riskin and mrs. bose and martinson, for the hard work moving forward so many big items to improve our transportation system, and i know like others that the november ballot and future ballot s are critical for fundig for our transportation system. i want to applaud you and i know that you are balancing and juggling quite a bit. and i wish you luck in the labor negotiations and i know how that impacts the overall budget as well. and in your slides you said there is 24 different bargain g ing -- bargaining units and my hope is that the employees receive something positive. and i hope that in the zero vision and walk and hope that funding for the other bus rapid systems throughout the city is a key part for the future. and like senior and disability action, as we expand free muni for younger people. that we have equity in mind to think about lower and moderate income with disabilities and seniors as well. and i know that you are working on that as well. i thank you for presenting the budget. i have conc

riskin. >> item 6. new and unfinished business by board members. >> thank you, with the launch of the on-streetcar sharing pilot program, i have heard from people in san francisco interested in one-way car sharing. and we touched on it and i would like with member consent that staff bring us a report for the option of one-car sharing, and the more i have learned about it and have seen it in action in seattle, another way i think it could be possible and i would like this new to san francisco car sharing option. >> thank you, if you come back to the board with the report. >> can we ask for an update from the taxi division on what is going on with the data we are recovering to look at that dispatch? >> okay, thank you. okay. >> item 7, director's report. >> good afternoon mr. chairman and members of the board and staff and the public and is the sea of blue. we will do the special recognition and put off the rest. but welcome to all of you for being here. for special recognition, first from finance and inf

riskin and mrs. bose and martinson, for the hard work moving forward so many big items to improve our transportation system, and i know like others that the november ballot and future ballots

myself and director riskin and director and the mayor road in from glen park and commissioner loftushest and supervisor tang and city assess or chiu. it was good. pala held their basketball tournament and monday night we did the traffic safety event along with oakland and san rafael. chief bishop was here from san rafael ptsd. pd and trying to deal with traffic safety. there is something about the search warrant, the location of the hels angels clubhouse a warrant related to aggravated assault that occurred on 14th street where three suspects and hell's angels identifiable wear assaulted a bar person and the person that went to the aid of the bartender. we were able to identify one of the suspects and that suspect was arrested this morning at the clubhouse and other evidence was gathered. there was original report that shots were fired, it was not the case. there was a flash bang that we use. nobody was injured, neither suspect nor police officer. finally next week is a big event here in the city for national law enforcement. the major city chiefs and resource form will be meeting in

. >> thank you, good morning, chairperson farrell and members of the committee, ed riskin from mta, i was here a month ago and gave you a preview where things have headed. things have largely stayed in place and report what happened on may 1, and happy to take questions with a presentation and can takes questions as you wish. to remind you the budget development process and everything we do is guided by our vision, goals and values, which are shown here on the slide. this is the framework in which we go about developing the budget, making operational decisions and policy decisions and of course budget decisions. this slide just shows some of the magnitude or the breadth of what the agency is responsible for, a lot of service and a lot of assets and parts of the transportation system that the voters have placed in our care. and that's what is being able to serve all of these needs, or what is driving our budget. i may have covered this last time, but it bears repeating in term s of muni, dh is the line share of the department and budget, this slide gives a picture of who we are serving

riskin was here, they had a surplus. the mayor and mta have turned their backs on people living with disabilities and people with h.i.v. making us wait until after the november election, why wait, do it now. reject the mta budget, freeze them out until

. >> they're standing behind ed riskin.he's got one vote. >> now, you want it everywhere. >> it's a safer way to get around on two wheels, or three. >> that is different. >> yes. >> coming up next, lake tahoe facility's efforts to get injured bears healthy again >> work to get them back into the wild. and it came with a free chocolate chip cake. [sighs] how do you guys feel about this meal i had to not cook? you should not cook more often. i will try not to take offense to that. ♪ >> tonight i want to bring you up to date on thee bear cubs rescued around lake tahoe. thanks to care and good food all three are doing well now. tonight returning to the wild. >> if you want to rescue bear cubs you better know what you're doing they start off like tahoe this tiny cub and end up like these guys. three cubs ready for release. they've just been sedated. in front the bear is out of it. in the back, not ready to be handled. i should know it's a good sign. >> it's telling me the bear have not habitual to people. >> lake tahoe wildlife

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and i remember when ed riskin, who now runs the municipal transportation agency, was the head of public works and his solution to the litter problem was to remove trash cans. i never quite got that counter-intuitive thought, but that's what happened. i'm not sure what the outcome is. but mayor lee could you just kind of talk about where you come down on just this general idea of do you use more money, do you use less money, what's the right fit to most efficiently address the problem? >> i think i join with supervisor farrell, we have to think of smart money, not more, not less, but how do we use what we do in a smart way? when we look at the data and the data tells us a lot, los angeles had an increase in their homeless population, almost double digit. so did new york. we did not. we held steady because of our strong message that we wanted to build housing with supportive services on site just like we did with the renee' cassanava project the other day, 120 units, with onsite supportive services. and you should see the smiles on people's faces. that's my true belief p where all of our

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