commissioner campos: good morning and welcome to the december 7, 2010 meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority plans and programs committee. happy holidays to everyone. my name is david campos, the chair of the committee. we are joined by commissioner carmen chu and committee member david chu, commissioners and john avalos and bevan dufty are

in route. the clerk of the committee is erica cheng. madam clerk, please call item two. >> approve the minutes of the november 16, 2010 meeting and the november 23, 2010 special meeting. commissioner campos: we have a motion from david chiu. is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, if we can take that without objection. >>citizens advisory committee report. this is an information item. >> good morning. the cac hold a combined december and november meeting which will be held tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. to report on any actions. commissioner campos: great.

i know that commissioner dufty had asked that one item be taken out of order. why don't we call -- before we do that, is there any public comment on the citizen advisory committee report? seeing none, public comment is closed. if you could call item no. 4. >> recommend appointment of one member to the citizens advisory committee. this is an action item. >> good morning, committee members. transportation authority. by way of background, we are an 11-member citizen advisory committee. each member serves two years. committee recommends the authority board appoints members to the committee. we have two vacancies. one vacancy from district 6. at the last meeting, we decided to move that forward to the january meeting to allow the new district 6 supervisor to give input to the appointment. the other vacancy is a result of

the term expiration of glenn davis in district 9. he is here today to speak to his interest in reappointment. commissioner campos: thank you. mr. davis? good morning. >> i am here to seek reappointment to the citizens advisory committee. i would very much like to continue to work providing constructive and critical analysis to the numerous projects involving prop k money. thank you for your consideration and i would humbly ask for you to move the appointment to the full board. commissioner campos: great. thank you, mr. davis. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, i would ask that we reappoint mr. davis. he and my office have been working closely since his last appointment, and i can tell you, he has put in a lot of time and energy into this position.

i have found is in sight to be very useful and i hope that he is reappointed. we have a motion by commissioner david chiu, seconded by vice chair carmen chu. without objection. thank you. >> item 5. recommend appointment of two members to the geary corridor bus rapid transit citizens advisory committee. this is an action item. >> you may recall, this year we had three vacancies on the gcac, an ad that time, only one vacancy was filled by the committee. we did conduct recruitment, but at the time, did not have sufficient members to be appointed to the tenderloin downtown area. the committee asked us to do more recruitment in that area to get more applicants in. we are now bringing that item back to you with six applicants. this item begins on page 19 and

the action item is on page 23. we have several applicants here today, if you would like to hear from them. commissioner campos: i think we probably should hear from them. the list is -- >> it is on page 23 of your packet. commissioner campos: david goggin? is he here? >> i do not, but i see three other members here. >> jonathan goldberg. mr. goldberg, if he could come up, please. >> good morning, how are you? commissioner campos: this is an opportunity to simply talk about

yourself, your interest in serving in this capacity. >> good morning and thank you for considering my application. i have been an individual working for san francisco to do by san francisco. we have strived for this message since our inception 63 years ago. as an individual, my experiences with sf and beautiful bring together representatives from many individuals of the downtown workforce, from finance, law, planning, and urban design. i hope to bring together my own background in horticulture and desire to increase the liability and to beautify the urban streetscape. my background in the non-profit sector, hopefully, enhances my ability to understand what

street design requires to go ahead and increase economic vitality, as well as enrich neighborhood connectivity and increase community development. commissioner campos: you are doing great. i know it is a little daunting to come before the committee. you are doing fine. >> thank you. i do hope that as new residents of san francisco, but ever experience i can bring to the table, i can look forward to the future. i plan to be a long-term san francisco resident and hopefully will use my youthful age as a benefit to go ahead and look to the future of what is possible in our city. commissioner campos: thank you,

mr. goldberg. well done. rick hoffman? i do not see him here. alan lovin. good morning, welcome to the plans and programs committee. >> good morning. i am a senior project manager for california pacific metacenter -- medical center. i am a 20-year resident of san francisco, i have workedboth in the public and private sectors, real estate, and land use. i would but the opportunity to serve on this committee. our project is a large project that will affect and will be affected both by the van ness brt and egg geary st. brt. we will make contributions to those projects via our employees use of the transit system and our contributions to the project, as part of our entitlement process.

i think i can bring the honorable experience to this committee, not only because i work for them, but because of my long standing residents, outstanding as a resident of san francisco, as a person who is very much interested in land use issues. thank you. commissioner campos: thank you. albert martin star. i'm sorry -- good morning. >> my name is cia selby. thank you for allowing me to come up here to apply for the gcac position. i am a member of a rapid transit subcommittee which is part of the riders -- transit riders

union. in addition, i am a business owner. i own a business on the market and mason and turk. i have kids who go to rosa parks. so i frequently take the 38 back and forth, at least on that stretch. considering i am also the president of the lower hate merchants association -- haight merchants association, i had thought quite a bit about potentially conflicting forces, such as -- i know the president of the association believes it is important to have foot traffic. if you want to have good merchants, merchants that are thriving, you need good foot traffic. that is something that needs to

be worked on in conjunction with the concept of the bus. one of the things that i might be able to bring to the cac is that understanding, being a business person and someone who is intimately working with merchants who depend on foot traffic, and also, somebody who is passionate about public transport and understands in order to change people's minds about public transport, we have to make it more feasible. one of the major thing people criticize about muni is it is too slow. i understand these competing factors and i hope you will consider me for the cac. thank you. commissioner campos: thank you. albert martin star. good morning. >> good morning. i have resided in san francisco since 1968. i have seen you need change.

most of that time, i have lived in the geary corridor, the tendered lauren -- tenderloin. in the 1970's there was a citizen advisory combat -- panel to the board of supervisors. i was on that and i remember discussing things about muni in general. now we have a committee coming up that is specifically for the 38, which i use all the time. although that is a big, articulated bus, it is still crowded. whatever i can do to advise you -- i have time to look things up because i do not work for a living. i have access to the private mechanics institute as well,

which is also served by the 38. i do not know what the committee members will do -- maybe i will never have to research anything, but i have time to do this. i also helped out on project open hand. what else can i say about myself? i have a college degree, a philosophy major. i am sure that relates to nothing here. commissioner campos: you would be surprised. thank you. are there any other applicants who have not had an opportunity to address the committee? i think that concludes the list of applicants. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, we have a number of highly qualified individuals. i want to thank all of them for their interest in serving the city and county of san francisco in this capacity.

commissioner david chiu? commissioner chu: first of all, i want to thank everyone for coming. you have a lot to offer to the city and body. unfortunately, we only have two spots. i want to thank you for offering your service and i hope that we can find a place for all of you. a number of years ago, i was on the small business commission, and we have a number of debates about the geary brt. i noticed tensions between small business owners and transit riders. i think ms. selby's background in those areas complement's this function well. i think that could be an important bridge to what we want. i also appreciate the fact that she represents a demographic of heads of households, families,

that need to access muni. i think it is important to have that constituency on that body. i would like to suggest her as one of the two nominees. commissioner campos: we have a recommendation from david chu, seconded, to appoint dia selby. can we take that without objection? i thought she did an impressive job. i want to thank her for her interest. colleagues, commissioner dufty? commissioner dufty: jonathan goldberg. i would like to move his nomination. i think there is a value of having young people in the process. i would like to move his name forward. commissioner campos: we have a motion from commissioner dufty. second?

i will second. colleagues? can we take that without objection? thank you. we will be recommending the appointment of dia selby and jonathan goldberg. again, we want to thank all the applicants for their interest and look forward to hearing more from the committee. madam clerk, please call item nine. >> item 9. update on the status of childcare facilities at the transbay transit center. this is an information item. commissioner campos: we have emilo cruz. commissioner dufty? commissioner dufty: i requested this because of my concern about the importance of planning for child care as part of the transbay transit center. the imperative that we plan in

advance. the worst examples that uc of child care and job development programs as when they are shoehorned into an existing facility. commissioners know -- i know some of you are supportive of the measures i have before the board today which allows these things to take place, allowing opportunities for the city to develop a child care. in my opinion, i feel the transbay joint powers authority has been lackluster in their forthcoming about these plans, and most recently, have expressed to me, they're concerned that they cannot identify where the funds come from. ironically, we met over the past month trying to identify a funding gap for the central subway project. i would challenge mr. cruz, whom i respect greatly, to show me a

project that has ever had complete funding. there always be to be -- they're always needs to be things altogether. it is essential we get commitments forthcoming, given the amount of prop k financing that we are putting toward this project. child care will not be an afterthought. we could have as many as four facilities. the tjpa staff are going to be aggressive in partner with the city and other potential funding sources to develop child-care. there is no reason we cannot be ambitious and look at groups like the san francisco international airport, that has 24-hour child care. certainly, with high-speed rail, we are going to see operations

at all hours of the day. i appreciate that other colleagues have met with me, i appreciate mr. cruz being here, i would like to be proven wrong in my view of what has taken place here. i did want to knowledge the city-wide child coordinator. she meets with all of us on a regular basis and it is frustrating to me when we have to do battle over something that should be part and parcel of everything the city does. commissioner campos: we will now hear from the program manager, mr. cruz. >> program manager for the consultant team of the tjpa. i wanted to present the status of where things are and perhaps open up a dialogue. i do have a power point presentation. i do not have printed copies.

i can get them to you today. what i wanted to do was first -- commissioner campos: if you could also make sure you have copies available to any member of the public that requests it. >> absolutely. the funding plan for the overall tjpa project is a bit complicated because the project does not fall into projects which are new start or traditional funding. we had managed to pull together a lot of different sources. thank you for the $98 million from the san francisco county transportation authority for this project. there is funding sources from the three counties that are participating in the organization. san francisco, san mateo, and alameda county. we have a number of funding sources. the two single largest funding

of the program is a land sales and the error grant. you can see from the overall program, the total cost is $1.58 billion to date. that is the amount of money we have been able to get committed on the project. let me go through it two major funding sources which we received a $40 million grant. that was to complete the construction of the train box, the level of the transit facility. those costs are $728 million, so by no means did the error grant go to pay for the train box, but it was a major track -- contribution to make it a part of phase one. commissioner dufty: when the $400 million was asked, did you know that it was going to go up?