will include considerations of how you provide the justice to the public. thank you. >> this is a statement. as i read it come at bear in mind, please, that it was delivered to me verbally by telephone before this meeting began. shortly before this meeting began. "i was on the sunshine or dance task force for 7.5 years and was a chair or vice chair of the ethics commission from 2002 to 2004. i am the only person ever to serve on both bodies. i filed various complaints with the sunshine or dance task force, all were upheld by the task force, either unanimously or by all but one vote.

the sunshine ordinance task force agreed with me, it gets all of my complaints were dismissed by the ethics commission. ethics said the complaint would not stand up in court. the sunshine ordinance does not say that complaints must be court sustainable. ethics is formulating a requirement that has no basis in law and is on known to anyone. in regard to the 123-page memo from ethics, this shows an attempt to avoid dealing with complaints by focusing on whether a violation was willful. there is an easier way to address this. there is a requirement of commissioners, department heads, and program managers, to take periodic training. people signed a declaration under penalty of perjury.

thus, if an employee complaint against has signed that document, it is possible that they have been negligent in their retraining, and have committed perjury by signing it. its ethics simply looked at whether the sworn statements are filed, that is an easier way to establish whether there was negligence and culpability on the part of the respondent. ethics approach now is a hybrid legalistic and will discourage complaints from being filed. these observations are coming from the only person ever to serve on both the sunshine or dance task force and the ethics commission. -- sunshine ordinance task force and the ethics commission." >> i would like to thank the task force before your assistance. the commission for their work. the staff of both bodies. mr. grossman and the public.

i think we all have a goal of trying to faithfully enforced the ordnance and we appreciate your help in helping us get there. the meeting is adjourned. >> which celebrated the electric vehicle charging stations and facilities in san francisco today. i am the deputy general manager for the san francisco public utilities commission and i am joined today by mayor ed lee, fiona maw, mila nutter and

barbara hale. this has been sort of a team effort, it has taken quite a while to get here. we are thankful for her help on 631 that paved the way for putting in these stations. as we go through this presentation today, i hope you take a chance to look at some of the electric vehicles today. i would like to thank several people that are here today, especially barbara hale's staff. our colleagues at the metropolitan transportation authority as well as the colleagues had reckoned harper installing these. at the department of public works colleagues. with that, i will turn it over to the mayor lee for a few

comments. >> thank you, michael, and a thank-you for your stewardship. you and barbara, ed harrington, you have done a great job. when i was city administrator, asked mayor newsom if i could do the ev's. i liked working with our department of environment, with melanie, with bob and others. they sat down and spend some good time talking about innovation for the city as to how we can get off of oil. i am glad the day that -- today that the chairman is here. a year ago, we announced that we wanted 100 of these charging stations placed throughout all of the public garages.

that was the strongest signal that we could give that we were going to pave the way and be supportive of the national movement and be the bay area leaders of the ev revolution. we have 49 of these stations placed. does a wonderful goal. before the end of this year, we'll have them -- an additional 33. we see that the private sector has also joined in. we have hotels, parking garages that are privately owned and other public areas where private interests are saying that they would like to install these ev chargers for their customers. in fact, one of my favorite hotels down near chinatown, a have a charger there that is in use. people are proud of driving

their vehicles in there for that use as well. the label themselves as a green hotel precisely because of these ev charging stations. these chargers, because of their newness, they had to be introduced to interrupt the culture, i have had the pleasure of working with eight apartments coordinating themselves together from our office of disabilities, public works, mta, puc, fleet managers. and including our own fleets, we can make sure that we transition. the weather is the chevy volt that i have had the pleasure of writing in or the nissan leaf that is the newest coming out in the market very soon, i believe that these are the cars of the future. while we embrace transit first

in the city and it will be forever our number one priority, to the extent that we must use vehicles, at some of us have to to get around in different schedules, that we do so in the most environmentally supportive way. it is a reminder that we can get off of oil. the reason why i think the popularity of these charging stations are coming at such a fast pace is because people like the assemblywoman have done what they can on the legislative side. she has passed a very valuable law that allows these stations not to be considered as utilities. that incentivizes the private sector to join the public sector. i want to remind everybody, i know that they have this on his mind.

hydroelectric power is the cleanest power you can possibly have has a source. for us in the bay area, the strongest source of that has the dam. it is the one that we value the most because it produces clean and efficient energy. it is transmitted throughout the bay area. it preserves and generates the cleanest energy. it is not only the present use for the charging stations, i believe it will also be considered to be of great part of our future for electric charging. again, there are efforts in and outside of our city that suggest what i have considered to be an insane idea to get rid of our hech hechi dam. i believe that is misleading and false advertising. that is our future.

i think that they need to understand the hydroelectric power is the way forward along with solar and the other sources that we are creating and the united states to be independent from oil. i enjoy working with the department of the environment. all of the different entities that have come together to make sure that this works, how to make sure it works not only as an environmentally friendly system, but it has to work for every day people, persons with disabilities that are parking in our garages and ordinary folks that are trying to use or come to the fantastic art events. it works for a real thing that we do. this is one of my priorities, one that i am very happy to continue working with the

various agencies and welcoming the new auto industry, one that complement's transit first. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. it is nice for the mayor to remind us that we have a guess- 3. first, we need to a knowledge -- acknowledge fiona maw. she paved the way for -- >> one of the best part of my job is that i can work on things that i care about. i am on my fourth hybrid, and i am waiting to get an electric vehicle so i can save money on gas. as gas prices rise, i think the pressure is on to try to figure

out how to get people around economically. i do want to thank the mayor for his leadership. he has been the head of many departments over the years and he knows how to bring people together to cut through the red tape and get things done. when advocates came to me in the community about 8631 saying that we have a problem, the problem is we don't know how we're going to be regulated as electric vehicle charging stations, if we are going to be subject to the puc and calls to sacramento every time there is a change in leadership or commissioners or ideas, or whether we can operate like a free market similar to gas stations. we worked very hard for two years, which gives certainty to the electric vehicle charging station market that they will not be regulated as a public

utility and will be able to have certainty and invest in these long-term investments. i do want to recognize the city and county as we are working on this bill. he told me about their ambitious project of putting in 100 charging stations in public facilities. they were leading the charge, and the city and county in california that is as aggressive or as visionary as a san francisco. hech hechi power is so important. it was the vision of our forefathers, the engineering marvel that created that our system. it powers many or all of our city services in the city buildings, and i want to thank the mayor's leadership for not charging the public for a whole year for using these charging stations in the public

facilities. he said it is going to be free until 2013 to encourage people to try at and to get used to it and demand more. i want to thank the mayor for his leadership and applaud the city team for working together on this very visionary and aggressive project. >> last but not least, my colleague from the department of the environment. i would also like to recognize that staff person for their involvement as well. >> i was really pleased to be standing with the assemblywoman almost a year ago today to announce the city report. as you heard, this really is a critical piece of legislation for the state of california to enable electric vehicle infrastructure. that is what you need to address

with legislation and that is exactly what assemblywoman maw did. in san francisco, it is a really critical project for environmental protection. about 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions and carbon emissions come from cars and trucks. finding an alternative for people that need to use a single occupancy vehicles is a critical project. i am hoping to get people out of the cars, walking or biking. having an electric vehicle was a great option. all of our city chargers are powered through carbon-free power. mirren newsom did set a goal of

our city being 100% renewable power in the next 10 years, and mayor li has in forethought with the task force looking at how we are going to get there. goomaking sure that is part of r system is going to help reach that goal. good when other elements i wanted to mention, the electric vehicle chargers, this is also another critical element of our infrastructure, and the cars and plugged in are also helping reduce our gas emissions. statewide is becoming cleaner and cleaner, so cars are helping me the carbon emission reduction goals. i want to thank all the departments who have participated.

i want to thank bob hayden, who has been essential as well as many of the conditions today, dpw, rec and park, the airport, all of those who have seized this opportunity, so i wanted to thank the assemblywoman as well as the leadership to see that we become the electric vehicle capital in the u.s. >> that concludes our event for today. we're going to be available for questions, so thank you for coming.

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. >> sorr