you, sir. next speaker? >> calling names. . if you hear your name, please let me know if you are in the room. >> okay please come forward. yes? >> hi good afternoon. my name is -- i'm working 3 years. more than 6500 homeless people. do you want 30 thousand more? i have in my family 4 people right now 500 more cabs ruin the business. no benefits nothing. thank you for patience. >> okay next speaker. >> calling names. >> i think we got one here thank you, sir. >> hi my name is -- i'm here because i'm against the -- it's very painful to come back each time you have that meeting here and i know you guys make money but we're losing the money and nobody have time and a lot of drivers they don't speak they are shy to speak in front of you guys they don't want to speak i want to let you know every driver is against mta and even you talk to in the city any customer they are against mta they hate mt a. why? why they hate arab people? it's very absurd. every one said i hate them so many things i can not talk you know already so please you

school and there will be observers on the streets and it will be documented thank you >> next speaker. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon again. in the transportation triangles i'd like to talk about drivers and pedestrians and bicycles. and some of the correspondences are over will you explain and there's some aspects of safety that's going to be more paramount as we expand bicycle lanes and want people we're talking about and things like that. a lot of our major intersections there's a movement which is good toward city planning allowing the opportunity to make right turns with no restrictions. pedestrian safety is a 2-way street it's pedestrians looking out for themselves as well. when i come to a stop sign just because you're a pedestrian doesn't mean you can walk wherever you feel like that. there's a chief who's doing some advocacy work like not tweeting and things like that. you can't walk just because you're in the box. there's 17 hundred pedestrians that were hit last year we schedule and advertise a meeting last month and invited mta. we have made public requests and local merchants have pa

you. i think several speakers have arrived from downstairs. >> calling names. >> okay. good afternoon sir. >> i don't want -- how much i make and how much did i pay so -- >> okay thank you sir next speaker? >> calling names. >> i just bought my medallion maybe 3 or 4 months ago i just waited 12 years to buy the medallion i'm happy i bought the medallion at that time but i see now you guys are seeing to add more cabs. you are not protecting us. many of my friends told you guys that those companies like uber and side car and mustache i don't know how much insurance they have but we pay 8 hundred dollars a month just for insurance i bought a car for 25 thousand dollars but you guys give us only 320 thousand miles and those miles are going to last 3 years only if 2 drivers are working so after 3 years i have to buy another car and spend 25 thousand dollars? i mean you have to think about it nobody mentioned that but this is very important. i just bought my medallion and in 3 years i have to spend again 25 thousand dollars to buy a car plus the business is going down and you

because you regulate the industry there's huge conflict >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm a taxi driver. first of all, the whole council you are the biggest corrupt institution this this country your your each and every hotel causes so much destruction to the industry and every $10 are given to the limousines piano but not the cabs. you're asking for $6, $7 rides shame. we won't see this in our country you destroy the taxi industry. we should call this will report something else. we want to put forth a madalinas because it was asked for 4 madalinas. secondarily he said 1 hundred and 20 madalinas and we never saw your report he said well, we were talking about back and forth. so just kept the money a client comes to us and we do what we say. so this report is baseless. another thing in this report is madalinas going for $6,000 there is zero madalinas for $6,000 in san francisco. now this cabs i'll give you another paper and it shows how much times they've been running empty they're running 45 percent empty afterward. this paper will tell you there is no need for any more

you want to have better names. you get defensive names like this, it tells you something. >> it really does. another great chart. let's hit that news. you folks saw it at the bottom of your screen. a judge reversing a $482 million claim against j & j. they will not have to pay that money. look at that. has to do with a stint patent owned by radiologists. given the overall markets, here is our thesis. the recovery is a dwraeter counter weight to the problems over there. wherever there may be. chief investment officer, mainstay capital ceo are both joining us. housing is more important than those problems. true or false? >> i think that's true. it's an extension of what's going on in manufacturing, too. we have a cheap housing market and a cheap currency. and the growth and values is certainly helping sentiment. >> that's going to be tough to tell. one of the concerns i have had is for the last three c consecutive years we have been growing at a lower rate. that is a concern. a lot of it is the head winds coming from

you. i oppose this. >> hello. my name is theresa. i'm a healer and dispensary is a place where a lot of healing goes on. you may not beware of that. medical cannabis has helped me with this. i have been diagnosed with mental illness just at 52. it's a great way for me to have resources. i also went to a healing school and did healing work. i don't really see any part of this ordinance or legislation really doing anything. this is a sanctuary city. it's just more prejudice against medical cannabis dispensary. if you look at the block, that neighborhood is a place i frequent and it improved and there is of things that it need help with. if we are creating a vision 50 years into future as avalos is saying, i think it needs to include healing places and i'm shocked that we are going to talk about gambling and have back doors for more alcohol. i'm sorry, i just started going back to church. it's like hello. it's like if people want to do that. there has to be a vehicle.. and later you will be apologizing to our community and i think you ar

have a name like smith big deal if you have a name like korngold, they could hassle you outside of the job. people's complaints are not always valid. i think our nation not be accessible to the general public like that. i have a concern about the -- accessibility. i don't think it's necessary. we should not have to pay for these advertising terminals in the backseat. they should not have sound coming out of the driver's nuts. >> i declare the public hearing open. members of the board what is your pleasure? >> i would move the amendment. before we discuss. >> chairman nolan: any discussion on that? all those in favor? >> i have questions for staff. one of the comments we heard was concerned about access, not everybody has smart phones yet you had a taxi system open to everybody who can use it. as i understand it the system that we are making

thank you for listening. >> good afternoon. my name is pablo, i'm a parent of a 4th grader [inaudible]. i'm writing this letter because i felt that my daughter's teacher received a very unfair evaluation. to give you an overview of what my daughter's teacher, miss valet hoe has done this year, in come /paeurplt to her performance last year is the following. in spring 2011 my daughter received that she scored a 418 advance in language arts and 407 proficient in mathematics. due to budget cuts from the state and district and reshuffling of teachers my daughter wound up with the same teacher the next day. in 2012 her with the same teacher two years in a row my daughter dropped 74 points in english language arts, went from advanced to basic. my daughter dropped 56 points in mathematics and went from high proficient to low proficient. my wife and i are very active in the school and we stay on top of everything and i've been there since my daughter's been in kindergarten for five years now. we feel that not only that we have kept in communic

you. next speaker? >> my name is derek (inaudible) and i work with people of all disabilities and aging and helping them live more independently in the community and participate actively. we support the amendment because it preserves the option of the families whose seniors and disabled and (inaudible) under section 1391 of the division code, we fully support this amendment and proposal because it was (inaudible) it would stop future conversions for more than a decade and slowing down evictions and maintaining san francisco's conversions over the long term. thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am (inaudible) and i have been a tenant of the (inaudible) for 23 years. i am opposed to this conversion plan. please vote no to this plan because there will be more homeless people, it is very hard to be evicted especially if you have been in a certain place for many, many years. i have experienced in the process of being eviction, in 1997 when our apartment was bought by a certain (inaudibl

, and i will have the speaker cards, if you have not filled them out please do so and once i read your name, if you don't mind lining up on the side, and then come up, to speak. and so adrian verily phillis, caba sulava. glave, mckellen. >> buckley, jessica mun, ed hofner and jaimmy blend and ruth an collie go ahead. >> good morning and thank you. i am a woman's health physician assistant and vice president of medical services for planned parenthood and i am also a proud san francisco resident and reside in vernal heights neighborhood in the honorable david campos is my supervisor. thank you. for over three decades i have been providing quality healthcare to women men and healthcare in the bay area and i am aware of the needs of the people. that planned parenthood serves it has been providing healthcare in san francisco in the bay area since 1929 and was the first city where the planned parenthood was established west of the mississippi, we currently operate 30 health centers and excuse me, health service, we provide healthcare services and education and more than 140,000 women, men and tee

thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good evening. my name is chris perkins and resident of the reason -- arena. i'm here to support the concert series. i honestly believe it's going to be a great summer of concerts that is going to draw residents to the piers. the exploratorium is going to be a great draw and a wonderful place to visit in the city. of course i think it's going to have a positive economic impact to the city. this america's cup is going to be big and it's going to enhance it. i was pleasantly surprise to hear how well organized it is to lessen the impact of the neighborhood and i think it's important to consider also. thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening commissioners, my name is caesar escobar. i want to touch on something i haven't heard which is job creation. this event is going to generate ridiculous amounts of revenue not just for education and public safety but to show case how great the city s i have lived in this city pretty much my whole life. i would like to say i'm very proud to be san franciscans. if you let th

thank you. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon berry. i first want to say that the t m y vehicles are going to be a dinosaur. so i think you'd better look at the fuel tanks because it's tough to fill up. i went to a night club which has a new sound system i was about ready to go home and some guy in a site approached me and said where are you going. i don't appreciate it getting solicited and there were a lot of black town street it was hard to get through that. as speaking many had a private citizen nike think it behoves you to get the inspectaculars out that. you're not enforcing this and the cabdrivers were having to line up behind them. i wanted to say that it doesn't look good that or i would ask you to support chris when she goes before those people. their bought and sold. you see they shut her off and i want you to pass a resolution to pass what she has to go through >> (calling names). >> good afternoon directors. march 19th meeting there were 3 hundred people here. told the people they couldn't take on electronic equipment. i wo

>> if you heard your name called, if you could line up along the windows but not blocking the view, that would be great. >> first i would like to express my sincere gratitude for the opportunity to speak here today, my name is ash len ruga and i am a senior here in the city. it is less than a year ago that i helped to launch the divestment fuel campaign and i made connections with students across the country. if not for this network of committed students and other allies i would not have sent that first e-mail. this is described as the cloud of apath. y, that hangs over the campus, although social injustice is a theme, the students have not been known to fight for it at least until now, the only explanation that i could fathom about this campaign is that i have finally given them hope and there is a solution to the crisis, it has worked before and so now they have a chance to play a role in shaping the future. i attributed the lack of climate activism that the students are unaware of our reliance or they were getting a degree in we messed up and it is up to your generation to fix it and

thank you. >> good evening. my name is heather. my family owns 16062 buena vista which is directly across from the proposed project. if you direct your attention to the actual criteria required to be met under planning code 305 c, the proposed project fails to meet this variance. first no exceptional extraordinary advances persists, we fail to see how the construction of 2 four 1/2 party decks one that the proponent's family wouldn't have access to. second, given that no extra ordinary circumstances exist. i'm afraid at a most san francisco residents are living with the same hardship. further the property already encroaches. the denial of a further reduction of the setback would hardly be construed as a hardship. if anything the property owner already enjoys eight feet more of the property under the planning code. thirdly, a variance is not necessary for the preservation or the enjoyment of the project proponents property. she purchased her property with full knowledge of the limited outdoor area. she's already planning to construct

is, can you name any society that you're aware of that doesn't suffer from deep levels of poverty that's not crime ridden? >> kathy, can you quickly explain what you mean by that question? >> well, can i name a society that is crime ridden that does not suffer from deep poverty? the point being that there is only crime where there's poverty, is that -- first of all, every society has poverty, and i would turn the question around, were the impoverished ancestors of every living american criminals? my grandparents had less money in absolute and relative terms than the average poor person today. .. >> guest: divorce after 17 years was a terribly painful thing. terribly. and you build hopes, you have dreams, and they -- you have a child, and it's all very painful. i am very open on my radio show, as i am here. people know about my life. but i don't think there is a close second to that. i had every dream a picket fence -- not necessarily dogs but my wife wanted dogs. eye currently married to the love of my life, and she loves dogs. i like dogs, for the record, d

thank you. >> i'm going to say some similar things to what you've already heard. my name is lisa, greetings to you all. i'm a parent of two children at lake shore elementary school -- two african american children. and one reason why we chose lake shore is because of the great ethnic and socioeconomic diversity at the school that we wanted our children to be exposed to. we've been at the school for four years and have really loved lake shore, but just the past few months have become quite stressful for us. so i came here today to voice my distress and anger at what i think is this district's serious mishandling of this attack on our principal by a small group of disgruntled aren'ts. they maligned miss keener to her supervisor in the district, as well as certain members of this board, all the while caming in a written document to represent the lake shore community, although they were a very small group and nobody else knew what they were doing. many of you have seen this five page document maligning the prince /palg. it is filled with trivial complaints and misstatements o

you for your consideration. >> leonard. if anybody else wants to speak who hasn't spoken, come on up. >> good evening commission. my name is learned moerld. i'm opposed to this amendment. one of the reasons if you put more restrictions onto these places, you cause a cluster and what happens when you cause a cluster is that there is no competition. when there is no competition, there is no reason for them to keep their product up to where they should be for like us medical patients. the second thing i would like to ask is we need dispensaries to keep them in the hands of our medical patients. don't put in restrictions where you have people that go in there and sell our medicine and they don't care who they sell it to. they don't care if the person has a license, they don't care if the person has a doctors excuse or note. they don't care and this is the one thing that i am concerned about is once you put more restrictions onto this. it just opens up more areas for people to do illegal things. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm paul hansen. i'm sure you have heard this before. you have heard about the green map and the rest

thank you >> (calling names). >> thank you taxi cab workers and also on behalf of the green cab i'd like to thank the staff for by diesel fuel. they're very, very low emissions vehicles. let me say on the issue of efficiency the unit taxi cab workers have been crying in the dessert for many years. that that might have helped bring many of the problems we're having. this is really in the making of the regulatory programs. my problem with the issue it's unfortunate it is rendered in large part what has taken place of the confusion of those illegal services that could put out potentially a number of illegal vehicles on the street and from all appearances we're expecting them to be legal listed. under the circumstances i don't know how you can have a number of the cabs. enforcement is not going to mean a thing if those vehicles are legal listed. we're pushing more and more vehicles on the streets so i would ask you to hold-off on making any decision like this. i certainly wouldn't make a decision until next year >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm in my 33 year. i've never been on the

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. >> general sing becky bond, and jordan, and sarah ladu. >> thank you, for having us. my name is renee char man and when i was in americor i used planned parenthood for exams and they are essential when you don't have healthcare but more importantly seven years ago i had an abortion and for those who think that someone like me has not thought about all of the options, that are available, we have. and having an abortion is not an easy decision, it is tough. and it makes it even more difficult when you have protestors yelling at you, and so i think that a buffer zone would make the experience a little bit safer and easier. this is healthcare, this is not a political debate, this is not your rhetoric, this is something that i chose for myself and that i need and i believe that i have the right to access safe, healthcare. in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> supervisor, campos, my name is elizabeth (inaudible) and i am here with the coalition for reproductive justice. i want to thank you so much for your leadership and point out in this week tha

you. next speaker. >> hello my name is ann and i am a residents of the mission >> if you could speak into mic. >> my mame is an and i am a res with my daughter and these protesters, are a nuance and a hazard, and they make just leaving the house to walk down that street so uncomfortable and there are questions that i have to hear, and they are very difficult to explain to a 4-year-old. and 25 years ago, i accessed planned parenthood because i was uninsured and they found a medical condition that if left unfound and untreated would have taken away my fertility or my life. and my daughter would not be here without planned parenthood. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hi, my name is katherine and i lived in th

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and they should protect them but my point is there's a way to expose a misconduct without you know exposing namesof covert operatives genie go ahead jump in i think that i think that if you go if you go back and you look at what bradley manning testified to as to what he did turn over to wiki leaks they all were justified by his concern that the american people needed to know what the what the. what was being done in iraq in their names and that. this is this is the kind of thing that in fact yesterday the court ruled that bradley manning the government has to prove that he intended to harm the united states by doing this not just that they were embarrassed and so this is this is actually a win for him and i don't think it's i don't think one can. and say we're in favor of whistleblowing as long as they do it the right way because i think sometimes and let's let's for example. you know richard armitage gave valerie plame name to. robert novak and he never he never he claimed it was inadvertent i mean we have a situation john kiriakou who was told that there was a beta was was water boarded one ti

to julian a son that breaks the law or even of the sons later redux them you can't give covert names when you have classified information you just can't do you need a lawyer do you think as i yes ok i need you here go ahead. i mean look the reality is that you know if we look at. in the u.k. . catherine gunn who was the one who exposed the cables that showed this attempt to really cook the books if you will to promote the iraq war she blew the whistle on. these. on these cables and then when she demanded all the information to show that in fact this was happening the government dropped the case against her in fact because she was showing that the war in fact was illegal and it seems to me that the. kinds of things that you you know the covert operations and other people they don't get a pass people don't get a pass for being involved in illegal activity they just don't get a pass and you know there's there was. no because well i mean you know i'm all right how do you support. not give somebody. go ahead there's a certain point where you have to be you know you have to make a moral ch

just enforcement >> thank you. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon san francisco cab drivers association. i feel we could use a few more cancer but not before cracking down on all the illegal cabs. you make us feel ridiculous when we have those mustache cabs and go ahead and operate with no reprimand or nothing same with the illegal town cars and there's not enough room to pull up and their soliciting other folks. weather app their coming up with so people can see all the taxis on one screen. you need to you hire more enforcement officers and they need to be out 24 hours. because when i'm out there there's nobody out there doing anything. i don't think the mta should be leaving ma intelligence or leaving them to companies. it's a major conflict of interest. so that's all i have to say for now thanks >> (calling name). >> good afternoon owner of a chairman i'm 25 years madalinas carr cab. six months i think we need madalinas now we are left r with sidecars. if we do adding madalinas gradual it will be too late for us to compete in the past when we didn't have so much that technology we we

you. next speaker. >> hello my name is ann and i am a residents of the mission >> if you could speak into mic. >> my mame is an and i am a res with my daughter and these protesters, are a nuance and a hazard, and they make just leaving the house to walk down that street so uncomfortable and there are questions that i have to hear, and they are very difficult to explain to a 4-year-old. and 25 years ago, i accessed planned parenthood because i was uninsured and they found a medical condition that if left unfound and untreated would have taken away my fertility or my life. and my daughter would not be here without planned parenthood. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hi, my name is katherine and i lived in the mission for decades worked at saint luke's hospital at 1580 valencia and so i have seen the demonstraters looking at this photo, the ada legislation should clear that sidewalk immediately any way. but i do want to say something as from the point of a provider and thank you, for speaking about this, i am a physician assistant and a graduate of stanford pa program and the res

thank you. >> the next speaker please. >> (calling names) >> good afternoon. it's been a long afternoon and you have a lot of things. unfortunately most of the things that you have heard of the mistakes of the mta. and you are now staring at yet another mistake. one of the things that you should learn from uber and everybody else is customers want to use their credit cards in order to ensure that they get a vehicle. in the past the taxi commission and you guys as well have prohibited us taking credit cards in order to ensure that we can guarantee a cab will be there and on the other hand, that the customer will be there because is the cab is there and the customer is not as happens all the time, i was really intrigued by mr. reisking's statement about being on the corner of vaness and what? one of the greatest problems in the industry is which corner are you talking about and how is a taxi going to be on the southwest corner when he doesn't know which corner the passenger is on? so it's a little more complicated than you think, but the main thing is you have to

thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> hello, my name is jed holsman and thank you for this opportunity to speak and for this hearing, i am a resident of san francisco and i wanted to echo everything that has been said before me. and i want to particularly mention what we learned in this hearing about perhaps half of the fossil fuel investment of the retirement board being in private equity which would not be touched and encourage the committee and the board to look into options for policies that could complete the process. i just wanted to point out that although we don't often think about it these days, economic activities require functioning systems and every economic transaction is traced to the foundation and begins with natural capitol. and the natural resources into products that we can use. i have wanted to point out that i want that it would be penny wise and pound foolish to worry too much about the risk of divestment in a hundreds of a basis point when the status quo of not divesting will leave the planet and the investments r