so we definitely want to be working with the sfmta board of directors and those that are in the sfmta to bring forth things like bike share because we value that, and we also care about that. so it creates this -- basically this conflict that is not necessary, and we want to work with the m.t.a. to provide those things of which we also value. so it is a problem, and i think it's definitely one we need to be working on. >> thank you for raising. can i comment on engagement for a minute? >> supervisor safai: yes, i'm sorry. go ahead. >> so there's been i think the way we've always done outreach and community management. we can all imagine, 6:00 or so, refreshments, posters. i think that reaches some people, but i think we need to be taking a hard look at whether that's the way to do community engagement or whether we can use other personal strategies. the traffic circle at lyon and mcallister at my house, nobody outreached to me half a block from where i am. i don't like it. they've taken out the two stop signs. my two daughters are just starting to walk to school. i find that incredibl

this is what sfmta promises. program collapsed or failed because sfmta ceased transferring medallions and intended parties to -- this was meant to be an exit mechanism. next page, bullet point 22. they allege sfmta has not issued or sold medallions since 2016. bullet 23, the credit union has not been able to transfer any medallions. bullet 24, they have promised the credit union they would take steps to invigorate the industry. next page, bullet point -- at the top -- instead the sfmta let the business collapse. bullet point 26. even though it terminated the program, sfmta has failed to transfer or repurchase the credit union's foreclosed medallions. next page. bullet point 184. it wasn't until after november 2016, at a meeting, that sfmta repeatedly broke promises -- the credit union began to suspect that the program was in collapse. bullet point 185. it became clear to the credit union would not admit its revenue generating scheme had failed. next page, bullet point 93. $64 million was loaned. or i'm sorry, $64

sfmta what will happen to me if something happens to me? the bank will take the medallion and i have all [indiscernible]. i bet a million dollars you're not because they cannot support you. i live in fairfield. it takes me two hours to come here. it takes me another two and a half hours to commute. another $1500 a month. mr. lazar, knows when he sold his business there is no business. sfmta have a lot of things they can do. [bell ringing] >> supervisor: thank you very much. commissioner pollock, we've called all the cards. thank you very much. public comment is now closed. any questions, comments? >> i have a couple additional questions for ms. trin. can you explain the payments that the medallion holders make to the cab companies. i don't understand that. >> there are a couple different ways to run a medallion and one is called gas and gauge and that is you are the medallion holder and you hand over your medallion to the company to run and they run it for you. that's one way and the second way is where you are an affiliate. you run the med

i do not have to tell the committee the sfmta has work to do. it struggles to remain relevant to the communities it serves. for the coalition and the member, it means delivering bicycle safety improvements with speed, helping to meet the vision zero goals. meanwhile, there are tens of thousands of vehicles and emerging mobility technology, from autonomous vehicles and scooters, present san franciscans with new way to get around and transportation planners with new challenges. the nature of transportation in san francisco is shifting rapidly. russell franklin, 56, was hit and killed while biking at the intersection of howard and van ness. last night, a 65-year-old man, yet to be identified was killed trying to cross the street. sfmta faces many challenges ahead if it is to stop the bloodshed on our streets and ensure that all san franciscans have access to transportation. as a public school parent who bikes regularly with her children, amanda knows firsthand the urgent need for street safety improvements. as a nationally recognized expert on tran

the sfmta proposed hot spot improvements in several zones. while that's a good start, we need to do more. the embarcadero stretches up to 20 feet in plagss, which is plenty of -- places, which is plenty of room to accommodate pedestrians and pedi cabs. if you feel that creates an unsafe environment for f pedestrians, and it may, let's paint a two way cycle track on the promenade. all it takes is some green paint. whatever the solution is, protecting the people who ride on the embarcadero should be your number one priority. these are people's lives. what is more important? 2022 and beyond is not an acceptable timeline to prevent death, so please figure out how to protect bikers now. and i made -- i took a few photos from berlin and taiwan and make a little mock up on

maintain log of suggestions with responses from motivate and sfmta staff. and, five, contact information for motivate and sfmta staff responsible for the bike share station outreach. perhaps equally important if not more important in getting the word out to a larger community or larger part of the community that would be impacted is the process of approving bike share stations, which we looked into with as much detail as we could at the meeting and as a consequence have a recommendation that says the sfmta-cac recommendations that the stations about bike share docs require final approval from the sfmta board. i think it would make it less of an administrative process and more of a public process, which it needs to be, considering how increasingly it seems to be impacting neighborhoods all over the city as the program extends itself. that's my information for today. if you have any questions -- >> chairman brinkman: thank you. board members, any questions? no. all right. seeing none. thank you so much, mr. weaver. we appreciate your work on the c.a.c. any pu

if the sfmta's plan was implemented, kevin would still be with us. i urge you to begin construction with no further delays. perhaps one of the lives saved will be mine. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> chris and then maureen sitko. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is chris longnecker. don't feel bad. my community college students mispronounce is all the time, too. pedi cab put me through graduate school. it allows me to afford to live in the bay area while working with often under privileged students at community colleges and has introduced me to some of the most creative, unique and loving people i've ever known. on july 27, one of those people was stolen from us. kevin manning was murdered in a cowardly hit and run in an intersection along the embarcadero long known by cyclists to be hazardous due to the lack of a safety bike structure and a demarkated bike lane. while this accident's had a profound effect on his immediate network, it goes farther deeper. this is one of the heaviest cycling routes populated by tourists. they ride down

we were disappointed to learn that the sfmta removed two permits for bike share. when supervisor stefani came in, she asked for more public outreach. we rely on this system, so we really want the permits to move forward and not be unpermitted, i guess. we feel like it's not enough given the high utilage. overall, despite good inventions, the sfmta is crippling this bike share revolution. so we're here to try to empower you to be able to make the hard decisions on bike share. thanks. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm patrick trowberg. i moved from nopa to russian hill. in nopa, there were several bike stations. russian hill doesn't have any and there are rarely jump bikes available. it makes it much more difficult to get around and i find myself resorting to taking a lyft or uber instead. sfmta permitted at least two stations and we were told that they were not installed and i would like to get an update on why they were postponed and when they will be installed. i heard think were opposed, despite intensive community outreach that began

so there are near term improvements that the sfmta has made. i was also somewhat surprised by the injury number. i actually asked my staff, isn't this a citywide figure, or please check, is this really the embarcadero? that was a very alarming figure. i think we should be tracking how we're doing with that data and what the near term improvements are buying us and how to advance those. i also think the board might be a resource in funding, maybe in terms of bridge funding and other sources that we might be able to bring to the table to help things along, and we can discuss that. so i think there is more we can do. i am very pleased that the commission's provided the forum to hear from the community. it's clearly a very, very, very deeply important issue, so i think we have a call to action to continue what we're doing and really, i would suggest focus on the short-term safety improvements. >> so when do you think that someone can come back to us with a plan of action? >> i think we can come back with a plan of action in a month or two? what do

there's been an overall engagement with my office and sfmta. just on that initiative alone, and his involvement in his availability to be involved in the neighborhood associations, we are extremely happy to move his nomination forward for this c.a.c. and i stand behind him 100%. i would like to make a motion to appoint him. >> a motion to appoint mr gower to the seat representing district 11. is there a second? seconded by commissioner fewer. we has -- we have a different house. on the two motions which we will combine as one, a roll call, please. [roll call] we have approval. >> congratulations, gentleman. next item, please. >> item five, final approval on first appearance, state and federal legislation update. this is an action item. >> mr watts. the session is over and things are in the hands of the governor to sign or veto. congratulations on pulling out assembly bill 1184, for which we are profoundly thankful and want to formally thank the author, our assembly member, phil tang, which will, if it becomes law, will help us go forward with a

it calls for specific goals to be met to make sfmta efficient. we wanted to clarify what steps sfmta took to raise concerns in october, 2017, as well as steps under way. in light of the above, i request a hearing to be held to request officials from the mta and training division to look into these matters and discover what has concerned and what can be done help the agent become more efficient. my second is, collegues, i would like to adjourn our meeting in honor of mr. phillip scott ryan, district 5 resident, who left us on july 20, at the age of 78. he was a husband, father, grandfather, mentor, advocate for justice and friend to many members of the city family. he was a san francisco native who attended s.i. high school and santa clara university. he served in the army. in 1962 at the age of 23, became the youngest legislative aide in the california legislature. his entry to public service, was the beginning of lifetime career. in 1964, phil went to the south to be an organizer during the mississippi freedom summer, battling politics that summ

sfmta is doing the best for everybody to keep alive this industry. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is ahmad. i purchased a medallion for 125,000. but if i want to sell it for 100,000, i can't. i have to go to the m.t.a. for the amount they want to and the percent they want to. that's kind of hard. the pick up in the airport, when they say 18,000 flights or something, 80% of the flights come to uber, so maybe, we get 20% of the flights. 560 cabs, they will cover the airport. thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name is roberto marquez, and i've been driving a taxi for 25 years, and i purchased a medallion for $250,000. uber and lyft came over, took over the business, so we got no money to pay our loans. so we should -- the city should buy us out, and future leaders should have $500,000 for all the money that we lost. i have no money to pay my -- i purchased a home, and i have no money to pay my home. i drive for 10 hours, 12 hours, and i end up with $50 less money, so i don't know what to do. thank you. >> good afternoon.

so sfmta submitted it. they have some projects that are on mainland san francisco and then there's a portion for timma. we have an agreement with sfmta, which has an agreement with the federal government. and then we have a schedule of performance in our agreement and we will need to -- so sfmta will reimburse us for work. but we need to report to them on a quarterly basis on progress, on, you know, deliverables against the time frame that's in our grant agreement. and we would be reimbursed for work that we submit, our expeditures that we submit through m.t.a. >> commissioner lai: that makes sense. i'm wondering how the deliverable schedule was created. why four years or -- is that right? no. six years. >> so the overall time frame of the four-year period of performances, that's the maximum. one thing that's a big unknown in the schedule and a reason why we've put buffers on the time frame is because whoever provides this autonomous shuttle, the operator, vehicle manufacturer, needs to have all of their pe

the sfmta's process -- public process has been heavy handed and phony. as supervisor, what i would like to do is setup a community advisory boards throughout the sunset and take control of that process. a lot of people are checked out of politics in the sunset completely because we've been abandoned to city hall politics for decades. as an independent supervisor, i would invite participantory democracy. i would like to hear neighbors, not just listen to them and give lip service. the l taraval project hurt businesses. local businesses were also hurt by another crazy heavy handed project on irving street which disrupted holiday store traffic and put one business i know of out of business. so we need to really take control of the public process, and we need a hard-nosed legislator to do that. >> thank you very much. mr. win? >> i think it's important that we continue to challenge our government to be leaders in public and alternative transportation. the city always seems plagued with constant traffic congestion and poor urban planning. if we look at sfmta,

one of the more than 25 -- 250,000 on street parking spaces that sfmta allows. within three hours, there were multiple requests filed and e-mails to remove two parking spaces, and yet sfmta has not made any changes. sfmta needs to be risk more responsive to this request and remove the parking spaces within 24 hours. it only takes paint to remove those spaces to make the crosswalk safer. it marks the 20th fatality. we are on an increase of 22% over last year. i am excited about the jump bike increase from 250 to 500. i want to thank the staff for hearing these materials. the day to share shows the demand for bike sharing is huge and growing in san francisco in the past five months. ridership is up for go bike and has more than doubled at each jump is now used on average more than eight times. this is not near enough to meet the demand for bike share in san francisco. i asked someone from the sfmta board to act as a broker and make the deal and motivates the increase the number of bags for both companies in san francisco. >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much.

i'm kate toran, director of taxi and accessible services for the sfmta. and thank you for putting this important topic on your agenda today. to we have the presentation? do we have the presentation? that was part of the packet. we presented the -- we provided -- >> ms. toran, hold on a second. i don't believe all of us have a copy of the print out. it was parts of the agenda packet. >> thank you. glad i put the flash drive in my pocket and just wait for director goble to get it up and then we can launch. i always start this presentation with the importance of the taxi industry to the m.t.a. and so san francisco. the taxi industry is the only for hire service that can offer street hail, so that you can hail directly from the street. in the taxi service there is a high level of safety requirements. there are fingerprint background check, drug and alcohol tests, there's complaint investigation, and due process, and the drivers are considered professional drivers. so when we get 311 complaints, our taxi investigators actually investigate and respond to every

if the sfmta has a project, make sure the d.p.w. knows because they have to have an impact. sometimes there's been studies when they do project, and they said yeah, there's going to be a loss of about 20% of small business, and that's not acceptable. they don't have to make payroll, they don't have to make lease payments, so they have to be conscious of that, and that's what we're here for. >> any other commissioners like to comment? >> can i just -- >> commissioner zouzounis in. >> -- follow up on that? i think i agree and something that the community that i come from, sting operations and enforcement is an area of -- where cultural sensitivity needs to be part of the conversation, especially in light of immigration laws and the travel ban. i think a conversation with sfpd and department of public health. and we've had sting operate -- like, two sting operations or one sting within several months in which we have undercovers coming into my family's store, and we've had reports some other businesses that -- comments about people's religion have been made, so there's definite

. >> paul rose is standing by with the sfmta. paul, you work with a lot of muni buses in the city and other forms of transportation. can you tell us how this is affecting especially people trying to get out of downtown and up onto the bay bridge because that is one of the main routes is down battery and up on the ramps and you go under this thing? what's going on tonight? you can hear there a little feedback. we're trying to reestablish with paul rose as well. i can tell you what i think's going on, liz. i think what's going on is gridlock around that part of san francisco. >> no question. >> you have to head down to the embarcadero to get around this thing. that's the only way you can get up onto the bridge without going which would be westbound and string it around on harrison and come up the -- swing it around on harrison and come up the other way. everybody else is going around. you're throwing all that downtown traffic into this because if people don't know it, it's like a bridgeway. you have to go under the transbay termina

so it's my honor to recognize brian and joseph, who are both relatively new to our sfmta family between them, with between them three or four years of service, stationary engineers. they came to us, they both found religion and left the state employ and came here to work where it really matters. >> oh, that's not fair. >> so with that, i want to honor them. >> thank you. thank you, mbrian and joseph. i understand you have some co-workers here who've come down to see you, if they wouldn't mind standing up so we could recognize them, as well. thank you. thank you so much for coming down to support your colleagues. i really appreciate that. so on behalf the board, the agency and indeed the entire city, thank you so much for your quick thinking in that situation. [applause] >> mr. haley. i think vice chair heinicke had an interesting question. john, did we ever find out what caused the fire? >> more housekeeping. we have a series of projects large and small going on throughout the subway. in this particular case, this was traced back, there was some open boxes that were at the end of the pl

with investigators from sfpd and sfmta on the scene.e had a chance to speak to a resident who heard the loud boom. she thought it was garbage trucks in the area, guys. we heard from her and the board of the district who lives not far from the area. >> i originally thought it was the dump truck, but it was so powerful and i looked out the window and unfortunately saw this massive crash. >> my main concern is making sure that everybody is okay to find out what exactly happened to make sure the driver is okay. we don't know what happened yet. >> reporter: now, next up, guys, police are searching for surveillance video in the area to get an idea of why this all happened. in fact, sfmta have cameras on that bus, and they passed it over to sfpd for that investigation. lombard still closed between scott and pierce streets. should be opening up in the next 15 or 20 minutes. it's also under investigation as they try to figure out exactly what happened. of course, they want to talk to witnesses. if you have any information to help out with this c

i want to thank public works planning, the sfmta and of course, all the residents and businesses that endured. in the end, everyone is truly proud of what has become here and we want to thank everyone for participating and creating this beautiful new space. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. now we will hear from our m.t.a. director, director risk in. he is responsible for making sure that all the walkways and bicycle lanes and transit works around here. all right. welcome. >> that's right. thank you, mohammed to be a good morning, everyone. it is so great to be here at this point in time. i think the mayor and the supervisors said it well. this has been a long time coming. but do very well worth it. it is really a great success story from my standpoint. you heard from the mayor and supervisor brown. this really started from the community. before the city adopted vision zero on before we identified the high injury network, we had people from this community come forward and say this street is not working for us. it is not working for people who drive on it and not working for people w

we've been working with sfmta leadership to initiate a district-wide permit parking program. as a precursor to our residential parking permit program, today i ask that the fines are restricted behind the homes of my constituents living on de wolf street, who requested the city's help managing the use of the block by people living in recreational vehicles. the residents have complained about individuals living in the rvs using open flames, generators, and illegal dumping of trash. as a city, we're tasked to support all residents, including those who are vehicularly housed, but forcing people that live on a small side street to become an unofficial r.v. park is not the answer. i'm sensitive towards people that be trying to maintain housing any way they can, but we need to find a way to support people living in r.v.s that's not a detriment to the quality of life and safety for residents living in one of the last affordable neighborhoods in san francisco. sincerely, ahsha safai, district 11. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> do you have any questions for me? >> chairman brinkma

the sales tax has been funding the sf -- has been alleviating sfmta of providing the capital member share of caltran's annual capital budget for the last -- since 2003. the funds are predicted to run out in this five-year period, most notably around fiscal year 2021, so we'll need to be having some additional conversations going forward about -- about that. muni vehicles, facilities, and guide ways, several place holders that you'll see in these categories, these are the biggest cash flow drivers for prop k, and the base drivers of our financing program. you can see the highlights in front of you, muni guide ways includes the quint street-jerrold avenue connector road, which the board approved several years ago to mitigate the impact of the closure of clint street. on the major capital side, each -- [inaudible] >> -- b.a.r.t., caltrain, and muni all have their own set aside, but there is also a discretionary fund and set aside funds, in case the parties had projects ready to be advanced. we haven't had to tap into those funds yet, but we are proposing to tap into them in this next five-ye