Openmeeting compliance. Youll hear from others in the community but its an Important Community asset and we thank you for your support and i have 26 letters of support i want to submit to the official file. Commissioner thank you, well collect those in a moment. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im the executive director of the yerba buena Community Direct and serve on the gardens conservancy. The neighborhood of yerba buena is an interesting eco system with a variety of uses including a large cultural, residential, you have gardens in the middle and the convention center, etcetera. The gardens serves all the populations as a respite in a concrete jungle of downtown. Its incredibly important to the residents that live in that neighborhood and employees and i dont think we can overstate the importance to the conventioneers. When redevelopment absolved we were surprised that we were meeting regularly for seven years to get to this point. I want to thank the neighborhood. I think you can see there is strong neighborhood buyin. Not only to get to this point but continue the operations forward. So much so that you have seen most the neighborhood institutions or a large percent ac put their money with their mouth is and contribute to costs getting to this point. I dont want to take that too lightly. Weve also enjoyed work with the department of arrest and other departments to get us to this point. We look forward to that moving forward and feel we have a strong infrastructure in place and the future looks good for the neighborhood if this goes through and a want to thank you for your support. Commissioner thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon, chair peskin and supervisors. Im mary mcccugh. We have been the Property Managers of yerba buena garden since it opened and were looking forward to sustain the garden as the cultural and convention heartbeat. As Property Managers well continue to manage in ways that help the conservancy to succeed and ensuring the continues to contribute to the economic and social fabric and a place of inclusion for all so people continue to come back again and again. The practices we maintain will help the entity flourish. We do this in several ways. Partnering with the community and other gafrdens operators gard en operators and bring inning assets that generate interest and revenue and continuing with place making and important management practice. Heres a few examples. The permitting process is holistic and has an approach that takes in the consideration of all of the operators in community and examining the property closely to make sure everything is protected and also plans for any possible renovation can begin immediately. The yerba buena garden festival, the childrens learning garden, our safety group and many other Community Organizations that grew out of the gardens itself Sustainable Practices that involve zero pesticides and comprehensive recycling programming. Were very excited and the planners and public space experts from all of over the world study this Award Winning garden. Were excited about this next chapter in the gardens success and urge you to approve the master lease. Thank you for your consideration. Im ine active user of to the yerba buena garden. I urge you to support the ratification of the lease. I ask for you to approve it in the role of my mother and i have a 3 1 2yearold daughter thats attended the local school. The gardens and amenities provide an active safe and Popular Community resource with exceptional range of free Public Events and celebrations, play areas and cafes and public art. I also speak on behalf of San Francisco travel association and the expansion project on the communitybased management model this group has worked hard to form. The yerba buena gardens provides substantial Public Benefits to the millions of visitors that pass through each year. The collaboration on putting this lease together will be a model for others. The outreach and ongoing communication and leadership has been strong. Again, i fully support the Lease Agreement in front of you today. Thank you. We have had live art on youtube and isnt 1. 3 million visitor and we want to Foster Collaboration and no different than 20 years ago. The importance of having creative problem solvers and literate citizenry and children who can express themselves is key to the future success of San Francisco and beyond. However that is challenged today for struggling families. The opportunity gap has never been given where enriched learning is available to wealthy families. Here at the childrens Creativity Museum we have Access Programs where families with public assistance can come at any time not just on special days, not just for special programs but theyre able to enjoy the museum like all wealthy families do. 50 of field trips come from title 1 schools and for free especially those from San Francisco title 1 schools. We know were one their last place wheres families of all backgrounds can come together and play and sing and make a movie and build a community together. Weve built our organization to be able to do that where 50 of people of color and staff and board and visitors and we had a recordbreaking attendance year despite the challenges in the neighborhood and with the end of the Mosconi Center we know were set for success and the resolution will allow us to have the stability and the environment to thrive for families and the future of San Francisco. Commissioner the next speaker, please. Im with the yerba buena alliance. Its a 28yearold Neighborhood Organization that was actually founded by the former Redevelopment Agency to create buyin to the redevelopment of the yerba buena gardens. Weve worked hard with Community Stakeholders in the process of the yerba buena conservancy. We feel this model is the best way forward after seven years of diligent planning and Community Input we feel confident in what were doing today and we appreciate your support. Thank you. Commissioner thank you. In 1976 newly elected mayor George Mosconi embraced the vision of a gardens in downtown San Francisco for everybody for all san franciscans put forward by the architect and civil leaders and other Community Advocates the the time. And thanks to the work of the agency that did embrace it the Redevelopment Agency and thanks to the chief city administrator it got build and opened in the 1990s. Today when you go to the gardens, its a nice day outside, youll find in the summertime the playground is full and the tot bot is full and the esplanade will have workers and local residents and seniors that live in the local housing there. People playing chess even about a dozen homeless persons resting peacefully on the lawns. The goal to make it a place for everybody in San Francisco been achieved. Its hard to find places like this anywhere in the United States and even the world where everybodys welcome and engaged. And we want to continue this into the future with a Strong Community presence and oversight to make that helly that really happen. Id like to support the master lease and the chief administrator whos been supportive of this effort and the team at the department of real estate. Theyve worked with us closely to put together a complicated lease and it looks great. Commissioner next speaker, please. If you have to visit the gardens out and Golden Gate Park, locals and people who live in the bay area get in for free but if you do not live here, you have to pay a very minimal fee and i dont really understand why this garden will stay the same if its for everyone locally. All the programs for the children will stay the same but i dont understand if theres even one person homeless, you dont make a little revenue on this park, on these gardens. Even if you just charge the tourists and dont live here a dollar it would help and go towards a fund for people who are in need and you do this at Golden Gate Park. Why cant the yerba buena gardens follow this as well. People just show their i. D. S and they get in for free if they live here. To give this away for a dollar a year for 42 years is 42, to me seems kind of neglect for city planning. The Golden Gate Park has a better program. Ive lived here 25 years. Im a home owner. The property tax i pay is a billion times more than this huge park, not that ma matter that that matters but think of what your doing with the park. It could be great revenue for the homeless, im actually in favor with this gentleman here with what the jersey said. Its inexcusable to give this away when you can make a little bit of renew on it. Commissioner thank you. Are there any members of the public here on this item . Seeing none well close Public Comment. Sorry, that took a little longer than i thought. So while two things need to be deliberated over the next 24 hours, there are two very minor amendments the parenthesis and the quotation mark and the insertion of the before lease and i think we can take those without objection. Sir. If i can be heard once again on the supervisory representation. I consult with the City Attorneys Office and have two alternativ alternatives that may address one issue and two remaining issues off the table hopefully. The city administrator has no objection to the District Supervisor selecting the representative for the board of the con ser van si. Conservancy. The only question is how its to be accomplished. The First Alternative in the resolution would read along the lined lines that that representative will be selected in consultation with the city administrator and the person is nominate the district 6 supervisor and appointed by the board of supervisors. Im told by the City Attorney and they can correct me if im wrong, the individual supervisor cannot nominate a person to the board. Commissioner its kind of an executive function and why we do it as a body. Supervisor haney. Is the second alternative there in your information is that something we can do . Yes, the second alternative 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 valets in the parking garages the city owns. I did budgets for mayor feinstein in 1979 when we put in a new Financial Management system when we were doing budget Business Activity rather than line item budgets and revenue departments were able to come in and ask for more than 100 of budgets when we provided incremental budgets bore the if you system. It for the new system. It doesnt seem to work well. I was at a disadvantage trying to quantify how many cases of cancer the Public Health nurses were preventing. And the valets wall in the same category. The return on investment is not quantifiable. We are a worldclass city. Union square is world class shopping. My very wealthy aunts from Point Richmond and from down south in abertine they dont come here to drive themselves around and try to find a parking space so they can shop and or be able to carry their bags whatever the things are the wonderful valets do. They have been with the city a very long time. Weve talked about yerba buena gardens to keep High Standards. Whats a High Standard in the city . Our jewels are Fishermans Wharf and union square. Thats our revenue. What are you going to do to assure the revenue stays . Were already getting hit by retail by amazon. People already dont want to come downtown anymore. I had a restaurant for 30 years. Mr. Peskin, did mayor feinstein and mayor brown work hard to mike it a worldclass city . I worked for both of them. Where is london breed . What is the thinking . This is a worldclass city. Go to any worldclass city and find the definition of world class. Commissioner thank you. Next speaker. Commissioner to be fair to all the speakers, we have to keep everyone to two minutes. Imani im janni. When you see a local filmed commercial or Television Show or movie, photography or print shoot, my group are wardrobe stylists also known as costumers. Our jobs are to go downtown into city lots and acquire Studio Services at j crew, banana republic, gap, nordstroms and we have to gather a huge amount of wardrobe and reliant on these valet. 100 . They help us, they protect our cars. We cant do our job on a bike. We cannot do our jobs without the valet. We have thousands and thousands of dollars of wardrobe in the trunks of our cars. Alarmed, you know. Without this its going to be almost impossible. Ill rattle off some of our clients, okay . Apple, hp, sales force, gap, google, levi, i did six in a row for ebay, subaru, vw, ford, tesla, at t, chase, the show 13 reasons why filmed in oakland verizon, cisco. We do the costuming without the valet i dont know what well do, honestly. None of us have ever seen a Security Guard in any of these. Not once. Pay the nonlocals some more money. Commissioner thank you, next speaker, please. Im veronica lebau the executive director at the Liver Foundation i work in the Flood Building. I park daily at the aliso ferrell garage and i use many of the other sfmta garages as well. Union square, 5th and mission, st. Marys, the Valet Service is integral to my job as well as my safety. Since the dem diminished services of the valet staff ive felt less safe. I have reached out to many of the other customers and tenants in the Flood Building and many of them, 200 plus signed a petition feel the same way. Our cars have been broken into. Our safety has been compromise. When i called sfmta when we still had the Valet Service they told me they were not going alleviate it. They were not going get rid of it and they were also going to install an Ambassador Service. I have called the number for the Ambassador Service and the phone just rings and rings and rings. Same with security. I have never seen security in that parking garage. I worry for my safety and for everyone elses. Lets call this what it is. The acceleration of San Franciscos race to the bottom. Please take responsibility and stop the bashing of this people who work in that garage and put us customers at risk. The sfmta has increased the parking space price and monthly cost and theyre profitability. Their profitability. Commissioner thank you. Next speaker, please. Im katy suing sugarman. Im also a stylist and were dependent on the aliso ferrell garage for safety and security and having the valets is pivotal to our way of life. Work we do and we shop at every single retailer at union square and shopping for any small and major corporation. Weve done many jobs for them. We are a huge vital part of the local film photography and Film Industry and we contribute to the local economy and new york and the world. Union square is not completely safe and most of us have ed breakins firsthand and having the valet and having the presence there is the only thing to keep us safe. A video cam with someone sleeping in an office wont keep the thousands of dollars of merchandise in my car safe and its our livelihood. If that got getz gets stolen from me, ill lose my job and i feel vulnerable being a woman and i realize on the smile of the staffs face and its crucial to what we do. I find it hard to believe the Parking Spaces are suffering losses. Ive been parking at that garage ann day of the week ann day of the any day of the week and ive never seen it empty. Theyre pivotal to our lifestyle. Commissioner thank you for taking time to come today. Next speaker. Good afternoon, members of the committee. Im Rudy Gonzalez representing over 140 unions here and were on record saying we support the members of local 665. Often when we talk with the future of work we talk about the technological advances and whats left out is the future of workers. I can tell you first hand we go to the garage and the people most effected when there isnt a human being there are the tourists and ven tors and the people vendors and without the human by the machine at the garage people have a hard time operating that equipment. It fails fails and when theres a smiling person in their steamster vest people get greeted and feel more safe and security and ive used them just to get through that machine. I think whats important to think about is what mr. Dilorio talked about is how profits and losses are being represented. Theyre blending conversations. Id urge the committee to do a deeper dive into that process. Ill set aside comments around the shift to say you can have sworn peace officers. Theres probably a lot of tension around that. I would think on its face it say seem like a safer option but with Public Safety important i dont think reasonable to expect sworn officers to guard peoples carbs and i dont think theres a correlation between that and driving down the vbis of the garages. Its not feasible as you consider this consider the working families and what few remain in the city that are dependent on these good jobs and have Human Interaction and what cant be quantified as the human value they bring to all the garages. Thank you. Commissioner thank you, next. Next speaker, please. Heres an example of using too Much Technology. An example is teachers go to school and get their credentials and pay the rate of tuition loans and fees and you changed their payroll system over to a hightech system. The first stage in this system didnt pay the teachers and the teachers were facing evictions on properties they were in as tenants and some were facing flash because you used too Much Technology and you were paying teachers more than what they were supposed to be paid and some were getting paid thousands less and some still not paid on time. You did the same thing at the state superior court. You went high tech and as a result 13 judges lost their jobs and 100 clerks lost their jobs as a result files stack to the top of the ceiling. Sit up there right now and are replacing people who were supporting them selves and families with technology not even proven to work and hasnt been previously tested. Its not fair and unethical and youre putting technology over the safety of people who are working and guarantees to give you a performance of services. What you should be doing is hiring more people. Thats what you should be doing. Commissioner thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im a born and raised san franciscan. Ive been working at the 5th and Mission Garage for roughly 20 years serving our public. The past year ive seen significant changes in safety and cleanliness and i believe its a result of decreasing staff. Last week we had a customer physically assaulted while paying for parking. Prior to cuts we had an attendant in the lobby. If we still had one wed be able to possibly prevent the assault or add at minimum report the it to security and because we dont have these the suspect left the scene. We have aggressive panhandlers approaching patrons. They walk up to the customer, demand money and when they dont get it, theyll yell and threaten. In the past, when lobbies were manned, just the presence of the attendant would stop the panhandlering from coming in or approaching anybody because they saw us. We do our best to do the garages clean but as a result of staff cuts the smell and sight of feces is a presence in the stair wells. We have individuals who come in and tag the walls, go to the garage and tag over safety signs and take fire extinguishers and discharge them on vehicles parked in the garage. These are a few incident i have seen while there and believe theyre a direct result of the Staffing Levels. I ask we keep the Staffing Levels we have at this point in time. Commissioner thank you. Next speaker. Im steven garcia. Ive a 27year employee as the aliso ferrell garage. We have seen the garage go from a firstclass garage to slum garage. The light is terrible and theres people urinating and its feces and drugs and needles. Stuff all over the place. Im the only one there in the facility from 5 30 in the morning to 7 30. The next guy is 7 30 and the next one doesnt show up until 2 00. There are no other ambassadors but me and david. The customers have complained they dont feel safe. One lady told me she felt she could be raped at any time there. Its dark and theyre scared. Our entrances are dark. Theres nobody around. Weve been told to stay off the main floor and be upstairs. Were spread so thin at our facility from going from 45 people down to about six. Its insane. The studies of the facility showed in the past they added two and a half floor and talked about doing this selfpark many years ago. It was unfeasible to do this. Weve gone from 14,65 0 to 500 Parking Spaces and with the subway, sure, business is down. Weve always taken a hit when they asked us to and said were not making any money. We took freezes and freezes in our pension and stood behind the city and when the Nonprofit Corporation left the garage has gone. Its nasty. Its terrible what has happened. Commissioner which Nonprofit Corporation is that . The Nonprofit Corporation. Commissioner thank you