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SAN FRANCISCO MINUTES Friday, January 20, 2012 SPECIAL MEETING COMMITTEE Jerry Lee, Chairman Edward D. Reiskin Roberta Boomer If a member or members of the Municipal Transportation Agency's Board of Directors, who are not a member of the Policy and Governance Committee attends and participates in this meeting, that Committee meeting shall also constitute a special meeting of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors, which shall be chaired by Director Lee, Chairman of the Policy and Governance Committee. ORDER OF BUSINESS 1. Call to Order The meeting was called to order by Chairman Lee at 9:02 a.m. 2. Roll Call Present:
3. Approval of Minutes On motion to approve the minutes of the November 18, 2011: unanimously approved. 4. Director’s Report No report. 5. Public Comment Edward Mason discussed the impact that commuter buses have on public transit and traffic and relayed an incident that occurred at 24th and Castro Streets. He urged that the TEP include these David Pilpel stated that since Tuesday’s meeting, he looked at the real estate contract. It looked like a “who’s who” of former MTA or City people at high rates. There may be at least one conflict of interest. Rudy Nothenberg was appointed to the Bond Oversight Committee. He asked staff to look at that issue and see if there’s a conflict. Director Reiskin suggested that it would be good to present the Transportation Authority’s study of commuter and tour buses to the committee. 6. Presentation, discussion and possible action of upcoming SFMTA Board/Parking Authority Commission items. (No explanatory documents.)
Tonia Lediju and Kathleen Scoggins, Controller’s Office discussed the SFPD, DPW, Treasurer/Tax Collector, 311 and the City Attorney’s response to the audit. No public comment.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Ed Mason asked about the age of the workforce and whether the agency can replace the workforce with people who have the skills and knowledge to do the work. He asked if the SFMTA was reaching out to schools to entice them into jobs and wondered whether the SFMTA can fill positions with adequately trained personnel when people retire.
Jay Primus, Finance and Information Technology, presented the item. No public comment.
Jay Primus, Finance and Information Technology, presented the item. PUBLIC COMMENT: Cammy Blackstone, Sup. Carmen Chu’s office spoke in support.
On motion to support this item returning to the SFMTA Board for their consideration: Approved: Ayes – Brinkman, Lee and Oka No public comment.
John Haley, Director, Transit Services, summarized the report. PUBLIC COMMENT: Edward Mason spoke about the intrusion into the subway by a private vehicle and suggested installing prongs to prevent vehicles from entering. Jeremy Miller stated that Operations needs to take into account the safety of passengers. The current set up of Muni security includes discriminatory practices where trains are being patrolled. There can be extreme abuses such as the tragic shooting last year. He added that he had requested public records last October that has not been addressed. 7. Presentation, discussion and possible action regarding the operation of the SFMTA Board of Directors/Parking Authority Commission. ADJOURN – The meeting adjourned at 10:37 a.m. Submitted by: Roberta Boomer The Ethics Commission of the City and County of San Francisco has asked us to remind individuals and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Lobbyist Ordinance [S.F. Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code section 2.100 et seq.] to register and report lobbying activity. For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the Ethics Commission at 415-581-2300; fax: 415-581-2317; 25 Van Ness Ave., Suite 220,, SF, CA 94102-6027 or the web site: sfgov.org/ethics. |
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