this six one of your two operators. about nine months into the cities scooters are part of the program, skip continues to see success improved education, and the solution for parking. skip lies empty's dedication to the success of this program. their work along with skip promises to comply with regulations has built a foundation for micro micro- debility in san francisco. the demand for scooters and san francisco. skip's dedication to the community and to equity has earned us that privilege. we continue to form strong community partnerships and advertise low income program particularly in communities of

concern and in the southeast. skip also renews its dedication to sustainable operations by repairing rather than replacing our scooters. skip vows to continue local organizations that help advocate for or protected bike lanes and other important infrastructure. @ we support more transparent data to help mta make decisions about infrastructure. the proposal moments are great, we do see an opportunity to strengthen them further. in april, san francisco in the form of a monthly subscription program. this was put in place to undercut the rules and regulations established by the mta. without a framework to regulate monthly subscription programs for scooters. a slew of unregulated scooters throughout the city with no promises to follow the rules. to mitigate this we would suggest mta create a ratio up system. operators that wish to have a

monthly subscription service they can do so but only through a portion of their allotted scooters under the current. this will give mta the opportunity to effectively regulate all rentable scooters in the public right-of-way in our application. >> herbert weiner, actually i am concerned about safety on the sidewalk. that is from all vehicles, except for electric wheelchairs which are certainly necessary for the disabled. i really want to see people protected. for that matter, these standards

should be extended to bicyclists as well. they ride on the what -- sidewalk, they strike people. you know, we need to have the uniform policy from all vehicles on the sidewalk. they probably should not be on the sidewalk to begin with. you really have to have a uniform procedure for moving vehicles on the sidewalk. you would not allow cars on the sidewalk. he would not allow motorcycles on the sidewalk, that is for sure. we need to have a uniform safety code, so the pedestrians can be protected. that is a an agenda agenda for walk san francisco. people have to be protected on the sidewalk, as well as the intersection. i certainly support the idea of identification. i think when scooters violate the laws they should be subject to prosecution. we need to have the safety for all san franciscans.

otherwise it's going to be a nightmare scenario where you're going to have sidewalks infested with all of these vehicles and even board members will be safe either. it will be screaming for help. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, board of directors. unfortunately the apocalypse that mr. weiner just predicted his art here. if you got to the west side you will have to look very far to find cars on the sidewalk. people park on the sidewalk all the time in the sunset. the city does nothing about it. if that is a concern, let's start there with people illegally parking cars on the sidewalk and blocking any access on the sidewalks on a day-to-day basis. i'm actually here to speak in support of these changes to the scooter program. i normally come to you to speak in support of bike and transit. anything that gets people out of

cars and gets cars off the road that gets people to support themselves in mutual ways. you ought to adopt them. i would like to think in particular, director brinkman asking about expanding the service areas to the entire city. i think that is necessary. what we see now with the conflicts of limiting a number of devices that operators are allowed and the requirements of certain neighborhoods we are seeing very contorted and twisted service areas. i don't think anyone can fit in their brain, if someone can explain to me when you actually allowed to write a scooter in san francisco right now, less than 20 seconds, good luck. the way that we open this up is i think mr. maguire is right we should not have seven operators,

we should allow the operators we have to operate a lot more devices. i encourage you to support this. thank you. >> any other additional public comments? please come forward. >> i am a motorcyclist. my name is paul breed. i am a motorcyclist, i ride it in the city regularly. i didn't want a car anymore. i have written them probably a hundred times now i'm very -- various occasions. they seem useful and productive for me to use. specifically i have tried scoot, and spent as well. i no longer use scoot, because my opinion of the business organization is that it is problematic and predatory towards the people that are interacting with it. as i encourage the city to examine the providers that they

are allowing in the city. i would ask them that they make for certain that, for instance, as scoot does not have the capability to they include an off button on the vehicle. it's not possible to end the trip or interaction with the vehicle given the buttons on the vehicle. to me, that seems nonsensical and it seems predatory when their billing rates are hundreds of dollars per day. before we look to create quality of the larger population, i would encourage that we make these businesses more responsive to the consumer. i am concerned that by allowing only these limited monopolies in these businesses, we provide no incentive to have these providers -- >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> my name is cole brennan. i was not planning on speaking on this, but since i am still here i would like to support the scooter pilot program as it continues to go forward. it's not my favorite mode of transportation. i think it is worth a shot. i would also like to ask if there is a possibility for an integrated access point for these shared mobility options. i don't want to download 4-5 applications for my phone, i would be much more likely to use these systems if i could tag them with my clipper card. if there was something that had either one app that i could use for these sorts of things, or if there was a better clipper integration i would love to see that in future pilot programs. thank you very much. >> any additional public comme comment? public comment is closed. that clipper integration was really a good idea.

great to figure out if we can make that happen. >> i am happy to make a motion to approve. whatever our personal feelings are about scooters, they are working for some people. some of the commenters made a good point. it is our job to keep them safe on the streets. the best way to get them off the sidewalks is to make the streets safer and expand our network of bike and scooter lanes. whatever our personal feelings are about them that is our job to keep everybody safe on the streets. >> madam chair, before you approve -- >> i just want to respond to that. i do agree. i guess i come down on the underside of the question. i don't think we have clipped the safety problem. as long as we haven't, i am not comfortable authorizing a move from a pilot program to a mainstream, no, how many ever we want to have approach.

i think if we cannot assure safety, both for pedestrians on the sidewalk, and the users of these devices on the road. i think we have to go slow. >> i see your point, director heminger. mr. hyde, do you feel with the reporting that we get back from 311, and with the structure we have in place of what we expect to see from these scooter companies in terms of not blocking the sidewalk and being locked appropriately, people not riding on the sidewalk. if we were to come into a situation where as they expanded they get more numbers, and we start seeing bad behavior, multiply, do you feel under this proposal you have the tools that you need to then ratchet down on the companies who are not meeting our standards? >> absolutely.

we are issuing permits that are valid for no longer than one year. that is one thing to consider, these will have to be renewed on an annual basis. it's not like we are just handing over permits forever. acknowledging that the technology is constantly changing and this mobility space is rapidly evolving. in terms of whether or not we could potentially revoke permits. we definitely reserve the right to revoke permits if users are consistently not complying with laws, as well as if the companies are not complying with any of the terms and conditions of the permit. >> does that sort of help? >> i am afraid not. i think it is hard to say, no after you said yes. yes -- this is a yes. it seems we are voting on today. i wish i had reviewed the material director eaken

mentioned. maybe i need to get better educated about the subject, too. for now, unless i know more, i'm still on the go slow boat. >> if i could add, the information that director eaken mentioned has some safety as well. i think i share your skepticism about the as actually being positive, necessary form of mobility. they are replacing walking trips. it was director rubke pointing out we doing a lot of measurement of collisions of these devices that are reported, we are raising san francisco

general hospital and other data sources such as the police department and they are thinking the single digits, more or less area when we compare that to the number of auto collisions, as she pointed out, we should be doing this in a normalized way. it's probably an infinitesimal fraction of the collisions on the street. based on the observed behavior of these in the streets, and other items in this meeting, i think to the extent that this is really facilitating mode shift from tnc's two scooters, notwithstanding that there are legitimate safety concerns that exist with scooters. probably better that a car being driven by somebody who doesn't know where they are going, who's @ an ab, his maybe racing to pick up a fare. on balance, we not elect to the

safety issues with the scooters, but to the extent it is a facilitating mode shift out o of -- automobiles, seems to be a nontrivial percentage. on balance it is a positive thing. there are a lot of protections in the permit we have seen from the pilot. we have been able to drive the complaints way down. the number of citations we are issuing our way down. suggesting that the regulatory framework can be an effective way to manage for many things, including safety. i offer that for your consideration. >> i would agree with that. in general, you can't ensure safety. people make bad choices whatever it is. that is a hard thing about it all. people who are safety minded will wear helmets and make safety choices.

they were and the full traffic lane and i thought, oh my god. >> this is an age-old problem. enforcement. it is a constant problem in any facet of law. because enforcement is always the key to making sure that you implement the laws the legislator intended. be careful when you say you're going to get this under control, because it hasn't happened in so many areas. and fact, many times legislation ought not to be introduced we should just enforce the laws we have on the book now, but we don't. whether it's toxic issues, environmental issues, health issues, traffic issues, et cetera. the issue of safety is extremely important as we begin to look at mobility devices and approaches. i want to share my fellow

directors concern on the safety issue on the fact that i do @ that enforcement is really going to be implemented properly. >> if i could ask a question unrelated related to safety, i guess? somebody mentioned the fact that they have seen electric scooters with seats and i always have an interest in making sure our emerging technologies take into account people with disabiliti disabilities. i am wondering, under the legislation for the pilot, not the pilot, the permit if an operator came forward with an innovative idea to make their scooters more accessible without be a factor that would weigh in favor of them getting a permit? >> yes. that is part of the permit application. we are asking permittees to pilot adoptive scooters. that will be a part of this version of the reporting period. >> i appreciate the legislation

as a whole. i thought it was awful. that we are tracking the non- revenue. >> we have a mesh -- motion, second and we have an amendment. >> you need to amend the code. a motion to amend the code to delete the duplicate. >> motion to amend the code to delete 9.16 e3. all in favor of the amendment? >> are we doing two motions. >> that was just for the amendment. >> now we take the original motion of the legislation. all those in favor of legislation as proposed? the motion does carry. we are going to move on to item

14. i have to read a little script here. >> appointing tom maguire to serve as the interim director of transportation beginning august 14, @ and continuing until a permanent director of transportation an employment agreement with tom mcguire, with an annual salary of $299,000 reimbursement for professional develop in expenses and benefits and other terms and conditions equivalent to specified benefits and other terms and conditions in the memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san francisco and the municipal executives association. >> this agenda item is to take possible action to improve employment agreement between mta and thomas mcguire. the employment agreement with. >> reiskin expires. he will serve as interim director of transportation from the expiration of mr. reiskin's

agreement. [reading notes] california government code section 54953 c three requires the board to report a summary of post salary compensation of fringe benefits before mr. mcguire before taking final action to approve the employment agreement. @ pursuant to that agreement, the board provides the following summary. the proposed agreement says an annual salary of $299,000, under the proposed agreement mr. maguire will receive fringe benefits equivalent to the specified benefits provided to the employees represented by the municipal executives association under the memorandum of understanding between mta and the sfmta pay the full list of benefits as set forth to this agreement.

[reading notes] under the proposed agreement, mr. maguire will be eligible for $2,000 of reimbursement for eligible expenses. @ also receive retirement benefits according to the applicable provisions of the san francisco charter. under the charter, mr. maguire is responsible for paying any required contributions to the san francisco's retirement system. are there any questions from the director on what i have just read? >> are we going to give him a

scooter? [laughter] >> have one question on one of these terms, it's probably been negotiated already and it's not the time to amend it. i want to note, for someone willing to take on this position as interim director i see $2,000 for professional development as @ in terms of executive coaching and other supports that might be appropriate to take on this significant of a challenge. i don't know if there is some limit to, in the budget, or some additional sources of funding. i would be very supportive of additional resources for professional development to usher his success. >> or if he were to decide he did need something else, is that within the ability of the board to approve it on a requested by request basis? >> city attorney, maybe you can explain, where it is number come from? >> good afternoon, katie porter. i believe that is the reimbursement under the

municipal executives associati association, per individual, per fiscal year. this is also anticipated to be a time-based contract through the october -november timeframe. this is $2,000 for a number-5 month period. also the agency has training funds that probably could be deployed, if necessary. $2,000 is what the employees give her a fiscal year. for professional reimbursement on development. >> even a new director, when you hire that person they would only get $2,000, as well. >> it is a negotiated time. this is just a term we came up with with a contract based on the model. certainly a future director, or this existing contract could be amended to have a higher amount. that is the city model, this is not even intended to be a full fiscal year contract as it structured right now.

>> do note to the deputy city attorney's., that this contract as well as this collective bargaining agreement which is where this number comes from as well as some of the others provide for professional develop men dollars. those are in addition to agency funds that are budgeted and available for training and professional development. they are not the only source. many conferences and other things that people attend, some are able to use funds that they have is available through these collective targeting agreements. first of all, the board does not have to stick with this 2,000 number. as with all of those other things, and the collective targeting agreement. even if you left it, as is, for whatever reason the director just like any other employee, had needs or desires for more training and professional development, there are resources within the agency budget to accommodate that. >> great.

are there any other additional questions? without i'm going to open it to public comment? >> mr. bloch is not here. >> good afternoon. my name is laura, i'm here on behalf of doug block. he is sorry he had to leave for another meeting, but he wanted to say that he is supportive of this appointment and thanks to mr. maguire for his collaboration on multiple projects including the commuter shuttles. congratulations. >> deleted you prefer the record. when i read this agenda item, i was encouraged. we need to have continuity in this agency.

i found him to be approachable, and attentive. i go to many of these meetings, not just here but in other places. engagement and approachability, and the open door is very important. tom and i are both products of new york. my area of expertise is much more in the subway and railroad realm. tom's global perspective of leadership and knowledge in this very broad endeavor that isn't public transportation. my narrow perspective of subway and railroad. it is indeed what this agency needs going forward.

i'm looking forward to tom being able to give us a sense of continuity in this so-called interregnum. thank you. madam chair, your last item on your agenda.

as everyone should know, if they aren't already aware, we have started a nationwide search for our next director of transportation. as part of that search we want to engage all of the stakeholders throughout the entire community, within mta, external to mta about their thoughts on the next director. we have a research committee. they are going to be interviewing potential candidates working along with a search firm and recommended them to the board. i want to thank them upfront for taking the time to do this very important tax -- task. >> am pleased to provide an update on the search. the committee has met twice this summer and we have made good progress. we have additionally provided feedback on the position description on the position announcement is being finalized as we speak. the purpose of today's agenda

item is to hear, from the public, those if few of you who remain. the quality experience you want to see. i just want to ensure members of the public that your feedback is going to be taken very seriously as part of this process. we have want to hear from you what kind of director you think is appropriate to lead this agency into the future. i will say as a side note we've heard some inadvertent feedback on the qualities people want to see in the next director things like calmness, embodying the agency's values, dedication and accessibility. i just want to mention we are going to be sending out a survey in the next few weeks to give folks an opportunity to weigh in anonymously if you have feedback. if you don't feel comfortable speaking today. in terms of timeline and updating on that, we do want to move as swiftly as possible to find a new director while

balancing that goal with our commitment to run an inclusive process to find the right director to lead this agency forward. if you have any other comments, that you want to send incoming you can e-mail the mta board with any further suggestions at sfmta.com. >> were going to open it up to the public. >> herbert weiner? >> yes. >> herbert weiner, these are the qualities i would like to see. for one thing i think the new executive director should be a transportation professional. i think that goes without saying. these are some of the qualities i would like to see from my own

personal perspective. i believe that the executive director should be able to take issue with his managers, for one thing. he should be able to clash with them, bite them and even dismiss them. this has not been the case, so far, and i think this has been one of the reasons why we are in the mess we are in right now. he should also take issue with this board. these clashes should be public. they should not be in private only. we should be able to witness these differences and provide some input. we have something to say about this. i think what has been the case as you have rammed through everything, these meetings have been a dog and pony show. and, we have to get all of the vehicles off of the sidewalk,

except the wheelchairs for the disabled. also seniors on the disabled should be supported by the executive director. they have to walk up to a court of a mile to the bus stop. this is inhuman. also, we have to make sure that everyone is search. this agency should serve everyone, and that is the mission of the executive director. so, also, the neighborhoods get equal service. >> thank you. >> i love a good public meeting. i get to participate and say all kinds of good things.

i am looking forward to our search for a new director. my comments today are to be simply taken as they are, comparisons to anybody else out there. i'm looking for bold leadership. i'm being able to embrace the old, and the new. somebody who is diversity mind minded. [please stand by]

him my technique in developing the apartment building and he used this technique and my technique saved him $66 million. is that clear? and i have heard nothing about it during the affordable housing

here. and by the same response, this is another example of the differential treatment and you refuse to use the 15% of all buildings for low income bracket people. and as a result you're missing out on approximately 45 units that is supposed for low-income affordable housing. and i also object to all of your words, and being paid a mere $400 million when (indiscernible) -- strike that -- >> thank you for your comments. >> shot four times in mario woods. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> supervisor, and from maccoseff and i would like it to be a director that is willing to take action and have a culture of taking action. and we saw this in the meeting today is that we see not just myself but members of this board trying to push the m.t.a. to do more. and it would be great if that pushing came from the people inside the m.t.a. and this board and less pushing was needed in

the long term. thank you. >> paul breed. i would like to comment that questions are at innovation and towards this job description but i'm not sure that is entirely applicable in my view. when we look around the world we see places like asia and places like europe that have managed to soft their transit problems. it's not a new solution that i think that we're looking for. i think that it's an examination of what we have already found to be evidently useful and productive activities. we see seoul and tokyo with transit systems to go 160-mile range in an hour and a half and that's not the reality anywhere in america. and so when you contemplate searching for a new director, as this constituent, i would

encourage you to examine someone who has experience leading and developing those foreign networks because of those transit networks seem to have done a more functional job at serving their populous than any transit network in my opinion in america has. >> thank you. >> thank you. is there annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea. - our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world- class style.

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