imagine this city without the undergirding of joy that glide brings to it. participants are moved to volunteer in our programs. without their help, the aid we give others would be greatly diminished. our meals program would be hampered by a decrease in potential volunteers do to send a parking meter enforcement. glide is not the only church to be affected. it would cause a spiritual breached that would be felt across the city. their training grounds for civility and relationships. they provide centers of care and compassion for those in need. religious communities provide a home where people can know and be known. i urge that you remove the sunday parking meter enforcement from the budget. chair nolan: thank you very

much. clucks my name is david brown. i am a pastor at -- >> my name is david brown. i am speaking against the parking meter -- the enforcement of parking meters on sunday. when our church moved from union square in 1902, we chose not to buy land or parking lots and to rely solely on the use of on street parking. many in our congregation use public transportation, as for many, that is not a viable option. calgary would definitely experience a negative impact should this proposal goes forward as currently drafted. the quality of life for many of

our members would be diminished. chair nolan: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i am a member of congregation emanu-el. i ask you to rethink the proposal to activate parking meters on sunday. such an action will affect sunday services and make it more difficult, if not impossible, to worship and participate in services. why am i concerned? it does not affect the synagogue or me, why should i care? i care for two reasons. it affects people in the city. they are my neighbors, colleagues, and france. such an action opens the door to other discriminatory proposals. when one group is affected, it

is easy to regulate something which demonstrates -- discriminates against other groups. we're all proud of the diversity that makes san francisco a special place. this action puts that diversity in peril. read the first amendment to the constitution of the united states. do not take this action am. -- action. [applause] >> my name is michael. i'm the executive director of the san francisco interfaith council. i am your to voice opposition to this initiative to institute commuter parking on sundays. it is a violation of due process. the board's failure to invite a single leader to its meetings was an egregious infraction. dusting off an ill-conceived idea that failed to successfully

been passed deliberations and giving no voice to those directly impacted was wrong. for the record, the majority of congregations impacted by this proposed action are located in some of the most economically challenged neighborhoods in the city. these are the very congregations are providing support services when the city cannot. the sfmta action will place another obstacle in congregations already challenged. but christ congregations will pay for the sfmta plan -- the price congregations will pay will be devastating. it is easy to take aim at those who do not have the voice to defend themselves. this was a flawed process. this is bad policy. i urge the sfmta to go back to the drawing board and come up with another way to solve its budget shortfall. [applause] >> matt d. henderson. -- maggie henderson.

>> i am representing the muslim community of the city of san francisco. as a muslim, i believed the question should not -- should not be penalized for going to the church and having to pay for metered parking. we have to help out each other. we always stand up for each other. thank you. >> good afternoon. old first presbyterian church. i am one of the few places where i have a parking lot, but this is not an issue for me. but my brothers and sisters do not have access to that. it will cause chaos. people need to be spiritually

fed and we take care of neighborhoods and people. you are not going to make this much money from it. why don't you have grace on sundays? [applause] >> i am the pastor of the mount zion church of san francisco. i am here in opposition of the parking meters been activated at such times. there are currently around parking meters are run by church because we are adjacent to the dmv. i stand before you to say that the time in which you are indicating 12:00 to 3:00 is in the middle of our worship service. that would cause people to get up to go out and feed parking meters, interrupting her services.

san francisco already is presenting itself as a non- family friendly city. discouraging people to come to church, not having a place to park, or having to pay for parking, would discourage them from further worshiping with our congregation. that would impact our current congregation severely. we are already struggling as a day is. we urge you not to pursue. >> good afternoon. i am rev. robert lucas. i am president of the san francisco baptist ministers' conference. speaking for those pastors in the city, we are struggling as

it is now to try to reach people for christ. any impediment that is wrong in our way it makes our task a monumental difficulty. to initiate a parking fee on sunday, when we are trying to get people focused on their souls and focused on trying to deal with the challenges of their life, it is a monumental and sold to the church. i think it is something that you need to look at and reconsidered because the one organization that tries to get people to do good in the city is the church. when you do things that inhibit us from being able to carry out that charge, it is a detriment to san francisco. i love this city.

i want to see this city prospered. this is something that will not help this city move forward. i encourage you not to go forward. [applause] >> [reading names] >> good afternoon. i am the pastor of providence baptist church. i have one statement to make to this board. is this board willing to sacrifice the moral, social, spiritual, and the life tinging lessons that are being talked -- life changing lessons that are being taught at our church on sundays. in order to collect some easily dollars. is that the sacrifice you're willing to make in order to bring this city into some sort

of economic balance? thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. thank you for this opportunity. i am the pastor at tabernacle faith church in the mission district. i am in agreements with the meters being sent at a certain time, the charging people. we already have enough distractions trying to get people to come to church. that would be a huge distraction. and detour. the second issue i have is where i am pastor, between 26 and 26 street, there is a church between 24th and 25th that has no meters at all. i am concerned how one block can have meters and any other block

can have no meters at all. there is a church also on the block between 2014 and 2015. i would urge you to reconsider pushing this. -- between 24th street and 25th street. i would urge you to reconsider pushing this. >> i am representing mta employees. i am here to address the disparity in funds allocated to local positions in this budget. 216 new operator positions proposed. this budget has cuts to custodians, clerical staff, a parking control officers. they generate revenue and do far more than write tickets. further vacant positions already funded remain unfilled, adding extreme stress to our members, increasing workers' comp claims. there are millions in so-called salary savings.

it should be used for hiring, as specified in your budget. this budget designates of millions to date sfpd. i urge you to hold the administration accountable and to require that they fill budget approved positions as soon as possible and to retract these cuts on middle-class workers. >> anthony wagner. >> thank you. my name is anthony wagner. i lived in a beacon at third baptist church for the past 35 years. -- begin at the third baptist church for the past 35 years. we were accommodate all faiths in one chapel. the city of san francisco should

be able to accommodate the people of faith on sundays. i am requesting that the commission would not pass this part of the budget. you saw me get up two times to go feed a meter. i do not want to do that in my service. i am asking that you give the same accommodations that you had given to various marathons', walks, a bicyclist, street closures, and accommodating worshipers on sunday. thank you very much. [applause] >> good afternoon. i pastor the home baptist church in san francisco western addition. it seems to me there is a heightened level of insensitivity from the political

establishment and from this board to. that would even suggest that you would have parking meters around the churches, and especially activating them at the time when you have listed, i do not know if you understand how value -- the services we present to san francisco. you wonder why families are leaving. when you have that kind of insensitivity, i do not know if you understand the lessons of history. whenever you do this kind of thing, you also continued to be -- devalue what is going on in our religious community. i urge you, there are so many things going on that you could address. [applause]

>> [reading names] >> greetings, everyone. i stand here to speak of a lady who i know who left san francisco due to out migration of african-americans. she drives and every sunday to attend the church where she has been a member for the last 47 years. she has an aging vehicle, she is unemployed. she asks her friends and individuals to give her -- to allow her to have enough money to pay for gas money and the toll for the breads. she does it every single week. -- for the bridge.

she doesn't every single week. -- does it every single week. >> [reading names] >> good afternoon. i am a practicing jew. you want to have -- you want to take part in money out of people's hides and it is disgraceful. why don't you go after the bicyclist said? you should charge them for licenses and also charge them for parking. they have gotten away with it for too darn long. what are you doing with your proposal?

it is the courage is supposed to hold services on buses? -- is the clergy supposed to hold services on buses? this is outright disgrace so. you tried to get money anyway you can short of gunpoint. i really resent this. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am the pastor of the missionary temple christian at the episcopal church. when i think about the proposal to put parking meters or to activate parking meters on sundays, i think about our senior citizens. many times, they have to struggle to get into their churches. they have to walk around the block. to force them to have to get up in the middle of the service, struggle at of the church, it

down the hill, around the corner to feed the meter, and struggle to go back up the hill, to get back into their church. if there is an afternoon program, make the trip again. i think it is an injustice. [applause] chair nolan: next speaker. >> thank you, mr. president. i am associate pastor at without walls church in the city of san francisco. let me say a couple of things. this kind of action is the kind of action that suggests an open hostility towards the faith community. and also towards families. we are already impacted on

sunday. a couple of my friends have had to finally throw in the towel. they now have to have church on saturdays. a 2000-year tradition of having church on sunday. we have a bicycle race, the marathon, the car race a few years ago. it already makes it difficult for us to get there. now you propose a parking meters. if you have parking meters, you would not -- we will not be able to double park. where did those cars go in neighborhoods that have no parking facilities? it is an absolute impossible think and i am overwhelmed that you all would come to even discuss this. please, change your mind and do

the right thing. [applause] >> you picked a heck of a group to go against today. you know the lord don't play. >> [inaudible] >> oi have come before you of representing seiu. equity is still important. as my colleague pointed out to you, there has not been equity. i have been fighting near the four years for equity. some of you have caught me in my most -- let me explain this to you, folks. we need to to be equitable. you cannot have budgets where

you hired 20% more employees in one category cannot find others. i ask you to consider this. this is probably my last time i come before you as an employee. i ask that you consider this. we all need to find muni correctly. there will be more difficulties ahead, but i want to be able to be supportive of you as an advocate. let's find some ways to do advocacy. chair nolan: good look. -- luck. >> good afternoon. i have not been here for a while. a higher power asked me to come here today to address you on the fact that there are not as many

jewish people here in this city. a lot of the synagogues and places of worship are in residential districts. it has not impacted them, but there are far more people in other religions and their places of worship are not -- have to be in commercial districts in areas where people cannot live. -- do not live. god said anyone should go up or ship and have spirituality and stay out of trouble. what you are doing, you are asking uhim to put 10 plagues on you.

>> thank you very much. i am a former member of the board of supervisors. you refer my namesake, david brown. -- you heard from my name's sake, david brown. i am amos brown. the prophet. the profit has come to prophesy. -- prophet has come to prophesy. it is unimaginable that you will would have the gall in this city to come up with a measure that would adversely impact the quality of life -- of life in the city. my wife had to get up and go out to feed the meter. it is sexist against women to

have this kind of a measure. 60% of the membership in faith communities are women. i am appealing to you to have a heart today. new york city has 8 million plus people. they get a face leaders -- we are in san francisco going to charge people for parking on sunday. i beg you, please, pretty please come and kill this measure. naked dead on arrival and do the right thing. " -- make its dead on arrival and do the right thing. >> good afternoon. judgment day is coming. i am looking at the devil.

the double in sheep's clothing in this room. -- devil in sheep's clothing in this room. you have to make it -- an intelligent decision. reject this budget. go back to the drawing board. tallinn to go to his buddies downtown and -- expand the transit impact development to the mission bay bridge make them pay. they are getting subsidized services from the city, from us. bus rides, they are not paying a dime. make the police pay. make them pay. [applause] when they collect the

shoplifters downtown, the businesses do not pay them. the taxpayers pay the police. homeowners pay the police. chair nolan: thank you. everybody gets the same amount of time. thank you very much. [laughter] >> i am rev. donna wood. if you implement parking meters on sunday, it would have a seriously negative impact on my congregation. it has been in the same place since 1908. all the surrounding area was mostly sand dunes. we have a lot of people to come from outside the city. you have heard all the wonderful stories from all the other folks. i want to point out that they come to church and worship and

provide services to the people of san francisco and also spend their money here. they go out to eat, they get their hair cut, they go to the grocery store and the shop. that is another thing that would probably go away. if they have to pay for parking, they will not come. i urge you to take this out. chair nolan: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am the past president of san francisco ministers conference. as i travel across this country, san francisco is constantly on people's lists. they have good -- because of our diversity in this city and because it is a city that people

like to come back to once they visit. i used to be proud of this city. i'm beginning to think differently. there is a negative spirits in this city and it starts right here. anywhere we can get some money, let's try to get it. even if it means closing churches because the people will not be able to pay to park. thank you. [applause] >> he is the last person. >> good afternoon, mr. chairman. i am a taxi driver. i would like to support -- they are the mainstream of this city. sunday, a lot of people come to the city, they eat in restaurants, shopping. everybody feels safe for sunday parking.

you are going to lose a bunch of money for the city revenue. we have 10,000 american people retiring every day in this country. they are only driving on sunday now because they still sunday is a safer day for driving. i look at your budget, $840 million. 850,000 people live here. it is about 4% of their income. thank you. chair nolan: we will declare the public hearing is closed on the budget issue. one more. >>