in addition to that, i asked the m.t.a. to help develop our city's first tour bus management plan, and this is a plan that has proposed different solutions for better tour bus loading and parking throughout the city. and i'd like to ask -- i think jerry robbins is here -- to help outline what that tour bus plan policy is for my colleagues. in addition to that, i have two pieces of legislation, colleagues, that i'd like to ask us to consider. one is a piece of legislation really to legislate the aspects of the tour bus plan that will be outlined from the m.t.a. the second piece of legislation deals with the topic of loud amplification systems. as i think many of you know, if you live in these residential neighborhoods, when you have open-air buses with loud loud speakers, particular during times of day that are not conducive to the quality of life of our neighborhoods, it creates issues. and initially i had proposed that we require our tour bus operators to implement essentially a headphone system. this is a type of system th

the solutions offered by the m.t.a. include giving up muni bus zones to the tour buses, so they can have a dedicated loading zone. however, this solution does not address the main issue, which is the number of tour buses that run through the neighborhood, and there's nothing that guarantees that they won't continue to double park once they have these zones. the m.t.a. also proposes restriction of commercial vehicles with nine or more seats from some or all alamo square area streets. and i'm just going to flip through some photographs here of -- these were all taken within the last month, i believe. it's not just one street, it's all around the square at every intersection. and it's very dangerous. so after sharing the draft study with our neighbors and stakeholders, the board voted unanimously to support the solution proposed by the m.t.a. to restrict tour buses in the alamo square historic district of the we asked the m.t.a. to exclude employee shuttle buses, since we value the benefit of giving our neighbors modes of t

there has been money identified that following resolution by the m.t.a. board that would have language saying whatever is adopted would be contingent on m.t.c. funding, then i believe supervisor campos would introduce language at the m.t.c. to try to secure m.t.c. support to get that funding, so that's point one. this is contingent on action the m.t.c. would have to take. this hasn't been introduced at the m.t.c. yet. it could be after our vote today. supervisor campos would want to know, have the commitment before the m.t.a. before bringing something to the m.t.c. and the right approach >> with refard to the funds, as i understand it, and i did speak to the head of the m.t.c. is this, there would be i think the higher percentage of the overall program that we would be seeking the region to fund, the more difficult it might be to secure that funding. if you look in our staff report on page 11. we are identifying a $9.4 million revenue loss. so that's $9.4 million and assumes a $4 million revenue loss which many of the public speakers think is low. it also

from the region are lifeline funds that will be coming to san francisco and for the most part to the m.t.a. regardless so that i think there were some speakers that suggested that all of the funding from the region were coming only for this purpose. the balance of those funds are for the overall -- they're lifeline funds and is a combination of capital and operating fund. we endeavored to explain that in our staff report. and the lifeline funds are for -- are meant for low-income populations so there was some commentary that -- making muni free-for-all youth is exactly in line with the lifeline program. i'm not sure that's entirely correct. so two clarifications on the revenues there, the lifeline revenues would be coming to san francisco and to the m.t.a. and they can be and would otherwise be used for other purposes. that's not the case in that first, up to five million which is really there because of the efforts of this group. there were some discussion about whether the $4 million revenue loss was a low estimate. we acknowledge, and i think i tried to indicate that we don't know what

if, for whatever reason, the m.t.a. decided to fillsale all medallions and someone said, i cannot afford one. this would not be the appropriate body because you have to change the policy regarding the selling of medallions. they would need to take it to a different body, likely the superior court. president garcia: it would seem reasonable that someone be allowed to be in a queue. >> well, we do think we have a rational basis for the decision we have made. to allow to be some -- it starts as creating waitlists again. we will start to have this issue of determining who gets to start their color scheme first. there will be competition. at that level, will start deciding, ok, do you have the funds to open a color scheme? to sign up on a list and there is no contract or property. which vehicles are you going to obtain? we will issue more medallions of the summer. are you going to go after those medallions stocks, there will be a lot of things involved. are you going to go after those medallions in a vault? there will be a lo

the m.t.a. invites and you your family to its annual bus and maintenance rodeo competition being held tomorrow 9:00 to 2:00 at the reisterstown plaza. watch as m.t.a.'s best demonstrate their skills and compete on a bus obstacle course. with the m.t.a. transit team, i'm kurt kroncke. now back to tony pann. >> good morning, everyone. the weather is quiet here this morning, but we are watching showers and thunderstorms off to our northwest coming across the great lakes. those may arrive here over the weekend on saturday especially, but in between now and then, i think the weather is going to be great. there are a few high, thin clouds this morning. temperatures are in the mid 40's, so you mightment to take a light jacket with you. it's 46 at the airport. same thing in taneytown. 47 in jury itsville. forecast for today, mostly sunny. after the school start, we're going to make it to 73 this afternoon, not bad. south-southwest wind at about 10 miles an hour. sunrise this morning at 6:21. a southwest

given that schedule, the m.t.a. decided to postpone the implementation of its crosswalk system so as not to interfere. a couple of projects year. marine agreement i will not talk about today. bicycle maintenance, -- work has not really proceeded on this. by the end of next month, if we do not have the ability to proceed, the lincoln disclose that grant and then we can proceed. >> i wanted to ask you if you can keep me in the loop on the mid richmond traffic colony from 14th avenue to 17th avenue on lake. also, the six masonic efforts to try to quiet traffic along masonic. i do have a question about the target that is proposed to come and in early 2013. you estimated that it is between $700,000 to $8 million. that seems like a huge range. where would that funding come from? it seems like there will be significantly more people coming in. and the parking structures are confusing behind high school. and a lot of the neighbors in my district and other places are concerned about that traffic quieting down and the mitigati

thank you for the opportunity to represent the san francisco m.t.a. on this day as you begin to mark your 150th anniversary here at the port of san francisco. i'm standing in for tom nolan, our chairman of the board, who couldn't be here this afternoon but does he plan to join you this evening. as you know and monique mentioned, muni is celebrating its centennial this year. it's very appropriate our two agencies have decided to team up and remind people what amazing things we've done for the city in terms of transportation. this is the building where our muni cable cars and street cars come down to meet the water borne transportation as they have done so long. so people can board ferries to locations around bait and ships to destinations around the glone. the most important thing about a city and its growth is mobility and transportation. and the fact that our city, which was basically a peninsula of sand dunes and marshes has developed into such an amazing global city. really speaks to the synergy that exists between the port and muni. and providing t

now for a check of the buses and trains, we head to kurt kroncke with the m.t.a. orning, kurt. >> good morning. we're moving along nice on the rails. no delays on the penn, camden and brunswick lines on marc. light rail metro subway on schedule. we have on the buses, the four bus diverting at southland and college drive. construction there. 22 bus, a diversion at bayview boulevard and mason, also construction-related. for the m.t.a. trancity team, i'm kurt kroncke. now back to john collins. good morning. >> thank you. good morning, kurt. our weather this morning is nearly perfect. we have a bit of a breeze, really dry atmosphere. if it wasn't for the breeze, a lot of the temperatures would be down in the 30's right now, but the breeze is holding things up a little bit. the only weather to speak of is down in the south. it was down there yesterday, rain with high pressure holding that or suppressing the rain to the south, so we don't expect that to be an issue during the day today as it moves out over the atlantic ocean. let's look at what happened yesterday. it was

inspired by last year's pension reform panel, i'd convene the budget balancing panel to review the m.t.a.'s budget, fiscal situation, and look at short-term and potentially long- term solutions to this structure about -- structural gap. i asked gabe metcalfe to co- direct that panel with me which he very graciously and generously agreed to do. we have been meeting since january, and i want to have him come to them by -- >> i am the executive director and was pleased to co-share the budget balancing panel. this has been an incredible cross-section of stakeholders including business groups of all kinds. probably others are in the room. it has been a constructive group. our charge was to the ideas for revenue that could come to the mta. the budget you have before you reflects thinking as far as our input. we are very pleased to see this budget that law only has a core system maintenance. that is easy to shortchanged for a while. in the long run, her reliability depends on putting enough money into maintenance. this budget represents the right direction. in the long run, when he did get you

since he was fourteen years old and i asked him when the laws such as the m.t.a. which allows officials to watch the teen and hold people in the united states whether the media thinks that big brother has officially shown his face in america take a listen to what he had to say the so-called patriot act has made everything that was. back in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. and nineteen fifties and think that if you think legalize the real people realize the very thing that their p.r. agent did it ministry of criminal background that means we could look at your mail they kept your poems they do all of what we live in today is the national security state we create broker who. we go by rational our mineable jamal's take on occupy wall street the us elections as well as his dreams and much more in our exclusive interview with him here at r.t. . as i responded this is a church you know there and more of them a jamal's revelations coming up in his first t.v. interview since his death penalty was commuted to life in prison and that's after half past headlines this hour

launch our beginning of our celebration and we invited cheryl brinkman, who is the vice chair of the m.t.a. to say just a few words about their anniversary and, again, invite all of you to join us after the co

let me take you back to 2009 when the m.t.a. was about to take over taxing regulation from the taxi commission. many of us were concerned that we would be targeted as an easy source of revenue for the agency. i recall the day when gavin newsom said -- came before the board to address those concerns. he said the taxi industry will not be a cash cow for the mta. meet farmer brown over here. malcolm heinicke has been proposing and supporting ways of milking the taxi drivers for city purposes. as an mta director, he and his agency have the tools to do this. he is the living embodiment of a conflict of interest between the regulatory responsibilities and its revenue generating powers. without knowing his exact role, it is safe to say that mr. heinicke is a godfather of mta staff's current proposal to lease one-third of taxing medallions to cap companies, cutting off 500 drivers from this one path forward in their lives. is the san francisco where a proposed city policy would exploit low-income workers without benefits, without bargain

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whenever version of this that the m.t.a. board adopts, it will be a huge step forward for transit in the city and in the country, and so with that, and it forward to hearing from the public. chairman brinkman: thank you. i think we will move on to public comment. i know a lot of you have been waiting for a long time. and the translation services, i know you have been going for a long time, as well. the first comment cards that we have turned in, and then perhaps we will give the board a break after we hear that public comment. >> -- secretary boomer: thank you, madam chair. we have students in another room or outside, so we will call a number of speaker cards in advance to allow them to come into the room and line up so we can proceed and hear from them. stephanie. i will read about five at once at this point. stephanie. the lease. angelina, tim, tina, and lorena. are any of those people here? thank you. and for people who have not commented before, let me just remind you that we are going with a two-minute time it. you will

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currencies because it runs through peer to peer network independent of central control it's called max the m.t.a. bank system because there are no bailouts of banks from bitcoin and we've been covering but going for a while it's the latest greatest hope for some type of democratic expression on the internet that was first seen in the one nine hundred ninety s. but quickly got snuffed out by the m.p.a. and the are i am a coin is another shot another attempt to bring about the will of the people so this article and warriors point out that there are all these traders from goldman sachs morgan stanley all the banks in the city of london are you can see from the visits to the actual site that a lot of these bankers and brokers are on line buying is speculating and big point but remember there are no bailouts available from there and they talk about bitcoin has become the wild west of finance with the proliferation of web site. offering loosely regulated replicas of the services familiar to those in the financial industry perhaps the most notorious is big coin into a platform offering margin trading s

this is the m.t.a., transportation by mode down market street. those two red circles are pedestrian figures. you see between 4th and 5th street, there are 6,000 pedestrians an hour during the peak hour period. between 6th and 7th, it's less than 1/4 of that volume. you can see, the pedestrian traffic just falls off a cliff there. people just aren't walking past 5th street. so that represents a problem, a challenge, but also a great opportunity. there is really a great opportunity to attract more people and lengthen that corridor at powell. lengthen it from powell down to civic center and really kind of expand the vie britain lebron si of our thoroughfare there. this is one of the reasons people aren't walking past 5th street. you can see the concentration of crime in the study area. this is central market compared to union square area so you can see how much denser crime there is. so there is a ton more data if you're interested. i'm moving ahead to the action plan. before i get to the plan itself, i want to mention some guiding principals behind

citizens are not exempt from this and his words chris i just as he is fighting along because the m.t.a. implodes our most cherished constitutional protections and he says it permits the military to function on u.s. soil as a civilian law enforcement agency chris is a columnist for truth pilger prize winning journalist and also the author of the book the death of liberal cloth he gave us a rundown on his day in court. i think it went pretty well the object of the trial is for the government to trial and the standing of myself and the other plaintiffs there were three. of us who testified in court. and then a. statement was read by the icelandic parliamentarian who did not want to travel on the advice of the foreign minister she had been involved in the release of the collateral damage video on wiki leaks and all of her personal records had already been subpoenaed although she's not a u.s. citizen by the u.s. government the state department would not give or guarantee in writing that she would not be held so her deposition was read by the writer only warthe. from. aleck's o'brien from da

drive a street car through, but we do our job and because we are professionals and despite the disgraceful m.t.a., which has been distracted for more than two years by taxing the dalliance. they need to remember that they are part of transit first. >> -- president chiu: thank you very much. thank you very much. >> below. i am larry edmonds. i want to speak to the board of supervisors and to the police chief. in they sro's in san francisco, we have bullying going on in the building. at the ambassador hotel. i do now shontay. i was in the elevator, 3:50 p.m., and i could not grieve until i saw someone who was going to have something for her on thursday. she was a great lady. she got her own car. she was a great advocate here. but i think to also let you know, i heard you all yesterday. more supervisors to spend the week at teh sro's, and to start at the ambassador, where the band played on in the 1980's. you can get in touch with the roots there. there is stuff going on in our neighborhoods that people just do not respect each other, and sro's, they are not homeless people, but that are single roo

. >> the m.t.a. ail that can be a tremendous resource for people that would narmly travel the j.f.x. we would strongly encourage people to use those as we go through the process. >> many people who travel through the inner harbor plan to heed the warnings and take it in stride. >> i was going to take the subway coming down, but it will add like 20 minutes to my commute. >> for a list of alternate rouths routes -- for a list of alternate routes go to wbaltv.com. in north baltimore, nadia ramdass, wbal-tv 11 news. >> the time is 9:35. the temperature has climbed 22 degrees since we started this morning. right now it is 62 degrees out there on tv hill. >> if you are having trouble sleeping, in our women's doctor, find out what you can do about it. >> it is a glimpse into the bullied world of children. >> we have had some high, thin clouds. big storms out to the west. as we look at the radar, we can see the remnants of some of those storms moving through indiana and ohio, but they reach all the way back i

i know it will not be the last time we are talking about m.t.a. overtime. it is a positive thing to see the direction in which the mta is moving. i want to thank you for jumping into it, hitting the ground running, and to the members of the board for making this a priority. i think the progress shows. >> let's move on to the next department. gosh morning, supervisors. and the deputy chief of the administration bureau. i will be brief. you will see on the overhead of the fiscal year break down scale of actual fund budget and actual spending. i hope you noticed the downward trend. or we are asking for an appropriation to this year, with some mitigating factors including the overtime increased due to occupations at over 1.3 million didn't carry visits, 256,000, and a greater reliance on overtime. rather than risk limiting the essential services to the neighborhoods, we see to do it otherwise. i will address the individual's name of the comptroller's report of the 520 hour limit. they're both mitigated with federal funding. i would be happy to entertain any ques