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.

>> i think if you're going to continue with your intellectual honesty, i hope you vote against every project from here on out that includes below market rate units. because the same legal argument you're making to argue that this development agreement is invalid is the same one you should be making to the ordinance. >> next is the senior member of the board of supervisors, not so much in terms of age but in terms of terms of service, and a man who nominated the mayor who is about to be sworn in. sean elsbernd. >> i was born and raised in district 7, montessori school right up the block. a grade school right down the street. my mom owned a children's clothing store right down the block, and i am lived here all my life, 30 years, and i have

every intention of raising my family here. went down to a small school in los angeles, claremont mckenna, and came back here for law school and graduated. went to work here in city hall immediately upon passing the bar on the first drive. and work here in city hall for a few years. then lightning struck and i was appointed as a member of the board of supervisors in august of 2004 and have been here ever since. most people would call me a moderate. i have a knack and a love for the law. i saw a way to combine that love with service to the political process. i think having watched campaigns not as a candidate, i do not appreciate the kind of thick skin you need is a candidate. being a candidate, it is not the easiest thing in the world. i have come since then to really appreciate my opponent, in the sense that while i may disagree with them, we have policy disagreements, they are putting their foot on the line.

they're stepping into the arena. this is a lot about them. being a candidate is not an easy endeavor, and you have to respect anybody who does that. >> you are all about to get an introduction to the fairly daunting numbers that the city is about to face. that the city is facing right now. the mayor, the way the process works, the mayor introduces his budget, the first part on may 1 at a the second part on june 1. then it gets handed off to the board of supervisors. this single most important issue is the budget. whether your concern is homelessness or transportation, parks, public health, fundamentally, it all comes down to how much money we have and how we are going to spend it. and looking forward, unfortunately, it is getting worse. the amount of money for spending is far outpacing the amount of money that is coming in. and getting our hands around that and how we're going to bring that into line is the biggest challenge. >> this is real reform. this is a real proposal that

every single san franciscan can be brought to support come november. it is also important note, as much as we see real reform and a tattered million dollars to $1 billion over the next 10 years, that is also real sacrifice, real dollars from our public employees. >> i am trusting myself into what i think is the biggest challenge within the budget, and that is the cost associated with our city employee pensions and health benefits. those are the single biggest drivers to our expenses, far exceeding our revenues. we're talking literally hundreds of billions of dollars, this upcoming fiscal year approaching on pension and benefits alone, spending just shy of $1 billion. >> i was hoping not to have to stand up. i do not think there would have to second the motion that is frankly so irresponsible, the notion that cost neutral is not defined -- all due respect, i do

not need a definition to tell me what cost neutral and means. money comes in, money comes out. if it is neutral, it is neutral. i do not need a definition and a chart to tell me what cost neutral list. this is not a smart program. it needs to go away. extending it any wonder, spending any more money on this would be just a waste. >> i think the district has always been home to a voice of passionate common sense. that is how i like to phrase it. and it has been for decades. it is the voicecenter to bring to the board of supervisors. >> three ballot measures were placed on the ballot at the very last minute by four members of the board of supervisors. i think in the last 48 hours, we have seen that those ballot measures were written rather hastily. they're all kinds of unintended consequences. this charter amendment fixes that problem. frankly, it gives it a bit of a lifeline to those four

supervisors and to the mayor if they ever descending like this again. -- if they ever go through this again. >> the fact that we're taxing employers on how many jobs they create scenes of the counterproductive. we want to encourage people to create jobs. i do not think asking employers to pay a tax on how many they create makes a lot of sense. i think it is my job to be as responsive to the businesses in the district as it is to be to the constituents. i am their face of city hall. i need to be accessible, open, and responsive. and i can help clear up a lot of this red tape for them. >> if you try to use a knife, you run the cheesecake. and he knows that, because when he sells the cheesecake, it comes with a piece of fish wire. and that is what you need used at this cheesecake, because it is so soft. it is so frothy -- [laughter] it is amazing.

>> we have to think of san francisco 10 to 30 years from now and we have to prepare ourselves for what the economy will be. whether or not it is biotech, which i think will be a key piece, but information technology, can we be the hub of that? we have to put in place, whether it is addressing our payroll tax, whether it is addressing it land use decisions, put in place a conducive atmosphere to attracting those economies. we do that, and it helps with our basic budget. it helps develop new jobs. there is a lot we can do to catch that new economy. >> briefly, this is your day, to those of you who have been elected. congratulations just duty off on what president chiu said. the little but i would say is it is going to be over before you know it. i am is sitting here, and it is

dawning on me that it is my last time here in an inaugural meeting. take advantage of every moment you have here. go after every goal you want to pursue. do not shy away from the challenges. keep fighting, keep working for those who sent you here. and i guarantee, it will be a rewarding experience and the city of san francisco will be better off for the work that you do. congratulations. [applause] ♪