central subway last march. you have $75,000 for the fta program. you can see vehicle registration fees year, $332,000. removing the $340 million debt issue as anticipated last year, with the increase of $16.5 million in revenue this year, there will be no need to issue the debt for this fiscal year, 2011. with it that, we are seeking a fiscal amendment. supervisor elsbernd: in terms of decreased expenditures, what is that affecting? he mentioned a swap.

is there a decrease in a project going forward? >> last year we spend more time. -- spent more time. last year we were still working with estimated numbers. after taking invoices into account, we are increasing our voices right now. it is more like a timing difference. supervisor elsbernd: thank you. supervisor mar: any other questions? let's open this for public comment. is there any member of the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed. move forward without objection. thank you. please call the next item. >> item #5,preliminary fiscal year 2011/12 annual budget and work program. this is an information item. supervisor mar: i think that we

have missed phong again. >> yes. i have a short power point slide for you, i can walk you through the different components. and you will get a second look at the budget next month. we will have the opportunity to review the budget with a full month's meeting, seeing this committee in may. the board will also have the opportunity. so, if with the start on the power point. -- so, we will start on the power point. the annual budget includes projection of sales tax revenue, federal, state, and

regional graph revenues, investment income, administration costs, and financing dead purposes. the budget package includes four components. page 32 starts the fiscal year 2011-2012 annual program. here you have the five functional levels of the authority. the parking program, capital project planning, finance, and administration. page 41, you have line-item details. a much more detailed version of attachment a. page 43, you have a detailed

line item description of each of the defense items for the annual budget. we have a pie chart for you here. pegging down the different sources of revenue. you can see that the lightest source is our sales tax revenue. we expect to collect $72 million in the next fiscal year. the second largest is the revenue for bridge tolls of the presidio parkway project. the next largest fees of revenue is the federal funding grant for the ybi improvement project for the san francisco transportation plan and electrification project. the next source, we have

interest earnings of 1.2%, representing $1.2 million in revenue for the fiscal year. the next chart that we have, very historical, showing you the history of sales tax revenue. starting in 2004 we collected 68 million revenues. we had an all-time high in 2007, collecting again in 2008-2009, but collecting plastic in revenues.

supervisor mar: that is including the creep upwar? >> the next slide that we have is the fiscal year 2011-2012 expenditures. 90% is for capital projects and expenditures. the past pay projects, they are sf -- pedestrian, bicycle programs. the debt service expenditures represents the fine surface of the other personnel expenditures, which are equivalent to the 42nd authority.

$2.3 million. it says that $1.4 million is needed for operating expenses when office supplies, a contract, printing, anything that you need to print off is included. what program includes overseeing the prop k sales tax measure program? we also served in that function for san francisco, acting as the local manager for the tsa funds program. this year the administrator florida new cop program. in case you apply for strategic plan, the past vehicle license for vehicle registration fees ,tfea programs, monitoring

regional funding revenue coming through. moving on to the capital projects program, our main project will be led by the interchange improvement project. we are taking the lead in san francisco on the california high-speed rail project. the second project is a market street project working under transportation plans and various other projects within san francisco. the technology services division is our section that provides modeling support. it provides modeling services for other agencies and private sector uses. working on the demand model, they provide a i.t. development.

unless we have the finance administration section, budget development, obviously we take care of the budget development every fiscal year. taking care of the billing, accounting, lbe program, the human resources function, and the paper program management. with that, let me remind you that this is an information item. we are here to seek any items from you for the budget. you will be seeing this budget for a final look at next month's meeting. supervisor mar: thank you, colleagues. are there any questions? thank you for such great detail in each of the five areas. really well done. if there are no other questions, is there anyone from the public

that would like to speak? seeing no one, public comment is close. thank you for the informational items. please call the next item. >> federal legislature, action item. supervisor mar: taking the long walk? >> i apologize, usually i said in the front row. we are in the middle of legislation considering bills these days. your matrix has been updated with a significant number of new bills. out of them a but like to draw your attention to four -- out of them, i would like to draw your attention to four. the first is 8076 in the second is sb72, capping the expenditure on high-speed rail

18 bonds, essentially bringing the program to a halt. we have suggested a post- position employment fact. the first was heard yesterday and killed. i think that we can see the prognosis for the bill, sb22. i have three bills that we are recommending support for, the first is ab133, and i am sorry that i neglected to tell you which page these are on. ab133 is on page 3 of your matrix. it is a technical bill that opens the door for the high- speed rail authority to use federal funds that are allocated to the high speed rail authority for project purposes. there was a bill last year that did that, as well as a few other things, that were not

successful. this year is to streamline high- speed authorization for access to federal funds received. we recommend support for that. in addition, this one deals with high-speed rail authority, in encouraging them to consider the impact on california jobs as they move forward on contracts. it does not prescribe a process. it will have force of law as a statutory section. they will be mandated to consider and develop the process to look for ways to enhance job development in the process they are embarking on. finally, ab 1041. this would allow the city of san francisco to continue to use video enforcement of traffic by

a land -- in the lanes for transit use. so, that would continue and existing programs sponsored by the city and county. we felt that our support would assist books city representatives. supervisor mar: what was the number on that one? >> ab1041, page 11. sorry. supervisor mar: there was another, ab485, where you are recommending a watch on the local planning village transit development business. >> in essence it will allow transit village lot to have access to infrastructure development statute authority.

it would open the requirements under the infrastructure development authority acts for a majority of the people to tender the feed. lending that authority to the transit village act. and i thought that i would complete with a bit of an update on 8057. barry rafik, a great outpouring of support -- very rough, but a great outpouring of support from your delegation. they walked into the room and sat down to testify. the opposition witness testified against the bill in strong terms. he was joined by the assembly member. it became a very vigorous discussion. ultimately, the bill passed out. that committee had been -- they

had a number of members that resided entirely within santa clara county. going in, we have a feel for how that might turn out. the recommendation to the management here, and the city and county representatives, is that as this bill continues through the assembly and goes through appropriations, we need to jump ahead and start working the senate transportation committee, so they do not wait for that activity. that committee is not welcoming for northern california and has very few representatives, but does have knowledgeable chairman. i think that he will give us a fair fight. we have our work cut out for us on this measure. we thought that we had some

sympathy going in the committee in terms of reaching consensus in the legislature. ntc was very vigorous in its support for the bill and were able to convince the folks that it was an isolated pocket of resistance within the region. so, that was all that took. supervisor elsbernd: in terms of ultimate outcome and the prognosis? >> the best place to make a stand -- make a stand is senate trans. i know that the executive director is working with the mayor's office on trying to quantify some of the impact in terms of programming decisions that are at risk on a note -- on an ongoing basis, embellishing our case. i think that it is the place to make our stand.

unfortunately, the population center in the state favors the south and most of the committees reflect that. supervisor cohen: in terms of -- supervisor elsbernd: in terms of timing, how do you see it going through? >> june, possibly july. it might well be -- referred, as it was here, the policy -- it might well be double-referred, as it was here. after the summer recess there is only a few short weeks. it will be fast and furious once they come back from july. supervisor mar: thank you very much. >> if you have any other questions, i will answer them. supervisor mar: this is an information item calling for an action item.

is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? seeing no one, public comment is closed. move forward with a positive recommendation. next item? >> introduction of new items. and information item. supervisor mar: is there anyone from the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing no one, public comment is closed. please call the next item. >> item #8, public comment. supervisor mar: are there any members of the public that would like to speak? seeing no one, public comment is closed. please call the next item. >> item #9, adjournment. supervisor mar: thank you for coming out today.

>> it has been amazing. the people have been so gracious and so supportive of what we're doing. the energy here is fantastic with so many couples getting married. it's just been an absolutely fantastic experience, so wonderful. >> by the power vested in me, i declare you spouses for life. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> to actually be able to get married and be a part of this time in history and time in our history is amazing. >> this is a momentous occasion for us to be able to actually

have this opportunity to have equal rights. >> we have been together for 14 years. everyone is so welcoming. it's been all set up and people have guided us from step to step. it's been easy. there was live music. people are so friendly and excited. so excited for us. >> it's really great. >> yeah. >> and salvador is party a here to known as party a. >> on the out it looks pretty simple. you come in, you made your appointment. you pay. you go here for your license. you got there to get married. you go there if you want to purchase a certified copy. behind the scenes, there was just this monumental just mountain of work, the details into everything that we had to do and we quickly realized that we were not ready to issue the numbers of licenses that people are anticipating that we would

need to issue. we definitely did not want people waiting in long lines. this is somebody's wedding. you want to be able to plan and invite your family and friends. know what time you are able to get your marriage license, know what time you're going to have your ceremony. >> thanks for volunteering. >> we got city volunteers, we got members of the public volunteering. we had our regular volunteers volunteering. we had such an overwhelming response from city employees, from the members of the general public that we had way more volunteers than we could ever have hoped for. we had to come up with a training program. i mean, there are different functions of this whole operation. you were either, you know a check-in person. you were a greeter.

you were part of the license issuing unit. you were deputy marriage commissioner, or you were on the recording side. each one of those functions required a different set of skills, a different oath of office if they needed to be sworn in as a deputy county clerk to issue marriage licenses or as a deputy county recorder if they were going to register the marriage licenses or the deputy marriage commissioner if they were going to be performing ceremonies. >> donna, place the ring on her ring finger. >> the marriage commissioner training was only about a half hour. it was very simple. very well run, very smooth and then we were all sworn in. >> they said we would get our scheduled sunday night and so 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, you know, i got it at 11:00. this person who was orchestrating all of the shifts and the volunteers and who does what, you know, said from her office sunday night at 11:00.

they are just really helping each other. it's a wonderful atmosphere in that way. >> have you filled out an application? >> not yet. you want to do that. >> take this right over there. >> all right. >> take it tout counter when you're done. >> very good. >> congratulations, you guys. >> for those volunteers, what a gift for them as well as us that they would take up their time and contribute that time, but also that they would in return receive so much more back because they're part of the narrative of someone else's love and expression of love in life. >> this isn't anything that we had budgeted for, so it was basically we asked our i.t. director to do the best you can, you know, belling, borrow, steal if you have to and get us what you need to do this. and he knew what the mission was. he knew what our goal was. and, you know, with our i.t. grids and our software vender, they really came together and pulled it together for us.

it made it possible for us to be able to serve as many couples as we have been. >> so once you're ready, you and your husband to be or wife need to be need to check in here and check in again, ok. are you also going to get married today? >> yeah. >> let's process you one by one. do your license in, exit and re-enter again check in at that desk. >> our wedding is at 3:00. >> as long as we get you in today. >> we're getting married at 2:30. >> don't worry about the time line. we're greeting people at the doorway and either directing them to the services they need on this side which is licensing or the services on this side which is actually getting the ceremony performed. >> this is an opportunity to choose to be a part of history. many times history happens to us, but in this case, you can choose to be a part of it. this is a very historic day and so i'm very, very proud to be here.

>> i have been volunteering. last monday i performed 12 different marriage smones. the least amount of time that any of the couples that i married have been together is two years. most of the couples have been together eight, nine, 10, i'd say 70% have been together at least that long if not longer. >> there is a lot of misconception about who gay and lesbian people are. it's important that people see that we love our husbands and wives to be and love our children and have the right to have families just like everyone else. >> it's important that we have experienced our own families, our own friends, and the excitement of the volunteers when we get here has made us feel wonderful and accepted and celebrated. >> there is a lot of city

agencies, city departments, divisions that offer up their employees to help us out since overwhelming response, it's unbelievable at how city government works. this is the time that san francisco city employees have really outshined san francisco's clerk's office didn't need to hear from the mayor to say what's your plan. they offered a plan and said here is our strategy. here is what we can do. we can add all of these computers here and there. we can connect our databases, we can expand our capacity by x. we can open up early and stay late and stay open on the weekends. it's unbelievable. we can coordinate all of the training for our volunteers and them in as deputy marriage commissioners and make sure it's signed and certified. that's an example and a model for others. this is -- what happens is when people prove that things can be done, it just raises the bar for what is possible for