and the decisions that you make for the sfmta effects that. the requirements and because sometimes, this is not, necessarily always understood by the other departments. but for small business, they see the city as one big entity. and so, whether it is the sfmta and whether it is puc, and whether it is dpw and whether it is the department of public health, they see us all as one. and i like to liken it as if you are looking at your bank, and you have a checking account and a savings account and a mortgage, or, you know, a home equity line of credit or a credit card, you like at your financial institution as one entity to be able to navigate and you want the ability for those things to be able to communicate and function well, with each other, for you to be able to manage, what in this situation, managing your money. so, with small business and primarily, our commercial corridor businesses, there is a lot that the city brings to them. and asks them to do. and so, it is the graffiti is on the business, they are required to do the graffiti removal

on the next slide shows the capital budget and the capital budget is a five year budget as sfmta. the total budget for the current five year period is 2.6 billion. of that 35. 7 million or 1.39% is allocated to the bicycle mode and this chart shows the distribution of the budget by mode. it does include a big chunk in transit because central subway project is included in there the number is larger than usual but if you back that out the majority is still on the transit side. in terms of bicycle spending in other cities and you provided some of the summary numbers on that supervisor mar. here's the table showing some of those comparisons. because of the difficult of getting budget information that's truly comparable to what we have for san francisco we used a per capita measure so we used expenditures from the other cities on their capital improvement per year and projects and compared it to the population so we could get a common denominator for all of the cities we're comparing. mostly we looked at u.s. cities but we have amsterdam and one of the leaders and copenhagen in bicycle

we were asked by our office and you supervisor mar how sfmta bicycle strategy strategic plan could be funded and implemented. how much of the current capital and operating budgets are now allocated to bicycle mode projects? how projects and funding is prioritized by sfmta by mode -- in other words how bicycle projects are decided on? we're asked to look how sfmta delivers its projects and if there is room in improvement and project delivery, and we were asked to compare san francisco investment in bicycle infrastructure and projects with other cities in the u.s.. to start with we looked at the strategic plan and the large goals of sfmta from their strategic plan they have established the goal of decreasing private auto use to 50% of all trips by 2018 -- scenario and that has a price tag of $191 million and if implemented is expected to increase bicycle mode share from the current 3.5% to between eight and 10%. the next slide is just an overview of the bicycle strategic plan scenario. again this is the midpoint -- or the middle of the three plans included in the bicycle strategy and in

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

and then, of course, really want to thank the sfmta for its support around small business week. and so with that, i, conclude my presentation. >> good afternoon. >> yeah. >> we will get you there. >> mr. chair and mr. president, members of the board and commission, thank you first of all for hosting us here, and particularly to the small business commission and i did not realize that you were seating your meeting time for this joint gathering, but i think that this is a great opportunity for us to explore the ways that we can help each other because i think that our goals are very much aligned as i think that the director mentioned and i think that the cozy seating arrangement is a good model for efficient board meetings. i have i will try to be brief. i do want to give an overview of kind of where we are coming from and the context within which we are operating. but i think that we will be helpful for the conversation, i think, many of the recommendations that came out of the first presentation, you will see kind of directly in or directly, i think that many of them we are doin

in the attachment four, and today, sfmta staff are present to respond to your concerns, and they have a brief presentation that they have prepared as well as bart staff who are present to deliver a presentation on the pilot escalator program. with that i will hand it off to jonathan. >> thank you. >> mr. louis? >> i just like to say that we have johnson from the sfmta, john from bart, and samoc jock from the dpw as well. >> and colleagues i think that it is a red powerpoint that we have in front of us, and the escalator. thank you, chair members and the plans and programs, i am jonathan with the mta and i am here to discuss quickly our maintenance plan for the escalators on the system, and i appreciate the questions from commissioner campos who is not here right now, but it is always great when we get an opportunity to talk to the public and to you about the state of good repair about the system, and to have the opportunity to invest in it and just really quickly, the escalator systems were built as part of the system, and the sfmta is responsible for the 28 of these escalators and we

second recommendation is to have the sfmta staff also meet with the office of small business and the office of economic and workforce development staff, upon consideration of a project area, or in the business area. because we too can lend some suggestions and recommendations on what either who might be good to reach out to, in that business area, or some other elements that may be taking place that will benefit the staff that is going to be working on those project areas. recommendation three is the sfmta staff can come and present to the small business commission on projects, that effect small, effect business areas and that is not just neighborhood, commercial corridors but where we do have business and where the project is like the eastern neighborhoods where that is not necessarily a corridor, but that is a business area. recommendation four, to work together and i know that to work together with the county transportation authority, most small businesses and most businesses do not know that there is a san francisco sta, the sfcta the county transportation agency but they don't u

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