supervisor campos: we're back on. welcome back to the government audit and oversight committee meeting. wyden go back to item no. 4? we had asked for more information. do we have that? >> we have a new spreadsheet

many of the prices are less than a penny. several in the 1 cent or 2 cent range. the out lyres are 6 cents. the award all of these papers, everybody that is here, you will get a circulation of 300,000. for better outreach to the neighborhood papers, we will make better use of the newspaper association. and there is an organization called new american media that i understand we will make use of them as well. supervisor chiu: is their

recommendation on if we should move forward at this time or wait for additional conversations? >> i would recommend that you go forward now. we have the information they need unless there is more you want. >> go forward in which direction? as you recommended? >> i am a prisoner of the administrative code on what we can recommend. but based on what the committee and the board have done in the past, i would think you'd want to awarded to all of the vendors that submitted. the number of responses is small. less than half, probably, of the interviews that we have. historically, the reasons that the vendors are not responsive,

and the committee has encountered them in the past and has not consider them a barrier to awarding a contract. >> it could be laid, but some of them were late because they weren't notified in time. and others were compliance issues that they have corrected. >> none of those. the main reason among the average papers as opposed to the neighborhood papers, they are not printed in town. the administrative code is quite clear on that. that is not flexible -- fixable. when it first came in, the only problem is that any of them had was that it was lake and one paper had not registered. the fixed that and we consider them irresponsive bid.

supervisor campos: any thoughts on how to proceed? supervisor chiu: is there a discussion that oca can have with the newspapers as you continue your negotiations with them? gosh we did not negotiate with them. -- >> we do not negotiate with them. supervisor chiu: you just accept the bids. and what is the total price of what we are awarding today if we do this? >> the information that i have, the average spending for last fiscal year was 31-32,000 verso. -- 31,000 to 32,000 or so. there is a month and a half ago.

gosh and projected for next year based on -- i would project less. i don't know how much less. but the board expects to place or spend significantly less money on advertising this year than they did last year. supervisor chiu: i would suggest that we move forward with all of the newspapers in the neighborhoods that have submitted the bid. that includes north side said francisco. supervisor campos: 0 have a motion. -- we have a motion. supervisor farrell: did we have a motion earlier? supervisor chiu: to clarify, the staffers go bayview, the type of press, and the journal for the

spanish-speaking community. maria times in the north side. supervisor campos: we have a motion, we can take that without objection. can you please call an item number seven? >> hearing on the municipal transportation agency's climate action plan. supervisor chiu: just a quick introduction -- >supervisor campos: over to president chiu to introduce this item. supervisor chiu: a quick

introduction, a significant goal was established to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions related to the san francisco transportation sector to 80% of 1990 levels by 2012. we are all concerned about not just a global warming but what we can do as a city to bring these numbers down. and what to think the staff for your presentation. >> i am the deputy director of planning. in the interest of time, i would like to walk through this point. we submitted the climate action strategy submitted to the clerk cozy office a month ago. -- or the clerk cozthe clerk's h ago. it is a very exceptional project in terms of the collaboration with the city department. we have the transportation

authority in the department of the environment that has been instrumental in assisting us and participating in the various strategies and i will walk through very quickly. this is the information outlined to reduce emissions of them as an operator and an ambitious goal for the city to reduce its green has gas emissions. from the operator side, we have a plan that we submitted to the department of the environment and we are well on our way to meeting those goals. i am proud to say that we are 21% from basically purchasing a more efficient transit vehicle. on the transportation sector

itself, it has been a bit more complex and has required a fairly robust analysis of what makes transportation amid its emissions and how much is coming from which node. when we get our analysis initially, we found that automobile travel was about 90% of the emissions from the transportation sector. which is significant. the amount revised because of the methodology, the goals are still there and the amounts are still significant. the challenges are just as great. as a look at the missions for each type of vehicle, there was a pound of co2 per mile.

bicycling is the most efficient form of transport and because the human power of propulsion and the distance you can travel. the agency itself has gone through a pretty transformative shift in terms of how we look at transportation policy in moving towards the pyramid of focusing on walking and bicycling. and the transit rights share, we are really using the automobile for a special trips. here are the strategies we have outlined, and these we felt really fell into three areas. what needs to be done to reduce the emissions through programs like more information to the customers, the man the management of travel through a pricing and oriented

development, making them more pedestrian oriented. within that, there was a need for more supplies. those are really what is needed to underpin the strategies. in the actual report itself, we have strategies that run through. we looked at the potential cost effectiveness of this project and their overall potential effectiveness. each one goes through the various elements. for the interest of time, i will run through them. this strategy was on pricing and the transportation authorities leading the study on congestion pricing.

we have the demand project for parking. the city has been a leader on various development projects and they are really helping us create the demand for more sustainable mode. the whole premise of this climate action strategy is to underscore the needs of transition. what ever we do creates demand for transit and we are one of the few cities in the country that has a system at full capacity. what ever we do, we need to make sure that we have the adequate supply of the transit system. next is the negro the complete streets program. that includes making our areas more safer walking. and your leadership on setting those goals, we really need to do these types of projects to

see those goals have been. this is an area that we thought would have limited input from the city itself, but the influence on taxis and the provision of a lecture charging facilities. the average 10 times more than the resident vehicles in the city. we looked at all these different measures and we put them together with what they actually achieved by 2025. the reason we chose 2035, it is an area that makes more sense all about long-range planning to make sense with the regional plans. we looked at the benchmark of 50% below 1990 levels by 2035 would be 80% below 2015 levels that were also in. even with these ambitious policies and programs, we are

only half of the way there. in conclusion, the board's role in reducing the transportation sector is really these key areas. to continue upholding the transit first policy ha, to really optimize the transit system to really help us create the policies for information and data, to support the efforts of demand pricing that provide not only the behavioral change but the needed revenue to support these active transportation into transit projects. we need to look at reforming our parking policies. and continuing to lead by example of all of the different innovations that we have. we looked at the things that would take a long time to

employment or cost a lot of money. for the advocacy of the board, we put together some things that we thought were a short-term improvements, mainly policy changes that would be coming to the board over the next year with our other partners to have these policies enacted in to get these improvements in the ground sooner. and continuing to put the findings, this climate action strategy will help inform the capital improvement plan. a the climate action plan that is a community-wide program. and other areas of planning that is the community's strategy that supervisor campos, i know you will be representing the city. these are findings that will

help us get to a lot of these decisions. we will incorporate new data and the methodology. what we will be requesting the board to do is to really help us prioritize these short term actions and come back with a more robust set of programs that will hull these various strategies. we will be coming back every two years. that concludes my presentation and i am happy to answer any question that you might have. supervisor campos: colleagues, any questions? why don't we open it up for public comment? is there any member of the public that like to speak? public comment is closed. i'm sorry. please. >> good afternoon, i am the

climate action coordinator with the department of the environment. i want to give you a brief bit of context. supervisor campos: this is not part of public comment. go ahead. i was confused about what was doing what. >> the plan, the climate strategy, the city has a large climate action strategy that we committed ourselves to greenhouse production goals. this piece presented to you today is the transportation section of the overall community wide action plan. lilith at energy use, water use, transportation, and this is the transportation piece of that. i wanted to give you the contact and say it was a pleasure to work with the npa.

-- mta. >> i am a transportation planner at the transportation authority and of wanting to come today to take -- thank mta for allowing us to collaborate with them. we are a leader implementing chlamys strategies. i wanted to take just a minute to put this effort in the context of an important planning effort that my agency is leading. the san francisco transportation plan as a 25-year policy and investment strategy. it is a strategic document that we used to advocate for sentences cut transportation priorities. one of the coal areas is to contribute to a healthy environments. and we look forward to using the

action strategy as a starting point for analyzing the benefits and trade-offs. the analysis is a great starting point, but there is still more work to do where more strategies might center drives. or where strategies and benefits might overlap. we will take on this worked as a part of the transportation plan and consider the strategies in terms of the other transportation goals and needs. we look forward to working with you. thank you. supervisor campos: the key to themta, ta -- thank you to the mta, the ta, and the departments. why don't we open it up to public comment?

public comment is closed. supervisor campohiu, i dunno ifu wanted to add anything. supervisor chiu: i have been doing double duty, but we all agree that we have to -- i think the 2035 time frame is too long. i know we're working as fast as we can to hit the 1990 levels. >> we understood that and we have put in the document of the next three years, the short-term policy changes. supervisor campos: colleagues, any other comments or thoughts? in terms of this item, it is just a hearing. can refile this item?

without objection. madame clerk, is there any other business before the committee? >> there is not. >> meeting adjourned.

>> how big is the space you will be renting? 1000 square feet or less would make a small self-service

restaurant. >> 1200 square feet. >> it doesn't matter in this district anyway because neither one is permitted here. did you have another location in mind? >> i did, but it is less than 1000 square feet. >> it is in the upper market neighborhood. what you can open a coffee shop. >> can i sell bagels at the coffee shop? >> yes, as long as they are prepackaged and not tested. -- toasted. >> what if i serve them from the sandwich press? >> it would violate the planning code and we would have to send in an officer to confiscate your toaster. [laughter] >> can i serve ice cream