drivers don't have the money to go to superior court and sf mta knows it. if you respect the process of government as you clearly do by serving on this board don't left sf mta hold itself broof that process. take jurisdiction, please. and if sf mta was really serious about none of this being under the jurisdiction of the board of appeals they wouldn't of charging each category driver for supporting the board of appeals every year for the past three or four years, so please take jurisdiction. this is in your wheel house and if not you then we have no one else to turn to other than the superior court and we can't afford that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> some taxi drivers -- nobody is exposed to extra cabs on the street. we have been telling them for three years that we need more taxis. there is kick back. you just go enter into hotel and come out the doorman is going to ask you "where are you going?" and as soon as you say "airport" they're calling their buddies. they're pocketing money everyday. the doorman at one hotel has a house next

responsibility is are subject to being dismissed compromises the mandate i believe the voters gave to the sf mta to manage the entire transportation system of the city. individual permit decisions is not what we're talking about. we're talking about policy level decision on behalf of the mta board of directors that's part of the web of policy making that they're making as mandated by the people to improve the transportation system in the city and to advance the city's transportation transit first policy, so i very much appreciate your time tonight in consideration of this matter. thank you. >> okay thank you. we are joined about evening by supervisor scott wiener who would like an opportunity to speak to the board on this matter and with the president's consent we can hear from him now. thank you. >> thank you very much commissioners for providing me the opportunity to speak to you tonight. this is actually my first time at the board of appeals since taking office two years ago. we're requested to come down here often and i almost never do. i am here tonight because i am absolutely passionate ab

regarding the list and the medallions that the sf mta issued themselves. this is the crime of the century. getting a medallion is the pinnacle of driving a job and right now there are hundreds of us at the peak and you deny us and take for yourself. this can't be right. you can't be serious. how can you ignore the plight of hundreds of cab drivers who have worked a lifetime, altered their lives and sacrificed and refused other opportunity in order to earn their medallion. it's so wrong and cruel. you have stolen my future and my family's future. in case you're not aware of it cabbies have families too. right now i suffer from terment of this justice and it's severe and the first thing i think of in the morning and last thing at night. it's the epitome of being used and abused. prop k kept us in this business with promises and hope and so did prop a by the way at the start, and i looked at this as security for my family and pension and retirement plan and now i'm looking at nothing, a complete dead end. this is a shame, and there's an sf little pamphlet tha

sf mta has advanced improvements and funded by prop k and my colleague will talk about what they call the fast track improvements and other improvements as well. finally there has been some movement on the idea of transit village on one of the pieces of land right around balboa park that is called the upper yard. sf mta will talk about that as well and at the end i will talk about a circulation study the authority is conducting in the area and give me details about that. the chair mentioned the new balboa park advisory committee so i won't talk much about that but i know they're constituted, pointed have been made and looking for a first meeting in january of next year. so with that at this point i will ask my colleagues from bart to give some updates on the projects that they're working on. >> chester just briefly. january of next year? we have a committee constituted. i guess january is not too far away. >> it's not too far away. we have been in contact to get something done in december but my understanding is that schedules are a little conflicted so january seems to be the -- is t

. >> that covers the bart elements i was going to cover before sf mta comes up and with that they are here to talk about their components. >> thank you very much mr. morgan. >> okay. thanks todd. good morning chair avalos and commissioners. i'm going to report briefly on some other improvements that we expect to deliver in the next few years. generally came out of recommendations from the balboa park station capacity study. todd was already talking about of course the pedestrian bridge and walk way that is in the center of this slide, but you can see there are other improvements for bringing the station area that will improve safety, accessibility and comfort and convenience. here are the key tracking improvements and starting in the upper left. we have the weigh finding signs. bart is going to be putting some on their property but of course there are needs for the overall station area to help people make transfers, to help them find neighborhood attractions. you have a handout i believe that includes a couple of maps of proposed locations right around the station area within one to t

i just wanted to mention that we have senior managers from the sf mta are available for q and a. timly, deputy director for strategic planning and john hailey, the director of muni and transportation and maintenance available. thank you very much. >> just real quick and the walk way and the terminus. when we do expect those to be complete? >> we're hoping to get that done in the same 2014-16 period. we don't have a commitment yet. they're under actively under conceptual design and analysis and it's high priority for us. >> and funding for the projects? is that o bag? >> right now they're worked on with the prop k funding and we can say o bag as a potential funding source for the actual physical improvements, but they can be pretty substantial multi-million dollar improvements. >> so we haven't actually found the funding? >> that is not nailed down but that is high priority chair avalos. >> thank you. >> okay. sure and i think chester is going to come up and wrap up. >> just want before we wrap up give a quick update on a different study

commissioners, since the taxi -- sf mta took over the taxicab fares they sold 218 medallionings. they gave 50 to the people not on the waiting list and they never put their name on the list for zero cost, and now they gave 150 to 200 medallions directly leased to the cab companies. they ignored the people on the waiting list. every decision they make is not right. we are not angels. we should have the right to appeal because we don't have thousands of dollars to go to take them to the court, so please, please give us that right to appeal. i'm 55 years old. they're trying to steal my retirement. they're trying to rob my family's future. every part of my body is giving up on me. now i need the medallion and in the process i'm going to be left out and drivers like me are going to be left out, so please, please give us the right to appeal which is no cost to us. otherwise we all going to go where? we be homeless. thank you very much. again i am maleem malik. thank you very much. have a good evening. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello. my name is ed heely and have been a cab

future and there are funding requests for additional improvements and o bag application submitted by sf mta that will be under consideration of this board in the next months. that concludes the presentation and i am happy to take questions or direct them to other staff. >> thank you and i do appreciate you're coming together to present today and my colleagues for being here as well to hear the needs that we in district 11 and seven and 10. so what i would like to propose been public comment jeremy pollack is the point person and we have the cac here tawking during public comment and we will have reports back on many of the projects presented today in my office and we will come back to this committee as well in the next year to talk about progress made. okay. thank you. colleagues if no comments or questions we can go on to public comment. this item is open for public comment. please come forward. >> good morning commissioners. my name is dan waiver and although i'm appointee to the new cac i'm the acting director of the ocean community benefits district. i wanted to point out the reconfigur

today, sf mta board and the list to giving 200 medallions to the first 200 qualified drivers on the -the rest, like people me, go to"ja÷ how, working continuously for 24 years, serving the public for 24 years, on the medallion waiting list a medallion for 3,000 oruvjt(s - and this isr( very unfair. i'm here to ask your help. give the thanksgiving to drivers like me and their family. like me and their family. i sent you myc8 please read that, either ask the matter and issue a -- increase 200 to 500 medallions or consider my proposal. and thank you very much. happy thanksgiving. >> president chiu: thanks. next speaker. >>&÷ "íÑ he that made the ids sl he not see, he who made the ear shall he not hear. is the best -- gty.org is the best preacher and you can download 3,000 of his sermons broadcaster. family radio is the best radio station because family radio kear is the only radio station that reads good books and most importantly the only radio station that reads the word of god. now here's a good book. tv, mr. president -6r7b8g9sdz if you put it on the screen sf gov will pick it up. th

if we decide it's not to be a permanent permit and you are stepping into the judgment of the sf mta how we're going to manage transportation in san francisco. >> i have another question. thank you. that was very helpful. i am curious -- i am also not a politician, and i am not involved in the politics in the city. one -- so and i don't know the depth of the history of the people in this room know and live and experience in terms of taxi and what it means in the city's industry, so my question is to what extent if at all does mta as it exists today have some sort of transparent process with the people that do the driver related to policy and the policy making decision so that they know what is going on and what is coming down the pike and have participation in that. >> well, there are the hearings themselves. these set up with requirements of brown act and sunshine and 72 hour notice and all of those things. that is the minimum they think the public considers necessary for an opportunity to see what is going on in policy bodies, and to be able to respond, but in addition to that as some

doing the larger version in the long run so i am certainly hopeful that our bart representatives and sf mta folks are camping out at each other's door steps with these improvements so we don't make a bad mistake on this and prohibit us doing the right thing in the long run. thank you. >> thank you very much. if there are no other members of the public we will close public comment. and again i want to thank bart and the mta and cac for your work on this your presentation and look forward to continued dialogue about the station, and we can go on to our next item. >> new items. information item. >> any items? seeing none. open it up for public comment. we will close public comment. our next item. >> public comment. >> this is general public comment for any item not on the agenda. okay we will close public comment. next item. >> adjournment. >> we are adjourned. thank you impossible. announcer: when you open a book you can explore new lands... [bird screeches] meet new friends and discover new adventures. there are amazing possibilities when you open your mind to reading. [roar] you can log ont

reimbursed to the city, beyond permitting fees and what costs incurred by departments other than the mta and sfpolice department is being recouped. in addition to required traffic control plan how is the city ensuring that major corporations allow pedestrian cyclist access in case of street closures. does the city evaluate increased traffic congestion in downtown areas when permitting street recoup that cost? >> mayor lee: thank you for your questions, supervisor kim. we don't take lightly the decision to close public facilities like streets and parks. but the events you mention, like oracles open world and sales forces dream force conference are full cost recovery events. this includes costs incurred by departments, public works, and entertainment commission. this is not just actual staff time spent on the streets and permits, but also administrative and facilities cost as well as extensive planning costs. for example, the mta recoups costs associated with traffic engineering, road striping, removal and reinstallations of services. totaled over $53,000 for open world, and over $38,000 for drea