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supervisor wiener: welcome, everyone. i will call this meeting to order. this is the san francisco transportation finance committee. i'm the chairman and to my left is commissioner carmen chu, to my right is vice chair erik mar, and i expect the others will be here shortly. why don't we call item no. 2? >> approved of the march 13, 2012 meeting. >> is there any public comment on item number two? can we take that without objection? we will defer item #3 until the appropriate person is here. could you call item no. 4? >> recommend authorizing the

executive director to execute a memorandum of agreement with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and planning department in the amount not to exceed $81,000 for the 19th avenue transit quarter investment study. >>supervisor wiener: commissionr david chiu has joined us. >> this is a request to enter into a memorandum of agreement with other agencies for the 19th avenue transit quarter. this will focus on the ocean view line and shifting it from the median to the west side of the street. this study will look at related pedestrian and bicycle improvements and also look at potential transit connections from the 19th avenue area.

the studies total budget is about $480,000 to be funded by a $300,000 grant from the california department of transportation that we won earlier last year. there will be a local match. the transportation authority has private partners that will be contributing to this study for a total amount of $90,000. san francisco state university and these downtown gallery a mall have pledged to contribute money as part of the local match. that leaves about $100,000 for the remainder of the local match. this study is in its startup phase and staff has been bringing needed action items to the board for approval that includes the appropriation i just talked about that was approved in november of 2011 by

a resolution and also, in february of this year, we brought a contract award that was later approved. this request is for a memorandum of agreement to transfer funds to the transportation agency and planning department 4 their participation in this study. we will be looking to them providing about $60,000 to help review the light rail design alternatives that we would be generating in the study and look at light rail and bus operational aspects of the study. we will be looking to the planning department to coordinate with the steady and we understand these downtown galleria mall is interested in doing improvements to its site

and we will be asking the planning department to coordinate that work. >> i used to take union and i could see how moving it to the center lane would be a big improvement. but i had a big improvement of the private institutional partners. how much are they contributing? how much? >> they are contributing about $90,000 in total. >> there was a briefing on the item and it was supported nine- one. outreach will be a part of this study. it is not in this scope of work

to provide the scope planning to participate. we do plan to provide outreach the study. we have indicated we will provide the outreach scope at a later date. just to conclude, we are seeking a recommendation to enter into themoa. supervisor chu: what are the boundaries on 19th avenue? is it the entire corridor or only around parker said? >> it extends north to about eucalyptus drive and down south to the county line. we are looking at the portion that carries an ocean view to the light rail line. supervisor chu: in terms of the area is bounded by where ocean

view would change, are you going to be doing impact on the key intersections? it may not be the entire corridor but something that is transferrable going north? >> we would be looking at a steady of the intersection where there may be a potential impact from doing anything to the intersections along 19th ave. >>supervisor chu: so that could extend for the north? >> yes. supervisor wiener: is there any public comment on item number four? please approach. >> this agenda item is very important to many students who live and work around the state university. what we need it decides what the cac member has stated is qualify

input from senior citizens and those with disabilities. right now, when you take the light rail and it stops by the state university, the state university, because we fought for it for a long time has made arrangements for people that are challenged to be taken from one spot to the other. we need to see that similar arrangements are made when this track is moved to where it has to be moved. as the cac member, i am going to state let's not put this type of adjudication in the hands of the planning department. whatever is stated here, the land use, i don't know who is in charge of the land use that knows about such things, we need to get the university students

involved because that is going to impact them drastically. if it does not benefit them, they cannot afford to spend more money on transportation. they are already burdened with tuition. there is going to be a demolition of a large area in the park merced. we need the input from the commercial sector because they stand to benefit. basically, we need more input from the grassroots constituents who take public transportation. i take public transportation. when you take public transportation and want to take public transportation, very few people will come here because they don't have their time and they don't want to waste time.

we have to make every effort to take concrete matters, to have outreach to the university students. [tone] to the people who lived around park merced and other residents impacted who will be linked to 1970. this is very, very critical. the supervisor is not here, but maybe he is listening to it. he should conduct some community meetings to add to the impact. thank you very much. supervisor wiener: is there any further public comment? seeing none, public comments is closed. without objection, that will be

the order. we will now go back to item no. 3. >> item #3, state and federal legislative update. this is an action item. >> good morning, commissioners. and the deputy director for policy and programming at the authority. i'm going to quickly give you a status update on the federal legislative program and i will introduce juanita martinez to speak to the state legislative program. since the last finance committee meeting, the president signed a 90-day extension of the service transportation program. no changes from current law. it extends the bill through june 30, 2012. june 30 is likely the last date prior to the november elections that congress can realistically complete a multi-year bill. , we bump up against the summer recess and follow -- following

that, we bump up against the summer recess. then congress returns from recess which goes until april 16 and the senate has already passed maps 21 which with a two- year bill and now it's more like a 15-month bill to take the transportation program to the end of fiscal year 13 and the house has yet to pass a bill and will be in deliberations as soon as that returns from recess. with that, i will turn the podium over to juanita who can talk about the bills we are recommending support for in this current rocket which begins on page 13 on the legislative matrix. >> sorry for my tardiness. traffic from sacramento is a bit much today. supervisor wiener: it's ok.

there is a lot of party is going on today. >> i would like to direct your attention to the matrix which was recently amended to require the representative on the mpc to be a citizen of san francisco. this will grant san francisco 3 slots which will be on par with the alameda and santa clara counties. we are recommending support on ab57. onto the second bill on page 8 of your matrix, we are also recommending a watch on this bill. this bill authorizes this transfer of the inner-city rail service from caltrans to a new jpa which would be similar to the capitol corridor trains. then ab1780 on page 9 of your

matrix, we recommend a support position on this. this bill requires caltrans to fund project reports for local funding projects on state highway system, specifically the project initiation document. this is a self-help bill to maintain caltrans funding and we recommend support on this bill. the next bill is ab1950 on page 9 of your matrix. there also recommending a support on this bill which permits 10% of state grants to schools to be expended on hard infrastructure in addition to bus shelters. this would include grants for sidewalks and pedestrian walkways and bikeways. the next bill is ab2147 on page

9 of your matrix and we recommend a support position. and this bill was recently amended to enhanced penalties for violations of our railroads and fixed guideway crossings and would allow a revenue increase to allow safety and other measures that are needed. the next bill is on page 12. we are recommending a watch position. this allows unfolding like carrot -- carriers and for the transit buses that would otherwise violate bus lane laws. this was introduced at the transit agency. we are recommending a watch position right now. we believe muni might want to get an amendment later on to add themselves into the bill but this would occur later in the process. the next bill is sb1189 on page 16 of your matrix. we recommend a support built --

support position on this bill. this would appropriate $543 million in connectivity funds for allocation of project list. part of this strategy is to overturn prior administration opposition to using funds for projects like bart and vehicle replacement in the central subway. next is sb120, which is a runner bill on page 17. we recommend you drop this from the matrix. there was language taken that no longer makes this bill applicable to transportation matters. sb1721 on page 19, we are also recommending you drop from the matrix. this no longer deals with transportation matters affecting san francisco. sb1380, we are recommending a watch position. this is the attempt by senator

rubio foresee "reform. we're not sure how this is going to play out that this is one of the -- for ceqa reform. the next bill is on page 19 of your matrix and we are recommending a drop from your matrix on this bill. no longer deals with transportation matters affecting san francisco. the last bill we have is sb1545 which is on page 19 of your matrix. we are recommending a watch position on this bill. prohibits mtc from the pursuit of new building sites in san francisco until after an audit is submitted by the state auditor general. after the completion of the audit, as the mark -- a report would be submitted.

we are recommending to watch this bill as it may impact your position later on, depending how it moves forward. supervisor wiener: this is about the headquarters move? >> right. >supervisor wiener: why would we not take a position on this? >> we want to get a better idea of what they want to do with it. timing wise, we think they may be moving ford in purchasing the building prior to the legislation. supervisor wiener: the building has been purchased and it's about spending money and it would prohibit the expenditure of money to effectuate the actual move and improvements of the building. i don't understand why we would not oppose it. i think it would send an odd message if san francisco were not in opposition to this bill. >> we do say mtc will be moving

to the process and will probably be in the building before this bill gets through the process. supervisor wiener: the bill could be moot because the audit will be complete in the next few months, but it is still a very concerning bill. it is not a pro-san francisco bill. the senator -- we are working with him on a number of things and he's a terrific senator. but on this particular issue, i do not think san francisco is on the same page as the senator. >> we had it as watch because it is a policy called. we want to send a strong message to the senator or see if it just fade away. supervisor wiener: my personal view is that we should switch it to oppose.