we have to address that first. before we come up with a bigger plan for the causeway. all of this will not happen because of funding. even though we talk about it well, talk about it being dead without finances, you know what is happening on treasure island. let us first fix our roads that are there so that the people that would travel on them can get their safety concerns addressed. i hope that the thousands and millions of dollars given to you regionally, you will first address the safety of the constituents of the region. we now have thousands of people taking the roads inside rather than using the highway. thank you very much. supervisor campos: thank you.

and the other speakers on item number 7? the item is closed. we have a motion to approve this item. ok, that will be done without objection. item number eight, please. >> item #8. fiscal year 2011/12 prop k annual call for projects. >> thank you to your -- thank you for your patience and to the sponsors that are here. this item begins on page 161 of your packet. what you have before you is the annual call for prop k projects. sponsors can make requests for prop k funding at any time during the year, when the projects are ready to go. the fiscal year starts on july 1.

this also reminds me that it is a problematic category, like street resurfacing. request need to be consistent with privatisation programs. specifically number of things designed to increase transparency about the process. there is a methodology for the project without by the budget. where the requests are not consistent, sponsors need to provide justification for this change and explain what happened to projects but were delayed. this item is accompanied by a closure in your agenda packet. if i can the jet -- put your attention on the attachment 1 on page 156. i will highlight a few of the items here. we bring the annual call request before you twice. given the volume of the events

for answering questions about these items, based on the requests that we have there are five categories with all of the prop k funding. street resurfacing, a public sidewalk repair, and maintenance. this is the only request that you will see for the entire fiscal year. we also work on helping providing a share for the capital program. that request, typically the scene in september. it comes from the capital improvement category. every other category of expenditure plans, next month i will be able to bring you a table showing exactly what is

left. i will come back to the green light rail project at the end. i wanted to mention that on page 56 uc, as mentioned in the prior item, a match for school construction for school projects. to keep us on our toes, there are three or four different flavors. i also wanted to take note that the implementation project is a project working on the mayor's pedestrian directive and staff basically has a comprehensive approach to reduce speeds and put pedestrians first over

vehicles and so forth. i am excited to see this move forward to see how well that it works. on bicycle parking requests, $125,000, before the june california transportation commission meeting we are working to seek allocations out for $235,000 in federal transportation enhancement funds for parking and focusing on public facilities like libraries and schools based on the public and others calling for parking throughout the city. the very last package here is a pedestrian improvements project, a commitment to allocate to remain consistent with cash flow assumptions. leveraging is shown as zero, but abbott -- actually leveraging is very good. in this case the federal transit administration is allowing the

design for phase to match the construction phase, matching a regional political community grant that we supported. leslie, there is a green light rail center tracker project. i know that the commissioner is very familiar with this. the central project in terms of muni operations. the project is advancing the safety improvements along the track and we are seeking clarifications on the interplay between this project and the far east side connections project to try to seek acceleration of acceptable platforms on the avenue over the one that is currently there.

supervisor avalos: i do appreciate going over the site, you took me there about a month and a half ago. based on that, we had those tracks along the walkway. those were shut down for a month and the tracks were moved to create space and safety for pedestrians going through there. that was a big part of that effort by and raising awareness and it was really great to see. there was a little more space but there is a lot more to do. when i look at the improvements being made to the grignard, that is something that affects the whole city. so, i look at that allocation as something that is mostly for the whole city. also, boarding areas for people

that occupy this land. an area that is in critical need of increased safety measures for pedestrians. i am worried that it is an accident waiting tappan. >> thank you very much. clearly, this was the case where it was a regionally significant transit hub that required a great deal of correlation. >> share of the lows, when i first started working at the authority back after lincoln's assassination, i remember raising an issue guererro street and being lectured for someone who had been here for a long time and that in san francisco, every street was a residential street and things could not be categorized in an antiseptic way.

this is a neighborhood where, as you say, it is home to one of the most important rail facilities in the city, but it also has one of the highest writer should figures in the city. people that are transit users. huge numbers. it is not reasonable to subject them to the kinds of safety concerns that you and i observed with the mayor on that block. it is great that actions have already happened to move that into the interim measure while we get the other what we're done. but other improvements need to be made in that area for the rest of the neighborhood. so that it is not just the neighborhood serving as a maintenance staging area for the rest of the city, who can take advantage of the writ service that is there.

that is the connection between land use in transportation. we are connected to making sure that that is the example of how it can be done. >> thank you. the last two comments on contact 60, the location listed on page 158, this is for construction of a project that was primarily funded in the design phase, including locations throughout the city that are getting done at the same time. what i wanted to highlight about this and its relationship to another project we are hoping to fund is the boulevard traffic signals project. contracts 60 originally included design that was shifted to the sunset boulevard traffic signals project, funded by the federal highway safety improvement program grant. including signals on federal

funds and transportation bills. the mta starts their project in july. the funding for contract 60 includes several sources, including cameras from the prior signal contract, as well as savings from a swap that be brokered in 2008 related to the bicycle pedestrian program funds in the golden gate park area. the last thing i will draw your attention to is that there are something like half a dozen project requests that were submitted incomplete. i think that i large number of those are coming to you next month and i are of interest to a lot of folks. there is the department of public works 19th avenue landscaping project to not lose a federal earmark. there will be another project

for the safety director, posting speed limit signs around schools and city centers. intersection improvements, reopening a crosswalk, and the enterprise asset management system project. but one piece of good news we have been seeing in the construction changes that resulted in significant savings, the 19th avenue signal upgrade project, phases one and two, it was done at the 5050 arrangement. the bottom line is that the city has been returned $3.2 million. those funds will come back and some of the projects that i mentioned will benefit from those cost savings.

>> thank you. commissioner? >> if you could briefly show us the mission details in geneva? i think that that one is in desperate need of care and want to work together on it. >> this came out of a committee transportation plan authority meeting. supervisor avalos: plans were in place by the excelsior action group a couple of years ago to do some improvements, switching the bus stop from one side to the other, but nothing has happened since then. i thought that something was in place. >> i am not prepared to talk in detail, but i can send you any information we have. yes, that intersection, there are three that were going to be constructed at that intersection. the other major improvement is

the career right hand turning lanes for a pedestrian area in the northwest corner. those are the three or four major improvements, including moving overhead lines and upgrading the pedestrian signals at the intersection. but they are pretty comprehensive. >> good to hear. if there is anything else that can be tackled in the process, especially on the southeast side of geneva, it could use a lot of work. we will make sure that happens. supervisor campos: thank you, commissioner. supervisor wiener: if i could just make a request, since we will be voting on the next month, between now and then could you provide a breakdown, listing the projects materials.

i am going through it, it is sometimes very hard to tell and not intuitive. i want to make sure that we have that that would be taken into consideration as well. >> i would be happy to provide that for you. in the meantime, if you have any curiosity about a specific project, it is deposited inside. but we will summarize it. the very first page. >> status for each project. a summary would be terrific. thank you. supervisor campos: two quick questions on two separate things. i suppose that you have an updated allocation requests that will incorporate some of these projects in the intersection improvements. i just wanted to say that for

the 19th cabinet item, that is an item that has been a long time in coming. having been watching 19th avenue for quite some time, we have 80,000 vehicles that pass by each day. southern the people do not think about is that it crosses through the residential areas. for all sorts of reasons we have also heard from bgh about the fact that there is a lot of high-level particulate matter admitted because of the high level of vehicles. people might say -- why would we foot landscaping as a part of that? it is sort of a process of saying that landscaping will help with traffic calming and the public health issues that you have been so many vehicles passing through the area. i do know that it is something that has been long in coming. we had to make sure that we reduce the speeds and got people not to park on the sidewalks.

to strike the land -- the lanes and get transit approval. i am glad to see that this is possibly something that will be coming up. the question that i did have was on the holmes. it sounds like an interesting idea, particularly because it looks like there is a thought around how to create neighborhood walkable areas that do not necessarily have the high speeds of vehicles that prevent people from enjoying the area. i wondered if anyone who was developing that idea could speak more about it and the ideal conditions on which it would be created >> absolutely. -- created. >> absolutely. thank you, commissioner.

you have clearly highlighted the advantages of the home fund, which is to make it clear to people in the neighborhood that this is a place to expect people, particularly children. there are selections of the area that reflect a confluence of a perfect storm for this type of a project. we had an existing effort that was going in the ongoing outreach process. we had existing school grants and had started looking at infrastructure improvements with additional funding that would allow us to implement specific measures. proximity to transit, it was a big generator. it was one of the highlighting characteristics of this area, which made it a big selection for a pilot project. looking down the road, it is what to expect from future home

projects as well. supervisor campos: how did you create, visually or geographically, what the boundaries would be? >> we look that specific traffic projects. as far as planning, we focused on the residential streets in areas bounded by arterioles. 17th street arterioles and farther to the north, 14th street. actually, 15th street is the northern boundary. those are the areas, north- south. to the left, mission street. supervisor campos: very interesting. i am definitely interested in this concept and how it will be applied to other parts of the city and how it makes sense.

any other questions? let's open this up for public comment. would any members of the public wish to speak on this item? seeing no one, public comment is closed. this is an informational item, no action is required. >> item #9, information -- action items. supervisor campos: are there any items to introduce? i would like to hear more of a light rail vehicles. are there any committee members that would like to see what it would look like between 1 and the other? i think that the long term vision is looking at bus rapid transit and what the process has been a long geneva. it was mentioned by one of the

members of the public hear that spoke during public comment. supervisor chu: thank you, commissioner. item number 10, public comment. >> are there any members of the public that would like to speak in general public comment? supervisor chu: seeing no one, public comment is closed. >> item #10, a german. supervisor chu: we are adjourned. >> i work with the department of

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