much. >> thank you, is there anyone ems -- else who would like to speak. i think you spoke already, sir, thank you. seeing no other speakers, public comments is closed. supervisor avalos did you want to wrap up? >> thank you, as it comes to this, we can file this hearing and we can just ask the ta staff to come back to us as we are seeing the roll out of the recommendation that come tr ca 2030 and for your item, i believe it would be good perhaps to continue with the budget analyst to assess outcomes as well and work together with the ta if it's possible? >> yeah, i really appreciate miss hyatt's analysis and thanks for the report from the budget office and thank you

everyone. this is an informational item that we don't need to take action on. so miss chang can you call the next item. >> the clerk: item no. 8. item 8: recommend approval of the scope of work for the strategic analysis report sarr on local and regional bike sharing organizational models and appropriation of $43,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, for the sar, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule action* attachment at the september 10, 2013 meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority board, chair avalos requested that we initiate a strategic analysis report sarr to investigate possible governance structures of a regional bike sharing program beyond the current bay area bike share pilot, which opened to the public on august 29, 2013. as part of the scoping process, we have consulted with the san francisco municipal transportation agency sfmtaa and other stakeholders on relevant issues that should be addressed in the sar. the proposed sar is scoped to explore various organizational and governance structures for the regional model, from a true regional program to a local program that conforms to regional implementation standards. the sar will describe how different models would work and outline the advantages, challenges, and risks of each. in addition, the sar will evaluate each model for its ability to advance the local and regional goals for bike sharing, their financial sustainability, and their ability to grow the program quickly, successfully i.e., high usage of the systemm, and equitably. based on our discussions with sfmta and other stakeholders, we have identified the potential need for additional technical work to complement ongoing research efforts, and therefore are requesting additional funds in the event this work needs to be performed in coordination with sfmta and the bay area air quality management district. assuming board approval of the

sar scope in november, we anticipate releasing the draft sar in march 2014 and finalizing the sar for board adoption by may 2014. we estimate a cost of $18,000 for development of the sar and up to $25,000 for optional technical tasks, for a total cost of up to $43,000. we are seeking a recommendation to approve the scope of work for the sar on local and regional bike sharing organizational models and to appropriate $43,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, for the sar, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule bike sharing organizational models and to appropriate $43,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, for the sar, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule 12341234 >> we have a verien enthusiastic mr. schwartz. >> good afternoon commissioners. michael schwartz. on page 37 of your passionate. -- packet. i'm going to keep the presentation very short. >> sorry, i know how important this is. >> yes, i realize there has been a lot of presentations done. i recognize the need for that. so the first item is about the background -- bike sharing and i would encourage you to look at the meeting and which has been a great presentation and will give more detail on what i'm covering here. for those who don't know what bike sharing is. it's like car sharing. really the goal is to not only increase cycling but really allow for short trips, as well as that first last mile transit issue to allow people to get to and from whenever they need to go. it's mostly internationally. the one in paris is the most famous recent example in the large scale and u.s. in chicago and there are i number of cities where it's been quite

successful. the current pilot is not only in san francisco but along other cites along the peninsula the bikes will be rolled out. the area air equal management district is the lead of the pilot and it's just getting under way. my colleague is here if anyone has any questions about the numbers with those. i'm going to move on from that. for those of you who haven't been 33 -- through an economic achievement report. supervisor avalos was at the board meeting for the expansion of the bike share as it moves beyond the initial pilot phase to analyze challenging policy

issues. some recent once is looking at the pilot industry and a lot of those have resulted in some of the current efforts that you see in changes within the city as well as state policy legislation with respect to the level of service metric. >> the skroep that is in front of you in your packet is looking at the pros and cons of the informational model. there is two questions in mind whether to have a locally or regional model compared to where the district is the lead right now as well as the organization should it be a public agency, non-profit, there is even for profit models and we'll look at sustained growth and to be able to expand the system and make

sure it's operationally sustainable. the funding can be from non-traditional sources such as funding through sponsorship. the goal to allow the decision makers to be informed about how it should be governed and what san francisco stake is in that structure. the request before you today is $18,000 for the sar for the management category. this really covers transportation authority staff cost to complete the sar and the committee month's schedule and the way it would work is we bring the draft up to this body again with the chair sitting in the role and would be refined through a more regular process for a final approval. in addition as was noted in the cac report. as part of the

scope process we've met with the scope networks and a few things have come up. one thing in particular is to look at the standpoint. we know in the long run whether it's a regional system or controlled, there would be sponsorship funds and it's important to get an understanding of what those assets are worth and it might look at how this might work from a financial sustainability. that would come from the bicycle safety and category and they are optional. the funds are separate from sar and would be approved with sf mta concurrence before the funds are spent and they are separate from the sar and are from a technical task to support the sar as a means request. with that i will turn it over to questions. thank you

for your time. >> i serve on the bay area air quality management district. and i would like to hear you talk about your discussions with the staff and any concerns that are raised with what they are doing and done with their blessings? >> we have reached out to staff and with the stakeholder interviews as the key efforts and the performance on the study is happening and they are in the same process of thinking about the evaluation of the current program and the regional structure that may look at a variety of different stand points and not just san francisco with respect to so some of the evaluation work done for the regional system an they did not receive any bids

on the proposal which is why we are having funds to do their own values study. we know their further conversations with the city and we know they need to move forward in locked steps in coordination. >> mr. schwartz, from avalos point, i know that karen shul neck and others from the district office have been riding it and i see some of the glitches that they are working hard to deal with quickly and but i think it would be really good for them to share more with individual commissioners as well. i'm really glad that you are working with the bay area air quality management district, especially with karen on this. >> thank you. >> miss chang. >> at the risk of prolonging this. i want to say that the

they are in the process and the importance of providing a process ahead of the decision that will come to the sf tc. oov -- thank you. if there are no questions. just >> would it be difficult to fund only the, any sort of problem. you want to use

bicycling as a means to replace munis is not a possible way. >> thank you. we have miss hostage from the boiling -- hodge from the bicycle coalition. >> i want to reiterate our strong desire on the focus of equity to make sure it develops an equitable way and the country have experimented with in terms of opening up bike share with many communities with income levels and backgrounds. >> thank you. next speaker. mr. decosta? >> i would like the experts to listen to me on this very carefully. first of all, we need an analysis of our own

roads. we have too many hills in san francisco. i'm not saying this is a sidebar conversation that is to the public. that's the least you can do. it's interfering with my deliberation. absolutely, so we have this issue of the hills in san francisco. and while we talk about bicycling which i favor, we need to do an analysis of certain routes where the majority of the routes is level. now, i was in bleen not along ago and they do a really good job there. not only having

bicycle hubs, but bicycle lanes over long stances -- distances. just like the gentleman was saying, if you are allowed a bicycle is it just to go around the park or are you going to use it in a very sustain able way. now, i also want an analysis of the foot print. if you are using a bicycle to reduce the carbon foot print and go on building and pollute san francisco, we need to do animals -- analysis about that. we need to go deep into these issues rather than having a sidebar conversations while someone come here to talk. thank you very much. >> anymore public comment? >> public comment is closed.

>> i'm very supportive. it looks like $18,000 for the strategic report and up to $25,000 for the tactical task. i know there was a clear glaring service to the west side. like like to see if there would be a demand and from others that live further out that might not have connectors from different transit sites. that came from people from my community. other comments? colleagues? then with that can we move this forward without objection. thank you. >> miss change, is this any other business. >> the clerk: item 9. information item. >> public comment? seeing none,

public comment is close. >> public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> adjournment. >> thank you. we are adjourned. >> >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>

>> i just want to make a public statement to acknowledge that appointments to the police commission and any commission which is a policy-making body is very important. i want to encourage about keep in front of our minds the importance of not only to elect women, but to work to get more women appointed to these bodies that help make legislative decisions for our city and county of san francisco. >> i am from san francisco. i grew up in the local neighborhood. i did my under deprad wait work at fisk university, where i studied political science with a concentration in public administration and worked eight years largely in the public sector. then i earned a master's degree from carnegie melon in pittsburg, pennsylvania. i spent some time as assistant executive director for a

non-profit. we did work if a lot of kids in the neighborhood. i have done fundraising for candidates and issues. i have experience with the federal reserve bank of san francisco. when i look around my neighborhood and see the changes that are happening, i so there is no neighborhood grocery store. i see that small businesses in particular are coming and going, and they haven't been able to really sustain themselves. from my work experience in working for the city in the mayor's office as well as in the non-profit, i had a good sense as to what some of the challenges were. when i look in the future, i could see more challenges coming. i thought i had a set of experiences and more importantly a passion and desire to serve. >> i understand that no one wants to have their programs cut. of course not. i also want everyone here to understand that no one up here wants to cut programs because they don't care about the population being served. there are no value ains here. we are all on the same team. it is a tough situation, as we

are here so that we can begin the work together. >> i am actually more forward thinking. for me it is less about being left or right, or in this town, moderate or progressive. it is really about the issues and about creating policies that will have a sustainable and lasting positive impact on the families that live here. it is very costly and difficult to do business in sfrinls, to raise your children in san francisco, and i would like to have a voice at that table to really create policies that will minimize that san francisco is not a big business-friendly city. i think we started to go in the wrong direction. the reason why we started walking down that path largely was because of political ideology. when you deal with me, you are dealing with facts, less than politics. i really want to have a positive impact on the city overall. >> good afternoon, everyone. how are you? >> good. >> it's a nice day today. thank you for coming out to our community event. please give a round of

[applause] to them. we have a lot of development going on. you see how lovely leland street looks. do you like it? >> yes. >> beautiful, isn't it? we are going to continue. we have a library that is going to be opening up in june. that's right. so i will see you all there at the library. there is a lot of activity going on. it is important we remain connected and engaged. >> would you mind if we were to pull the seniors together and translate for me in a mini meeting? >> yes, sir. >> what we are going ready to do is we are going to have a quick little mini meeting to -- because we didn't translate my short message before. >> i just want to say i want to welcome everyone to the event. >> we have folks in visitation valley only talking with visitation valley. we have folks in bayview again

only talking in a very small corridor of 3rd straight and the merchant corridor. we don't have people talking to the hill merchant association, doing patch. all these fragrmented conversations are happening, largely talking about the same thing, crime, keeping the streets clean, supporting sbaubs. that is something i made a concerted effort on the campaign to build bridges. >> along third street, dog patch, and everyone along the cord door has the same complaint. >> i have the same complaint. >> we have the third street merchant corridor and an opportunity to revite lies what i consider to be the main artery of the business district. it is a pretty long street. there is a lot of opportunity there. let's not squander that. when we recruit businesses, we want it to be a healthy mix that reflects the cultural

history of the southeast part of the city. we are all human, and how to connect with that human spirit, whether you are in public housing, own your own property, or if your asian, african-american, male or female, we are really a community. when we start to realize and move in the direction of being humans and having this human experience and connecting together, really if you will, being each other's keeper, then san francisco really begins to continue to thrive.