thank you to the mta for the presentation. let me begin by noting that i am supportive of this project. i look forward to the hearing and what is presented to us. i do have support for this project but i do want to make sure that we have a better sense of where the mta is in terms of its ability to manage this project. again, i am supportive of it but since we are being asked to take some very important steps to finalize the project, i want to make sure that the mta has done everything it can to make sure that this project is managed well and i would simply reference back to a letter that was received earlier this year from the u.s. department of transportation, the federal transit administration. as you know, in that letter which was sent by the -- by leslie rogers who is a regional administrator of the federal transportation administration, that letter points out a number of things that quite frankly raise concerns about the mta's ability to manage this project and specifically, the letter says on page three, and i quote, th

the mta serves a diverse population. looking at the board of directors, looking at the website, there is some adversity, but there are some communities not represented. i do not know that there is a latino member of the board of directors at this point. might be in terms of the representation of people across the spectrum, the socio-economic spectrum. there are people who speak many languages in san francisco. many of them ride muni on a regular basis. i wonder if you could speak to your ability to work with these diverse communities to make sure that their concerns are adequately represented. >> absolutely. i'm committed to making sure that any information, any changes, any benefits that we can bring to muni serve all communities, and that we can access all those communities. again, to my work with sunday streets, i know what a challenge that is. we would translate our materials into several languages and inevitably miss something, get something wrong. it is a big challenge. we faced that on the livable city board. we w

are the key issues facing the mta. as you know, there have been a number of efforts and one that will be on the ballot in november to reform the mta, and i'm wondering in your view with the key issues or critical issues facing that issue are? >> i think the main key issue is that the budget and revenue, i know that everyone is focused on restoring the service cuts, and a lot of those cuts have been restored. i think the restoration of the service cuts is happening in a strategic manner, and i think that the public needs to know that we do take the transportation seriously and that the board of supervisors, the mayor's office, everyone is focused on bringing the service up to a level where people who we can depend on transit. i know what it is like to depend on that bus and to be waiting for it. issing we have made great strides in letting people know -- i think we have made great strides in letting people know to give people a certain level of comfort with when the bus is going to ride. one of my big issues is safety,

this is a seminal moment in our city and i want to thank the mta board. some members here today, commissioner bruce oka, commissioner knollen and others for prioritizing pedestrian safety. i think we're ready to take it to the next level in expanding and improving pedestrian environment in san francisco. as someone that walked to work down van ness most days i can attest to most recent improvements and on-going challenges where the need to have pedestrian countdown signals on high traffic intersections or issues of the quality of pavement in cross walks or clarity of the cross walks themselves so i'm excited to be here today and be part toichl improvements and then on behalf of mayor newsom and administration we're excited to support the m.t.a's work of this. i'll give you 30 seconds of context and why pedestrian matters to ten environment in san francisco we focus and contextize most of our work around climate change and protection. when you look at greenhouse gas pollution generateed san francisco, just half are related. 51 percent come from vehicles an

more things for the mta. we have seen a significant increase in bicycle rider ship. i just want to pass on to the supervisor that we also look at bicycles in terms of having them share the cost of some of the programs and the things that are going to be implemented through the mta on their behalf. >> bicycle registration program or something along those lines? commissioner riley: or doing something similar -- at the commission has not said anything formally on that. the thought just crossed my mind. >> the licensing of city bikes might be something -- >> right, with every sale there is an automatic registration fee. there are many bicycles that are not registered in the city. i am just throwing that out there. we're looking about really trying to put money back into mta and the programs they are doing. there are other entities. >> i think that is really important point, because not only do the bicyclist use the road, but bicycle theft is a huge issue. those are not --

dollars, and that is only one portion of the upward of $70 million in stimulus money that came to the mta here. we're very pleased to be here today. i would analogize this project almost to that of fine wine. nothing before its time. we have been involved with translink program. we are almost there. not only did the recovery money provide and create and retain jobs across the country, it provided that additional infrastructure funding to get us over the hump. again, we are pleased to join with you today, and congratulations to both of our partners. thank you very much. >> here it is -- this is the clipper card, so everybody, have a good look at that. i think it is a very handsome looking card. you will see the logo on all the cards, on all the machines. you just put the cards down, and you are on your way to wherever your going -- wherever you are going, and given the -- how shall i say it -- the particular special environment of the bay area, the fact that we can all get around with the same card is a wonderful thing, and mtc is delighted -- believe me, i have been there a long time. it

supervisor mirkarimi: just for consideration to the two authors, to yourself, the mta, if there could be a publicity campaign that uniformly speaks to what the law is as to concealing a weapon, what the violation is, like the other advertisements that we put on mta for everything else -- you think twice. i do not think they would want to lose $1,000 or worse, be in jail. >> it just so happens our pio from mta is here, so i assume she is taking notes. supervisor mirkarimi: 5 would just recommend something that would highlight on muni, where is conspicuous to ridership, and any punk who wants to violate the laws knows what the consequences will be. supervisor chiu: thank you. could we have a motion to adopt the amendment as a motiowhole? without objection. the amendment will pass. if we could forward this to the full board as a committee report. without objection. that shall be the case. thank you, supervisor chiu. item three. >> hearing to present the commission on the status of women's justice and courage oversight panel report "courage to change," documenting two years of work by cit

>> -- where is the mta? that they want to let it go? >> we agreed that the next steps would be to have a citizens advisory committee and see what their response would be. there is absolutely nothing that has been agreed upon by the mta. if people are excited about it,

>> -- where is the mta? that they want to let it go? >> we agreed that the next steps would be to have a citizens advisory committee and see what their response would be. there is absolutely nothing that has been agreed upon by the mta. if people are excited about it, -- we are looking for your feedback on that. supervisor chiu: i look i know that amy is going to touch on the human capital side and the working with the residents some, and margaret campo from the developer is here. margaret regularly meets with the tenant association and members of the community, if you want more defail on that. -- more detail on that. 700,000 units will be replaced bedroom for bedroom. so if we hadn't said so already, it is certainly and clearly our hope as a pilot project, first out of the gate. it has actually been in the works before hope s.f.. in some respects, hope s.f. came about in part from what we learned in our work today. we have master planned the site. we were with you for the whole approval and the design for development plan for the 700-p

does have its growing pains, and we will experience those, but you have a commitment from the mtc and mta that we will try to make this is painless as possible. i think it is a great day to have these new fare gauges, just another indication of how the mta is reinventing capital dollars to make sure the system is reliable and efficient and on time. we're going to have the project manager of m from theta -- from the mta take us over to the ticket machine. they will give us a demonstration of how the machines work, and they will give us cards from the new gates. we will come back and use the clipper cards on the new fare gates. >> good afternoon, open to the full board of supervisors. >> supervisor avalos is absent, can we have a motion to recuse him today? without objection, he shall be excused. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> i have no agannouncements. >> items one through six, this is the consent calendar. >> would anyone like to separate any of the items from 1-6? please. >>aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >>aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> these resolutions ad

none of the data is stored on the meter or by the mta. it is handled by the meter company and processed as quickly as possible. there's very little risk of using credit cards at the meters. >> [unintelligible] concerned about the possibility of [inaudible] [traffic] >> one of the great things about the meters is that it makes it so easy to pay. people should get a lot fewer parking tickets and area. that can leave people with a bitter taste in your mouth. that is one part. the demand response of pricing , the mta is legally obligated to charge lowest pricing available to create a target. it will be easy for customers to come and find a space quickly. my name is jay primus. i am the program manager for sf park. thank y>> thank you very much. why don't you do a demonstration for them? >> meter has some time on it. you concede the flashing -- you can see the flashing led. now it is cancelled. it is going through the verification process. it starts with a minimum of 30 minutes. you can add or subtract time. [traffic] when you are ready, you c

there are fair inspectors within the mta that interact with the public on a regular basis. if you are going to go down the road of increasing penalties, we have to make sure that there is accountability on the side of law enforcement. they have to make sure they have the cultural sensitivity training to make sure that there is proper enforcement of what ever laws we are enacting. >> any additional discussion? >> item 36. >> no supervisor campos: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor dufty: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor maxwell: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor alioto-pier: aye. >> there are 9 ayes and 2 nos. this was considered at a land use and economic committee meeting on august 2. they forwarded this item to the board, an ordinance to extend a retroactively extended grand from the u.s. department of energy through the association of bay area governments and the county of los angeles. this may reflect the addition of three positions in the department of the environment. >> roll call vote. >> supervisor avalos. supervisor campos.

i want to thank the mta and police department for working together to deploy in number of resources across lines in the city, as well as supervisor chiu's office for moving this forward. i would like to open this up to public comment. >> good morning. so happy to be here to thank supervisor chu and all the other board members for this legislation. after i moved to visitation valley, i was approached by many residents, it addressing safety. i have been doing surveys and other things to get information directly from the residents. this legislation introduced would definitely be of importance to all riders. i have been writing muni for over 40 years. i know how important it is for the people to have some measure of safety. as i said, i want to thank you. i would like the english media especially to focus more on the needs of the sizable non-english speaking residents in san francisco. in order to have an integrated community, all the information should be for everybody. thank you again for this important legislation. i think with the future deployment of the interpreters there will be better

mta, sorry. and then piron, from senior action network, welcome. and jason patton from the city of oakland, welcome jason. would you like to start? >> i will give a brief overview of what we have done at the department of public health over the past seven-10 years. and you heard from megan and they have worked on research side and we have worked on community involvement and educational campaigns. and our main program is a community minigrant and neighbors can apply to receive funds to work on pedestrian issues in their neighborhood. we believe that the people that live in their neighborhood know what they have to face on a daily basis. and we offer training and technical assistance to get a lot of those issues resolved. and since 2001, we offered a minigrant program and this year we had four min i grantees that received 20,000 a piece that worked on pedestrian issues and senior action network and castro and the blind visually impaired and walk san francisco, and we funded projects throughout the city, and it's a great way to get a lot of residents

i'm keith mathews with the police department and as julian said i help coordinate the mta, d.p.t.s traffic engineering safe passage program. it's based on the enforcement and education of the regulations of san francisco traffic code 194 point 3. these are regulations basically that pertain to anyone working in the streets and sidewalks of san francisco. anything from plain general construction sites to perhaps moving companies or any type of change in the path of travel for either pedestrians or vehicular traffic or bikes or any type of traffic with buses, cars, trucks that may effect the normal and every day stream engineers out there on the street scrapes. i have an enjoyable portion. what i take care of mostly is coordinating the education efforts of our program, we currently offer a free seminar. the - now it's the first tuesday of each month at mill ton works auditorium and we insight yi one related to the activities to the streets and sidewalks to come on in. we do a power point and try to educate on the regulations and how they were formed and let them know these are regulations ba

i think for so many of us in this city, what happens at the mta is really critical, and probably, thisis as important an appointment as they come. i am very happy to see that there was a public process that was followed in that the mayor considered a number of individuals, so i'm wondering if you could briefly speak to what you believe are the key issues facing the mta. as you know, there have been a number of efforts and one that will be on the ballot in november to reform the mta, and i'm wondering in your view with the key issues or critical issues facing that issue are? >> i think the main key issue

they have been working with the mta in partnership to make sure we are doing a couple of things. we are engaging the community in creating and escort program that would help have safeway's of package for many ways of the community. there is work that can curb violence and to make sure we are creating opportunities for youth and those who may be potentially part of this legislation. i will say that this legislation goes towards the back and. these are the penalties related to two things. one is aggressive pursuit. that is the malicious following of a person. also carrying a concealed weapon. our laws are not able to trump the state laws. we make sure that we just targeted at specific areas. in the legislation, we did have a section where we talked about, i'd be penalties or the crimes were found to be sustained by a court of law for individuals under the age of 18, that the board of supervisors would prefer having community placement or service as an option for the courts to consider as well. >> let me say this. a couple of things. my guess, based on general statistics, is that th

. >> what about the mta rate increases for the crotch? could you write in to police that the rate would be the same rate that we would get that is set by the nba? >> one of the challenges is that they are making up-front payments, and it is not possible to know what the rates would be over the years. we had to make an assumption, and 3% seemed like a good assumption. commissioner lee: wouldn't it be more prudent to take it in installments? because you can adjust for the price? why do we need it up front as opposed to installments? >> this decision was driven primarily by the fiscal crisis. the city in the department -- and the department -- to be frank, i think the budget is likely to be worse than the year we have just come through. i would reasonably expect that we would take most if not all of the $3.25 million. commissioner lee: it seems like we're locking ourselves into something to solve the short- term problem which, you know, if the economy does recover, we might be leaving a lot of money on the table. and it might be difficult to

i think for so many of us in this city, what happens at the mta is really critical, and probably, this is as important an appointment as they come. i am very happy to see that there was a public process that was followed in that the mayor considered a number of individuals, so i'm wondering if you could briefly speak to what you believe are the key issues facing the mta. as you know, there have been a number of efforts and one that will be on the ballot in november to reform the mta, and i'm wondering in your view with the key issues or critical issues facing that issue are? >> i think the main key issue is that the budget and revenue, i know that everyone is focused on restoring the service cuts, and a lot of those cuts have been restored. i think the restoration of the service cuts is happening in a strategic manner, and i think that the public needs to know that we do take the transportation seriously