Philosophy of moving to this 100 i understand you made the decision to go into a completely automate the system but were losing a significant value that cant be measured by the bottom line. Whats your response to that . I think its finding the right balance. To be clear we know theres fear but ive been clear and we worked collaboratively with the teamsters, we wont take the facilities down to no operators. Commissioner Aliso Ferrell is down to two people. One at one time of day and a gap in the shift. If theres demands for additional staff this is flexible. Commissioner sounds like you have a petition of 300 customers. And we have been meeting with stakeholders throughout the process long before i arrived at the m. T. A. I cant get a clear idea of how many more cuts you have planned. Theres one slide. The majority of changes have been made. Theres been a few facilities that have not gone through the upgrades yet. Commissioner so these cuts are all based on your overall Capital Development to automating the system . So everywhere you put in the Automated System you intend to cut more staff. Thats not always the case. Its case by case but its been the stacked Parking Program which is the majority of the cuts. Therell be a lot going under construction. That lot goes away. Thats pretty straightforward. The mosconi garage will also have staff cut there. Aside from that, 90 plus and a large number of cuts. It will be minimal and we can provide a full picture of what that looks like. Commissioner thats why we called you here today trying to get a full picture. Commissioner i dont want to cut supervisor safai off. I want to thank him for scheduling this year and thank all members of the public for coming out and testifying today and a number of facilities are in the Northeast Corner of county of San Francisco i have the honor of representing. While i try to use the other side of your house as often as possible by which i am referring to the bus i have been known to park in those garages both within my district and in supervisor haneys district and its about jobs and the customers experience and the relationship but with customers who we directly or indirectly employee and i understand the world has changed with uber and congression and people arent commuting ways they historically have and that comes with demand and as someone in office for 20 years weve not made outageous demands on the city. Weve been pretty darn reasonable and have adjusted to things when adjustments need to happen. And i was part of proposition a 2017 and while supervisor safai and i share some same frustrations weve generally been able to work it out with the good old thing we call the telephone or inperson meetings. And im hopeful in the next few weeks it will resolve itself in the same manner with the teamsters at the table and the customers we heard from. I will say i have gotten fabulous emails from customers that arent teamsters and arent city employees. Im looking for one i got earlier today. I read one in the record. Commissioner if you want to talk about a human relationship is the relationship between the folks who its like going to the coffee shop. You love the person that serves you coffee every important and you love the person that valets your car or makes the place feel safe. Im bummed out because i go to port smith square a lot and we all get called to meetings and events usually that happen on the roof of that parking garage. We all jet in there. And can i tell you, i miss paying that person in person. I have do figure out the dang machine and im 55 years old and i missed the interaction with the person who was my neighbor and knew for years. Im happy to participate offline, online with the mta and teamsters and supervisor safai. I want to thank supervisor safai. I hope we can all come to the table and work something out that makes a lot of sense. And as i said last tuesday at the San Francisco county authority theres growing frustration by a majority of the board not with you, sir, but with your commission that inevitably in the cycle of Human Behavior will play itself out in some way and god only knows none of us want to wake up august 1 and not have cable cars, light rail or trollies or busses and this could be the one that breaks the camels back. With that supervisor haney. The city doesnt directly employ the teamsters. Were not part teamsters we have thirdparty operators that employ them directly. We have a number of facilities. We have the 20plus facilities. If there is a reduction of staff at another facility because of the way the cba works the opportunities have been particularly here the Staff Members have been offered positions depending on how that looks. I cant speak to it directly other than to say im not sitting in to make the decisions but they have assured me no one has lost a job. Commissioner netnet, Job Opportunities are being reduced. The human might bounce from one job to another job but there are less jobs overall. Can we stipulate to that . I cant speak to if theyve reduced other staff but my understanding is they had need for other facilities. Youre saying theyre growing their job demand as were shrinking hours . In this case thats my understanding, yes. Commissioner thats counterintuitive. Ill hand it back to you. Commissioner just for the record and the conversations weve had with teamsters if a position is eliminate order reduced through a city parking garage its been our understanding theres been a reduction in the staffing overall so i just want to say that for the record. I think theres be 100 straightforward in this conversation. This is about eliminating jobs and creating more efficiencies and trying to increase revenue and doing it on the backs of working people. Supervisor haney. Thank you. Also, it seems like theres significant reduction in the valet shifts in response to reduced parking demand. So are you saying that people are using Valet Parking less or overall parking is down and it spilled over to Valet Parking and measuring the number of Valet Parking shifts . Its significant in terms of the number or is it theres a move away from valet as a service that were providing . No, specific to the major area of concern is Aliso Ferrell and that area. Theres three different facilities and southern stockton and Aliso Ferrell and union square i can speak to those in that Geographic Area the demand has don gone down and at any given time theres 500 available spaces and there is plentyiful amount at the other facilities. Commissioner its overall reduction. For the garage ambassadors, can you speak a little bit more about what theyre role is and is that a new role . It is. Commissioner and are you seeing positive results from that . Yes, so we are seeing positive results and hearing responses from some folks here. I want to make sure we are getting it out better and many of the fixed cashier shifts should be roefg the garage. We roving the garage and i heard someone said were not told to stay near the pay machine but the folks should be roving the garage helping peep answering questions, giving directions, walking people to their car. The numbers listed go to the teamsters. If we dont have enough at a certain shift and that call is going nowhere, we need to make sure we have the proper staff to field those calls at a facility during busy times. Thats all good feedback to hear specifically at Aliso Ferrell maybe we need to manage that better and understand that with operators. Commissioner it does seem like theres a disconnect from the appearance people have having and what some of the sense of perspective from where you are around it so i recognize the position youre in so if theres a way to take the speedback and have it inform what is happening because i think its about people and the folks are out there and understand whats happening and want a great experience for the people visiting the garages and theres firsthand experience that can inform steps moving forward. I agree. We hope to have a firstclass parking system in the city of San Francisco. Ill take the information and take up chair peskins idea to have offline conversations and address all the issues. Commissioner thank you. Thank you. Commissioner i want to dive in a little deeper on Aliso Ferrell. When i look at the case study, its not clear to me. Are there Valet Parking happening at Aliso Ferrell anymore . How many were there prior to reducing it . It doesnt sound like the demand for valet disappeared sounds like the overall tickets were reduced at that. It seems like you made a unilateral decision to reduce service with significant demand at that location. To answer, it looked like we reduced staff by about six in quarter one and reduced it down from 19 to 10. About 16. So there were 16 valet and now zero. And how many people besides the valet are working at the facility that were nonvalet perhaps ticket takers or whatever positions there were. How many other people were there . Dont have a staffing schedule but theres managers and janitorial staff. Commissioner im talking about the fulltime staff involved. It sounds like major, major reduction. It sounds like theres very Little People left doing the job of a facility i have to say is one of the most prominent garages in the entire union square area. If you were to put a face on the sfmta Shopping System for a worldclass Shopping System having been to chicago, miami, dallas, austin, new york, boston, union square is one of the most firstclass shopping experiences in the entire united states. If all of a sudden jean people were used to having at least 16 valet and now down to zero, and its this Automated System, you reduced something that was part of a firstclass jewel to something it sounds like people hate it. To me this is a major flaw of the sfmta and the direction of where were going in our parking system. And i havent gotten a clear answer from you on how many more reductions therell be. I want to say this for the report as we have offline conversations would you be willing and i could is the sfmta to having a moratorium on more reductions of staff until we can get a real understanding of how this is impacting the Customer Experience because you werent even aware today that over 301 buildings the flood building, just one building, signed a petition to say theyre absolutely outraged you took away the valet system and thats just one building. I understand you made a decision to invest 32 million. But i have to tell you, my wife parks in an operated valet system and i can tell you right now, if there were not people in that garage i would not my wife parking in that garage. The first thing id say to her is be conscious of where you park. You heard people here today say they parked at the civic center and no longer want to. Were reducing a service on the backs of working people. It makes no sense to me. Are you guys committed to putting a stop to this and engaging with the people that represent this workforce . Because i know you say you dont directly engage in the collective bargaining but the Decision Making has been handed down to companies to give them the authority to make these staffing decisions. We want to make not just a world class shopping and parking destination and i feel we want to be that way. Id like to invite mr. Gleeson back to respond. Were talking about staffing and is there a clear idea how many more cuts will happen . Is there in your opinion 16 valets in one garage and they said a certain amount but the numbers keep getting bigger. Whats your experience in the number of cuts that have happened . Theyre coming without notice to us, first of all. And we found no pushback from laz and emco. They seem to be coming from decisions made at the sfmta and when we sit with them in a couple rounds the fast few months we asked whats the next batch of cuts to expect and we get no concrete answer. As i sit here it makes no sense to me everyones enjoying and participating in and you remove that service and people are paying customers for that service. Whats been your experience talking to the front line people and staff involved in going valet . Have may been netnet . Are they getting laid off . This is disruptive to their families because theyre expecting a normal routine of shift and routine of days off to participate with their family on a regular basis but probably more important and this is absolutely the fact about whats going on in the parking industry, at least in for instance, as theres layoffs some high srnt seniority workers and they bounce around through the entire infrastructure of parking in San Francisco. We represent workers at over 300 garages and private sector all the merk office buildings, all the nearly all the class a hotels. When theres a layoff anywhere it has a Ripple Effect nearly the almost 1300, 1400 workers in this industry throughout the city. Its a direct effect. It affects the expectations the workers can have around the rest of their live, Educational Opportunities with their family and other things like that. Commissioner as the sfmta been a willing partner to have the conversation and how long has this been going on with the sfmta . Weve been concentrating on this the last year. Theyve been a willing partner. They were polite conversations. Commissioner not just facilitating a conversation for lip service. My perspective is theres not been any. Commissioner youve been in conversations for a year and in that time have there continued to be cuts . We had a conversation and then heard about new cuts and thats our recollection within the last 90 days. Thats where we find ourselves. Its been very frustrating. Commissioner i guess i can go on and on. Thank you mr. Gleeson. Im happy to continue this item to the call of the clair. And if its not a conflict im happy to lend assistance in getting this figured out for the time being. With that theres a motion to continue the item to the call of the chair and we will take that without objection. Thank you for your testimony. Im sorry that it got to the point where it to come here. Commissioner with that would you call item 4shgs, 4, our lat item. Clerk by order nan to streamline Small Business permitting by among other things amending the health code to align regulation of restaurant enclosures for Outdoor Food Service and restroom requirements with state standards amending the planning code to clarify that with type 23 Liquor License may be used in conjunction with bar or restaurants use. Commissioner i want to continue this for one week and thank you supervisor safai. Any members of the public that would like to comments on item 4. Seeing none its closed. Ill move this to be one week to be the first item on our meeting of june 24 which meeting will be held on the 4th floor because its going to be all day budget Public Comment on that day so without objection well continue item 4 one week. Clerk mr. Chair. Commissioner of course. Im sorry. I did not realize that. Please come forward. Take your time. Thank you, supervisor peskin. This legislation seeks to standardize neighborhood Business Districts and some would benefit from that. Neighborhood commercial districts wont. We have ncd regulations tailored so each neighborhood. Dont throw out our hard work. Its a mixture of homes, apartments and businesses. And we researched the legislation and the proposed changes in the Haight Ashbury and we heard on what changing the Liquor License hours could mean by allowing backyard businesses open to 10 00 p. M. Or 4 00 a. M. Would impact residences would live close to them and mixing Live Entertainment and games to backyards could be bad for working people. Ive been in the arcade in certain areas and never seen anything so noisy. The legislation may be trying to solve a problem of vacancies and businesses but this is not the way to go at it. Each neighborhood has unique needs and please hold neighborhood meetings to test support before thinking about changing even one of these. Thank you. Commissioner thank you for your testimony and well take this up next week. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item . Seeing none, we will continue this to our meeting of june 24 as item number 1 and we are adjourned. When speaking before the commission if you state your name for the record id like to take roll this at time. [ roll call ] which expect richards to be absent. Item 1 consideration of Adoption Draft minutes for june 6th, to 19. I have no speaker cards. Would anybody like to provide Public Comment on the draft minutes . With that that comment is closed. Commissioner hillis. Thank you, commissioners, on that motion to adopt the minutes for june 6th, 2019. [ roll col call ] so moved. That motion passes 50. Item 2. Commission comments and questions. So i would just like to comment on the hearing that we just had in respectfully request that the Department Come back with the work that you started a couple years ago and improve upon it. Because i think that part of what is going on is that they have been coming up every week begging us to look at the demo calcs and weve been waiting for this legislation and we havent taken the appropriate action. We need to do what is right. Im hoping we can support staff in doing that. Seeing nothing further we can move on to department matters. Item 3, directors announcement im sorry, did you want to Say Something . Im happy to take th