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please. >> good evening supervisors, 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
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multibillion dollar corporation and while i was here, i stood right here 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
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this may have an environmental impact. do they displace 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
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that are better off don't pay for public services who does ? 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
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area for 10 years. i have heard a 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
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to see if they pay their 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
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a math book. this is why our 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.
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>> good afternoon 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.
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that's fair, huh. would it be horrible to take the bus to go to their designated stops. i was downstairs and i fell off my chair laughing. ask any police officer. they will tell you in the crosswalk. you have the right of way you are in the crosswalk. c'mon move.
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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
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the bargaining rights now. 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.
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retired now. i was a social worker and graduated from san 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
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residents. you are really the one that are being divisive. 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
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problem became even worse so they revised the draft and it 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
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westbound traffic or 24th street. it's hard to believe that it's exempt from any kind of analysis.
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and to get substandard
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treatment. elmo square they've appendixes to get rid of the buses because of the traffic congestion how is this any different. the last thing is would happen if the busses can't run i sympathize with people who can't get to work but there's a thank called carpooling it's at the city and state to decrease congestion and traffic i challenge - >> thank you very much. thank you.
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>> my name is bill i'm an alcoholic - wrong meeting i'm bill i lives in hayes valley i work for a journal maker we've been if the same rent control department and my wife is a native san franciscan our building was recently put up for sale we're worried about this. i was here in january for the sfmta meeting i didn't speak i watched and listened to a parade of interesting parties and watched and listened to the board members we know they never that intended to consider not
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passing this shuttle. the environmental study should have been done years ago when the busses started to republic through and the city looked at the other ways and those corporations were devastating our neighborhood. this decision soujt like a slam dunk it going back to the drawing board and number 2 as soon as this hearing is over you contact the department of traffic and tell him to endorse the laws. bower and the rest of them will find private lots pretty fast it's really that simple. and finally forgive me for
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telling you how to do your job, your not running a wal-mart our citizens are not - >> thank you very much. thank you. next speaker >> i'm a city college student i'm 20 years old you asked for prove of disinflation in the city i never thought i would be effected so directly. my father passed away while i was in college both of my parents were working and when they father passed away my mom
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provide for us she's working a full-time job she's 63-year-old and i'm scared i can see everyday she's tired and i'm frustrated because i can't help her it's my dude to be a full-time student. it's so frustrating to be a young woman student a young san franciscan and to have such injudicious done in the city we're barrel getting by my family my mother and brother and myself are knowledge in an apartment that costs over $1,600 a month and i'm speech also what
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the city has become i urge you to at least give this a chance to see the results for yourselves. it hurts. and i want a solution because i'm scared thank you. thank you. next speaker >> hi, mime al elect i live in the harriet in district 5 i be support this for the environmental review. i work with google and - >> excuse me, sir this is for people that are supporting the appellant there a there will be more presentations inform support of mta. >> i apologize. >> hi, i'm steve i am going to read a an exert how the other
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people transit. they have a budget of 35 mile it runs the shelter and averaging 16 hundred employees that ride everyday and it has many pickup locations and it has apps to track the shelter and for the tracking they agreed to have alternative transportation if 28 to 34 percent so they made an agreement as part of a deal it get their campus as you part of the program overlook r apple increased their shelters dedicated to a transit center and 45 foot coaches the goal is
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to keep the buses parked 3 minutes or less when there could be many shelters coming through. people have mentioned that would be really good to actually go out into the community and see the legal immaterial of the program. i wonder if you can get this on the monitor unfortunately but that's a apple bus it was turning on from val say and twouthd you can't see it basically, it went over the curve. you know, since the protest has happened there recent smaller buses they've using i've never seen them before but there their
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needs to be looked at an impact >> thank you very much. >> hi, i'm michael i'm here today as a citizen of san francisco and also here as a native san franciscan that, you know, there's a lot of concern when you see a lot of people come out and speak on an issue there's a lot of concern about something and one of the concerns here is, you know, obviously a sequa review needs to happen. i've been dealing with the planning process for over 20 years in san francisco this is one of its amazing how someone can say we don't need one we're here to discuss a need for a planning process. we need to survey the impacts and there needs to be mitigation
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once we find out what the mitigation is and san francisco is losing it's soul. let's keep the public's trust that's what you have been put into office to do. thank you >> next speaker >> our family was run down on ellis street, in fact, there wasn't a lot of safety done and, in fact, one million dollars was on ellis street it's insufficient not enough i think i'll stick to that. there needs to be a bigger vision or something speaker if you want to compare technical i didn't see to minority groups there was a time chinese were
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only allowed to live in chinatown and males and murderers we don't look at the minority group we anti right general sided. and it seems like we're kept going into a new manifest disney all the things we used to support those things where gone so in closing, i would like to suggest that 41, you know, if urge to a use the obscure and red herring mission do smlg something we might overlook that. >> hi, i'm lydia i'm a resident
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of the tenderloin i've lived there 5 years and a san francisco resident 15 years i live around the corner in ellis street where the little girl was killed and it should have ramifications for people for the so-called google buses that are unsurvive but i want to give you an somewhere it happened to me and how the google buses have personally affected my environment and my daughters. we take her across town to hate ashbury she goes to chinese school on awful low i'm proud to have her there. so we have to catch two buses evidence to get her there and back. as we were making a transfer
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from one bus to another to the van ness and market just a couple of months ago we saw that our bus what iowa was coming and we were kitty corner we ran cross the street and so we could catch the bus and at the bus stop through another two life cycles we watched google buses pull around the bus and blocking traffic and the muni bus driver was waiting because it wasn't save to be pulling into the intersection ambassador once the muni bus pulled to the intersection the google bus was blocking it. it really has an impact on the transit plans and the citizens