supervisor campos: if i may ask janet martinson of the mta -- of want to thank her and the entire mta staff for working so diligently in the last two months to try to make this happen. i also want to think the director and executive director for their efforts. >> thank you for bringing this resolution for us. i am janet martinson. i am mainly here to voice mta support for this resolution and to talk a little bit about the mta's actions. the mta has been working collaboratively with supervisor campos's office and the school district to support implementing the youth level and program. in regards to the mta action moving forward, since the mta board did previously approved the allocation of 12,000 monthly passes per month to low-income youth at $10 per month, it will need additional approval by the mta board in order for the mta to be able to provide the same passes for free for the remainder of the fiscal year. we are planning to have that heard at the march 1 mta board meeting. that is all up i had to say. i am available to answer any questions. supervisor campos: i do want to thank y

maybe they do not all come from the mta. that will help us on our end, those dollars, and if the transportation authority can be part of that, i am also hoping they will look at the data as well. it would be very, very helpful. commissioner campos: colleagues, can meet have a motion to continue to the call of the chair and have a hearing, follow-up hearing in july? motion by commissioner avalos. if we can take that without objection. madam clerk, if we can do the reading. >> market street project -- the regulation for fire safety. >> good morning. >> my name is chad rathman and i will be making a brief presentation on the improvements to the northeast corner of market street. this project that should be the second stage of implementation of this project. the first stage was imimed four-lane street on market. the project would be part of the prioritization program ended is also consistent with the area plan in the upper market division. the most significant improvements are for bicyclists and pedestrians. improving the existi

. >> the revenue generated from the citations, does it then return to the mta?e would goç to the criminal court, just as any other misdemeanor case. the $5,000 fine by state law is required to be reapplied to illegal vehicle investigation and enforcement. >> whaf is your standard for determining increase in staff? you said three investigated by moving up to seven. right now, it is quite restrictive in how we are bringing in new staff in city government. i would like to hear how that determination is to be made. >> the number that i have set upon is based on trying to schedule it in a way that they are not in the field at theç te -- all the time, that they have a combination of being in the field and at the desk. the financing of those positions, first of all, comes from a reduction in the police department work order for the first two new hires. the police deáartment used to provide the taxi detail for this kind of enforcement. now that enforcement model has changed. some of the work order money is coming back to our agency. with that money, i will be hiring t

>> we did bring this through the taxi advisory council and the mta board of directors.çgenerally speaking, we have a communicative relationship with the taxi industry. a few of them are here to speak about it. >> i think it makes sense to do that, but it also makes sense for us to disseminate the information about what the new rules are, city-wide, so that the people that could be impacted -- doormen, for example -- that there are severe penalties that would be in place. >> we have frequent contact with çthe hotel council, so we have pretty good communication channels, and we can certainly utilize that channel to get the information out. >> i do not have a problem around the changes of these vehicles. the question was more with the first piece of the changes that had to do with the actual twoin owing of unauthorized vehicles, allowing staff to do that. çcan you talk about what that looks like, who would have that authority? i would like to know what kind of training is provided to these employees, how many employees are we talking about? if you could say a little bit

mta, please? >> thank you very much.nk you for opening up public comment for the convenience of these industry members who came to testify. to briefly address supervisor cohen's question about representation -- supervisor cohen: i am talking about the whole southeast. >> the response to your question about how is the industry oversight handled, the council is the industry council. the questions they consider are so technically deep into taxi industry that it would probably be difficult for a member of the public to follow. the taxi advisory council is there to consult with the mta board on matters that affect the industry. the citizens advisory council is a good place to talk about customer service. i went to the february 3 meeting of the citizens advisory council to talk about open taxi access, which i am about to share with you today. members said, i cannot get service in my neighborhood. those voices do have a place with the and thecac and sfmta oversight structure. to go to be presentation i wanted to bring to you th

to that end, they dedicated $1.4 million of the mta budget to the youth lifeline program and asked the san francisco unified school district to sell and distribute the passes. we're nearing the end of the 2010/2011 school year, and unfortunately, the program has not been implemented. there are many reasons for that, many complications, many challenges that have gotten in a way, including some legal challenges where you are talking about a student population. the point of this and then the resolution is to modify the program so that irrespective of the challenges, we move quickly to implement the program. we need to make good on the promise that we made to our low income children and their families, and we need to do that as soon as possible. that is why my office, working with a number of organizations, has introduced this resolution, and i want to thank the offices of other supervisors that have been working on this. i want to thank the youth commission, community-based organizations that have also partnered with us. i want to thank the school district, the mta, and its board of direc

i feel like i'm at the mta so muc. this item needs some corrections toç the resolution.that the item be continue to the call of the chair and we plan on introducing substitute legislation. apologize for the inconvenience. ç>> not a problem. we will continue to the call of the chair. is there any public comment on this item? >> somewhere down the school road g again somewhere down the school road i know your heart will come to see that thisç money belongs to the school in need >> next speaker please. good afternoon, supervisors. douglas yet. i would like to speak on behalf of item two. now that we have bqr as the head of the department of public health, we should give her every resource available in order to improve the department of public health. çwith the departure of mitch kz @ san francisco general hospital, i would encourage the department of public health to better its performance. i think there has been a lot of discontent of certain aspects. items like item two will give the department of public health enough money to improve itself. çunfortunately, all of us

the mta will be hosting this year's sunday streets of events. our sister agencies include the department of public works and the police department as well as the bicycle coalition. 8 events are currently planned for this year. they will take place on the second sunday of each month. the eve3nt will be on march 20. april 10 along the great highway. may 8 in the mission. july 10 along the great highway. august 14 in the civic center, tenderloin area. september 7 in the western addition. we are in discussion about the additional night event. we will give you an update if and when that occurs. staff will begin the process of planning for a more permanent venue that will connect various areas of the city. going forward in the future, we will look at how we can make this a permanent activity with a regular schedule year to year. my last item that i would like to bring to your attention is a report regarding a significant delay that we experienced on january 27 with outr muni system. a bridge failed to set properly after opening for a pleasure boat. th

. >> we have a few follow-up questions for the mta. i know when we had the previous hearing, supervisor avalos and i asked the question is pertinent to win the next train would be. the other important issue was the tracking. was it a delayed? and equipment failure? the public speaker reminded us of that we know we have a significant amounts of those. those are significant issues we have to address with mta and in our body here. i am wondering as we track this data, when the lrv's are arriving, are we tracking when the switchbacks need to occur. >> thank you we are tracking -- thank you. we are tracking directly within our control versus other events that occur, mostly on the street. it is a very challenging, for us, because of delays. we continue to look -- we take every delay and i put together on a monthly basis of cause, and nature of each of the vehicle delays. we look at the maintenance programs. we look at the particular campaigns. we have very tight margins of availability on the lrv's. we have 130 scheduled, not including the f

i believe the mta is supposed to act in public interest. they are not. they do not represent the public interest when we do this. i would like to see these lines restored. at a community meeting two months ago. it was in october. people unanimously wanted to have that restored to where it was before. i think it is the responsibility to act in public interest. as far as i can see, the mta does not out in public interest. --act in public interest. this is a sterling example of this. other neighborhoods were able to get their lines restored. this is really unfair. a lot of people do not speak english in this district. i do not think they realize what the stakes were. >> this is the last person who turned in a speaker card. >> good afternoon, directors. i wanted to make a comment about taxi medallions distributor issue that was on the agenda today. we have a pilot program here. my assessment of this, that is not only a long time coming, we did something that i did not think what happened in san francisco. addressing the people that do not have medallions. it

>> we have a presentation from mta today. john haley is in charge of operations. perhaps he could speak about the issue of switchbacks. i would invite mr. haley to the podium. commissioner avalos: a key part of looking at the 14th line is how often these switchbacks happen. certainly, there is an issue that we have heard already, in city operations, our light rail vehicles, switchbacks happen the further you get away from the core downtown. this does happen on the 14 line. i understand the reality of managing these lines in the most congested part of the cities and impacts to people in my district are there. but also knowing that we are going to look at the extension of a 14 line, we want to be able to tackle this switch back issue. mr. haley, thank you for being here. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. mr. chairman, if i may, i prepared a brief overview of the issue on the 14 line, and i will address switchbacks. i will go through this for the quickly. it is not my intention to read this, but as all of you know, the 14 mission line is one of our busiest come the th

these are not -- the mta is wrong saying they don't break down. they are vans converted into heavy lifting lifts. with the the roads in san francisco, we know that they are the worst roads in the world. the hills are the worst streets to drive on. this is the worst city to drive- in. bottles everywhere -- pot- holes everywhere. there is oil changes. we have preventive maintenance. that is when you want to get a spare and put the vehicle o, hae the brakes looked at. commissioner fung, you mentioned two-hours. every time you go to the bathroom, if you're not there, you log off. if you go through a million waybills, you will see these in- and-outs all the time. the machine will automatically log you off if you don't enteanr a trip call. president goh: any other public comment? the matter is yours. >> mr. murray, if i could, sir? even though this is the second time -- [no audio] aside from the issues of if the waybills were manufactured, if they were to be excepted -- accepted -- >> if we take into consideration that each is accurate and valid, for th