we do not -- it helps the city reached being a transit to first city. [applause] >> [reading names] >> good afternoon. i am here today -- i am an appointee on the youth commission. i come here today to support a free pass for all youth. the budget is tough, but we have to think about what it could mean for investment in our future. congesting, drunk driving, these are problems in our city. they are not because of cars. they are because people are not comprehending how great public transportation can be. or adult generation has been exposed to a life style in which cars are the only option. this is going to continue until we make a change right now. transportation is cool. i think transportation is cool. i have some type of fun. [laughter] this enlightenment of public transportation needs to be for everyone. i want everyone in the audience to have a clipper card like mine that has the plastic torn off because that means everyone is respecting muni and everyone is really into just the idea of public transportation. so, yeah, this will help the environment

young people out of their cars to other modes of public transportation, we are not going to be a transit city. it allows for the 16-year-old whose family might buy them a car when they turn 16, they will continue to use new the past the age of 16, and when they become adults they will have become accustomed to using new nikomuni want to thank you for the opportunity to speak. >> i am 17. i currently attends high-school to regar by bus. today i am here to show support and will continue to advocate for their cause, but also to show understanding you do not have the power to make new the free -- to make muni free, but you can create the push. thank you for your time triggered >> thank you triggered an -- thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> as someone who worked on analysis, i cannot think of a better and more appropriate use based on funding guidelines for the program than the effort and we are trying to do. i wanted to address supervisor wiener's concerns about when the funds go away, the ability to replace those. that is something we would like to address, but if we looked at some of the

young people out of their cars to other modes of public transportation, we are not going to be a transit city. it allows for the 16-year-old whose family might buy them a car when they turn 16, they will continue to use new the past the age of 16, and when they become adults they will have become accustomed to using new nikomuni want to thank you for the opportunity to speak. >> i am 17. i currently attends high-school to regar

we are creating the next generation of transit riders in the city. i believe that our young people in san francisco should have access to this form of transit. we have money for the next couple of years to be able to pay for that service, and i want to thank you for that effort for making that happen. i believe that this time has come. i am willing to work with you as a member of the board of supervisors in the coming years for how we can look at funding this with the budget on the general fund side and on the mta side, so i encourage you to support this great effort, and thank you for your consideration. chairman brinkman: thank you, supervisor. secretary boomer: [reading names] >> i am 17 years old, and i ride the muni. on in here to tell you also issues that i see. number one, 18-year-olds still in school, that is one of them. i turn 18 and a couple of months, so what makes you all think that if i am struggling to find 75 cents, i will pay $4 a day to and from school? i have no job or no money that would support may. i am living with a family that

, be the first transit city of san francisco. i know we have a great, efficient city and need to continue to promote that leadership within our peers. thank you. and i appreciate all your willness to hear us today. and appreciate your willingness to work for this and let's just remember secure and invest in our future youth as sometimes financial burdens may not outweigh the outcomes if our peers interact with each other. thank you. >> thank you. do we have any more public speakers? are i think that was our last one in which case we declare public comment on this item closed. thank you very much. you're very patient to wait all this time. we appreciate it very much and appreciate hearing from you. yes? >> i want to thank everybody who spoke and who came and left and wasn't able to speak, and all those who wanted to be here. a lot of good comment. i just want to try to offer some clarifying comments to some of the comments that were made or some of the themes that were brought up, and then just had one other -- couple other pieces

her enthusiasm when she was a supervisor in those years in the 1970's when she declared the city to be a transitst city. that was a wonderful thing because that has guided us for so many generations, and it has guided me to today that we are still a transit-first system. this is why we invest in our chances system. while we are going to make sure it is not only serving all of us, but that it welcomes in the new route we are creating that mayer brown has worked so hard to get established. now, with the help of senator feinstein and the help of so many of our delegation and state representatives, we will start and finish that central subway that will also be the complement of the third street light rail. that will be another admission that we look forward to our transit system representing, to connect up eventually to what we have already started at the transbay terminal so that all of our muni transit system can connect up to the wonderful world of high-speed rail. that will be in our lifetime. not just a wish. we are taking steps to make sure that is a reality. that is our future. we cannot risk

transition of workers. francis dang to new jobs within the city and county -- transitioning to new jobs within the city and county? >> as of march 30, there were 40 layoffs. we concluded bargaining on a number of term sheets. it was agreed upon term sheet. it provided for a comprehensive package, i don't want to step on the toes of what we can and can't say. the budget director to standing up. >> the city has been working with labor to come up with an agreement. we are still in negotiations. part of the agreement that we are moving forward with relates to the service rule changes. our director is exploring whether there are any opportunities to allow for folks at the agency to have additional opportunities within the city. my understanding is that the city has provided transition support for individuals who were laid off. information about how to apply for jobs within the city and certain employment counselling. >> thank you, supervisors. >> i would like to ask for the director of the mayor's office of housing to touch on that. and then we will close. >> good afternoon, supervisors. based upon the actions

we are charged with implementing the city's transit first policies. there is an argument to be made that the traffic companies supports both of those charter goals of this agency. in terms of making sure that transportation in the city is safe and enforcement works to the benefit of safety and the benefit of transit. there is a nexus for the use of mta funds for the service. there is also as many public speakers indicated, a justifiable position that the city's general fund should pay these costs. that is not a decision that we can make unilaterally with the this -- at this board. it is something i have discussed with the mayor, would some of the members of the board of supervisors, and with the mayor's budget office. the challenge is, the reason why the decisions were made, the traffic company, and the way and work orders are allocated, was to protect general fund dollars there providing safety net services to our most challenged populations. the decision about mta police department work order was one of those decisions. the city is looking at the nex

our city has held on to our transit system, unlike so many others. you only need to wake up and -- every morning and get on to understand how important the system is to all of us, but also, when you wake up in the morning and ride the systems, you know we face still many challenges. i have more confidence to it in 2012 for the first time in a long time that our mta leadership is poised to improve our muni railway and make it were the of the next century. we could take time to applaud the men and women who every day are working to make the mta better. [applause] but i will tell you, we all know that you cannot do it alone, and we all will have to make tough choices. we all will have to make real improvements that help to improve the public confidence in our system. we know we are going to have to use technology and other things to make our experience is better, but i want you to know that from the board of supervisors, we will -- we will continue to make sure that our muni system will remain, hopefully one of the best if not the best, transportation s

city. you can see how this project actually brings a kind of gentle transition from the neighborhood back to the city and to the waterfront. it currently is very abrupt and does not exist. we think it is a very important quality of the city's recommendations for the plan. some of the other issues emerging in the process work public view corridors. the most of 11 identified as this one shown on the screen, the green line between the ferry building and click tower -- coit tower. you can also see the yellow, partially obstructed views, and the green representing views that are currently unobstructed. we are changing nothing except a tiny piece here. you can see i read just north up very terminal and south of pier 1. just so you'll remember, if you look right now, this is the important view that was identified from ferry terminal building footsteps but to court -- up to coit tower. you can see there is no change. i will outline it so you can see more clearly. there is no change in the visibility. likewise, from the other key public spaces around telegraph hill. pioneer park, for example, you can

we are a transit-first city, so we certainly don't encourage individuals renting cars and going about the city on their own. but maybe there are more productive ways in which we can engage muni around this issue, and also, i think there should be further discussions around the routes, the hours, the noise levels, of course, and the impact that it has particularly on neighborhood commercial districts and residential districts. so maybe there should be different rules that apply in residential districts and maybe certain considerations given to neighborhood commercial. i know that there have been times when i've gone down haight street, which is where these tour buses frequent and it's 1:00 in the afternoon and you're dealing with delivery trucks and you're dealing with tour buses, and you're dealing with pedestrians, and you're dealing with all these different people who are just trying to move around haight street in the middle of the day. so i just think that we have to look at it more comprehensively than just d-3 or alamo square or whatever, because i do believe that it has to be l

if we are a transit-first city we need to make it easier for individuals from out of town and people who are not like my in- laws, people from the suburbs to learn how to ride so they can see our fabulous city. this comes down to safety. we have massive tour buses that are letting people across the street at the top of the hill. and then the cars try to pass the buses while they are headed up the hill. we do not want this to turn into a fatality issue. we want people to come to our neighborhood. we want people to walk to the parks. thank you. >> i am kelly edwards and i live at the northwest corner of the alamo square. i am the caretaker of the historical landmark, westfield home. i live at the crest of three hills. you talk about how you listed the system and everything like that, that is b.s. you have not extended the olive branch. you are lying. this morning, you yelled at a guy for talking too loud. it is not only dangerous. there is a cement factory, cement trucks coming up the street. to supply albertson's. it is three times as high as you did it. these engines blow up. not to

transit riders, and bicyclist. this bond will also repair sidewalks all over the city. what san francisco is premier pedestrian advocacy organization. i would like to introduce the executive director. [applause] >> walk s.f. is eager to see new investment in wider sidewalks and smarter street design throughout the city. in san francisco, even though we all walk, we still see 800 people here get hit by cars. that is too much. thanks to the mayor's pedestrian safety task force, we know that only 7% of our streets are where over half of all of the serious and fatal injuries occur. that means we know where to focus our resources to save lives. smart investment will pay off for everyone in the city because more walkable streets means more foot traffic. that is better for local businesses. that means safer streets for kids to walk to schools, families to walk to parks, and for everyone to enjoy lives, works, and visits san francisco. thank you. [applause] >> i will now turn it over to mayor lee. i will ask all of us to gather around as he signs the legislation at his ne >> to

because san francisco is a transit first city, we urge the board to undertake all possible efforts come at -- efforts to preserve federal funding. i am sure this is not a controversial recommendation here, but we felt it important to underscore the importance of pursuing that federal money given all the tax money san francisco sense to washington. we also recommend the sfmta board request from the city attorney and memo outlining the constraints on the mta to regulate or charged franchise fees on tour buses, a charter buses, a private shuttle buses, a private educational institution buses. there has been a lot of discussion about what is and is not legal for us to do. what is and is pre-empted by state regulation. these buses interfere with mta's operations. in some cases, they do not. we need to have a real discussion about a word that fits in and whether they should be paying their fair share -- about whether that fits in and whether they should be paying their fair share. we think to have that discussion, we need to know the parameters of what the city can do about this, if anything.

i start by telling them that you need a city government and transit system like san francisco's where transit is not treated as the ride of last resort, where leaders understand that attractive transit drive incremental sales tax and property tax revenues and adds to rather than detract from the urban fabric and the ability of our city. other cities have followed our lead, and we can be proud of that. the example we follow today's battle the the past and present, but also the future. muni service built this city over the last century. today, the investment we made in the t line is revitalizing neighborhoods. these historic street cars on the f line which have already helped transform the northern embarcadero, enabling the star attractions, will help mayor lee in his initiative to revitalize mid market. streetcars are a colorful connection between the mid- market neighborhood and vibrant communities elsewhere along the route. with some creative promotions, they can bring more people to bid market, which i call the heart of market, and helped drive the artist and technology communities

we are a transit-first city and we should also be supporting the muni bus system which surrounds our park. we should be encouraging visitors to use our public transit to reach destinations like alamo square. the real economic benefit from tourism comes from interaction between visitors and local businesses and neighborhoods. the tour bus companies are instead usurping our residential streets to meet the ends of our business model. thank you. >> thank you. i'd like to open it up for public comment at this time. dean, followed by mali, jesus perez. >> and we'd like to -- let's limit the testimony to two minutes per person. there's a buzzer that goes off with 30 seconds to go. please try to keep comments brief, if you can, folks. >> mr. chairman, this is for all three items, both on the two pieces of legislation i'm sponsoring as well as the other hearing. >> ok. >> good afternoon. my name is deanne. i am a current intern for the community action network. i am concerned about the fact that tour buses are able to get around local regulation, because they sometimes cross the golden gate br

in san francisco, we consider caltrain to be the transit spine that connects the city to san jose and san francisco to silicon valley and all of our partner cities. caltrain electrification has had a broad regional support for many years. caltrain is the most important thing we can do for generations to come. here in san francisco, i am working hard to make sure we continue to be the innovation capital of the world. cities across this country and other nations are looking at its cities for solutions to everyday problems. transit is our number one concern because we are a growing economy. we cannot increase roadways and airport runways there. that will not be a part of solutions for the future. you have a good solution. it is going to be affordable, it will be faster, and it will be better. i want to welcome you. as i came here this morning, i ran into a lot of great people. i know they represent a lot of generations of people. i hope, as i think many of you do, i hope to see the trains pulled through all the way from los angeles to our valley, through our peninsula all the way to our