investment and a policy statement. i understand we have to make choices when we put our budget forward and make choices in terms of what we prioritize. we want to subsidize our use and transportation to school and i want to reiterate some of the comments i heard today from parents with multiple children to have to buy multiple passes and what a struggle that is and the stories i've heard as a youth organizer and member of the board of education. i had older high-school students that would take younger siblings to school, often being late themselves because they had to transport younger siblings. waiting for bus drivers who were familiar with them and who would let them on for free -- those are the stories we don't like to hear. at that point we're at, we have many who cannot afford it and

get on the back of the bus and end up getting tickets which is something i try to help students with when they got the hundred dollar ticket. that's not a system we want to support in san francisco. second, this is a pilot. one of the worries is when you offer something for free, you have to continue to pay for. but it's important we figure out what the benefits of a program like this are. we can collect data on the impact of the young people with public transit and collect data on increased attendance in school. that type of data is important for the city to collect and i'm excited to support this. i strongly support this, and i think we as a city should say this is something we are prioritizing for our young people here in san francisco. supervisor avalos: thank you. supervisor olague: i also want

to echo my support for this. it seems to be that education has received many cut from the state level and more and more burden is placed on working family -- placed on working families to make sure they're getting inappropriate education and i think this lens to our commitment to keeping families in san francisco, keeping working families here, and supporting education for all youth. this is not at the exclusion of seniors. we can certainly continue to look at how we might in the future pilot programs to reduce the rate or provide free muni for seniors. i think this begins a conversation of looking at those who need these services and how to provide them to the public in a way that meets their own circumstance.

i strongly support this. i have said this before -- the day of the yellow buses is long behind us. there was a time when transportation was something the school district's provided for children and we don't anymore. i'm happy to support this small gesture to make sure students remain in school and there is not additional burden placed on working families in san francisco. i am happy to support this and i hope at some point in the future, maybe not to this committee, maybe to the school or some other committee that we look at discussing safe transportation for children because a lot of these youngsters are getting on buses and there is overcrowding and a -- there are a lot of related issues that need to be worked through. at least this is the beginning

and it's a good pilot program. supervisor cohen: i just wanted to also go on record acknowledging my support from day one for this particular budget priority. it's very important. as a child growing up in san francisco, i took public transportation to and from school every day. i'm also the oldest of five, so i understand extremely well the burdens of transportation. i wanted to acknowledge supervisor campos in his office for his leadership and acknowledge those members of the youth commission. it's important we continue to support and encourage them. its incredible they have taken up this position on this policy discussion and we're teaching

them through this process and supporting them on how to go ahead and implement and positively implement public policy. i also want to acknowledge several conversations i've had with seniors in the community. many of them in my particular part of san francisco. i ask them if they had concerns about the free muni fast passes. the conversations i have had or that the seniors felt they have lived their lives and made their contributions and understood the importance of supporting young people, getting them set for life and ensuring they are on the right track. by having this conversation, it further strengthened my resolve in supporting this legislation.

it's almost like having a blessing from our elders acknowledging the fact that it's important to continue to make a financial -- making our youth a priority even if it costs us some money. i'm honored to support this initiative thank you very much. supervisor avalos: thank you. can we have a roll-call vote? we are going to split out -- supervisor farrell: motion to split out before and a thousand dollar allocation. supervisor avalos: we will have a separate vote on the $400,000 allocation. >> on the first vote for the

$400,000? supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor farrell: no. >> the item passes. [roll-call] the item passes. supervisor cohen: i just wanted to say thank you for supporting this lifeline process. it's an unbelievable resources that connects the southeastern neighborhood to the inner parts of the city from downtown to

chinatown. it's absolutely critical. thank you on that. supervisor avalos: it also connects part of my neighborhood -- ballpark to rapid transit as well. madame clerk, if you could call item no. 3. >> the citizens' advisory report. this is an information item. supervisor avalos: mr. flanagan? are you representing the citizens advisory committee? he please come forward? >> today's agenda has three

items that were viewed last month. adam 5 recommended programs of cycle 3 lifeline transportation program and jobs access reserve -- reverse commute findings to the mta costs continual bus service restore project. the cac -- the discussion centered on how the free use pilot program fit into zepa lpt

priorities, to which the mta responded that it would include funding for the free muni for use pilot program. [unintelligible] this item was passed unanimously by that cac, on the study similar to what other cities have done regarding parking pricing to suggestion. the authority responded that the

park program was unique because of its sample size. the annual call for project -- these items focused on free maintenance while the cac is planning and many have expressed concerns about the transfer costs to residents. the major concern was that there was not a system of due process for residents who may not have the economic captivity for are

suffering from economic hardships like maintaining trees or residents who are not capable of covering it. dpw stated they do not have the evaluation system of due process they did state that there were hardship of valuation for sidewalk repair and home maintenance. they asked if there was a process issues and why there

wasn't due process maintenance. dpw said it was not clear as to why there was one system and not another. that concludes my report. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. any comments from the supervisors? seeing none, we will go on to public comment. >> one issue he read was free passes for the youth. your deliberation, you must understand you are just catering to those youth who would we

termed indigent, very poor. in other statement -- in other places, all youth get free passes other is a discrimination that you must understand and point out to the people at home. all youth below 18 should ride for free, not just that indigent youth. and he was talking about the trees and the way he was reading things was not very clear. i stated before that the city right now, we have about 33,000 trees that the city right now is trying to phase out, not maintaining the trees, encouraging the owners to maintain the trees.

we need some explanation from the transportation authority in their deliberations in how this has come about. [tone] and what should be done in the future. we need a more astute discussion and solution from the citizens' advisory committee rather than just reading something which means nothing. so when we come over here, the people who read the statement for give the presentation, we need something that states something to the fact and some solutions. [tone] supervisor avalos: we will close the public comment. that was an information item. madame clerk, -- let's go on to item no. 6 before going with

item no. 5. >> recommend the appointment of three members citizen to the advisory committee. this is an action item. supervisor avalos: i believe the representatives applying for districts 4 and district's five -- is the commissioners would like to continue those items. if we have people like to speak for applying for those positions, we will hear their comments. >> good morning, mr. scherer and committee members. by way of background, the authority has an 11 member citizens' advisory committee. each member serves 82-year term. the plans and programs recommends and the authority appoints citizen advisory committee members. neither staff are -- on page

seven, you can see who has submitted applications to be on the citizens advisor committee. you can see some information on the numbers. to qualify for appointment commie have to be a san francisco resident and need to appear once before the committee to speak to our interests and qualifications. we currently have three vacancies on the committee. this has resulted from it resignation of rosie was from district 11 and the term expiration's of chris jones from district 5 and conrad woo from district 4. i can either take questions or invite applicants. supervisor avalos: i know there is one from district 11 who is here. >> good morning.

i have been a resident of district 11, the excelsior district for over 25 years. i currently sir as co-chair of the community police advisory board and i am on the steering committee of the excelsior action group which is tasked with revitalizing the commercial corridor from geneva to silver. i'm a member of the excelsior district improvement association and i have been very involved in public safety and lighting in the excelsior district. i have recently retired from the state of california where a was an administrative law judge.

i continue to work for the state public utilities commission. i feel like i am well qualified to review and read legislation, to think about priorities for my district and how to bring all of these various policy issues together. [tone] i'm also very interested in building a consensus. i'm a trained mediator and have volunteered with community boards. i'm happy to take any questions and i'm really looking forward to this opportunity. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. you could talk about what kinds of improvements you like to see in terms of transit, pedestrian work in our district and what you feel you could contribute in terms of moving an agenda for

word -- moving our agenda forward. >> our district is very populated. working class, people rely on public transportation, particularly safe public transportation. i think access to safe transportation, more efficient transportation options is really important and i would like to work on the committee to help make those priorities a reality. i know the policy and funding decisions are made by this commission. i also think efficient transportation will help with business attraction, which is something really important in district 11. there needs to be easily accessible, rapid transit.

we're seeing changes with balboa park and cleanup of the bar area, -- cleanup of the bart area, a cleanup of the mission area will help the area. supervisor avalos: you have been doing a lot of work and lots of places in the district and you feel you are able to balance this new level of work with all of the other things you are doing in district 11? >> i think so. i hope so. supervisor avalos: thank you very much for being here. any other candidates applying for the cac? supervisor kim: i want to check if you want to move one of our applicants for word -- one of

our applicants for word -- forward. supervisor avalos: before making a motion, i wanted to have public comment. we will open it up for public comment. >> i think this process should be done in a better way and let me explain why. we have reached a stage now with what's happening on van ness, millions of dollars. we need people have experience in engineering and traffic management.

and transportation is used. the candid it says she is a judge. that helps the rest of the members to adjudicate. the performance of the over the last 10 years has been pathetic. at one stage, we had very astute candidates, but the san francisco transportation authority deliberately sought smart candidates did not enter the cac. but now in the dire straits that you are, nobody wants to come. some of the candidates -- we have no good representation in district 10. we have a woman there who hardly attends the meetings and doesn't perform at all. [tone] what i am saying let's not have a dog and pony show.

we have hundreds of millions of dollars expended by the san francisco transportation authority. we need to give thecac members some training and orientation so those moneys are spent correctly so that when they come here, we have a proper presentation so everybody can understand what is happening at the meetings and you need to be daft not to hear what i'm saying. thank you very much. supervisor avalos: thank you. we will close public comment. colleagues, on this item, i would like to move her ford as a recommendation to the full body. i know there has been input from district 5 commissioners and district for pressures to continue the items and they're reaching up to more candidates.

we could continue this item on those positions. that is my motion, that we continue this item to the next committee. we will take that without objection. congratulations. and thank you very much for being here today. could you please call item no. 5? >> recommending $1,200,942 in cycle three lifeline transportation program jobs access reverse commute funds to the san francisco been sensible transportation agencies continuation of the bus service restoration project. >> it good morning -- a good

morning. the memo starts on page 51 of your packet. this action pertains to job access and reverse commute friends to improve access to jobs and job-related activities to low-income residents. we issued the project in february and received four applications as shown in attachment three on page 57 of your packet. the first three projects have been withdrawn, leaving the empty bus services project as the only project we considered to recommended we are recommending programming all of

the available funds for this project. let me address the project and how we are working with sponsors to me the needs as proposed. the first two projects has proposed -- [unintelligible] we will be working with the foundation as well as other community partners to work with mobility and options being led by the authority to better address and the needs and find solutions. the third application, the chinatown community development center, are on the future subway station in chinatown does not

meet the requirement to have sufficient linkage and was not leading to implementation so that's why it was withdrawn. however, we are actively working with the development center, the planning department and the mta to address a future transportation plan. the mta proposes the restored service level as funded by the previous [unintelligible] for low-income communities in the city has shown in attachment for starting on page 58 of your package. the rounds are the same as the previous round and to restore the service level.

we convened the evaluation panel [unintelligible] the panel members confirmed the intent to try to report on the lifeline project. the previous fund it meets its objective and attracting customer service and continues to attract that writer ship for evaluation purposes. i would be happy to answer any questions. supervisor avalos: colleagues, supervisor avalos: colleagues, any comments or questions?