a joint hearing with sfmta board and small business commission. majority of boards generally have some sort of -- they provide governance and direction to a regulatory agency so they have very specific things they work with like with the planning department, the planning code, the sfmta has their plan, the [inaudible] policy. there's thing they work with that govern themselves by. the small business commission, you're an advisory body and so we don't necessarily have those kind of things delineated out so what i would like to do is take the opportunity for this commission to help us help you in preparation for the joint hearing on information that you may need, things that we might help formulate that we want to present to the sfmta board. this is just kind of a beginning structure of what to think and then we have our outreach committee meeting, which they can help work on some of these or start formulating and flushing and then we have our november meet /-ging and then a potential proposed date for a joint hearing is early december. unfortunatel

have with the sfmta board as we have this joint meeting? and, so, i think for me it's a little more clear on, you know, what we -- what some of your questions and issues you want to present. now, the sfmta board, you know, most commissions or many commissions, they have municipal codes of which they govern themselves by. they have different things, you know, that we have the san francisco's transit first policy that govern them self-by in terms of making decisions. ~ this commission is an advisory body so we don't quite have that same sort of structure. so, i'd like to hear if there are things that you would like to have presented to the sfmta board either for reading materials or as a presentation regarding small business to present at that joint hearing. so, we don't necessarily have to answer every -- you don't have to provide absolute answers today, but this is kind of an ongoing discussion. we will be meeting -- we will start meeting with the sfmta's board secretary to start orchestrating the meeting and getting the list of presentatio

we talked about the joint hearing with sfmta board. i wanted to highlight in the dashboard one of the things we are particularly proud of is the business of [inaudible]. came to our office in 2010 and we connected them with la cacina and the opportunity fund. they started out with just a cart in justin her man plaza and now they have a store front. they're going to be opening their second store front. they're not a recipient of the revolving loan fund and they have plans in which they want to franchise. anyway, they're one of our -- i wanted to bring to your attention -- one of the businesses we've helped that's taking off and started out from a food cart, you know. that concludes my report. >> thank you. >> next item please. >> i'm number nine, the president's report, this is a discussion item. >> in november we only have one meeting on november 18, a 2 o'clock meeting. i decided since we have veteran's day on the 11th and thanks giving is at the end of the month i figured one meeting next month because i didn't think you guys wanted

does this whereas clause bind sfmta to this allocation? i just wanted to clarify that question again? >> deputy city attorney, john gibner, no, it doesn't bind the sfmta to the allocation. the board through this contract approval cannot bind the mta's decision about where to place the meters but the whereas clause reflects the director's statements about the mta's expectations about how these meters will be used. >> okay. that's not very reassuring. i do have a couple of questions for the director though. so, i just wanted to clarify again, 25 thousand meters is the number of meters we currently have in the city today? >> yeah, i don't know the exact number, it's roughly 25 thousand and that's the base contract. >> and when you said to supervisor cohen that this 5 thousand allotment would allow us to make -- to address small meters requests, when you say small meters requests, how many are you talking? >> well, i think the way we laid out in our outreach process, we had three different levels, 1 to 50, 51 to 100 and more than 100, we would

please don't waste the sfmta's money. >> good afternoon, mr. lazar >> good afternoon, commissioners, board members, how are you? my name is john lazar, president of luxor company. sorry to say, we oppose this contract, either you reject the contract or table the item for future consideration. staff has proposed a $6 million contract that is both unnecessary and unwise. this would not provide sfmta the tools to better regulate the industry. the contract will give a las vegas transportation company a virtual monopoly over taxi operations in the city, cannibalize existing taxi brands and cause companies like luxor to consider legal remedies. we at luxor have cooperated at every level, every step to advance the goal and purpose of the sfmta, including this attempt to create the eta, in fact we provided our data to fti in early may and signed a letter sent to the sfmta that gave permission to the sfmta and sei work with our vendors. we have acted with good faith and yet we face another expenditure of public funds that would be insbrues intrusive of

and in this case, the sfmta is overstated the case. the balance checks were made on credit cards of his grandmother, his grandmother's best friend and their friend all of whom are over 80 years old and he held their cards because they were exclusive users and he served them all of time, and he took them to the doctor and to the store and to see their friends and they relied on them because they could not rely on other drivers because nobody would pay the kind of attention to him or could speak russian like he could and otherwise would be as accommodating to them as he would. >> so those balance checks are on the cards of the people that were intimate to his family including his grandmother and. and the sfmta tries to make something pernicious out of making the balance checks but it does not amount to any dead triment to anybody the only one that we know about for sure is the $27 worth of over charges and he admits to that. the other stuff is speculative and he has discovered the patterns and he defines that the patterns mean and they h

-- nurture first-time businesses that are participating in a city contract with sfmta? >> that's great. >> um-hm. >> commissioner dooley. >> i think, you know, because we're getting so many infrastructure projects and a lot of new building, i think it's really important to address loading zones. >> yes. >> i think it's a huge issue. if mta wants to also do new projects change streetscapes, they really need to address the impact of eliminating parking if that includes eliminating loading zones. they need to have part of their plan be able to mitigate and allow commerce to continue. that goes to the question also of, you know, before they start working on infrastructure project, they need to look at all -- >> this is [speaker not understood], yes. >> yes. that to me is one of our largest things. and i also think it's important to discuss the possibility of allowing more parking structures because if you're going to take the parking away, you know, we need to have someplace to have folks who drive, for whatever reason -- not everyone takes the bus. maybe they're coming fro

this fall and winter we will be seeking support from the sfmta board, and that date is november 19. in the meantime the sfmta is taking steps to implement items that are under local control including new blue zones and increased enforcement. if approved to move forward we would seek a state sponsor and a state bill could be introduced in 2014 and go into effect in 2015. this is long timeline we're on. today we are here asking the small business commission to support the committee's recommendations to reduce disabled parking placard misuse and increase access for people with disabilities. we have quite a bit of information at our website if you want to delve into our all research, it's sfmta [inaudible] you want to send via email, parking access as sfmta.com. if you have any questions or comments. >> we have any commissioner comments? >> presentation to the council district merchants we were of our group was henry from that group so that we've already done some outreach to small business and just wanted you to be aware of that too for however you respond to this issue. >> commissione

i think that we also generate revenue for sfmta, so all of those things are things that are arguments that i think are good ones. what i would like to see from the sfmta while we were rolling out or considering meter expansion is that we also think about a revised residential parking permit eligibility requirement and in a lot of the neighborhoods that i represent that have traditionally been very mixed use but certain along the southeast sector in supervisor campos' sdrekt, we are creating new neighborhoods that don't look like twin peaks and we are always going to have office, residential and retail all on the same blocks and it makes a lot of our residents ineligible to apply for rpp even if there's a higher density of rez densest on those blocks because of the number of units we reer placing in those buildings, so i talked to director ris k*en about it, i know they're working on it, i think i need to see further commitment especially from what i hear from our residents, more headway we make on revising the rpp process before we support parking meter expansion, a number of other is

. >> presentation and discussion regarding the fiscal year 2013 sfmta annual report, which outlines the agency's progress in implementing the goals and objectives from the fy2013-fy2018 sfmta strategic plan. >> presentation and discussion regarding the fiscal year 2013 sfmta annual report, which outlines the agency's progress in implementing the goals and objectives from the fy2013-fy2018 sfmta strategic plan.. >> reiskin. >> what we have prepared for the first time in 15 years, an annual report that highlights the activities of the agency and we've been following the strategic plan, so this is the first of six for this current six year strategic plan cycle. it will continue in subsequent years. it's an obligation that we have under the city's administration code like any other agency of producing a report and wile we've had documented in the past that complied with that requirement, we thought the good work that you have directed over the last year, means the employees warranted a better treatment which we're manifesting in this report. and i want to at the start acknowledge -- since t

i do want to talk about when we spend money from the sfmta this is an opportunity for me to say with the new medallion sale system and the revenues generated from the taxi industry, there must at some time be some investment back into the industry not just going forward with different types of subsidies or agreements into new programs but i ask you to really redirect some resources back to the industry as you mentioned about pr, driver training, there's so much that can be done with very little and with the medallion sales and income as they are, i really hope you would look at that as you go forward with new contracts and put money toward these things. >> thank you, mr. kim, next speaker. >> charles rathbone, followed by ed healy. >> hiagain, commissioners, just very briefly, this would be money well spent, this proposal. if nothing else it will help put an end to the dangerous system of time-based shorts out of the airport and instead go to a gps based, they important to do that to cut down on speeding on the freeways. thank you. >> next speaker. >> ed healy and then rashid. >> i t

so i guess i'm speaking for everybody who didn't even know there was a meeting and the sfmta didn't even provide somebody to explain it to you like laura mattern, a lot of -- it's like let's see what we can do to put in parking meters. >> thank you, mr. mack intire, i know all the directors carefully read that report, mr. riskin, i know you responded to a report saying this is increasing the amount of notification that will go out before meters. >> perhaps some people misunderstood what this item is. right now the law prescribes public notification process that we use as a floor for the notifications that we make when we're proposing to install new parking meters. what this item does would you will note in the example given we did not even bring to you i don't believe a proposal to install parking meters in the university terrace neighborhood based on the public discussions we had. nevertheless, we have heard concern from member s of the public, from members of the board of supervisors, that the public outreach that we do with regard to new parking meter installations was not adequate, w

>> >> good commissioners, jarvis can the sfmta and we are here related not because of something that is a minor infraction, i think that the average person you would have to ask yourself, how would that person feel if they found out that a driver a taxi driver who owned the vehicle was using their credit card when they were not in the vehicle and running it and charging money on that credit card. i think it is our duty as the sfmta, to up hold our drivers and especially our medallion holders who have complete ownership and control of that vehicle to a standard that says you can't do this to the riding public. you can't do this to our most vulnerable population which is the elderly and disabled. what we have here is the usage of the para transit card and now i explained it in my brief but to quickly so that you can understand again, the para transit program is a program that is being used here in san francisco to allow our elderly and disabled population to take rides in vans and taxis throughout the city so they can do various errands would be do physician beingly demanding and diffi

the first was simple, the number of meters that the sfmta was proposing. and based on the breakdown that was shown to us, i dnl believe the mta had sufficient justification for an option for 10 thousand meters and i think that we all agree based on supporting the amendment that we want to upgrade our current meters so that we can accept credit card transactions but we probably don't need 10 thousand of them. i also understand that when additional meters in the reserve for the maintenance and for observe contingency purposes, by *f but i just want to go on record saying i can't support a large contingency plan to our neighborhood and i spent two years engaged with a dialogue with mta about the potential of parking meter expansion. i would like to ask director ris k*en a question, mr. president, if i may. thank you, director ris k*en, i wanted to know if we were to reduce the contract option from 10 thousand to 5 thousand meters, these would be used there replacement of existing port meters, a maintenance contingency and an allocation for replacement for the