handles the central subway project and the transbay terminal and caltrain capital improvement program in addition to leading a handful of projects the partnership with the yerba buena islands with the lead agency we're developing a west ramp with caltrain's and about to go out for construction work in the folsom off-ramps and tracking the use of our prop k funds especially we have numerous needs of investment for muni and other vehicles and guide ways. ultimate indication and thank you, supervisor on the question on high speed rail we're staying in coordination with all the recreational partners and locally insuring that the work

we'll see the extension built as well and the gary corridor in the capital definition is being supported we're looking at general feasibility from an engineering standpoint as well as a financial standpoint. treasure island represents an exciting initiative for our agency this refers to the system design and development and eventually the chart idling transportation project. the third street phase 3 represents one of the ways we're collaborating with the sfmta on capital projects and doing that work will be important and exciting this year. the planning division the planning division is charged with implemented this year what we adapted last year including the san francisco transportation

and the transbay area and the emerging studies are the capacity study we'll be bringing and the freeway management study really how san francisco, california connection erection with the carpool lanes and in addition to strengthening the major bart and muni and ferry and agent transit. the capital promotions you've seen through the years the gar brt which is the final draft we hope to bring in and the brt is moving along it includes a small rail component on geneva boulevard and the transbay transportation i've mentioned. vision zero is a cross division he effort the first committee meeting is on wednesday. the crop of the transportation neighborhood efforts the katrero

hill is happening and the chinatown transportation plan looking at a whole range of improvements including what to do to alleviate the conditions on venus and broadway. the western transportation plan we hope to beginning this year as well and the 19th avenue ocean i've mentions will be part of this year's work program. the technology services division is the r&d and the brains they're the forecasting analysis folks for point whole city. much of the work is for mta and the planning department we disseminate data to anyone who seeks it of the private sector to the research community and we're activity in the research

community we have a transportation model that's dynamic this represents all the parcels of our city and in addition to the whole region. this support our division, i.e., we're lincoln the database and other systems to our resource planning and this is the finance and admin we have a host of things from reporting to county auditing to combranlts management and voicing and improving that taller than the payment to our consultant and contractors. this group also does a ton of contracting for our agencies and other agency we try to help with the projects and planning with the other agencies in addition, we manage the human resources as

well as the debt program we're taking special efforts to support our l d e outreach efforts as well as other workforce development. today we're here to present the draft for you feedback in the next cycle sense the board has designated our agent the treasure island agency this was prior to our development we want to split that out and accounting going forward. we plan to bring a staffing plan for the personnel consideration to really explain how additional staff can help us additional. the proposal is next week for approval and then more often from there.

thank you >> with that, i'm happy to take any questions. >> colleagues do you have any questions? all right. thank you for your presentation. >> madam clerk take public comment on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk, please call item 5 >> item 5 is the construction of new items. >> thank you. colleagues, any of you have anything to introduce. well, i have an item to introduce today. our city as it begins to reaccess our priority and refocus our attention on the pedestrian safety and bicycle safety i want to thank sfmta i'd

like to i would like the sfmta to prioritize the caesar chavez and bay shore improvements. anyone that's driven or tried to bike or walk this intersection it's really dangerous. there's an existing 2012 study that details the background and the historical challenges that exist at the this intersection. the number of improvements it can enhance the safest of the pedestrians and bicyclists liquor we're quickly growing and a lot of things are happening on the south western region and it's a violate connection between dog patch and the heights as well as the bay area may be there this is a social and environmental project i'd

like to ask the mta to prioritize. and its work plan i hope to work with the planning department and the sfmta to make sure those safety improvements are implemented. thank you very much. thank you. all right. seeing no other introductions let's take public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. at this point there's no further business. >> general public comment item 6. >> is there comment general public comment is closed. >> madam clerk, any other business before this commission? >> no item 7 adjournment. >> thank you very much this meeting is adjourned.

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>> good afternoon, welcome to our rules committee meeting for thursday, april 3. i am supervisor norman yee and i will be supervising this meeting. i am joined by supervisor kitty tang, supervisor is on his way. jennifer low and jessie larson, who record each of our meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online.

so madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> please make sure to silence cell phones and any electronic devices. items acted upon today will appear on the april 15th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> i am glad to see all of you here today. i'm going to see if i can stall this for another 30 seconds to give supervisor campos a chance to make the sprint over here. would you like me to sing a song for you

guys? i will get started. so i know that -- on john ball? >> mr. chair, would you like me to call the item first? >> i'm sorry, madam clerk, item no. 1. >> item no. 1 is a motion confirming the appointment of john-paul samaha to the treasure island development authority board of directors. >> come on up. >> good afternoon, chairman yee, members of the board, my name is john-paul samaha and i request your support in my reappointment to the tida board. i've been on the tida board for 5 years, we are

underdwoing and will be undergoing an expensive process of community building the next few years as the navy transitions the island over to the city. we currently have a thriving community of people currently living on the island, we're going to have a very challenging process of transitioning to the new development. i have a background in both city planning and in public policy and i currently work in the private sector in real estate, so it is my hope that my contribution would be to ensure that whatever community we do build is one that is not only looking good on paper but actually that will be one that is affordable to residents both owners and renters and where we have all the public infrastructure being provided to make it a balanced self-sustaining new community in san francisco. and that is

what i want to say and if you have any questions i'm happy to answer you. >> i will just -- i appreciated that i had the chance to speak with you prior to this meeting and really appreciate your background and how that has really helped you in this role. so you did kind of speak to this before, but i typically ask applicants, he is sptionly if you are being reappointed, what are some of the things you hope to accomplish if you are reappointed to this position? >> thank you. i would like to make sure that we look at the details of, now that we get into the development details as we transition, hopefully we will be breaking ground on the first development next year. i just want to make sure as we enter this new phase that whatever is being developed is well thought out and well planned out and that we serve

the real needs of our citizens and the new residents and the current residents, whether it's affordability issues, home owners dues, whether you are a rent or or you are an owner on the island you will be paying fees associated with the infrastructure with parks and recreation, the new ferry terminal, transit fees, all this will have impact on livability and affordability on the island. hopefully my real world real estate experience will give some kind of -- will make a big contribution to making that more of like a real world type of process. >> so i'm just curious, not only you but the board under

itself, what role are you taking monitoring, ensuring that the on-going clean up, i guess, is taking place and to the most sensitive way to the residents. >> well, we oversee that process. i believe you may be speaking to the radioactive clean up. the navy, the state health agencies and our local health department are all working together to make sure that the clean up is one that is comprehensive and will alay the very real fear of the residents who are living on land that may or may not be contaminated. certainly we provide the forum and we oversee. we have great staff.

mirian syres, who oversees the day-to-day running of the island, is doing a great job, not only oversee the clean up and have a comprehensive clean up but make sure the current residents of the island are informed of the process, that every information that they need and must have that is to be made available to them. >> any other questions? seeing none, thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> are there any public comments on this item? come on up. state your name if you like and two minutes. >> good afternoon, supervisors, eric brooks, representing san francisco green party and the local grass roots organization our city. recent news reports have made clear that there is much more

going on with treasure island and radioactive contamination on treasure island than we previously believed. the navy has now finally, after many, many years of grass roots and public pressure, finally agreed to examine every house on that island for radioactive contamination that they previously claimed was not there. and in light of the growing seriousness of news report after news report showing more and more how this island is in more danger and its resolution debts are in more danger than we thought, it's absolutely vital that you make sure that these appointees are willing to put a moratorium on activities on that island until the navy gets done with

its studies and in my opinion until a full clean up to residential standards is done on that island and also --. >> so your time, can you address the item which is the appointment of this particular individual to the board? >> right, so what i'm saying is --. >> no other issues right now. >> we need you to ask these applicants if they are willing to support a moratorium on activities on that island until these things are done and also consider what i think is going to be necessary and that is going to be an evacuation of the current residents of that island to safer places in san francisco on the mainland. we need to make places available. we need people on the treasure island development authority board that are willing to make those hard decisions and not just push development. thank

you. >> thank you. any other public comments? suing -- seeing none, public item for this item is closed. supervisor tang >> sure, i think mr. samaha has done a great job in his role so far and he also receives great support from sherry williams so i move forward his name out to the full board with recommendation. >> motion is passed. thank you for continuing to serve. >> item no. 2, motion confirming the appointment of vivian fei tsen to the treasure island authority board of directors. >> hi, vivian. >> chairman yee, supervisor tang, supervisor campos, my name is fei tsen and you just

recently saw me because i was appointed to the tida board last november and i was serving the last few months of the previous director's term and i am here for reappointment to the tida board. so i am the youngest newest member of the tida board. there are many issues of course that are facing the development of treasure island and certainly the mediation of the toxins that the navy produced in times that they were supervising the island, that needs to be taken care of. and there is many challenges in terms of the infrastructure, in terms of the transportation to and from the island, in terms of the vision for that island and for the housing development that will occur. my background is actually in urban planning and urban development and i have broad

experience working with brown fields that have been turned into multiple uses and i hope that i can be of service to the city with my background and be on this commission. if there are any questions i'll be glad to answer them. >> any questions? nice seeing you again, seems like you were here yesterday. >> right. >> i know you are relatively new but i'd like to ask you this question. not long ago there was a fire at the dock or something. i was wondering if the board had discussed, it may have been discussed before you got there, but somehow there

was no -- am i treading into something i shouldn't be? there was no procedures to check whether people that leased the dock to boats would have insurance or not. do you know if there's been procedures put in to make sure that everybody that rents dock space would have insurance? >> yes, i'm not aware of the exact event that you are talking about, i think that was before my time. but i do know that there is a lease agreement with the users of the facilities and in that lease agreement there should be provisions for insurance but certainly i will check into that in particular. but it would be unusual if the insurance requirements were not part of that user lease agreement. >> i think the requirement was also there, but the procedure to check whether one has the insurance --. >> yes, i will do that. >> -- was not very strong. i

would love it if the board would look into good procedures to make sure everything is checked off. >> i certainly will do that. >> seeing no other questions, any public comments on this matter? >> good afternoon again, supervisors, eric brooks, san francisco green party and our city, san francisco. i just want to just tag my comments on the previous applicant and just encourage you that if you approve these applicants, which it appears you probably will and you may have very good reasons for doing that, i would appreciate you pursuing their tenure on the board and the rest of the board's decisions at treasure island with diligence as you just did with this boat insurance issue so that these matters of the radioactive and other contamination on the island are properly veted so that we're

protecting the citizens that currently live on that island and the citizens that may live there in the future. thank you. >> any other public comments on this matter? seeing none, supervisors, colleagues? >> through the chair, i am happy to give miss tsen an opportunity to continue serving since she just started in november. >> motion is passed for your willingness to serve, get out there and clean it up. okay, madam clerk, item no. 3. >> item no. 3 is a hearing to consider appointing two members terms ending february 23, 2016, to the citizen's committee on community development. there are two seats and three applicants. >> miss augustine, i believe is not able to -- was not able

to be reached for this meeting, but previously indicated that she is no longer interested in this seat, so next we will have mr. ahn, are you -- here he is. welcome back. >> it's been too long. four months, actually, since the last appointment -- excuse me, my name is eddie ahn, four months ago i was appointed to fulfill the remainder of a term and i'm now back before you today to be appointed hopefully to a full two year term. in the past four months alone there have been a lot of meetings on the citizen's committee on community development which advises on

funding for work force development and other community development block grants that happen and the things that we are working on right now is, one, a consolidated plan to determine federal funding for the next 5 years; 2, community meetings to take in input from people all over the city. we have 4 actually planned for the upcoming months. the first one happened in vezation valley and i believe there will be ones in the mission district, tenderloin and the third being -- escaping me right now. oh, the west side of the city, excuse me, in golden gate park. so we are planning to take a lot of input from diverse communities in san francisco and the other thing i want to submit before this committee was a letter actually from a long time committee member we worked with, dr. jackson, she wanted to make sure you got it

in support of my appointment to this body. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you, i was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about bright line defense, what do you guys do, where does your funding come from? >> our funding? bright line defense is not a cdbg grantee, i believe that's one of the issues that any appointee before this committee needs to not have that conflict of interest. our understanding mostly comes from philanthropic foundations, i believe those are listed on our web site. bright line defense engages in policy advocacy on behalf of bayview hunter's point, mission district, selma, low income districts in san francisco. and one of the things that we have been proud to support is the local hiring