program has begun enter readies our balboa park study came to a close and it's begun implementing the two main recommendations one to rebuild the southbound ocean off-ramp so it's no longer a free right whipping by the city college u the off-ramp it's a free right its hazardous to the pedestrians we're trying to key that off into a signaled intersection and close the geneva after the more detailed analysis for the highway administration to consider the closing of the off-ramp on the 19th avenue we work with mta and the dpw along the 19th avenue in development

for quite a while but the good news we're delivering a complete street project on 189th avenue that excludes water and sir projects it is truly a state local partnership the all night transportation study was requested by chair we're and supported by commissioner chiu as well as supervisor mar to look at the late night early needs of entertainment industry and we have the last year workforce that needs to travel at night the hotel and other workers and the transportation authority to provide the technical 0 support to the office of economic workforce development really great analysis and surveys we find important needs that already beginning to be addressed f the

transbay corridor that identified it on behalf of bart it is providing bus service in the early morning hours the the waterfront transportation and the cabinet study we're working on with the regional partners to further identify transbay and transit needs for all 3 operators this is muni and bart and caltrain and even our ac travel partners from the east bay moving from the planning activities to the funding this is the prop k sales tax as you can see given the responsibility economy the revenues are another an all-time high collecting $90 million a year and and a those attracts $4 and other funds for example we saw the auction availability of cap & trade revenues at the state

level and have a robust strategy that we've identified with our city partners to capture as much as we can using the recent motor he approved funds to match against state and federal fund and taking the 20 years out for the planned period and doing a strategic plan shu showing we have the funded and really freeing up through better financing bring up funds for the transbay authority and ideally drive for the packer parkway the funds we've the fact those to capital improvements for the transit reliability and transit safety we've saw 3 prongs including the san francisco 20th avenue paving and the staff

closer with supervisor farrell and bart southwest and pedestrian improvements and continue to loot more funds on which supervisor kim in this area right here in the tenderloin one area bay grant is for san francisco saurlz those are federal block funds that are meant to support the land use plans through lights a one bay area the housing area this is much of san francisco we're really one big transit oriented city, however, the city that are prior decided are moving forward those include the chinatown the corridor improvements that goes across 3 district and the long fell school and transbay bike and pedestrian improvements that have implements toward prelims

the albeit the ta referred to the transportation for clean air the $4 for projects that reduce the emissions not a large fund but it is important if or that tashtsd funds to reduce green house gas emissions for example we'll completed the slope with our bike lanes and ucsf has used those with the parking and san francisco environment uses those for the smart program the state improvement programs and the school and lifestyle programs are funded we prioritize and oftentimes the state plays an role the $12 million we advanced for the central subway was a big win we appreciate working with the mta to do that

on the delivery side we begin about ground zero our citywide priority i can report that the actions are meeting constantly sfmta the public health and planning and public works all of us focused on the delivery of those first 24 projects and identifying the next set of projects to come to aid xerox we've got support for funding and low cost and continue to see those for the implementation if in the bike does the $250,000 campaign that's charging the vehicle drivers i look forward to the work of that committee in the coming year and zooming to the larger projects the presidio parkway is making progress in the field i'm

excited we'll we'll see traffic switch into the new facility i look forward to inviting you will have you to that milestone and celebrate with our government partners for the link concession golden link partners building the project on the ground our yerba buena island is making significant process it's hard to see the work go caltrain is dismantling the older bridge but it is a $50 million project it is just going trooems well, i'm grateful to greg our pb construction managers this is the idea of building off-ramps of yerba buena side and the exit

find the project is halfway through and has the engineering on the second set of bridges the west side bridges that follows the bridges being build right now on the central subway that is a $1.6 billion project 44 percent complete and, of course, last year, we sue the tunneling completed by the twin tunneling machines that was great we celebrated that by the theatre where the tunnels come out of the ground and 15i789 we statute the possibility and the feasibility of going forward two more stops to fisherman's wharf that project was released and found it was very cost effective in high performing jobs and rolled into the sfmta study through the transportation plan

prioritization plan in charge the prop k denies with the transit center making a tremors transformation in our downtown on the land use side we have loaded over $178 million of prop k funds being the transit center itself that is below both ground construction with the new terminal slated for completion in 2018 and phased two the downtown extension of the caltrain trains with the lir leadership of our sfmta our commission supervisor yee h supervisor wiener and supervisor campos it's been happening with the supervisors land use committee we've championed this project to work together with our go j.b.d and supervisor cohen thank you for serving on the transbay joint powers authority and the blended high-speed rail project to

insure we have a downtown extension that will maximum high speed rail and future caltrain on the platforms in terms of the caltrain early investment plans here's the train project underway the j p approved the revenue and they'll be real estate the trek indication this june and it broke ground last month i was privileged to join with state and local leaders where we saw the governor celebrate the thirty year achievement of bringing caltrain to southern california who have worked to bring high speed rail rail with the voters to california so the

central valley has the first sector under construction and hopefully by the late 20/20s the entire project will be built to los angeles offering riders a 3 and a half round trip on high speed rail in our bay area region we're working with caltrain to bring caltrain into the train service in the near future moving to other capital projects we fund we have a robust fleet renovation and replacement muni and it has all 3 operators we're funding bart and caltrain and muni has also very important radio replacement and communications project we've been funding and they moved into the transportation management center located in our building at market street this past year and in terms of the transparency

and accountability of our operations i want to thank our deputy for finance cynthia for another 11 years in a row she also and her team led the improvements to sf come to make sure that members of the public can go to my street.com and let's us know if there's not an improvement you want us to look at the grants management prlt added consortiums and the sponsoring agency to go paper less and along a new impressed in a fancy way to help us become for efficient and in terms of our procurement policies i'm pleased

we have a strong be l.b. that n e and for a contract ending during a fiscal year 2013-2014 we say a perform of 24 percent by the dbi will i lbe and 24 by f e firms that's to the credit of our finance team and our capital project team that continues the outreach to the community to increase their performance and participation in our program finally, i wanted to saw i sigh a big thank you to supervisor avalos and for the past two years your support and continuance guidance helped us to be fiscal and robust to the staff and community and to the partner agencies and the community at large thank you so much for your support we also want to thank.

>> citizens advisory committee that was chaired by glen davis and finally the transportation authority staff thank you very, very much for supporting our program and we look forward to the coming year thank you. >> happen to take questions. >> great. thank you very much ms. chang colleagues questions or comments on item 14 in this case we'll on it up for public comment. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed. >> supervisor campos commissioner christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell absent. >> supervisor kim absent supervisor mar

supervisor tang supervisor scott wiener supervisor yee this item passes. >> this item passes okay i'm wondering should we call items 15 and 16 before we go into closed session or anyway? so why call item 15 >> introduction of new items this is an information item. >> colleagues new items okay public comment oh any i'll see. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you, thank you mr. chair district 10 e 10 as a significant challenge i know my protective aid has been in touch with the staff while we've done

a significant amateur of work my ielgdz i have a cold so i'm really. >> you and the rest of the world. >> we've done a significant amount of work the planning department and mta as well as other city departments for the transportation in potrero hill and visitacion valley i'm going to be requesting a strategic analysis report for the rest of the city and an important i'd like to also look at in the east west travel from the mission 16th and mission bart station to the mission bay neighborhood dog patch neighborhood as well as overall cocaine activity to the southwest community i want to look at developing a scope of work for this study and also want to thank supervisor tang

for inspiring me. >> knew supervisor cohen. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i'm actually very interested if that work as well i didn't quite hear it by the lady the connectivity excludes visitacion valley and balboa park. >> no, i didn't mention that but i think your surely right. >> there's a lot of westward movements visitacion valley and ultimately looking at bus rider transit for geneva avenue that connects it to balboa park and other places it is important to look at the bus rapid transit on light rail on give me boulevard that will help visitacion valley. >> supervisor scott wiener. >> i'd like to talk about those suggestions when we go over the

scope. >> okay any additional new items great any public comment on item 15 seeing none, public comment is closed. item 167 and item 16 public comment. >> is there any general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed okay. at this point mr. clerk if you'll call items 12 and 13 and move into closed session. >> item 12 public and employee outbursts and the next is the executive director through september 30th action items. >> do we need a motion to go into closed session so there council? yes, a motion okay. is there a motion by supervisor mar or commissioner mar to go into

closed session a second by supervisor campos and colleagues kaksz session. >> okay. we're going back in open session thank you to the public for your proficiency no action agrees were taken in closed session so, now items 12 and 13 have already been called we'll take a vote together great so if we can please call the roll obtain items 12 and 13 i'm sorry public comment on items 12 or 13 seeing none, public comment is closed now we'll call the roll. >> on 12 and 13. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos

commissioner christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell absent supervisor kim absent supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee. >> this item passes we've already been called items 15 and 16 and before we adjourn i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting today's meeting specifically charles and noejz and we're adjourned thank you

>> i'm your host of "culturewire" and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from

our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue.

let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum a smooth beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials.

let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons something that is so familiar like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or

something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness here we

are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time.

>> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley only one earth. this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine

what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits

can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful things. anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation

and also to share with our "culturewire" team.