purchases from farmers. either long, and long personal relationship with the family, both professionally, as well as this relationship i think that what i like mostly about them is that they have a real deep appreciation of italy an culture and art and so, i think that it is a really good story and that is unique in san francisco. and probably the country, and something that we are very happy to share as a story, with coffee customers. and san francisco. and we spent a lot of time and an enormous amount of time designing the store to be one of a kind, and there are things inside of the store that will not be anywhere else in the world. and so, it really has an art collection, and with extremely famous artists. and people, that you may or may not recognize, and chris, and robin, and one of the things that i wanted to do with this store, was pay homage to the long history of the metro

theater and the family that owns the theater and so we decided to built an art installation inside of the store that is a tribute to the film directors and to the homage to the theater in general and we have this sort of bizarre installation on the ceiling, or unique i should say, that has cuts from francis ford copula and falini and it should be something really special for union street and for the city over all for our food menu, we happen to have a really nice relationship with goldstein and you may remember from square one, and she is a resident and she works with us not only to design a menu specific for that location, but also, helps me tremendously with our relationship with local vendors, and with the green leaf who produce and provides our farm produce and clover, which is our dairy

farmer and also the people like acme and all a really great providers and so i am excited and it is a lot of money and time and i am happy with a few partners to invest in the store, and the landlord is great and although he is charging rent and it has been a long day and i am happy to answer the questions. >> thank you we, may have questions, and we will bring it out to public comment if there is any. >> public comment is closed commissioner moore? >> i think that i have to ask my fellow commissioners as to whether i have to recuse myself because i am totally prejudice about this being the best coffee, so i will leave this for you guys, i am going to be honest about that. and that is a statement about the coffee itself as what you, consume there, but the way that their battery store is, and it

is just beautiful. yes and, so think that in itself will add a high standard for the quality and the very simple comments on the mirror image on the other side of the gym, and so there is the juice and then you have the coffee and some small things to eat and i think that it is a perfect combination. so... >> move to approve. >> second. >> i think that is not... >> commissioner antonini? >> i will take and make it easier, for commissioner moore, i will move to approve. >> made the motion. >> and second. >> commissioner sugaya, you have a coffee or a tea preference. >> i don't drink coffee and only tea i think that there are too many coffee shops in the city already. >> nothing further commissioners, i could use a

new bar. >> there is a motion and a second, commissioners on nraort to approve with conditions, on that motion, commissioner antonini. >> aye. >> borden >> aye. >> hillis. >> aye. >> moore. >> aye. >> sugaya. >> aye. >> and fong. >> aye. >> that passes, 6-0, and places you under public comment, for which i have no speaker cards. >> is there any general public comment this evening? >> okay, public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned.

>> good morning today is 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

[gavel] >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the may 6, 2014 municipal transportation. call the roll. >> [calling the roll] you have a quorum. item 3, prohibition of sound producing devices are prohibited at the meeting. and the person responsible for one going off in the meeting may be asked to leave the room. know that cell phones set on vibrate do cause