Looking into meridians future she says she wants to keep doing the same thing that she has been doing since 1989. To enlighten and disturbed. I really believe that all the arts have a serious function and that it helps us find out who we are in a much wider sense than we were before we experienced that work of art. Shortly. President farrell good morning. Welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. My name is sean elsbernd, chair we are joined by Supervisor Scott Wiener and board president id chai and today we have supervisor mark ferrell sitting in. Our clerk is alisa miller. Please read one and two. Alisa miller item 1 is a miewn operations performance item 2 is urging muni to prioritize eligible funds for maintenance. Vice president elsbernd do you havex supervisor wiener thank you, mr. Chairman. I along with supervisors farrell, and carmen chiu to hiement this for muni to maintain its vehicles and invest in the system. Muni service ha
Committee. My name is sean elsbernd, chair, we are joined by supervisor chai and today we have supervisor mark ferrell sitting in. Our clerk is alisa miller. Please read one and two. Alisa miller item 1 is a miewn operations performance, item 2 is urging muni to prioritize eligible funds for maintenance. Vice president elsbernd do supervisor wiener thank you, mr. Chairman. I along with supervisors farrell, and carmen chiu to hiement this for muni to maintain its vehicles and invest in the system. Muni service has been deteriorating and it has to stop and it needs to stop now. Muni is part of the life blood of san francisco. It carries approximately 600,000 people every day. For many people, particularly low income people, working class, people and seniors, muni is often the only way to get around. Given critical importance of muni to the daytoday life the voters in 99 voted to make sure sheuns top priority is to provide safe and convenient Transit Service to all neighborhoods. This isn
Vehicle procurement. Right now, the majority of our fleet, or a great portion of the fleet thats towards the end of its useful life, and with a more its useful life, and with a more regular procurementg< entire fleet ages all at once. As i said, we are prioritizing for the fleet but for the rails, for the i dont have head wires, the other things that support liability of the system. And ill give you some examples the core infrastructure, were working on improving the system speed and reliability. We are currently with funding from prop b, the streets bond from last year, we have funding for transit signal priority, we have the travel time reduction projects that are part of the transit effectiveness project currently undergoing environmental review. That review should be done within the next year or so. And then we will have a number of projects that will help make the service that we do have on the street faster and more efficient. Were identifying areas to dedicated transit lanes and
Service on muni. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please im joni also am a professional musician with the San Francisco opera and battle ive been working with them since 1979 thank you for this hearing. I do want to reiterate what my colleague william said and speak to the balance between night Time Transportation and short term or Parking Spaces in the civic center its been in good balance up until 5 years ago until the states property got sold. Were competing as employees with our patrons for parking and they still are not quite on board with transportation as it exists today and we applaud any way to improve that mix. This balance any effect our companies the symphony is a balance to keep to going interest attests night time and people are concerned with their saved we have musicians that carry valuable instruments to and from work maybe more designated parking on the street for van pools we have a lot of employees that carpool and if they have a place to park that would be open
Well have wonderful things happening were seeing thousands and thousands of vehicles on the streets that are not licensed to be there that are making it dangerous for pedestrians especially. Its they are closing the congested areas to taxis 4 to 1 if you need a taxi youre looking at down the street at the 50 cars and only a future of them are taxis. Drink folks what weight another 15 minutes to get to their bootie call a 6 years old isnt going to lose her life by watching something thank you, supervisors. I am here to speak as a Business Owner and the expansion for bart and muni across the city would be extremely important as you know parking is hard to come by and the cost of living in the city has gotten up and for a city that dont a great job of flat the Playing Field it as the people that are leaving our businesses late at night they have to take a cab or drive and those who are coming early in the more than for clean up theyre forced to drive. The Police Department being understaf