>> good morning. the meeting will come to order. welcome the june 3, 2019 meeting

of the rules committee. i am supervisor row nan. supervisor marhas asked to be excused from today's meeting. his daughter is having her eighth grade graduation. congratulations. i want be to thank supervisor brown for agreeing to substitute. the clerk is mr. young. i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. can i have a motion to excuse supervisor mar? without objection that motion passes. mr. clerk any announcements? >> please make sure to silence cell phones. completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. items today will be on the

june 19th agenda unless otherwise stated. please call item one. ordinance to amend the administrative code to cover tenants where the university is not restricted by regulatory agreements or other restrictions and the landlord has increased the rent to be more than 40% of the tenant's gross household income. >> supervisor brown opening remarks? >> commissioner brown: thank you, chair row nan. this legislation expanding the success of the displaced tenant preference to give applicants higher priority in housing lotteries. it is only available to tenants displaced by ellis act or owner move in evictions or fire. my legislation will expand to protect tenants living in housing where affordable

restrictions expire including former redevelopment and hud finance projects including affordability restrictions only lasting for the term of the loan or contract. other older housing projects subject to 20 to 30 year affordable restrictions. as the restrictions expire property owners no longer under any legal or contract all requirement for below market units. they can raise rents to market rates to existing tenants. we have seen examples in south beach marina and bay side village in district 6 and 737 post in district 3. in district 5 affordability expires at fillmore center in december of 2017.

it has expire and will expire in other projects over the coming decades. these projects represent hundreds of affordable units. mohcd has been working hard to ensure permanent affordability for as many tenants of fillmore as possible. for those who can't stay, we need options. i want to make sure we are providing this affordable housing preference for tenants through no fault of their own face a loss of affordable housing simply because an affordability restriction expired. my legislation proposed expand the displaced tenants to include those whose rents increase 40% or more of income due to lost of government issued affordability restrictions. thank you supervisor peskin for

co-sponsoring. i look forward to passing this as quickly as possible. we are under a timeline. this is important that additional protections are in place for tenants when they need it. thank you. i think m. ochd is here to answer questions. >> about morning. how are you? >> i am well. thank you. >> maria benjamin. i am happy to give background on the current status of the displaced tenant housing preference and talk about the proposed amendments and what they would mean. currently, as supervisor brown spoke about, currently there are three categories of displacement or eviction that would qualify a household for the displaced

tenant housing tenants. one is because of ellis act because of rent controlled unit. another is owner move in. third category is by fire where you can't return to your unit within six months. the proposed category would also add that same set aside in affordable housing lotteries to folks who have the affordability restrictions to fire. what does it look like now? so far since late 2015, we have had over 1,000 applications for displaced tenant housing preference. there are about 365 of those came from owner move ins, ellis ability 462, fire victims 78.

of those over 1,000 people, 82% of those people who apply actually qualify and get these certificates. the displaced tenants applicants in new construction, between the fiscal year july 2016 and then the end of june 2018, there were 47 developments that qualified for displaced tenant. 1368 units in those developments. the set aside for dhp was in 38 developments. you have to have at least five units in a building available in

the lottery to apply the displaced tenants. there were 224 units available to folks. as you can see, as the evictions are, they are in many districts across the city. these are home ownership units and rental units. there are only 9% of the displaced tenants developments that were ownership units. the vast majority is rental units. occupancy. what all these applicants, who is getting in using this preference? there were 100 households during that time period that used the certificate. 70 of those households took

occupancy in newly constructed buildings. 30 certificate owners took occupancy in re-rentals or re-sales of affordable units. the occupancy by category. ellis act -- vacation 43, 8 fire victims. what we are looking at now with the restrictions expiring, there are in hud or state funded projects, there are 15 buildings

current currently at risk of losing affordability restrictions. that totals over 1500 units between 2021 and 20 2029. inclusionary 45 buildings totals 500 units expiring between 2028 and 2064. there is room in the displaced tenant housing preference for this amendment. there were 56% of the units set aside for displaced tenant housing preference were not filled by those applicants. there are many reasons. because someone is evicted and gets the certificate does not

mean they meet eligibility for affordable housing. also, there are some buildings that are set aside for seniors or set aside for transitional age youth or return es like the alice griffith buildings. those were set aside for those people. displaced tenants did not apply or qualify. also, the reason why the applicant numbers are higher is because what happens when someone gets the certificate and they are desperately searching for housing they apply across the board to many different developments at one time and they select the one they get in. the applicant number is higher than the occupant number because

of do doily another was another wa-- the number of people applying. the number is slowly decreasing from the time between 2016 and 2017 there were over 800omi evictions in the city. in the current year, current fiscal year ending this month, there have been about 350omi evictions. -- 350 omi evictions. there are many reasons. in part because of the eviction representation the city is offering now to tenants that they are not as easily evicted. that could be one of the reasons.

we are -- because there is capacity in the preference, we think that this much needed assistance as supervisor brown mentioned ask, you know, it is life or death for those folks in restricted units now they will not have a place to go once their rent goes to market rate rent. that is my presentation. >> thank you. supervisor brown do you have questions or comments? >> commissioner brown: i have a few questions. how can we make sure tenants have time to exercise the preference to ensure they can transition smoothly from current housing to new affordable housing? >> i think if we allow tenants -- i think what you are asks is like when they get to the end,

when suddenly the restrictions ex prior and they have a -- expire and the market rate rent goes up or they get eviction and they have eviction on the record before they have time for affordable housing. i think we can add just that by making it available to them now and not waiting until the rent goes up. if they are in a building that has market rate units, they know what the market rate rent will be, and we can qualify them now based on their current income and based on what the market rate units are going for in the building that they are in. >> because i know in the fillmore center, i think what is it? 103 are staying because you negotiated and seniors and those with disabilities are able to

stay to have their lifetime. >> that's correct. >> there is 1205 that ha-- 105 that have to go within five and-a-half years. i want to make sure we give people time because, you know, i know a lot of people want to stay in the neighborhood. will they be able to use neighborhood preference also to be able to have much more of a chance to stay in the neighborhood as developments coming up? >> definitely. >> so i know when they were negotiating these contracts 20 or 30 years ago that sounded like a long time, right? now it has hit us square in the middle of the eyes. when we are negotiating the contracts with the new developments, there is no expiration date. we discontinued that, correct? >> that is correct. >> perfect. that is something i feel like we would have to change if that was

the case. also, can we make it so that tenants can qualify by showing that the current market rates for comparable apartments in the same building are 40% or more of their income? >> that is a great idea to be able to, first of all, help people. it is not instant because you have assertive can't -- th thesertive can't debt mean you will get right in. it will help those that haven't moved in a long time. they might need to fix the credit or other issues to be able to move. >> because of this, i think i will have to amends the legislation, correct. >> as it stands. >> as it stands now, i am going to ask this body if we could -- and i think my aid is getting the amendments. i thought you were going to bring them.

here he is, thank you, carlos. i would love if we could agree to continue this but then also look at these amendments to accept the amendments. i also had one more question. what about the hud properties? i know i have the largest amount of hud properties and supervisor walton has the largest amount and you have the third. we are all lined up. i didn't know that, supervisor. good to know. i will talk about that? meetings. what is the danger here? i know a lot of them, for me, in my community in the western addition we see developers

circling around these developments because there are a lot of two story, a lot of land, parking, and looking at trying to redevelop them. i am worried to make sure that we keep the affordability there, and, hopefully, if they want to develop they have to do more afforaffordability. can you tell us a little more about that. >> i cannot really go into that. i don't have that information. amy is the one. >> thank you for that question. there are hud properties that do not have city subsidy in them. in those cases as an agency we don't have direct oversight of affordability. we are watching those properties with hud and have worked with you, supervisor brown, to make sure there is technical

assistance for the tenant associations and for residents to be aware of the affordability restrictions and helping folks understand that renewing their contracts when they come to expire and renewing the permanent afford ability is in the best interest of the tenants. we are working to provide that outreach and education to the residents. we don't have direct oversight over many of the properties because we don't have funding for those properties. we don't have -- there is no more city funding in the properties. we don't have direct oversight over affordability restrictions. >> if they want to sell we have first right ever right of the re city? >> is noticing requirements around sales of publicly

assisted properties. the owner must give us notice, and i think we can obviously work with our affordability housing providers to come in and make an offer. >> because i know what happened with fd haynes a couple years ago it was on the mls and it was 90% of the people that lived there were extremely low or low income, and so i want be to make sure that we are looking at how do we protect. i know we don't have the money in there to have that control. i think at least making sure the city has first right every few sa--first right refusal to purce the property. we know the city doesn't move fast. having time to purchase it, also. just, you know, looking at that because i just feel that i think

all of us have that worry that once and especially my hud properties were the first to pay off all of the hud loans. now they are more of an independent body. i think that is first one coming up that we have to really look at with development. >> to your question. i was thinking about long standing state and city requirements of noticing for sales of publicly assisted properties the board passed the community purchase act recently and our office is in the process of implementing that legislation to require the properties with properties three units and up to notify them so that law will soon be implemented. >> thank you.

>> is that all? just a question to city attorney. this will have to it is another week in committee. okay. can i have a motion. >> so moved to continue. >> to accept the amendment. >> to accept the amendments. >> we have to open up for public comment first. if any member of the public would like to speak, now is your chance. you have two minutes. seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor walton made a motion to continue this item to the next rules committee meeting next monday. >> that would be june 10th. >> without objection that motion passes. >> thank you so much. can you please call item number two. >> item two.

hearing considering pointing a member term ending march 192022. one seat -- mar2022 one seat one applicant. >> do you have any comments, supervisor walton? >> if we can call up nur jehan khalique. >> good morning. >> good morning, supervisors, how are you today? >> good. go ahead. >> i am, i guess, what do you call it, nominee to be a part of the cpac committee again. i have served on the committee for two years. i should start introducing myself would be a good start. i am nur jehan khalique. i am currently executive

director of early childhood schooling programs in san francisco unified school district. i am also a resident of district 10 in the bayview and having since 2006. i am very aware of educational issues in san francisco unified as well as being a community member understanding many of the issues facing parents that have young children. in addition to that, i will briefly go over some of my call fixes because i have been -- my call fixes. i have been in education for 30 years. i don't want to bore you with those details. in my career, i have been principal of -- i was one of the first principals of a co-located

site in the san francisco school dresdistrict. i was one of the first schools to embrace having an early childhood classrooms at my school. in addition. i had one of the first special ed includes classrooms at sheridan school. also, i was early child heard principal at stand alone site in sunnydale. you know some of the challenges of our families in these areas and the importance of making sure the families in the san francisco community, especially in our challenged areas like bayview know about the early childhood resources and get the support they need so they can actively participate in educating their young children. i think the some of the other

challenges they have is just, you know, having access. we have a lot of resources in the city. it doesn't mean they are getting to everyone they need to get to. in addition, i have actively participated in early childhood issues in the school district whereas just bringing in more programs such as san francisco public montessori rewhich came in under my leadership where we brought the montessori into san francisco. that gave our families in san francisco another program to access in addition to all of the other programs available in the city. in doing this, i worked closely with carla bryan, some of our childhood development centers in the city just to understand, you know, what their issues were so we can work in partnership with our stand alone sites as well as school sites in our district.

i am trying to think of what else. >> i think that is probably a good brief of my experience with early childhood. >> thank you so much. supervisor walton amazing appointment. i will open this for public comment in case anyone wants to speak. thank you so much. if any member of the public would like to speak now is your chance. seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor walton. >> commissioner walton: i did want her to come up and talk about her credentials so you could hear about the work she has done and how important it is to have someone for me from the district with a wealth of experience in working with our youngest children who definitely need it the most and definitely need the support so they can have a life time of successful

education opportunities and nur jehan khalique that been doing that for the school district for a long time. i was proud to nominate her to serve on cpac. >> as a mom of 6-year-old who recently actually graduated from kindergarten tomorrow i want to thank you so much for your incredible work. we know how important early childhood education is to the future of our children. thank you for being willing to serve in this role. we are grateful for your work. i would be happy to make the motion to send this forward with positive recommendation if i can take that without objection. that motion passes.

>> clerk: item three. >> to clarify you are appointing nur jehan khalique without objection. >> eye team 3 motion approving rejecting the may or april appointment of ike kwon for the unexspired portion of a four year term ending april 28, 2022. >> good morning. i am ike kwon. i am the chief operating officer of the academy of sciences and cherry elect for the sf travel advisers. recently the mayor asked me to move to tidi. i generally serve us as civic

volunteers. we may bring expertise and some commitment to serve where we are needed. that is how i see my role. i know the mayor had noted a couple things i had done that had to do with treasure island specifically. i will make it brief. first was taking a look at a new wastewater technology that is in conception phases to be discussed for treasure island. the connection with the academy island i was connected with the recovery center at stanford. long story short. it shrinks the size of the wastewater plant by two-thirds. think about the land that it takes up, not only that, it is odorless, puts energy back in

the grid and generates revenue. -- generates revenue. this is a large scale at silicone valley water. it is my hope treasure island can someday do a trial not to replace the crumbling infrastructure they need a fix right now. they are almost third world in terms of brownouts and utilities. that is one area of subject expertise or connection i have with the sfpc to expedite things. i have spent time with a resident talking about her issues along with her neighbors. two weeks ago i spent most of a wednesday on treasure island looking at infrastructure and housing. there are immediate needs and long-term needs. immediate needs for 2300 low

income housing. developers are circling, you had said that. it is no different here. the views are magnificent from treasure island. there are people living there now and they are trying to continue to live there now. they have an informed and balanced perspective, i think they need someone on the seat to push the commission hard. i know the commissioners work hard to look at what is best for the residents of that part of san francisco. i hope toal value. i think, commissioners we are volunteers. however i can help and be constructive in that manner i am happy to do so. i am happy to take questions. >> thank you. supervisor brown. >> thank you. i have known ike for years from the academy of science. it is in my district.

i will tell you the thing i really like about ike is that he is community driven. i mean even though the academy of science in the golden gate park he is in the inner sunset engaging with the residents, talking about traffic concerns, talking about things that matter to them, and i just really appreciate that you do that and that you went out and talked to the residents there right away. it makes me feel really secure that you are going to listen to them because that is really important to me for treasure island, too. thank you. >> thank you. i would agree. we all know you first and more most in your role with the academy of sciences which is by far one of the best museums in the world, in my opinion. i appreciated your presentation and how you are emphasizing the

current residents. having your expertise is important. i am very concerned about the residents that are currently on treasure island and your emphasize on that today gives me great comment and confidence that you will be focused on making sure they eve the utmost attention and care through this major change on the island. thank you very much. >> the sentiments of my colleagues. i wanted to highlight your work on serving on a commission that has been responsible for major developments in the communities in the san francisco, and, of course, treasure island is no difference. your focus on the people affected the most which is why i definitely am in support of this appointment and looking forward to all of the work together as we make sure we hold did

developers actable and build a community that is improved for an isolated area. >> thank you. >> i am going to open this up for public comment. if the public would like to comment on your appointment. >> i would like to note that time for public comment is two minutes per person. >> good morning i am a friend of ike kwon, also. i have known him for probably about seven years. i was lucky enough do speak on his behalf when he was appointed to the p.u.c. he hit the high points but the fact that he has brought extreme skill to the academy of science to manage the nonprofit that is extremely complex is really helpful for tida.

the fact he is working for the academy of science and brings a science background is critical. now as head of the urban forest council we have worked on the greening of that area and also the protection and growth of that area. i know that he will be able to bring a really good perspective. i have to underline what supervisor brown said about community commitment. we as a nonprofit work with him extensively with the community. on a personal note i know he is willing to move outside of his comfort zone. he and my husband and stepson were invited to the amazon three years ago by the head of the chief scientist to collect bugs to understand how insects are impacted by climate change so i know that his ability to move

outside his comfort zone will serve the city well. thank you. >> good morning bright line in support of eye confor tida. i appreciate his work on the sfpc and particularly his ability to do outreach with diverse communities as well as talk to youth who have worked at bright line have been meaningful and valuable to us as nonprofit. would appreciate your support. thank you. >> next speaker. i am hope williams. 10 year resident of treasure island and advocate there. i have had the pleasure of silting down to talk to ike prior to this committee he has

committed himself to work with us as resident. the struggles we have there. i am looking forward to working with him closely and taking the next step to impact and do the best for the residents there. >> thank you so much. next speaker. >> i am leah, director of guest operations at california academy. i have worked with ike kwon the past 10 years. he is the best boss ever. the reason we don't always agr agree. ike hires people that don't necessarily agree with him. he encourages debate and dialogue. that is why i think he would be a great person to serve the treasure island community. he consistently in the last 10 years shows up. by that he digs in, understands it, from the very top level to the very detailed level, and he

is reliable and consistently fair. i can't imagine you would want anyone else to serve the treasure island residents and someone to show up and create dialogue and be fair. thank you. >> any other member of the public wish to speak on this appointment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i will make a motion we amend item 3 to eliminate rejecting and approve the may or april appointment of ike kwon. >> without objection that motion passes. congratulations. thank you so much. >> mr. clerk please read item 4. motion approving rejecting the mayor's nomination for the appointment of steve theminger to the municipal transportation

agency board of directors for a term ending march 1, 2023. thank you. mr. the heminger would you likeo make remarks. >> for the past 18 years i have been executive director of the mtc, mtc is the regional transportation planning and finance agency. i retired from that position on march 1st. i have some new time on my hands. i appreciate the fact mayor breed has given me the opportunity to reengage in civic life in san francisco. it is up to you when i get to take advantage of that. if i am confirmed there are three things at the top of my

mind. i know m.t.a. and muni are at the top of every citizens mind. the three that i think are higher priority for me. first, i think it is obvious, which is we need to find a new director for the department. i want to publicly thanked riskin for the years of service he has given the city. we need a new leader for a department that is difficult to manage. not only because of the size but because of the complexity. i think it is a real tall order, and i look forward to helping my colleagues on the board if i am confirmed in seeing through that process and getting a good new leader for the organization. the second be is safer streets. you will agree that 30 deaths

each year is 30 too many. the streets in san francisco, my impression at least are a bit of the wild west right now because we have so many different competing uses. it seems like every couple of months there is a new one who are all trying to crowd under the same space on our streets and sidewalks. i think m.t.a. to give it credit has identified some good solutions to challenges like protected bike lanes for that community. things like scrambles for pedestrians at intersections. i don't think we scratched the surface all the way to the bottom of every new idea, but i do think we have got tested ideas now to scale up to deal with the size of the problem, and not keep approaching it in more of a piece meal fashion. the third i would mention is a

faster muni which i think everybody would like who rides the bus and the train. my old agency mtc did a study several years ago to measure the average speed of the muni fleet as it runs across the city streets. at the time it was nine miles an hour. my guess it might be slower today. if you are a good marathoner, you could probably beat that pace. if you are on the bus you want to go faster. here again, i think there are strategies that the m.t.a. has pursued, the red carpet lanes, the rapid bus service which is a big hit in my neighborhood. i think we have got on ideas to scale up. i fully acknowledge in talking to many of your colleagues over the last several weeks what i have heard from nemis the -- from them is the trade-offs involved. when you reserve space in the contested right-of-way for one

use, then you are going to impact and affect the other uses. i think we need to be very careful about that. i think all of you know as district supervisors there is not a single strategy for the city as a whole and that we have a lot of micro climate for transportation in the city even though it is only 49 miles square. those are some of my thoughts i wanted to share with you. i would be happy to answer any questions you have, and i am here seeking your support. >> supervisor brown. >> thank you for coming in and talking to us about this because i think this is m.t.a. right now we are in such a position where the things that we do are going to make a huge difference, hopefully. i just wanted be to ask you a couple questions. what would you have done

differently at the mtc if you knew today, what would you have done differently? >> i probability wouldn't have accepted the assignment to build a new bay bridge. if i had a do-over that would be one. i think one thing that we were slow on at mtv, and i will contrast it to what m.t.a. has done is better recognizing an earlier recognizing the length treen transportation and house -- between transportation and housing policy. our governor said housing transportation and transportation housing, they are not the same thing but they are so inter linked and there is a push and pull between them. there are times like you build the interstate highway system when transportation has a huge enabling impact on housing development, sometimes it goes the other way. i think it is more like that now. as you are all to be commended

for the amount of housing construction going on in san francisco, but it is having a huge impact on the transportation network. i think our professional as a whole has not done well at that. an old friend of mine used to say transportation is a great servant but lousy master. i think that is well said because our transportation system exists to get us to where we want to go, to our families, our job. it exists to allow us to maximize other values and purposes. i think as long as we acknowledge that is the way that relationship works, i think working again to tighten that relationship so that when we make transportation decisions we acknowledge what it means for development and vice versa. >> i just have a couple more and then i will give it to my colleagues. what do you think your biggest challenge will be for vision

zero? >> i think it will be because it is linear. getting to zero is going to require us to get outside of our comfort zone and to get back to my opening remarks. there is only so much space on the right-of-way. if you are really going to try to get to zero and especially protect the most vulnerable pedestrians and bicycles you are going to have impact on all travel. that impact needs to be supportable so that we can keep the political consensus behind what you are doing already, which is trying to move that number in the right direction. i think that is going to be a challenge. and i think the way to deal with that challenge is to be candid

with people. you know, there are trade-offs in life. there is no free lunch, no free candy, no free street space. if we are candid and work through issues and can taylor the approach based upon the neighborhood, i think we have a better chance of success. it is hard work, but i think it is the most meaningful work we do because we want everyone to get home at night. >> the last two months i have had two fatalities, pedestrian fatalities in my district. i just feel and we passed resolution at the board about vision zero, let's not have it get bogged down by a lot of different things and a lot of back and forth and push it forward because i understand people want to use their cars. people with cars will use them, but we really do, as you said,

have to protect the most vulnerable pedestrians and bicyclists. also, when we are, you know, looking at that, i feel that, you know, we need to make sure muni is reliable and what that is going to mean. i know the operators had finished a contractoriating a contract because we were 4 0 drivers each day short. there is no way we -- 400 drivers a day short. when you are sending out a stop along the way and you are waiting and it doesn't come, you are going to jump in one of the uber or lyft to get to work. that causes traffic and a lot of people driving the uber and lyft

don't know the city. they have the phone with the app on the dashboards and are looking at it. they will hurry to make a right-hand turn in the middle lane. i feel unless we have reliable muni, it is going to be really hard to, you know, push vision zero in a lot of neighborhoods, especially the west side of the city and southeast because, you know, the people are not going to wait to get to work late or get to work or doctor's appointment. that is something that i am really concerned about and really want to see m.t.a. stepping up. we need reliable muni. >> i think that is really well said. i think maybe one way to look at it. we almost have a tale of two cities with reliability question. my impression since i live in

anotheinrichmond the bus servich rapid has improved. that is not the case with the rail system on the sunset and other side of the park. if you are not reliable, people don't worry about speeds. if you get a fast bus trip every 12 times that is not hitting the mark. you want something reliable. once you get a stable system then you work on improving it to get it moving more rapidly. >> supervisor walton. >> thank you. you mentioned the tale of two cities. what are your thoughts about or your commitment to making sure that transportation is equitable across the city? >> i think that is another very important value we have got to bring to our work and the fact is when you invest, whether it is capital or operating dollars, you have got to make sure you

are investing equibly. you are concerned about the turn backs. i have been dumped out of a bus in the richmond district more times than i can count. that is difficult for people that is an example where we have to figure out a way if we implement a strategy. if it is successful we want to do it in an equitable manner so that we are applying it across the city or we are applying it in the neighborhoods where it makes the most sense. >> thank you. a couple questions. what do you think the role of labor is in addressing m.t.a.'s driver shortage? >> well, it is a big one, and as supervisor brown mentioned. i think we are in the final boarding process on the new

contracted, and labor has got to defend the interest of its members. the city has to defend its interest and the taxpayers. in this case on the driver short age we have a common ground where we have got to find an adequate staffing level and compensates folks so we can locate them. in the region m.t.a. is not alone in running a transit system. there are a lot of other mouths to feed and other operators. we have two dozen of them for crying out loud. that is one big labor pool we are competing for. the job of driving the muni job is more challenging than driving one in antioch. we have a challenge to make sure we have working conditions that are safe for those personnel as well. >> thank you.

i appreciate that. our favorite issue to discuss in san francisco is congestion. so much of the congestion, you know, we had a report out of transportation short showing the result of an increase in tnc, uber and lyft. we don't have the power to regulator that is under the jurisdiction of the state. given that what are your thoughts. you mentioned the red lanes. given the controversy surrounding it not that we should fight to expand red lanes, but it is a long process. i would love to hear thoughts on this issue. >> there is a cause and effect. did you want to get to the cause, you need and i know mtc

worked with m.t.a. we need a better legislative strategy for state regulation. if that is the way to be we need somebody regulating them to get the job done better than today where these folks aren't the afterthought to what the agency does. there was some talk about transferring that authority from the p.u.c. to state transportation agency. we should explore options to deal with the cause. in terms of effect did you took uber and lyft off the streets we would have congestion. what new york is about to do is a whole series of issues related to income. what we have seen in london, stockholm and singapore is the

strategy can work and there are solutions for some of those equity and distributional questions. in a way, i think it is good for us new york is going first. we can hold their coat to see how they do. that is a strategy in our region san francisco is probably the only place to do it because of its sufficient density and even though we all gripe about it. extensive and pervasive transit network. new york and san francisco may be the only two places in the country that would give this a whirl. i think we should pay attention to what happens in new york carefully and see if it is something to try here. >> last question. i know you ride muni. what is the frequency and what lines do you ride? >> my line mostly is the five. look, i use muni just to get

around. if i can avoid driving, i do. >> if thank you. no more questions. we open this up for public comment. thank you so much. any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? now is your chance. you have two items to speak. come right on up. >> good morning. thank you for having us here today. i am speaking here on behalf of the coalition of san francisco neighborhoods. whereas the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods find steve to be inappropriate for the position we ask the rules committee to not recommend to the full board the appointment as a member of the board of directors for the sf m.t.a.

in the post blog they have and i will give you these papers. they said steve had two state laws passed to curb his excessive behavior. he used bridge toll funds to dab bell in credit swaps until the money was lost in 2009. he had closed door meetings to discuss the state bill ab1284 in august and demanded all mtc meetings be open to the public curbing this behavior. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning. i am with walk san francisco. the clock is ticking on reaching

vision zero goal in eliminating traffic fatalities by 2024. our city has far to go as we know from the last month and last week when we lost the tenth pedestrian on the streets this year. the m.t.a. has to achieve new levels of innovation, project implementation and coordination while landing up the funds needed for vision zero. we are talking congestion pricing and regulato regulatingd lyft. this is why we support the nomination of steve to the board of directors. we believe he has the skill set and experience to make this happen given the serious complexities to fix muni. his understanding of public transit as well as the san francisco role in