Submitted to the clerk, items acted upon today will be appear on the supervisor agenda unless otherwise stated. Er can we get a motion the excuse supervisor mar from todays meeting. Motion from supervisor cohen, without objection. Call item 1. Item 1 is a a motion confirming the mayoral appointment of Eleni Kounalakis to the Port Commission term ending may 1, 2016. And i believe she is here today. Thank you very much. Members of the rules committee, supervisors tang and cohen, im very honored to be here today and to have been nominated by mayor lee to serve as the San Francisco Port Commission, i grew up in Northern California and left my heart in San Francisco bh i was a young girl on a special visit to the city to visit family. My husband marcos who like me is a child of greek immigrant parents was born and raised in San Francisco. We have made our life here for most of the last 16 years, raising our two children and being part of the civic life of this great city. Like many first ge
Any member of the public . Thank you. And we finally get to the next item is the citizen advisory committee. Yes and i do not see mr. Weaver here and so there will be no report. And the opportunity for the members of publicity to address the board on matters that are within the jurisdiction of the board and not on the agenda. We will start with hon su kim and you filled out a card for Public Comment followed by Kristine Rogers and anthony balister. Good afternoon, and directors and president of the cab company. This past week, the city tax and limo system put a seize and desize on the lift vehicles trying to operate in the city. These companies that have technologies that the company likes, and is a technology that we all should be supporting which is booking of a vehicle through a app and we can see the vehicle and so forth. That is not the issue, the issues like the tlc has found is that taking your personal car and acting like a taxi cab without any medallion requirements and inspec
That because we are doing construction and things are going on does not mean that it should hurt the business owner, and we really appreciate the togetherness that the department came together for to help Small Business create parking for their customers otherwise, we would have been in a lot of trouble. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next, please . Howard, straner followed by dave, snider and tone lee, and those are the last people. Directors, this is howard, and i want to give you another update on Driverless Cars and so now it seems that google is in sacramento trying to develop the state rules for these cars. And now they have a prediction, perhaps in ten years these cars will be available with no driver, no controls, no nothing. And but very good, and this is difficult as all of those algarhythms are and tying all of the camera work and everything into the controls of cart and probably one car talking to another car and one car talking to signals and all of that kind of stuff and
Smarter parking management. All of this was designed to help other cities learn from our experience and improve on it. So after that, to jump into the evaluation itself. Demand responsive pricing was at the heart of the project, a natural place to start is how did we effect rates . And many people were concerned at the beginning of the project that sfpark would be an excuse for the sfmta to simply raise rates and even in the context of an increasing population and booming economy, we saw that on average we lowered onstreet rates by 4 . And hourly rates at garages by about 12 . And what you see here is an average rate at meters of 2. 58, but that represents an average of sf metered hours, 30 our meters hours are 1 an hour or less and 17 are 0. 25 an hour and at other end of the spectrum, 6 an hour. Of course we changed rates to make it easier to park, to find a parking space and the core measure of that is the amount of time that it was hard to find a space and how much we reduced that
Help Small Business create parking for their customers otherwise, we would have been in a lot of trouble. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next, please . Howard, straner followed by dave, snider and tone lee, and those are the last people. Directors, this is howard, and i want to give you another update on Driverless Cars and so now it seems that google is in sacramento trying to develop the state rules for these cars. And now they have a prediction, perhaps in ten years these cars will be available with no driver, no controls, no nothing. And but very good, and this is difficult as all of those algarhythms are and tying all of the camera work and everything into the controls of cart and probably one car talking to another car and one car talking to signals and all of that kind of stuff and when those cars come to San Francisco, and they try to run it and someone spends 30 million to provide taxi service because that is what it will be is driverless taxis and you will have to come and s