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, the,

your financial statement, please? >> it seems is there a reason why you have a subtotal for each category. for a, b, c and so forth. but you don't have like a total for all of the categories together? >> on the sum, and the grand total? >> i am sorry i don't have a copy with me. maybe if cynthia or maria could answer that question on the grand total? is that of the program? >> page 46. >> sorry. >> i believe that is the total is on page 47. >> okay. >> got it. >> great. >> any other questions, commissioner yee? >> no. >> commissioner mar? >> yes, i just wanted to thank miss cheng also for and the staff for following through with creating a much better

relations with the mta and really much better communications and coordination, and i think that it shows, in a lot of the different projects that have been coming through the plans and programs and i also wantsed to say that as you mentioned the cac and the community based people that volunteer their time with many of the committees and the community meetings, and i wanted to say that cres ter fung is doing a great job with doing his best at getting the information out and that is not spread very evenly and i know that with the on-line tools that the ta is doing, and one of your slides that i think did not get shown was a lot of the improvements with the website that is helping, many of the people that are coming to cac meetings but many can't and so i think that it is a way for others to know about the work that the ta is doing in coordination with many of our other partners as well. >> thank you so much commissioner mar, i appreciate that and i certainly, echo, chester and the team have done a terrific job and we could not do it without the partnership

of the mta and your office as well. thank you. >> okay, thank you, thank you for your presentation. and, we can go on to the public comment, any member of the public that would like to comment on the end report, please come forward. >> having been on the cac since 97 i am familiar with the annual report and i am very much in support of it and i appreciate everything that everybody has done. and continue to do, and i hope that you helped them lead the way for the san francisco will definitely become a first rate first, from the city. and that sort of thing, and i think that everything that should, and everything that has

been said, is great. and i strongly approve of everything and i strongly hope that you do the same thing, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> good morning and thank you for the opportunity and my name is roland and i am from san jose, and i would like to turn your attention to a couple of slides, in the presentation. and you should look at slide number 30. and look at the central subway, and the contract is for 234 million dollars. that is how much that should cost. it is a good contract and it is a good project. and we will now move on to the next slide which is the downtown expansion. and you have got phase one as 1.6 and it is actually 1.9, and total costs 4.2 billion dollars. and the question is, why would

a tunnel of an equivalent distance cost 2 and a half million dollars and approximately ten times as much as a central subway? i suggest that you look into that and there is something seriously wrong there and now, the last thing that i would like to touch on is slide number 32. and if you look at it, we are going to spend a billion and a half on cal train at the end of the day, we are going to get an extra train a day. and this is an issue. and we have got to look at capacity, and we have got to look at what is happening there and what we are getting for a billion and a half. now, you also see that not all of the funds are secured and what we are talking about here, is the 600 million dollars, of property funds which right now are blocked by the courts and frankly i don't see them go any way. the good news, is that we recently looked, at the cost of electrickfiation, and specifically, for the supplies and the supports and the wires and estimated 785 million

dollars. and we have just discovered that is approximately between 600 and 650 million dollars more than it would cost to do the same work in europe and so this is more for you to think about, thank you very much. >> thank you, and are there any other members of the public that would like to comment? >> and seeing none, we will close the public comment. and colleagues, i would like to point on your desktop that you also have the monthly progress reports for the geary and bus rapid and transit and projects, and it is a great to share with your staff as well. it is something that we asked the transportation authority to share with us every meeting. and okay, so, can we colleagues could we take this item same house same call? ? and the item passes. >> next. >> 14, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> colleagues, any new items or issue to introduce? >> and seeing none, we will go on to public comment. >> we will close public comment. and we will go on to our next

item. >> 15, public comment. >> so general public comment is now open, and related to any subject matter under the transportation authority. and seeing no one come forward we will close public comment. and we will go on to our next item. >> 16, adjournment. colleagues, we are adjourned.