on a five year cycle, we have the shop that does that. and all of the tracks, the subway stations, and then, 3,000 bicycle racks and we will be adding a lot more in the years to xom, just give you a sense of the infrastructure. >> what is the five year program? well, this is, as maria noted the seconds five year capitol program and to get across to all of you why we have it, in the world of transportation, we have very large projects that all of you deal with every day and sometimes when we talk about the planning and the funding of those projects those can take a long period of time ten to 20 years and we figured out the projects such as the m line and the projects that we are talking about on the 19th avenue and the projects of that scale and but we also have the shorter term that the mta is responsible for and something as small as a $15,000 bike rack project and so we have the extreme scales from the very small to the very large and the prior to 2012, we have done was

a ten year capitol investment plan and that included everything that we planned on doing, meaning intentioned on doing and what the needs were and plus the funding that we thought would be available and what constantly showed people is that we had massive gaps that we could not close and so what we found was the members of the community had very little sense of what the mta would actually deliver and like with the funds that you have, what can i actually see be delivered on the streets of san francisco? >> and so what we did was, we split up that ten year investment plan into our 20 year, unconstrained capitol plan which has the needs over 20 years, and the five year capitol improvement wham that is restricted to the revenues. and so with that, the five year cip is a financially constrained, program of projects and so what we do and what we started last august is that we look at every funding source that we intend to getting within the five year period and we are honestly very conservative about those sources and so we typically think that we will get more

than we project and we project a very conservative level because we don't want to assure someone that we are going to move forward with the project and not have the dollars in place, it is a tool and so we do fund the projects by phase so that the people can get a sense of when the things will start and end and it is implements a lot of the plans that you hear us talk about and the pedestrian strategies and the bike strategy and the fleet plan and other plans and strategies that we have at the mta and we also do not want the funding and acceptability to be a barrier to the projects happening and reason that we are conservative in the estimates is that we don't want to plan to do a projector do the construction documents or come to a day where the lack of funding prevents it from being delivered and slowly but surely we are trying to build up a reserve so when the uncertainties do occur and we just heard one example with the radio project and they have the financial capacity to have that

project continue on schedule and be delivered as scoped. >> and so with that, we are going to cover this as a very nice slide and it shows how over all, our five year capitol improvement program works and so there are two thresholds to be added and one is that it was part of some sort of a plan or plan process, or the strategy, that had the public input. and so it should not be something that a project something that no one has heard from, it should be implementing something that was promised at a policy level to the people of san francisco and so you will see those things listed and there is the plan and the capitol plan and the various strategies and the decision zero was listed there and also, i know that a number of you have expressed the interest in this and we have made commitments to the area plans that were approved by theed abouter of supervisor and we take that into account when it comes to what projects will be proposed in the five year period and with that we have the priority and if we cannot find within the five year

window, 90 percent of the funding, to be able to deliver, either on that phase, or move the project forward it is not listed and again, because we want to give the public a real sense of what actually can be delivered to them in the next five years and from there, as has been noted it leads into the other documents and plans, and mtc's capitol transit capitol priorities where we project the bus replacement needs and the funding for our infrastructure and the competitive grant proposals and we do project the grants and so we start and maria like to remind us of constantly creating that pipeline of projects and maybe a year or two ahead and the competitive project and the development impact fees and the five year prioritization programs. and so with that, i think that i went, backwards. on february 4th, these list of policy priorities were presented to the mta board and they were extremely supportive

and so these were kind of the over arching policy goals that we had for this five year cip and we do at the mta have a policy, to insure that we keep our systems in a state of good repair and we have developed minimum thresholds for funding and right now, our transit critical assets meaning those things that provide direct service for the public, or the access that we replace and for us to be able to do that in a timely manner, requires 250 million a year and the goal to meet that minimum threshold year over year and within that five year cip we are proposing a full, complete replacement of the entire fleet and so by the year, 2019, all of the rubber tire fleet, it would have been replaced. and but, we are looking to increase our traffic signal replacement program and double it from our base line, in the past because we are running about a 90 plus year

replacement cycle and we we need to find the funding. and the program and i know that is discussed in the plans and programs and it has been a priority and so we can make sure that our vehicles are reliable in providing service and then, of course, our facility needs are extreme and even in the five year cip we are not able to meet all of the need but we are doing our best to replace and modernize the facilities and the streets, of course, walk first and the vision zero and moving forward and then i know, plans and programs, and then the transportation authority, and the cec has been asking about our backlog in traffic calming projects and we are proposing in the five year cip to clear the backlog and fully fund all of the projects that are outstanding and of course, the travel time and reliability and things like the tep and funding portions of market street over the next five years and working towards expanding the fleet for the roads that are going to be happening in san francisco.

>> you are funding them and we want to know that you have the capability and ability to do all of that and so a couple of things that we did in the prior cip and we are refining and working on and is first in the prior, we worked to funding the projects by phase. and the reason that we did that, is if the project a, comes up and we know that the estimate without really doing any work is 20 million dollars, we want to start on that. we want to initiate it. and so, if the planning phase for that project, are designed as 50,000 to one million dollars, we should not wait for the 20 million to be there to start to do something. and so, funding projects to phase and moving forward, we want to move to more accurate cash flow and so that we can advance them quicker. and so as an example. you for example, you have a $500,000 that will take a year and if we can get the money up front the staff can begin. >> and could i just ask about

one of the ongoing frustrating projects that van ness, brt and the geary brts and just talk about the delivery plans for those projects in the bigger picture of kind of this proposal? >> and just to quickly answer that question, and so there are two projects, and the brt and the geary brt, and as the committee knows, we are completing the environmental phase on geary and we are working through the five y pp and identifying different federal sources that might be able to fully fund the construction phase of that. and i think that through the fiscal year, 2019, we are looking to try to fund as much as possible, the details of the design phase and so again, perfect, question, and chair mar, if we can fully fund the detail phase and it makes it attractive to federal sources that will be upcoming to the core capacity and small starts and federal funds and that will make the project as ready as possible and as attractive

to possible to the various state and federal sources that will be upcoming in the next five years. in regard to van ness, as many of you know there have been the discussions about a cost increase from the project from the original 125 million dollar base, and we are still working on it. they are causing the increase, to change from day-to-day, and the current recommendation in the five year cip is that we would take the mta's only revenue bond to close the gap to be sure that full construction can happen and because that the project that is in the detail design now we have made the commitments to the government and to you as the authority with regard to prop k. and we are looking to close the cap, the anticipated gap with our own revenue bonds and counting either on a continued good market for us to finance against. and so being a little less conservative and be able to bring in more revenue bonds or hoping that there is savings on some other projects two or three years out where we will

take the funding from those and close the gap on van ness. >> thank you. >> and so, second accountability, in delivering, we do have our capitol programs, control system in place, and we are now putting all of our street related projects on the sustain able streets that is working on into that system and we are beginning this month where we are looking at actual spending and delivery and this cip, one of the pieces of feedback that we got internal from the city and they want to know what the milestones are and what the base lines are, and so we will set the base lines and the project coordination and integration and i know as a board of supervisors. >> i have a question. >> thank you, i am going to have to leave, shortly, but i was wondering if you or the cta, or the transportation authority staff could respond to this and i think that especially since we are talking about going to the ballot and

asking for more resources, i am wondering if you could maybe we could schedule a progress report, on the performance audit that was actually funded by the county transportation authority and just for the purposes of for the benefit of the people who are not here at the time that this came out in 2011, some of the findings, in that performance audit that specifically in the second phase looked at how muni was handling and managing capitol projects and they were very disturbing and so if found that you see here, that many of the projects were actually that five to ten percent over all savings could be had by the mta, and it would actually manage its projects better and look at 29 projects and putting aside the central sublt and looking at the project and how they are being managed total budget of 189 million for those

projects and those projects have gone over budget by 90 million. not only that, but projects were on average 592 days late. and in terms of project delivery. and so, i think i would like to know how we are doing compared to what the management audit found, because it is no too long ago that this came out and so do you have any thoughts in terms of, you know, is there a progress report that can be provided in terms of how you are doing? >> yeah, i think that we can absolutely provide a progress report and i know when that audit was presented to you we did provide the responses as to how we were going to do that and i think that we could provide a progress report on the same recommendations and milestones, we are happy to do that. >> if i would ask the director, have we requested a progress report and do we have an opinion on whether or not the mta has addressed all of the recommendations that were made

in the performance audit. >> sure. commissioner campos, executive director, we have not requested an update and it is certainly timely and it would be a good thing to do i believe and i think that this effort that you are seeing is a deep effort in the sfmta to address the fundamental issues and i think that under lay many of the findings of that controller's report or the audit that was done a few years ago and so my sense is that they are working on it, commissioner campos. and that this effort is a pretty deep effort at sfmta to look at the systems and the practice and really the culture of the project management and delivery but i think that it is timely to infight mta to come back and provide that report. >> do you know from the time that the audit came out, has there been an ongoing discussion about whether or not the recommendations of the audit or performance audit have been implemented? >> we have talked about many die mentions of it and certainly there is an ongoing discussion about the project delivery in general and about

the capitol planning and the systems and the practices that sfmta and it has been happening at their board to their planning process at the staff level, it seems to be happening more and more, and at the program level and in addition to the project level, but i think that there is a lot of work under way and there is a ways to go but they are working on it is my sense. >> and finally, if we wanted to have a hearing on this, to have a report, how long do you think before we could do that? >> after the break. >> yeah, let's come back to you in the next month. perhaps with a schedule if not the actual hearing. >> because this especially, if we are going to ask the voters for more money, we need to show that we have actually addressed a lot of the problems that were identified in the management audit. >> that is great. thank you. >> thank you. >> great question, thank you very much. >> so, just to follow up, so accountability and delivery and so getting that system together which was one of the recommendations in that audit. and so we have got our transit related projects in the system

and now we are moving the street related projects and the next two bullets the review and the cost estimating base line projects so that we can measure our performance over time and look at those 500 days and not have a consultant do it and know where we are having the problems and we need to focus the resources to deal with that. and working with the dpw on following the pavings and we think that is a successful program and something that should be ongoing and continued the project integration and communication and out reach with something that would really change this time around and choose quickly, here is a summary. kind of a high level graphic showing the differences and our first five years cip was 2.5 billion, and you will see that a large portion of it was made up by the central subway project. and the green represents our street related capitol programs, and yellow transit opt malization and those would include the brt and the other large transit type of projects and the red represents the state of good repair, and the

two symbols there, one represents the fixed guide way and the other one fleet and you will see the proposed cip for the next five years and increases to 3.4 billion and you will see the central portion of that is reduced because we will bring in the last portions of revenue to complete that project and you will see that the street related capitol programs have increased 178 percent which was the largest increase, and 63 percent for transit and expansion and then, not so much a percentage increase, but larger component of our cip, is staying in good repair and largely that is reflected because of that fleet chunk and the replacement of our fleet that is reflected there. to the right, you will see the revenue sources and we would like to tell the people this, and so our capitol improvement program is made up of 30 plus different sources and you are one of the different sources and each one of those groups have a different set of rules of how those dollars should be used and i would like to mention that so that the people can understand the complexity

and that will make-up 2 billion and you will see the subway at the top and you will see ttf there which are proposed november ballot initiatives and so within the five year window, we are estimated 500 million coming in for projects within this period. and those revenue measures will generate more than that over the period of which they are planned and so this just looks at the revenue that we expect within the five year period and you will see the portion of contribution that they make. >> just this is the interesting slide, so again, it shows the break out of spending, but for the first time, because we do include that ballot initiative funds for the purposes of planning, it makes the majority of our funds come from local sources. where typically at the mta the majority of the sources would have been federal and so this is the first time that we have been in that situation and you can see that the state contributions are shrinking and a large part is the proposition one b which was the procedure transportation bond that is

coming to an end and we have not included in here, because we do we are very conservative and we have not included the funds related to cap and trade and we do suspect that we will be getting the cap and trade funds through the commission and we do not yet know what year so it was impossible for us to tie it to a project and so we are not sure quite yet when we will get it. just quickly to cover some of the proposed improvements. >> do you know what the amount the range for that cap and trade money will be and that will be in the state here. >> it will be in the state sliver and it will be between 450 and 500 million dollars. >> okay. >> so, quickly i wanted to highlight the bicycle improvements that we are proposing for implementing the bike strategy as planned and so the bike parking is definitely a focus and so we are supposed to have close to 10,000 parking spaces and so we are trying to

move in that direction and so we are funding 5,000 proposed in in five year, cip and one point of feedback that we got from the advisory committee in many different advocacy groups is that we need to focus on the spot improvements and that was really brought up as something that we need to do where the network is there, and we have done a good job at implementing the 2009 bicycle plan and there are portions of that network that need the additional help or work and there are difficultis in areas, hot spots that we need to work on. and upgraded bike facilities and of course, larger and more complex projects and masonic one of those and a lot of the projects in the eastern neighborhood plan is a part that have and something that was discussed prior, education and out reach, and as maria noted we are going to be going forward with an active transportation and it is assumed in here and i am hopeful that we will get it to fund a robust program.

>> with regard to the safety, walk phase one and two were funded and we have a number of those complete projects funded and columbus as an example and we still have a number of coordination and the street projects that we work in the planning department and the planning department on implementing, and then, the walk first program, and it is, something that is always very difficult for us to fund in the capitol program, and kid hodge noted that with prop k, things are difficult and in the five year capitol improvement program it is difficult to fund the programs of this type but we are doing our best with the sources that we have to find the ways to fund those. >> and then, transit improvements and 16th street and we are moving forward with the tiger, usdot tiger grant and i brought up, the travel time proposals across the system and of course the fleet replacement. >> and then, finally, this is a

slide that is not in any other presentation other than the one that i have brought forward to your committee. and the reason is that every month when i come to this committee, i hear over and over that all of you that out reach is important and how does the mta respond to the out reach and so we have done 30 plus meetings using a lot of the slides that i showed you to many of the different community groups across san francisco and we did get a lot of out reach and i will say that we actually did make the changes based on the feedback that we got from a lot of people and so one example was the eastern neighborhood citizen advisory committee for more than a year has asked we know that we are getting a certain amount of development impact fees and this is what we would like to use that money for and we never see the other projects that mta is funding and intending on doing and we showed em that the development impact fees, actually leveraged tons of other federal funds and revenue bond funds and other sources sher going to give us a letter of support and the bike advisory committee and went to

them three times and the feedback and the spot improvements and the network up grades and so we actually changed the scope of the larger and more expensive projects to actually add more mileage to the system and be very responsive to their request and so we are going to come back with the third this month and the small business commission and their request was that they really want to know when the construction is happening in the street and one thing that we will have in the final book is you will see the phases and planning and construction are happen and we will get a sense of when the physical improvements will happen and that was a request from them that we are accommodating, and then of course, we went to all of the coordination type of groups and to get a sense of how to coordinate and provide them with the information that they request. and so the majority of these groups if not all of them will provide the letters of the support saying that thank you for coming and talking to us and we will include them in the final document. >> so, with that, i can take any questions that you might have, thank you very much.

>> commissioner breed? >> thank you. >> i do appreciate the out reach that has been happening to notify the public about what is going on and what the changes are and there is still of course, a lot of concerns and things that we have to work towards, and i do have one complaint in your slide, on page 13, and that is actually district five. and so that in front of mojo which is where the parklet is, and it is a great place to eat and they actually have pop ups. but enough advertisements for my district. i want us to continue along those lines and around out reach because that makes the difference, notifying people and giving them an opportunity to provide input, but more importantly, explaining to them, exactly why we need to make sure changes, and being consistent in our messages is key to being able to move this system forward. and in a timely manner so that it is efficient for all

residents. and so, i do appreciate those efforts and i hope that we can maintain the out reach effort that is at that same place. thank you. >> thank you, i just wanted to thank you for raising that last slide about the out reach and improved really meaningfully, taking input and having that impact policies and decision making and i think that there is always been a reputation of the mta, at least having some input but then, really not listening to it, but i know first hand from the limited and some other examples that fairly recently that change is really been evident for me that you are really listing more to neighborhoods and i also wanted to say that the coordination with the transportation staff has been really significantly improved as well and i really appreciate that too. and i did want to go back to the slide of the revenue plans and just say that i am really appreciative that you are giving us a big picture of this.

and that the november ballot measures and the future revenue sources are critical but i wanted to get back to the plan for the van ness and the geary brts because i noticed that you mentioned 2019 now, is kind of one of the benchmarks for design and completing and i am just wondering from the november or the ttf, funds that are within this can you just kind of give us a sense of how much you have committed to moving forward with the geary brt, for example and other parts of the rapid transit system >> yeah, there is so, there are two ballot, and well, three, proposed for november but the two sources that we should be talking about are the general obligation bond first and the proposal for the increase in the vehicle license fee that would generate the general funds which are more flexible and the reports developed for both of those sources include a category for rapid network improvements and so it could be

numerous projects, and van ness would be a project that the sources could be used for and the geary would be a project that those sources could be used for. and as our thing is related to the tep. and with regard to geary, i think that the goal s and i will let my transportation authority friends answer this question further if necessary. but, we are trying to get through the environmental phase and hone down on what the scope is and really look at maybe even different ways that we can get improvements out to people in san francisco, as quickly as possible. and so that might mean things like doing single priority and getting a dedicated lane in place as quickly as possible and maybe phasing up, you know, larger more complex improvements over time and that is an opportunity and something that could be considered. we could consider, the process that we went through with van ness and we go for the gold and we go for the full design and construction and we do everything at once and so that is an option for the delivery

and i think that we are going to take the period as we go into the detail design to determine the optimal method and improve the service for those who ride the 38 and we are in the period of making those decisions and coming up with what we can do to actually improve the service and do it as quickly as possible. but we will be working with the cac and the other groups to do that and the funds that i discussed will be available for us to porm you la that idea and then pitch it. the one thing that i will note, however, is projects of that scale geary and van ness, 16th street, which is another one, are extremely dependent on outside sources whether it be through the metropolitan commission, we will be dependent on that and so the goal is going to be to create the most ready project possible and have it ready to pitch to those people to make sure that we can deliver it. >> i appreciate that and i want us to do the best to stay on schedule and really follow through with some of those near

term improvements that are so critical for that geary corridor. >> thank you. >> any other questions, colleagues? >> then, let's open it up for public comment, anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and this is an information item. and i really appreciate all of the time today. are there any other items before us. >> yes, item 9, introduction of new items, this is an information item. >> colleagues, actually the para transit system was one of the issues that my staff will follow up with the ta staff on. let's open this up for public comment and anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> seeing none, closed. call the next item. >> general public comment? >> is there anyone that would like to speak? >> public comment is closed. is there any other business before us. >> no, item 11, adjournment. >> thank you and i wanted to thank you, jessy larson and maconian from sfgtv for

broadcasting us today, meeting adjourned thank you everyone.

>> called to order. >> could i clear the room? >> okay, excuse me. excuse me. we would now like to start our meeting thank you very much. the regular meeting of the board of education, i don't want to have to clear this room so we can start our