leverage, other regional state or federal funds that there is already, the proof in the pudding, on that, which is great news. so specifically, in terms of the three billion dollars, in recommendations from the task force, and to this november's ballot which will be a $500 million obligation bond and an increase to 2 percent of the vehicle license fee and further recommends that the additional half cent sales tax in 2016 and bond of 2024 and a ten year spacing and so what we have been doing in the city capitol plan, is getting the city's assets into a cycle of bond funding so that we have had a couple or two or three park bonds and we have had a couple of hospital bonds and we, this june we will have the second public safety bond. and so we have been systematically taking the city's assets, which have been ne glekted over the years and getting them into a capitol program and so the proposal

here in part is to get the transportation, into that fold as well. so, specifically, what the task force is recommending is actually, three ballot measures, two funding sources, that would together generate 1.5 billion dollars, over the next 15 years, for better roads and improved transit and safer streets and i will walk through, what some of those are and so the way that the state law that was approved, that authorizes the san francisco board of supervisors, to bring to the voters consideration for an increase in the vehicle license fee, that state law required that that measure be brought to the voters as a general tax and so if the voters were to approve that vehicle license increase it

would be a general tax that is 75 or 80 million dollars a year and so in order to direct the amount of revenues towards transportation, to address or chip away at that $10 billion, we will need another measure on the ballot, expressing the voter's intents and that those additional general fund revenues will be used for that purpose. >> is that a two-thirds? >> no, and so a general obligation bond is a two-thirds, and by the state law, and the vehicle license fee increase, because it is a general tax, is a 50 percent. >> okay. >> requirement. >> and then, the whatever the companion measure would be, and say a non-binding policy statement, or even a charter amendment, would be a 50 percent as well. so there will be three measures that will be recommendd for this november ballot to implement the first half and the 1.5 billion of what the

task force recommended and the big picture of trying to put these into the big buckets and there are 625 million that will be going to the roads and 635 millen to the transit and 300 million for the safe streets and i will walk quickly through what is in each of those categories. >> and there was quite a bit of discussion, just before i jump in, and in terms of should we be putting money in a capitol, and into the things in the ground and the tangible improvements verses sending more money to the operating budget and to fund more services because we do have more demand right now from muni service for example, than we can meet with the current system. and you can see here, kind of what the differences is in some of these things and the capitol project are the hard tangible things and the operating budget is what pays for the people and then pays the insurance and then the other kinds of cost, and ultimately what the task

force recommended is that if you look at our operating funds, and this is our rough budget, for the upcoming years, our operating funds, we have fares fines and fees that we index in inflation and the biggest set aside in the general fupd and i think that the feeling of the task force is that the growth of those sources, would or should be what we need at least for the moment to address the operating needs and if we are going to go to the voters, which the pie on the right shows now we are a much bigger local share and traditionally that slice of the pie is quite a bit small and her that we should be asking the voters for hard tangible things that we can put in the ground because basically the strength of the economy and the fees and fines and fares that we are getting are already paying for the operating budget. >> and it is also, for the

point, that the direct linkage between the capitol investment and operating out comes and so, for example, if we were to be able to replace all of our vehicles and instead of the vehicles being in the shop, broken down, awaiting maintenance they will be out on the streets delivering service and when we replace the rails as this picture shows, we have fewer failures in the streets, due to the warn rails that take the cars out of service or delay the service and so the feeling of a task force also, was that we need to make these investments and before we talk about growing the service which we will need to do, we really need to invest in the underlying infrastructure so that we have a strong foundation upon which we can deliver better service than we are able to today. so very quickly, in try to get a little bit of specifics in terms of the roads. and this would be this level of funding will allow us to do an additional 500 blocks a year and basically it would enable us to keep up the pace of

paving that we started thanks to the success of the 2011. streets bond. and that streets bond paid for 3 years, of paving and we are in the third year of that now. and at the time we told the city and the voters that we would come back with a sustainable source of funding and so that is what we are recommending here. and the next slide i will not go into the detill it just shows that when you let the streets deteriorate it becomes more expensive to get them into a state of good repair and if we can get the streets up to a decent level it will be cheaper to maintain them and this map is just to show, really how much we could get done, over the course of just the first four or five years of this, and including, some of the progress that has been done in the past four or five years and to really transform the quality of the streets of san francisco. and an sil larry benefit of all

of that street resurfacing is that when we pave an intersection we put in all new ramp and accessible and the ease of transitioning from street to sidewalk we get a significant benefit from the paving program and the paving program is the largest generator of the new ramps and so it really makes our streets more accessible for everyone. >> in terms of transit, which is the next big category, we are proposing in our budget, a fairly significant increase in service, but the or what we are also proposing in the capitol from these measures, are changes in the public right-of-way that are going to allow that service to move more efficiently but beefing up the service on all of the core lines because we have the vehicles that are not making down or we have the larger vehicles replacing 40 foot buses with 60 buses is going to

help us move significantly larger number of people, in a better way. >> and as i mentioned, we have got, an aging fleet, and a fleet that is not big enough, so, doing the overhauls of the fleet, and replacing the fleet, will help us to reduce the crowding and help us to move a lot more people through the city. and the capitol investments that we are proposing to make in the streets, such as dedicating the space for the transit vehicles, and such as bulbing out the bus stops and so that the buses don't have to pull over and fight their way into traffic and those things will make muni work better through the city so that it is a more attractive option for more people and which, will in turn, take more cars off of the road. and leaving the scarce, public right-of-way available for the delivery vehicles for people who want or need to drive, but really benefiting everybody, the better muni is, the better it is for everybody.

and including people who were in the cars. >> and the last one was church street and that is working? >> you know, what? it is working, i would say better than expected, first of all, you know, we did kind of an unfortunate blitz early on but now with the minimal enforcement, it seems to be pretty high and the initial data that we have in terms of how that helped the j, in the 22, get through its only three blocks and but it is three blocks. >> yeah, but it is really made a difference and even without adding the transit only lanes and just colorizing the ones that we have i think, alone is the simple stuff and just the paint and... >> and baby. >> yeah. >> pave it and paint it. it was a big part of it. >> and i noticed that it does it, and it actually moves through there and it does not have any effect on the traffic, which is great. >> right. >> and you know, in some places there could be an effect on traffic and the more people that we can get on the muni, the more that the rest of the space is left for the people

who for whom, muni is not a good option and so the things like that, and there is, we have been doing the pilots of some of these things that we are talking about and so it is not just they theory cal, it is specifically what the out comes will look like, and the facilities i showed you that slide and by doing the overhaul and making them more conducive to the maintenance and more preventive and keep those vehicles out on the street more. and also, some of the bigger projects to really transform the rights of way such as bus rapid transit or the other things on the muni rapid network to even better separate the transit, where it makes sense or is necessary, those funds in here to contribute to our san francisco share of the cal train extension that there are some major transit improvements that these funds would help to enable. >> and then finally in terms of

the safer streets, the funding and this slide actually shows the cumulative dollars and so i do not want to over state it and we should have noted it on the slide. but nevertheless, we are part represents a pretty significant increase in funding, for safety, and for the most funeral, road users, but this includes installing or upgrading traffic signals and adding pedestrian count down signals and the audible signals and wider more visible crosswalks and other things such as bulbing out at intersection to reduce the crossing distance and to make the pedestrians more visible so that they are safer, have you heard of vision zero which is an initiative and i believe that the sfmta is the first to adopt as the policy that sets a goal of zero and i mentioned last year that we had about 34

and so the goal was to get that down to zero because there has been a lot of work that has been done and looking at the data of where the collisions happen and so that we know where we can focus whatever resources we have to move the needle towards the vision zero the most strategically and most effectively. there is in terms of advancing the bike strategy, which i have talked to you about before, to better delineate and rational lies the space on the right-of-way and so that it is clearer who should be where and safer for everybody. and this funds to do that. to try to deacon nrekt the increasing that we are seeing in the right-of-way and then just to wrap up, this is all being done, kind of within the envelope of the city's ten year capitol plan as i mentioned.

this start and recommend to breng in the new debt and bringing on new money as we retiring old debt which is important. but, equally important, is that there is quite a bit of accountbility built into the ten year capitol planning process and there is the citizen's general obligation site committee and the committee to the board of supervisors and the transportation authority and so a lot of accountability measure to build the transparency and to build the public confidence that should the voters authorize these, but the money will be spent in a way that we said that we would spend it and well spent and i think that at least in my short seven or so years here, we have developed a track record from the general hospital to the parks bonds.

and to the public safety bond of putting these dollars in the ground and getting the projects done on time and on budget and in a very transparent way. for the various kind of improvementses that we are talking about and the street improvements and the ped safety improvements, and transit improvements and we are developing and have the project selection processes that we have for each one of those buckets that will be part of the package that we will bring to the board and the mayor for their consideration and to make sure that we are doing things in a smart way such as prioritizing the pedestrian improvements in the highest corridor and making sure that the paving is taking care of all parts of the city and making sure that the transit investments are focused on the higher rider ship lines that we can benefit the most people and of course i know that this is of the great interest to this body to make sure that we are doing this in a way that captures the public feedback and doing things with the

community and with the small business community and with our neighborhoods. and so that we can as i think that we have achieve largely with the effectiveness project come forward with the support, and for what will bring it forward and we bring that same approach to the projects of this process. and so speaking of the process, we are in, that feedback gathering mode for this concept, at the moment. and that the deadline to get these introduced at the board of supervisors is next month and they have about two months time before they hit the deadline to move these to the november ballot, which happens in mid to late july. and so that i am sorry that took a little while, but it is a big deal, this is really a, and i would say a once in a generation, opportunity to invest in this infrastructure that is kind of beyond the generation, and in terms of its neglect and so it is pretty exciting and i could talk for

hours about this stuff, but i will stop there and i am happy to take any questions and to hear any public comment but thank you for your time. >> commissioner dwight? >> thanks for the update and it is great to see the progress happening is there any pot holes in the process ahead to get these ballot measures finished and on the ballot? >> well, it is, you know, technically speaking, it takes 8 of eleven members of the board of supervisors to put the go bond in the vehicle license fee on the ballot and it takes a simple majority of six to get whatever companion measure on the ballot and we are going and we have to go through the capitol planning committee and we already did an initial presentation there and i will be taking the final seeking approval there in the beginning of may and right to the board to get it introduced and i don't see pot holes there. >> do you have sponsors for those three? >> we don't yet, but we are hoping for a very high, or a large number of sponsors for

some of the bonds we got eleven and that is where we would like to be and whether or not we will get there, is a question. and i will say, just in candor that you know, none of these or particularly the vehicle license fee will be a slam dunk and none of these are easy asks of the voters and so it will take, the identifying and the eliminating of all pot holes in the way to be able to bring the entire city family together. because it is only with all of us in here together, and all of us out there together that we are going to be able to i think, convince the voters that this is the right thing to do. so, we will be working and briefing all of the members of the board of supervisor and briefing the members of the mayor's team and briefed the your director and others, recently, and we would love the feedback from you in terms of out reach, and you think that we should be doing it as part of this process. but we are, very focused on

being able to achieve those goals and get this on the ballot and hopefully have success in november. >> great. >> commissioner dooley? >> speaking of out reach, what part of this program is if any, is going to do a lot of public out reach on people no longer obeying any of the laws like the pedestrians crossing in the middle of the streets and while they have the cell phone in front of them? bikes going through? stop signs and cars doing all kinds of, you know, illegal things? and do we really need to get a broad public campaign out there on that? is that going to be part of this program? >> so, it is not part of these measures, because these are capitol dollars. and so these are dollars as i said to put the things in the streets. but we are not waiting for those as part of the vision zero program and part of our kind of the general street safety program, we are doing, and we are starting that now, and so we have developed, a bunch of public service anounments that we have a

campaign on our vehicles, and the police department is significantly stepped up enforcement and there are citations are up i think that 50 percent and they are setting across all modes of our education will be targeted at all modes and no question, that there is a lot of bad behavior out there that we as a community want and need to address. and so, we are going to step up the education and out reach on those things, and on that kind of behavior. and not with these funds, but with funds that we have or right now we are seeking a state grant that will allow us to do a bunch of that work to do some education for commercial vehicle drivers, for example, who have large vehicles and maybe less and in a dense environment like san francisco. and so, yeah, i think that your point is extremely well taken, and this is really focused on the capitol and the design part, and but it needs for the safety components any way, the

education and the enforcement absolutely have to be a part of this and that work that we are starting now, and working closely with all of the different agency to do so. >> i think that will help immediately. >> right. >> with a lot of public safety issues. and if we can kind of crack down on across every one on that non-law abiding behavior. >> yes, i agree. >> any other commissioner comments? >> well, let's take the public comment on this very quickly, does anybody or is there any members of the public who would like to make a comment on item number 8? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and this is just a discussion item and i would like to thank you. and i think that you are doing an awesome job, you know? we are already seeing changes on the streets, especially with the paint it. and i mean, what you did on church street, you know because i live over there and everybody was all freaked out at first

and it worked and it actually, unjammed a jam over there, and especially and the work that you did, coming out of the tunnel on the debose with the end and i mean that it runs that whole cluster runs better now. >> yeah, it runs a lot better and i do want to show you that we worked closely with the merchants there and because it is a dense quarter and one block of church and there were adjustments to the parking and signage. >> and you did an excellent job. >> not only the merchants and everybody there and during the construction process, i mean that you had people out there, directing the people where to go on that and at like two in the morning. when the trains were down and going to the night owl service and all of that, it was good, and so, you know, i totally support this bond issue. i mean, anything that gets people moving from point a to point b, quickly and efficiently in this town, as you know, we are the fastest growing city in the united states right now by 6 percent. >> and out of any other city in

the country. and we are not building any more parking spots either, and so this is key. >> i ride folsom and third street and so my paint is on your streets every day. green and red. >> you have been a great steward of this process and i want to commend you that your leadership is fantastic and your, and just the way that you are handling the process and thes a tough issue and you still have a lot of issues ahead of you. and you are the right guy for the job and i appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> and thank you for the time. i know that this is a chunk of the meeting. >> it is important. >> yeah, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> the next item, please? >> item 9, presentation on the san francisco municipal and this is a discuss item. >> good evening, i if you would

endulge me 90 seconds, i could do it via paper, if we could go to the. >> or maybe it east forea lap top. >> sure. >> okay. we are with the division of the mta and the new parking section our or director is with us this evening, and i want to talk to you about the on streets car share pilot that is just getting under way now and again, i am going to be a little bit of an ak crow bat and i will go back and forth on the paper you just sat through quite a bit of mta so i am going to try to rush through this so we can get to the questions i am here to brief you on to pilot program and to

mainly get your advice and your feedback on how to do this so that it is successful and so we are very aware that this commission cares a deal about parking and likewise the parking section of the mta is here doing the professional job that we can, this car share program is about repurposing on the street parking and i am keen to get your advance, the car sharing, first, and anybody here a member of a car share organization, already? city car, your zip car? >> good. one or two of you. and at this point, in san francisco, traditional car sharing, city car share and zip car is actually a pretty mature business and we have had the city car share in san francisco for 11 years now, and so we have a pretty good idea of how car sharing works and a lot of citizen and visit or and members. among the benefits. reducing the automobile ownership rates and including

reliefing on street parking pressures and independent academic research out of uc berkeley and it has shown as many as seven to ten cars get off of the street for every shared vehicle that is out there being shared that say pretty big claim and ten cars go away for every shared vehicle but it is not the mta making that up, they have done a lot and lot of research, and the research has shown that it reduces the miles traveled and the greenhouse and the household budget and most folks, find that they don't need as much car as they own, the aaa does some analysis, and the last time that i looked a couple of years ago, cost about $8,000 a year to own a car that is after you buy the car that is not the cost that is the transmission and the insurance and the gas and the tires and the registration and parking. and it is expensive to own a car and for a lot of people, owning less of a car is a good thing and they want to have access to a car but car sharing

let's people own just enough car and not too much car. and it helps to increase walking bicycling and transit use, car sharing does. >> these days, there are multiple sorts of car sharing, i said that there is traditional car sharing like the city car and zip car and there is peer to peer where i might own a car and like a lot of people i only drive it a couple of hours a week and the rest of the time it is sitting out and rusting and depreciate ating and peer to peer is about a service or a business like get around and relay rides who will share your car while you are not using it kind of like condo time share, you might understand that business model, i own a condo and i go there once a year for a week, and the rest of the time there is a business that uses that and the peer to peer car share model does that with other people's cars and it is a productive way to maximize the car use, there is also one way that car sharing and you have been to

san diego and washington, d.c. and portland and you might have seen and used one way car sharing where with the use of a phone app or a web tool, you can locate a shared car nearby and get in that car and drive it where you are going and just leave it and don't worry about bringing it back where it came from, it is a powerful and radical idea. and a lot of folks have said this city should be trying to use that one way car share. >> what car sharing is not you guys know this it is not ride sharing, it is not lift, or uber, the pink mustache people, is it, no it is not. >> we have supported off street car sharing and there are 108 shared vehicles in 22 of the mtas garage and lots and there are also 35 shared scooters as

a business called scoot and they take the permits in our lots and they come out to my neighborhood and now they go and share a scooter, so, the mta has been a great partner to the vehicle sharing for a long time, and the rest of the car share fleets are in private spaces, in private garage and lots, gas station and condos and apartments and so forth, the mta is supportive of all of these models and we are facilitating the one-way folks and we are meeting with the car share organizations to look at expanding car sharing, and the mta strategic plan really pins a lot of hope on the car sharing as way to help to maximize and you heard him say that we have to find that amount of space in the city and we can't cram more cars in here and we can't make more space for them and so we have to be more clever about how the people get around and so we are keen about maximizing the car sharing as an option to get

around town. >> now, one of the problems that we have heard from the car share organizations who are trying to grow and trying to provide more service, is that off street spaces are not always cited where there is demand for them, there is not always a garage or a parking lot where the park ket is and off street locations are disappearing as the development takes place and all of the kins that are building the buildings are sitting on top of many ever them what had been a surface lot and the surface parking lots are going away and becoming office buildings and condos and other things. and as the surface lots go away, the car share organizations are losing organizations to put their cars, gas stations since i moved here 25 years ago i have been watching the gas station goes away and those are places where the car share vehicles, and as those places go away, the car share companies have fewer places to put them, the city has approximately 300,000 on street parking spaces metered and unmetered and it is

a big as set and we use it in a lot of different ways and it is key for the business and small business in particular. but, we look as an agency at what does that 300,000 on street space do for us, and so using on street parking spaces for car sharing might increase the visibility of the car sharing, the people would see the car share vehicles and might make the use of that and help with the geographic distribution and increase the number of spaces and help to insure the number of spaces in the long term and as the car share is used more we might actually loosen up the parking but it has