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Would the secretary please good morning, commissioners. [roll call] all right. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Please note that, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public at the Commission Room at city hall is now closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were physically present. We ask for your palm beachsinger and we may experience some issues. Public comment will be available...

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 ...

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 ...

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 p...

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 bu...

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 to...

Compliance and didnt have to pay. Right now i have a 66,000 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 merit. That was in the last letter that we received in november the 14th. I came to find out where can i get paid and how quickly can i get paid . Right now my doors are closing, my telephones are off and im still looking at 66,000. The port has a...

The emissions of the busses when they are idling is a concern and finally just the sheer number of buses is a frequent complaint. People can tolerate a certain number of busses but beyond that its a problem. On the other hand, tourism is San Franciscos no. 1 industry. The busses are an efficient way to move people around. The busses are very popular with people, its a good way to see a lot of destinations in a short period of time. So in october of 2011 we did a study of volume of busses, we wan...