this many questions because we saw everyone recently and i want to thank you for your interest serving and i had concerns about mr. wingard and i spoke with him and changed his schedule and prior to 2012 made 80% of the meetings so he was part of the cac from the very beginning and interested in continuing so i am evident he will make this work with the schedule. as for the rest i think the only person we didn't appoint recently who is up today is mr. paul elolsen and pressed interest in him in this role and for everyone repointed thank you for your service and happy to have you continue. >> okay. so is there a recommendation? >> yes, sorry through the chair and i would like to make a

motion to appoint krute singa to seat one. joshua marker to seat two. raymond gary mccoy to seat three. kenneth wingard to seat four. paul olsen seat five and jason henderson for seat six with positive recommendation to the full board. >> any objection? seeing none the motion passes. congratulations. thank you for coming. . item 6. >> item 6 is appointments for the shelter monitoring committee and there are four seats and four applicants. >> great. i will call them in order of the agenda. nicholas kimura. >> hi. good afternoon. i am nicholas kimura. i am seeking reappointment. i am currently chair of the shelter monitoring committee. i work as a shelter client advocate for the collaborative and volunteer for the coalition on homelessness.

i am well aware of the situation, the homeless community faces, and have i have good rapport with the shelter management as well and seeking reappointment. >> okay. any questions? seeing none. kendra amick. >> hello and good afternoon. i am currently serving on the shelter monitoring committee. i was appointed in april of this year to fill a temporary vacancy and i am seeking reappointment because from my experience as a direct service provider in san francisco working with homeless clients i see that there is a need for advocacy and ensuring that the shelter system is serving san francisco residents as it's intended to so i really enjoyed the experience i had thus far. i want to continue

learning and working with other service providers and shelters to improve the system, and so i would hopefully be reappointed this term. >> just a quick question. >> sure. >> so as i understand it you're applying for seats four, five and six and right now what seat are you serving? >> i believe it was either four or six. i was serving -- or am serving on lhcb position for seat one or the appointed seat one position. >> okay. >> and it was just an idea to move to the bos position. >> okay. i understand. thank you. >> thanks. >> okay. next person would be michael kirkland and he's not able to attend but he did send a statement. >> can i say something on his

behalf or later? >> sure. >> i can do public comment. >> why don't you do it now. it doesn't matter. >> i guess i am speaking in my voice though. i want to voice my support for michael kirkland reappointment. honesty there were issues in the beginning with attendance however that has been remedied and attending orientation and the meetings. >> thank you and the last person is kim armbruster and i believe they are withdrawn so that's the end of that. any public comments on this item? seeing none the public comment is now closed. [gavel] supervisor campos. >> thank you. again i want to thank the applicants and all of the people seeking to continue to serve. this is a very important committee that plays a very important role serving a very vulnerable population so

grateful that people are willing to serve in this capacity so i make a motion to approve nicholas kimura for seat three once again. kendra amick for seat number 4, mike mike for seat number 5. >> okay. no objection then motion passes. congratulations. [gavel] >> thank you. >> so there are some litigation items, but no closed session is that -- okay good. >> can i have the opportunity to make a public comment on that before or after? >> i'm sorry? >> for settlement. we will call it up in a second. >> okay. >> okay. madam clerk item number 7. >> item number 7 through 10

are ordinances and resolutions thrsessing and approving tolling and standstill agreements and settlements for lawsuits and unmitigated claims. >> okay. any questions? supervisor campos. >> just a motion to go into closed session, but i know there is public comment before that. >> are we going into closed session? >> yes but you need to take public comment before you go into closed session. >> okay. for some reason it wasn't listed here. public comments on this item? >> [inaudible] plaintiff -- good afternoon to the chair, committee members. i feel compelled to come here because

there is a perception that the plaintiff is holding the progress of the settlement up and i just wanted to make clear that is not the case. i have reached out to the city attorney and explained what concerns there are, and in fact this boils down to two basic concerns that need to be changed on this agreement and i'm reaching out to him but he hasn't been able to address it, so i am here today to try to facilitate getting this done. number 3 on page four of the release, the effective date needs to be changed from when -- the effective date needs to be changed when the board approves

it to when the funds are received by the plaintiff. the reason for that -- >> can i ask a question? which item are you talking about? >> item 9. >> item 10. >> it's paul haynes. >> this is wells fargo. >> no. >> so this is the settlement the laugh with paul haynes. >> yes. >> okay. >> yeah you're saying there is no agreement. >> well, what happened they submitted an agreement and there were some changes made and the changes were not noticed by the plaintiff until after he signed it. he signed it on the tenth and then looked at it real cloasesly and there is a provision in the settlement agreement where you can revoke it. okay. so what i did i

reached out to the city attorney after the tenth. i said "listen we need to look at this. this is simple term terminology. i think it can be fixed. instead of saying the effective date is when the board of supervisors approves it it should be when the settlement funds are received. the reason for that if the effective date is the board of supervisors -- i am working right now. if the effective date is the board of supervisors i have to resign. i won't have a job and it will be waiting so it puts them in a tough position and make that clear. >> so you're the plaintiff's counsel? >> no. >> you're the plaintiff? >> yes. >> okay. >> so that puts a burden on the plaintiff if the effective date again is when the board of supervisors approves it because

then according to the city attorney he has to go, but our proposing the effective date is when settlement funds are received. that ways when the plaintiff gets what he wants the city gets what they want. >> okay. so thank you for your input. we will take that into consideration when we go into closed session. >> okay. >> thank you very much. >> there is one other item and number 9 on page five -- >> your time is up. >> okay. >> so there is a motion to go into closed session. no objection. so moved. we going into closed session. >> deputy city attorney gone

john gibner. during the closed session the committee recommended to forward items to the full council. >> can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> madam clerk is there anything else on the agenda? >> no. that concludes our business for today. >> okay. if there is nothing further that concludes this meeting. thank you very much. [gavel] >> good morning. >> are you ready? >> okay. >> good morning, the meeting will now come to order. welcome to the regular meeting of the transportation authority finance committee, i'm cohen,

share of the committee and to high left is tang and to my right, scott weiner, david chiu has officially resigned from the transportation authority finance committee. and will be moving on. and madam, clerk, the clerk is steve. sorry. >> and also, would i like to thank, charles our friend up at sfgovt tv for broadcasting this meeting, mr. clerk, could you please call item number 2 item one one? >> roll call. >> cohen? >> present. >> commissioner farrell? >> absent. >> tang? >> present. >> commissioner weiner. >> present. >> we have a quor up. >> could you call the next item? >> consent calendar, 2 and 3 comprise the consent calendar,

these are routine and not presenting but prepared to present if desired, any of them may be removed and considered separately. >> thank you very much. >> is there a staff presentation on items 2 and 3, no let's take public comment on item two and three. >> seeing that there is no members of the public that would like to comment on these two items, and this item is a roll call volt for item two and three. >> cohen. >> question. yes. >> farrell. >> absent. >> tang. >> aye. >> weiner. >> aye. >> consent calendar passes. >> all right. thank you very much. please call the next item. >> item four, recommend acceptance of the audit report for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2014. this is a action item. >> we have the presentation. >> today we have the fiscal

year, 13, 1 4, audit, we have our auditor is here to present the result and in addition to ad iting the financial statements also a single audit over the programs in the authority since we have received more than $500,000 of federal funds, i would turn to over to cindy she is a partner, and she is the auditor on the audit, thank you. >> welcome. >> thank you. >> good morning. thank you for this opportunity to present the results of our audit. the scope of the transportation audit includes the financial statements of the transportation authority as a whole along with its four major programs, the sales tax, congestion management and the transportation fund for clean air and the vehicle registration fee and programs and the federal compliance

audit of the federal award program, the results of the 2014, audit are found in two deliverables and the annual report f, found on page 30 of your packet and the report to the finance committee found on page 88 of your packet. the purpose of the audit is to obtain reasonable assurance that the financial statements are fairly stated and that the applicable framework of the audit includes generally accepted accounting principals, auditing standards and prom gated by the gaap and accepted by the aicpa. >> and the gao. >> and a summary of the results of the audit is found on page

55 of the annual financial report or 86 of your packet in it we rendered an unmodified, and we did not have weaknesses over the financial reporting to report. and this is a favorable out come. >> and we performed a compliance audit on the transportation authority, federal expenditures since the authority had more than 500,000 of federal expenditures during this past year, the u.s. department of transportation requires that we perform additional compliance tests work on the authority's management and control activities, and we also issued and did not have materialal weaknesses or any other findings over the compliance to report as well.

>> >> the second report is the report to the finance committee and under the professional standards we are to provide, the oversight bodies with information on the following seven items as listed in the slight prepttation, and this is included in the report to the committee. as related to the aspects of the accounting practices the authority was required to implement the renewed accounting standards this past year and these new standards did not impact the authority financial statement of the presentation, and the authority also changed the revenue recognition of the period from 120 to 90 days to conform with the city's change and the other communications are nothing out of the ordinary and we did not encounter any differents or disagreements with the management. >> and i would like to thank

the authority staff for facilitating the audit process which started in june, and it earlier of this, this month. and it was a smooth as it can be, and given the authority was in the midst of a new system conversion project as well. and with that, i would like to turn this back over to ... >> thank you, no irregularities or any red flags or anything of concern. >> yeah, thank you. >> i just want to clarify a little bit on a single audit, the federal audit, they took a look at the island ramp and bridge structure the e-fleet, car program, the integrated public, private and partnership and the san francisco value and pricing and regulation study, treasure island mowbility management program, and the

congestion management agency planning and programming and the surface transportation program and all of this was funded by federal funds and the audits came back clean and i would like to just mention that it was a huge effort to share with the new implementation happening and i would like to give a heartfelt thank you to the staff and especially (inaudible) hew, who kelley (inaudible) and i mean that this year was one of those years that we had more work than normal and we were able to come out with the clean audit and implement the erp system on time too. with the really good year for us. thank you, and with that, i am more than happy to answer any questions and so is miss pawn. >> colleagues are there any questions? >> seeing none, no questions at this time. >> thank you, let's take the public comment on this item? >> public comment is opened. seeing no comment, public comment is closed. >> could you call the next item. >> a roll call vote.

>> yes. >> item number 4. >> cohen. >> aye. >> farrell. >> absent. >> taning? >> aye. >> weiner aye. >> the item passes. >> thank you, could you call the next item. >> introduction of new items. >> thank you. >> are there any supervisors or commissioner tang has a new item for introduction. >> thank you. so, today, i wanted to request that the transportation authority conduct a strategic analysis report and by way of background, what our office is looking and hoping to do in partnership with the ta is really to examine some of the transportation needs and specifically, in connection to certain nodes that would help to better our out lying neighborhoods as well as the sunset district and others. >> and so we work with the community to put together the sunset district, blueprint and the road map for what we would like to see happen and of course, one of the biggest issues that we always face is the transportation, and the

public transportation and so one of it is things that we know, but as well as through the ta's san francisco, transportation plan is that there really are a geographic disparities, but not just my district but supervisor cohen as well and a lot of the out lying neighborhoods and the idea is that we would like to explore the ways that we can better shuttle our residents through certain transit nodes and whether it be local such as through the west portal or a regional connection, such as to the bart and call train and so i am hoping to also address some of the emerging needs that do exist as well, such as with the taxi industry or even the ride sharing industry and how we can be really proactive and thinking about how we manage some of those programs. and so, we of course, look forward to working with the ta in developing a scope for this strategic analysis, report. and hoping to receive a scope by december, and look forward to again, looking with our ta staff and our community and in

developing this, with that, i submit. >> great. >> see if there is any members of the public that would like to speak? >> would you like to make a comment? >> chief deputy, thank you, and commissioners tang, just for the benefit of the committee and those folks watching, we do budget each year to do one to three strategic analysis report and they typically are on policy issue and topics where you are looking for a quick information to support a policy decision or a scoping to lead to the next step and the procedure is once, the commissioner, requests this we will return with a scope that is subject to the approval by the board before you are authorized to begin the work and we will do that next week. >> just in two short weeks. >> thank you. >> let's go to public comment. >> public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. >> let's go to the next item.

>> 6, public comment. >> general public comment is open. >> okay. general public comment is closed of >> is there anything else. >> there is item 7, adjournle. >> thank you, this meeting is officially adjourned.

>> good morning, today is december second and all ready to welcome to the committee of the transportation committee, my name is john avalos, and the chair of the authority and the personnel committee to my left is commissioner co-hen and we will be joined shortly by mar, the clerk of the committee is steve stamos and today, is committee meeting is broa >> could you call the next item. >>dcast by sfgtv >> avalos. >> present. >> cohen. >> present. >> mar. >> absent. >> we have a quorum. >> okay. and commissioner, mar will be

here soon. so we will going to have to excuse him. okay the neck item? >> item two, approve the minutes of the july 10, 2014 meeting an action item. >> okay. no comments or next? >> okay. with the minutes, and we will open up the public comment on this item, and seeing no member of the public come forward we will close public comment and roll call vote. >> item two, avalos? >> aye. >> cohen? >> aye. >> mar? >> mar absent, the item passes. >> great, okay rkts so now we are on to the main event, today, item number three, it would be our closed session. call the item please? >> item three, closed session, public employee performance evaluation and approval of the executive director's performance goals for 2015 and this is an action item. >> great. thank you. >> so, we need to prepare the

room for closed session. >> so it looks like we are back in open session, and we discussed item three, and we want to call item four, and we will do it at the same time as item four. >> okay. >> item four, recommend annual compensation for the executive director for 2015, this is an action item. >> okay, very good. first of all, we had a presentation from our executive director chang, and we also, on our performance goals for the past year. and proposed goals for next year as well. and we rated her on her performance and we all were pretty consistent in giving her over all performance goal of exceptionally good which is where we were at before and six

months ago for the 6-month review. and the 6-month review that we had was actually not a mandatory review, but one that we set up earlier and one that we brought miss changg on and we are seeing the continuation of that effort and we are actually between exceptionally good and outstanding over all rating. and we actually really appreciated the presentation from our executive director, and hitting a number of high points this past year. and especially in the collaboration in cooperation with the mayor's office, and many of the agencies within the city itself. but also within the region. hitting some significant, you know, achievements, working with, you know, cal train, and with the mtc and abag and then we have a number of projects that we have been able to see that go forward. and that we have really been the high point as well for the

transportation authority and we are seeing too much and in the mobility agency come together for the leadership and the continuation of the doyle drive as well as the work around the ear for the geary bus, rapid transit, coming for us next year, and the leadership that she has shown within the transportation authority has been quite exceptional and we rated her, you know, according to that and we want to thank you, miss chang for your work and it is really been a pleasure to work with you this past year. i will be not serving as chair, after this year, but i know that there will be other folks coming in. but it has been a real pleasure to work with you and i have been proud in the work in the transportation authority and the collaborative lacing that is going on with the colleagues and the board and all around city hall. are we in open session? >> we are, and so i just want to thank you for your great work in that. and i am not sure if the colleagues with anything else to add to it?

>> actually i will just briefly say that i think that our director really increased the visibility of the agency and i think that her active involvement with as much as the city transportation, but also the community related events is very noticable. and i think promoting the 25-year organization to as many organizations whether they are city wide or neighborhood based is really an important improvement. i think more work with the press and communications is visible to the chinese press and i want to thank you and appreciate that and i think that you have shown a self-critical approach to how you are running the agency based on a lot of feedback and i noticed that, and as a con stanlt, effort to improve, i think that the morale of the staff that we have put in the feedback is really a great morale and i think that you are continuing to build a great team, especially the office of

the deputy directors and also the whole staff. and i really appreciate as our chair avalos has mentioned, the work in regional bodies, and the visibility there. and especially joint work, and better relationships with the mta. and lots more of a collective approach to our city wide transportation issues. and i think that those were the main points that i wanted to just give appreciation for, and acknowledgment of all of the great work that is being done. >> great, thank you. >> so, just want to make sure that we are going to call a roll call vote on each of the items 3 and 4 but i want to make sure that the colleagues that we agree not to disclose the content of the closed session. >> okay. >> very good. so when it comes to item number four, recommend annual compensation, and what we had decided was that you