is really a critical urgent priority for replacing like the 60 foot trollies that are on the 38 geary lines and i am wondering if there are other ways that we utilize the federal funding sources and local sources to speed up the purchase of vehicles like that. >> sure. mta is engaging in a couple of different methods to expedite, project delivery and acquisition of vehicles and one of them is that they are participating for a portion of these procurements with the end of the consorsum that will allow seattle to join the process for the vehicles that are being prokured and so it can reduce the acquisition time by 9 months. >> thank you. >> and the next five-year plan that is for consideration, and not for adoption is for the muni facilities projects, and the done and under way projects

and you can see the escalator projects is what will be incorporated in phase two due to the popular projects and the control and the communication projects are under way and the enterprise and the as ses management is also under way and in particular, something that might hear addressed in the management update and because the efforts that the mta is undertaking to manage the resources. >> so for the proposed projects for the next five years, dpw is doing, early planning work, right now, to verify the scope in the needed improvements of the various different facilities that will help to address the needs of the projects going forward. the paint booths at the muni metro east facility in the woods and will improve efficiency as mta shifts to the

motor coach fleet. okay. some of the quick highlights, and we will get the amount of funds that are non-prop k that are left to be identified and the funding plan already assumes revenues from the november ballot measure and prop k is funding conceptual engineering work and this will allow for a significant scoping and a needs assessment and resource analysis, for mta to scope the projects that are moving to the top as-needed but the funds to actually implement the projects are not actually all in place yet, so they are left to be secured. there are potential funding sources that exist, including

cap and trade funds to the region, and that have been approved in the state budget, and at a state level. revenue bonds and also, future general obligation bonds. >> for mta, muni guide ways, this is another category that is under consideration, but for action next month. highlights of the projects that have been delivered are on this slide, we can address any of them in particular, if you wish. but this gives you an overview of what has been delivered to date with prop k and what is currently under way. the c3 facility is actually completed but mta needs to move in and it can't move in until all of the equipment until the system's project is all

completed. >> the proposed projects, in the category include the van ness brt and the system department, and for the portion of this will be funded with federal state of good repair funds, and the back up center, for the vehicle control, and so that we can avoid system shut downs and similar to the ones that have occurred in the recent months and also, someplace holder projects for projects that are to be identified. highlights that we will keep an eye on the project delivery to insure that the projects are moving that have prop k funds that are a lot of problematic place holders so that the projects will need to come back to the board in order for the funds to be allocated, of course. and then also, that the revenue bonds because they have significantly contributed to the program over the last five years, for guide ways, and mta

has not come in for a significant level of prop k funds over the last five years. and that trend will continue to 16/17 and that is why you are not seeing the prop k kicking in until the end of the five-year plan and we will continue to monitor that. this is the art facilities categories and they have the development for three operators, for mta cal train and bart. and mta has the majority of the funds programmed for it and bart also has a state of good repair and station access funds available in the prop k program. and the bart facilities projects and the projects that are done and proposed over the next five years are shown on the screen and the highlights includes the daily city bart station that is proposed in the next five years and this will be for the best circulation

access. and we will be funding prop k funds can be used outside of san francisco, as long as they provide benefits to the residents of san francisco, to proportional to the share that we are providing and funding and so this is also being contributor to the project. the project is the parks improvement project and this will be for another intersection, that is recommending. the bart guide ways project and this is for the guide ways category and under way as the palace street and water inclusion project and you may have seen it if you have been at the station, and the transbay tube passage doors and i have been educated and i need to read the safety sites on bart a little bit carefully to know that they actually provide access to a center lane, and

access, tunnel in between the two tunnels. and in this, to the train tunnels so if there is an emergency you can get outside of the doors and walk through the center running. and this will provide for doors between treasure island and san francisco. there are other doors on the other side and i will highlight. bart station and the capacity projects, and this is separate from the vehicles facility and guide ways this is an actual stand alone category and you can see the projects that are done and the north east plaza for the 16th mission bart station and the proposed project, or the projects that are under way and the station study that you have seen in allocation recently and we are working with our regional counter parts on that project.

the projects that are proposed for the next five years, primarily are around the bart station, and there is a neighborhood transportation improvement capitol project and this will improve the entryway at the head house and also, access and policing the connectivity at the street level and there are also improvements proposed for the 25th and mission, and the redesign of the civic center and station. >> and i just wanted to thank todd morgan from bater for being here and resources from dpw, and jonatha. >> the next is the ferry category, and they funded the

removal of the dilapidated parking area and this scraoe ated space for the new gate a. and so the improvements are one is for a new gate a, for passenger waiting and cuing area and also a gang way and piers project that is proposed that will increase access, and passenger ramps to be consistent with the other ferry operators in the bay area, and associated with the repair and this is also to increase the ability of transit service in the case of an emergency. these are where the projects are and you can see the blue circle and the green circle on the screen. and the next series of five year plans are the dpw land

programs, the first is the street resurfacing and maintenance category. over the last five years, prop k has funded the resurfacing of about 100 blocks, and we have advanced prop k to support a higher annual budget and then we realized that tpw is also to spend the funds on time and then to work with the projects on time and this also helps the city maintain its goals to its pavement condition and score of as high as possible. and prop k gives the small piece of the revenue pie for the street resurfacing. and so, we are primarily funding the construction phases of projects that are proposed over the next five years. this does not represent the entire street resurfacing program, i will note, and the rest of the streets that are proposed to be resurfaced are included in one of the enclosures that i believe that it is enclosure h, to your

packet. for this item so that you can see all of their planned projects over the next five years. the highlights of the street resurfacing category, over the next five years, we continued the plan to advance the funds and in order to help the city achieve its goals, it does reduce the amount of funds available in the out years of prop k, so it takes about ten years off of the availability of funds, but the funds are available through the fiscal year, 2526. >> pedestrian and bike facility maintenance, this funds dpw five lock repair program and also mta meet and the buy facilities safe hip post screen paint.

curb ramps, this is the category that funds the dpw curb ramp program along with the funds from the general fund and the mayor's office of disability. and dpw has done the targeted out reach over the years and the neighborhoods with a high population with the folks of disability and are aware and there are a low number of usable curb ramps and then through the mailings and also the various different types of advertisements. and people can request curb ramp by calling 311. >> let's see, this is the last? >> the last category proposed is for the street tree mainting and maintenance >> they have planted the trees and have done a significant amount of maintenance, the locations for dpw is proposing to plant the trees over the next five years are empty tree

basins on dpw maintain streets and then also to do the main nens of the established trees and so going forward is to present these six for adoption today. and next month, we will be bringing the remainder of them for you to adoption along with the strategic plan to update the programming and cash flow reflecting the plan. >> thank you and we have maria. >> i just wanted to set up for the committee and we had five or six meetings where they dove into it and it was the user friendly methodology, that puts the higher priority on safety, and then a quick thank you to all of the sponsors that are here and especially mta that everybody has put in a huge amount of effort on this and to

mta staff. >> thank you. >> and, thank you miss laford for the presentation and i also wanted to thank our director cheng and others for advancing not only the systemic city wide priority programs and allowing atony from the districts and so there is money built in for each district to advance its own planning needs and i know that within my district, we have a district one transit team of different leaders and representatives from organizations that look at how to use the funding for plans and especially to focus on safety on parts and senior centers in the district and i want to appreciate the city-wide look and also, local atonomy as well. commissioner campos? >> thank you, mr. chairman and

thank you for the presentation, just a quick question. and maybe it is more of a process, one. but, as we begin the sort of the implementation of vision zero and the funding that comes with that, how does that interact with what you just presented? >> so, next month, you will see the pedestrian, i am sorry, the pedestrian circulation and safety, the bicycle circulation and safety, and the traffic calming and the signals category and the pedestrian and bike projects are funded and so you will be seeing the implementation of different programs and there is a lot of place holders at this point. and sort of a universe of locations that mta is considering delivering in the next five years but by way of specific locations there are a handful. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you, if there are no other questions, let's open it

up for public comment, is there anyone that would like to speak from the public? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. could we have a roll call on the six? >> commissioner breed? >> breed, aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> kim in in >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> this item passes. >> thank you. >> could you call the next item. >> nine, progress report on performance audit of the san francisco municipal transportation agency and this is an information item. >> commissioner compass has called for this item. >> and we have a presentation for navaro. >> and very just quick background and then i will introduce the presenters, and commissioner campos recalls, 2010, i came and asked the board of supervisors and the

transportation authority board, that jointly funded a performance audit of the sfmta and it was focused on the larger capitol events and the muni side of the transit and vehicle facilities and guide ways with the purpose of trying to identify the areas where they could improve the project delivery and transparency and so forth. and that, audit, was completed and presented to the board in 2011 in like both audited had a list of recommendations that were reviewed by the sfmta and provided an update and this is a progress report that commissioner campos has asked for and i will ask miss harris who is the director of the capitol programs and construction at sfmta to give the presentation and i will say that many of the things that he will talk about, also, benefit the small projects and some of these are highlighted by the director at the vision zero meeting last week and a special

thank you to patricia who is chairing the task force and alicia who made the time to meet with us during the difficult periods last week. >> thank you. >> thank you, for being here. >> thank you, maria. >> mr. chairman and commissioners, good morning, i'm vince harris and direct for, sfmta and joined by the other staff and i want to acknowledge in particular, the manager for the project controls and alica who will be here to answer any questions that the members might have. and so i am sure that this morning, of course, to update, the commission, on the limited management performance audit of sfmta phase two capitol programs and in fact, as she indicated conducted in 2011. >> since that audit, sfmta made

some, and we think some significant improvements to our processes and technology, and coordination and public out reach approaches leading to better project delivery. and in this presentation, i will walk the members through some of the ways that we respond to the audit recommendations to improve the process and i will also describe some recent projects and reflect these changes which have helped us to improve. and the project if the members can well imagine, the elements of the project delivery are the same for the small or large projects and the community out reach and environmental clearance and design and construction and, it can be lengthy and involved for both of the types of project and faster for smaller projects because the scope is simpler for the larger project. and the larger is faster because the project area tends to obviously be smaller. however, a small project can

usually be done by the city staff or added to the project to implement faster than a stand alone contract. >> obviously we are preparing to deliver more project and perform an extensive analysis of the staffing needs should the ballot plans for november pass, this shows how we could not do that and we are well aware of the increase of fupds that would increase our staffing needs and preparing this by determining now when we will need the new staff, and what roles they will fill and when it will make sense to hire new employees or contract out to consultants and and shows the staffing needs and our division and the construction that will show an uptick in work as we begin delivering more projects. this slide provides members with an overview of the changes that we have implemented and at a high level, we can see the

concerns that were identified in providing in terms of recommendations from the audit, and things like time and cost over runs and reporting an oversight and confusing financial information, and trying to rectify that and process improvements of the projects and as we go through the presentation, we will talk about how we are doing the improvements to some of these items. >> capitol planning and analysis. sfmta capitol policies have been, in effect, really since 2011 providing the policy framework for the management of scope, schedule and budgets that are obviously are the heart of any management and control system for project delivery. and develop, the clear procedures for a budgetary and scope changes and each of these changes are documented for analysis and lessons learned. for the three years of data, it is possible for sfmta to

evaluate the data and the more proactive and proposed changes and processes the project delivery. but what we call the transportation capitol committee or the tcc recently approved the 5-year program that was adopted by the sfmta board on may 20th when the annual basis reviews, the cip past performance, and recommends improvements going forward. project p development phase, and since we have established what we call a free development phase to better design the scope of front, and prepare a better initial cost estimates that improves the opportunities for the project coordination and when the process of recruiting a project schedule and cost estimator and we are also accessing the as-needed consultant contracts to provide that expertise, and we develop the project delivery steps and

provide training, and structure and guidelines. >> it equals coordination, and we are committed to complete the concept at sfmta to align the objectives and utilize the funding more effectively and this allows for the better intraagency coordination and better coordination with the city department agencies like dpw and planning and puc and of course, the sfcta. and since the last audit, sfta has made some significant strides in adopting and implementing the latest project management software. and some of our old systems really did not provide our project managers, with a detailed ability to track the scope, and schedule and cost, that is closely as we really need to.

and the new systems such as p6 for work plans and schedules, or eco for financial reporting as shown here are much more dynamic and allow for a greater opportunity to track the projects and progress and to take the contributive actions to improve the project success and it is important to recognize that it is one thing to monitor the projects and another thing to have the opportunity to know when there is a problem and raise a red flag and be able to take the action so that we can still be successful. >> sfmta call to change initiative. and the agencies engaged in a concentrated and sustained effort, to improve our capacity to work together, and to deliver the projects, and services for san francisco, and to support of our strategic plan, and this effort is under way and already making improvements in agency communications, teamwork, and breaking down silos as you can well emergency, sfmta is a

large organization and so trying to break down the silos is a critical and important feature of improving project delivery, and we have hired professional help to support in this activity and we are not just for a short period of time but for three years that shows our commitment to the change. our roots of engagement are working hard to improve the out reach and standardizing the approach to the community involvement and our communication division has developed the own version of sfmta public out reach and engaged team or called to significantly improve our direct communication with a video of communities in san francisco. >> i just wanted to thank the mta, you and the staff for it and for the projects of the projects, and i can see

concretely the changes and the good faith efforts to try to reach out to neighborhoods and to engage them and i appreciate that. >> while planning in the next 25 years there will be a 45 percent in increase in jobs and 35 in household op population in san francisco and i am sure that members are aware of the task force, and the funding need and the ballot measures and coupled with that in terms of the other planning programs here at the sfda and in concert with that sfmta 20 year capitol plan.

as i come to a close, just want to provide for the members, some examples of projects that are using some of the new processes ta we have enacted at sfmta and this is an example of one, and the street scape project is a case in front at 2013 at 11.8 million project budget and this street, and it was transformed into a neighborhood friendly street and the residents requested for the traffic and wider medians and the new street trees and plants and we think that it is a good example of the cooperation between the mta and dpw and puc. >> the 5 folsom and we are certainly proud of that pilot program, initiated in october

of 2013. and the 12-month project is along the corridor and introduced limited stop service to provide quicker trips. and the benefit include improved safety and accessibility and reduced delays and quicker trips and better traffic flow, again a cooperation in the agency. >> it was mentioned earlier regarding fleet prokurment and from thinking outside of the box, it has joined a current competitively bid vehicle with the state of minnesota and the vehicles specified under the contract were updated to include the features necessary for sfta's unique operating environment and high, passenger loads. >> next steps, certainly, our capitol program and control system where we call our cpcs functioning in our division will be rolled out,

agency-wide, starting even with the smaller project and completing the planning to enable the capacity for upcoming projects and instituting an extra agency charter to strengthen coordination between us and the other city departments. i want to thank you for the opportunity to be here and we would be glad to answer any questions of the members. >> commissioner campos? >> thank you, very much, mr. harris and i really appreciate your presentation and the work that the mta has done and i actually think that this is one of the important things that we can do as we move forward to ask the voters to invest more money in the system and i think that to be able to do that, successfully, and beyond it, and it is the right thing to do that we need to make sure that we have addressed some of the concerns, and do you keep track of how many projects or how many capitol projects does the

mta have right now? >> well, within our division and if i could clarify, for the committee, capitol programs and construction is just one of the divisions in the mta that in fact, delivers project and that is significant as it relates to our five year cip, and within our division right now, we have 40 active projects. >> okay >> in categories that include, safety and security, state of good repair, and enhancements and of course, expansion projects, of which, certainly is an expansion project, and central subway that is independent, reporting to our director of transportation, and the next larger project that we have would in fact be the van ness project that is coming and there are a number of other projects within the agency and i will be happy to share with the membership, a complete list and bring that back to you and have the exact number of all of the other divisions that will be providing that. >> and i think that i