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glutinous and inconsiderate. i attended a budget meeting and they announced that google was going to fund $6 million for 2 years. it's pretty affordable. why couldn't it have been 20. a lot of people are asking these companies to be creative. los angeles is regional, and they have movies. but why can't we get a little bit more creative. muni projects have been -- shelved because of lack of funding. >> hi. my name is michael red
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mond. i ride muni and it gets clogged up and i don't have much to say. i think that they should be either stopped or made to pay their fair share for using the bus stops and clogging everybody up. >> good evening. my name is ingram and i'm a disabled resident. when shuttles share muni bus stops, people who need to use the functions on the buses are not able to use the buses at all because the
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shuttles block the muni stops and the muni buses have to go out in the street and only the able bodied people are are allowed to get on. another area where the streets are wider, when you have people lining up you have people lining up for muni buses and lining up for shuttles there is no way to get through. at times i have had to use the street to get by on the sidewalk. i think that is dangerous for people with disabilities. i alsohave missed several doctors poements -- appointments and stopped going to one of my appointment because i can't get there because of the
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shuttles. please approve the eir. >> if i may ask a question. let's say you are a disabled person on a wheelchair and you have an issue, what do you do in that case? do you call someone? what do you do ? >> i wait and usually what happens when i'm going to the doctors office i end up calling the doctor on my phone because i don't have enough time to get there anymore. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm jennifer with the anti-eviction mapping project. i brought a close up of the map that you have already seen. we studied three years of no fault of evictions and
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found that 69 percent of them occur within a block radius of known bus stops. it's hard to know where these bus stops are. so this is a close up of sunset in the richmond district. as you can see in 2001, the gray dots are outside the zones. there are just a few in the zones and in 202 you see the increase. i don't know if this is a stop here in the richmond district. so i'm arguing that there is a correlation between the location and the rate displacement and the impact of the study with the shuttle needs to be done
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comprehensively. it is not the city's duty to prove or disapprove the causal relationships between the shuttles displacement of residents. >> my name is an nicole. i'm with the project and would like to expand on what jennifer just spoke of. indeed we've seen over 100 bus stops transporting workers internally to facebook yahoo and google. they have gone up 69 percent. that means 1289 have been no fault evictions that occurred within the last three years. of that 69 percent have been displaced around tech stops. if you
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estimate that 3 people live in each housing unit 667 people have been displaced with the shuttle bus stops that are transporting workers outside of the city. in our own survey we found that 60 percent that have been evicted have not been able to relocate within san francisco. that means that roughly 1600 people that have been e evicted have not found housing within france. you know to put this in a broader context, google owes the u.s. government 11 100-0000 for offshoring and not paying corporate taxes. we see the same here. the buses owed the city $10 million for not using the buses correctly.
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>> good afternoon supervisors. i'm with the sierra club. this might serve the environment by the getting the cars off the road. we are not going to know without an eir. they are worked to support the true environmental impacts. the eir would include an air quality impacts. in the interim, the city must not permit private commuter and educational muni bus stops and ticket them for violation of california vehicle code. 22500 parking and standing and stopping in a bus zone. depending on the report, the city government may help to facilitate out
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the muni zones of bus stops. the city may create additional bus stops and the operators of the private commute or and educational buses should pay the full cost of the facilitation including cost of lost media revenue. taxpayers should not subsidize the cost. the pilot project is absurd on its face that it finds no vehicle code that at any muni bus stops. the sierra club calls for an eir that is legal, not this illegal pilot program. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my caregiver
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to our resident. this is very important to us. i think i think the city is not very fair to us. i live across the bay because i cannot afford to live in san francisco. that's the only way i can go home when i get out of work or my day off. i think the google bus is very unfair. me and my co-workers who make city run have to find a way for work everyday because we can't find a park are or we have to pay a parking fee. it's not fair for google bus to park free. now the city is allowing them to park illegally. it is not fair. i'm asking the city to please consider. we are now under bargaining on my
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local. the google have been taking money away from the city. lastly we want the city to invest in public service and workers that represent. thank you. >> thank you. supervisors. i'm a san francisco resident for the past 22 years. i love san francisco and san franciscans. i'm a daily muni patron and daily pedestrian and i interact with these buses everyday. i strongly support and environmental impact because we have a cal trans system that runs through the
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south bay. if we have such a great demand why don't we invest in that so all of us can benefit and take in that reward rather than having a separate and unequal system. i have been blocked by these buses. they block the stops. with my health and safety and people too high to see people with disabilities. i beg you to not reward on going flag rant violation of the law. environmental impact is real. to indicate in private that it's not is quite offense iv to me. finally i did a study
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back in 2012 and shows that houses around these bus stops sold 20 percent higher. there is data about the displacement impact and how people can come in and displace the people that can't. we have a lot of different people of a lot of different economic backgrounds and it's really fortunate -- important to me that we maintain that balance. we can't have only the wealth and we need to invest in our infrastructure. thank you. >> hello, my name is cooper and i work at the san francisco general hospital. these shuttles impact the ability for people to get to the hospital. what's next. san francisco is truly becoming a
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tale of two cities as the city continues to taylor to two corporations. i'm not asking for the corporations to carry the load just for their fair share. in the interest of safety, my patients safety, i urge you to consider an eer. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i run a 45-year-old non-profit serving san franciscans. i'm not here to talk about displacement, yes i will talk about it. all asian american groups, except for latinos. we lost 20 percent of our population. would you like to do an eir? for the record we are not being funded by google or any
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of these high tech companies. i'm here because we have a subfunding pedestrian safety program for children in supervisors kim's district. i support the continuing of the pilot program because i'm interested in finding out whether this will reduce the number of voters coming to this city and will that prevent more fatalities toward our children. i hope you know that only a block away from here and asian american child was killed. so please reduce the fatality and support our move to help children get home safely. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening supervisors,
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my name is ed kinly. i work for the san francisco for 30 years. i worked for 20 years as a social worker in the emergency room. i live, pay property taxes and vote in the mission district. i won't name him but i'm very happy with my supervisor. i think what we have before us is one scandal to cover up another scandal. the first scandal is the city has made a decision to not enforce the law. individual parking enforcement officers that we represent. they don't make a decision not to enforce the law. that's something that is a decision that's made high up. including this city has made a decision that this is another way that we are going to give to google. a multibillion dollar corporation and while i was here, i stood right here
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arguing against cuts in mental health, cuts in substance abuse. cuts in different services that land in the emergency services where i work. i urge you to listen to what people have said to the environmental impact and i think you need to vote this favor of their being further environmental impact report done before making a change and giving money to anyone that has more money than the rest of us. >> supervisors, my name is terry bradshaw. i want to say this may have an environmental impact. do they displace
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residents and city workers that have to leave the city and then use cars to work. i have to commute in every. i have a disaster worker and we found the problem with having our emergency workers living outside of san francisco getting back in. i have noticed the correlation about displacement. i think you owe it to the city workforce to do a study and see if there is a nexus or displacement. with this pilot program and mid-market tax break we seem to have gone the other way. those that are better off should pay less. if those that are better off don't pay for public services who does ?
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we do. those of us who have to pay taxes inside the city. as a paramedic, if i show up to your door, the average bill is now $1600. every year you raise fees for services meanwhile we let google. google is valued at $300 billion. we are letting them get tax breaks. >> hi. my name is warder. i have lived in the mission area for 10 years. i have heard a
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lot of issues including whether or not they can afford to extend the subsidized muni passes for people with disabilities, people living on an average income of $900 a month. they were discuss the improvements making to the infrastructure for a long time now to pedestrians and bicycle safety which are considerable and which there was a city and known and celebrated for. i come down here for this where i feel that this is not just undermining what's being done, these positive steps, but kicking in the teeth. we know from the studies that have been done that these shuttles have an negative environmental impact. we are asking for a
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process that everyone has to go through. good evening. i'm an employee at laguna hospital. i'm an avid daily bus rider. to have youth and seniors who are disabled and those that are disabled i'm able to get on a bus where they are almost getting hit on a daily basis between a google bus blocking their way to get in. that's unsafe. it's also to be the fumes. that's
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unhealthy. where people decide to get on a bus to go downtown and unable to get to the hospital because they weren't able to get on a bus, about the but a google bus was there. this is unfair. and for all workers, shouldn't the residents and people of san francisco have the opportunity to ride the buses and shouldn't they have that anlt -- ability to do so and our workers by unsafe google buses. it's not right. we need them to pay their fare share. if somebody is checking them to see if they pay their
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share. thank you. i want to thank everyone for being extremely friendly. people will fainted in just saying the word techie and everybody has a tech worker friend. i'm pretty sure tomorrow i'm going to work and see them. i don't know how this has become engineering and tech issue. we are not paid the best. we are not the most political connection. people brand issue their creation in front of me. this is plain, simple, old fashion. that's why our kids get beat up at school for just carrying a math book. this is why our
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daughters for go altogether. then somebody will turn around hey, tech community has to talk. let's talk about transportation, i would like to talk about all of those things. but how about we are the local community as well. until then, i would say that cheap party tactics and go bully another minority. we are man and women, gay, straight, white, black. we speak every language you do and more. we have ride muni like you do and we pay rent like you do. thank you. >> good afternoon
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supervisors. terry fry. i have been a resident of san francisco for 44 years. i came here when i was 20 years old. i would encourage you to do a study on these buses for a ridiculous amount of $1. please look into alternatives. how can you even start a pilot program before doing an environmental impact study. the percent of the intra buses. that's right because muni isn't reliable. others benefit from this transportation can't use it. that's fair, huh. would it be
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okay. this is the reason i'm upset. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. good afternoon. i'm the san francisco union and also muni employee car cleaners. the reason why i'm talking is this. i just think the city forget about us as a resident as well as the community because every time something is going on sure affecting us. none of us consider seeing it that we have all of these people in here the city is all about and you get it what it's all about. even mayor ed lee doesn't consider us as one. for the reason why we are in the bargaining rights now.
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the majority we have because of google. we have been here google for making $300 million that our committee needed but our city in this community have to support them to make them bigger what you call it, a wrap. because they are telling us what is right and what is not to make it right for us for a city. i don't believe that we have to provide everything to want in stealing ours what we have to work for. thank you. a hi. my name is kate walker. i'm a city employed. retired now. i was a social worker and graduated from san
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francisco state. i think what i'm concerned about now is the illegality of this give away and the fact that this whole idea of giving tax breaks to this huge very wealthy corporation and cutting workers pensions and their health care year after year to negotiations and the ballot box is just too much. if you think you are a real city san franciscan you can recognize this is very much. this is what's connecting with me. this is not just. you should be more concerned about the residents. you are really the one that are being divisive.
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you are rewarding and singling out workers that do not need rewards, this corporation does not need the tax break. people face their share and this could be going towards not cutting workers salary this is not san francisco. i have 75 years of life here. this is not it. >> edward may -- mason. if you go and the transportation authority has spent over $80,000 for a draft and the problem became even worse so they revised the draft and it
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was finally completed. now, that's what goes on with the money. trying to recoup that money, you say why don't you put that money into computation for the bill. we can't recoup that because that was the money spent. you go on the survey. i went up to 24th and castro for 1 hour on a monday morning. 19 corporate commuter buses went through the intersection. they also suffer from bunches and gaps and twice during that hour they had two buses that bunch together then blocking the traffic on the east and westbound traffic or 24th
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