went back to the mta board with a amendment and the mta board approved the third party aspect of the pilot in april of 2022. since that time, the mta has been working with the taxi industry and key stakeholders to develop the program rules and those program rules were issued in early august: applications for the taxi apps to participate in the pilot were due mid-september and mta received three applications. one from arrow, one from fly wheel and one from yo taxi. currently mta is in the process of reviewing those applications. to highlight key goals which i think we are on the same page of the goals is increase taxi trips, increase the fare income for drivers, we want to increase the number of drivers. we want to improve customer service and offer a customers this additional type of functionality and ability to price shop. we also want to insure that traditional taxi trips including paratransit taxi are not negatively impacted by the pilot. i'll highlight a few of the key rules, which we developed based on input from the taxi industry. one thing we heard and we are hearing today mos

went back to the mta board with a amendment and the mta board approved the third party aspect of the pilot in april of 2022. since that time, the mta has been working with the taxi industry and key stakeholders to develop the program rules and those program rules were issued in early august: applications for the taxi apps to participate in the pilot were due mid-september and mta received three applications. one from arrow, one from fly wheel and one from yo taxi. currently mta is in the process of reviewing those applications. to highlight key goals which i think we are on the same page of the goals is increase taxi trips, increase the fare income for drivers, we want to increase the number of drivers. we want to improve customer service and offer a customers this additional type of functionality and ability to price shop. we also want to insure that traditional taxi trips including paratransit taxi are not negatively impacted by the pilot. i'll highlight a few of the key rules, which we developed based on input from the taxi industry. one thing we heard and we are hearing today mos

the mta staff, my work unit we have control overnight rates and the garages. venders operate at our direction. we approve the staffing level and approve the upon maintenance budgets and arc fruf the rates the venders don't set rates they make recommendations to us of course we want any recommendations they have based on experiences. but approval is with us. in terms of do we know what we been what is going on out there. one thing the pandemic encourages us to do we stood up an among in the fan dem and i can conditions i know every morning 10 a.m. what the garages did yesterday. we have online a google sheet everybody populates we know and we compare that year over year and comparing years. i can tell you as of yesterday, we are pretty consistent low in the summer here to a point where transient parking daily parkers in the monthly about 80ish % prepandemic number of tickets if there were a million tickets 800,000. in terms of ref now we are more like 92-93%. fewer are coming but staying longer. so the average ticket process is up. and you know we don't have su

i'm joel manager of programming and grants for mta. we have so many opportunity coming through the new budget the infrastructure law. coordination with the city's family and region and state on some opportunity. for the street side we have an exciting safer streets for all applications due on the 15th of september. the improvement program related street and traffic signal upgrades. we get a couple million dollars if will we are success and will a calendar that will keep us busy. what is really good about this new grant cycle is that in the past a new administration come in town the funds will be one time. with the new administration is these other first of annual cycles of grant opportunity pedestrian what we learned is sometimes if we don't get funds for the project the first time through we can try again. and so with the new bil legislation if we don't succeed, all of our grants and projects develop a bit and odds increase. but as jonathan eluded to, we have to be creative boot local match being contributions so we can maximum the gr

i'm joel manager of programming and grants for mta. we have so many opportunity coming through the new budget the infrastructure law. coordination with the city's family and region and state on some opportunity. for the street side we have an exciting safer streets for all applications due on the 15th of september. the improvement program related street and traffic signal upgrades. we get a couple million dollars if will we are success and will a calendar that will keep us busy. what is really good about this new grant cycle is that in the past a new administration come in town the funds will be one time. with the new administration is these other first of annual cycles of grant opportunity pedestrian what we learned is sometimes if we don't get funds for the project the first time through we can try again. and so with the new bil legislation if we don't succeed, all of our grants and projects develop a bit and odds increase. but as jonathan eluded to, we have to be creative boot local match being contributions so we can maximum the gr

so, please oppose what mta is trying to do. mta is off the rails instead of providing a service they need, they should be also providing bus service and they should be doing something about it stupid medallion. thank you very much. >> thank you for your cuments. next caller, please. >> good afternoon. this is (inaudible) long time activist and cab driver. i want to make two points. first i want to thank supervisor chan bringing this resolution forward and god bless her for understanding the issues and god bless dean preston for having (inaudible) understanding the impact it has on the city itself. i want to make a couple points here again. first, if the taxi managers and people pushing for this think that we need this badly, then why do they keep raising our lease fees. we are paying hundred dollar to $120 a shift to work these cabs, and they are raised it over the last 6 to 9 months. why would they raise it if they didn't think we were making money or able to cover that and still make money for our selves? good question. ask m

the mta has asked that these funds be credited 50/50 so a portion of the funds credited towards sf mta and we funded this at mta's request and are continuing to recommend that this is funding for bart. the boone owe multi youth path, we're recommending three of a five million request and this will be design and the construction funds is the first fund programmed to the $70 million construction phase. obag will leverage an active transportation grant from the state and position the project to be highly competitive for additional state funds including solutions for congested corridors, funding grant that mtc intends to submit by the end of the calendar year. and the last project is the next generation fair gates in san francisco. this is to replace the existing fair gates that reached the end of their 20-year useful life and requires maintenance to remain operational and the fair gates that we would be funding are off the shelf. they are swing barrier fair gates that feature modular components that can be switched out when in need of repair and reducing down time and improving maintain a

is alarming mta seems to serve as agent for uber and not the public at large. especially people with disability who need taxi service. in fact, the deal approved by sfmta board of directors in april require mta to give up its charter mandated authority to determine taxi meter rates in public and transparent manner. uber will now determine the passenger fares for all participating cabs and this is nothing less then a privateization and deregialation of transit. taxi drivers i have spoken with are opposed. please support supervisor chan's well crafted resolution. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. please forward the next caller. >> hello. hello supervisors. thank you everyone for the late day and hearing us on the subject. bret johnson a medallion holder and drives since 1994 in the city. thank you so much supervisor chan. i support your resolution 100 percent. if there is any way you and the good work you do and dean preston and the good work he's doing and understanding of the cab industry you both seem to have to cloning yourselves please and begin run

and requesting mta to report. members when would like to speak you need to call 415-655-0001 then access code: 2495 796 7354 ## press star 3 to enter the queue. supervisor preston. >> thank you. chair megovern and as eager as i am to get to this we arranged with the right folks at mta to have this hearing on october 17th would love to be continued until that date. >> >> okay. is this a motion. >> it it is. >> thank you. >> we have to take public comment it is noticed that way >> go ahead and do that. are i there members that would like to peek in the chambers we will move to the line. we have 4 listeners with 2 in the queue. let's take the first caller, please. >> great. daved pill pel. witting all afternoon and another continuance that is just what is happening today. the supposed mta response to the board resolution is in the on letterhead. has no author or date. so it is hard to get the context if they could resends it. with somebody's name, date and may be mta all right letter head not/khrer how many are in th

under their belts before they came to join mta. the last thing we did that enhanced the experience and made the oversight of garages fortunate is between 2016 and 2021, we implemented 35 million dollars upgrade project to the parks. acronym for parking access and revenue control systems. wee went from garages that were an individual island and had a server in their office and you wanted data about what was going on you needed to be there and pulled data off of that server at that garage. now 21 garages the latest and greatest in technology and most current security credit card security. that benefits both us and protects ref now and patron and data security and all the transactions on the network on a private city owned network not using comcast or at&t to get to the internet we are on a private city owned fiber network that network also allows the over 300 hd cameras part of the upgrade project to feedback to command centers. there is to command centers each the contracted venders over seat cameras. but also to the desk sfmta staf

we are very actively engaged with mta. taking care of their projects that -- high level or advancing things such as their electric bus is driving large projects to appropriate for that. and we are partnered with hsh in delivering shelter projects as well as other housing initiatives. to address the homeings issues of community. arts commission is integral with the most of if not all projects. we by statute dedicate 2% of construction budgets to arts ingrated or associated with projects. so, they are an act of partner with our grouch as well as the san francisco project or library. bureau of architecture, responsible for over all design and construction of the project. project architects provide leadership in the team of architects, engineers, analysts and expert consultants as well. bureau of architecture on small are projects may take on the project lead role a subset of responsibilities that you finds with the project manager. the architecture team comprised of staffing and design professionals of trained architecture in

>> the mta is actually funding the study because we have been disputing with the mta whether or not what they're doing is affecting our response types. the data shows our response times have gone up and coincides with the streetscape changes so they hired a firm that has done these studies for related things with transportation before so they're actually -- we're providing the data and they're analyzing it and coming back with the results. >> okay. that's great. just moving on i have a question about the report on inspection activity and that's you know there's a lot of information in here. what i am curious about because the largest number of inspections according to this chart i am looking at page 24 is dbi and that makes total sense. what i am curious about there's a inspection activity called "complaints" and they're complaints from who? >> a complaint -- correct me if i am wrong ken or maybe can you explain it. >> anyone? >> complaints versus violations? . >> president feinstein, vice president nakajo, commissioners, chiefs and command staff so when you mention complaints we get the

i want to share there are 9 approvers for contract items similar with the mta and puc the mta has 11 and puv has 12 inform parallel to the work 3 process the policy and communication team may review the presentations and the condition tract administration team ensures and confirming contractor compliance. il move on to the documents you will be receiving. i mentioned to you before but for every conupon cent and regular item you will receive a staff report and resolution and a presentation from staph for y.s on your regular calendar. to support staff in preparing the documents i mention third degree we create a templet but we trained staff we trains over 130 staff and our training included commission processes. tools for success, work load system functionality and manuals, f, q sheets, new style guide and other commission videos so folks new how to present to you when they came before and you shared their project and contract. our motivation it make sure they were set up for success. i'm going to cover content on slides 7 through 10 i want to gentleman slower and talk about the staff

. -- um -- admissible mta. welcome [inaudible]. >> thank you. i'm forest barns i planner at the sfmta and taxi access mobility services division. and i'm here today to discuss will a proposed taxi meter increase. and the ways that might be changing for -- all riders and the paratransit program. if i could have my colleague brady -- pull up the presentation this would be helpful. >> yea. >> one of the hosts give me screen sharing, please. one moment. no worries. go ahead i believe you are a host now. thank you y. thank you. all right. can you seat presentation? yea. thank you. go ahead, forest. so go to the next slide. so, i want to talk about today why is it that the sfmta prosecute posing to raise the taxi meter rate. taxi meter rate has not been increased since 2011. and the rate increase goes to the driver and since 2011 inflation in the bay area has been 45% and it hen upon even higher for transportation and fuel and in particular. we locked at increasing fuel surcharge or other increases to ensure drivers can still ford to live on the wages

again that is mta, port and puc, rec and park and the airport. over to the right you see that these bodies meet an average of 1 and a half times per month the staff commission will be less than that recommended meet once an among. jump over to the end of the table, each meeting, the commissions hear on average a total of 17 items. 3-4 on consent agenda. with another 3-4 on the regular agenda. and as a reminder, consent items get bundle and approve in the a batch. regular agenda items discussed individually. final take away is that these meetings last an average of 3 half-hours. aaron clocking 1 hour and mta at almost 6 hours. >> this slide covers the second set of press denies. this table lists the chapter 6 departments but about the number of contract items. as a reminder based on the last slide, there are 8 items total between the consent and regular each meeting. this is 1.upon 7 consent contract and 1.1 on the regular agenda. row in blue shows projected averages for staff. it is 3 and a half contract actions per meeting based on the threshold

the communities engage am opportunity community input through mta. there are different opportunities on how they can provide input. and -- we are looking for the grants they are just getting storied they start in the july of 22 it takes arc while to get it r.ed up. we are looking forward to working with them and supporting them as an implement the programs and mayor's office on disability and mta. this slide i'm provides a brief snapshot of past accomplishments. from 2018 through 2022. june of 20224 years we -- also supported funded cbo's. and through this work, over 41,000 older adults and people with disabilities were reached again through education, workshops, social media and other engagement and some had opportunity to engage in activities to support improvements and changes. this work includes what was done during the covid-19 pandemic, a lot of the work continues. much of it was virtual during the initialling period of the pandemic which had an impact on the direct out reach and engagement. but the work continued and so we are really -- please

the department and sf mta have been working together to ensure safe, equitable access to the park and that when people arrive, they are greeted by a vibrant and welcoming space. and we're here to update you on that. so, we have a number of thing that's are going on. we are experimenting with temporary activations that promote health, happiness and well-being. these activations give us a chance to see what works and this isn't the long-term solution but see what takes to the people, so they include art and design, food, social seating and tables, placing large box trees and interactive elements to see what works best because this is not just a closed road that people walk and bike on, this is actually going to become a promenade. participants in our efforts to date have included sf mta, illuminate for the arts which you'll hear more about, paint the void and both departments recreational division ask capital division, as dan is here and musicians and local food per have aers. all installations will be temporary. dan do you want to take it? >> does this mic work? >> yeah. >> killing tre

>> the mta is actually funding the study because we have been disputing with the mta whether or not what they're doing is affecting our response types. the data shows our response times have gone up and coincides with the streetscape changes so they hired a firm that has done these studies for related things with transportation before so they're actually -- we're providing the data and they're analyzing it and coming back with the results. >> okay. that's great. just moving on i have a question about the report on inspection activity and that's you know there's a lot of information in here. what i am curious about because the largest number of inspections according to this chart i am looking at page 24 is dbi and that makes total sense. what i am curious about there's a inspection activity called "complaints" and they're complaints from who? >> a complaint -- correct me if i am wrong ken or maybe can you explain it. >> anyone? >> complaints versus violations? . >> president feinstein, vice president nakajo, commissioners, chiefs and command staff so when you mention complaints we get the

we've been part of the discussion when it comes to sf mta and dpw and the shared guidelines.different than april 1st. you will be able to see spacing and through them and setbacks. all of those things that we need to operate will be much better but is still seven months out. >> thank you for that. as just as a regular pedestrian, i noticed that a lot of the shared spaces are very close. it's not a lot of room between the sheriff space and the actual structure building. i can imagine that for the members of the fire department, this is a challenge or could be a pretty serious challenge in some instances. i'm wondering if they are required to have any kind of attachment to sprinkler or permanent section. >> we are going to be working with the program along applications by november 1st. two separate shared spaces will be separated by six feet to come through, ladders, post, lots of people. if they do take up two parking places which are supposed to be their maximum, then they require a three foot opening at the top. at a minimum, think of cars being parked. every three feet you

. -- um -- admissible mta. welcome [inaudible]. >> thank you. i'm forest barns i planner at the sfmta and taxi access mobility services division. and i'm here today to discuss will a proposed taxi meter increase. and the ways that might be changing for -- all riders and the paratransit program. if i could have my colleague brady -- pull up the presentation this would be helpful. >> yea. >> one of the hosts give me screen sharing, please. one moment. no worries. go ahead i believe you are a host now. thank you y. thank you. all right. can you seat presentation? yea. thank you. go ahead, forest. so go to the next slide. so, i want to talk about today why is it that the sfmta prosecute posing to raise the taxi meter rate. taxi meter rate has not been increased since 2011. and the rate increase goes to the driver and since 2011 inflation in the bay area has been 45% and it hen upon even higher for transportation and fuel and in particular. we locked at increasing fuel surcharge or other increases to ensure drivers can still ford to live on the wages

many people don't believe this mta suri haves matter. golden gate transit cut service there are no transit busos p presidio and few on lombard in the peek period i believe no action is needed continue the pilot and publish the data and consult with public before proceeding no need to act today. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello this is [inaudible] the district 3 calling as a roadwayer to sunrise support to extending the pilot. my experience is we need services moving better and times are consistents. i roadway golden gate transit and hov lanes make a huge difference this is the type of project we had be fast tracking and i'm glad cal tran system working with sfmta. i wish these were full timer transit something is better than nothing. something is easy to further speedup transit on lombard removing all left turns not just banning them certain timeless. all left turns are a danger fer people walking and allowing different time system confusing and hazzard as you to crosswalks. i mention that this part of lombard on the high injury netw

in 2020, sf mta examined feed on driver behavior and had enforcement to achieve lower vehicle speeds. it appears as a city we have given up on enforcing traffic laws and sfpd is writing ten citations per day citywide compared to 74 per day in 2019 according to a new analysis. this downward trend began before the pandemic and traffic ticket -- recent analysis of sfpd citation data by community advocate that was featured in the chronicle, 35% of all traffic citations over the past five years were for folks on the five violations, these are the five most common causes of traffic collisions and injuries things like speeding and running stop signs and under vision zero, the police department had a target that half of all traffic citations should be focused on the five violations so plainly something is wrong. and i think it is appropriate for this board in particular, the public safety and neighborhood services committee to try and figure out what that is and figure out how we can change some of these trends. the first of my in me more y'all is for jane lloyd. or mary jane lloyd who died i

mta, public health and other city service. we could trurl not do it without the city's cooperation. >> events like outside lands bring people together in the community. and would noted be possible without the city team. i want to thank your neighbors in the sunset and the richmond districts. we know that we are in your neighborhood. and we enjoy a good and close relationship with you all and many of the things that we have done to mitigate the impact of outside lands has been done with those neighborhoods and supervisors. >> in a mobile home you will hear from our mayor after she speaks, i will cover what is you in for the festival. after, a number of our team members and partners will be available for individual interviews and we will wrap with a site tour you feel free to take footage of the groundses and get a sense for the space. we have golf carts next door that we can take you after this now my honor to welcome mayor london breed. [applause] thank you allen and thank you everyone for being here today. i don't know about

we've been part of the discussion when it comes to sf mta and dpw and the shared guidelines.see now are different than april 1st. you will be able to see spacing and through them and setbacks. all of those things that we need to operate will be much better but is still seven months out. >> thank you for that. as just as a regular pedestrian, i noticed that a lot of the shared spaces are very close. it's not a lot of room between the sheriff space and the actual structure building. i can imagine that for the members of the fire department, this is a challenge or could be a pretty serious challenge in some instances. i'm wondering if they are required to have any kind of attachment to sprinkler or permanent section. >> we are going to be working with the program along applications by november 1st. two separate shared spaces will be separated by six feet to come through, ladders, post, lots of people. if they do take up two parking places which are supposed to be their maximum, then they require a three foot opening at the top. at a minimum, think of cars being parked. every thr

encouraged to take public transportation to help avoid the significant congestion that san francisco's mta is expecting. the convention starts tomorrow at miss county center last through thursday. it starts at 07:00am and runs until 08:00pm. all 3 days for a full list of all the street closures in the city. you can go to our website at kron 4 dot com. well, lawrence is back. he's certainly going to have the forecast for all of those sales force. but you're also looking at this hurricane. it's been unusually quiet start the hurricane season. all of a sudden things are getting active in all it takes is one. >> to make a very dangerous in a potentially very deadly. and this one. yeah, that's a serious hurricane. you can see now making its way, of course, doing all that damage puerto rico. now that you've got the dominican republic, you've got haiti. these bands rolling on shore, seeing some flooding likely along the coastline. then you can see the eye just off the coast. but as it moves away from land, it's going to get away from the interference of all the topography. and that means less lik