i look forward to working under the direction of the mta board, with the men and women of the mta, the labor organizations and leadership that represents them come with the rest of the elected family of the city, with my colleagues across the government's, from planning to the t.a., to the city attorney's office, the police department, working with the city family, working with our other regional states partners. all of them an important part of the transportation system here, working with other stakeholders within cac, within various advocacy groups. and really, the people of san francisco who really deserve to have a transportation system. what i will commit to all of you and to the entire board is i will do everything i can during my time here to make it so that years down the road, when we all look back on the decision of the mta board, we will feel like it is a good decision and we will be happy with the results. thank you very much for coming. it is really an honor. i look forward to serving the people of san francisco. thank you. [applause] chairman nolan: i want to say a word o

it has been a significant issue for the mta. i know the new directors committed to not only looking at managing over time but assessing our budget impacts and holding our manager accountable. he has had several meetings already about the overtime within the agency. he has received a significant number of reports already. the mta has given him reports. he has requested monthly reports, toning down on the details. he has already expressed interest in what to look at this issue of overtime. supervisor campos: the resolution calls upon the mta to actually develop a plan for dealing with overtime. as i understand it, there's not a plant per se that actually does that. can you comment on how long it would take for the sfmta to do something like that? >> i think what we will do next is we have a policy adviser group meeting tomorrow with the board. over time is on the agenda. we will bring this resolution before them and suggest that we put something together for their approval before bringing it to you. i do not anticipate, given the l

more oversight on the part of mta in terms of overseeing the ads with the two different contracts. in response to those recommendations, mta said it tightened is working to maximize sales and in the challenging economic times, it's difficult to sell the maximum amount of advertising. >we also looked at compliance. most of the city's advertising agreements that have the infrastructure in good repair. present terms of mta and dpw, advertising companies have not complied with removing graffiti and vandalism in a timely manner. neither mta d norpw monitored the compliance with removing graffiti and vandalism. we found graffiti on transit shelters and commercial kiosks and found torn and missing advertisements and we found at least to public toilets on market streets that have been out of order for over two weeks. that would be part of the dpw agreement on maintaining public toilets. we also discovered news racks, which are part of the dpw contracts did not only hold the newspapers but were being used as storage for trash and other things. our office had five recommendations intended to

mostly because of the mta. we account for about 60%. we have by far the largest usage, and that is because of the work of staff to get us from the delegates to the passage to the ticket vending machines to get all that in place that has really put us at the front of the pact in terms of clipper, which is a good thing. a couple of fee issues, though, that i want to make sure that you know about. the wheat contract the mtc has with the provider is written is that there is a monthly -- a fixed monthly fee in addition to a variable transaction costs paid to the vendor. it had been covered by a one- time source pot of funds that the mtc had. that source will expire, and this fee will continue to be paid by the region until we get 20 million transactions per month, which we are, as a regent, quite a bit short of right now. i believe the total fee that will be paid to the vendor that the transit agencies will have to assume is $100,000 a month. muni's share will be about half of that. the mta will be paid about $50,000 a month until the region'

[applause] i just wanted to thank the mta board for the recognition. i just felt that i was doing my part as a driver working for the city and county of san francisco, working for my division, which i have a lot of pride for, and, yes, thank you. >> mr. alvarez, i understand your family is with you today. would you like to introduce bill? >> my fiancee, my two daughters, and my little son who cannot speak because he is small. [laughter] [applause] the lot on behalf of the board of directors, thank you so much for your outstanding service to the city of san francisco. >> thank you. the next award is being presented to deedee owens, a 20- year veteran of the mta. she is here, i would like to ask her to step forward. she is being recognized for her leadership as a supervisor in customer service and -- in the citations and residential parking permit office. not an easy area to work in, let alone to excel in. she has led a team of citations that in reducing the backlog of 30,000 citations, basically saving us money and enabling us to process those and colle

the mta does not dispute that. he has met the requirement. he is a full time driver in every sense of the world. this has now been pending since 2008. his record is spotless. he has had other apparel people help him. he has complied with every purpose and regulation that has ever been in place. the most fundamental purpose of all regulation -- it is clear the public will be well served if he is admitted to the ranks of medallion holders. conversely, no conceivable public purpose will be served if he is further delayed, denied, or made to produce further proof that he is a driver, fully qualified to be a medallion holder. all practical purposes, if he is denied, he will not have another chance. one of his last act, when we were here in december -- the taxi commission expressed the m.t.a. would find another way to resolve this. that way is now at hand. the mta does not appear to have serious opposition to the board taking action, reversing the decision, and awarding the medallion. you have the power to do it. i urge you to please do it, because

if i could ask the mta to follow up on that? >> very good. thank you. supervisor avalos: a question about the recent enforcement of cycling rules. i have seen the mta doing the work of making sure that cyclists, having paid for with prop k funds -- >> you would have to ask someone from the mta about how it might be funded. supervisor avalos: the rules of the road on cycling? >> i cannot speak to that. i can get back you on how the increase might be funded. >> in the prior item, there were 800 that would not pay for enforcement, but as a fee is a partner in the program warning motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians. >> -- supervisor avalos: the key part, there is this perception of people riding in by clients that they have the right of way and it is hard to see sign image to know that there are crosses going on. are there other markers plan to slow down the cycling in key intersections? >> someone had raised that very issue on market street. how do people pullover safety to the curb without giving run over? supervisor avalos: mta? >> sure. the short answer

so, we have worked with the sf mta. the first arrows point to increased funding for safety, education, outreach for the build out of the remaining buyout plan projects. providing funds for the next generation of bike projects. leveraging assumptions within the plan, i will give you a couple of examples. proposing to use prop k programming for discretionary brands, like the fund for clean- air and the segment between interstate 280. undergoing design revisions, the cost is increasing significantly. they fired in march of 2012 in time to complete the project. another tip of the that wanted to mention was prop k for early project development. setting up by projects to be set up for other discretionary fund sources. the proposed amended five ipp includes maps for future design and construction. federal funds would need to be clear that the festival level. the last two slides just list the project. very briefly, i would go through a couple on this slide, developing the implementation strategy for bike riding. not long term in

with the passage of prop g last year, the mta has the ability to change those rules and take a bed of greater flexibility in staffing, including using more part-time muni drivers to reduce the need for overtime. i know the new director of our mta is singularly focused in making sfmta an efficient and effective organization, and i meet with him every week to monitor and discuss ways to meet the agency's performance. i support your push for an overtime reduction plan, and i will encourage director reiskin to begin drafting such a plan. i cannot take the risk of jeopardize our ability to protect public safety or respond to an emergency, so i look forward to discussing this legislation with you and continue to look for ways to address overtime costs, even with all the hissing. supervisor chiu: our final question will be offered by our colleague from district 11, supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: thank you. last year, the voters approved prop c, establishing your appearance before the board of supervisors to establish policy discussions, possibly of the board of supervisors would devel

. >> the motion passed unanimously. now you're at item 10, mta sustainable mobility strategy and presentation. >> victoria wise, planning department's staff. i know you are interested in transportation and what the city has been doing to support sustainable mobility. this presentation is intended to give you an overview of the mta sustainable mobility strategy. i am pleased to introduce the deputy, who will share the presentation with you. >> hold on. just give me a minute. there you go. >> good afternoon. i am the deputy for planning and policy. we have been asked to give an overview of the sustainable mobility strategy. i am going to run through a few topic areas and try to do a snapshot of this comprehensive program we are currently working on. it touches on every mode and every issue in this city. it is important to note that the mta has been an agency that has been under a series of mergers for the last decade. the have always referred to us as a muni, but we are more than you need. we have parking and traffic. we manage paratransit. recentl

i do not agree with the mta renting them out as a pilot program. i like the incentive idea that if you take enough radio calls there would be no charge for it. and possibly explore what was suggested about the medallion holders being able to purchase the medallions or obtain them. i think they should be earned. i do not think they should have to be bought by people who spent their career driving a cab and putting up with what all that takes. as far as yellow cab not supporting this, i worked for yellow cab 20 years. i started there and we were on radio and there was no service problems. since they went to a computer, no one has been able to get a cab. i believe yellow cab is doing a concerted effort to make it appear as though we need more cabs and there is a shortage and their dispatches a highly flawed. i have moved to another company that is ready a dispatched and people are served. -- a radio dispatc radio dispate are served. >> our next speaker. >> good afternoon. >> these -- i am speaking about the single user permits. dr. fulkerson had call t

the mta has $1.4 million available in the current budget. this was originally programmed for youth fare reductions. we paused the program, so those funds could be available, potentially, how towards that $7 million or so that would enable the free fast pass to happen. all i have been able to say absent direction from the board is that we have been open to the discussion and willing to work with the mayor's office and anyone else that wants to advance the cause. we have been feeding information that the board and others will ultimately have to make. i believe there is some interest in having the board take of this item. maybe i can yield some time to director ramos. director ramos: thank you, chairman nolan, director, and everyone here that was ready to, to the microphone and make this a much longer meeting. i would like to make sure that they really did want to get across, to have this as a discussion item to talk about where we go from here and really start the discussion on how to get $7 million and how to make muni available or free to yo

you can see the mta bus and rail fleet is only 1% of city emissions. even if we made our buses completely carbon neutral, we still have a major obstacle to deal with. the issue is with our transportation fleet ourself -- in order for us to reduce our footprint, we have to do more different strategies and will be talking about in a second. what if we made all the cars screen and see what happens? you can

of course, all of this requires funding, and i am committed to working with the mta and with our county transportation authority and other partners in seeking the necessary funds to get this done. thank you for that question. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. good afternoon. as a result of assembly bill 109, the state prisoner realignment act, san francisco is projected to receive $5.7 million from the state for fiscal year 2011-2012 to help accommodate approximately 700 additional criminal offenders. we know this plan commences literally in three weeks. adult probation chief still estimates funding does not cover the cost of san francisco's realignment plan. the key projects that the city will be up towards to about $3.5 million short of meeting local realignment funding objectives. how do you propose to address this funding gap? >> thank you, supervisor, and thank you again for your leadership on reentry programs. i attended the first meeting earlier this year ended enjoy hearing the best ideas coming out from this. as you know, public safety realignment is yet another example of the s

i think these signs and community education that the mta and police department and all of the city family working on in the 200 different sites and schools will help save lives. i also wanted to say that as a parent, i know that as we get to work quickly, sometimes we do not understand as drivers that we share the road with people who are pedestrians and also bicyclist as well. i think signs like this -- even reducing speed in of the sensitive spots, maybe senior centers and other places might be an additional change. when members of the bus a coalition came out to speak at hearings for the community operations committee that i sit on, that was a strong urge that we reduced speed limits, not just around schools but in other sensitive areas. i also wanted to add that mayor lee mentioned that a number of studies had been done in our department of public health. they have looked closely at how policies like this can help make community safer and save lives, so thank you for the efforts. the last thing i wanted to say was that it does not come without a cause. the transportation authority --

i think this is a point that i hope the mta takes into consideration. while it is difficult and challenging for sfmta staff to check these sites on a daily basis, i don't think anyone is saying that's what needs to happen. the public does have to go to these sites on a daily basis and it seems to me there has to be a way in which you can physically verify that the information you have in your database is actually correct because the fact is data is reliable to a certain extent because sometimes the wrong data is input into the system, but i think a routine physical inspection would be an appropriate consideration. >> we will look at that in terms of our prioritization and budget process, we will put that into the mix of request. supervisor campos: in terms of information about annual revenue data from the contractor, can you comment on that? do you have that information? >> absolutely. not only do we have that, but we meet with the quarterly revenues, the auditors reviewing it, and we also have the revenues reviewed by the city's auditors. on the revenue