distributed relatively evenly across the city but very thinly, if you only have 12 of these across the city, it is hard for the people to really pick up on it. and so, i talked to folks about using on street parking for car share and i say that you might have seen them out tr and people say that i never saw them. but now that you know where they are, go and look for them you can see how they look. here is what one of them looks like. this. on har rot street and it is just parallel to 6. and this is in front of 38th harriot, and this is a beautiful car share prius and this is one of thots 12 pods and this is what it looked like on friday and it is out there. and a lot of times when i go to look for these vehicles they are out be shared that is a good thing, a lot of times is what you will see is the space. the idea is this feasible and practical? and we found that yes, this was

a feasible notion, they quickly become relevant utilized if they are located in the high demand areas and the enforcement is critical and if someone comes and checks out the car and someone else comes in approaches the space and barges in on that space and when i come back with the shared vehicle it is a program. and i can't put the car away, we had to be very, avid about the enforcement on this stuff. there is wup of these on 17th and again, go and look for it and you may see it out there and that was a challenge because it is attractive to have the parking on valencia as you know, we found that we need to be vigilant with the enforcement and political support is necessary as with any kind of a street change, and again you heard him in the conversation with the commission and we understand. and the connection with the community is key, you can't just show up and do this, we

have to have good out reach and public awareness is essential or the people will not use them. >> so, last year, we went to the mta board of directors and we proposed a larger pilot program, let's test this thing scaled up and have a two-year pilot, and we are going to invite more than just one car share organization to participate and we have actually have done that and we had five organizations say that they would like to participate and we found three of them qualified, see car share and zip car and get around, one of the peer to peer organization and we have environmental review and we are cleared to test as many as 900 parking spaces across the city and that is a big number and, there are 300,000 parking spaces and so that is about a third of one percent. and it is a pilot and we are going to try this over two years and we are going to review and adjust the pilot as

it goes and we are not going to throw them out there and say that it worked. and participants are going to have to provide quite a bit in order to participate, obviously, these are the rules, but they are going to have to provide a lot of data, that is an ultimate point and we need to keep to study this to see if it is a good idea, not only operationally but do the people use them? do the people get rid of cars if they are using this? what were the effects on transportation, and trip making? and we are going to be talking to the members of all of the participants to find out are you walking more or less and taking the muni less or and are you rid of your car or buying a car, and all of that stuff we are going to take and we are going to study. and we also have made sure to do distribute these spaces across the city, we don't want them all clustered up in the north east corner of town.

and it is a fuzzy diagram, but we divided the city into three piece and we are abliging and insensitivizing the participants to get out of downtown and so the permits, or the monthly permit fees, $225 a month in the downtown north east corner of town and there are 150 a month in the middle tier and then in the outside tier they are $50 a month and it is cheap tore do the things in the sunset and we have required to put 15 percent of their permits in the outer band and 15 percent in the middle band because we really do want this to be a city wide test and we don't want to prove that it works on russian hill and the castro, we know that it will work there. but will it work in the sunset? that is a real test. and we have also put out strict guidance and we are not going to permit more than two per block and you can't use the

colored curb and we are holding the spaces for the new blue spaces and tow away and a lot of rational stuff and mainly the mta reserves the discretion to revoke, and there were stories and the folks might have gotten the impression that we are granting these and we are renting out space and no, we are making them jump through hoops and at any time, if something is not working we are taking them away, and we are going to be tough about that. >> the companies will have to get through the mta internal review and the standard task and this is the inner agency review of the body that reviews everything from the stop signs to the bus stops, and each of

these stops is going to have to get through them. and we are going and we are already doing out reach to the relevant neighborhood and the community groups as well as the fronting property owner and the business owner and the proximal businesses and the residents and these are going to have to come up through the mta's on friday traffic hearings, and there will be a lot of opportunities for the comment and review then and ultimately they are going to have to go to the board of directors to approved in the change of use in the curb. >> and again, this is just to show you where we are already talking to a lot of folks and the car share organizations are going door-to-door talking to fronting property owners and merchants and residents, we are working with the dpw so that we don't bump into their projects and the board of supervisor previoused on this and i am here talking to the small business commission and i am pursuing the merchant

association and they are critical and i have sent a couple of notes and henry and i have been talking on the phone, anybody who has an interest we want to talk to before we grant one of these on street permits. >> so, i think that this is just sort of redundant on the approvals. finally, because this is a pilot, we are gathering data and we will not go ahead and make this into a permanent program, because they are persuaded that this is a good idea. does it encourage people to take muni more or less, if we find that people are buying more cars and driving them more this is a failure, we don't want to see that and we will be watching for that. have we reduced emission and cut down on ownership and generally have we made an improvement and mowbility and

do they feel like it helping to get them around the city and depending on the results and consider a recommendation to make it into a permanent program and we are going to keep watching one way car sharing and we did not include the one way car share in this pilot but there is a lot of interest in that, and we are not quite ready but we will evaluate how this is going. and so, i am going to stop talking and take any questions and comments that you have. >> commissioner dooley? >> i just have a couple of questions. i am still a little concerned that one zone is going to get 70 percent of the parking being a resident and a business in that area, why so unbalanced? >> depending on who you talk to, you might guess, some folks feel that is too many and too

few. we have tried to make this pilot into sort of a game board if you will with the fair rules and then we are turning loose the folks that know the business best, the car share organization and rather than dictating to them to go here and here and because the mta is not a car share organization and we are not going to promote it, but to the extent that we did want to shape that playing board and game board, he was in particular was mindful that we just left them to their own devices these organizations will crowd up in the north east corner, the 15 percent, and 15 percent in the two outer tiers is really viewed as sort of a hardship for the businesses that are participate ng this and they would rather not be forced to come out to the neighborhoods this they are going to have to make a market and develop the awareness and this is delicate balance and if the mta was a central control operation po this and

we would have dictate and go here and here and it may not be successful if it dictates that, it is a two year pilot and we are going to watch closely, and we are trying to have this benefit, each neighborhood equally, but also not burden any of the neighborhood more than another and so, that is perhaps not an answer to your question as much as a discussion as how did that end up being 15 and 15 in the bulk of that and the way that things have come forward, the zip car has in fact put more of its requests outside of that downtown quadrant, and so they think that they can make a go of it perhaps in the sunset and in the middle tier of town and i am afraid that we are at a point where this thing is a business where we will see that the folks in the sun select get this and using it more, but right now it is really the castro and it is russian hill and the downtown core, where

the market is successful and so it is a bit of a balance getting from now to the future. >> and unfortunately or fortunately the downtown area is going to have more of this. >> another question, is, the possibility of two, per block? >> that could, for businesses would everyone courage more one more block and i think that will be better for the businesses around there, wherever that parking is, because you know, on a given block, two spaces is quite a bit. >> understood, and partly that was so that we didn't have partial car organizations crowd a block and depending on who you ask, two is a lot or a little and what we have seen in the requests is that some of the organizations have asked for two adjacent spaces so that it is more or more utility to it, if i am a member of one of organizations and i reserve one of these cars and i go and get

it and then you would like to also, it is on and off if you only have one vehicle, if you have two vehicles, it becomes a mini, network in that location and, however, take your point and that on a given block there might be 40 parking spaces on both block face and that is a big percentage of the parking on that block and so as we are doing the out reach and talking to the merchants and neighbors, we are definitely hearing that for that is too much and that will be bad for business and the residents and. look elsewhere and go around the corner, and in one case, i have been talking to neighbors and merchants, on irving and the 15th avenue and the middle of sunset, and initially, they were very opposed and i got that and they said yes, but you know, and that is just around

the corner, and it has quite a bit of parking and i see that it is under utilize and that is a useful piece of advice and having the intelligence come from and the information come from the merchants and the neighbors can help us to guide the car share organization wheres two would have been a burden here but one here and one here and less of a burden and so, again, the out reach that we are conducting for this, and this is my commitment to you and everything that i do on behalf of the agency, the out reach is not broadcast, out reach is conversation, and out reach is a dialogue and we are telling and asking and listening and so on that point of two, and sometimes two is too many, but not, yes or no, we are working to say where will it work and you are the experts if you are doing the business in that neighborhood, you will know better around the corner might work and one block up might work and we are coaching the car share organizations as we go along. >> after just hearing director talk about the mta, how is that going to be balancing out such

low fees taking away a meter that tends to generate quite a bit of money for mta, i assume that you have worked out some kind of a form law for that. >> that is either too little or too much but to the public that seems pretty cheap, 225 dollars a month, for a parking space that is yours, that is a really good deal. so that first to recognize that it is not, oh, here is a private and, here is ups and we are selling ups a parking space on the street tha, is not what this, is, there is a benefit that we are going to test to gather the data and the benefit is not adequate, to merit the price it will not continue or the price will go up. sadly or not, the agency is bound by the cost recovery for a permit fees and you have been following the tech bus, drama lately and the agencies pile it to permit, google and other tech companies to use muni bus stops and that ended upcoming up to $1 per use per stop and

everyone was gravely offended not everyone, but much of the public said a dollar a spot and you are giving them away and we are bond by that i think it was proposition 218 that the voters in california approved a few years ago where we may not set a permit fee beyond what we can entirely defend and substan ate the cost recovery and so the $225 is really as far as we can go on administrative expenses of administering the permits and my time in running the program and the enforcement costs and the shops going out initially and painting and taking the signs. and a little bit of meter revenue comes out of that for a metered space. and so, the long way of saying i think that these should be more expensive as permits. the meters, in terms of generating revenue, we are recapture ining that permit, and so we are not losing that and there is a little bit more

of that fee. but as a body, i would encourage you to get up to speed on and be looking at this issue, of cost recovery, in the mta and other agencies as ter mitts and other things are issued because there is a lot of value to the city assets like the parking spaces and i am not convinced that we are necessarily recovering in all of the other expenses and the tech bus story has really brought that to light, i think. >> any other commissioner comments? >> seeing none, we are going to go to public comment, do we have any members of the public that would like to make a comment on item number 9? >> mr. president? >> i do have one speaker card, john tubursky? >> good evening, so i am the location manager for a zip car and i want to say just commissioner dooley's question about, you know, making sure that the other cars are evenly

spread out, they have been in the zone two and three region and you know we really feel that at this point in san francisco's sort of parking dynamic, these downtown areas of zone one areas really pretty well taken care of with parking garages and you know big ones like the city park and 8th parking and a really big relationship with us and the city park and the city car share and get around and it is involved with them as well. and so i think that over time as our fleets grow, you know, we really need to move out to where the members are going and mentioned how the service lots are being redeveloped and spaces are being lost and the housing is coming sxup a lot of the members are going out to the sunset and again park and no parking over there and so you know this pilot is going to help us to grow with that demand and grow with the members and grow with the city of san francisco, and where they are going and to keep the availability for them and keep

the mobility options wide and diverse and also, you know, support muni and walking and the biking initiatives that the mta is really worked hard at. >> great. >> and you do a good job with your finding your spots. >> it is not easy. >> you get very creative and so i will give you a lot of credit for that that. >> yeah we, try and we want to provide a viable service it is not viable if it is not where you live essentially. >> okay, any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. and this is a discussion item only, is there any other commissioner comments? >> i have one. >> okay. >> i just wanted to thank the sfmta and i know that we have met in the past and the out reach that you did in the future and the out reach that you are going to say that is exactly what we want and just that dialogue and so i commend you, it seems like you really thought this through and incorporated small business and so good job. >> great.

thank you. >> next item. >> item ten, director's report. this is a discussion item. >> good evening, commissioners, and welcome commissioner paul tour-sarkissian to your first commission meeting and it has been very informational and so i am willing to just quickly go through my director's report and because i know that the evening has carried on for a while. at the commission's retreat there were two very specific budget requests moving into the next budget year that the commission asked to be worked on, so, the first one submitting a budget request to do a feasible study for one stop has been submitted and i worked with todd rufo from the director of the office of economic and workforce

development on that. and then additional staff and it is the least likely to be approved or added and through my discussion we will be taking that request and into the next budget year. >> the office of economic, i mean, our website that we also talked about needing to prepare for the transition of the on-line business portal, and owe are slated to have a platform upgrade with the department of technology, at the end of june or july. and this service will be free, but that does not include any sort of change in content and managing sort of the content transition. so i will be looking for pension for that and i have provided you and i am not going to go into the detail with the changes in the business tax and the out reach and just note that in march 95,000 letters

went out just informing businesses or any registered entity, and not just businesses with the city. and went out to do, you know, a final reminder, that the business registration fees are changing, and increasing. and then, at the end of this month, we will be the drop for the business registration renewals. >> i am not going to go and there is a couple of other things around the update of the sbdc and the grant has and we have now officially signed the grant with the northern cal sbdc and we are targeting to have that transition for the city to be fully managing that grant. and that is just a small business development center, and managing that grant and sort of in august and we have had some discussions with john up dike about the facilities and, so that is moving forward.

and then, i have provided some updates in regards to just where we are with the staffing and hiring. and we have had to, and we had two temp help, to help us through this transition. they had to and they were no longer to stay with us because of a criteria with dhr and so we have had to shut the office for a short period of time for half days. and looking for additional temp help while we complete the hiring process and so i do hope that we have someone on and we have somebody lined up and hopefully we can start them next week and looking for one more person in terms of temp help. >> are there any special challenges in hiring these people? >> it is just the lengthy process of dhr, and it is not, it is what we are experiencing is not unique to our office,

and it is... >> it is just the way that it is. >> it is the way that it is. >> a couple of interesting things to note is assembly member rob bonta has introduced a bill at the state level requiring go biz which is the governor's economic development entity, and agency, to take a look at a model ordinance for mobile retail operations. and there are some benefits for us to have some things codifieed at a state level such as maybe the truck dimensions which is what that and the truck requirements for mobile food is a state wide requirement, and then also, maybe business services, and business types, and this, i think, would benefit us having those things or those such things at a state level so that you know, across the bay, one type of truck is allowed and they want to bring it in and we

have made a decision that x-type of a truck is allowed and so, this was an interesting thing that was brought to our attention last week. and so christian has been in touch with assembly member bonta's office about some of the work that we are doing here and i think that the conversation will continue and so, but it once this should this bill move its way through the full assembly, then, it will be up to go biz to be working with the local municipalities to design the regulations. >> we have as you are aware, that the seau has put on the ballot, and or proposing to put on the ballot and plan to put on the ballot, under as long as they collect enough signatures, minimum wage increase, and i think that you have received that, with that information.

and the mayor does plan to move forward with submitting a minimum wage increase ballot measure as well. and this one, he will be working unlike the other one, which did not take into consideration, or working with the business community, the mayor is working with the business community to help develop this. and perhaps commissioner dwight, there was a meeting last week and you might be able to provide additional information and to the commissioner comments. and then there is just, i provided you with a list of some newly, introduced items. and the legislation and policy committee will be convened to deal with three particular ones. and on april 28th, and including the sweetened beverage tax and the hcso. and the acso, and proposed

amendments, and then, the vacant and abandoned commercial storefront. so those three items will be worked with, with a legislation and policy committee to get one sort of preinitial review. and so, i have continued to provide you with a list of things that have been submitted and to the small business commission to hear or you have either heard it but it is still waiting to move its way through the board of supervisors. and so that i think those are the key elements, and in except for what i did not put on your director's report is that we are about a month away from the small business week and so that is really shaping up. and i am very excited about that. >> and so any questions, i am happy to take them. >> okay seeing none. let's move to the next item. >> item number 1 1. president's report. >> discussion item. >> i have nothing to report today.

thank you. >> thank you, mr. president. >> takes us to item 12, vice president's report, discussion item. >> no report. >> thank you. madam vice president. >> takes us to item 13, commissioner reports, do we have any commissioner reports? >> commissioner dwight. >> on the topic of minimum wage, so i attended the mayor's first task force and working group meeting on april 10th last week. and that was really purely informational. there was a economist from berkeley, who gave some historical perspective and teddy, again, also, gave some information to us, at the meeting, and the next meeting is on the 24th, where potentially, the mayor will put forward a proposal and a straw man proposal that we can start to evaluate from a business perspective. and in the meantime, i am actively engaged in discussions

with each of the supervisors, scott has organized a series of meetings with each of the supervisors so far we have met with president and supervisor president chui who that meeting i did not attend because i was out of town, but this week, we have and last week we met with supervisor fer el, and just today, we met with supervisors mar campos and tang and so the remaining six supervisors are on the ago ahead and answer da for the next week or so. and there is various, and scott's meetings have been effective in at least raising the awareness of the supervisors. and they obviously cannot all attend the task force meeting but they can send the representatives from their offices and i did not count

specifically, but i would say, half maybe, less than half of the supervisors had representatives at the first meeting. so it is vitally important that the supervisors get engaged in this. this is a big issue. and this is a bigger issue, than the gross receipts tax for the small business and something that we have to be actively engaged in and my business is directly affected by this as a manufacturer and the restaurant, businesses are very affected and so you know, we just, i think that we will hear it at our next meeting following the next task force meeting so maybe we will have something substantial to talk about. >> and was gordon at the meeting. >> she was at the meeting and she is also actively engaged in the discussions with the mayor's office and jason elliott, in the mayor's office and his policy advisor is taking the lead on this and i have met with jason, three or four times at this point to

have the discussions to help understand where the mayor is guiding this. >> okay. >> my advice has been that one, the up front increase needs to be moderate. because the proposal on the table is a step function, that nobody could have planned for and so from the business perspective we all like to be able to plan ahead. and so this is nothing that anyone could have contemplated in any form of business planning and in the out years, and i am finding that in the index that we can tie this to so that should we see a down turn in the economy that there is an adjustment in the other direction, and or a slowing of any increases that might be mandated because once this thing is set into law, we are set in a trajectory which if the econ