Talk about community planning, an area where weve heard legitimate feedback is when we are going to implement the kind of projects that were authorized and demanded by the voters in prop a and Community Forward and giving each Supervisors Office and staff member access, to individual staff engineers and plannerrers who will be in a position to get to know the stakeholders and get to know the local issues so youre not asking a different. Thank you mr. Mcguire. E ka p gp p e ka pr b onl th c nly vo es th mun in 2001 t pl for in 2001 t pl for t Star Commission and department with sfmta to manage muni. Mta is too big and too selfempowered to implement their plan. Staff says they want to get their input, when they receive it, they ask the m. T. A. Board to approve their game plan. We learn that our ideas are margin liesed or i go marginalized. There is no way for us to appeal their bad decisions. M. T. A. Has a one size fits all of improvements they force on us. Were not viewed as a residential community, were a family, kids, and singles who all need to use muni to shop, to get to school and use the parks and go to church. We deserve better treatment from our public servants. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Im carl with the taxicab industry. I came to support m. T. A. Or your ballot measure and open is it does go forward in november. I see the new ordinance is a stop gap. I know that the taxi industry is not included in having the checks and balance mechanism. I hope youll look into tweaking it to include us. I do want to talk about Traffic Congestion in the city. For four years, we heard that California PublicUtility Commission has the jurisdiction over tncs, nordz in other words, lyfh and youtubeer. You have jurisdiction here in the city and duty and responsibility to enforce violations ever state vehicle code against people who arew3c operating illegally. To that end, it doesnt take Sherlock Holmes to see that all the vehicles with tnc has private place that violates the code. And 90 of the people do not have commercial insurance. Whether the Tax Collector or the Police Department would start to enforce it, i think the city needs to make every tnc driver prove they have commercial insurance, otherwise, the city officials are aiding and a and abetting a price scheme. It murtz people getting taxis who are handicapped. Peoples insurance rates are going up. General hospital is paying for accidents where tnc drivers are getting hurt. I hope you look into this. I think you can reduce the Traffic Congestion by doing so. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. I also represent medallion holders. This proposed amendment is to take back the city streets. And the major problem that we have after m. T. A. Or the city or everybody else has spent millions and millions of dollars in bicycle lanes, bus lanes, this and thatllk in mind we need a vibrant taxi industry in this town because you, yourself, have forecast the population of the aging is going to increasenrc enormously ince city. [vcgixn theyre going to need taxis. Theyre going to need assistance in getting in and out of vehicles which youtubeer is pro uber is prohibited. There is no physical contact allowed between the jers and drivers coqc passengers and drs ers. c a congestion naks this city for all vehicles tax in this city for all vehicles of hire. This congestion tax needs to be a substantial tax in order to bring the level of pricing of tmcs and p. U. C. S to an economical level. The demand will drop and amount of vehicles will drop, but you have to be tough about this. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Hello. Im jody maderas, im the executive director of walk us up walk us up strongly opposes the ballot amendment to break up the m. T. A. Into separate agencies. Besides increasing bureaucracy, unnecessary process and contradicting the policies, it will put more lives at risk. Walk San Francisco is one of dozens of organizations and agencies working on zero traffic fatalities by 2024. In 2017 we started to see progress on our investments. In order for us to move forward, we need more coordination within the sfmta, not a breakup of components of the transportation system. The most recent is the taravel project. This is an identifiable Safety Improvement project involving necessary coordination between muni forward, livable streets and parking. In order to redesign the street and adding boarding islands so they dont get off into the lane of traffic, parking had to be relocated. A group of well organized residents and businesses were strongly opposed to the relow case of parking and they had to reweigh it and making lives more important than parking. If a decision had been made separately from the needed Safety Improvements which is what in Charter Amendment would be about, the boarding ieldz would not be possible on taravel. We need the agency to have jurisdiction over all aspects of Transportation Planning on our streets. Without that, well see a slowdown in projects and the vision goals were working on will be lost. Next speaker. Im joe crawford. Good afternoon. Im here today representing the San Francisco transportation alliance, which is a group that is now forming. Were doing the drafting of the statement that will be out shortly. I want to say its nice to be able to come here and support something, sometimes were out there opposing, but the way that your chairman has described it, we believe fully in holding on to the existing board because of a simple probable that occurs when you scatter these functions around different departments. I was here in those days, and it was a constant battle between public works and muni. Putting it under one house makes sense. I think absolutely the muni should be elevated in stature and be more visible, closer to the board and close tort political structure. That might produce real advantages. And last but not least, you said youre going to look at what goes on in the next few months and take nur further action if necessary. That could have great effects. Well issue a statement that deals with many of these items. , not bus stop by bus stop but functionality of the department. One thing were a little bit disappointed in, we strongly agree there should be a different way of selecting the board. Having it all from the mayor, even if its sub zero confirmation is not enough of a diversity of how you protect it. One of the things were going to recommend is there be an independent, outside management audit of that huge 6000person organization at least once every two years and that the results be published and they be paid attention to. This group is totally independent. We need it. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, im doug buckwalled. I right muni multiple times every day. Sfmta has too much concentrated power. It is not accountable to anyone except the powerful groups who cooperate to elect our mayors involving corporations, Real Estate Developers and not the general public. Because they dont have that accountability, they decide who they want to listen to and who they dont have to listen to. And they do not listen to the public. Believe me, ive been to so many meetings of m. T. A. , they want to manipulate the public at the meetings and thats what they do. They dont want to take the needs of the public into account. There are philosophies that underlie policies, always there are. Traditionally, transit policies were, we want to make transit convenient for everyone to use. That means, if you have i see a few people are leaving bye that means if you use a transit stop not as popular as another, you still get the same convenience as those that use a popular stop. Now the philosophy is changing. The priority is not individual human needs, but end to end transit time. This serves the needs of developers who want to putc new multifamily properties way out at the . Mbcw3 ko end of themyy you can get downtown in 20 minutes. That is a tradeoff. Sfmta is misusing the power to prioritize the needs of one group and penalize residents that need the same convenience for their stops. If you are elstly andc have t walk two blocks, three blocks thank you, appreciate it. Thank you for your time. Next speaker. Good afternoon. I believe i know almost all of you personally by now. Im speaking as a citizen. G interestingly enough, i believe youre doing exactly what i waso sq ucccc ago, i dont know if my suggestions got outt there with my bringing them, but decentralizing power is where it needs to go first which is my suggestion. Each individual supervisor should be able to communicate easier with their residents and their businesses about what their needsnrc arec and they d be dealt with as individuals. That would be a really good first step and perhaps like some meme wer people were saying,t pressure on and see how they react. But at certain times, redo the amendments, maybe it will be necessary to change the way the board is appointed. Maybe it wont. Maybe this department will get the news that the supervisors are goingg p4v listen to their constituents. Thank you. Thank you. ccc3w next speaker. Uwccc good afternoon, david pilpel, i want to thank the board for expressing sympathy for the recent loss of my farther. As to this Charter Amendment, i think there is general consensus, not complete agreement that this board should haver imccnrcshouldhavecce m. T. A. And the specific decisions. I had a moment to review the legislation introduced yesterday. Im sure that will be the subject of a separate hearing or hearings. Well talk about the specifics there. I think its a good first start. It will be need in my view some amendments. I think the m. T. A. Needs to hear clearly from this board that theyre onc noticeokc to chae things in some of the ways that theyve already described and perhaps in otherccc ways. That there is great dissatisfaction among various people in the city on what m. T. A. Is doing and the way theyre doing it. In addition to the meetings they talked about with you as individual supervisors, i would strongly urge you ask them for a memo memorializing the changes that theyre intending to make over the next few months, and that a copy of the memo be ing a public file both on the Charter Amendment and on the ordinance creating the process that supervisor safai that you introduced yesterday, and that they be very open with the public about the changes that they are intending to implement over the next few months so we can all be aware of that and make comments and they be open better, recognizing we can all do better in how we gococc abt this. That includes outreach about projects, outreach about construction and Environmental Review and noticing public communications, all sorts of things. As the budget process comes thank you. Any other members of the public wish to comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] . Ebxsevcrm2l want to be clear. The intension of what were trying to do is to not pit and have the old arguments that have been hashed in the past. Were not trying to pit cars versus pedestrians. Or cars versus buses. Were trying to create more efficiency. Ive worked in the city almost 20 years, my colleagues have worked in this city for decades as well. I have to tell you, i have not worked with a less nimble bureaucracy than the sfmta. That is the the truth. That does not mean they are pea not smart, dedicated. Committed people that want to do wonderful thingsxfc for San Francisco. czv their presentation, weve made tremendous advancement as it goes to Pedestrian Safety. We in no way intend to undermine that. Thats why we ploa pose keeping the same commission, same commissioners, same level of oversight, but the reality is, if you create a separate department thats focused on public transportation, its our belief, and weve heard overwhelmingly since we proposed for hig hi hyperbolly, but 8 ton favor of doing something dramatic with the sfmta because of the level of frustration is real. That does not mean were not cnri vehicles or institute mo 9kc lanes and more alternative formc of vehislm and be thoughtful about Pedestrian Safety. We have a supervisor here that has championed so many different ways to think about vision zero and think about Pedestrian Safety. But he also shares in our conversations the same level of frustration with this agency. We need to beoi3zoyc thoughtfut that. This proposal for that is a step in the next direction. We want to be thoughtful about alternative biking proposals coming out, but the reality is that folks want to be more voice in the say in the final outcome. That doesnt mean when were talking about Pedestrian Safety or removal of parking, or muni center, that doesnt mean we wouldnt end up with the same outcome. But people are saying theyre not happy with the process, and that is very important. Im going to unless any other members of the body want to make a comment on this item supervisor tang. Thank you forci] joiningnrnb . c, supervisor. Im here for another item,ite nom a member of this committee, but since i saw sunset residents come out, i wanted to speak briefly to this item. I think this opened up an important conversation that we need to have. Yes, the m. T. A. As an agency is much too big, too bureaucratic. We want efficient, Reliable Transportation that is also safe. I know ive spoke ton staff directly and the director directly. My staff spent an incredible amount of time on m. T. A. Issues. One of my staff needs to be paid an m. T. A. Salary for what she does. This measure can open up the conversation on how we can improve the department internally, i think that is really important. I think staffing an grown way tooc much overcq the last sevl years. Over the course of five to 10 years and where does that lead us to . I dont know that were the ones who tend tom get beat up over the service and complaints, yet, we cant do anything about it. I look forward to working withnc supervisor safai and others on this topic. Im going to ask for one slight amendment. We want to make this now the targeted torld th toward to e November Ballot. Wed like to see it move and well table this item or continuing this item to the call of the chair. Without can we make that amendment to say it would be for the November Ballot . You can make that motion. T seconded without objection, that is approved and well ns chp c great. Thank you. [gavel] please call item 3. Clerk Charter Amendment for the june 5, 2018 election to authorize thew3 commission to Power Facilities when approved by ordinance receiving a twothirds of the board of supervisors. Well continue to work with you. Were joined by supervisor tang and this is her Charter Amendment. Im handing it over to supervisor tang. Im the cosponsor of this measure. But since supervisor peskin is not able to be here, i want to continue this item to the end of the meeting. Is he intending to come . I believe either him or his stap will come. Well continue this item to the end of the agenda. Lets move on to do we have to take Public Comment . We can come back to it. Well come back to this item. Through the chair i see sunny. Hi, were actually working with the citys office to finalize a slight tweak to expand a few more options that the p. U. C. Would have available to them in terms of financing large infrastructure projects. If this item could be referred to the end of the meeting or thats what we said. You didnt hear us. Window werwere going to refere end of the meeting. Please call item four. Clerk number four is the Charter Amendment for the june 5, 2018 election to establish as a condition for noncitizen voting in an election for members of the board of education, that the board of education, that the board of implementing ordinance 270 days before that election. Thank you miss somera. Unless there are initial comments from anyone else, ill hand it over to the primary sponsor, supervisor fewer. Thank you. I recognize any proposal impacting the hardfought victory, they need immigrant communities to be united in support. Ive heard from leaders about the need to protect their communities to have the voices of the parents heard. This charlotter amendment came out of a year of discussion sphrdiscussionsfrom advocates a. Ive heard from many immigrant right groups both in support of the Charter Amendment as well as those expressing concerns. Ive decided to withdraw and table this Charter Amendment. However, i firmly believe we need to identify and prioritize funding that provides resources and guidance for the department of elections to implement noncitizen voiting using best practices. There is a tremendous need to partner with Community Organizations to do indepth education and outreach to diverse and hidden communities in a competent manner. If any Voter Registration organizations or candidates running for school board are soliciting the votes of a noncitizen parent, i believe they have a moral obligation to inform them that if they register to vote, their information cannot be kept private from the federal government. In our current times, its important for individuals to understand their Voting Rights the risk involved. In order for individuals to make an informed vote, they need to understand the individual risk. We must clearly communicate both the rights and risks to prospective noncitizen voters so theyre making an informed choice about registering to vote and i look forward with working with my colleagues and Community Advocates to shake theu make sus given to the department correc