and the other agencies so mta we're trying to manage a number of high priority programs vision zero with the high coordinator map and the build out of the bicycle plans all the programs in fact, the same streets it is important that when we touch a street we making all the improvements that we have programmed to meet all our priorities for that street before we go down the path to engineering and design we're requesting all the project managers communicate with one another he'd the scope of their projects not just the specific priorities they're there to implement liquor the bicycle planners are not just checking their project but all the transportation priorities are reflected in their scope in the project is on the high network matt haney if it's a project targeted for action by vision zero regardless of whether the project is initially funded through our vision zero funding resources we have a required coordination process to make sure when that projecting progress all the pedestrian and traffic safety scope has a safety into the project that is beyond 2014 project. >> can i inte

mta negotiates this. we don't do it with the nonprofit organizationses and they don't that automatic adjustment but we routinely do it for profit contractors and is it a policy by mta for every contract or is it something that you separately negotiate? >> this particular contract will have seiu guards, so they do have an mou with cypress that requires an annual increase in hourly wage ratingses so we looked at that and that's where that came in. the initial strategy for negotiating was look at our budget what we had annually allocated for this work, and we worked with that budget as well the wage increases we foresee in the future. >> and negotiated contract by contract? it's not a set escalator. >> no. it's contract by contract and depends on the industry too and depends on other union members if that is what the contract employees. >> thank you. >> supervisor kim you made a motion to continue this item for one week. is there a second? seconded by supervisor cohen. now i will recognize supervisor wiener.

jurisdiction the legislation will also make the mta investigative process around taxi more efficient and expeditious and improve the mta's ability to enforce the various rules related to the taxi industry so the legislation is straightforward that is really more of a clean and reorganization then anything else i ask for your support we have kate if the mta and the deputy director and assessable services who is here to make a brief presentation. >> hi good afternoon, supervisors kate sfmta taxis and essential services and this legislation has been a long time coming we're thankful it is here and thankful to supervisor wiener so for carrying it forward this is a clear up piece of legislation and prior to 2009 the jurisdictions of motor vehicle so for hire was under the authority of the police code and all permits and enforcement by the sfpd and to this day you can find the rules under article 16 of the police code after 2009 the mta assumed authority and created a separate code with enforcement to be 478d by the sfmta the sfmta ruled under article 11 of the transportation code currentl

the mta staff -- who is speaking on behalf of mta ? thank you.f you could just kind of walk us through what the process was for this contract and why wasn't this employee who had worked with cypress in the past actually not -- wasn't assigned to some other place that wouldn't have any decision making power over this contract? this contract has one that has multiple disputes over the years and i think would make sense to put up a fire wall at some point so there isn't added controversy to the approval of the contract. it doesn't seem it was considered by mta and the contract was controversial before and why how you would explain that wasn't done? >> the contract managed by this individual when he came over by cypress he was managing the contract. the contract has been awarded already and the pricing was set, the hourly wages and different hours for service were set so he was managing that contract. once the contract was approaching the expieration time my office took the effort to solicit a new contract. the first time around when we did the low b

and after a couple of lawsuits and the resolution of those lawsuits we do have an agreement with the mta that in terms of any individual appeals appeals by individual on permit issues that they would retain the right to continue to go to the board of appeals a public process before any of that was changed we've also retained this right to bring those issues up in future litigations if necessary so one way or another the appeals of the issuance of new permits will be covered by that so that is something would be eliminated by those changes i have one small bone to pick this is in the section about taximeters inaccurate technique meters can routine in a criminal penalty the word knowingly should be inserted somewhere in that section. >> thank you thank you is there any public comment on item one okay seeing none item number one public comment is closed supervisor wiener any last comments. >> nomadic thank you to the community and i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation and that's my motion. >> okay for i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommend

. >> okay, i will refer that to the mta staff. >> and director, if a few weeks, we will be releasing our bike count respect, and we will be coming up with a year of 2014, and each bike to workday, we do actually count the number of people cycling at one location and it is on the market street, where they have counted it for the work for us that the counting that we have there and we found that over the last ten years, the ratio of the people cycling to work, in that morning, could compared to driving has actually slipped and so in 2004, we had the three cars for one bike going in the motion in the eastbound and as of last year, we have had three cyclists for every one car and so we have completely changed the mode split on the market street and just doing, very intern and now the demand is up because it is a channelized corridor and on the bike to workday you expect to see a lot more people cycling but our bike barometer and that meter that we have was installed to two and a half 1,000 people a day and hit a record last year of over 4,000 and we will be announcing that so we are seei

mta is simply doing what appears to be very well established best practice. it is not the case that mta is sort of willy nilly arming security personnel. since as mr. ris kin noted* 80% of security personnel do not carry arms. it is only those guards for whom it makes sense -- for whom as a matter of worker safety, they need to carry arms that do so. and 80% do not. that we do not want these guards engaging in some sort of gunfight on the streets. 23469, that hasn't happened*. that is an unfounded fear. this is a deterrent so people who might be thinking about robbing these san francisco employees know that they are protected and that hopefully they'll be less likely to do so. and the fact we have not had a problem with robberies -- i think in my mind -- shows that the deterrent has worked. we've heard before that there was some sort of inadequate training. and we now see from the mta these security personnel receive 70 hours -- if i add up the numbers correctly -- 70 hours of training. including significant training on use of force. and in addition, they hav

and but, now, looking for your second round on the mta board of directors. and so, here you are here to present, and we are here to check you out. >> thank you. so much, chairman, avalos, and vice chair tang and supervisor co-hen and it is an honor to have been submitted to be considered for reappointment and it has been a privilege, i know, serving up there on that board, and it is a very tough position, because transportation, is so critical to all of our lives. and i, i feel as though, the past four years i have learned a lot. and there is a lot to learn. but i feel like we have been able to move the city forward in a positive direction in ways that i think that can be seen in a lot of the improvements that we have seen through the transportation system and one of my first goals that i had coming on to the mta was to move forward the concept of boarding and all door boarding is what is allowing us to be able to speed along our service to allow the people to get on to any door and without having to cue up like they still do in the east bay, so if you are e

. >> i've seen examples the mta has done a good job of delivering some of the projects not exactly vision zero but pedestrian projects in a more efficient manner so there are more positive examples you, you see in terms of internally with mta for those projects are mta they'll deliver them do you see improvements happening in terms of how the agency goes about doing that. >> maybe this is a good time to talk about how we're investing in the people there is a culture change and raises expectation we do that better and faster to reach the vision zero goal so over the loose 6 week we've trained 60 mta staff or project managers in a immense two day management courses alongside the colleagues of sfmta to bring everyone's management skills up and prepare for the roll apples to apples and call c pa the capital project control systems it is great it the san francisco municipal transportation agency and mta is trained together so the agencies are speaking the same languages and many the miss steps might potentially occur in the programming phase are 13450g9d out by that common understanding of wha

opportunities for the cycling and the stockton and the broad way tunnels and i am working with the mta to coordinate some of these project and cycling comes up as we consider all of these and we are discussing the lack of continuity across these many different platforms and so the opportunity incorporate the cycling into the potential side walk widening and the commercial corridor studies and would i like to invite more attention to that coordination, and the other thing that i hope that we keep working on, is the more effect integration of the cycling into the commercial core doors and the polk street project has been an interesting opportunity to look at that a little more closely, but you know, i know that stockton street, and from china town to north beach ask we are trying to look at columus avenue and hopefully, and i am sure that the need exists all over the city but in our condensed district it is acute and i hope that we can look at this with a collective eye. and figure it out. >> any other comments or questions from the committee members? >> seeing none. >> maybe to the next

. >> thank you, i want to thank you for your service on the board of directors and mta and it has been really great to see what the mta has been able to move forward in terms of infrastructure and in terms of new fleet that we are working towards building, and in terms of the attention to the pedestrian safety, and where we are now seeing, the mta and in a place that has not been in 25, 26 years, and to live in san francisco and they were called back in the 90 and what to talk about 100 days that is not the kind of approach to really how we make a long term changes and the investments in the transit systems and thes really a full time around the clock effort. and looking at various parts of the system in terms of the infrastructure and the streets and our buses and the light rail vehicles and the whole works and that is something that i see really being fully attended to by the mta and it is in the past way and the past week, how, the mta has been taking some strange hits because of the new i would say, premium private system that is in place, and there is all of this discussion, like

accessibility for people in wheelchairs and guide dogs perhaps get a report on what necessary deal with mta at all whether they use our stops to comply with concern laws would be really good for us to know. >> director reiskin can you come back with a report. >> thank you, director. >> thank you. >> any other new business. >> i wanted to bring up the unfortunate cable car accident one of our operators was hit by a car that was illegal passing a cable car i know that safety in vision zero extended not only to the citizens again itself employees cable car that area is treacherous and people going places in their private automobiles is there anything to protect our cable door operators better we frequently have crashes between cars and cable cars maybe time to make the streets cable car only. >> i was going to do give you an updated during my report. >> thank you. >> i appreciate the comment. >> any other new business members. >> i wanted to see. >> next item. >> okay. and just again members of the public who are standing because of the for codes you need to find a seat or overflow room in 408

you still expect senior citizen seniors to walk a quarter of a mile to a bus stop i've heard from the mta management and people from the board what is walk is good for you or take par trait or 3 public transportation is not for everyone now if this continues public transportation won't be for everyone and public transportation should be for everyone not for certain routes but the whole of the city this is not happening within the plan so those are my concerns and by the way, ed please answer my e-mail >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> he's the last person to address this by director reiskin or mr. haley. >> good afternoon directors. >> one of the items that was better transit recognition we used to have one hundred taxis for the area where are the ramps i don't see more than 10 really moving in the city the numbers maybe there and the thought but the books maybe there but really not there would you, please get all the data in front of the the public there is 90 rams almost missing and some on regular taxis and the second item highway some mr. director mentioned but your city streets

i'm rick arena i'm here to try to figure out with the mta is going with last august i put my medallion up for transfer and i was told at the time i was if i was to pass away from the transfer the monies will go to my wife and child recently, i respect to the mta and talked with the staff she said that's no longer the case now in i pass away the medallion the fees go back to the city i don't understand that is what they mean to do hurt the families that are in this room there's a lot of old-timers here it didn't make sense i thought you gave us an out i don't see it thank you. >> please. >> (calling names.) (clapping.) >> good afternoon, everyone. >> good afternoon, everyone. i drive for a yellow cab i want to speak about this i want to talk about the fee for the medallion fee every year our income dropped over 50 percent you have 20 thousand tmc running all over the city with no regulations at all there's no regulations at all for them to do business no way you can rent a regulate bus and an unregulate business seattle has limited to 6 hundred and other cities take action i don't know

might work harder than a project manager and mta or puc so preliminarily the way to overcome that is with a proper evaluation tool one way to think of it is on one end of an evaluation spectrum have something like yep yep is a website anyone can go in and say i hated the food and don't eat here it's a an open ended evaluation on the other side of the spectrum over the course of 16 games the quarterbacking how well, they performed no room for commentary the evaluation procedure we're aim for is in the middle but closer to the objective questions when did you promise this project was a late or early how many change orders there's specific questions we can ask so we remove the subject activity and the bias from the project and that's our goal the trick is 230ug9 exactly with the questions are lined up there are plenty of evaluation metrics out there we have to figure out what we can agree that that applies to building a fire station or dam any other questions no thank you. >> so the next report i'd like to stews is our 2012 audit with the did you want and contracts administration contra

pious e his favorite tv program just matthew's but will be here are you sure it's not watching the mtaoard hearing it's on at the same time. >> (laughter). >> larry enhance his career as a pocono august 1st of 1983 and promoted to the senior pco in january of 1990 and retired there will after many years of axiliary service he managed a program since 1990 and played a large roll in the success of that program larry's inspirey style has motivated assigned personnel many of which are here today and promoted good work relationships with his team larry serves agency a liaison with the sfpd in addressing issues like abandoned vehicles and light vehicles and oversized vehicles and other neighborhood safety concerns largely around the bay area area larry is always minced the highest level of professionalism and established relationships with the public so thank you, larry if you'll come on up here (clapping). >> congratulations. >> thank you very much wow. >> say a few words. >> yeah. again, i did put judge matthew's on record just to let you know it's an hour if you want to see judge matthew'

and then in terms of specifically surface rail and market, that was actually a question from the mta and cac and the number of sort of technical issues and operational issues and the safety issues and directly operating the modern, light rail, vehicles on the market that i could provide more detail on if you are interested and that the concepts for optimizing our existing tunnel and looking for parallel, or compliment routes. >> thank you, any other questions or comments on this item? >> yes. >> from our committee members, okay. >> all right. >> well, seeing none, we will open it up to public comment on this item. >> the capacity stud y >> yes. >> (inaudible) >> any other members of the public that wish to speak item 6. >> seeing none, the public comment is closed >> that was informational. >> item 7. >> introduction of new items. >> this is information. >> any introductions of new items. >> seeing none, this item is closed. >> and item 8, please? >> oh, item eight is i am sorry? >> public comment, oit em 7? >> okay, seeing none, public comment is closed on item 7, moving on to item

and we had concerns, with just a proximity to power, being an issue, and that was, mainly covered by mta staff and their presentation. >> for the buses being able to pick up the seniors in some location and that was about it. >> and mtl addressed the concerns that none of the bike project lists were in the china basin area and given that there say population explosion from that area, he was concerned about that and there will be projects cominging up that will be covered by that. >> and the main source of the contention in our meeting was regarding the right to workday section. and several members, annually have issues with paying for bike to workday. and so that is reflected in the 3 abstentions in that vote for that item. >> and some suggested the funds could better be used for the class three bike routes or education, and or giving bikes away to the potential customers and the tsa staff cited the surveys that have shown that the bike to workday encourages the bike to workday with new riders. and so, we have the four that voted for it i felt that it was appropriate. item 6 and the capa

talking about for sometime, i that you guys would be pleased we started a road show lecture and at mta today and i think liz from the transportation authority is going to do handle the slide deck or part of that and then benefit is here from oewd to give you framework and expect supervisor wiener so we'll begin without delay and wedge jim into this. >> great good evening benefit with the office of economic workforce development one of the xheerners of the transportation group along with director kane i mean at the end of february we realized our report called the other 9 to 5 advertised a with my raking effort to identify the needs and challenges of the diverse group of folks that take transportation late at night and early morning to map out recommendations and in still those recommendations into steps when we first talked about this issue i think both jocelyn and i were if the late night entertainment industry the number of people and the types of work they do for transportation is far broad so in addition the restaurant and bar workers we're talking about early morning workers as we