Minutes. When you have 30 seconds left, you will hear a soft bell informing you of that and at two minutes there will be a louder bell. So im going to call in order bob planthold, francisco decosta, eric woo, i believe, zel, i apologize if i mispronounce names, something that often happens to me paul, something rodriguez, i cant read the handwriting, sharon gadberry, fillchen im bob planthoalt. I served on the state Strategic Plan because of my knowledge of muni, bart, caltran, l. A. Metro link. Other systems also are struggling with the issue of the cost of youth transit, both monthly passes or individual fares. I raised two kids in the Public School system. They took muni. If i hadnt been able to get a free pass for myself throughnoje muni Access Committee i would have had great financial difficulty. I think you need to stop and look atykjy whats been overlo. Youth cant work. They dont get a job if youre 8 years old. We heard the discussion that maybe seniors and disabled should get
Link. Other systems also are struggling with the issue of the cost of youth transit, both monthly passes or individual fares. I raised two kids in the Public School system. They took muni. If i hadnt been able to get a free pass for myself throughnoje muni Access Committee i would have had great financial difficulty. I think you need to stop and look atykjy whats been overlo. Youth cant work. They dont get a job if youre 8 years old. We heard the discussion that maybe seniors and disabled should get free passes. You know, im part of that constituency, but seniors and people with disabilities can get access to some money sources. Maybe a Social Security pension, maybe ssi, Social Security disability insurance. The fact is youth dont have that access to money. We, who are seniors, or have a disability maybe we can work part time. Account even though two mayors, brown and newsom talked about free muni for seniors they did nothing to really push for it. The last page of the preparation sho
Saw the chart that said 1. 6 million for 12 months. Its 1. 6 million for just five months of the last bit of the fiscal year . Thats correct so we would recommend another it would be probably 1. 82 million of next years allocation for the balance of the 12 month program. Supervisor elsbernd how much is that allocation . That will depend in part on what the mtc commission does. Supervisor elsbernd its 23 of this years allocation but we have no idea of what the percentage is of next year. The staff recommended and Commission Approved 18 million based on ridership. Muni has more ridership than almost the rest of the region combined, more than 40 that thats how we got 6. 7 million. Staff is recommending different options next year and we hope to work with our mtc commissioners to stick with a formula that reflects the usage of our system as this years formula. At the upper end it would probably be on the order of 6. 7 million, but it could be as low as the 4 million depending on how mtc al
Ms. Boomer, on this one, members of the board, because there are two issues today there are not going to be a whole lot of people. What id like to do is to begin with asking a question of the people in the audience here today, how many people want to speak on the free muni for youth . Issue . If you want to speak, please raise your hand. Free muni for youth. How many here to speak on behalf of the [inaudible] . How many people want to speak on the free muni for youth proposal . So, weve got three people. How many want to speak on behalf of how about the central subway issue . Okay. We have very few members, what id like to do is do the free muni issue right away. Thats 10. 3 on our agenda. We dont need a staff report. Remind that you this board the policy we have, we are doing this because the money has been found through the mta and through supervisor campos leadership. So, with that let me ask supervisor campos to come and join us, please. All right. Let me read it into the record. I
Ing please call the role. Director bridget. Brinkman . Present. Director heinicke is anticipated. Director lee . Present. Director nolan . Present. Rib key present. Mr. Chairman, directors, you have a quorum. Announcement of produce sound producing devices during the meeting please be advised the ringing of cell phones, pagers and other similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off in the meeting may be asked to leave the room. And please know that cell phones that are put on the vibrate position do cause microphone interference so the board respectfully request they be placed in the off tion position. Full approval of the minutes of november 20, 2012 regular meeting. Motion. Second. All in favor say aye . Aye. So ordered. Item 5, communications. Okay. Ms. Boomer, on this one, members of the board, because there are two issues today there are not going to be a whole lot of people. What id like to do is to begin with a