(calling names). >> it is successful for the youth and the people like power and cdc the youth commission i want to commend them for the best program nationally it's a model we get calls and we're going to be on calls for people around the country for the model. it reflects in the city and reflects well in sfmta let's make this permanent so the 18 years old don't have to deal with this and the need to address the affordability for seniors and folks with disabilities. this shows how you build support for addressing the budget you're

putting forward today and other funding mechanisms the way you build those and i address the needs i can't think of a low cost benefit ive been working on at that particular time transit in the city and i've not seen a budget you see how we've spent hundreds of dollars that never met their objects it's wonderful to hear this is under budget and it's a slam dunk i hope we can take the experience how we invest in youth and you need to fund your system. i want to see in the future to go for more funds and start tapping into the real estate

market and get more money for the system we need for the future thank you. next speaker please. (calling names.) (clapping.) >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon my name is jim i'm a community organizer with the san francisco bicycle coalition. the goal of the free minnesota for youth program is to among the city for all opportunities accessible to youth regardless of their household income. through our missions of promoting the bicycle coalition we support the same goal and stands alongside it and asks for a free muni for youth. i hope this gets approved in the forthcoming. thank you >> next speaker please.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm a member of power and a mother as the free minnesota has helped the families noted to have to pay for the clipper cards the extra money a month.

>> we ask you make this program permanent it's on the only way to make our youths get to school safely and not to make them feel like criminals. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> because the recession has impacted people who have two or three days of work and week and many have lost their jobs.

>> it's a success the metropolitan. >> and is families are impacted. >> we ask you include seniors and disabled because they don't have access to

>> good afternoon,

>> good afternoon and, i would like to thank you for hearing us, and back when i was going to school, it cost a quarter, and which is not a problem, but, you know, two bucks, and you paid the two bucks, and the transfer is useless by the time that you get out of school and so that is another two dollars to get home. and i think, that if we can make it free for them, and then we can make it free-for-all of the citizens. and especially the youth, which is really who i am her. you guys can look at gargameland give back to the youth and it is not enough to invest in the youth and it is free for the techies and so that we can invest in the city and so i think that investing in education and in this way, is a small concession, that we can

make, and like camp os said, this is a way to be the community and one of the small ways and this is a way, partially, to get the media off of ed le e's back and how the tech s, that are not doing anything for the community and let's make the strives in that direction, and i don't want to take too much time, brenna and aliza z. those are the last two people. >> good afternoon. >> pull the microphone down. >> thank you. >> and good evening, everybody and i hope that you guys have been having a fantastic evening as i am. and i want to thank the commissioners first of all for coming down here and or i don't know if you guys, volunteering your time or getting paid for this but i want to thank you guys and i want to thank everyone in the audience for

coming here and i am a senior in high school but i am with the youth, which is a youth group, and which stands for the motivating of,... movements of organizing justice and we work around the area and our most prominent campaign is to save the city colleges of san francisco and right now, i want to let you guys know that i have the test and but i am taking out my time here to advocate for this, cause and i want to share that, it was really helped me to explore the other areas of san francisco, but my parents, are pretty oblivious about and they working class jobs and this is my home and i want to be aible to explore the city and like, absorb all of the culture that it has to offer me and i also want to point out, a bigger picture, that this program will

provide, they have the driver license but then they still don't drive and you might ask why? because they have the service and program offered to them. it is simple economics, if you lower the cost for something the demand for this service will be high and her because we have this problem, the bigger picture that i am trying to point out is that the less cars will be in the area and you are supporting, essentially a generation of non-drivers and people that actually use the public transportation, with less cars and there is less, and less admitted and that is an important cause that we should stand behind. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, and good evening. >> where do you go? >> i am currently a sophomore and i live in the portola an hour bus ride away and i don't have the luxury of getting a

ride to school every day and so i will have to take the bus and another problem with that is 75 cents for each bus ride is a bit bunch seeing as i am living in a single parent household and i have cousins that recently moved in with me because the family immigrated to america. so, their income is basically non-existent right now and they have two children that are twins that both have to attend school in china town, which is also an hour away from where i live and staying with my mom right now because they don't have the means to find a house and they have yet to have the money to find them another place to stay as well. and so 75 percent, i mean, 75 cents for each kid, is too much for them as well. and they are currently only 9 years old and so they are going to need this free program for a long time and so i am seeing that this should be permanent, not just for me but for all of the other kids out there nowadays and that is going to make a long commute to go to

school from home and then there is also the problem with just going to school and back home that is not enough, because everybody needs extracurricular activities to be considered to get into a good college and so if they have to pay every time that they leave the house just to attend some extra curriculum activity, it will be too much and it would make it difficult for them to get the life that they deserve and turn them into robots because they will not be able to live the house as much and i am saying that this is a big issue if it is not made free or permanent, thank you. >> that will conclude the public hearing, this afternoon, members of the board, at this point, would i like to say a couple of things in advance. >> pardon me. >> there are more people. >> okay. bruce will be the last speaker. >> good afternoon.

director. >> good afternoon. >> directors. >> and first of all, let me say, congratulations, for even considering this because it is something that i believe is long overdue. and believe it or not, i know director riskin and i met a month ago and i have some or a proposal to make. and that might add to more dollars to the city here. and because i think in terms of those of us who can afford to pay for muni, should pay for muni. and i think for people with

disabilities and seniors and students. you know, we have to be supportive of all of these groups to vitalize our city. riding muni should be a real pleasant experience. and believe me, over the years, the majority of what i take have been very, very rewarding. and believe it or not, i believe that if we pay what we could afford to pay, i think that i would add, enough money into the kitty, to actually make these programs stay in place forever. >> so, this is what i am going

to propose, and i will e-mail my proposal to the director riskin. and let me know how much money. >> thank you. >> how much money it will generate. >> thank you,. >> let's do. >> now the public hearing is closed. >> at this point, i want to and i would like to say something, to especially to the young people who came here today. i really hope that every san franciscan is watching channel 76 and 78 i think that you will be inspired about the future and incredibly thoughtful remarks for everyone in the story and the mothers stories and so many stories are touching and that is what it is about and i appreciate you can out here this afternoon and in terms of i ask each board member to say a few words in terms of the budget for the staff going forward. and i would like to begin that by saying, first of all, i have always viewed this job, and as a commissioner and somebody asked if we were paid, not

really. the commissioners are not. >> so, but our job is to look out for the city as a whole. that is the charge. but, along with that to be mindful in special areas and population and special considerations, and that is the balancing act that the board has to do and the second principal that i bring to this discussion that i hope for all of these is that muni and mta itself and it is so important for this city, and it is important for everybody in the city. but, it is most important for those who need it most. and my mind the testimony here this afternoon, and then before the youth and i hope very much we could do the low income seniors, and disabled persons as well and i extend this to the people who are 18 and i would add my voice to those who are opposing a $6 fare to the fline as a little guidance here. and as we go, and going forward, so much of the budget is based on the hope and the

prediction that we will be able to pass these budget measure thises fall and i hope that several of the organizations have offered support for that and it is really important going forward that the city as a whole, unite behind these because it is good for these programs, and it is good for the system as a whole and therefore, the entire city. so with that, vice chair, we have... >> yes, thank you to everybody who showed up to talk on this issue. it is really good to hear from you all and i always enjoy seeing all of you come down here and so i do appreciate it. i agree with chairman nolan and i think that keeping the free muni for youth, including students who are 18 and still in school and extending it for low, moderate income seniors and the disabled i think is really, to your point, what we are about at this transit agency, which is helping people who we need to help the most. i think that as i look through the possible revenue sources and the possible things that we wanted to extend it on, i noticed a couple of things that

i think of as sort of policy issues and things that are more affordability issues so that will include the free muni for the low, income youth and seniors and people with disabilities. i think that the proposal that we had to eliminate the in-person customer service center fee, which eliminates that $3 processing fee and i am looking at an old document that actually had the things kind of labeled out. those are two of the affordable things, and for the sunday street parking elimination, i understand the citation rate on that is an issue, do we know, and i have the memo on sunday parking meters do we know is it higher on sunday and has that sort of gone down across the year? i am confused about the citations on that. >> it is quite a bit higher on sundays and i think that the

initial data shows that 55 percent of the revenue came from the citations on sunday, which is quite a bit higher than it is on other days of the week whether it is coming down over the year, i don't know. i could get that information for you and the memo may have stated and if not, it can get you what the citation rate. >> and i can't remember. >> i think that it will decline over time if we were to leave it in place. >> i don't remember seeing if that was coming down or not, so that was interesting to know and if that citation rate, or if we expect to see them all come down as the new meters get implemented and i am thinking about the things that you did mention and that we want to perhaps, consider, implementing some things after we know what has happened in november, and to my mind making the free muni for youth, permanent would be one of those things that would i actually like to wait and discussion after we kind of know what our finances are

going to be for the long term future and a better idea of what we will be able to afford for the youth and senior and persons with disabilities. >> a couple of things that stuck out to me were policy changes and the monthly a, plus, increase and the bart pass through and that seems like something that we may want to do as a policy change and that increases the apass, two dollars above the index price and covers the bart pass increase per trip and implement the interagency fair discount it creates a single policy for all of the agencies and that kind of cleans up and level the playing field, for certain things. those are the only things that i have and again i do like the idea of maybe there are things that we implement or age in

implementation after november, there is so much riding in november that i am hesitant to stick out our necks in spending until we know what we are able to spend. >> the indexing and i support that and that is a good policy. >> how about you? >> i want to thank everyone for coming, and testifying, and you know, it is very compelling what you are saying. and the messages is heard loud and clear. but a couple of concerns that i have is on the indexing, one is that there is a look that was the bag meter, and i know that we are in an indexing and... >> she is not. and i would like to say that there is an all day bag meter we are only charging 7 dollars. >> i think that when we looked at this a few years ago, if you assume or if you take the average, meter cost and you

assume the full usage of the day it will be quite a bit higher, it will be at the time, it was 22 dollars, verses the five that we were charging. so we did start to increase it and we heard some concerns, from some of the organizations that are subject to it, but it is certainly something that we could look at and there is room, in other words, for us to make that closer to approximating the actual foregone revenue. >> i think that the other adjoining cities, have a higher rate in terms of their bagged meters and also when i take a look at contract or permits if you look at it for the year, it is 3 dollars a day, it is what the rate comes out to be for parking at the meters. >> yeah. i think that those permit fees are set based on the cost of us to administer the cost of the program and i am not sure that how they distinguish between the use of the meters spaces or not. >> i think that it is based on an assumption of an average,

between, some portion of their time at metered spaces or a portion not and i am not sure that we will have the leeway on that. >> because we have to see that as a prime parking location that is taken and giving up for $3. >> okay. >> other than that, i support, you know, the we have the leeway that we can breathe thanks to google but the question is how can we fund this in the future that we don't come to a researching stop in two years and saying that we