number of bus stops to serve and if your system is falling apart it does not matter.. and i think that we all agree that there needs to be equity in transit and we need to make sure that people have access to transit, and particularly, the most transit dependant communities. to put it in front of the board of supervisor and so i look forward to the conversations and to make sure that we meet

the needs of the city and the development in the development and there is development and not nearly enough transit and other partses of the city as well if any other member of the public like to comment, go ahead. >> and i think that on the public transit there are people that can take their own car and drive their own car, just because there is no double parking and i have heard this item before, and i have heard this item before and was brought before us and one thing that i want you to remember, and number one, regarding the task, and what,

the what the mayor's task force is recommending. and you have to remember, that when prop a was passed years ago, it will have to go before the voters again, for the authorization of the people, because the items that are in prop k, which was grandfathered and prop b which was base passed in 1989 will be able to go forward as planned, as regarding the check. and at the one of the meetings, and the president of the union spoke up and said that the effective project is not really doing or not helping anything rkts it is hurting the people, you are cutting service and i echoed those, and i echoed those comments myself. when i spoke up, and it was not, and they are completely, they are completely forgetting about the people that work in hotels and restaurants.

and until midnight and one a.m. and two a.m. and they are completely forgetting about the people who work, that work that guard the buildings, and that work swing and grave yard and all of the buildings in san francisco, and all over the city they are forgetting about the disabled community and i have said this twice in front of the mta and it got none when it passed through and something should be done to stop it. think about reauthorizing prop k before you think about it going forward with the chance of the mayor's task force report, because, what is done in prop k should be done first

before anything else >> i live in district three and i transit rich district. and i think that it is important to think that the decisions that the city makes it is not just the infrastructure or the scheduling. and when i came down, and i had i was going down to downtown the other day and the 27 is one of the buses that i use, and the next bus that was coming in, 36 minutes and one was coming in 35 minutes. and i think that we need to think about the fact that every weekend, and perhaps, several times, a week, there are fares and there are closed streets because of conventions. and these effect people who can get around but the people that the lady mentioned who need to get to work and the doctor and don't have the choices that i do and i think that it is important to remember, that it is more than the infrastructure and the buses it is about

thinking about the other choices which are not so obvious, i think that is really important. >> i live in the hill neighborhood of south of market and i just would like to say that i am disappointed that the congestion pricing did not gel to the top of group it will add, 60 to 80 million a year and, it will assess the people that are using the roads and con jesting the roads and so on on the weekday evening and it will help, make sure that they are contributing fair portion of the revenues. and this, with the bart strike that we learned very quickly, i think with the two bart strikes is that car pooling works if you are trying to get into san francisco because there is an incentive to pick up two other

people. leaving san francisco there is no level and, no tool to promote car pooling which will help to reduce the amount of people on bart when it is running and otherwise help straighten things out. the big thing that is missing and i believe that dph was part of the group. the one thing that we are missing out on is the air pollution that is caused by the pollution, just like the cigarette smoke there is no amount of vehicular emissions that are healthy, it results in premature death, and i hope that you consider the congestion pricing >> thank you. >> sue with just a couple of observations, i appreciate the

comments by supervisor reid about the non-attention to the riders and the disabilities and stops. one of the things that is most frustrating to me is that everyone thinks of the city as a flat map, particularly transit planners, we are not flat. we are a city of hills, and of structures like the bay bridge ramp, it effects people's ability to get around. every time that i see a flat map it drives me crazy, because anyone that lives in the city knows that we have lent transit through districts one, two, three and five. but it is falling apart in the southeastern part of the city because of the hills.

and every expansion of housing in the south of market and the eastern part of the mission in district ten and district eleven which is where the planning department is heading cuts the ability for people to get around and, there are no routes and, there are hills and i can get out on the boulevard and walk five or six routes and i can't do that in the south of market. and until you insist that people start thinking and showing in 3 d, we are not ever going to grasp the problem of circulation in this city, which is enormous. where you have hills, you have crapy muni service, thank you.

>> any other member of the public that would like to comment? >> anyone else that would like to come up, if you could line up in the center aisle. >> i am alice rogers and i live on south market and i have been a resident for 24 years and i am looking forward to the improvements or to the reliability increases that commissioner weiner has mentioned. however i am worried that the expansion is not mentioned our neighborhood is enter faced with the region and the city and so, we have an out sized problem, relative to our space on the map. and taking care of existing

problems will be important, but the truth is that that does not get us to a fluid livable non-grid lock situation. and we really need something more, thank you. >> thank you. >> if there are know other members of the public who would like to comment, we can close the public comment. and this was an information item and so we can go on to the next item. >> number 4, executive director's report and this is an information item. >> thank you for the thoughtful conversation that you are having, as transportation professionals we are grateful for the board's attention and the community's attention to the opportunity to invest in transportation for a more or a safer reliable and more affordable system for all. my report is on your desk and

it does highlight several exciting opportunities to discuss transportation revenue and investments and at the federal, state and local levels. i want to start with the federal conversation. it is coming due for reauthorization in october of next year, conversations are already happening there is one talking about the gas tax at the federal level and trying to address the revenue question and an emerging idea is to allow the local control of funds but the fund program and we will continue to track that and perhaps call on some of you to go to washington and discuss the opportunities, and with the legislators next spring, and regionally, with the reissue of wean and her campos, and to the adoption last year as was mentioned by the chair and commissioner weiner there has been a strong proposal at the mtc to commit of a significant portion of cap and trade expected revenues to the large three largest transit operators

and muni bart and transit and we are grateful for the leadership and for the, you know, the cooperation of the colleagues around the bay who do recognize that 80 percent of the rider ship are on the three systems and are responsible and they account for the 75 percent of the transit capitol shortfall in the region, to access these funds, there does need to be a local match and to come up with 30 percent of the funds for the capacity challenge. and we do want to commit ourselves to brief you and your staff as would be useful in addition to working cooperatively with the mayor's and the staff to come to agreement, and con census of the new revenues. on this page we have an update

on the two organizations that have submitted a proposal to file for a new state wide vlf, like proposal, if passed, this will be for the voters next year, at the state level and if passed a 50-plus threshold on the vlf could generate estimated 2.9 billion state wide with the revenue dedicated to mostly highway maintenance we believe and we are trying to track what other expenses might be available, for example the pedestrian and bicycle facilities, and the proponents who are the transportation california coalition and the alliance for jobs would need to decide by january of next year, whether or not to go forward in the fall, and so we are working with the mayor's office to consider whether san francisco may want to opt out of that given that we are interested in putting our own measures on the ballot at the same time. and under our initial estimates, the state proposal,

would generate, substantially less in the order of 57 million per year for san francisco than the 73 million that we would estimate for a local, vlf. and also, at the state level, the california transportation commission is seeking input for guidelines on the active transportation program and this is a state wide program authorized for bill 189 and provides federal and state funding sources for bike and san francisco to schools and so we will be monitoring that and providing guidelines input in the guidelines and along with the colleagues around the bay. and i did attend this, and the colleagues around the state and the focus on the future conference and this is the annual conference hosted by the self-help coalition by the agencies that are delivering the programs and we have met with the executives from cal trans, and the direct and her his staff and the second brian

kelley to talk about policy issues in california, and cal transreform and prospects for new revenues and the general sentiment is that the voters are skeptical and not quite know how to approve the taxes but we are trying to do the best to deliver the programs and tell the story to the voters to help them to understand the importance of investing in our system and particularly for the state of good repair. and in terms of local issues, i just want to acknowledge commissioner mar and kim's leadership in collaboration with sfmta on the launch of the limited and the pilot and the safety pilots that are so critical which are meant to address the pedestrian and traffic safety problems that have resulted in a number of accidents recently, and it does make all stats from the ocean beach to 8th avenue and proceeds to make limited stops until market street and it is hopefully a model for how we can continue to do better and

work toward a more effective way to implement the tep and learn from that with our colleagues at sfmta. for the bus project and i want to highlight the upcoming community meet ands we are pleased to report that twot staffs of the agencies have come to the recommendation of the staff referred alternative and we will present these on december 9th in richmond at the richmond recreation center from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and on december 17th, in the san francisco main library from 5:30 to 7:30. another meeting will be schedule in january. protroe hill we have begun with a tour there and we are partnering with the mayor's office of housing and the bridge housing to implement a neighborhood transportation process and it will build upon earlier work to identify and advance near term projects that benefit the residents in advance of the rebuild of the

housing sites known as rebuilt protro, >> the policy and programming staff i just want to thank them so much. they have not only been working on them and also to advance in the districts >> and the city college, project and bike and pedestrian projects are moving forward. and are moving forward with the colleagues around the city, and to make the good uses of the money and bond money and impact revenue as well. the resurfacing of columbus avenue and there we are looking at the possibility of also adding some prop k funds to augment those bond, street bond funds so that we can create a more complete project. and also pleased to report on some prop k efficiency and

customer service improvements that we are implementing again, led by the co-deputies for policy and programming this is in response to the board's guidance and to help make the funding process more effective and efficient. and we are working with the sponsor to simplify the invoicing requirements and developing the user friendly allocation and we have conducted with the technical working group to get the feedback on what more they believe will be useful and i expect to have a clearer schedule for the more complex updates on the computer systems called the enterprise resource, project. and in the spring of next year. one of them, interesting ideas that we have borrowed from the south tr there, is that it is the idea of reacting the staff to come to san francisco and actually hold off this hour so that we can work more closely with their staff, the district four staff to deliver the project and so the goal will be

to have some of their staff resident in our offices to meet with other agencies, and to help improve the project's applications and funding process and insure that cal transfolks understand the features that we are looking for and so that there can be a more effective collaboration going forward. so far, cal transhead quarter staff and san francisco sponsors have responded positively and i look forward to reporting back to you on that. 19th avenue, it is complete and a final report is on the way and the next phase which is to begin next year and implementing the san francisco, early transportation plan is also what we will talk about next month when we bring in the plan for adoption. finally on the treasure island, and management study, and in your capacity as the board of supervisors you may see some items come forth next month on the treasure island, mobility

management agencies and the formation of that which we hope will come to the title board and commissioner kim help s us to deliver the transportation plan, this plan does feature a comprehensive and innovative transportation program that does include the pricing as well as significant ferry, bus and shuttle transit as well as bicycling option and we have been working well with cal trans, and the bay area transportation authority about it, which manages the bridges. and finally looking ahead to the 2014 contracting opportunities in the city, i am happy to report that we have been invited by cal trans, to collaborate with him on hosting a small business enterprise workshop and a look ahead to 2014. and the presentation will be held in the office thises thursday, december 12th and the

out reach will allow sdebe and be firms to find out about the contractor opportunities that will be advertised in 2014 by the transportation authority and to meet with the potential partners and contractors and we thank commission cohen for guiding us in these efforts and we are happy to partner with cal trans, to improve the possibilities of contracting in the community. and with that i would like to thank everyone and wish you a happy thanksgiving and happy hanukah. thank you. >> thank you very much. and thank you for your report and presentation. colleagues, any comments? >> we will go into public comment on the executive director's report. any member of the public that would like to comment? >> anything none come forward. >> beware of the... (inaudible). >> thank you. and see no other members of the public come forward we will

close public comment and go on to the items. >> adopt positions on the state legislation and this is an action item. >> colleagues any comments or questions? >> public comment is opened on item five, related to our position on state legislation, and seeing no one come forward we will close. >> on item 5. avalos. >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos? >> campos absent. >> chiu? >> chiu, aye. >> cohen? >> aye. >> farrell? >> absent. kim. >> aye. >> and kim aye. >> and commissioner mar? >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> tang aye. >> and commissioner weiner? >> aye. >> and commissioner yee? >> aye. >> that item passes. >> next item, please? >> item 6, award 18-month professional services contract to s&c engineers ink in an amount not-to-exceed $450,000 for construction management

support services for the folsom street off-ramp realignment project and authority the executive director to negotiate the contract payment terms and the non-material contract terms and conditions, this is an action item. >> seeing no commissioners on the roster, public comment, open on item six? >> and seeing no one come forward we will close public comment. and can we do the same house same call? >> and the item passes. >> next. >> item 7, increase the amount of cooperative agreement no, 4-2283, with the california department of transportation by $1,219,400, to a total amount not-to-exceed $2,035,000 for the yerbabuena island ramps project. >> nothing from the commission, public comment, and seeing no one come forward we will close public comment and we can do the same house same call?

and the item passes. >> now, items from our plans and programs, committee? item number 8? >> appoint eric rutledge to the citizen's advisory committee, this is an action item. >> any comments or questions? >> commissioner tang? >> i want to offer my recommendation to the cac and as we talk about the equity in transportation, and it is so important to have the representative from the west side and so i just want to acknowledge that eric has been very proactive in talk and reaching out to our office and sharing his interest in the transportation issues >> thank you. >> any other member of the public? >> seeing none we will close, and we can do the same house and the same call, again? >> and the item passes.

>> next item. >> 9,allocate $4,871,303 in prop k funds, with conditions, and $852,228 in prop aa funds, with conditions, for three requests, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules and amend the relevant 5-year prioritization programs. >> thank you, commissioner mar? >> thank you, chair avalos. and i would like to just let my colleagues know that in the plans and programs committee we discussed this item thoroughly and we decided to defer the action on to ski parts of it, one is sfmta's maintenance plan for escalator rehab. and for and we will look at the decisions related to the installation of canopies that will help to insure that the escalator works better. >> also we decided to defer the $13 million for the tep allocation to allow a more

comprehensive discussion of the goals out reach and strategy and how the public input will be used to refine it in the future. so i urge support for this, and you know, those two items will come back to plans and programs committee. >> okay. thank you commissioner mar. and any other comments from commissioner? seeing none, public comment is now open, and item number 9. >> good morning, again, commissioners my name is jackie sacks and i have heard this item at the plans and program committee meeting and i spoke on this item. first of all, this is a 5-year priority, and the ppp and you have got to realize that i worked on the five-year, and with, the executive director, cheng and i worked on the plan previously, and you have got to figure out, what has been done previously, under the previous five-year plans, and what has

been completed, and what still has to be done first, and what still has to be done under that five year plan before you move forward with the next five year plan. and i mean, it only makes sense to do everything chronological order. and also, you have to remember, is that like i stated before, we are going to have to go before the voters again, to reauthorize prop k, like we did with prop b. and prop k and sort of, and you will have to go before the voters in a few years to reauthorize prop k even though it is a 30 year plan and you have to figure out what has to be done in prop k. and what has to and what has been done in prop k and what has listed on the books and what has to be due in the future, and this sort of thing before you move forward with anything else. and so i think that you should take all of that into consideration before you take any action on this item.

thank you. >> thank you. and any other comments from the public? and seeing none we will close public comment. >> okay, could we take this item same house same call? >> and item passes. >> next item. >> item ten, approve the scope of work for the development of a strategic analysis report (sar) on local and regional bike sharing organizational models and appropriate $43,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, for the sar. >> this is an action item. >> commissioner cohen? >> thank you very much. i just wanted to go on the record to express my disappointment that there are no bike share happening in the south east part of the city. according to this scope of work. and i am just curious to know what is the plan, and what we are going to do about that? >> excuse me, executive director, just to respond to that, we have heard loud and clear that the board would like to understand how to bring in the policy aspects around

equity, and socioeconomic equity into the planning for the bike share system and just to be clear this proposed does not seek to design the new system, the expanded system but rather to present the board a number of options for how the city might proceed with the development of the system and under the different institutional and government's model and particularly with respect to the regional system. and following the pilot that the air district is leading and so what you will see before you, and it is a matter of 6 months, it is a range of options for how we might set up the local system relative to the regional system and how each system will be able to handle flexibility to provide for the cross subsidy within the service area within the more profitable and the higher revenue and perhaps the lower density outer areas and to be able to provide that flexibility. >> and i want to be sure that i heard you correctly. >> you are going to come back to us presenting an option and within those options an

inclusion of the south east neighborhood? >> yes. options that will be more readily able to facilitate that type of design, for the south east and the west side or the lower density areas and verses the option that will be more constrained and difficulty. and it will have more difficulty in accommodating those kinds of features. >> okay. >> so that is a lot of fancy words. >> okay. >> i just want to know that we are not being left off. >> we will address that concern coming up in the sar. >> okay. >> and thank you. >> and plant is to be sure that we can build the system across san francisco and the region, but this sar is also just looking at governments because their air quality diblgt right now is providing the back stop for government and don't expect the district to continue that work and we want to be able to look at it and what the are the options for the entity