against competition that doesn't have to pay that. all the drivers that don't want to go to a taxi school, don't want to pay anything, don't want to go through any bureaucracy and they are taking their personal cars, downloading the app and servicing the city. the driver pool is getting smaller and smaller and soon the taxicab companies will not be able to lease half the cabs. drastic measures have to be done now to save the industry. there's some great ideas out there. i still want to be a taxi business, but soon i won't be. thank you. >> good afternoon directors. [inaudible] i love fly wheel. it's a great attempt, but it's

still not successful. when i drive my fly wheel phone is on, then ten hours, two, three calls. some of the calls are two miles away. i can't take them from lombard and [inaudible] and gary and [inaudible] street [inaudible] how can i [inaudible] fly wheel. so information given by chris is not correct. now, coming to the yellow, yellow collected 5 percent without telling the driver the credit card fees. [inaudible] we are still waiting, no idea [inaudible] they collected $184,000 from the drivers. who is going to get us money

back? how are we going to get our money back? yellow should be closed down in san francisco. they have [inaudible] entire city of san francisco. they're [inaudible] to each driver in one hour. driver don't believe in the system, driver don't want [inaudible]. who's going to stop yellow. you have to get up and stay yellow, good-bye. now this [inaudible] we'll sue you. they went to your mayor we'll sue you. please do something to stop all this. and get up what the last speaker said, we need drastic measures to stop uber today.

>> [inaudible] last speaker. >> thank you. let me say that i think that the concerns that he has brought to you are most serious concerns. the irony of it being that the board has approved and gone ahead with the transfer value of a medallion has effectively -- it precluded the possibility of lowering medallion fees beyond a certain point because if the medallion holders aren't paid enough, they will simply not be able to make the payment and they will be fore koezed. closed. the other thing i wanted to mention was having to do with gate fees and the credit card

fees, which, as he said, some companies have been charging 5 percent, even though the rule is 3.5 percent. drivers are being gouged. now taxi services is proposing allowing 5 percent. all of this is unnecessary because you have instituted a $9.75 gate increase that was passed last year, was supposed to come back to the board for review before it went into effect, it never did. it is now in effect so cab companies right now have the opportunity to raise gates $9.75. they won't do it because they can't. so why not wrap this credit card fee into the gate and let companies do with it as they wish? you take away, you know, the credit card fee and drivers are more likely to take credit

cards and less likely to use an outside -- something like square. [applause] >> last person who has turned in the speaker card. >> i'm the owner of metro cab company. i didn't come to speak about taxis, but it may interest you to know from january to april i made $13,000. i want to reinforce what mr. kim is saying. we're going to go out of business soon. every day when i go home i cross second and bryant to get into the carpool lane. there is dire need for some parking control, some direction up there. it hasn't been so bad since january for some reason, but for example, if a game's going to start at 5 o'clock, the gridlock and danger to

pedestrians is pretty out of hand. people get very aggressive and i'm sure some day a pedestrian is going to get hurt there. second thing, there's a park at 21st street right at the edge of the bay and i go there with my daughter occasionally and i notice that a private trucking company has almost the entire block taken up with trailers that are there 24/7. that, to me, gives appearance of impropriety. i called 311 on that issue but haven't heard anything. very end of 24th street. >> maybe we can act our director to look into that one on 24th. it's a lovely little park. that's a shame. we'll get back on that one. that's the end of public comment. >> the second and bryant thing, i'm aware that -- i think we're doing some pilots in the fillmore area this summer in connection with water front

transportation. is that one of the intersections targeted for extra parking control officers enforcement? okay, maybe we can talk to the team talking about where to put that enforcement, maybe that could be an intersection that's noted.

>> fiscal year 2015, i'm amended the [inaudible] e hail fee prohibit add driver from charging the amount above the taxi meter [inaudible] require all taxi drivers to log into the taxi equipment while driving a taxi, authorize the medallion holder to purchase a vehicle that will be [inaudible] penalty for failing to install accessible passenger information monitors in all cabs. >> members of the public want to speak about that? >> yes. >> i wanted to thank mr. nolan because the thing about the waving of the fees comes up because of a complaint mark made to you recently and then there was a meeting and the deputy director suggested waving the fees.

i've been complaining about that for five years so my first gift from the mta would be $4500 which pails in comparison [inaudible] still be very welcome, especially consider what i just told you that made about $13,000 in four months. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you again. what you are in front of you in 10.7 is fantastic. it is a great start. it creates clear understanding that some of these fees need to be waived right now. if i had a choice we'd waive every fee. we've made tens of millions of dollars and the fees on the taxi industry have skyrocketed over the years and the industry's viewpoint, where the

sfmta is making a lot of money in the sales of these medallions, where not a lot of money comes back to the industry, and yet the fees come up is really inappropriate. i know we've lost a lot of money over the last few months, a lot. and the question we're having as a company as much as i want to stay in the taxi business, is do i transform my business into a state regulated service where now it is allowed to be an on demand service in the city through a state license. i would eliminate $5 million to my cost like that. i want to stay in the taxi business, but we have to do drastic things here to make the taxi business still be alive. there's so many great reasons which you've heard before why the taxi business needs to be supported. it's about servicing the disabled community and regular people that take cabs on a set

price. we need drastic mesh shoes. sures. i'm not exaggerating. if we don't today really think about drastic measures to save this taxi industry, i assure you it will not be around in about a year-and-a-half. thank you. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. >> charles with luxor cab and i'd like to thank and commend your staff for yet again, helping to solve problems and urge you to support this item. on the e hail and cancellation fees, on whether to [inaudible] for customers, probably not, but it's important for us to

have the flexibility for different pricing options. we also welcome the ability for a cab company to operate a medallion holders cell phone vehicle under a company's gate and gas program. again, we do not anticipate they're doing that any time soon, but it's good to have that flexibility, especially in a situation where another cab company were to suspend operations or where there'd be a sudden influx of new medallions, it might make a big difference to take those medallions on, even if we couldn't come up with the money on short notice to buy new cars, so that provides

flexibility. thank you, please support the item as suggested. >> next speaker please. >> good afternoon. you are waving the fees and other things for the cab companies. iving the fees and other things for the cab companies. they're going back from 2003 to 2011 [inaudible] now they've lost their business [inaudible] and even starting and screaming and rushing to the uber. finally to give a break to the taxi drivers.

also the cab company color scheme should be [inaudible]. that's number one. [inaudible] who are you going to charge? and the supporting documents are not clear. information is presented like a bundle. we should have a new director as soon as possible. this director should leave, please. we've been begging you. we've been tomorrowing on city hall many times. we are about to [inaudible] in few weeks again. i see last week [inaudible] and

i'm looking at that maybe 20 drivers are going to join that. you will be facing the lawsuit of your lifetime what sfmta has done so far. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> i think this board should pass a resolution to shut uber and all the app services down. this board should go on record as condemning them. also no public officials should ever ride in one of these cabs again. that would be public support for the taxicab industry and i think it's a moral one because the thing about it is that these app cabs, they don't have insurance, if they get into an accident they're not covered. there's been an incident of a fatality. the background of these drivers

are not screened and there's no insurance coverage for these drivers. it's a real losing proposition. people -- this appeals to the public because they can ride on the cheap, but there is certain protections with the taxicab industry and this board should go on record as advocating for the taxicab industry and no public officials should ever ride in these ride share programs again. thank you. >> thank you. >> evelyn, and she's the last person who's turned in a speaker card. >> good afternoon. you need to speak into the microphone please. >> good afternoon. i'm evelyn, general manager and owner of relicense cab. i want to draw your attention to the fact that the industry has changed our relative position within the industry

has changed. we need to update to reflect the current reality. there are more areas now under pressure to change and things we have never had to deal with before. the pncs, the ubers and lifts have [inaudible] transportation business. they have cleverly masked their two real identity under the guise of ride sharing. capital ietzing on this is [inaudible] they are able to dodge higher than necessary insurance cost and increase regulatory burdens. now they are trying to change the definition of tnc services just to justify their means. we need intervention. what we have now is inadequate. it's just like putting a band-aid on a profusely bleeding patient.

the color scheme being a constant state of change and we need help from you. right now we are servicing the most disabled part of the community and we cannot survive on our own. i urge you to help modify these changes, waiving the company [inaudible] is the first step, but if you are on the fence, city, this is beyond important. we need your help and we need it now. thank you. >> thank you. okay. members of the board -- >> move the item. >> is there a second? >> second. >> any further discussion? all in favor say i. opposed, no. the is have [inaudible]. >> moving on to the regular agenda, adopted the fiscal year

[inaudible] 370 projects including transit accessibility taxi, street, bicycle parking and pedestrian projects. >> let me make a couple opening comments. on april 15th you adopted two years the capital budget. what's before you now is a five year program of what the kappa program looks like with the agency. we have come such a long way in moving the kappa budget forward and the projects. i want to thank the team that's here. i think we finally have our arms around what we're going to do with the agency and it is staggering. >> thank you chair nolan and members of the board. i'm with the finance information and technology division. i'm going to present our five year capital improvement program and this was an agency effort. hundreds of people were

involved in this, members of public. this was a team effort and does reflect what san francisco citizens want to see happen to their transportation and what the staff feels we can accomplish within the next five years. the ultimate goal was to give the best transportation system in the country. hopefully we'll get calls about how we did it. that was the goal there. with that, the first slide just shows typical something -- it's a page in the cip book. we had one of our interns draw each of these graphics. it's a reflection of all the capital and physical aspects we have here in san francisco within our transportation system, our bus fleet, cable cars, bike share example there, all the traffic signals we have, the various pedestrian improvements we make throughout the system. that's something we wanted to get across in this document and this is meant to be public facing rather than something very technical which we had two

years ago. this is something you've seen before. this is the second one we've done so we'll do it every two years is to create a five year financially constrained program of projects meaning we go through an exercise of looking at all the capital resources we expect to get and match it against available projects from the 20 year capital plan that this board adopts and adopting the last one in october 2013. we break those projects up by phase so it helps our delivery divisions determine when resources will be available and also helps give the public a sense of when we intends on making improvements to the streets, adding new buses, making improvements to the muni system and things like that. and finally something pofrnt to stress that we've been working to build up with our financial resources having a 10 percent capital reserve because we don't want the lack of funding to be a gap.

with those resources such as the sales tax or other sources we might have available to us, we try to set aside a little bit because costs go up over time. we get a request from the public to have something to scope . we want the resources available to do that without halting over time. the cip first starts with the policy documents with this board, the board of supervisors, the planning commission looks at all those commitments across the city. our fleet plan, we need to replace vehicles. all of these different planning documents and strategies that you look at and the cip is meant to be in five years of all those things if five years we plan to do, what can we implement.

we know that we might not be the only dollar in this project so it helps us show that left rajing and partnership that's important in the region. on february 4 we initially took to you some policies and priorities for the development of the five year cip, not all that different from two years

ago. one was focusing on state of good repair and a couple things we were able to accomplish was making sure the funding was available to remries the muni fleet so by 2019 we would have turned over all of our rubber tire fleet. we would have expanded to some extent. we have worked towards close to doubling the amount of funds we would have annually in replacing or traffic signals. there have been a couple hearings on this. we've really advanced both advancing our pedestrian safety, capital improvements, as well as getting to that $190 million to get the stra tegic plan. finally the roll up after all

that work, we have 370 full capital projects with all the phases listed in the book with you. 15 capital programs. what i want to know is we had 16, we took the safety program out, not that it's not important, but we found it's in every single individual capital program and having a unique set of projects didn't make a lot of sense so we moved it to those others. in total it's $3.3 billion. you approved the budget on april 15. that was the appropriated amount of funds that we other funds from other agencies through their budget process so the cip reflects the full amount, every dollar we intend on getting in every particular fiscal year. one thing to stress on that slide is very often when we put out a document like this, a planning document, we often forget to tell people that we already have a lot of money and

we're working on those already. they go yea, can you [inaudible] we're already working on 20 projects we've promised to you. these pieces are happening. while we might not be adding funding, know they're moving forward forward and will happen. on top of these new problem jekts, we have 286 we're working on. here is the typical budgetary spreadsheet, which is what we gave you two years ago, which lays out each capital program, the amount of funding we intend on [inaudible] by the public and it's a lot -- it's based on a lot of the feedback we got from two years ago. it was budget and accounting related, but also the public needs to understand what the mtas intent is when it comes to delivery and getting things

done. before you saw that chart and it didn't really tell you where things were hang and what parts and types of improvements, but within the cip book we did our best to ho kate every single project that was proposed and put it on the map so people would get a visual representation of what this meant, what types of improvements would be in place and where they'd happen. just one important thing i also want to stress is we did a significant amount of outreach. we had an outreach plan for the cip which began with a hearing we had with all of you and we did 30 plus hearings with different neighborhood groups, three trips to the bicycle advisory committee, small business commission, transportation authority citizens advisory committee. transportation plans and programs committee and we got feedback and it absolutely fed into the changes we made in the

document. one is the small business commission stressed to us is what they didn't know is when construction would happen. i want to know when you're impacting the street and when it's going to happen. you'll see in the cip we have a [inaudible] chart for the program, and then you see in the year -- the assumption we think construction will happen. not always perfect, things are going to change, but it gives people a sense in time when they'd see that happen. we work with the bicycle advisory committee on reframing the scope of certain projects. a discussion we had was how many mimes of new lanes are we going to try to get and how many miles of upgrades. we talked to the bicycle coalition and advisory committee to determine what would be acceptable and we got a letter endorsing this project. i think there's a lot of people in the audience. this was the outreach we did

and got -- >> [inaudible]. >> finally, just hear is a bit of the feedback. what i want to stress to the board is each cycle we'll get better. the last cycle was developing the system, figuring out the phases, making sure we could account for every dollar. this cycle was how to make this usable for the public, how can they understand what they're going to get from this organization in the next five years so we added a detailed funding guide meaning we have those weird codes, but nobody knows what it can be used for. there's a document there that explains every funding source we have. we added the project scope of every single project listed so if somebody really wants to know what that improvement is and where it is, it will find 50 words that will tell them what it is. there's that example, there's a planned schedule for every single project so people can get a sense of when and where we'll do certain things and of course i noted the city map. we tried to do our very best to

give all our users something they wanted, something they needed so they'd get a sense of what we're doing. again, last thing i want to stress is that this is frozen in time. our capital improvement program changes every month. things happen, budgets change, this is the frozen period, but it sets a baseline for us when it comes to project delivery and funding. it gives us a sense of how to improve ourselves. with that, we are here to ask for your approval. >> thank you very much. members of the public. >> one person has indicated an interest. herbert winer. >> herbert winer. some major concerns. i notice that the capital improvement project has