the sfmta is engaged in unlawful activities. i bring to your attention city ordinance 101217 dated november 2010. specifically, the problem is that there are certain streets in the city that are private streets that the mta knowingly continues to write parking citations on. that is unlawful. how are collecting fines and that is also on lawful. i live in mission bay where this is an issue. we brought it to the attention of numerous people, we continue to have this problem, i have spoken with members of this board and they say they shouldn't do that. they have given us the runaround at this point in time. i want to see the mta corrected this problem. i want to issue refunds to all the people that have been illegally sited, and i have 27 pages that i have obtained, at just a random time covering certain streets of which many of them are unlawfully issue. one other item. i live on mission bay boulevard. it lacks speed limit signs in the stop signs on key intersections. where there was once a single speed limit sign which is about a m

something that is going to be starting early next year, led by the sfmta. when these parks start happening for recreational users, we will also meet with mark tempi -- commuters to make sure they have a chance to q use bikes and the go to work. bicycle growth in the city has been phenomenal over the past few years that we want that much more of a combination. i think it is a neat idea for us to be able to begin at one park, and today you can go from here to the marina or herman plaza. you can go today and drop off that bike. on your way, you can pass by city hall and vote. do important activities. this is an amazing thing. i really do like the idea that you can just drop it off and not worry about it. you can go by the hour, by the day. everything is taking care of. i think that is just the solid beginning of bike-sharing across the city and the bay area. i think this is another indication that we want to be alternative mode transportation friendly. so we're working with the other cities around the bay area to do the same thing. so for those enthusiasts who

the sfmta is leading the muni partners pilot component of the project. the department of environment is participating, as they administer tdm activities, and they will play a key role in developing the management program which will lead to the foundation of a local ordinance building upon the state cash out laws as well as local commuter benefit ordinances. it will provide overall project management for the projects, consultants, and coordinate with early studies at the agencies. we have, since the board last acted, we have been working with partner agencies to clarify the process for project management and reimbursement among the agencies. they will report directly to the authority, and we will be monitoring the budget very closely over the next two and half years. we're now ready to move forward with the memorandum of agreement to formalize all of those issues of the scope and budget and get started with the project. i would be happy to answer any questions. supervisor mar: any questions, colleagues? public comment. would anyone like to speak on this i

the way it reads now is just for the sfmta. and page two, line four. requiring any early termination agreement requires rival approval -- prior approval, just a further safeguard. we recommend page two, line 7 an7, no later than 30 days after the mta enters into a termination agreement with an equity investor if they do enter into such an agreement. and overall, i consider it to be a policy matter. i concur with the concept. supervisor chu: a quick question, we have heard about the transaction that associatioed with vehicles -- >> we have other finances, but they are related to the dry. -- garage. supervisor chu: in terms of the concept of what we would want to make sure that they had the authority to unwind, it makes sense because we have issues of technical default given where the economic scenario is these days. what is the incentive for the original investors to unwind from this? >> they no longer have the advantage for the tax benefit that included in 2003. many of these investors want it off of their portfolio because the valuations of underlying

that is part of the deal with sfmta. they insisted that credit card charges, if they were going to be passed on to drivers. we are believed -- relieved. supervisor farrell: you for that expense? >> the vendor bear the bulk of the expense. we do have substantial expenses in i.t. resources, communications technology. the credit card company is the one that has purchased the equipment. we install the equipment, and they are the ones that collect the 5%. we get that of that. supervisor farrell: 18% to 21% rate increase. when does that go into effect? >> i believe it was the beginning of last month. supervisor farrell: a few months before that, for status quo -- taxi drivers received a rate increase, a 18% to 21%, and i will ask for verification on that -- what you said that there were no increases for the cab companies? >> that is correct. the only thing that cab companies got out of the deal is we are relieved from the burden of paying the credit card cost. supervisor farrell: thank you. supervisor campos: next speaker pleas

>> i am going to let someone from the sfmta address what has been done. >> as part of the outreach, we both made in mailing to everyone on the golden gate park -- rec and park golden gate park interest list, in addition to the supervisor's office. we also use the planning department's web page to find out all of the contacts, neighborhood groups in the area. we are particularly concerned about the larger groups, like par, inner sunset neighborhood. we made additional steps to reach out to them. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? i different project, on folsom st., letting people know that they may be impacted, wondering what efforts have been done, will be taken, going forward? >> folsom was coming out of the planning department's mission streetscape program. there were a lot of things from the planning department reaching out on the designs from the project. that is why our project is looking at 13th to 19th. it is a time-into other things going on from 19th and further out. there have been a lot of effort from our office and from the community. c

on behalf of the sfmta board, i am happy to welcome up to the microphone, one of my bosses, director brinkman. [applause] >> thank you. i am so glad to be here. there is a growing body of research that shows we can make the schools -- the streets safer, and one of the ways we can do that is reduced speeds. if all else fails and a collision results, this speed limit saves lives. i am pleased to be here and to continue to work with the rest of the city, the rest of the organizations, and to know that they have the support of the mta board in these very important initiatives. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, director. the mayor and supervisor mar mentioned that there's different city agencies working together to make this happen. i think they both mentioned the health department has been a very strong partner, and i want to work knowledge there great work. it is their research that i want to reiterate the exponential decline in the likelihood of serious injury or fatality for every 5 miles that you lower the speed limit. it is a powerful tool to ensure safety in the streets if in the

we're already working on the 30% design in cooperation with sfmta. it looks as though this project is now ranked as the highest priority nationally for federal small starts. it can be a reality. not very far behind it is the geary project eir which is now going through the same stages as the van ness one. we're now in the throes of during the capacity modeling that needs to be done on these projects. four different alternatives. not that different from van ness. that project has a number of additional challenges, in particular the intersections of fillmore and masonic, which of course is under the other street and generate some challenges and some opportunities. i will continue to keep you posted on progress on that project. we have also been making significant progress on the state of the sentences the transportation plan. this is our 30-year look at transportation needs. it feeds right into the regional efforts on the regional transportation plan. and we completed the first phase of outreach, and we expect to be briefing the technical and other comm

the government audits and oversight committee on the controller's city services auditors review of the sfmta work orders for the year 2010-2011. as many of you know, the mta presently spends about $60 million in the work order services provided on behalf of the mta by other city agencies, and the controller has been conducting a review of that process, and the review is complete. for this hearing, we will have an opportunity to hear what, if any, progress has been made with respect to work orders. when you think about it, even a 10% reduction in work orders, that is $6 million and would be more than enough to pay for something. 20% reduction would actually pay for increased services throughout the system. this presents a new opportunity for us to really get to having a better understanding in terms of a nexus between what is being paid for and the nexus, the connection to public transportation. the second item is a resolution that i am introducing supporting the regulated and safe patient access to medical candidates. i want to thank the following colleagues who are cosponsoring this resolut

to thank mayor lee for his commitment literally now almost two years ago to work with my office, the sfmta, city administrator's office to really figure out how we can roll out this new and exciting pilot project. and you're going to hear more about these details but the thing i will say in conclusion is with the city family coming together, we're going to provide another transit option for all of san francisco to hopefully bring us closer to our vision of a transit first city. with that i would like to welcome mayor lee to russian hill and welcome mayor lee has been a champion for car sharing and obviously making sure we have a transit first city. and i would like to invite him to say a few words. >> good morning. thank you, president chiu. yes, it was over two years ago where we began this conversation. but it also began with our own city fleet. and we were talking with city car share and zip car about how we can share vehicles and reduce carbon emissions and all of those great goals that mayor gavin newsome had announced that we wanted to really do enthusiastically. so if you see right

help from our fleet director tom fang and deputy city administrator and working with the staff of the sfmta to implement it. very exciting day to see it come to fruition. one of the things that makes us so great to work for san francisco is we're not afraid to do bold or innovative things. i will share with you we put together a pilot with five spaces city wide that we were going to move forward. when it got to public hearings, when it got to the board, rather than have people react negatively do it, they reacted very positively. they said five spaces actually weren't enough. so we ended up being able to add six more spaces to the pilot program. so people wanted to go more big and more bold. and our leaders wanted to do that. and that makes it exciting every day to come in and to have those new ideas when they're so well received. so i think this is going to be a great success. i think just the initial response to it with people saying what about my neighborhood, let's try it out in my neighborhood. it's very positive and i really look forward to seeing this rolled out beyond the pilot city

the new whereas pair press started on page 2 line at 10 the, whereas the sfmta and bart shall complete a study of cost as described in 4a of the cost- sharing agreement by june 30, 2012, reflecting the agreement to commit the steady and those additional impact it would have in the agreement. supervisor mirkarimi: mr. rose's contention is he wants to make sure that is honored and at least be somewhat bilateral. does that reinforce the spirit of the agreement? i am asking the deputy city attorney. does that reenforce the intent that we can at least rest, because resolutions are not mandatory. >> supervisor mirkarimi, strictly speaking, the agreement does not require this be done by a date certain, but i believe mr. rose is satisfied with this change in a reason to doubt -- supervisor mirkarimi: memorializes it certainly helps. motion to except the amendment. supervisor chu: thank you. we can take that without objection. that will be the case. on the underlying item as amended, would that require a continuance? ok. given that on the underlying amendment item as amended, can we take that w

this resolution has opened the door to sfmta and the board to come up with a better way to serve our transportation needs for youth. let's be honest. you invest all of your manpower so we can have schools, public safety, transportation, where does that work go to when they can't get there? what is all your hours that your legislative affairs, that your legislative aides do for you and you can't even get kids to school? thank you for your time. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. come forward. you're up. >> hello, supervisors. i'm chair of the san francisco youth commission and co-author of the youth life plan resolution and a resolution that the youth commission unanimously pass in support of free muni for san francisco's young people. i would first like to say thank you for hearing this resolution and acknowledging the work that the youth commission has done over the past two years. to give you some background on myself, i grew up riding the bus. when i lived downtown i took the k to ocean avenue to get to school and then when i moved to daley city i took the 14 to m

thank you for being here. 311 as well as department of public works, the whole sfmta organization, police department, board of supervisors, city administrator's office, working together, have produced an opportunity in a public-private relationship to hire these 12 individuals. we have done a pilot program and the results are stunningly positive. when you engage the public, when you engage the ridership of muni, engage people in the community and ask what they are most concerned about, public safety is always on their mind. along with the board supervisors, we work to create this idea that residents of san francisco, and what they are doing today is they are not only on the streets, but they are at those spots where we have had a history of activities that were negative, people hanging out. if a resident were not able to speak english and did not understand that they should not be isolated by themselves, you have extra eyes and ears in those areas, and that debt -- that resonated with people to get information not just on the arrival of their most needed muni lines but also just inquiries

and according to the san francisco examiner, the sfmta has spent more than $12 million in overtime and in the current fiscal year that began in july. that puts immunity on pace to pay out more than $56 million in overtime this year, which would exceed by over 50%. the overtime budget by $25 million. >>> there could soon be a big change in baseball locker rooms. major league baseball is now considering banning alcohol in the clubhouse. this comes as a response to recent reports that three boston red sox pitchers drank beer in the clubhouse on the days they were not starting. league executives plan to discuss the situation after the world series. it is still not clear how the ban would affect the traditional champagne showers that follow big baseball victories. >>> texas rangers have now evened up the world series with a 4-0 victory over the st. louis cardinals last night. they got the big hit, smashing a three-run homer in the 6th inning. the rangers got stellar pitching from the left-handed pitcher. you can see game five this evening right here on channel 2. we'll have, of course, the

i am the deputy director at thesfmta. 0-- sfmta. we are in the process of reevaluating this decision. since the policy was adopted, there are a lot of new things. the federal golf re-examining interchange fees and read -- and minimum payments did not exist at the time it was adopted. it is timely to have another look at it with better information, and that is what we're in the process of doing. we have retained a consultant who has interviewed many of the stakeholders in the industry, and we expect to have a final report from them any time now. supervisor farrell: i am fine actually, thank you. president chiu: just to finish up, i think that is helpful, and i think it is our purpose is to give you a little bit of perspective. from my perspective i think the mta needs to spend a lot more time thinking about the taxi cab situation overall. i do not want to get into i think the tremendous frustration that the public has around the difficulties of accessing tabcas in many parts of the city. in my mind this is just one piece of a bigger p