mr. reiskin. my question was really around what was the effort around negotiationses around the titan contract because it was really clear what my position was on the wraps and on the digital arts. i didn't want to be any wraps at all, but certainly wanted to see it come down from 30 to 15. that didn't happen. i understand we're trying to build flexibility in your budget and i've been very supportive of that. i've actually helped to get revenue into the city in large amounts through first the real estate transfer tax increase that was done in 2010 and then making sure that we had a revenue generating gross receipts tax. those monies that have come in have actually enabled muni to increase its baseline support from the general fund. and, so, i've been really making sure that we can actually have the support for muni through raising revenue. in this case we're talking about $325,000 that is or potentially $800,000 that could be what we could bring in from having the wraps. but i'm not hearing that t

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mr. reiskin you and i have had various civilizations i was disappointed last month the board of directors gave away millions of dollars for free this and that i didn't support sunday meters when it came in there were people who supported free muni or didn't support it and in a way it's not about whether or not one supports charging for meters parking optional sunday or whether or not citizens are kids paying muni but once again, we have a policy goal not having people to pay for this and that but instead of finding a way to pay for it it comes out of muni operations and maintenance. it's absolutely the lazy way out and, yes google is paying for two years of free muni for youths 17 and under that's terrific but for two years and that may run out after 2 or 4 years and that's going to be back on muni. so between the extension of the free passes and the meters it's 19 point plus million dollars paid for by muni it's not clear in the vehicle license vehicle fee is going to go forward and see, you know, you look at the big issues about the $19.4 million decisions that the mta board of director

mr. reiskin and your staff. i do support the motion by supervisor mar. and i do have, and i understand and respect where supervisor breed is coming from. i do think, though, that keeping the contract where it has been makes sense. i do have a question for the city attorney, though, through the chair. maybe i misunderstood what he said. i understand that the board cannot amend the contract, but the board should be able to amend the resolution authorizing the contract, shouldn't we? >> deputy city attorney jon givner. the resolution effectively is the document that approves the contract. so, the board could amend the resolution to reflect what is in the contract certainly. i don't believe the issues that the board is discussing right now, the wraps, the digital media, are even mentioned in the resolution itself. >> my point is this. could the board amend this resolution to approve the contract with the understanding that the approval is contingent upon certain terms being in there, like including making sure that the number of buses remains at 15? couldn't

mr. reiskin, you mentioned that was a possibility. >> through the chair, excuse me. i concur with supervisor campos. it's kind of a semantic defense. i'm willing to accept whatever the majority of the board supports. if it's 30, that's what i recommend. if it's 25 or some other number down as low as 15, willing to accept that if that's where the majority of the board is. >> supervisor cohen. >> i'd just like to finish, a question for mr. givner. i'm not clear what the best way to communicate that is. we have a resolution which we he really can't amend. there is a contract that is amenable to whatever we vote on, but we can't -- what can we actually vote on that can indicate that we are giving direction to the general manager of the mta to provide the contract to have the wraps capped at 15? >> deputy city attorney jon givner again. it's an unusual situation, supervisor. i don't think, though, an appropriate motion to vote on other than the supervisors stating what each of you, i suppose, sick of you, what your intention is. ~ six of you another intention is to vote o

mr. reiskin. my question was really around what was the effort around negotiationses around the titan contract because it was really clear what my position was on the wraps and on the digital arts. i didn't want to be any wraps at all, but certainly wanted to see it come down from 30 to 15. that didn't happen. i understand we're trying to build flexibility in your budget and i've been very supportive of that. i've actually helped to get revenue into

mr. reiskin and his team up for a hearing to discuss why this is not working for the city. so, i just think we need to move forward and make a decision and i think it financially would be beneficial for us to do so, the contract as it is now. thank you. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. i along a we're going around, i do think we can amend the resolution and say the board authorizes sfmta to go through with this contract with a maximum of 15 wraps and then it's then up to the mta to execute that contract or not. but if we're not going to debate that, i do support this item at a maximum of 15 wraps. on a bus, i think that we have heard a lot from our community in terms of the limitations and advertisementses that they want to see on our public transit and i agree with that. i appreciate the conversation around mta's budget. we have currently secured funding for low-income youth, so, that is not on the table. that is funded privately now. so, that has been included at mta's budget. if mta was to come out and say they would support free muni for low-income seniors and disabilit

mr. reiskin had to step out. this was previously in the 3 member committee my apologies if this was discussed and that's about the visibility of the l rbs and i know that mta sent around the video i can say in my experience it's not that often i've been on a wrapped rb above ground especially in the evening but one time in the evening in the winter is of the dark out and i actually really had trouble i wasn't sure what street i was at i couldn't read the street signs and if tlvrt there was a bus stoney felt like i was a tourist in san francisco i had to rely on other passengers to get off. has the technology improved or what's happening there >> gail from the mta pare the technology does continue to improve will have of the wraps are clear and they've put a lot of the colors onto the body of the vehicles so we're definitely ware u aware that people have issues the contract requires the contractors to use better and better materials. >> so the experience i had was sometime last fall or i think it was last fall. is

mrs. reiskin the floor is yours. >> thank you edward reiskin director of transportation. if this is for turgdz on vehicles and real estate it's a result of the competitive process much the same terms asia the contract we have in place and the winning contractor is the same the minimal guarantee so the guaranteed revenues to the mta is greater than than the previous agreement and one difference i think go of interest is our current distract allows up to 15 contracts that will allow up to thirty wraps with my approval. i guess i'll say and i know there's been concern on the issue is generally those revenues are extremely important to the agencies there are things people want us to address the affordability issue this is a way to not go into the pocket of san franciscans whether people paying for parking or other means it is our responsibility to use our assets to be able to generate revenue when they have that ability. in terms of the wraps i know has on a sensitive issue we have more than 5 thousand vehicles we have cable cars and streetcars not boats. thirty 15 and thirty

mr. reiskin asked staff to include the presentations in the packet for the benefit not just of the board but the public so appreciate that i respect ly disagree with my good friend jim patrick you are seeing here a carbon copy of what we went through in europe 30 years ago the channel tunnel and at that point the government said enough is enough we got to get down to the bottom of this figure out what the problem is and a massive report generated called the latham report there's a very good write up on wikipedia and they came up with a completely different way of doing business that's been working very well the last 20 years the way it works is like designer built but very very special basically up to 35 percent design at that point they go to the bids and they carry on working together as they gradually bring the design up to 100 percent that's where the value engineering is working there's all the risk is shared and it worked very very well and extreme familiar with how that works ask them about the new engineering contract then take it from there. thank you. >> thank you. any other pu

mr. reiskin is here. we are going to have a motion to continue this item at the request of the sponsor for one week. so -- >> i'll move that recommendation to continue for one week. >> okay. first we're going to open up real quick to public comment. thank you, supervisor mar. anybody wishing to comment on item number 3? we are continuing this item for a week. >>> my name is david [speaker not understood], a lifelong san francisco an and member of san francisco beautiful. on behalf of my colleagues on s.f. beautiful who couldn't stay for the duration of the meeting. we want to thank supervisor avalos for bringing attention to this issue. this contract has met a lot of opposition. the harvey milk democratic board voted to oppose the contract last night. it also got a lot of complaints from residents across the city. and we're a city that dies and invests in our public scenery. we spend a lot of money to maintain cable cars and streetcars and help boost tourist economy in san francisco but also makes it a be

mr. reiskin could offer another alternative contract that the board could accept and then vote on. in terms of the procedural possibility of a straw poll, i would defer to the clerk on how you could do that. >> so, just a quick question. if we voted -- if, for instance, you think that the number should not be higher than where it presently is, then i would imagine the best approach would be to vote no on the resolution. would that be correct? >> if you would like to have the number be 15 and currently the number is proposed at 30 and you voted no and there were 6 nos, the board could then rescind that vote and, and the director could, could submit another contract report consideration. >> colleagues, i might suggest we take that path. why don't we vote on the contract as it is and if that fails, we rescind that vote and our director can -- we can see how low he he will go. so, unless there is any further discussion, let's take a roll call vote on the contract as it has been proposed. madam clerk. >> on item 8, supervisor yee? excuse me, mr. president. on item . supervisor yee? yee

reiskin, continue your report. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i have a number of things but will try to go quickly given the hour. i want to let you know about the program for investment and economic recovery it's a project across the country to close gaps, multimodal proposal, and we had a gap proposal for mission bay and completing that loop. it's an important project that you heard about the tpt, funding from this gap would close the funding gap if we are successful in getting it. it's a very competitive grant program in the past. but we have done, san francisco has got grants for doyle drive and mission bay loop in the past, and we have a regional proposal and canvas the region and we hope to be successful. and we applied for a planning grant to look at core transit capacity, and particularly transbay in san francisco and the caltrain corridor. and tonight we will have staff participating in an open house to talk about a number of different projects on columbus avenue, at telehi neighborhood. and the reason it's happening, there ar

public comment for our budget so with that, why not sdrishlg to our mta edward reiskin thank you for come back. >> good afternoon mr. chair, and members of the board we presented last week and happy to answer any questions. >> okay. colleagues any questions. >> thank you for being back. at this point we'll open up for public comment is there anyone who wishes to speak on the item? on items it through 4 please step forward and line up on this side of the wall so we understand how many people and be respectful let's start the clock >> dr. espanola jackson again, thank you for the two minutes. i've been smelling and me and my community in 1972 we voted for the extension of that sewage plant you don't get the smell we have daily city and the brisbane and oats presidio and 80 percent of the city sewage coming to bayview hunters point is don't go nowhere else and who's smelling that when it's hot you can't open our windows. beyond what you're arguments are about i know about capital a that's the reason we voted for the bond issue in order to get those passed and we haven't seen nothing. nothing. and you all want to talk

reiskin i don't see him either. do you want to wait a minute for the director. okay. why don't we wait we have mr. kelly here why not start with the puc. >> so thank you and good morning, chair farrell and supervisor avalos, supervisor breed and supervisor wiener. take the opportunity to provide you with an in debt information for 2016- 2017 and 2015- 2016. we appreciate the opportunity to give you an high-level information but thank you for meeting with us individually about the questions and concerns. today, our cfo and assistant manager will be making a detailed presentation we have included a number of silenced that address questions you've asked us to address. as you hear today's presentation there's been a lot of great things we've been doing at the puc while we continue to provide twenty-four hour 7 days a week for pour services we have a great track record with the water system program that's over 80 percent complement. we're planning the sewer system improvement program it's well underway. we've reached a major milestone in the planning design of rebuilding our southeast treatment facilit