trying to do with some problems as i see them. i see mostly small problems and small fixes. it comes to mind this is going to be more important. one minute -- saving one minute average is $15 million a year. that is real money. you can do a lot and provide a lot of extra services. when these things start to get close to happening, you guys will have to have the courage. they fixed the 5 and took that looked out and made it go through. that is life in a small city. everything you do will have a problem. you eliminate a stop to speed up. to speed up certain lands. i cannot walk that far. i tried to show that the walks are not very far. you cut service a little bit to get it to where you want to get

it. they do not have to think about that. everyone else is getting a fast ride. that is your job to balance everything out. when does it help the most and heard drivers? there's not enough room. when muni gets a share, maybe they get almost a whole street. you have to do with the cards. you have a lot to do. in joye thinking about this and trying to use the data that is available to help. i hope i can help more. thank you. >> our next speakers. >> thank you. welcome and thank you for taking on this enormous assignment. this week i sent forward a taxi industry analysis paper to you and i hope the various directors

can read it. maybe it will give you understanding of the background history and recurring issues. during the two years you have been in charge i do not think -- am not sure this board has realize the difference with taxis of me -- and simply put those other entities. we are in private enterprise. there are individuals in the industry including the regulator and other activists. mta would basically take over as owners in a taxi companies and rent out medallions. i do not think this will work. it will be a firestorm of resistance and litigation. it is your position or roll to regulate the industry, not to own it. you have another commissioner who came from the taxi commission. i think he has a practical

approach. he understands the taxi advisory council that was established to oversee the pilot program has been successful. i hope you will listen to some of his advice. there is a need to reopen the process to sell them from the elderly and disabled. people have no exit strategy and the safety valve is not there. they advisory council did approve a report supporting the program. i do not think it has been sent to you. there is a minority report which she will send you. maybe the director can have the director report and see which one is better. >> there are costs -- this is a

time to destortroy the medallion vetting list. you are selling medallions. you are gibvinving medallions on the seniority list. they come and claim a medallion. the dirverrivers not on the lisd their opportunity to put their name on the list. i waited ten years to put my name on the list. i urge you to revisit this matter and make a change to

issue on the waiting list. it is unfair to drivers like me who have been drivingt continuoosly. i will never receive a note medallion under this system. -- a both medallion under this system. i would like to ask you one more time. where is my medallion? the medallion ironed and deserve. don't let me cry, please. thank you. what happened in the last meeting, it was on purpose to encourage the cab drivers with no english or little english to come up here and speak for their rights.

yes on bill of rights for the come drivers. that will do. >> thank you. our neck speakers. -- next speakers. cresskill afternoon. i have been a san francisco cab driver for more than 25 years. i was a lease driver and ramp cab permit holder and driver. six years ago i got my medallion. i have loved this industry. i am 68 now. grown old with all the people who keep traipsing appear to speak to you. in this spirit of a new beginning, i have faith to pound

box of -- two pound box of chocolate covered, and i would like to present to you. i would like to add my endorsement and the idea that we 7000 cabdrivers and our cabs are worthy of a division in this organization. short, sweet, and a little bit nutty. shall i leave these or take them and leave them in her office and have you drop by and say hello to her? >> we should get a ruling accepting guests. >> the department can accept it. i do not think it meets the reporting requirements for the department. >> on behalf of the department, thank you. >> i will give this to the director.

>> thank you. nice to see you. >> good afternoon. i miss that a little bit. i have a sense of deja vu. i did not realize, i have not seen you since you came to talk about 311. i did not realize you were getting an award on the clean taxi program. as the primary advocate and author of that legislation, it took us 10 years and it was a mandate and incentive. we were -- we are the only city to achieve this. without getting into the science and math, it required a 20% reduction in greenhouse gases

below 1990 levels by 2012. there were 57 -- there is 1500 cabs and we started this program, emissions were up over 100,000 tons a year. i did some calculations last week from a spreadsheet i got from the airport. other people have spoken about this. the media has done stories about it. i have never spoken before today. that goal of the legislation was 57,000 tons. we are now at 52,000 tons. we're not only a year ahead of time. we under-promised and over delivered. we're on -- the only city to take this stringent, local, aggressive reaction on carbon reduction and make it succeed. i was here to talk about the

concern i have about it would not know any of this by going to the city and county of san francisco's website. and from a resolution you passed in august, i believe you do not understand the law. there is a big loophole. i came here to express my concern about this. to make it clear we reach the goal of the legislation and this needs a new attention. i hope there will be new attention. >> thank you. >> khyam her to find out that you consider me a negative person -- i am hurt to find out that you consider me a negative person. i will say nothing but positive. where is your 2 pound box of

chocolate? i paid for this. the campers in the city are wonderful. where are the first people that convention goers see. we entertain people all along. at least i do. we are an incredibly complicated industry. we're much more complicated than buses. figuring out how to schedule a bus, figuring out how to get a taxi to a neighborhood is complicated. we deserve to have someone who understands the nuances of the business to be directing it. we should have the powers of a division. so the director can talk to police and other agencies she has to associate with. i wrote an article about busting limos.

i should not mention this perhaps but the police or hindrance. we should have been busting those a year ago. the fact that it was not a division was a hindrance in our ability to do that. chris -- we will make it short. she is one of the most brilliant people i have ever met especially when it comes to solving practical problems and finding solutions to what is seemingly impossible problems. the pilot plan, she should be there -- the director. >> our next speakers. those of the last people who have turned in speaker cards. if anyone else has one, please

turn it in. >> let me just say i hope this business of bringing suites is not -- sweets is not catching on or you will be eating my homemade jam. we use mostly toyota priuses and we purchase carbon credits to offset gas use. i have the same concern that charles and expressed. another note. the mention of the thievery of copper wire, the law is broken

thousands of times of days. i am please the director is having a grip faughon this. i have to say there is a culture of contempt for the law. this is an enormous problem you have to come to grips with. as far as the texting section, i believe it should be its own department. it makes no sense to me. it has been under administration. this is not an administrative issue. this is a serious and controversial policy decisions that have to be made by people who are steeped in the industry. it should not be under finance. talk about the fox guarding the hen house. these are people who are responsible for figuring out where the money is coming from.

it is our own department. -- give us our own department. thank you. >> our next speakers. >> good afternoon. i have not been here in a while. i want to welcome you. your first order of business ought to make sure that muni runs on time and does not hit people. the most faugh important thing is to keep the cab industry in line. you ought to learn about what is going on. right now -- the wonder why your

department is going broke. she has no time to work on her own stuff. i am sorry. to get out of her. i would like to meet with you. next issue is the garage contacts. they keep giving me the runaround. what contracts? you have to be kidding. last year you had meetings about days. you ought to learn what happened regarding these contracts. last but not least, i am asking you for the resignation of birds -- bruce oka. you have a duty when you speak

to staff, not to tell that information to anybody regulate and in force. i filed a complaint against commissioner oka, because you do not go and lab investigations to other people being investigated as a board member. you go to the person who reports to you. that is the director. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i have been driving a cab in the bay area since 1979. i have been driving since 1987. i received a medallion three years ago. i am president of the cab drivers association. i would like to welcome you to the new transportation director. i would like to convey the

importance of the taxi industry, have its own division within the mta as it did when we moved into it. it makes no sense to me that entire industry which includes 1600 vehicles, around 10,000 drivers and support personnel be folded into the administration division and now in the finance division of the mta. the director has done an incredible job educating yourself about the industry. she has held over two ordered hours of town hall meetings and made herself available by visiting cab companies and attending various meetings. she studied the industry, including reviewing all the previous taxi commission hearing videos. as it stands now, she is the deputy tax a director. although the cfo is excellent,

as a taxi director, she has lived and knowledge rent a standing of the industry. i may not agree with every decision she has made but she has demonstrated a sense of fairness and concern for stakeholders in the industry. sfmta is collecting tens of millions of dollars from the industry. it is not fashionable that the taxi industry is not considered worthy of its own division. please make this one of your priorities. chris hayashi should be given the authority she needs to effectively regulate this complex industry. >> next speaker. walter paulson. >> the afternoon. >> good afternoon. i have graphics. commander ferguson, he is the --

last of the space shuttle drivers. he has lost his job and that is the last of it. ♪ drive me to the moon and let me play among the stars thanks to you for all your work so far in other words, thank you ♪ >> thank you. anyone else? any other public comment? next item. >> these items will be voted on. any member of the poor wish to have an item severed, --

relating to establshilishing a steady 5 mile per hour speed limit be severed from your calendar. that is the only person who has expressed a desire to the consent agenda. >> can we go back on the public comment? there was one thing raise that staff should look into. either get back to us through a memo or a report. the comments raised bwhich is there may be a perfect policy explanation why there is a $25,000 exemption. i did not focus on it personally. and so i would appreciate some feedback on that to make sure we are not creating a loophole that will reverse or strong efforts.

in addition, there has been some internet coverage of our enforcement efforts in the taxi division. against illegal taxi service. it was the goal to enforce that and make that enforcement coupled with our expansion of the number of cabs on the street. that was the stated idea. if we're putting more cabs on the street, we have to live up to our obligations, to enforce against illegal enforcement. when the director is ready to report on that, and maybe the process is completed, that would be worthwhile for the sport to hear about. >> i will ask mr. erskine to look at that. we have a calendar minus two items. is there a second?

any further discussion? all in favor? let's go to 10.2. >> establishing a 25 mile per hour speed limit on harrison street between the embarcadero and ryan and jj has to do with establishing a speed limit in the embarcadero tunnel. >> mr. toronto. >> good afternoon. i am here on these items because -- chairman nolan: you wish to address these together? >> i can do both. i am here to address both items if i could. they have to do with the same thing. one has to do with the south of

market speed limit. you have been lowering those 25. they are wide streets, wide lanes. if -- i do not know if the speed limits have been based on traffic studies. they have done traffic studies every five years. traffic studies have shown that some of them have had increases in speed limits. you are lowering speed limits from 30 to 25. around schools, it has been a problem. you have to lower the speed limits. to lower something you are not enforcing, that is ridiculous. 0 miles per hour, i have never seen anyone get a ticket. ever.

you need to look at the issue of enforcement before you look at the issue of putting in something that is not enforceable. if someone can get a ticket and take it to court, you have a problem. i would like to find out what the study shows. what they do not in force -- you are wasting your time and staff time. thank you. >> anything on this? is there a motion? ok. i support the luring of the speed limit. you have to realize there is a significant global population in the south of market. seniors and families with young children and people with disabilities. there is a cluster of subsidized housing in that area. lowering the speed limit make

sense. it is consistent with a steady that senior action network did funded by ntsa, finding problems with bicycle and pedestrian violations. it makes sense to lower the speed limit. >motion to approve. >>chairman nolan: is there a second? let's take a break. >> the board did not discuss anticipated litigation. they did take action on real- estate litigation. authorizing a payment to use d

im sum restaurant -- resulting from the condemnation of the property. item 17 will be a motion to discuss -- disclose or not disclose. chairman nolan: all in favor? let's adjourn in memory of the fourth member of the citizens advisory committee. we can sent a letter to the family. thank you all very much.

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