but we do try to take advantage of paving projects like this one. this is a big opportunity for us to add 21 intersections. we would take a big bite out of the 300 or so locations in the city. we do try to prioritize them based on collisions, proximity to pedestrian generators, senior centers, schools, and we do try to prioritize them. those are some of the practices that we consider. supervisor avalos: you also have to do the work below the road before you are actually able to set up the poles, and will have audible countdowns and those type of the signals. is that correct? so you can put in new signals, but they will not necessarily have the below infrastructure, that they have accessibility measures put in as well, correct? >> the 300 locations i mentioned, those are put in 50 or 60 yea:60kizey and the conduits underground are really in bad shape. so we cannot even install above grade hardware.

supervisor avalos: so it is doing the road work as well as putting the signal in to enable the signals? >> yes, sir. supervisor avalos: ok. >> he did the technical answer. let me try to answer your question directly. out of the mayor's pedestrian task force, the mta is developing a pedestrian strategy overall for the city. part of that is how we get coverage throughout the city and take care of these intersections. that is one of the things the strategy looks at. most recently, the difficulty has been that these opportunities come up when repaving happens, because the conduit infrastructure needs to be there. if it was stand-alone, there would be curb ramp work, and that estimates the cost. these types of signals tend to be add-ons to other projects. with prop aa, we can have a longer term plan to continue to move through the city and get them done. once the pedestrian strategy is

completed and we share that with you, we can show a plan on how we might try to have an ongoing program throughout the city. supervisor avalos: thank you. >> chairman, if i may, you do have a very direct to will that you can use for influencing that prioritization and checking out is coming along, and that is the prop k five-year prioritization programs for pedestrian projects, for signals, and those you approved -- 22 of them last year. i think it would probably be a good idea to, perhaps the the next meeting, bring back a couple of those that are most germane to the question you're asking. and we can see what is on of the bucks and we're in the city and how it is coming along. supervisor avalos: that sounds great. can you prepare that? >> yes, our next meeting is in september, so that should give

us enough time. supervisor avalos: great, appreciated. we can go on to public comment. thank you for your presentation. any member of the common -- public and elected comment, please come forward. simenon, we will close public comment. colleagues, can we move this forward. we take that without objection. next item, please. >> item number 9, recommend approval of the prop aa strategic plan policies and prioritization criteria. this is an action item. >> we're seeking a recommendation to approve the approveaa strategic plan policies and prior to send -- prioritization criteria. this begins on page 114. we estimate that the 30-year program, over the course of the program, revenues based on the $10 vehicle registration fee, for 30 years, $150 million, about $5 million annually. you can see the breakdown of the revenue on this slide among the

three categories established within the expenditure plan. sf reconstruction. pedestrian safety. transit reliability and mobility. to clarify, some examples of what we need for eligible project types under pedestrian safety, that might include sidewalk widening, pedestrian signals, or lighting. under reliability and mobility, a better understanding of what sorts of projects, that might mean transit station improvements, signal priority, or transit way finding. committee first saw the draft policy in april. they are meant to provide guidance on managing the prop aa program. the policies are based largely on prop k programs but tailored to fit the smaller scale in terms of revenue and number of programmatic categories. including the abysses on benefits and short-term and to reflect the guiding principles.

we have done outreach to potential project sponsors and a number of stakeholders. we have made minor changes to based on that outreach and feedback from potential project sponsors. we will continue to work with sponsors to further develop the policies relating to design phase and tangible benefits of the program. the prioritization criteria for each of the three prop aa programmatic categories will be included in the five-year prioritization program and in the final strategic plan, which is a requirement of the expenditure plan. the board has the ability to shape the prop aa program of projects and what we eventually see with these funds through and put on and approval of the right -- prioritization criteria. the purpose is to help determine what is given the highest priority in the first five years of the program, the time in which we anticipate having about $26 million. this is the first time we're developing policies and criteria for the prop aa program.

as we evaluate projects submitted, we may need to propose some additions or revisions to the policies for pirate decision criteria, and we would bring those proposals back to this committee back in september. with a full strategic plan. the final slide is an overview of the schedule of where we have been and where we are going. we have done some calls for projects, part one and part two. part two is open now. this provides an opportunity for sponsors for inclusion in the strategic plan, including those who intend to(lcu seek allocatin for funds in the current fiscal year 2012-2013. over the summer, we will continue to evaluate the project would have received during part one and those we anticipate receiving during part two. we will prepare the draft strategic plan, including the draft program of projects that will include programming for 50 years. we anticipate presenting that draft strategic plan to the cac in the timber and adoption in

fall of 2012, concurrent -- in september and adoption in fall of 2012. with that, i am more than happy to take any questions on prop aa and the policies and prioritization criteria. supervisor avalos: colleagues, any comments or questions? thank you very much. we will go into public comment. >> good morning again, commissioners. having served on this committee to draft this plan, i strongly approve what is being put before you, and i strongly urge you to pass the item. thank you very much. supervisor avalos: thank you. any other member of the public who would like to comment? seeing none, we will close public comment. oh,x

come on up. i will reopen public >> good afternoon. i am from the recreation and parks department planning capital division. i just wanted to thank the mta staff for meeting with the recreation and parks department and working with us to discuss the kinds of projects. rec and park has not previously applied aggressively to the prop aa program, but we have a lot of exciting projects in and around mclaren park and in other parts of the city. it has been a good process learning about how this prioritization works in ways that we can approve park roads with these important funds. i appreciate that and i think the prioritization process is helpful to the department. thank you. supervisor avalos: just a follow-up question, looking at mclaren park. there is a very common interests with that between supervisor

cohen and myself and also supervisor campos. what about transit operations around the park? >> transit or rogue operations? ok. we have beenxbw5ñ working with department of public works design staff in reviewing a possible design that would provide for pedestrian and in the deep sidewalks. we do not have sidewalks are now. an additional places for people to stand in bus loading zones and also street improvements. we're looking at a significant project that will probably require significant funding. we do not have the exact estimate, but something in the order of $3 million to $4 million. we are working with mta staff in this round and also working with the streets bond program. supervisor avalos: i know there has been discussion about bike lanes also

>> i forgot the bike lanes. bike lanes are included. supervisor avalos: great. right now, it is a four-lane road. there is a lot of traffic, but it does not have traffic that so it there's a lot of room to do the bike improvement in industry and the improvements that are needed. of course, the 29 buses running theire. >> absolutely, and mta staff has helped us with traffic counts, and we realized we had a lot of state -- a lot of space to work with their for amenities. supervisor avalos: great. we have more use of the park and will have a lot of people walking in hiking through the park. so those crossings will be key to make things safer. >> yes, exactly. there is one crosswalk now. we are excited we got that last year. hopefully there will be some more. this design, we want to go through the committee process of course. we have not completed that process.

supervisor avalos: thank you. ok, any other member of the public that would like to comment? seeing none, public comment. colleagues? supervisor kim: thank you. i just had a question. if it cannot be answered at this moment, it is ok if i get this information later. but i was curious about the 41 project submittal said happened in the first round,1g/t a kinda universe and a sense of where this might be. are they mean the city departments or are they also organizations or citizen groups? >> since eligibility for prop aa is limited to any public agency, they all came from public agencies, but they are not limited to city departments. the project sponsors, the authority works with on a more golden gate bridge, highway transit district, planning department, city college, sf state, presidio trust -- a

number of different the to do project sponsors. in will receive a lot of pedestrian safety projects. the most over-subscribed would be the pedestrian safety in terms of dollar amounts. i believe there was a list of projects received that was included in a packet to this committee a couple months ago, but i can certainly forward that to you all of that would be of interest. you can see the specific what we received to date in part two of the call. supervisor kim: that would be great to get a sense of what is coming in and what folks are prioritizing about the city. i am glad there were a lot of projects submitted for pedestrian safety. i know that is only 25% of the fund. i think that is the way it was brought to the voters. >> correct. supervisor kim: thank you. supervisor avalos: ok, thank you. can we move this item forward, colleagues, without objection? that, we shall do.

next item. >> item 10, update on the san francisco safe routes to school education and outreach program. this is an information item. >> hi. good morning again. principal transportation planner with the authority. i will give a brief introduction, and then we will have the program manager for the school coalition at from the department of public health and a brief presentation to the looks like we do not have the powerpoint, and i apologize for that. it is on a flash a dry, so we will get that loaded up wall i am speaking. ok, so, in july of 2010, the authority board prep $500,000 in original safe process school funds. and the education and outreach program. those funds provided funding for

the coalition to do education and outreach for 15 elementary schools throughout san francisco. we have a map that identifies those schools. anna will go through the specific programs. the funding for the past school year, 2011-2012, and the next school year, 2012-2013. the presentation goes after the first year, lessons learned and what of bids are happening for next year's program. it is also timely because the region mtc has developed another regional program. $20 million throughout the region. san francisco receives a $1.4 million. we will be doing a call for projects for those funds probably in the winter of 2013. we need our project list to mtc by june of 2013. in the next presentation, we will talk about the one bay area funds but we have a set-aside

for the school funds. the way we are currently thinking about it is that the one bay area funds will be for infrastructure projects, whereas this will be for a continuation and enhancement of this safe  to school education fund and outreach. >> good morning, commissioners. anna with the san francisco safe routes to school program. i am going to give you a brief overview of the program. we have been operating for about three years. the goal of the program is to increase safe and active walking and biking to and from school. we are mainly working in elementary schools right now. we are the lead agency, and we work with a multidisciplinary team, including the school district, obviously. city agencies such as the police department, mta, department of environment, and we also have a couple nonprofit partners.

and the presidio y. we are in 15 elementary schools, one in each district. the only district we do not have a school in his district two. there are only two public schools in the district and i applied. we are going to make a special outreach this fall to that district. supervisor kim: i am not sure you take into account the new redistricting lines in this map. >> we applied leg two years ago, so it was sherman and spring valley that were the only two. so we can look at that. supervisor kim: because district 6 will not have any either. marshall is no longer in district 9. >> thank you for telling me that. supervisor kim: we will still have public schools but not on this map. >> thank you.

supervisor kim: let me clarify that. we will still have public schools in district 6, but not one in the project. >> i am a heavy supporter of marshall elementary. they should absolutely get this program. >> it to back up, the program is based on international model of the five e's. education, encouragement, enforcement, engineering, and evaluation. due to the funding source, the enforcement and engineering parts were not fund the bulk. so we're only going to be talking about three out of the five e's in this presentation. these are the program schools with the old district lines, and we're going to be looking at -- actually, we have work to do. we will have to look at the district map and look at the overlay and see which school districts we will need to do special outreach to. supervisor avalos: i am happy to see two district's 11 schools

there. >> and we would love to have way more than just 15. supervisor avalos: of course. actually, it has been a great program for my district, especially longfellow -- longfellow which is on the t we have had leadership from the parents, students, -- students, and teachers. >> it has become part of the culture at longfellow. back to the -- just a quick overview of our program deliverables. we have the education portion, a kindergarten classroomñc%+÷ lesn where we talk about the various ways of getting to and from school with the benefits of walking and biking. one of our partners goes in and as a classroom lesson in the second grade were they actually take a small field trip around the school, and the practice crossing the street, talking about different ways of walking around safely in the city. the fourth grade lesson, two lessons for the come in and practice putting on a helmet properly, and then they actually

do a bike rodeo in the schoolyard. you can see for each of those lessons, they reach 40 to 50 classrooms and approximately 1000 students in each of the grades in the 15 schools. the encouragement part is a fun, easy way of getting safe routes to school started in a community. we have walked to school day. i will be a little busy, but i would like to invite you to come and enjoy it on october 3 of this year. it is always the first wednesday in october. last year, we had over 7000 participants. we have bike to school day. we host that at the end of the school year, somewhere in the late spring. we had close to 2000. we thought we would have more, but there was a pouring rain storm a half-hour before the event. we are considering moving it to may because of the weather

considerations the past couple of years. we focus on trying to establish walking school buses and bike chains. this has been identified as a best practice for safe routes to schools nationwide, from the national center. this is basically a group of students better chaperoned by adults that are either walking or biking together. we have regular even said george washington carver, buena vista, and other schools. we will like to establish these as regular events at each one of the schools we're working in. most importantly, parent- caregiver outreach, because we want to create that culture. that exists at longfellow and all of our schools, about walking andhmtpú biking to scho. then we evaluate everything we do. so we have student travel tallies. we go into the classrooms and ask the kids of the dow to and from school. then we have parent service that would apparent attitude towards walking and biking to school. not surprisingly, distance the

child lives from school is strongly associated with how they get to and from school. the general rule of thumb is a half mile is the general buffer of how far a gigawatt to and from school. a mile is how far a kid can bike to and from school. if you live beyond that, it is hard for a child and their family to get to school. three of the top five concerns from parents were traffic- related. you can see here. safety at intersections and crossings. the amount in speed of traffic. the other two were distance and also violence and crimes. just looking in our past three years on performance measures, we looked at if we established any mode shift with children getting to and from school. overall, we did see a 3% decrease in walking, but we actually feel like that factor is beyond our control. there were a number of schools that we were working in that were neighborhood schools that

wind city-wide immersion, -- actually, marshall had an 8% drop. they went from neighborhood to city-wide spanish immersion, and we feel like a lot more families are probably coming from outside of that one-mile buffer that we cannot really have much control over the conversion, the assignment process. but we did see a 1% increase in biking. we saw zero changes in single- family vehicle driving, which is quite interesting considering that the yellow school buses either being rerouted or eliminated slowly in the school district. we look at individual schools. out of our 15, 11 did see increased rates of walking and biking. six schools of decreased rates of single-family vehicle driving. this is significant for us. this is the first year we have seen any no shift, even though it is modest. it is because this year, we focused hard in parent-caregiver outreach. the first two years we did a lot

of student lessons, but they are not the ones making the decisions on how to get to school. supervisor olague: this question was sort of answer but not really. it has to do with the lottery system for some of these city- wide schools. how do take the conversation beyond where it is currently? it is not like we're living in mayberry and people walk to the neighborhood school. it may not exist. many are having to rely on muni, so i think that at some point there should be a conversation with parents, care givers, and students and whatever about how we ensure that students get to school on time and safely. because it there are a lot of households were there are two parents working. there are a lot of challenges in getting children to school safely on munies is the yellow buses are basically being eliminated. >> right, and that is especially true for the middle and high school let it -- levels.

right now, we're working with elementary, but we want to expand. when we looked at these was elected, one of our criteria is that we had a majority of children living within a mile. so that as guinta walker bike to school is actually realistic. -- so asking to walk or bike to school is realistic. there are a certain percentage that live nearby. it usually tends to be somewhere around 30% to 40%. so even though we do have a city-wide application process, we do feel like in each school, there is a population that we can reach that is realistic. and it is interesting to see with the new assignment process -- this is the first year to see what happens to those in coming grades and how the student population may or may not change the over six to seven years as that rolls through each grade. supervisor olague: where are you

in the conversation with getting to muni safely? >> we actually have not done that, but we will give you some ideas to do that. supervisor olague: ok, thank you. >> some accomplishments we have had outside of the program partnered with ucsf pediatrics. we conducted a districtwide study. this is the first time -- the school district and not have school commuted data. this is the first time. if it includes middle and high. we have done this twice so far. we plan to do it again in the fall. 24% were walking or biking in 2010. it is gone up a couple of percentage points which is actually pretty significant for the entire school district. 24% lived within, lc the half m, and another 18% within a mile. so we feel like there is a significant proportion of

children and families that we can reach to ask them to consider walking and biking. we also partnered with mta, taking this data we did with ucsf, to establish a prioritization system looking at mainly the 73 elementary schools. and those that had really high rates of walking, we combined that with injury data. those that had high rates of walking and, unfortunately, high numbers of pedestrian crashes, those are now at the top as the schools will be the top candidates for a capital grant to approve the bill to infrastructure and the environment around the school. f list is jean parker, which sits at the broadway tunnel in chinatown, and was just awarded a grant from caltrans. we found out a couple weeks ago that we were successful in getting a grant to improve the environment around at school. supervisor olague: great, congratulations.

>> thank you. i have to give credit to mta for that one. the lessons learned to approve the program in the near future, we obviously need to do much more apparent-caregiver outreach. they're the ones deciding other children get to and from school. we want to actively recruit these parents and caregivers to participate in the program at the school, and then we're going to start doing more significant outreach at night and weei]ç at festivals, at school councils to try to bring the programs to those working families that we cannot reach by going into the classroom and talking to the students. we also want to establish regular walking walk-and-roll events. our most successful story is george washington carver. áúqrñthey established daily walg school buses, morning and noon. this spring, would like to see that every school we're working in. we need to recruit the parent

['s staff cannot leave it these because of liability concerns to go beyond the school fence. it is up to the parents and caregivers to start leading these on the school property. supervisor avalos: where do you find the best bang for your buck in terms of outreach? >> kindergarten orientation. because they are paying the most attention. they are brand new to the school. they want to know everything they can no to help their kindergartner. we can start the behavior and start trying to change it later. next month, we're going to be school night and kindergarten orientation. supervisor avalos: that sounds great. my office has done a lot of outreach to the schools, and we would be very happy to help in those efforts as well if there are letters we can write to schools.

we visit the schools fairly frequently. we can be part of the messenger. >> that would be fantastic. any avenue available to us, we would be very happy to take. we would like to, again, recruit these parents-caregivers to lead the walking school buses and these a bike trains and provide a lot of support to them so that they are the ones championing it in their schools. with additional funding, as has been mentioned, we do have some possible long-term changes we would like to make to the program. most importantly, we want to expand beyond just 15 schools. we want to reach out to the middle and high school levels. that is when we will start talking about transit. over half of the children in middle and high starting to take muni on their own, and start to incorporate how walking, biking, a transit, and carpooling fit within those school strata.