turn riding the bike to work day is a program we have been planning for some time. and it ridgy is now working in the one we have done surveys about things like your or her or her they are serving you bicycle riders, getting them set in place i wanted to comment on

all the items being proposed for hunting they and this is the key

encouragement of the year. in terms of doing that, it is important to provide it on the ground and we are excited, getting out on their bicycles. how many people come bell wall -- market street because there adore and in the morning rush- hour and the count was done as

maria mentioned one month later. 61% of the track indication that this power reaches in his in funding that went into the planning, preparation, and the day of and in addition the time

of local businesses gave coffee and we ella for rome communities. the length -- thanks. supervisor chu: are there any public speakers? seeing no one, public comment is close. supervisor avalos: do you have budgetary numbers for what the mta is currently paying -- d get a sense of what the fda is

saying then hough and the morning. >> good morning, shorthand -- because i do not have a site map -- roughly $5 billion this year. funding is very prominent in the bicycle area. dobbs out of a total of about

$80 million in prop k funds. supervisor campos: thank you. and questions from the committee? do we have a notion -- and motion to approve it? it is fairly important, whether or not we are talking about traffic or safety issues, often times the answer is education, education, so i would be supportive of continuing to include this. we have one motion without objection. >> item #6, recommended appropriation of $100,000 in crop k funds with a condition for the purposes of partially defraying the cost of a management for its audit of the municipal transportation authority board.

>> this is a follow-up to the something that the board dealt with in june. the original item was that with at the board of supervisors and was presented at the time is a proposal for a second phase of a limited scope audit of the mta. the program authority committee was to fund managing performance with funds identified by the board of supervisors. at the time, the committee and the board deemed it appropriate to spend that kind of money on

essentially the largest client of the authority. we proceeded, during the recess, to try to get that second phase contract out for the purpose of having it under way when you came back. but there were a couple of problems in executing that. the first was that i only had a $70,000 budget authority to get going. the second is that the amount of money available in the inclination for pursued was not a quid. we did advertise the scope and we receive one responsive bid.

i felt uncomfortable with the idea of moving forward with a piece of work as uncomfortable as this -- important as this on a single bid. so, we canceled that procurements. at this time we advertise a scope with a maximum of $200,000 for the scope that was initially discussed. we did receive three bids for the second attempts with low- priced bids and a selection process, identifying the preferred bid at the finance committee meeting this morning, presenting to the committee and

a management firm from oakland and there were also bids from other reputable firms, one of them in seattle, the other in sacramento. this would be essentially to match what was not taken in upping what would be matched as a contract side. we will appropriate the extra $100,000 action on the mta.

there is a detailed scope provided for this item. let me see if i can quickly tell you what that is. i can essentially give you a quick overview of what that will accomplish. what i would like to do, prior to that, is give you a sense of the importance of distinguishing between the different types of what it's done at these public agencies. what you would normally find our fiscal audits on the bus -- on the books, often covered under the controllers process. the others get done and do it views with national performance audits as compliance audits. that is what the first phase was as defined by the office of

the budget analyst. those tend to simply look at whether public agencies are following federal or state rules regarding procurements. of course, those do not often yield a lot of useful information as most agencies already procured to get reimbursed by federal agencies or state agencies. even regional agencies. the purpose of a performance audit should be to shed light on the policy issues that can help an agency navigate the problems that are structural and policy in nature. the proposed scope, which was actively develop by members of the board does a scope that

looked at three major areas, looking at the way that projects are done and that facilities are done. the facility area is particularly interesting as it has to do with where the fleet is maintained and the rest of the projects deal with large investments. the fleet procurements is perhaps one of the most critical areas to endeavor for the next five years or so as a complete renovation comes of age again. in this case the process will be priced at well over $1 billion in a subsequent management that is coordinated with funding agencies to make

sure that it is not just available, but is leveraged. it is very crucial to the success of the profits and crucial to the way that the timing of major expansions of the system, for example the budget transit corridors, which can be built and are going to be built with significant federal support, but the infrastructure is not enough. you have to have the infrastructure and procurements in time for opening service. these are not trivial issues. they are subject to a number of internal processes that can be streamlined and i think that the main purpose would be to help identify the areas of opportunity and in the process, hopefully find ways that the agency can improve as well.

in our estimation it cannot be done on $100,000. it can be done on $200,000. if you think about the payoff for the entire process, even though we are not looking at putting this money into a project, we are taking a strategic look at stretching the money that we have. as i explained to the finance committee, there will be an initial consultant of tests -- consultancy assessment early on in october, that assessment as provided to the board to provide guidance as to the steps of the board would like to see as it

needs to be a board directed piece of analysis as it is structured at this point. giving you the opportunity to shape the way that the work is done substantively and shape the report and reflecting the priorities that you have. that concludes my presentation on this. an action item, happy to answer your questions. supervisor mirkarimi: the only comment, not a question, that i would have, this is the follow- up to the first phase of the audit and questions ruminated with regards to having a potentially different approach

from an industry that i would think would be used to doing these transit related type of audit. considering the depth of detail that we would have to go into to make this audit effective necessitates the additional funds being requested of us and are beginning to develop a relationship with those outside of city hall with a more specialized kind of audit. this is a precursor of not just the mta, but later on, as we set out to have an audit of the transportation authority as well. considering what has been going on over the last year and what we anticipate over the next few

months of significant changes, hopefully for the better, is that hopefully this audit will find itself very useful in charting its course towards 2011. supervisor campossupervisor chu. you had indicated that the committee took action to approve the $200,000 maximum item contract going through the process. >> that is right. for the selected better. supervisor chu: do we have any sense of the actual amount at this point as worn out through the negotiation process? >> the preferred bidder was $184,000, so hopefully under $200,000.

supervisor chu: $184,000? >> yes. supervisor chu: anything else from the committee on this? i will say that originally what i saw this item on the agenda and that there was an increase in the dollar amount, it led me to be concerned as we were only going to provide $100,000 for this item and now we are doubling that. from my perspective, i did have conversations about that particular item. the other thing that was convincing for me i am changing my mind was the scope of services we were going to be looking at. if we have a targeted approach in this analysis and we look at the capital management construction project procedures , i think that this is actually something where we could find real savings.

i would be willing to invest the $100,000 to make sure that we are following best practices. let's open it up to public comment. are there any members of the public that wish to comment on item number six? seeing no one, public comment is closed. item number 7? >> item #7, launched with the san francisco transportation plan. >> good morning, commissioners. i am pleased to present this information item on the upcoming long-range transportation plan for san francisco. the current agency for san francisco, we do update the

long-range plan every few years. the first was created in 2004 and this is the first time we are due for an update and i hope to explain to you the purpose of the plan and the thoughts on the visions that need to be addressed. as you can see, san francisco is poised to grow and many of the plans were recently approved in the southeast sector and we hope to add an oakland's worth of jobs and a santa rosa's amount of new residents. many of these jobs and housing units are already in very dense areas of the city. others are in the less developed areas out in the southeast. preventing twin -- presenting twin challenges for us. if we proceed as usual as we are

today, we will be more challenged in terms of congestion as existing areas will become far more congested in the downtown area. the regional trip will also be much longer. as well as on the surface transit. another part of the planning effort is responding to policy opportunities with landmark legislation passed at the state level on climate policy and sent out as a specific goals that we all need to work towards. the city's goals are more ambitious than the state goals for the climate as expressed in the 2004 climate action plan. the 2009 regional transportation plan identified a number of strategies being pursued, one of which we are already doing here

in the public-private priority areas and focus on pricing and regional network development as an initiative that we are studying and implementing, as i have already mentioned climate. in addition we are accommodating these plans as part of san francisco's housing production and as well actively participating in transit sustainability to try to put it on a more sustainable service as well as regional. federal legislation is slower than we were hoping, but we do expect a new transportation bill to emerge eventually and we would like to capture those opportunities as they occur. a quick snapshot about how we perform and what we have achieved since the plan was

adopted, the long-range transportation sets out the city's goals. also identifying investment programs and strategies. we have done a lot of community outreach and have moved many of these initiatives along, delivering key investment priorities. moving along to the next slide, in which we start to list these accomplishments, the potential freeway at octavia boulevard was completed. the network route of transit has been developed throughout the area of project as well as transit, initiating several park projects that were funded by an urban partnership grant. about to get under way this winter.

the authority also studied parking management and accessing pricing study. in terms of other initiatives, one that came out strongly was the desire for traffic calming. in implementing those plans we have done many things to improve our public spaces, including better plans for the city and any number of streetscape project that demonstrate what can be done when we just take action and monitor those projects and how they work out without necessarily taking long before initiating action. issues that we expect we will need to address with full analysis, we still have work to

do to improve how we travel and give people better options. what you see here is how it breaks down in terms of where they're coming from. light blue demonstrates 20% of the trips coming from within the northeast quadrant of the city. this is not a new finding, 70% are coming from seven cisco to make transit more attractive and reliable to give more bicycling options as well. management also needs to be part of that equation. stable sources of funding? why are we not able to meet the needs of the city? it has to do with many things. the amount of funding available

and how we use it and how it performs. the four large bowls -- -goals -- supervisor avalos: how do you think about the goals? >> a good question and a tough question, there is no right answer, but as a transit for this city we had a transit first policy and we were not anywhere close to the sharing. still about 40%, meaning 60% of travel is around automobiles. that is just one idea, but you have other ways to answer the question. like what it takes for an

impasse. probably a big shift in that direction. there are other ways that you can think about it. how do you make the city livable? what would it take? tom was more walking a. half -- what would it take? a lot more walking. dairy is some good work to do here but we have a long ways to go. we are looking to strengthen competitiveness to create healthy environments and world- class infrastructure, so let me tell you more about what this means. it means accommodating not only desired housing and employment growth, but housing diversity for lower income and affordable housing with jobs to provide reliable transit service so that people can live and work closer to san francisco with well-

managed road networks. all part of what makes us more competitive. the role of pricing and variable demand management, as was the continued focus of transportation modes. livability means many things to many people. i encourage people to check it out. is on our facebook page. we think livability means better choices for all users do in a vibrant -- vibrant public realm through the street planning initiatives, of road