restorations, we successfully completed the timely installation of new rails, bus shelters and traffic signals for the saint francis circle rail replacement project. we held a conference on september 3 for the completion of the project. we were joined by supervisor mirkarimi and director beach. they were both in attendance. and director oka, that's right. director oka also that's what in attendance. we truly appreciate their support of what was a very complex project that started back on may 8, and then concluded ahead of schedule and on budget this september 4. and i think i'd like to take the time to thank both mayor newsome as well as supervisor elsberg for their leadership in terms of this project. they had significant impacts on residents and business owners in that area. and in the saint francis circle area. through their leadership we were able to work with the community and develop, one a good working relationship with the beginning. and it helped and carried

through during the project when there were any types of issues to deal with. at this time, carter or john, if you have anything you'd like to add to this project, but it was a collaboration between our construction -- capital construction and program area along with muni operations and our sustainable streets operations. and clearly all boats got lifted in that intersection in terms of improvements for pedestrians, for transit users, for bicyclists as well as those who use automobiles. it was a significant improvement in infrastructure in that area. any questions from the board?

chairman nolan: congratulations. you did a great job working together. >> and as if we didn't have enough on our hands, in july we announced preparations for installing new ticket vending machines in clipper fairgates in nine of our metro subway stations. i'm pleased to announce that we are proceeding on schedule with the first metro station civic center being operational this week. we are currently on schedule with that project with the remaining eight metro stations opening as follows. the week of september 6 we will be implementing the station up and running. september 13, castro and church street stations. the week of september 20, embarcadero, montgomery and for rest hill stations. and then the week of september 27, west portal and van yes, sir -- vanesse stations. once operational, customers will be able to enterwe are a tap of their clipper card. and our customers who maintain paper passes will be able to use temporary swipe readers which will be installed on top

of the new fairgates. and customers who wish to pay their fare with cash will do so either by purchasing a clipper card or a limited use ticket at the new muni ticket vending machines. so we have a host of capital projects that are underway to rebuild the system and get us in a state of good repair. and the next project i need to bring to your attention is related to our california street cable caroline which will be a project that -- cable car line, which will be a project starting september 16 this year-long project will renovate the california cable car system as well as make street improvements on california streets. this project has an overall budget of $24 million. and it will proceed in two phases. phase one includes the installation of an 88 curb street and seier repair work performed by the department of public wrks at various locations. -- -- works at various locations. phase two will finish in the summer 20611. this includes electrical,

mechanical, utility and street repaving work that will require a temporary shut down of the california cable line. there will be bus shuttles during this phase. and as it relates to the one california route there will be no impacts to that route. it will remain in service as it currently operates. however, another major project that is coming down the line as it relates to the muni operation as well as our traffic and pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure. the next item i need to present to you is related to our american recovery and reinvestment act funding. i will be asking carter to give you an update on these projects. as you're aware, we have been awarded more than $90 million in the funding to rehabilitate, update and renew our transit vehicles, facilities, and vital systems. this stimulus funding has enabled the m.t.a. to advance some key capital state of good repair priorities that clearly

would otherwise have been deferred or delayed due to lack of funding. to date we have spent over 58% of our funding and have created approximately 800 jobs within the bay area. that being said, i've asked carter to give you a short update on the agency's utilization of the stimulus funding. carter? >> good afternoon once again, mr. chairman, directors mr. ford. the sfmta has received over $9230 million -- $90 million in stimulus funding. we received three grants totaling $90 million in the past year. in addition, through the california department of transportation we received $539 ,000 from the transportation enhancement funds for pedestrian improvements. the agency has placed these funds to good use. we've focused on 16 programmatic activities. and we've issued 14 contracts.

four were professional services contracts, three were construction contracts, and seven procurements. and we also self-performed the maintenance and preventative maintnans for utilization of these funds. recently from the federal government we received word that the sfmta ranked fourth among -- fourth in the nation among top agencies in overall jobs creation through the use of the funding. a total of 1,833 jobs were created or sustained. and of that, over 800 jobs were created by the use of this funding. in addition, we received word that the sfmta ranks sixth among top agencies in the nation for total job hours locked. as of august 1, 1,025,000 cumulative jobs logged on our

programs. and finally, on this sheet, we also were very successful in the participation for small business enterprise. we achieved a 15.2% in our contracting. the second sheet that i want to show you, there's a lot of information. but i think it will give you a snapshot of the programs that we utilize the funding for. the first group which is in blue are the federal transit repair funds. we unitize them for 14 of our programs ranging from the replacement of the cable all the way down through our preventative maintenance operations. we've completed and billed most of our projects. most of them are mid-term projects, which will take a year plus. there are several on here, the door steps and reconditioning and the truck repair which will take four to five years to expend the funding.

however, we will focus our billing of the funding as our first priority and then the other grants that support as the secondary funding. the bottom of the page shows the two initiatives where we utilize the transportation enhancement funding for pedestrian improvements. the pedestrian signal upgrade and the inner sunset traffic calming. we're not stopping there. we intend to complete all of these, complete them timely, and expend the funds. however, the grants unit within the agency are pursuing other stimulus funding. there are different levels of stimulus funding available. and we're actively pursuing those as well for new initiatives. and i'll be happy to answer any questions. i realize this is fairly detailed. chairman nolan: thank you. members of the board? >> well, we put the stimulus money to good use here.

>> i have to thank the board. if you recall, when there was first discussions regarding the economic stimulus package, you know, one of the key activities was to make sure that this money -- you know, projects identified, which we had plenty of projects that needed fudgeding. but then also the procurement process. if you recall, you made some administrative changes that helped streamline the process in terms of, one, the staff's ability to get these contracts out on the street, or the r.f.p.'s out on the street. then to get at wards back to this board and through the board of supervisors in a streamlined process. so the economic stimulus helped us through a capital stand point. but i think it helped from an administrative standpoint also. it's showing in the results in terms of how we rank nationally in terms of this funding and expenditures and things of that nature. we are in the process. we've just been informed that we will be audited in terms of our expenditures, economic stimulus funding. that's something that's happening to all recipients. we feel pretty confident that our process will stand the test in terms of that audit.

from the federal government. >> mr. chairman that concludes my report. i'm available for any questions you may have. director heinicke. . i just wanted to follow up. i think in our last meeting, which was a proposal for review and hopefully implementation of a peak time taxi cab. we didn't commit, but it was suggested to me that we could get a report on that within the next few meetings. i'm assuming that we won't have that today. i just wanted to, again, repeat the question. if we can have that even, you know, first an offline meeting with the deputy director, that would be fine. >> it just so happens i signed the memo for the board briefing you on that particular issue this morning. yes, we'll get that out to you as soon as possible. that will be the very beginnings of this discussion. chairman nolan: members of the public? >> moving on, team eight --

chairman nolan: i think we've been joined by several people. if you are here, interested in the question of the bag meters that has been put off to another time. you're welcome to speak if that's what you're here for. but that will not be a discussion voted on today. thank you. mr. murphy? and also before you were here, i was praising ms. boomer for the fine work she did in analyzing your recommendations the last few years versus the agency's response to them. and overwhelmingly we have accepted the recommendations of the your committee. >> yes. and we're tremendously appreciative of that as well. and i do want to thank debra, again. one of the challenges that a secretary faces coming into the c.a.c. as all of you well know in the world of public transportation, we tend to speak in ack know nims.

-- -- acronyms. it takes a while for people to get adjusted to that. we talk a lot about i.o.s.'s and what not so we really appreciate the efforts that she made when she first arrived at the c.a.c. to get up to speed. thank you mr. ford, for noting i had come into the room and wanted to say something about debra. i also want to say on behalf of the c.a.c., welcome to director brinkman. congratulations on your appointment and confirmation. aenwelcome to the -- -- and welcome to the m.t.a. we look forward to meeting with you. we want to let you know that as an m.t.a. director, you are certainly welcome to drop by the c.a.c. meetings at any time that you want. of course that's true for any member of the public, but in particular we always appreciate it when we see members of the m.t.a. board drop by the c.a.c.

see us doing our thing. so that said, i want to convey to you three recommendations that the c.a.c. has asked me to bring to you today. the first is kind of a big picture issue. it is that we recommend that the m.t.a. board request the board of supervisors amend the planning code to require a finding by us at the m.t.a. as the impact of transportation -- impact on transportation. particularly transit of any additional parking supply being created within the city.

sometimes, of course, the creation of new parking supply in the city is pretty benign in its impact on transportation or transit. but we think that when such supply is created that it should stop here first on the way so that the sfmta can review it for any potential impacts on transportation including transit. this is something that recognizes that a lot of different agencies have their -- have a hand in transportation planning in san francisco. and we want as much as possible for the m.t.a. to be part of that discussion whenever new parking is created. especially when it's created on some kind of meaningful scale. i also have a recommendation regarding clipper. we're seeing a lot of clipper cards, of course, on the muni vehicles. and the rollout of that seems to be going at pace. we do want to call your attention to a potential issue with the clipper card that we think needs fixing.

we think that the transfer policy should be amended to state that as long as a rider's transfer hasn't expired by the time they board a vehicle, they can continue to ride that vehicle in the direction it was traveling when they boarded. and let me explain to you why that's important. if somebody has a transfer on their clipper card, and it's good for, say, the next five minutes when though get on that vehicle and they tag their card, they'll get the green light. they'll get the pleasing sound. and they'll believe that they have done, you know, the lawfully -- lawful thing and covered their fare. but if that transfer expires in the middle of their trip and the fare inspector boards the vehicle and says, well, it expired, you know, 15 minutes ago it seems to be up to the discretion of the fare inspectors ato whether that person is going to get issued a ticket. now, there's nothing on the card that tells you how long

you have on your transfer. and even for the fare inspectors, the question of what time the person last board the vehicle is something that is a few pages in on the device they use, as i understand it. so we think there needs to be a clear policy that the transfer, at least on clipper, as long as it was valid when you got on the vehicle, you can write that vehicle as long as you're traveling in the same direction. you know, if you want to transfer again, you need to pay a new fair. but this is something -- you know, we don't want a situation where clipper card users who were using transfers on a clipper card have a lot of experiences where they get tickets, where they formed no intent to evade the fare so we think that bares looking at.

and the last recommendation i bring to you is about s.f. park. we saw a presentation concerning the pilot program of s.f. park which is being expandsed to eight zones. and we just wanted to recommend that the sfmta proceed with the full schedule of the s.f. park pilot program as soon as possible. i don't know if somebody has captured the numbers for san francisco in particular. i know that in many major urban areas the average is about 30% of the traffic in downtown, you know, central business type areas. people circling around looking for parking. and s.f. park really does provide a way to make parking available to the people who need it. and also in the current system we have, which is that a random number of people who just happened to get parking meter spaces get very cheap parking.

and then everybody who isn't part of that random group gets no parking or very expensive parking. and we think evening that out and targeting parking in meter areas to a vacancy percentage is the way to go. so we just want to -- we have made statements in the past in support of the s.f. park program. and we want to make it clear that we think that proceeding with the pilot program is a good policy and that this is something the agency should pursue with all deliberate haste. so those are the recommendations i have today. if you have any questions about them, i would be happy to answer them. >> thank you very much. members, questions? director beach? director beach: mr. nur if i, thank you for your presentation. -- murphy, thank you for your presentation. in your recommendation to

change the transfer policy, as you're aware, the transfer policy on the system for years had been that you can board a vehicle as long as your transfer is not expired. in recent months ms. johnson and her staff have done a great job of informing people that, in fact, this board almost seven years ago changed that policy to where your transfer had to be good for the entire trip. my question is, are you asking this be done just for clipper users or for all transfer users? >> i think our intent -- we did not specify. and let me explain why. for clipper users -- you know, for paper transfer users, the interface is easier because can you look at your paper transfer and see exactly what time it expires. oh, my transfer expired at 12:30. it's now 12:43, so i can tell that it is expired. the clipper card provides no such display. it's just a card. and so we think that that's a problem on clipper. however, we also acknowledge

that there could be ledgibility problems if you had a situation where there was one policy on paper transfers and another policy on the clipper card. so, you know, we think that the agency should look at both options. built -- but at the end we want to make sure that with the clipper cards, the old transfer policy applies, the one from before seven years ago, because that's the only way that we can avoid a situation where clipper card users, a certain number of clipper card users are going to get tickets even though they did nothing to try to avade the fare. -- evade the fare. we think ticketing fare evade sers all well and good, but it should be people who are least willfully ignorant of or deliberately avoiding paying their fare. chairman nolan: ok.

i understand your answer. i think staff is going to have to come back to the board with a review of your recommendation as well as how the implemented system -- while a clipper card numbers are certainly climbing, they're still less than 3% of our daily boardings. the majority of our riders are on fass passes -- fast passes or paying cash and getting paper transfers. think we need a level of consistency for our riders. >> i agree. i think that's an excellent point. think that the agency staff should look at both options. we are seeing clipper card adoption really escalate. i'm seeing more and more clipper cards on m.t.a. you'll see even more when the a-passes next month shift to mandatory use and when other pass categories down the road

shift to mandatory use. obviously those people aren't effected directly because they right-hand using transfers. but i think as we see other people using clippers, people will start buying cards and start using them for cash fares . we want to head off this problem before it's a big problem. it's still 3% of the customers. and before it's 30% or 50% or 80%. chairman nolan: thank you. thank you mr. murphy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> moving on, item nine. public comment, an opportunity for members of public to address the board on matters that are within the jurisdiction of the sfmta but not on today's calendar. two minutes. you have three people who have expressed their interest. jim gillespie followed by roxanne and then herbert.

>> thank you, chairman, members. i'm jim gillespie of yellow cab. the reason i come before you today, i want to leave something with you. coming up later this year will be a hearing that the tax division will hold. it's pore public convenience and necessities that determine cab usage here in san francisco to determine if more cabs are needed. peak time cabs as director heinicke has mentioned. my manager of our radio room dispatch office put together an extensive report, a detailed report, anyway that shows the yellow cab for this first half of this year, all the calls that came in on our phone system, all the trips that were taken by the drivers every time a meter was turned on. and really evaluates the whole service of the yellow cab. we represent over a third of the cabs in the city. so it's quite a good sampling

of what would be happy here in san francisco. i'll leave the details of the report to you. i'd like to maybe just say in an overview process -- sufficient there. you'll be interested to see that as much as we're trying really hard to service the people here in the city, quite a few people are not receiving calls. i think you'll be astounded at the number of calls that come in for service that we take and those that aren't received. one tidbit from it there's probably the drivers and the meter going on that represents -- they take one radio call, then they take three flags. so about only 25% of the trips that they take in the day are radio service. so bottom line, what you'll see from the report, is we're in need of more taxis here in san francisco. but i'd like to leave that for your perusal. we'll review it i'm sure, later this year. chairman nolan: thank you very much.

>> roxanne, followed by herbert. and if there's anyone else who wishes to address the board, if you could fill out a speaker card and hand it to me, i appreciate it. chairman nolan: good afternoon. >> thank you. i'm a resident of russian hill, since 2001. i live there with my two children, a 2-year-old and a 5-month-old in some time shortly my children will be left alone and unattended in their homes if that sounds crazy, before you have me arrested, know this. because of m.t.a.'s policy of not issuing residential permits to childcare providers. believe this is completely ridiculous, unsafe. our childcare provider must leave the house every two hours to shift her vehicle which could take up to 10 minutes or more. doing that five times a day means almost four hours a week children are left alone. i'm a member of the golden gate mothers group. we're 3,700 members in san francisco. many of us have expressed our

frustration and written letters and emails to the m.t.a. first and foremost, obviously the safety issue. it's wrong. it's criminal, really. however, leaving the house with children to shift the vehicle is not practical on many levels, so they're forced to do this to avoid citations. secondly we believe the policy is unbalanced for working families in san francisco. there are many exceptions under the program by which nonresidents may obtain permits, conslats, businesses, schools, military personnel. yet for some reason childcare providers are not one of them. the m.t.a. has a category as defined as person wlozz provide health care or other related services on a regular basis for the applicant. childcare steams fit that description very well. for the childcare providers and the family that hire them, these are legitimate positions that require certifications, experience, expertise, and their full attention to the children. we believe this is an essential service that should allow for these people to receive permits. and finally, i don't believe it fulfills the intent of the r.p.p. program, which is to preserve neighborhood living

within an urban center and discourage long-term parking by nonresidents. so not issuing these permits to childcare providers doesn't seem to fill that. [tone] chairman nolan: thank you very much. we have received some correspondence on that i'm wondering if the policy governance can take a look at it for us. >> i believe we received correspondence from this woman in particular who presented the case very well. my understanding, justify for her benefit, is that through action by chairman nolan this has been referred to staff to revisit that policy. we will get a report sometime in the relatively near future about whether that policy will continue and if so why or whether in light of the comments of this individual and the golden gate mothers group, you will consider proposing a revisitation of the policy. chairman nolan: so with members consent we can ask director beach to review it? >> fine. we'll work together. >> and perhaps what would be an estimate of a time line? in fairness to our agency, this

is an issue that we got your correspondence relatively recently, but at the same time we understand this is something affecting ongoing families on an ongoing basis. so for the benefit of our guest here what would a time frame for that be? >> i would estimate two months, about 60 days. at least two meetings. one to provide you information on the particular issue and give you kind of the environment and the parameters. and then after that to have the discussion in terms of a policy decision. >> and we certainly have her address. >> yes. >> so we'll keep you advised of those things as they're happening so you can attend if you like. chairman nolan: very good. thank you. >> herbert whiner followed by shawn. >> herbert whiner. first of all, i came in late, but, first of all, i want to welcome ms. brinkman to this board. i hope you are a diligent watch dog of the m.t.a. well, you know, i came in late

so i didn't hear the report about the restoration of services. i certainly welcome what was stolen from us that it's been returned. at least part of it has been returned. i'd like to see everything returned. i'd even like to go beyond that. i like to see some of the lines that were discontinued returned. especially the 24. and i am also referring to the two clement bus lines. this is going to be a perennial problem. because my understanding is that it's reeked havoc on 15th avenue. what used to be a peaceful, quiet avenue has now undergone street invasion. this is from the two clement lines. it's been very disruptive. if you move it to any other avenue in the richmond district, you're going to be