Want to make sure we have a robust system of investigating and acting on those complaints. With that, ill wrap it up again with thank you so supervisor safai for calling this hearing. Thank you supervisor preston and thank you ms. Torez and lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number 3 . Thank you mr. Chair. We have james from dp checking to see the status of the callers and it looks like we have 10 listeners with eight in queue. James, if you can unmute the first speaker, please. First speaker, please. Hello, thank you all so much for your time today and for your detailed conversation. Im speaking on behalf of the San Francisco chamber of commerce. At the chamber, weve had the pleasure of working with sense and theyre the only Scooter Company pardon me nerring with the chamber of commerce and its a great member of work with as well as the only micro Mobility Company that was nominated as a finalist for business awards. Its also the company who consistently had a write a transportation option throughout the pandemic supplementing transit and reducing congestion in the city. We feel its imperative right now that we support safe modes of transportation during these unpress departmented times and its been a Great Community member and worked closely with the chamber and with labor and we support them and urge you to support their efforts as well. Thank you again for your time. Thank you. Who knew the chamber of commerce still exists, next speaker, please. Hello, everyone this is joe im a business agent with steam sters local 665 and i hope everyone had a great thanksgiving. Our principal officer is not able to make it today so im speaking on his behalf and a couple weeks bag i spoke on behalf of our local at a meeting asking to halt the increase of scooters until this meeting today. And that ask fell on deaf ears. Lime did not have labor harmony as previous stated and supervisor safai essentially clarified that with his question of Third Party Contractors and at the end of the day, they were given a reward for ignoring labor harmony provisions in the permit and handed additional scooters and everyone knows they just spent, i dont know, 200 million to buy prop 22 and doing that it proved that they can buy what they want and undermine dignity of workers with that proposition and we cannot allow uber to buy San Francisco here and this is not just about lime but every company ultimately must legitimately prove they have labor harmony and their growth had be hinnered not helped as just happened. A company like spin that has followed the rules, they have labor harmony theyre at a disadvantage because of these resent actions. From the teamsters, our position are ask at this point is you know, forward for the labor harmony within the permit to be fulfilled they must be required to hire employee directly not through thirdparty hiring agencies. Thats all i have. Thank you for the time. Next speaker, please. Caller, you are on the line. Caller hello, my name is michael. Im working for spin for a couple of months now. I used to work for uber, as an independent contractor but really the hours and the pay wasnt consistent and since i joined them i have been able to work full time and i received full benefits and also become part of the junior which provides the job security that i need at this time. And that would be all for me. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. I just wanted to say that i feel the mta should issue a new rfp so all the companies can be held accountable resulting in better behavior by the vendors, particularly lime. Who seem to think that permit requirements are nearly suggestions and lime has the worse compliance record and a terrible labor record and theyre getting rewarded for this awful behavior. You know, this all points to uber and lyme influencing the department to their lobbyist and finding the demonstrated several times they do not play by the rules so if theyre getting a permit, its clear the bar is too low. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Caller hi, this is boob and im with scoot and i just did want to call in. I think really what i want to say is thank you for this hearing. It was really great to hear all the issues out there and i think that we at scoot are very, very interested and listening and learning and understanding everything. I do want to say that this program has worked. Scooters really do replace car trips and i think to the point supervisor peskin made about muni, is that the scooters can really 47t help with public trat and help with mode shift. If you have a great Public Transit system, scooters, bikes, if its safe to walk the streets, those are the things that keep people from deciding to jump in a car and i just want to say that i think that sfmta, taxi Accessible Services i worked with them for 10 years and for more years on the motor scooter guide thats been terrific and theyve juggled a hot potato well and ive enjoyed working with them and i hope you will work with them into the future. Thank you, everybody. Hold on just a second. To the speaker, you said you worked for which company . I work for scoot. Got it. Right. I just wanted to make sure that we were clear for the record. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, this is wendy and im with the mission atma and we just started as of three weeks ago, a program for our low income employees at mission bay with in access programs. The objective really is to make available more transport options for those essential workers and basically weve had 16 people sign up in the first two and a half weeks for the program and every single one of them is in the healthcare arena in mission bay so that goes to show that the essential workers are really looking for an alternative and whether its what theyre doing shift work or Public Transit and our shuttles are not running or they dont feel savor whatever so were very, very excited and weve had a good response and were just launching so we think this is a very valuable program particularly in the pandemic. And beyond that we think there will be a real value to the program like this. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public for Public Comment . We have three callers left. Next speaker, please. Three. Ok. Great. Thank you. Caller hi, good afternoon. This is alex april and im here on behalf of spin, one of the scooter companies. Id like to thank the board of supervisors and mta for all of your continued work on supporting the powered Scooter Share Program during this difficult and uncertain time. Spin proud to deployed our scooters throughout San Francisco including all communities of concern since last october when we launch frommed. As mentioned, spin was the only provider to continue service in San Francisco without disruption during the covid19 pandemic this year. They are launched last october weve really lived up to our permit promises to curb sidewalk writing and improper parking and we utilized incomes complaints and checked photos and submitted by users and take pictures at the end of their ride so to date, weve cited 3,815 users and have suspended 59 accounts for failure to park or ride properly. So our efforts have proven to be effective and spin has the least amount of citations issued by sfmta or any Scooter Company. Weve also executed on our labor promises by signing and following through on our labor Peace Agreement with teamsters local 665 and our workers voted to represent last december and recently signing and onto the collective Bargaining Agreement the first of its kind in the scooter share industry. So you know, spin is really committed to continuing to provide good, quality job without making our employee settle for independent contractor status or work for Third Party Staffing agency thats provide inconsistent hours and limited to no actual benefits. We appreciate the opportunity to give Public Health today and appreciate the conversations today, let me know if you have any questions. Alex is my first name. April is my last name. Alex april, my apologize. Alex april, number one and i would like to refer this matter to the Government Audit Committee were in you are representative of your company will have to testify under penalty of perjury relative to everything that you represented but as i said earlier, i do believe that the conventional wisdom is that spin, on any number of levels, has operated maturely and in good faith with the community so i would like to conquer with yotoconcur with yo. Colleagues, are there any questions for alex april . Seeing none. Thank you for your testimony. Next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon, im calling regarding the scooter issues in the city of San Francisco. There is a great disparity between the scooter providers and the district 11 and i never find a scooter near my home. Especially during the pandemic ive been using scooters since its easier than taking the bus and im concerned about lime and their distribution around the city. With all know that lyme is zoned by uber and they do value their workers and he we believe in fair and equitable compensations and protections i urge you to make sure the sfmta revisits their contracts and programs with scooters around the city that implement a fair and honest process. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Mr. Chair, i have james from dp messaging that was the last caller. All right. Seeing no other members of the public for Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Before i make a motion, i thank supervisor safai for bringing this. Let me be abundantly clear, this board can, and im quite sure, has more than the super majority to rescind the division amendments we gave the authority to regulate this matcher. I understand that annie thornily thought it was a bad idea. I think it was a good idea and i think the sfmta has done a relatively good job on it. Having said that, uber and all these other multinational Venture Capital funded corporations got to figure it out. Youve got to enforce, be fair, do equity on a racial basis and if you cant figure that out, i do believe that supervisor preston and safai and myself will rescind the division one authority that we gave to sfmta under division one. Having said that, i would like to call on vicechair safai. Thank you mr. Chair. I actually just got a text message from someone that was in the queue waiting to Public Comment that wasnt able to speak so if its all right with you, its just one person. If we can just reopen Public Comment so we can speak out i would appreciate that. Without objection well reopen Public Comment and i will ask for your cell phone records. First speaker, please. Go right ahead. Madam clerk. We have dt pulling up the person to unmute them and theyve been unmuted. Thank you. Caller thank you, my name is doug block and im a Teamsters Joint Council seven and thank you supervisor safai for bringing this item forward and for getting me back into the queue. Id like to gift a little history to some people starting with this boards unanimous support for labor harmony for commuter shuttle buses. That was not only about protecting workers but ensuring labor issues dont interfere with our residents and businesses and it became relevant when sfmta was developing the permit program for e scooters because as weve heard, not only with were the Companies Operating illegally in sf they were violating state labor laws. We reached out to all the companies at that time and move of them including lime and bird politely nodded and then walked out the door and went back to business as usual. Only one company has risen to the challenge and when do you see labor on the same tied as the chamber . You heard from the workers who were taking care even when the pandemic hit earlier this year and theyre district employees of spin and our members of the steam terse and contracting out with staffing you need to receive to the way to keep workers from joining together in union. To us, this is putting our money where our mouth is. If we value good Labor Relations in the city and our permit process should reflect that and we should reward good corporate behavior not the bad. Thank you, very much. Thank you mr. Black, that was no spin whatsoever. Is there any other members of the public who would like to comment on this item . Thank you mr. Chair. There are no more callers. Ok. Seeing that Public Comment is closed again. Any final words from vicechair safai . Thank you, i appreciate your support, chair peskin. I know that you have quite a bit of history in this area and as you said, article, these articles were conveyed from the board of supervisors so the sfmta with trust. I also agree and i think the team has done as best a job as they can under the circumstances but i do want to say some of the stuff has been very clear that we need to raise the bar. We need to be clear in terms of how were going to achieve labor harmony and ask the companies to achieve those goals and how were going to distribute and deploy these scooters all over San Francisco and its a value that we have. How we hold them accountable and ask them to hold their customers accountable and we shouldnt be in the business of rewarding and allowing to expand these permits otherwise what are these tap address there for so i look forward to having the draft permits sent back to our office for the conversation of the sfmta and asking them to ensure that since they are having by weeklweekly meetings and they he information that shows these companies should meet the tenants of labor harmony as well as the other things weve listed out today, when do you have the ability to suspend permits, you need to use that tool. Otherwise, we might have to do exactly what supervisor peskin has said which is bring this authority back to the board and be the bad guy. I do agree, 40 is a significant number of respondents that would be not using sungel occupancy vehicles as a former transportation so thats a significant number statistically that are not using vehicles, which i think is a shared goal of this city. Which need to do better in holding them accountability and we can do that collectively. So thats it, i appreciate it. What i would say is maybe we can continue this item to the call of the chair or you are going to transfer it over to the dao, thats fine. You can do that as well. I do want the item to come back and have an update if these entities will go to if this item goes in front of the sfmta board of directors. Understood mr. Vicechairman. Supervisor preston, any comments before we close this thing out . No. All right. So, id like to make a motion to duplicate the file, which i can do in my sole and absolute right and then id like to make a motion to move it to the Oversight Committee which committee has the power to make individuals and companies testified under penalty of perjury. On that motion, a roll call please, madam clerk. [roll call vote] so weve duplicated the file and on the motion wait, that would be the motion to send the duplicated file inform the government audit and Oversight Committee. On the motion as stated [roll call vote] i have three ayes. I would like to continue the motion that remains in committee to the call of the rare and on that motion a role call roll ca. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. You have three ayes. They gave us the bird and now were back in the game with that, we are adjourned. Lesb ri by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. I came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [ ] hello, friends. Im the deputy superintendent of instruction at San Francisco unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. What you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our San Francisco teachers for our students. 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