Would be workable nominated by the district 6 supervisor and appointed to the board. We have no objection to that amendment. Commissioner okay. Obviously that language will have to be developed between now and tomorrow and made without remany of referral tomorrow on the board of the floor, correct gibner . You can do it tomorrow or right now inserting the word nominated by the district 6 supervisor and appointed by the board. Commissioner already. Then we will do that. Well insert said words in that section without objection leaving us with the issue about increased obligations and liabilities that mr. Gibner and i will work on between now and 2 00 p. M. Tomorrow with the item as thrice amended can we send it to the full board as a committee record, supervisor haney. Thank you to everybody who came out and your work on this. I think theres an incredibly exciting future for the yerba buena and all the folks here maintaining it and making sure its thriving and inclusive and i want to thank you and i look forward to working with you all. Thank you, one and all. With that we will send the item as amended with recommendation for a hearing tomorrow at the board of supervisors without objection. All right. Thank you, supervisors. Commissioner all right. So supervisor safai asked know schedule item 2 at the top of the agenda. We did a little House Cleaning i thought item 3 would be faster were now 43 minutes into the meeting and i know supervisor brown has an item number 4 that may take a little while. Supervisor, safai, what is your pleasure . Commissioner sounds like supervisor brown has to leave very quickly so if we can get it done quickly, im happy with allowing her to do it, if not, is this time sensitive, supervisor brown . Commissioner i think this is going to be about 30 minutes, 35 the most. Commissioner i think we can accommodate that. Commissioner who is here . Supervisor brown . Commissioner can i ask who is here for item 4 for the stream lining Small Business permit streamlining. Commissioner supervisor brown, i appreciate it and i really apologize for taking item 3 out of order, just so you know, though monday the 24th is budget all day long, fortunately i think none of us, am i correct, serve on the Budget Committee and the clerk of the board has indicated we can have a Land Use Committee meeting on monday the 24th. We can not have it in these chambers or room 263 but upstairs in room 416 or 408. Ta if its not time sensitive we can go one more week and resolve this issue and have supervisor safais constituents here in voluminous amounts here to hear item 2 next if thats okay with you. Im trying to make everybody as happy as possible. Its what we get the big bucks for. Supervisor brown . Id put you as item 1 on the agenda of june 24, you would be the first item. I will not take anything out of order. Thats a solemn promise. Thank you, chair peskin. I know i have Small Businesses here today and sad and sorry but i dont want you to wait for this hearing and i definitely have to be here so i will agree to have it go on the 24th and we have owd and the City Attorney and hope it work out for everyone. Yes, thank you. Madam clerk can you read item 2 clerk do you want me to call item 4 to dispose of it . Commissioner well get to that at the end of the agenda. Clerk item 2 the hearing of status on parking attendance working in cityownered garages and the number of existing employees plans to prioritize the safety and well being of customers and playoff or job reductions in the last three years as well as planned reductions in the future and the move to Automated System and requesting the San Francisco full Transportation Agency to report. Commissioner thank you, madam clerk, supervisor safai ill turn it over to you. Thank you, mr. Chair and for coming out today. I want to thank members of the Community Reaching out to 43 over the last number of months and teamsters and sfmta and want to improve the environment in which people feel safe and what i hear is when were moving and we have 15 city owned garages and moving away from employees on the front lines to an Automated System, people generally feel like theyre losing something. Theyre feeling a body to interact with. Theyre losing a body and human being to interact with for safety and questions and confusion and guidance. And i understand its easy to argue in this environment the issue that were a transit first city. Maybe people arent using cars as much as the past but the truth is people are still using cars and parking garages are still important and theyre important for retail and if were going have that, you cant have a parking garage thats only operated by machines. I can tell you from going down to union square and seeing across from johns grill theres a completely Automated System over there and heard nothing but car breakins and heard people complain about safety and im thinking about people in the elderly community, the disabled community and women. Because a lot of women will come up and i heard from a lot of female constituents saying they dont feel safe if theyre in a dark environment and statistics show that is exactly where a lot of violate crime and crime directed towards women and elderly and disabled happens. I called the hearing because i think its important we hear from the sfmta. There hasnt been a clear statement on how many more staffing positions will be cult and theres been a major cut and we want to think about the human beings in these jobs and the families they support and the role they play in San Francisco. These are working families. These are good frontline jobs. Many of these folks have been in these jobs for decades and have relationships with the people that come in and the customers that come in. In many ways theyre often the frontline and face of our city. So these are about real people. This conversation is about real people and its about thinking about the direction of this city. And if we care about the direction of our city thats about automation thats one thing and think about cost savings its another thing but if we think of balancing the two and thinking how we can grow as a city and balance the needs of everyone, thats an important reason why we have the hearing today. Id like to have the sfmta present on this issue and then we have a whole series of questions and i know theres a number of people that like to speak on this and also the timeliness of this and i want to pus this on the record, were in the budget process right now. Sfmta is going to have to present their budget, board of supervisors will have to approve that budget and hearings will be happening in the next two weeks. Thats also a very important important context in which that is happening. Youll present the budget as approved by the sfmta bort of commissioners and i board of commissioner and i heard from Committee Members and constituents and id like to read that was sent to me by someone that was hear today. Im going to summarize it but i think its important for the record because it really epitomizes many of the letters and information that ive received from constituents over time. Dear supervisor safai, im writing in advance of this afternoons hearing on the status of parking attendance, planned layoffs and reduction to cityowned garages. Im a native San Francisco person and lived and worked here my entire life. Ive been a monthly parker at a particular garage and the staff have been unfailingly helpful, kind, trustworthy and skilled offering tireless assistance to locals and visitors alike. Theyre presence inspires a sense of safety and professionalism to the city garage. Often working long hours, theyre supporting themselves and their families while provide service that facilitates a Higher QualityCustomer Experience in the garage. I was appalled to learn their jobs were in peril especially during a time in which this citys budget is so robust. We just crossed the 11 billion budget threshold for the first time. I firmly believe it should be a role of our City Government to protect and preserve jobs such as head to helped by these dedicated workers. Rather than veering towards hyperefficiency and automation the city should value and promote civic life which includes civic lives. This means value and promoting the work, wages and well being of individuals who are a viral part of the fabric of our city. The City Governance would be derelict in our duties instead it had a role in jobs. I hope all involved in the hearing will recall their ethical responsibility to promet the general welfare of the city inhabitants and nothing will be gained by reducing the employment rather something priceless something lost. I couldnt have said it ann any better. Im the park director nor sfmta. I agree with everything safai stated. I think the key word ill focus on through the presentation is finding the right balance. Im happy to be here to present as something near and dear to my heart. I started my career in the parking industry. We created new policies. Improved equipment reduction in demand and changed the use of offduty officers changing staffing in site garages. City garages. To give a quick outline, we oversee 27,300 parking garages and 6. 5 million parking sessions and well focus on the garages here today. You see the geographic overview of the system and the blue ps are offstreet garages and the gray are offstreet lots and we wont focus on those today. A notable point. Heres our transient tickets. Weve seen a reduction in our parking portfolio. Parking access and revenue control system is anticipated well in advance. We do not foresee impact on the offstreet portfolio. Tickets are down nearly 17 down year over year and continuing to decline. The staffing level changes theres been a reduction of parking fasts. While some have been realized through normal attrition and retirement and others most reductions can be attributed to a handful of Valet Parking programs. 30 valet shifts and 15 fewer postfixed cashier shifts and 10 additional cashier shifts will be reduced again once the Parks Program is completed. However, approximately 10 fulltime employees will be transitioned or added to staff our command centers ill talk about which will be a 24 7 operation. The valet demand could return if demand returns but fixed post cash ers cashiers will not. And a couple changes happening city wide. Theres development scheduled to start late this year, early next year. The lot will go away and were seeing that across the parking industry in the city not just city garages but in public garages as well and the Mosconi Center garage could have an impact. Im putting a pin in 2022 as a possible onset for that garage. Aliso ferrell. Well hear a lot from the folks. I recognize a number of faces. I was an operator for a garage that operated a number of years. Weve seen record high occupancies where 500 plus open stalls were sitting vacant. We restriped the lot to allow more selfpark and worked closely with the union to come up with a staffing plan. This included a reduction of fulltime staff in two stages. The Staff Members will provide an opportunity to relocate to other fasts within the portfoliofacilities to relocate to other facilities for zero job loss. Well always have someone onsite and if the cars return, so will the staff Parking Program. Transitioning into safety and security nexus of our conversation. We focus on three Major Concerns when were managing our garage and how to mitigate them. This includes trip and falls, gate arm city and pedestrians and vehicle breakins. You may have noticed theres no mention of violate crimes such as car jacking or fiscal assaults but the crimes are extremely rare and in my time have not occurred. Cal assaults but the crimes are extremely rare and in my time have not occurred. Cal assaults but the crimes are extremely rare and in my time have not occurred. Cal assaults but the crimes are extremely rare and in my time have not occurred. Pcal assaults but the crimes are extremely rare and in my time have not occurred. Hcal assaults but the crimes are extremely rare and in my time have not occurred. Ycal assaults but the crimes are extremely rare and in my time have not occurred. Scal assaults but the crimes are extremely rare and in my time have not occurred. Ical assaults but the crimes are extremely rare and in my time have not occurred. And i want to thank supervisors for meeting with me and the commander to raise concerns about breakins and specifically around womens safety. We used the input to create new policies and procedures we feel have had a Tremendous Positive impact and will about them more to come. Of the three items, dbis is what well focus on today. To report theres been a positive trend. In 2017 we saw a reduction or less than 30,000 reported after the 24 increase from 16 to 17. Since then theres been a focussed effort city wide in 2018 we saw slight reduction of 26,000 reported dbis. A 17 reduction. So what prompted the spike to begin with . Theres been harsher consequences which have been ledge legislated and theres less than 90 chance youll be caught. The criminals are long the lines of credit card fraud. Its not 100 preventible but we can take steps to curb it. We want to make the lots less appealing to thieves and have them move along. This table provided by partners demonstrate the trends city wide and this is important data point for us as it highlight the months where vbis are more prevalent and as you can see the spike during the months where we generally see more visitors and tourists in the cities. Specifically to our facilities. You can see the vbi downward trend over the past two years and this is the kickoff of our operating philosophy when we started in 2017. Understand the changes of demand and move towards Industry Standard and technology we implemented a weve required minimum security hours and currently sfmta employees, 1820 hours of Security Guard per month for offstreet facilities. Theres signs for all points of access and elevators and stairwells and active collaboration with s. F. P. D. And participating in the task force. I wont spend a lot of time here but deploying the new philosophy we were averaging 38 average vbis per month, some as high as 50 or 60 with the new operating philosophy and goes down to seven and in some months weve had zero. I was fortunate enough to be present with supervisor peskin and safai when we had a large announcement regarding that. We updated our staffing plan and issues of security and number of occurrences and breakin history and complaints and this allows the security to focus on highareas of potential threat better coverage and increased officer productivity. And task force for stakeholders in the city and we worked closely with the groups to collaborate and identify areas to make improvements. And specifically towards technology and the sParks Program. Its a revenue control system and Hardware Software network to provide data for analytics and policy. Also upgrading at this time which is also a major security issue is our compliance to protect and safeguard an important source of Agency Revenues and provide Better Customer Service and have security features. We deployed hd cameras at egress and degres and we deployed lpr recognition and brighten up each facility with cohesive signage and white paint. Our central monitoring station, which we havent actively deployed but heres a picture of what it looks like and our cameras and video needs and intercoms come back to these facility. When its fully deployed well have three. Well have a city sfmta monitoring station and two operator locations as well as all the facilities will have cameras rolling up there as well. Ill leave it there and open it up to questions or concerns. Well come back to questions. I want to open it up for Public Comment because people have been wait forg waiting for some time. If youd like to line up and speak. Each speaker will have two minutes. I apologize for the earlier day and thank you for your patience. Good afternoon, supervisor safai and supervisor peskin and haney. Thank you for taking the time to meet with us. Im tony delorio of teamsters 665 in San Francisco. What we have witnessed in the last years is a calculated attack on our members. The sfmta has implemented over 1600 hours of staffing cuts per week which equates to 40 fulltime positions gone just like that of a total of 220 employees. And they have made it clear the cuts will continue. The majority of our members, mostly of minority decent are San Francisco residents. A few years ago the city approved the 30 million park equipment upgrade at sfmta locations. Did we expect some staffing cuts with the result of this implementation, sure but not of this magnitude. We attempted to have prior meetings to see what we can do to prevent the job losses. The sfmta would show us basic pnl statements and explain how the new equipment had to be compensate and use was down due to the uber and lyft explosion but after doing some more digging we found out for one reason or another, many invoices from the parks equipment instalation were being filtered through the operational expenses thus churning the statements upsidedown. I think its unfair capital expenses are being commingled into the expense numbers and were talking about 70,000, 80,000 being moved in these statement so of course expense high. And who suffers the loss . Everybody here. Clerk the speakers time has expired. Commissioner hell finish the sentence. Tony, finish your last sent. Our last ask was the garages to maintain the current Staffing Levels as they are today not going backwards. Thank you. Commissioner thank you. Next speaker, please. Im Martha Schreiber and im here today to speak on behalf of the vale