reiskin, i have a question. i do not know if you are allowed to respond.ou are the director of the mta board of directors. have you ever gone to your computer and typed in a global search, the transfer fee on a medallion in seattle or chicago or boston? have you ever done that? director reiskin: this is your time to talk to us. >> it is nothing close to 20%. the national standard is between 4% and 7%. this proposal plans to keep the profiteering status quo of 20% and act like you are bringing it down. it is ludicrous. it is crazy. if you want people to sell the medallions, they have to have some sort of incentive to do so. $150,000, $200,000 -- that is not enough money to retire on, frankly. it just will not happen. fáwhat is going to happen if you all vote on this is these old guys will hold on to this until the bitter end. the mta is taking too much of a cut. there is no way to retire on that. what do you do when you are 70 years old and have $150,000? what if you live to be 100? finally, to the medallion holders in the room or those people on the waitin

reiskin discussed? >> two thing has there have concerned me about the report, and one is special recognition award. now i'm not up here for a special recognition award. i'm here for the greater good of san francisco, as well as california and the bay area. and what i'm concerned mainly about we have a creative concepts or concerns -- creative something or other -- and then at a zero cost. well, my friends, this is a little creative -- what is it called? if you could correct me? concerns? thousand customers surveyed every year for the last 15 years. this is what it looks like. this is the first -- i did 500 the first year in 1998. creative concerns. whatever you want to call it. creativity. these are free. i submit them. you can put it on the screen. submit them -- i splited did for the san francisco taxi commission until they were absolved or dissolved or mergered. and mr. [hao*-efrpg/] knows all and heinicke knows all about that. the report you cannot find online anymore. it's deleted but mr. heinicke

reiskin. i have your requirements for your job, which is supposed to be to is collect data, relevant data and store it and then it would be ideal if you actually administered it or you know, spread it around and let the people look at. it because you know, he believe your it people haven't looked at it yet. i got an email the 15th by carol from the quarry galinas people who are doing your current study and i was asked a few questions, but i find it a little bit odd, because i was also told i would be a paid consultant. unfortunately, i missed my day and said it would end the end of august. so they had done their little focus group and i missed out on it. it's unfortunate, but i'm not an avid email reader. thank you. >> anyone else wishing to address public comment? seeing none, next item. >> moving on to item 10 -- these are consent calendars matters to be considered routine unless a member of public asked an item be considered separately. there is a question for l, m and n to be considered se

as ed reiskin said, i am eternally grateful to president obama, leader pelosi, senator feinstein, boxero are working so diligently with us to make these connections so that we/xo other regional transit system. so with that, please welcome our deputy administrator for the federal transit authority therese mcmillan. [applause] >> thank you so much, mayor lee. before we begin with my very good news for the region, the mayor mentioned how important connections are. i would like all of us to recall another connection we have as a human community and take a moment of silence out of respect for the victims and families of the aurora, colorado tragedy that happened yesterday. thanks very much. on behalf of transportation secretarys÷ [l$eÑ lahood, i am d to be here today to announce quality public transportation in the san francisco bayyya home region, about to take another step forward. for the third year in a row, we are announcing funds to help transit agencies across the country modernize and repair their bosses and related facilities, bringing these systems into a state of repair, a commitm

reiskin, is now under you.do not consult the guys that work in the industry, that make their >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, directors. i want to follow-up on some of the comments that some of the other speakers have made. we have moved now from a participatory process to a dictatorial process. i call this the -- [inaudible] approach. you shove regulations down our throat and dine on the results. this is wrong. the message the taxi and treasurer councilmembers are sitting to is as loud as you could possibly hear from this industry about our feelings about what is going on. this is happening at a most precarious time for us. we have unprecedented competition from vehicles that are laxly regulated by the state in an open entry system. it is incompatible with the regulation that the city performs in taxis and it is a threat to our survival and we need to be working -- it is a threat to the regulatory scheme as much as to our survival. we need to all be working on this in a cooperative fashion to see to

hours were long but there were well spent and much appreciated, particularly the chains that director reiskinmade. we have one other concern and that is with the scheduled fiennes. on the second page to the bottom, the fine is $670 -- $617 to accepting gifts from drivers. we believe this is too broadly worded. it makes a cab company liable for frusen transactions that may occur between individuals that we may not even be aware of and that we're not party to. to illustrate the problem, consider what happened at the luxor cab office. one of our long time drivers brought in a beautiful chocolate cake to celebrate one of our staff members' birthday. there was no solicitation of the cake, there was no quid pro quo and about a dozen people enjoyed pieces of the cake. under this section would be liable for over $600 in fines for not producing this person pose the greatest gesture. i would ask that that particular section even though we are fully in agreement with the purpose of it which is to prevent abuses of tips and gratuities, we would ask that be held in advance until your department has a chan

. >> thank you, director reiskin. members of board, comments? >> i had the pleasure of attending community meetings for the tep pilot project and i just wanted to say that the staff did a really good job presenting the pilot program to the community that was there and substance keptly i just heard a lot of really great things from people who use that corridor, transit riders, bikes, pedestrians.

reiskin, you said it's going to be based on the volume of calls and level of responsiveness. however, in my conversation, it was indicated it would be on a variety of other factors, including minimum pick up violations and these types of other things. there has to be a lot of transparency with regard to that, because there is so much influence, that i think it's the germ feeling at least, there is a lot of influence by the larger companies and make sure these are distributed evenly and fairly. so in closing, essentially what i'm trying to say that this should be delayed for the time beijing. being, first of all to get more information and the terms by which they will be distributed. [ reading speakers' names ]. >> good afternoon, directors, yesterday morning i started my shift and got a call from a house and three minutes i was there and nobody was there. i got a second call in a section that was empty and got there in 2-3 minutes and nobody was there. i shut off my computer. yellow gives me the calls, which i got three calls in thee three hours. these people are lying to you

. >> thank you, director reiskin. members of board, comments? >> i had the pleasure of attending community meetings for the tep pilot project and i just wanted to say that the staff did a really good job presenting the pilot program to the community that was there and substance keptly i just heard a lot of really great things from people who use that corridor, transit riders, bikes, pedestrians. i think people are really looking for the record to seeing how this works and this is really an example of the fact that we're moving forward with our mission statement, which is great transportation for a great city and i think this is going to be a really interesting project. we have so many transit lanes that need that kind of passive enforcement. so many times the drivers honestly have no idea they are in a transit lane. so i think this is going to be a really good first and since malcolm didn't chime in, i rode in the opportunity and my husband watching the speedometer sure enough 25 miles per hour. >> my understanding is that the rail replacement i

i want to echo, director reiskin, and the others, but you have to do that direct and intensive outreach and bring applicants on site and bring them to training centers to get the diversity and recruitment we want to see. i'm a big fan of the women's resource center and the adult probation, so i'm glad you made that correction. >> thank you. >> i have a question for maria. i echo all the words that have been said about thank you for the good job. is the apprentice component, the pla, was that your decision, was part of federal moneys requirement? because it is amazing. >> it was our decision. we incorporated it in the project labor agreement we brought before you.

i want to echo, director reiskin, and the others, but you have to do that direct and intensive outreach and bring applicants on site and bring them to training centers to get the diversity and recruitment we a

let's go to director reiskin's amendment.0 116 -- 1106. >> there is subsection 9 and less to do with requirements for reporting. as proposed as written, which require color schemes to report all lawsuits, notices, demands, claims of any kind involving bodily injury or property damage. the proposal is to narrow that language. the new language would say that this would be in section 1106. by the fifth day of each month, each color scheme must file a report with sfmta listing each accident that occurred during the previous month involving any taxi or -- affiliated with the color scheme resulting in property damage or bodily injury. >> we need a motion and a second. chairman nolan: all in favor? the ayes have it. i am concerned about this one. about the deaths, -- gift, the gifts part of this thing. there is a division of understanding. i will see what other members of the board have to say. >> i am happy to start. this is something i know i have brought a lot when we talked about taxis and the gift or tip culture does disturb me

i want to echo, director reiskin, and the others, but you have to do that direct and intensive outreach and bring applicants on site and bring them to training centers to get the diversity and recruitment we want to see. i'm a big fan of the women's resource center and the adult probation, so i'm glad you made that correction. >> thank you. >> i have a question for maria. i echo all the words that have been said about thank you for the good job. is the apprentice component, the pla, was that your decision, was part of federal moneys requirement? because it is amazing. >> it was our decision. we incorporated it in the project labor agreement we brought before you. >> i was having a senior moment. >> thank you, yeah. >> it is very impressive. >> thank you. >> i would like to have steve ruehl come up and give our construction update. >>> good morning, commissioners. steve ruehl with turner construction providing construction oversight. it's been three months since we last spoke. a lot has changed. see if we can get to the first slide. there we go. good news is, there were no recordable inc