>> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco transportation authority meeting occurring november 18, 2014, will begin shortly. >> good morning, everyone.

this is the tuesday, november 18th, 2014, meeting of the plans and programs committee of the san francisco county transportation authority. and my name is eric mar and i am the chair of the committee to my right is supervisor commissioner norman yee, to my left, london breed and our

clerk is mr. steve, and could you give us me announcements? >> there are no announcements could we have a roll call? >> item number one? commissioner breed? >> we are just going for do the roll call. >> okay, got it. here. >> campos? >> absent. >> commissioner kim? >> kim absent, commissioner mar? >> here. >> mar present. >> commissioner yee? >> here. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you and i would like to thank charles from sfgtv for tell vicing this today, call the next item, two, citizen advisory committee report, this is an information item. >> and we have brian larkin. >> good morning, commissioners. we had only one action item on our ago ago agenda, for the

proposition funds, related to cal train or bart station access, we have some discussion of the station access project that our park station and the east side station access, project. and smith, our newest member initiated that discussion and i asked a question about the cost of rehabilitation of cal train, locomotives whether that was a capitol or a operational and maintenance and thite items that we had were for information only and we listened tentatively to them all, shorter agenda for us. >> thank you, mr. larkin and i want to thank you for your thoroughness but also, the staff from the ta for the drop for the minutes, that are very thorough as well and thank you

so much for always being here. >> most welcome. >> we will open up this for the public, public comment is closed. and colleagues, that was an informational item and so let's call the consent calendar, next item. >> consent calendar? >> items 3 and 4 and these are considered routine and the staff is not planning to present and prepared to present if desired, any of the items can be moved. >> i will sever item four because we have one public comment card and seeing no other items, let's have a roll call on the consent calendar. >> roll call, item 3. >> yes. >> 3, approve the minutes of the... >> hold on a second. >> public comment first? >> is there public comment on item three? >> the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. roll call on item three? >> item number three,

commissioner breed? >> aye. >> campos? >> absent. >> kim. >> absent. >> mar. >> aye. >> call item four. >> we have called item four. we will call it. >> okay. >> item four, allocation of $6,795 t 385 in prop k funds with conditions for eleven requests and subject to the attached fiscal year and the cash flow distribution schedules and the amendment of the relevant 5 year priorityization program and this is action. >> and we have one public comment and i would acknowledge that jonathan from the sfmta and also, amanda and todd morgan from bart and peter skinner here as resources and the public speaker is mr. roland labrun. >> >> thank you, chair mar and i

wrote to the entire board about this item and so first of all, somebody could help me out i want everyone to understand what the authority is, you see, she could display this? okay, at some point. but, the question is why are we refurbishing these, the way that we are and the counter issues that potentially that we are going to have down the road. as they are, these trains are really not powerful enough to put gas in and these are the direction that cal train is headed at. and i think that one of the issues and i wish that supervisor kim was here, is as long as these are around, we will never, ever be able to... (inaudible) because they are not cap able of going to the transbay terminal and a few other points, but the plan is to refurbish them as new. and it is a serious issue because when they were new,

they were zero emission's compliant and if we do an engine swap, we can do three things, we can improve the performance and we will be able to reduce pollution by 90 percent and since we are reducing emissions we now basically become qualified to get a quality management and district grants, which is not even being discussed here. so, in closing, i would just say, right now, we are looking at this and we are wasting $9 million altogether and there is at least 3 million coming from san francisco. and it is in one of the attachments in my e-mail it points to a document and you can see that there, and these are a complete analysis of the benefit of reduced emissions and also costs, but the costs go up and the locomotive,, and that is the only down side, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> are there any other public commenters? in public comment is closed.

colleagues, are there any questions or concerns can we have a roll call on item four? >> on item four, commissioner breed? >> aye. >> breed, aye. >> campos? >> absent. >> kim, absent. >> mar. >> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> the item passes. >> thank you. >> please call item five? >> item number five, san francisco transportation plan and plan bay area updates this is an information item. >> and we have the deputy director for planning david ninema and i believe that our chief deputy maria is going to make the remarks later. >> okay. >> okay, good morning, david, the deputy director for planning for the transportation authority and this morning i want to give an update on the update strategy for the san francisco transportation plan, plan bay area, which is under going and starting its update for the 2017 cycle.

so the san francisco transportation plan is san francisco's long range blueprint for the city's priorities in terms of transportation, and bringing both the multimodal and operator and network approach. and the management and agencies are charged with updating the county wide transportation plan and for the mtc updated guidelines and we are recommended to update the plans to track the regional plan in the community strategies every foreyears. the first long range county wide plan was adopted in 2004 by the transportation authority board, and emphasized among other things, an investment extrainggy for prop k, and as well as strategic policy initiatives that led to studies further down the line, including the parking and pricing and the pilot studies

and the congestion and pricing, and the muni and among others, the comprehensive update on that county wide transportation plan was the san francisco transportation plan and that continued the update of the plan, and emphasized additional areas, including an investment plan and an investment vision, which anticipated new revenue sources that could help us guide the prioritization of the projects that will not fit in the constrained in the area that would be possible to do with the vision of eleven resources. the regional transportation plans the community strategy and actually let me back up, the plan is the region's long range transportation blueprint for the nine counties, in the bay area, and with the passing of sb 375 in 2008, an additional element was added and which is the assistant in

the strategy and that did bring into the mix a few elements in terms of the land use and housing which when combined with transportation will help the region achieve the greenhouse gas and emissions goals as well as accommodate the increasing houses that were mrnd for the region. and the san francisco transportation plan is the formal mechanism for inputing san francisco priorities into the regional transportation plan and ses. so the 2013 update and the comprehensive update, included a broad out reach and a trade and sequence strategy, with several different city agencies to take into account, the different components including the climate and the air quality component and the land use component and the economic development components and the transportation, and in addition

to that there was coalition building with the staff from the city of oakland and san jose and cal train and bart, a multiagency approach was taken to update the plan and emphasizing that we need to speak with one voice in san francisco to be most effective in this process. so, few of the attributes that make the sftp a strong kaor lacing and a planning mechanism, first one is long range system planning it is multty operator and model and network and it is performance based and that allows us both transparency and objectiveness in identifying the priorities for san francisco in terms are what the projects that we want to advocate for. the strategic policy initiatives and the sources and identify and update the revenue forecast so that we can advocate effectively for the newer or expected funding sources for the future, finally

public involvement and the equity analysis, and we identified the needs, specifically focused for the communities of concern, which ended up, and those are kind of the specific example and you are saying that vision zero is a strategy to or equity strategy and so it should put the focus on equity in addition to the equity analysis that we did, and it also helped to strengthen the public ininvolvement component of the sfpt. >> i want to thank the director for leading that and our chairman, john avalos as well and i think that it makes us unique as a transportation authority that really focuses on equity and strong, strong public involvement as well. thank you. >> thank you, so much. >> so wrapping up, there is maybe just the last two slides, there is several different components as i mentioned before, a land use, and a climate and the air quality

component as well as the transportation components. and we need to work together through all of these components in order to be effective. right now, this shows the draft rtps update schedule with some of the milestones for the update schedule as well and what we are doing is we are putting together a strategy for involving other city agencies, into this process, to be able to start together, right now, at the end of 2014, with an initial kick off phase, where we ill be the consultant and putting the projects together and identifying the committee followed by an insurance shall planning phase and involved in number two in your slide and that will include the updates to the land use components and the existing plan bay projects and the new projects that will be in the projects and the

forecast and the paper followed by a third phase that will be advanced planning to do the project evaluation for the new project and finally the final plan, elaboration, which we will be bringing together the sftp update document. >> we see coordination is key for this, especially in the city and we see tracks where this can happen, regional level, the city level in terms of planning and the third one is in terms of the future revenue sources and project prioritization. >> thank you. >> i was just going to add from my participation in the abag association of the air governments and the mtc and joint and regional meetings that it will not be as intense as a process as the last bay area and it is focused and stream lined on the various points from our needs but also the other city's oakland and san jose and also the other parts of the region as well, thank you for the great presentation. >> i see no comments, let's up

this up for public comment, is there anyone from the public that would like to speak. public comment is closed. if there is no other remarks from our staff, let's move on to the next item. item number 6, bart vision update. >> this is information. >> we have alan smith the acting director for planning for bart. >> good morning and thank you for inviting me to talk about the bart vision this morning, the study is a... let's see. it is a high level scan, we are trying to do a policy-based review of opportunities for investment over the long term future and so our challenge is to make the decisions among the capacity, the state of good repair and expansion projects and so as a policy level evaluation it is intended to inform our future choices. and this is supported by map

21's effort to do more decision making and our commitment to provide safe and reliable service and recognizes our role in the plan bay area. today i want to very quickly go through what we are doing on the study, showing you what we call the limited list, which is a snapshot of high capacity transit projects that we believe merit additional analysis and give you a few next steps. we view this as an opportunity to look long term at ahead and support the region's sustain able vision of ourselves with the robust and high capacity and the high speed transit service and the plan bay area, of course, is the first sb375 regional plan that provides a blueprint for the future and we have tried to sketch out the ideas that were identified in the original rail plan and the mtc sustainability project and engagement with the key stake holders and the bart board and so the staff are coid