Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. All right. Thank you very much excellent timing. Excuse me, sir madam clerk one. Amending the Transportation Police administrative regulation code with the vehicle for hire. Thank you very much and supervisor wiener is the author of this, please supervisor wiener share with us. Thank you very much madam chair item one an ordinance recommending to the regulation of the taxi by the mta they recommended this legislation to us and were hearing it today, the legislation will do several things first 2 repels the out police code in the Regulatory Oversight of the taxi through the transportation im sure youre aware of the taxi city also governed under the police code and transferred to the mtas jurisdiction the legislation will also make the mta investigative process around taxi more efficient and expeditious and improve the mtas ability to enforce the various rules related to the taxi industry so the legislation is straightforward that is r
Representing the Police Department 7 core value, truth, justice, 40itude, temperance, prudeants, tolerance and brotherhood. The third and last essential design element is the serbian spruce tree was serves a as natural flag pole. On behalf of the Arts Commission i want foothank sth artist to fr creating these works of art we dedicate today into the civic art collection. Lets give it a round of applause. Lastly i want to thank everyone at the Arts Commission who made this possible jd belltram and [inaudible] as well as the staff, the director of Public Art Program and civic art collection, suzian [inaudible] project manager jennifer [inaudible] and marby chew as well as jennifer crane and head of sichb civic Design Review [inaudible] finally we would like to thank brian [inaudible] on the work of the instultation. Is brian here . Congratulations to these artist and all that work in the beautiful building. I hope you enjoy these wundserful memorial out in the out door space sphupon enter
Each. Is there anyone who would like to speak on this item . Ronald rabine, i wish some of the tenants had stayed here. I think this is another step of putting commercial uses ahead of the right of quiet enjoyment. The gentleman said theres protections against turning third floors into businesses but i dont know what those protections are. It seems to me theres no chamber of quality of life, theres no chamber of quiet enjoyment, we might need that. But the idea that business above all and let our space earn money more than let someone quietly live there is a wrong concept and they do this on the railroads too, of course, freight before passengers. I think this is a wrong trend and i urge a no vote on this and im sorry supervisor campos brought this up. Is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, can we move this forward without objection . Thank you. Mr. Clerk. Item no. 5 is an ordinance amending the police code reg
Ago at 17th and tejaro the Police Department moved into the facility there and getting that particular building up to speed, the entire infrastructure had to be replaced because all the copper and electronics had been stripped from the building. We welcome the legislation, we think it brings things in line, San Francisco in line, with what is done statewide by redefining what a junk dealer is. And like often is the case with abc violations and premises that are required to be licensed by the abc, it affords the chief of police and the department and persons like myself at the station level to suggest conditions on permits should an individual who is permitted run afoul of the existing legislation. Thank you. Thank you very much. I do want to bring one technical before you to your attention, change the date the existing permit expires from the end of this calendar year to june 30, 2013. You have in the packet that i circulated to you, in front of you, it reflects this change, this proce
Without objection . Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor cohen. Mr. Clerk, can you call the last item . Item no. 6 is a hearing on the municipal transportation quarterly progress on increasing and improving tax service. Scott wiener. About a year ago i submitted a hearing request to request quarterly updates from the Municipal Transportation Agency about taxi service in San Francisco and efforts to reform and improve our taxi system. If we are ever to become truly a transit first system, muni, those critically important, will never be enough by itself. We also have to have in addition to great biking and ability for people to walk around safely, we need to have car sharing and very importantly we need to have a world class taxi system. We currently do not have enough taxis in San Francisco. Taxi service is not where it needs to be. People still have incredible trouble getting a cab, whether they are visiting the city, whether they are living in the city, and if we want people to