and as we are painfully aware, state law preempts us from regulating this industry in any number of ways. (please stand by).

>> supervisor peskin: 1184 was the assembly bill, which senator wiener got out of the senate side. this has actually been a collaborative project. i think we all know with

homelessness and -- 3.25% for normal t.n.c. rides, 1.5% for pooled rides, and offers incentives for rides at the pooled rate. this has been a collaborative effort with uber and lyft, and i want to publicly thank and acknowledge my chief of staff,

son i sonny angulo. many are supportive of this as it will bring $30 million-plus annually for bike and infrastructure improvements and other ways to get cars off the streets and provide residents with safe alternative transportation options to cars. with that, i have several amendments. page 1, lines 7 and 8 and 9. they have the same changes. page 4, line 8, strike human

operator and replace with natural person. page 4, line 10, insert remotely after driven and replace remote driver with natural person. page 4, lines 11 through 15, insert commercial ride share company means a person that provided prearranged transportation services using on-line or any offline method to connect with drivers including but not limited to a transportation network company as that term is defined in the california public utilities code. page 4, lanes 18 through 20, insert mobility provider means any person conducting or controlling a business that provides rides to fare paying passengers using autonomous vehicle or transit paying fare or both. at page 5, lines 20 through --

strike ride share. and page 6, line 26, strike operator and provide mobile provider. mr. city attorney, i would assume you would require a one-week continuance, and if you would propose a continuance, i would propose one week. >> chair fewer: okay. that was a mouthful? yes. >> supervisor mandelman: yes. i would like to thank you for your work that one would think

was not remotely possible. this is the first serious possibility about doing something for the increase of congestion of t.n.c.s in our streets for 15 years, so thank you for doing this. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, supervisor. >> chair fewer: yeah. i would like to say although this is a tax regulation, this is by no means regulating the business at all. so i think we're going to have some of the same issues in ability to regulate the industry. i think it's a good first step. having said that, let's open this up for public comment. i'm wondering if there's anyone that would like to come on up on item 17. everyone has two minutes. >> good morning -- afternoon. i'm here to represent mothers out front san francisco. this is my daughter.

mother's out front is an organization working to create a livable climate for our children. we think that san francisco has an opportunity to incentivize a car it wants to see on the road, seeing as car use is realistically not going away. so we, mothers up front along with several other coalitions, clean air coalition, and others, we support this legislation, but we actually think it should go further. we'd like to extend the time frame. right now, less than 1% of t.n.c. rides are in electric cars, and if we really want to address climate change, pollution, and traffic, this has to increase. we just declared a climate emergency as a city. it's time for us to stand

behind that declaration with even more extreme measures. thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> you know, it's a painful experience being ahead of the carve. if you want to tax somebody, understand me, you're taxing the wrong people. what you should be doing is taxing the department of transportation and caltrans for blowing up the bay bridge and acting like that bridge is going to deteriorate and ineffective services. there was nothing wrong with that bay bridge. and if there was any weak spots located on that bridge, all you had to do was pressure test it and reinforce that area that was not strong enough to maintain the amount of traffic that's going back and forth and

forth and back across that bridge. there's nothing wrong with that bridge. you've got richmond bridge where you've got numerous parts of concrete falling down on traffic. they're not tearing that bridge down. they're reinforcing the weak spots and got that bridge up in running. that's disgusting. you hired your friends to tear down that god damn bridge up, and then, after you use your last set of dynamite blowing up that bridge, you have a press conference where you want to impose a gas tax. you ain't maintaining a god damn thing. that's where your congestion is coming from. you want to tax somebody, tax them.

you didn't have that god damn congestion until you blew up that bridge. you had two bridges side by side by each other, and they ain't never had that traffic jams. >> chair fewer: thank you. thank you mr. wright. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i make a motion to approve the amendments that have been brought forth by supervisor peskin. we can take that without objection. [gavel]. >> chair fewer: and make a motion to continue this item to the next budget and finance committee. thank you very much. madam clerk, do we have any other items before us today? >> clerk: there are no other items. >> chair fewer: yea! we are adjourned.

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35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with

our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a

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of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup.

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