involved and doing stuff. and, so, i got involved with the hiv prevention council, okay. other issues that i feel like are important to me, i jump into head first sometimes. some time overwhelming myself. but i see that sometimes to be able to get stuff done, you have to actually get deeply involved in it and that's why i missed the days of all the supervisors running at large. i'm not a great big fond person of district election because i spend so much time trying to figure out what's going on in my district that i don't know what's going on in other parts of the city because it's so much going on in my part of the city. and i'd like to challenge the supervisors, take a walk with me down to valencia and market at that bicycle light and sit there with me like i do sometimes in the afternoon and just actually count the

bicyclists that actually use that stop light down there that was put up. i don't know if it's a pilot light or, what but it can be easily moved down to sixth street, sixth and market if that wasn't used correctly. please, i'm more than glad to walk down there with you. i don't have anything to do sometimes. but the gentleman we're talking about earlier about how the library fines and stuff like that, so, muni lets you work off your tickets by volunteering. so, what's the difference in the fines? thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. oh, thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. let's go to our adoption calendar, madam clerk. >> item 33 is being considered

for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single roll call vote will enact this item. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you. colleagues, there's a simple typographical error so i'd like to urge you to support the amended version that's in front of all of you. and this simply pro claims san francisco's 2013 as the year of the child in coordination with many different statewide organizations from the first five commission to the california state association of counties, which i am the rep to. so, i urge your support. thank you. and support for the amendment and as amended as well. >> colleagues, supervisor mar has made a motion to amend his resolution. can i have a second to that? seconded by supervisor campos. and if we can take that motion amended without objection, that should be the case. and on the underlying resolution as amended, madam clerk, can you call the roll? >> supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen?

cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution is adopted as amended. madam clerk, could you go to our imperative agenda and do we have any items today? >> we do, mr. president. we have 2013 as the year of the child in san francisco. >> we have a founding as well as the brown act finding -- >> mr. president, mr. president, please excuse my interruption. that was not the imperative item. that was the item -- >> tia margarita. >> yes. it was a resolution declaring 2013 as it a margarita day. in the city and county of san francisco. >> colleagues, we have the resolution described by the

clerk purely recommendtry brown act finding. supervisor mar made a resolution to adopt the resolution. second that, seconded by supervisor campos. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams? >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals on behalf of supervisor cohen for the late mr. robert chris man. on behalf of supervisor yee for the late ms. becky lee. on behalf of supervisor mar and supervisor campos, for the late carlos ramirez. >> and is there any more business in front of the body? >> that concludes our business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel]

so i'd like to introduce doctor dan >> good afternoon thank you. i would like to mention that i'm in a company by our san francisco partners in this work. we have a slide presentation i hope that it's assessable. it doesn't have expect for

feedback on a township meeting it summarizes the report but i'd like to put it together as an easier to a grasp story swipg the evidence in a way that might make sense. so as you heard it's the first of a series of reports if someone wants to know why are not i talking about enforcement. we'll be talking about that but you need those taxes the enforcements is a strategy to get to the process. the way i hope to approach this is to ask how many taxis and then a little bit of a side issue why is the sighed car not the solution.

we ask ourselves that question, too, and we have an answer for you. then as the port structure there's a good solution we think are important and from there recommendations. as you know this is based 3 documents. i should review this is our general approach is to rely on multiple lines of studies. this is to get the local story and history it's difficult to get user voices so we use tourism hospitality and all the folks we talked to have their story. to reach out further we says

drivers individualsly. in fact, a large sample was results by neighborhood. it was an informative reach. as economists we look at how it's structured. we look at other cities we have our model of taxi demand and we go out on the street so we did some extensive street observations. and you yourself have been looking at this for quite a while. we should start by defining what we mean by taxi shortage you can't what does that mean? there's slack period as taxis

will be relatively inaccompanied. but in many cities where the bars close at the same time it is impossible. we hope to meet the afternoon peak. there will be a fair degree of empty taxis because of the distribution of demand. so whatever you do wherever you do it even at peak demand there's some emptiness in the taxis. but you want a regular peak time where the taxis are waiting for the customers not the other way around >> the conclusion is that san francisco has a shortage and we

take that evidence from multiple sources. first of all, we see it on the street in that our diagrams don't fully capture. those bars there a taxi gets a customer is the time involved. this is one example of a large number that we did at different times of day on the thunders afternoon peak not friday. now, it's true most of the taxis got a customer in the time of two minutes. if you can get a customer in two minutes downtown and it's consistent across any time why would i drive out and preposition yourself in the suburbia's to get to a call.

this right away would be the evidence. but our chart didn't capture this. in this observation there were stance of no taxis. this was not a unique observation. we also see it in the under arrest of your dispatch markets. you have many records in the past about no shows we asked people in the surveys different questions. how long does it take to depreciate a taxi to our home. we did that by neighborhood. overall one of the persons said their service was terrible and it gets worse in the southern parts. in terms of what we should

expect we should have service win 15 minutes most of the time. in los angeles they achieve service in 15 minutes. here only 56 percent experienced long times during the day and friday and saturday night much, much worse and here's the number of folks who expect thirty minutes or no shows over time. pretty poor service. when we look at getting our economist hat and look at the year 2000. that green line as you see it slowly rising and a skipping

some of the detail the central line starts at the regular basis and says what happened to taxi demand given the meter rate and a number of factors and commuters coming into town. you put those together and the line dips below after the expansion. then there's another dip there and the most recently recession then a it across the green line and if you train forward to the current year then if i look at it you say last year the demand was up 23 percent but we only have 14.9 percent more taxis but you authorized more.

you put 0 those together it looks like you've got just enough. and we believe that you have at this moment once they're all out on the street you'd be able to restore that balance in the year 2000. that just means you'd have the same poor dispatch service there was 38 percent no-show service on people calling taxis to their home. so you would have the major problem still out there plus it's not the year 2000 anymore. and consumers choices are under attack. the limos are eating away at the share. the share rides are assaulting

taxi shares. there's a potential risk that if the taxis don't fill the gap that you could have the reverse collapses or you might end up would too. taxis but this is a necessary service. when strangers pickup strangers in the dark they'd like to have a clear register and driver which cities have that >> you can't go back in time. to meet the counter challenge and to provide the people with the service they need and one i need it by filling that avoid

void. there's 40 percent of residents they'd take a taxi more frequently. most would increase late night entertainment use. more people would take taxis to work if it was reliable. and one of the more interesting points when we in our survey asked the limousine users some like the luxury a maybe 40 percent said the luxury. but 90 percent agreed that 5 out of 5 mostly in reaching their agreement i take