embarcadero which requires more work. >> miss kim, mr. kim has a question? >> sure. just a question on the escalator, i often hear, by the way, i'm happy to see this as the process of the question. one of the breakdowns is exposure to environment. we need awe ning and i have seen that in a lot of countries they have been covering escalators. i'm wondering if that was part of the discussion as to the long-term of maintenance? >> i will have mta staff. >> yes. jonathan with mta. yes

there have been processes about taking care of that issue of having canopies for each of the portals because it does have an impact on the escalate ors. and the mayor is processing that. >> would the timeline be aligned or would the escalator work go in before? >> undetermined at this point. i'm hoping that will continue. but the issues you raise under consideration will certainly help us if resolve improve the life of those assets. are all of these 17 on market street? >> there are some at, we have an overall escalator replacement program. this is the second phase. we do share some of the escalators with

bart, but a lot of these for now, two of the ones recently completed were church street station and van ness station and they are the ones focused along twin peaks as well. >> these are still on market street, right? >> yes. some of them. at some of the stations whenever we would need a cover we will consider those in the future, yes. >> thank you, mr. campos? commissioner breed? >> i just want to make sure because you said there was money set aside from the mayor's task force. isn't that a recommendation? those are not confirmed dollars. >> it was considered as a need for the new metro system. >> but it's not confirmed. >> yes. the not confirmed but it has considered. >> also i appreciate the point

that commissioner kim brought up, we really need to take into consideration these things simultaneously. i don't really understand why we would not, we would repair these escalators without thinking about the whole picture in terms of what leads to them being damaged faster in the first place. i think that should be taken into consideration and i'm hoping that we can have a clear understanding of whether or not that's possible in the near future? >> yes. >> thank you. >> commissioner campos? >> thank you. on the issue of the 17 escalators, is there a maintenance plan? >> yes, is there a maintenance plan to keep up the escalators over time, yes. we have regular city of for keeping up our escalators and elevators. >> is that in the packet?

>> i don't think we put the regular cost of on going maintenance with the allocation request. but we can provide that to you if you would like to know. >> yes. eye -- i have said that before where the san francisco county has given a lot of money to the mta without requesting a maintenance plain with that. so i'm not prepared to support something unless i see a maintenance plan because i have had myself the example of so many escalators around this area being broken and i just think that we owe it to the riders to make sure that before we approve money that we actually have a detailed maintenance plan that shows how they are going to maintain what we aren investing. >> okay. >> thank you. miss kim?

>> thank you. so the next project for dpw is avenue repavement renovation project for allocation request. that's from page 45 over the enclosure. this is to fund the construction base of the portrero avenue for repaving 5 miles including one 1 mile betweenal alameda and 5th. this is for the improvement project which includes rider sidewalk and landscaping. this is good to see the two different elements compliment each other. and in completion of this project will coincide with the san francisco general hospital rebuild. the next three parts. two prop k. it requires in one prop k request and two propaa request

is to design two projects for quarter improvement and broadway chinatown phase. >> that is one bay area grant by mtc and a bag? >> correct. thank you for pointing that out. you have seen this project many times before. this will be a quick reminder for you of the scope. so the corridor improvement project statement -- starts from page 61 of the enclosure. from maclaren park from sunny dale avenue including sidewalks and improving stations. the project development and the phases and this is the design phase. for the dpw chinatown broadway,

four allocation request starts from page 81 of the enclosure and this is for the design phase of the complete project between broadway and columbus avenue and broadway tunnel including blvds crosswalk and the lighting. the transportation board also okayed funds for the overall project. >> thank you. hello commissioners. the final request in front of you today is on page 1 of the enclosure. a request from sf mta for the transit effectiveness project. the ep t is a comprehensive

program to increasing reliability and reducing over crowding and enhancing throughout the system it's for 15 subprojects within the overall program. the recommendation is and these are listed on page 3 of the enclosure. the recommendation is to fund conceptual or preliminary engineering as well as design roots for the subprojects and only preliminary english -- engineering. i can refer to these, but you can also refer to your packet. these typically include route restructuring. these can be pedestrian bulbs, turn lanes, stop optimization or realignments. the tep is

currently under going environmental reviews. this will support the engineering work for the environmental review and getting ready for the implementation. that schedule of the eir is expected to be certified in march 2014. and the implementation, the full implementation is scheduled for 20/20. this is be made for fiscal year 2014 funds but not needed this fiscal year. the clarification is the advance of the tep funds but the project will be made whole in the 5-year plan update. this is advancing funds that are needed now. with that, we'll be

happy to answer questions and there is members of the staff. >> i did want to make one point and i know that the mta's really making a commitment for strong community outreach for the tep, transit effectiveness project. i'm happy to hear about that. i think these projects are really important but also important that mta that within 6 months to come back to the outreach especially the communities impacted by the special projects. i did want to acknowledge that the ta and thanks to our director and miss lombardy oh as well for leveraging so much more money for what the city is doing. example the $14 million for the escalator, the 2 bay area grant and the potrero avenue, no,

that's federal money. a lot of good work leveraging money and making major improvements in many nabz. -- neighborhoods. thank you for bringing this forward. >> thank you, i just want to know who the contract was awarded to? >> i would let sf mta cover that. >> does that include funds or does that come from another source. >> that's in a request for prop k funds. barbary was awarded the contract. >> shawn kennedy with the mta. >> thank you. >> i also see a note that, mr. k, it looks like a request from colleague commissioners that the mta think about a maintenance plan for the escalators as was brought up by commissioner kim. i'm just wondering if you are comment on

that? miss lombardyo is here as well. >> thank you for your very good comments and commissioner king as well. we can incorporate that into board's packet. my understanding is that the new federal guidelines when you put in a new escalator you have to build a new canopy for the very reasons you cited and the rules for replacing a rehabilitated, you can cross the line whether it's a new escalator and you have to put up canopies. it's a trade off. i can request a response to that particular angle as part of the board packet. >> commissioner campos? >> i appreciate that, but i don't think that the committee should send anything out until we have fully vetted it. so i

would hold on to the $3.7 million until we get that. >> that's until next month. >> yes. i think the message we need to send to the mta is, you know, you are requesting funds for things that are worthwhile, but it's not an automatic thing and you need to make sure you present all the information and don't ask for a prop k investment without a fully detailed maintenance plan. >> got it. >> commissioner kim? >> yes. i'm happy to support that continuance. also want to address something the mayor brought up, it's important to get information on the balconies. we have to make sure those dollars are going to last us the longest possible because

we are doing everything that we can to maintain them to book the maintenance plan and the canopy issue is important. >> amber just had a great idea. bart is doing a great job with canopies. let me see if i can get bart here to have a proper discussion on this. >> i want to ask mr. kennedy on the tep, i know there is many in the community who feel for the tep to be successful, real meaningful outreach has to happen and if you can come back in 6 months to report on that outreach. >> yes, we are definitely planning to come back in 6 months and we will report on who we talked to and how we are going to be addressing concerns. we are also in the process of developing an equity analysis that will go kind of into how these projects end up being pursued and being

completed and that process should be completed for the scope of the equity analysis within the next week or two and then we hope to be done with that analysis early in 2014 so we can inform our process going forward . we just hired an outreach consultant that is really starting work right now and we are hoping by the first of the year over the next six 6 months really be out and work with groups and try engage and focus the eir process to the mrems -- implementation plan to figure out which process will go forward. >> not to put you on the spot, mr. eric williams with the transit workers union mentioned

immediate improvement and can you talk about that as well? >> yeah. sure. so, our director of transit director hailey has an operations plan both for the tunnel as well the overall light rail system in general. we have the vehicles and making sure transit priority is working and operational. we are doing things like 3-car train to reduce some of the crowding in the tunnel and doing a lot of switch repair, track repair. district try to upgrade and make it more reliable. we are also a little bit longer term in the 4-5-year range trying to order lrv's and new vehicles to get out there. not only are we having in our existing fleet which is in some case of

disrepair. we are also ordering new vehicles for the next several years. >> thank you. commissioner breed? >> just one last comment because i noticed that some of the requests there were be some new bus stops and bus stop improvements and i just wanted to mention that i have serious issues with the current bus shelters that are located all over the city. i have already talked to the mayor's office on disability where some of the locations where wheelchairs can't get through some of the more narrower streets. when making these decisions maet should be working hand in hand with the mayor's office with disabilities when you place these shelters in locations that they are taking that into consideration. i just wanted to mention that because there is a request to do new bus stops

that mtaen insures that when making these decisions, they won't compromise one accessibility issue for another. thank you. >> thank you. if there are no other comments. let me repeat that there has been a motion and seconded to continue the escalator item as part of the overall proposal. let's open up to public comment. is there anyone from the public who would like to speak. if people can come forward and wait on the right hand side. mr. williams? >> good morning. e ric with transit workers unions. for the tep to be successful today you have to reduce service because of the lack of operators and lack of equipment. let's be honest. while i like sean, he

does a lot of work at the tep program. the truth of matter is tep is based on reducing service. if we are doing everything to do with transit first, we have a lot of work to do. now, recent with john hailey, he knows what he's up against in terms of providing economic service that these citizens of san francisco defer. -- deserve. we know what we are up against. tep, it's not going to work. of course you have to put aside a project because we know it's too many holes within the tep goal -- going on right now. we have to complete the project. everybody is chasing the tail. nothing is getting done. i just ask once again, scrutinize the

tep for what it is. honestly, it looks fine for the future. but if you look at what's going on now with the projects coming forthwith tep, it's not going to work. you are taking that a tunnel. >> thank you. next speaker, miss sacs? >> turning to tep, i have spoken about this many times at the full board meeting and citizens advisory committee and i also went to the workshops and they are trying to figure out handout you to include service. what they are actually doing is reducing service like the gentleman before me said.

what they did is they took, they are making so that reducing service where there were booklets that i still have. they took the one california for example commissioner kim, they took one and they had it going to howard during the day. they took that off. they reduced services to the point that people with disabilities, people that work swing and grave yards cannot get to and from their jobs in the effect ive way. they reduce service at 11:00 at night. people that work and restaurants and hotels and bars cannot get home.

people with swing and graveyard can't get home from their jobs. that is totally wrong. you have to analyze tep before you do anything. >> thank you, miss sacs. next speaker. >> steve wu from chinatown cdc. we want to talk about our position on the theep. we have some significant concerns about it demand terms of the reduction in service it's proposing particularly in chinatown. the tep will be reducing the route of the a decks part of the way through chinatown and eliminating folsom. in the area of talking about reducing revenue, we don't understand why there are

cuts to service. for the items that will be reducing the service, we are not sure why that's there. the system going through environmental revenue -- review. in planning, you need to make sure with the cuts you have not been able to evaluate fully. thank you. >> commissioner kim? >> actually if i can ask you a question. sorry. thank you. of the 10 projects, actually maybe i can ask the mta staff about the preliminary design of the projects and the additional 5 projects. are you aware whether the 8 axis is included in this list and/or would you like to

hold off the approval of the funding for this design until we get more questions and answers? >> we have not moved in that direction yet. i'm not sure what is proposed in the project. we haven't taken that position yet. >> okay. i will ask mta staff but i will wait after public comment. or not. i think we should let public comment through. >> yes. we should keep going. >> hi, good morning. my name is jane martin and from people organized employment rights and we organize low income bus riders. while there are parts of the tep wr excited about but there are impacts that are a reduction for our communities and we know that the title 6 analysis actually hasn't been done jet and the mta is embarking on a lot of community

outreach. we want to see the results of that and want to make sure as the board goes to make more decision about tep, the needs of our community is taken into account. there is planning before the larger questions of been answered. we are not here to oppose the planning money, just making sure we are paying attention to it movg forward. >> thank you. is there anyone else from the p be that would like to speak, seeing none, public comment is closed. >> if you want to respond to comments? >> sure, just to clarify questions, a decks is in included in this. i will turn it to -- who will have a more thorough response. >> also what team projects are beyond the a decks.

>> sure. shawn kennedy mta. in the first group 14 mission, the middle part of mission we cut into three groups because it's three different proposals. the 30, 5, a decks is in the first group. the second group is the rest of the 14 with 28 the j and l. and i want to point out that these are not service, there is really two components to the tep, service increasing which is proposing the increase by 10 percent and these capital projects. the detail design money that we are requesting for today goes for the capital projects and for the outreach on those capital projects and cdc and jane martin and other

groups to figure out what of the capital projects to move forward and the design of those capital projects so we are shovel ready to take advantage of those funds. the service projector service improvement of those changes talk about are really in a separate process and that outreach will be going in the same time, but it's not part of this kind of preliminary engineering detailed design task that we are requesting for funds today. >> commissioner, i did want to jump in to say the 5 limited a part of this has been a major improvement of efficiency and service to not only to district one and also district 5 stretching through the tenderloin and part of market as well. i this i -- think that might be one example of that improvement along that corridor. >> commissioner breed?

>> yes, i was too concerned that tep was coming to make request for additional funds when they have not completed the environmental review especially when we have other significant current needs. i'm not necessarily comfortable with moving forward with supporting this level of funding for the tep until we have a clearer understanding of the environmental impacts over all before we are making decision about something like this. that's where i'm at. i just wanted to make that clear. >> actually, what would be the impact if we continued this part of the proposal too? >> this money is to do the outreach. so environmental process with theeir process lays out the impact disclosure

document. starting in 2006 we have had a hundred community meetings that developers at the planning level are now being reviewed at the environmental process, the draft eir is out after 2 months. and we are now working on our final eir as was mentioned we are hoping to have out and certified in the early spring of this year. that does nothing for implementation. there is a lot of outreach that still needs to happen. we have to decide talking with specific people on not only residents but business owners and advocacy groups and what kind of bar the e ir

propose and will help us to consider the proposed location and these are the trade offs and we need to figure out how to move forward on that proposal and to take that to do design work on that so we have design drawings. right now the current plan is to use in our cip, the mta cip we have $150 million set aside to fund these first 10 corridors with capital money. $150 million. so we want this money to go for not only going to do the outreach but to finalize the design and take advantage of that money and pursue this. >> i think wr continuing this item and also want to know what the negative impacts are