director oka. no. oka opposed. the item fails adoption. any motion of the m.t.a. board of directors requires four to pass. >> i want to propose a motion to approve the increases as stated. >> i'll second. >> so, mr. chairman -- >> are the city attorneys comfortable? of course she is. >> mr. chairman, just for clarification, on motion to approve the meter rate for wait time and mileage. >> yes. >> can i make a proposed amendment to this that we just clarify that if we adopt this right now, it will not be implemented for the reasons we talked about until we've finished this entire package of materials? >> yes. >> on motion to approve the meter rate for wait time and mileage with the understanding that there will be no implementation until the additional package is brought to you on june 21? >> yes. >> i'm sorry, we need a second for that one? >> yes. >> i'll second that. >> there's a motion on that, and a second. roll call rote? >> yes. >> director bridges. >> this is on the amendment? >> on the motion to -- >> with the amendment. >> it was a friendly amendment. so

we also had directors brinkman and oka. as it relates to "bike to work" day, it is on your calendar, the 17th annual, set for next thursday, may 12. to attract more people, the mta posted a brown bag lunch and last week. members of the san francisco bike coalition shared a behind the scenes look into what made "but to work day" resounding success over the last three years. there have been expansions to the bike network since the injunction was lifted 18 months ago. we have included 19 bike lane projects, adding 11 miles to the bicycle route. we have installed 2400 and cameras on 24 miles of roadway. we have put into place by cracks and by corals. -- bike racks and bike corals. we have seen improved safety and more people on bikes every year. we have seen an increase in 48% of 40 it -- we have seen an increase of 40% of people using bicycles in the last four years. please let our board secretary know if you plan on participating. you may be well aware that one of the other hats i hold is a board member with the caltrans oper

we also had directors brinkman and oka. as it relates to "bike to work" day, it is on your calendar, the 17th annual, set for next

i want to recognize i appreciate director oka. he attended one of the town hall meetings and took a great deal of time to hear what i would say were some very candid advice to staff i want to thank the entire industry who took the time out from their jobs to share their thoughts with us. again, in a very candid fashion. i think that is why we're here today. i will turn it over to our deputy director of taxi services, who will walk through items 11 and 12. >> good afternoon. that the director, taxi services. i want to first address item 11. item 11 has to do with the proposed tax the late fare increase. as you know, the materials for this meeting were submitted prior to the town hall meetings that were conducted. there were over 20 hours of town hall meetings conducted. those were very productive sessions, and we did receive a lot of valuable input. as a result of that, our recommendation has changed somewhat. to go over each element of what is in the materials before you, first, there was a recommendation that there be no change t

director oka: first of all, thank you, mr. chairman. i have heard from almost every member of the taxi industry over the last less than a week, and everybody -- i have heard all your voices. believe me, this is going to be good when we finally put it to work. i am ready to vote on this today, but i know the it is a complicated and complex thing to look at. i will move the item, and if people want to do whatever, i will move the item. >> you are prepared to address it today? director heinicke: i said we should hear from members of the community who have come to address this so that they have maybe something to shoot at, and i will make up my mind after we have heard from them. my inclination would be to hold this over so that we can hear it all as a package. as you mentioned, we cannot hear the entire thing today. i think the industry has represented itself very well. i think they have demonstrated the need for the increase, and i am prepared to support one, but i think for procedural matters, i would rather consider this as a whole, and

director oka. aye. director lee. aye. the motion is unanimous. >> we're going to call for a >> at this point, to rrn to the agenda, we were in the middle of the director's report. >> i gave you a lengthy introduction as it relates to the overtime report, so i'm going to sonali bose who will report on the overtime and its utilization at the san francisco m.t.a. >> good afternoon, again. what we wan to do this afternoon is walk you through a couple of issues related toover time. hopefully you remembered mr. ford's opening statement since he made that statement but i'm going to read some of the points. we want to talk a little bit about the transit division, other divisions in the agency, executive director ordinance that's going to affect the board supervisors and some of the key considerations that drive our overtime and then the management strategy. so here's the m.t.a.-wide overtime picture for this fiscal year for the first nine months. the top left-hand pie chart shows you the trends division accounts for 90% of the di

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