qualified personnel available for training and, therefore, to bring service up to its required levels or its stated levels. next motion concerns clipper cards. the cac urges the board to pursue wider availability of clipper cards, both geographically throughout the city as well as by providing social services agencies that serve people with low-incomeses with clipper cards instead of the tokens that are now provided ~. cac urges the mta board to plan for wider availability of clipper services to these communities before increasing the fare differential between cash and clipper. the next motion, cac recommends that the mta board raise the

parking meter use fee, also known as the meter bagging fee, to recover the full revenue loss of $21.30 per bag in fy 2015, and that subsequently the agency index the rate in future fiscal years. cac urges the mta board to work with the planning department to pursue an echo pass similar to that made available by the vta, a group pass for institutions such as residential buildingses, academic institutions, and larger employers ~. only two more here. next motion, the cac urges the board to condition work order payments to the sfpd on measured progress on enforcement, transit-only lane restrictions to speed up surface transit.

finally, we have a motion that you may not have seen yet in a letter because got lost for a few days. they have seen it, okay. this concerns the accessible platform on the end judah line at ninth and judah. the sfmta and cac [speaker not understood] funds be used to retrofit the ninth and judah inbound accessible platform on the n judah line so that the historic and vintage streetcars can clear the platform and run to the beach. that's our recommendations. if you have any questions, i'd be happy to try to answer them. >> thank you. we always appreciate your thoughtful work here. so, before we begin the actual hearing on this, i'd like to he propose to my colleagues a motion the burden of which the motion [speaker not understood]

can't vote on it until after the public comment. but i would urge us to put further delay of proposed september 2014 increase and the discount senior disabled [speaker not understood] until july 1st of 2015, propose fy 16 fares will take effect. and amending of scheduled rate fares fees and reflect the changes approving the revision in the 506 report to reflect the delay in the [speaker not understood]. second the motion, put that on the floor, then put it to the public. >> i will second that motion and put in a motion as well. mine has to do with extending the -- including low and moderate income 18 year old use in this fiscal year so that we cover them before fy 15 and 16, we'll actually cover them this year because there are kid that are going to be in school. >> second. >> we have two memorandums.

again, we will have the public comment. it is very helpful to us, ladies and gentlemen, if you can fill out a speaker card. we'll read five names and [speaker not understood] have a chance to hear your name several time, then we look forward to your comments. with that, who do we have? >> mr. chairman, as you stated, just so you know, there are people lined up outside in the hallway. i have gone out and asked them to go to the north side court because if they do wish to speak, they won't be able to hear their name. called, as the chairman stated. i will read the name five times. 2458 give people ten minutes. the sheriff is aware if amction is in one of the white courts or outside, the their name has been called, identify your name to the sheriff, tell him your name has been called. he will allow you to come in the room so your comment can

be taken. the first five speakers are bob plant hold, damien williams, high aloe saratan, christopher vidales and michael poppas. >> good afternoon, mr. plant hold. good afternoon, i'm bob plant hold. i'm glad to hear of the amendment to extend muni for 18 low or moderate kid. it important kid continue their education through high school. so, thank you for that amendment. i know that some may find appealing your delay of a fare increase, both cash and fast pass until next year. there still is the unresolved question of, i will say it, fairness. too often the questions our advocates get in talking to public officials boil down to can we afford fairness rather

than how do we work towards fairness towards including seniors and people with disabilities who are low and moderate income of getting their transit easily available. it's disconcerting that, i will say it, you're not putting pressure on management to better find ways to address some of the options that have been brought forward like reducing work orders. there's no real pressure. too often, i will say it, city agencies get fed first from the revenues of muni. unresolved, unaddressed, unanswered for years are the wex i've continually been asking about the police work order. we have seen instances where a police officer gets on travis 2 stops, 3 stops, 4 stop, gets off. how is that effective enforcement? it makes you question how much

they're getting paid for how little they're doing. i reported similar instances where my son saw one police officer tag five clipper card. his partner was in the car. you're not doing enough to cut the police order. that money could be used to help people get what we deserve. (applause) >> thank you, mr. plant hold. >> damien william. ladies and gentlemen of the jury, just so that people can hear me downstairs, if you could keep your clapping to a minimum. people can hear. [speaker not understood] michael pappas. john flip. >> hello, mr. williams. hello, i'm jamie williams, i'm a member of the [speaker

not understood] advisory committee and [speaker not understood] the ark. i feel honored to be here today as an advocate for all 150 transition students here in san francisco. thank you for adding special education students 18 to 22 years old to your proposed budget. many people do not know the difference between the categories of special education services here in san francisco. mild to moderate are students who have disabilities that need accommodation. to be successful in the general education curriculum. they receive no more than 50% of the services from the special education. students like -- students like me are recognized -- or categorized as moderate to severe. that means my disability impacts all parts of our life.

[speaker not understood], live independently. students like me get more intensive support in order to help us become independent, up to 100% of our serve is he here from special education services, i hope you vote to approve all 18 to 22 year olds, mild to moderate and moderate to severe special education services. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> heidi saratan, [speaker not understood] christopher vidalas. [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon. good afternoon. i'm asking the board -- i have a group of students that we left school early to be here today. [speaker not understood] show involvement if we can possibly have them come up. we have three more students right outside. >> okay, they can come.

all right, so, good afternoon. we're excited to be here to be representing access arc and students of san francisco unified. we were excited we heard in your notes you're going to be extending the free muni to youth to 18 year olds. because 18 year olds are still part of the federal school system. we want to make sure you under we are part of the population here in san francisco that represent transition students with disabilities that are still part of the public school system, san francisco unified and we're served till 22. i just want to make note and important correction in language use that i used to e-mail the board. you guys had listed referring to our 18 to 22 mild moderate. it is moderate to severe disabilities. in order to ensure access to

our students, safe transition the people you're promoting to be independent utilizing transportation in the greatest city in america. sorry, i'm thrown off because you guys changed your thing from the last time i read it. but we just want to thank you guys for the dedication to serving and enriching the lives of individuals with disabilities and have an amazing public transportation system. sfmta is the reason many of my students are able to lead active enriching lives here in san francisco. i just revised the language of your clarity for when you refer to our population. but again, free and muni for youth transitioning 18 to 22. can we give them a hand, guys. (applause) >> thanks for being here this afternoon. >> christopher vidales. michael pappas. john phipps. [speaker not understood]. and bleach [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon. my name is christopher

[speaker not understood] and i am a transition student at access usfp the ark. i love muni. it allows us to go out in the city ourselves. this year in my program i have learned to travel train independently and to my job site. it feels really great to travel on muni independently. please make sure to pass students 18 to 22 in the free muni program. so students can feel as suck csus heful as me. thank you. >> thank you. >> michael pappas. [speaker not understood]. bleach phillips. david salivary. >> good afternoon, mr. tion appas. chair nolan, the muni and sfmta board, i came here today to speak to you and ask you to

roll back and heed the mayor's call to roll back sunday meter parking. if i reder correctly from the director's report, this is what you intend to do. so, i'm going to seed my time to the rest of the good people here. i would just say there are a lot of wonderful people of faith in this room and people who contribute back so much to this community and people who have been impacted for the last six plus months by this issue. hear them. hear them, because they are the voices of our city, too. and we look in the inter faith community, we look forward to working with the mta on issues of greening our congregations, of promoting bike to worship, and being collaborator and partners in your important work. we thank you for the recommendation that you're making and we look forward to working with you in the future. >> thank you, mr. pappas. next speaker, please. >> john fitch.

istachar high. [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon, am fitch. good afternoon, members of the board ferment i'm here to bring voice. in my opinion of a concerned citizen. i believe that we need to freeze the muni fare hike. san francisco muni has been depleting their annual budget and burning through taxpayers' dollars in a feeble attempt to [speaker not understood] a system [speaker not understood]. san francisco is the most expensive city in the nation. we need to band together and help one another or we will be lost. you have got to stamp out dependence on bleeding out the weak, the disadvantaged and those individuals earning under 60,000 annually. january 28, 2014, san francisco board of supervisors held a board meeting in which they agreed to purchase a total of 60 trolley buses.

shortly after this meeting, san francisco mta held a meeting proposing fare hikes. passengers cannot afford any more increase in their cost of living. i believe a better solution is to create a referendum allowing voters to decide on the following. that all department heads and muni employees earning more than 100,000 annually should be subject to 10% cut in pay. that all department heads and muni employees earning more than 2000 annually, subject to 20% cut in pay. individual elected to a pay cut will be recommended for the loss when muni is in a healthy physical state. obviously this is just one man's opinion and the propose i've outlined might be in need of some refinement. the point i'm making is that muni continues to be a problem due to their inefficiency.

perhaps the city of san francisco will have no alternative but to outsource the transit system and have a proven track record of success. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> istachar high. david phillips, david salivary, bobby luna. [speaker not understood]. is mr. high here? no. david phillips. good afternoon, mr. chairman, members of the board. i am beverly phillips, a retired ~ [speaker not understood] judge and member and associate minister in third baptist church. i'm here in support of the roll back effort on sunday meter parking for the following reasons. it will severely impact and diminish the people of all faith communities. secondly, it will increase

tension and frustration among all of the motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians who travel a upon our streets. they only will be looking for place [speaker not understood] let the nation, the state see we are truly the city of st. francis. have a good day. thank you. >> i see supervisor yee is in the room. supervisor yee, did you care to address the board? good afternoon, supervisor. >> good afternoon. thank you for taking me. as you know, i'm at a board meeting and they're taking a vote in a couple seconds that i need to be at. commissioner, i stand here today with organizations representing the senior committee -- community and the disabled community to encourage the sfmta board to implement a free muni for seniors and

disabled. so, there are many challenges that many seniors face living on a fixed income. even the current fare 75 cents can be a hurdle to doing important things like going to doctor's points, visiting friends or maybe even participating in civic life by attending a rally or even a hearing like everyone here today. so, i urge the mta board of directors to approve a pilot program and to see what the real need is for this population and to study its effects on the muni system and on seniors and people with disabilities' behavior. finally, i know the mta budget is limited and there are many more requests for funding than there is funding available. but i also -- and i also know that the proposed transportation bond measure in november will increase its ability to meet the demand for funding projects.

but i hope that the mta board can go as far as they can in terms of serving our senior and disability population. i know we're in a tough situation, but i am here to stand by the seniors. thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor. next speaker. >> david salivary. bobby bog an. gina luna. charles minster and keva mcneil carter. >> good afternoon, sir. good afternoon, board. my name is david carter salivary. i'm a candidate on the republican ticket. i also go to a church that is impacted by sunday parking. i'm very thankful you've done the right thing as far as that goes. san francisco is a transit only zvi it's a small city, 7 by 7, [speaker not understood],

environmental leader ~. transit first has unfortunately morphed into transit only where the prevailing wisdom seems to be cars are bad and transit is good. people drive because san francisco transit is terrible. bart was designed very, very poorly decades ago for suburban commuters to get into the downtown. it needs to be extended, but that is very difficult because we're locked into decisions made decades ago. caltrain is archaic under utilized and would be redundant to an extended bart. mound is run very poorly on many levels. the bussey ride on the mission is dangerous, dirty, all reasons why people don't use them. taxis have [speaker not understood] create a brand-new

system working only fairly well, it needs to be regulated. the sfmta budget is huge, but with all the money and more will you guys be able to build the system that we need here in san francisco. i'm not so sure. especially with all the demands for inclusion, with the demands by labor that are coming up very soon, and with the demand for lower feeds and for more fairness. something has to give. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> bobby bogan. [speaker not understood]. hold on just a moment, ma'am. brenda mcneil. i'm [speaker not understood]. i'm part of the [speaker not understood] with people with disabilities. we're getting 40 more clients at the arc in san francisco. we're tired of this you're going to raise our fares. this is what they look like, and i'm going to get the new one pretty soon. i don't want to raise the fares

from 23 to 24. tell them they're part of [speaker not understood], and the mayor and everybody else we're part of sft also. we're ssi disability, we can't afford more, tell us supervisor, no more increase. thank you. >> next speaker, please. is bobby here? [speaker not understood], deborah bennedict. >> good afternoon, mr. logan. good afternoon, board. what the lady before me said, i'm here representing low-income seniors and people with disabilities, those who live in poverty, the ones you see sleeping under bushes, highways, they can't come in and live. as i spoke last time here, our

money is already gone. we don't have any more money to spend on anything. the rising cost of inflation dried us up about three years ago. right now our busiest task is to survive the last six years of budget cuts and general inflation because i live on 83 1 a month. my money is already gone before it gets there. you guy made a suggestion. you're going to wait before you raise the costs on seeners and people with disabilities. that's going to be another year of rising inflation, you know. they're going to be that much further behind. and already it's hard trying to sell -- they're too old trying to keep up with a depleted paycheck they got. we can't keep squeezing a depleted check.

it just doesn't match up. so, in support of free rides for our situation, bear in mind that every day in america, 10,000 people turn age 65. every day. in the next two or three years, those people that's coming into the equation, millions of them are going to be priced out before they even arise. we have to keep head toctionv theyx in ~ we were left behind three years ago. it's a good gesture to put it off for another year. but when you put it off for another year, they put people like me that much further behind in inflation. thank you all very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hal mins toshibation er. can i ~ kiva mcneil. [speaker not understood] california alliance for retired americans. first off, a shout out and salute to the muni operators,

maintenance men, women, those who minister muni and the street lighting people who are up for a contract this year. they deserve everything they ask for and more. without them this city doesn't function period. you've been dazeling and dangling around this free muni for seniors and disabled. it should be a given. but you make it contingent on the passing of these floating bond issue. [speaker not understood] that's 240 million there. and you're playing us for a cheap trick. you know, there's a universal -- international accepted custom. it's even codified in places like nevada. if you're going to play somebody for a whore, you got to put the money up first. so, i'm here to demand the mob

i for the rest of the san franciscans. we paid for it, we he deserve it. we should have it. thank you. >> next, please. >> [speaker not understood], barbara bennedict, paul hickman good afternoon, my name is reverend kiva mcneil. i'm the pastor of the [speaker not understood] church, 13 28 golden gate avenue. thank you for this. very happy the roll back was approved for leaders and i'm not sure about what is in process for the double parking. ~ at this time. however, it is my prayer and heart's desire that the commission will extend favor to those of the faith community that have made significant contributions to this city

culturally, economically, socially as employees, employers and family members. our tax dollars have supported the growth and infrastructure of this great city and our christian have contributed to the peace and social stability to this community. we are here because of our concerns about fair and equitable treatment. it appears that purpose has been extended to certain entities that were oppose and had parking. the churches that have engaged in the practices of double parking have existed for over a half l we are all in favor of health consciousness, bike riding, walking and jogging. however, the concern for physical health should not dominate the concern for spiritual health. we need a balance. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> linda mcneil, deborah

bennedict. paul hickman. anaksul rama. [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon. good afternoon to the board. my name is brenda mcneil and i'm a member of the el bethel baptist church. i'm also here regarding the sunday parking meter enforcement. it looks like you're mooving that way to remove that, but i'll be brief. i want to a primarily the african-american church membership is impacted by that and that would create a hardship -- does create a hardship, financially, physically and psychologically. it interrupts the worship experience if you have to monitor a parking meter and it's disturbing, because it primarily again affects the african-american church. so, it makes me question the motives. hopefully we won't see this come to life again. it looks like a direct attack

on the church. i'm asking that you give this matter careful consideration as you represent all the people of san francisco. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. (applause) >> deborah bennedict, paul hickman. anaksul rama. [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon. good afternoon, i'm deborah bennedict, [speaker not understood] as well as nonprofits that support seniors as well as persons with disability and fairness. thank you very much for considering the church parking and that's complete. thank you for passing the information about 18 year olds who are still in slowly, i'm very glad for that. but in terms of people with disabilities waiting for free muni services, i believe there are areas of the budget that can accommodate the funding necessary even with the impending bonds that are coming up.

just to mention the budget as i'm sure mr. reiskin is aware, there are fair enforcement individuals out there often being intimidating towards those who are ferry baiters, basically an $8 million budget line item and they're able to get a return of $1 million worth of fare evaders. that $7 million -- quite frankly, the fare invaders. fair aloe v-8ers aren't really breaking the law. i understand they're not prosecuted if they don't pay the fine. rather than spending the money and energy on this, why not let people who are senior and disability -- we are the large of