within the budget. Next time? >> would this come back to us?

>> if we cannot agree on

anything tonight, does this item

come back to us, do we send this down the road?

>> this is really up to the board.

We have been working with everyone out here to try to get

something through today, so that

supervisor campos can bring it to the M.T.C.

there are time lines that we were trying to me to make this happen.

It is in the hands of the board in terms of timing.

>> just so I am clear with what

happened here, it sounds like the budget that we have was

uniquely created it for just the use of the low income pass.

And there was not even an

attempt to offer up --

>> the budget was built based on

a number of assumptions in terms of sunday parking.

I made the proposal to balance

the budget, I did not propose a

balanced budget, with extra encase the board did not want to go with sunday parking.

I made assumptions based on

what I thought -- but the group of revenue and expenditure items were.

this is the decision of the board.

If the board wants to change

this -- we can go back on the 17th and call a special meeting and come back before the end of the month.

So if the board wants to make adjustments this is within your ability.

>> can I ask the chair -- do we

know if we delay this or

continue this until another

special meeting, would it give enough time for the supervisors

to get what they need to hear from us?

because they are working on a time line. >> exactly.

I have as a proposal that we --

we bring 14 -- we vote on 14 but

we also ask that this item be brought back to was to extend

this to free to all use.

And if we pass 14 the way that

this is written, and also have

this come back to us, next

meeting, to extend it to free

for all youth --

i think in that

case we would continue the budget.

>> and you can also

-- you can

also continue the whole item, given that you have taken

public comment and close to public comment, you will not have to do it at that time.

And you could also choose to

risk and all of the votes, continue the matter and continue

the matter and the budget, the

operating and the capital budget

on April 17, and ask your

director to come back with variations on this theme so that

you could adopt a budget at that time. This is another option that you have. And I don' t know what this does

to the mass transit authority funding, or the efforts of supervisor campos.

>> what would that do to your efforts wit the

h the mtc funding

request, if they come back with two scenarios?

Supervisor campos: the one thing

that we have heard from mtc, is

that the sooner the mta board

acts, the better, because the hope was that an action would

have been taken by now.

My fear with waiting is that you

will face the possibility of losing funding and that this could go somewhere else.

My hope would be that there was a motion on the floor -- I hope that this is acted on. Thank you. [Applause]

>> we have a motion, with the second. Do we want to vote on this?

>> can we read-read this?

-- reread this?

>> I want to make sure this is accurate.

Option 2o

for free transit

service for youth using the

clipper card, as director ramos.

The mta board of directors has

approved the option for free

transit service of youth age 5- 17 for the pilot program

beginning August 3, 2012,

through May 1, 2013, at which

time they will return to the

index value, absent explicit

actions -- and should be

resolved that the board of

directors authorized this the director of transportation to provide free transit service for

all youth, ages 5-17 using the

clipper card, through May 21,

2014, after which date this will

return to the same index value, as explicit.

And be it further resolved that

the implementation of the free

transit service -- for those

using this card for the 22-

month program, is contingent on

the mtc and the transportation

authority, approving the allocation of necessary funding.

>> can we take a vote on this?

Was there more discussion?

>> I would just add -- I would

just add that to me, it feels it

would be -- it is clear there is

a direction the community wants to go.

It feels if we go back to the

community with a ballot measure

were future revenue streams, it

is important that we indicate that we want to see this idea for every youth.

I think that this vote would be

the indication that we really walk the walk in terms of

wanting have free

transportation for everyone, and I think that obviously this will

have to come back, and handle the budget.

This is unfortunate but I am happy to do this.

As I have said earlier, where

there is a will, there is away and I am confident that we can make this work. [Applause]

>> I will say something that I know will be unpopular, but

there is a will, and we have

talked on this personally. But we haven' t been shown the way.

that is why I was ready to vote

for the staff proposal, and to

vote for a full package later if it doesn' t put a hole in

lifeline services. So. That is my view.

We should take a vote on the proposal.

But my view is that this is not

a referendum on if this board

wants to have free muni, it is

about how we fund it.

>> thank you.

>> the director -- the proposal

is contentiant on funding. So -- [Applause]

[Inaudible]

>> if the funding doesn' t go through --

>> this is the debate we just had. Doe

is this

contingent on funding.

>> they have a one-world d answer, why don' t you?

The lifeline funds are coming to san francisco.

These are coming.

They could be used for thie s purpose.

some of these are capital

funds, but this can be done.

Up to $5 million, are these funds that would not otherwise

be coming to us, and so those

are the ones that are in play, at this contingency.

>> and what would you do with the lifeline money if you did

not use this for director ramos.

>> this is for the other services that we have spoken

of, and does not mean that we

would not find those services, but we would have to look elsewhere in the budget.

I think, again, I stand by my recommendation and I think that this is the right policy.

This is $6.70 million in two

years, in a $1.60 billion budget. This is why we have multiple passes that the budget.

This is why we have the language

prepared for the board, if they wanted to go in a different direction.

There are some trade-offs and I want to be clear to everyone,

there are trade-offs as we go

to this larger population.

But those are the tradeoffs that we can make.

>> do you have your best guess

of, in terms of the operational

impact and the service impact

that this will have, and what will this cost in terms of the budget impact?

>> all that we have, and this is something that we provided back

to the budget analyst, we have the rough numbers based on the

writer ship models, that this

many more would generate this

many more service hours, and if we provided additional service

hours, to work within the

existing capacity, we know about these costs and they are very high.

They are the absolute worst-case scenario.

There are a lot of people who say that these kids are already

riding muni, just not legally.

It would make legal what we do have, and would make a

difference with how many people

jump on this, and a lot of

people are not riding muni for

other reasons other than the 35 cent cost.

It is reasonable to think that

in some areas, after school

there will be impacts regardless of how we do this.

It is likely that a larger

majority than the rest of the

kids are low-income youth.

We May have an impact in the service to the extent that we do under these proposals.

We will have to address these during the course of the year.

>> I feel that I am remembering back to the first time we have this discussion.

We said we did not want offer something that we would

eventually have to take away.

I am 08 afraid of this as we go down this path.

The public commented that we

heard today was incredibly -- get reaffirmed to me that for

the low-income families, this is

a problem, paying for muni.

I feel that there is a certain

segment of the population, and I know this from reading the

documents that came with this,

muni is not the transportation of last resort.

The income levels show that

this is not the transportation of last resort.

We need to make this safe and reliable and make certain we do not have meighen' s issues, and make certain that we' re putting all of the buttons on the air.

I think that this will do more

to have -- to help all of these

muni riders.

If we go down the two-year

pilot, it will end in a couple of years where I think offering

this -- this is so much more sustainable.

i am worried that this is just

not sustainable for free muni for all youth.

This proposal fell like a good compromise. Maybe this is something that

people were not happy with but

something this big, this is a

huge step, offering free muni. We can' t ignore that.

I feel that extending this to all youth will not be sustainable.

We will create problems that we were not anticipating.

I thought offering this was sustainable and then we would put this in the next budget.

I am afraid of what we would

have to give up to make that

stretch and I am not willing to do this.

We hear about the wheelchair

lifts that are not working, and we hear about the overcrowding.

I am trying to get on at rush

hour, this takes four or five

buses.

To use this money to make it

better for everyone, or people in other brackets.

People with disabilities -- and seniors who are low-income.

i don' t think extending this tall youth is the best use of funding.

Is there anyone else on that?

We will have to take another vote.

>> May I make one more?

I know that there are other funds that have been

identified, and I know that

supervisor campos and his

folks are putting themselves out there.

They are elected and have to win confidence.

If they put themselves out there, we have to work with that.

granted, I know we are

responsible, overall for the

system and I will hold myself accountable.

As a regular muni buss rider, I

feel this shortfall in terms of operation.

i think that we can tighten up in a few places, with some of

the capital problems -- that we May need to train back a little bit.

I am confident that we can find

this -- and most importantly, in terms of the two years and

having to pull the plug on this.

We' re asking for people to pay

for parking meters on sunday.

In the future we will need to ask for people to vote for

another revenue measure on the November ballot.

it seems we would get more

support from everyone if the system was viewed as something

for more people and not just for the low-income people.

That is why I am putting forward that resolution.

thank you for everyone.

>> we need a voice vote. >> bridges? >> aye.

>> brinkman? >> nay. Lee? >> nay. >> oka? Aye. Ramos? Aye.

3-3 vote, the motion fails.

>> all right, in light of that,

we need to continue the budget

discussion to the next meeting.

>> and continue this item.

We should not revoke -- referred to the status quo.

we only had one staff proposal, and I don'

t think that this -- you had six of six board members

vote for some kind of program. Let' s not just stop and have no

program when you have 100% for some program.

The direction needs to be for

the staff to go back and work, with the supervisor' s office and find what the alternative staff proposal would be.

>> with the board consent, we

will ask for item 14 to come

back to us at a future meeting, hopefully the next meeting.

>> it has to be the next meeting to go into the budget.

>> I would agree, we owe the public some resolution.

i think that we should vote on this again.

>> this is what we will ask for.

>> an item 15 and 16 would be continued?

>> it sounds like we have to continue.

so we have some direction?

>> I want to make certain that I

understand, is the direction to

return with something that funds

free muni for all youth? >> what we --

>> I guess what I would say, if

this is the direction, I don' t see why you wouldn' t vote on something now. [Applause] >> if I' m going to come back, either way.

As the director said, everyone

supports something.

i am not sure why you would not want to vote on anything.

If your directing me to come back with a budget that is based

on muni for all use, it will be

the same budget with an adjustment.

>> I would rather -- finish this today. >> amen.

>> if I am understanding the

direction, otherwise, maybe I misunderstand.

>> there has to be an impact.

>> if you approve something other than the staff

recommendation, I will have to come back with a revised budget.

I just want to know what my

direction would be, leaving here.

If you vote, I know exactly what this says.

>> I think -- we have the

direction on something, this is for the people of san francisco.

>> I am at a loss here as to what the direction as we are giving the executive director.

>> my question remains the same.

If you find the free youth, where does the money come from?

He will have to make the budget adjustments.

You said that the responsible thing to do would be to go back and tell you where this will come from. I don' t want to vote on a

program with significant budgetary impact until you tell

me what the impact is going to be.

If there is money coming out of

the existing lifeline funding,

to subsidize the phares for the

low-income adults, and this proposal would require us to

take that money, and some other existing amount of money, we need to know about the trade- off.

We have asked this question of

each other and a lot of people, and there does not seem to be a clear direction on this.

that continues to be my issue.

>> the direction would be to

come back with a revised budget

proposal to fund free muni for

all 5-17, showing the difference in the balance for today.

>> I

would say yess-it is not.

It is a drop in the bucket in the budget. [Applause]

>> I am --

>> I guess the direction to the

executive director is to come

back at the next meeting,

showing where the budget would come. >> no.

>> we don' t have to do that.

It is a drop in the bucket. >> I don' t think I' m comfortable

voting for a budget we have just

taken $6.7

million out of. I don'

t think that is prudent or wise. I don'

t think I can do that.

So, do I have any kind of member

consent on asking the executive

director to come back, showing

us where the money would come

out of the budget, to know what

it is we are voting on? >> yes.

I would like to know the

increased operating costs. >> I don' t know that he' ll know.

>> then you are walking in blind. >> help me here. I don' t think you know the

direct hit on operational cost

by the next meeting. You won' t know until you have

the pilot program.

>> this is to the extent we can ballpark them.

We are not accounting for them in the budget.

>> you will not know more of that in the budget --

>> what I would solve for is

the $6.70 million. >> this is what I interpreted.

The only thing that you can tell

is where you really modified to extract to meet the budget

target for all of this.

>> this is correct.

>> and we can look at the

proposals, side by side?

>> the biggest source of

lifeline funding is the capital

funding, to reduce the budget

revenues by $6.70 million.

This would be one approach.

we cannot pull this out of work orders right now.

>>

there is another source.

>> the direction of the board is

to continue 14, 15, and 16 to

the April 27 board meeting.

Because heinek

ke said they could

provide additional discussion with regard to the other

options in the budget, should they so desire to discuss those

items to provide any other directions, when he returns he

has the full impact of the

board, and he knows the wishes of the board with regard to the other aspects of the budget.

>> these two items, we have had discussion and they are closed and they are being continued for

the further vote.

>> we have had public comment on

15, the we have not had the board discussion.

Could we go ahead and have a

discussion -- >> there is an interest on the

part of the community, with the speed of our decision.

We will get some additional

information, analyzing the budget impact in what you do to

accommodate the full muni use.

At that point, we can vote on everything. We' ve had public comment and

discussion on 14.

is this how it is playing out, roberta?

>> julia?

>> if you -- if you undrtake ertake

this dicussion, we have yet to see 16.

You could see the vote and take

public comment, and there would

not be a lot to do in the next meeting.

>> I think we should have the

board discussion on 15.

We will have that discussion.

>> item 14, just for the youth

-- item 14 is continued to april 17. The board' s consideration,

pending further discussion --

with regard to how he would

resolve the budget issue.

So the board will continue and discuss among themselves item

15, with other thoughts and discussions.

And when they return on April

17, they will have the input on

the other items.

>> and May we have two budgets.

>> he

will bring a revised

budget with the options for the board' s consideration.

>> you already have this one.

You have the alternative for the budget.

The balancing items will

address the remaining --

>> we cannot vote on the budget

unless we see where the $6.7 million is coming from.

>> let' s move on to the

dicussion on -- discussion on item 15.

I know this was a long and

arduous day for you.

It was confusing for all of you and for all of us.

Thank you.

>> so on item 15, I have a set of questions.

>> yes, director.

>> so --

one of the items we are

funding and impoising on the

citizens at a high level, are

the stae -- state court fees to

motorists with increased parking citations.

And -- I realie ze the hour is

late, but I want t oask

o ask this.

The state is using this for courthouse construction?

>> I do not have the specifics.

One of them is the courthouse construction.

>> for the state courthouse

construction, the trial court house construction fund.

These different kinds of courts.

>> we are asking people to get

parking tickets to pay to the state for courthouse construction.

>> the state legislature.

>> I guess my first question,

and we can answer this later, is san francisco even getting back the money?

Are we increasing parking

citation costs to find the courthouses in other counties.

i would like to know the answer.

I suspect we get a higher rate

of parking citations with the

level of parking citations than we do spending on the to courthouses.

This is something we need to do

as we educate the citizens into why we are doing this and why this is unfair that this is being imposed on us.

>> I do know that the administrative office of the

court has undertaken a master

planning process, and though there is nothing in the near

term that is here, because many

parts of the court system here

are relatively new, the criminal courts operate out of 850

bryant, at a building past the end of its life. Part o fthe

f the capital plan

anticipates moving the functions

out, part of that would requie re

the courthouse to move out.

When the courts build new

criminal courts, that would be

replacement money in san francisco.

There were some discussions trying to get them to advance

their time line, in the next 10 years.

>> I am not suggesting that san francisco is getting no money.

Basically we implement a couple of increases for the state

mandate, with information on whether or not we are getting

back our money, were paying an unfair share to other counties.

this would be an important piece of information.

The other question is, if we

have taken any formal actions to ask the state to stop doing this

and just passing on the budget

issues to the drivers, and is

this feasible to implement the recommendations that this be

broken out as a state tax, as it

would be a sales tax if we were

purchasing something from a store.

>> we will have a separate,

line-item number. >> you can see from the

direction of my question that i

am troubled by this because every time that this is passed

on -- I worry that there has not been the appropriate response from the city and county of san francisco.

The drivers and the newspaper editorial board are angry at us

when we pass the indexing

policy to prevent excessive

parking citation increases and now that policy is being

undermined by the fact that the state is imposing mandates on us.

I want to understand if this is

unfair to the county and what we

can do to stop this in the future and at least educate

people so that they know why parking citations go up.

And we are abiding by the

indexing policy that was put into place.

My next set of questions on sunday enforcement.

This is noon-6 only, and you would get this in blocks of time.

There was comment about someone

stuffing a meter every 30 minutes.

The proposal would be for larger blocks of time.

The notion of somebody being

tapped on the shoulder, and whoever' s building that this is

-- this is not going to be a

problem on the sunday parking?

We do this in congested areas

where this is already at 85% capacity to begin with.

This is not a situation where there will be no turnover.

By definition, this is a place

with turnover problems.

>> we propose to implement this

on all meters, because all meters are at this level.

>> I saw all of the neighborhood studies.

i had urged on that, that we do

a pilot with the district -- and this is something where we have

to be very cognizant of the business communities.

Noon-6:00 only is directed towards that.

i would still like that and I

understand -- when you sit in this chair you do not always get what you want.

I very much appreciated him coming here and saying that the

chamber is for this, with concerns.

This attitude needs to be

recognized and appreciated, and I would ask us to keep a close dialogue with the business

community, and if we see that

this is harming business with

some of the other concerns, I would hope we will address this very quickly.

the final thing, under this

current budget proposal, we are living by the reserve policy.

This

is the end of my questions or interrogation. Thank you.

>> on the sunday meter

enforcement, we give them four hours.

But you have to have the parking meter to do this. Not all of the meters are geared

to be a four-hour parking meter?

>> do you do that electronically?

>> that is correct.

>> it will no to flip to four- hour increments. >> thank you very much.

>> thank you for covering my last question.

the sunday parking, I want to get back to that.

Did we look at areas -- a lot of

the areas are mixed use areas.

There is commercial at the

bottom, but presidential at the top. are we telling residents that

you are paying for parking because there are no garages.

Did we look at neighborhoods that had mixed use?

>> are meters are primarily in commercial areas.

-- our meters are primarily in commercial areas. people are paying for parking

on saturdays, mondays through fridays.

We' re not making a distinction

by use type.

The premise is that the activity

on a sunday is much like it is on a saturday.

Albeit starting later.

Therefore, we should manage it accordingly.

I am not sure if that answers.

>> looking at -- and going back

to the top on the shoulder, some of those institutions are located in a mixed use areas as well.

my concern is that having -- will be four hours be enough?

>> on the newer meters, we are

proposing not to start this until January. At some point in the next

calendar year, we would have all the new meters.

You can prepay.

You could pay at 10:00, but it will start ticking down until noon.

-- won' t start ticking down until noon. That flexibility will be there for the new meters.

they will be everywhere in the city in the year and a half.

>> I am not clear on the impact on the business community.

>> with regard to the business

community, right now, those spaces are completely

unavailable to people accessing those businesses by car. The parking is on managed.

From saturday night to monday, people can and to leave their cars.

The availability data seems to support the notion that the parking is pretty much locked

up all day on sunday and most of these areas. The businesses are getting no

benefit, or very minimal benefit

from those parking spaces

without any management by regulating parking for a portion

of sundays, that would lead to

increased availability, which would be helpful to businesses who are being patronized by people who are accessing the my car.

-- by car.

The business issue -- the

business use is I do not want to speak for

businesses, but the businesses working meters every other day of the week.

It is not different on sundays. Most of them are now open on sundays.

>> not to prolong it, I did some

driving around the mission district, a lot of those businesses are closed on sunday. presidents have an opportunity to not fight for parking on sunday -- residents have an opportunity to not fight for parking on sunday.

It seems like there is a catch- 22.

The sunday parking is a catch-22 for businesses and residents, that is what I am trying to say.

>> residents and commuters are benefiting from the policy of not managing parking on sundays.

That is a policy I would suggest

that is not consistent with our transit first policy.

This would be difficult for people. There are some people who are benefiting from a free parking

that will lose that benefit. That is correct.

>> cannot something -- can I say something? I have been doing this for a couple of years. Not many.

I certainly have not seen a budget proposal that have the chamber of commerce and the

transit riders union complement our executive director and staff for putting together a budget

that was responsible and addressed import needs. I want to say that.

I know it has been a tough day.

I hope you caught that and appreciated it. And you and your staff take the

praise.

One thing that has gotten not enough attention, but is so

critical as we think about this, there are so many things we

would love to spend money on. This budget represents a

significant, not a panacea, but a significant commitment to maintenance. As those of us to ride the

system every day know, that is what service is about.

i think on the whole, you heard

my specific questions, I do not

want to lose sight that you have done a very positive job.

I want to provide the feedback. >> thank you.

I would also like to thank you

for the overtime peace.

Thank you for addressing that.

>> I was not going to say too

much other than just what -- i

thoroughly commend you and your staff for all this great work you have done.

I was heading into this thing so scared.

People are so afraid that we will have to cut service.

There were a lot of folks that are worked out. Do you think we have gone so far and we are disclosed to adopt in this budget says quite a bit about yourself and your staffs.

I am very grateful for the

progressive thinking.

At this point, I will take it for what it is worth.

I appreciate the hard work you' ve done.

>> the cac has recommended a higher cash fair.

-- fare.

I would urge is to continue to

look at the flexibility the part-time operators give us, but

the smaller buses on the list utilize route.

That is a way that could be some

latitude as a future revenue source.

>> just a couple of comments. I know we got a lot of public feedback on the sunday meters.

The

point -- we do need to

institute that.

Policy change always hurts.

I think the charging for sunday

meters, we have come to a good compromise. It is totally supported by our strategy and our goal.

I know we talked about the court

cost being past dawn on the ticket and will be interesting to find out if that can be called out on the ticket.

If it can be listed as a line item.

I know you made a note to look in -- what did that.

It can become excellent. I missed that.

i was pleased to see that we added a modest increased to the

meter bagging fee.

It did seem unfair.

As we mentioned in a previous meeting since we are talking

about the transit sustainability feet, we want to hold off on

hitting that meter bagging fee very hard. It seemed unfair to do nothing, said that was a good compromise. I do not have any other comments.

I have that all my questions answered. Anybody else?

Ok.

>> I just want to say that this is a budget I feel very confident about.

I want to thank -- for their work on that. This is reasonable, this is doable.

I want to thank you for that. >> thank you for your work.

do we still need closed session?

>> we have capital budgets.

If you want to hear that, --

>> do you want to continue the matter? >> it is really brief. It will have to come back next time.

>> do we want to continue, given the hour?

>> I am ok.

>> you are okay to go live? >> let' s do it.

>> item 16,

adopting the capital improvement program and approving the two-year cabral

budget of $537 million.

>> all right.

>> I think I can make my report shorter than that. [Laughter]

I will walk through a brief presentation.

You have already approved the 20-year capital plan.

You already have the five-year

at a high level presented to you.

What this item is approving the five-year capital of improvement program and the two-year capital budget. It is much along the lines of what you' ve seen before.

If we can get the slides .

is that sfgtv?

The context, we start with a 20- year plan.

It is a look at all of our capital needs, all of our

assets, everything we would

need to do.

In that unconstrained view, we

established public -- policy priorities. That is what you adopted earlier this calendar year.

From that, we have developed a

five-year look ahead based on the revenues we anticipate.

This is a constraint view.

We look -- we take these logger

looks because many programs take a long time to develop.

Many take more than a few years to implement.

The five-year document is a constraint to look at what we anticipate our revenues to be over the next five years.

And how we propose to expand them. We take the first two years of

that five-year cip and put

those forth as the proposed capital budget.

The

goals are to develop a detailed program and this presentation will hit on the highlights.

The materials, you had every

project that we are proposing.

A detailed program that is achievable and realistic.

We are completely funding projects in phases, so we will

fully fund the design phase, the planning phase and the design phase, and in the construction phase. So we' re not waiting until we

have all the money to move a project forward. Didn' t -- giving the planning and design done helps us secure grants for the construction.

We are proposing 10% of what we

are budgeting be set aside so we

are programming 90% of the

revenues, leaving the other 10% for flexibility and for the

uncertainty as we know projects involve overtime. costs can go up, costs can go down.

So we can implement without having to go back through the budget process.

From our strategic plan, we are directly hitting on some of the

main objectives of the plan as

it regards to safety, a state of good repair, reliability.

As was the 20-year capital

plan, the five and two-year plan and are organized along the 16 capital programs. the revenues are based on our best guess is.

In terms of what we expected it

from the federal government, the state government, from the region, from our own initiatives.

The revenue bonds that we' re bringing forward to the board of supervisors tomorrow.

what that gets

us next year is $550 million and in the second

year, $473 million.

That is in addition to $600 million of previously approved

funds that we expect will be the balances of the projects that are currently in play.

A big chunk of all those

numbers is the central subway,

but the 550, 472, plus the 590 are what we haven' t played for the next two years.

-- have in place for the next two years.

I know it is difficult to read, but this gives the breakdown for each of the five years. It shows what we are

programming in the two years once you include the amounts.

The 590,

470, 550 -- I cannot even read it on your.

you can see how it breaks down among the different line items.

The central subway, which has

its own dedicated funding source that is not available for any of

these other purposes, is a significant portion of what we' re looking at.

We still they pretty healthy capital budget for the next two

years, even before the look at the carryforward amounts.

we estimated that we need about $250 million for our mission

critical trenton state of good repair.

We have a pretty significant

level -- transit state of good

repair.

in terms of our top priorities , safety. Under state of good repair,

thanks to a lot of good work to

rework the line item in the capital plan.

we would not see any new vehicles coming to the city for the next five years.

In the first couple of years, we

will get moving on 150 new

electric and motored buses.

We have significant level of fines for traffic signals

upgrades to rehab this sunset tunnel.

The wreath at the green mans facility, we are about to start

the -- the roof at the green at maintenance facility, we are

about to start that project.

it is being done under very suboptimal conditions.

Something that is long past needing restoration.

Metro turnaround, kind of a key

juncture for the underground system. All of our trains run through.

Here.

that will happen in the next two years.

18 parking garages.

On the safety side, we have everything from infrastructure in the ground, such as

pedestrian flashing, bicycle safety education classes. We will continue implementation

of the safe routes to school.

As well as additional traffic

signals at five intersections. These are very much in demand across the city.

in terms of reliability, transit

signal priority, this is funded

in part by the bond that was passed last year.

We are also seeking additional

funds from the region through transit priority initiatives.

It is a $30 million grant program.

we do have mobility improvements. These are improvements that falls outside of the scope of

the environmental impact report. Improvements that we can make

now on the 14, 8.

i will point out that the 8x had identified the lifeline funds as a funding source.

I revised budget uses those funds.

That is something we will have to find another source for.

Standardizing the signals throughout the muni metro system. Right now, we have different generations of signals. It requires our operators to

learn how to remember the different signalling protocols.

For the safety and reliability

standpoint,

we are going to modernize and standardize all the signals.

Finally, we have the next phase

of funding inc.

.

On the complete streets, we have

a number -- funds for a number of projects that you will have approved.

Designs and plans for, such as

masonic ave. Process forward.

it is the next necessary steps

for some future branch or other city or regional funding. What we' re also doing in

conjunction with the deal bond

is we are joining with dpw where they have paving projects.

in has crosswalks, bike lanes, other improvements we can make at the same time.

We can get our improvements much more inexpensive lead.

--

inexpensively.

When we are doing transit

projects, we have a complete street enhancements to better

address pedestrian and bite safety. We have funds available to

continue round out transit projects and make them more complete street projects. Those are some highlights of what is in the budget.

It is a pretty healthy budget

that we are proud to be able to bring forward.

It does -- it assumes continued funding at the federal level along the lines of what we currently have.

The federal transportation bill is very much in play at the moment.

It will not likely be

reauthorize it until after the November election. It has been pretty strong

support for at least maintaining the current funding levels.

That is what we have a stamp.

We assume that our revenue bond and moves forward. We' re assuming that much of the

improvements would funded by jill bond.

That has to get into that -- by geobond.

There are some risks associated with the capital budget.

Just the way there are with the operating budget. We have pretty healthy funding

levels that allow us to advance a lot of the goals of the strategic plan.

>> thank you during a match. Directors, questions?

-- thank you very much. Directors, questions?

>> no member of the public was here to address you on the capital budget.

But we do have public comment for matters that are not on the agenda.

>> on page five, I am noting the bicycle pedestrian spending is

going down dramatically as we move along the gears.

Is that because it is being -- I

know that safety goes up. It was under system safety.

should I be worried about that

given that we have a lot of bicycle and pedestrian mode

shifts in our goals and strategies? >> I am not sure what you were looking at exactly.

The bike line

item has the

bike-specific funding.

We are funding to our transit projects.

We are adding bike lanes to transit projects.

i do not know beyond that, if there is any specific explanation.

>> ibm noticing specifically on the pedestrian

-- I am noticing it specifically on the pedestrian line.

>> most of these projects are funded through competitive grants.

Until we are sure that we can

get it, we do not normally bulk of the funds. >> thank you.

-- book the funds.

>> thank you.

We will move onto the general public comment.

>> do we have a member of the public who wishes to speak with you?

>> the member of the public with the most stamina.

Thank you very much, sir, for waiting. >> I know the hour is late.

I do think it is important to stay here and address in a very important issue.

I have been very critical of the agency on things in the past.

I' ve always been supportive of

the challenges this agency has about tax reform.

I' ve always been complementary on the way this agency has tried to tackle the issues.

i am amazed that we are able to

put in such a successful pilot program that can raise a lot of revenue for the city and in power working drivers. One of the things I want to

mention

, one of the great things

about the taxi industry, it has made sure of the medallions get into the hands of working taxicab drivers.

As much as I support the city selling these medallions to taxi

drivers, they are very and valuable, they can raise

enormous revenues for the city, I want to give you a warning.

One of the things you are looking to do is replace the

medallion holder with feet mta

as a landlord.

There will be enormous push back

from drivers that said the opportunity of getting a medallion. When you go down this path of

granting the medallion out and

replacing the medallion holder with the mta, there will be enormous pushed back.

You are getting into the taxi business partially.

There will be people who say,

you want to be a landlord, maybe you should be part of the insurance.

Maybe if there is an accident, you deal with it.

maybe you should provide workers' compensation. Why don' t you take all the reward without the risk to

become the landlord -- I want to warn you. It is not the direction you want to go into. You could raise an enormous

amount of revenue by continuing the sales model and be wary of the rental one. >> thank you.

>> if there is no one else

wishes to address the board, it would be appropriate for a motion to move into closed session.

>> motion to move into closed session.

Let' s go into closed session.

if we could just clear the room.

>> the board voted unanimously

to approve settlement of that.

They do not anticipate labor negotiations to be appropriate.

>> do I have a motion to not disclose?

All in favor, aye.

>> that concludes the business before you. >> adjourned. Thank you very much.