and future development there. we had our own architect formulate a better design and unfortunately we could not prevail. we ended up with a poor design but better than the first. excuse me. and city's interest. -- >> if you could take off your -- yeah, i just notice that. >> okay. we continue to have planning meetings to the visitation valley alliance representing this and -- and i said many times this rivals importance in the city but we received less notice historically. i want the same attention paid to other areas

paid to projects in the southeast which include major projects, the bicounty study and extension and bay shore cal train station and realignment. and i hope to see these critical district 10 transportation projects through the upcoming planning stages before i step away from the ta cac so that's it. >> thank you very much. colleagues any comments or questions? okay. next applicant. >> hi good morning commissioners. i am chris wadlynn and a district 10 resident. by training i'm a scientist and my interest in transportation issues has come since i moved to district 10, and quite recently since the cal train over pass, the cal train

bridge replacement project has come to light. i worked very diligently with the staff of ta and other community members to come to a resolution with that project. supervisor cohen has also been quite involved with that. as far as myself i'm a community activists of sorts. i'm the vice chair of the gardens initiative and member of the portal member association and working on beautician and improvement of the corridor. living in silver terrace gives me an opportunity to have feet in many parts of the district and district nine is included and transportation is important for all of us in these areas, and i want to become more involved in access throughout

our community in these areas and that includes bike access which i think is good but could be quite improved and i would like to see that happen. beyond the cac i think i would offer community input. i also run a district wide blog that gives back to the community, that helps disseminate information to the community, and i really feel that's something that could be done a little better. that the community engagement doesn't stop with the cac. it involves people in the community to talk to the person on the cac and bring that to the full cac and then to you, so i feel like that would be my role in this. >> great. okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> for your presentation. next applicant please

. this mic right here. oh you have -- >> [inaudible] >> i didn't realize you had a presentation so you're welcome to use that. >> great. good morning. thanks for giving me the opportunity to speak with you today. my name is ms. young and i live in district nine. it's a great privilege to share with you my qualifications and interest on being on the cac. so i have a very deep passion and interest in transportation, and i feel like it plays an integral role in the landscape of any city and i would like to be involved in the improvements to sf transportation. i wanted to share with you a snapshot from a user standpoint and occasionally a driving although i don't have a car and i am sure these ideas

are bounced around but i would like to be on the team that makes the improvements and make the transportation system the world class system that san francisco deserves for being a world class city. that involves reducing the everyday barriers for using the transit system. i know people that don't use it because they think it's complicated. they don't understand the signage and the schedules and by increasing ridership you can increase rates and a cycle for overall improved transit system. i similarly have a lot of ideas for traffic easing and bus only lanes and bike safety and sharing programs and numerous other things i thought of and bounced ideas off people i know. i am extremely passion of transportation. i am a rider and use bart and cal

train. i work on a clean tech automobile company and tesla motors. you might have heard it. we're focused on changing the landscape of transportation and making it much more cleaner, reducing emissions which i think intersecting a lot with the goals of this organization. as a side note i am a collector of subways from around the world. i feel i can bring skills and qualifications from my experience. i'm a financial analyst and worked at morgan stanley and in other mergers and departments so i have a lot of experience of working on collaborative environments and teams and tight deadlines and limited resources and i think i bring a unique demographic perspective to this community. i am in my 20's and asian and

professional and i use transit and plugged into the network and a huge constituency in san francisco and i'm a traveler and worldwide transit rider and don't have a car and adult literacy tutor and head of the homeowner association and providing work for poor people around the world and i would like to be more civically engaged and i think this is a great way to do it, and i feel i can bring a lot to the table and i would really appreciate your selection of me to be on the citizens advisory committee for the sf cac. thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you for your presentation. colleagues any other comments or comments? >> can i ask a question? i notice you work in palo alto. how do you get there? >> we have a corporate shuttle

and occasionally use cal train as well. >> thank you. >> okay. we can open this up for public comment. any member of the public would like to comment? all right. we will close public comment. colleagues -- we have actually a motion from commissioner cohen on continuing district 10 cac so we can take that without objection. on the district four we have been asked -- cac we have been asked to continue that seat is still looking for an applicant so we will continue that and without objection. commissioner farrell. okay. >> i'm actually seem pretty impressed with our last applicant, and wondering colleagues -- i know actually

we had support from our district nine commissioner and president for glen davis and wondering what anyone's thoughts are about that? >> i actually was going to encourage the applicants to meet with the supervisor that represents their district. i'm not sure you can do that but i think it would help to meet with them and get a sense. this isn't the only committee that we have. although this is the one that relates the best to transit. i am impressed by many of the folks that came up today and all of them and i would be okay making a motion to continue this and i know she was in district six and that is gone and i appreciate what you had to say today.

>> i appreciate that motion and i could support that and have a discussion among the committee. we can come back and heard again in plans and programs next meeting. okay. so we will continue that item as well. thank you colleagues. go on to the next item. >> item five is appoint of one member to the geary corridor bus rapid transit. this is an action item. >> good morning. i am with the authority. the authority is meeting the geary corridor bus rapid transit and improve travel times and reliability and transit access on one of the buzziest corridors in san francisco. it's in the planning phase and looking at alternatives for the project. the draft environmental document is expected in 2013. the project has a dedicated citizen advisory committee and give advice on project issues. this

committee meets quarterly, has 11 members with seats for representation of key neighborhoods along the corridor as well as at large representation. currently we have one vacancy on the committee. we would like to fill that shortly. we have given notice in the quarter about the vacancy in september and october and including notices on buss and bus stops and translated languages and into english, spanish and chinese as well as annoucements on the project website, and email distribution to our email distribution list, and finally we had a media advisory as part of the notification pros. the deadline was october 24. at that time we had eight applications and they're all in your packet. there is a summary matrix that is included on page 23 summarizing their

backgrounds. we encouraged the candidates to appear today to speak on behalf of their position and we noted it's not mandatory to be here to be considered and we are recommending one member for the geary cac. i am happy to take questions. >> . this is an at large seat. is that correct? commissioner kim. >> i had one question. i didn't see when the term expires? >> this doesn't have term expiration dates. it's for the life of the committee and the project until such time there is a vacancy. >> i know this committee was put together before. i was on the board and there isn't i single resident from district six. i don't know how this occurred and great person by the way but doesn't live in district six and i don't know what we can do about that, and i don't see at

large representatives from the district but i was impressed with the applicants and i would like a conversation at some point. >> okay. >> thank you. >> thank you. i do see -- there is someone running for supervisor in district five is mentioned as district six but i understand. are there applicants here today? please come forward. >> good morning. my name is winston parsons. i am here today because i would like to be on the geary corridor bus rapid transit citizens advisory committee. i'm a forught generation san franciscan so i lived near the

geary corridor my entire life and take transit and bike to get me around the city. i grew up with mom and grandma and i grew up hearing stories how transit worked for them. my grandma took a train across the bridge to the east bay and get off at market street and the fairy building and muni served the citizens more effectively. furthermore my current job is working for the presidio bike wise program. i teach kids to ride safely and responsibly. i work at the a middle school in the area and i see how the street design affects a myriad and variety of users there. furthermore we're involved in

safe routes for schools and i think the project has the potential to aid and impact. i also have ancasion and personal passion for transportation and urban planning. i have a minor in urban planning. my major was in communications and i worked for their communication urban action while i was a student there. lastly my frents and colleagues will tell you have a passion for transit, particularly bus lines and rail in this city. if you were to look in my room right now you will see a board on the wall with a map of the city and lines of string leading to different projects. geary is at the top of the list. it's something i have been following for a while and interested in and has the opportunity to improve the life for san franciscans and bikers

and muni riders and others as well and with that i would be a great member of the geary corridor bus rapid transit citizens advisory committee and thank you for your time. >> thank you. what do you see as the main challenges and bringing bus transit to geary? >> one of the main challenges is awareness for business owners and residents along there. the friends i know and work with who are attuned to a lot of stuff that happens in the city and read blogs and newspapers aren't always aware what is happening on geary. furthermore i have been to public meetings and local business owners are really concerned about the impact it's going to have on their constituents and users and i think i can make a good bridge and explain how it's potentially to their benefit and there are a number of intersections that have challenges and fill more and geary and other areas and i

would like to be part of that discussion and something that works for all the city's users. thank you. >> thank you very much. no other applicants that are here? okay. >> can i add one clarification. the eligibility for serving on the geary cac applies to not only where they live but where they work and that might be a way to engage people of the full length of the corridor and helpful in the selection of a candidate. >> great. thank you very much. okay. any member of the public that would like to comment on this item? please come forward. and we will close vote on it. commissioner farrell. >> thank you and thanks for coming up and wince ston thanks for being here. i worked with him a bit in the district and they do amazing stuff in san

francisco and i would like to say thanks for coming out. you're obviously the type of person exactly that we want and involvement really into the transit issue so i would be happy to support mr. parsons so i make a motion and offer it up to comment from my colleagues. >> that motion is seconded. commissioner kim. >> thank you. the two applicants i was interested in are mr. parse sons and ms. chin and they both grew up here and they live and work here and i think it's great to have young folks that live here that are interested in transportation so i am happy to support winston too and i hope when we have another vacancy you can let me know and i can do recruiting in the tenderloin but i don't want to hold up this applicant in the meantime. thank you. >> thank you. we have a motion

from commissioner farrell. seconded by commissioner cohen and we can take that without objection so congratulations. next item please. >> number six recommend allocation of 3 million in prop k funds for [inaudible] communications base over lay signal system project and subject to cash flow and implementation of strategic plan and the money in 2013 and 2014 -- [inaudible] in fiscal year 2013, and 2014 to the prop k funds. this is action item. >> good morning commissioners. i am louis and project consultant to the authority. let's begin with this request with a little context. the context begins with the california high speed rail. as you know the california high

speed rail authority has the mandate for building and maintaining high speed rail in california and their 2012 business plan proposed what they call incremental improvements with blended system, and some of this investments of course are to be taken place in the peninsula. the segment in question is from san jose to the san francisco tranit train center. in april of this year the authority board authorized an mou between nine members stakeholders of the cal train and the high speed rail which you see in this list. and early investment strategy for the

peninsula corridor basically has two components, advanced signal system and positive flow control and the [inaudible] including the vehicles. that's a total cost of 1.5 billion dollars. and this brings us to today's allocation request. this is for the cboss which is the acronym for the over lay signal system and type of advanced signal system. there are many types and this is the one cal train has chosen to use, and this system is basically to track train locations and prevent unsafe movements and consist of on board equipment and weigh side equipment. the total budget is $231 million. the system in addition to improving the signals and safety has also the added benefit of shortening

travel times and also reducing gate down times so improving crossings for traffic. it has a variety of elements from data link communications and computers with digitized maps on the trains. one of the more important features is the throttle brake interface and take over for the operator if the operator is not stopping the train when they should be and basically slows down the train and stops it, and it also includes center facility displays and equipment. part of this program will also train staff and operator staff in using this system and update all the documentation and rules under which cal train currently operates. in october of last

year the peninsula corridor board awarded a contract for $130 million to sign and build the cboss system. this contract also includes the construction of back up facility. as it is now cal train doesn't have a backup facility that they can use in case of an emergency if they lose for whatever reason operation ability of the current facility. the contract received -- [inaudible] generally this year and so far completed survey of alignment. basically gps coordinates every 5 feet to mark the way along the way to help the location of the trains. they also define the project of course, and are also currently

doing tunnel surveys to determine what equipment maybe needed in the tunnels to support this system. the critical design is under way. the critical design is between preliminary engineering and the final design -- the design group has the elements of the system and how they're connected and where they're connected but all of the critical elements are decided upon. also concurrently with that they are looking for the proper site locate this central control facility. you have in front of you the current schedule. as you can see we're on the second item, which is -- >> what are the sites come to mind when talking about globalization of the facility?

>> i'm sorry. i didn't hear. >> what is being proposed? what is being thrown as potential site? >> they're actually looking all over. they haven't decided. they are looking for sites along the line of course. they have a representative from cal train here and maybe they can -- okay. we're on the second bullet of the schedule. october 2 to march of next year and you can see by the end of 2015 there will be operational acceptance. you see the funding plan. the project is fully funded. the second line here is the current

[inaudible] powers board member contributions which is 70 million of which san francisco's portion is 23.4 million. this application requires an amendment to the strategic plan. namely we need to advance funds from future years which significantly increases the financing costs. initially there were estimates of 2.6 but advancing them to the near future the item $10.3 million in financing funds, so we have this amount available and leaving a short fall for san francisco share. the peninsula board requested that all of the members remit the funds by spring of 2013.

the signatories are working on establishing an oversight protocol for the project. so the staff is working with the mayor's office looking for ways to identify the funds for the remaining san francisco contribution to the whole program which is $60 million is the contribution to the whole program, both for the cboss and [inaudible]. commissioner -- 7.5 for cboss and the rest for electricity ifz and they are evaluating potential funding sources and staff is looking at potential revenue sources for the san francisco transportation plan and that concludes my presentation. if you have any

questions like i mentioned earlier we have cal train staff also available for questions. >> thank you very much. we have a commitment to allocate funding for fiscal year 2013 and 2014 and 15 6.4 million. we are making commitments for future years. how is that impacting what is planned how the plans would be used? >> there is a line item for that. that's the same -- >> same line item? >> yes correct. >> how is it that we're making these allocations now and we still are 7.5 million short? that puts us at somewhat of a

liability. money is hard to come by. what are your plans with the mayor's office to find -- >> that's correct. it does put us a little difficulty situation. however this project, the cboss project is highly needed for safety, and therefore the safety kind of trumps a little bit the risk that we're taking because it needs to be taken care of. now, there is a commitment from the mayor's office to find the remaining of the money, so i don't know if anybody wants to expand on that. >> they're going to find the money. >> that's correct. >> great. so this is pretty typical of what i face in terms of investments in the region or in san