if you look at the church street light rail, and some of you are paying attention -- i hope you are paying attention to what i am saying, because it is relevant. you have to evaluate and see that the $700 million that was put into the third street light rail, whether that system, with all of the money that was invested, all the thousands of meeting that we have had, all of the thousands of petitions that were collected, whether that system is working. we were blocked. we were told that with the third street light rail was built, everything would move faster. it has not. now, there is a connection between the third street light rail and things going on in district 11 beyond mission and

the double bart station. there will be variables going on between fourth and came and chinatown. more power to those who think, because of what they hear without empirical data. i have been to washington. what ever they are doing with this system, meet certain standards. they are dealing with a train, but they are also dealing with a very old part of our town that

now kind of works. if we want to go on the ground, and if we think everything is rosy and not paying attention to the businesses, and we want to adversely impact the businesses in this dire economic times, then more power to you to adjudicate what ever you hear from some rosy comments and maybe thousands of petitions from people that really do not understand really what goes into such type of projects. i have lived here long enough to see what happened on market street and third street. i hopefully will live to see what happens to the central subway. thank you very much. >> to thank you. is there any other member of the public that would like to speak? cnn, public comment is closed.

colleagues, this is an action item. -- seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> signals and signs maintenance and renovation. this is an action item. >> good morning. maria lombardo, chief deputy director. i want to quickly go over the fact that the propk expenditure plan includes a requirement -- prop k expenditure plan includes a requirement for signed a man's and renovation. the purpose is really to shine the light of transparency upon the project prioritization project. it requires a notable elements.

a five-year project list was scope, schedule, cost, and funding in leveraging information. as part of the transparency process, the idea is also to provide an opportunity earlier in the project for the board, public, and other agencies to weigh in on projects. all of these we think are great benefits to project delivery. lastly, i would say the five- year prioritization program they are approved by this committee in the full authority board. they also allow the opportunity to make amends. things change. you are doing so with the benefit of a base line. and before us today we are amending 5ypp. is is attachment one on page 121 of your packet. the good news is we are amending this because of cost savings on 19th ave. signal a great project signals one and two.

it was about $20 million, but largely due to the low bid environment, and also changes in group rigid work rules, there is $3 million return to the authority in prop k funds. you will see on page 17, there is $3 million available to read program and a small amount that mt ever asked for. this is an amendment for perspective. the career category covers fiscal year 2010, 2010. this is one-third of the funds that you today get to choose which projects you would like to go to. the only eligible sponsor for this category is the mta. there is a list of six projects they are proposing to reprogram these funds to. two of these projects this board

already approved last month. there with a 15 mile per hour zones near schools that were identified as high priority by the mta the number of people on this committee. and also a pedestrian project. this is already suffered delays. really today's action is adding the remaining core projects. which is 19 ave. accessible to pedestrian signals coming countdown signals, and sonic avenue upgrade. i will discuss briefly the mta staff here. attachment two shows the proposed amended 5y pp. and men and three shows how each of the scores. -- amendment 3 shows how each of these scores. if you approve the amendment this month, during the course of this fiscal year, mta expects to

come back for allocation request for each of these projects. this covers planning through construction. this is a complementary project. it has to do with replacement of the signal infrastructure along from mission to lombard. it is transit signal party hardware all along the corridor insignificant corridors throughout the city. it is very good leveraging due in part to the executive director and prior commissioner. it has climate initiatives that we created last funding cycle. our main concern is we're working closely to make sure it is constructed and designed in tandem with the project. the 19th avenue pedestrian signal as part of the 19th ave. signal project, we evaluated 34 traffic signals and identified 18 of them as either a high or

medium-priority for installation signals for this. this is the remaining 14 locations. on sunset boulevard pedestrian countdown signal project, the commissioner carmen chiu is familiar with this. this would be installed as part of the contract. lastly masonic avenue signal upgrade would install signals at six intersections. this includes things like cut down indicators. i will note this is part of the larger multi-agency masonic a bid avenue project . we can provide more information on this. at one of our meetings whenever members felt strongly that the city need to to move quickly to address safety issues for cyclists and this quarter.

-- in this corridor. mta staff has indicated at this point the project is not constitute any bicycle treatments. with that, i would be happy to answer any questions, and i will let you know in september you will have a major amendment to the state the category to consider. >> thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. any questions from staff? why don't we open it up to the public. if anyone from the public wishes to speak, please come forward. >> supervisors, and for those at home, the city has had many people die because of lack of pedestrian safety. one of the things when we discussed -- discussed up like

this and plush a little bit against traffic signals, we need to tell people at home if the signals are put in in hefour places, how much they cost. if i draw up a figure like $100,000, that is more or less a ballpark figure. this is delivering a mechanism that works with $25,000. having said that, oftentimes when i come here -- i do not want to come here too many times, but when i come here i like to study any issue with the empirical data. so fluff is one thing, but we need to go and find out exactly what we have done in a given time linked to traffic signals,

and what we have not done and maybe by putting other types of signals, and i say that because on my trips to australia, australia is pretty big. you see things, and when you see things, you want those things to happen in our great city. so what i am saying plainly is this, while the impending very expensive traffic signals that take a lot of time to get the permits and so on, in the interim it is good to contact our senior citizens. we have a large population of senior citizens. it is good to contact schools and asked how children and their parents, the difficulties they have on san jose avenue, san

bruno ave, which one of you supervisors know what happens there. something like putting uthis there will save many lives. so with this type of deliberation is giving to you about the flight in technology which takes years and years to be put in practice, we need to know in the interim what really has been done to save lives, because no price can be put on a life, especially a child like. thank you very much. -- especially a child's life. supervisor campos: thank you. colleagues, this is an action item. we have a motion. motion by commissioner wiener.

second by commissioner avalos. can we go back to item number three, please? >> citizens advisory committee report. supervisor campos: great. >> the chair informed us he would not be able to make it today, but on page 11 of your packet are the draft minutes, and they did approve the motions, although there was some discussion. >supervisor campos: i would like to send a formal request to make sure they do have a representative here present at the meeting. i think it is important for us to hear directly from them come into the extent there are any questions about the report. i do not think it does the committee justice to simply have a written report. i think there has to be someone present as well.

>> absolutely. i agree. isupervisor campos: madam clerk, can you call item no. 8. any new items for introduction? any member of the public that would like to speak on item 8? seeing none, public comment is closed. seeing no new items, which to call item 9. >> 9, public comment. supervisor campos: any member from the public that would like to speak on an item not within the agenda? >> i was here some time ago at the land use committee, and one of the issues that we were talking about was the light rail.

nobody from the citizens' advisory committee was present. let me say something. i hope they say it for the final time, and i hope i am not required to take legal action, because i will. when we have these representatives for the citizens' advisory to renee -- committee, just like you were supposed to represent, they are supposed to represent. district 10 has very, very, serious issues with transportation. very very serious issues with transportation. iwhen we talk about spending millions of dollars on this project and that project, we look forward to our citizens

advisory committee. we also look forward to the unions, for the unions to get some report. there is a transportation union that is pretty powerful that deals with you. we need to hear from them. some of you are aspiring to be my ears, so it is good for you all to no that the deliberations that take place here, hopefully when you are the major you will do the right thing. -- some of you are aspiring to be mayors, so it is good for you all to know that the deliberations that take place here, hopefully when you are the mayor, you will do the right thing. i want to make good use of my time, so i can tell you exactly

what people at home field. when i walked to see it -- streets of san francisco, they come up to me and say thank you. they say thank you because i put myself in their shoes. i really do not need to come here. i am retired. i could go spend a lot of time in the bahamas or what ever. but what i see when it comes to transportation, and that is linked with -- for example they are saying this and that in the newspaper, but they do not have a good transportation document. the cac must deliberate on that issue. thank you very much. supervisor campos: i think the executive director wanted to add something. >> just a quick note, to say that i will personally contact the chair and asked him to make a report next month that covers

both this month's activities and the next. i also want to promise you for the next month a quick report that will show and the last decade we probably have not had on just one occasion when you have not had a report from the cac chair or vice chair. i would also like to simply acknowledge the stellar performance and dedication to the transportation in the city for many years. we not only meet monthly come up but we spend tremendous amounts of time debating each item individually, sometimes well beyond the proposed committee meetings.

as i know you appreciate, they do a tremendous service to the city, and they deserve to be recognized for that. i wanted to make sure that i made a statement about that today. i apologize to you for the fact that we did not have the report today. as i said before, we will cover it next time. supervisor campos: commissioner carmen chiu. supervisor chiu: we have seen them come time and time again, so i think it probably is just unusual circumstance. supervisor campos: thank you. madam clerk. next item. >> item 10, adjournment. thank you very much. meeting adjourned.

>> is housed in a spectacular building described by the world renowned architect. it is the san francisco destination for provocative expositions and programs that explore culture, history, art, and ideas. the director of cultural affairs told us more about the mission and to give us a tour of the latest exposition. ♪ >> today we find ourselves of

the contemporary jewish museum. with me is the director of the museum. >> i am so happy you are here today. >> we're getting close to a milestone for the museum. it is your third anniversary coming up. >> it is. you were here to help cut the ribbon. it has been an extraordinary journey ever since. we welcome hundreds of thousands of people into the building. we welcome school groups, interests -- tourists. >> the addition of the museum to the cultural pantheons of san francisco has been phenomenon. you have fabulous exhibits. there is one i want to talk about, "seeing gertrude stein." >> gertrude stein is a local woman.

she was raised in oakland. she was an extraordinary individual who helped create -- many people call for the mother of modernism. years ago, i was introduced to someone doing research on her. i thought it would be an extraordinary exposition to take her and understand her at all for complexity. that is what we have on view during the summer of 2011. >> it is full of wonderful drawings, paintings, and sculpture. >> there is incredible art on view. we have photographs. we have sculpture. we have a lot of different things. we have a little something made for her by picasso.

there are five different ways of looking at her life. it is not in chronological installation. it is looking at how she is portrayed in help artists, painters, and photographers presented her and how she thought about her own style and presentation. many people think she always had short hair. it was not until she was 52 that she cut off all of her hair. the second element is called "domestic stein." alice b. toklas was her lifelong partner. they had several different homes. we know about their home in paris, the famous salon. you get a taste of what their domestic life was like. >> one thing recreated is the fabulous wallpaper. the black-and-white photos do not convey the color. >> in doing a lot of research,

you discover a little tidbits. with an exhibition, at the find ways to make it come together. we found beautiful photographs of the interior of their home. then we found a tiny scrap of the wallpaper. we saw how blue and vibrant it was. we had a designer recreate the image of the wallpaper. we had it made into wallpaper so we could all experience what it would have been like to be in their home. it is dynamic and fantastic. they seem very monochromatic because you only know them through black-and-white photographs, but they had such a vibrant life. that is what the exhibition is also trying to show. the third one is the art of friendship. picasso and matisse were part of their second family.

there were people she admired and worked with. we introduced the visitors to her second family in a sense. the fourth story is called celebrity stein. what a lot of people do not know is when she left united states in the early 1900's, she only came back once in 1934. we also have a section of every single first edition book she ever published. >> it is incredible to see all the first edition books. >> it is really impressive to realize not only was she a grand dame of paris, but she had an incredible writing practice. she was a prolific writer. the fifth level really looks at her legacy and how artists continue to be inspired by her

image, work, and concept. >> this is a compelling reason for people to visit the jewish museum. you also have life and theater. >> we are a non-collecting museum. any time you walk in the building, you will always be treated to a range of very different and wonderful exhibitions. in our first floor exhibition space, we have an exhibition on the work of charlotte sullivan. she was a young artist in berlin. the nazis came into power. her parents sent her to the south of france to live with her grandparents. she put herself in a room for about 18 months and created 1200 small paintings telling her life story through a kind of reflection. it is another example of the way we try to bring a wide range of

art and experiences to our public. we want them to find something meaningful to them. >> your institution has been in this neighborhood for three years. how do you like the neighborhood? >> this is the best neighborhood. we are the luckiest city in the world to have this kind of cultural district, to have so many museums and cultural institutions. the center of our tourist life is here because this is where the convention center is. people from near and far can be introduced to the richness of the bay area. it is so wonderful and unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to be part of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more