good morning today is december 16, 2014, welcome to the san francisco transportation authority i'm supervisor avalos the chair and today's ta meeting is brought by sfgovtv charles and jessie larson mr. clerk, call the roll and supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim absent supervisor mar absent supervisor tang supervisor wiener

supervisor yee absent we have quorum >> very good okay. we can go on to our before the next item own item number 17 which is the closed session i'm going to entertain a motion to continue that to the january meeting so we can actually go to the tandem memorial issue a that's not pressing but if we continue we'll be able to get over to attend the service so okay. mr. clerk call the next item you already did so colleagues - 17 and 18 thank you it will be items 17 and 18 continued to the january meeting so colleagues, we have before us the meeting and we'll gone to the public comment any member of the public seeing none, public

comment is closed a roll call vote. >> on item 2 supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim pr absent supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> the this item passes very good next item, please. >> item 3 the chairs recorded an informational item. >> okay. thank you colleagues as the year draws to a close we look at the many accomplishments of the last year and thank you for the opportunity to look at the contributors to the city's work first of all, our colleagues and staff and the ta for working together on the business of transportation authority we had a busy year your work is

appreciated my thanks to the citizens advisory committee that helped us with valuable input for his dedication in elite the articulation c i'm to recognize and thank glen davis the outgoing chair of the citizens advisory committee for his service he joined the cac in 2009 and represented 8 and 9 and served for the last 3 unlawful years involving all committee members in the policy decisions at the citizens advisory committee next i'd like to remember jennifer who sadly passed away earlier this month any thoughts and condolences to jennifer's family i'm sure you're aware of jennifer was most recently, the director of the waterfront of the office of economic workforce

development and tireless leader she had a keen understanding the enter play between government and the private sector she was involved in many of the projects including the golden gate warriors and the project led by the giants her contributions were more than those projects her work guided by a vision the city must do to remain a vibrate place she loved i know i speak for no one who met jennifer here humor and warm ethic and passion will not be forgotten i close my right arms with the appreciation of the executive director of the san francisco bicycle coalition after 12 years at helm of the bike coalition growing the largest he city based bicycle

advocate organization in the nation over 12 thousand members he is stepping down and prep for the next endeavors that include a stent as a marshall scholarly to study vision zero we can barely imagine san francisco without her we're glad she'll bring her learnings back to inform we've seen exponent e possibly growth with innovative facilities and treatments in more and more locations citywide i appreciate the protected bike lanes on san jose avenue and can't wait for the market street and another fats she's helped with the outreach and laid the

next bicycle generation with the bike coalition connecting the vision she leaves the bicycle coalition in good hands with the outreach tests underway we're successor noah of the transportation is coming next february under our leadership leah letting present this certificate of accomodation in recognition of 12 years as a executive director of the san francisco bike coalition of a persistence and tireless efforts to make bicyclists save from 8 to and her leadership in advocating for the city of san francisco to adapt vision zero policy with the goal of eliminating all traffic related

facilitate by 2024 present that day the 16th of dos december in the year 2014 (clapping). >> i promise to be quick leah of the san francisco bicycle contradiction i want to thank you and particularly call out the ta i mean that i met with the staff yesterday it's been one of the best part of my job working with the ta authority

and i think you bring a can do attitude dealing through the bureaucracy you trying to get things done it has helped me as an advocate and i know the bicycle coalition achieved more we feel oftentimes we were hitting calls wall but the transportation authority has been the agency it gets through the walls and helps us to make sure we make the positive changes i thank you for your leadership on the board and commend the staff and it is a pleasure you'll be hearing from me i'll be coming back early summer with a lot of lessons learned around vision zero and countries in europe have implemented it successfully and we have room to improve i hope

to see you again, thank you (clapping). >> thank you leah and the city's in a better place because of our leadership much appreciated okay. colleagues that concludes my remarks i would like to conclude by worrying about you a happy holidays opening it up for public comment is there any public comment on this chairs remarks please come forward seeing none, public comment is closed and go on to the next item. >> item 4 the executive directors recorded an informational item. >> colleagues tilly chang happy holidays i'll keep my remarks short there's an fell transportation bill that was passed through the house and senate there is a progress

report in the felt memorial at 12 i want to keep my remark short happy holidays. >> thank you very much colleagues, any questions or comments okay. on to public comment and seeing none, public comment is closed and we'll, go on to items from the finance which he. >> item 57 increase the amount of the professional services with the d h by $5 million plus nooifd to complete the engineering environmental analysis for the yerba buena bridge structures and authorize the executive director to authorize the contract this is an action item. >> colleagues questions or comments opening it up for public comment is there any additional public comment we'll close public comment have a roll call vote. >> on item 5 supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cohen

supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent pr this item passes. >> very good let's go on to the next item and item 6 greatness the one year anyhow anyhow with the office of economic workforce development and increase the amount not to exceed 5 hundred thousand for city build for phase two of the city apartment to modify now and then agreement terms and conditions an action item and seeing no one on the comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. and have a roll call vote. >> item 67 supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim

supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> okay. very good let's go on to the next item and item 7 adapt the state legislation this is an action item. >> seeing no comments on the roster board go on to public comment seeing none, public comment is closed can we do same house, same call? or a roll call vote. >> roll call vote please. on item 7 supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> very good let's go on to item number 8. >> item 8 adapt a 2015 state and federal program this is an action item. >> okay no one on the roster

opening it up for public comment and seeing no member coming forward we'll close and have a roll call vote. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> okay item 9 please. item 9 authorize the executive director to chateau the anyhow anyhow with the city and county of san francisco through the san francisco planning department for a 3 year period needing one hundred thousand plus and negotiate an agreement with the terms and conditions this is an action item. >> seeing no one on the roster and seeing no members of the public come to the podium seeing

none, public comment is closed and have another roll call vote. >> item 9. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor campos? i supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes >> okay item 10. >> item 10 assign the professional services with jacobs engineering group and increase the number nooefd 4 hundred thousand for of the environmental services are services for the geary environmental review report slash statement and authorize the material contracts conditions this is an informational item. >> any members of the public to

medical cannabis seeing none, public comment is closed and have a roll call vote. >> on item 10. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> great let's go on to item number 11. >> authorize the executive director to have an agreement with the mta nooifd for the san francisco transit study to agree the non-material terms and conditions an action item. >> seeing no one on the roster no members of the public coming to the pourmd r0er789. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed

supervisor breed? i >> supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> great let's go on to our plans and programs committee items program $4 million to the clint project with the transit funds from the peninsula tjpa and allocate the funds for connect our roads this is an action item. >> no one on the roster this is opening it up for public comment is there any public comment? and seeing none come forward we'll close public comment. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos

supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> great item number 13. >> appoint santiago to the citizens advisory committee this is an action item. >> okay colleagues on the raurt we'll go on to public comment any one sooelgdz and have another roll call vote. >> on item 13. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor mar or supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> great item number 14 please.

item 14 appoint the gentleman to the citizens advisory committee this is an action item. >> no one on the roster public comment is open any member wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed. >> roll call vote and supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> okay item number 16 please. allocate $38 million in prop c u prop k and allocate in prop a funds for the request subject to the cash flow distribution and

amend the prioritization program this is an action item. >> no one on the raurt is there any public comment? o is there any public comment? and seeing none, roll call vote. >> on item 15. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> okay item number 16. >> allocate $720,000 plus to the prop k for the sfmta for geary bus raptd and the initial planning subject to the cash distribution program and this is an action item. >> okay any comments seeing none is there any public

comment? please come forward we'll close public comment and have a roll call vote. >> on item 16. >> supervisor campos. >> supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you supervisor avalos i want to thank chester and thank you for vote o voting on early actions to near terminations improvements along the geary that services many districts i think we emphasis the geary line the business idiot line west of chicago compatible to the whole caltrain

ridership and it is casing more people in than 10 light rail in the u.s. this assures that the light rail moves forward. >> the next two items 17 and 18 would like us to entertainer entertain a motion to hear in the january meeting i hear supervisor tang and supervisor farrell before we take the motion we'll have to have public comment it is open on item 16 and 17 and seeing no member we'll close those items we'll have a roll call vote to continue to the next it was 17 and 18 i said 19 so 17 and 18 to correct the motion.

>> on that supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent the items are conditioned. >> very good item 19. >> 19 introduction to new items. >> colleagues seeing none we'll go on to public comment, public comment is now open seeing e seeing we'll close public comment and next item. >> item 20 public comment. >> public comment is open for any item recommended to the transportation authority and we'll close. and go on to our next item >> item 21 adjournment.

>> colleagues we're adjourned we want to give you my issues for happy holidays and to the public as well happy holidaysholidayspublic as well happy holidays

>> 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