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chair peskin: good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for today, tuesday, january 9, 2018. happy new year. our clerk is mr. alberto quintanilla. mr. clerk, if you could please call the roll. clerk: item one, commissioner breed. cohen present. commissioner farrell. farrell absent. commissioner fewer. fewer absent. commissioner kim. kim absent. commissioner peskin. chair peskin: present. clerk: commissioner ronen, present. commissioner safai. present. commissioner sheehy present. tang present. we have quorum. chair peskin: all right. could you, please, read the consent agenda and then we ll take public comment on the minutes. clerk: items two to three compromise the consent agenda. item three was approved at december 12th board meeting and considered for final approval. staff is not planning to present, but presenting if desired. if a member objects, any items can be removed and considered separately. chair ....
was supervisor ronen. we need to have a fair democratic process that goes along with this. this is not about identity, this is about fair process. right now, san francisco has seven out of ten homeless people that once had a roof over their heads, one of the worst income inequalities in the world. the average latino family in the district making $25,000 a year, yet we have white people making 150 k a year. we can house all of these people, but we need to have a fair process, and right now there s a lot of trauma that goes on with the residents of san francisco because they don t feel they can trust that democratic process right now. we need to appoint an incident ram mayor and get a legally binding contract with the city and county of san francisco so that way we don t have this caretaker mayor that can actually run in the future, so that s all i m saying with that. but i really urge the city and county of san francisco to have a fair process. that way, it s unbiased, w ....
another huge area of concern, of course, is parking demand. and here we find that the consultants and the city consistently point to the ineffective existing residential permit parking program as a swlugs to parking demand. solution to parking demand. one of the big problems with that program is it doesn t work which is one reason the city has been attempting to revise it the past few years. the other big problem with it is that it puts the entire burden of cost on existing residents. the coast for the permits and the time to collect signatures. the program should be borne by the developers just as the shuttle to operate during the city college and balboa park station should be included. thank you. chair peskin: next speaker. public: steve park. the balboa reservoir project will bring a traffic bomb the likes of which the neighborhood has never seen before. it is crucial that this be managed correctly. the tdm reports to reviews vehicle mile trips in the balboa pr ....
be necessary before an actionable plan is put together. and the document includes some lessons learned on how to collect that data in the future. just a couple of examples of those 45 recommendations include student transit pass similar to what sf state passed last year. shared parking project on the balboa reservoir for student parking as well as residents, as well as senior ride matching programs and other services like escort services to serve the neighborhoods in city college itself. and the final chapter gets to one of the community s most clear concerns and that is the first mile access along ocean avenue. and their recommendations about improving pedestrian and bicycle safety on ocean avenue. and so, ultimately, this is the start of an ongoing conversation and there are many public venues to continue that conversation. primarily at the balboa reservoir cac, which will be reviewing the reservoir s own future transportation plan and tdm strategy. there will be coor ....
happy new year. our clerk is mr. alberto quintanilla. mr. clerk, if you could please call the roll. clerk: item one, commissioner breed. cohen present. commissioner farrell. farrell absent. commissioner fewer. fewer absent. commissioner kim. kim absent. commissioner peskin. chair peskin: present. clerk: commissioner ronen, present. commissioner safai. present. commissioner sheehy present. tang present. we have quorum. chair peskin: all right. could you, please, read the consent agenda and then we ll take public comment on the minutes. clerk: items two to three compromise the consent agenda. item three was approved at december 12th board meeting and considered for final approval. staff is not planning to present, but presenting if desired. if a member objects, any items can be removed and considered separately. chair peskin: is there anyp on item two, the minutes of december 2017 meeting, mr. rice? public: yeah. i want to point out and explain part problem ....