next i would like to call sonja kos. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sonja kos, and i live in district 6, south of market, and i work in yerba buena so i walk to and from work when possible. sometimes it's a little difficult. so, my concern is with pedestrian safety. i work for talk tell, tenants owners development corporation, which owns affordable housing south of market and we have a lot of seniors in our building. and because of the construction in south of market along with the central corridor, there are a lot of pedestrian issues that need to be addressed. and i think that they should be addressed, bicycles on sidewalks, skate boards on

sidewalks, and elderly folks just trying to do their everyday business. there are a lot of concerns in district 6 with the safety of all, children included because of the yerba buena gardens and the children's museum. so, there's a lot of pedestrian activity along with the moscone conferences. in dealing with the volume of people when conferences are in play, and the mix bicycles, cars, construction, et cetera, it is a major hub in need of pedestrian safety [speaker not understood] including stop light signals, walk signals, et cetera, and the timing of that with everything going on, especially between mission and king streets. along fourth street, it's very,

very needed area for inspection. but i would think that i'd be a good representative because i live it every day and i would be very honored to represent district 6 for this committee. thank you very much for your consideration. >> thank you. supervisor breed? >> yes. mrs. kos, i want to ask you about your -- kos, yes. >> i wanted to ask you what are your thoughts around dealing with issues of bicyclists and skateboarders using the sidewalks. well, for bicyclists, i think the bicycle program robin brought up, that new york's recommended, i think that would be good here. but as for skateboarders, i think there would have to be a

person on the streets that would give tickets, that type of thing. because skateboarders are a little bit different in terms of how they're to be regulated. and if there are no regulations, so, i don't know if the regulations that are on the books should be enforced and that would have to mean that, you know, feet on the ground type thing. so, that would be my suggestion. it's a difficult situation with skateboarders. >> thank you. yes, thank you. >> thank you. any public comments on this matter? you have two minutes to speak. [speaker not understood]. ♪ safety, safety yeah come on city, sing it with me, safety, safety yeah sometimes the safety work gets kind of hard and you have to be real careful

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>> come on up. any more public comments or songs? [laughter] public comment from i, john alex, vice-chair of pedestrian safety advisory committee and former seat holder then called seat number 8 transitioned over to seat number 7 representing child advocate and schools for port organizations. i come up to endorse and recommend your approval of both sonja kos and robin brasso. they're both fine. i have worked with robin extensively in the past on psac and i have met sonja and appreciated her commentary during psac meetings. so, please, submit to the board of supervisors a recommendation for both to take their seats on the pedestrian safety advisory committee. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comments?

supervisors, my name is zach marks, the chairman of the san francisco pedestrian safety advisory committee and i just want to thank you, supervisor yee, for hosting the forum that we just had earlier today. and also supervisor breed was a very nice kind note read during the meeting. so, thank you so much. i definitely endorse robin brasso. she's one of our best members on the committee. and also endorse you appointing sonja to our committee because we definitely need new members. thank you so much. >> thank you. any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> i want to thank both sonja and robin for wanting to continue with your role in the pedestrian safety advisory committee. it's, as you know, this is a real important issue for me and i'd like to see strong, good, you know, passionate people on that committee. and you two seem to represent

what i'd like to see on that committee. so, you know, definitely i'm supporting both of you on this. colleagues, supervisor cohen? >> thank you. ms. kos and ms. brasso, i want to take a moment to say thank you for your leadership and stepping up. sometimes people can become encumbered with titles of leadership and you ladies seem to embody leadership and actually how it manifests in everyday life, how you carry your self-, how you conduct your own personal business. so, i have come to know ms. brasso pretty well in the last couple years. ms. kos, look forward to seeing you around a little bit more and working with you as well. thank you. >> supervisor breed? >> thank you. i noticed that over the past few years that as bicycle rider ship has increased in san francisco, serious concerns

around pedestrian safety have been brought to the forefront, especially with folks that have been, sadly, hit by either motorists or bicyclists over maybe their struggle on the streets. and i want to make sure that we are looking at an issue around pedestrian safety as a public safety issue just like we want to protect bicyclists who want to protect the people walking the streets. and i appreciate the fact that you are stepping up to the plate and willing to serve and willing to look at new innovative ways in which we can all coexist so that everyone is safe around the streets of san francisco. so, i'm really excited about this and really excited that pedestrian safety is taking center stage in our city and there's just a lot more work to be done in moving forward with many of these transportation projects. so, i think you will also be incredible additions to the pedestrian safety committee and with that i'd be happy to move

robin brasso's name for -- to serve in the seat 7 and also sonja kos in seat 9 and i'd like to move to continue the seat 8 seat. >> i'll second that motion. >> thank you. seeing no objection, motion passed. >> supervisor, for clarification, would you like to continue seat number 8 to the call of the chair? >> yes. >> thank you. >> pass? [gavel] >> thank you very much. congratulations. >> supervisor -- >> colleagues, is there a motion to convene a closed session -- convene in closed session? >> so moved. >> would you like to have

public comment on the closed session before we move into -- >> sure. any public comments on closed session? seeing none, public comment is closed. so, this has been a motion that's been made. seeing no -- do we need roll call? okay. >> without objection. >> without objection, motion passes. [gavel] >> okay. >>please stand by - meeting in closed session

>> deputy streeterctionv john givener again. during the closed session, the committee decided to send items 4 through 8 on today's agenda to the full board with recommendations. >> thank you for the report. colleagues, can i have a motion to not disclose what happened in closed session? >> so moved. >> second. >> no objection, motion passes. [gavel] >> madam chair, is there anything else on the agenda? >> no, mr. chair. >> good. is there any further -- if there's nothing further, the meeting is adjourned. [gavel] the time?

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thanks for joining us today, welcome to the meeting, cohen, and fer ill will be on his way andals would like to recognize tang and i believe that commissioner chiu will be joining us as well. clerk of the board today is erica chang and also like to thank jessy larson and charles from sfgtv for broadcasting this meeting. >> any announcements? >> no announcements. all right. accident, thank you for joining us. would you please call the roll? >> you have done roll call and so i will call item number two, approve the minutes. >> any issues with the minutes? are there any members of the public that would like to speak?

>> no, okay? seeing that there is no people that are wishing to speak, public comment will be closed. colleagues this xanax item is there a motion to provide? . >> a motion from commissioner chiu. >> without objection, the motion passes. madam clerk, would you call item number three. >> the legislative updates and the action item. >> thank you very much. ethe staff, hello, hello. >> please, present. >> good morning, commissioners, anaa lofport, i would like to welcome commissioner tang to the committee and to the board and we look forward to working with you. this item begins on page 9 of your packet and also give brief remarks on the federal program before welcoming mark watts, the advocate from sacramento to speak. as we all know, the

sequestration cuts have gone into effect at this point. we are looking to the march 27th into the end of the current sixth month continuing resolution and looking to what will happen with another six months to fund it to the end of the federal fiscal year. the house has passed a 6 month bill, which locks in the funding levels for the sequestration cuts for the end of this physical year. the senate, we expect them to be releasing their six-month continuing resolution within the next couple of days. we have yet to see how much discretion this will give to the various different agencies on how the cuts are implemented across the various programs. the house has given flexibility to the department of defense only, we expect the senate to be more proud in its discretion.

the senate has also released the federal fiscal year, 14, budget proposal and we are likely to see these levels of funding with the sequestration cuts continuing through the next year, so we have to pay close attention to the impacts on transportation, again the highway trust funds accounts are protected from these cuts, but there is general fund support of highway trust funds activities including the new starts program, we are monitoring to see any potential impacts to central subway, for example. and whether the federal government, will be looking to get the older, new starts projects off the books and putting funding on those projects first, or whether they will be doing across the board, cuts to all of the new starts programs. so we are looking forward to hearing what has come out of washington, from the legislative conference this

week. and also, continuing to monitor the activities with mta and other partners. at this point, i will welcome mark watts to speak to the legislative matrix. >> thank you. >> and good morning, commissioners. i thought that i would cover quickly some of the additions to the matrix sense the last time that i appeared here the deadline has passed for the introduction of measures and they were close to 2,000 total bills introduced in both houses, so we spent the last couple of weeks, weeding through the bills and coming up with several that we want to bring to your attention and ask for your approval of physicians that were recommending oppose or support for. so the matrix is substantive and most of the bills are the ones that we would choose at this bill that we watch. a lot of them have not matured into the final bill that they will be heard or the final form that will be heard in, but several bills are noteworthy. the first two that i want to notice are two bills that we

already took positions on. i want to call your attention to the fact that they have been schedule and identical bills and one in each house, ab 8 and sb eleven in the senate and the karl moyer program which is important for the high speed rail here for the blended service, in the bay areas, so we are working actively to make sure that those bills keep moving forward. so those two are moving forward. the other bills i will call your attention to are the ones that we are recommending brand new positions on like your action on that at the conclusion. ab266, is a measure, it is on page 3 of your matrix. and we are recommending oppose, it would extend the hov lane access to 2025, that is currently schedule to conclude they end of 2014. i can that the view of the reservation is that is a long time to provide an incentive program for a captive number of vehicles and that could lead to

congestion on hov facility and that is the reason that, we recommend support and it is going to facilitate the movement of the high speed rail itself and allow it to go on a basis that will be caught up about the statute. and another recommendation is another support is ab 4, 93, that say measure on page 5 of the matrix that deals with continuing operatebility of the toll collection device and recommending support because that has long been a goal and a fact in california and this continues that. the next measure is one that deals with the public private

partnership and ab749 and that so page 7 of the matrix and we are recommended oppose. what this does in the p3 law that the transportation authority in conjunction with cal transfollowed for the drive project, there is in essence two state agencies that take a look at a public, private partnership application and one is the public investment, or the private investment, i forget, what it stands for, but it is a function of the transportation secretary's office. and it was a committee that was supposed to review, proposals and make comments. secondarily, the state transportation commission is empowered to authorize a public private partnership in lease and contract. this bill, highens the ability to actually act as an initial hurtle and they have a binding,

and the binding ability to reject the public, private partnership proposal before it goes to the transportation commission, we think that is not what the original framers of the particular p3 law intended and it does add an extra burden to the process and we are recommending oppose to that. ab 863 is another one that we are recommending oppose, it seems like it was a measure that we would support but page 7 details that this bill would allow for the delegation of nepa, the national, environmental act to caltransto administer for projects but that sounds like a stream lining but we had it approved for state highway programs and local highway programs and we found that the implementation of that was very unworkable,

particularly for local projects. the state seemed to spend more energy on accelerating their projects at the expense of local projects and so we recommended and oppose at this point in time, until we can see some improvement in what they plan to put in the legislation. and lastly, on the assembly side, ab842 is a measure that we have seen before, and it is on page 7 of the matrix and it would eliminate all further bond funding for the high speed rail program which will have the effect of initially shutting down the initial construction segment as well as the funding for blended service and connectivity projects that we are dependent upon in the bay area and in san francisco. so we recommended opposed to that measure. the previous measures all failed and we think that this one is destined for the same failure but we will have to see and work on it. >> two measures on the senate side that we are recommended

support, first is sb 219. and it deals with extending the double fine zones on state routes, 1 and 101 in san francisco, indefinitely. and there has been a long history of first initiating the double fine zones and then continuing them in law and this measure would permanently extend them. we recommend the support of page 12 on the matrix and we anticipate having some difficulty with the senate transportation committee, but we will be working with the author's office on this. and finally, sb 557, which is found on page 15 of the matrix, we are recommending support. this would cotify the high speed rails for north and south for the mlu and we think that it beneficial and recommend your support for those measures. those would be the action items in the matrix and the rest are

previously approved positions or positions where we justified identified the bill and want to see if there are changes before we come back to the committee with a firm recommendation. i have two other observations outside of legislation that i thought that i would just pass on at the suggestion of staff, one is you may have read about the action by the board of equalization to improve the increase in the state gas tax. and just to clarify what that action was in 2009, 10. the state legislature adopted legislation that basically converted of what used to be proposition 42, which was funded from the sales tax on gas into a pure, based funding source. and to accomplish that, they had to develop language that directed the board of equalization, to maintain the same level of gross revenues,

that the combined base excise tax and ropcysing 42 would have generated. s so the action to approve a 3.5 percent hike in the gas tax is consistent with what would have been the taxes that the motorists would have been paying without the tax swap and the board of equalization approval. in fact, in many ways, the board of equalization approval is almost ministerial in effect and nobody knows what would happen if they had would rejected it. that has happened and the money generates 3.5 percent and the tax is an additional 3.5 cents per gallon which is 500 million a year and it is dedicated to local streets and roads and to the e