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.

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> [laughter] nice treat. supervisor mar: the morning, everyone. welcome to the regular meeting of the transportation authority finance committee. today i am joined by supervisor farrell, [reads names] i but like to thank [unintelligible] at sfc tv for providing access.

>> item #one. approval of -- item number two, approval of minutes of the may 10, 2011 meeting. supervisor mar: any corrections? seeing no one, let's open this to public comment. seeing no one, public comment is closed. without objection, madam clerk, please call the third item. >> item #3. recommend award of two-year consultant contracts to nelson\nygaard consulting associates, fehr & peers, and dowling associates, inc., in a combined total not to exceed $400,000, for travel demand management professional services, with an option to extend for one additional year, and authorizing the executive director to negotiate contract terms and conditions. >> good morning, commissioners. item #3 begins on page 7 of your packet.

this is a procurement for travel demand management services. the need was driven by a number of servicers, chief among them was the demand management project, an inter-agency funding project we have received in partnership with sfmta. this procurements also supported the authority development of strategic long- range countywide planning updates. and other studies that the session is undertaking. emerging at the local and regional level to better manage the transportation system in a time when resources are limited and cooperation with major agencies is critical. for this procurement in april

the evaluation panel consisted of representatives appointed by [inaudible] conducted interviews with all of the teams, recommending that awards be put with that the three highest ranked teams. the disadvantaged business enterprise school received eight%. we will use and on call approach similar to the one used by the modeling session. it is the most advantage to the authority work program. including numerous sub projects that overlap that required the authority to engage in specialized -- supervisor mar: what was that again? >> travel demand management.

initiating and conducting contract negotiations for a complete contracts with the three highest returns. the staff memo details the current process in greater details and i can answer any questions. thank you. supervisor mar: with any members of the public like to be heard on this item? [unintelligible] >> supervisors, you just heard an introduction that is very technical in nature. it is about how [unintelligible] and transportation flows. the government's is talking about some company, some

contract linked to the southeast center, for example. for the last 10 years we have had serious insufficiencies in providing reasonable transportation. not only on the third street corridor, but the proposed 10,500 homes. the other 900 units at hunters view. i would advise whoever wins the contract that we have many full meetings in the community, especially in those areas where people take the routes i have mentioned.

and the areas i have mentioned. what happens is that prior to any project being executed, they have others that are chosen to do the projects to sometimes do not study the environmental impact reports. and some of the dubious transportation documentation that was provided before. we have to learn to connect the dots. bringing to your attention, especially to the chair, that this documentation is available, again and again in all of the major environmental impact reports the flaw has been the

transportation document. i repeat, the flaw has been the transportation document. of which transportation management is very critical. i know a lot about this. when i went to the city of san francisco, they put emphasis on quality transportation management. which gives you a lot of statistics. but what i received was from empirical data. thank you very much. supervisor mar: would anyone else from the public like to speak? public comment is closed. mr. malkovich? >> [unintelligible] just a quick note. i cannot emphasize how important this effort is. this is the kind of work that

you could summarize by doing more with what we have, doing more with that, it is about connecting all of the resources already in the community that can be used more effectively. in this era of shrinking budgets, being able to not only get more by sharing resources, be they owned by community inventions, or services that are already being provided on the health care side, moving through the neighborhood visitors aside, also proving to have an eye to responsible, sustainable climate change results. so, i think that this is the sort of stuff that people go crazy about when resources are not being coordinated. we finally have the support of

the region to do that kind of work. the ones that are most underserved, where the resources are otherwise not in. frankly it is also an opportunity to connect to the big infrastructure investments that do not get a big rap -- good wrap all the time. you have a community where everyone lives on the trunk line. at the end of the castro shuttle or the parallel line, being in good shape, people farther out have a hard time accessing that service. these are projects that i intend to connect the dots in that way. to provide flexibility in the areas of bayview or hunters point.

the more difficult or challenging areas and so on. comparatively speaking, this is not billions of dollars. this is taking the resources in the community and organizing them better. this could very well be worth of the research work that would have been through these consultant contracts in collaboration with that the agencies so that we can do more with the services that we have. >> it sounds like -- supervisor mar: it sounds like from public comment that these contracts are very important for the bayview hunters point mobility study. it looks like there were four different firms that responded to the rp and three of them are being chosen. any other comments, colleagues?

>> and just about the selection and how you cast your net to find who you are targeting. >> we have a broad database of qualified consultants. not necessarily seeking a specific scope of work, interests for specific qualifications on skills and experiences with the finance administration section for the dde requirements to which this procurement is subject. there was a special opportunity to reach out to communities of concern, including posting ethnic language newspapers and targeting those businesses that make sure that the lead firms

have members of the team that fulfilled as needed. supervisor cohen: what were the results that were yielded to you? >> in terms of? >> businesses that represent communities of interest. >> it was 8% for this contract. a goal that comes from the federal highway administration and studies that have been done to identify certain groups of concerned. i will defer to the director of finance on this question. >> i believe that you are asking -- are you asking how many funds

we reached out to? or how we selected which firms? >supervisor cohen: both of those questions. >> we look at both caltrans and ubde databases. any consultants or interested parties that would be aware of or interested in these different types of rfq would be a part of our e-mail when it was initiated. so, he also talked about what he described as community-centric. >> i did not mean geographically, but there are specifics. >> groups that you are talking about. >> yes. look at page 10 of your packet.

following federal procurement requirements for this procurements, they have defined as a owned by african-americans, native americans, and women, and asian pacific americans. supervisor cohen: how many have been awarded this contract? >> i do not have that information in front of me. supervisor cohen: gracious. beyond this. how many? take a guess. >> i am not comfortable answering. i can break it down in terms of requirements. supervisor cohen: i am interested in investigating a piece of the action. >> i can break down which consultants are helping to meet that requirement.