finally one of the most difficult commission board for the city, our m.t.a. board of directors, and i saw nat ford here, good to see you, and i number of commissioners. jerry, you're rejoining here and you're reupping and talk about the military you need to reup on for m.t.a. but have you my faith and you have my confidence, jerry, in bringing forward to this board a wonderful perspective, one i think you have held and we talked about had many, many discussions about. first and foremost i want to thank the board of supervisors for their support for jerry's reaappointment. jerry was unanimously approved yesterday, making it possible to take over today. that's a great accomplishment, sir. a native of san francisco, lifelong user of our transit system and currently the m.t.a. board's vice chair, jerry's being reappointed for many reasons. but at the top of this list is his willingness to step up to the plate and work through some very thorny issues and adequately addressing neighborhood and community concerns. jerry's worked to address community concerns related

some are the choice of the m.t.a. board. you should ask that board if they saw that movie. someone with julia roberts, erin brockovich. >> i've you had small peters. how did you feel when they said we're going to put a smart meet ner their home? you don't feel uneasy about it. and how you would feel going to work each day wondering if my work is toxic. hybrids are a -- they're eight times the level of an average commuter mind. high e.m.s. 52% than that. thont tonight it's brain follow is this good for the public? you need to have a moratorium that they're puting on this cab. in testing i'm told by the director ayisher -- it's your responsible to show us that these cats are not harmful. we also need to -- i think it's -- advised drivers and passengers that you should never ever use a cell phone in a car or taxi unless it's an energy. -- emergency. >> ken cue blenser, -- i'm a driver for the driving ed. i can certainly understand that the issue of part of the increase at the drop needs be clarified. it'ses two it's two issues. ahead of the that's a very complex separate issue

any motion of the m.t.a. board of directors requires four to pass. >> i want to propose a motion to approve the increases as stated. >> i'll second. >> so, mr. chairman -- >> are the city attorneys comfortable? of course she is. >> mr. chairman, just for clarification, on motion to approve the meter rate for wait time and mileage. >> yes. >> can i make a proposed amendment to this that we just clarify that if we adopt this right now, it will not be implemented for the reasons we talked about until we've finished this entire package of materials? >> yes. >> on motion to approve the meter rate for wait time and mileage with the understanding that there will be no implementation until the additional package is brought to you on june 21? >> yes. >> i'm sorry, we need a second for that one? >> yes. >> i'll second that. >> there's a motion on that, and a second. roll call rote? >> yes. >> director bridges. >> this is on the amendment? >> on the motion to -- >> with the amendment. >> it was a friendly amendment. so it was

there are actually three new things that the m.t.a. board did not consider during the budget deliberations. the first is to increase the pop violation on transit. it does not make sense to keep the violation a lower amount than the passes. it creates incentives to violate it. right now, the muni pass violation is at a lower amount than the muni pass. that was not noticed in the budget process. director heinicke: thank you for reminding me of all that. those penalties and fees, which are relatively small, that are not subject to state caps or regulations -- we will have a policy of indexing on that going forward. >> yes. director bridges: i want to be clear, going back to director heinike's question -- you bet did that with the public? >> this is the public hearing. this was put in the paper and noticed that you had -- that if you have any issues you could come before the board today. that is the process we follow. if the public wanted to be here to speak against the three new fees, they could. i do not think we heard the back on those specif

afternoon the full board voted to uphold the certification of the seir on first reading and to approve all actions associated with the project by a 6-5 vote. the project would go before the m.t.a. board and the p.u.c. commission in june for the agencies to ratify their respective portions of the agreement. we had three appeals at the board this week, so that was -- that included the first appeal. the second was the at&t light speed appeal. this item was continued without discussion by the request of supervisor wiener. the board approved a five-week continuance. and supervisor wiener introduced a hearing request on d.p.w.'s order concerning the excavation permits for the installation of what they call the surface-mounted facilities, which are the same things that were under appeal. specifically, the supervisor wanted the hearing to be a discussion with public works, city planning department, the sfmta and the p.u.c. on the extent to which this executive order complies with the general plan and the better streets plan. so that will happen later in june is the tentative schedule for that. and the third appeal that was before the board was an appeal of 1787 union street, also know

[applause] >> you now have the opportunity to introduce my chairman, man who served on the m.t.a. board of directors since 2006 and elected chairman in 2009. chairman tom nolan's background in policy making and leadership in the transportation arena, to put it mildly, is extensive and well known. chairman nolan, can you please come on up. [applause] >> perhaps you would like to take a few minutes first to remind people who don't know my history to talk about me, nat. thank you, good morning, everybody. pleasure to be here. they've asked me to talk a little bit about the history of the -- of parking in san francisco and i suspect it's because they think i was actually there during the years when the street grids were narrow and people parked their horses and stables and hitching posts. i remember that so well. those street grids never obviously anticipated the 20th century and our car experience with the growth in population, number of years the automobile bake the major factor and equation it has and continues to generate and proliferate congestion and greenhouse gas emission. anyone, c

most passes are $2 increases, but that's the automatic indexing policy that we've approved at the m.t.a. boardother than that, there's not much to tell you about the m.t.a. budget, unless you have specific questions. so thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is maria. i'm going to stand so that i can see you. i'm director of the department of family youth and their pharmacist the goal for our department is -- and their families. the goal for our department is to make sure that services for children age birth to 24 is provided throughout the city wept fund programs such as the childcare, youth and teen programs, after-school programs, and violence prevention programs. our budget priority is simple. we do not want to destroy, to break, to interrupt any of those core safety nets that weave already established over -- we've already established over the years, things we want to continue. we're working hard with the mayor's office to identify ways for us to make that happen. you know, i don't think they want to hear me. >> they're happy to hear you. >> oh, is that the indication? right now

the start-up construction will begin in 2012. as you're probably aware that following the board's approval of the proposed m.t.a. part fast track grant, it was forwarded to the board of supervisors. they recommended that they recommence negotiations to establish reimbursement rate that are tied to inflation rather than bart fair increases. so what you approved was in your agreement was a -- not to ex-er seed an amount that are tied to the rate of inflation and ridership increases that do not exceed 5% annually or a mutually agreed upon amount. so you did have a cap, however the budget analysts feels there's more work that can be done in terms of negotiations. on may 5th, they tabled that item and asked that m.t.a. staff meet back with the bart staff to try and renegotiate the agreement. given that dre direction we have had talks with the bart staff and we will bring to you any adjustments that may be made to that agreement. we will be working with bart to try and resolve this issue. mr. chairman, that concludes my executive director's report. >> ok. >> oh, excuse me. i'm sorry. we took some things out of order he

the m.t.a.'s over time. this has been a subject of much discussion over the past few weeks, both at the board of supervisors and in the media and our own policy and governance committee has also expressed interest as it relates to overtime in the agency, and our current budget. i would like to point out that over time is one of literally hundreds of budget line items for this agency, and with a budget of nearly $800 million, or overtime currently appears to be in the approximately $50 million range in terms of the end of this fiscal year. what i would like to do is have soni bose -- sonalui bose , and give your presentation. just want to point out, and in terms of our usage of overtime, particularly in transit operation, our system clearly is labor intensive. 80% of our operation -- 80% of our budget is related to salaries and operations. particularly as it relates to transit operations, we need to have an operator on every vehicle. it is not something that can be -- if someone does not show up to work or is for whatever reason unable to perform their duties, there's not a way to share that work load. we ha

in the agency, executive director ordinance that's going to affect the board supervisors and some of the key considerations that drive our overtime and then the management strategy. so here's the m.t.a.-wide overtime picture for this fiscal year for the first nine months. the top left-hand pie chart shows you the trends division accounts for 90% of the division and as you can see our annual budget was $33.3 million an we've spent $33.6 million in the first nine months and we're expected to hit $51 million inover time for the year. i should have said, the agency has always had a significant amount of overtime and we've never budgeted for the right level of overtime since i've been here for a variety of reasons. this is a year by year comparison. if you look at the first nine months of the fiscal year for 2009, 2010, and 2011, you can see we're about $4 million higher than last year in the first nine months and the bottom right chart of the bar chart is what i want to point out specifically. in fiscal year 2010, which is a light pink bar, we tried to increase our overtime budget because we knew this is -- this is a lock standing issue. unfortunately, we had to bring the budget back do