in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test good morning. today is thank you july twergd july, 2013 well, to the san francisco transportation authority. i'm commissioner campos's and

we're being abbreviate by sftv staff >> number one roll call. (calling names). we have quorum. >> very good madam clerk call our next item. >> the meeting minutes this is an action item. >> let's go into our public

committed on the minutes. we'll continue >> no. 2 (calling names) the item passes. >> next item please. the treasure report is an information item. >> thank you. good morning colleagues the authority board will enter into closed session today as we move toward selecting a director. i want to thank the commissioners for logging in a lot of hours.

we have 3 candidates we're hoping to have a decision before august and have another board meeting scheduled july 30th. we'll have our interviews on the 30th and a special board meeting early september to make a decision. i'm working with the controllers office which i called for to help identify what agencies is doing well. the controllers off the is honing in on a few recommended areas consulted with key stakeholders to make sure the discussions are productive. i expect to see a final draft i can share with the board this week. last although, it's been a high

topics the transportation commission adopted plan bay area after a marathon meeting that was for the outreach strategies. despite some of more hyperbolic press coverage it goes toward the transportation development based on the growth areas the 3rir78 growth areas and encouraging you housing for all income levels. those are key in moving toward green gashouse processes. and this is very important. i want to thank our m t c and bay commissioners. currently representatives as well that served on a bag

earlier in a bag development. in particular i want to recognize campos and wiener foyer the successful cap and a trade revenues and state of good repair needs respectfully with the balance for affordable housing. the details will be worked out in the months ahead working with the mayor's office and the regional advocates and m t c to make sure that the cap and trade revenues are made available. those are especially important statements and calls for the revenues that don't come close to meeting our operation systems mostly in san francisco that take the largest share in the

bay area. the mayors task force and the san francisco transportation plan are corporating on the advocacy efforts. and that conclusions my remarks. if there are no comments or questions from the commission we can go onto the public comment >> commissioner wiener. >> thank you chair avalos and thank you for recapping the joint m t c a planning bay plan. i want to reiterate what you mentioned on capital needs. i offered a project that should go to capital replacement and that amendment was adopted. we as we learn through the plan bay area process have an absolutely massive unfunded

capital rehabilitation and replacement need in the bay area for all the transit folks in the bay area interest there's a $17 million how old we have the need to rehabilitate our system so it retains fundamental and we have no funding identified in the plan. a boil of that is with muni and some with cal train. thirty so this is an unresolved issue. when we talk about adding 2 million new folks in san francisco. a lot of this plan a predicted an having a robust plan of transportation and with 17 to

$18 billion it's a real big issue. we need to be focused like a lazyor in san francisco on addressing that. >> i think it's important to mention $580 billion with the pentagon. >> thank you. i wanted to say that a couple of other sub things with the adoption of the regional housing assessment was a debate between conservative groups tea party groups and other groups that don't want more affordable housing in their areas. there was a grassroot coalition of groups under accident entity coalition jobs that were effective so the building of affordable housing with some of the cap and trade money a significant percentage key was a

win. also identifying displacement as a real issue some folks in san francisco were saying that many the equality advocates and the affordable housing folks did a great job in emphasizing how displacement is real and also ooelgd e oakland and san jose so there was great language from my office and this grace roots coalition. they're not satisfied because of the significant displacement that we know w will happen but some mitigations and strong analysis was advocated and i and others supported the equity jobs

coalition though it's not perfect but without the grace roots coalition we wouldn't have had the impact >> without really repeating i think one of the things i'm proud of is to see the level of engagement by the san francisco delegation on the metropolitan transportation commission and a being a baggy believe this has made this plan a lot better and all of us brought something to the table, you know, supervisor wiener and his focus on the capital needs of the system and supervisor campos when we was there and supervisor cowen. i know that even you know when supervisor i'm sorry from

district 5 former supervisor was in a bashgs bag he he was talking about will equity. i think that san francisco has the role to play in making regional planning better and more responsive inform the needs. and one of the reasons is some of the folks that other jurisdictions have to deal with some of the tea party folks who are against any you beyond a reasonable doubt of regional planning we don't have to deal with. i'm very proud of the changes in this plan and very appreciative whether it's representatives from the board or representatives from the mayor we're on the same page on those issues and we're very proud >> i left out we're fortunate that a bag the association has

tremendous staff the new director did tremendous work. i would say that the leadership was effective in getting language in and making really great points through that process. i hope as we work forward to implement the key points in affordable housing and echoing real displacement we work closely with the staff as well. >> very good if there are no other comments we can go onto the public comment. please come forward and seeing none, we'll close >> this is an information item the director's report.

>> good morning commissioners executive director. the director's report is in our two attachments i'll keep my comments brief. the first one i don't need to say much we're going to start again in 12 months. i would echo the comments especially by commissioner campos. this is the first time i've had input from all working together. i know that the staff appreciate that we're able to articulate similar to the sustainable planning and housing objective more easily in other communities. i do want to emphasize that we've got a great grant program that is towards the transit

development but tailor about the need for transportation and housing behalf and beyond cap and a trade and making sure that the bay area has a stronger voice in terms of endorsing the next legislation. we can learn a lot by looking at our colleagues in the los angeles area. we can do the same in the bay area. at the federal level we have a new federal level from north carolina. we've got continued barnship at the federal level and two transportation bills for 2014. we've got the same situation repeatedly where two bills are significantly different we're going to have to have them

compromised. there will be another continued resolution and it's not a great way to do the capital funding. it provides a great deal of uncertain. one piece of good news it's not set yet but both the house and senate appears to continue the full amount of $50 million. and we'll keep an eye on that. i want to draw your attention to the fee registration program. the board approved $8.12 billion and we're talking about the status of the project as well as the funds that were not allocated. there was a promise to the

voters that there was one of the policies the board adopted if the funds are not allocated in the year then the funds can be move forward forward. there's in the told them there's 7 to 12 projects allocated funding. can i add 5 are 5 of them left. 4 are detailed due to the september to december pedestrian so we recommended those funds be rolled over. we might need to work with the chairs office. this is the pedestrian project providing a more direct connection between the rerouted developments that are going on in the field. this has been in limb both but we'll continue to work with the

city college and that's also in commissioner yees district so we, work 3 offices on that project >> thank you very much. 19th avenue transit study i want to note that one of the that attachments you'll be arching on today, this is the realignment we're working on this in kwopgs with the office of workforce development the planning department and the maintenance maintains. there's certain decisions that need to be making and the planning development is working on the transportation commission and all itself city departments got together e together and one of the promises t is 5 hundred though dollar grant it's called the project study report and

that will keep the project moving along. the last two projects are the van necessary project. it's in the register on august 12th. we made a connotation to deter our board action to september that's the september 10th final documents. mta will do so on september 17th and we'll get the report at the end of the environmental report. 3450e789 mta is moving forward with the project. last but not least the authority received a grant for the travel demand management. it's a complicated project. this is a true partnership we're working with the mta sf

environment trying to leverage private sector dollars that are in transportation land management to make it more friendly through a number of different mriltsz. mta has drafted an initial approach to address the muni transportation issues. we will come back with mta to present to our advisory committee and the plans and programs committee in august and september temp. this will be an update at the same meeting. with that i'll be happy to answer any questions >> colleagues any questions or comments. okay. we can go on to the public comment with the

directors remarks. seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an informational item so let's go on to our consent calendar >> items 5 through 17. colleagues if there are any of you who wish to sever any items, items 5 through 17. okay. we can go on to public comment for our consent. okay. we don't take public comment on consent. very good. can we have a change of house let's do a role call on consent calendar

>> (calling names) those recessess pass. >> madam clerk we're going to take a couple of items out of order items from the finance committee. first off items 19 and 21 and i believe commissioner mary has commented on those. thank you chair avalos. claergz over the past two weeks the finance committee has engaged in the bus transit but especially the one in my district that's shared with supervisor farrell and breed and chu. the gary radical bus transit

project. out of the prospective jurors programs i understand the frustration of supervisor wiener and the details that president chiu has discussions and i share those strongly as well. and if you think we're frustrated you should see the folks from the neighborhoods especially those who ride transit who are not able to have the transit bus system delivered in a timely manner. in the richmond district we need a satisfactory and liveable boulevard like on gary. especially the drivers and walkers. on gary you've heard the 38 gary helps 55 thousand riders a day and over 80 thousand in the

corridor and they need the service delivered. the progress to date has been way too slow. i'm very - i'm very pleased that my office and others have been working hard to get this project sped up and the new team within the transportation authority and supervisor breed and my office have been making excellent progress over the 6 to 9 months. the ta has designed many things to mitigate the loss of parking. and new approaches to blend the options like the masonic tunnel and the fillmore tunnel but with the leadership that will

hopefully revicinity the japan town and fill more district to look at the tunnel and hopefully close the gap that has divided those neighborhoods for 40 or 50 years. i'm aggressively pushing a new deadline with the support of president chiu for the gary b r t not for 20/20 as planned as discussed in the past but to open in 2018. so moving those issues and items forward without dlie is critical for that 94 now a aggressive deadline. so those projects will provide a new spine or backbone to the city with the vanessa and expand the transit and bart.

but the bus rapid transit systems as a number of those in administratrix city are an important way to connect up. i appreciate the sharp criticisms that supervisor wiener has brought up to help me and many that so for the the b a r t. so we can complete the virile report and fully develop now a alternatives has so much promise i hope you'll please support that. join me many helping this to move forward >> thank you. we haven't called those items. >> item 19 increase the professional contract by 9 million plus not to exceed 8

hundred million for a environmental rapid gary project and the environmental report slash statement and also the modification of the project. appropriate the m k prop funds for environmental analysis and help the gary project environmental report slash statement. the cash flow distribution schedule and the 5 year program. in the an action item >> very good. i want to thank commissioner mar for his comments and ed wiener during the finance commission. it is a big complex topic and

there's plenty of room for improvement. we intended today to focus on some high-level all the times to you to stand up and get the benefits to the folks on the ground. those are based on a meeting with had with the director of mta last friday. we have a presentation and we have the day-by-day project team here as well. during the past it is very beneficial to have a large number of board members really putting the spotlight because project delivery is effective at the staff level and those are things we need to advocate but

to have the clear board accountability is something we've looking forward >> before you decide to speak we have comments as well commissioner weaning. >> thank you. has been noted i'm commissioner and commissioner chu has raised some concerns at the finance committee. i'm a huge supporter of bart and i hope, of course, b r ts going forward. it's a key parted of the future in improving our transit system i'd like to have a wider transit of buses but b r t should be quicker way to deliver rapid

service and to be converted into the future. we've seen this that instead of being what it should be a less expensive and quicker way of delivering service we're seeing unending process and more and more money being put into the market analysis. and this is money to go into the environmental process as opposed to get to the construction and getting it delivered. so we're not being asked to pit money into the creation of b r t we're asking to put more money after a decade of evaluation and analysis before we get to any kind of project deliver process. that's a really significant frustration. we've seen, you know, this is a

boarder project delivery. we've been getting many analyze about more delay. it doesn't serve our city well, when they have the leadership around the b r t when those projects - they just drag on and on and we sfend more money on the process. it's been a decade and it's completely unacceptable. my question is this is a nice power point presentation why should we - and i guess it states we're going to trim two years off the delivery why should we have confidence this is going