brinkman in her reappointment. i do think it's more important as a member of the mta board of directors that you actually ride muni and from my understanding you've not owned a car in 15 years, i believe. so, i think that you have really great incredible firsthand experience of just what are some of the daily challenges people go through rideling muni. so, with that i'd like to make a motion he to reappoint cheryl brinkman to the mta board of directors and send that to the full board. >> thank you. and i just want to weigh in. your work, your reputation is stellar. of course, i was a little disappointed that we couldn't move with the pilot project for the senior free muni, but i also know there's a lot of challenges and we'll see what we can do to keep promoting that issue because i think it is necessary. so, there's been a motion. and seeing no objection, the motion passes. [gavel] >> thank you. item number 5, please. >> item number 5 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending march 1, 2016, and o

i just want to say on behalf of the free muni for youth commission, i want to thank cheryl brinkman for supporting free muni for 18 year olds because many of us really need free muni to help many of us go to school. or it's like always worried about the budget. so, thank you for supporting and we look forward to it. >> okay. thank you all. thank you very much. next speaker, ms. boomer. >> all right. is david chang -- no. bob allen. tom radulavich. [speaker not understood]. miriam marlin, martin. lourdes verola. peter -- i can't pronounce his last name. he's from grubele -- okay, those are the next speakers. bob allen here. sometimes you just can't read the speaker card. >> good afternoon. >>> good afternoon to the commission and to the packed house. i guess this is what -- like when you start to build the movement around an issue that matters to people. i think it's a symbol and i think a response to the leadership of the board in doing something that quite honestly many sectors of the city haven't done yet which is really to address the affordability crisis. i want to acknowledge the w

. >> director brinkman in >> present. >> direct brinkman present. director lee? >> present. >> director ramos? >> present. >> direct rubke? >> present. >> [speaker not understood] director heinicke is not able to be with you today. mr. chairman, you do have a quorum. item 3, announcement of sound producing item. announcement of prohibition of sound producing ~ announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. any person responsible for one going off in the meeting may be asked to leave the room. please be advised that cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference and the board respectfully requests they be turned off. approval of the minutes of april 21st regular meeting. >> motion. >> moved. >> [speaker not understood]. >> item 5, communications. >> a couple things, i want it rearrange the agenda this afternoon. first i want to remind people [speaker not understood] is open. you have to be seated in this room to be in here. otherwise we'll give you plenty of time to come up when we call your name for public comment. and we'

so, i want to appreciate commissioner brinkman had made that amendment. i want to thank you for that. i would like to say we could move forward with senior with disabilities as well as supervisor campos talked about. san francisco is a city that has the greatest disparities in wealth. we're seeing the greater and greater sigh of our working class and people who don't have a lot of income, and that's making it very difficult for people seniors and disability living in the city. [speaker not understood] really help with that process. i've been engaged with mta at my office and advocates for many months now to look at how we can build in equity into the budget for muni, especially was we're looking at bringing in new money and decisions how we build out our transportation system in years to come. i want to think that we are committed to that whether we are [inaudible]. >> experiencing technical difficulties; please stand by >> they can actually stay all day, they can move, allow other cars to come in as well. and we've also seen free muni for youth has been

director brinkman, heinicke, nolan, ramos, director rubke is present. directors, please be adviced that director lee is not going to be able to be here at today's meeting. annunciation prohibition of electronic devices are prohibited. any person responsible for one going off in the meeting maybe asked to leave the room. please be advised that cellphone interference will cause. >>>

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like director brinkman, as we look at the package, i have to reference the comments of mr. boden and we have to look that the as a package. this is a whole package and if we pick and peck at it and we try to solve every little problem we lose the large scale benefit of this. large scale efficiency require small scale tradeoffs. that's the simple reality of this. i'm very impressed to all that's been done to address the small scale tradeoffs, but i think the overall point is the one that director riskin made at the beginning. this is a monumental change. this is a real significant increase in efficiency, in all of those 5 seconds, 2 minutes and add up and it's not just director ramos 30 minutes, it's everyone's 30 minutes in what it increases, happiness, productivity. i second it with no changes. i think we should approve this with no changes. i do want to address one issue from the community and that is our fellow citizens from the inner sunset. i hope you stay around for a long time. i heard that comment. i don't think the speaker meant what he said, whether he meant it or

director brinkman, heinicke, nolan, ramos, director rubke is present. directors, please be adviced that director lee is not going to be able to be here at today's meeting. annunciation prohibition of electronic devices are prohibited. any person responsible for one going off in the meeting maybe asked to leave the room. please be advised that cellphone interference will cause. >>> item 5, citizens advisory report. i do not see mr. weaver here. >> this morning we have three items. we are going to call them all at once. the question was raised earlier about the ability of this body to proceed because of an appeal filed yesterday afternoon of the planning commission's decision. my understanding from the city attorney until that is registered from the board of supervisors for 30 days. so we are able to act this morning? >> chairman, nolan, the answer is yes you can up until an appeal is cal endared by the board of supervisors. you can take action. >> great. call the items. city clerk: item 6: 6. approval of the transit effectiveness project, including a ser

for starters i want to appreciate the amendment -- it looks like director brinkman just stepped out. but the amendment about including 18 year olds now so that young adults have access to job. we really support that. of course i also want to urge you to go ahead and pass free muni for low and moderate income seniors and people with disabilities now and not wait until january. we have several reasons for that. first, we've seen the success of free muni for youth. it didn't cost as much as anticipated. we've seen how many families benefit from it and, so, we want to get