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What is Prop A
The Emissions Reduction and Transit Reform Charter Amendment, on San Francisco’s November ballot, brings the far-reaching changes necessary to make MUNI cleaner, safer, more efficient and more reliable.
1. Restructures MTA bureaucracy to cut waste and improve efficiency. This measure reforms MTA’s management team to allow real accountability at the top. It introduces pay based on performance for top MUNI officials; increases the number of managers who serve “at-will” to the MTA Chief; and, for the first time, allows the General Manager to recruit a team of people outside of the bureaucracy – and be able to fire anyone who does not perform. This is the most significant expansion of management accountability the City has seen in decades.
2. Creates clean emissions standards to reduce global warming. To reduce air pollution and global warming, this measure requires for the first time that San Francisco’s transportation system meet standards that exceed those set by the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. It requires the MTA to create a Climate Action Plan by January 1, 2009 with a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from San Francisco’s transportation sector to 80% of 1990 levels by 2012.
3. Increased funding for MUNI—without raising taxes or fares. If this measure passes, the MTA will be able to keep 80% of the money from parking revenue, instead of sending half of it to the General Fund today. This amounts to a $26 million funding increase in the first year to help keep MUNI affordable and reliable.
4. Work Rule & Driver Pay Reform. For decades, transit reform in San Francisco has run into an immovable obstacle – a Charter-imposed cap on salaries that undermines collective bargaining and eliminates the ability of managers to negotiate for new work rules that help make the system run better. This measure removes this obstacle and creates a collective bargaining dynamic where unions have the incentive to join management for new rules that will increase reliability and efficiency.
5. More efficient traffic management. This measure consolidates responsibility for bus stop placement, lane striping, stop light signal control, and most of the minutia of traffic management. It gives responsibility for these technical issues to the MTA, the agency charged with coordinating all modes of transportation in San Francisco. |
San Francisco can have a great public transit system – if we have the political will to make a sustained effort at reform. This Charter amendment is the next step.
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