improve your posture, balance, and flexibility. it is easy. get up on your feet and step to the beat. senior dance class is from sf rec and park. a great way to get out and play. >> for more information, >> good morning everyone and the meeting will come to order. this is the january 14, 2014, meeting of the plans and programs committee of the san francisco county transportation authority. >> and i would like to thank sfgtv for broadcasting us today

and thank you to jessy larson and charles. and roll call? >> commissioner breed? >> here. >> campos? >> absent. >> kim? >> kim absent. >> mar? >> here. >> mar present. >> commissioner yee? >> here. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you, could you please call the first item. >> two approve the minutes of the december 10, 2013 meeting, this is an action item. >> seeing no comments let's open tup for public comment and is there anyone from the public that would like to speak, closed. could we move this forward without objection? >> thank you. >> and could you call the next item. >> three, citizen's advisory committee report, this is an information item. >> and no report, and let's open this up for public comment. >> who from the public would like to speak? >> seeing no one, public comment is closed. >> thank you, could we move to the next item? >> item four, recommend appointment of one member to

the geneva harney bus rapid strans sit community advisory committee and this is an action item. >> and i think that before he comes up to speak, i think that supervisor cohen's aid maliu tabeno will be speaking in favor of one of the candidates, but chesser fung >> this begins on page 19 of the packet and the appointment of the new member to the studies dedicated to the advisory committee, it is a key, east west corridor in san francisco and it includes a new transit line that will connect balboa park station to hunter's point shipyard and with the new development that is slated there and the authority is meeting the geneva feasible study to explore the options to improve the transit in terms of

trouble time and reliability on geneva avenue, and the study will be taking input from a dedicated citizen advisory committee and this dedicated cac, meets quarterly to provide input to the study, and the structure is shown in your memo on page 2 and in the attachment and there is a matrix table as the attachment and there are 13 seats through it and some of these seats are to be appointed by the county, and the condition management agency, and some to be appointed by the authority. and the, and there is two open seats at the moment, and one open seat for the bay view hunter's point neighborhood and one that open seat for the ocean view, neighborhood and we just heard about this vacantcy for the ocean view, neighborhood because one of the city member just before the packer went out, let us know that he is resigning and so we

have not had a chance to recruit for that seat yet and we will cock back for that seat and today it is focused on the bay view hunter's point seat. we have been able to be in recruitment for the past few months to fill up the committee since the committee was created, and in 2013, and we have had notification to the residents, in the area to transit riders and to community groups and we for this seat, we have received three applications, and we have asked the county or the applicants that are shown in your matrix and also an inclosure showing the information from the amply indication fourms. the county does appear today, to say a few words about the county to see just a note about one of those candidates owner and i pds that there has been conversations between that county and the commissioner for

that particular district commissioner cohen and that the residents for that is listed as pittsburgh california, she recently apparently moved there, and but continues to work in the bay view neighborhood and was born and raised in the bay view neighborhood and that has been communicated to the commissioner and the commissioner is comfortable with that and so with that i will conclude my remarks and i will ask any of the candidates to come forward to say a few words. >> all right. >> maybe should i let... >> we should speak first, yeah. >> good morning, chairman, and commissioners breed and yee and i am here for supervisor cohen and i am sorry, commissioner cohen for like to offer support for bapsit for the tenth seat on the brt, and although, elenor has recently moved to pittsburgh she was raised in the portal and we are aware

that was previously stated and she has already proven to be a local advocate for the community and so we would like to offer our support and thank you for quour time. >> thank you. >> and as he said, if any of the candidates would like to make a short statement, come forward. good morning, i'm baptist for the feasible study. just welcome the opportunity to work with anything that is going to increase the structure for this type of transportation and the bay view area in which i work is going to be one of the larger parts of this and i just wanted to be a part of this study, particularly to make our community more connected, you know, even within its own entities and venues, and the gateway to the neighboring communities, so i am hoping that you all will support that. >> thank you. >> is there any other candidate that would like to say or make

a statement? >> okay, let's open this up for public comment, is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion? colleagues? >> so, there is a motion and in support of miss elenor basptis t for the position, could we do that without objection? >> thank you, mr. fung and as the other candidates come forward for that other vacantcy and so please keep us informed, thank you. >> could you call the next item. >> number five, recommend appoint of two members to the geary corridor bus rapid transit citizen's advisory committee. and this is an action item. >> good morning, this begins on page 25, this is an appointment to the geary bus rapid transit and the citizen's advisory committee and the geary, project seeks to implement the

public travel time and pedestrian improvement on the geary corridor and it is in the environmental review phase and it has a citizen committee and this is dedicated and peats on a bi monthly basis to provide the input and the structure was shown in the memo and also an astatutement to the memo and neighborhood based and plus a number of at large seats and 13 members of the cac, and there are currently 2 vacantcies and both are for the japan town western addition, fillmore area and we have done the notification to the residents, transit riders and the community groups in the area for applications. we have received applications for five candidates, and from a member or a sitting member whose term is expired and we have encouraged these applicants to appear today to say a few words about the candidacy, and we are seeking to appoint two members and they are both for the japan town area and so i will just

conclude my remarks and ask any tenant who are present to say a few words. >> and when i would like to say, and supervisor breed, if you would prefer to make the comments after the candidates have time. >> yeah. >> good morning, chair mar, and commissioners, hahimoto and i am the president of the japan town merchant's association and i have been at a restaurant in the western addition since 1960 and although my current residents is listed as velio and i do live in san francisco five days a week while caring for my elderly mom and nevertheless i am residing in district five more or less, but as i mentioned i have been in japan town, district since 1960. and my family was impacted by the redevelopment urban renewal movement and if there is any questions, you have of me,

please let me know. thank you. >> thank you. >> are there any other applicants that would like to make a statement? >> okay, then, before we open up for public comment, supervisor breed? >> commissioner breed? >> thank you. >> i definitely want to recommend mr. hachimoto as a member. he is the president of the merchant's association in japan town, but more importantly he is actively engaged in the community of japan town. he has helped to coordinate the cherry blossom festival and the yematchi festival and these are things that he has done in the community for many many years and is now currently training the next generation to take the lead in some of these festivities and so, i appreciate it, and a commitment from the merchants and i appreciate the commitment to the community and more importantly, i can appreciate

the ongoing commitment to the seniors, who live in japan town and i thank his compassion for the challenges that they deal with, with the public transportation, and it is definitely needed on this particular advisory committee. so i definitely would like to move forward and in full support of him. thank you. >> i just like to also thank mr. hachimoto for the great work, over 50 years and really the work to preserve one of our ethnic communities, japan town, nahamatchi and building with the xhupts as well and that is a critical point as the projects, and the other efforts to connect to the communities and to move forward and i did want to ask commissioner breed if you have an opinion on the second seat as well. and there is no candidates that came to speak about that today.

>> yes, i think i have, or my office is not been contacted one way or another to express that they would not be able to attend. and so, my preference is that we hold off on that particular seat and we move mr. hachimoto's name with the forward with a positive recommendation. >> okay and i just wanted to also add that mr. hachimoto's involvement with the association is so critical because the transportation improvements and other efforts are so critical to the economic vitality to the whole area not just japan town but the fillmore district and many other areas in the whole region that the geary and that it is the perfect person for the task force. and so we have a motion? >> yes. >> okay. >> commissioner yee? >> i just had a question, if we

were to continue this item, it does not impact the group itself in terms of being able to meet and function. >> no. it does not. the cac currently has 13 members and eleven members are already seated. and the cac has been continuing to meet and we have been reaching out to japan town, and area, and in addition to having representation on this cac and so we feel that we are doing what we need to do in order to move the project forward. and so, it will not impede our work it just would be nice to have the seated members. >> thank you, so let's open this up for public comment, is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. so colleagues there is a motion to support the appointment of richard hachimoto and to continue the second seat. >> so could we do that without objection? >> thank you.

>> thank you. >> thank you. >> miss cheng call the next item? >> item 6, major capital projects update, presido parkway and this is an information item. >> thank you. >> i just wanted to say before he comes up that really it is exciting to see the progress being made for this public, private partnership and an amazing project in the presido and the timing has been strong and it is close and we look forward to the completion and i think that one of the concerns has traffic in and around it impacting the different neighborhoods, especially with the sports basement site that there is a competing projects

right now on the area and i look forward to the staff reporting later on the traffic impacts of that particular project and as the prosido trust makes it is decisions as well. >> good morning, chair mar, and commissioners, and i'm lee, the deputy director for capitol project and this month's update and as chair mar mentioned, the well focus on the parkway. >> presentation will briefly cover a review of the scope of the project and the budget and funding status and the over all status of the project and a summary of it is disadvantaged small business enterprise and the workforce development program and a quick review of the ongoing challenges with the project. >> the parkway is being delivered in two phases, it is shown in this graphic, the yellow, graphic represents phase one, that is essentially,

the southbound portion. completed in 2012. and also, serves as a temporary detour while phase two is constructed primarily on the north side. and again, as chair mar mentioned phase one is a delivered project and phase two is delivered as a public, private partnership or p3 and completion and is schedule for january of 2016 and the project is essentially on schedule. >> the capitol cost for both projects depicted on this photographic, phase one construction cost came in at just under 500 million dollars, and while that phase two is 300 and 60 million. and because it is a p3, as

opposed to a conventional project, we are not making anything to the contractor during construction and there are not any payments until the project is completed and the decision is handed over to the state and opened to traffic and the payments that are made consist of the milestone payment on the order of 185 million dollars to the contractor. and then, a 91 million dollar payment to repay part a of the tifia loan and being the transportation evidence and the innovation act. and it makes low interest loans availablible to the project that is are being delivered by the methods and the parkway did qualify for such a loan. >> the sources of funding for the capitol portion of the project, and phase one and phase two, both are relied upon a combination of federal state, and local funding which is

typical these days, for major infrastructure projects, including some 66 million dollars in prop k, allocated to both phase one and to phase two. over all the project isen 70 percent complete counting both and it is 25 complete and the northbound portion is under construction and this, this photographic is of one of the drilled shaft fears, and being constructed a couple of months ago, and all of the fears are now completed. and the contract will be beginning work, shortly and both northbound tunnels both the tunnel and the battery tunnel, are the term of artist is out of the ground now, and they completed the excavation work which is important to the

beginning of the rainy season that we all hope begins soon. >> this is the steel and the preparation for the concrete and both phases participated aggressively and in the small business, program, and is shown on this graphic, be the first four contracts of the five that are listed here, comprised phase one. and the first two contracts were state funded contracts, and therefore did not include the business enterprise goal but did include, the small business installed and generally those were either meteor exceeded and the contracts three and four, and the federally funded did

include and the business advantage enterprise goal and those goals were met and phase three, also federally funded includes, a disadvantage of the enterprise goal of 5 percent and an aspirational small business goal of 25 percent. and at the moment, the contractor is not meeting either goal. although they are very close to meeting the disadvantaged business enterprise goal. this is a focus of attention for both cal trans, and the transportation authority where we are carefully and closely monitoring the out reach and the hiring practices as well as the subcontracting practices. and we have assurances repeated assurances from the contractor that they will meet those goals prior to the completing of construction. workforce development program, is going very well, comparedly speaking, the contractor committed at the beginning that

at least, 50 percent of new hires would be referred through the city build program and they are on track for meeting that goal. and 72, openings have been reported to city build and city build was able to provide candidates for 60 of those 72 to date and 24 have been hired and there are additional candidates in the pipeline, expected to be hired this month. and this month, and next month, we are seeing a significant increase in positions available. and so we expect these good statistics to look even better going forward. any major construction project, will phase challenges and prosido parkway is no exception. i would say that probably the single greatest challenge

facing the concessionaire now, is working with collectively working with cal transand the prosido trust, it is landowner and it is very demanding and they are very protective of park interests. and they can be exacting and the source of data, that they have asked the contractor to produce before issuing the permits or granting design approvals and the concessionaire has worked to try to establish an effective working relationship with the trust and i am pleased to report that it certainly is going much better now than it was at the beginning of phase two, we are seeing progress and we are optimistic that it will continue and the parties will continue to work together effectively and the project will stay on schedule. and the transportation

authority is working to engage in diplomacy and the opinions that arise among the concessionaires that the city trust and cal trans. that concludes my presentation and i would be happy to take any questions. >> actually i have one, really quickly first. and you mentioned that the project is not meeting its disadvantaged and small business enterprise goals and what are the pro-active ways that we are making sure that the project sponsors are going to meet those goals? >> well, we are doing two things primarily to areas where we are focusing one is frankly enforcement. and i mean that part of the reason that we know that they are not quite meeting the goal that we have very carefully monitored their subcontracting program and reviewed the

documentation for contractor and subcontractors that have been provered by meeting disadvantage business enterprise performance and in some cases the firms that are being counted as meeting the dbe goals were not certified and not currently certified enterprises and so, to some extent, this is news for the contractor, they did not realize that some of the firms that they had hired, that they believed to be dbe firms were not. and so the contractor then sells and initiated the effort to more carefully monitor the documentation. and to expand their out reach to disadvantaged businesses. and as i know that you all know that the transportation khor is or has an ex-expansive out reach for small businesses and disadvantaged businesses and other businesses within the

community, that are locally based, to promote opportunities. and we can get the number of workshops and the number of open houses and the number of well, sometimes that we refer to as speed dating opportunities, where we bring in the larger contractor, the prime contractors, and engage in meet and greet sessions with the smaller businesses particularly those that are new to that particular type of contracting. and so we are doing that and we are continuing to do that. and we have a consultant on board. and who is one of whose primary goals is actually the marketing of this disadvantaged businesses to the contractors. and i think that some of probably know paul, who has been working in san francisco very long who is very effective at this and we will meet with the contractor on a regular basis to figure out what contracting opportunities are coming up in the future and identifying those opportunities and he will come out and find

fully qualified, bondable disadvantages business and bring them in and lay them at the feet of the contractor and make life so much easier for the prime and they really just have to accept, success. and they can meet the goals, and we expect that to be the case going forward. >> and we are joined by commissioners campos and kim, and a question from commissioner yee? >> yeah. i guess, along the same lines in terms of goals, are we clear in the presentation when you mentioned that there are 32 openings and 23 local residents were hired and you said that they are well under way and then you said that there is going to be new openings, or new jobs, and so what was not clear to me is that, they have hired, 72 positions already, and 23 of them were residents. >> or are you talking about

additional... new jobs that will be opening up. >> and they, the members that were represented on the slide and the numbers are shown in your report are really the original numbers to date, those represent and the process that identifies the openings and makes those available to city build and city build cannot necessarily provide candidates to meet all of those of those openings and to make it 50 percent of the jobs available or the job openings available to the city build. and if, in fact, city build can provide candidates for all of those positions, then that will be great. but they don't. and in this case, they of the 72 or 73 positions they were able to offer the candidates to meet for 60 of them. to date, 23 people have been

hired. now, all that we know is that there is still more in the pipeline and more hiring to be done and we expect at the end of the project that they will meet that 50 percent goal and so this is just a snapshot in time what the actual hiring is. >> but you actually know how many they have actually hired already? >> yeah, the 23 is the number that they have actually hired as of by the end of december. and who are referrals from city build. >> that is not my question. my question is that if there are 72 openings, how many of those openings have been filled? >> what the total number of new hires, right. >> and i am sorry, i don't have that, but i would be happy to get that for you. >> otherwise, i don't know what, when you say that they are meeting their goals, and 50 percent, and i, it is if they have hired 72, and when they hire, 24 locals.

and that is not 50 percent to me. >> no, but keep in mind, that if the timing is different. and that means that the offering of the position and the filling of a position don't occur at the same time and so there is some delay, but i understand your point. >> and once you find out and i get that information. >> i will be happy to do that. >> okay, i just had another question and i think that the key, north south corridor in san francisco is the 19th avenue that goes up park prosido boulevard and into the golden gate bridge, and there has been the detours that people have had to go from north and south and i am wondering when would that detour end, as the second phase moves forward. and it goes, or it looks like it is on the map, it is called the something bridge. the rucman bridge, i believe,

and but it is traffic that flows from the park prosido boulevard, through the prosido on the way to the golden gate bridge, do you know? >> what the bridge is part of highway one. and it connects to the interchange with prosido parkway as it approaches the golden gate bridge. but that is, if i am understanding it correctly, that is not the dethank detour, it was reconstructed under phase one and it is completed. there are some traffic or lane adjustments that are being made to the approaches to the golden gate bridge as part of phase two construction, but those are construction phasing activities that, the really is not, you know, other than the fact that phase one itself is serving as a detour, that is the only facility that constitutes a detour on the