>> good morning, everybody. i am sandra are excited to welcome you to the intersunset for the fix it lunch in intersunset really excited to be here just really wanted to first and

foremost thank you. the mayor for his leadership in the program fix it is a multi agency coordinating the services be neighborhood by neighborhoods wroesh focusing on one neighborhood a month it is the interset residents and their neighborhood so without further ado, again, thank you to the mayor for his envision and leadership mayor ed lee. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> sandra has a great dilate called the fix it leader of the city thank you to supervisor president london breed for joining us this more than the leaders on board the board president and for the neighborhoods particularly the ones she represents they wants it fixed yesterday but i also want to say thank you to both the captains of taraval value and the park stations for being here as well our homelessness outreach teams part of fix it teams thank you. this

is a difficult job you're helping to improve lives for everybody formatting we put together a new department to really be dedicated and focused on the outcomes for our people that on the streets i wanted to say thank you to rec and park the dpw, that i used to head and i know that they're happy because they always said we can't do it by ourselves we need the partners they got the partners the fix it teams as sandra will explain a coordinated multi department this has handles things from our health department and mental health person on the team that is part of outreach team their services were needed just this morning was we remember coming down the blocks we saw individuals that needed assistance and given that

assistance not necessary by police officer but homeless outreach our police department is here, too because they're part of this entire effort not just the fix it team this is to also say that through the budget and through the leadership of the board, through activists like andre here to remind us our budget is for the people of san francisco and i just had the privilege of signing a $9.6 billion budget this incorporated with the support of board and if the budget we heard our neighbors and they want save and clean neighborhoods they want safe neighborhoods that is reflected we're in a hurry to get to the 19 hundred and 71 chapter officers that the people can stop burning my areas

through the chief we need nor officers to respond to dedicate what the residents want let's stop that neighborhood crime levels rising and make sure we pay attention to car break-ins to burglars to the feeling of being safe on the neighborhood street like linking or irving or 9 street this is a major thoroughfare day and night without the outlands everyone visitors and residents and neighborhood shops to feel the customers and residents are feeling safe if you don't feel safe this no, not part of our city? the beginning we starred the safe and clean neighborhoods program in castro and market this the the second i know that supervisor president london breed is sxieftd we're taking this to fillmore and divisadero

then chinatown and mission and geneva and in the next 3 years cover with sandra leadership and you'll see teams lip reads over one hundred neighborhood in the next 3 years to make sure they're safe and clean to make sure the fix it team are there i saw the fiction teams they're working on graffiti on the poles, fixing up the parking meters broken lights be holes in the sidewalks so that a chihuahua won't fall into a sidewalk that recently happened to just neighborhood cleans up everything should be fixed and proud of is city it passed a $9.6 billion budget this is what it means safe and clean neighborhoods is a priority and bringing this to many of the neighborhoods across the city we wanted to demonstrate what a

concentrated multi agency kind of coordination can look like after we're through you'll see this happen all over the place and i know the residents of neighborhood feel this is the kind of thing they wanted out of this and that bucket will reflect all the things we want to do for the residents to make it safer and cleaner and improve the services within city government i wanted to make sure we have this kind of government i worked in 2, 3, 4 government and now approaching thirty years and always been about improving the way we do things and making sure we don't work in the silos sometimes that is not recognized and by the way, the director of 311 we asked people invest in calling in on the things you're calling in i have the privilege

to make sure it is respond to by all the different departments that we are working this is truly a team that we're all putting together to make fix it and sofa and clean neighborhood really happen all over the city and glad to support the neighborhood businesses i'll be having lymph in the department and malcolm heinicke did i is on the memo as well as some local ice cream parlor i hope do you get it do i get regards. >> honey cream is relatively new i want to say you'll see obvious us out in the neighborhood it is where our budget priorities and city hall they passed a large budget i want them to feel the budget in the neighborhoods and team members are proud of work and they should get all the credits

for connecting up with the neighbors with that, sandy. >> thank you, mayor ed lee someone who has been a comment r champion for neighborhood and working hard to fix a lot of things our board president and supervisor london breed. >> (clapping.) >> good morning, everybody. and welcome to the entering sunset i'll honored to be here but represent this district thank you to the mayor and the many city departments that will help make the neighborhoods a better community for those to live and tlieft i was a former member of the african-american when we made investments into renovating the place and making that beautiful i noticed the difference when someone would drop something on the ground i

saw kids picking up trash i saw kids painting the graffiti that was sometimes get placed on the building i saw people from the community planning department staff trees and doing whatever we could to make sure that we protected our space we protected our building and protected our community doing this work is an important part of protecting the community and making the community better when you have pride in our community all of a sudden you notice a difference that's what it is about making sure the dollars we invest that all the city departments make it out to the residents all over the city so the quality of life improves it not just about picking up trash it is not just about covering up graffiti it is about making sure we all play a role and the residents of those communities can play a role in helping us to gnat some of the

issues they counter and calling 311 you notice there is something or legally or trash when you notice graffiti and want to report something not an emergency call 311 and when there is an emergency when you see a crime happening the car break-ins make sure. >> call but us the police department and report those crimes work together communicating and reporting it is what will help change the city for the better i'm committed to this i know how mayor is committed and our police department is committed i want to thank the folks from 311 and the hot team the homelessness outreach team especially i call them frequently to get services we know we have challenges in the city but we can't criticize what is not happening we have to focus on solutions and make sure we're investing the dollar on what needs to happen in order to

get the job done 0 is every single resident can feel the difference that a $9.6 billion makes more housing and transportation better quality of life, safety we are investing what we are doing the work every single day thank you you'll for being here and let's keep on working to make district 5 and the city and county of san francisco even better in the years to come thank you . >> (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor president london breed. >> so supervisor president london breed touched on is one of the my favorite piece of this job the relationships i get do build in the community that helps me decide and determine where to focus so andrea is a community member i had the pleasure of working with for many years but specifically in the intersunset like to

introduce her to you. >> hi i'd like to thank the mayor and the city agencies for coming out and also to stress it is not about today we are a western neighborhood it often doesn't get attention from city hall but we video problems and we feel powerless and frustrated with repeated car break-ins and watching people struggle with mental illness and i'm happy that sandra and the mayor recognize the problems are all connected not dealt with separately the city agencies need to work together trash, crime mental illness all those things have to be dealt with what we're doing is in the past clearly not working or not working in my opinion so i'm glad to have everybody here the streets all right look way

cleaner than yesterday and i hope this will be more than a one-day event but 6 months from now and want to of the efforts in whatever way the city agency needs to make things happen and reporting 311 is important thank you, everyone for coming today really appreciate it. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, ann debris that concludes our lunch of fix it for the intersunset we'll take a few questions. >>

>>[gavel] >>. morning avenue one. welcome to our wills committee meeting of july 28 26 and i'm katie tang chairman of the committee get to my right is vice chairman eric cannot. from sfgov tv we would like to thank charles kremenak and jusco larson. supervisor cohen is unfortunately stuck in committee today. she may or may not be able to join us will get

a motion to excuse her from this meeting. with that mr. clerk any announcements >> yes. the silence all cell phones electronic devices and complete speaker cards. items acted upon today will be on the september 6, 2016 supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated >> thank you these call item 1 >> item 1, >>[reading code] >> actually with go into that motion real quickly to excuse supervisor cohen >> moved and seconded. will do that without objection supervisor cohen is excused >>[gavel] >> so, we have here one seed one applicant mr. clinton ellicott if you would like to come forward? >> good morning. thank you mdm. chairwoman for the time spent with me relative to my application and thank you

supervisor mar for your gracious telephone call yyesterday. i hope you have eight 3 min. rule because i don't want to abuse my time. i want to make three points. the chairwoman and one or two other people have asked me my reason or reasons for applying. my answer is, good citizenship. which i believe in. because i was brought up by parents who believed in good citizenship and participation in civic affairs in public responsibilities. second reason is my lengthy experience, mostly legislatively subject

matter related to the responsibility of the ethics commission. as i reflected and thought about it, i began in 1972, the first year i was a san francisco supervisor. the then charter, which had been adopted by voters in 1932 and amended contained only a predatory conflict of interest provision. i introduced a proposal to make it a conflict of interest coalition with penalties for violation. that was presented to san francisco voters in 1973 and enacted. i also, in 1974, introduced with

co-author john j baba gelato [sp?] the first san francisco election spending and donation ordinance, which limited spending to about $46,000 for a board of supervisors campaign at a time supervisors were elected at large by the whole city and i think was about $123,000 for mayor. that emulated the first speed is of its kind in california in the city of san diego. unfortunately, for a controlling campaign contributions excesses, the united states supreme court, two years later, in a case

entitled buckley the vallejo, held it was a violation of the first amendment to limit expenditures in a political campaign for public office. donations could be limited and, gosh, 17 maybe now 15 years later, in 1988, a republican assemblyman, a democratic state senator, my then seat mate in the state senate and i initiated a ballot measure by the initiative process to impose donation limits and other provisions on all california governmental entity political campaigns. that was proposition

73 and the november 1980 election and it was approved by california voters. again, unfortunately, some 7-8 judicial attacks, most of which failed, but one of which in effect an old proposition 73 and the united states district court for the eastern district of california. affirmed by the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit. in 1990, i introduced and pursued to enactment what is now, you will pardon, the egotistical recitation called, the quintin

know conflict of interest act relating to the board of equalizer nation, the board of equalization, as you know, as quasi-judicial responsibilities and that act was passed in 1990, but with a compromise on my part, which gives the lie to anyone who might say he never compromises. so, that there is a $250 limit or a member of the board must recuse himself or herself if he or she has received more than $250 from a party appealing a tax assessment subject to the board of equalize asian equalization.

the footnote is there is pending legislation in both the assembly and senate to reduce that to $100 and also include in it the so-called behest of donations to nonprofits that a commissioner of the board of equalization might be involved in. thereafter, at the instigation of bruce bruggeman [sp?], the famous publisher of the san francisco the guardian and the california newspaper publishers association, i introduced a bill to represent the first revision of the ralph m brown opened meeting at which is been enacted in 1953. that measure was opposed by every

local agency in california could board of supervisors, league of california cities, the california school district association. the california special district association. then assembly member john l burton became a co-author and we were successful in enacting it with the acquiescence of then gov. pete wilson who had been mayor of the city of san diego earlier in his career. after that, i introduced about a year or so later a major revision of the california public records act to strengthen the ability of people to obtain public records

. today, the word is called transparency. the third reason that i filed my application is based on hearsay, reading, and some conversations that the ethics commission new executive director is competent and capable and brings a sense of reactivation as compared to her predecessor about whom i heard complaints. that the staff is composed of strongly motivated individuals and that it is a worthy exercise of citizenship to be a part of the five-member ethics commission in these present circumstances. thank you. >> thank you very much good

for the deep background of what you have done in your role especially as a legislative at the state level in terms of better government transparency and so forth. i know that a lot of the times you will probably be spending, if you're pointed to the ethics commission, your time may be interpreting law that perhaps you've written yourself or that you have laid a huge role in it so that will certainly be very interesting. now, given your deep background in again cracking open government and transparency laws and policies, i am just wondering you in your role as a commissioner, you will have to be very neutral just like you are as a judge which i'm sure you're very familiar with. in terms of setting aside maybe positions you held as a legislature to be in a neutral. i am just wondering if you can

kind of elaborate on whether you find that to be something you're going to be able to achieve? >> i'm sorry. my hearing aids are being-you want me to, don? >> so you're very deeply involved in the crafting of open government and shows that the legislation as a legislature. and in your role as an ethics commissioner here you will be tasked with interpreting some of those laws committee you had involvement in as a legislator. so, i was just asking you to comment on your ability to be a neutral commissioner? i know that in your role as a judge you certainly have been able to demonstrate that >> the regulations in the charter sense, and the duties and responsibilities and

limitations on members of the ethics commission are in the san francisco charter, and i note the bar against participation publicly in any city elective office campaign. i note, also, the bar on participation in any city ballot measure. i believe in law enforcement. i believe that the law applies to everyone. that, obviously, includes me as a perspective ethics commissioner. i will certainly follow and obey that law and those prohibitions in all matters. >> thank you. supervisor mar

>> thank you for the history and legal lecture, too, about how a lot of our laws in the state and san francisco have come about. it will be great to have you on the attics commission sen. cobb. i want to say that even thinking back about buckley versus alejo and four years of speech and money in politics i want to ask you about a question from 30 years ago, and you addressed opposition 73 it wasn't just you but others that crafted the state ballot measure, but one part of proposition 73 really opposed to public financing of elections and i think it was according to common cause, which raised a concern with my office, i just want to ask you about your position on public

financing? because i know san francisco's small donor public matching funds program is really a heart of reducing the influence of money in politics. i know that you insert supervisor tang's question but i want to ask you more directly, do you still believe in the proposition 73 positions against public financing and also how would you address that as the ethics commission is charged with carrying out and in forcing our public financing policies? >> there are a couple of ways, maybe more, to phrase a response to your understandable question. the elemental response is that public

financing is the law of san francisco. the ethics commission has important responsibility in the execution and administration of that wall. as i just said, and i will repeat it, i believe in law enforcement. i walked accordingly. now, let me ruminate for one more item that is relevant. proposition 73 included several provisions. one of them barred public financing. all three of us i'm a democrat republican, independent, included that because we believe in it.

another one also banned one political office holder taking donations and then transferring them to another or [inaudible] unfortunately, that provision was held unconstitutional. the public financing clause was held invalid in los angeles superior court and a lawsuit initiated by the city of los angeles on the ground that state law could not regulate a charter city. los angeles was and is a charter city. the easiest way to describe the reason for my feeling is that, personally, i would abhor the use of money i paid government

in taxes,, fees, to be used by a -let's take an extreme example-as david duke of candidates. san francisco's ordinance weakens that kind of a transaction because san francisco's ordinance requires, in effect, to use the abbreviated description, a candidate to be serious in order to qualify for my tax payments. were yours or others of our 850,000 fellow san franciscans. that is rational.

a candidate, as you know, has to raise so much money on his or her own in order to qualify. that certainly reduces the possibility of it being used by somebody who you abhor. and resent using your money. >> i appreciate your candor and your supported across the board by so many different people from communities that appreciate your history of resisting conflict of interest and creating greater transparency and being a watchdog did i want to say that friends of ethics it's great that mr. buckman is here from our former guardian but i know many community members feel that public financing and the electoral reforms we have achieved in san francisco were very proud of come up with the

different efforts by big business groups to weaken our public financing and electoral reforms could i'm wondering if if future efforts, where big business forces in particular i tried to weaken the public financing system. would you reconcile those issues at the local level? >> well, with respect to specifically to public financing, as far as i know, i know of no suggestion that it be altered. that certainly i know of no suggestion or no person who has communicated with me a desire to repeal it. or, to change it. in some way. if such a proposal is made to the ethics commission i will treat it like the quads i

judicial position that an ethics commissioner has. that is, evaluate the arguments. evaluate probably evidence about use in other jurisdictions, both american and foreign countries. and make a decision accordingly. i'm not going to let my feelings in the commencement of the proposition 73 drafting in 1988 control or affect my evaluation, theoretically, in 2016 or 2017 or 18 of public financing in

san francisco. >> thank you for your willingness to serve and i think you would be a breath of fresh air on the ethics commission to support their leadership role. i think everyone for writing to us with very thoughtful comments from john dollinger to larry bush and friends of ethics to many others. norman yee writing in your support. thank you sen. cobb >> may i impose mdm. chairwoman, just to express the public record my thanks. to all of those individuals to former mayor art agnew's, mr. broadman, the san francisco chamber of commerce, the california first amendment coalition of which i've been a board member about 3.5-four years. for my friend, as i thought about it over 40 years, fellow attorney and vice chairman of the attics commission, peter kane. mr.

john gallon jug, nobody forgetting people. i don't know of other organizations. i know the friends of ethics mr. larry bush, i want to thank them publicly. thank you mdm. chair one >> thank you very much. for your presentation and for answering our questions. so, i know there are quite a few people who probably want to comment on this and so i just have one card jim lazarus would appear here to speak on item 1 please, on all. >> good morning chairperson tang supervisor mar. my name is peter king. i'm the vice chairman of the san francisco ethics commission and i'm happy and honored to be here to speak on behalf of judge called for this position. if you see fit will be joining us as our fifth member good supervisor brett and is to help position that

was appointed by the board of supervisors because of a busy schedule he resigned a wild go so that's why supervisor cop the vacancy is there. supervisor cop mentioned, known him had been his friend and also his admirer in san francisco government for over 40 years. i've watched him as a san francisco supervisor as a state senator and as a judge. he has the ultimate in integrity and knowledge and intelligence relating to ethics and law. he is someone that will bring more than a breath of fresh air to the ethics commission. he will exalt it tremendously in my opinion. he's quite corrected i been on the ethics commission now for about 22.5 years. when i came on the prior executive director before the deployment of land

palo, the commission itself was really something that left a lot to be desired. leeann palo has brought an enormous amount of energy and drive and focus to the commission and to the staff. so, for the first time really in the commission's history as i know it, it's doing its job and it's doing it well. that's why it's been able to attract someone like went and caught. so i'm very excited and looking forward to being a colleague of judging, on the commission i think the city is going to be enhanced by it and all of us will be very appreciative of your support of his candidacy. thank you very much >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> thank you mdm. chairwoman supervisor cannot. my name is peter scheer and executive director of the first amendment coalition nine here to speak on

behalf of the first amendment coalition. as supervisor cop mentioned a moment ago, he is currently a member of the board of directors of the first amendment coalition and has been for about 3-4 years. it's in that capacity that i've got to know him and work with him quite closely. i think he is just an extraordinary choice for the ethics commission. for all of the responsibilities and functions of the ethics commission, but in particular, for the role that he will play in the interpretation of and enforcement of the various state laws having to do with government openness and transparency get better within the purview of this commission. to be more speak specifically of the brown act and supervisor

cop as you mentioned, was one of the authors of a crucial amendment to the brown act sometime ago and also the california public records act, and in addition, in san francisco the sunshine ordinance, which is unique to san francisco and in some ways provides a greater degree of protection of citizen access and government openness then to the state laws and to that extent supersedes the state laws. i think that a newly energized and activated ethics commission will benefit hugely from the wisdom, the experience the insight, the knowledge that judge called will be able to bring to bear both of the laws as they exist today and also

his knowledge of interesting and important legislative history. over the last 2-3 decades that leads us to this point. so, i can't tell you how enthusiastic i am. i just think that you could not find a better choice for this vacancy. thank you for much for you, >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> thank you chairman tang. i'm patrick shaw did i strongly support the nomination of judge quentin kopp for appointment to the ethics commission over the commute of 27 years, he served as a member of the board of supervisors, member of the tenant and superior court docket mr. kopp has been strong advocate for a long time of open government in our city. mr. kopp clearly has demonstrated during his tenure on the superior court that he is exceptionally impartial and

obviously, very knowledgeable about california state law. his service as a board member of the california first amendment coalition is additional evidence of his dedication to clean honest government to the extent ethics commissioner peter king a be correct, that mr. kopp "can sniff out a rat better than any carrier". clinton's precisely the type of commissioner the ethics commission is sorely in need of and he would be an excellent choice to join prof. king as a ethics commissioner and he would also be a fresh air to counteract the mr. beverly hayon . please, forward a unanimous recognition and support of mr. cox recognition to ethics to

the full board of supervisors. he's extremely confident and deserves that you are unanimous support. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> tricia belinda. over the years have been ahead of 22 neighborhood merchants associations. i currently am head of the marina cal hall merchants neighbors. over the 40 years, i have been involved with this legislative entity could quentin was the one that you could not buy. no matter how hard it was political pressure, if there was something that needed to be ferreted out he did it. the ethics commission needs this. i put in 11 complaints under the

previous leader, pedro leader of this organization. they were very legal complaint amendment were never even brought to the commission. with this new leadership i think that he would be beneficial and far all people, not just a few. few. this is something that you did in this is you and your under the rules committee he follows the rules. as the committee, you must realize that openness and fairness is extremely important particularly with this administration. i recommend that you appoint him and he will do what is correct. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning supervisor.

jim lazarus san francisco chamber of commerce could read a registered lobbyist. as a privilege to come before this committee to urge you to confirm judge kopp. in my professional life, actually, as you know started here in 1975 as a deputy city attorney during that time i was assigned to the board of supervisors and worked very closely with supervisor cop could sometimes tell to tell. sometimes in argumentative way sometimes his great mind and mind not so great mind did not always see eye to eye but over the years i've had a great relationship with supervisor kopp, sen. cop and judge kopp. i think bringing that background is run

for office and state office and local office did he said to file reports that he's dealt with lobbyists and he said to be above it all as amber of the superior court of san mateo county and we would be well served having him on this commission. so thank you very much and i urge as everybody will here today, you to send this with a recommendation to pass. thanks >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i'm peter warfield executive director of library users association. this man is clearly overqualified and so we recommend him without reservation that altered it certainly was music to my ears to hear the first thing judge kopp saying. i hope you have a three-minute rule. unfortunately, that may be what the law says, but that's not what's done in practice in all cases. as some people knew when particularly when out of office the phrase, might be, call the

cops and in this case call the cops i think would be something that people are doing and would do well to do. when the civil grand jury said that the ethics commission was a sleeping watchdog just a few years ago, that was certainly a strong characterization but as we've seen today and as we've certainly seen over many many years and decades it's hard to imagine judge kopp sleeping over anything and that's a good thing also. and attention to detail and attention to law and so, we certainly are glad to join with others in recommending as the supervisor has said, a breath of fresh air to this

office and recommend you to go ahead and endorse his appointment. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning supervisor could on charles maisel here representing myself. i think it is clear to all that ethics is on the move and that i think judge kopp's interest in serving on the commission is time speaks to the fact. as you know, we now have a nationally known executive director, who brings great promise. she said 17 years of experience out of la. as executive director that. ethics also is now has an engaged public. many of them are actually millennial's in great numbers. the last meeting i think that maybe 20 people of

the younger generation number which is extremely good for me to see.. i've been there 20 years and i've not seen such a crowd. as a consequence the commission is energized in both by both of these events and i think they are definitely on the move to develop a proactive and concurrent agency in dealing with all the corruption. as we grow to 1.1 million permanent residents. so, now is the time to serve on the ethics commission and this is clearly why we are now honored to see judge kopp. having known judge kopp personally for 33 years i can say that i've never met a man who is developed his skills and his mind so well and i suspect most people, when they first come to the city and learn of him here that fact about him. so, no person could really better represent your interests

on this commission i should note, i've been active on the commission as an observer for many years. as: nader of common cause and now with fo we and also as an individual. thanks. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i'm bruce bartlett. i guess i'm a citizen journalist now. i was the editor and publisher, coeditor oh publisher cofounder -my wife was hit and she's the other. for more than 50 years. i just like to say that whenever you get the guardian and jim lazarus on the same side, you must have a hell of a candidates. i don't see there should be any objection to the man of this kind of expansive background and backing to you

should endorse him and endorse him strongly. i just want to make a very key point. i said i been covering and directing political coverage in san francisco for many years. i have never come across a politician or an attorney who is more qualified to serve in this particular job. this is uniquely particular job than kopp. i give you one reason among others. when mr. kopp was in the senate he was there for eight years. he was the go to guy for the california public association and their endless battles ferocious battles, with the secrecy lobby and in

favorable government. that's who they went to first and that's why she could talk today about the reform of the cpr eight and the ralph m brown act, two towering achievements that started here in san francisco with a chronicles series by mike harris back in the early 1950s. so i strongly endorse quentin kopp for this job. thank you >> think you much good any other members of the public was to speak on item 1? please come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> the decision is now in the hands of this committee could supervisor mar >> thank you everyone for making the great comments and thank you for sender kopp as well. i move that we appoint quintin l kopp to see number one on the ethics commission in this business need to be a committee report? >> it was not noticed as a committee report so it will not be. i will join supervisor mar in support for the positive recommendation to the full board. it's nice to see that you still want to continue in public service today after all that you've done already. so, we will do that without

objection. >>[gavel] >> congratulations. item 2, please >> item number two, >>[reading code] >>thank you. the applicant is jesse sandoval. welcome. thank you. you can begin. with the presentation >> thank you for considering me today for the governing board. >> hold on. if you would not mind, exiting a little more quietly. thank you. >> i little soft-spoken, two. thank you to the committee for

the public that voted governing board. i believe i most qualified proceeds 11 two to my educational professional and personal experience. my graduate of usf [inaudible] in 2007 and was omitted to the bar as an attorney in 2008. i been practicing law since that time. i currently i practice law at the resource center is a staff attorney at law provide legal services to individuals with disabilities who cannot otherwise afford legal representation. i do with a variety of matters related to disability and have concerns for the clients. that's my professional experience. [inaudible] public authority. also, i previous experience in community organizer writer with issues related to state budget and how that relates to support services for individuals with

disabilities. personally, i been a consumer [inaudible] for the past 16 years. and i'm responsible for hiring and firing [inaudible] so i understand the needs that consumers face from both a personal perspective and from a larger perspective. one of the huge things i think public authority focuses on is maintaining provider retention. that is something that is difficult in this day and age. given our wages associated with in-home care. it's important to work on incentives to maintain providers to treat or trained other ways to keep providers on board. any questions the one >> thank you for your presentation. i know that given your background and all of your work and personal experiences, certainly bring a really great perspective to this particular body. supervisor mar >> thank you ms. sandoval for

your willingness to serve on this body. i want to thank you also for the independent living resource center's effort to really empower people with disabilities can help tell their own stories to continue building off movements that really are broken down barriers for people with disabilities but thank you for your work. i also just want to thank-i think we have letters of support of you from jesse lorenz. also the director and others but i know that one of the parts of seat 11 is people or person the represents organizations that advocate for younger people with disabilities. my experience has been mostly older folks as we look at creating and in-home support for the upper port which san francisco is going to be doing with a pilot program. let me just ask you about younger

people with disabilities and how i-l rc and others try to help younger people that age group and empower them as well. >> certainly. you know not just for seniors but it's for younger folks. a variety of our consumers are used over the age of 18. we work with folks who are transitioning to college in obtaining their own education and making that transition from adoptive prevent parental care so seeking their independence. we also work with other community organizations to provide training and discussion of the issues that come up in terms of [inaudible] also i think we just have a good perspective for the issues they face younger adults. i think as a younger consumer of support

services and in-home care sometimes our needs are different. a lot of times we might have [inaudible] more direction over our care. they define someone then a senior and often our daily needs are little bit different. getting up and going to work every day. so we do have different needs and we are working to make sure those needs are addressed. i think i'll be able to bring those needs to the attention of the board. >> thank you so much for your great leadership. >> thank you much for your presentation. this time with an open up item to two people. anyone want to come forward, please do so. okay. are you here for public comment or comment on that spewing >> yes. good afternoon supervisors. i'm patrick -executive assistant on the board liaison of the san francisco public authority. i

just simply want to add that the public authority staff and governing body members are excited about jesse joining the board. she has our full support for the application. we think giving her work and experience she's gone to be a great addition to the authorities governing body. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public was to comment on item 2? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> if i can get a motion on this item >> i move jesse sandoval 30 number 11 to the in-home supportive services public authority. >> great. i will support that as well. we will do that without objection. >>[gavel] >> congratulations. item 3, please >> item number three, >>[reading code]

>> thank you. we have received word from supervisor peskin he would like to withdraw this measure. so, very appreciative of that. if we could get a motion to table this item's i'm sorry. sorry that will do after public comment at any members of the public here for item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> supervisor mar >> i move we table beside him >> break. will be that without objection >>[gavel] >> mr. clerk any other items before us today >> no more items before us today. >> thank you. we are adjourned. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment]

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constantino and i'm a filmmaker. i'm the cinematographer producer, director. it's inevitable at some point that you want your movie to get out there and suddenly you realize it to be a community organizer sometime to get people together to see the story you have to tell. the conversations that can come out of a well-crafted film. they're pretty rich and interesting. what we do as the lakers, besides all the best way possible. so, i think that's where i do well learn everything. lighting, cinematography, i got your jobs as a stage manager at someplace that was a projectionist. i kind of mix and match as they went kept refining. i feel like it isn't just about making

things that are beautiful and appealing and rich and thought-provoking the way their films but it has to tell a story. >> my name is to know-i'm a freelance multimedia producer. my project comprises mostly of free took up photography. with a few portraits of people that i interviewed. i'm going around san francisco and capturing the black life. as i decided to do this project because i read about the decline of the african-american population in san francisco, and i wondered where the remaining population was and what they were doing and how life was for them. >> i wasn't very inspired by school. i wasn't very inspired by continuing to be read and write and read and write and go to class. i watch a lot of movies. saw a lot of porn films

and thought i had this very feminist bent and i thought there was not enough of a woman's vision on the stuff that we see, the movies that we make in the beginning the way that we look at woman that where we find them and the roles that we then take in the stories that are being told. so, they felt to a motion. they didn't feel complex. i felt like, yes, i have a different say and i like to see the world shaped by its. >> my grandmother was a teacher. she taught special education for 40 years in los angeles. when i was growing up, she inspired me to record. we recorded everything we record our conversation. we recorded

the street. we recorded everything with a cassette players. learning multimedia skills led to some of the crossover informing opportunities for young people. someone who opened la seven cisco feels like a small town. these deluded western mission and when i visit someone to cut my hair i found a mate. he seemed like an interesting guy up in the neighborhood and he a lot to say about some of those honest foreign to me. that local perspective is so important to me because i think someone who isn't from here, knowing that history allows me to be more engaging the community that i live in. i want the same for others. i want people to move into a new neighborhood to know what was there before. who was there before. what businesses were here. and what cultural and historical influences we see today.

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88. we are at mount davidson and it has the highest point of elevation in san francisco hitting a whopping 928 feet. mt. davidson provides a peaceful 30-acre owe ace and great hiking trails. the spectacular views offers a perfect place to watch the sunrise or suffer sun set with someone you louvre, wear sturdy shows to conquer the stone trails and denly inventory advantage gives you hikers the sensation of being in a rain forest it's quite a hike to the top here at mount davidson but the view ed and director hsu,

present. director nolan. director rib key. you have a quorum. >> the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chairman may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. sell phones set on

vibrate cause interference so request they turned off. motion approval of the minutes from august 16. >> motion to approve. >> aye >> item 5, communication director yz have none. item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business mpt >> i want bring up my favorite topics, elevators we have on the consent calendar a item for improving improvement on the escalators and elevators which provide access to our station. in light of the fact that currently civic center i believe is out right now and i know in the disability community there was a little-a lot of concern about the lack of notice and there was some notice but not enough notice and think where people are

demanding on escalators and elevator, it is important to overknhunicate communicate so when we do the upgrade to infrastructure over communicate when the outages take place and do everything we can to minimize the impact on the riders. that's it. >> director rib key, i think we did everything to coordinate with bart. thank you. >> at our last meeting which was long we had a gentlemen stand up in general public comment and he called attention to the stockton street discussions go around and think his call if i remember was to make sure we continue on the public process as we always do and know we will but he waited a long time to make the comment and want today bring it up. we

have got a lot of e-mails about stockton street and look forward to the public process on that. >> item 7, directors report. >> director riscon, and good afternoon member thofz chair and board and staff. i want to start out my report by recognizing a couple of ow moust outstaning employees. first i like to ask [inaudible] our chief ficial officer who is director of finance and information technology division to come forward to recognize one of her employees. >> it is pleasure to introduce naomi steinway who has been with us 35 years. before i was born she started. she demonstrated deep commitment to womeen owned businesses and as we rely on diligence and making sure we fulfill obligations to

the stakeholders mpt she is a go to staff member regarding the db program and vauchbed in a large variety of other areas such as procurement of [inaudible] and third street light-rail extension to make sure we are fulfilling our obligations there to the communities. she is also been instrumental being lias ons with the auditors and said naomi is terrific gathering, analyzing and reporting the participation. she is thoughtful i hard working and has a dry whit that really positively impacts a lot of the unit. she is looking for challenges and way to enhance the community. the last comment i make, she is a big

contributor of healthy snacks for our meetings and she a key member of the contract compliance office. many of her fanerize here. thank you tr 84 work for throw fiver years, it is a incredible achievement and congratulations. >> thank you very much and the commissioners, thank you. i hardly expected this at all. hoping to quitely retire with caucasian male majority. hope i can hang on another year. thank you. >> on behalf of the board and city thank you for your work, wish you all the best. [applause] >> next i want to ask john hailey the transit director to

come forward and recognize one of his employees. >> good afternoon mr. hailey. >> good afternoon mr. chairman. i just it is my pleasure this afternoon to recognize gentlemen to my left, leroy wilson who is one of our longstanding transit supervisors. you may have noticed recently in the controllers report that over the last 5 years the average driving speed in san francisco dropped some 25 percent. at the same time our evening rush hour has lengthened as new industries have come to change the commute patterns. one of the things that at the same time we have been able to improve our on time performance

incremental but not where we would like us to be, and one of the reasons we are able to do that is because of people like mr. wilson. mr. wilson works in the most difficult locations, south of market street, during the most difcult times. he has the opportunity to make adjustments to lines like the 27, which are frequently backed up because of bay bridge commute and also in many respects is a very sod after figure at the transbay terminal as operators will go and have issues that mr. wilson has resolved. he is a outstaning representative for all of us in terms of getting our service and making adjustments to the invariable situations so the supervisor would encounter but also is

highly regarded and well respected by our operators. my apologies but i should say to the right is brent jones and [inaudible] in charge of our service management. so, it is my pleasure to introduce you to mr. wilson for his recognition. [applause] >> on behalf of the board and whole city thank you for the important work you do and do it so well for so many years. thank you. >> thank you. i just don't know how to responds after mr. hailey says all that but want to thank god first of all for giving me all the tools that i need and placing me in the department with managers that you have just met and making sure i have everything i need

to get the job done. also, like to thank my wife who's sitting right there. [applause] a lot of this work i take home and she helps me out with it and my phone stays on all the time for my other co-workers out there and she says, honey, we are out to dinner and you are still taking calls. and that is just the dedication i center to my co-workers because without them i could not get that job done. i could not do this job without my co-workers and want to thank all of them even though i don't see any here. my daughter, my niece and ist iser in law who comes over my house and bugs me all the time. my cousin sean

who ran for district supervisor last year and he lost to malia, sorry about that. again, thank all of you for being here and this is-this caught me by surprise right here. with that being said, i have more work to do. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you mr. chair. vision zero update for the month. mayors executive director on vision zero included we report regularly to boards and commissions and primarily to this board. two update said today. first one very exciting

we broke ground last week on 9th and division. probably one of the first in the country. this is a area on the high injury network and anyone who is troyed to pass through there on a bike or in a car very rarely do people pass on foot but it is a hairy place to try to get through and made a number of improvements on division street in recent years but this particular intersection is one we thought was a good place to try this very innovative design based on a dutch intersection design. protected bike laneatize is clear, you ride along a curb on one side and protection whether it is parked cars or delineators or barriers on the side but that works while you are in the block but when you get a intersection it is much harder to protect because intersections are open for allow of the flow of vehicles.

this design coming from europe puts concrete islands at all 4 of the corners and raises the cros walk s and changes the approach and turn geometry so cars have to slow and so that the visibility between people on bike and foot and people in cars is much better. so, we are really excited to try it out here. we are also coupling with improvements on ajaistant streets on 9th and division, but very exciting to see what will be-we posted when we started this and put photo's up when it is done and we'll evaluate and watching it carefully to see how well it performs and the potential applicable may be else where in the city. exciting stuff there in the ground for the engineering e on vision zero. on the education e of vision

zero, a aspect of the executive directorive is directing us the sfmta to implement a comprehensive vision zero awareness campaign within 30 days of the exectev directive. i reported at the last meeting we initiated radio ads in english and spanning to raise awareness of vision zero. we followed windup a second round we laurned yesterday. this is 6 speeds sf and just like the engineering work on the education work we use data driven or research driven process to conform the work we are doing. in this case we got feedback from focus groups as well as community wide research polling and interesting results. what we found is that, people do see speeding as

a bad thing and in san francisco we are focusing on speed because it is the leading primary collision factor of serious and fating collisions. wheel people say it as a problem, people don't necessarily think of it as a problem in san francisco. they see it as a freeway thing or open road problem. there is a perception to recognize unsafe speed happen in the city and urban virems as well. more interesting, most drivers consider themselves above average ijskill and not at need to adhere to posted speed limits. like many other things we think the problem isn't with us, it is with other people. it was with that in mind that we developed this adand it is essentially meant to inform people that the speed limit in san francisco is 25 miles a hour unless otherwise posted

and that small increases in speed correspond to less control in stopping, less reaction time in terms of seeing people and that traffic deaths are problem in our city so raising awareness but targeting at the perceptions. i will ask lorie to play the spot so people can hear what people hear on the radio. playing on drive time and pandora and running english, spanish and chinese then last month. >> if i drive 10 miles over the speed limit it takes [inaudible] yfs going to fast. [inaudible] i have to live with that. speeding can lead to traffic

deaths on san francisco streets. the speed limit is 25 for a reason. stick to the limit. know more at vision zero sf.org. >> if you haven't heard those already, you and thousands of others will be hearing it as they make their way to work this week and the rest of the month. moving on, another campaign addressing another safety issue that is of great importance and this deals with the safety of our employees. as we discussed and heard periodically over time, we have employees be transit operators or parking control officers, inspectors and custodeian and station agents subject to attacks by memberoffs the public. there were 58 reported last year or just on muni operators and that compares to 24 in 2014. so, it is unacceptable thing happening

and very disturbing trend including a couple very public incident you may have read about in the past couple weeks. we have been work wg folks internally as well as unions that represent the groups, primarily twu and sciu on a number of things to address the issue and reverse that trend. one aspect of that collaboration is new adcampaign that was launched last week, which is just one part of a comprehensive approach. the theme is keep them safe and these will be in the form of ads placed on buses and featureed throughout the transportation system and i will ask lorie and sfgovtv go to the screen to show the ads so you can get a sense of what they look like. so, we have these you see from the

perspective of the employee and family and others. so, you'll be seeing those if you haven't already on muni buses. that is one part and this came from our employ ease they thought it st. important to raise aware ness to the public of the difficult work they do and there are people like the rest of us that want toget home safely like the rest of us. we'll continue working on that campaign but happy to see that come forward. couple of other muni items. on the heals of the news we were announcing recipients of $45 million of state, cap and trade funds toward the light-rail vehicle expabz program. chair nolan and i traveled to sacramento this last week along with mayor lee,

board president london breed and assembly member david chiu to visit the sea mans factory. it was great to be able to go there to celebrate the recent news. this is 45 million on top of the 21 million so more than 80 million in support. first vehicle should be here about theened of the year and start seeing them in service in 2017. by the end of 2018 we will have 20 new vehicles hitting the street. that was great news. in the mean time to address crowding and to focus our resources where the demand is the highest, this morning we launched a shuttle that will shuttle cars between

coal valley and embarcadero during rush hours. we have basically 4 trains, or 2 trains doing two loops runic between the points which are the inner part of the [inaudible] which anyone who ride at that time of day once you get to that portion the cars are usually full so the folks often can't board the train, so we are inserting capacity during the rush hour to try to insure the folks who want to take the injudah to get to work or to the city it k do so. we started it this morning, worked well. there are logistical issues we worked out when we tested this a few years back and hope to keep this in service and will be the first of such efforts we roll out

over the next few years. meanwhile, down at balboa park, there is a a lot of various construction work going on. one of the more significant aspects is we have largest or oldest railyard there and have been in the process in the last couple years of preplacing all the rails, many switches and overhead wires and infrastructure in that facility. it is generally not public work but very important to get our system in the state of good repair. we have largeby be able to do this work without impacting the public but starting part the project today that takes the part of the revenue loop, the j and k normally travel on out of service to replace those rails. so, as a result, there are different patterns for people to board and offboard for the j and k at balboa park. the k is

boarding on ocean avenue. we have done a lout of outreach and trying to make the public aware of where they need togo to catch their train or once they get off the train to get to where they are going safely. we understand it is inconvenient for folks but have done everything we can to minimize the inconvenience but excited to see this work donefelt the entire project should be done mid-2017. a very large state of good repair project you provided funding and support for in previous capital budgets. the last thing, i mentioned last time the votes for the muni art program were opened till last week and the vote are in and have the 5 winners. you can see on the screen-there is the new multimedia presentation for

the directors report. we had 5 winners that were-came from the votes. the top winner is monica and her exhibit is called teens of sf. followed by lillian shan hann with bit by bit and a 3 way tie for third place which is [inaudible] counter point studio which is peter tomen son and lisa luvene for city walks and todd [inaudible] for sight seeing. these will go up. each of the artists our groups will have their work featureed on muni buses and artist receiving the most votes gelt a $2 thousand cash prize and [inaudible] get $1250 and this is a partnership between sfmta and san francisco beautiful.

a win, win for artist and muni riders. that concludes my report. >> just to go back to the $45 million of money we got for more lrv in the future. it is probably confusing we state our need without having identified all the funding and i know we have seen the same with the buses as we have more funding become available we place a order for more buses and i don't find that unusual for large infrastructure purposes or projects. is that standard we identify the need and know what we want and as the money becomes available we place those orders? >> in most cases we identified the funding and just not secured the funding. we

identified for the lightrail vehicles this as the main source for this part of the expansion. the procurement for lightrail is 151 to replace the ones we have and that is funded with federal and local sales tax and that we identified and secured. there is expansion of the first 24 vehiclechise is something we committed to as part of the grant agreement for the federal government for the central subway grant. we wroifed the revenues and secured revenues for those. then we had exercised an option on the lightrail vehicle for additional 40 car squz for that we identified main source orphfunding being state cap and trade funds and now secured in subsequent years the first pieces of that. yes, that is typical and most cases we have identified the funds, we just don't have them secured

commitment from whatever the funding partner is. >> thank you for clearing that up. i think that can be confusing for people that dont understand how the procurement process works. >> thank you very much. congratuless on the end shuttle surfbs. that is great. as you know since you have been in the chair i pestered you about shuttle service and sure it wasn't my pestering that did it but glad you and mr. hailey got around to this one. as we procure lrv and stuff coming on stock you will look at way tooz expand this. i assume the ways to expand this don't just include shuttle service but reintroducing-i urge the switch back in west portal to acamidate that. for me this is great news and something that is of great policy interest to me, so with the permission of chair nolan and vice chair bringman, i support that

we-when you have the data and you and mr. hailey are ready, report how the shuttle service is working. maybe also a update how it works comparison with the bus shuttle service and other options we throw at that line and plans for expansion for shuttle service whether plans for west portal or castro. >> happy. >> i do want to cu-mind john hailey and staff for putting this together. it may seem simple t is a lot of work that goes into making this happen and they absolutely started thinking about what are the next as the rail fleet grows the most critical needs whether it is shuttles or expanding from one to 2 car or 2 to 3 car trains. >> how this integrates with the existing system is obviously

important. you can have more cars but if they get jammed ativan ness you haven't solved the problem. i want to know if the service is causes delays on the interchange or worked through seemlessly. >> mr. chairman you have one person who indicated a iftrust in addressing you and only matters discussed by mr. riscon. herben wineer followed by michael putralis. >> michael putralis. >> mr. wineer is first. >> herben wineerment one question about the new lrvs. i notice there is no railing at the end of the seats or sideways. if there is a sudden stop, if there is no railing a person can just spill over and

possible injure themselves or other passengers. i noticed in the picture on the san francisco examiner so can you clarify about the safety of that because i just noticed it in the picture and something that seems to be missing. >> the picture in the paper was of the- >> mr. riscon let's let him finish. >> the vehicle that we were able to visit in the newspaper was had first production vehicle and not complete so there were many things that will be on the car that were not on the car shown in the picture. what i say generally from ever aspect of operation from accessibility to safety to performance, energy efficiency the new cars are significant improvement over what we have today so the rule jz requirements just generally for safety on rail vehicleerize very stringent. what we do is

above and beyond and won't put anything to service that puts people at risk. >> thank you for the clarification. >> michael putrelis. ime arace bisticalest and concerned during your preezen taig about the vision zero work going on, there was no mention about long standing issue of mine and that is on bicyclist riding on sidewalks. i looked over your materials available on the sfmta website and can't find information about whatever sfmta may be doing to encourage bisicalest to stay off the sidewalks. in particular, i'm very concerned about the south side of market street from van ness to valencia. bicyclist are frequently riding past that

um, union office and riding past quickly by the mu cros key mattress shop and it is really dangerous for pedestrians, for other bisicalests and people in cars. there needs to be a stenciling on sfmts saying it is against the law to ride your bicycle on the sidewalks and if you want to also put carat in front of bisicalest, it should also remind all bicyclist that especially on market street, we have bike lanes. bicyclists need to use the bike lanes. thank you. >> movering on, item h,

advisory counsel report. i do not see chairman weaver here. public comment this is a opportunity formaters within the sfmta but not on todays agenda. we'll start with eileen boken followed by albert chow. >> good afternoon. >> eileen boken. district 4 resident. i'm here regarding the rapid project which is on the [inaudible] i believe final approval the project is premature. in light of the ongoing issues on mission street the consensus and merchants of taraval is move forward with a pilot project which involved no structural changesism this is the taraval plan or community based plan. this pilot project involves the

entire taraval corridor and not just the 5 locations included in the proposed mta plan. the community is recommending the tarival project be for at least 6 months. the tarival community is seeking to avoid negative impacts the 14 mission rapid project had. the tarival neighborhood sees the community based plan as a potential win, win for mta and community at large. thank you. >> the next speaker please. >> next speaker is albert chow followed by tom lee. >> good afternoon mr. chow. >> albert chair from great wall hard weir. we have a great street the way it is now, but you are planning to take away a lot of parking and give a red lane in the left lan and put boarding island and traffic lights and bull bouts and

[inaudible] because of the perpendicular parking and this for saving 2 or 3 minutes. just like that you plan to upset the dynamic of the street and discourage driving in a area where driving is really necessary. have you tried to run errands in the sun set? people drive and come to the businesses that way. i like to have some flashing lights and painted rowdways in lieu of the boarding island for safety but at the same time keep our parking. i just want to remind you that the small businesserize the backbone of the city and create the character of the neighborhood. target and macey, do they make san francisco unique? no. they leave as soon as the boom goes bust but we have stayed because we lover our city.

sean [inaudible] told me that if all sides are mad we are doing something right and think this is the wrong approach. let that go for 6 months and it be a half and half sfmta and community based design everyone can be happy with. thank you very much. >> tony lee followed by aaron star and herbert wineer. >> good afternoon mr. lee. >> good evening. good afternoon mr. chairman and [inaudible] i am a full time [inaudible] 27 years. mailed me a letter saying that if i dont pay for the $179 for the disputes [inaudible] she will not let me renew my card and i cannot drive the cab so get

fired. [inaudible] make a living and pay the bills. $179 [inaudible] today that i make. this not fair. [inaudible] everybody know a lot of kick backs and [inaudible] you can get it, a lot of rumor and never bring that before you because it isn't my interest but now they are clearly against me like this way so i hope that you are going to lay off your unprofessional and air gnt staff because you will make a lot of drivers lose their jobs. if you are going to fine

me for this money, i will do it in a legal way and make you [inaudible] i tell people don't park. only one car you couldn't get towed, you lost 600 bucks and i find the [inaudible] they move their car and you will lose a million dollar for your tow money rev enues as well. i have a right to do that. >> aaron star, followed by herbt wineer and edward mason. >> good afternoon board. aaron star and work for the san francisco planning department. by my caurmts are my own and not paid right now. i'm here to spress concern over there bike and pedestrian on the market street. i have written the board with my concerns and received coms back from staff,

however, the responses are inadequate and never addressed my point. the plan proposes painted buffers for bike lane jz upper market. this improvement wilt do nuth toog improve the safety and move the city closer to vision zero goal. i ride my bike on upper market. what i experience on a daily basis are double parked cars and delivery trucks. this forces me and fellow rider tooz move into the bike lane while travelling at 35 to 40 miles a hour. i experience cars drifting into the bike lane. proposed painted buffers will do nothing to stop the safety risks. this board adopted

vision zero which seeks to eliminate traffic death. this is based on the fact we are human and make mistake. the road system needs to keep us moving but also protect at every turn. we know people continue to double park in the bike lanes and continue to drift into had bike lane because they are easily distracted and know people to not use their turn signal or check their shoulder when they cross to the bike lane to make a right hand turn or park. the road needs to be designed to encounter that. i urge you to look into protected bike lanes up to upper market to castro. >> herbert wineer followed by edward mason. >> parking spaces, bus stops and bus runs braung to the

public and taxi medallions belonged to the taxi drivers. the municipal transportation agency contrary to great inconvenience to public interest. it simply declared the medallions its property and took them from taxi drivers charging state fees. this is a public agency-the mta is pirate aijs that regard parking spaces as obzeckts and sources of budy and plunder. despite the parks spaces and bus stops mta has done the right thing. it shows barbary coast to advertise and promote muni forward to 1.5 million over a 3 year period.

the barb burry coast harbors pierants and mta conducted itself in the same tradition by fuming resources from the public. a government agency designated to represent the public is robbing the public of its resources. the public is walk agplank with removal and consolidation of bus stops. mta seizure and termination of parking spaces and forcing passengers seniors and the disabled to walk a quarter mile to the bus stop. after all, we are walking the plank. >> thank you. >> edward mason, michael

putrelis. >> edward mason i like to present a editorial from the almanac which is a newspaper for menlo park. facebook is expanding by 6500 employees to the current 7500 employees. a housing study revealed 15 live in bell haven. created dependent for 175 units a finding of questionb logic at best. from a broader regional perspective planner voice concern. job growth and resulting upward pressure on home prices and wide spread transportation grid lock. all employ ease livering long distances from the campus about half of facebook employees

drive cars to work. facebook is proposing to limit increase in trip generation relating to expansion to 438 inbound commuter vehicles. the development will benefit menlo park but result in worsening of transportation and housing facing the region. it is standard practice to abstract mitigation measures including cash payments and levering neighborhood communities for sig cnlt and uncompensated impact. no one is well served by major proposals evaluated by a single city looking out forilities own interest. cities can move away from isolated decision making. the conclusion i came from this is, there will be more corporate commuter buses unless you get together with mtr, a bag and

resolve the issue because we already have 35 commuter buses on 24th street. >> michael putrelisfollowed by deneez louis and [inaudible] >> go ahead. please do. don't worry. if the folks at sf gv tv it show my. show that for

20 seconds. this is the bus shelter at 16th stroot and missionism . i made a video of sfmta property that is caked with pigeon poop. you can am back to me, please. i have been filing a number of complaints with sf 311 to have this pigeon poop removed. i'm a person with aids and have a compromised immune system and this pigeon poop is unhealthy. it also just not conducive to using public transit. there needs to be better contract compliance and monering of the sfmta has. after two weeks of observing this area there is not regular cleaning taking place of the bus shelters and sfmta street signs. this is

really not good in any sense, okay. now, in terms why there is so much pigeon poop on the bus shelters, it is because the overhead electrical cables do not have ant pigeon jell on them. that is pg and e property. however, i think that sfmta needs to look into bird sensitive sound repellent machines. there is latest device to stop birds landing on this property and roosting there. i'm in touch with barbara garcia from department of public health to declare this a public health emergency. you need to get on regular cleaning of the bus shelters.