final document we can save a significant amount of time. we think the project will allow early deployment of side running improvements in the inner gary and those could be deployed that eventually we'll have the service provided peril. mta and ta are embracing the idea so the people can see the improvements. and mta is very focused on the low cost improvements immediately fund the certification of the environmental document. in fact, mta has announced the goals by mid 2014 in the mid

gary area. looking at oiflg a locally identified alternative in the document there are a couple of options that we think have the potential of becoming the alternative. and their depektd here. it would include the option to provide a filed at fillmore in order to reconnect the community that maybe as much of a land use and community issue as a transportation issue by those optioned will allow this to be done. side lynn b r t would be provided and the center lane b r

t to 22 avenue and a consolidated bus service further to the west. other maples of accelerating deliver including looking at number one traditionally means of delivering the project. maria mentioned the designed risk and we've done that on the vanessa project we we can the same thing can be done on gary. we're confident we know what the alternative is and that's the time to begin van the work. we're looking at the non traditional means of construction. the construction management guaranteed management these are variations of construction methods that are generally

proven to speed project delivery and they tend to be a little bit better of job allocation. we're also looking at strengthening our project management approach. we're moving forward with integrating the authority into a single team. i will say that the representative and team members from the two agencies meet twice a week on the project and we're seeing the people who are participating in the project more and more becoming a chief team. one of my falsifies is when we reach a joint decision to try to move on. the same thing in project

delivery you only make the decision once there's a tendency to try to recycle back and that's a speed killer. as maria suggested we're looking at to have the two agency require and receive a periodic updates that look at scheduled compliance and budget compliance. as part of the formation of looking at the procedures as disputes occur they don't fetter at the staff level and remain unsolved. and that the form escalation has form deadlines so the project can move forward. and lastly we're working with mta to streamline the hand off once the environmental document

is ready to go further. and that concludes the presentation. i'll be happy to answer any other questions >> colleagues any comments or questions? >>. okay. thank you week go on to public comment on this item or those items. >> good morning. i'm jackie sax i'm a member of the citizens advisory committee i've been involved with the item open gary boulevard since 1986 and back then i was appointed to the gary transit task force to look at the feasibility of the gary

light rail system and this sort of thing but it was put in the sales tax passage. the gary light rail project is the only project that was grandfathered. and the gary rapid transit project is supposed to be rail ready. also you have to remember that it's a central sub by the way, there's a stop at the union square and there's a spur at union square for the gary light rail system and you're going to have to go before the voters to authorize and extend that. so you have to take the all that

take into consideration. and also the way the gary task force final report came out we would have a service from gary and market to gary and laguna and go out the center strip to fillmore to masonic and straight out to the beach. read the final report of the gary task force and it was published in 1990 and all the other work published regarding a light rail system on gary boulevard >> thank you very much. >> any member of the public want to commit? seeing none, public comment is closed >> madam clerk if we could have a roll call vote and a

(calling names) the tomes passed. >> if you get call items 18 and 20 prelim and a item 18 a two year contract in an amount not to exceed 2 had the and plus and negotiate the contract payment terms and the non payment concerns. and item 20 approve the appointment of the bus rapid transit community and this is an action item >> thank you madam clerk. colleagues on this i have a

question and a possible amendment. the question is around geneva bus rapid transit. there's been a lot of concern around members of my district to make sure there's an effort to look at light rail along geneva corridor and the bus rapid transit perhaps there's a way to look at this towards light rail and it's important inform address the study that will be moving forward particle today. if i could get a response from staff or the mta on the feasibility of that analysis? >> feel free to come to the mid again. on this item on page 182 with respect to the scope of the

awarding contract. we included an optional task just to - i want to emphasis this is a short-term improvement of the extort transit district that's something to the development agreement that's going to be put into place. and the sfmta information on this the mta is interested in the operational benefits which could enable the transit to into up to the market street tunnel. and to not prevent access it that facility. i'm understanding clarifying the revenue service ridership potential just recognizing it's

two different ridership or travel routes so it could go up to the park and the rail line would cut off past bay shore. we can look at this in the stud but julie asked we confer with her whether there our report or consultants. if you can be flexible on how this can be done arrest or. >> one of the things we've been talking about because of the issues we've been talking about we're about to start a scoping session on fixing some key bottle necks in the network. we have some key ones that are causing liability and one of them is not having the runtcy

through the facilities. it's a significant issue if something goes wrong in one of those areas the rail is cut off. so we said want to start the discussions and do that under that scenario but to help improve the next time performance. it could be looking revenue service in the future that would be definitely part of it because whatever we can do to prevent redundancy. we're not sure how much dialing detail into this study and a could it be that there needs to be some kind of reference to the bus rapid study for geneva after

it would be necessary to have it in the report >> if it goes to the mta report the mta should look at the high ridership. and - >> is the mta looking at the redundancy of the light rail vehicle and the light transit on the same system is it possible. >> understand that the rail piece would be long-term, the bus transit would be short-term and the next in the next couple of years. >> that's what people want tongs we have some redundancy in the light rail system so we can make some improvements and not create a complete disaster if

one goes down. >> we could see what the demand ridership is to further include the bus system we will look at that. >> appreciate that. colleagues any other proposed amendment is to item 20 is the advisory committee for geneva bus rapid transit. i want to make sure we have another neighborhood that is realignment in my neighborhood is i want to take one of the at large seats and moving that towards a neighborhood seat in my neighborhood as defined by 280 open the west and ocean avenue and ashton to the north and holloway and brotherhood way

to the southern border. that would include the neighborhood that's more adjacent to the geneva avenue for inclusion on the c r.c. and i wonder in if the t r staff is okay with this >> we can do it with board approve. >> staff could i brief go over with us the make up of the c r.c. as well as the passenger seat bodies. >> it's on page 2 hundred and 17 of your packet. it's an easy c r.c. so the seats are split between san francisco

and san mateo. the comtion would have one seat in the bay point neighborhood and two seats for the little hollywood valley altogether and two seats out at mission and there's one appoint by san mateo and then two at large seats so there would be one at large seat and one san francisco seat added >> so i understand to make sure i understand we're talking about a 9 member body? >> seeing it is - 11 members we'd simply change one of the san francisco at large seat to a local seat.

>> very good. and that seat would be a member of district 11 or 7. my neighborhood covers both district. i'd like to make that amendment. okay seconded by commissioner cowen. and colleagues can we take that out objection. okay. he amendment is made. and then those items we can open up for public committed. any pun member want to commit? seeing none, public comment is closed. i think we have a change hoists so 23 we could do a roll call vote on those items. yes and on 18 and 20 as amended

(calling names) these items pass >> the items pass. thank you. madam clerk our next item is our closed session. actually, i was caring whether or not we wanted to go into closed session we can - we're going to have interviews with 3 candidates for today but due to unforeseen circumstances we'll be postponing those until the 30th ofext week. but i'm willing to go into clogsz session if suggested by the commission

>> i think we're hearing everyone is okay. so why don't we do public comment and we'll continue this item until next week. so public comment is open on this item. and ms. sax >> i certainly hope that you realize the fact that lombardi has been stepping in for a gentleman when we couldn't take the meetings and everything in the - i've been involved with the various prop 89 but that everything was done - all the

hiring was done in house they did it from within and she's very qualified. she understands what she's doing. i strongly suggest i vote for her. i know that the whole department supports her >> any of the public want to incriminating comment? >> ms. sax i'll agree that she's done a wonderful job for the transportation authority and i'm sure she appreciates your comments as well. so colleagues we have had our full discussion at the intellectual committee so we'll not be meeting we've got 3 names and we'll be interviewing those

candidates next tuesday and this meeting will be for the whole discussion. beginning in september we'll make a final determination for the if not lift and look forward to having that discussion next week and making our final decision. so we can go on to our next item which is item 23. introduction of new items. >> commissioner breed. >> thank you. i'll be brief. i just want to request a hearing at the september plans meeting concerning the posh for the mta tow increase passenger capacity of our light rail vehicles. this is an issue that i have been interested in for sometime.

i understand the mta has start the process of pursuing to replace the existing fleet and those some be configured. but they won't arrive for several years and we have serious overcrowding now. reconvene fingering the seats will alleviate the crowding. i said the staff to collaborate on the feasibility of doing this. so thank you very much. >> thank you, commissioners breed. colleagues any other comments for introduction. okay. we go onto the public comment on this item. any member of the public want to commit?

seeing none, public comment is closed >> item 24 public comment. >> time for a general public comment. >> chair avalos i'm glad you agree with me what i said earlier about maria but i want i all to understand you need to have someone that understands the city and understands our transit system that knows what's going on and then not having someone costa mesa coming from outside and saying this is what's going on the other end of the country you should take into consideration that as well. also i was supposed to be up for reappointment today but i'm not going to worry about it. it's on the agenda.

if i have to wait another month i'll do it or two months but my term ended this month so take it from there thank you very much >> ms. sax you are reappointed to your seat on your u our calendar congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> if there are no other members of the public wishing to commit. public comment is closed. and madam clerk call our next item >> item 25 i will adjournment. >> colleagues we're adjourned.

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the sense of coming back 25 years later and seeing personally my own evolution as an artist and thinker. the whole effort to put the chicano or indigenous woman's experience on center stage is, in itself, for euro-american theaters, a radical position. because of the state of theater, it is a hard roll to hold up in institution. it is a hard road. i am looking at where we are 25 years later in the bay area, looking at how hard it is for us to strive to keep our theater is going, etc. i like to think that i'm not struggling quite as hard, personally, but what i mean by that, the intention, the commitment. particularly, to produce works that would not be produced in other places, and also to really

nurture women of color artists. i think that is something that has not shifted for me in those 25 years, and it is good to see that brava remains committed to that kind of work. ♪ >> when people talk about the reflection of the community, we can only go from what we have on our staff. we have a south asian managing director, south african artistic director, latino community out rich person. aside from the staff, the other people, artists that we work with being a reflection of us, yes, the community is changing, but brava has always tried to be ahead of that trend. when i came in, i tried to make it about the work that shows the eclectic mission district,

as well as serving the mission. those are the types of things that i feel build one brava is >> good morning. welcome to our rules committee meeting of july 23, 2013. joining me is chiu -- we ul