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kind of projects can be[=+í fud and, what the schedule is for projects election, and where to get more information. just by way of note, the onebayarea program is for cycle two of the congestion at mitigation program. they are programmed for four years. mtc has asked that the projects be put forward, between 2013- 2014 and 2015-2016. san francisco stands to get $38.8 million in federal funds. we have broken it up in a draft funding from work. the first crunch is $2.5 million. these are standard funds we have to administer these programs and many others, including the
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countywide transportation plan. priority development areas, the program coming down from ntc requires that we spend 70% of the funds in priority development areas. so this represents that. we have created safe route to school target. $5 million. we are going to be looking to target this towards infrastructure portions of safe routes to school projects. this is the target. we hope to get enough projects to use this bit of the remaining amount, the $8 million, can be spent in a non-pda's. i do want to note that with the passage of map 21, the new federal transportation bill, there may be shifts in funding. we do not expect anything too dramatic, but we're still working out what that will mean. but we're not expecting anything to dramatic. what the eligible project types?
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four main categories. previously, we had three of these categories that would have caps per category. over $38 million, you would have to spend a certain percentage on roads and a certain percentage to transportation to livable communities. now we do not have cabs, so we can spend it all on one program or another. essentially, these are projects like valencia streetscapes. these are large multi-modal streetscape type projects. this is generally pavement religion -- rehabilitation street resurfacing. the bicycle program is a new program. this is pretty much every bicycle and pedestrian improvement you could think of, from class 1 a through 3 bicycle lanes, by parking's, sidewalks, education, and outreach. this is a very broad category. and the safe route to school program.
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moving to the schedule. this is an information item today. we will be moving forward to adopt the schedule funding from work and prior to the fishing criteria in september but you can see the cac and the authority board schedule for adopting those items. we release a call for projects immediately$ié& after the adop. then we have applications due october 26. knowing that they will be very detailed applications, we will probably do a pre-release to allow project sponsors in a little bit of time before hand to start developing those applications. they will change applications of the board changes the criteria. the funding framework will have to be fluid with that. but want to give them enough time to give us complete and detailed applications bu. 30 days will be the official, but we will do a pre-release, and that will probably be
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sometime in august. we want to give them six weeks to eight weeks. that is generally what we try to do. the screening in prayer decision criteria, i do not have a slight. page 154, we have that detail. the majority is from the ntc guidelines. it is differentiated in your packet. the italicized items are items we added in. to give you a couple examples, we are explicitly trying to prioritize projects that address multiple modes of travel. we're also prioritizing it safe routes to school projects from documenting walking audits. and we will be prioritizing projects in high risk and high activity pedestrian and bicycle corridors. we want sponsors to hone in on the safety issues and how the projects address those issues, and we would like points to back
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those up. moving to the second part of the schedules, we will bring through the initial onebayarea project list in the december board cycle. again, you can see the committee's schedule there. i do want to note, as we move to the next slide, we're going to c projects. the first part is to get a larger than $38 million pool of projects. and we want to move forward with the adoption of that list and possibly some of prop k or other local funds to the four to five months of project development. this would be project specific outreach and cost estimates. things of that nature to add more detail to these projects. if we want to bring them through the federal process, as we have all learned from previous examples would second street and sunset elementary school, we want to make sure we have identified any issues that may be existing as they are moving projects forward. that will be happening between
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december and april of 2013. end of april, will have the final obag applications do. the main authority board cycle will be cac and then offered the board to adopt, and we have to by june 30, 2013. the font color was not a great choice. we have a project website. we have a general e-mail for the project and a general phone number. 593-1655. that provides translation services. supervisor kim: i would like to say this is the perfect example of why color matters, going back to another presentation. [laughter]
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very important. supervisor kim: i was wondering if you schedule the dates when you will present to the pedestrian safety advisory committee and the bicycle advisory committee? >> for pedestrian, i believe that is in september. and also the bicycle advisory will also probably be in early september. supervisor kim: could you give us the dates? >> yes. >> it has been a long meeting, but the agenda and complement each other. i wantedm" created this as a block grant, there were a lot of strings attached. one of the bonuses is it gives you the flexibility to decide what you want to fund with these projects. the policies and prioritization criteria are up on our website.
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but if you have a particular type of project that you want to fund, please let us know or let your offices know. the time to do that is now. it could fit in obag or could be prop k or prop aa, it is all the same to us. we have got to get that out. supervisor avalos: thank you. ok, thank you for your presentation. we can open it up for public comment. any member of the public? seeing none, we will close public comment. this is an information item, so we can go on and to our next item. >> item 12, introduction of new items, information item. conversation around how the city is looking at expanding its accessible traffic stops with audible traffic signals, so i think that will be great to have as a presentation in september. that is a discussion we had earlier today. colleagues, in the other items
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to it as did not want to look at parking and parking requirements, you know, that sort of thing. it seems that is obvious to me that there would be cumulative impacts. >> if i may, commissioner olague, there has been, of course, environmental work done on each of those to address those issues. supervisor olague: everything has been looked at separately? i sort of looked at them as separate projects. >> as you know, there is a requirement that the cumulative impacts are considered as well. some of these things are on similar timelines. others are not. i think that what we may be able to do to highlight the issues that you're talking about -- supervisor olague: how are these issues being mitigated, i guess that is my question. >> we will give a presentation at the next meeting in september or october about the current
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effort we're doing on the countywide transportation plan, which is a 30-year look precisely. it starts with a fairly close ending target year, and it has a much longer target year. so we can look at those other issues. there are no secrets there. the information is there, but it is probably good to put it in context. the other thing i would add to that is that in the case of the transbay transit center, for example, the redeveloper area around it or whatever we call it now, post-redevelopment, is still a key to the financing of the project. you know, there is a significant amount of affordable housing that went into the approval of that plan. obviously, it feeds into the viability of the center. so the two things come together.
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it does not mean there are no consequences or impacts on the ground, they are part of the package. so we should definitely bring that i into context, and we can also talk about treasure island and the other things. supervisor olague: so is this practically speaking? what are the impacts, and what are some of the mitigations#mc proposed? >> let's try does something together for you. september or october. supervisor avalos: thank you. we will open this item up for public comment, new information items. public comment. we will close this item. general public comment. >> item 13, general public comment. >> good morning again, commissioners. like i told you last month, with
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van ness brt going forward and the central subway going forward, you have to remember that they are building a station at union square÷/&dy with spur t union square for a light rail system. we should also read the final report that was published back in 1989, 1990. it is about the final report of the kerry transit task force that i happened to serve on -- the geary transit task force that i happened to serve on. also, the final report that was published in 1995. i know these items -- of these documents are many years old, but they tell you about a light rail system on geary boulevard
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that the voters voted for back in 1989. you also have to remember, during the short term transit plan during the period, the puc was quoted as saying the only way to alleviate traffic congestion on geary boulevard is an "light railk not a bus rapid transit. before you consider brt on geary, read those three documents. remember about the central subway at the union square station, and do your homework. you have two months to do it. i do not know when we will be coming before you again for discussion and passage, but you have plenty of time to do it. enjoy the two months off, enjoy the reading. it was good reading for me. commissioner avalos: thank you very much. any other member of the public
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that would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item please. >> item 14 is adjournment. commissioner avalos: we are adjourned. thank you very much. >> and good morning, everyone. let's get this started because everybody wanted paychecks. it is a great occasion and historic when it is the first time the city is passing the two-year budget with all of the disciplinary things and others that watch our fiscal responsibility along with the board of supervisors, a great
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day to celebrate. i want to recognize and think, beginning with the board president david chiu, thank you for working very closely with us. for carmen, who was assigned by board president to lead the effort again this year on the budget. and for the other members of the board of supervisors that have engaged directly with us. supervisors avalos, kim, elsbernd, cohen. and the department heads that worked very hard with us. i see of they cisneros, who the police chief and our fire chief. barbara garcia and trent have
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worked extremely closely with us because of the tremendous pressure that we feel at the state level and the national of bochum, trying to get a really good conversation about how we can make sure that the community based organizations that provide invaluable service to us are taken care of and working in collaboration with us. hall of the a jar work that she does with all of us. i want to thank her for her tremendous leadership. again, i can say about about my good friend, someone who i got the chance to work with for many years. you have taken up so many complicated challenges this year, we're going to keep you busy. thank you for your wonderful team. our new city administrator that is no longer new, your diving in
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there at every opportunity and helping all of the city department get ahead. thank you for your leadership there, our libraries continue to be great examples of our commitment to the public on how to use our bond worth. thank you very much. the key to the rec and park department. it will be the less complicated and very united effort, the bond we're going to push forward. with realignment come and gone, the commitment we have made to the state into our own communities to keep them safe, i just came back from the sheriff's department and the new jails, visiting all the programs out there. we have a lot of work to do, but we have great faith in your leadership. thank you for leading the
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realignment efforts and making sure we do the right things. working with a juvenile justice. thank you for your great leadership working with richard and the former superintendent for keeping me focused on the education of the future of our city. your great work on our youth and the families, again, thank you so much for that. to emily, her work on the status of women, thank you for keeping us focused on the most important issues. our board of permit appeals this year, the small business commission, who m i forgetting? i remember the fire chief. i also want to give a very
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special shot out to someone on my staff that has spent not only hours, but i think her demeanor and calmness has brought us through another successful collaborative effort. kay howard and the wonderful budget staff. if i can also do something that probably isn't mentioned a lot, i mention the work that we are doing directly with each of the members of the supervisors, but i think they would likely -- like me to mention that their aides are working very hard. how to think they aides of the supervisors. when they come in and they are meeting with jason and steve and we are exchanging life lessons about each other about what is important that what is not important, how we appreciate the good work you are all doing with
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our supervisors, and we value the communication because sometimes you are the link homer critical votes and critical exchanges of viewpoints. i want to thank you for being here and keeping our purse strings there. thank you for collecting those taxes and making sure we got a healthy collection there. all of our elected officials, i hope i haven't missed anyone. we're working as a family. as you know, it is not a surprise to you that i work very hard with steve and my staff to try to build consensus with the board of supervisors, trying to create a ton of collaboration, especially on something as important and impacting as our budget. now we have a balanced the budget, a responsible budget
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that will cost our police and fire departments have to win so many of the rank is retiring. and keep our cities save. that is irresponsible budget. we have a budget that extends itself to the richness of our communities by investing in small businesses, in community- based organizations that help us critically to deliver health and community social services to those in need. it is also a budget that is responsible because it places monies that we need because we don't control the rest of the world, how we have to be prepared and we listened over the years to the ratings agencies to the various fiscally responsible entities including the comptroller's office.
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we must put away things in case things beyond our control happen and we have done that. we have done that in unity with the board of supervisors. i want to give a shot out to all of us that work collectively to make our budget responsible. it is the largest budget, but it is two years that builds on our success and reserves for dangers we have no control over. it also invests in seriously in our neighborhoods, small business corridors, that lifts up and gives hope to all of the voices that have registered themselves and we have cut ourselves very open to the voices coming out from our neighborhoods. i of the small-business applicants and the merchant residence, and no longer are they screaming.
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we want them to engage, and i think when we respond appropriately to their needs ha, ha that is how the city should work. the voices of our communities come forward, we listen, contemplate, and we make decisions. which challenge each other. i will say to the supervisors have those of you that were past midnight had sought each other, while the stories is that some of what people war was like the job was when we were trying to close the deal. i appreciate the special powers that were taken care of the close this deal. while we may not agree with every single thing and the priorities that have been made, there is a tremendous amount of
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agreement, and it is worth it to move this forward with everybody's participation. i want to thank the board of supervisors for their collaboration and for the excellent work that was left in this budget. if i may invite the board president to come to the podium to say a few words. >> i want to take a moment and thank each and everyone of you for being part of the village of san francisco that has helped to balance this historic budget. i think this year we have had a fundamentally different budget on a couple of different dimensions. first of all, as my colleagues know, we have had a number of years where we have had to balance massive deficits.
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because of the work we have done together and the work in the private sector, the task of this year was not as difficult. i also want to take a moment talk about the two-year budget and reminisce about the fact that in 2005 when the city comptroller has brought to us the idea of a two-year budgeting, five-year financial forecasting, we knew the theory of what it would take who both have fiscal discipline and to allow us to spend on the priorities we would all share. it is because of the work we did together in part that led us to the easier place we are in. i am very proud of the fact that this budget reflects our shared priorities. every single one of you is a leader in this city in some area, setting out for our parks,
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public safety, fixing roads, taking care of kids, seniors, immigrants, small businesses. we have come together in a wonderful way i want to echo the mayor and the thanks to all of you, to all of the city departments, to the budget office have their leadership. all of the community stakeholders' coming together. my colleagues at the border, and one person without whom this would not have happened. how to take a moment into trouble with one saying about the dress of the board of supervisors. i believe all the men were still in business suits. our board of supervisors were not dressed in pajamas, but there was one change of attire from our budget chair that slipped out of her high heels and were flat at 5:00 in the morning. i want to thank sister carmen
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chu for her leadership and for dealing with us, helping to balance the incredibly diverse needs in the wonderfully diversity that we live in. i know you probably age of the last couple years. but you don't look as if you did. without further ado, i want to thank the budget chair. thank you for all your work. >> thank you very much to the mayor and board president, it has been my honor to serve as the budget chair this past year and the year before. i of the mayor ran through the partners that are here today. allow to a department heads and all of the staff. i see a lot of budget people in this room, and this rotunda.
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and all the department heads and us, we would not be able to do what we do. i want to say thank you to the folks that make this happen. overall, there was a lot going on this year and many issues are coming out is still being discussed. our goal was to make sure that the budget was the least of everyone's worried. it was a low-key drama-free budget. we had a unanimous vote to pass the budget and with that, i think we really have put together a consensus budget. in addition to the key areas where we made investments in supporting small businesses and focusing on the economy, invest in opportunities to train individuals for the work force, who think the budget is reflective of a two-year budget. reflective of a two-year budget. this is the first time the city
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