larger level was a good set of policies would be for investing in infrastructure in the country. it is not a very hopeful note. i think it sharpens the focus on the fact that local self-help in transportation will continue to be very important, probably even more important than in the past, and the sense that it will be the available money. and, as i said, we will have to see how that evolves before we can see a lot of clarity of the state level as well. because the state, of course, receives a senate -- a significant amount of its funding for transportation purposes from the federal gas tax. so those things are in a rather unsettled state right now. the other thing i want to mention to you is -- and i risk making a prediction on it is, i think that the next frontier is

mileage-based charges for driving. i think that there is a coalition that is building at the national level to bring this to the foure on the strength ofa curious phenomenon, which is that the more conservative people in congress see the idea of a user fee to pay for roads are paid for driving, pay for anything you consume as a service, as a fair way to deal with the provision of that infrastructure. and so -- in fact, we have seen that -- >> the reality is those conservative republicans represent suburban areas where people have to drive a hell of a lot longer than democrats. i dread the longest here, 5 miles. yet, their constituents drive 3 miles on a good day. >> i agree with you and i have made that point in the debate.

what i think is happening now is that, i can do what mark was saying earlier about the rhetoric of reshaping the word tax into the word feet, there is really a reasoning that is beginning to develop some legs that says we will do a trade off where the tax will go away. so what will not be you're paying a sales tax or a field tax or some other tax, and you do not know where the money goes. you'll be paying only for the mileage you drive, and that will be used to improve the road you're driving on. so a more direct link. it is interesting that that is what is surfacing now. because in a way, the success of our own prob k sales tax is precisely in the fact that it is local and when the voters approved it, they approved it so that they were essentially very

aware of what the money was going to be used for. that seems to now become the winning formula at the federal level as well. i am willing to risk that ultimately that will emerge as the way to move forward, because it will not be consensus in congress to increase the gas tax. but as you perhaps devolved into the state with an authority to charge on a mileage basis, combined perhaps with successful managed-based insurance programs, which are already being tested in other states, we might have a winning formula. so stay tuned. we will give you posted. i expect that something like that will service in a more official weigh very soon. that is all i have. happy to answer questions. commissioner mar: is this an action item or is it informational? >> we do have, i believe we have a couple of items here that were

slated for action. but i think one of those -- i am not sure that we even have that. that bill -- do we need to take an action? no. i would say, because the position was not reviewed before by the board, we should take an action on this calendar. because there was a position on a bill, ab 294, but it is essentially a pro-forma action, simply because the item had not been before the committee before. other than that, no substantial changes. commissioner mar: any comments or questions, colleagues? let's open this up for public comment. would anyone like to speak? seeing none, public comment is

closed. can we move this forward with a positive recommendation without objection? thank you. please call the next item. >> number 6, introduction of new items. this is an information item. commissioner mar: i see no comments from colleagues. with the public like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. please call item number 7. >> item 7, public comment. commissioner mar: is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed. next item. >> item 8, adjournment. commissioner mar: thank you. thank you, everyone. meeting adjourned.

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor campos: good morning, everyone. welcome to the transportation authority plans and programs session meeting. clerk of the committee is erica cheng. madam clerk, can you please call item no. 2? >> review of minutes of the july 12 meeting. >> colleagues, you have the minutes before you. before we act on it, with any member of the public like to speak on this item? seeing no one, public comment disclosed. taken without objection.

madam clerk, please call item no. 3. >> item #3, citizens of advisory committee report. an information item. supervisor campos: mr. davis, good morning. >> good morning, commissioners. our meeting took place last week and i it -- as a result there were three, $270,000, so they can to work at union square. passed by, seven-one, with one abstention, the discussion for the meeting was around community

involvement as put into the planning. the other item on the agenda was the central subway. this was the first time we had passed anything regarding the central subway. the discussion on that was very focused on the risk management issues and the assumptions that the mta was making about the central subway project. i believe we have something coming up on the agenda. the last one, if you look just look, i think that it was the --

excuse me -- signals, right? that is right, officials. we discussed it more from a community perspective. what were the priorities in the right order? and should that be higher on the list? that was a big concern with prioritized projects around signals. three items on the agenda. one of them, the adoption of priorities for 2012.

there are four priorities. the circulation plan was also passed unanimously. there was discussion on this item early on and did included non-english speaking communities and implementations going on around bicycle circulation. the other was planning a round disabled and overweight adults and how they plan to that conflict between bicyclists and the disabled, not trains. -- coming off trains.

leslie, they submitted projects coming up in the fall. and if the stake holders had approved of that. additionally, the loss of parking. >> colleagues, we have received the report from the citizens' advisory committee. is there any question? let's open it up to public comment. thank you, mr. davis, for your service. public comment is closed. item number four? >> item #4. recommend adoption of san francisco's project priorities for the 2012 regional transportation improvement program. this is an action item. supervisor campos: and we have

the report. >> i will present this item. i will try to keep it simple. every few years, the california transportation commission adopted a program that is a five-year program of projects. there are a number of different state and federal funds programs that funneled through. 75% are programmed by agencies like this entity. that work is done for the approval of the metropolitan transportation commission. they will approve bay area regional transportation improvement programs. they are all compiled together

and caltrans sets the priorities. collectively, all of that stuff is in the state transportation improvement program. we are hoping that with the budget year, we will have more stable funding for it. importantly, there are two piles of money that we are dealing with today, the first being the regional improvement program, the other being the transportation enhancement program. we have about $10 million in the program. readily funding large projects, whether they be transit or highway. last year the authority board took action to commit regional improvement authority project to plan, downtown extension in the

transit terminal, and the central subway transit. in total we committed funds to the projects on page 21. you can see that we have made pay down already. that is $150 million we are making to the project. we have reaffirmed our commitment and take some action to make doyle drive the commitment. this was done to help facilitate the close between the project and questionnaire on phase 2 of the project under the public- private partnership. the timing of this is also very important, consistent with the california transportation commission issues that register , for that reason, with 10

million available, there is an amount of money that helps to fund agency staff support with 10 million proposed for the parkway. the interesting part of this, we are also proposing to request an advance of $34 million from our next two years to fully fund the project. we think that the timing is great to support the public- private partnership. this does not delay the funding for the other major projects i have mentioned. this is something with guidelines to allow funds and we look forward to working with representatives, as it will require some advocacy.

we had $2 million in transportation funds. >> good morning, mr. chairman, committee members. as mentioned, we received just over $2 million in funding to the federal funding program that has many different categories of eligibility. you can see all 12 programs that mainly focused on pedestrian or bicycle eligibility. $2.2 million, out of it, we use $1.1 billion for our own reserves in the regional programs here. seoul, august 4 of 2011, we issued a call for projects and

continued funds. on the seventh we had three applications to receive the applications outlined on page 24 of your packet. i have a very brief overview of the applications. the first one is from s.f. mta, a proposal for an 18 month campaign, $50,000, to target and encouraged outreach efforts on education throughout the city that were identified in the safety task force. the second program is the conversion project, focusing on high conversion areas, proceeding to convert 12 crosswalks at 12 on controlled intersections. we call them piano keys or

continental crosswalks. then there are 21 intersections that will be receiving similar conversions. the final project that we received this from the enhancement of the green light of day trail, to put out section tracks with parallel parking lots on both parts of third street down to mariposa street and enhancing the bike lane from mariposa on conflict areas. so, we reviewed the project using the screening criteria on page 25 of for a packet. this included eligibility of all of these projects for the program. the screening of the

prioritization criteria that we focused on readily was that of the funds, the only available, there was nothing else available. we wanted to be able to target those funds to the project. there were other funding opportunities. attachment seven of your packet, which is page 28, describes our recommended programming, to provide full funding for pedestrian safety and encouragement campaigns at $850,000 and a crosswalk conversion project. we do not recommend funding the major bill and had spent, the key reason being that there is a project for of a plan for that area that will basically make those improvements temporary at this point.

to better coordinate that effort, there are a few things missing from the scope and budget improvements in the more complicated intersections. looking at the budget, we already know that it will cost a bit more than what the budget says. we are very happy to be able to fund the statewide pedestrian safety encouragement campaign. we feel it is a necessary campaign to move forward with. we are working to get a few more additions on the current scope and the corresponding budget that describes the worlds of all of the partners, with public health and community based organizations. we are recommending positioning these funds with the details that we received yesterday evening. we are reviewing them right now.

we are also recommending that when we have an understanding of the further details of this project, we come back to the citizens advisory committee after the evaluation of this project. we want to make sure we are reporting back to you. we are using prop k funds for project development. currently, every separate phase of the project, you have to plan dollars in different fiscal years, taking a project that is relatively straightforward, immediately forcing it into a 33 year project that requires several different state actions. using the funds up front, hopefully we can accelerate that project. with that, our next step is to clean up the applications and make sure they are ready for review by the california

transportation committee by the october 14 deadline. i can answer any questions. supervisor avalos: thank you for the presentation. you say that the bayshore bicycle enhancements are being postponed? >> yes. supervisor avalos: to understand what the plans are exactly, that is from caterville way? >> from illinois street, terry francois, turning right before the o'doule bridge. that whole section is currently planned. planned as separate segments, some of them are connected to redevelopment project. making this investment at this

point i am planning to sign and construction fees, the project will -- will be completed before it pays for the improvements. we are trying to time and out. supervisor avalos: is there currently a bike lane along this area? >> yes. supervisor avalos: representing one of the most critical route. and a timeline for all of that? >> one section is ready to be paved in 2012. another section of what illinois street is for 2015. we will be working with them. supervisor campos: colleagues, and the other questions? is there any member of the public that would like to speak? these come forward. >> good morning, commissioners.

good question, and thank you. we are very supportive of the staff recommendation to bring pedestrian project forward. for various reasons, these projects are probably not perfect for this funding source, timing and other reasons. we are all for letting the project pass. we will be working closely with the board of the mta in finding money for coordinating those opportunities. as staff told you, this money is hard to find and we need to continue to do things for pedestrians. we will keep working on bicycle improvement through other avenues. thank you. supervisor campos: is there any other member of the public that would like to speak? and seeing no one, this item is

closed. this is an action item. if we can take that without objection? the item passes. madam clerk, please call item no. 5. >> item #5. recommend amendment of the prop recommend amendment of the prop k bicycle circulation and safety 5-year prioritization program. >> this is a hefty item. especially over the summer, with the bike program, recognizing that we are to ramps -- site advocate staff going on right now. very briefly -- and few, erica, for the benefit of those watching the five-year prioritization requirements in this expenditure plan, and ted

will talk about the specifics. all of the program expenditures in the plan have the requirements to develop a five- year prioritization program over the contents in a second. updated periodically, they need to be approved by the committee and the authority board. the expenditure plan advisory committee was added for a number of reasons. the underlying theme was transparency. one of the key elements was to have prioritization methodology, so that other organizations and the public could understand why someone at the top, and others fell down. also insuring coordination with agencies and public input throughout the life cycle of the project.

often the public was in the position of seeing construction where they had not seen it before. develop into far to have meaning for the public. so, it has a number of elements that must be in the five-year prioritization program. i will let go over all of them, but it is a five-year program, a list of projects, funded by prop k, showing scope, schedules, costs, and spending plans. the first side benefit is the leveraging of $2,003 with 2 billion -- $2 million in crop came met by $8 million in other funds over the 30 years of the program. leveraging cuff is extremely

important. and also help to develop a pipeline going, so that when we did develop plans, we have projects that were ready to succeed. with that, chad will come forward. as he is walking out, the bicycle circulation safety category as a number of sponsors, including the transportation agency, the board of public works, and the board, which had designated most of the references that he made to the project. >> good morning. the current circulation and safety was developed and adopted in 2009, when the city was in its third year of the injunction against the bicycle plan.

in 2009, 35 projects were cleared that day. this was an unprecedented rollout of projects there are three sub-categories that are safety, education, outreach, performance education, and bicycle network improvements. helping to organize the program and by tight. because of the injunction and outreach, a relatively large number of placeholders held uncertainty around the injunction. mostly what it does