overall strategic plan. welcome the opportunity to meet with your offices on this topic. commissioner avalos: thank you. who is responding to the call of the project? emergency departments? how does that work? >> in terms of the types -- who is sponsoring the types of projects we expect to receive? >any public agency is eligible to serve as a project sponsored. just based on folks i have been talking to, i anticipate that we will receive applications from the traditional agencies we work with, but also other eligible public agencies such as city college and san francisco state. commissioner avalos: do we see a little bit of competition from within the departments

themselves? >> noted in the call is that one of the things we will be looking at is how departments, if they have multiple applications, how departments or agencies internally prioritize their submission of projects. commissioner avalos: ok, so there is, like, some air traffic controller helping on that process within the department? >> i do not know if i can answer about air traffic controllers, but the idea of competition is often we call for projects, and you guys get and we get the exact number of applications that meet the available funding. we will see first what is available probably more likely from the traditional sponsors, and if it suits the committee and the public and is not the spectrum of products we want to see, that is why we have called part ii. we have time a generate the types of projects and variety of projects that we want to fund. commissioner avalos: ok, thank

you. let's open this up for public comment. >> i would like this committee to observe something. again and again when the presentations are made, they are made by most people that do not live in san francisco. the other thing is we do not see a diversity. so i think it is time for us to use our universities and even our high school students as intern's to get them involved in this type of project. what i notice, especially in the last 15 years, is that there is a level of discussion which does not allow the constituents at

ground zero to participate. i can give you a number and numerous projects where millions of dollars have been spent. the chair yourself will understand what i'm saying. at one time, the deliberations, the balboa park but station was left out, and because you were part of some committee, you could intercede and agreed. what is happening here is again and again, we allowed entities that have people on their payroll to participate and submit their applications. we need to empower the citizens so that they can apply. it is very easy to say the public can apply.

who in the public? what do they understand? where did they get the empirical data? who will explain to the land use for planning or give them access mta? who will give them access to other entities that can help in putting a plan so that they can improve their lives, be it transportation, the it quality of life, the it access to affordable housing and so on and so forth. so, supervisors, as representatives, you have to think beyond the beyond. and i do not see that happening here. giving the san francisco county transportation authority to do as they want. you get some people coming here and giving the presentations, but they do not live in our city. they do not feel for our city. they cannot feel for our city of

less they make an attempt -- unless they make an attempt to have meaningful out reach. -- outreach. i know the chair agrees with me, but we need to do something about it. commissioner avalos: thank you very much. any other members of the public who would like to comment on this item? seeing none, will close public comment. anything else to add? ok, this is an information item, so we can go to our next item. >> item 8, update on the central subway project. this is an information item. >> good afternoon. in view of the time, i will make an attempt to be brief. i am project management oversight authority. for the benefit of those that

may be watching at home and not too familiar with the project, the central subway is in the -- is the second phase of the third street library project, which will go all the way to chinatown. much of last year, the board approved the budget of $1.578 billion. september 2011, the mta submitted its request for the full funding grant agreement, which is the major financial milestone for the project. thus far, the board has allocated $9 million. today, the expenditure totals 173. the full agreement is expected july 2012. there has been some discussion

about what happens with the allocation, but in a way that signals fda's intent, they awarded $85 million to the project in fiscal year 2011- 2012, and that is the fiscal year that ends in september. the phase in which the final design is complete, and it is happening concurrent with construction. the first two packages the tunnels and stations are complete, and the systems package will be complete in made next month. construction, as i mentioned, is under way. the first contract is complete, and the second contract in the area of union square -- i'm sure

you noticed the activity there. it is 85% complete. the tunnels contract -- the total board machines have already been awarded -- ordered. that contract was awarded in june of last year for $13 million below the engineer's estimate. it is, of course, a major project, which consists of 1.5 miles of tunnel from under the freeway. it has three separate notices to proceed. the first one was for the african much of the tunnel boring machine, which they have already done. the second one was for the development of the tunnel boring machine launched its, which was actually given in march. the last one is for the actual driving of the tunnel, and that will be happening at the the

agreement is received in july. the remaining contract is for remaining contracts. the union square station was actually advertised yesterday, so there are two construction contract right now. yerba buena will follow in a month or so, and the systems will be the final one, third quarter of this year. commissioner avalos: so what we have seen so far -- i am most familiar with the union square, powell street station, and that is utilities? >> yes. the unions for a station on the streets, preparing for construction of the station there. real-estate acquisition that is on track. there are two sides being

acquired. the building has been vacated. i do not know if you had a chance to go by there, but it was in order to protect the building. it was wrapped very nicely with some images of chinatown and also of what the station will be looking like. mta has been pursuing eminent domain in parallel in case the negotiations do not happen. if they cannot be concluded in time, then they will proceed with eminent domain in order to avoid impacting the schedule of the project. there's also 3 easements. and g-8 received possession in july of last year. here, you have the schedule milestones. i will not bore you going

through every single one of them, but the most significant coming up is the full funding grant agreement expected in july. as i mentioned earlier, december 2018 is the revenue service. commissioner avalos: do we anticipate any controversy in pursuing the full funding bread? >> no, basically, the mta wants to -- once they receive the application, they have been answering questions. the mta has been responding, and everything seems to indicate that it is on track. here, you have the full funding. this is something you have seen before. as far as some funding actions, there was some uncertainty, but that has passed because the state bonds were issued last week. so that uncertainty is going

this time. also, the staff is working at the regional state level to make sure that the future funding becomes available, that the bonding happens on time. also, in preparation for a contingencies, the staff is also working with mtc and other funding partners to talk about help bridge funding is needed because some other funding is delayed. so these plans are being developed to make sure that the project gets billed according to schedule. >> so state bonds are expected in april, that is the slump? >> it was expected in april, but that should have happened last week.

so that concludes my presentation. the program manager from mta is also here. i'm happy to answer any questions. commissioner avalos: any comments or questions? ok, thank you for your presentation. we can go on to public comment. >> i have known mr. ruiz for a long time. i got to know them better when he was involved with third street light rail. as you know, mr. chair, this pertains to your district since you have very little representation in the district. the third street light rail phase one begins at fourth and king and ends in the middle of nova and visitation valley.

for those listening at home, over $700 million was spent on that project, and 80% of the businesses were impacted, and a lot of businesses just went away because they could not afford to stay in business. historically speaking, when a similar project was done on market street, all the businesses were compensated. i believe by the department of transportation. now, on this phase two, because a lot of this is tunneling under brown, the businesses above, especially union street and all, would not be impacted -- because a lot of this is tunneling under ground. but things are put in a place to create safe passages above

ground. now, i'm talking on behalf of three or four focus groups that we meet to discuss such issues. we need to get a better understanding of how certain segments of the population will be catered to. as i have been stating here and in today's public comments, i stated once or twice we have, if you look at our demographic, an increase in the percentage of our seniors. >> we lost quorum. >> so what happens? commissioner avalos: we can stop your public comment, or we can continue? >> no, i think i said

sufficient. commissioner avalos: you are back. wonderful. we have a quorum again. thank you for your comments, mr. da costa. any other member of the public who like to comment, please come forward. seeing none, no -- we will close public comment. this is an informational item, so we can go on to our next item. >> item 9, introduction of new items. this is an information item. commissioner avalos: colleagues, and the introduction of new items? seeing none, okay, public comment? public comment is closed. next item. >> item 10, public comment. commissioner avalos: seeing no member of the public come forward for public comment, will close public comment.

>> item 11, adjournment. commissioner avalos: we are adjourned. thank you. >> we are very pleased to be meeting here in san francisco. in this facility is named after a distinguished member of the california senate. it is our great honor that the mayor of san francisco is here to address us great mr. mayor, thank you so much from taking time -- is here to address us. mr. mayor, thank you so much for

taking time. >> welcome to san francisco. thank you for meeting here. the northern california mlu that you have before you charts ecorse of our caltrain -- charts a course of our caltrain corridor. i just want to give the nod to the empty seat -- mtc for putting this together. in san francisco, we consider caltrain to be the transit spine that connects the city to san jose and san francisco to silicon valley and all of our partner cities. caltrain electrification has had a broad regional support for many years.

caltrain is the most important thing we can do for generations to come. here in san francisco, i am working hard to make sure we continue to be the innovation capital of the world. cities across this country and other nations are looking at its cities for solutions to everyday problems. transit is our number one concern because we are a growing economy. we cannot increase roadways and airport runways there. that will not be a part of solutions for the future. you have a good solution. it is going to be affordable, it will be faster, and it will be better. i want to welcome you. as i came here this morning, i ran into a lot of great people. i know they represent a lot of

generations of people. i hope, as i think many of you do, i hope to see the trains pulled through all the way from los angeles to our valley, through our peninsula all the way to our transbay terminal. thank you very much. >> thank you, mayor. [applause] i also want to recognize, i appreciated the way you and your staff reached out to ensure that our business plan we are looking at today fully incorporates the service all the way to the

terminal. and does not push that to the back of the line. we have tried to embrace that. you certainly have represented the people of discriminative very well. we have tried to listen to that. >> i do not regard myself as simply the mayor of san francisco. i want to be a mayor that works with all the cities that are also concerned about the way we do this. we will exhibit our collaboration with them. >> thank you. >>

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>> for the meeting will come to order. good afternoon. this is the monday, april 16, 2012 meeting of the land use and economic develop committee for the san francisco board of supervisors. my name is eric mar, chair of the committee. tamara is malia cohen. to my left is supervisor scott wiener. our clerk is ms. alisa miller. >> please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. documents should be submitted to the creek bottoms acted upon it will appear on april 24 board of supervisors agenda less inert -- otherwise stated. supervisor mar: thank you. in the two items. >> item number one, ordinance amending the sidewalk with of

golden gate avenue and redwood valley. >> i do not have a presentation. actually, this is the location for the new puc headquarters building. 525 building gate. -- 525 golden gate. it was a suggestion from staff members at dpw, we were requested to widened sidewalks to improve pedestrian safety. we also included the pg&e vault underneath the sidewalk. we do not wanted encroaching into the street. on redwood and polk street supervisor mar: street mar