make additional changes to the rules for m.t.a. employees. i m here with san francisco supervisor dufty: san francisco sean else bernd. can you tell me why you support this pop proposition? sure. right newspaper they are the only group of city employees who have their pay set by charter. by taking the guarantee out of the charter we will ensure a fair and even playing ground when we negotiate contracts and that is to the beven the riders. it is not fair in a climate like this. we raise fares, cut service, yet our drivers because of the charter received a 5.5% pay raise. it s just not equitable and we need the change. ok. if proposition g were to pass how would it impact san francisco citizens? it will impact san francisco citizens by improving the efficiency and just overall improving muni service, by removing that guarantee and pressing the reset button on all the work rules, like our inability to hire a single part-time driver. san francisco is the only city in
enhance participation in our election system. eight states and the district of columbia over the last eight eight years have adopted same-day voter registration and all have demonstrated that there is real added value and benefit, no debt riments, no negatives for increasing and encouraging, motivating soter interest and registration. 3% to 7% is the average voter turnout. that s important to san francisco because we have a lot of participation but in the last 10 elections 37% has been the average. that s pretty low considering the expense we often afford in administering these elections. so with the proof of the other states that have shown all the positives, we went to the secretary of state s office and our own director of elections to make sure would this work well for san francisco and the answer is thumbs up. so i m happy we ll pursuing this. i believe california will follow suit but good for san francisco for being the first to actually make come this close to make
part time driving the inability to require overtime, that will free up dollars that can be plowed back into service and that will benefit all drivers and even if you don t ride muni, having an improved muni certainly benefits the san francisco economy and infrastructure. up next, we ll speak with an opponent of proposition g. now i m here with mr. irwin lum of the transport workers local 250 a and an opponent of proposition g. why do you oppose proposition g? i think first of all there is no question that muni is not functioning properly and needs major improvements but i think proposition g does nothing to improve service or fix immuney. the prop ontse fix muni. the prop ontse say it will but it does nothing to make the service more efficient or even make management more coonlt accountable. within the agency we have a bloated, top-heavy layer of management who is ineffective, not accountable and basically we feel is one of the main on stackals to real form. on stkl
the four elected members occur once a year in four years out of five so that the terms of these members are staggered. these elections are conducted by mail. proposition f would amend the city charter to reduce the number of health service board elections to two elections every five years instead of four elections every five years. a yes vote would make this change. a no vote would not. please visit the league of women voters website at sfvotes.org to get all of your voting information. early voting is available weekdays at city hall from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. if you don t vote early, make sure to votete hello, my name is katie with the league of women voters of san francisco. i m here today to discuss proposition g, a measure that san francisco citizens will be voting on on november 2. proposition g is a measure that would eliminate the current method of determining union operator measures by a set formula and instead use collective bargaining agreement and binding arbi
create a big problem. also there s nothing in the legislation that actually states that that type of vote would need to go on a provisional ballot. assuming that it does go on a provisional ballot, still that dramatically increases the cost of the election because the department of elections needs to go through and verify each one of those provisional ballots to make sure that we don t have multiple votes from the same person or votes from, you know, people who aren t pale real people. so the department of elections is going to have to intend a lot of time, energy, and money to go through and verify all of those. in the past the amount of time you had to register before an election was actually 29 days. bay decade ago we changed that to 15 tase before the election and when that hopped happened the amount of provisional ballots increased dramaticy. how do you think this will impact san francisco elections? he believe that if this measure goes into effect the amount of