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>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county of transportation authority. a nooichldz jonah loss the chair of the transportation authority.

today, we're clerked by erica chang and want to announce our sfgovtv staff jessie larson and bill dylan and thank our audience for attendance >> (calling names) commissioner breed. >> present. >> commissioner chu. >> chu present. >> chu present and farrell absent and commissioner mar and present and commissioner weaning. >> present. >> wiener present. >> we have quorum. >> we'll be moving up our

closed session 10 item none 10 after item 4 human resources. >> item 2 approve the minutes this is an action item. >> colleagues, any questions on say minutes. >> any member of the public want to commit on our meeting notes seeing none, public comment is closed. >> we will have a roll call vote. >> (calling names) item passes. >> item passes investigated. you're next item >> chairman's report this is an informational item. >> good morning colleagues this

pass month major milestones passed on major projects first, let me congratulate the caltrans authority on the east span on the new bridge. it's one ii sky to go at night i went a couple of weeks ago i was expressed looking at the old beauty there are. it's the last one to be retrofitting following the last earthquake and it promotes safety >> i'd like to thank the past and present commissioners because they also sit as by the way, authority commissioner david campos and supervisor

wiener. following last weeks for the van necessary bus rapid trait project the mat mats names approved the project including the new station at valencia >> and another one is the anticipated permanently by the end of the year this will have the revenue revenues slated for 2018. we continued to make process to alert delivery to 20018 while showing roll out that the public can enjoy before the project to complete. i saw that staff had drbtd the

monthly report on the van necessary project as well. i wanted to acknowledge commissioners breed and wiener for working with sfmta for reconfiguring the seats for a portion of the muni light rail fleet to provide a better solution for crowding and thank you for working on the fillmore pass in recorrecting the community. switching focus to the southern part of how city last wednesday commissioner yee and i gave a report no, the balboa station grant and it is about the new affordable housing and the

recent opening bus loop at the terminal. the authority has programmed over 2.7 million in grants and revenues for the project area. including the bus loop the future plaza and the affordable housing development and the pedestrian project that would conduct safer more access to the campus and the new plaza. sfmta the city staff are working closely to move the project forward at the ate complicated because it's on city college property. i'm hoping that a solution what precede concurrently with the design of the new plaza that is supposed to start at the end of

2013. i expect the board to enter into closed session in support of a new member and i expect the closed session to be brief. that conclusions my remarks. if we can have public comment on the item any member of the public wish to commit please come forward >> morning, commissioners i'm jackie socking i've been involved if the brt project. chairman avalos did you say they're to put a stop at the van ness >> that's what we talked about. >> are they going to do it?

because of the simple reason when the third street project was brought up there was mission loop that was taken out of the original project completely but then at the last minute was put in i figured if they could put the mission loop back in there it can be done. >> thank you very much. >> because it was done before. >> any other member of the public who would like to commit seeing none, public comment is closed. next item >> item 4 director's report this is an informational item. >> good morning, commissioners you should have the report.

and it was extremely busy two months but it's going to highlight a few things. i could repeat that but sadly politics continue to result in traffic jams no puns intended in terms of federal funding we don't have a federal budget it starts on october 1st nor do we have certainty that the resolutions will be in place to keep the same level of funding going. folks have tossed into the provisions trying to did he fund the president affordable care act but the real messing message is before a because there's no need to grapple with the funding at the federal government so

that's going to the states and in san francisco we're taking our destiny into our own hands in terms of funds for transportation. in the regional and local level i'm pleased to announce the gov. board for caltrans has selected a california tarantula method and this is a good fit. the main difference with the approach is it compliance the elements of the scope. this is to remind you this is one of the k prop early investments in high rails terminating at the transit center. another piece of good news that

should help with the projects in san francisco bay caltrans has made a great deal of progress in revising the highway state manual. it's sort of the go to book and it runs into challenges for places like san francisco where we have businesses like the 19th avenue cord and lombardy there will be revisions that allow the xamentsz and will greatly streamline the projects. this could allow us to put trees in the mediums to help beatify and we need to also accommodate

bicyclists. we expect to have the revisions at the statewide level i want to thank caltrans and our staff and our interims. another front the construction the prompt project ramp is moving into construction that $77 million construction project will connect to the new bay bridge and if you get to look at it you'll see it's daunt. there's been close kwoshgs with caltrans. i want to commend our deputy manager and the team on holding doing a lot of outreach and holding a prebid contest we had

a lot of developers competing and it dealt with contractors and that will be at the end of october. a couple announcements in terms of the input opportunities. the san francisco transportation plan and our early action plan is really how we're going to spend our propose k tax has kicked off with a discussion on our august citizens advisory meeting. we're going to host 3 open houses with the information on our website it's at october 2nd at the bay view opera house. we know that those meetings are not the way to reach everybody

but we'll get 10 organizations to help out with that. we're going to a try other stuff and i want to thank supervisor avalos for that lending us his parking is that a. we promoted circling and gave information on the early action plan. continuing on the green transportation fund as you all know and i imagine many of you have tried out the bike share that's been launched. we don't have as nearly as we like but you can see the light colored blue bikes going around the city and we want to get this up to a total of 1 thousand

bikes. we're going to do the best we can for more funding pr a couple of months ago we approved clean air funds to help secure additional bikes for san francisco. we feel like a larger amount of bikes to make it successful. we want to make it bigger abby that hadn't happened yet and many of our commissioners mary and avalos to get their district to approve on the addition of thirty new bikes that will be added to the spring 2014. lastly chair avalos asked us for a strategic report to look at long-term sustainable bike share system we plan on bringing the

schedule to the october citizens adversities committee. i want to give you next a brilliant example of highway the city can put this into a complete street coordination so when we may have a street we're air-conditioned onto the bike a enhancement to minimize or realize cost efficiency. we approved a new transportation plan for the corridor and the dwp is going to repave that corridor in 2014. i want to thank staff and the sfmta and the community groups that were involved and everyone is working together to make sure

that is widening sidewalks and lane changes to accommodate improvements through the focusness project. lastly, i want to say there's two more outreach public meetings at san francisco state conference center at 6:00 p.m. and there are other opportunities and the information f is on the website. the park study is looking revamping the - we'll have more information on that. with that, i conclude my remarks >> thank you very much for your remarks and i'm trying to think what's the most appropriate time

to say this but this would be your last interim remarks and thank you so much for your work it's been a real pleasure to work with you and so see how your staff has looked up to you and it's been over 89 months and i think the city and this board needs to commend you. later in the meeting if you want to make some more comments we'll allow you to do that >> commissioner examining possess. >> i want to add to what you said when the prior executive director announced his departure i was chair at the time and it was really important for us to

maintain continuity and i want to thank ms. lombardy for stepping stepping into this repeating role. the promise we made was for a very short period of time i think we were talking about three or four months and 9 months later you're still here but maintaining the stability of the agency and we couldn't be where we are without our leadership and it's greatly appreciated not only to you but to your family. it's greatly appreciated >> thank you commissioner campos. can we go to public comment on the interim public director's

report. seeing none, we'll close public comment. now colleagues would like to call out of order item number ten >> item 10 closed session appointment chang for the county of transportation authority. this is an action item >> colleagues thank you for being here the authority board will enter into closed session as we move into the appointment of the executive director. ms. changing was the candidate and she holds a degree in economics with a minor from uc berkley and has over 19 years of public service and 16 years in transportation planning 5 years

at the transport and 10 merchandise as the planning authority member. ms. chang lead the county of transportation plan in 2004 in support of the propose k local sapgs. she oversaw the planning program that includes the 25 year transportation blue print called the san francisco transportation plan. she oversaw the cities transportation plan and coordinated with many departments with the regional transportation plan and lastly spearheaded policies and this included congestion policies and at