Applause. Congratulations. Very well deserved. [applause] the mta board i thank you. It is a great blessing and honor to work and serve my fellow colleges at mta tax and accessible service. They make my job a piece of cake. [inaudible] is to create a work place that delivers Outstanding Service in the taxi staff promises to do everything we can to help ourselves and each other honor our agreement coninstructively and compassionately. On behalf of our team, [inaudible] genie, alvin, eric, samantha, peter, michael scott, andres [inaudible] i accept the certificate of appreciation and strive to continue to do my best when called upon. I shall shover you with a smile. Together everyone achieves more. Thank you. On behalf of board of directors thank you and congrat ulations for your Outstanding Service number of short items to give you updates on. First, want to let you know last month we launched a program to honor our employees for years of service they provide to the city and mta. Initia
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Information the anti trafficking poster that is regulated under state law and will be clearly be required to be posted in those establishment as supervisor tang mentioned prioritizing those average workers is the initiative best practices and again, i want to thank supervisor tang that working hard with the sex workers and amended the legislation to create more safety so people wouldnt have to complai delay their permits pub thank you for that. Thank you very much. Through the chair before i call up the various departments i want to say we didnt do this alone many, many departments and i want to thank the department on the status of women and, of course dpw theyre trying to do everything they can especially the jurisdiction over massage established i want to thank our Planning Department, smacking and San Francisco Police Department that is working in concert with us i neglected to mention this legislation actually went before the various commission including u excluding the heartache
Protects our cities vulnerable populations so for any presentation im going to give a quick overview of the state legislation and the proposed new legislation that supervisor tang reviewed and focus on presenting our current massage regulatory landscape and some of the problems in the assignment and lastly talk about our prospective changes at the hunt to provide the information to our regulatory and massage businesses so as supervisor tang mentioned prior to the preexterminate of state legislation the massage establishment were regulated and all had permit and paid fees and recovery fees 2008 at the 7 30 one created a new entities the c mc a private nonprofit Public Corporation their intent was to have a voluntarily state and it created a loophole in the law and was it did if a massage business applied hundred percent of certified parking garages they were exempt from the permits and regulatory controls so similar the Mayors Office the indoors the Health Department and supervisor tang
Mentioned prior to the preexterminate of state legislation the massage establishment were regulated and all had permit and paid fees and recovery fees 2008 at the 7 30 one created a new entities the c mc a private nonprofit Public Corporation their intent was to have a voluntarily state and it created a loophole in the law and was it did if a massage business applied hundred percent of certified parking garages they were exempt from the permits and regulatory controls so similar the Mayors Office the indoors the Health Department and supervisor tang worked with the legislation to regulate this stale and it was ab 1147 what it did was it ruptured land use control back to local governments and give the local governments the ability to now regulate and permit massage establishment so the legislation that im going to talk about this isnt new legislations it is legislation we had prior to 2009 additionally, we are going to allow outline businesses to continue to operate as they apply with t