the sfmta needs to begin demolition in early airplane. both the sfmta board and planning commission have approved different aspects of moving forward this particular proposal, with regards to north beach and the central subway. on february 19th, the mta board approved a two-year lease between the mta and the pagota palace a lease that includes 400,000 dollar and reimbursable costs such as attorneyfees and construction inflation, all of which need to be demonstrated by the owner. an additional cost up to $6 million for construction changes will be paid for through the reserves the sfmta and i understand that the sfmta is seeking reimbursement from the federal transit administration. what we have in front of us is the sud legislation, to describe this briefly and then i will ask kevin guy from the planning department to go through the specific provisions. the owner of the pagota theater has had existing entitlements which would allow him to construct a mixed-use building on the site, essentially a ground floor restaurant, condos on top of t

, and that was the time the protest started from sfmta from the taxi drivers. that was extreme of the wrong thing started by [speaker not understood]. as the time progressed, she continued doing wrong thing and you guys keep rubber stamping. in one of the town hall meetings she mentioned that mr. jewel and others came to talk to her and learn about terminologies about the taxis. why are you voting when you have to go and learn from her and you are unaware what she is doing? so, going further in this issue then you distributed 150 medallions and it was like whose color is black hair and whose color is black in the other company. whose color is brown hair and whose color -- it was a lottery. it was not any methodical way, any systematic way. why comfort cab [speaker not understood]? why distribute over 32, over 190 cabs actually, only 90 medallion, why only 32? why arrow cab get 32? checker -- [speaker not understood], why town taxi didn't get it? it's all looking at who gave the checks to mayor lee office for election campaign. mr. reiskin, we understand you hav

shawn kennedy is here from the sfmta. he is the project manager. if i could i would like to invite him up here so you're aware within the allocation request we have a deliverable to measure the before and after results after the improvements are implemented. >> sure. thank you. so yeah we're expecting a minute, a minute time savings or so with the customer first projects. they're really related towards enhancing the customer environment and making kind of our high quality frequent network more visible to the customer so we're seeing these as complementary trying to get off to the same objectives as tep but they're not those projects constructed, and yeah the minute time savings we have a number of other projects within it being cleared right now environmentally for time travel reduction. >> commissioner, could i jump in. shawn, can you qualify how the one minute savings -- i know there is a dollar savings and how much is that worth? >> yeah, we haven't quantified the operational cost savings yet. there are a lot of factors going into our operationa

the sfmta is coordinating this project. the sfmta anticipates completion of this so the public works can

along the alignment and currently being performed successfully by the sfmta. we have a deeper shaft currently under construction on 4th street, employing similar techniques, which is basically utilizing deep secant piles that create a water- tight curtain barrier with bracing that has no effect on the adjacent properties. >> one the public commenters suggest there had was only one public community meeting on this topic. i believe i have attended least five or six and i wonder from your perspective if you could talk about sfmta's outreach and the engagement you had with the community since last may. >> i have lost count in the number of evenings that we have spent, but i believe they are in the neighborhood of ten meetings that we have conducted with various constituents in the north beach community. we have had targeted meetings where we have met with the property owners and we have had targeted meetings with the entire community and we have had targeted meetings with the businesses, all centered around getting feedback off and on what the concerns are and how

sometime sfmta took over the taxi industry, thing get better, too. also a -- although they continue to serve the community and put some sacrifices. for example, they kept pushing [speaker not understood] event because they [speaker not understood] costs. and they spent more [speaker not understood]. no hybrid or energy vehicle for taxi. they prioritized the [speaker not understood] customers, they go across town to pick up customer. they turn down other business, and then they spend more time to load, unload, [speaker not understood] without extra compensation. and then the sfmta put more burden on them by asking them to pick up more wheelchairs, eight wheelchairs a minimum a month without [speaker not understood] the sacrifice they are being put into. i think the problem is because we did not recognize that this driver put a lot of sacrifice because they're waiting for one day to get their medallion. [speaker not understood], asking us to put -- push [speaker not understood]. in one hand -- >> thank you, yeah. >>> i'll wrap real quick. they gave med

president, members of the board, ed reiskin with the sfmta. through the supervisor chair to supervisor kim's question, they manage two garageses so they're able to amortize their costs essentially over those two garages. the sutter stockton garage as well as the union square garage. so, they're able to spread those costs differently. that's the main difference between the two leases. >> and, so, the 154,000 is almost the 50% between the two garages because it's one management company? >> that's correct. >> that makes sense. and i just hope that as we continue this long-term discussion around our garages, i know that this initially came forward because we needed other entities to bond on behalf of sfmta. i'm happy to support this, this ten-year lease for both of the garages, but i hope we can keep having a continual discussion with our off-site operators to ensure they're running efficiently. i certainly know the benefits of the j town garage offers to its community and supervisor breed really articulated those needs very well. >> supervisor ch

thank you to the members of sfmta for the opportunity to speak before you today, native san franciscan, responsible for working with a large passenger base, on the customer service side which uses an app to manage sf rides. taxi magic is work with partners to deliver over 200,000 rides in the san francisco bay area. mobile innovations directly improve the tax experience in san francisco by being able to hail a cab through a smart phone, establish system, investing record sum of money over 200 million to improve local taxi service; the private market is working with great velocity. -- quite frankly we believe that city managed ehailing efforts will kill taxi innovation in san francisco. it one of the competitors rolled out a new feature would could concentrate new resources to bring that feature to market. since features are not defensible and supply would be controlled the only path to profitability for companies like taxi magic is price competition; overtimes eroded by the player who can afford to-- the sfmta can improve the taxi market by placing more caps on the street, working with

it's on the site for the sfmta. so, mr. funge has explained that this is a 300-foot, meaning a football length field piece of equipment. but, in fact, the piece that we've suggested leaving under the ground is only about about 15 feet deep. it's a train, 300 feet long, a train, that's pushing a disk. you can see here this disk is much larger in circumference than this train. this disk, which is cutting the dirt, gets stuck in the ground. and all over the world the same company, which has provided the demonstration for the sfmta site -- there is a democrat owe there beautifully done to show you how this all works -- that company, most of those 41 different sites in the world are leaving this disk under the ground. * all we're asking in north beach, to not interfere with the successful neighborhood church, residents, businesses adjacent to pagoda palace, is to write into the lease with the pagoda the possibility, should it become possible to do this in the future when the machines arrive in north beach, to leave this disk, no

(inaudible) if you will, sfmta in particular is not, it is about 20 years behind in my opinion. and you know, transbay, and we were about to plan to get 20,000 total residents and most recent change to our transit is the 12 fulsom and it was rerouted to go north on second street and no longer comes through in the transbay area. and so to give to the grocery stores, to get to the diamond restaurants, to get to the night clubs that are in western soma, most of my neighbors won't walk a half mile up what is left of the hill to get to a bus stop but they will hop in their cars and drive and add to congestion and the pedestrian safety issues and air quality problems and that is something else to highlight really is we have a really, the air quality in the south of the market is pretty bad compared to the rest of the city if you look at the department of public health dfrtion, they are sustainable sf.org information, and so i think, that planning is doing wonderful. but, i think that there is some catching up to do. but sfmta and also recreation and parks, although, south of market ha

>> this pro yosal is coming from sfmta not from supervisor david hsu.there is a question about the level of controversy, a recall petition for supervisor hsu surfaced. it's not official. perhaps no one will sign it but says it's sponsored by voters of the district. they're mad because they believe he is supporting the plan to reduce metered parking on polk. he's said she's still o he hasn't made up his mind. there are 320 spaces on the 20 block street of poke -- polk street. the sfmta proposing a variety of ways to make streets safer for pedestrians and cars. the street is scheduled for a major repaving project and idea is to capitalize on it and give the busy corridor a makeover. mta says street had a high rate of accidents widening lanes removing some parking and adding parks could improve that but merchants say if parking goes way so will businesses. >> it will destroy our businesses we need the parking. >> what we need is more parking. it's not less parking. >> it's the most key parking spaces. >> i know that feed back will be taken into account for

besides regulating us, sfmta should be protecting this vital industry. it will create more financial hardship at an already critical time. the cab drivers are the first people visitors meet and the last ones they see when they leave. you can help us by protecting us and then we can talk about adding more cabs. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> anyone else care to address the board? >> i've been driving a cab the last 18 years. i am supposed to buy a medallion but i have a problem with my credit because i wasn't qualified to buy the medallion. now, what i'm asking the board is first and foremost you should consider us. at least you should give us a break on the price. secondly, you are -- for yellow and other companies you should lead it directly to us or at least some part of the medallion should come to the drivers thank you very much. >> thank you sir. applause. >> care to address the board this afternoon? afternoon. >> afternoon. you paid the canadian firm to say what you wanted to hear and now they are saying it. meanwhile under your miss management a

in addition to the fact that the sfmta has stated for both of these operations that while they could directly administer the different garages, that we have in front of us, they consider the fact that the added oversight and community relations provided by these organizations are in the best interest of the garage and the city. i think and heard and believe that many of you have heard from the leadership of the union square community about the impact that this organization has had in union square within a part of town that sees some of the most densely traveled and densely parking situations that we have in the city. so, with that, colleagues, ask for your support for this and we will proceed. >> great. i assume, colleagues, that we need a roll call on this. we can have a roll call, madam chair. >> on item 16, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos no. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president chiu? chiu

then they can call sfmta requested tow and see who move the vehicle faster. all we need is the license plate number the car the city has cited for towing -- >> mr. maxa, the time is up, but i want to give everyone an equal number of time to speak during public comment. >>> sure, thank you. >> are there any other speakers? >>> good morning, supervisors, my name is douglas yow. i would like to speak in favor of this item even though on the record i think it belongs in a different committee. in regards to open data and procedures, i would like to recommend three items for this new system. number one, the obvious, pornography. number two is the even more sinister child pornography. and number three is the disgraced whims with l blower program which was highlighted in yesterday's examiner regarding the $750,000 that the poor people will miss out on in order to pay a doctor who was humiliated illegally, in my opinion, by the city and county of san francisco. ~ whistle blower so, if we're going to talk about open data, i among other people want to know what's inside

and sfmta since they have been given all the power, they came up with the scam, the medallions. you guys have given them the power. (applause) >> (calling names) >> it seems like the privacy issue has upset so many people. is it worth it? when the recently updated the system i pulled up to a call at whole foods, the police officer is there. are you mcguire? he was trying this new app in my cell phone, he was getting a cab for a lady. my name comes up and it's kind of weird, people don't even know my name. i was going through a lot of papers, this one back to 2000 when i was a commissioner, august 2000. the proposal from a firm in berkeley, and website taxi dispatch, virtually identical to what flywheel does. even had extra features, downloaded all the activities that the cab does; it even had four different alarms, this was august 27th, 2000. how did we get into this position where we did not have this? i'm standard the cab companies have invested a lot of monies but we have to have this now. a particular app. i have a concern. i heard the contract has already been awarded to so

services and trying to figure out which category they should go into we will attend and we will present sfmta's position we've been submitting through the formal comment process i believe i've shared those with the board and will continue to actively participate in this process and encourage regulation of these services. >> thank you directors? >> can we make sure that the taxi drivers have all the information and in particular if there's a way for them to submit comments without them having to go to an all day workshop i'm hoping that there's a way that they can submit comments either online or in writing we can figure that out and get that information to them that would be great. >> we're endeavoring to get that information out. >> members of the board? >> thank you all very much and we'll move onto next item on the agenda. >> the next item on the agenda your consent calendar. all items of the consent calendar considered to be routine. unless a member of the public wishes to have an item considered separately. the board is not being asked to change the strategic plan. we are required to submi

we continue to work closely with the sfmta for subway and work on ways to keep the project moving should federal fund be delayed. on the local front we are trying to confirm a date for transportation workshop now into early may. i encourage fellow commissioners to attend and this will provide an opportunity for investment scenarios for the plan. on a related note, early this morning, the director, myself attended the task force. the mayor has set an ambitious goal to priorities recommendation for this fall. a collaborative effort of the work coming on on the transportation plan. also attended the meeting today were commissioners chiu and wiener and to discuss the level of the focus where the transportation task force works on capital projects and operations as well of the mta. that was something that supervisor wiener was very thorough about explaining this morning. lastly on the executive director recruitment effort, the personnel committee met on the hawkins company to provide selection with a permanent executive director. i met with the group last week and i believe meetings are being

(inaudible) if you will, sfmta in particular is not, it is about 20 years behind in my opinion. and you know, transbay, and we were about to plan to get 20,000 total residents and most recent change to our transit is the 12 fulsom and it was rerouted to go north on second street and no

but sfmta and also recreation and parks, although, south of market has about five percent of the population that contribute about 16 percent of the property taxes because it is a new development. prop 13 and we may the market rate and not the property taxes, rec and park has taken the stance that they are not building any new parks and all of these people, whether they be office or residence, need open space and it should be something besides the traditional concrete plaza, but, very good work by planning, thank you. >> i'm back to my map, it is sue hester and the map that i have given all of you earlier is still applicable. and we have grown as a city, by filling the bay. and my map and this map which is where the growth is, need to be talked about. the number... pardon me. i will go up. you are planning all of the... all of the development in the areas that are bay fill. a lot of the development, not all. and i have yet to have a workshop at this commission where you seriously dealt with bay field. this is not a staff matter. this is a commission and a public matter. there is a plan, acdc

. >> i'm the public record manager for the sfmta and we sent a letter to this commission last week detailing, i do apologize for length but we wanted to detail our response and within that response, we also had some attachments to provide some background for the letter. and due to the late hour i will not go through the entire thing, just wanted to let you know that myself and cathy falis who was also named in part of this complaint, are available for questions we, do i go knowledge that with item 1, failure to provide in a timely manner that we were late in providing some of the documents. we did. attempt to work with miss cart ter to provide her with everything. there is only one point of contact that is designated to work in the agency with all of the various divisions and get back to the requestor, and the requestor is not required to go to each division and that way makes it easier. so we would not have referred her to any other divisions. i was working on it for her. it did not receive her personnel files, and so it made the most sense to have the representative from the human resource

rec and park has been asked to address these and will require funding in october with sfmta support we applied for a grant, organization of bay area governments to fund the sidewalks, and other improvements. staff along with the community has been working on a concept design that is going to greatly improve this road and recreational space. one popular -- pedestrian and multiuse on the other side of the median. we're going to give it a road diet and move it from four lanes to two. if we secure the funding -- this is special presentation for me and i got to watch lonnie in action. last month during the early evening hours of february 22 there was a horrible senseless incident that occurred outside the recreation center and lonnie who is one of the leaders. he has been with the department since 2010 and was on scene when the incident happen and charge of a facility with about 80 people in it at the time there was a shooting that resulted in a horrible homicide. lonnie acted quickly and calmly to call 911. he notified his supervisors and lorraine and bob and i were on the seen and jackie