team that is proactively managing that and the golden gate has been quoted the contract was tracking 13 percent we believe we'll meet and exceed the goal. >> a little bit more details on the constructionists we're 54 percent complete foundation and column contradiction is almost 80 percent complete the weather has helped us the warm weather allowed us to work to the winter months it is really a series of 5 bridges that is making the on and off-ramp structures bridge a was the actual deck was completed in that regard false work is erected in bridge e the westbound off-ramp 90

percent complete i have pictures that are really telling the story bridge d the westbound off-ramp is false work is being erected and happy to report we've moved the west building i'll have more and right now, we're on schedule to complete the project by august of 2016 just some pictures i want to go through quickly westbound as i indicated this is in essence if you go to san francisco from the island this is the point to merge on the concrete area and the light poles will be relocated to the right we bridged that that's good news in that regard this is me stand on the what is referred to bridge 60 feet up in the air this looks at

identically point to the new expansion this is the largest bridge out of the 5 and is at a point to go ahead and build the bridge deck it's a c of climates out there now as you can see basically that is a bridge looking east showing the column work that's completed and this is a one of the final pictures i have just the columns behind the area the entire area referred to as quarters one is historic so bottom line we need to stay out of there and preserve it making sure that all of the pile driving and the concrete construction work and foundation work has begun on without damage specifically.

>> as i mentioned previously quarters 10 was a residence for navy personnel and part of the vial documentation process it was deemed historic and now in the national register in late january we basically went ahead and relocated it quietly in the night down a windy narrow radio we had to do that to make sure there was no impacts a couple of pictures a large structure and now in place what's referred to as the clipper area as also there's challenges that lie ahead and just want to list and go through them quickly our intent to complete the work by 2015 to make sure we have met

the false work erection for this project san francisco bay bridge in caltrain it opening their new bike and animal facility and we're coordinating to make sure the bikes and animals are brought safely to the island franklin there's in an active construction zone in that regard there's changes to the sides and joint caltrain is requesting we're identifying those challenges and they have long lead items we have to get the final approvals quickly d b gold compliance met the goal as i indicated and finally a reminder u.s. coast guard they have

strike restrictions to stop traffic less than 5 minutes from any location so that concludes my presentation. on the ramps this is all the work that's going on on the east side of the island i want to shift to the west side of the island the west side bridges this is an aerial photos those are the brings that led to the westbound on ramp on the west side of the island as well as the are the tie into the eastbound as you're traveling from san francisco to treasure island that left off is right in this picture there and what we have are 8 bridges that are symmetrical deficient and 5 of them will be retrofitted i want to talk about

our preliminary efforts in the last few years. >> the soil there is it has issues there's unstable issues that is a helicopter view look ating the bridges there's been problems with the soil those bridges are old they're built in the 40s so in that regard i'll go through a couple of pictures to give you an existing condition of the bridges and let's talk about the concept we originally developed actually started in 2010 first step working through the caltrain progress for the federal approval those were prepared and approved in december of 2011 as i indicated previously we were going to

replace 3 bridges and rieftsd 5 we've received the environmental approval in december of 2012 as we went ahead and studied did engineering in particular, the soil analysis we realized it was going to be an expensive project with an inherent risk it would require expensive construction and you see the steep hillside construction frankly when we started to we were the bidding community we found that frankly not a lot of people want to bid this in terms of meeting the federal requirements we prepared the analysis

because that project cost was something we wanted to see if we could lower and minimize the risk of construction and frankly, we've done just that we went to the analysis study that exclude the contractors as well as engineering experts they are recommendation to shift hillcrest road to the north and frankly push the roads into the hillside and build a tiered retaining wall this will approve the retrofitting and tida it will require additional jerry and an environmental analysis but the good news we over all project cost lore we see it $66 million and we believe that the contracting community will

be very anxious more of the contracts to bid the job just the pictures here show what's in right the shifting to the north this is a cross section showing where in essence we're going to build one bridge out of the 3 by shifting the roads into the hillside more retaining walls thirty to 50 feet high at this point. >> this is a breakdown of the cost overall for the project those basically are separate bridges in essence we're taking 8 bridges and working with the state in terms of funding for each bridge individually and basically at the power point we have the fund and we're working with the future allocations for the major phase money and finally this is a breakdown

of the federal funding $58 million plus from the federal 6 point one from prop b with the tida match approximately $3. million plus toy above extended $6.3 million on the engineering services and the environmental work also happy to report we're actually right now meeting the goal and take into account about a 14 percent for the are interim work we do schedule that lies ahead is to go ahead and perform the additional environmental analysis that is what we call the new va alternative should be completed by march of 2016 and the at the end of 2016 to go ahead and start construction in

march of 2017 to the important to needed we'll not start construction on the west side until the east side is done also conflicts reconstruction of the down and off-ramps on the east side of the island those ramps have been closed for a long time some folks may not remember they're there we'll complete by the spring of ri so we'll start in 2015. >> feinstein i've indicated challenges meantime you want to reopen documentation it is important to go ahead and do so and meet all the requirements of ceqa san francisco puc is as busy as any agency they've been in their lifetime we want to make sure we gave me them early with the

waterlines project and starting to evaluate alternative construction delivery methods that we'll see whether or not their feasible and bring to the committees and board in the future we learned add lesson on the ramp project is that the birds don't know what month of year when it's warm they start nest so we envision an early contract on the contract that was a delay because of bird nest issues that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you for you thorough presentation. >> commissioner christensen. >> i was occurs about the aesthetic and environmental impacts of the two choices we're certainly seeking in the presidio a modern preference for

low profile and integrated roadways so up until the parrot of retaining walls i was thinking the preferred approach would have visible and environmental improvements what happens to the sizeable retaining wall. >> the virtual impact analysis will be the key document we've prepare i'll envision there will be aesthetic treatments we'll have to implement has part of the project and caltrain has done similar retaining wall work on the one side of the island and match the topographic. >> any other questions seeing none and i think tilly chang.

>> i want to thank our folks and the entire yerba buena team this project a complex and in addition to managing the top graph and the actual job they've been able to corridor with the other promotions tida and others in the first phase of yerba buena housing and in addition the caltrain is taking down the bay bridge and we are coordinating with eric mentioned the mta and reporting with the touchdown of the bike and pedestrians later this year i was pleased when a job like this is complicated and even in the middle of the night i want to commend them for a job well done

we were on time and budget and continue to be on the budget. >> thank you and seeing no more comments from the commissioners all right. opening it up for public comment this was an informational item and next. >> informational item introduction of new items. >> seeing none we'll proceeded to general public comment any members of the public want to comment seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 12 adjournment. >> thank you. this meeting is now adjourned .

>> good morning today is february 10, 2015 welcome to the san francisco transportation authority finance committee of the transportation authority i'm supervisor avalos and the clerk is steve item one roll call vote. >> supervisor avalos supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim supervisor mar absent we have quorum. >> great we have quorum on to the next item.

>> consent calendar items 2 to 3 those items are considered route and staff is to the required to present if anyone objects they can be removed. >> colleagues questions or comments on item two to three arrest public comment for those two items public comment is on on the consent calendar and seeing no members of the public come forward we'll close public comment and have a roll call vote for our meeting minutes. >> supervisor avalos. >> oh, i'm sorry oh and supervisor avalos. >> supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim supervisor mar absent consent calendar passes. >> very good the items passes on to the next item and item 4

federal and state update on action item. >> great, thank you good morning chairman and members happy to be here i have a brief presentation on one particular bill we're recommending the masking support we're taking a recommendation i wasn't planning on covering those and couple of other things to update you on transpiring no sacramento. >> you want to identify user. >> i'm mark watts recommending the transportation board in sacramento. >> ab one 94 on page 4 of our masking mr. the gentleman is the chair he introduced this is as the rerequest from the coalition pardons to the and hot lay

currently treasures a statute that the authority the statute is not effective a new sunset date has expired that rethat status and defines the regional definition for the san francisco bay area that authority resides with the m t c and must excludes the requirement they must consultant with the county jurisdiction in which the proposed project is located this is similar to legislation that emerged last summer that failed passage about had quite strong support if the coalition as well as the administration quietly behind the scenes we've run into a chairman of the committee that

was opted to tow so that bill state we're recommending a support position the requirement for regional agency with the loophole transportation authority parole needs for strengthening we've been working on that we would like to have our endorsement to support this measure so we're folding that b 2, 3, 4 with our self-help county coalition. >> great supervisor kim. >> thank you. can you explain specifically how this would impact the specific hotlines here in the bay area how this legislation. >> yeah. so the authority would be grant to m t c so let's yeah. let's take their h o v system they'll be required to approach

the state transportation system inform approval to proceed with that approval is the imposing of tolls for the hot lanes. >> i'm sorry it this for the existing hot lanes it's preliminary our golden gate bridge i guess a specific example would be helpful. >> it's intended to authorize the conversion of current h o v lanes to potential 84 lanes and go beyond that to construct additional hot lanes. >> giving me an example of that i'm sorry. >> thank you tilly change through the chair supervisor kim that state legislation will authorize the entire state for

the express lane development in san francisco we have expresses lanes in alameda on the 580 and here in our san francisco in our part of the networked we have no carpool lanes touching san francisco the as far as i am concerned, first is to establish hot lanes and there after consider the express lanes if you have enough capacity in the carpool lanes you'll offer that to yellow drivers who will be willing to pay a fee to enter the lane in our district it the golden gate and the 280 and 101 to the south and freeway management study to look at the carpools and eventually go potentially express lanes. >> this is exciting so this

something we'll around the downtown congestion that sfmta has been exploring our office so we'll be putting i know you've mentioned h o v lanes with the 101 and 280 we have h o v lanes. >> we have one that's it no other facility on that on ramps. >> that will give us the discretion to increase the number of - >> yee correct the nuance is this is a new approach to managing froidz ochltd it requires a strong partnership between the state and sclts that owns the facility and the designated operator to operator and the local government both our agency sfmta and others will be heavily involved with a new concept for the public to understand. >> this is important i think

with all the growth with employment and residential we're seeing the congestion impacts on the south of market to having that capacity to implement more of those on the 101 and 280. >> you know who our representatives m t c i'll suggest we have further dialog with our counterparts with san mateo and st. clair are interested in seeing we have a facility and stakeholder outreach to the business community and the employers and residents are seeing strong demand for the express lane development as well. >> thank you for the explanation. >> i apologize for not being able to directly answer our questions. >> just quickly last year assembly speaker tony shublg

shock up the transportation community by interrogating a new concept with splult the state and local highway system essentially she called on a series of steps to be undertaken the bill was not drafted but has in mind what the transportation wonder world is pleased with the leader of the assembly move forward essential they'll recapture fund to balance the general fund the truck way fees are paying for the transportation bonds so her measure will contemplate freeing up one million dollars into highways and back to the general fund by encompass a new fund that raise one billion dollars 8

so the net program will be about close to 2 employed and the general fund will be held harmless this is a navel first step i don't know how it will be particularly when we see the los angeles's we'll be bringing back before you. >> just a cautionary note speaking of language we have to when we're talking about impacting those taxes legislation imposing puts people against something but impacting a new license fee or a user fee that is the way we want to discuss implementing them versus taking a personal responsibility versus the burden that the right

is using to try to make sure that people don't want to raise taxes or increase the government spending that improves our lives. >> i'll take that to heart thank you very much. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you mr. chairman and the presentation i want to ask you about ab 61 which is a bill by a i guess mr. allen that was basically how private shourlt services like the you know so-called google buses and textbook buses to use basically bus stops the same way that school bus and i'm just very concerned about this bill and one question - well, first of

all, i'm wondering what we're doing in terms of of that bill i think it would be important for us to take a position against this bill but one question i have is would this bill actually supersede the pilot that san francisco has? the way i read it it will not it will allow only ann on a volunteer y basis they enter into the agreement so the agency 2, 3, 4 my reading provide that assess they wouldn't be compelled to be >> i would certainly make a motion that we take up a formal position opposing this bill. >> just a followup question would ab 61 is there any language that prevents local control in terms of setting up a fee for using our -

>> it's a sketchy bill no restriction on fees or direction as i read it for an imposition of fees i've been in touch with the office in case they're making expansions or clarifications so you think the eater will be in late march i think if you're considering taking an opted position at this point in time that will give me time to work on your behalf on the measure in sacramento. >> for me the main issue is it is the privatization of public space allowing those private companies to use public space without requiring any kind of payment obviously led it up to the jurisdiction but it is dangerous to at the time set this precedence that's the

problem with the pilot if they could do that in san francisco it about be the show will be taken on the road, if you will. >> i understand. >> this year's nothing that the bill that gives away any of our assets. >> that's what i can see. >> thank you so is and a motion so i second that. >> before we - we will w we'll have a public comment and presentation. >> the only last thing when the governor announced his budget he highlighted the need for the protective you are to work with him for supplemental fund and bryan kelly