as aggressive as we can be. i know that assembly member ammiano has paid a lot of attention to the issue, and the board has made it clear where we are. just a matter of making sure that our voice is heard. >> i think it is really important that this be perceived as the city and county of san francisco, not just the transportation authority. it might not hurt to have the mta take a position and express it on that as well. we will be as active as we can. supervisor mirkarimi: the needs to be amplified, obviously by others within the city government. supervisor wiener: i have been in conversation with the mayor's office to make sure our city lobbyist is aggressively lobbying against this measure, and the city needs to speak with one voice.

not just having the t.a. out there, but making sure that the city and the mayor's office is aggressively lobbying against this. supervisor mirkarimi: quite right. any other comments on either the report -- on either of the reports? seeing none, we now open up for public comment. >> my name is francisco da costa. i want to bring to your attention the third street light rail where we spend $700 million. it stops at fourth and king and lands in the middle of nowhere in the visitation valley. the reason why i am bringing this is you can pat yourselves all you want to, but what the

transit first city once is good transportation -- with the transit first city wants -- what the transit first city wants. if you look at every element of our transportation, we cannot give the city high marks. on the project like the transbay, the doyle drive. when we had certain representatives regard the money, and in the future, whether it is from the state or federal, we will not get as much as we thought we would get, and you all know that. but what i am noticing now is having gone to the mtc meetings and other meetings is that san francisco -- this is the city

and county of san francisco -- is not going to get due representation. where once we had three, we are going to get two. i want to leave you with this thought -- do not have yourselves to much on the back -- back --pat -- do not pat yourselves to much on the back. we want results. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. very good. next item. >> item 5, adopted a position on state legislation. this is an action item. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. any comments? seeing none, public comment on this item please? public comment is closed. we will take this without objection. so move. very good.

>> item 6, appoint joseph flanagan, jr. to the citizens' advisory committee. this is an action item. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. comments? >> for a long time, i would go to the meetings -- supervisor mirkarimi: your name, please. >> i am well known in the city. supervisor mirkarimi: for the record, please. >> i do not have to double my name. you can read the brown act. -- i do not have to divulg my name. supervisor mirkarimi: as you wish. >> for a long time, i would go to the cac meetings. we had some very astute people, candidates, that wanted to represent the citizens advisory committee to the san francisco

county transportation authority, and somehow, we deprive them from representing. what we did was we continued to put in place candidates who were yes candidates and who were not very astute. i am here to tell you i do not know the gentleman who you approve because i was away from the country for quite some time. but in these given times, we need as to candidates, a state representatives -- astute candidates and representatives who can really understand transportation issues. we also need candidates that represent the diversity of this city. we also need candidates that represent those districts that

transportation is not available. you all want to build 10,500 homes in some areas, but we do not have good transportation. if you get new candidates, that is fine. take them around the city, and showed them how the transportation system is. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, mr. da costa. may we take this without objection? so move. but >> item 7, up from the authorities funding commitment to the presidio parkway project and approve a bond swap of $19,722,000. this is an action item. supervisor mirkarimi: discussion on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. -- seeing none, discussion is close. public comment on this item. >> i am glad that the project

manager is who he is. i know him very well. i was fortunate that i worked at the presidio and established an infrastructure group. prior to this meeting, i did have a small talk with him. i read some comments about union workers having some conflict, but he explained to me the issue. some creative financing that could help the united states, its prevalence in europe, in canada. some of my partners are involved in that type of creative

financing. but what i am concerned is that dole will drive -- doyle drive is built on time, hopefully in two years. that should be good. i wanted to wish you all the best. i followed you on this project for a long time. you are one of the better project managers. something that has to be emulated by the rest. you can see you walk the walk. next, talk the talk. we need people that are good leaders. we have little money. we cannot waste money. every dollar counts, and i am looking forward to seeing doyle drive completed in less than three years. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you,

sir. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. maybe take this without objection? very good. >> item 8, introduction of new items. supervisor mirkarimi: any discussion on introduction of new items? seeing none, any public comment? on introduction of new items? >> one of the items that should be put on the agenda is true representation of constituents from our district. oftentimes, when you watch the tv, even in your subcommittee meetings, you look at your audience and ask if there is any public comment, as if, you know, you what some people who are there to speak of, but over the years, people are not coming to get public comment because

first, you are deprived -- you deprive people from speaking. especially the ones who are informed. for three minutes. give them one and two minutes. second, the talk has to be kept simple. the outreach, whether they are blogs or on the internet, or whether you have some heart and give the material to all the seniors, the constituency falls into that bracket. something must be put on the agenda item. something must be done to bring the segments of the population so that they become an element in our transportation system to improve it.

something has to be done. they cannot be done in a vacuum. just like you had an agenda item and a hearing on the bedbugs. the topic was not very important, but it is very important, and adversely affect a lot. have some compassion. this is a city of st. francis. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. that will be considered for introduction of new items. next item. >> item 9, public comment. supervisor mirkarimi: public comment on public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. before the next item, i just want to say because i did not before, thank you to sfgtv for

their ongoing excellent coverage of these proceedings. next item please. >> item 10, adjournment. supervisor mirkarimi: have a great day. thank you.

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor mar: good morning, everyone. welcome to the regular meeting of the transportation authority finance committee. my name is eric mar, chair of the committee. ericka chang is our clerk, i would like to thank sfc tv for providing access to this

meeting. -- sfgtv for providing access to this meeting. first item? >> review items from previous meeting. supervisor mar: without objection. please call item no. 3. >> recommend exercising the first one-year option of the professional services contract with pendergast & associates by $275,000, to a total amount not to exceed $875,000, to provide disadvantaged business enterprise/small business enterprise consulting services for the presidio parkway project and authorization for the executive director to negotiate contract terms and conditions. this is an action item. >> good morning, chairman, members of the committee. i am the director for capital projects. we will be presenting the item on page nine of her packet. july of 2009 the authority entered into a contract with

pander raft -- pendergrafast and associates for the small business advantage program. this was not a happy record of small disadvantaged statewide contracts in the past. there was a stronger desire by the authority to make sure that there were opportunities and that those opportunities were fairly promoted, particularly to those based in san francisco. i have a presentation that i will start with momentarily that provides a brief overview of the results so far of the contract. the authority is recommending extending the contract by one year, exercising the options anticipated originally to both continue to work for an additional year as well as

expand the scope of work to include some unique activities in a public private partnership that is being used for phase two of the implementation of the project. this new contract in methodology gives us an opportunity to expand beyond the low on innovation in this area. -- expand the envelope on innovation in this area. we have results today, as well as innovations that we are looking at another p3 -- under the p3 arrangement and the scope of the extension. the current program has a number of goals. specifically the implementation of numerical goals identified for the project, for small businesses and disadvantaged

businesses. also to engage in a level about reached that will provide comfort in confidence to this community. that there were opportunities for them and that they would be able to participate during this implementation. to participate in the process of matching local and disadvantaged small businesses within the various contracts. the work program consists of a number of tasks identified here. basically, it is the promotion of and participation of small businesses through a series of activities. more or less a conventional outreach activities consisting of workshops and conferences. very aggressive monitoring and data collection programs. perhaps one of the most useful

functions is the consultants have been actively engaged and analyzed the prime contracts. identifying specific small and disadvantaged businesses that have the capability of performing that work with prime contractors to ease the burden on the prime contractor. there have been a number of organizations that have participated in various out reache and coordination efforts lifted here -- listed here. the california department transportation, state services, and a host of other agencies have worked with us to implement the program. some of the major outreach efforts that have occurred,

contract 3 and contract four were the two three large contracts implemented in 2009, 2010, to begin construction on doyle drive. including more than 100 firms that participated. the mega-construction connection conference was a citywide event that involved every agency in the city to bring together prime contractors and small and disadvantaged businesses. we have been running our own certification exercise that allows businesses currently registered as local businesses in san francisco to be certified as a california small business. we did that through real-time workshops in the city. funds were eligible for state, city, and federally funded

projects. pendergrast has been very effective in putting together a peer to peer network. one of the challenges was programs run by bureaucracies. the information that ultimately gets to the field is oftentimes met with skepticism. the peer to peer program encourages firms that have been successful on winning work with major projects to interact with their peers. we have used youtube and a number of other networking media in order to allowed the small businesses that have been successful to tell their story, explaining their successes so that others can emulate. the program was picked up by the federal highway

administration and was carried on their web site for about six months. they considered it a wonderful example of local program being implemented locally to achieve national goals. the efforts on precipitation in this day death are based on contracts from the american reinvestment and recovery act program. it has only been 2% for disadvantaged businesses throughout the state. this is not a particularly impressive number. we have been able to do much better on the blow dry project -- doyle drive project so far and we expect to continue doing so one face to -- on phase two. contract two, again the goal has

been a much higher level of achievement and we have seen on national contracts. from even the 25% goal established at the beginning. contract 3 is one of the major construction contracts for phase one. 60% of the goal has been achieved for this project, for under-represented disadvantaged businesses -- which is a federal designation -- 7.4%. supervisor mar: can you explain why you think we are not meeting the goal for the disadvantaged business enterprises? we are slightly under 4 contract two, significantly 4 contract 1. what are the reasons for that? >> i think that we are meeting the goal. for contract one -- supervisor mar: for the small --

>> these of the disadvantaged businesses. supervisor mar: if you could repeat the goals for the disadvantaged businesses. >> in most cases it has to do with the nature of the work and the availability of disadvantaged businesses to do the work. contract one, as i mentioned, is an environmental contract. it involves a lot of plant collection and nursery activities. it just turns out there are not that many firms doing that business in san francisco, disadvantaged businesses, that can do that work. there are a number of small businesses that can do the work and we are pleased that we were able to achieve those numbers. we are continuing to push hard on the disadvantaged business side. but is a challenge.

looking at contract four, under- utilized business goals for this contract, we are generally on track and expect to meet goals by the time it is completed. phase two is being done as a public-private partnership. it is a different contract in format that has given us an opportunity to create what we think is an innovative program for small and disadvantaged business participation. unlike a typical construction contract, we are requiring the preparation of a very detailed work plans for the participation of small and disadvantaged businesses. with a whole host about -- and other programs. -- out of reach -- of out reach

and other programs. in a public-private partnership , there is a regime of non- compliance that the contractor suffers if they fail to meet performance criteria on the contract. in a means of providing incentives, we are actually consenting the contractor by providing offset regimes for these non-compliance points. ultimately, there is a financial incentive to the contractor to be much more aggressive in including small and disadvantaged businesses in the program. the structure of the contract allows a great deal more flexibility in implementing the program.

it is being implemented in cooperation with caltrans and the federal highway administration. goals of 25% for small businesses and 5% for under- utilized or disadvantaged businesses. there are a number of activities that will be included in the work under face to. specifically what is considered the un-bundling of activities that can be broken apart, specifically identified for small and disadvantaged businesses with continuing assistance for certification, as well as assisting in doing technical analysis of the work and mentoring and managing their programs going forward. monthly contact is important to make sure that the goals are stipulated at the beginning of the project are actually being met.

the extension of the contract will allow for a number of activities, including promotion of phase one utilization for small and disadvantaged businesses. the phase two program is described briefly under the p3 questionnaire. we will be rolling out a technical assistance program that will assist in technical certification into a series of workshops in cooperation with the federal highway administration and cooperative services in continuing to track and report on utilization. the scope for the extension totals $275,000 with the by-task dollar amounts broken out in this slide. that concludes the presentation. i would be happy to take any

additional questions. supervisor mar: colleagues, any questions? let's open this up for public comment. >> i might mention that we have representatives from the consultant here. the lead, as well as a sub who has been very active in the out reach effort. i think gwen is here as well. thank you. supervisor mar: if anyone from the public would like to speak, please come forward. two minutes per person. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is yolanda jones. i come here as a bayview hunters point local business owner and someone at who is proud of san francisco. i have been working with doyle

drive by an order for my company to secure a contract on this important project. because of the team, i have had face-to-face meetings with some of the prime contractors. i attend all of reach meetings. they introduced me to other people that can benefit from the services that my firm provides. my firm provides a unique servants. i do construction -- unique service. i do construction administration. and i also provide construction highway equipment rental. these are tough times. it has never been more difficult to break into major projects because they want to be performed by primes themselves. as i mentioned earlier, they may fall short because the crimes are not as willing to allow ubde