mile trips and shifting single occupancy vehicles to transit. the fiscal year 11-12 project could not be extended beyond the fight -- beyond the pilot phase. shuttles would not be eligible for future funding. the proposed shuttle include stops in a larger service area but does not reduce enough trips to meet the cost effectiveness threshold and therefore is ineligible for the project. we will work with the department of public health and the current shuttle operator to better understand the need to this project was intended to address and help identify ways to meet those needs. supervisor cohen: we have a problem here. i understand the data represents that there is low rider ship and my gut tells me it's -- it's

does not necessarily mean the demand is not there. i'm interested in hearing some of your ideas on how you plan to assess where the shortcomings are that will speak to this problem. i also want to know how this is going to defer from this transportation program. >> each year, they changed the rules and they sit on past experience to make it more targeted to things targeted at reducing vehicle emissions.

one part is the writer ship which we have spoken to any other part that has proven to be more significant is converting trips from automobiles that are long trips. you get more credit for reducing that miles of travel. this is targeted very locally and that's a big factor in why it doesn't meet the cost- effective specials. our efforts are more focused on is there some other way to meet the need or some other funding source? there are only too discretionary funds that can fund the operations. the other is the lifeline program. with that one, there are two pots of money. only transit operators are eligible. hear, that would be that 98.

we anticipate we would bring member requests looking to fund evening and weekend service on a number of routes that run through the community's like the bus registration project. we came a few months ago -- they have to be a focus on employment-related trips. it's not a satisfactory answer but our hands are tied in terms of spending. >> leo you and a committee of the briefing on the mobility study. what is exciting is we are taking a look comprehensively at this. so any one organization, we have

employers running half and the shuttles. does not mean demand is not there or the need is not there, but it is difficult for a single organization to meet the needs of a diverse population. we are working with the department of public health and a number of organizations in this area to see whether individual products -- projects my people to share services and look at a new model pattern on something we see happening already with the mission and other folks providing services on an individual basis, collaborating and sharing services in terms of how they might be will to combine research and funding we are focusing on the heels own which is a focused area and we want to begin with a tightly scope pilot project to show the potential

for this model to be a better way to provide services to the community and easier on any one organization so they don't all have to be doing the same things and pulled services and manage them collectively. that would be one way to deal with this issue. >> there are a couple of things here. there is statistical data and that reflects that the community has several grave health concerns. that is reflected by a the investment that not just the city, but community health partners are doing in terms of an investment. the department of public health is rebuilding the southeast

clinic. there is a child prevention and wellness center to address some of the concerns. i am concerned we are cutting transportation lifelines to a community asset has serious, life-threatening and data that is established the seriousness of what the community needs. the community is obviously sick and you have major institutions making significant contributions to turn this around. what reason would we be cutting transportation? i understand there is an outside authority that has set a threshold and standard that has not been met, but instead of cutting it entirely, why don't we modify it so that it is able to meet the needs of the community instead of completely

pulling out the program? >> that question would rely on increasing participants or writer ship or reducing the cost of the service. >> we have tried exactly what she said. we would have to make a significant portion be serving -- supervisor cohen: that's another problem. we're talking about communities not connected to any kind of transportation. from a policy perspective, and all dovetails and is cyclical. if it is not connected via transportation hubs, how can we honor these simple requirement that this lifeline be utilized.

i'm going to ask that maybe we postpone action on this item just so that i can have an opportunity to dig in a little deeper because i am concerned we are almost cutting our nose despite our face on this particular item when it comes to health care and access. it is a social justice issue from my perspective and i would like a little more time to talk to the partners. >> the air district. i think that can certainly happen. there is no fatal flaw in deferring this action. my a sense is in your district will be very hard to budge unless there is a major reworking of the route and service. but if you're going to have that discussion, we should bundled with the lifeline funds but that would mean polling in the mta

can to the discussion. supervisor cohen: maybe that is the best thing to do to have a fuller conversation, too: even the transportation authority so that we are smart about where we are spending our transportation dollars and not being wasteful. i would like to put a motion -- supervisor kim: i would second the motion to continue. i really understand the points you have brought up in talk about communities that are disconnected from transit hubs, we have to be creative and thoughtful. i understand where we are in the process and it may be challenging to move forward but it's important to examine how we can make this successful. something our office is working on is trying to facilitate

transit for folks that are homeless and in our transition housing system, so we're working with existing organizations to partner up to develop a line between all our resource centers and shelters so that our clients are going from organization to organization. to access all these different organizations, we hope that will generate the demand that would justify the funding for that line. figuring out ways to increase the partnership is important when you are not talking at a huge number of folks, but we want to make it as easy as possible for people to be participants on systems such as these.

i think a lot of this has come out of the fact that it has been challenging to work with -- getting discount tokens for the homeless, and transitional housing more homeless clients or companies that want to buy bulk transit passes at discounted price. i can say they have been consistent but i find the policy very challenging. it does force us to move into the private shuttle services for our different populations and i support director cohen on this and think we can find some creative ways to address this issue. supervisor farrell: i want to commend the commissioner cohen for leadership and i look forward to discussing it one month from now. supervisor avalos: we can go on

to public comment. >> let me address a number of issues on this. number one, i would like you supervisors to get empirical data since we are talking about different sizes, carbon dioxide, we need empirical data if you are spending money on this, that, and the other. let me give you one sector. in the whole southeast sector, we have about 200,000 tons of the methane gas spewing in the air because of the landfills. 1 ton of methane gas = 22 tons of carbon dioxide. we need empirical data from these guys talking about this, that, and the other.

we need to try another cbo. there are youth at hunters point that need transportation and that can be accommodated. but if we have a foundation not sensitive to our use and not sensitive to our elders and we continue, we will fail. [unintelligible] the bayview air quality management should have shuttles as part of the mitigation. they have not spent that money. we have outsiders, basically all of these guys are outsiders and

they have no clue about the community. maybe i need to give them some history and give them a tour. whoever is the representative, she should ask for a quarterly report so crap like this doesn't happen. [tone] supervisor avalos: next speakers -- next speaker please. >> a really great project year -- to under 25 by cracks, of course, the demand is just pouring in 40 more bikes for the city like fleet, of course, we have a backlog and we need to meet that. this is a long-sought approach to the golden gate bridge which will be very popular and very heavily used. not only is our million dollars of federal money, but $600,000 of private contributions. that's a great model for bringing public work for word. commute by bike, it to the chair's point earlier about

gender equity and balance, we are very excited to have mta focus on this in a more thorough way. how do we encourage more people to ride their bikes everyday? how do we broaden the demographic and make it in writing and convenient? the slope boulevard bike project, by golly, let's do that. that is literally going to help connect the western shore of the city to the rest of the city and we are committed to do that already. here is the money for it. personally am very excited on behalf of the bike coalition -- this modification, we are thinking of this as the city college bikeway connection. a couple of thanksgivings ago, a group of supervisors stood in the parking lot of city college and looked at 100 feet of grass -- if we could all lead make that connection. this will be a powerful connection all the way out to sf

state and lake merced. this will let all kinds of people moved around by bike and we are happy to support this and we look forward to working with city college to make this happen and connecting the southwest corridor by bike. [tone] supervisor avalos: thank you for reminding me about that. i think it was thanksgiving of 2010. we have a motion from commissioner cohen and a second from commissioner kim. can we continue that? we will do that to the call of the chair and will do that when the date gets lined up. we will take that without objection. why do we do this -- we are kind

of getting close to our board meeting. what if we hear a quick two- minute report on items 9 through 11 and we will continue the full discussion of those items until our next meeting. we will have public comment on those items together and then go on to item no. 8 about market street. let's call items and nine and 10 and get a quick report on those. let me look at my notes here. nine, 10, 11. >> number nine, one day grant program strategy, and information item, item 10, proposition double a strategic plan development item, and it

number 11, the geary corridor bus rapid transit update. >> of the one bay area grant program strategy, there are four major programs we are looking to fund. the local streets and roads category pays for pavement rehabilitation, the livable communities category which funds of valencia streetscape, 24 street, a bike and pedestrian improvements category which funds many bike and pedestrian improvements and a safe bike to school category which funds infrastructure and non infrastructure categories. we have flexibility to fund projects in any of those categories and we continue to me

with your offices individually and work to make sure we are understanding the guidelines moving the project forward. your packet includes more information on the funding sources and our basic schedule as we move forward. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. >> this item begins on page 105 of your package. like to share the candidate projects submitted in part one, but first by way of background, the san francisco voters approved proposition aa, authorizing to collect a vehicle registration fee for vehicles not registered and san francisco. total of it -- to revenues estimated are approximately $150

million or about $5 million annually. we released the first call for projects to inform development of the strategic plan with a particular focus on identifying projects that can be funded with in the first five years of the program and the lady project for the first proposition aa. for the projects that might see funds were due on april 30. we received 41 projects of metals from 13 projects requesting approximately $64 million compared to the $26.4 million we estimate is available for programming in the first five years of the program. attachment three is the most critical piece on page 111 of your package. it provides a list of the packets -- of the projects submitted. they have not been formally evaluated. we will issue part two of the call for projects later in june and provide project sponsors

with another opportunity to propose projects for proper aa -- proposition aa funding. we have project sponsors the audience, so if you have questions, they're here to answer them. supervisor avalos: we'll have further discussion on that at the next meeting. >> for the geary bus rapid transit corridor update, i will just make an announcement that we will be having some public outreach meetings at the end of this month. for those who want more information, we welcome the public to come. you can visit our website for that information and we will be back to this committee with the full information update. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. we can open up nine, 10, and 11

for public comment and we will have public comment again on these items when they come back. >> i want to very quickly state when the third street light rail was built to the middle of visitation valley, 85% of the businesses on third street were impacted. i did hear this come before the small business commission. the same gentleman gave the presentation. they got a lot of opposition. one of the main reasons is that we have to be very sensitive about small businesses. on geary corridor, you can read it in the newspapers today, we cannot afford to deprive the obstacles and hurdles in the way of our small businesses. all of the presentations are good but we need economic

analysis. on market street, the businesses were paid, third street, there were not. on geary boulevard, believe me, those merchants will demand to be paid but they will be very, very strict. that is not public outreach. public outrage anyone can do. meaningful deliberations, focus groups, meaningful deliberation. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. regarding the geary brt steady, this was brought up at the last cac meeting and i suggested to the mta staff, i suggest all of

you do your homework and look to see what actually happened between 1986 and 1987 when the geary transit task force looked at the light rail -- there were too light rail projects. they were grandfathered into proposition k. with the central subway business -- there is a spur at union square for geary, so i suggest you do your homework and look into the archives to see if the final report of the geary task force -- 1995 -- it has been over 20 years, but 1995 was the final report of the geary light

rail project. also look into what the third street light rail project wants to do. there is the possibility for light rail because that is what the voters wanted. they did not want us rapid transit. they wanted light rail. do your homework before you do anything. thank you very much. i brought the same points up at the last cac meeting. suggest you do the same thing i told the mta staff to do. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. any other member of the public want to talk about these items? seeing none, public comment is closed. if we can make the motion to movies to the next meeting. will take that without objection. item #8. >> the market streets update.

this is an information item. >> i'm michael schwartz from the transportation authority. on this project, the authority is the contract manager as well as the lead on a number of grants including proposition k, however the project management lead is dpw. the presentation begins on page 71 of your package. the transportation lead on the project is also here. >> good afternoon chair and commissioners. on the project manager with the department of public works here to give you an update on the market street project. briefly to reiterate the project's goal -- to revitalize market street from octavia boulevard to the embarcadero. the key components of the goals are around place making,

mobility and economic development. we have been coordinating multiple other efforts happening in the project area that overlap or impact market street. we have been coordinating closely with these and others, including the transit affect of this project, the second street planning effort, central corridor, central subway, and we have been coordinated with near- term implementation projects that are ongoing. there is a pilot program they are attempting to put forward and we are aware of other efforts that are ongoing, looking at how that can be incorporated into our effort. we have accomplished the study of best practices and there is a report available on the web site for anyone to download that

contains the key findings out of those efforts. we have taken that information along with our public outreach which happened last year and created the design drivers which are improving ability, enhancing access for all, enhancing the public realm experience or activation on the corridor, spotlighting the identity of market street which is unique as it stands now and what does that mean going forward? integrating all of these actions into one unifying place. out of our community outreach that happened last year, we surveyed the public on what they would like to see happen on the corridor. place making was at the top with walking, cycling and economic vitality coming in close. we are looking at all of these items.

supervisor avalos: what is placed making? >> creating places for people to do any kind of fun activity, whether it's stopping and talking with your friend on the street, playing a game, having cafe seating on the street, that is placed making. plazas and parks tend to do this well, street's have a big opportunity to play that as well, particularly market street that has such high pedestrian volume of lots of business activity fronting the street. there's an opportunity to capture people and use the street as a place to be. the park program is a good example. similar to that idea and how we can make the corridor serve multiple purposes. fights to summarize the mode that we aredr