implementation >> marine city attorney's office there's a whereas clause from the third top of package 2 whereas the proposed revisions and the rates and fees are more intended to align and to improve the rierp and replacement of infrastructure. would that be in an appropriate place to reference in the totality of the revenue package that the commission adapted >> that would be a fine place whereas in the whereas place or immediately following whereas. >> okay. i'm going to ask you if you wanted to take a shot of saying exactly what you wanted to say

i'm not sure i can draft the whole whereas clause without future clarification if we want to come back >> we can do that when we come out of closed session. >> we could let me suggest whereas on some say commission adapted the budget with the balance of set of provisions including those rates. >> i have a question would it be appropriate to continue this item when we came back tb closed session and put it into item 13. >> we could continue item 13

after we come back from closed session. >> is that your pleasure. >> okay. so we'll go ahead and do that item 13 we'll suspend until we come back from closed session any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed madam secretary next item, please. >> public comment on matters to be discussed in closed session we'll read the closed session items first, the litigation with the leon vs. city and county of san francisco and 18, 19 and 20 have been removed from the calendar so any public comment on item 14. >> i'm going to call for public comment seeing none, public comment is closed we proceeded to closed session. >> we need another motion on item 14.

>> it's been moved to the attorney-client privilege and seconded. > all in favor, say i. >> okay. we are back briefly from our closed session. my announcement following that closed session is that the commission did approve a settlement for item no. 16. i will call for a motion. is there a motion on the floor whether or not to discuss the discussions held in closed session? >> it's been moved not to disclose. is there a second? >> second. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> the item carries. commissioners, anything

more? >> the last item 13. >> city clerk: item 13. pub hearing for the san francisco public utilities commission to consider and possibly adopt a proposed revised schedule of rates, fees and charges for hetch hetchy power enterprise electric utility service to those municipal departments of the city. >> i will entertain a motion? >> commissioner moran? >> shall i move the entire item first? >> why don't you move the amendment first and then we'll call the entire item. >> i will move to add a "a

whereas" clause on page 2. it would read as follows.. "where as the proposed rates are one of many puc actions taken as a whole are sufficient to fund adopted by the puc on may 13, 2014:" >> is that your motion? >> that is the motion. >> the motion to amend the item as discussed. commissioners any other conversations about the amendment. is there a second? >> the amendment has been seconded. is there any public comment on the amendment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> opposed the ayes have it. the item is amended. commissioners, what's your pleasure? >> item moved by commissioner moron. is there a second.

>> second. >> is there any public comment on item no. 13 as amended? seeing no public comment, i will call for a vote. all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> the item carries. if there is no further business, no objection, this meeting is

>> i would like to ask, if there were any of them who would be willing to come back another time? first of all? i know that is a lot to ask. but i would like to check with them and see if they would be willing to put it on another time and also to comment on the urgency on the item that they are just to speak on.

>> and julie? >> i would suggest that we eliminate the following items. in the interest. and the health and the physical health of all of us, number, 8.

ten, 11, 12, 13, and maybe we could combine, 14, and 15. and 8. sounds good to me, and i just did not take notes fast enough. >> 8, 11, 12, 13, combine, 14, 15, 16. >> okay. >> and something that you wanted to say on the director's report is that we had a new one, right? >> and there is a written copy, in the report. and so, continue item 8, and continue, item 10, and yes, or no? >> yes. >> yes. >> and item 12. >> continue item 11? >> continue, item 12? >> you said continue the director's report. >> there is a written report in the packet and so it does not need to be verbalized unless there are questions. >> got it, and maybe we call the item but it is not going to be much but maybe a question. >> or we could just continue it.

>> my colleagues will promise to restrain themselves. and you know we don't have a lot more hearings with david and i feel like the chance that we are going to get the thoughts from him. and would that be okay? >> and he could give us his thoughts, and it is part of item 9. >> and maybe. >> and yeah? >> could we continue item 7 to the policy committee, and to

seek to have continue five to for us and then we will do, three public comment, and four, tep, and six, clean construction, 9, special surprise, that is not so much of a surprise, and no director's report, then. and, then, we are going to combine, 14, through 16. >> okay, i know what it is. >> okay. >> commissioner? so we will, kind of collapse the 13 into our david love fest number nine. what do you think? >> yeah. >> okay. >> all right, so, colleagues, could i get a motion to approve the minutes? >> motion. >> and second. >> and any public comment on approval of the minutes? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and all of those in favor of approval of the minutes, to approve the motion, or the motion to approve the minutes, please say aye.

>> aye. >> any nays? >> the minutes are approved and could we hear the next item. >> public comment, and the members of the public may address the public, and are not on today's ago ahead agenda. >> any member of the public? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. could we hear item four? >>informational presentation on san francisco municipal transportation agency's transit effectiveness project (tep). sponsor: commissioners nicholas josefowitz and johanna wald; speaker: julie kirschbaum, operations and scheduling manager, san francisco municipal transportation agency, sfmta (10 minutes) (informational presentation and discussion) >> sf gov.

>> i am the operating and planning and scheduling manager at sfmta and a big part of my job is focused on how to make the transit more convenient and appealing to our customers which i think folds really well into a lot of the goals, and i appreciate you guys and having me here and an opportunity to talk about the program, and i will be briefed because i know that you guys have had a long day. and as an agency, sfmtc, and a sustain able san francisco and there are a lot of pieces to it and my focus is on the transit service and the services and one of key ways that we are looking to improve the environment and make san francisco more sustain able is by getting more people out of

their cars. and including giving transit more priority and traffic and increasing service and better connecting the people on transit routes. and over the next five years we will be turning over the entire fleet and complimenting the already, extensive fleet that we have with a full hybrid bio diesel fleet. and the transit effectiveness projects from all of this is

how do we improve the transit mode share and make the transit more appealing and it was a comprehensive approach to the system and it was very much, data driven as well as driven by the extensive community out reach, and we are at an exciting point now because we have completed our environmental work and we are preparing to implement over the next two to three years. and for those of you who ride the muni you know that we have challenge and traveling through a dense, urban environment and not having enough service out of the system and these were many of the problems and talking with our customers and also, we have the positive problems, and our ridership is at a 5-year, high and it is

only projectwhat is the most important in making the trips in san francisco and the most important thing that we heard from people is that we want the service to be reliable. and we want it to be 20 minutes today, and 20 minutes tomorrow. and they don't want it to be 20 minutes one day but then on the bad day, oh, i am waiting an hour and a half, and we also found that about two-thirds of san franciscans are time sensitive and that they are always going to take the quickest option, available to

them, and so, in addition to improvement of the reliability and aaddressing the crowding, and making transit quicker and giving the people quicker choices by transit. and for this assessment, and we looked at a huge amount of information, and but, one of the most valuable, i think, was that we equipped about 30 percent of our buses with automatic passenger counters, and there are on every bus, and sorry around 30 percent of the buses and on every door and they, they are like two laser beams and if you tried them and we have rich information about how the people are getting on and off the buses at every top and how crowded the bus was and what time of day and we were able to make the strategic

recommendations. including to the north, we have geary and california and in the south we have the mission corridor as well as the geneva corridor and the juda corridor and these heavy rider ship corridors were carrying 75 percent of the customers and so when we look to make improvements to the travel speed, and these were the corridors that we focused on. and as i said, we also do this work, with an extensive amount of community out reach and it really helped, i think, enhance and enrich the over all, proposal and it gave the board the confidence when they endorsed the proposals at the end of march that they

reflected the needs of the community and the proposals do have trade offs, and some of those trade offs were part of what, our community dialogue focused on. and the program has three elements and the first is a policy framework, and the second is service and route changes, and the third are capitol eninvestments. and they combine with the

network to allow you anywhere in san francisco without making one transfer and that is really what makes living in san francisco without a car viable and then we have the circular network and these are the smallest routes and travel from the hill top into the original node and providing the basic access for folks. and a lot of these circulate networks needed the tweaking and now it stops right now within the four blocks of the station and so it gets you almost to there but not all the way there so that is an example of the service improvement that the tp is recommended. the over all service changes represent a net service increase of 12 percent, and includes some redesigning of routes to stream line the travel and improve the efficiency and it very much focuses on connecting the networks better. and there will be a new 28 l that connected the richmond and

the sunset, and the outer mission. and it will lead to reduced crowding and modifies or discontinued the low rider ship segments and then it expands the limited stop service and so, on the busy corridors for example, the five folton and we recently introduced the limited spot service and when you start needing service, every four or five minutes, sometimes, there is an opportunity to add a second type of service, and that gets the people where they are going more quickly and so some people are going to take that local service that works well for them but a lot of people will opt for the quicker trip. and the capitol investments take a cost effective transit in providing priority in the traffic and that includes, for example, the j, church pilot that we have out right now, and

and it also includes, things like with the term restrictions and stop consolidation, as well as, particularly in our rail lines, we are stopping the train very frequently because there are so many stop signs, for example, injuda and looking for ways to stop the stop signs for the traffic signals that we can time to anticipate the train coming. and the environmental benefits of the tp are extensive. and we need to increase the greenhouse gas emissions by providing the increased service and we also will reduce the

vehicle miles traveled through the and it will be 25,000 to 45,000 when it is implemented and we recently completed the air quality analysis under the sequa and we did notify any significant impacts, related to the program. and so some of the other benefits of the tep include, reduced crowding and more convenient, transit connections and improved reliability and enough up to a 25 percent travel time reduction, on those busy 15 corridors and reduce the transit collisions and enhance the pedestrian safety is also a key out come of the program. and where we do have the trade offs for example, in some cases, where recommending removing stops, we have really tried to minimize those trade offs and so, for example, we are focusing the stop removal

on the heaviest rider ship routes and over all 97 percent of stops will be retained. and this is a map of the tep, as well as some of the brt corridors that we are working on and the pedestrian high collision network and as you can see there is an overlap, and so, with the tep, we will also sefrk as is a delivery mechanism for enhancing the pedestrian safety, and which will help us to reach our goal of zero fatalities over the next ten years. and also, we will improve the mode share by making not only the transit. just approved a two year budget that increased a ten percent service increase and three percent that will be rolled out as early as this fall and 7 percent in the second fiscal

year. and the tp was identified as a high priority in the task force and that was a task force, but the mayor established, and that to identify the funding sources to sustain our transportation system moving forward. and the tep, was included as a high priority for that program. and we are currently pursuing two funding mechanisms, for the current november ballot, including the 500 million dollar, geo bond, and it would not be in additional it would be uppeder way and 150 million of it will go towards implementing the transit

project and the funding sources also identified, the resources for the new and larger vehicles, which are also critical to delivering the service improvements. and i know that the commission josefowitz and wald were sponsored for the conversations and so maybe, if the commissioner josefowitz if you would want to? >> it is a tremendous program and i don't know how you guys are thinking about telling the folks about how successful, it will be, and it will hopefully be, and so, that you can ge