>> clerk: for approval of the minutes of january 15 and january 19 meetings. >> okay. board members, we have the minutes before us for two meetings. is there any public comment before us? seeing none, public comment is closed. board members, i'm happy to take a motion to approve both at the same time. >> motion to approve both. >> second. >> motion to approve all say aye? opposed? okay. >> clerk: items of the chair or directors, i have none today. introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> board members, any new or unfinished business? so much so that they're stymied. >> clerk: item seven,

director's report. >> we got to you in record time, director reiskin. >> i want to wish everyone a happy black history month, and it being february 5, it being lun or new year, i want to wish everyone happy lunar new year. i want to start off by asking our director of safety, melvin henry, to come forward to recognize some extraordinary work, unusual work by him and his staff. >> good afternoon, directors, melvin henry, director of system safety. the three gentlemen coming up here now, back on october 24, we had an event that happened in the office where we had a colleague that was going through a cardiac arrest. so the three gentlemen here

grabbed or external defibrillator and administered it to mr. antoine ross. they administered one shock and immediately started the chest compressions and rescue breathing. that continued until they were relieved by emergency responders who continued the c.p.r. efforts, and then, he was transported to s.f. general hospital and to this day, he is doing well. he was released, he is recovering, and i just want to -- on above of the ross family -- on behalf of the ross family, who some of the members are here, and sfmta, i want to thank them for their efforts. >> quite remarkable. gentlemen, anything you want to say? saving a life is enough. you don't have to give a

speech, but since you did save a life, if you want to say something, you may. >> and i forgot to give the names. to my left we have elvino garcia, josh fedore, and john ferontez. >> well, the only thing i want to say is it is very scary. it caught everybody off guard. one thing that made it go smoothly was the coordinated effort between the three of us. it was nothing we had rehearsed together but through our previous experiences working together, we led a coordinated effort, which we got the a.e.d., chest compressions, 911, security, they reserved the elevator so paramedics

could have unrestricted access to us. the three of us working together is what made it go as smoothly as it did. >> well, thank you so much. i'll say this. you're here today because we're held britting a heroic activism, but because you go above and beyond for your support. please accept these thanks and awards on behalf of the entire city of san francisco. thank you so much. [applause] >> so continuing on, next, with some vision zero updates. first with respect to our rapid response team, we did have our first traffic fatality of the year, when 84-year-old lucy

morales was crossing at haight and shrader. we did something different this time, having our own rapid response team who are the engineers that go out right -- as soon as we're made aware of a fatal or possibly fatal incident to see if there's anything we can do to make the area safer. they went out with public health crisis response team and also conducted outreach with the goal to acknowledge the fatality and ensure the city is aware and responsive and make sure the city has under way vision zero to eliminate fatalities citywide on our streets. the teams were on-site within 24 hours, talking with businesses about how to make their parking and traffic operations safer. the messaging was similar to what we do in the world day of

remembrance in the fall, and we had a poster with our neighbor di died here in a traffic collision. we can do better. one is too many. as a result of this outreach, there are 300-plus in-person interactions, some in spanish in connection to the department of public health, their crisis response team that had referrals to their 24-7 crisis hotline. so we're trying to obviously prevent these fatalities in the first place, not only see what we can do to help them from happening again, but also to remind folks of the importance of everybody's responsibility. i think generally with the go a good response and some appreciation from folks knowing that the city is aware of and working on this issue and working hard to get to zero.

so along with that, just a summary of education and outreach. in 2018, we had a dozen outreach and education campaigns to raise awareness of significance zero, including with the state department of motor vehicles to play antispeeding videos throughout their offices in california. six separate ad campaigns, including the district attorney, senior pedestrian safety campaign that many of you probably saw on buses and bus shelters. vision zero campaigns combined for more than 250 million media impressions. we're trying to use digital and social media channels to reach people. we had 52 people reach out to community events throughout the city, and every one of those had chinese, spanish, and/or

filipino ambassadors present. we talk about the engineering and redesigning the streets, which is critically important, so i wanted to give you an overview of what was accomplished in 2018. moving onto the b.a.r.t. service changes that will result from their starting service late, starting next monday as part of a reconstruction -- a seismic reconstruction project associated with the transbay two, they need longer work windows in order to be able to get that work done. but what that work means is the first hour of service that b.a.r.t. usually provides will be unavailable on train, and so starting february 1, on weekends before -- weekday mornings before 5:00 a.m., muni will be running early bird shutting service between the

transbay terminal and daily ciy b.a.r.t. and this is to replace the first missing hour of b.a.r.t. service. so our service running for b.a.r.t. will run every 15 minutes, and it will hit all of the b.a.r.t. stops in the city -- not every stop. transbay will essentially serve the downtown stops, and then it'll go to glen park, balboa park, and then, daly city. and of course those people who are coming from the east bay to the transbay terminal will have also access to service to the downtown stations, as well. fares will be provided with clipper, so we have an agreement in place with b.a.r.t. to make that all function. and this will happen on weekdays for the duration of

the project, which is currently projected to be 3.5 years, so this is not -- this is not short-term, this will be in place for the long-term. we'll have ambassadors out -- bart will, at first, to make sure that riders have the information that they need to ensure that transitions are made as smoothly as possible, and that we'll monitor to make sure any adjustments that need to be made can be made. moving onto a couple of our own construction projects, the next phase of work on the new platform at the ucsf on third street started last week. it started last tuesday. it was projected to be a 16-day shutdown initially, the issued down on third street initially was projected to be 13 days, but because of the rain, it will be 16 days, it will be done at the end of this week.

the t line will be substituted as bus service through march. the work, notwithstanding the rain, is going reasonably well. a lot of lessons we incorporated into this, including scheduling buffer. we've been focusing on information to riders and ultimately we will have not just the new platform but a number of new crossovers that will provide flexibility in our service, particularly in service of our arena events. and all of this work is expected to be done by late april. so that is progressing well, and hopefully by the end of this week, we'll at least partially open third street. moving onto vanness, progress continues. the work done to date has all pretty much been the undergroundwork.

this has all been replacing 100-year-old water and sewer infrastructure, as well as replacing sidewalks. the water -- i know it's billed as the vanness b.r.t. project, but i want to make sure we're taking care of all the infrastructure on the street from building front to building front, so when we are done, there are there are new sidewalks, and they will be more reliable and less subject to failure. but i know the extent of this construction, two miles, replacing all of this sewer and pressure -- high pressured water for firefighting. right now, we have about half of the sewer work done, and we have been able to address some of the issues, and get ahead of the issues underground that

have not been identified by the utility companies that were slowing us down. having gotten ahead of those, the pace of the work is increasing, and we continue to work with the contractor and bring our own resources onto the project to try to continue to accelerate work. right now, the schedule is to have service up and running in 2021. we are working our hardest to try to bring that schedule back and recover some of the time that we lost. we are providing support to businesses along the vanness corridor through or project outreach team and working in conjunction with the office of economic and workforce development. we do have the construction mitigation program in place on the corridor which brings some of these oewd resources to bear for merchants on the corridor. you may recall we have a citizens advisory committee to bring input from businesses and merchants on the corridor so we

can address issues as they arise. we do have weekly construction forecasts which folks can sign up for at sfgovtv.com/projects. couple other quick things. this board has asked us to explore seats on the new light rail vehicles. we do have, at your direction, a study underway to determine customer satisfaction with vehicles overall and to inform any future modifications and future procurements and possible retrofits of the existing trains. we have customers being surveyed on board in multiple languages as well as through focus groups, and we're talking to regular riders and seniors, and those who identify as having mobility-oriented

disabilities, and we're already identifying from what we've heard from you and from some of the public, some possible changes, such as lowering the seats, such as putting in some transform, as well as longit i longitudinal seats. so we will be coming to the next meeting with some replacements but also with some sense of what might be feasible and make sense in terms of retrofitting the existing vehicles, so just wanted to let you know we heard you on that and we'll be coming back tuesday. given that this is the start of the lunar new year, wanted to remind you that on february 23, the city will host the annual chinese new year's parade, one

of the largest outside of china. we will participate in the parade aboard one of the decorated motorized cable cars. there's about 25 muni lines we reroute in order to accommodate the parade route, and we do this in tight coordination with the police department and public works so that the street closures and street reopenings are as efficient and effective and minimizing as much inconvenience as possible. and of course we'll have a full contingent of folks out on the streets, muni folks and traffic control to help move and make sure the rest of the impacted area -- it is something we have practice in because it's an annual event. just know as everyone's enjoying the parade, there's a lot of m.t.a. resources making

that available. and i did want to report on something, a little before 9:00 a.m., we had a major subway delay that was caused by a switch problem for a period of time inhibited any movement of trains going through the castro area, so not a direct impact on the n. and j. lines, but a direct on the k, l, m, s, and t. we had train traffic stopped in both directions for about 25 minutes. most of the trains were stopped at the platforms, and so people were able to get off. we did have two trains that were stuck before castro station. the cause of the incident was a mechanical failure on a switch. we had been switching a train

back at castro, and the switch would not go back to its normal straight position that the main line trains use. this switch was inspected recently by both rail maintenance and signal crews but clearly there was something missed in terms of alignment of the switch that we should have been able to address. we did make sure that we were proactively making announcements on both subway and vehicles. and we also deployed staff to nearby stations, out to west portal and embarcadero throughout the staff to do what we could do provide information. we did have bus shuttles running as soon as we could get them working. so we haven't fully evaluated the situation.

we had prepositioned some maintenance in the subway to be able to better respond to issues such as these, but it sounds like we had some staffing issues and communication issues that didn't get the folks on the ground fast enough to the switch in order to either manually or permanently fix it. we think that we'll need to change our inspection routines because we -- as i said, we should have been able to identify this issue. there are a number of other kind of issues that as we work through this particular closure, there are other changes that we will make. i do want to note that on the upside, before today in the last week, 1.5 weeks, we've had very good performance in the subway, and that's because

we've had the t-3rd changes. we've been very good managing around that construction project, making sure our best trains were utilized for service every day. we added p.c.o.s starting last week to support for increased support at west portal. this is something i think we heard last week at the board workshop, particularly in the p.m.p. to expedite trains exiting the subway where they also get bogged down, and then, we also added p.c.o.s at the a.m. peak. i think that's really been helpful, and of course generally, we'll continue to implement subway improvements, and we'll continue monthly updates on muni service. so generally, the rail service has been good, but today, it was a significant example where it was not, and our riders

certainly -- many were very inconvenienced about that, and we're doing everything we can to prevent any such reoccurrence. >> very good. thank you. any questions for -- director rubke? >> is there any way for the public to reach out and provide input if they're not being insepted on the trains or otherwise? >> yeah. let me ask our communications director to speak to what kp l channels we have for the public to provide feedback. >> candace sue, director of feedback and marketing. so the work that we're doing is intercept based mainly, but we have been continuing to accept feedback through our other channels including twitter and then also through 311, which we had received actually quite a bit of feedback and are using all of that data together, so we'll accept e-mails, letters

written or 311 comments or of course the personal feedback. thank you. >> and we've asked our citizens advisory committee to weigh in on this issue and they're in the process of doing that. director brinkman? >> yes. thank you. director reiskin, muni taking over for b.a.r.t., we're using our muni buses to do this, correct? >> that's correct. >> and we can do that because we have enough buses, it's not going to impact our other service to our customers? why yeah. this is a time away between four and five in the minute morning, so it's at a time when we're able to do this, and b.a.r.t. is supporting this. >> good. it goes on for quite a while, doesn't it? >> 3.5 years. >> 3.5 years, so this is going to be a lot of use of our buses

at a time when we need them. we'll definitely get them back. i just wanted to make sure that us using our buses to do that, which is totally great. we can do that because we have enough buses in the system, and we can do that. >> that's correct. the compensation that we provide for really any time we provide bus service is not just the hourly operations rate but it incorporates maintenance costs, too, so we just want to make sure we're recovering and being made whole any time we use muni buses. >> thank you. >> director. >> director torres: toers i jui -- director tore -- torres. >> i just wanted to say thank you for the way you handled all of the issues. so thank you.

[inaudible] >> well, so it's always hard for us to sustain an enforcement presence because the enforcement demands that we have around the city are greater than the people that we have to do them. but we're doing that to see how effective it is. if it's effective and we don't have other alternatives, we will seek ways to sustain it. we have been seeking p.c.o.s downtown to facility taate mun. if it's the only way to make muni service more reliable, we'll figure out a way to do it. [inaudible] >> there's one data point we'll add to the mix. >> okay. we'll go to public comment in a second. i'd like to ask two questions or address two issues. first of all, on the seating configuration, i appreciate you doing this.

i said that a lot of our focus is going to be on customer feedback, which is great. that should be the number one data point, but there is another data point that's really important here, and that's the overall efficiency of the train. i think the first move from the one seat to the two seats in the l.r.v. is there would be more people standing, and i certainly think that that's the reason behind the new york sort of longitudinal seats. i personally don't see it. i see people standing two apart. and that's what's happening. especially when there's only two support poles, that's all that can stand safely. so until you're going to change the support mercnisms, which i'm not in favor of, you've changed seating availability s

is -- availabilities with no change in support mechanisms. so as you look at the seating capacity g capacity -- at the seating, i would not look only at customer feedback, because customers are only going to be focused on the comfortableability of the lead. if that doesn't lead to added capacity, which is the primary transit benefit of the new seating capacity, then i think that really counsels in favor of going back to the original muni design of two and two. but please consider that other factor. then, as far as the castro switch issue, director torres was very gracious in his comments, and i always appreciate you take these

things on the chin and come to us with transparency and tell us what's going on, but i have to say, that's unacceptable. i know the report will come to us at the next meeting. i know we'll have some time estimates between west portal and embarcadero, and i hope those will show that the service has improved since we at least started asking for this. but the castro switch issue, as you know -- as i break my microphone, is an issue that we've been hearing about for years ago. it's not as if you've done nothing about it. you have a rapid response team on the ground there to deal with it. and yet, today, with you heard maybe it -- maybe, we heard today maybe it wasn't dealt with properly. would it make sense to have the

people from the rapid response team or at least their supervisor here to hear from them? would that help educate the board? i'm not demanding it. it's not my place to demand it, but i'm saying one of the purpose of these reports is to let folks know we understand what a big deal a 25-minute service disruption in the castro station is on tuesday, and that we have the resources there and that they have a plan to deal with it. i'm not sure my fellow riders feel that way, and so i'm just giving you some ideas at the report that we're going to have next meeting along the lines of what this board and i have personally requested, i think we're going to want some input about this incident because i've been requesting castro street switches for years, and you know it's an issue. all right. public comment, miss boomer?

>> yes. one member of the public has presented a speaker card. this is an opportunity for members of the public to present comment on what mr. reiskin has just commented on, not on other matters that may or may not be before the board. >> i'm astonished because i'm asking for the report mr. reiskin didn't make. he fundamentally altered the taxi situation at the airport. because potentially he has added 161 medallions that are not owned by anybody except the savings and alone company, and

you have entirely destroyed any hope that the medallion holders will not become insolvent, and you will become a debtor to millions and millions of dollars. so i would like you to explain to me why you didn't even tell us. >> so as you know well -- >> no, i'm going back to public comment. but he should have made an announcement when he changed a public thing. >> you've made your point very clear. is there any further public comment? seeing none, we'll close public comment. item eight. >> clerk: [agenda item read]. cle>> clerk:

[agenda item read]. >> clerk: we'll start with francisco decosta followed by robert chicanza. >> commissioners, my name is francisco decosta. for the last 40 years, i've been addressing environmental issues. i would like this commission to focus on a carbon footprint, a real carbon footprint. the reason i say that is anyone can speak in generalities about our operation, about our inventory, about mishaps, but the important thing to note is health. so when the dangerous

particulates affects us, more are physically and mentally challenged, and the commissioners and the mayor -- and we don't have a toxicologist in this city, and that's a problem with the health department. we just can't be focused on general topics, generalities that don't go anywhere. so anyone can see what i said. but the solution is to give our universities, our colleges other experts who will volunteer to address our carbon footprint, and the congestion, despicable. we cannot call this city a first-class city when we have

the congestion that i've seen with my own eyes. sometimes, i task it to mr. reiskin so that he knows that i'm' on top of things. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon to the board. on the 1st of february, you started a new program at the airport supposedly to give help to the p drivers, the people who had spent $250,000 to buy a medallions, which in the last eight to ten years, you have done everything to defeat the cab industry so that the medallions generally have no value. and you did it with spades

because this program was supposed to help the medallion holders who had purchased medallions and give them more revenue by giving them more rides at the airport. but what did you do? suddenly, out of the blue -- and nobody knows, you started issuing the right for the savings and loan company to run p medallions with leased drivers. now this is going to be a catastrophe, not only for the leased drivers because the total number of failures -- which you can never tell us because it goes from one day to the other, but it's approximately 710 medallions that you sold. and since the rate of pickup at the airport is probably 200 an hour, at peak, 300, that these

medallion holders, if they go there as their salvation are going to sit there for probably 1.5 or two hours. plus, they're going to drive empty to the airport and back. round time, three hours. so they'll do three trips a day. if they're lucky, they'll do four, and then, they'll start cheating and do five or six. >> thank you. we've got your point. >> clerk: thank you. tracey breeger. >> and the name after that. >> clerk: cynthia gomez. >> all right. are you miss breeger? >> i thought she called mike lee first. >> thank you. i apologize, mike lee, the

floor is yours. >> thank you, members of the board. i wanted to try to quickly share an experience i had the other day when i came over. i was sitting in berkeley, and i thought hey, this might be a nice day to go to the beach. nobody's going to be out there. it's kind of foggy and damp and nobody likes us except us hard-core san franciscans, used to this. so i jump on the b.a.r.t., and i jump on it, and go down to n, and i go oh, oh, this hasn't changed a lot. couple vacant storefronts. it doesn't look too bad. get all the way down to the end, lo and behold, i can't get off the train. why? because nobody told me 2k3w imps have to go to the front of the bus, not the back. to medical he that's a culture shock because i've been told

that people of color go to the back of the bus. so what happened was is that they had to respot the train to try to figure out what was going on. this is during the operators lay time, instead of doing what they're supposed to do, taking a break, deal with me. the other thing was when i was coming back, just real quickly to finish up, i noticed that there were limited places where i can disembark. for instance, where the platform is, i may have to go ten blocks, for me, that's not a big issue because i'm in a power wheelchair, but i can't imagine if you're in a manual, and you have to go back for, like, a doctor's appointment, but i'd like you to look into fixing that. make it more accessible for us.

>> thank you, mr. lee. thank you. miss breeger, i apologize for mixing you up, but the floor is years. >> good afternoon. i'm here today to share some concerns about the moscone center garage development, and ourselves in somcan, we've written you guys a letter. but today i wanted to really focus on what we see as the very deeply flawed nature of the decision making process around this project. so accountable development requires that projects contribute to the social and

economic well-being in the neighborhoods of which they're located, and especially support and contribute to those most impacted by the project and impacted by the critical and extreme inequality in san francisco. there's no question that this moscone center garage development has a huge potential and i would say obligation to use this incredibly highly valuable public land for the good of san franciscans especially those who need it most. getting it right means that these communities must be involved in the decision making in a meaningful way. so this is an immensely lucrative project for whatever developer gets chosen. since it's on public land, we need to make sure the selected developer is ready to support the community and be a good neighbor. the only way to ensure that the public benefits -- that the project benefits the community equitiablely and to make sure that the -- is to make sure that the most directly impacted

communities have a very clear role in the decision making. so specifically, we're calling for a suspension in the decision making of this project until a meaningful and transparent community effective process can be established. this includes holding community forums and have at least one community representative and labor representative be a part of the evaluation panel. >> thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> miss gomez, well confidenti -- welcome. >> good afternoon.

i sent a letter to the board yesterday, and i urge you to think about the need for the kind of transparency that our allies are talking about, and for the need to think long and hard about the type of deal that will impact the neighborhood and the community for decades to come, and to really think about what kind of development partner you want to choose and to really think about how this project can serve the needs of all san franciscans in terms of jobs, in terms of housing. so this is not on your agenda today, and i know that you're not able to comment, but i want to, again, just echo that we've raised concerns yesterday, we raised them previously, we raised them in august of 2018, and we will seek an opportunity to raise them if and when this comes back on the agenda. we want to heed the all of our allies for a much more defined community presence in the

decision over what is publicly-held land. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. welcome. >> hi. good morning, commissioners. my name is katrina lee wong. i'm the cultural director for soma filipinas. we are bringing up collective concerns about the decision making process regarding the moscone garage development project on third street. soma filipinas strives to provide a platform for "politico" residents to work together in creating a d-- filipina residents to work

together in creating vibrant communities. [inaudible] >> -- between the developers bidding for the space. the developers that are desiring the moscone garage center will provide by a conventional hotel but the community at least should also consider thorough coordinations. soma filipinas, together with our community members here, demand the following. that sfmta and o.t.a. suspend the process until a meaningful decision process can be made, that sfmta hold at least two community forums and require attendance from all four bidding developers, and that at least one general community member and one labor representative be included in the recommendation panel, but

we'd also like you to keep in mind that the district must be considered for developers, including plans for local targeted hire, that the community must see the details for affordable housing on behalf of the developers plans and our continued search for open community space. >> thank you. [inaudible] >> hello. david wu with the south of market community action organization. the process that is currently being undertaken by sfmta by proposed development at moscone center garage is completely unacceptable and lacked community input. the fact that this is happening on public land makes sfmta's lack of engagement that much worse. any public land that's under

going development must undergo this process. transparency with the public is something that has been greatly lacking from sfmta. we have seen sfmta planning on top of communities rather than working with them including the scooter, ride share, and other programs. questions remain about the types of public benefits that will come with this development. city must maximize the opportunity for public benefits on this public site. public land should be fore public benefit, period. the affordable housing being proposed must be deeply affordable and meet the needs of low-income residents as well as working families. there must be planning for family sized units for people that are on-site and accessible for the neighborhood. we ask for a project on this

site that greaty increased community benefits. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. miss march teinovich, thank yo. >> -- specifically, we demand the following, that there are at least two public community forums with sfmta staff and representatives from all developers present. that at least one community member and one labor representative are formally included as members of the evaluation panel and formally part of the decision making process to recommend a developer to the sfmta board. and that there is a more meaningful incorporation of community benefits into the decision making criteria,

including making this criteria worth more than 5% of the overall evaluation. we refuse to allow community benefits to be an after thought in this process. there must be a clear and strong path for maximizing the good jobs on this site. the developer and operators must incorporate strong and enforceable goals for targeting hire, retention, and promotion and support for workforce development and training. given the terrible track record of marriott hotels and their treatment of workers, we are calling on the city to not reward this applicant with an extremely profitable development on public land on the moscone garage site. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> teresa imperial, barry toronto, mary mcguire. >> hi. my name is teresa imperial. by the way, first of all, i'm glad that you guys discussed

about the castro switch because i was one of those passengers that got on the l line at quarter to 9:00 and didn't get to downtown at 10:00 -- 10:10, if anything, so i'm glad that that's being discussed, but that's a really big issue. i'm here standing with other community folks regarding the moscone garage development? first of all, we also want to make sure that you understand that this is a public land. last -- 2014, there is a surplus city property ordinance in which underutilized public land sites are required recreation for affordable housing, education, etc. so -- and one of the example, if you guys don't know what's going on -- affordable housing, 455 fell street is up for applications and that is a public land site.

so there's about 72 units in that. so that ordinance should be implemented. and on top of it, there is no transparency process with the community at all. tieco actually invited the community to come in with other developers in there, and we waited for about an hour, and no one came. this should be the transparent process and having -- dialogue with the committee -- community should be happening right now. but no, we're not hearing anything, from sfmta and even the supervisor haney's office are not hearing from this, as well. so transparency and accountability should be first on this. thank you. >> thank you very much. mr. toronto, welcome.

>> i'm sure you saw my e-mails that i sent. kay lied to you, she lied to us, she lied to the public. i don't appreciate using false statistics, missing -- leaving out -- leaving out information, and failing to disclose about these medallions from the san francisco credit un down, what, is she going to continue to hide it from us? we see each other, we talk to each other on the streets. do you know about this? not until you probably got the e-mail that was shared between us. i think we just all deserve a response, an explanation, and we should have a hearing. yes, there was an amendment

that allowed for this to happen. but why aren't other companies given the same opportunity? i asked my manager, were any -- yes, there were other medallions closed, but there was never any opportunity to lease the medallions from the san francisco credit unions? do they get any credit, how much are they leased for? who gets to lease them? there's a lot of questions. instead, the enforcement in the city is lax because you're using an investigator at the airport to baby-sit us. one -- your investigators in the city that you pay for. also, there's a policy of lot two. once lots three and four are empty, it should automatically go into three and four instead of sitting empty until enough medallions show up in lot four. there's got to be changes and you're treating us like k4rd

rap. and you should know it's sneaky, and i'm going for public records and everything. [inaudible] >> commissioner mcguire, welcome back. >> hello. good afternoon. i want to address -- when -- when kay torin had her posted meetings, in item six, it called for more taxi stands. michael harris created a policy for more taxi stands in red zones, so what happened to that? it's never been mentioned in all these discussions. i drove around on saturday night for 1.5 hours from about 8:00 to 9:30. i started, i dropped off at pier 39. i drove through the city. i ended up on castro street, and market -- at market and castro, and finally, i had an

order clear out on washington. that's how bad i needed an order. this is a industry that bans plastic straws and you're -- a city that bans plastic straws, and you're allowing this to happen? you don't even have a platform at the wharf. this medallions, i grew up -- when i was a little girl in the south, and i remembered, when we had a swimming pool and whites were allowed on one side and blacks were allowed on the other side, and i didn't really understand it because i was so young. but this -- one person pointed out to me, a passenger -- are they going to have segregated bathrooms at the airport, or the p medallions get to use the bathroom at the airport before the k medallion owners? and once any medallion sold in your program, it's going to be

a p. so at some time, the majority of the medallions are going to be purchased medallions, and we're right back where we started. as far as corporat corporate s who's going to buy a medallion when they know you can change the classification at any time. >> thank you. mr. spain? >> yeah. i'd like to talk about the basic economics of operating a cap. not driving one, how much it costs. the first one is $1,000 of insurance. the second major cost is about $400 in deappreciation. you have to buy almost a new car. it'll last four or five years, and by the time you're done with it, it's worthless. then, there's the upkeep of the car. it takes about $400 to keep a car on the street because of changing of oil and tire changes, and driver's screw up.

and the car, you have to get them repaired otherwise they can't be on the street. if the driver's at fault, you have to accept responsibility. and then, there's the money you have to pay to the city, about $1200, and if you're operating yourself, you have to pay to the company for the color, right? if the company operates the cab themselves, they don't charge you that money. now, what does all that come to? that comes to over $2,000. now, if i'm a driver, how much do i pay to the company? if i pay 1500, the company is under water. the company hasn't made any money. the owner of the cab isn't going to get any money, so you almost have to be at least $80

a day rate in order to break even in this business, and i -- and i guarantee you drivers, if you ask them to pay $80 or more, if they can go to the airport, yes. if they can't go to the airport, it's probably going to be a no. the cabs are going to sit there. then, the company is going to say to the owner of the cab, take the cab back because we can't even shift it out. so what's going to happen? you have a ten-day rule in this city that if you don't operate your cab within ten days -- [inaudible] >> -- you're going to get revocations. >> we have a -- your views are important, but so are everyone else's, and that's why we have an equal time rule. >> clerk: rachel lastimoso, mark gruberg. those are the last two speaker

is that have turned in cards on this topic. >> good afternoon. i'm speaking on behalf of san francisco's filipino cultural heritage district in regards to the moscone center garage. at a meeting months ago, bids had not been processed, and the timelines for the hotel were shared. as a cultural district, we shared the idea for a multimedia performing arts complex at this meeting, and considering the project is within the legislated boundaries of the cultural heritage district, and in close proximity to the other cultural and ethnic aspects, plus, the 100-plus years of filipinos in soma and san francisco, we had a conversation about how the moscone garage would be an

ideal location for an arts complex and received a positive response from the city's representatives. [please stand by]

>> taking from one group of drivers to another is not going solve the underlying problems. the only thing that