moved somewhere else. miss julia colmas's kids, two of them in sacramento. they don't get those things also. their daughter is a property manager in western addition on the -- is it golden gate? on turk street just before you get to sky, and she's a manager, and she don't get the certificate of preference. i spoke to her also. so those are the kind of things that -- why peoples don't get the certificate because they moved or something like that, so we have to tell them word of mouth. >> thank you, mr. james. maybe there's a way we can coordinate with miss simms and the team to get in touch with those comments. is there anybody else? i'm closing public comment. anybody else want to make public comment before we close it? okay.

commissioner singh? >> we received an e-mail from president mondejar that next week she wanted to start at 2:00 instead of one, because mercy housing or something, she wanted to attend it. i have no objection to that. >> thank you. okay. so we're closing public comment on this, and commissioner comments. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> clerk: the next item is business is item nine, commissioner's questions and matters. mr. vice chair? >> anybody wishing to comment? seeing none, okay. >> clerk: the next order of business is item 11, and there's no closed business. and the next order of business is adjournment. >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> and we are moving to adjourn

at 2:44. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. chairman, everybody. welcome. we call together the meeting of the san francisco municipal transportation agency and board of directors for parking authority. please read the roll.

[roll call] madam chair, you have a quorum. item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound-producing devices during the meeting. the ringing of cell phones, pagers and other electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. please note that microphones set on vibrate cause interference -- cell phones set on vibrate do interfere with the microphone, so the board respectfully request they turn off. item 4, approval of minutes for september 4, regular meeting. >> chairman brinkman: do i have any public comment on the minutes? no? seeing none, do i have a motion to approve? second. all in favor?

minutes approved. >> clerk: the next meeting, october 2, has been canceled. item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. >> chairman brinkman: do we have any unfinished? business? seeing none, we'll move on. >> clerk: director's report. >> a mercifully brief report today. first, with regard to vision zero. i mentioned last time that we were initiating a series of coffee chats. it's a way to engage the public, to help us develop the strategy and we're ultimately getting to the goal of zero fatalities until 2024. as part of this process, our

project staff has met with more than 100 people who have been providing some great feedback along those lines. one of them was earlier today in district 6, with another thursday in district 9 next week, district 10. new dates and locations continue to be added to the vision zero sf.org/events website. we plan to release the next action strategy in march and once we have gathered this feedback as a part of the communication conversations, we will share our draft actions with the vision zero task force next month. so you will be seeing and hearing more about that. also note we've placed radio ads and print ads on 200 bus shelters around the city in support of the ongoing anti-speeding campaign.

speeding is the primary collision factor and most serious and fatal collisions. these ads will start next week and will be running through october. so you should hear those. one other vision zero note i wanted to make and i don't have all the info with me, but realize that i should be adding this to the update. and so we did have a person on a bicycle that was killed last week at howard and south van ness. it's where howard, south van ness and 13th come together. we don't yet know the cause of the collision, but just wanted it acknowledge that it happened and, as always, our condolences are with the friends and family and everyone affected by the tragedy, as they all are preventible. we did, as part of our protocol, send our staff out to the site

and, again, without knowing the full results of the investigation, can't really complete our own analysis, but based on observations, identified things, improvements we can make. so by the end of next week, we'll have our shops out there making various improvements in that area. so sorry to have to report that, but wanted to acknowledge that. with regard to clipper, last week the region's executive board of which i'm a member voted to recommend to the full m.t.c. commission approval of a contract for the next generation clipper fare payment system. this is as a result of many years effort co-led by the

transit agencies and m.t.c. to develop scope and put out an r.f.p. to replace the current clipper system, based on old technology. the only and successful bidder was cubic transportation services, which are the current vendors of the system. we did work very hard to try to encourage lots of folks to bid during a request for expressions of interest. we had up to 18 different firms express interest. but in the end, we had just one bidder. through an independent cost evaluation, we were able to determine that their bid was responsive and enough for us to recommend this to go forward. it's a contract that has both design and development, which is the capital side, as well as operations and maintenance side the capital side is $165 million. and that's to design and develop

and implement the new successor clipper system. and then there's $220 million, 10-year maintenance contract and there are some options, five-year extension options. the implementation would be phased from -- starting with next year through 2021. one advantage of the fact that the incumbent contractor is also the new contractor means that we're able to accelerate some of the transition and the deployment of new features as well as make the transition as easy and seamless as possible from the rider perspective and really the benefits that the rider would get is that it will be a mobile app for clipper. as you know, we have our offshoot muni mobile app, but this will contain all the functionality of a clipper card and we made a change from a card-based system, which is what we had to, an account-based

system. the main benefit is that transactions that a rider makes will be evident and will manifest in realtime. if we go to the website, you add value to your clipper card and it can take up to 5 days to make its way to your card. it's old, underlying technology that we're dealing with. so that will be a benefit. and because it's old, closed, proprietary technology, it's not a very flexible system if we want to do different things, time-of-day pricing, with software and architecture, it will be easier to make changes. it will be much more flexible and easy to integrate with transportation services. that will be going to the m.t.c. commission on september 26 for their consideration. and i can tell you, sfmtv's

perspective, we're very happy with how this process went. it's a good collaboration with m.t.c. so good news there for clipper users coming soon. a couple other items. with regard to the mason cable car line, you may recall that we did the first of four cable car gearbox replacements, it was earlier this year or last year. the second one of those is coming up. the first was california. this one is the mason cable car line. so we'll be changing out the gearbox, which will have the service closed from friday night, september 21, through september 29. so a little more than a week shutdown. this is one of the gearboxes in the system of five that have been in continuous service since

1984. so they are in need of a thorough overhaul, which is why we're doing this so we can continue to run them reliably and safely. the work is really a full overhaul of the workings of the gearboxes. so while this is happening, the powerline will be running, but -- so that is the substitute for the southern end of the mason line. for the northern end of the mason line, we'll have bus shuttles providing substitute service during the duration of the closure. as always, we'll have ambassadors out and putting a lot of public information to make sure that nobody is caught unaware. this is the second of the four that we have to do and we're projected to be completed by the end of next year. so hall and hyde will be done in the next year. so a little rider inconvenience, but really important work that

we need to do for the gearboxes that have been running for, what, 35, almost 35 years. next up, muni art. the 2019 version. votes are in. and the five winning artists have been selected from a pool of 40 to have their original artwork based on interpretation of a poem displayed on select muni buses. each of the riders will be awarded a stipend to support their work. this is an event that we've done for a number of years in partnership with sf beautiful and poetry society of america. and i'm cuing lori to put the winners up on the screen. if with he can have sfgov tv go to the screen. so we have --

>> you can see that scrolled through what some of the images look like. it's been a very popular program. i happen to be on one of muni art buses last night and it was really a wonderful way it bring together two things that san franciscans love -- art and transit. so very happy to have a partnership with sf beautiful and poetry society of america to have the next edition of muni art moving forward. and then, finally, speaking of good collaborations, san francisco transit riders are hosting a week long celebration september 24-28 to raise the visibility of transit and all

those that ride it. they will have a kickoff monday morning on the steps of city hall at 9:30 in the morning. we're one of the sponsors of the event. sftransitriders.org lists the events being held throughout the city, as well as transit hubs that they will have across the city, where additional activities will take place. they're inviting everyone who is social media-inclined #sfweride. and take the pledge. there's a number of giveaways and fun activities planned. so wish everyone in advance a happy transit week. that concludes my report. >> chairman brinkman: thank you, director reiskin. on clipper 2.0, that's great

news. we were talking about regional possibilities. as we quickly discovered, so many of the things that the agencies want to do can be helped along by the new clipper system and there are so many problems that we want to solve individually, but it will be helpful to solve as a region. clipper 2.0 will help us to move forward on things we talked about over the past few years. that's great news. directors, do i have comments or questions? >> director borden: when we use bus prices to substitute for that route, do they pay bus price or -- >> i can't imagine we would charge people $7 to ride a bus, but it's safe to assume that they are paying a bus fare. is there someone -- i don't see

revenue folks here. let me get back to you to confirm how the logistics of that works. i don't recall how it works. when we did it before, it was a california cable car. i'm sure it's in the information that we put out, but i don't have it in front of me. and don't want to give you the wrong info. >> director borden: did you mention the twin peaks tunnel? maybe you can give us an update of the control system? >> yeah. i think i sent you an update about that last week. i don't really have any new info. we've been having an intermittent problem, controlling the train control system, that can impact the service. we've put in place a procedure to make sure that it doesn't impact the service. so when the incident happens, we're able to restore the train

control system. we've tried a number of troubleshooting things. we may or may not have resolved the underlying problem. at this point, it's not any longer resulting in service issues and we hope to have, if not already, a permanent solution soon. >> the other issue is about driver assaults. i don't know why it's come to fore, but maybe you can give us an update on those issues and i think there's a task force that works on these issues. >> there's a lot of work we've been doing and we've been seeing good results in terms of the number of assaults steadily declining. we have an assault task force that we've established in partnership with the unions. we've worked with the police department on our own control center in response. we've worked on some physical things within the vehicles, particularly the buses, such as

the protective shields, and even some simpler things like moving the yellow line back to create more space. there's a number of actions we've been talking that are effective. the numbers bear those out. unfortunately, though, we still have people that are assaulting our transit operators, which is unacceptable. they still happen -- with traffic fatalities, zero is the only acceptable number for these. it continues to be an area of concern. we work hard to make sure our operators that do get assaulted have the support that they need. and we will continue to work at it until we get that number to zero. >> director borden: thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you, director borden. do i have public comment on the director's report? 2 minutes, please, ms. boomer. i'm not sure that microphone is

on. one moment. >> since the clipper car is about to be overhauled, i think it's an appropriate time for discussion of bringing taxis into the clipper card. i think it would be a help both to drivers in our industry and to the public because it will offer them the convenience of another form of transportation and i think it's really warranted because taxis are a part of the city's public transportation and this would be good for everyone. so i hope this agency will get behind this idea because a group of cab drivers pushing it forward, you know, can only go so far. but with your support, perhaps it can actually be done. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. that's a good idea. next speaker, please.

>> seeing no one else moving forward on items discusses by mr. reiskin, we go to item 8, citizens' advisory report. i believe mr. weaver is here. >> as he's coming forward, bus cars for the cable car substitution are free. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> good afternoon. the c.a.c. met last week and had the opportunity to discuss the bike share program, particularly the dominant one in the city. and we got some -- hopefully good ideas from that discussion that i will share with you today. you have to carry the ideas forward. the sfmta-cac recommends that the agency require bike share notices to be posted and mailed to all community organizations in the surrounding areas as well

as neighbors within 500 feet. at least 30 days prior to a hearing and that the m.t.a. board requires m.t.a. staff and motivate staff to create and maintain a dedicated webpage with the following info. one, proposed locations for bike share stations 30 days before hearing. two, interactive map, including present approved and proposed bike share locations, station locations, that is. three, suggestion form for residents and constituents to give feedback on bike share station locations. this is four. that was three. maintain log of suggestions with responses from motivate and

sfmta staff. and, five, contact information for motivate and sfmta staff responsible for the bike share station outreach. perhaps equally important if not more important in getting the word out to a larger community or larger part of the community that would be impacted is the process of approving bike share stations, which we looked into with as much detail as we could at the meeting and as a consequence have a recommendation that says the sfmta-cac recommendations that the stations about bike share docs require final approval from the sfmta board. i think it would make it less of an administrative process and more of a public process, which

it needs to be, considering how increasingly it seems to be impacting neighborhoods all over the city as the program extends itself. that's my information for today. if you have any questions -- >> chairman brinkman: thank you. board members, any questions? no. all right. seeing none. thank you so much, mr. weaver. we appreciate your work on the c.a.c. any public comment? seeing none. public comment is closed. we'll move on. >> clerk: moving on to general public comment. an opportunity for members of the public to address the committee on things that are not on the agenda. >> good afternoon. i want to point out to you that the crisis in the tax industry

is 100% caused by the m.t.a. or by the m.t.a. unable because of politics to support the taxi industry. i will talk about one of your proposals today and that is the proposal that only purchased medallions can good -- go to the airport and pick up. now thus is absurd because it's been done before. yellow cab did it like 50 years ago. and the biggest problem, of course, is you are going to increase the traffic of taxis going and coming to the airport. half will be empty going. and half will be empty coming back. problem one. problem two, you are going to

possibly make all the medallion-holders employees, because you are directing them to work in a certain way. number three, if you go ahead with this, you will have to do possibly an environmental report, because you are increasing the traffic on 101. the last thing is, we need more taxis working everywhere and you are going to discourage the employment of taxi drivers because they don't want to have non-taxis that can go to the airport. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you, again.

i want to talk on the same subject and i think this idea of only allowing the purchased medallions to serve the airport is going to be extremely harmful. putting your fingers on the scale like this is going to disrupt the industry in a way that even uber and lyft have not been able to do yet. i can tell you personally as a driver who only works in the city and only done that for the past dozen years or more that bringing hundreds of cabs back into the city from the airport because they can't serve the airport is going to make it impossible to make a living in the city and, therefore, nobody will want to drive a cab that can't go to the airport. drivers will be lost. companies will be at a loss. this is a terrible, terrible,

terrible idea. and it's also a terrible idea to favor this -- the medallion-holders that purchase the medallions at the expense of everybody else. these medallion-holders need help. everybody is in agreement about that. but you can't take from the one to give to the other and hope to have a good result. it's going to be a disaster. i'm very, very concerned about this agency making this decision because of a conflict of interest, which i think is glaring, only to the fact that the agency has a tremendous financial stake in this issue, owing to the financial jeopardy that the agency is in in relation to the medallion program and the credit union lawsuit. how do we know that you're not

putting your interests above the interests of the industry you -- you are supposed to be an objective regulator. >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much. >> in may, the credit union filed a $28 million lawsuit based on the 99 forefeitures of medallion-purchasers. it's up no 196. harold khan responded to the attempt to squash the litigation, ruling, "it allows breach of contract in good faith and fair dealing." so the lawsuit will proceed. at least your recommendation for the transportation code to allow the buyer pool to expand should mitigate against further claims and negate the specific program

that medallion sales terminated in november, 2016. certain of your proposals seem okay, but others not and it seems like a divide and conquer thing with the stake holder groups. the older medallion holders that acquire the permits plier to the buy-sell model coming back are responsible for the others not allowed to be make money, but uber and lyft is why we're suffering. it is ugly and will be deemed illegal. and going back to 2003, if a medallion-holder has a $14 million accident trying to meet a driving requirement. so it's time to end that. it's bad policy. and, finally, restricting where we can go. it will be -- you will end up in

superior court with injunctions. if you tell us we can't go to the airport, then we can't go to hotels or pick up on certain days. things like that. i hope you work with the mayor's office to find a different approach. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> medallion holder 474. i never supported the sales program and i'm not on the list to sell my medallion. mark said just about everything that the cab companies. they're barely holding on. if cabs can't go to the airport, it will have to be reduced even further and we will not be able to cover expenses. it's tantamount to -- i feel

with my medallion, that i will have to fore fit it. i won't be able to cover any expenses to keep that medallion operating. and i'm in compliance with all the laws. i've obeyed all your rules. i got in a little trouble with one of your investigators because he thought my driving was too stressed out and tense. and i'm working on that. it wasn't when i had customers. it's trying to get the fares. trying to get to a cab stand. trying to get a fare. and i'm not alone. i'm not alone like that. i'm working harder than i ever have in my life. and i feel like i'm being punished. i feel like i'm being punished. at my age, i don't think i can go out and just get another job. so the idea of increasing supply in the city will be disasterous. drivers -- and i talk to a lot of them -- they work the airport to keep their sanity.

it's so hard to work in the city now. the stands are always full. there are few radio calls. flywheel cut off half the fleet. and also you have to wonder if there will be a shortage at certain times at the airport because sfo is notorious for delays. after 11:00 p.m., they don't have enough cabs to serve the people, whose flights are 5 hours late. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> last person to turn in a speaker card on this topic. >> i would like to request 2 additional minutes. i was witness of the fatal russell franklin death -- >> the law doesn't allow us to give additi additional time. >> i understand. may i have the overhead?

>> sfgov will genuine you put it down. there you go. if sfgov tv can switch to the overhead projector, please. >> i'm has started. >> i am on my knees. the driver uses his jacket to stop the blood from gushing from

his right ear. i say, hang in there. 4 minutes earlier, i was talking down the street. i heard a thud and screech. and i saw russell franklin and his bike flying through the air. he came out of nowhere. he came out of nowhere, the young latino driver says, as we tried to save russell franklin's life. it has to stop. all crosswalks are designed -- this was russell franklin's view inside the crosswalk. this was the driver's view. upgrade all crosswalks within 6 months. add a rapid response to rapid response.

the rapid response team concluded that removing the space blocking the crosswalk visibility. we need to block two parking spots, not just one. why isn't this parking spot already closed. on monday morning, it looked like this. a vigilante closed it. it was closed until the afternoon. in the afternoon, they were at risk. press play. ask witnesses and victims or their family members about the post-crash walk through. have them participate in improving the safety. let's be global leaders. let's lower the speed and the carbon im print. >> clerk: thank you. so sorry. your 2 minutes are up. >> chairman brinkman: i appreciate you coming down here.

it's something we don't talk about a lot is the impact on people that see or come across crashes like that. so i absolutely -- my heart goes out to you for having witnessed that and having to go through that and the poor cyclist that was killed and indeed the driver. nobody leaves their house in the morning intending to injury somebody else. so thank you for coming and sharing that with us and we will follow up with director reiskin to make sure that the changes are made to the intersection in the hopes that nobody will die or witness a crash like that. accept my condolences. i know how hard it is to get over seeing something like that happen. traffic violence is not easy to witness. thank you. way appreciate you coming down. >> i'm here to help. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. i appreciate it. do i have any more public comment? >> clerk: no one else turned in a speaker card. >> chairman brinkman: general public comment is closed. we will move on. >> clerk: madam chair, consent

calendar, items considered to be routine unless a member of the board or public wants an testimony severed. 10.1cc, are regard to oversized vehicles, be severed, a request has come in. >> chairman brinkman: do i have a motion to approve consent minus 10.1cc. and a second? any opposed? consent is approved minus 10.1cc. and now let's have 10.1cc. >> clerk: establishing overside vehicle restrictions no parking in several locations. directors, be advised that this item is subject to legislation of the board of supervisors, who can hear an appeal. >> chairman brinkman: can we

hear from the public? >> clerk: mike lee, followed by flo kelly and then gladys ortiz. >> chairman brinkman: and 2 minutes. if you are new to commenting here at the sfmta board, if you look on the podium, you will see a countdown clock. with 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a soft chime. when you hear a louder chime, your time is up and i politely but firmly ask you to stop speaking. mr. lee, welcome. >> good afternoon. my name is michael lee. i'm a community advocate with a a specific focus on homelessness and housing from a racial perspective. it's interesting that you are revisiting this issue. every decision you make affects us in the east bay. everything that you do, and everything that you say is being

copied and mutated by a city council and also throughout alameda county. what is the purpose of a government rule, law, regulation? it's one of two things. number one, has to increase public safety. number two, has to increase the quality of life of citizens the proposal before you does neither. what it does is it continues to criminalize people who have no other choice except to live in their vehicles. for whatever reason they wound up there, the fact of the matter is they're there. that they're there. simply trying to survive. we're not talking about criminal behavior. we're talking about life-sustaining activity.

you people have -- seem to think that what you have before you is a liability and liability only, but we're trying to turn it into an asset, say a parking program proposed by the coalition of homelessness is reasonable. and, in fact, i could show you ways that you could make money from it. i'm certainly hoping that you will consider everything behind me and create a peace for co-existence. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> hi. i'm flo kelly. and i'm volunteering now with the coalition on homelessness. i'm a retired teacher in special education and i've certainly had a lot of experience with children whose families have been homeless and similar it all of you in our city i see people

who are sitting, lying, or walking with disproportionate number of their belongings, indicating that they likely have no home, no place to safe live put their things down, no place that have walls to protect them from intrusions by police, intrusions by eyes who stare and imagine that they're somehow less than human because of their circumstances through no fault of their own. i implore you to see the value of folks who have vehicles be allowed and even encouraged to live in them rather than on the streets. i envision a large area in san francisco set aside for vehicles that folks live in with p.i.t. stops and bathing facilities. to me, it's common sense. meanwhile, we need to build more affordable housing so everyone can have a stable home.

before that, people should be allowed to live in their vehicles. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> i'm going to interpret for gladys. i will have her speak first. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. [speaking foreign language] >> interpretor: ladies and gentlemen, i supplicate you guys. please don't have me removed. i live with my son in an alleyway near balboa bart station. he is handicapped. [speaking foreign language]

>> interpretor: i am 67 years old. please do not take me away. i live with my son. my son is handicapped, because he received a fatal blow in his neck in his earlier years handling trailers. please do not move me. [speaking foreign language] >> interpretor: i beg you, please do not have me moved.

[speaking foreign language] >> interpretor: thank you very much for hearing me out. >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much, ms. ortiz. >> clerk: kelly cutler. >> hi. i'm kelly cutler, human rights organizer, coalition on homelessness. i've been worthing on this issue specifically since 2012. i've been here many, many times. two years ago when the oversized vehicle restriction came up the board said that you did not want to see this anymore until there are alternatives presented. there are still no alternatives yet. that's a mouthful for me today. but we've been meeting with many departments. we've had a working group. we met with mr. reiskin.

we met with the homeless department. we met with everybody. we even did a get together with a focus group. and so there's been no alternatives. i think in -- since the time i was chair a couple years ago when you guys said that, our shelter wait list is even longer now. yesterday it was over 1,100 people on the shelter waitlist. so we're still pushing for -- to be exploring in a real way the alternatives that we presented. they are legitimate alternatives with the other things, we're dealing with vehicles that are getting their vehicles towed and there's no process. i will be sending you a letter after the meeting. and so we're just -- there are so many folks that are really struggling in -- this is one

step above sleeping on the street. the city is targeting vehicles as well. so we need to do something different. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you, ms. cutler, for your continued work on this issue. >> clerk: emily garcia. >> my name is emily garcia, coalition on homelessness. i think it's absolutely essential that we allow families to stay in their vehicles as a last line of defense against the harsh streets. the city has not taken action and this is the last line of defense before anything happens. children deserve a place to feel safe, a place to feel they're with their family, as they go through and developing. so it's the trauma, like living on the street affects us as a society as we move on.

children, women, the disabled and the elderly are the most vulnerable members of our society and deserve shelter and vehicles, at the least. it's more crucial than ever to have a vehicle. it's essential that they keep their vehicles as last line. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> clerk: gladys odilia. melody cliverwatts. do we have -- is gladys here? no? melody. is this gladys? all right, melody. go ahead. thank you. >> hi. my name is melody. i'm opposed to agenda item 10.1cc. please do not do this.

where will these people go? please do not do this. it is un fair of the sfmta to continue to shut down streets with no alternative and you know there's no alternative. every time you shut down streets where a vehicle-dweller is parked, it escalates the problem for those of us that have no city-sanctioned exit from homelessness. hu herding us into fewer and fewer streets the stress and sleep deprivation i endure escalates with every street you shut down. it does not matter that i am not making a mess, not creating nuisances, not discarding massive amounts of debris, not doing drugs, not leaving dirty needles everywhere. this punishes me as if i'm doing

those things. my mere existence is breaking the law. though it is my responsibility, i'm not the cause of my homelessness. since 2009, again, i ask the sfmta board of directors for a safe place to park because without your help and support, i cannot overcome my circumstances and, thus, i am a scapegoat of societal hypocrisy that demands that i overcome my circumstances while stripping me of every single resource i need to overcome my circumstances. thank you for your time. >> chairman brinkman: thank you, melody. thank you for coming back.

>> every week -- every issue we publish the number of people that are on the waitlist for shelter. it's currently about 1,100, as kelly mentioned. that's -- there are 7,000 people who the city acknowledges being homeless every year. most people who are on the frontlines of service providing estimate that that number is 21,000. 1,200 people are living in their cars across the city. if you eliminate the possibility of people staying in their cars, that's 1,200 more people on the streets. 1,200 more people that have no access to shelter, who are on waitlists for shelter, and for housing. this is the last refuge that people have before being forced on to the streets. and what that means is that they have a door. they have a place that they can sleep. i don't want to sleep in my car.

being on the streets means that you are subject and at high risk of assault and reiape and i tal to people every day that have to deal with those conditions and experience trauma from those conditions. if you take away people's vehicles, it will be even more traumatizing for them. the number of people that i know personally who have been housed in vehicles that have racked up hundreds and hundreds of dollars of fees to the point that they can no longer keep up with the payments and have their cars towed, who have ended up on the streets, i know at least 10 or 12 people who have had that experience. they come into our office because they're unable to pay the completely unreasonable fines that i, myself, would have a hard time playing. for a homeless person, paying $300 for a fine for eating in your car, doing things that i could do and never be targeted for because i'm not homeless.

it's unforgivable >> chairman brinkman: thank you. thank you for your work. >> clerk: herbert weiner, last person to turn in a speaker card. >> i speak as a social worker. do people that want people that reside in trailers on their doorstep? you are displacing people. and i just got this association, the people living in vans remind me of the gypsies in europe. no one wants them. no one likes them. they despise them. they're marginalized. and they're kicked all over the place. there is is what's happening in san francisco. this is a western democracy. it's not the reactionary regimes of eastern europe. i don't like to see people being kicked around like this and something has to be done. you guys are delegated to

resolve a problem. m.t.a. is an organization of professionals that has to solve the problem. the police have to solve the problem. the government has to solve the problem. and the government should not persecute vulnerable people. that's typical of fascism. and we don't want that. so individuals have to be protected and you have a responsibility to do this. and something has to be done. otherwise, people will be shuttled around like crazy. they will be forced against the wall. and they will be cornered. and this is very disgraceful for a city of san francisco which prides itself on its liberalism. so you are delegated to do something and not persecute the individuals. >> chairman brinkman: thank you, mr. weiner. i see we have ms. meyer -- do we

have one more public comment? please, go ahead. >> hi. i'm nick. before you hear from the supervisors, i think it's important to hear public comment from the citizens of the city, that this is an issue. we had been working with h.s.h. to resolve the issue. we've been before the engineering board as well. the issue keeps coming up and there's not a solution that the city is working on. you cannot just put more signs up. it's illogical. it will not alleviate the problem. it will exacerbate problems. we need to work as a city to

address this and h.s.h. needs to be on board and m.t.a. needs to be on board for innovative solutions, that will be sustainable, that will affect our neighbors, that will relieve curbside concerns. i think these complaints coming to the supervisors' office should not override the well-being and the right to park in the public streets. i think that's a right that you should share. that the streets are public. that designating certain streets for certain people, and it's because of their economic status. even though we heard that before, it's because of who they are and what they're doing and being homeless. so, again, we're asking you to not expand this. to allow us the time to work with the city and implore the directors to come up with

solutions or listen to our previous solutions, which have been on the table for 5 years. >> chairman brinkman: thank you, nick. and thank you for your work in the area. any more public comment? >> hello. my name is cathy meyer. i'm a legislative aide to district 11 supervisor ahsha safai. thank you for welcoming me here today. i want to take a moment to thank everyone who has contacted our office on both sides of this issue. supervisor safai is preparing for the board of supervisors meeting, but i have a letter that i would like to read out loud. dear sfmta commissioners, over the past four years, the san francisco municipal transportation authority and various city departments have been meeting with housing and homeless advocates to adept to

address specific needs and issues. i would like to encourage the conversation to continue and be part of any policy or creative solution. i have been contacted on a daily basis to complain about parking issues single-family hopes are the predominant form of homes. many have converted garages to living space and homes that used to have 4 to 5 people now have 10 to 12 residents, creating chronic parking shortages. we've been working with sfmta leadership to initiate a district-wide permit parking program. as a precursor to our

residential parking permit program, today i ask that the fines are restricted behind the homes of my constituents living on de wolf street, who requested the city's help managing the use of the block by people living in recreational vehicles. the residents have complained about individuals living in the rvs using open flames, generators, and illegal dumping of trash. as a city, we're tasked to support all residents, including those who are vehicularly housed, but forcing people that live on a small side street to become an unofficial r.v. park is not the answer. i'm sensitive towards people that be trying to maintain housing any way they can, but we need to find a way to support people living in r.v.s that's not a detriment to the quality of life and safety for residents

living in one of the last affordable neighborhoods in san francisco. sincerely, ahsha safai, district 11. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> do you have any questions for me? >> chairman brinkman: directors, any question? i do, but it's probably more appropriately directed at staff. you stated overnight parking, but it looks like on our agenda, it's prohibiting oversized vehicles. >> more than 7 feet tall or 22 feet long. >> one block? >> behind 13 houses. and the street is right behind the bart tracks and freeway. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. thank you, ms. meyer. directors, do you want to have staff