coordination within the city family and within city agencies and again city agency and with the community as we go to develop projects, this graph or this chart or this map of the city shows how we're over laying the various components of the projects that could be funded in this bond to see where there are opportunities for coordination and collaboration. there are many walk first locations that overlap with muni forward locations so as we implement those improvements for muni in the public right away, we'll at the same time get the pedestrian safety benefits done as well just as an example and through all of these projects, we've got a lot of curve ramps constructed and improving access ability through the city. supervisor tang made reference to this. it's an important point. it's a policy

of the capital plan that we only recommend to the board, in the form of general on obligation bonds and issuance of those bonds such as -- the issuance doesn't require an increase in property tax rates and we issue new debt as old debt has retired or as the property tax base grows that can accommodate additional debt without requiring tax rates so you can see the bond program going back a number of years, we're able to continue to issue this debt to make these investments without an increase in property tax rates. in terms of project selection, this is detailed in the bond report. but for all the different categories of funding, there's common criteria we look at

in determining where in the city to make these investments and for bike and pedestrian improvements, we have specific criteria we're using to drive this. and as i mentioned with an over lay -- as we're making these improvements that we're closing any equity gaps that we identify. supervisor tang made reference to the oversight. the city has built a strong robust and transparent process for the management of these obligation bonds. starting with the city's citizens general obligation bond oversight committee that is staffed by the city control's office which has review and auditing of all general obligation bond programs and importantly just to remind you, every time that we issue a series of

bonds, and for a $500 million program, it would be three or four series that's we would come to on each one of those issuances and it requires approval from the board of supervisors and appropriation that goes with those. each time we come for those approvals, it's at that point we have a specific list of projects and programs for which we're seeking your approval for the investment and then the reporting to go along with that to the committee to the board of supervisors through public websites that we've established for these bond programs as well as part of the annual capital budgeting process. so that's what i want today cover

today. mohammed are here to answer any questions you have. >> colleagues, any questions to mr. ruskin. >> i want to say on the upgrade of obsolete muni and visiting some of the balboa park or the muni yards where the light rail vehicles or other vehicles are being maintained, i saw firsthand how facilities and capital needs to create more state of the art maintenance facilities can help our whole system run better and extend the life of our vehicles as well, so i'm appreciative of seeing it firsthand and understanding how critical that bond is. i did want to ask the question that some of the advocates on public safety on the streets and in many of our neighborhoods are asking, i know up until last week when we have a vehicle license fee, many of us was

hoping it would move forward with this go-bond that there was a $13 million commitment to additional projects that would support our vision zero and i think many are feeling there's a $13 million hole in our needs to have vision zero fully implemented. i know this budget, that fills $3 million it, but i know that you mentioned that you feel that 60 percent of the whole bond goes towards significant vision zero type infrastructure upgrades, but i know many still see that roughly, 10 to $13 million hole, so i'm wondering what could be done to fill that hole within this bond, mr. ruskin. >> to supervisor mar and the chair, the first thing i would say, we tried to strike a balance in the ordinance between enough

specifity for the board and for the voters with enough flexibility to so as we work through the process and through the years that we have flexibility to make adjustments if needed, the bond report does recommend an expenditure plan which reflects a balance of needs we have in the city, so i think -- i feel comfortable advancing the program we have at this time. we did have a total of $33 million and we still do and we're in the second year of our capital budget that anticipated the vehicle license fee being on the ballot and getting approved this year, the two year delay does mean that we have a $33 million gap to fill in the second year of our budget and we'll likely have a gap in the next two years. we have plenty of time between now

and fiscal year to work with the board the mayor's office to figure out how to best close that gap, and that's what i would recommend. >> and i'm going to be supportive of moving the bond forward today. it has to sit for a week, is that right? but i did have questions and i know many others would like to know, one is there are a number of projects within the dlf funds allegations that are bond eligible and the question is, is this bond flexible enough to accommodate those dlf projects and how deeply can we search for projects like cal trans like mel assessment district for downtown and they pay their fair share given that they'll benefit from the transit improvements in the transit center area. number three, what commitments

can the mta and the mayor can back field the gaps by the blf given the mayor stated support. lastly, i'll do my best that my office and i are following up with you and fill the hole, but thank you for the presentation. >> thank you. in terms of flexibility of the different projects, there are some thing that's were proposed for the funding that are not go-bond such as fleet. state law -- everything else or most of the left of it is somewhat flexible and the ordinance is awarded that we do on have that flexibility. with regard to the cal tran contribution, we as the city, i believe also the transportation

authority signed an mou committing to $60 million worth of funding. this is a possible source for that funding. it doesn't preclude us exploring other sources but i think we do want to send a strong signal to our regional partners that we'll absolutely honor the terms of that mou, that we signed onto. in terms of committing to fill the gap, what i can commit is to work with the board and i appreciate your offer to work with us on that, and with the mayor's office to close that gap, again, both in fiscal 16 and in fiscal 17 because it's two years of impact from the two year delay of the vehicle license fee, but we're committed and my board was the first to dopt vision zero and we want to make sure we're doing what we can to raise the revenues so we can implement it as fully as possible. speaker: i look forward to the conversations. thank you. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i

want to follow up on a few comments and questions from supervisor mar. in terms of cal trans and cal trans success in terms of its ultimate extension to the trans bay transit center, it's in san francisco interest to make sure we keep up our commitment of a $68 million contribution but we make it work. a lot of san franciscans rely on cal trans and it's all of benefit. so we need to make sure we keep that commitment in the bond. it makes sense to make that capital investment. we know the reality of how things work with mta's budget. that's going to come out of mta's operation budget and that's going to be a detriment of muni and street projects. in terms of

the mello rus, that was intended to provide funding to the downtown extension if the -- downtown extension. that money is being divert today the trans bay center, so the mello rus money, that will be coming to the board and we'll talk about that. it's a disappointing occurrence in my view. finally, i'm in agreement in terms of the need it figure out how we're going to fill the hole in the 2015 and 2016 fiscal years that were left by the two year delay. that's $33

million for mta that was delayed two years. i'm not saying we're going to figure out a way through that entire $33 million, but we have to make a good faith effort and we can't kick the can the next year. we need to figure out how we're going to do that. colleagues, i hope in our add-back project, we'll be generous with vision zero and the mayor has to be involved. so i think over the next few weeks, this is going to be an important conversation as a board and with the mayor as well. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. any further comments? okay. at this point, we'll open it up to public comment for 6-8. anyone who wish to publicly comment on these items. >> good afternoon, superviseers. my name is leah with the bicycle

coalition. thank you for the support and the mayor. as apart of the task force, we were involved in these discussions. i want to remind everyone as you have here, that there is a hole. that we all expected the go-bond to move forward with the vehicle license fee. we're one of the groups that's disappointed, but it does leave a hole. we look forward to it moving in 2016. i would emphasize that points have been made by the supervisors, this is a real hole next year in our safety priorities. the mta budget assumed $13 million for bicycle and pedestrian -- thanks for the support from this board, vision zero, almost every agency we know from the planning commission to the public health department, have committed to vision zero. the

only way we'll do that is if we fund vision zero. we have a $13 million hole thanks to the mayor's $3 million in the proposed budget. we look to you to think creative whether it's assessing go-bond or creative solutions and we hope you'll live up to that for vision zero. thank you. >> any other members of the public who wish to comment? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is nicole. i wanted to express our strong support. right now it's going to fund a lot of different pedestrian safety and vision vision traffic safety improvements. i think there's also -- echoes what leah said, there's a big hole left now that the vlf has been postponed to 2016.

the problem with this hole is that the longer we wait to make vision zero improvements, the more people on our streets suffering from traffic collisions. the improvements and investments now will last generations. there's an urgency. it is not on other projects where the funded isn't needed right away. echoing leah's comments, i encourage you to take a strong look at the different options to fund vision zero looking at the go-bond and other avenues through add backs, et cetera. and i'd like to say we're completely supportive of

transit, investments and investments in multi transportation safety. so i think vision zero is about making our streets safe for everyone and preventing injuries and fatalities and we look forward to continuing to work with you and continuing to follow your leadership on this. thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public wish to comment? seeing none. public comment is closed. supervisor tang. >> i want to thank everyone, especially those who came out to testify. i hear you loud and clear. i want to also restate what has been presented to us from the mta. i think that $300 million out of the $500 million out of this bond is going to be funding some level of improvement that will help with pedestrian safety and i really -- although there has been a hole that has been identified or that wear aware of, i want to remind everyone that this is one of

most significant investments we have seen in history. think possibly about this. we're making investments for this bond that will help us for future generations so i want to encourage everyone in seeing it that way and support the go-bond. >> thank you supervisor tang. we have the amendments circulated previously. can i have a motion to receive these. we can take them without objection. colleagues, we're going to close out today's meeting. just a couple of house cleaning items. have a motion to continue 4, 5, 6 by friday. >> we can take that without objection. >> and then our regular scheduled meeting today, can i have a motion to continue items 3 and 5 to friday. we can take that without objection. and continue items

6, 7, and 8 into next meeting. we can take that without objection. madam clerk, is there any other business before us? >> no, mr. president. >> okay, everyone. see you tomorrow. >> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco

but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in store.

>> i definitely recommend it to people. it's a fun afternoon and you learn so many things. >> this is so much fun. i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more susta -

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco fire department division of training. i'm assistant deputy chief raymond williams i'd like to welcome you and thank you to coming to honor the graduates of

the one hundred and 16th recruit academy ladies and gentlemen, i'd like to present to you the fire crew cut class

(clapping) kruts please be seated. i'd like to have father john come forward and lead us in the notion >> good morning, everyone they made it let's give them another - (clapping) well congratulations not only to our new graduates but you'll see family and friends that helped them through the time i know their protective we shall proud of the class and want to wish them the best has they serve our city and share in so many ways in the protection and safety of all our citizens. we come from many traditions and

yet we just gather in our good thoughts and prayers for the new class and ourselves. lord our god we thank you for your new firefighters we say ask them to watch over them and be proud of the job and to also have a sense of how great a gift it is to be a san francisco firefighter bless their family and friends and all of us today. amen (clapping) >> at this time, i'd like to introduce contacting to lead us in the pledge of allegiance please all stand.

of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. and now i'd like to honor and introduce >> honor our honored guests on my left the honorable mayor ed lee (clapping) we have supervisor scott wiener (clapping) we have father green of st. robert church (clapping) we have deputy director of the d

e.c. robert smut (clapping) we have assistant to the executive director of d m david (clapping) and he may not be seated but the vice president of the education and outreach at the san francisco fire credit unit len (clapping.) we have the president of the fear commission steve (clapping) vice president of the fire commission andrea evans (clapping) and have fellow fir commissioners ken cleveland (clapping) france i didn't cove ton (clapping) and michael hard man

(clapping) we have fire chief of department chief joanne haynes-white (clapping) deputy chief of operations mark gonzales (clapping) deputy chief of administration raymond guzman (clapping) we have assistant deputy chief of support services ken lombardy i didn't (clapping) assistant deputy chief fire marshall. mrs. wong kwlp. we have assistant deputy chief of the airport division dale incarnates (clapping) we have the president of the chief bipartisan chief and dr.

yeah. of the medical (clapping) did i forget anyone there we also have in the audience the president of the local union 798 jim o'connor (clapping) pr we also have numerous board members in the audience (clapping) to my right we have our training staff captain mickey my lieutenant bob. (clapping.) lieutenant justin brown (clapping) lieutenant john cob by a (clapping) lieutenant norm cob by a

(clapping) ernest ca rely (clapping) arnold cho. jason drapery (clapping) james costa mesaer (clapping) julie anyhow (clapping) george sxhith and tyson yee who's not here today (clapping) under ems staff we have chief which you have chief melanie brandon and jay perry (clapping) paramedic captain glenn >> under special projects captain ed mow (clapping) in service training staff ti

training center captain jeff. (clapping.) lieutenant james mel burger (clapping) lieutenant james read i didn't (clapping) and lieutenant pat shaw (clapping) alleyway also in attendance my administer staff (clapping) at this time looked like i'd like to introduce the honorable bodily mayor ed lee who will address the class (clapping). >> thank you assistant chief williams tom o'connell don't fret someone referred to me as