, i think the mta needs to step up to the plate and start endorsing the laws. the laws should be followed and until their changed and not the other way around. we've collected license plates of nearly a thousand cards that's more than the number of taxi vehicles and we're highly recollected. hockey the charge us with those fees when you're not out there ticketing those guys. it's not ride sharing and exempt from passenger transportation laws. and i think one of the problems here is the mta was focusing on far too much of how much money they could make on the medallio medallions. the mta couldn't sell them themselves so they held off issuing imply medallions until they could make money on it. and another seclusion we need to prior was when we had the advisory council. if you have to buy off the companies that have pay off their apps but we need our own apps and quit advertising for those illegal taxi companies >> we'll take about a 10 minute break. >> please read the next im. >> mr. chairman you're at the consent calendar those items are routine and they will be

we will also be issuing a single audit report for mta, a tda compliance letter for mta. various agreed upon procedure reports, various public compliance reports for mta, report on [inaudible].

>> mta. >> awesome. that's what i wanted to know. >> any other comments or questions from commissioners? if not, move into public comment for the director's report. any public comment? seeing none. we will move right on to the next agenda item, police department comment and questions. so officer mathius or someone. >> hello, commissioners and staff, steve mathius from the central station. over the last weeks probably had four incidents i will talk about tonight. we had on august 11, 2 a.m. a victim was at a nearby bar and walked to beach and columbus and pushed from behind and suffered a fractured right finger, and laceration to the right of the head. looking at report he was a bloody mess. we couldn't figure out, there were two bars in the area and couldn't figure out where it came from. sounds like in the wrong place at the wrong time. and then next incident a victim was outside of columbus and attacked and hit in the face and her cell phone taken. what time we bring up these different occurrences, it'

, i think the mta needs to step up to the plate and start endorsing the laws. the laws should be followed and until their changed and not the other way around. we've collected license plates of nearly a thousand cards that's more than the number of taxi vehicles and we're highly recollected. hockey the charge us with those fees when you're not out there ticketing those guys. it's not ride sharing and exempt from passenger transportation laws. and i think one of the problems here is the mta was focusing on far too much of how much money they could make on the medallio medallions. the mta couldn't sell them themselves so they held off issuing imply medallions until they could make money on it. and another seclusion we need to prior was when we had the advisory council. if you have to buy off the companies that have pay off their apps but we need our own apps and quit advertising for those illegal taxi companies >> we'll take about a 10 minute break. okay? we'll be back in about 10 minutes.

, i think the mta needs to step up to the plate and start endorsing the laws. the laws should be followed and until their changed and not the other way around. we've collected license plates of nearly a thousand cards that's more than the number of taxi vehicles and we're highly recollected. hockey the charge us with those fees when you're not out there ticketing those guys. it's not ride sharing and exempt from passenger transportation laws. and i think one of the problems here is the mta was focusing on far too much of how much money they could make on the medallio medallions. the mta couldn't sell them themselves so they held off issuing imply medallions until they could make money on it. and another seclusion we need to prior was when we had the advisory council. if you have to buy off the companies that have pay off their apps but we need our own apps and quit advertising for those illegal taxi companies >> we'll take about a 10 minute break. >> please read the next item. >> mr. chairman you're at the consent calendar those items are routine and they will

we will also be issuing a single audit report for mta, a tda compliance letter for mta. various agreed upon procedure reports, various public compliance reports for mta, report on [inaudible]. and also a single audit report for sfo. i did want to highlight on this slide that in the prior years single audit report, there was one finding in relation to noncompliance with the davis beacon requirement with respect to the timeliness of submission of weekly certified payroll reports. we do anticipate adding this to our current year schedule. we'll be looking to ensure that the recommendations have been implemented. okay. then if i may refer you to slide 18, slide 18 really highlights our audit timeline and key dates. we are currently in the planning and interim fieldwork phase which is expected to continue through august 2013. our final fieldwork is scheduled for september through january 2014. and our expected date of issuance of the financial statements is october 25th. that also includes any significant deficiency reports. and the issuance of the single audit report is expe

report the mta should look at the high ridership. and - >> is the mta looking at the redundancy of the light rail vehicle and the light transit on the same system is it possible. >> understand that the rail piece would be long-term, the bus transit would be short-term and the next in the next couple of years. >> that's what people want tongs we have some redundancy in the light rail system so we can make some improvements and not create a complete disaster if one goes down. >> we could see what the demand ridership is to further include the bus system we will look at that. >> appreciate that. colleagues any other proposed amendment is to item 20 is the advisory committee for geneva bus rapid transit. i want to make sure we have another neighborhood that is realignment in my neighborhood is i want to take one of the at large seats and moving that towards a neighborhood seat in my neighborhood as defined by 280 open the west and ocean avenue and ashton to the north and holloway and brotherhood way to the southern border. that would inc

we're working with your offices and trying to meet with mta and director risk and this is a conversation about how can we support the city, how to work together to make this faster and i think as soon as we nail that down we'll be happy to document that and hold us all accountable. >> thank you. i'm personally, on behalf of my constituents and very concerns add /th-bt what i think is most frustrating to many of us is there are often project schedules and they slip and it's difficult for for me to find what those original project schedulings were. there doesn't seem to be any accountability for holding project teams to those schedules. i'm not pointing i thinkers at the ta in particular. i think this is an issue throughout the city. but how can we do everything we can to minimize our budget and maximize when we'll be able to deliver when we tell them we'll be able to. i look forward to hopefully a briefing in the coming weeks and month, along with supervisor mar an others. >> thank you. commissioner wiener. >> thank you. i'm going to be slightly less diplomatic than commissioner chew. so

the port and mta has agreed to a memorandum of understanding and mta be incur the liability and damages to the program not covered by the license. schedules. the program is open this month. the website is up and the bike share program is expected to launch this august next month. this concludes my presentation. i have also invited mta staff here today to assist with any questions regarding the bike share program and the bike and pedestrian programs for the city. >> thank you. there public comment? hearing none commissions? >> i have one. the 12 to 24 months and who decides if there is a fee and if so what percentage goes to the port? >> as part of that we will get a monthly report on the 25th of every month that provides the gross revenue for the city of san francisco bike share program and the activity at the stations. we will work with mta to determine what is related -- not what is related but whether the program is actually generating a profit. generally bike share is subsidized in other places, but it could potentially be successful and generate a professional so the license will a

on behalf of all the board in the recognition to improve the quality of life for the employees of mta and all the citizens of san francisco. so congratulations to you (clappin (clapping) >> thank you, chairman nolan. i want to say to the chairman and to the board of directors and to commissioner reiskin i accept this award ann as a absolute to all of you. i know it's hard to render the citizens of san francisco so i accept this on behalf of and absolute you the staff of mta and all the employees of mta who worked very hard everyday to over their services to the city of san francisco. it's hard to do that but you made that look seamless. you voter your time and effort and i salute you for that. one of my regarding experiences it was enlarging do work with you everyday and keeping us all on task. he brings so much to the board of directors. i want to thank you and slight you. i feel like i miss my home already. i'll continue to advocate for the city's transit. thank you. again i appreciate and love i (clapping) >> thank you. we have unfinished business. okay >> i'm moving the director's

we will also be issuing a single audit report for mta, a tda compliance letter for mta. various agreed upon procedure reports, various

so i want to applaud the mta staff for what they did. also i urge that any directors that are interested to voice their concerns to the commissioners prsz also i may want to give the commissioner a fast pass for life given the number of trips he's been given overseas for other organizations that may have helped their case. i'm being - joking (calling names) >> good afternoon mr. kim. >> good afternoon folks. first, i want to thank very much the commissioners and the way they've dealt with the cpc on the issue it's been no less than spectacular and your staff has worked on this threat to the taxi industry. i want to be clear and factual on what's happening in san francisco whether you call them ride sharing the fact of the matter is you have thousands of non-commercial personal vehicles doing commercial business. now the reason the industry is so upset it's a dual standard. you have a highly regulated taxi business that has to pay an enormous amount for commercial insurance company and hiring drivers and it's expensive to run a taxi. and

well, for the benefit of my fellow commissioners who have not had the opportunity to meet with the mta as commissioner fung and i have, i think one of the concerns that i had in looking at the mou was provision under the section paragraph d, standard of review because it would change the way in which -- as noted by our direct torx it would change the way the standard that we used to have which is the de novo review, and i think i'm not sure why i know you made some comments, ms. hayashi as to what the word mta would have done before a matter come tog this board would be given much deference, but it seems to be a sticking point from my per spektdive in terms of how to get to a place of agreement on this mou, so for me, the change in the standard of review is a little bit of a problem. >> and if i may address that point, it's not -- i don't thing i would characterize this as our requesting deference to the work of the staff so much as not having a standard of review in place that allows a completely new hearing of a very important case in the course of 7 minutes as it comes before you wi

the mta advisory committee. a lot of folks working together, our fleet engineers, mechanics, supervisors, operators, most of whom are under the leadership of john who has been the driving force of getting these here. the one person who was so excited about this is our mayor. he kept saying when are we going to get to ride those buses? i'm happy to say this day is here. i would like to introduce you're san francisco mayor,ed lee. [ applause ] >> thank you. some of them have arrived and all of them will arrive by july. i want to thank the commission and ed riis skin and the staff for investing properly. this is what we talked about for a number of years. when you realize that many of the buses that we have are over 13 years old in the city and you realize on how not only how run down they are but we keep replacing the parts over again. we have learned the lessons of fuel economy, of ergonomics and designs and free coating on there and material that won't absorb the moisture that sometimes is spilled on there. thes

and it's close to the end of what i'm going to say i hope the mta carries on after this document has been approved. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm daniel. i'm speaking for myself today normally we serve to unit neighborhoods but i'm findings that some of the mta proposals are pitting us against each other. that's having an environmental effe effect. i live on barker street and my neighborhood has hospitals and churches and schools and hills so steep that cars are not allowed and sidewalks are stairways. the proposal would just take the 3 jackson and make it evaporate leaving cars to pick up the slack. my great grandparents took the jackson streetcar and a hundred years later we have those growing lines of cars iding in front of the schools and that's because the pacific line as eliminated decades ago and the jackson is so inreliable commissioners i admit i drove her today. i feel very strongly that our environment needs more service not less. thank you very much >> thank you. >> good afternoon i live on california street and i will try to tie some of this why the

thank you >> i'm herbert i'm a native san franciscan and also an i am paled stakeholder of mta. sadly this hearing addresses the transit effectiveness project and doesn't include human impact. no physician or professional has rectified this impact upon pedestrians. it is basically flawed because it does talk about bus transportation while the transportation agency claims it's adding new vehicles it's retiring vehicles at the same time and pollution exists while the ridership grows without services increasing. if the mta can spend more money on others facilities why can't it allocate funds for a net increase for transportation vehicles why must it make the residents surf from discontinued bus runs. it will be less services to the neighborhood. the heart and soul of san franciscans. the elderly and frail will have to walk longer distances to the bus stops. notablely in the chronically terminally ill. while this plan is sound it's humanly a hardship for many. electric muni buses. please send this project and those formulated back to the board to come up with a better transportation

there is flexibility for mta. no costs on signs and no enforcement on the fixed locations. we are priced like the other organizations and willing to pay fees to the city to use the city's right-of-way and provide the data mta wants and ready to go within six months. you won't have 900 fights over 900 spaces. you have one option to make care sharing available to all san franciscos. if you have questions i am happy to answer them. >> thank you. >> rick hutchinson and he's the last person that turned in a speaker card. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. rick hutchinson and the ceo at car share. i to thank the board and the staff for this opportunity and many did tremendous work over the last couple of years actually. overall we think this is a good and thoughtful policy and i would like to talk about what we think is fantastic in it but i only have three minutes so i will talk about some concerns. let me give you some background. we did the initial pilot and established it and funded it. we provided learning and information over time. we tried to meet to the initial pilot s

the eir provides an evaluation of the mtas policy framework to support the strategy planned goals. it includes service proposals including reroutes and routes elimination. and capita that is needed. and transit traffic time proposals or t prps. the sfmta has applied the t p.s. to design the t ps. for example, in pedestrian and traffic circles in lanes. one example of which is the pilot on church street. the corridors identified for t prp treatments are those that carry the majority of ridership in the city. the eir may include the program analysis such as a the service policy framework. it's appropriate for the proposals for which designed details has not been developed as shown on the map. the corridors in black are the ones for which the mta has designed specific designs and the gray ones are needing more processes pr the their involvin others processes. so the culminate effects are known those program level components have gone through research. to the extent that specific information is known to a specific environmental topic for both components it's been addressed in the initi

and you decided that you did not have that jurisdiction, however, since this is an mou and since the mta claims to be seeding jurisdiction to you that you no longer have, it could just as easily seed that piece of jurisdiction as well if that were the case, however, i should say that this issue is still in litigation and it's not at all clear. the position of this board is that it continues to have jurisdiction over personal appeals and permit matters under police code section 2.13, that was the gist of what happened in the appeal last year where you decided that you would not take these other kinds of appeals but you would continue to hear those appeals. and if you still have that jurisdiction under the police code, then you have to accord the same rights to those appellants as to other appellants, if you don't have that jurisdiction, of course o*efrg changes but you can't have a position of convenience where you decide for one purpose, you have the jurisdiction and for another purpose, you don't have that jurisdiction. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> hi, good evening,

it would be good to have links on the mta website on the front page. i think it's important that everybody have access to it and maybe send out email blasts or a press release about this draft eir because it's not well publicized as far as i can tell. >> thank you. anyone else wish to address the board on this topic? >> [inaudible] >> let's check with board members first here. members of the board. director rubke anything -- >> sure. >> anyone want to go? >> i will go. thank you chairman nolan. thank you staff for bringing this us to review and like chairman nolan i'm a huge fan of brt. didn't have to go to mexico to fall in love with it. i read systems in the usa and they're compatible and the systems are narrower and similar to what we have to work with here in san francisco. you know regarding some of the concerns that have been raised the construction and all of that is -- it's not going to be a lot more than street surfacing so the worries about that are something that we can deal with. i really value this project because of the fact that very rar

with it the folks don't seem to be involved in it in terms of what the role of the mta is. we asked them they say that's the number one goal here but we have some ideas here. sfmta recommends that the sfmta more expensively integrated the speed goals of t e p and the better market street project include specific metrics for transit time improvements. c ac further recommendation if the sftv better market project carefully establish the capacity of running the total metric system capacity or in response to emergencies. the c ac recommendations that the possibilities are studied for the additional bike parking as part of the better market project. thank you >> thanks. appreciate our work. members of the board questions or comments. members of the public >> this is an opportunity for the members of the public to address the issues not on the calendar (calling names). >> okay. i'm here again. i'm going to carry on where i left off. this taxi industry in this city is very, very important part of transportation in san francisco. it seems you treat us like second class citizens. i'

i think the on come of the waterfront transportation assessment now that is mta is leading is a very integral development in terms of tying together the land use transportation planning that we can as best as possible match the capital for the developments as they come on line. we're very pleased to have a collaborative relationship to build on. we're working with your staff in terms of looking at the new projects where i take large pieces of land and what are the new zoning and special use construction that should apply to those areas and and can it meet the economic and a financial needs of rebuilding infrastructure and integrating open spaces at very important strategic parts of the waterfront. i appreciate our tension on that as john indicated i expect to be back into this commission fairly regularly to try to get up e keep you updated. thank you very much >> thanks diane. so i'm going to go quickly through the presentation which i think you have in your packets and i - if i can have the computer. i always find it useful at the risk of being redundant to replacement us that the o

and i will ask director reiskin from the mta. >> good afternoon chairperson and members of the com. i think mr. chair the way you framed this discussion at the out set of the hearing and then the remarks from john and ken really helped frame the issue and i do want to reemphasize a point they think both of them made i think as you're seeing on the regional level but particularly in the local level there is much better coordination i think in terms of land use and transportation planning in terms of doing them together; in terms of integrate transportation needs into the land use process and vice versa so i think that's where we need to be and should have been and i think the overall story so far is we haven't invested in the transportation system that we have today for the last generation or so, and again that's a similar story with a lot of the city's infrastructure and we have all this growth that is projected to come which i think as director ram said the growth is coming regardless whether we want it to or not. it's a matter how do we manage it so it

we have a 4.5 percent lead way the blue tier is the mta had done some sales tax rates it was pretty low but difference we thought it would be prudent and it landed in the middle so we're reviking it down. you can see in the let's go box what this does is we're down about $150 million in sales tax revenue over the thirty years roughly arthritis about two years total revenues projected. don't get alarmed at the detail on here. we have a complicated model you push one thing here but i told you that revenues are down a little bit but because projects have come in at a slower rate because finance costs have been repressed that means that revenues are down we have additional fund for some things but the prop k funds liv let me explain that the line items programs or projects have to carry their own finance costs. we had about 5 projects when prop k was put together all this projects were going to move forward and that would have been in the 5 year timeframe but if that had of happened we wouldn't have the funds. so if you advance those funds we take that out of the line female so we're basica

so as i said both the board and the board of supervisors and the mta approved that on wednesday. and secondly sarah jones has accepted the position of which she's about brown been in the position and so she the accept the offer and will be the city's latest environmental officer >> commissioner. >> could you on item one give us a couple of sentences on what the money is for . >> there's a whole list of projects. the short-term projects is the safety red light camera and pedestrian spot improvements at 20 intersection? >> - bicycle safety improvements and bicycle crossing. and we're going to look at the pedestrian and bicyclists at one intersection. improvements at okay. and improvements to transit for the 5 fulton street improvements to help reduce traffic time. there's a longer list we can sends to you as well >> thank you. >> not as part of your report but today's request the article today for the cost overruns for the transit bay terminal where are we at were there maybe changes in the exterior skin of the facility itself. i'm not sure it will come back to us but it might be a

peter albert from mta. i came to you a couple of times in the last six months what doing on this transportation assessment and what we would like to do is highlight a major milestone we're reaching. i would like to call this the beginning of the conversation we want to have this summer. it's very much related to what director ramos of the planning department. as you know the waterfront assessment is looking at the transportation along the waterfront and before i talked to you about the boundary of what we're trying to do and i got a change i want to highlight which is this change here. we're not just talking about a limited part of the waterfront. we're looking at the waterfront down to the hunter's point shipyard. it's because of the community feedback we've had and what it means to do waterfront planning -- oops get back -- on waterfront planning that we decided to include fisherman's wharf, we include what is happening beyond the boundaries of the focus area and to the north and that's how transportation