certification of the environmental impact report in the first quarter in the meantime the bus transit connects the outer neighborhood as supervisor tang mentioned in district 10 but it connects our western neighborhoods in district 7 through district 11 and connects 9 and 10 that project continues in daily city and san francisco neighborhoods neighborhood transportation improvement program this think an initiative that was spearheaded through the update and urging the supervisor avalos our chair to identify the need to develop a pipeline of planning promotions and planning efforts to be more inclusive to insure there was full involvement in the community and identify $100,000 in planning fund per district to be applied to improve the process to

educate and built capacity to the level of advocate to develop the capital projects in every district particularly to address the safety needs we've found in the access to regional services those are service disparities in our san francisco transportation plan some of the plans are underway in the western edition a full scale led by the sfmta and the potrero hill projects happening and some are funded by the early lifeline for example the potrero hill area on deck planning efforts in the outer mission and the maze in district 9 as well the treasure island management program we've been operating and implementing a few scale pro project practicing. for the ferry service and traffic on the

bridge for towing and assembly tom we are they've for the ta future operations of the treasure island agency and along those lines in terms of traffic management and looking at the role of pricing we're excited to begin our quarter management led by our deputy in planning a partnership with the caltrain and sfmta but with the san mateo partners as was mentioned the 101 and the 280 connecting san francisco and santa fe we're trying to insure we have an equitable framework for increasing the occupancy for the popcorns in those crossroads there the techniques our integrated travel management

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

. >> all right. good morning everyone. how about a big hand for our dancers? i can't hear you. [cheers and applause] yeah, give it up to them as they head back to the hilton. let me begin by thanking all of you for coming out today. it's such a

beautiful day in chinatown, is it not? i see larry excited to go clean. first of all i want thank all of you for coming out. it's very important and from our department, the department of public works. we are so excited that you guys have come out today to join hands with us to keep our city clean and green, and every year for the chinese new year we always hear and the chamber of commerce and all of the chinese organizations here always work with us to make sure that they bring a lot of people out to help us clean the community so thank you everyone. all right. also earlier this morning our agency has been all over chinatown preparing for the chinese new year's festivities. there are so many events and

chinatown is the mag nent of bringing tourists into san francisco and we have to do our part and there is no way that our agent or rec and park or all of the agencies together and get the city cleaned and your extra hands are very much appreciated so give yourself a hand for coming out and keeping our community clean. [applause] i am going to introduce someone who i call a cheerleader of neighborhoods and someone that taking care of neighborhoods has been his priorities, and also former director of public works but now our mayor ed lee. please welcome him. >> thank you muhammad. good morning everyone. i want to thank muhammad and the entire dpw crew. you know muhammad he's going to be the grand

marshal this year at the parade. all right. i can just visualize him. he will say he doesn't have to piece a garbage up because he's the grand marshal and i want to thank you for can i -- kicking off the chinese new year and valentines day. muhammad where is my flowers? >> [inaudible] >> i want to say thank you to all of the community groups that are working together with our departments to make sure that our neighborhood here, not only chinatown, the entire district is clean, ready for not only valentines year and the new years and there is going to be

a lot of celebration. today we have the flower mart and you will see people buying all of the symbols of happiness of welcoming in the new year. i want to give a hearty thanks to the chinese chamber of commerce who are here today. thank you very much. [applause] eddy raise your hand. i see a lot of the chamber members here and i wanted to thank the chinese benevolent association who are here and thank you to all of the departments here represented. how about a hearty hand for these department ?ses yeah and we have our special guest that are performing all day long. they're going to remind everybody not to trash the place, make sure all of the tourists and people coming from neighborhoods enjoy the great few weeks coming up. make sure they are also keeping the

neighborhood clean. i want to congratulate again introduce our new direct supervisor julie christensen for being here and the hilton and a big sponsor of these teams and always here and making sure the youth is working together with our businesses. i had the pleasure of being able to join all of you at the different events the next few weeks. i also want to say we're working hard together with the supervisors, with our office, with the neighborhoods, not only to do more housing, but we got to keep our streets safe. today when we're cleaning the streets make sure everybody who is volunteering pays attention because dpw and all of the agencies and rec and park we're making sure anyone that drives big trucks in and out of the district whether delivering all

of these goods or dog construction like they're doing on this public restroom that will be finished very soon. no matter what they're driving whether in a city vehicle or truck or they're delivering great goods or they're the big trucks we're training everybody to be safe. watch out for pedestrians and what i ask is that pedestrians big and small are also looking both ways and making sure they're safe. we invite a lot of people on our streets and our sidewalks. we just want to make sure the number one thing is everybody is safe. this is important to us because without your help, without your safety you have nothing else to share and we're all about sharing more prosperity in the city. we want to build more housing. we want to make sure that the low income housing is the best it can be and increase housing opportunities in the city and everyone shares in the great prosperity in the