And that ultimately was, in 1999, as the result of a Charter Amendment, proposition e, became its own independent, what we call the sfmta. And certain powers and authorities that the board of supervisors had relative to Budgetary Authority when i first became a member of the board in 2001, the board of supervisors would literally approve each and every yellow, red, white, blue curb, and i dont know if you remember, but the land use and Transportation Committee used to have pages of red zone 25 feet west of, you know, stockton and what have you. And in 2007, there was a wyatt spread sense of creating the sfmta had not realized all of its promise. And we were at a juncture, and the juncture was should the board of superviso board of supervisors reinsert itself as it existed prior to 1999, or should it hand virtually all legislative authority over to the mta, and i became the author in 2007 of proposition a, which folks in the taxi Community Still dont believe i did not realize would nega
Accidents and dismal customer service. In 1999, there were expectations by the voters that mta would bring improvements. Theyve had almost two decades to do that, but has that happen . Now is the time for voters to weigh on whether the mta experiment has been a success or not. I would strongly urge the board to respect the voices of the voters and place this charter on the june ballot. Let the mta and others make their case in the voter handbook, not in the board chamber. Thank you. Supervisor safai thank you. Any other members of the public wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So as i said, we intend to, and a lot of it was represented today. We intend, both supervisor peskin and i, to have some further conversations with those in the taxi industry at their request. I think we need to give that a little bit more time, so i would like to entertain a motion to continue this item to the next meeting. Supervisor yee before we do that supervisor safai oh, s
Forward as a Committee Report with a positive recommendation tomorrows full board meeting. Supervisor kim, im sorry you wanted to make a few remarks. Actually i was going to make the motion to move this forward with positive recommendation, but i want to thank my colleagues on the land use committee, supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener for joining as coauthors for the ordinance that will prioritize the building of Affordable Housing on lands and properties that are owned by the city, but doesnt fulfill a distinct city use and also want to recognize supervisor avalos, who is a cosponsor as well. I would like to make the notion move this forwards a Committee Report with positive recommendation. Thank you. Seeing that there is no objection without objection this motion passesment [ gavel ] madame clerk, could you please call item no. 2. Item no. 2 is an ordinance amending the public works code to require contractor parking plan [ 689 ] thank you very much. Last year both supervisor far
Folks that need translation, both in english excuse me, chinese, as well as spanish. Our clerk is ms. Andrea ausberry and want to recognize the talented folks at sfgovtv, jesse larson and leo, who will be broadcasting this committee on sfgovtv. Thank you very much. Madame clerk, any announcements for us today. Yes, please science all Electronic Devices and submit all speaker cards to the clerk. Items acted upon today may be appear on the [speaker not board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise state ladies and gentlemen, please turn your cell phones off or on vibrate. Item 1 is a motion amending the mallive code for the surplus city property. Colleagues this item was continued from our recessed meeting last wednesday because of amendments made by the committee. If there are no other comments from the Committee Members would i i would like to take Public Comment on item 1. So lets go ahead and open up. Well start with Public Comment. Please line up to this podium right here. A courtesy
If anyone has who is in this chamber, who does not have a seat, please go to north light court. Also just want to recognize that we have translation for folks that need translation, both in english excuse me, chinese, as well as spanish. Our clerk is ms. Andrea ausberry and want to recognize the talented folks at sfgovtv, jesse larson and leo, who will be broadcasting this committee on sfgovtv. Thank you very much. Madame clerk, any announcements for us today. Yes, please science all Electronic Devices and submit all speaker cards to the clerk. Items acted upon today may be appear on the [speaker not board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise state ladies and gentlemen, please turn your cell phones off or on vibrate. Item 1 is a motion amending the mallive code for the surplus city property. Colleagues this item was continued from our recessed meeting last wednesday because of amendments made by the committee. If there are no other comments from the Committee Members would i i would