francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco transportation authority occurring april 23, 2013, will begin shortly.

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county, transportation authority, my name is john avalos, the chair of the transportation authority, the clerk of the board is erica chang and we are brought to you by the sfgtv staff, madam clerk, could you call the roll? >> roll call, avalos?

>> present. >> breed? >> present. >> campos? >> present. >> chiu? >> present. >> cohen. >> present. >> farrell? >> present. >> kim? >> kim, present. >> commissioner mar? >> mar, absent. >> tang in present. >> weiner? >> absent. >> yee, absent, we have a quorum. >> very good, could you call the next item. >> approval of the minutes of the march 26, 2013 meeting this is an action item. >> any comments or questions on the minutes, we will go to public comment, two minutes and seeing none, for public comment, we will close public comment. >> and item number two, commission avalos? >> aye. >> breed? >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> chiu. >> aye. >> cohen aye.

>> ferrill. >> aye. >> kim? >> aye. >> mar? >> mar, absent. >> and commissioner tang in >> aye. >> weiner >> aye. >> yee, yee absent. item passes. >> very good. our next item please. >> three, this chair's report this san information item. >> okay, good morning, colleagues, i would like to commend everyone who participated and took part in the nation's first walk to workday. held last friday april 12th and i want to congratulate the individuals and organization to help this become a great event i was not able to participate that day due to a slight family emergency, but it is a great chance to encourage people to walk for all sorts of good reasons, your helpth and the environment and it is the opportunity to highlight all of the work that needs to be done to insure that there are safe and attractive walking routes in every neighborhood city wide.

i have been really encouraged by the members of this body who have been taking up a lot of effort around the pedestrian safety as well. >> mayor yee took this advantage to release the strategy that has been developed by the stake holders and kim and yee both held hearings on pedestrian safety in their capacity of members of the board of supervisors. >> as chair of the authority i would like to see this body work with the relevant city agencies and authority staff and stake holders to insure that pedestrian safety improvements are prioritized for funding in the neighborhood city wide through the under way prop case strategic plan and pry ortation update. >> bike to workday is coming soon, thursday may 9th. i have my bike back and so i will be taking part, the bay area's 19th, bike to workday. prop case, the tax is long held to under write this event to

introduce the new cyclists and supports long time cyclists to sustain their habits. this is a great opportunity for this body to direct prop k funding for the improvement city wide, we need to keep improving and expanding our bicycle network so that the people from all walks of life feel comfortable and safe bicycling in san francisco. >> i like to receive a few updates for the improvement of the executive director, at the april first meeting we extended the recruit firm from 4 to 6 weeks, the company is now actively recruiting and identifying potential candidates, and interested individuals are encouraged to submit a letter of interest with a resume by may 24th of this year, a recruitment and related information is available on the authority's website at sfcta.org/jobs. >> the personnel committee will hold interviews in mid june and

recommend the top candidates to the board. the next meeting of the personnel committee is schedule for may 6th, when the team will provide an update on the process. as i called for the meeting, the control office to help to choose the director. and it will be added on march 22nd and on the process of scheduling interviews with city agencies and the authority staff and already has begun researching agencies with similar function to provide a comparison. that concludes my remarks. >> okay? and this is for public comment and any member that would like to comment, come forward and seeing none, coming for ward we will close public comment. >> and madam clerk, the next item. >> executive director's report this is an information item. >> okay.

good morning, commissioners, acting executive director, the report is on your desk before you. as we have some important guest speakers i am going to try to keep this short there is a tremendous amount going on in terms of the initiatives and i turn it down a couple of pages to make it fit, let me start at the federal level it is budget season as you well know. earlier this month, president obama released the proposal for the fiscal year, 2014 budget it has a lot of things that match very nicely for what we are advocating for in san francisco it has a 5.5 or four billion increase over 2012 levels 50 billion program to provide immediate transportation investments in key areas and the proposal for 2 billion in additional funds for new transit expansion projects unfortunately it relies on a peace dividend from the wars in

iraq and afghanistan, and we feel that it has no chance of passage, given the lack of appetite to identify a new source for transportation as well as everyone beginning to realize the impact of sequestration. the one great spot is the tiger program generating economic program and that has managed to survive. it is over 350 million available minimum size is 10 million, in the past for san francisco this has funded a part of the parkway and transportation improvements in the mission bay area, san francisco tends to do well and according with the mayor's office and what the priorities will be for the fifth cycle and another budget-related document at the state level that the california air resources board and the department of finance released the first investment plan for auction from the cap and trade auction and this is there was also 8032 and this is

one of the ways in which the state hopes to reduce greenhouse gas levels as we reported previously, the proceeds fall significantly below of what the governor had anticipated in the budget which is about a million dollars, the two auctions have brought in a half a billion and there is good news, in the investment plans, that has come out, and well it does not name specific project and link them to specific dollar amounts it does say that the largest share of funding should go to sustainable communities and clean projects including rail modernization and high speed rail programs and transit oriented development we will keep an eye on this and report back to the finance committee next month, this plan will be presented to the legislature on april the 25th. for the parkway, it continues to move a pace within a couple of important milestones in terms of notice to proceed in the last couple of months, in

late march, the link, the concessionaire for the project assumed operation and maintenance while the people may not realize that they are maintaining even one of the facilities that was built by cal trans and operating and maintaining phase two once that is built. and now phase two construction is under way and so the stuff going on above and below ground and you can see it as well as the work to stabilize the soils in order to build the tunnels we have a lot of information and photos on the website, www.precidio parkway.org. >> the park stationary circulation study has finished the effort to collect the data on existing conditions and work with the other stake holders and come up with a number of alternatives to deal with the configurations with the i280 ramps the kiss and ride and drop off and these were shared with the advisory committee on march 13th and there will be a

wider public out reach effort coming this summer, (inaudible) transit made some significant progress on this. on march 21st, we presented to the geary cic, conceptual engineering drawing for the original center and the five alternatives as well as the new consolidated service center running variance, to the committee. this is a big mouth full we need another acronym. this is important because it gives us a handle on what some of the technical and the policies constraints are with each of the alternatives and clearing the way for the study for each of these. >> and also working with commissioner mar's office in particular on trying to identify the set of near term improvements that can move and as well as integrating the projects into the longer term and the near term. and then, the transit has reached another major milestone too and has had the sfmta had a

kick off for the prelim phase and it will bring the project to 30 percent design and marks the transition from the authority conducting the environmental studies and handing over the remainder of the project to design, build and implement. you will see a funding request coming before you to enable the authority to finish the phase and to fully fund that engineering phase that will come next month. and the last two things that i will highlight is the transportation plan is again, in that really big home stretch, we have made presentations to the director's working group and the technical advisor's committee and the citizen's committee on a variety of sort of the last projects that we will produce for putting the whole plan together and we have had an equity analysis and the core, network which is looking cumulatively at all of the impacts downtown and what is it doing to the roadway and transit system in place and also presented to, is the draft

of the fiscally constrained scenario, we will bring the equity analysis, and the core circulation study to the plans and circulation committee next month and we are planning a major sftp and that will be unveil the fiscally constrained as well as (inaudible) additional revenues and the last bit on to the sftp as you may recall is the earlier out reach tool which had the budget and the city's budget czar for the day and that has won an award for the north california planning association for the public education tool. and expect that she will be back as we have the final investment scenario presented to the public and we will reencarnate that tool. i will conclude my remarks and be happy to answer the questions about anything thatdy not highlight.

>> okay. thank you. director. comments or questions? >> to public comment? >> this item it now open for public comment. >> goods morning chair avalos and fellow commissioners my name is jackie sacks and i am a member of the citizen's advisory committee and as far as the geary brt situation is concerned as you know, i was one of the individuals, or many individuals who not only wrote prop b, but help to reauthorize prop k which is what you are working with now and what i told you last year before you went on, before you went on your summer recess, and i am

going to tell you again. i suggest that all of you read the final report of the geary transit traffic force report that was published back in 1990. and also, you read, you also get a copy of the final, the final, findings that were made in 1995. and on a right rail transit system on geary boulevard. as far as the brt is concerned, i attended the workshops and started thinking that a lot of people are asking, what about light rail? we want light rail. and that is what the people voted for back in 1989. that was grandfathered into prop k and as far as the transit report, and as far as the transit i am on the chair

for the subcommittee as well to figure out what to do in the future, i told them last week at the subcommittee that you should look into see what prop b was in prop b. and what was completed, and what was left to be done. and was grandfathered into the prop k. and what prop k was already completed, and then go from there. before we try to find any other funding or funding for everything else >> thank you. >> any other member of the public that would hike like to comment. >> i am the chair of the coalition land use committee. several comments, one is that the city does not have an over all game plan for building, developing, but with that what i mean is that for example,

compared to a hospital, which has an interdisciplinary committee and focus, where they focus on the weakest link, you know, the hospital, that is only successful, if everything works well. and here, in this city, we have housing that is going crazy, and or developing the market housing at a much higher rate than needed. and the market rate housing as we all know, is not for housing but for people or residents that are here today. and they are more for people for the well-to-do. and what happens is that when market rate housing becomes dominant, and then we lose the workforce, and ordinary people, city employees, teachers, they can't afford it. so one of the things that we have to do is focus on the transportation.

we know that transportation really sucks. our deferred maintenance is ridiculous. here we are, a transit first city and well, any way, our transit stops and we are developing and like in the army in a war. you have to come up with a supply line and we don't have the supply line. we need to focus and fix up what is in severely needed. our transportation is a joke. and you know, for a transit first city come on. we need to fix all of our vehicles and whatever is necessary and make it a real transit first stop. >> thank you very much. if there are no other members of the public to comment, we will close public comment. >> and we will go on to the next item. >> item number five, award an 18-month contract to par son's brinckerhoff to an amount not-to-exceed $300,000 for the if he can cal sult ant services

for the treasure island mobility management and study and authorize the executive director to negotiate contract payment in terms and non-material contracts terms and conditions. >> comments? >> public comment. >> public comment is open and... >> good morning, again, commissioners, my name is jackie sacks, this item is brought up at the citizen's advisory committee last month and having served on the geary, on the citizen's advisory committee for the drive subcommittee, i am very familiar with this firm and i move that this be passed and i said the same thing at the finance committee last week because i am very familiar with this firm and i have seen what they have done with the

procidio parkway and i suggest that you award this contract to them. thank you very much. >> thank you any other member of the public who would like to comment? >> we will close public comment. >> avalos? >> aye. >> breed? >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> cohen. >> aye. >> chiu. >> aye. >> farrell. >> aye. >> kim? >> aye. >> commissioner mar? >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> commissioner weiner? >> aye. >> that item passes. >> commissioner yee, absent, the item passes. >> next item please. >> 6, item six, amend the adopted physical year 2012, budget to increase revenues by $41, 727040, and increase

expenditures by $20,844,741 and decrease other financial sources by $116, 995, 33, for a total net decrease in the fund balance of $96,071,034. >> any comments? >> we can go into public comment, seeing no one come forward we will close. miss sacks? are you? >> yes, regarding the curve ramps in this resolution, this is taking into consideration, where the bus stops are, and as where the people live, and you don't put curve ramps where people have their houses and have their driveways, where they have, where it is difficult for them, and it is difficult for them to get out of their houses and out of their driveways. that sort of thing. so take that into consideration.

that is all that i have to say, thank you. >> thank you. >> roll call vote? >> call this in the same house, same call? >> okay. >> the item passes. >> next item please? >> number seven, allocate, $510,526 in prop k funds with conditions to the san francisco municipal transportation agency for five questions and $831,100 in prop k funds in the department of public works for one request and sublt to the enclosed physical year cash flow distribution schedules and amend the relevant five year priorityization programs. >> comments >> public comment, we will close it. same house, same call? >> the item passes. >> next. >> program $1,175,104 in cycle three life line transportation program surface transportation program funds to the san

francisco municipal transportation agency eddy and ellis traffic calming inprovement item. >> commissioner kim? >> this has been made before plans and programs and i want to highlight a portion of the recommendation which includes the eddy ellis traffic calming improvement program which say part of the little sigon that was brought before the board before my time as a supervisor. but i did want to highlight this because it was an example of where the multiple departments worked well and closely together in conjunction with the community advocates and the tender loin neighborhood and to figure out ways that we could find a very large traffic improvement plan that had really been on the books for several years and figuring out, pieces of ways that we could do, and prioritize the right types of pedestrian safety. and this clearly benefits the low income neighborhood and we

are excited to have the members of our tenant and immigrant, working class families in the tender loin working side by side to figure out solutions to fund some of these improvements and i want to thank the staff for working so closely with our office, everyone is really excited about this moving forward. thank you. >> great, thank you very much. >> we will move to public comment. >> my name is jacky sacks again. >> this was brought before the advisory committee last month and as far as the traffic calming and eddy and ellis the one thing that i stressed that you have to take into consideration, the 31, the 31 bus