me just pull that section up. >> it's the bottom of page 2. >> the bottom of the page, the bottom of page 2, very last item, last bullet. >> yeah, i mean we did have 11 schools participate so that's not an insignificant number of schools. and then there was a launch activity at two of them just to promote it. >> yeah. >> this is not going to be a one-time thing, the idea is to do this on a regular basis to encourage carpooling to schools. it's kind of a follow-up to our safe routes to schools project. >> you're replacing it or in addition? >> it's an addition. we're still doing the safe route to schools, it's an addition. it's all aimed at getting away from single occupancy vehicles

taking -- well, it will never be single occupancy vehicles if you are taking a child to school, but trying to combine trips so we are more efficient in terms of getting children to school. so 11 schools, i mean there are 250 schools in the city, it may seem like a drop in the bucket but it was an initial attempt and i would assume that we will have a lot larger participation the next time we do it. >> great. >> yeah. >> it's one of these things it's one of many, many ways to try to encourage efficiency in transportation and it's a step in the process. >> then the other thing that i was interested about was the zero waste enforcement. >> uh-huh. >> i think we've spoken a bit about this before. what happens if buildings don't comply with sort of their zero waste obligations? >> ultimately fines are an option. we have not gone down that road yet but we certainly

have that as a part of our tool kit to try to get those buildings that are not participating to comply. so far voluntary efforts have been successful. >> great. >> when we get to the stage where we've gotten everybody to do it who is going to do it voluntarily then we will have to look at fines to be able to deal with those who just say we're never going to do this no matter what you say to us, and there are people like that. >> how much are the fines, are they enough? >> they are graduated. they start fairly small and go up. >> for the number of days you are noncompliant? >> it's not per day but per violation. i believe it's first time, second time, third time. >> any other comments? seeing

none, item closed. >> public comment on all matters pertaining to subsequent closed session on department of the environment executive director interviews. >> good evening, last time, eric brooks, san francisco green party and our city san francisco. just want to say that i don't know who you are interviews or what the interviewees are going to be like, but i want to bring this back to march of last year when our presentation on clean power sf was given to you and your staff and interim director assmann wisely and rightly said he and his staff were ready, willing and able to go forward with this office and this department doing extensive work on clean power sf, even above and beyond energy efficiency. and so my call on this is that if you have trouble deciding

who to hire or you've got candidates that are not quite where you want them to be, i would just ask you to do everything in your power to convince interim director assmann to stay on. i don't know what it will take to convince him to that, he probably is looking forward to getting up into the mountains and hiking and stuff but it sure would be nice to have somebody that is clear in their head about an important program like clean power sf to be staying on in the direction of the department. thanks. >> are there any other public comments to the closed session that we're about to have? seeing none, i will close public comment regarding the closed session and so that leaves us on item 9, while we're in the break i just want to say i've done everything

except blackmail and extortion to keep mr. assmann. i'm a law-abiding citizen so i'm not willing to go there and mr. brooks apparently is asking too much of us coming here asking us to keep mr. assmann against his will. but, hey, you know, we're the can-do department commission so what can i tell you? that being said, item 9. >> vote on whether to hold closed session to hold department of the environment executive director interviews. this is an action item. >> i move we go into closed session to conduct the interviews. >> second . >> public comment on the vote? you are now going to go into the closed session. >> let the record note that closed session will not occur here. >> and it is 4.40pm >> thank you. all right.

>> the commission will be going into closed session pursuant to government code section 54957, administrative code 7.10b, personnel action executive director interviews. >> okay. so it is 7920 open session we'll convene an open session to disclose all the items and the administrative code 12 b this is an action item that. colleagues motion to disclose or not disclose >> i mom. >> there's no public present without objection.

>> all in favor, say i. >> the next item is adjournment 922. >> i want to commend the selection committee the h l committee or whatever you guys are called sarah and david and george on doing all the heavy lifting on getting us those great candidates. >> thank you, commissioners and thank you monica and

>> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san

francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in store.

>> i definitely recommend it to people. it's a fun afternoon and you learn so many things. >> this is so much fun. i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more sustahub. >> hi, i'm jean yes my name is jean and sometimes, people call me sir, girl. san francisco has served our sewer system and it's no square feet it's a matter of time. that's why we're planning major upgrades public health depends on it that. see how this important work is

done. i was fascinated by it. we're going to creek. i would recycle you to come up and see the sewer system in minnesota that's why we see this through the plant. a lot of people don't realize

how much work sgo goes into cleaning the water were. we offer free service to san ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor

robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong and arts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain

clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪ >> good morning. it is already the 25th day of march of 2014. welcome to the san francisco county transportation of authority. my name is john avalos of the chair of transportation authority. our clerk of the committee of the board is erika cheng. today's meeting is being broadcast by s fgtv staff of jessie /hrar sin

and coal man. thank you for your service. madam clerk, would you please call the roll [roll call]. >> very good. next item please. >> march 25th 2014, this is is national item. >> we can go with the public comment on the minutes. any member of the public would like to comment. seeing none, we'll close for the comment. >> let's have a roll call vote [roll call].

>> minutes passed. >> great. let's go on to our next item, please. >> item three, treasury report, this is an information item. >> thank you, ms. cheng. colleagues, i begin our report this month in recommend /pwrapbs of joseph flanagan who passed away in early march. many of us knew him from district 6 as a community leader who was thoughtful and looked out for others, especially the seniors and disability community. i know commissioner kim will have remarks as well later on today. let me just say that joseph will be missed by all of us and we honor him today through our work going forward. joseph

also did a lot of assistance in our offices and he really was committed to making sure that this city could run effectively. other things, vision zero represents a major initiative in culture shift with prioritizing safety with an opening goal of zero tolerantsy policy. i want to thank the mayor and control office and our various departments. i begin to see if departments coming together on this initiative. i know the staff is working together to support the very efforts. receive we had a hearing at the board of supervisors and now the commission on board of health is taking action later this month. i have also requested support from the control's office that track progress in our 24

project in 24 months that is key to our 0-vision plan. the control's office will report to the 0-vision's commit along with other departments and g t w. later on today, we will be considering /skp*epb expanding the size of the commissioners. we passed the board of supervisors meeting last week. and speaking of collaboration, i am pleased to see the m g a and g a's transitions from the visibility planning /stkaeupblg to /sta*eupblg to carry on in the next month. as noted at the last committee meeting last week, this program is an excellent gamble of community

engagement and partnership. this is our first hand that we just broke ground on and our bike path that we just opened as well as the park commission that is approved in my district. approving transportation conditions also requires deep partnerships between the community and agencies. >> another important piece of information we saw come forward this month was the strategic part on bike sharing. the organizational options for the /tkw-plt of so our local system from a limited initial pilot to a full blown permanent regional system. i appreciate our staff's timely work on this. we will move ahead precisely and timely in producing bike

sharing. thank you shorts and andrew crab for your work on the report. finally, i want to thank several of our colleagues for travelling to washington d.c. and our region to advocate for transportation priorities. i appreciate the coordination that proceeded it which allowed us to speak with one voice with the region and our counter parts across the state. i only wish congress were more like minded instead of being at odds on transportation which has been traditionally bipartisan. in accordance to our own local resources such as sales tax and double registration fee as well as the transportation we are considering for this fall. i look forward to continuing discussions about moving these forward in the coming movement of thank you colleagues and that /khraoudz my remarks. >> if there are no comments

from the public, we can go on. any public that would like to comment on chair's remarks, please come forward. seeing none, we can go forward. this is information item. we can go on to the next item. >> hold on a second. >> commissioner. >> i was able to go to d.c. with some of the staff from the transportation authority to basically go and advocate for the interest of san francisco and transportation with the federal money that is available to us. right now, there's a couple of funding sources that needs to be reauthorized and we're not too sure where it's going to go. that's going to give -- that's the amount of money that usually comes down to the local level. and, it was important for us as a group to team up with m g c and for

services with the presidents there. i think cheng and anna are doing a good job to address the issues that we have in services to try and go ahead and get the funding for not only the terminal that's being built and the super market but also other projects that are currently under way. >> thank you. thank you for your participation on the trip. okay. colleagues, are there any other questions? we can go on to the executive report. >> executive report. >> thank you. just following on those remarks, i want to appreciate the board for coming and joining us on the advocate trip to washington d.c.. i

think it was very important for the region to see that we are fully in participation and support of the regional priorities as well as to have presence at the state wide level with the california delegation in addition. seeing our delegation in washington d.c. was a great opportunity to see how the commissions are and what they're facing over there. it was a bit sobering to see that congress is really stuck on the sources for transportation. as my report notes, we will be seeing a highway trust fund moving to the red column by july. that's very vehiclesing for us. we rely on our previous /hraeugzs and hopefully we will have the ability to fund these for a little while. at some point, if congress does not come together with the president on a more sustainable funding source for transportation, we're going to see projects slow down and potentially have

to stop. we really do want to urge everyone to learn about this issue and really work with our colleagues across the state and look for those votes in congress. it's rare but we see that even when there's pretty much an agreement between the u s chamber of congress and environmental and labor groups, wither not seeing things like the federal gas tax which is a recommendation of the u s chamber of commerce and even our chamber of /khers to really fund our infrastructure in a responsible way. my next report is the this box. the light fund which makes $8.1 million available and for those communities that have a local housing fund. we believe that san francisco qualifies for that. the next item is i would highlight the user highway fee of ideas being /skud in california as a possible future

way to help fund our state wide tax moving away from gas and it has been highlighted in washington state and/or gone state. locally, we want to mention to the public there's a public hearing for san francisco scheduled for wednesday, april 9 at the u c f f mission bay on campus at jen tech haul hall 6 to 8:00 p.m. we are developing a contract with city agencies. chair, you did mention, joseph flanagan, there will be a celebration of life at the arc of san francisco on wednesday the 2nd at 2:00 p.m. we will be there as well to remember joseph. in terms of projects, we saw as

chair avalos mentioned, the project opened for construction and we also saw the abay low path open for use which will make a milestone for our program. as we see these projects coming in, we're opening a call for the next round of projects. just to mention, there's a 1.15 $1.15 million round of prop aa funds that has been opened and received over 5 $5 million of request. we do anticipate bringing staff programs next month. the strategic analysis report on bike sharing as chair avalos mentioned, it's available at our website and we welcome comments through friday april 4th. we will be picking this item through the plans and programs committee in the next round as an action item following the incorporation of

that feedback. vision zero, fees represent interagency collaborations. we've been developing the vision zero steering toward the road map for how we can bring items forward. there was a very well attended robust hearing at safety and that was on march 6th. there was so much testimony, we will be able to continue that, the first one scheduled for april 10th. stay tuned for that. on the mar's transportation task force, we've began briefing members. we will begin briefing your office so that we can answer questions and ensure that there is coordination and information exchange ahead of the may time frame for introducing those

legislations before the fall. this is an item that will be before you all as the board of supervisors. i just wanted to highlight that we're excited to take on the role of treasure island agency. the idea here and we've brought this item through in the past is to allow us to implement this through for a multirich program to support the development of transportation to enhance new ferry services and bus services and other mobility management strategies. two items on citizens advisory committee, geneva is still seeking a member to represent the outer mission and english elside neighborhoods. please contact this authority and you can be directed to the application. as well as the ms t c a is seeking applicants for the advisory committee as well

which they will be staffing through their program over there. and, finally, we will be bringing forward a transportation command management update to you all in the next few months. it refers to a host of projects and programs to help review trip making and reduce on some automobile travel. we look forward to bringing that through as well. finally, i'm honored to be reported to the a bag planning committee. illustrate be serving alongside commissioner mar to represent san francisco's /pwraeufrryes through that regional body. i was also honored to be appointed to the san francisco's planning research last movement thank you very much >> thank you. comments or questions? okay. i do want to

ask the question related to executive directive report and that is on reports on our b r t and gather b r t. it seems like there's cost ex /hraeugzs that we need to get a hold on and a handle on. i would like to see if we can actually discuss the leadership of the transportation authority. we can meet with the director to discuss how we will proceed. so i want to discuss vice chair scott wiener ander er eric mar to attend as well. >> thank you. we will take that direction and convene that meeting the next month. >> we usually have a special trip. we took one last /kwraoeur to look at how we can move more effectively, these projects. i'm really concerned that we're not moving