so, i'm hoping that mta could work to revise our effort -- i guess mta left. dylan, do you know anything about this? whoever can speak for mta. >> supervisor peskin: ase. >> thank you for the question. really appreciate your comments, we have been working closely, government affairs director kate breen has been talking to the san francisco deligation and the folks you mentioned to look at next steps and this is something that we'll continue to work with stakeholders on and we appreciate your support and the board's support on the speed enforcement. thank you. >> supervisor yee: can you make sure to keep us really up to date on this? i will push and hopefully the rest of the commission will be 100% behind any effort to realize this. >> absolutely. we appreciate your leadership. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: any public comment on the item? >> i could give a quick update on the federal happenings as of yesterday. >> supervisor peskin: absolutely. >> so yesterday, the president unveiled his $1.5 trillion infrastructure program and fiscal budget. this is the sta

the mta has reconfigured the area for the third time. i urge the committee to conduct a hearing on quality control with mta checks and balances issues. on the issue of capacity, the chair of the bond oversight committee asked staff if there was adequate capacity to manage the large new mexico of capital projects the agency is implementing concurrently. though the response is yes, that could be question. the mta posted signs however they weren't prominently post. people parked and when they came out the cars had been towed. this could be an cation -- indication of major issues. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public who wish to speak? seeing public comment closed. all right so this hearing has been held. our sponsor of the hearing has departed the hearing but i think our main point is we just wanted to ensure there was fairness and transparency in terms of the process in which the permits were issued around bike share especially the dockless or semi-dockless bike sharing. i was excite about the types of new bike sharing t

we do have suggestions for what the mta can do. i understand you're not tasked with addressing social services and all that. that's not what we're asking. we're asking the oversize code, the 72-hour code, even though people are not issued citations, they are harassed by the police. even though we may not be seeing tickets, we know from what we hear that those laws are being enforced and they certainly are affecting people living in their streets and in their cars. we think that the auto return contract needs to be reviewed. we also see that, again, like food stamps and things like that, not everyone is eligible for that. we issue a certificate of homelessness from our office that is used by providers throughout the city and county. that should be able to be used for auto for a reduction in fees. we would ask that there be a moratorium from fees or that they be forgiven or that there's something similar that project 20 developed for people to either do a payment plan, 'cause mr. hernandez when we were working with him, it was 600 ri

the transit workers are complaining about the way new employees are being trained by the mta. in the daily news the workers say that it's slowing service down and creating dangerous situations. among them february 18 in the g line, the wrong side of the subway door opened up in queens. february 20 the one line the critics say the new train operator program in 2013 spent about two months in classes with small groups and railroad yards. there is a program called yard extra where they go back into the field but the veteran say it's simply not enough. people can get hurt. the new program doesn't go far enough to train a real world situation. >> maybe they need more training and stop concentrating on writing people up on something happens. instead they should have a person there, retrain them and have it corrected so doesn't happen in the future. >> the mta says this is not a story. out of all of the delays only 2.7% were attributed to human air directly caused by all employees. and it's smaller for even newly trained operators. they wanted it's unfair to the workers and the vigoro

so mta has committed to the extent possible we will be seeking other funding sources to advance these projects so that we can really deliver transportation benefits to the neighborhood before the projects are fully built out. and the project includes a parking garage that's for site users as well as for patrons of at&t ballpark. given the high cost of parking the robust tdm program at this site, and the robust tdm that will be released at the ballpark, all parties agreed that it made sense to really look at what the needs are for parking and what the appropriate operational approach is. there is a commitment not only to invest management for the final build out of the project but as phases proceed so there will be event management plans submitted to the city and sfmta will be key contributor and reviewer of those plans with the giant development team to make sure that the area still works and is still safe, both during construction and at the end of each of those phases. the project will also be reem fursing us at mta for any new management costs associated with the project. we have a

the mta is not equipped to do this, approach every vehicle that may have someone living in it and say, do you have a back seat full of citations because you're really going to get hit hard. we're working with outreach folks to find folks sooner so they don't have this sword of damocles hanging over your head, because once you have this backlog, it's very hard to get you out of jeopardy. >> i just wanted to -- i do think we can figure out a way to work with some of the social service agencies to identify. i know a lot of people who are homeless do not actually access services, which project homelessness does do. i do tend to favor some sort of amnesty program, because as the gentleman said, people have drug issues and other things, and these things sort of pile up, and what sort of sets thicks ov things over the edge and puts them back on the streets. we see these people that are unhoused, and whether we want to acknowledge this is housing or not for people, it is. i'm a big supporter of looking how we can do a safe transition park concept, and i personally would not vote for a citywid

it's apparent to your staff that the mta could not operate. no other agency is running a safe parking program, but we are standby to be partners on that and we'll talk a little bit about that further down the road. again, there's some regulatory precedent on that. against, since 1971, the city code has made it illegal to inhabit a vehicle. the 72-hour rule which is basically the abandoned vehicle mitigation rule, that you may not park a vehicle for longer than 72 hours, neighbors sometimes ask us why can't the mta move these vehicles along just for the 72-hour rule, if something's parked there for three days? we'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment. i just started to tell you, i'll tell you more now, that in 2012, we did codify -- the board of supervisors codified an over night vehicle parking restriction, where posted a large vehicle can't be parked between midnight and 6:00 a.m. we've brought you proposals for that over the years, but you've become understandably reluctant to approve those, and we have stopped bringing you more o

the property is owned by the mta and managed by the manage.roperty manager says plumbing and other structure in sure ofs are reresult of the dilapidated bridge and rear walls of the building ain't is mt's responsibility to fix the spokesperson would not come men on the need repairs but in a statement said we are committed to working with the community to ensure the best outcome for the location. >> i cannot imagine living anywhere else. >> the mta told me come march of 2020 the lease here will not be renewed for harleys serviced the neighborhood for 40 years he says it all hurts. i don't know what to do. it is hard to find it here. >> mta spokesperson would not comment on teacher plan force the bridge or for the building here. well, i am nate roger force "chasing news." >> when hurricane maria devastated puerto rico, thousands were displaced people fleeing the island to get out of the hurricane's path, or happened to be relocated because theyed into food, water or power. many of those faminglies ended up here in our area. but one of the things

the bike share universe is very different than the ones assigned between mta and mtc and the ford go bikes. at the time there was quite frankly fewer bike share operators interested in the space and now there are a number of companies and i understand mta recently signed an agreement that we'd consider all e-bike applicants. following the execution of that settlement agreement why didn't you advise the industry you'd only consider e-bikes or put out a public statement at a minimum of this new position? again, my issues are with the process. >> we shared the results of the settlement agreement as soon as we could and it take weeks to finalize the process and brief the mayor's office and with the sudden death of the mayor there were a couple weeks delay in there in terms of getting the unsportsmanlike getting the information out there and at the settlement agreement we felt comfortable moving forward with the jump company and they were the only company that offered the settlement and fulfilled the term of our requirements after six months of discussions. and so we were eager to get sta

mta's got some great ideas.e community's actually on the ground, and we want very much to be engaged as the project moves forward. i worked on mission bay for 20 years, and a lot of the lessons we learned there, we have offered to the giants: don't do this. we can do a better job, and i think we will do a better job, and i'm looking forward to it. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, executive director forbes, president brandon, and commissioners. my name is bruce agget, i'm speaking on the elements in item 11. i'm involved in the community serving on the board, and as a transportation rep of the south bay lincoln neighborhood association. however, my public comment today is as it was several months back, being provided specifically as a native san franciscan and a nine year reside residence of mission bay. over the past six years, i've had the opportunity along with my neighbors to be involved in the planning process for the mission rock development. this included providing feedback on a variety of publi

and this is money that comes to mta for transportation improvements not on the site but beyond the site and you may recall from conversations around pier 70 that mta has agreed to -- looking at the fees from mission rock and pier 70 together as a bundle of funds and to reinvest those fees not citywide but in the areas between mission rock and pier 70 and there's a list of representative projects that the community has identified and mta and the project have agreed are real priorities, and they generally fall along the lines of really reinforcing t-line capacity and reliablity and the operations that we're investing in, closing gap in the bicycle and walking network, bus capital improvements in the area and water transit. and because these fees come in as -- over time as building permits are drawn, we've also committed to seeking other funds to advance these projects so that we're not waiting until the very last building permit is pulled to complete the transportation investments in this area, and so that, i think gets at some of the questions that had come up last time around transporta

you have seen that through notifications through your offices and online and other outreach that mta has been doing. this is the final phase of the 2018 service equity strategy. this began in 2013 actually under a prior county-wide plan and mta's own strategic plan, focusing on eight equity neighborhoods and making sure we close gaps and improve conditions for those most dependant on public transportation. mta has administered general surveys and received quite a few responses and will recommend to their board and plan to come to our board as well to brief you all and the public through our board. please stand by... and set up any debt needed and update the debt strategy from the cash flow needed, for the larger projects. over the next two months, we'll reach out to your offices to schedule briefings with you and your staff about this fro ses and how you would like to weigh in on the use of these sales tax funds over the next five years, we look forward to that work as well. turning to project delivery, thank the deputy for capital project and his team, peer review of the technical q

the same could be said of the mta's terastreet project. two merchants have gone out of business: closer dry cleaning and hunter's thread, such as marchello's restaurant have seen a significant dropoff in business. has this report been vetted before the small business commission or the san francisco council of district merchants associations? my understanding based on today, eithneither has. so this hearing may have been premature. the process could have really started at the council, gone to the small business commission and then followed by the board of supervisors. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. j.d. workman representing the san francisco chamber of commerce. i also want to thank you for having this hearing today. we at the chamber and me in particular have been working on this issue for many, many years, and i'm very interested to see that it's coming up again because i'm aware of the vacancy rates in our neighborhood commercial district, so i feel that the numbers that were given today don't just rea

i'm a current member of the mta small business advisory groups which works with mta to try to help with outreach, and working with small businesses when they do large infrastructure projects to make sure it hopefully works for everyone. so these are some of the things i'm working on. i'd like to continue my work. i'm working right now on helping brand and promote or legacy business to get it out to as many people as possible to let them know what the benefits are. to this effect, i'm asking for your vote to reappoint me. thank you. >> supervisor safai: great. supervisor yee, did you want to ask a question? >> supervisor yee: no. >> supervisor safai: sure. go ahead. thank you. >> supervisor yee: it's great that you're on the small business commission for a while. you know, i held a hearing recently on a commercial vacancy, and i don't know if you followed that or not, and there's some reports on the vacancy that we see on certain corridors. i don't know if you have discussed it in the -- at the commission meetings at all, but do you have any personal thoughts about how to address this? >

if we need to get a message to the mta, we talk to them directly dozens of times a day about lots of incidents. >> mr. bergmann, can you talk about uniqueness of subway riders are protected as well as people aboveground? >> thank you, mr. chairman. certainly happy to. we continue in the wireless industry to be supportive of the wireless emergency alert program, recognize the important role that it plays. you talked about the importance of that, that it played in the chelsea bombing. and in response to that we're continuing to do things to make wea even stronger by improving the geotargeting, building in the ability to access embedded links so you can get pictures, and actionable information. that's very much a focus for us. in terms of coverage, our members, i know, have worked closely with the subway authorities, and have wireless service now in i think all 284 of the stations in manhattan, queens and the bronx. as mr. krakauer said, that challenge is inside the tunnels and getting access to the tunnels. trains run, you know, 24/7 to make sure that you can deploy there. but wireless

i've done a lot of work with not only the neighbors but with mta in this area. transportation is an issue and concern. transportation could ease the projected congestion that will come in this area of the city as well as help with the fluidity and mobility along the southern waterfront. but i'm kind of concerned because i don't see anything that has the transportation commitment. i'm wondering how mta plans to mitigate the congestion from this development. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. carly payne. pardon me. there are -- i'm going to give you two parts of an answer to your question. one is about mitigating impacts of congestion and from that i'm going to address the particular environmental mitigations that were identified in the environmental analysis. in the environmental review documentation, there were some impacts identified, and in particular, there were impacts identified of potential transit delays on the third line, which were identified to be mitigated through prevention for access to the garage, designing the garage access with right in, right out

this has been a tremendous interagency cooperative effort: oewd, mta, planning, public works. everybody has worked together on this to get to a project that i hope will be better than mission bay, and i urge your support. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. good afternoon, madam chair and members of the public. my name is maya aguilar, and i serve as the manager for the san francisco parks alliance. we are over 200 community groups leveraging -- every year, we try to raise millions for or parks, playgrounds and open spaces. i'm here representing the parks alliance in support of the mission rock project. i served in the parks alliance for two years and ever since completion of the big trail has been a huge priority for us. we believe that opening the waterfront and making connections to reconnect the waterfront to the population, it's a really important piece of this project, and we applaud the mission rock's efforts on planning eight acres of new open spaces and revitalizing th the mission for san francisco residents. the parka lines believes that giants have been extre

orderly bicycle lines as you see in the sidewalk but has shown to be a promising tool and goal of the mta. the first stationless operator in san francisco was blue go go in early 2017 rather than watch what happens and respond later which is often the case with technologies we developed san francisco specific regulations for stationless bike share to ensure it would serve the public interest and worked with the board of supervisors and with the board of directors to pass the division 1 and division 2 transportation code legislation. it passed in 2017 and established the stationless bike share in san francisco and accompanying violations and fines. it has gone bankrupt since taking millions of user deposits with itsome issues we observed as the right of way obstruction in maintenance and other cities with stationless bike share we wanted stationless bike share to promote public health and safety. there's a lot of details but a key things for your attention. first is equity. the member shot blocker membership must be affordable for people of low income and allow stationless bike share bicyc