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hearings. we have had three public hearings so far. at those public hearings we have heard from members of the public and took good points and car share organizations have either relocated or going back to look. i don't recall distinctly the page street location and i would be happy to talk to the gentleman afterwards. that location won't be coming back in that precise spot, this those coordinates, but it's probably going to come back somewhere nearby and could be that the car share organization is looking around the corner, down the street or somewhere nearby. i can't emphasize enough that everyone is aware that the neighbors are the customers for these things and it doesn't make sense to alienate them, but we're asking folks to take a leap of faith by converting one or two parking spaces to a shared vehicle, in the not too distant future may certainly offer cheaper alternatives to
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outright car ownership. >> okay. i will just say that i appreciate the outreach you have done and how you are going about this, very professional as always with you. i would just say in the future, the comment that would trouble me the most and we haven't really heard it today except for one gentleman to get his point across, we don't want to hear neighbors come in and say this is the first i heard of it. it sounds like the car sharing organizes are committed to the dialogue and just -- i mean, this is pretty simple, you know where the people affected by the spot live and that would be the comment that concerns me most going forward. >> indeed. >> it sounds like you have a good dialogue process setup. >> as someone who has come to to this body as a citizen, i too am upset hearing that and there is a practice effort to talking to everyone in the city and a sweet spot in the middle getting to the right people, so we'll continue to work with that. >> director brinkman, you have a motion? >> yes. >> second.
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>> i think it's a worthwhile pilot program and i think what was represented here earlier, makes a whole lot of sense and we'll take seriously whatever information we get from that. because this is just the very beginning and my hope it's successful and works for everybody, for as many people as possible for the greater good of the city. the ayes have it, thank you, next item, mr. boomer. >> moving on to 10.11, consenting to the proposed development agreement between the city and county of san francisco and visitacion development and adopting the mp research and planning for the program. the member of the public who wishes to decrease the -- to address the board is fran martin.
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>> mr. martin has left. >> ayes have it. item 12, right? >> item 11 urging the board of supervisors to place the $500 million general obligation bond on the [tphro-rb/] 2014 ballot. >> director reiskin. >> yes, because this is now moving forward advanced from the budget and finance committee to the full board in july and matt will give you a brief update on what specifically is the bond that is making its way to the ballot. >> good afternoon, mr. brill. >> good afternoon, directors, matthew brill in capital finance at mta and thank you for hearing this item today. so as you have seen before you, you have seen these problemings before, it's tough to get around san francisco. it can be stressful. muni can be crowded.
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and streets can be difficult to navigate, no matter what mode of transportation you are taking. as you have seen before, the mayor's task force in 2013 convened a group of 45 shake holders to look at the system in san francisco, look at the needs over the next 15 years and look at solutions to address those needs. recently on may 5 2014 the capital planning committee recommended the general obligation bond for the november 2014 ballot and as director reiskin mention on may 13th all members of the board and the mayor also recommended the bond for the ballot. so just to recap where it came from, the task force looked at all of the needs in san francisco over the next 15 years, looking at some of the existing plans, strategies and obligations that we have for our transportation system. that totaled over $10 billion over the next 15 years, so a very big need. good news that we have roughly $3. 7 billion to cover the
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needs that we have for our transportation system that. leaves a $6 billion shortfall and the transportation to affect represented three different funding sources as one of two general obligation bonds and the other two sources, which could come in future ballot years is an increase to the vehicle license fee, and increase to the sales tax. so today we have before you a specific look at the bonds and the past you have looked at both funding sources that were under consideration for november. today the transportation and road improvement bond you can see here we have two primary goals for that bond. one is to improve transit and second is to create safer streets. we have a number of categories of projects. can you see here a summary of the expenditure plan. i will go through each of the two goals and some of the projects we could likely see with the funding. so a large part of the inproved transit category to help implement the
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transit effectiveness project and making the system for reliable for customers, increasing accessibility at transit stops and stations and really importantly to be able to upgrade some of our facilities, some of which are over 100-years-old and have been in disrepair and thereby creating an inessential environment to repair our vehicles and would facilitate working environment to allow those vehicles to get back into service as quickly as possible. we wanted to highlight particularly the transit effectiveness project or muni forward and you can see here some of the key outcomes that residents and riders and visitors to san francisco would experience. this is the first of two groups of three of the capital projects that are recommend as part of the transit effectiveness project. these projects are capital improvements to the right-of-way that will have a sick impact on improving reliability and comfort of passengers as they travel
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throughout the city. moving to the secondly primary goal of the bond, safer streets and many of the improvements will increase visibilities of pedestrians as they walking on the streets of san francisco, including creating wider sidewalk, new pedestrian signals that allow pedestrians to know when to cross. traffic-calming to create a more welcoming and safer environment for all modes of travel of the very importantly is well-defined bikeways, that all users of the road know where they are supposed to be. so bicyclists know where they should travel and creating safe spaces for them and allowing motorists to travel in parallel. a key project highlight that we wanted to inform you of that could receive funding from the bond is the two -- first two phases of walk first. you have seen walk first before you at numerous occasions, but this will help to build the capital
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improvements identified in the early phases of this project, addressing many of the areas that we see on a small minority of our streets and install and constructing some of the improvements that you see, bulbouts, signals and other engineering improvements to help create a safer environment for everyone. in total if you look at the investments from both the transit effectiveness project and the explicit pedestrian and bicycle improvements that is roughly $300 million of the $500 million bond is going towards our goal of vision zero. so it's a very important first stepped forward to help achieve that goal by 2024 and more will definitely be needed, but this definitely gets us on the right track to achieving that goal. so to summarize some of the outcomes that we could experience over 280,000 riders a day will experience a more reliable, efficient travel on muni and improving accessibility to allow everyone to get access to the transit
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system no matter how you travel. improving our reliability by making sure our vehicles are maintaining a state of good repair and staying in service. we'll be able to build out to 27 miles of the well-defined bikeways to create a safe path of travel and i think most importantly as you saw in the early slides there is still a shortfall that these funds don't help us to achieve. however, we feel very strongly that by generating funds locally, we'll be able to secure expoliticianly explicitly funding from our transportation partners. just to wrap up, i wanted to reiterate what you have seen before, but just how the projects will be celebritieding and selected and the actual specific locations that are generated from the two programs. we have a number of common
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criteria that are reviewed before you and certain programs that have unique characteristics particular to that program. all of the projects have been reviewed, that have a specific potential location along the lines of equity analysis strategy that you have reviewed in the past to ensure that the projects are located equitably throughout the city to achieve the goals of the programs. and as this is all city general obligation bonds oversight will be provided by the general obligation bond oversight committee. they have the purview and accountability to do audits and reports on bond expenditures and this bond will be part of that existing process. individual appropriations go through the board of supervisors and bond issuances as well. should the bond pass a dedicated website will be created to report on the expenditures and interested partis can see where the projects are and where their
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status is. with that, i leave with or you with the resolution before you and if you have any questions, i would be happy to answer. >> thank you very much, mr. brill do members of the board have questions or comments? >> no. >> do we have any members of the public? >> no, no members of the public. >> point of order, just come forward if you want to speak. that is all. >> you think a ballot initiative will put a bond on the measure is going to fix this situation? it's not going to fix the situation. stop paying other city departments work orders. stop coming to the public, stop
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trying to squeeze money -- stop trying to squeeze water out of a turnip from the employees. what you need to do is sit down, all of you, think about how you are spending your money? wasteless projects like this one is a waste -- i'm a voter of san francisco. and i'm definitely voting no against this. what needs to happen is mta reform. now a vote for initiative to get the mayor's puppeteers out of this office and put in people from the community, who wants to fight for community issues. safe, reliability transit for the community. that i will support. that is what needs to happen. we need to do an mta reform and
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show the public how operating funds from muni, the fta recently did an audit in 2007 and caught you guys with the mayor with his hands in the till, paying stan staffers and lobbyists out of the fund and you want to mislead the public that the mta is in a deficit all the time -- no, it's not. it's just the people behind this desk not doing their job and holding that office accountability four their expenditures. spending $5300 for a megaphone, a bullhorn. >> thank you, next speaker. >> there is no other member of the public who has indicated that they are interested in speaking. >> if you care to speak to the board, please fill out a card. good afternoon. >> my name is janice sachs.
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i am a driver, i am a transit operator and there are old projects that have not yet been fulfilled. so when i see every slide that states that the company wants to give a better, reliable and on-time performance, that is really hard for me to grasp, being that we are short 200 something drivers. there will never be on-time better performance, but there will be buss that will try to be safely on-time. there is a big difference. what you don't have enough drivers to drive around the city and pick up everybody at a clocked paced time in which we have scheduled that we should follow or we try to follow. one more thing, he baffled with
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280,000 people can look forward to this type of performance and when the buses are not there or for whatever reason the buss are late, the drivers become the problem, they are the target. but your you are 00 something drivers short and if you add the 200 drivers on and bring in the equipment, that works -- really works and we can drive through the city at a maybe on-time performance. then it would be better to move on to a new project before. you never finished this old project, hiring the people that you need to give this city and the citizens what they need. thank you. >> thank you. sir? >> p.j. williams again. i want to speak on the whole on-time performance thing. it appears to me that we are
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really getting ahead of ourselves from the basics of just getting on the bus and getting off the bus and having the bus be on-time. you want to start a new program. you have already started programs where people with godly huge strollers, we have to pull an lrv train up to the platform, lift the stairs, load the stroller, and there is no -- the core value behavior when it comes to how people behave on the bus, nobody wants to look at that whatsoever. now this driver has to worry about making sure those stairs go back down, so that you don't face a lawsuit. so if you are going talk about on-time behavior, look at how the system is operating. because there is a lot of things being said here that make absolutely no sense whatsoever. i mean, i am starting to wonder, do you ride the trains and the buss? have you ever riden the 54 or the 23? do you even know where those neighborhoods are behind
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bayview? because a lot of this is madness. it's silly. it's silly. i have driven every single division and i'm one of those drivers who can drive just about anything that muni has. and when you talk about on-time performance, you guys are going to have to go back to the basicks a little bit. most of the people don't know how to board the bus, get on the bus or how to behave once they get on the bus. so i think you can look at some basic things and save a whole lot of money without going around in circles. you know, understand it's will $9100 a year for the average driver come to work. lieutenant governor $35 a day and not even taking into consideration a $2 raise for the driverser just opening a whole other can of worms
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>> thank you, anyone else wishb to decrease the board on this topic? >> good afternoon, once again, when are you going to tell the public the truth? they are not telling you about the 251 part-time positions that are still open. on top of your training issue, when do we expect to have a full lineup of operators? oh, in about four, five years. so your tep project is not actually to expand service. actually it's to decrease service because you don't have the bodies. you can't put more service on the streets unless you have the bodies. let's tell the public the truth. somebody said i'm not telling the truth about the number of operators on the platform, well you tell us. you tell us the real number. we know we have inadequate
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training department; that can't deliver. it takes 45 days to train your average person to come into a bus. you may have a class of 20. you may get ten people out of that to graduate. when do we expect to have a full lineup of operators? about four or five years. your on-time performance in which as stakeholders we would love to be on-time, but you know what we are telling our members? be safe. and if they are to be safe, they shall follow the rules of the agency. stopping at all stops, making sure all senior citizens and babies and carriages are followed up at the stop before they move. no right turns on red, all of the above. if we did that, if all of our members took that into account and did what they are supposed to do, not that we don't want the system to be on-time, you think -- what is it right now? about 60%? if most our members that are on the platform right now did what
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they were supposed to do, it would probably be at an unbelievable about 40% on-time. but our members are out here working hard, trying to keep it going. pushing the system, getting into incidents and accidents. thank you. >> thank you. anyone else wishing to address the board on this topic? seeing none, nobody has represented that this will solve all of the mta's problems forever, but as i have been on the board, it's the best chance to make significant improvements that are to the benefit of all citizen. that is the motion, second? >> second. >> the ayes have it, so ordered. next item, miss boomer. >> item 12, presentation and discussion regarding sfpark evaluation. >> mr. chair as you know, we have now completed the evaluation of the two-year sfpark project and we're pleased to provide some of the results that we found from that
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project. jay primus will come up and present what we found. >> mr. primus, good afternoon. >> it's up to you to load it. do you have a paper copy? use that on the overhead. >> let's go out of order and move to the next item. >> item 13, presentation and discussion regarding regional efforts to plan the next generation clipper system. >> who is presenting this? >> so our cio travis fox is going to introduce the item, and then turn over to carol
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from the mtc to complete the item. >> good afternoon, mr. fox. >> good afternoon. one moment, i'm just looking for the file. maybe you can load it and you can start speaking. >> somebody should start speaking. [laughter ] do you want to speak? >> i can sing a song.
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[laughter ] [laughter ] >> good afternoon i promise i will not sing a song to you as roberta would today. [laughter ] . you would not want to hear that, chairman nolan and members of the board, director reiskin, travis fox, chief information officer for the sfmta and i'm here with carol from mtc. to provide a brief update on the regional update for clipper 2. director reiskin will provide the perspective as well and first i wanted to share a couple of thoughts on where we are today for the agency. so at this point in time clipper has been in full operation on muni for nearly four yearsed. currently clipper tags constitute nearly half of
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usage across the bay area and within the muni system, nearly half of all muni boards aring are associated with clipper tags. at this juncture, there are 118 clipper retailers across the city in addition, to the muni ticket vending machines that dispense both adult clipper [ka-rdz/] and offer opportunity to add to the clipper cards. sales across the vendor network do vary with some conducting a high level of sales and others have little sales and we're currently papering with mtc to allocate some of the lower performing vendors for better geographic position across the city. that is just a few comments from the muni perspective. the purpose is to have a more global view from carol and i will transition to her at this time. >> great. good afternoon. my name is carol and i work at
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metropolitan transportation commission and i'm director of the electronic payments unit and we're responsible for delivering the clipper program, as well as fast-track. clipper cards allow seamless travel between the bay area operators, and clipper is available to 95% of all riders. we have 1.4 active cards in unanimous we're processing about $35 million a month. so this is a great accomplishment and we're excited to be here. we're expecting to launch in
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napa and solana operators and sonoma marin area rail transit district has announced when they enter into revenue service they will be clipper-only. so this map just gives you a quick glimpse of those expansion efforts. so a quick look at the clipper program history, as travis mentioned, clipper has been successfully in use on mta since about 2008. and i think the main purpose of putting this slide up without getting into a lot of clipper history is really just to show there was the precursor program translink, that was the original effort to coordinate fare collection in the nine bay area counties and in 2010 the program was rebranded to clipper. that is where you see this big spike in use of the program.
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it was not just the rebranding effort that resulted in that use, but more importantly the movement of a significant number of payment instruments onto clipper that led to that exceptional growth. so we do have many customers today, and we do have a very high rate of customer satisfaction, despite the fact that clipper doesn't always work for everyone in every instance. when we survey our customers 98% of them say they would recommend clipper to their friends and families. so we're pleased with that record, even though we know we have more work to do. so while it's taking a long time to get clipper to where it is today and we're continuing to expand out to other operators, we have also starteding to think ahead to the future. this slide just quickly shows that fare collection has undergone significant changes over the last 30 years and we are reevaluating where to take
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our electronic fare payment systems next. as you know, from your daily life and other presenters here, there are all kinds of new payment options that are emerging in parking, in transit and in other parts of our daily lives and so we're taking a look at those options to see how they might apply for transit fare payment. we're working with transit operators to take a look at a variety of ways that we could apply mobile payments to ease the burden of having to find a retailer, add value to cards, and make transit payments. and as we take this initial look into where we think we should be headed next we're paying allot of attention to what peer agencies are doing elsewhere in the country. for example, in washington, d.c. area, washington metro has run a program very similar to ours and, in fact, the same vendore. they have just gone out to bid
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and in this [ka-eurbgs/] they have gone with a different contractor and they are pursue something innovative models that we think we could learn from and that is the case in chicago and sortly will be the case in portland. unlike the first time at the cutting-edge ever translink, we have the benefit of looking at lessons learned in the industry and hopefully not being at the leading edge. so where does that leave us in our region today? basically we have a contract with our vendor right now today that is slated to end in 2019. and so when we work back from that, we are planning for situation where we would have enough time to bring a new contract into being, and to have parallel operations for some period of time. so that we can manage the inevitable challenges related to upgrading such a massive system with so
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much deployed equip out in -- equipment out in the field. some of the limitations is the system architecture was really designed flate -- in the late 90s and so we want to lay er in new technologies. an executive committee that mr. reiskinstit cits on and steering committee and long-range committee to look at uroptions moving forward. i think i will just stop there and take questions or turn this back over to mr. reiskin for the status. >> director reiskin do you want to add anything? >> i will just add