this is a topic that i've been working on for over a year with the san francisco m.t.a., with the police department, other city agencies as well as neighborhood folks in my district and representatives from the tour bus industry. there have been two things that we have done in my district to move this forward, and then today we are considering two other legislative items. and i know in addition to that supervisor olague wanted to also hold a hearing generally about this topic but also specifically to hear from residents of alamo square, who i've also heard from from district five who have had issues around this. about a year ago because of some of these concerns in the north beach neighborhood, the m.t.a. moved forward with prohibitions of tour buses on certain blocks in the north beach area, and in particular, with some of the most quiet residential blocks in my district. in addition to that, i asked the m.t.a. to help develop our city's first tour bus management plan, and this is a plan that has proposed different solutions for better tour bus loading and parking throughout the city. a

thank you for the opportunity to represent the san francisco m.t.a. on this day as you begin to mark your 150th anniversary here at the port of san francisco. i'm standing in for tom nolan, our chairman of the board, who couldn't be here this afternoon but does he plan to join you this evening. as you know and monique mentioned, muni is celebrating its centennial this year. it's very appropriate our two agencies have decided to team up and remind people what amazing things we've done for the city in terms of transportation. this is the building where our muni cable cars and street cars come down to meet the water borne transportation as they have done so long. so people can board ferries to locations around bait and ships to destinations around the glone. the most important thing about a city and its growth is mobility and transportation. and the fact that our city, which was basically a peninsula of sand dunes and marshes has developed into such an amazing global city. really speaks to the synergy that exists between the port and muni. and providing t

so two clarifications on the revenues there, the lifeline revenues would be coming to san francisco and to the m.t.a. and they can be and would otherwise be used for other purposes. that's not the case in that first, up to five million which is really there because of the efforts of this group. there were some discussion about whether the $4 million revenue loss was a low estimate. we acknowledge, and i think i tried to indicate that we don't know what the ridership impact of this would be. it's possible that is low. it was among the risks that are in the budget, to the extent it's greater, that's kind of more of a hole we will have to fill at the end of the two years if we were to go with that option. we heard from a number of seniors, as i said. i just want to reiterate, i think in the long term we maybe want to look at our whole fare structure so we don't have a situation where high income kids are paying more -- paying less for muni than low-income adults. and i think seniors who are on fixed incomes have perhaps a higher call on any additional expansion of the program than high-income youth. th

conjunction with san francisco travel, to host what i would call a citywide summit, perhaps hosted by san francisco travel, and we would like to invite the stakeholders, that is to say the m.t.a., the san francisco police department, the department of public health, the neighborhood associations, citizens, the tour operators themselves, as well as san francisco travel, the mayor's office of economic development, employment development department, the treasurer. because this is a multi-billion-dollar question that really need to be put on the table for the first time in the history of san francisco, and it would be a great honor to participate in that summit. in fact, not only would we like to participate in it, but we would like to precipitate it. we would like to actually host it or be a large part of it coming together, so supervisor olague, thank you so much for that perspective. there is the question of how do we, as tour operators, do our work in a tourist-based city and at the same time respect the normal and rightful needs of its citizens, and that to me is the question that's never been asked, much less addressed. the san francisco tour operators association was forme