[speaking through spanish interpreter] i just want to thank you for moving forward with this because i am a part of this community and a part of the family that will benefit from this project moving forward, regardless of immigration status. i'm happy because many of the families that now are renting spaces within our communities that are uninhabitable will have an opportunity to have a good home.

and we hope that we can move forward with this quickly so that in the next year we could start building affordable homes. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. anyone else care to address the board on this? okay, seeing none, i know director ramos and director [speaker not understood] have been involved in this. would you like to -- >> certainly. >> sorry, is there somebody else? i'm sorry, go ahead. >> pardon me. i just want to express my sincere gratitude to charlie and those engaged in working at this so hard and so long. i'm really excited to get this opportunity to make this happen. i personally have been engaged in my day job with fighting for more affordable housing in our city. i am one of the families that, although my father worked here, we couldn't afford to live here. even today i can barely make ends meet to get my family housed. there are three of us living in a studio apartment.

so, i know how difficult it is to find affordable housing. and really excited about this opportunity and looking forward to a partnership with the community and the mayor's office of housing and making this work. so, thank you to all of you and everyone that's worked on this. >> sounds like a motion to me. >> indeed it is. >> [speaker not understood]. >> yes, i shouldn't take anything for being involved. i'm very new to this. i checked out the station and it is obviously in need of improvement, [speaker not understood] moving forward with this. >> sounds like a second to me. >> it is. >> just bring up the fact this is such an important connection for city college students to make that area more walkable and the directors might remember we had an e-mail from the city college student a few weeks ago who was complaining about something that probably can help resolve that. his problem was parking at home when he had parked at city college and driving home and getting parking tickets in his neighborhood. i looked at the map and i

thought, you know, if we did have more friendly walkable, bikable transit friendly solutions for him, maybe he would be able to save money by not having to own a car. so, it was really exciting to see stuff like this go forward because we address problems that are kind of tangential to this actual space and the solutionses. so, i'm really happy we're moving forward with this. thank you all very much for your hard work on this. >> what was that, we have a motion and second. i want to add my thanks to the community leadership here. i know it's been enormous, going on for a long time. all kinds of folks have been involved. we really appreciate the input. the project has worked better because much your involvement. with that all those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> posed no? [speaker not understood]. thank you, great job. >> thank you. >> item 12, authorizing the director to implement route, stop, and day of the week changes on a twenty-four month pilot basis to the 76 marin headlands bus route, and rename the existing line the 76x marin headlands express and providing an update on other transit effectiveness project plans. mr. chairman, before we move on, would you like to take up the motorcycle parking issue? >> oh, yes. sorry. we received a note here after

the item on the motorcycle i think it was -- was it 10.7? >> 10.2b. >> that mr. yee misspoke. there are four spaces. actually turns out there are seven spaces for motorcycles. on the basis of that, would members like to reconsider their vote or what is the pleasure of the board? [speaker not understood]. >> no, not for me. >> director, you made the motion on this because of the public hearing. >> yes, i think the public hearing, the fact the work was going on to change the unused driveways so it could use curb space. i appreciate the member of the public coming forward and calling this to our attention, but i feel like the process has gone through correctly. >> seeing no one wants to revisit the vote or anything, that will stand. >> thank you, mr. chairman. item 12, authorizing the director to implement route, stop, and day of the week changes on a twenty-four month pilot basis to the 76 marin headlands bus route, and rename the existing line the 76x marin headlands express and providing an update on other transit effectiveness project plans.

>> [inaudible]. members have questions or comments at this point? >> i think julie is setting up. >> i thought so. >> are you ready for the presentation? >> technical issues. >> yes. i was just going to load it onto the powerpoint. i apologize it wasn't loaded in advance. >> [speaker not understood]. [laughter] >> mr. chairman, would you like to take public comment? you do have public comment on this matter. all right. keith bollenger followed by mary liz harris, and tony ann. >> good afternoon, mr. bollenger. good afternoon, my name is keith. i'm a native san franciscan.

i'm here in capacity as john doe citizen. i'd like to say i'm usually a fierce critic of muni, but along with the njuda express and this proposed expansion of the 76, more power to you. i really like the fact this may be improving that. let me relate there is a hostile on the marin head lands. i happen to be a lifetime member. golden gate transit doesn't go out there during the week. i'm of modest means. i do not own a motor vehicle. so i've got no means of getting out there. i asked the people who workout there, how do you do? we take a bus to the end of the tunnel and hitch hike. no thank you. so, it blows me away the golden gate transit neglects this transit area within their own territory, their own county. i find it super ironic that muni and the sfmta isn't remedying their lack of foresight. so, i wholly support any efforts to expand service. thank you for your time. >> thank you, sir.

next speaker, please. >> mary liz harris, tony ann, susan casey. >> thank you, am i harris. tell owe, mr. chairman and the board of directors. i'm a citizen here in san francisco representing myself * . i have a great love for the marin head lands and my husband and i have pep a little bit of time there. we would spend a whole lot more if it was expanded to the saturday, which is the thing you are talking about * spent. we have always had to be sunday at church. i'm with the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints and have a lot of things i have to do on sundays. so, i could not get out to the head lands. there is so much there to learn about the natural history of this area and we went to the marin head lands, i should say the marin mammal center recently. we have a visitor coming from australia that wants to get over there. if you have the bus on saturday, that will be wonderful. and i will appreciate if you have more publicity regarding it because a lot of people don't know that exists. and if we could see like the

places where you're going to have the bus stop and the whole schedule, that would be helpful also. and i thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> tony ann, followed by susan casey, and then bridget boy lan. is mr. ahn here? no, susan casey. followed by bridget boy lan. >> good afternoon, ms. casey. good afternoon. i'm also very excited about having the 76 expanded to saturday. i mainly wanted more information about why we wanted to eliminate stops, what the reasoning was behind that. >> thanks much. next speaker, please. >> last speaker who submitted a card, bridget boy lan. is ms. boy lan here? not. >> thank you very much. members of the board, do you want to do a presentation? we have seen it.

speak for myself. >> i'm julie kirsch bum, operations planning manager. i prepared a tp update and presentation on this. if you prefer i could deliver it at the january workshop. it's really up to you. >> pleasure of the board? >> [inaudible]. >> so moved. >> [speaker not understood]. >> i guess you can talk about it. >> i have just a question. i don't need the whole presentation. >> director [speaker not understood]. >> apropos to the whole tpe process, i think i gathered this. but it's expanded service on a saturday for this line. and since the whole tep and we've talked about right sizing and priorities and all this, is there a coordinated offset that will sort of make this cost neutral or something like that? or is this just straighten crease in service?

-- straight increase in service? >> the answer is twofold. the saturday service is being funded by a grant from the park service * . it is about a 14 to 18-month grant. and then we will have to make a decision as an agency and you'll have to make a decision as a board as to whether or not the ridership, additional ridership justifies the continuation. the route restructuring, which is eliminating a segment south of market and doing the stop reductions are intended to address the reliability concerns in a cost-neutral way. so, if we did not make those changes, our only other option would be to add a bus, which would be about a 50% cost increase to this route because we are currently in an unsustainable situation where we're hoping the route can cycle in two hours and it's taking more like 2-1/2.

>> so, i guess -- thank you for taking my question. reframing it better, i appreciate that. that's my concern, is that the reconfiguration that we've done is really more to increase reliability in a cost-neutral basis. i'm thinking 18 months ahead when, much to my chagrin, i'll still be in this seat. when you take away service, you get a lot more public comment and people arguably order their lives, although saturday excursions are not like people going to work. how would we fund it going forward? could we fund it going forward through route adjustments? or if we decided to go forward with this, would we have to come up with the funds ourselves? >> because of the scale of this change, it is literally two additional buses a week. it is very likely that we could find other efficiencies within the system to pay for this kind of change. going forward, though, the

larger tep service changes do recommend an increase in resources and those are something that as a board i know you guys will struggle with as we move into the future. so, for this particular change i'm fairly confident that we could identify something, but the larger -- >> you figured out where i'm going with this, which is as we're considering the entire tep i think it sets a dangerous precedent if we reroute one by one. it seems attractive but we have to consider the bigger picture. what i see you saying on this one is, a, 18 months someone else is paying 230er it. and b after 18 months, the righter ship justifies it, we can probably pay for it with nonglobal tep funding, but rather just through further adjustment * . so, would that clarify it and further set the precedent so we don't get one off request or, hey, i want this bus going here on saturday and i want this bus going late? let's not get into that business with the tep pending. i'm happy to move this item.

>> motion to move. >> second. >> let me ask a question. has there been any conversation at alan mullally with golden gate transit district? >> yes, we have involved them and we will involve them in our launch. most of the publicity and the promotion that we have planned is in partnership with the ggnra. they're really excited about just having more park access in general, and particularly green park access. so, they've been our primary partner on this. >> i think this is fabulous. i look forward to seeing the members who commented on that bus because i use that as a hiking bus as well. and can we make sure that a member of the public that questioned the stop reduction or the route truncating has the correct information so she knows? >> ms. casey. >> ms. casey, so she knows which stops are going to be going where, which part of the route is going where? >> absolutely. i'd be happy to follow-up. our primary focus was to make

sure that all transfer points were served and, so, that would be a good rule of thumb. but we'll make sure she has the specific stop. >> also the ridership members, if we get publicity out there for this because i think there is a demand we don't know about, especially as we've seen car ownership among our younger residents go down. i know this is going to be a really attractive way for people to get out of the city on the weekend. it will be interesting to watch this. >> . -- thank you, anybody else? we have a motion and second. everybody in support say aye? >> aye. >> opposed the same? we'll have a presentation on tep? in january? i think it will be good to get reminded where we are with all of that * . thank you, ms. kirsch bum, good to see you. >> item 13, authorizing the director to execute amendment no. 1 to contract no. sfmta-2013-08 with new flyer of america, to purchase 17 additional 40-foot low floor diesel-hybrid buses through the

cooperative purchasing agreement established by the state of minnesota's materials management division, for an additional amount of $11,780,005, and a total contract amount of $48,669,369. mr. chairman, no members of the public wish to address you on this matter. >> second. >> we have a motion to support this. a second. any further discussion? all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> [inaudible]. >> and, mr. chairman, with the cancellation of the closed session, that concludes the business before you. for the record. >> one hour, 19 minutes. thank you very much, everybody. happy election day, we hope. yes, we are closing in memory of [speaker not understood]. okay. thank you very much, everybody. [adjourned]

>> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil,

general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. >> there are people from all over the world come to san francisco and say this is the place to be. >> yeah. it's amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. >> i flew from ireland to be here. and been practicing since for the competition. all the best casters in the world come here. my fellow countryman came in first place and james is on the current team and he is the head man. >> it's unique. will not see anything like it where you go to compete in the

world. competitions in ireland, scotland, norway, japan, russia each year, the facilities here in the park are second to none. there is no complex in the world that can touch it. >> i'm here with bob, and he has kindly agreed to tell me everything i need to know about casting. i'm going to suit up and next, we're in the water. >> what any gentleman should do. golden gate angling has free lessons the second saturday of every month. we have equipment show up on the 9:30 on the second saturday of every month and we'll teach them to fly cast. >> ok. we are in the water. >> let me acquaint you with the fly rod. >> nice to meet you. >> this is the lower grip and the upper grip.

this is a reel and a fly line. we are going to use the flex of this rod to fling away. exactly as you moved your hands. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> i'm a natural. >> push both arms forward and snap the lower hand into your tummy. push forward. >> i did gave it a try and had great time but i might need some more practice. i met someone else with real fly casting skills. her name is donna and she is an international fly casting champion. >> i have competed in the casting ponds in golden gate park in san francisco. i have been to japan and norway for fly casting competition. i spend my weekends here at the club and at the casting pond. it's a great place to learn and have fun. on a season day like this, it

was the perfect spot to be. i find fly casting very relaxing and also at the same time very challenging sport. takes me out into the nature. almost like drawing art in the air. and then i can make these beautiful loops out there. >> even though people from across the globe come here to compete, it's still a place where locals in the know relax and enjoy some rely unique scenery. until next time, get out and play!

>> good morning. and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority finance committee. i am scott weiner, the chair of the committee, to my far right is commissioner elsbernd, and to my left. and to my left is commissioner carmen chu and i want to thank from sfg tv lowe, and karm anac for the video services today. matter clerk are there any announcements? >> no announcements. >> item two?

>> approve the minutes of the october 16, 2012, it is an action item >> is there any public comment on item two? >> seeing none, it is closed. is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> could we take that without objection, that will be the order. item three? >> item three, recommend exercising the first one-year option of the legal services contract with nossaman llp and increasing the contract amount by $350,000, to a total amount not to exceed $1,310,000, for general legal consel services and authorizing the executive director to modify contract terms and conditions. >> this is an action item. >> good morning, commissioners, fong director for finance and administration. the authority contacts the legal services with the city attorney for the general contract related items. we also have nixon peabody and

squire. and nossman helping us. back in march of 2010, the board approved the three-year agreement with two-year options. we are currently in the third year, and the agreement will be expiring on june 30, 2013. back in december, 2011, you may remember, i brought before this committee, an amendment to that contract, to increase the contract by $300,000 to increase the contract to offset the cost spent and legal lawsuit related to the city of the presidio parkway project. >> in february of 2012, you may recall that i brought before the board an item to replace the $200 million dollar line of credit. athat time we were working with abdw and the rates were extremely high and we went out and came back with a new where

it was yielding us a savings of $3.3 million over the court of three years. with that, we also encured $100,000 in services related to the commercial paper and this is the reason that i am bringing the item, a few months earlier than the contract expiration date. within, the services that nossman performs in addition to just the routine, and legal services related to the operations of authority, they assist us in for the legal services for parkway, island and brt and the formation of the treasure island mobility agency. it has a 7 percent dbe and lbe participation. and this item was brought before the cec on october 24 and there was a unanimous

support. in terms of fiscal impacts, part of the costs for the contract that is funded by mlas with other city departments such as tida and tima for bueda island. we expect to receive more mous and will be using the prop a funds to offset the costs. in terms of me budget amendments we have the next budget to cover the majority of the contract and we will be bringing before the committee of an amendment of $177,000 over the course of the next month, at the mid year point. with that i am looking for a recommendation to exercise the first, one-year option for legal services with nossman llp and increase the contract amount by $350,000, for a total amount not-to-exceed $1.3 million for general legal

counsel services and i am available to answer any questions that you may have. >> commissioners, david chiu has joined us. >> could you give us a little bit more information about what exactly the extent to the terms and the conditions can be modified by the director. >> they would stay the same, but we would be modifying any conditions or terms that have changed over the course of the time, meaning through the government code, maybe through any city ordinances, and we would might be looking at changing the contract drastically, we are changing the contract not approved by the board and the term of the services. >> i totally appreciate that, we may need to change the contract terms if we change the rules here is that del ineatd. >> it would mention that the

executive director could modify any contract terms and conditions. >> my point is could we limit the resolution language that it is clear that it is based on changes that we make from the administrative code angle or other changes as opposed to blanket changes. >> good morning, commissioners, this is the standard language. what i am not allowed to change are the dollars and cents aspects of the contract. but, this is actually they are simply to say that the need for a board's action on something like a change in personnel, to the company or things like that, that may be specified in the contract. and may need to be changed but does not necessarily change the contract. but it isn't just to reflect city, or other guidelines that may be changing on the board.

it is also to deal with the sort of the basics of keeping that contract active. and we can clarify that some more, even in the resolution that goes to the board. >> all right. >> it is not a blanket authority, especially not on the financial side of this. >> and i trust that you and the staff are making decisions that are in the best interests of what we are trying to achieve. it would be good to clarify the circumstances in which the changes can be had and if, again, i think that what you delineated, personnel changes and changes that governor you and administrative changes and those make sense and would be helpful. >> great. >> comments or questions, and we will open up for public comment and who would like to comment on item three? seeing none, public comment is closed.

>> let's move forward with the full authority with recommendation? that will be the order. >> item four. >> item four. internal accounting report for the trhee months ending september 30, 2012. this is an information item. >> respond. >> commissioners, what you have before you is the first quarterly fiscal year 2013, internal accounting report. this is your birds' eye view of what the financial position is of the authority eit has aamounted for $165 million and liabilities up to $223.5 million. and this includes $150 outstanding commercial paper. total revenues have added up to 19.8 million, and total expenditures are at 3.7 million. and in terms of total cash for the first quarter, we have