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 plea

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 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

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 com

i always want to start out now, when i'm with our sfmta director -- two ed's are better than one. so we are coordinating more these days. that has been at the heart of this effort. i want to thank all the efforts that are going on between the school district and sand francisco government and our parents and our police department and our volunteer organizations like walk sf. all of the collaboration going on with supervisors like supervisor mar and others who are behind me -- we are working together to make sure that this whole topic about pedestrian safety gets the visibility that it needs because it still is a huge challenge for our very congested city, our city that does invite millions of people to our city every year, but then, we are also a city of neighborhoods. neighborhood schools like peabody here, where we have to do even extra things to make sure that our kids are getting to school safely. just this morning, what i wanted to do to come out here immediately was to join bryan, who was out here this morning. he is a buy and hear from our fire department, happens to be a pa

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

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

>> 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

they are trying to create a more walkable area and sfmta is creating a home zone. i wonder a little bit what that means in relationship to parking requirements and that sort of thing. i am wondering if that is something that has been included in this vision at all. the home zone, do they have any construction and is the parking -- i know there is existing zoning, but what i they looking at? >> we have a representative from the mta here to talk to you about it if you like to hear it. president olague: yes. i would like to hear it in terms of traffic coming --affic --- traffic-calming. i support what the parents are supporting. >> i am an assistant engineer with the mta. you cannot really see, but i am managing the implementation of the home zone in. we are looking at implementing some measures to halt traffic -- to calm traffic between 14th and 15th and south van ness. these bulb outs have already been constructed. we are continuing construction to reduce cut through traffic from the freeway and calm traffic that needs to use the street so everyone is going a safe s

implement this sfmta traffic-calming project, which is to reduce auto traffic and make it safer to walk for pedestrians. the school has also implemented the safe routes to school plan and has been working with all of san francisco government departments. with all that said, marshall elementary school's main request is that the garage be relocated to south van ness avenue as not to add more traffic to the school. and keeping the garage off of 15th street -- keeping it on 15th street, i'm sorry, would be counteractive to the home zone project and the safe routes to school plans. finally, in our last meeting just yesterday, we found out that the developer is in agreement with us to a have the garage relocated to south van ness. so as a voice of marshall elementary school and as a resident of the neighborhood myself, we ask that you consider this request to improve the safety for our children and for our neighborhood, because the whole plan is to make this neighborhood more walker friendly, so any traffic that you add on to the neighborhood is going to just make it worse and not better. and

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

have arrived a little late, but i heard good news that the agenda item number 12 passed, and hopefully sfmta -- president chiu: sir, i am sorry, but according to our board rules, you cannot speak on an item that has been heard. >> thank you for your vote. let me turn to a couple of other things. when i was a kid, i learned about civic pride, and i thought these two items i am going to mention to you, this very board of supervisors before. it has to do with civic pride. one relates to this very building that you are sitting in right now. if i have got my information correct, part of the city bureaucracy, and then in the real-estate office, did you know that there is no plaque or memorial in this building whatsoever to the very laborers who built this building? none. 0. perhaps you can pass a correcting resolution and spend a few bucks to honor the very laborers who built this building. also, the u.n. flag is not flown over the veterans building. perhaps he might consider that in occupy reality, occupy civic pride. president chiu: next speaker. >> do not let the facts for you. that is an expre

. >> we asked hg&e, sfpuc and sfmta to look at the report. they all said they immediately sent crews to fixed the stray voltage that we found. and all three agencies say they will now check for stray voltage when they lodo maintenance on their equipment. >> we didn't used to look at stray voltage. we are now. >> pg&e said it will actively search for stray voltage by the end of the year. because there's little you can do to protect yourself from these hot spots, the promised inspections are likely your last line of defense from a serious public hazard. >>> all right, we have a remarkable story out of eastern australia tonight where a small plane crashed into a ferris wheel with children on the ride but no one was seriously injuried. this ultra light plane was taking off at a coastal village north of sidney. the pilot says he didn't see the ferris wheel and crashed right into it. there's two little kids there. there's the plane. the 52-year-old pilot and his passenger were trapped inside the plane for almost three hours. that 9-year-old boy and

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

was able to start my business, which no employees 40 families in san francisco and currently has two sfmta garages, which generate over $2 million in gross revenue. in the funds get deposited into bank of america. even then, big of america will not give me access to credit to expand my business, which you know what, we're used to, so no worries on that, but i am still working with them to modify my house loan. as i sit in loan modification purgatory, i see with this upcoming -- i think with this upcoming rfp, which in mandate the banks to set clear matrix's on how they're helping non- traditional people access loans, for closures, you know -- our they help us? let's hold them accountable. we can send matrix's fedor quantifiable of the want to be responsive to this at the very least. thank you. supervisor avalos: how long have you been in loan modification limbo? >> it is guinta b five years now. supervisor avalos:oh! >> 5? >> it is update -- ok. where we come from, we help each other. they cannot kick us out of san francisco. supervisor avalos: we will not allow them. thank you. next speak