so when we gave the mta commission or i should say the voters gave the mta commission the ability to legislate, that was a pretty amazing thing. i mean, it's very rare that a bunch of elected officials actually cede power to a bunch of unelected officials. it's important for me to say that. there are second acts in american life, because here i am a decade later getting to talk about it, and i'm actually -- i'm saying that on the eve of this board being asked tomorrow to reconfirm because the mayor appoints, the board confirms two members of the commission. and this is not -- i'm not pointing this at staff -- who at least in this supervisor's case, these individuals have not even reached out to my office. they may have reached out to other offices actually after i brought this up to the mayor's liaison to the board today, which i didn't have to do, but i did. one of those two members reached out. but we are the confirming authority for a shadow legislative branch of government, and those members feel so autonomous, that they don't even have the courtesy or respect to reach out to see

it replaces the sf mta logo known as the grand union. after public testing and design with focus groups as well as lots of conversations internally, we selected this design to you know identify the agency. making a visual connection with the iconic muni worm. when we tested this with people, they recognized there was a clear connection between sf mta and muni. they iced words like comforting and warm to describe the new look. i want to let you know that the beloved logo will still remain on all of our uniforms and it continues to reflect our muni services. this new symbol reflects our transit roots, and the m. logo stands for municipal in our name. we think this will fit in really well. the blue color is representative of our heritage of the former department of parking and traffic, and our connection to the city and county of san francisco. through this new look we're showing that we all belong to a single transportation agency, and that we're one agency connected. whether you take muni, walk bike or drive, we want you to understand it'

i understand that we should have worked more cooperatively with the city and the sf mta. i'd like to focus on we have followed the law. we met with the city attorney and he believes that our issues were some of our users were not following the law. we think we can solve all of the issues with parking and riding with education and enforcement and some simple things like painting squares on sidewalks for parking. what i'd like to focus on is bird trips can solve car trips. 40% of car trips are under two miles. the average bird trip is 1.5 miles. a bird trip is a fraction of the ride share trip. it's accessible transportation for those who need transportation with zero emissions. we add scooters only when they're used on average three times a day, and every night they're all moved. i read a column in the chronicle on sunday entitled road rage by willie brown and it said i was one of the thousands people stuck in traffic in downtown san francisco this week, and the numbers are growing daily. it took 15 minutes to go three blocks. finally, i started to work. it ended, no wonder

i would like to introduce ed riskin, the head of mta. >> thank you, chief. good afternoon. we're happy to be able to be here. it may not be sexy stuff, but parking garages are an important part of the transportation system here in san francisco. we want people to be able to find parking and feel their car is going to be safe when they leave it, whether it's on the street or off the street. the parking garages are ways for people to find parking, not spend time looking for parking on the street, and we want them to know when they leave their car in a public parking garage in san francisco that their car is safe. so we have been working on this in a number of different ways, partner with the police department, the leadership of chief scott has been critically important. a lot of the success that you heard the mayor and the chief talk about at this garage in particular has really been the presence of san francisco police department. and we work with them in districts around the city where we have our garages to try to focus their resources as strategically as we can, because as

. >> supervisor peskin: so the other question has to do with the definition of a final sf mta decision, and i note that at page three, starting at line 14, the words changes in operating structure as it relates to private transportation programs is stricken, and insofar as the main thrust of my interest in this legislation really resolves around, and director reiskin agrees with having legislative surprise -- supervisory oversight over that policy. i'm wondering if it would be stricken and b i'm wondering if that body can still get to those issues in pilot programs or other ways. i wanted to give that to counsel to answer. >> deputy city attorney jon givner again. the reason it's to line it up is the authority that the charter gives to the board. so the abort that's the authority to review certain types of decisions, time limitations for parking, prefer ential parking, etcetera, but doesn't have discretion under the charter to review the types of decisions that are listed in the -- in the struck out portion of changes of operating structure of permitees. the board, when it initially co

most drivers have given up on the mta and don't bother to go. there was a consultant's report put out in the last couple of weeks, completely dropped the ball, did not discuss it. and this is an issue not only here in san francisco, it's an issue in new york and other places. last week the "new york times" wrote an editorial which entitled what will new york do about its uber problem, and i would like to read you just two sentences from that editorial. says over time the city should consider whether it owes something to drivers who sunk their savings into taxi medallions. many drivers went into debt to buy these permits because the city promised them a monopoly on picking up passengers a promise it has not been able to keep. so, the situation here in san francisco is far worse because these drivers who bought the medallio medallions were on a waiting list, many for 10, 15 years or more, the city pulled away the right to a medallion at a nominal price and forced them to buy these things for $250,000. so, the city needs to do something about this.

tom mcguire, director of the sustainable streets division at mta. the bulk of the presentation will be done by my colleague, who is the acting head of our bicycle section. i just want to give a little bit of background here. on april 17th the board of supervisors unanimously passed an ordnance that requires companies who offer shared motorized scooters on the streets of san francisco obtain a permit to operate from the sfmta. today we are here to consider enacting that permitting system to we can put in place the board of supervisors vision for that ordnance and the themes you will hear from the presentation and in all of our comments is that we believe that any use of the public right of way, sidewalk, street, bike lane, ought to be in the public interest and we think that a scooter permitting system, any scooter permitting system could authorize us to put in place should prioritize public safety, public equity and focus on accountability by operators. we'll go through each of those points in our presentation. we encourage you to allow us to carry o

i'm planning director of the sf mta. the item before you today pertains to the transportation plan for one of the major changes that is underway in the landscape of san francisco, so very different scale of discussion than your previous item. this is the candlestick point and hunters point shipyard master plan. so k ofi bonner, regional director of five point, which is the developer, as well as the regional vice president of commercial, residential and entitlement are here today, and you will be hear from five point later on. after this presentation, therese brekki will walk you through the project, and then chris mitchell who has been embedded in the technical transportation for this project for a very significant portion of his life for this point will bring you through the transportation plan. also -- >> that's how he feels about this meeting. >> i believe so. also here today are lei leila hussein and sally hirth from ocii. it's the predecessor to the san francisco redevelopment agency and is responsible for implementi

so i first wanted to say as the sf mta i support these emerging options. we are happy that the private sector is getting involved and providing innovative new ways for people to get around the city as the scooters provide a last mile solution. we are really excited to see that continue. however, we are proceeding with some cautious optimism because we know that there are potential issues with this and have been issues on the streets and we want to make sure that as we step in as a governmental agency we have the opportunity to make sure these things are meeting the public interest. so a little bit of background on the scooter system themselves. you may have seen these on the streets. they have been out there for just about six weeks in san francisco and in a few other cities in the u.s. a little bit longer. they are really new. it's a new model. it's similar to what you see in our dock less bike share system, you use the app to find a scooter near you and to unlock the scooter and then you can drive it to your final destination which you don't need to have

item 14 announcement of closed session, the mta board of directors went in closed section but no action. it would be item 15 would be appropriate for a motion to disclose or not disclose the information. a first. a second? all in favor of not disclosing? we will not disclose. >> chair, that concludes the business before you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you all for spending your tuesday with us. >> on december 28, 1912. san francisco mayor, sonny jim rolph stared into the crowds of those who have gathered. a moment in history. the birth of a publicly own transit system. san francisco municipal railway. muni as it would become to be known. happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. the birth of muni had been a long-time coming. over the years the city was disjointed privately owned companies. horses and steam and electric-powered vehicles. creating a hodgepodge of transit options. none of them particularly satisfying to city residents. the city transit system like the city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this af

i can reach out to the mta representatives on that and work on getting you an answer if you like. for the most part, our streetscape projects incorporated any safety improvements that the mta recommended were added to those projects. some of that included bulb outs, including visibility. there was streetlighting added to some of the projects. intersection improvement, signal changes, all of those things combined, obviously, the paving and curb ramps also enhanced the safety of the intersections. but those are the lions share of the elements we would add. >> according to the report, 50% of the deaths in crosswalks are people who are 65 or older. so it seems like there is a population that is certainly heavily impacted by this. one of the things that is a correlary to safety for seniors is the accessibility of handicapped parking. when was the last time that you people or anyone took analysis of whether or not we needed more handicapped parking available? i know for example in the castro, right by the walgreens, which is a place you would expect to park handicapped, eight spaces have

i'd like to thank the sf mta staff for working so hard on this after you've been ambushed once again. the one way to guarantee that you're never ambushed again is to refuse permits to bird, line, and spin. companies coming to the city with no permit, no warning, beyond this behavior, this business model is terribly problematic, not proven, doesn't pencil out. from the production of the scooters and oversees sweatshops to the landfills and toxic e waste dumping grounds they are defendastined for aft their two month life span, this interest is to serve the community, not public corporations. we've seen it before. where have i heard this before? oh, yeah, uber, the company that did the same thing exactly about seven years ago, when it ambushed our city with this same model. remember how we had to accept them with no conditions because they were going to relieve the congestion on our streets? here we are seven years later with 30% more cars on the streets because of uber and lyft. thanks. no more rewarding recklesserant law breakers for their behavior. we have evidence that the scooters a

we have made it clear that as of june 4 they have to be off of city streets and i think the mta director has made it quite clear that past behavior will be taken into account in terms of the application process, so i think it will behoove everybody to follow the directive issued today by having them off public street it is on june 4 and in the event they are not the mta director will review that behavior and i will reserve the right to do anything legally to make sure that the law is followed that i need to do. thank you. >> i want to welcome you to this rededication ceremony today. my name is gail gillman and i am the ceo of community housing partnership. i want to acknowledge some people here with us today. supervisor kim from district s six. her district is joining us this morning along with senator mark leno who is right here and i don't see him yet, but supervisr safae and mayor ferrell is unfortunately not able to join us today. i really want to thank all of the elected officials and dignitaries joining us today. i will be thanking other people in a minute. i think we should pause

we have made it clear that as of june 4 they have to be off of city streets and i think the mta director has made it quite clear that past behavior will be taken into account in terms of the application process, so i think it will behoove everybody to follow the directive issued today by having them off public street it is on june 4 and in the event they are not the mta director will review that behavior and i will reserve the right to do anything legally to make sure that the law is followed that i need to do. thank you. >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of

and the mta in general. and then, the understanding and the way that the city charter is setup and the way that the -- the current structure is that we essentially have no authority over the mta, and the voters made that decision. we went through a series of legislative moves and charter amendments in '99 and 2007. but embedded in the charter was also the ability -- and as supervisor peskin pointed out when we also started this conversation is that we'd never exercised certain aspects that -- of the charter that the voters gave us, and that's the piece of legislation that you see in front of us today. i'm going to let supervisor peskin talk about some of the points that he made, but i think in its inception about separation of powers and the way of removing politics from the sf mta, the intent was never to create one final authorizing area, it was more about trying to remove politics but in effect, we ended up putting one elected official in charge of by appointment power for the commissioners, as well as th

item 14 announcement of closed session, the mta board of directors went in closed section but no action. it would be item 15 would be appropriate for a motion to disclose or not disclose the information. a first. a second? all in favor of not disclosing? we will not disclose. >> chair, that concludes the business before you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you all for spending your tuesday with us. . >> good morning and welcome to the government audit and over sight committee. today is may 16, 2018. i am joined by supervisor aaron peskin and london breed. i also want to acknowledge our community clerk

i want to thank the mta for san francisco people struggling. ill help them as they find themselves in a desperate situation. people for example like pamela who is a disabled senior who got her car towed for the first time for her 49 year driveing drive -- driving history. she paid it was unable to pay her rent and the citation and was worried she would be evicted. she went to project homeless connect who i believe was able to help her pay her rent and citation to prevent her eviction. the reforms that are before you today would have made a big difference for pamela. people living in poverty have a hard time coming up with the couple hundred dollars all at once. these reforms before your will significantly lower tow fees and boot fees for people under 200% of the federal poverty line and allow people to pay off their citations that led to the tow or boot over time through a payment plan or by doing community service. it's my understanding the these reforms would have been in place pamela would have needed to come up with half of what she did and

therese already mentioned a couple of the highlights, but the point is we worked closely with mta to identify what are the true costs of operating increased transit ssts, the cost of the buses, the cost of operating the buses and the cost of storing the buses. we've updated all of that looking at the data, and made sure that every phase along the way, that this project pencils out, at build out, the project should be generating an annual surplus of about $40 million, compared to $16 million in the old study. specific to transit, similar ly, the old plan generated about $1.5 million surplus, and this projects about a $4 million surplus, so almost tripling that annually. the other thing you're being asked to approve is an updated infrastructure plan for the hunters point shipyard plan, so without the stadium, we're revising some of the street grid to include the new uses, removing the requirement for the overhead contact system, which is basically the wires for the 24 route that's getting extended into the site. the idea being that by the time that route is scheduled to get extended and