will answer any questions. >> i will be interested. are you the sponsor supervisor avalos? >> i think we discussed this prior to your coming on sflafco and that was a report suggested to do. it's one of the things i'm interested and one of the commissioners is in this report. >> i would like to see other states and some of the major cities how they actually make appointments. that would be really helpful. thank you. >> okay. we'll do that and we'll release the draft report but we'll add in for the final report the top 10 cities so we are not delaying the draft report itself if that's okay. >> okay. thank you very much. so then the next meeting we can have a fuller report. >> my goal would be to have the

final report for the next meeting. >> this item we can open up for public comment. anyone interested in providing public comment, please come forward. since none come forward we'll close pub -- public comment. >> item no. 5. >> i just want to report on our m o u, there are funds providing puerto rico unit pursuant to an agreement to cover our cca cost and consultant cost. you have already approved that action. >> just want to remind the commission that your form 700 and sunshine are due by the end of next week. if they don't get it they are going to be

assessing fines. please get your forms in or you will be paying fines. >> the deadline? >> friday. object form on that will fill out. >> we can open up for public comment. seeing none we'll go forward to next item. >> item no. 6, for public comment. seeing none come forward we'll close public comment. >> our next item? >> item no. 7, future agenda item. >> an opportunity to discuss any items that you would like to see this body work object on? okay. we will -- >> if i could, just in our last joint meetings i heard the issue of peer review and what i heard i want to confirm at our meeting is we can go ahead and

have john who is under contract with us and has still money left under this contract to pursue that in looking at the l p i. contract and we'll put that under future agenda item. >> okay. we can go to public comment for future agenda item. and again seeing no one come we'll close comment. last item? >> the last item is an adjournment. >> we are adjourned. thank you very much. >> >> >> >> >> the weekly buzz, it is the

last week of march mark your calendars because there is much to see this week in san francisco. this friday, march 29th comes to the museum for the season opening of friday night's young, each evening takes a unique scene tied in with the special exist and permanent collections, this week after hours art event changed every weeks and includes a mix of dance performance and lecture and more, walk in and experience all of the public programs for free. and after art night, come dance yourself into shape with a free outdoors zunba class, get a great work out at the sunset rec center and enjoy the great outdoors, the class begins at 11 and rsvp is required. also this sunday is a 72nd annual spring celebration and easter parade. this is not your average street far. this is fabulous with everything from roller blading, and slopes, come and join in on

the fun from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and that is the weekly buzz. for more information, on anything of these events, visit us at sfgovtv.org and while you ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's history dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the center was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the

2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities, including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong, and arts and crafts. >> use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16th, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries,

community members, and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪ >> good morning and welcome to the county transportation authority. my name is john avalos, the chair of transportation authority. the clerk of the committee is erica chang. we are broadcast today. madam clerk could you share any announcements? >> no announcements. item no. 1, commissioner breed, campos, present, commissioner david

chiu, absent. mr. cohen, absent. kim absent, mar, wiener present. yee, absent. we have a quorum. >> very good. call item no. 2. 2013 meeting. >> comments, questions on the minutes? public comments open. no. 2. no member come forward we'll close public comment. commissioner breed and without objection. >> next item, please? >> this is information item. >> good afternoon, colleagues.

hopefully my voice will work this morning. i want to thank lombardy for these note. there were two issues to be addressed at the federal level to provide funding for the federal government through the end of the fiscal year and sequestration. congress passed a continued resolution to provide funding through the end of the budget year through september 2013. congress approved funding at the map 21 at the federal transportation bill funding levels, however this is a presequestration. the sequester official took effect on march 1st. however it taking time to find out how to federal budget cuts will affect individual programs and projects. handful of programs funding by the general fund,

the central subway project. unlike other programs which are safe from sequester, the new start program is expected to receive $100 million for the current fiscal year. we continue to work closely with the sfmta for subway and work on ways to keep the project moving should federal fund be delayed. on the local front we are trying to confirm a date for transportation workshop now into early may. i encourage fellow commissioners to attend and this will provide an opportunity for investment scenarios for the plan. on a related note, early this

morning, the director, myself attended the task force. the mayor has set an ambitious goal to priorities recommendation for this fall. a collaborative effort of the work coming on on the transportation plan. also attended the meeting today were commissioners chiu and wiener and to discuss the level of the focus where the transportation task force works on capital projects and operations as well of the mta. that was something that supervisor wiener was very thorough about explaining this morning. lastly on the executive director recruitment effort, the personnel committee met on the hawkins company to provide

selection with a permanent executive director. i met with the group last week and i believe meetings are being scheduled with different members of this body so i encourage you all to make the effort to meet with them and provide your input on your vision for the authority and what the new executive director could be like. that concludes my remarks, thank you colleagues. >> if there are no comments or questions we can go onto public comment. seeing no other member come forward we'll close public comment. madam clerk call the next item. >> this is an information item. >> good morning, acting executive directors. the executive director's report should be on your desk. i will keep this brief because i want to save a minute for a quick demonstration we talked about last month. following on the chairs remark with respect to the federal funding situation,

i want to provide a little context with respect to project. it has a grant agreement from the federal transportation administration. under a normal circumstances, the amount that is to be received each year is subject to the annual budget appropriation process, at the end of the year there is a likelihood that mta may not receive the funds as we expect. that is why we've been working from the get go to try to make sure we have finances in place if the fund come in slower to meet the needed cash flow. mtc, the government have released the regional transportation plan known as plan bay area. that's up for 55 period. the environmental

impact report is scheduled for released on march 28. there is documents on the website. there are a number of events going on around the region. we have an open public house on thursday april 11, on 1231 market street. we have the public hearing requirements on sb 375 and also reach out to a number of community based organization counties in san francisco. the chinatown community development center and department staff have been attended those meetings as well to help explain how plan bay area relates to the planning efforts going on in san francisco. cal trans, let's give a quick

heads up. i expect to come to the plans and program committee shortly. the process is under way for the transportation. through the mayor's office we have prepared a comment letter on the scoping for the environmental document for cal tran. a year ago this body of executive directors signed a northern california high speed memorandum you mean agreement. in the peninsula quarter which is a blended system of cal trains and high speed rail operations. the first project to get funded, and the project control project, they are three different names but tightly linked together. san francisco and sat san mateo and we

are working with the mayor's office in identifying what sources could be used to do that. this is really in two different options. we have some commitment sometime this spring because we have the contract on the positive modification of the project. the program is in late 16, 17, 18. the san francisco transportation plan that we can identify potential new revenue source for the project. the city parkway project i want to announce the

project has attracted two more awards and i want to thank the organizations for those projects. it's women's in transportation seminar both at the local and national level. that award will be presented at the national conference in philadelphia this may. the projects also is awarded the bay area real estate bay area of the year by the san francisco times. i would like to thank these organizations for honoring the projects and it would not have happened with the leadership of this board and our funding partners and all vendors working on the project. last thing, if you want to come up to get ready for the map presentation. the transportation plan is moving quickly and the final phases are coming up with our final draft. we have seen some level of revenue sources. there is a

lot of information coming on and we are trying to schedule a board workshop in may. i do want to recognize from our cac, chris wad, on march 21st which we attended. the last two items on the map are growing out of plan bay area. specifically a one bay area of grant program. a requirement that the management agencies and planning departments worked together on a transportation investment and growth strategy. this is really intend today help the priority development areas, those are the areas that were self nominating to help them mature and forget what their plans are from the land side and from the transportation side. eric

myers has an update on that strategy and we'll have a draft approach to the strategy and we have something to turn in by may 1st and a come back with a revised strategy. i think with that, i'm going to skip a number of other highlights to allow principal planner to give you a quick preview from the interactive map that will be up on our website by the end of the month. the web link. this is intended to do a number of things but to improve transparency and accountability and to be a useful tool for the board, project sponsors and the public alike. you can go in there and enter any address in the city and see all the projects nearby or all the projects to be completed in

2010. it's a very user friendly website. we have received many great comments from sponsors. we are working to improve it, but we want to give you a quick snapshot on how this will work. >> just wait until this comes up on your screen. if you see in front of you on your screen is splash page explaining what this feature does. you can click on several places and it will take you to the map. i will company a basic couple searches that you can do. these are all active projects. we hope to put more on the map to feature all the of the prop k and all other funding sources

we use. just very quickly searching by district, district 1, you can see a map pop up with all the projects in the district. you can always reset the map from it's home state and check by several different funding sources. you can search by project types and do all the bicycle projects that are currently funded. you can search by project sponsor, buy time line to see when projects are going to be completed. probably the most popular feature is searching by address. i will type in the address. you can see all the projects within a half mile of that address. you can type in any address in the city and have projects within a half mile, a mile, two blocks or two miles. you can have all those features and let me click on one of the

projects to show you what is included in each one. so when you click on any points in the map, this information will come up. the type of project, the location, the sponsor, the main funding sources and the current phase of that project and when the expectation date of completion. the process for all phases, design and construction. if you click on the project title, it has more information towards that project. >> i'm going to cut you off there. it's password protected for a couple days. we'll get it up this week. i just want to thank our staff for doing this

and wonderful interns. anthony adams who is no longer with yours. that concludes my remarks. >> thank you. lombardy any comments or questions? we can open public comment on this item. any member would like to comment? seeing none, we'll close for comment. >> next item. >> state legislation, an action item. >> colleagues, this is from the finance committee, any comments or questions, we'll go to public comment. seeing none, we'll close public comment. >> vote please. >> commissioner campos, chiu,

kim, mar, tang, wiener, item passes. >> next item, please. >> increased amount of professional services of contract for the $395,000 for planning urban designed, conceptual engineering and outreach and better market planning and studies. contracts terms and conditions, this is an action item. >> very good , thank you. i know this was an item that folks wanted to come back and bring new information for us. we have from the department of public works, mr. new. welcome. >> thank you for allowing us to come and present. at the last meeting i wasn't able to make. the request is to amend the

contract for better market street to ship some funds of the contract to consultants who are working on the project to allow them to begin looking much closely at the three schemes that are being put forth for better market street. >> okay. colleagues, any comments, questions? >> okay. let's go, if you have no other parts to present? >> at the meeting, i think our request was also made for what near term projects the city could do on market street before the while this project is going through environmental and implementation phase. so i can present what those projects are? >> okay. some of my colleagues had questions about that and perhaps they have been

consulted. my office has been as well. if colleagues would like to hear that presentation we can request it. i'm not saying that anyone is calling for it. we can go to public comment. thank you for being here. >> commissioner chiu. >> i appreciate the work that staff has done on the slate of some of the near term projects that have been laid out as i expressed to you in our meeting the other day. i wonder, have you been able to present this to stake holders who care about market street. have you sat down with pedestrian, advocates, cycling advocates because i know what we have in documents so far. >> that request is with the team and in the planning and some we'll be able to work on

and the other ones we'll go to explaining and why those are not feasible. we might not be able to implement that. >> when can we have a discussion about those near term projects after you had a chance to sit down with stake holders. >> it can happen within the next 18 months. there are some concerns of funding of some of those projects. we can do that in the next week or so. >> when would be the next official check in here at the market street project. this is also in part of question to colleagues, i know there have been a number of hearings scheduled on market street and wonder if there is a next natural check in to talk about this? >> we have a last full ta

meeting, we had a presentation but it was cut short by bumping into our meeting. wiener has had a discussion on market street. >> i called a hearing but want to make sure the hearing is meaningful so it's not a repeat. so probably more like in may or late april or may we do that just to make sure that there is some progress that's been made. >> commissioner chiu. >> let me sit down and get a briefing of where that conversation led up in part because the finance committee has been asking for the last two years to make additional incremental expenditures for a variety of many consultants that we have on this project and there has been a sense of

not seeing the progress we have wanted to see specifically around some of these near term projects. i'm okay with moving out this item today but would very much like perhaps in an about three weeks to get a summary of those conversations with those stake holders and understanding of why certain things were included and why certain things weren't which may require another conversation depending on that final list but certainly look forward to further conversations about that and plan to sit with wiener to talk about the next steps on this program. >> okay. thank you, commissioner chiu. commissioner campos? >> thank you mr. chair and mr. newark for your presentation. what i have is to make sure whatever happens is that there is as much community input