Spend local money at businesss and make their own lives richer. As you know, car sharing vehicles remove 913 other cars from the road. City services allow us to use resources more especially. This project has the potential to remove up to 10,000 cars and 100 Million Pounds of co2. That is a big deal and im proud to be hart of it. I want to say thank you for your commitment to making this program a reality. I know you have many more hearings to approve of with the Parking Spaces in this first pilot of the Car Sharing Program and a plaud your dedication and hard work. It is greatly appreciated by the san franciscans like me, who want to know that we are supportive of your efforts and want to do whatever we can to ensure your success. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [ reading speakers names ] good afternoon. Im a Campaign Director with peers the organization that hailey is a member of. We launched in july of last year and since then, almost 300,000 people around the world have
Mentioned. As was mentioned get around and instant car sharing allows people to instantly find rent and unlock a vehicle, so they dont have to own their own vehicle. So the benefits of car sharing are widely reported burb its basically there is an environmental benefit, a transit benefit and entrepreneurial benefit in the case of get around. For the environmental benefit, susan from uc berkeleys data suggests that car sharing vehicles eliminate 913 cars from the road. Over the course of the program, hailey mentioned an opportunity to eliminate 10,000 vehicles. For the transit piece, what that means ultimately, in fact, while one parking spot will be used there is the opportunity to free up 10,000 parking spots. But more than that, the Research Also shows that people who use car sharing us elactually use Public Transportation more, walking more and, in fact its totally in line with the transit first policy and should actually be beneficial to the transit agenda rather than in conflict w
Know this prop g was all you guys want to do is fulfill your corporations downtown, the corporations dont vote. People back here do. So in closing, we have to change the formula of how this board is being governed or appointed. So we do have a Ballot Initiative to put on the ballot, to change the formula, so the community can have a voice. Anybody else who wishes to address the board. Good afternoon. Thank you, i didnt expect to comment on this hearing the testimony, i am a 37year driver at desoto and the experience he speaks of is real and i want to reiterate its an extremely serious situation and formula for disaster. Thank you. Thank you, next item. The consent calendar all items are considered to be routine unless a member of the public or member of the board wishes to have the item severed and considered separately. We have received a request item 10. 4 regarding the car share vehicles and 10. 11 with regard to the Development Agreement between the city and county and Visitacion V
Negotiations table has a totally different attitude. So what you are saying here is totally insulting. It is totally insulting. And its hard for me to believe that none of you on the board knew about what was going on. This is a calculatedattack on the Biggest Minority Group of employees in the city, period. If you guys really want to help us out, really appreciate the work that the men and women are doing day in and day out for this agency, you would give us a fair contract. Thank you, mr. Williams. Anyone else wish to address the board on public commenting . Seeing none. Does anyone else wish to address the board . If so, please fill out a good. Good afternoon, im a former transit operator. From what i understand what you are presenting to this membership is ridiculous. Based on what we need to do, what we had to do out there, we had no restrooms. We have female operators ducking between coaches, urinating between two coaches. These are the conditions and you want to shove some ridic
Expected mother and her friend. Good evening. Im pat lawson muse. And im wendy rieger. Were going to start with allegations against a chief of staff. He is now on unpaid leave connected to a child important investigation. News 4s chris gordon is live. Reporter good evening. Police urammed down his door an then he spent the rest of the day watching police go through the rest of his belongings. The police removing the senate aide from his home this afternoon. He was in handcuffs as he was taken into custody by police. Loaded into an Unmarked Police car and taken away. They rammed open his front door and started collecting evidence. This morning just a little bit before 7 00 i heard pounding on the door and somebody saying police open up . I was like what is going on . I opened up the window and looked out and it was surrounded with unmarked cop car ls. Reporter the u. S. Postal Inspection Service says all documents are currently under seal. The team of investigation tors removed more tha