our contract manager, to give you that detail. >> gail stein from the mta. as long as there are 15 wraps in the contract, the contract will pay us $325,000 for each year of the contract guaranteed. to the degree that there are more than that, we would pick up any additional revenue through the 65% revenue share. so, there is not an additional guarantee that we would see that money. and in fiscal year 2012-13, the contractor paid us more than $1.1 million over the minimum annual guarantee and about two third of that was due to wraps with windows. >> and based on what we have in term of a guarantee, it's about $30 million. will that guarantee change as a result of reducing the number of vehicles? >> the guarantee without that would not change. it would be -- the numbers that you have before you, if it was lower than 15, it would be less -- you would subtract 325,000

for each year. so, the guarantee does not change above 15. >> i'm not certain if i'm clear on that, but i -- excuse me? >> if i may through the chair, it's the up side potential that changes. so, the guarantee is for the contract plus up to 15 wraps. if we authorize more wraps, we share in that revenue. as you heard, the up side in a previous year was pretty significant and a lot of that due to the wrap. so, there's up side potential that we would be foregoing should the number be lowered between 30 and 15. below 15, that would change the guarantee and that's something that we would want to renegotiate. >> above 15 could mean substantially more revenue? >> right. so, anything above 15 we share in the up side potential of and, really, the market would

drive how much that revenue would be. >> how many buses he do we have in our city completely? >> so, we have a little more than 800 buses and 151 light rail vehicles so close to a thousand vehicles. >> so, we have close to a thousand vehicles and we're talking about potentially 15 to 30 vehicles? >> that's correct. >> okay. so, i just think we should leave the contract as-is. at this time i'm not prepared to support reducing the number. i'm prepared to move it forward. my desire mostly with the contract has to do with trade-offs, as i said, and generating sufficient revenue to cover what we expect to be dealing with as it relates to transportation in our city. no, i'm not really a fan of many of the decisions that have been made with mta without necessarily their outreach and consulting members of the board and having a discussion about some of those. but in this particular case i'm willing to stand behind mta, support the contract as-is, and

move it forward. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you very much, mr. president. thank you, mr. reiskin and your staff. i do support the motion by supervisor mar. and i do have, and i understand and respect where supervisor breed is coming from. i do think, though, that keeping the contract where it has been makes sense. i do have a question for the city attorney, though, through the chair. maybe i misunderstood what he said. i understand that the board cannot amend the contract, but the board should be able to amend the resolution authorizing the contract, shouldn't we? >> deputy city attorney jon givner. the resolution effectively is the document that approves the contract. so, the board could amend the resolution to reflect what is in the contract certainly. i don't believe the issues that the board is discussing right now, the wraps, the digital media, are even mentioned in the resolution itself.

>> my point is this. could the board amend this resolution to approve the contract with the understanding that the approval is contingent upon certain terms being in there, like including making sure that the number of buses remains at 15? couldn't the board do that? >> the board can only vote up or down on the contract that the mta offers to it. >> the board providing sort of the authority for the mta to enter into a type of contract, right? is there something that prevents the board from doing that? >> if the mta comes to you and says, here's the contract we have with the conditions that you gave, you can approve that contract. the board does not have the authority to say, here are the contract terms that we want and that we're approving, even though the mta has not

negotiated those terms. the board's authority under the charter is just limited in that respect. >> i don't know, i don't know what that's necessarily -- you know, the way i see it, i think it's actually the same thing. it's sort of a different way of doing it. it's doing it before the fact as opposed to after the fact, but i understand. thank you. >> supervisor avalos. >> i'm reluctantly prepared to vote in favor. if i have a guarantee from mr. reiskin that the cab -- the bus route ads will be capped at 15 and we already have digital arts ads taken out. so, if that's what mta can say they can do, my vote -- i can support. mr. reiskin, you mentioned that was a possibility. >> through the chair, excuse me.

i concur with supervisor campos. it's kind of a semantic defense. i'm willing to accept whatever the majority of the board supports. if it's 30, that's what i recommend. if it's 25 or some other number down as low as 15, willing to accept that if that's where the majority of the board is. >> supervisor cohen. >> i'd just like to finish, a question for mr. givner. i'm not clear what the best way to communicate that is. we have a resolution which we he really can't amend. there is a contract that is amenable to whatever we vote on, but we can't -- what can we actually vote on that can indicate that we are giving direction to the general manager of the mta to provide the contract to have the wraps capped at 15? >> deputy city attorney jon givner again. it's an unusual situation, supervisor. i don't think, though, an appropriate motion to vote on

other than the supervisors stating what each of you, i suppose, sick of you, what your intention is. ~ six of you another intention is to vote on the resolution with the contract as is, and if that fails then move it, then continuing the conversation with -- with the department. >> okay. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you. through the chair, my question is to the maker of the motion to supervisor mar. i wanted to just get a better understanding of the significance of 15. how did you come to that number? >> well, that's the status quo right now we've had for several years. my understanding from the mta is they've never gone that high in the history of the contract and i don't see right now any reason to extend it to 30 because i think that would

increase the number of -- i did say in the committee that i actually despised the wrapped around the windows type advertising because as some said in the budget committee, it cheapens the city when you have stuff like this driving around the city. and if we're doubling up on a mcdonald's wrapped mta bus around our city, i think it gives us a sense that we're a city for sale. i think sf beautiful and the harvey milk club and others made it very articulated it really well that it's a compromise because we know we need the funds that supervisor breed mentioned about not expanding it or doubling it is a question. and i am okay with keeping it at the status quo, not expanding the digital advertising as well, which could lead to more traffic conflicts and just distractions of drivers, especially right now as we're expanding our vision zero efforts in the city. so, that's why i strongly urge keeping at the status quo and i think it's a reasonable

contract if we keep it at that. >> thank you very much. to the director, the finance person, so, the argument is to keep the contract -- the number of buses he wrapped at a cap of 15 and supervisor breed has propose today making it to 30, that increase. is there a business argument as to the difference as to how you would spend that money or where it would be invested? >> so, the -- our budget is based on the minimum annual guarantee. to the extent that there are revenues that come in beyond the minimal annual guarantee, [speaker not understood] the general revenues of the agency so they'd be available for a shortfall and any other revenue line. otherwise if they're above and beyond the revenues that we've had budgeted, they would drop

to our fund balance in a future year. and excess revenues that drop to our fund balance mean less money that we need to put in our reserve which means more money available for service. that is in part how we were able to include in this year's budget a service increase because of excess revenues in previous year. >> so, i, too, think i share the general sentiment that i don't like -- i ride the bus and i don't like to be on the bus looking out the windows through the wrapping. i don't like that. but when i think about balancing my priorities, i am more moved by the notion of free muni for youth and even expanding that into -- for seniors. so, what i'm concerned about is do i need to bite the bullet and increase the cap so that i can ensure that there is a trade-off to where seniors and youth are able to ride for free on muni.

so, that's the discussion i'm looking to have at the board here, not for you the director, but with the colleagues to better understand if it's 15 or if it's 30 or maybe it's 28, 28 is the cap, we raise the status quo and lower what the original proposal is offering. >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you, president chiu. i don't know how else to articulate [speaker not understood]. as i mentioned in committee last week my concern was over the digital ads. i appreciate the mta taking those out. i think maybe it's a matter of taste but those are the ones that bother me the most. when we talk about driver safety, those are the ones that bother me. i think as we hear about all the accidents on the roads nowadays and just look next to you if you're ever in a car the amount of people texting while they're driving is crazy in the city.

the wrap ads, to be quite frank, they don't bother me as much. i think up to 30 is really kind of comparative to the fleet minuscule amount of buses. revenue is obviously at a premium especially mta when they continue to be underfunded. there are budget choices that continue to be made at the mta some we agree with some which we don't. [speaker not understood]. to me the digital ads were the most important. so, i thought i'd just put my voice where i feel. i'm okay with the 30, i'm also okay with 15 as well. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you. i just wanted -- supervisor mar mentioned that they have not, i guess, reached the 15 mark level and i just wanted to clarify that actually during the holiday season, that's traditionally when there is an increase in the number of wraps. of course it's a supply and demand thing. it's based on whether or not something is happening. we have a lot of great large events that are coming to satisfy.

next year i think the, what is it, super bowl thing that's happening -- [laughter] >> everybody is going to be in san francisco. i mean, i'm thinking of like, you know, the thing that -- again, it's not as if i'm not a fan. i don't like wraps period. i'm a arts lover. i love art, i love beauty. it's just that i think it's a good business choice for the city in order to generate revenue and to have the flexibility. i am generating that level of revenue. i do think we should give mta the flexibility. so, rather than come back to the board every time they want to increase the number for whatever reason, we should allow them the flexibility to use a discretion. i don't think 30 is unreasonable. i think we should move forward with this contract as is with the digital signs removed, with the 30 number and if we need to revisit this contract at any other time, i mean, we have

five years to take a look at it. so, or if we have a problem with it, i'm sure we can bring mr. reiskin and his team up for a hearing to discuss why this is not working for the city. so, i just think we need to move forward and make a decision and i think it financially would be beneficial for us to do so, the contract as it is now. thank you. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. i along a we're going around, i do think we can amend the resolution and say the board authorizes sfmta to go through with this contract with a maximum of 15 wraps and then it's then up to the mta to execute that contract or not. but if we're not going to debate that, i do support this item at a maximum of 15 wraps. on a bus, i think that we have heard a lot from our community in terms of the limitations and advertisementses that they want to see on our public transit and i agree with that. i appreciate the conversation

around mta's budget. we have currently secured funding for low-income youth, so, that is not on the table. that is funded privately now. so, that has been included at mta's budget. if mta was to come out and say they would support free muni for low-income seniors and disability, he if he we can approve 30 wraps i'm happy to support 30 wraps today, but i don't think that is the commitment being made today nor do the 15 wraps cover the cost of free muni for low-income seniors and disabled. if i'm wrong about that, director reiskin, i'm happy to hear a commitment today for free muni for low-income seniors and disabled. >> supervisor yee. might as well join the chorus here. if director reiskin [speaker not understood], i would also support the expansion.

if not, then i imagine if you go up to 20 i'd feel comfortable with that. that alone would be a 33% increase. but if the majority of the sentiment is at 15, i'll go along with that. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you. my -- let me i guess make the suggestion. my understanding is that if we approve the resolution but that there is a clear majority of the board saying that we want the limit to be 15, that that's what would happen. as i understand it, director reiskin? >> that's correct. >> okay. with that in mind, i would sort of like to be counted as one of the 11 who would want to see a limit of 15 so that you have that. i just wanted to be on the record as saying that and i know there are a number of others who are in the same boat. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you. i just wanted to give director reiskin an opportunity to come and speak to some of the proposals -- well, let me be

clear. my suggestion and supervisor kim's suggestion, i think supervisor breed also is on board. if you can come on board and say, hey, we'll be able to extend passes to low-income youth and seniors and to supervisor kim's point, yes, free muni passes for youth has been granted. but correct me if i'm wrong. that's a two-year commitment. i'm thinking long term beyond that. so, if there is a way for us to capture this it and codify it or i guess memorialize it in a contract i think we can do that. sounds like we might even be able to get up to 20. supervisor yee was throwing out 20. so, what do you say? >> through the chair, this is not a negotiation that i would be authorized to execute on the spot here. what i can tell you is what is in the mta board approved budget that i presented last wednesday in this chamber with

regard to free muni for youth. you are correct, supervisor cohen that the funding is there only for two years. however, the mta board i think has made it fairly clear that they intend that program to continue. they removed all pilot language and had an additional policy declaration that it was an intent to prioritize funding for that program moving forward. so, i think we do consider that to be a permanent program for it beyond two years. it is something we would have to balance two years hence. with regard to free muni for low-income and seniors with disabilities, the board put it into the budget. along with a list of other items made implementation contingent on a fiscal review of the agency in january 2015. however, the board also, as a board, affirmatively act today say the top priority for

funding for all those things on that contingent list is the free muni for low and moderate income seniors and people with disabilities and further directed the mta staff to begin work now to develop that program so that, should we come out of that review with the authorization from the board to execute it, that we would be able to do so as soon as possible. so, that's what's in the budget. i can't negotiate outside of that, but i think it's a fairly strong statement from the mta board on that issue. >> further discussion, colleagues? supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee, did you have a comment? president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. i think part of the challenge with this conversation is we don't have actual motions that

we have in front of us to be able to vote on. we're all expressing our perspective on this. let me first start by thanking sf beautiful and [speaker not understood]. i don't believe there is anyone here that believes these wraps are esthetically something any of us support or feel good about. that being said, colleagues, money doesn't grow on trees. muni is woefully underfunded. our muni buses are late 40% of the time. our pedestrians, our cyclists on our roads are in some of the most dangerous intersections in the state. and we want to add to that because many of us support free muni for youth and free muni for other constituencies and we are having a conversation around blf [speaker not understood]. from my perspective thinking about whether 1-1/2% of our buses or 2, 2-1/2% of our buses ought to be -- ought to have advertising, it just doesn't feel like that big a deal if we are already doing that.

if we could come to a rounded number, i would prefer that. i think that number is probably 20. if we're having an either/or conversation i am prepared to support what has been proposed by the sfmta today. >> so, president chiu, there is a motion on the table that i made to cap it at 15. but if you want to make a counterproposal, would you like to make a counterproposal? >> as i said, i would be okay with the status quo contract. but if we need to get to a place of being able to move this forward, i would -- i'd probably support 20. >> supervisor breed. >> at this time i think we should either vote the contract up or down from my understanding from a legal standpoint. >> supervisor campos. >> a question for the city attorney. given that i think you indicated that supervisor mar's motion could not be made, i'm wondering what the best way to proceed here.

should there be maybe a straw pole in terms of how many are for 15 or is there 20 or 30? i don't know if you have any advice here, but i think that we're going around in circles. >> right, i think the two clearest options from my perspective are, number one, to, to vote on the contract as proposed, as supervisor breed proposed. option 2 is mr. reiskin could offer another alternative contract that the board could accept and then vote on. in terms of the procedural possibility of a straw poll, i would defer to the clerk on how you could do that. >> so, just a quick question. if we voted -- if, for instance, you think that the number should not be higher than where it presently is, then i would imagine the best

approach would be to vote no on the resolution. would that be correct? >> if you would like to have the number be 15 and currently the number is proposed at 30 and you voted no and there were 6 nos, the board could then rescind that vote and, and the director could, could submit another contract report consideration. >> colleagues, i might suggest we take that path. why don't we vote on the contract as it is and if that fails, we rescind that vote and our director can -- we can see how low he he will go. so, unless there is any further discussion, let's take a roll call vote on the contract as it has been proposed. madam clerk. >> on item 8, supervisor yee? excuse me, mr. president. on item . supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos. >> this is on 30? >> yes. >> no. >> avalos no. ~ 9

>> supervisor breed? breed no. supervisor campos? campos no. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim no. supervisor mar? mar no. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener no. there are 6 ayes and 5 no's. >> the resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> colleagues, i think we have one 2:30 special order -- i'm sorry, we have two. i'd like to first acknowledge supervisor mar from district 1. >> thank you, president chiu. i'm just seeing if our honoree is here, and she is. colleagues, later today i'll introduce items on our agenda or i'll introduce item on youth empowerment in our city government that have originated

from our san francisco youth commission to increase youth [speaker not understood] in our san francisco board of supervisors. but before that, i wanted us to honor the work or continue our work every day to better support young people. and as part of that, i wanted to honor an amazing outstanding empowering individual who has really helped young people find their mission in life and helped to really give them a stronger voice in city government. her name is nyad abrohimian. if nyad could come forward. nyad has been working with our department of children, youth and their family, but she's helped to really champion the youth warrior awards in our city and fellowships for young people to work with city government and community agencies. she's helped to develop the youth empowerment fund in our

city and especially she's mentored and helped to award a number of young people each year. we call them the youth warriors. they're remarkable. they're inspiring and they're going to go on to do so much in our city government and in our communities. these young people have made a tremendous commitment to using their knowledge, skills, experience, talents, sensitivities to better themselves, but also to improve our communities and the city as well. youth warriors are nominated by community-based organizations in our city and selected for their strength and overcoming challenges in their lives and also their dedication to being positive change makers in our communities and city. nyad and others championed youth advocacy day which really shakes up this building in city hall and allows young people to have a stronger voice and for us as adults to work closely with them. they come into our offices. we've talked a lot with them

and they help to shape policy through youth advocacy day each year. i've had the honor of getting to meet so many of the youth warriors in the past couple of ceremonies honoring them and their families. i'm blown away by their commitment to their work and supporting many of the nonprofits and community based groups they work with. they work with compassion and drive to improve community-based organizations and their communities for the better. i have tremendous respect for nyad and her nurturing of these young youth warriors and i just really appreciate her work for dcyf. nyad, nana we call her, is beloved by the dozens and dozenses of youth leaders she's helped to teach and nurture. as a model of city employees, i would like to say nyad and the youth that she developed, i'm sad to say that she's moving on from dcyf. but because of her work and the

work of great organizations all throughout san francisco, others will carry on the work. so, with that in celebration of your outstanding commitment to our young people and youth empowerment, your enthusiasm for everything that you do and your dedication to the future of san francisco, i'd like to ask my colleagues to join me in giving her a round of applause in her highest commendation. (applause) >> first and foremost, thank you so much for this unique opportunity. i will cherish this commendation until my 75th year in the field of youth empowerment because i live to give every last breath i have for this field. even though i'm moving on from dcyf, i still will always wear my youth worker hat. i want to show how grateful i am to live in a city like san francisco, vibrant, social oriented and communitiv focused

and most importantly a community that city of oakland uses on youth empowerment and youth voice. not only do we have major organizations and commissions such as the youth commission advising the board of supervisors and the mayor, we have the student advisory council that advises sfusd and also the wonderful youth empowerment fund of children, youth and their families. 3% of the children that i had the honor of working with the past 4-1/2 years. we also have the honor of having such an amazing board of supervisors that has such a focus on youth, especially supervisors avalos campos, advocacy day, [speaker not understood] award ceremony. pat two years. again, i'm grateful for this commendation. thank you, supervisor mar. also, the few seconds i have up here because i know i only have 2 mines minutes. i want to urge each one of you to use your unique power to focus on children youth and their family. it is the most amazing

investment you can make socially politically economically for the wonderful san francisco that we all love. so, once again, thank you, supervisor mar. thank you to the board of supervisors. thank you, peter lauder born who is legislative aide to eric mar, dear friend, colleague and honorary brother championing the work i've been doing the fast 4-1/2 years in san francisco. youth empowerment family, thank you so much for being here and most, most, most importantly hopefully the hundreds of youth that i've worked with [speaker not understood]. i want to thank them for the opportunity to work with them and for the [speaker not understood] they're doing for our beloved san francisco. so, thank you so much. (applause)