it was seven medallions or because medallions to three medallions of non-because medallions and there was never any public discussion about that. so it's up to you guys to give us faith on the honesty and straightforwardness of the mta. thank you. >> the chair: thank you. check check rachel hide enfollowed by conseka and mcmerdo. >> good afternoon, director. my name is rachel heidan from the director of san francisco transit riders you should have seen our items but i want to call out the speck items. first we have the version of the additional transit needs that he walked through. in particular we want to see funding for expanding lrb service and opening in the sub bay and funding for the staff position as well as the training and of course we support funding for any service equity needs. four our public transit system to compete with automobiles and tncs and also appropriately serve our growing population we need to be increasing service not just holding the line so we strongly encourage the use of funds to not only support the operating budget but to further expand neighborhood ser

rest of the medallion holders. we have all of the board's policies enacted for all fees, fines and fares, so there were tables attached to the calendar item that shows what those were. there's a lot of them. and we applied your indexing policy to those. we do have sb 1 revenues that were amoved by the state in the budget. we do have the new revenues that will be coming in from the mission bay arena as well as the associated expenditures. right now, we have the population-based general fund baseline included, which was prop b from 2014. we have in past years put all of that money in the capital budget, 75% for transit. 25% for streets. there are anticipated development fees that are in the baseline budget. these are numbers we get from the planning department. we have current estimates from the controller's office on general fund baseline transfers, not just the population baseline, but the larger, overall baseline. we do expect updated numbers soon, updated in a positive direction, we hope. and then we have current

getting a medallion, earning a medallion used to be a reason for people to stay in the industry, and so some of your best cab drivers became medallion holders. you guys funded your budget, some $70 million off the backs of taxi drivers who then had to buy their medallions, basically giving up whatever extra income they would get by getting their medallion after a 15-year wait. now something like 90 of those drivers have had to default on their loans. you've waived their fees, rightly so because they're not making any money, but now, it's somehow devalued our medallions, where you feel like you can makeup for your short comings by charging us more. and this has become a minimum wage job or less. it's very hard to make it, and very frustrating, when we're surrounded by what used to be illegal gypsy cabs. now they're considered ethical entrepreneur. you're making special stands for them. why don't you charge people more, fine people more for charging in taxi stands, and marking in tmc's, who get obstinate when they're asked to move. minimum wage isn't a lot of money when you're struggli

the cabdrivers walk away from those medallion loans by the handful. >> we got another 13 this month.it's not getting better. >> 13 per month you think? >> this seems to be the new average. >> $125 million in what they call impaired loans. not enough to endanger the credit union but to hurt them. they are reviewing the lawsuit and we will keep you posted. >>> a plan aimed at easing the housing crisis could spark a battle between barry area cities -- bay area cities. >> it would give them less control over the city.>> reporter: the mayor says he does not officially endorse this bill but he does like some provision in it especially the one that would force some of the smaller neighboring communities around the area to do more of what san jose has done for years which is build lots and lots of low income and medium income housing. at 11 story skyline san jose, the tallest building for miles around with 121 apartment units arises above the rest of the neighborhood. it's the first thing connie sees when she goes out her front door. >> it just does not fit. it's probably the largest buildin

also, taxi drivers and relief for the medallion holders. commuter shuttle fees. and again, language access. again, thank you, directors, for allowing me this time to speak to you. >> thank you, supervisor, for your interest in these issues and coming down in person. we very much appreciate it. we'll return to where we started on the agenda or where we left off on the agenda which is the director's report. ms. boomer, is there anyone who wishes to comment under public comment on director reeiskin's report? >> an i am not seeing anyone. do u yo wish to speak on the director's report? >> i'm good. >> okay. no one else has turn in a speaker card. >> very good. directors, are there any comments or questions following up with director reeiskin on hi director's report? seeing none, i will make a few comments. number one, i'll save my longer speech for a year from now, but i will just say it's an absolute pleasure working with you. you deserve this award. you're a professional and a friend. and the fact that we have a highest credit rating in the country is something tha

that game of collecting money for user medallion should go away and there should be free medallion backnto the system for the future. but history now on forever. must only new taxi stand on the taxi stand must go and half taxi when the sign is and behind than is all uber and lift signs. so we have no parking there and location where the public is coming out, 9 9% public is coming out and our parking is on the third street side so we've got zero customers at the conventions. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> daniel followed by mark gre grewburg. >> hello. i'm daniel and i'm a san francisco native. i've lived in my current apartment for 20 years. i really just want to express outrage, which i'm not alone in this if you ask within the community, which i have done. you will find that 98% of the people are just fed up with these tech buses and the selling out of our city and the corporatization of what was a beautiful diverse rich city. the destruction of the mission, the increase of gents ra indication, we live in the mitchell ice cream building. the mitchells have expressed over and

in 2010 the city decided to raise some money by selling 700 medallions at $250,000 each.t was before uber and lyft flooded the streets. >> worth nothing. >> reporter: nothing? >> nothing. >> reporter: he figured he could make money with this medallion, lease it eventually sell it. now, et cetera saddled with the economic hardship of paying close to $2,000 a month on the mortgage for it. >> i blame the city and the state, too. >> the hard working blue collar taxi drivers that have served the community here for many many years have been left holding the bag. >> reporter: jonathan i don't have he have represents the san francisco federal credit union custom made a deal with the transportation agency to finance those loans. one of six has foreclosed. this week, the credit union filed suit for $125 million. >> no one is suggesting exactly what the mta should have done, just that they needed to have done a whole lot more than they did. >> reporter: the city has no comment on the suit thus far except to say they are reviewing it. for drivers, the reviews about owning a medallion

the credit union part of the city partnership issuing loans to taxi drivers to buy a taxi medallion. ridesharing company like -- wilson walker asked the mayor what do you tell the cabbies? >> it speaks to the fact that the city of san francisco when they have these technologies can disrupt these industry we need to keep -- we need to be a mindful. >> reporter: generally responding to the lawsuit filed by the san francisco federal credit union claiming damages suffered the taxi medallion loans. >> $28 million, >> reporter: how might the city attorney's office feel about this case. they will have a lot of it tossed out by pointing to a critical moment in 2013. >> you should direct -- you should deregulate them as taxes. >> reporter: cities like san francisco said there was nothing they could do. >> they could say that the california constitution prevented them from regulating these things. they've got the whole year of explanation they are going to have to make up for as to why they did not do anything. >> reporter: she knows the medallion program was world also -- was rolled out befor

drivers were allowed to purchase medallions with credit union can backing for $250,000 each. that suit argue that is ride sharing has since made those medallions worthless and it accuses the ncaa of allowing uber and lyft to siphon their business. >>> it's a trend across the country, teachers demanding raises. teachers with oakland unified will do the same, holding rallies at several schools. the teachers are calling for salary increases and lower class sizes. teachers across the country are fighting for salary increases. this was the scene in arizona yesterday. and this protest was inspired by teachers in west virginia who wept on strike earlier this month. they got a 5% raise. the teachers sacrifice a lot during the recession. now their work loads are growing but not compensation. >> teachers are being asked to do more and more and yet they have fewer resources, and their salaries not only are stagnant but they're going down. >> now this is happening in other states as well. in oklahoma a strike over salaries is set for monday. >>> coming up on "today in the bay," a new mov

take increasing share of passengers, the taxi medallion value is decreasing. wayne friedman has our story. >> owning one of these taxi medalens used to be a symbol of success. now it's like the op zbliet if i know what's going to happen i never do it. >> you feel like a sucker. >> i sure do. i am. >> it used to be taxi medallions were in limited supply, a listen to run your own business. but in 2010 the city decided to rates money by selling 700 medallions at 250,000 each. that was before uber and lyft flooded the streets. >> worth nothing. >> nothing in. >> nothing. >> ibraheem figured he could make money with this lease it, sell it. now he is saled with the economic hardship of paying close to $2,000 on the mortgage for it. >> i blame the city and the state too. >> the hard working blue collar taxi drivers that have served the community here for many, many years have been left holding the bag. >> jonathon joseph represents the san francisco federal credit union which originally made a deal with a municipal transportation agency to finance the loans. one of s

they force me to buy the medallion. after 30 years, give it to me free, please. i want to get my money back. you guys have to be issued something, not me. we don't want to be a driver. we don't want to get out after 50 years. i cannot do it anymore. please figure it out. do something this year. we're mentally, physically sick. there are working 100 hours a week. they're divorced. people get heart attacks. two weeks ago, i told you, cab drivers get heart attacks. mta is not doing the job. they cannot do it. you guys have to issue maybe the bond. i want to get out, please. i don't want to die like that. i'm suffering so much. i have been in this country 50 years. i have to be retired. i cannot do it. please. >> supervisor breed: thank you. thank you for your comments, sir. >> thank you. >> supervisor breed: next speaker, please. >> i just wanted to say congratulations to women honored today and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. first i'd like to say that i'm a sole proprietor women's-owned district, graduate of san francisco state and california nat

i am. >> reporter: it used to be taxi medallions were in limited supply. in 2010, the city decided to raise money by selling 700 medallions at $250 each. that was before uber and lyft flooded the streets. >> worth nothing. >> reporter: eventually sell it. now he is salgddled with the economic hardship of paying 2,000 a month for morgan on it. >> hardworking taxi drivers that have served the community for many years left holding the bag. >> reporter: one of six has foreclosed and this week the credit union has filed suit for $125 million. >> no one is suggesting exactly what the mta should have done. just that they needed to have done a whole lot more than they did. >> reporter: the city has no comment on the suit except to say they are reviewing it. from drivers. >> nobody will buy it, are you kidding me? >> reporter: in san francisco wayne freedman. >>> no sign of three children believed to be inside a vehicle that went over a cliff mendocino county. discovering the bodies from five members of the family. the accident happened three days after social serv

i am. >> reporter: it used to be taxi medallions were in limited supply. in 2010, the city decided to raise money by selling 700 medallions at $250 each. that was before uber and lyft flooded the streets. >> worth nothing. >> reporter: eventually sell it. now he is salgddled with the economic hardship of paying 2,000 a month for morgan on it. >> hardworking taxi drivers that have served the community for many years left holding the bag. >> reporter: one of six has foreclosed and this week the credit union has filed suit for $125 million. >> no on is suggesting exactly what the mta should have done. just that they needed to have done a whole lot more than they d. t except to say they are reviewing it. from drivers. >> nobody will buy it, are you kidding me? >> reporter: in san francisco wayne freedman. >>> no sign of three children believed to be inside a vehicle that went over a cliff in men o mendocino county. discovering the bodies from five members of the family. the accident happened three days after social service investigators began looking into repo

but san francisco decided to sell 200 medallions at $260,000 each.s before uber and lyft flooded the streets. >> nothing. >> reporter: nothing? abraham figured he could make money by leasing it and eventually selling it. now she's paying close to $2,000 on the mortgage for it. >> i blame the city and the state too. >> reporter: so does the san francisco federal credit union which originally made a deal with the initial transport agency to finance those loans. one >> no one's suggesting exactly what the mta should have done, just that they needed to have done a whole lot more than they did. >> the city attorney's office has no comment on the suit, except to say that they are reviewing it. meantime, the credit union is hoping for a jury trial, best to not have a taxi driver in that group. >> who wants to buy it for $250,000 these days? >> in san francisco, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >>> and if you wonder why the value of those medalialions hav dropped. uber and lyft make a typical 12,000 trips in a day, more than 200 taxis. >>> let's take a look at the

ok, medallions. how about new buses with the money? and what happened to us.hey dumped thousands of Über lyft. and who do you empty those cabs, we find nobody. so think what happens. we want to bring $125,000, don't do double standard. they sold some $125,000 and making payment. so the only thing we're going to -- bring it to $125,000. otherwise, we're going to bankrupt. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is ejas. this is a great place, driving taxi, i didn't know it was being made over here. so i am also a taxi driver to who bought the permit for,000, but i was supposed to get for free, but they closed their door for me. i think i have been dropped my 29 years of service. and whatever i made had been ripped off from me. the sense of to buy the permit for $250,000. i have four kids, two are in the college, one in high school, one in middle. my daughter comes to the state university every day. i work until 10 p.m. and i barely take $100 for myself. and my daughter spent $20 out of that. nobody is taking any action seems

but in 2010 the city decided to raise some money by selling 700 medallions at $250,000 each. that was before uber and lyft flooded the streets. >> nothing. >> reporter: nothing. >> nothing. >> reporter: he figured he could make money with this medal yn, lease it. now he is saddled with paying close to $2,000 a month for a mortgage on it. >> i blame the city and the state too. >> reporter: the hard working blue collar taxi drivers that served the commune for many years have been left holding the bag. >> reporter: jonathan joseph represents the san francisco federal credit union which made a deal with the transportation agency to finance those loans. one of six has foreclosed. this week the credit union filed suit for $125 million. >> no one is suggesting exactly what the mta should have done, just that they needed to have done a whole lot more than they did. >> reporter: the city has no comment on the suit thus far except so say that they are reviewing it. from drivers, the reviews about owning a medallion have been in for a long time. >> nobody will buy. are you kidding me? w

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according to curbed sf they were hammered by the rollout of taxi medallion sales. you might remember that back in 2008 drivers were allowed to purchase medallions with credit union backing for about a quarter after million apiece. the suit argue that is ride sharing has since made those medallions worthless and accuses the mta of allowing uber and lyft to siphon business. >>> all right. i want to show you the san mateo bridge. i track what i see. i saw flashing lights but everything has been moving smoothly since then, about three or four minutes since i saw that. no reports of problems or delays showing up on our maps. we see only the flowing. barely detectable on the map. a nice drive from the south county, 101, gilroy, morgan hill. 17 over the santa cruz summit moving smoothly. i skipped over san jose. we saw that on the map. no major issues. people still recovering. >>> all right. we want to talk about the weekend forecast. we have passover and easter sunday. >> for people it's already friday, right? it's going to be a great weekend ahead. still some nice weath

the suit argues that ride sharing made those medallions worthless and accuses the mta of allowing uber and lyft to siphon business. >>> a school board discussion on sex ed is over. it ended at 2:30 a.m. this started with protests outside. inside, they say it's important for teachers to focus on stds and hiv. some say that's too graphic and detailed for kids. we talked to one critic. >> we are against not involving parents in the process assuming all the kids have the same needs. >> now, the classes are set to start for 4th through 8th graders. >>> coming up, we want to get a check of the forecast with kari. it's a sunny day out there. >> yeah, you can see from the camera looking live from the window out in san jose, i want to go through the rest of the afternoon with you and show you when we'll reach our warmest temperature, and that should happen at 5:00 here, up to 82 degrees, cooling off quickly at 72 degrees by this evening as the sun sets. we'll talk about the rest of the forecast for the weekend coming up next. plus -- distracted driving a growing problem on america )s roads and

the trump golf collector medallion. this is a medallion you collect i guess and on the back it says "made in china." i got -- now, these are interesting. i got a gold bar coin bank. i looked all over this thing. i looked all over the package. no country of origin listed. and an official trump pet bandanna, which cost a lot more than this should have cost, but this also, no country of origin listed, which i think is illegal. in fact, i looked up requirements for country of origin marking on goods imported in the u.s. goods that are imported into the u.s. are required to have a country of origin marking such as the country of manufacture production or growth of any article of foreign origin entering the united states. for example, goods originating in china should be marked made in china. failure to properly report product origin can result in substantial penalties. companies can face up to $500,000 in fines per violation or double the loss or gain from the violation related to -- this could be very expensive, not to ment

if, you know, it's a situation where the k-medallions are being turned back in or we got a disproportionate percentage, i'm not willing to say what the issue is, but it sounds like these are relativy smalleely s but i would appreciate solutions from staff on more things we could do to show the sort of understanding to that community of what we're going through. >> thank you, vice hachair heinicke? >> yes, director borden? >> yes, i would like to agree with all the points that director heinicke made. if students are going to school, they would be eligible under our program. i believe once you start a benefit, you can never take it away, so it would be one thing if we're talking about a long-term expenditure, but we're talking about a one time expenditure. i just feel like we're in a position where we can't extend that. i also do believe that there is some value, especially if money is less of an object in your family, of having to pay for something. i used to serve on the board of the bayview ymca, and we always made families pay something for summer camps. some families paid $5 and gave the

all of us as commissioners are open to the idea, under what circumstances would our medallion or awardbe presented and i think it is a worthy idea to have a commission award of some sort. we need more definition. what you were thinking if you could put thoughts together on paper that we could their share with the commissioners we could discuss that at a future meeting. >>> madam secretary. next item. >> i just want to offer something in conjunction with that comment. thank you very much for attending. it was very much anticipate appreciated -- very much appreciated. because you have the least amount of experience on the commission we have a retirement ceremony where anyone that has and it is in conjunction with the commission. it is the commission and i sign off. it is from the commission where every retired member has the opportunity to have the certificate mailed or come before the commission and each of commissioners sign the certificate thanking them for years of service. the secretary does a great job inputting it together in conjunction with my office on. we give hig highlights o

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cooley law school and had initial success in the less than genteel world of new york city taxi medallions started working for trump org, it wasn't like he came from a white shoe law firm, he came from a hard-nosed new york trial firm. trump has an eye for talent. this is someone, he used to call him his bulldog, his tough guy. >> reporter: at the trump organization he's done a business of everything, running a mixed martial arts company, securing real estate branding deals and even taking care of transportation. >> the famous trump plane, there was an engine issue that he actually took care of and got a really good deal on. >> watching him, it's like a reality show. he's got three phones. he's got the hard line, he's got two lines, he's texting, he's on the computer. >> you can almost say this is donald trump's mini me. for a guy who started really in the middle class on long island to now be quite wealthy himself, known internationally and, yes, he's in a bid of a jam with the russia scandal. >> in the eye not only of stormy, but also of interest to special counsel bob mueller and congre

ochisor owned a taxi medallion and shared driving duties with his wife, who picked up morning shifts while he worked evenings in an unsuccessful struggle to make ends meet. the new york taxi workers aychis's death is the fourth such suicide of a driver in recent months. in february, livery car driver douglas schifter killed himself outside the gates of city hall after writing in a suicide note posted to facebook -- "i will not be a slave working for chump change. i would rather be dead." to see our discussion of what taxi drivers face, you can go to sacrameo, california, lice have released a pair of videos showing the moments before two officers shot and killed 22-year-old stephon clark, an african american father of two who was gunned down in his own backyard. at the time of the killing, officers were investigating a 911 call reporting someone in a hoodie in the neighborhood breaking the windows of cars. one newly released video, taken from a police helicopter, shows thermal images of clark being pursued outside his home by two officers, who draw their pistols on him. amy: another d

cooley law school and had some initial success in the less than genteel world of new york taxicab medallions. >> if you look where michael came from in his legal career before he started working for trump org it wasn't like he came from a white shoe law firm. he came from a hard-nosed new york trial firm. trump has an eye for talent. this was somebody that he used to call him his bulldog, his tough guy. >> at the trump organization, he's done a bit of everything. running a mixed martial arts company, securing real estate branding deals, and even taking care of transportation. >> you know the famous trump plane. there was an engine issue that he actually took care of and got a really good deal on. >> watching him is like a reality show. he's got three phones, he's got the hard line, he's got two lines, he's texting, he's on the computer. >> you can almost say this is donald trump's mini me. for a guy who started really in the middle class on long island to now be quite wealthy himself, known internationally, and yes, he's in a bit of a jam with the russia scandal. >> in the eye not only of st

president xi jinping medallions -- met delegates on the sidelines of the national people's congress sayingper. it is home to the greater bay area project intended to be china's answer to silicon valley. the president told him the company must remain ahead of the pack. >> development is the top priority. innovation the leading driver. if china does not pursue innovation driven development, the new growth drivers will not be able to replace the old ones and the country will not be truly strong. to be strong we need to foster innovation. selina: global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm selina wang. this is bloomberg. trump'spresident advisors are defending plans to impose tariffs while leaving the door open to exemptions for some countries and downplaying the chance of a trade war. the administration is also considering imposing tariffs on a broad range of imports to punish beijing for alleged theft of intellectual property. thank you so much for joining us. we are expecting to hear some kind of the -- announcement from the