mr. wiener's bill. strongly suggest that it would be nixed in committee over here and pardon my stutter and i will be a nudist as long as possible and as far as the exhibitionism is concerned i don't think it's that. i want to go to jane warner plaza and sit on the chairs there and read my book and talk to people, have some water and all that stuff. i don't go up and approach people and all that stuff, and yet i have been harassed at times. once a guy -- i was looking for shade and a guy came out of his shop and really harassed me very, very verbally. okay. thank you very much. >> thank you very much sir. next speaker. >> good morning. i am ralph and i live with my wife in woodside. i am here to ask you to vote no on this ban on nudity and i don't go to jane warner plaza myself but i support those that do. there is no property damage. there is no logical argument for the proposed ban and it comes down to one phrase "it's disgusting". i will remind you that beauty and disgust is in the eye of the beholde

mr. clerk. item one is supervisor wiener's option. >> thank you for coming out today. i think it shows there is a lot of passion on all sides of this issue. mr. chairman we have before us legislation restricting public nudity in parts of san francisco. this legislation which is much more narrow than the broad nudity ban in the park code for decades acknowledges public nudity is part in san francisco and appropriate in some circumstances. the legislation also acknowledges it's not always appropriate and in the neighborhoods and commercial districts where we have to live and work and live our lives together public nudity can at times can too far. for years public nudity has been part of san francisco and beaches and parades and some of our bars and the occasional sporadic naked person wondering the streets. it wasn't a big deal and few people caressed. in the last few years it's changed. public nudity is no longer random and sporadic, or occasional part of san francisco and in the castro it's seven days a week. everyday where people live, play and conduct their lives. to

mr. wiener has made this bargain. if there has to be a nudity ordinance let the people of san francisco decide if they lose the freedoms in a open initiative process and whether they're for tolerance and body freedom or else kill this legislation now. this is san francisco. people all around the world consider us a beacon for acceptance and tolerance and center for free thought. this is america, land of the free. this kind of legislation can't happen here, can it? thank you. >> next speaker. >> hi i am she'lly tenny. i am a lifetime resident of the castro and i intend to raise my kids here and it's about the neighborhood and i agree with the supervisor and the captain the situation has gotten completely out of control. i want to walk down the street and buy a carton of milk without seeing someone's penis. thank you. >> next speaker. >> desmond perrado resident of castro. what marry an singleton moved she explained herself. "i can't handle this michael. i want to live somewhere and not apologize for serving instant cof

mr. wiener would be here and i do have a family and i do work, and i feel insulted by him what he said. i make an effort to come to speak to you. i hope you're going to keep hearing the taxi issues. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> brad newsom. a previous speaker said that he was passionate about providing taxicab service in san francisco. i am one of thousands of cab drivers who have been passionate about providing cab service to the people of san francisco in my case for 27 years. i was distressed after the last hearing that the city attorney's office was here, and we had a discussion about a note that had gone from the sf mta to this body with some back door reassurances that cab drivers would get some sort of fair back door justice that might not fit the general description of the what everybody else gets. the city attorney -- how does this thing work? >> [inaudible] >> there you go. this is i letter from the city attorney -- drafted by the mayor and mayor new sum and peskin was being drafted and has them to draft legislation that respects the will of th

mr. wiener has. it's a matter of wanting our community back and you don't have to second guess what you're going to confront. just last night a group of us went to 18th and castro and a nude iftd right outside the window and i saw first hand two families coming for dinner that they left not wanting to stand in line having a nudist just stand outside the restaurant, so i truly support this, and i commend you for bringing it up. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello. i'm matthew johnson. i live and also work and play in the castro. i moved here from oklahoma six years ago and the nudists and this is great and wonderful. however they were meandering about and now they're there. unfortunately with the addition of park lit it's a show case for exhibitionists behavior. the one day they actually went out there to enjoy my lunch i saw a gentleman came out fully dressed, proceeded to take his clothes off and put on a cock ring and started smoking. what is interesting to me when i went back

mr. wiener has no idea what goes on in the cab business. okay. no benefits to the cab business whatsoever and experienced drivers are going to quit. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good evening board members. first i would like to thank you for hearing this case. i filed i wanted to file an appeal but somebody said i couldn't, so on this matter, and thank you for giving us three minutes. that's something the mta has never done and something they have never done also to give drivers hope. you know where is scott wiener? he just left. this was his first time here and he spoke and left. i remember my first cab ride. i was about nine years old. it was to the hospital. i was a burn victim and my mother called for a cab. i'm a 24 year driver and san franciscan native and i am passionate about cab service. i must say that they say money is the root to all evil. is that what the "m" in mta stands for? i would hope also one board member would change her mind. i also thank the board for delaying this case. balance with competing interest.

mr. wiener's office -- scott wiener's office. they decided to convert all the coffee shop because a coffee shop -- it has very bad -- you can't cook the food. you only have to be wrapped in aluminum foil or plastic and displayed. you cannot cook on the premises. now with starbucks and the other companies tried to change that and they went there and we change to three items. one call it a coffee shop. if anybody before march -- i think march somehow -- if you have a coffee shop, bonified coffee shop you are already a limited restaurant which means you can cook but only certain seats. my client has 15 seats and put the hood in there so he went there and did the second permit and they appeal it and we under the appeal until december the seven. we will have it in front of you. automatically went there they talked to my client, and the neighbor went there and over here and move it this way, so my client has no idea what he's doing because he's a cook. he's not a contractor. they moved the work in front of their building. i took a pict

. >> supervisor wiener: mr.en would you agree improving muni's reliant would increase ridership if it went from 58% liability to say 70 or 75% reliant and had more vehicle capacity because of fewer breakdowns and more vehicles do you think that would increase ridership? >> absolutely. >> supervisor wiener: okay. >> supervisor elsbernd: mr. risken in your budget that approved your full year budget that approved these dollars assuming they came in, was there operating budget for increased cost associated with muni? >> there were -- in the budget that we put forward, which i believe was $9.4 million over the 22 month period, so just short of two years, the main portion of that was the revenue offsetting the revenue loss. there was a very small amount for administrative cost, for a maintenance, in car maintenance, graffiti abatement, a little bit more staffing for our muni transit assistance program. it did not include service for increased operations should ridership increase to the point where we need to administe

mr. reiskin report back to the meeting. unfinished business? seeing none. >> item 7, directors report. and we are anticipating scott wiener shortly. >> better hang onto that for the first part. i will go to the next one, if i may, mr. chairman. let me take the first awardee that we'll recognize is alan ewan who is a senior of fair collection receiver in the revenue department. he has had a long and distinguished career with us at the mta. he's been here for over 18 years and is viewed by his supervisors and colleagues as a model employee and leader among his peers and subordinates. he has a long list of accomplishments, most recently he's taken on the responsibility of manage being and improving significantly the lost and found operation, which is very important as you can imagine to a lot of our users and passengers and riders. and in one year, in fiscal year 2011, over 3500 items, including things like keys, electronic items, watches, all of those things came through our system. and through alan's leadership and work, we've reduced the time that it takes to return things from 30 days to 7. so, terrific work in the reven

thank you. >> supervisor wiener: thank you. mr.airman, this is really not acceptable. >> supervisor elsbernd: excuse me. excuse me. everybody needs to be treated with respect. >> roberts rules of order, it happens in congress -- >> supervisor elsbernd: sir. >> stiewrm right, roberts rules of order. >> supervisor elsbernd: thank you. i would ask everybody to be respectful in this room. thank you. >> supervisor wiener: next speaker. >> hi. i live in the mission district, and i'm a member of power. and this morning i'm here to support the free bus passes for the youth because i think that is good that the kids are getting free muni passes because that way they don't have to be scared of getting tickets on the bus, and that way it gives the kids to get to school on time and to be able to learn. i feel like that's not fair that families and the kids -- we delay this process because they will continue to suffer just to get to school. we -- this money and we need to invest it in our families. >> supervisor wiener: thank you very much. nex