Director ripke has a comment. I think there is a potential conflict for me on this item because my firm represented a client that may be affected by this, so im looking for your consideration to sit this one out. Board policy, we would have to vote on that so i would vote we excuse director ripke from participating and acting on this item. Is there a second . Second. All in favor say aye. Thank you. Okay, director ripkin. Jerry robins from our Sustainable Department has been working on this for quite some time has a brief presentation we want to lay out before you which is how do we address the challenges we are facing, people in the Alamos Square are facing. Good afternoon, jerry robins, i have a brief presentation on the background on Alamos Square. Get the presentation going. Its a very popular destination for visitors to San Francisco. In the last several years we have seen a big increase in the hop on hop off tour bus industry, these are busses that sell individual fares and allow
The residents in the building nearby have complained about noise and vibration from the busses and they would like to see the zone removed. Parking loss is also an issue. So some of these enclosed busses are still operating around alamo square. The picture on the left is pierce street along ida b school. The busses there seem to think its okay to stop and block traffic. The busses here have stopped and you can see people crossing the street. Theres really no place for the busses to park legally at alamo square right now and some of the hop on hop off busses have returned since we did our Data Collection in june so some of those double decker busses are back. So we have two proposals for your consideration today. Option 1 is the request from the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association that all streets within that shaded area be restricted to commercial vehicles with 9 or more seats with the exception of employer busses, the Neighborhood Association does not want to prohibit the google typ
Challenges we are facing, people in the Alamos Square are facing. Good afternoon, jerry robins, i have a brief presentation on the background on Alamos Square. Get the presentation going. Its a very popular destination for visitors to San Francisco. In the last several years we have seen a big increase in the hop on hop off tour bus industry, these are busses that sell individual fares and allow people to get on and off the bus at particular destinations and get on a later bus. Its become very popular. Four or five Different Companies that operate this type of service in San Francisco. In september of 2011 the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association requested a prohibition of all commercial vehicles with 9 or more seats in the alamo square area similar to restrictions in other parts of San Francisco. Some of the issues raised is the busses often stop at the viewpoint at hayes street just east of pierce street so people can see the view and take pictures of the painted ladies victorian ho
Mitchells problem at some point. Mr. Chairman, moving on to your consent calendar, these items are kered to be routine unless a member of the public or member of the board wishes to have an item severed or considered separately. I will not read them all but no member of the public or member of the board has asked an item be severed. Item 11, the regular calendar amending the transportation code to either restrict commercial Passenger Vehicles with more than 9 seats, accepting employer shuttle busses on street segments on the Alamos Square neighborhood and making traffic and parking modifications east of pierce and repeal an expired exception to the street restrictions for people activity busses operating on segments of lyon and chestnut streets. This is option 1. Commercial 2 is excepting certain activities but permitting enclosed Passenger Vehicles to operate on hayes street and then making the required, the necessary traffic, parking and traffic modifications including establishing a
Mr. Mitchell here . Are you mr. Mitchell . Mr. Mitchell . Please come forward. Good afternoon, mr. Mitchell. Good afternoon, my name is jim mitchell, my company is j Mitchell Group in San Francisco. Ive been an lbe for 21 years in this city and i came today to get paid. I was a subcontractor for 13 years on your Workers Compensation program. I have an outstanding invoice of 66,000 that you guys have done an investigation on and found out that the crime was in noncompliance of 14b. That amount totals 18 million in contracts over 13 years, of which i was the subcontractor. The 5 percent goal was not met. Yet and still in your investigation you saw fit to find out that the 800 million a year contractor who had the contract was in fact in compliance and didnt have to pay. Right now i have a 66,00 invoice thats been outstanding with mta for the last 7 months and there have been several, theres been an investigation and on behalf of your Compliance Officer that found out that my case has mer