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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 sept...

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 modificatio...

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...

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 asked me, has held back on this evicted me because they say how can, how can they evict me when their...

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 wanted to quantify how many busses there are, where the busses are going, what type of busses they are,...