draft, out reach plan which definitely is a great plan, and i am looking forward to the final plan for distribution. and for this particular, for the tep, in particular, we are spending a significant amount of money, on out reach. and i want to make sure that yes, we have our bases covered in the draft plan, but one of the challenges that we face, in terms of out reach, with the five fulton when we implemented the five l, was the sufficient out reach to the senior developments in the area within an important area where a bus stop was removed. once we received information and reevaluated the situation, the bus stop was restored, but, those are the kinds of things that i am hoping to avoid, and i want to make sure that in our out reach, efforts we make it clear, that we not only take out reach seriously, but, with the amount of money that we are

spending, we have an expectation to make sure that we try to reach as many people as possible especially those most impacted in the particular areas that we plan to change. so, i just wanted to go on record and express that, and thank everyone for their support as well as bringing to the table the information that we needed to feel a lot more comfortable with moving it forward. >> thank you, commissioner breed. >> commissioner cohen. >> thank you very much. i also wanted to echo some of the sentiments that commissioner breed just articulate and expand upon it a little bit. i too want to make sure that we are including the senior committee members and also those in public housing some of the cuts will have an effect of those on public house and insure that we are doing the out reach in multiple languages, particularly when we talk about the 8 and the 9, and i want to insure that we have translators that are able to

translate english to chinese and vice versa for our asian american constituents and i just want to impress upon that and the other thing and i did get a briefing last week on the tep. cutting the plan and i am just now getting the out reach and i have had a chance to digest it and it was, this draft was emailed this morning, and at least that is when my staff brought it to my attention and i would love to have a little bit more time and i understand that this is the draft form and so i look forward to going through it to make sure that we have covered all of our bases. thank you, mr. chair. >> thank you. >> commissioner mar. >> thank you. >> i just wanted to say that i am in agreement with my colleagues on to improve the out reach to the mta and he has been wonderful to work with on so many projects and i think that the tep is moving from

being misinterpreted as a take away from our transportation system into what it is and which is an improved system, and speeding up our bus routes, and systemickly throughout the city and fine tuning of our system to make it better for everyone in every neighborhood. and i wanted to also thank the mta for agreeing to regular updates at the plans and programs committee meeting and consistent bi lingual out reach that they have shown that they are doing now, and so i am really, i am really appreciative of the mta work with the staff as well and my colleagues and comments and i want to associate myself with as well. thank you good. thank you. >> and commissioner weiner? >> thank you, mr. chair, i will be supporting this as well and i know that there was concern that the plans and programs, committee but i really want to reiterate the comments that commissioner mar just made and i know that any time you make a

changes to our public transportation system, it can cause concern whether it is changes in bus stops, or routing or anything else. and but i think that it is really important to keep the big picture in mind that the reason that the tep exists is because, muni is on. er, the slowest major public transportation system in the country, and average vehicle speed is 8 and a half miles an hour. on average, and that is what the muni vehicle is helped fast or slow and they travel around the city that has dramatic consequences in terms of people being able to rely on muni to get where they are going, quickly as opposed to crawling at a snail's pace. and it has dramatic implications in terms of the cost of operating the system, and if you have slower moving buses, you need to put more

buses on to a line, and in order to keep service up and so you are spending more on vehicles, and you have to have more drivers, on the staff. and if you can speed up the system, even by just a few miles per hour on average that will have dramatic impacts on reducing muni's cost in addition to getting people to where they are going faster and so all of these choices, they are painful, whatever you are talking about changes in bus stops, and if you are talking about transit only lanes, and if you are talking about the red lanes like we have on church street now and if you talk about even a slight rerouting of the buses that i know that we are going through this now even a small rerouting of a bus to make it more improved connectivity, and we were to improve the service and it will cause a lot of consternation in the community and it will be a challenging process to go through and i want to commend, kennedy and crisbaum for working the work together to connect with the

folks in the community and i think that it is important that we move this process forward in a smart way because the big picture this is going for dramatically improve the service in san francisco and so it is great that we are moving this item forward today. >> thank you. if there are know other comments from the authority, commissioners we will go on to public comment. >> i'm bob planthold, and there are many good things about the tep, and i help to develop that, when i was on the cac for that some years ago. things like more stop lights, count down signals, ball belts, but what continues to be unaddressed is the elimination of stops. it is not so much a take away, as you might want to characterize it to yourselves. but in fact, you and the mta

have not answered the questions asked for years, how is this better, for people who are vulnerable, whether it is a person with a baby in a stroller, and a toddler, and having to cross an extra couple of intersections whether it is a senior or a person with a disability. we are not hearing any answers, there is an avoidance. the fact that this is meant for engineering design, was used last week and saying that figuratively some of these concerns don't matter, but the packet that you have before you shows the specific stops being eliminated and so the money is going to go towards eliminating stops and that is something that nobody has adequately addressed. and you are going along, a path that may in the future be dangerous and i am going to say it again, it could open up the city, for liability, because you are just not addressing these safety questions.

>> thank you, for your comments, next speaker please? >> yes, my name is jackie sacks and i want to echo what he just said about regarding eliminating the stops and everything, but one thing that you are not taking into consideration, you are not taking into consideration, the people that work... that when they did the tep, they decided that they should stop buses at midnight, and this sort of thing and they should eliminate, and they should, reroute the buses, and without taking into consideration, the senior and disabled community, the people that worked out, and the work in the hotel and restaurant for one or two a.m., and before the tep, there were many, many workshops and that sort of thing, talking about

this. and i spoke on it at every single one of them. we are not taking into consideration if it ain't broke don't fix it. but they did not, they totally ignored that and they totally ignored the senior disabled community and the people that work swing and graveyard and i think that the tep is totally wrong and they should, and they should do something about it and i was against the money, and i was against them spending this money at the plans and programs committee, in fact, they had a union came up and the drivers, union came out and spoke together and he says that it is not in the service and it is decreasing service. and that is not what this city wants. it wants increased service. not decrease service, thank you. >> thank you, very much. are there any other members of the public that would like to comment? >> seeing none, we will close public comment. and i believe that we can do same house same call on the item? >> and the item passes. >> our next item, that we go on

to the annual report. >> we can do item four and 13 together. >> executive direct's report and item 13, adopt the 2013 annual report, and this is an action item. >> congratulations and thes my privilege to present the annual report this year for 2013, it was a very, busy and productive year as usual, but we had the leadership decision for the executive position and i want to thank the chair for all of the work that he did working with the personnel committee and the five-member personnel committee for all of the time and the effort that you put into that process and the thoughtlessness that you gave to the consideration of the leadership change and what the board's vision was, the idea that you would like us to be more collaborativive, and the direction that you are giving us on key pieces of work and on

the pedestrian safety and the bike sharing, and how to balance, water front development and other development, needs of the city, and with the livebility concerns and i want to address on behalf of the staff, the appreciation that you have put into the process and also to the interim director, who helped with the interim duties there and moving on to the annual report. and the good news is that the sales tax revenues are at the highest points ever, you should have the report on your desk, it is in a powerpoint format and we collected, about 85.8 million dollars last year and this is of course great news and we are going to make good use of this funding and bring to you a sales tax plan in the next month to allocate over the period there is a decision that is helping us to make not to issue the long term debt and to take out the commercial paper but this is in reflection of the program revenues in a good place and the next slide

demonstrates the allocation and we allocated $67 million, and our expenditures were high and her this reflects the invoicing process and i will draw your attention to date and over a billion dollars and that was a milestone for the program in the 10th year and we passed the one billion dollar mark and as the voters approved, 65 percent transit and 25 percent street and traffic safety as well. and as other system management needs, or our expenditures are low and this reflects in part, the cash flow policy and that asks the sponsors first, and it does reflect a little bit of a lag in project delivery and i know that the chair and the vice chair want us to dig deep and her we will do that. >> the big news and thank you for the board for approving the long range plan and it does guide the work over the next several years as we move into the revenue picture, this fall, and going to the voters perhaps

as well as to the region, for our priorities, with bridge toll and other discussions also, coming along, and there, i do really want to appreciate our regional representative and our commissioners, campos and weiner for their leadership. and especially last year, with the plan bay area, and that really has culminated also in a strong commitment and investment policy that was passed with the commission to invest in the core capacity of the three operators, muni ac transit and bart. and the next slide on five describes the planning process which our policy and programming section began last year with an adoption of a base line will come to you in the coming couple of months, to adopt the five year prioritize programs. and we will be featuring investments along 22 different types of categories in every neighborhood and these are things that your residents are wanting, the pedestrian safety and the traffic calming and the signaling and the resurfacing and the vehicles and it runs the gamut of the program and in

response to the board's direction, following the adoption of the goals last month and the chair's guidance as well. we will be featuring a new focus on the neighborhood transportation improvements and this is the idea that we want to make sure that there are planning activities and at least two neighborhood scale capitol improvements in each district to support the pipeline development, particularly in our community of concern. and so that they are ready to scoop up the funding opportunities when they should materialize. >> programming of funds is a fancy way of just saying that this is how we allocate and manage the funds that come to the authority and to san francisco. and that the board will consider as a whole range of funding from the state and the state that flow through the mtc that come to the program directly and the state program last year we got a small amount to allocate, 12.4 that went to the central subway and our other approved priorities are shown here as well as for the future shares that will come to us and it is a small amount and

they are committed to the subway and the parkway and cal train, and i will note here that the active transportation program at the state level is still being hashed and we are providing our input to shape the pedestrian and bicycle funding program guidelines and of course, our work here is to prepare the decision zero focus application based on the resolutions and the leadership of kim and yee and others to help us move to the other agencies and the police department, and other stake holders and groups forward on a strong application to that program this year. the life line transportation program focuses on improvements for low income minority community and last year the activities included awarding the funding to the traffic calming project in the tender loin, as well as completing the revitalization project and it is not a huge amount of funding but we are very aggressive in advocating for our needs and

also, combining this with our community based tran powertation planning projects as well. so that we always develop the pipeline for that source. >> last year was a big year for the one bay area grant program this is a regional program that was a feature in the plan bay area that allowed us to allocate funds for the whole list of priorities these are federal funds that need to be obligated over the coming years and they are tied to our city's good, and strong track record of the housing production, and it will support the priority development areas. and each of these, represents a lot of work on the part of partner agencies and our staff to make sure that they are going to meet the timely, and very strike use of funds deadlines and so we are thankful for your offices, and subpoena poerlt, and in working with our sponsors to make the deadlines. in the past, one bay area,

grant program was called livable community and these are the list of the projects on slide nine that have come in and have been complete and so we are pleased that the bart plaza at 24th street and the broad way street scape improvements have been completed as well and we have seen the improvement in the marina green and in the loop area, so thank you to our sponsors for that and great job and on tfca, the transportation funds for clean air, we programmed about 760,000 to bicycle parking, and 680 spaces city wide as well as management programs and expansion of bike sharing and we are working on the bike sharing, and we hope to bring an update to you in the coming month. >> and the prop double a, as you will recall, this is the ten dollar registration fee and it generates about 5 million dollars and we began to program it a couple of years ago as well. and what we found is last year,

we have allocated funds to the pedestrian gap closure project that is already coming in, and we expect that to have a completing date in the next month as well and so that exciting to see the first generation of the prop double a projects that have been funded to come in for completing and i want to credit and thank the program staff working with the project sponsors to keep the emphasis on the delivery there and this is a fun source that does focus on final design and construction and on the projects on the ground to emphasize the quick delivery and the results focus of the program. here we also of course, have the china town projects and so it is a great program. next, safety routes to schools, we programmed about one and a half million dollars in regional safe routes to school and allocated our own local prop k funds as well to build eight projects around town and to expand the department of public health program to 40

schools, including 35 elementary schools and 3 middle schools and two high schools and we have provided funding to higher bi lingual out reach workers and recognizing how important that is to reach all of our community members and well as develop management tool kits which is just another way of saying how can the community come together to try to reduce the vehicle trips. >> sponsors continue in the

effort and studies such as the bay area bike share to make sure that san francisco can expand our system, quickly and following the pilot, that the air district has begun. >> and planned area as i mention was adopted last year and was the region's first community strategy. and it did fund, i am happy to say all of san francisco party projects from this was a huge win and it reflects what stephenson can do what we come together and we speak clearly with one voice on behalf of our transit.

we want to provide a large match that the voters will see to approving in the fall and that is an important partnership between the region and the city and, looking to us to pass the local measures to proside the significant dollars our projects and i was proud and excited to see that the board was able to both boards were able to approve the project with the final environmental document, the federal transit administration has also issued what it considers its record of decision or its approval for the document, last december we have our reports on the desk and these are both moving and trying to meet and our schedule, and goals and

moving pretty quickly and i want to make sure that we are reviewing those intern um documents as they come in and as mta looks at the design and the feature of the project as well as the costs. on geary we were able with mta to develop a staff recommended alternative and i think that the board members to helping us to conduct the out reach there and we still have one more event in the japan town year on january thirth and i would encourage everyone to come and provide the input to that process and we hope to issue a draft environmental document this summer and to come to the board with an approval of the environmental document and the project in the december time frame. 19th avenue and this was a great project that was another collaboration with mta and another agencies as well as cal transand so we will be bringing this forward next month. and we hope with the final approval on the alternatives analysis to see the study to look at ways to make the view

more reliable and to allow for future extensions of that service into the park area. and so, that is a great partnership that is taking shape on the west side and also will increase, the pedestrian safety, upgrade for 19th avenue and thank you for commissioner yee for guiding us there as well. the balboa park station was another great study that we are bringing forward. and that is wrapping up as well and that is we have the concepts and exciting way to reimagine the interchange there and working with the xhix avalos's office to bring the community into that process with the community advisory commit ti. i encourage you to come out. and moving along we have work at the clints street bridge

replacement and i want to appreciate commissioner cohen who has helped us to do the impossible and reach the up, railway to try to negotiate a piece of right-of-way that we need to have access to and it took us months but she was able to pick up the phone, serving in her capacity as the board member as well as the cal train jpb and so i appreciate that hopefully we will be on the site to investigate the soils, these are the neighborhood transportation plans and we completed the solution study that looked at coordinating the community based shuttles. and we are hopefully going to be kicking off the western edition neighborhood transportation plan process this year as well that was

exciting with the developer who was interested in building the partnership for us and it is important in the heart of the soma in an area that needs the open space and the pedestrian connections. but our market street moves forward and many of you are involved and the city wide effort there and through your offices and we are moving that forward, and dpw continues to lead that process with our support and the congestion management program and monitoring in a smarter way with electronic data rather than going out and measuring it in the vehicles and so we are bringing that forward and seeing some, very slow transit speeds that commissioner weiner talked about and that is a problem and we need to make sure that the buses get through as well as the traffic continues to move to make sure that it is still accessible area and also to balance that with safety. our pricing initiatives also, moved forward last year with progress on the treasure island program as well as support for the parking pricing and

regulation study that we initiated last september. and the area of transportation demand management and the partnership project has brought four agencies together to try to come up with new ways of doing business, and supporting the policy work at the mta on managing the employer shuttles and launches a sustainable marketing program into the west side as well. >> on the water front, our agency began working more closely with mta and staoet family looking at how to analyze the transportation needs as well as future needs even without development so that we establish a strong base line and document the needs as well as what will happen if we did put the new development proposals on the water front and we will be bringing the updates to you this year, our analysis tools continue to get more robust and we did reliability that was cutting edge and we have been recognized nationally and i want to thank the deputy for the services elizabeth for keeping us on that cutting edge and leading the industry in

ways to evaluate the transit performance and reliability in particular. on the prosido parkway, the project under deputy director, and his team's work in collaboration with cal transmoved forward into the phase two pthree portion of the project, and phase one was just our design build, and did build, excuse me, and phase, with cal transthat opened up on april, 2012 and we began the year, phase two portion that is the p3, with the partner and so that partner continues, a pace. and i encourage you to come out and tour, and let us know if you would be interested in that. >> on the central subway, we saw the launch of the tunnel

boring machines. we are seeing a lot of work in the area and it is also been a very strong project in terms of the construction and it is construction management and we are trying to work on finalizing the funding plan for a remaining gap as well as dedicating ourselves to partnering with the city and transbay, joint powers authority on the dtx portion of the phase two portion and trying to come up with the strong plans for that. electrickfiation moved ahead and our project and our work ahead this year, on the island ramps and we just allocated just approved of the construction contract there and the construction is beginning and we will be having a ground breaking in the next month or so. and finally i just wanted to

thank, sorry. what happened to my slides? i think that my remaining slides i am sorry that the screens are not working are really just to thank the board for its leadership and its support to our staff. to thank our citizens advisory committees both the over all ta committee, chaired by davis as well as the project committees on the san francisco transportation plan and the geary and the van ness and the balboa as well and thank you to the community members who give so much of their time and guidance to us in our improve our work. finally, i also want to thank our partners without their partnership and collaboration, we could not do as much as we do and we rely on that going forward. okay. so with that, i am happy to answer any questions that you may have, i am sorry for taking so much time but it was a busy year. >> thank you, for your presentation and i also really want to thank, you know, most

of last year, the transportation authority staff were led by lumbardo in that transition period, and under clearly, from under her leadership and the transition to your slaoed leadership, the staff have accomplished a lot and i just want to congratulate the staff on your great work and look forward to what we can do together this year. as well. >> colleagues, any comments or questions? >> why don't we go on to e oh, commissioner yee? >> i just have a brief comment or suggestion, and it is, thank you for giving me this director's report as we can see, the ta did a lot of work in 2013, and the comments on the annual report was just glancing through it and i realized that in your