Yaki (until recently Transportation Committee chair) wants it too.
What do YOU think of this? You can let their offices know:
554-7601 (Brown), 554-7901 (Yaki).
Andrew
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/hotnews/stories/12/parking.dtl
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> Supervisors make pitch for free parking Tuesday, January
> HOME privileges 12, 1999
> By Rachel Gordon [Image]
> News OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
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> Entertainment A handful of San Francisco supervisors Get a
> Technology are clamoring for a perk that all printer-friendly
> people who drive cars in The City version of this
> Live Views would love to have: free parking. article
> Traffic
> Weather "We spend a fortune on parking tickets [Best Tapas in SF]
> Health and garages," said Supervisor Amos
> Brown, who called Monday for
> Business legislation that would grant him and
> Bay Area his 10 colleagues on the board parking
> Travel privileges around town.
> Columnists
> Classifieds Brown said he was not looking for the
> right to park on the sidewalks or in a
> Conferences bus stop, or anything like that.
> Search Rather, he proposed parking
> Index arrangements at a meter - without
> having to worry about the red flag
> popping up - or in a white zone, much
> FastFind like the parking allowances already
> given to credentialed journalists in
> The City.
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> Supervisor Michael Yaki likes the
> idea.
>
> "Given the demand by the public for
> appearances by supervisors, it makes
> sense," said Yaki, who added the idea
> of limited parking privileges for the
> legislators was worth exploring. "We
> can't run outside every 30 minutes to
> feed the meter."
>
> Paying parking tickets and garage fees
> can put a big dent in the pocketbook
> of a supervisor, they say. Their
> annual pay is $37,585 each. Brown said
> he had spent $375 last year on tickets
> he'd received while attending
> community meetings; Supervisor Leslie
> Katz said she had spent more than $500
> on downtown garages last year when she
> had to attend meetings to help plan a
> multimedia summit.
>
> Relying on Muni isn't feasible,
> especially when there are several
> meetings scheduled simultaneously or
> back to back away from City Hall, they
> say. The other option is to have an
> aide drive them from place to place,
> supervisors said. Supervisors do get a
> parking space at City Hall.
>
> Board President Tom Ammiano said he
> didn't think the plan for free parking
> would fly with the public, and he said
> he didn't expect to support it. "We
> tried this one other time," he said,
> "and it blew up in everyone's face."
>
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