not only the fourth largest but its population over 14 million demolishing we have 16 and a half visitors here that you rivals that and it's the first of major flight into the interior part of china had city is one of the huge chung do and you don't have to be china scholars ask ambassador ed for all the information by it's historic one of the most historic cities in china yes, we mentioned that they not only have the passion, prejudice district attorney sanctuary but they are famous their cuz begin and art world but for the business world that's why this flight is so important i predict that will going from 3 times a welcome to more that's the

relationship between china in the area it about that growth. so this is going to be a wonderful flight i'm very sad that i can't be on this flight. (laughter) 83 very sad you must, you know, how many hours i'm i've spent but ultimately it come down to this i have to take care of the local that an duo district attorney the one that plays with the giants. i know tanya our director of our zoo will be on the flooikt flight either flight i know shields find the sanctuary a nice place i've been there with ore former mayor willie brown and back in the 90s to hold the baby that an daze is a wonder hopefully tanya will find her

way but it's a great flight it's important flight and one that i think a lot of people are going to watch doss because this will exhibit not only mount strong relationship as the gateway to the panic ambassador more and more business people from china one of the designations to the san francisco bay area and companies from our area technology and bio technologies want to invest for families and it's important for both sides of the world i'm thankful that united has spent the time and energy and a to plan because you'll have customers in the bay area p will be strongly supportive. congratulations to united our airport your council general and congratulations again for another great route we all have

and continue to promote and anita i can bring a few pandering that daze back and dream liner you get a dream and the dreamer liner is one of the new it and hopefully, will be on this one of those days thank you, again. and congratulations (clapping) >> thank you mr. mayor thank you very much. folks i must say take a second here that i would be remiss if i didn't acknowledge the first lady of our great city ms. lee thank you so much as well (clapping) >> we talk about this great powerhouse and we talk about how many designations we serve out of san francisco i want to

remind everybody that the reason we did that is because of you in the room and our customers the great package ridge and the great business community in san francisco we can't thank you enough the hometown cowering in san francisco united airlines and nobody else. folks with that, i want to turn my sights open the ambassador and all the work he and, of course, the mayor's office did this wouldn't be possible not only from the people if china but the mayor's office and frankly we wouldn't be here ambassador you want to come up and join us i'd appreciate it,

sir (clapping.) i'm mr. lee and mrs. lee. mr. pacific and distinguished guests it's my great pleasure to be celebrating your airlines a celebration of san francisco. on behalf of the council gentle i'd like to express my congratulations to airlines and thanks to all the guests here for your support. san francisco is a hub for world travelers. especially for those who travel

to and from china. it's almost 8 hundred and some chinese americans living in the bayer bay area and important importantly in the community across the ocean and the demand for traveling between san francisco and china is nationally high and truly sustainable. and on june 13th more than 1.8 million came from china to the united states. the growth of 23 percent and the total spend over $9.8 billion u.s. delores dollars so it's a perfect time for an airline to open direct flights so we

connect chu do and san francisco. we have an additional 2 hundred and 90 seats available for people to fly directly to the united states by that 13 thousand per year historic this is a first rate travel people fly to the united states we enjoy the transportation to travel directly to chu do and in the south west china it's brought in the economic vibrate. i believe we will promote and

communicate also in the trade and economic and education and have other growths. this is a historical moment once again my congratulations to the united airlines thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. ambassador thank you, thank you, thank you again. lame the next person i want to invite you up to the stage is definitely a good friend of united mr. particular i want to send a 92 thank you to our new ceo congratulations, sir

(clapping) >> and i have to say we love it when united refers to sfo as a powerhouse hub it shows how important we recognize how important united is to sfo carrying 40 percent of our passengers it's very important an important occasion to welcome everyone on behalf of our director john martin who couldn't be here today but worked tirelessly we at 70 sfo continue to grow tremendous growth over the past 3 years 26 percent of air traffic control growth. and more our the last 5 years. our traffic growth to asia has

been an important part of the story their counting up to 10 percent of our traffic into sfo and with an increase on an executives 20 percent in the last 5 years a trend which i hope will continue and service the needs of the san francisco bay area and the 14 million residents of chu do. we feel we're the right partner to build it's schedule to asia in terms of the designation traffic and connecting traffic to other popular designations by ain't and it's star line passengers. early this year we opened a renovated boarding area this takes did airport experience to a new level and provide amenities you will only find in a lecturer hotel and in the next

10 years sfo will invest over $4 billion of improvements to the terminal one and 3 facilities providing a hotel and the extension to a long term parking facility as well as dramatic xochlts to those wonderful international terminal cities to elevate the passengers experience this will have an exceptional traffic experiences and all will benefit from the airlines easy connections to 37 cities in the u.s. on behalf of the director we congratulate airlines and wish them continual success of our airports thank you very much. (clapping.) >> thank you i vary and thank

you to the city of san francisco and the people republic of china. ladies and gentlemen, i'd like to ask actually before we do that i want to thank you our customers to support united and our great employees in san francisco that quite frankly make everyone in support of our customers fantastic thank you our employees in san francisco. but first, i'd like to ask all or speakers to join me as well as our captain today we want to ingratiate this trip with a ribbon cutting ceremony please join me by the gate the rest of you.

ready. ladies and gentlemen, ingratiate our brand new flight will of the san francisco powerhouse gateway to the to all or friends in china and chu do congratulations to everybody and 1, 2, 3. >> all right. (clapping) congratulations to everyone. thank you so much and united airlines to the airport and the captain to our passengers and

>> good morning, everyone, this is a tuesday, june 17, 2014, meeting of the plans and programs committee of the san francisco county transportation authority, our clerk is miss cheng, could you call the roll? >> breed? >> absent. >> campos? >> campos absent. >> kim. >> present.

>> mar. >> here. >> present. >> commissioner yee? >> i am here. >> present. >> thank you. >> you have a quorum. >> i would like to thank sfgtv for broadcasting us today, and could you call the next item. >> item number two, citizens advisory committee report. and this is an information item. >> good morning, we have four action items that were also four action items that were of yours, specifically 4, 5, 7, 8 and we passed them all unanimously and item four was 2 million in proposition kfunds for the bay shore caltrain pedestrian connections project, and i asked the question as to why the developer was not going to pay for this and the answer that i got was that this was that they could maintain the

pedestrian access to the train, during the length of the project and the development/construction of the project and item number five is the balboa station, and took the time to address its issues, and your item number 7 was 53 and a half million dollars in prop k, funds, as well as 1.8 million dollars for 7 requests, peter asked about the glen park community plan, and whether or not it included bicycle item and they will follow up on that and number 8, and that was the prop k programs and our chair,

glen davis asked whether or not, those programs will be affected by it and they may have to be reprioritizeds and that is it. >> have you for being specific. >> i am happy to do that and usually i see him here and he has comments on several of our items and i was going to defer to him to talk about that, but i don't see him here today, maybe next month. >> i see no questions from colleagues, but thank you so much, mr. larkin. >> we need to open this up for public comment is there anyone else that would like to speak? >> public comment is closed. >> could you call the consent calendar? items 3 through 5, considering

routine, prepared to present if desired if a member objects, and any of the content calendar may be removed and considered separately. >> thank you. would anyone like to pull any item? >> seeing none, let's open it up for public comment, is there anyone from the public that would like to speak i see none. >> roll call. >> breed. >> absent. >> campos. >> absent. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> and consent calendar is approved. >> thank you. >> and now we are joined by our colleague, commissioner cohen. could you call item 6? >> recommend the appointment of one member to the citizen's advisory committee and, this is an action item.

>> we have courtney presenting. good morning, and by way of background, the transportation authority has the citizen committee and each member serve as a two-year term for the administrative code, the plans and program, committee recommends and the transportation authority boards presents the members, and neither the staff or the citizen's make me recommendation on the appointment and you can see a list of folks who submitted applications to be considered for appointment to the citizen's advisory committee, and you can see it with information, regarding the current committee members and to qualify for the appointment, someone must appear once before the committee to speak to his or her interest in qualifications. and we currently have one vacancy verying your committee action and it is the result of the passing of flanagan of district six and there is 6 to consider, we understand that

there may be candidates in the audience interested in speaking to their interests and qualifications and with that we can take any questions that you may have. >> thank you. >> so i see no questions. i believe that we have some of the applicants, or we have some of the applicants here. if you would like to speak, come forward. >> good moerpg, i am captain of the basketball coalition, recommended and applied to serve on the cac. and as a san francisco resident, i am extremely interested in improving mobility through transit and infrastructure projects and as

a former cross cultural trainer . >> and as a cyclist profession alley have advocated for improvement to the bicycle network. i reside on the mission district and i cycle through soma and before i began cycling i commuted for years on the 14 mission, bus to downtown.

you can expect reliability, and commitment and organization. i will consider the impact of changes to the transit or the infrastructure projects upon on the under served citizens. and above all, in any group, i serve the strengths involve listening, and conflict emerge and how the solutions and compromises that may not be readily apparent. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> is there no one else that would like to speak that is an applicant? our office received one letter from an ap mri indicate and so

i encourage you to reach out to our office and although i want to make it clear that we are looking for a resident of the district to represent the district and i know that mr. commiting, called this morning and he is not feeling well. and he is quite sick and so i am just going to ask to continue this item so that we can hear from him at a committee meeting and to reach out as well to our office. >> thank you for taking the time to apply. thank you very much. >> let's open up from the for the public comment, is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak? >> seeing none, comment is closed. >> we have a motion to continue this item to the next meeting. can we do that without objection? thank you. >> we are joined by commissioner breed as well. >> next item?

>>recommend allocation of $53,539,150 in prop k funds, with conditions, appropriation of $39,000 in prop k funds, and allocation of $1,804,206 in prop aa funds, with conditions, for seven requests, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules , this is an action item. >> and thank you, and we have mr. chad rapman a transportation planner, and i would like to reference larkin's comments about the questions about the glen park station as well that came up earlier in this meeting. thank you. >> a request for, and they are kind of the projects and we will go through them with a brief overview. >> and based on this public sidewalk repair, and the request for the prop k funds

are for the construction of sidewalk replacements around the city streets at approximately 210 locations and the funds leverage in addition to the state funds that will be used to repair the additional 95 locations. the locations to be repaired are picked from a list of requests that have been inspected by the staff and prioritized higher if the location has been a sight of an accident. and maybe the dpw also looks at area of high sidewalk lift and locations with existing extensive damage and this is a recurring annual request for prop k and conditioned upon approval of the five year priority, which is the subject of agenda item 8.

this is 39,000 dollars to conduct the follow up planning to that effort and the funs from this project will be used for the development of the scopes of work and funding plans and the rfp for the next phase of the project related to the realignment of the southbound off-ramp and the closure of the northbound i280 on-ramp as well as from the funding for the inner agency staffing and i want to note that the transportation authority staff received the supportive action from the balboa park on this item. >> these are included in the plan to increase the safety. and this is the subject of this specific request and

implementation and for a total of 4 intersections by the community and intersections in priority order, and arlington and wilder and the funds that will be used for the construction, and repaving and lecturn pockets and upgrading signals and street lighting and restriping and landscaping and does eliminate the five parking spaces. and the prop k, request it here is lefage as a 1.2 million dollar federal ear mark. and the next project shown is the comments and i think that the cac questions the plan and larkin raised is what improvement to viking and to the pedestrian safety and it sounds like those and that intersection will make it much safer for the biking and the pedestrian an safety. >> that is right, arial is following up as the project manager but the traffic calming

impacts will effect both bicyclists and pedestrian ans but as far as having specific bicycle infrastructure and that might be a typo but we will confirm. >> thank you. >> and the street scape and it applies for the project that the committee saw in april and the initial funds in 2012 were for the first block of the construction and the design and the projects gave the project the vision of funding for the second block. and the project includes, traffic calming and traffic islands a bus bulb out, and pedestrian. and on the second we have for the month is the field and loop

pedestrian requestor and requesting 240,000 for the design phase of this project, and the sfmta and the city college have been working to to be sure that the project continues to move forward for the construction, and sfmta will be designing and constructing the project on behalf of the city college and in coordination of the new pedestrian plaza located between the actual loop where the buses will turn around and a new housing development. and the it will design a new pedestrian connection between the city college and the loop and the kstop on, on shen avenue and the design on the construction to be completed by the fall of 2015 and the winter of 2016. 21 million is the over all cost.

and that goes towards the contract and prokuring the managing the subcontract and administering the client, eligiblebility. all of the work funded will be completed by june the 15th and i want to know that on time performance is up and, and the requests are done and accounting for more new accurate we are forming and over the past three years, the debit card system is allowed better enforcement of the program rules and includes the program for the ramp taxi drivers. okay and the final request is for the transbay transit center, the joint power authority is requesting 43 million for the construction phase of a transbay transit center. it will support the san francisco bus ramps and program and project management and