it's not san franciscoians. are they taking public transit? not hardly. they drive. or they're in minivans that are all over central san francisco, taking people to google. that's the reality. and for the draft environmental impact report to ignore that reality, to pretend it doesn't exist, to look in this narrow way at only housing inputs and not the totally of housing jobs and transportation, then i think we keep chasing our tails and asking ourselves kind of silly questions, how is it we're not housing the middle class. we are housing the middle class, they just don't work here, they work somewhere else. and i mean, the question becomes and i want to invite each and every one of you to the university of san francisco on the 14th and 15th of august for a community congress that is among other things going to try to address how do we employ san franciscoians. in san francisco. since we -- i've been doing this, we've gone from 60% of the jobs in san franciscoians being nailed by san franciscoians to about 48%. it's very hard to believe that that doesn't have a dramati

native san franciscoian. based on board members, taxi service, based on hearsay, she said without any debate, numbers or current facts is another government blunder too big to fail. like the iraq war. and weapons of mass destruction. enron, aig, j.p. morgan, country wide fan and he freddie were no accidents. based on good faith, they were not accountable. it was just a effort prone to fail. board members in 2003 bruce shaller, the now president of the taxi and limo commission in new york city was hired by the taxi commission and recommended a customer survey be done. in 2006 they produced one. in 2007 the taxi commission produced one which was generated by 42 responses. they refused the taxi commission's offer to do another survey. hardly that is what was recommended, a 42-response survey. i know the response rate and margin of error is far better than the barts, but i am sorry i am not a team player. you know, maybe you think you need a college degree to produce a valid survey. but they don't teach taxi driv

of a movement toward social change, how do we address the issue that, you know, as aware as san franciscoians may be about issues and walkability, the city during the day, basically belongs to the bay area, and how do we think of regional government ideas or spread the message out, particularly given the things, and some suburban stagszs charge for parking and glenn parks doesn't. and we are part of a chain and i would like to know your thoughts of spreading that change network. >> i can actually speak to that briefly, but, part of education aspect is sort of what the metropolitan transportation commission does and reach across county lines and engaging our partners in that. and it's a difficult thing to do, but you know, with all the different transit agencies and jurisdictions in the bay area, it really speaks to education as a major kind of key point. jason? >> yeah, just briefly, i think in general it's a main street phenomena and that the city of san francisco is a cross roads for the bay area, but you can think of it as a small state main street on the state highway and part of that is

possibilities and that our streets are designed and gracious by design and the public realm that san franciscoians truly deserve. thank you. >> thank you david. our next speaker is john paul scott, he's a licensed california architect and the deputy director of physical access for the san francisco mayor's office and he's responsible for the ada compliance and building plan for buildings and facilities. john paul. >> i would like to tell you a few things about our office, the mayor's office on disability. and first off we are not responsible for yellow, but it's required by state law. our offices also is responsible for the ada transition plan for curve ramps and sidewalks for the public right of -of-way. and we published this plan with the department of public works and it's in the 10-year capital plan and this was a process and resolution by the board of supervisors and signed by the mayor and we must plan for the future in an organized way. and the transition plan for curb ramps and sidewalks, identifies 15,000 curb ramps that are missing or need repair, and a potential 16 ,000 more that we hav

i am a yellow cabdriver, 21 years, nailtive san franciscoian. i am here to help and not hurt when it comes to saving money. excuse me for one second. i have done a survey. i do a survey every year. i do 1,000 customers every year. i have done it for 13 years. yet it seems to get discarded. they did approximately 662 people responded to their survey. i believe it was recommended by the federal agency. it says here it was a dirty trick. by staff. how could that happen? you know this will save you money, the survey that i produced. all you have to do is analyze it. it has an over 90% return rate. i don't think their survey is any better than mine. in case you didn't know, you have a mandate. taxis have a mandate for on time service. i believe that is your obligation, unless you changed the rules. i am not a team player. i'm sorry. i am not for m.t.a. i am for my customers and fellow cabdrivers. also for the general public. now, without any taxi advisory commission or committee you have not had one yet. how can you possibly be making rules without a

they are also talking about a lack of access to the medical benefits that most san franciscoians enjoy. in addition to access and knowledge of the sick pay for instance that workers in san francisco in the public and private sector enjoy. oftentimes service workers in my view are like the canaries. you know what is going on. i would say someone in authority could look at what is going on here. i know with the tow yard things have improved. as we all work together with these workers who are maintaining the tire fleet, we can find the same type of improvement for those workers and for the muni riding public as well. i thank you for your thoughts on it. >> the bus line has been rerouted to 14th avenue in clement street with 15th avenue being a passage point for this run. the noise level has disrupted a formerly peaceful street, caused traffic problems and is difficult for buses to navigate. i do not live on this street but i am a concerned resident of the richmond district. as i noted last year, whatever street in the richmond district you place a terminal point, there will be an out cry

as a second generation san franciscoian and last family member able to live in this city, i ask you to vote no on this proposed tax. thank you. >> thank you, supervisors. thank you for the opportunity -- supervisor avalos: speak closer to the mic. >> i am -- i am with the urban restaurant. there is a lot of details from the previous speaker. the only thing i can say is a business -- it's going to be impacting us. we are having a very tight budget running a business. and what it's going to create for us is like a chain of reaction. we have to try to get the end of the month and what the solution some kind of capped labor, capped hours in a way to make the budget. i understand that the city needs to cover the expenses with alcohol problems. i don't think this is a moment, the time is not the -- to give more fees. we are paying taxes. our budgets are already tight. i ask you to please do not pass this legislation. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is justin. area manager of future bars. i've been working with the timberland district fo

part of what healthy san francisco was about was creating an insurance policy for san franciscoians. great. i supported that but the realt is it's not really that great of a program. it's not panning out the way it was supposed to which is what i predicted when i was on the task force that created it. it was poorly written. all businesses should be getting taxed, not just ones with 20 employees and above. and the reality is it was supposed to back fill a void of $30 million that supervisor daley had talked about a couple years prior to healthy san francisco getting put on the table. healthy san francisco was supposed to raise $30 million. that's what we talked about and what we were told and what we agreed to. it's not even raising half of that to cover the program. so the point is, i'm not going back in time. i'm just saying these are linked, like healthy san francisco, we are paying -- my business, the independent with 40 employees, is not only revitalizing the street, not only spilling overtons of business to all the small businesses that don't pay anything for healthy san francis