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please support the united negro college fund. because a mind is a terrible thing to waste. commissioner campos: we are joined by members, commissioner scott wiener, john avalos. the vice chair of the committee, carmen chu. committee member david chiu is

en route. we want to thank the following staff members of the sfgtv for covering this staff meetinmeeti. please call item two. >>item 2. approve the minutes of the june 21, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner campos: seeing none, public comment is closed. -- is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, you have the minutes of the june 21 meeting before you. motion by commissioner avalos. without objection. please call item three. >>item 3. citizens advisory committee report. this is an information item. commissioner campos: is there anyone here from the citizens

advisory committee? why don't we come back to item three. why don't we stick to item four. >> -- skip to item fo4. >> good morning, committee members. the start of its 17 of the package. the item is to recommend appointment of one member to the citizen advisory committee by way of backgroun. each member of the cac serbs two years. the cac committee and the far east that could not make recommendations as to the appointment of the cac. that appointment is made by this committee. the requirement for being a cac member, a stanford to its president, and that you speak before this committee to voice

her interest of serving. we maintain a database of all applications, which is on page 20 of your package. page 19 shows the existing information about existing members. the vacancy before you today is from the term expiration of rosie west, who is here to speak to her interested reappointment. commissioner campos: why don't we give this west or any other applicant an opportunity to address the committee. if you could please come forward, thank you for being here. thank you for your service to the san francisco county transportation authority and for your interest in continuing to serve. i do not know if you want make any statements to the committee. >> my term has expired and i want to recommit to the cac.

i am interested in the k and m lines. commissioner campos: commissioner abel of spirited commissioner avalos: i am -- commissioner avalos. commissioner avalos: i want to support the appointment of this west. -- ms. west. she has been an active member and all sorts of issues, including public transit, including the use of our parks and facilities. i would want to bring her back onto the citizens advisory committee. i know in the last year she has undergone some help issues that prevented her from attending, but those same to have cleared up, and i want to allow her to continue on the cac. commissioner campos: thank you. i do not think we have any other

questions from the committee. thank you for being here and for your interest in continuing to serve. is there any other applicant who is here who would like to address the committee? i do not see any others. why don't we open this up to public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, this is an action item. if we could get a motion -- motion by commissioner avalos 2 reappointee rosie west to the citizens advisory committee. seconded by david chiu. can we take that without objection? without objection. congratulations and thank you for your service. please call item five. >> item 5. recommend allocation of $270,819 in prop k funds, with conditions, to the san francisco municipal transportation agency for one project and $1,275,900 in prop k funds, with conditions, to the department of public works for two projects, subject to the

attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules, and amendment of the relevant 5-year prioritization program. this is an action item. >> good morning, commissioners. deputy for policy and programming today at the authority. this item begins on page 21 of your packet, a request for one project wanted by the middle tradition agency and two projects sponsored by the department of public works. i would quickly go over the projects. the first project is the balboa park station east side connection project, a request for approximately $270,000 in prop k funds to leverage a $1.1 million lifeline transportation program grant, which was also programmed by the authority in july 2010. this is a joint effort between bart and mta for station

accessibility improvements. this would fund the mta's version of the project. the scope of work includes a new boarding area, accessible key stop on san jose between geneva and ocean. it is the circle on the far right. it also has associated 8 curb ramps with that element of work. there is also utility pole relocation and demolishing of an existing key stop, which is the center most circle. that work will be done once bart has completed its portion of work and constructed a new platform. the larger east side connection project is a joint effort, as i said. bart's improvements include its ability to the west side station will quite entrance project. this is recently completed scope

of work. this will also include a new canopy over the bridge walkway, as well as a new bridge path to a new station access entrance, as well as other excess of the improvements. the scope of work for the key stop on san jose will be constructed as part of the green track replacement project. we anticipate a were to be completed by mid-2012. work will put it this fall with construction to be completed by mid-2012 -- 2014. the next project is the union square right of way accessibility improvement project. dpw has requested $515,000 in prop k funds for the construction of accessibility improvements around union square

[no audio] this fall. construction and the remainder of the work will be completed by mid 20 -- 14. the next project is the union square right away accessibility improvements project. these improvements stem from a lawsuit against the lawsuit against the say that we must provide accessible sidewalks surrounding the park and also access to transit stops. the scope of work for the first phase of the project the size

and phase of work which the baby needs to receive funding for. the intersection of stockton and gary will be completed in the future as part of the central support project. all of the improvement the to be completed by june 2012 with the exception of the stockton and every street intersection. the general fund for the mayor's office prop k funds for the construction of phase one. there is an associated 5ypp amendment to the curb ramp allocation for the allocation of 2008 to make money available to this project. the third project is for street cleaning and equipment to replace assets that have reached the end of their useful life. i am here to answer any questions. commissioner campos:

colleagues, any questions for staff? just a question on the improvements you are making. are you doing exactly what is required in a lawsuit? beyond that? what is the scope of how far? >> all of the improvements, with exception of the pedestrian scramble, are in the settlement. an outline of the scope is included in page 27 of your package. it includes reducing the cross slope of the sidewalks and also making them larger for accessibility, and getting rid of the pedestrian islands, making bulbout sna dcurb ramps. commissioner campos: is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have item 5, which is an action item.

motion by carmen chu. second by david chiu. can we take that without objection? please call item six. >> item 6. recommend allocation of up to $57,213,174 in prop k funds, with conditions, to the san francisco municipal transportation agency for the central subway tunnel boring machines and tunnel boring launch box, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule and amendment of the 2009 prop k strategic plan. this is an action item. >> good morning, chairman campos. bmo consultant to the authority. this item begins on page 73 of your packet. the central subway has now reached a very important and critical phase. we have started with construction and the item in

front of you today is to for the construction efforts of the project. in front of you you have some of the milestones of the project. we submitted a new set metal in 2010. public agency labor support, the total budget for this phase is 100 -- the early construction phase has a few components. but not all of them are relate to this allocation request. the first one is utilities relocation contract 1, utilities relocation contract 2, and then the two that are subject to this request.

with publicly agency labor support, the total budget for this phase is $113.8 million. utilities relocation to contract 1, the contract is now complete, and close up phase. fatalities for contract to, the worker run union square. a little around 25% complete. the total contract is the next one. this contract is broken up into three parts. the notice to proceed one, the tunnel boring machine procurement, the access pit. those two are part of this allocation request. then there is notice to proceed 3, running up tunnels.

that will not take place until the full funding agreement from the federal government is received. the bids were opened from this contract on june 8. $13 million below the engineer's estimate. mta plans to give notice to proceed to the contractor in september. the early construction is fully funded with $72.7 million in prop k, the rest and prop1b new starts. the staff recommendation is the allocation of up to $57 million with conditions. those conditions are upon contract award, and a surplus prop k funds will be the obligated. these funds will then be used

for other phases of the project. another special condition is, should any additional funding becomes available, federal funding, state funding, or funding that can be applied to the project, that those funds would then be used first and then prop k funds are returned. this action is a request of a strategic plan amendment but is cost neutral. basically, it is moving $31 million from the construction phase to the early construction phase. when the program was established, but for the construction phase was not envisioned, so all the money was in the construction phase. like i said earlier, the amendment has no impact on financing costs for prop k. with that, i am happy to answer

any questions. the program manager from the mta is also here. commissioner campos: i wonder if you could expand. you talk about what happened if he got additional funding and surplus prop k funds. i think you are talking about providing sfmta -- prior to contract award full funding plan -- i think there are some other things. if you could expand on those. >> basically, this allocation is to allocate up to $57 million. right now, the mta has not

concluded discussions with the contractor. based on the number of bids, there is a possibility that the number will be lower. we should note the next week or two. those funds will go back into prop k to be used on the product at a later time. it is a condition. we also thought it was a board to include the condition about insuring this ntp 1 and 2 are fully funded. there was a full funding plan for the project but not all have been allocated, largely because of the state issue. we think is important to show the project is fully funded and financially stable, moving into the time period when the sfmta

is considered the full funding grant for the project. commissioner campos: i think it is important for the record, for folks to understand, there are a number of precautions being taken by staff to make sure this continues to run as smoothly as possible. that is the purpose of the clarification. colleagues, comments or questions? why don't we open it up to questions -- members of the public. you each have three minutes. >> commissioners, thank you for supporting a dream. a lot of people from reading the press, i think, people forgot the dream. close to 20,000 folks from chinatown that are looking for relief. the relief comes through the

central subway. for once, san francisco, and even all the way to the white house, are caring about our communities, the lowest income jam packed community in america. something that i am really saddened by, because they ignore the community's conditions. they also with old truths that you all know. one truth is the 3 to 1 that coming from the state. it would be crazy to give back that money. some folks on the street level -- i do not want to say the word lying -- but saying that the money can be used for other purposes, is designated for the central subway second day, hundreds of public meetings and community meetings that we have had years ago. that is left out of the news as well.

i am so hopeful that you will stand firm today and reaffirm that dream. we collected 20,000 signatures before, but we decided this year to reaffirm the jury by having another 6000 signatures. i was at one of the muni hearings and they said that chinatown does not want the subway. that is a lie. the other thing, there were these cost comparisons. i think the central subway compares favorably to other federal new starts projects currently underway. for example, second avenue subway in new york city is 2.5 miles, with a total of $4.7 billion in the budget. in my heart, i believe this

transportation justice project, this relief for the oldest asian-american community in san francisco is very important to all sentences can. hopefully, all san franciscans will join in. commissioner campos: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, what i want to state to you clearly is that we need to evaluate what we have done in the past. 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