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Of it would have been possible without the foresight and leadership of this board and of the city of San Francisco. So on behalf of our peers Members Around the world we extend our gratitude and thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Patton murphy, george papadous. Good afternoon, my name is Patton Murphy and representing get around. I wanted to thank chairman rolan and director reiskin and directors of the board. I wont reeight the benefits that christine and hailey have mentioned. As was men...

Want to do whatever we can to ensure your success. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [ reading speakers names ] good afternoon. Im a Campaign Director with peers the organization that hailey is a member of. We launched in july of last year and since then, almost 300,000 people around the world have taken action to support the sharing economy through initiatives like the sfmta car sharing parking program. Hayeys online petition is just one of the initiatives we have worked on in past ye...

On behalf of our peers Members Around the world we extend our gratitude and thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Patton murphy, george papadous. Good afternoon, my name is Patton Murphy and representing get around. I wanted to thank chairman rolan and director reiskin and directors of the board. I wont reeight the benefits that christine and hailey have mentioned. As was mentioned get around and instant car sharing allows people to instantly find rent and unlock a vehicle, so they dont have ...

Spend local money at businesss and make their own lives richer. As you know, car sharing vehicles remove 913 other cars from the road. City services allow us to use resources more especially. This project has the potential to remove up to 10,000 cars and 100 Million Pounds of co2. That is a big deal and im proud to be hart of it. I want to say thank you for your commitment to making this program a reality. I know you have many more hearings to approve of with the Parking Spaces in this first pil...

Mentioned. As was mentioned get around and instant car sharing allows people to instantly find rent and unlock a vehicle, so they dont have to own their own vehicle. So the benefits of car sharing are widely reported burb its basically there is an environmental benefit, a transit benefit and entrepreneurial benefit in the case of get around. For the environmental benefit, susan from uc berkeleys data suggests that car sharing vehicles eliminate 913 cars from the road. Over the course of the prog...

Here in part is to get the transportation, into that fold as well. So, specifically, what the task force is recommending is actually, three ballot measures, two funding sources, that would together generate 1. 5 billion dollars, over the next 15 years, for better roads and improved transit and safer streets and i will walk through, what some of those are and so the way that the state law that was approved, that authorizes the San Francisco board of supervisors, to bring to the voters considerati...

To the voters consideration for an increase in the vehicle license fee, that state law required that that measure be brought to the voters as a general tax and so if the voters were to approve that vehicle license increase it would be a general tax that is 75 or 80 Million Dollars a year and so in order to direct the amount of revenues towards transportation, to address or chip away at that 10 billion, we will need another measure on the ballot, expressing the voters intents and that those addit...

Okay. Requirement. And then, the whatever the companion measure would be, and say a nonbinding policy statement, or even a charter amendment, would be a 50 percent as well. So there will be three measures that will be recommendd for this November Ballot to implement the first half and the 1. 5 billion of what the task force recommended and the big picture of trying to put these into the big buckets and there are 625 million that will be going to the roads and 635 millen to the transit and 300 mi...

Know this prop g was all you guys want to do is fulfill your corporations downtown, the corporations dont vote. People back here do. So in closing, we have to change the formula of how this board is being governed or appointed. So we do have a Ballot Initiative to put on the ballot, to change the formula, so the community can have a voice. Anybody else who wishes to address the board. Good afternoon. Thank you, i didnt expect to comment on this hearing the testimony, i am a 37year driver at deso...

Negotiations table has a totally different attitude. So what you are saying here is totally insulting. It is totally insulting. And its hard for me to believe that none of you on the board knew about what was going on. This is a calculatedattack on the Biggest Minority Group of employees in the city, period. If you guys really want to help us out, really appreciate the work that the men and women are doing day in and day out for this agency, you would give us a fair contract. Thank you, mr. Will...