tuesday, april 22, 2014. earth day welcome to the san bernardino i'm supervisor avalos the chair of the authority madam clerk, call the roll and supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos absent. supervisor chiu absent. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. absent. supervisor kim. absent. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. we have quorum >> thank you. i forgot to mention our clerk is eir can chang we're broadcast by sfgovtv jennifer lowe and others thank you for your work. madam clerk, call item >> item 2 approval of the

minutes this is an action item. >> seeing no comments seeing no member of the public come forward and madam clerk, any announcements? roll call and supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. absent. supervisor chiu. absent. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. absent. supervisor kim. absent. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. and supervisor chiu on item 2 item passes. >> item passes. >> item 3 report this is an informational item. >> good morning, colleagues happy earth day i want to

commend walk sf who participate in walk to workday on mark 8 i understand that -- excuse me. >> that was a cheer to right to ride day. >> already anticipating bicycle i understand that 5 seven hundred people took part and francis shay and i walked from the excelsior and enjoyed the walking see and smell and fresh and not so fresh air along fifth street and it was an important opportunity to be reminded about the need to insure there are safe and attractive walking routes. unfortunately, this recommender is as urgent as even the walk to

workday was after the zero committee of the transportation authority that was held on april 1, '02 hours after a 3-year-old boy was hit in the richmond he's still roar from. i'm grateful to supervisor kim and supervisor yee and prefkt of that the community has come together and start delivering results we have a lot of work to do and but the signs of progress is encouraging. i also have to say there was another incident two people injured in my district on friday as well who are seriously injured from a car colliding with a mini stop so there's a lot of education to be had. i'm especially glad to see the

sophisticated projects out of review and appreciate director reiskin and other head departments the transportation authority we're proud to make our resources available to help deliver projects across the city one example is the prop program that's to refund two really great projects the 1 is mcallister street both of which are on the walk first network i want to thank a couple folks and their staff wore working in the community to permitting prioritize two prop fund. as a reminder for the people

prop w a funds are on the registration that the voter approved and finally speaking of transportation ability i want to thank john hayley and his staff who generously spent the afternoon to provide a tour of the transit district we >> offhand how they face the service each day among the crowded sfalts. we were struck by the investment of the katrero yard this houses our trolley cars. at the green yard their

producing parts that are no longer available and they climb into pits to work on the under carnival. what was really impressive how much the muni staff are putting together resources to fix what should be minor problems if we had the up-to-date material. fortunately, we've been helping to address those needs and toured the metro east that's a more than facility that will oscillate the burdens of the yard and it will add storage for our to 60 foot couples and finally your central replacement fund will help with the fund to

provide the transportation system for driving communication and vehicle reliability. thank you. again to the sfmta for making this possible and i look forward to having more improvements as we seek new transportation revenues in the fall this concludes my remarks. if there are no comments from colleagues we'll open this up for. and seeing none, we'll close public comment and move onto >> item 4 director's report an informational item. >> good morning kelly executive director my report is on your desk this month we begin are the recreational defeat the cap and interest trade at that heating

up in the distribution of trade and cap resources that is different from the investigators proposal the investment in high speed rail where senator steven burger talks about other transportation. we'll be working hard with the counterpart to figure out how to best work with the santa fe san francisco needs across the state. transportation thirty discussions are continuing this month we've been doing outreach with sfmta to get the input from organizations the capital committee will look at the proposals at the may fifth meeting after which the board will continue the measures for

the fall ballot the deadline is may 20th. we continue to work with city agencies an active application this is a reminderer for the walking and biking and will feature a non-infrastructure project coordinated with supervisor yee's office and other trail improvements before we so willed this i'll mention the ac p the active program they're going to apply for fund into in san francisco and the east bay. the zero vision committee i want to note the committee had a great meeting it was well attend

and it talked about did role of the committee and the public involvement in the enforcement activity of the program the next meeting will be on june 8th and the mta draft list of 20 proposed projects is available for viewing on the website. we'll find a easy shortcut for the public soon. on the next several updates with a our project conditions with the state and local region level is the transit the ct c voted to have future state money into the project needs in order to complete the large project on time so the ct c delayed the

program of $2 million for the chinatown brood study, however, we were able to keep the funds in the right time slot to be ready by working on a swap locally with dpw. those are some of the behind the scenes to make sure we're funded and it's a complex sort funding environmentalist and often challenges produce delivery and the traffic projects where our staff worked hard to wish work with the ata with the two-way operations that will not trigger the quality air we tried to get the funding and ran up against

those to convert those projects to two ways with about the air quality and were able to get the funding identified. locally we're pleased to say that the urban tree guide the national and ushering guide is more available to the streets effort we want to thank caltrain's directors and secretary for their advocacy in turning this into the reality that the design guide is being implemented will be the reserve for san francisco and cities up and down the state of california. an example is for us sfmta will be able to critique circle

tracks. another piece of good news the sfmta has adapted the transit effectiveness project and finishing the phase and the venice project is on your desk for both projects we're vshtd designs with our staff and trying to assure that each of those is reviewed we'll be holding an enter departmental meeting to finalize the outstanding issues around scope and cost and schedule and be bringing a report back on both projects. next, we want to drawing your attention to the yerba buena island ramp project the construction is under a way

we're encountering an urban accepted challenge of north of birds on the island. we've identified this was anticipated with the environmental input report trying to cooperate with caltrain with the costs of working around the birds north site but if the north hablz continue there will be a delay so to offset that we're letting the contractor work on other parts we'll bring an update to see how we can work around this challenge. we're pleased and thank the board for speb the transportation authority as the agency this will help to implement the centerpiece of the transportation program which ask

a center project those are fees for town hall and parking fees to support the bicycle on the oimd in addition, this includes followed out projects for the 28 line in addition to the m ocean project that has completed our procurement and we request a proposal so we began procurement we hope to get that going not spring the transit project continues with our advisory meeting on thursday 24 we'll meet to hear the sfmta project proposals as well as the infrastructure plan for the block development we're seeking a member to represent the enar

he will side for the geneva seat go to sf.org and the bridge replacement project is moving forward a recent caltrain inspection of that bridge identified evidence of deterioration for emergency repairs so supervisor cowen said authorized the repairs to the bridge the repairs don't effect the traditional bye the bridge must be replaced so we're seeking a caltrain track plan to have that ahead of the local bridge program so we'll be doing outreach on the bridge project including at your seniors advisory meeting tomorrow night

on 1455 market street on the condition of the status and the street vacation project to maximize contracting associated with those projects. tiger planning the good news on the transit front we're partnering with that on a large $3 million study we hope to receive grant fund from the federal government to look at the transmitting transbay and the connecting services from the recent adapted transportation plan and set up to prioritization and capacity improvements for consideration in the next regional transbay plan in 2017. on a related note i attend on update from tom and gras who

presented at a recent breakfast event to the community both their plans to improve bart and for anyone who has taken bart those places are exploding many ridership. so bart discussed they're big 3 projects to shore up capacity for maintenance facility and i'll keep you posted on that we'll know by summer. we attend a spur panel on highway 101 to present on san francisco to see how we might develop a more efficient carpool lanes and possibly even explore

an express lanes where the drivers will pay a fee for the project. i'm pleased to introduce defied our new planning director. we were pleased that david joined our agree and has gotten out in the community he comes from the offices where he led several bicycle sharing procurement as well as expansion projects for the brt system david has an extensive transit and planning background he worked in the city with the transportation and research institute. he studied engineering at the uc berkley and holds dual master degrees and we thank david for

joining us we hope to introduce you over the next few weeks. finally, i want to express my grateful to elizabeth she was our interim deputy director and we couldn't have made it through without here dedication. that concludes my report. thank you >> thank you welcome to david it's great to have you he's been to district 11 twice and he attended a town hall pedestrian safety on the tenth so he hit the ground running thank you. okay. colleagues if there's no questions or comments we'll go on to. seeing no member coming forward we'll close it and gone >> this is for the state

legislation that's an action item. >> colleagues questions or comments. okay open this up for public comment is there any public comment seeing none, we'll close. a role call >> supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell's. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> okay. let's go on 0 item 6. >> appoint mary and another gentleman to the committee this is an action item. >> colleagues questions or comments. seeing none, go on to public comment seeing none, public

comment is closed same house, same call? >> we'll need to really call vote on supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> the item passes. next >> item 7 approval the projects programming recommendations and amend the prop strategic plan an action item. >> let's open this up for public comment no member come forward we'll close public utilities and the roll call vote. >> supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu.

supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> the item pass next. >> item 8 allocate 9 hundred $50,000 with k fund subject to the cash flow schedules and amend the bicycle program this is an action item. >> thank you seeing no comes from the board seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. supervisor jane kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang.

supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes >> the item passes next. >> item 9 interrogation of new items. >> colleagues, any new items for introduction. okay how about open this up for public comment for a slit second because no one is here seeing none, public comment is closed. and go on >> 10 general public comment. >> any member of the public utilities seeing none, public comment is closed. and our last item >> adjournment. >> thank you we're you.

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>> here. >> commissioner andrews? >> here. >> commissioner hene. >> here. >> we understand that commissioner renne is planning to attend and there he is. >> we will begin with public comments on the items appearing before the ethics commission. >> ray hartz, director of san francisco open government, just a little catch up here, i was in march visiting my family and left on march 5, and returned on march 25th and you can manl my surprise when i came back and i found out that you had schedule a